Open Thread – Weekend 28 Aug 2021


Massacre of the Innocents, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, c. 1565-67

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areff
areff
September 1, 2021 3:32 pm

Tom, did you make it to your chiro appointment without being hauled over, fined/thumped by the Dictator’s Praetorian Guard, aka ‘defend the blight’ VicPol

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 1, 2021 3:34 pm

The beating that Tom received from the plod actually adjusted his spine so he had no need to visit the chiro.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
September 1, 2021 3:38 pm

Must move with the times.
Had to look up STI.
Back in my day, it was STD.
I suppose an Infection is less threatening.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 1, 2021 3:39 pm

So the clock is now ticking on Gladys.
She has said 70% is her decreed number.
Today, NSW went through 70% of people over the age of 16 who have had at least one shot of their vaccine/treatment/call it what you want.
It’s 6 weeks from today before it ticks over to 70% double jabbed.
Wednesday 13th October.
Let’s see how much the doctors, teachers, politicians, health nazis can milk this over the next 6 weeks.
Let’s see how many times Gladys turns herself into a pretzel on this.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
September 1, 2021 3:40 pm

plod actually adjusted his spine

So kneeing a citizen in the back is now good for them.
Makes as much sense as 97.3% of the restrictions.

Armadillo
Armadillo
September 1, 2021 3:40 pm

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.

Unintended consequences. There will be plenty more.

People with totally curable stuff are avoiding the hospitals. We are currently in a Government induced pandemic.

Winston Smith
September 1, 2021 3:46 pm

rickw:

Yes, and the population will happily support politicians putting you there.

Remember that every person sent to a concentration/extermination/Gulag Camp was sent there legally by a Judge and taken there by a Police Officer.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 1, 2021 3:47 pm

Maybe that NSW “health” app can also alert people to those with herpes.
Feel free to add what other diseases & viruses should be added.

Armadillo
Armadillo
September 1, 2021 3:53 pm

The Government and the media will be responsible for more deaths than COVID could ever hope to inflict.

Rather than concentrate on flashing COVID death rates all over TV screens and the internet, perhaps they should be looking at other statistics. Suicides is a good start, but there is a hell of a lot of other stuff killing Aussies as a result of the COVID fear.

You can’t measure broken spirits.

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
September 1, 2021 3:53 pm

The ABC contribution to the 70th anniversary of ANZUS: a piece of second-hand undergraduate leftism.

https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-01/anzus-70th-american-alliance-make-us-safer-or-military-threat/100424882

Quelle surprise!

srr
srr
September 1, 2021 3:53 pm

Vladimir Putin vs Daniel Andrews – Who’s the tyrant now?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFcvGs8MJ4Y
Aug 29, 2021
Real Rukshan
Russian President Vladimir Putin has recently come out against forcing citizens in Russia to get vaccinated through coercion, particularly through threatening their employment.

“Vaccination is the main weapon against the spread of the virus. Importantly, no one should be forced to get a jab. Pressure, where people may lose their jobs, is even less acceptable. People must be convinced of the need to get the vaccine.”

Let’s compare that to the approach of Australian leaders such as Daniel Andrews, both in language and tone.

Why are western leaders making a mockery of individual freedoms and civil liberties, that are at the heart of the western tradition?

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 1, 2021 3:57 pm

It’s good to see various media outlets calling the Doherty Institute’s numbers far, far too bearish.
It’s just like Neil Ferguson in the UK saying it was going to be 28 Days Later & The Walking Dead.
Which it never was.

cohenite
September 1, 2021 4:02 pm

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.

It’s sickening; and with the bastard biden’s emancipation of the talifucks strap up for an exponential growth in muzzie attacks.

Roger
Roger
September 1, 2021 4:02 pm

Why are western leaders making a mockery of individual freedoms and civil liberties, that are at the heart of the western tradition?

Because they’d like us to be more like China.

cohenite
September 1, 2021 4:04 pm
feelthebern
feelthebern
September 1, 2021 4:04 pm

Neil Ferguson should be made to carry a tablet around his neck for the rest of his days, like Tintin had to in Tintin & the Blue Lotus.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 1, 2021 4:08 pm

JC, that’s just the Kabul chiropractors plying their trade.

Armadillo
Armadillo
September 1, 2021 4:09 pm

We are definitely the descendants of convicts. No two ways about it.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 1, 2021 4:10 pm

We are definitely the descendants of convicts. No two ways about it.

Speak for yourself.
My lot showed up here a long, long time after that.

Franx
Franx
September 1, 2021 4:11 pm

feelthebern
There seems no rationale for the herpes ads (‘in these unprecedented, difficult times’) other than as a way of heightening fear by means of a homologous slide from herpes to Covid. If, e.g., long suffering individuals, like Job, remain unyielding (with regard to whichever oppressive ploy), try touching their skin.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 1, 2021 4:13 pm

There seems no rationale for the herpes ads

But the CMO’s say they had suspicions it was being spread.
We should defer to the CMO’s in all things.
All hail the CMO’s.

Indolent
Indolent
September 1, 2021 4:16 pm

GB Takes Over The World

Absolutely brilliant. The subtext comes through load and clear.

Indolent
Indolent
September 1, 2021 4:21 pm

There were pictures in the media of people hanging around playgrounds drinking “coffee”.

This is what it’s really about. The fun police. No simple pleasures allowed. Seating removed everywhere. Making our lives as difficult and unpleasant as possible seems to be their number one concern.

JC
JC
September 1, 2021 4:22 pm

feelthebern says:
September 1, 2021 at 4:08 pm
JC, that’s just the Kabul chiropractors plying their trade.

Hahahahahahahahahahaahaha

rosie
rosie
September 1, 2021 4:23 pm

With a bit of luck those helicopters will be inoperable even more quickly.
‘Islam the religion of piece’

Armadillo
Armadillo
September 1, 2021 4:24 pm

My lot showed up here a long, long time after that.

I’ll bet they didn’t anticipate their descendants walking into an open air prison cell.

The entire world is now openly mocking us. Our jailers are the media and elected politicians. This has to stop. It’s a fucking joke.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 1, 2021 4:24 pm

The helo hanging.
Was it for real?
Some say, “not hanging, waving”.

Eddystone
Eddystone
September 1, 2021 4:25 pm

dover0beach says:
September 1, 2021 at 12:32 pm

Coronavirus: Shadow puppet-mistress pulling protest strings

Australian corporate journalism: always punching up.

Jack the Inside has virtually the same article.

There are comments on the Steve Rice article.

This one got 241 likes

Liz
3 hours ago
Refuse a vax passport and expect:
1. to be challenged in regard to access to health care services, you can’t expect to sit in a waiting room for doctor or other services when you openly and willfully endanger the safety of others present,
2. no job security in workplaces where its a legitimate requirement to expect reasonable safety measures for the prevention of covid transmission (health care, air travel, etc)
3. to be fined when you use public transport. Your right to refuse vaccination does not entitle you to endanger others.
4. to be unable to undertake air travel.
5. to be refused access to sporting events.

You are freely able to refuse vaccination, but don’t expect a free ride to put your doctor, workmates, customers, fellow travelers and fellow sport lovers at risk. Simple!

Tom
Tom
September 1, 2021 4:25 pm

Areff at 3.32pm, no drama with the Talidan pig state pigs en route to and from my chiro appointment this morning.

I guess that makes me a far right-wing conspiracy theorist nut job.

But I’ve reformed. I love the big government pig state.

rosie
rosie
September 1, 2021 4:28 pm

Obviously not enough cranes in Kabul.

P
P
September 1, 2021 4:29 pm

GB Takes Over The World

Absolutely brilliant. The subtext comes through load and clear.

When the vid was emailed to me early this morning it had 300 views and 2 comments. Now 15,183 views and 173 comments.
I was reluctant to put it up at first because of the use of a couple of words to which some might object. But it did make me laugh, and when I thought it could not get any funnier, it did.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
September 1, 2021 4:31 pm

Hairy wrote to Andrew Bolt to ask why he used the denigratory term ‘Trump’s lies” in a recent Bolt Report, saying what ‘lies’ did he have in mind? Bolt replied that Trump’s lies ‘were manifold’ and needed no explication. I’ve found when I ask that question people burble on about ‘injecting disinfectant’ or ‘insulting women’ or ‘dreadful personality’ and other opinions founded on out-of-context statements, with no genuine element of ‘untruth’ to be found.

So can somebody tell me: what are thes ‘lies’ of Trump and how do they differ from statements in a similar vein made by other Presidents and people in power? I just can’t fathom it out. It’s a media meme, that Trump ‘lies’, but where is the real substance to the claim? I need his genuine lies listed out, not just ‘manifold’ and then I can compare them to Biden’s or Obama’s efforts.

I laughed last night when watching a BBC show about Henry VIII and Cromwell, a sympathetic account re Cromwell for a change, taking a cue from Hillary Mantel’s great trilogy. Cromwell had to find a reason for a British denial of Rome’s supreme authority in Britain via the rulings of the Pope so that Henry could divorce Catherine of Aragon, and he found it in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s fable about King Arthur heading an ‘Empire’ and challenging Rome. There are hints in that I suspect of the old breakaway Empire of Gaul and then the British breakaway Empire of Carausius, both in the troubled third century AD. What made me particularly laugh was Cromwell then called this fake situation one that was ‘manifold’ to all with eyes to see. And here’s Bolt, getting all ‘manifold’ too. Dear me. Nothing to see there in either case, Cromwell or Bolt?

I always thought Bolt had a secret case of TDS, says Hairy.

rosie
rosie
September 1, 2021 4:33 pm

One thing is clear, abandoning zero covid has completely disaffected some I stand with danners but they are going to be in a Where shall I go? What shall I do? situation because there isn’t a political party that is going to run with a zero covid policy.
And most other people are Rhett Bulter too.

Armadillo
Armadillo
September 1, 2021 4:34 pm

The politicians are going to back down for the weirdest reason imaginable.

Summer is coming.

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 1, 2021 4:34 pm

feelthebernsays:
September 1, 2021 at 3:47 pm
Maybe that NSW “health” app can also alert people to those with herpes.
Feel free to add what other diseases & viruses should be added.

Everything on the Commonwealth list of Notifiable Diseases.

With sound effects for the more embarrassing ones.

Cassie of Sydney
September 1, 2021 4:35 pm

“I always thought Bolt had a secret case of TDS, says Hairy.”

Bolt pines for progressives to love him…they never will of course.

Zipster
Zipster
September 1, 2021 4:43 pm

Jeff Kennett on the daily telegrpah
paywalled, anyone have access?

We could have lived with the virus from day one
The chief health officer’s admission that we might not achieve zero Covid cases again proves that for the last two years we have suffered for no good reason.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 1, 2021 4:44 pm

Lizzie – they claim things like “Biden stole the election” as a Trump lie. But it isn’t a lie, that’s the problem.

I can’t recall an outright lie from Trump, although he has exaggerated for effect from time to time. That’s his way. But always from the basis of truth.

Unfortunately the MSM claims over and over that he lied about everything from Russians to Hunter to Ukraine to HCQ. All of which happen to’ve been true. But for a guy like Bolta they are playing to his gut feel. Bolta is a prim classical music sort of guy whereas Trump is a classic WWE loving bogan. Chalk and cheese.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
September 1, 2021 4:45 pm

Annastacia Palaszczuk has revoked her support for the national plan to start to reopen Australia. Ms Palaszczuk said she would “stand strong” on borders “until I can get every child vaccinated” The Oz.
Only one step from forced vaccinations of our children.

rosie
rosie
September 1, 2021 4:48 pm

Whatever it takes dillo

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
September 1, 2021 4:49 pm

The ‘Trump Lies’ is just a meme that Bolt and others have bought wholesale, without a scrap of critical thought.

I have a friend in the US who asserted that Trump is a liar, so I asked for some examples, and got a list of about a dozen. I took the first on the list, which was about Sweden having an outbreak of Muslim violence. She argued tooth and nail that there was no Muslim violence in Sweden, and cited the Swedish government pronouncements. I pointed out that Trump had merely alluded to a newspaper report on it, and sent her video links recording it. She never conceded that it wasn’t a Trump lie, and I gave up going through her list at this point. She was getting neurotic towards the end, and evidence wasn’t going to change her mind.

Old bloke
Old bloke
September 1, 2021 4:50 pm

P says:
September 1, 2021 at 11:13 am

GB Takes Over The World

Thanks P, that was very clever.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
September 1, 2021 4:57 pm

Our son was waiting in the local park with our nearly two year old grandson and we ‘ran into him’ in a socially distancing sort of way. It was a beautiful day at The Gap. Anyone queries why you’re here mum I’ll just say I’m meeting up with my parents who have just arrived to talk me down from throwing myself over. A joke, but with a hint of the anger that is mounting in him over lockdowns.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
September 1, 2021 4:58 pm

evidence wasn’t going to change her mind.

Can’t expect rational argument and facts to work on women, of course. 🙂

Gab
Gab
September 1, 2021 4:59 pm

This made me laugh:

Simon M W Reilly Retweeted
Tim Young
@TimRunsHisMouth

It would be easier if they just turned Biden’s teleprompter around and let us read it.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
September 1, 2021 5:01 pm

Only one step from forced vaccinations of our children.

Disgraceful. ScoMo needs to get very firm with this tyrant in a frock.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 1, 2021 5:01 pm

She argued tooth and nail that there was no Muslim violence in Sweden

That’s impressively ignorant. Malmo and Gothenburg are notorious. The fireys have been refusing to go into some of those suburbs even with an escort.

srr
srr
September 1, 2021 5:02 pm

Yes, dog’s do reflect their owners –

Emails Show MULTIPLE Biting Incidents from WH Dog “Major” — MORE TIMES than Biden WH Admitted!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU1GZE9RRRU
Sep 1, 2021
Judicial Watch
Judicial Watch announced that it received 36 pages of records communications from the Secret Service that show the Bidens’ dog Major was responsible for numerous biting incidents of Secret Service personnel. One email notes that “at the current rate an Agent or Officer has been bitten every day this week (3/1-3/8) causing damage to attire or bruising/punctures to the skin.” The documents show that agents were advised to protect their “hands/fingers” by placing their hands “in their pockets.” Photos of the dog bite injuries were redacted (blacked out) by the agency.

The documents were produced this week in response to a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit for records of communications between USSS officials responsible for protection at the White House regarding the Biden family dogs, named Champ and Major (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (No. 1:21-cv-01194)). READ MOREhttps://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/biden-dog-major/

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
September 1, 2021 5:03 pm

Yes, Bolt is prim, BoN. Do you think his being Dutch might have something to do with it?

I quite like Trump’s ebullience, despite my preference for classical music.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 1, 2021 5:04 pm

I really wonder what that poor dog went through.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
September 1, 2021 5:05 pm

for the last two years we have suffered for no good reason.

Yes. Pretty much. All we should have done was protect the old and the vulnerable, hospitalised the genuinely ill and helped anyone sick at home who needed help.

The Great Barrington Declaration.

cohenite
September 1, 2021 5:07 pm

Hairy wrote to Andrew Bolt to ask why he used the denigratory term ‘Trump’s lies” in a recent Bolt Report, saying what ‘lies’ did he have in mind? Bolt replied that Trump’s lies ‘were manifold’ and needed no explication. I’ve found when I ask that question people burble on about ‘injecting disinfectant’ or ‘insulting women’ or ‘dreadful personality’ and other opinions founded on out-of-context statements, with no genuine element of ‘untruth’ to be found.

So can somebody tell me: what are thes ‘lies’ of Trump and how do they differ from statements in a similar vein made by other Presidents and people in power

It is a major failing of bolt that he goes fairy floss like this. When Milo Yiannopoulos came out to Australia bolt was the MP for the evening but was sent into dithers of tut-tuts when Milo let rip with some of his creative expletives against the left.

Bolt is a classic conservative who still thinks there are rules and that the left can be reasoned with or at least one will win if one maintains fucking decorum and manners. It’s like taking an extended pinky finger and knitting needles to a gathering where the left are going to cut off your testicles and ram them up your arse.

Bolt, like most conservatives, doesn’t get it. Trump does but bolt can’t forgive his fucking uncouthness. I used to talk to bolt and steve price often and I always felt that little tinge of disdain and condescension when talking to bolt. If he isn’t still a a leftie he still retains some of the leftie arrogance.

rickw
rickw
September 1, 2021 5:07 pm

Annastacia Palaszczuk has revoked her support for the national plan to start to reopen Australia. Ms Palaszczuk said she would “stand strong” on borders “until I can get every child vaccinated”

The only legitimate reason to put the ADF on Australian streets right there. Enforce open borders and shoot any police or bureaucrat dumb enough to try and enforce them.

Top Ender
Top Ender
September 1, 2021 5:09 pm

Here you go Zipster:

ENOUGH FIDDLING WITH LIVES
JEFF KENNETT

TO borrow a line from the musical Fiddler on the Roof, “Wonder of wonders, miracle of miracles”, Victoria’s chief health officer has at last admitted the state might not be able to achieve zero cases of Covid. Hallelujah!

After almost two years in which the state and community have been savagely and unnecessarily punished, education disrupted and lost, businesses lost, revenues lost, freedoms lost, major events lost, Victoria’s reputation ridiculed, and our children and grandchildren left with a debt that will adversely affect the rest of their lives, the Premier, who always only considered the health implications of the advice he received when responding to Covid-19, is now preparing to change his position.

The Premier, who never governed for all Victorians, never expressed any concern for the impact his autocratic style of government had on all Victorians, will now be able to say, “Because the CHO says we will not secure zero cases in Victoria, we are going to have to live with the virus”.

Grandparents in the later years of their lives have had almost two wasted years of their lives, separated from family. Untold damage to children’s education, the state’s economy shrunk as business activity driven to subterranean levels. The City of Melbourne turned into a set for a future horror movie.

What a wasted, painful two years we have all had to tolerate, as the Premier exerted his authority over us all.

We could have lived with the virus from day one, had it not been for the Premier’s failure over the administration of hotel quarantine at the beginning of last year. It was from that deadly debacle, the Premier decided to avoid any more mistakes and hide behind the coat tails of the CHO whose only role was to advise on health matters.

The CHO was only doing his job. Sadly the Premier accepted the CHO’s advice alone, when he should have been weighing up the CHO’s advice against the impact of that advice on all other sectors of the community.

The last two years have been the greatest and most damaging failure of public administration in Australia’s history. The Victorian government should resign en masse for accepting their collective responsibility for what they have rendered on the state and allowed to occur. Of course, they will not, for who would employ any of them?

The sad reality is when we hit the target of 80 per cent of all those eligible to be vaccinated was reached, the Premier had indicated we were going to have to live with the virus, and any illnesses would be among those who chose for one reason or another not to be vaccinated. Or were we? Was he going to keep us in lockdown or with heavy restrictions until New Year? Maybe we will never know.

For now, Professor Sutton has given him the excuse to start easing restrictions. Just as public resentment and pain is starting to reach politically dangerous levels for he and his government. Not to mention the genuine pain among so many in the community.

THE moment Daniel Andrews admits publicly his management of the virus has been wrong and unnecessarily damaging to the state, the moment he says we are going to have to live with the virus, we can start the rebuilding process.

The question then to be asked: is Mr Andrews the person to lead that rebuilding? The simple answer is, in my opinion, no. Not on a personal basis, but because he has been the face, and orchestra leader, of the pain that has been rendered on so many.

All of that to one side, I have every confidence with the right settings we can start to rebuild Victorian society and economy.

But the sooner we start the better. It should be today. More than a third of our community are fully vaccinated. More than 50 per cent have had one shot.

Those with both shots should be able to start moving around their community. Proof of two shots is available on one’s Medicare app.

Open those restaurants where staff are similarly fully vaccinated, and those small retail shops that have been closed off and on for months. Theatres, community sport and even arrangements to ensure fully vaccinated people who might come to the Australian Open are allowed in without the 14 days of quarantine that if still in place puts the event at risk.

In fact, let the Australian Open become a milestone of achievement for us all and a sign Victoria is lifting itself off the mat.

I do not support a “Freedom Day” as has occurred in the UK, because we can start relaxing the restrictions from today.

For the first time in a long while I feel excited about what we now might be able to achieve if the Premier is prepared to accept the realism of the advice from the CHO as he has done in the past. Admit zero cases is not and was never going to work and start living with the virus.

Look at New Zealand. They like Victoria preened themselves when they thought they had achieved zero cases, but that was never going to be the case. They are back in lockdown, political reputations in tatters.

We are now hearing of new mutations of the virus overseas. If correct, not surprising as many of those in the medical profession have been warning us that may occur.

What is certain is Victoria cannot go on living as we have been. Being lectured to, open and closed for schooling and business, no certainty and for many no hope.

Experience tells me that once you change the dynamics, end the lockdowns, open the schools, a lot of stress and anxiety will disappear. Unchanged, things will only get worse.

So, Mr Premier, you have the opportunity, the excuse to change the dynamics. I trust you are man enough to start doing so in a meaningful way from today.

Onwards and upwards.

JEFF KENNETT IS A FORMER PREMIER OF VICTORIA

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 1, 2021 5:09 pm

Jill Biden looks to have some health issues from the way she was walking at the airport when the coffins arrived.
She reminds me of one of the goblins in Peter Jacksons Hobbit movies.
All hunched & decrepit.

P
P
September 1, 2021 5:10 pm

Yes, dog’s do reflect their owners –

I
I don’t know srr.
What I do know is that it was one beautiful dog you had on your twitter account!

Old bloke
Old bloke
September 1, 2021 5:10 pm

Mother Lode says:
September 1, 2021 at 2:06 pm

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?

Vaccinated or unvaccinated?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 1, 2021 5:13 pm

Annastacia Palaszczuk is currently building a 1000 inmate concentration camp. It would improve Queensland enormously if the ADF collected her and 999 of her colleagues and put them all into it.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
September 1, 2021 5:13 pm

Yes, Bolt is prim, BoN. Do you think his being Dutch might have something to do with it?
————————————————
Dutch.
Swamp Germans.

Old bloke
Old bloke
September 1, 2021 5:14 pm

duncanm says:
September 1, 2021 at 2:23 pm

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.

I’d say that giving covid-positive people early treatment is a must.

Roger
Roger
September 1, 2021 5:16 pm

Annastacia Palaszczuk has revoked her support for the national plan to start to reopen Australia. Ms Palaszczuk said she would “stand strong” on borders “until I can get every child vaccinated”

Do parents get a say?

In any case, I expect the High Court will.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

“I always thought Bolt had a secret case of TDS, says Hairy.”

Always remember, when George Negus & some airheaded bimbo insulted Ben Robers-Smith V.C. on a live TV show, Andrew Bolt defended them “We should see it from their perspective” or somesuch was his rationale.

There is much for which Bolt ought to be commended. Then he goes & does things like that.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 1, 2021 5:19 pm

Annastacia Palaszczuk has revoked her support for the national plan to start to reopen Australia. Ms Palaszczuk said she would “stand strong” on borders “until I can get every child vaccinated”

Time to turn the Federal Treasury tap off.
Not just Kung Flu payments.
All federally funded capital works.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 1, 2021 5:23 pm

The science is settled.
Michaelia Cash is a retard.
The evidence is on the home page of The Australian.

srr
srr
September 1, 2021 5:23 pm

feelthebernsays:
September 1, 2021 at 5:04 pm

I really wonder what that poor dog went through.

I couldn’t be bothered to straighten the timeline of this twisted Dodo story(that’s a whole other PETA), but just watch the video of Biden picking up the dog. There is NO connection at all & Biden is off with the fairies. He would NEVER have qualified to ‘adopt’ that dog if he were anyone else presenting with that mentality.

https://delawaretoday.com/life-style/major-biden-shelter-dog-white-house/

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 1, 2021 5:24 pm

From the AFR.

Retailers in NSW, Victoria and the ACT won’t be able to ship any goods for four days from this weekend as Australia Post grapples with backlogs created by local outbreaks.
Australia Post will pause parcel collections in locked down states and territories for four days as it struggles to get on top of a coronavirus-induced backlog.
Posties won’t collect any parcels in the ACT, NSW or Victoria from 7am this Saturday until Tuesday, September 7. Collections will continue in all other states and territories.
“This temporary measure will allow us to responsibly clear record parcel volumes in parts of our network impacted by COVID-19,” a statement from Australia Post says.
“The safety of our people is our highest priority, and this will help ensure volumes are kept to a safe and manageable level.
“Express Post, Premium and Startrack Express services aren’t included in the pause. Deliveries will continue as usual and post offices will remain open.
“We apologise for the inconvenience,” Australia Post says.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 1, 2021 5:25 pm

So this just moves the bottleneck from AusPost (who are already coming apart at the seams) to the retailers fulfillment centre.
What next?
Shut the retailers websites down so the backlog at the fulfillment centres & AusPost clear?

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 1, 2021 5:26 pm

Supply chains are cracking due to workers in locked down suburbs getting tested every 2-3 days & getting paid to wait until their COVID tests coming back clear.
Then they go get another test.

Tom
Tom
September 1, 2021 5:27 pm

Sky’s Chris Kenny shilling for the Stupid Fucking Liberals and dumping on Craig Kelly for joining the Fat Bastard circus like a bought-and-paid-for party hack.

Kenny has his uses, but independent thought isn’t one of them. In the end, he’s just a scared, weird little guy who, like Blot, wants progressive to love him.

I’ve turned the sound down and switched back to sports radio.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 1, 2021 5:27 pm

I actually have to hand it to the chancers in Sydney.
The government locks ’em down.
And the boys work out a way to monetize it.
Well done!

Zipster
Zipster
September 1, 2021 5:30 pm

“The safety of our peopleprofits is our highest priority, and this will help ensure volumes are kept to a safe and manageable level.

truth in advertising!

Megan
Megan
September 1, 2021 5:30 pm

I cannot wait to see what happens to the pestilence numbers when only the double vaccinated are out and about. With rapidly declining protection over time and more variants popping up like daisies in springtime. Plus diminished immune systems suffering from being unchallenged by other nasties for almost 2 years.

The CHOs and their tyrant, dictatorial bosses will have some creative explaining to do. I’m sure they will make it the fault of the unvaccinated. You can bet the house on that!

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
September 1, 2021 5:34 pm

Michaelia Cash is a retard.

In addition to the front page story, Cash is quoted in the PonyGirl article.
Federal Attorney-General Michaelia Cash this morning warned state governments that their constitutional power to shut borders would diminish once Australia reached an 80 per cent vaccination rate.
Really? A federal minister thinks Constitutional powers wax and wane as vaccination rates rise and fall!!!!!!!!
Bastards.

Armadillo
Armadillo
September 1, 2021 5:36 pm

The media blackout is already underway.

The “truckies protest” never happened according to the MSM. It fizzled. No protests at all. But there has been 500 odd arrests. Weird that.

Look for road closures to find the truth. Or listen to people with “eyes on the ground”. The MSM and big tech are trying their best to avert people’s eyes.

min
min
September 1, 2021 5:40 pm

Bolt has had some very nasty attacks on him both physically ,mentally and professionally because of his conservative views so this may have affected him. Not many of us would have gone through that court case , assaulted in the street and protestors closing a book launch down . Not just angry words on a blog that trolls put out so I wonder how you would deal with stuff that such as he had to move house, have security around house and I believe his wife was threatened.

Roger
Roger
September 1, 2021 5:41 pm

A federal minister thinks Constitutional powers wax and wane as vaccination rates rise and fall!!!!!!!!

Absent a “pandemic” the HC will likely judge that border closures are no longer proportionate to the threat to public health and therefore serve no legitimate purpose.

srr
srr
September 1, 2021 5:47 pm

Nurse condemns mask mandates as ‘child abuse’: Today’s Top Stories, Aug. 25

https://tv.gab.com/channel/alphanews/view/nurse-condemns-mask-mandates-as-child-6126c7390c5416cc4db5ad29

cohenite
September 1, 2021 5:49 pm

I know this has been put up but it is pretty evil:

Local Mum attacks police in defence of the Cossack during service of FPO!

rosie
rosie
September 1, 2021 5:50 pm

Seems rational to me Roger.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
September 1, 2021 5:55 pm

Roger says:
September 1, 2021 at 5:41 pm

Roger – the HC, politicians/governments & top bureaucrats are all in this together.
Don’t expect any of them to break.

Mao Tse Tung had it right when he said that political power comes out the barrel of a gun.

Roger
Roger
September 1, 2021 6:00 pm

Seems rational to me Roger.

s92 has been the subject of more court cases than any other section of the Constitution and the HC will be applying the “necessity test” in quite a different context from 2020 should an action be brought against a state premier in 2021 or 2022. That’s assuming, for argument’s sake, that the public health situation improves. We should hope it does.

rosie
rosie
September 1, 2021 6:03 pm

In any case if the federal government challenges an on going qld border closure (that is basically indefinite) and wins in the HC, nannanna can throw up her hands and blame the feds for any adverse outcomes.

Roger
Roger
September 1, 2021 6:04 pm

Don’t expect any of them to break.

On the contrary, Tony, Andrews is already breaking.

It’s amazing the about faces a politician can manage in the face of a sharp drop in the polls.

Democracy is not yet entirely broken.

Crossie
Crossie
September 1, 2021 6:06 pm

I can’t bear watching even the news anymore. I cannot bear to hear Gladys telling me what I can or cannot do unless I submit to her dictates. This is slavery, you can work in you room but you are not permitted to enjoy the fruits of your labours, that is reserved for people who obey.

I thought we were free to live our lives unless we broke the law. Where are the laws that say we must be vaccinated or face house arrest?

Indolent
Indolent
September 1, 2021 6:09 pm

Disgraceful. ScoMo needs to get very firm with this tyrant in a frock.

Don’t look at the man behind the curtain.

Crossie
Crossie
September 1, 2021 6:10 pm

I will never forgive Gladys for all these months stolen from me, from denying me the companionship of family and friends, denying me the freedom to work among my colleagues and the freedom to go where I please.

Most of all, I will never forgive Gladys for denying me the right to visit my ailing mother who is sinking into dementia. I cannot be there to provide comfort and assurance to her in these dark days of her life.

Indolent
Indolent
September 1, 2021 6:11 pm

Where are the laws that say we must be vaccinated or face house arrest?

Really good question. They are making it up as they go along and so far no one has pulled them up on it.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 1, 2021 6:12 pm

Michael West breaks the the medical story of the year.
(COVID being a data/logistics & political story).

https://www.michaelwest.com.au/medicare-investigation-indicates-female-genital-mutilation-in-australia/

Medicare data indicates doctors are performing circumcisions on females, many under the age of five. Health authorities are claiming a computer error but an investigation by Tasha May has found alarm among community groups.

Roger
Roger
September 1, 2021 6:14 pm

nannanna can throw up her hands and blame the feds for any adverse outcomes.

You know what? I think the public are getting sick of the politicisation of the virus response.

They want a return to normality and are prepared to live with the virus provided the vulnerable are protected, which should have been the approach from the beginning.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 1, 2021 6:15 pm

If West is right, it’s time for some Marsellus Wallace style retribution.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 1, 2021 6:15 pm

From google quotes.

I’ma call a coupla hard, pipe-hittin’ n***, who’ll go to work on the homes here with a pair of pliers and a blow torch. You hear me talkin’, hillbilly boy? I ain’t through with you by a damn sight.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 1, 2021 6:16 pm

. Bolt has had some very nasty attacks on him both physically ,mentally and professionally because of his conservative views so this may have affected him.

Wasn’t Bolt one of those who was going to run with the Julia Gilliard/AWU Workplace rort, and the fury of her responses caused him concern for the freedom of speech in this country?

rosie
rosie
September 1, 2021 6:19 pm

I hope so Roger but Palaszczuk has put a lot of mileage on Queensland is for Queenslanders.
And I hope the zero covid dills in Victoria realise they have had nearly two years wasted for nothing.

Roger
Roger
September 1, 2021 6:20 pm

Most of all, I will never forgive Gladys for denying me the right to visit my ailing mother who is sinking into dementia. I cannot be there to provide comfort and assurance to her in these dark days of her life.

My sympathies, Crossie.

Politicians need to feel our wrath!

Dot
Dot
September 1, 2021 6:20 pm

Marcellus Wallace looks like a bitch to me.

Roger
Roger
September 1, 2021 6:21 pm

I hope so Roger but Palaszczuk has put a lot of mileage on Queensland is for Queenslanders.

And NRL players and Hollywood stars, let us not forget.

It’s wearing thin, trust me.

Crossie
Crossie
September 1, 2021 6:21 pm

feelthebern says:
September 1, 2021 at 5:26 pm
Supply chains are cracking due to workers in locked down suburbs getting tested every 2-3 days & getting paid to wait until their COVID tests coming back clear.
Then they go get another test.

Lots of empty shelves in my local Woolies and not just toilet paper. Detergents and soft drinks shelves have gaps.

cohenite
September 1, 2021 6:23 pm

feelthebernsays:
September 1, 2021 at 6:12 pm
Michael West breaks the the medical story of the year.
(COVID being a data/logistics & political story).

https://www.michaelwest.com.au/medicare-investigation-indicates-female-genital-mutilation-in-australia/

Medicare data indicates doctors are performing circumcisions on females, many under the age of five. Health authorities are claiming a computer error but an investigation by Tasha May has found alarm among community groups.

The coding error is that FGMs are claimed as circumcision for boys.

This has been known for a long time:

https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2010-02-06/female-circumcision-happening-in-australia/2594496

But the first law case was in 2015:

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/mother-midwife-and-sheikh-guilty-in-australias-first-genital-mutilation-trial-20151112-gkx0b3.html#ixzz3rKCKROSC

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 1, 2021 6:24 pm

It took Gladys with a multi month lock down to finally impact supply chains.
Simply incredible Gladys.

cohenite
September 1, 2021 6:24 pm

Too many links.

feelthebernsays:
September 1, 2021 at 6:12 pm
Michael West breaks the the medical story of the year.
(COVID being a data/logistics & political story).

Medicare data indicates doctors are performing circumcisions on females, many under the age of five. Health authorities are claiming a computer error but an investigation by Tasha May has found alarm among community groups.

The coding error is that FGMs are claimed as circumcision for boys.

This has been known for a long time:

https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2010-02-06/female-circumcision-happening-in-australia/2594496

But the first law case was in 2015:

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/mother-midwife-and-sheikh-guilty-in-australias-first-genital-mutilation-trial-20151112-gkx0b3.html#ixzz3rKCKROSC

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 1, 2021 6:26 pm

Thanks cohenite.
Looks like the website I posted to doesn’t a scoop.
So there are multiple parties complicit in this barbarity.

Dot
Dot
September 1, 2021 6:29 pm

LOL

Had to get T-Bone steaks for stewing on the weekend.

Nothing else left but prime cuts.

JMH
JMH
September 1, 2021 6:31 pm

Credlin/Tones: Did the Tones push the vaccination farce? R/L interfered and I wasn’t able to gain the information now required.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 1, 2021 6:32 pm

Nothing else left but prime cuts.

Good Sir, wagyu with a score of less than 6 isn’t a prime cut.

Indolent
Indolent
September 1, 2021 6:32 pm
Crossie
Crossie
September 1, 2021 6:42 pm

The last two years have been the greatest and most damaging failure of public administration in Australia’s history.

************

Admit zero cases is not and was never going to work and start living with the virus.

Jeff Kennett writes brilliant passages like those above and then suggest the same as Gladys, double vaccinated may have a life but not the rest of you. How is that living with the virus?

srr
srr
September 1, 2021 6:44 pm

The Pachamama Order Of The Ages

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pKOISLaYrE

Sep 1, 2021
Return To Tradition

rosie
rosie
September 1, 2021 6:44 pm
rosie
rosie
September 1, 2021 6:46 pm
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
September 1, 2021 6:52 pm

Bolt has had some very nasty attacks on him both physically ,mentally and professionally because of his conservative views so this may have affected him.

Agree, Min. Bolt has had to flee his residence and cope with death threats. He is a hero of the centre-right for that alone, as well as having to suffer the outrageous slings and arrows of the left against him. We watch Bolt most nights in lockdown and he is often a voice of common sense still. However, he does seem to have a blind spot about Trump, a man who has suffered much in the same way that Bolt himself has with regard to opprobrium in the media and elsewhere. Bolt is free to hold his opinion but he also has to recognise that many people who support conservative politics feel that Trump has received a very raw deal, and wonder why Bolt is not more sympathetic to that, let alone why he pours on the same media-led opproprium himself towards a man who would never have let America sink to its current depths.

rosie
rosie
September 1, 2021 6:58 pm
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
September 1, 2021 7:02 pm

The coding error is that FGMs are claimed as circumcision for boys.

A clitoris is not a penis in miniature, with a removable piece of skin on it.
Excising any part of a clitoris interferes severely with sexual function in a woman.
Doing it to a still-developing female child is an abomination.
It is not at all analogous to circumcision in a man or a boy child.
And there is enough argument about even that. For a woman – just NO.

sfw
sfw
September 1, 2021 7:05 pm

Anyone know what’s going on with the release of the minutes of the ‘National Cabinet’? Last I heard they were ordered to be released but allowed a seven day interval for an appeal.

miltonf
miltonf
September 1, 2021 7:09 pm

The old thief polluting the white house really is filth.

Biden is, and has always been, a pathological liar of the worst kind, the kind who lies to boost his own ego no matter how easy it is to prove his dishonesty. His seething, wretched defense of this massive failure will haunt this nation for decades to come. He has single-handedly created a fully-armed terrorist state, a state surrounded by enemies of the US – China, Iran and Pakistan. Those countries now have access to the $90b worth of American weapons, military vehicles and aircraft, not to mention Bagram Air Base.

miltonf
miltonf
September 1, 2021 7:11 pm

The dirty old woman from Baltimore and Bidet filth prove that politics attracts narcissists, psychopaths and grifters.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 1, 2021 7:12 pm

Roger at 6:04

On the contrary, Tony, Andrews is already breaking.

Amazing that his abandonment of his big Triple Zero target drew such a muted response.
This is a yuuuge backdown for someone who was doing the victory dance a few weeks ago, proclaiming himself the only leader in the world to beat Covid twice.
Even two weeks ago he was going to show Glad up by getting back to zero again in no time flat.
Now?
Oops. “Zero was never going to happen”.
The ironing is that he has been defeated by the people he has been treating with kid gloves going off reservation … “large migrant groups with close family ties”.

rosie
rosie
September 1, 2021 7:16 pm

It was the nevermind cartoon that destroyed his sang froid.

Is it possible feral cat is getting more frequent comments that dash cat atm 🙂

srr
srr
September 1, 2021 7:18 pm

egg_ says:
September 1, 2021 at 7:05 pm

Funny video – even if already posted it’s worth watching again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLTGXblgUoc

Gladys Berejiklian Takes Over The World

__________________________________

 Yep, if only for this line of a whole video that good –

“Please know that you will be shot in the face and I hope it is painful”
oh, I’m in tears
– Vlad the III 5 hours ago

miltonf
miltonf
September 1, 2021 7:28 pm

Good analysis of the imposter in the White Housefrom American Thinker

Dot
Dot
September 1, 2021 7:29 pm

I don’t like Wagyu. It seems pointless.

Just eat red meat tuna sashimi and be done with it.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 1, 2021 7:37 pm

Gentlepeople, please.
Don’t say “clitoris” here.
It will attract the cunning linguist out of the woodwork.

miltonf
miltonf
September 1, 2021 7:39 pm

Don’t remind me

cohenite
September 1, 2021 7:40 pm

More from the whacky world of islam:

As Afghanistan Fell, Taliban Gave the U.S. the Option to Secure Kabul. The U.S. Refused.

Afghanistan: Taliban murder folk singer who sang about ‘my homeland, a proud nation’

Nigeria: Muslims murder 36 Christians, authorities arrest only Christians for defending themselves

Many other enriching expressions by muzzies at:

https://www.jihadwatch.org/

132andBush
132andBush
September 1, 2021 7:44 pm
132andBush
132andBush
September 1, 2021 8:11 pm

It will attract the cunning linguist out of the woodwork.

Out of his box.

srr
srr
September 1, 2021 8:12 pm

“kaysee says:
September 1, 2021 at 7:34 pm

Ivermectin: Horse hockey vs. truth
https://www.wnd.com/2021/08/ivermectin-horse-hockey-vs-truth/

? Billions of humans around the world have taken ivermectin (approved by the FDA and considered an “essential medicine” by the World Health Organization) under mass distribution programs to eradicate onchocerciasis (river blindness) and other tropical diseases. Ivermectin has also been shown to inhibit a broad range of viruses in laboratory studies, including HIV, influenza, West Nile virus and other RNA viruses. In 2018, more than 130,000 patients in the U.S. were prescribed the drug. It is a human drug, no matter how many times the mad cows in the media try to fear-monger you into believing otherwise. ?”

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 1, 2021 8:14 pm

From the “Australian.”

Interpreter who helped rescue Biden left behind after US exit

By Dion Nissenbaum
The Wall Street Journal
32 minutes ago September 1, 2021
1 Comment

Thirteen years ago, Afghan ­interpreter Mohammed helped rescue then senator Joe Biden and two other senators stranded in a remote Afghanistan valley after their helicopter was forced to land in a snowstorm. Now, Mohammed is asking the President to save him.

“Hello Mr President: Save me and my family,” Mohammed, who asked not to use his full name while in hiding, told The Wall Street Journal as the last Americans flew out of Kabul on Monday. “Don’t forget me here.”

Mohammed, his wife, and their four children are hiding from the Taliban after his years-long ­attempt to get out of Afghanistan got tangled in the bureaucracy. They are among countless Afghan allies who were left behind when the US ended its 20-year military campaign on Monday.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki thanked the interpreter for his service on Tuesday (Wednesday AEST) and said the US ­remained committed to getting Afghan allies out of the country. “We will get you out,” Ms Psaki said after a Wall Street Journal ­reporter read his message to the President. “We will honour your service.”

Mohammed was a 36-year-old interpreter for the US Army in 2008 when two Black Hawk helicopters made an emergency landing in Afghanistan during a blinding snowstorm, according to army veterans who worked with him at the time. On board were three US senators: Mr Biden, fellow Democrat John Kerry and the Republican Chuck Hagel.

As a private security team with the firm Blackwater and US Army soldiers monitored for any nearby Taliban fighters, the crew sent out an urgent call for help.

At Bagram airfield, Mohammed jumped in a Humvee with a quick reaction force from the Arizona National Guard working with the 82nd Airborne Division and drove hours into the nearby mountains to rescue them, said Brian Genthe, then a staff sergeant who brought Mohammed along on the rescue mission.

Mohammed spent much of his time in a tough valley where the soldiers said he was in more than 100 firefights with them. The soldiers trusted him so much that they would sometimes give him a weapon to use if they got in trouble when they went into tough areas, Mr Genthe said.

“His selfless service to our military men and women is just the kind of service I wish more Americans displayed,” Lieutenant ­Colonel Andrew R. Till wrote in June to support Mohammed’s ­application for a visa.

Mohammed’s visa application became stuck after the defence contractor he worked for lost the records he needed for his application, Mr Genthe said. Then the Taliban seized Kabul on August 15. Like thousands of others, Mohammed said he tried his luck by going to the Kabul airport gates, where he was rebuffed by US forces. Mohammed could get in, they told him, but not his wife or their children.

srr
srr
September 1, 2021 8:14 pm

Indolent says:
September 1, 2021 at 7:45 pm
egg_ says:
September 1, 2021 at 7:05 pm

Funny video – even if already posted it’s worth watching again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLTGXblgUoc

Gladys Berejiklian Takes Over The World

******************

Over 50,000 views and nearly 300 comments since yesterday.

cohenite
September 1, 2021 8:17 pm

That piece of shit biden apparently left many service and US citizen owned dogs in afshitistan; deliberately.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 1, 2021 8:18 pm

132andBushsays:

September 1, 2021 at 8:11 pm

It will attract the cunning linguist out of the woodwork.

Out of his box.

Eeeeewwww!

Armadillo
Armadillo
September 1, 2021 8:20 pm

I should have guest post up in a few days. It will be very good.

Lawyers for Liberty?

Aussies can fight, but we need some ammunition.

At the moment, it appears that our taxpayer dollars have all been deployed in educating our “best and brightest” in the University system to crush the “everyday man”, not to actually help them.

The number of lawyers in politics is fucking insane.

miltonf
miltonf
September 1, 2021 8:20 pm

With the current occupying force in DC it’s Blairite type trashing of society.

miltonf
miltonf
September 1, 2021 8:26 pm

At the moment, it appears that our taxpayer dollars have all been deployed in educating our “best and brightest” in the University system to crush the “everyday man”, not to actually help them.

The number of lawyers in politics is fucking insane.

Yes the number of lawyers being turned out on the taxpayer dime is scandalous. Every year 5 law schools in Sydney alone churning out mischief making parasites.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 1, 2021 8:42 pm

That piece of shit biden apparently left many service and US citizen owned dogs in afshitistan; deliberately.

Understandable, since his own dog seems to bite anything that moves.
Almost as bad as Cuomo is with dogs, he seems to be.
Up there with Mitt, even.

srr
srr
September 1, 2021 8:53 pm

miltonfsays:
September 1, 2021 at 8:20 pm
With the current occupying force in DC it’s Blairite type trashing of society.
________________________________
Yep, Blair, Obama, Cameron and on & on –
srr says:
August 31, 2021 at 10:22 am
Thanks for this, it’s always good to have another mob to name when online propagandists try to mock away the fact of Govt Propaganda Units –

UK Govt Behavioural Insights Team – The Behavioural Insights Team – also known as the Nudge Unit – is now a social purpose company. It is partly owned by the Cabinet Office, employees and Nesta.

The Nudge Unit was established in the Cabinet Office in 2010 by David Cameron’s government to apply behavioural science to public policy. Now owned partly by the Cabinet Office, by Nesta and by employees, it has operations across the world.
From nilk’s cat –

Perfidious Albino — Today at 07:49
That NHS propaganda is all driven by the UK Govt Behavioural Insights Team, they have offices globally now including in Sydney and Wellington and connections with the Obama people. No doubt they have received many fat contracts from Australian Govts in the last couple of years. Just finished reading ‘A State of Fear’ by Laura Dodsworth which explores this approach behind the scenes in the UK to early 2021. Leveraging fear to obtain outcomes. (Great read BTW)
_______________________

We are Nesta. The UK’s innovation agency for social good. … We design, test and scale new solutions to society’s biggest problems, changing millions of lives … https://www.nesta.org.uk/about-us/
______________________

Gee, Nesta not that different to Crosby Textor … and on & on it goes …
__________________________

P.S., if you ever wonder why hit mobs suddenly pile on someone out of the blue, scroll back, you’ll see a trigger …

Zipster
Zipster
September 1, 2021 8:58 pm
Armadillo
Armadillo
September 1, 2021 9:02 pm

The way a man treats a dog tells you a hell of a lot about them as a person.

And if your dogs don’t like a person, it’s usually for a reason. Dogs are able to sense stuff that us human simply can’t.

Dot
Dot
September 1, 2021 9:03 pm

Sydney Watson on Timcast.

“The Queen can deny royal assent.
Gough Whitlam, the PM in the 1960s.”

Too young, my dear.

Dot
Dot
September 1, 2021 9:05 pm

“We have Premiers, we don’t have Governors”

!!!

She’s a yank now.

Armadillo
Armadillo
September 1, 2021 9:10 pm

I can understand this woman’s frustration, but she’s a dead set idiot.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/09/florida-diner-posts-sign-telling-biden-supporters-eat-elsewhere-video/

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 1, 2021 9:15 pm

The ATC is finally saying time to pay your fees.
They’ve effectively made you pay one years fees over the course of the last two years.
More or less.
But considering Randwick won’t host punters until maybe spring carnival, it’s a smart move to get the dollars in the door.

Zipster
Zipster
September 1, 2021 9:16 pm

An endemic not a pandemic. Covid is here to stay, will rebound each winter. You will get it eventually. Boost your vitamin D levels, eliminate as many morbidities as possible.

Vaccine passports are useless.

The only argument I have heard that is cogent is that you will eventually get it, better to get it vaccinated.

The Rogan interview was quite interesting, he brought up all the issues that have been raised on the cat. The cat is always ahead of the curve.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 1, 2021 9:20 pm

The cat is always ahead of the curve.

Damn straight it is.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 1, 2021 9:21 pm

Malice is now saying on twitter & locals, “As a Texan….”.
Funny fucker, Ukrainian Jew, who’s lived in Brooklyn most his life is now identifying as a Texan.

Zipster
Zipster
September 1, 2021 9:25 pm
Dot
Dot
September 1, 2021 9:25 pm

BE SCARED

https://hypebeast.com/2021/8/covid-19-beta-gamma-delta-super-covid-22-strain-news

Immunologists Are Fearing That a “COVID-22” Super Strain Is Just Around the Corner

Why, of course they are, it makes them temporarily important for once in human history.

srr
srr
September 1, 2021 9:27 pm

R C d C

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 1, 2021 9:28 pm

Malice now lives in the suburbs of Austin.
A street away from Lex Fridman.
Three doors down from Mikhaila Peterson.
I didn’t know either of those were in Austin.
I reckon they will all be hating living so close to each other sooner rather than later.
It’s one thing to socialise periodically with people.
It’s another to constantly run into them.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 1, 2021 9:32 pm

Speaking of living close to each other.
Today I learned of a billion dollar deal being struck because the two chaps who’s houses back on to the same alley in Melbourne.
They see each other on bin night each week & got gas bagging.
It’s all about proximity sometimes.

Cassie of Sydney
September 1, 2021 9:32 pm

“Malice is now saying on twitter & locals, “As a Texan….”.
Funny fucker, Ukrainian Jew, who’s lived in Brooklyn most his life is now identifying as a Texan.”

I wonder how he’ll go there? He is a quintessential New Yorker….he doesn’t even have a driver’s licence!

Cassie of Sydney
September 1, 2021 9:33 pm

Austin is quite a liberal city.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 1, 2021 9:34 pm

he doesn’t even have a driver’s licence!

My view, he’ll end up in Miami within a year.

Cassie of Sydney
September 1, 2021 9:36 pm

“My view, he’ll end up in Miami within a year.”

LOL…yes.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 1, 2021 9:38 pm

How’s this Cassie.
I walk my dog monster each night.
Tonight I went in another direction past Sephardi Synagogue.
Woollahra council has put a fence around a playground & appear to have a lot of materials on sight, but nothing happening.
Hopefully they are doing something & haven’t just put a fence around the playground.
Total dick move by the council if they have.

Armadillo
Armadillo
September 1, 2021 9:41 pm

Sydney Watson on Timcast.

Yeah, I watched that Dotty.

It was interesting in many aspects. What struck me more than anything is that the city/country experience in Australia is pretty stark.

Most country people go and have a look at the “big smoke” at some stage in their life. It’s great, but you wouldn’t want to actually live there.

No doubt the City people visit the “bush” at some stage, and it’s not to their liking. Too boring.

Rorschach
Rorschach
September 1, 2021 9:49 pm

It will attract the cunning linguist out of the woodwork.

Woodwork and joinery … tongue in groove joinery in particular.

miltonf
miltonf
September 1, 2021 9:50 pm

Austin is very lefty

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 1, 2021 10:10 pm

What struck me more than anything is that the city/country experience in Australia is pretty stark.

“Look at all those paddocks full of yellow wildflowers.”

“Those “yellow wildflowers” are actually canola.”

“No, canola is an oil – I’ve seen it on the shelves at the supermarket.”

Indolent
Indolent
September 1, 2021 10:22 pm

Tony Nikolic from AFL Solicitors Sydney

A claim lodged in the Supreme Court against the mandates.

Bruce in WA
September 1, 2021 10:30 pm

“Look at all those paddocks full of yellow wildflowers.”

“Those “yellow wildflowers” are actually canola.”

“No, canola is an oil – I’ve seen it on the shelves at the supermarket.”

I pissed off a very left/feminist/lesbian acquaintance by insisting on calling it “rapeseed”. Gave her a fit of the vapours each time I said it.

Dot
Dot
September 1, 2021 10:33 pm

Napus rapa brassica?

rickw
rickw
September 1, 2021 10:36 pm

That piece of shit biden apparently left many service and US citizen owned dogs in afshitistan; deliberately.

Afghan hounds in Afghanistan would smooch and cuddle up to any Caucasian they came across, whilst the next minute biting and growling at Afghans. Even their dogs knew they were shit.

cohenite
September 1, 2021 11:00 pm

Apparently the 24 US kids lost in afshitistan were there on an excursion: Salty:

https://rumble.com/vlxs31-joe-biden-celebrates-as-he-strands-24-students-in-afghanistan.html

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
September 1, 2021 11:05 pm
srr
srr
September 1, 2021 11:06 pm

Bruce in WAsays:
September 1, 2021 at 10:30 pm
“Look at all those paddocks full of yellow wildflowers.”

“Those “yellow wildflowers” are actually canola.”

“No, canola is an oil – I’ve seen it on the shelves at the supermarket.”

I pissed off a very left/feminist/lesbian acquaintance by insisting on calling it “rapeseed”. Gave her a fit of the vapours each time I said it.

🙂 Funny what you take for granted.
DiL tells me her friend up north was bragging about the Yellow fields up where she lives.
Seems it’s a sight seeing thing .
Asked my roadworks crew mates if it wasn’t too late in the season for us and if so, where the best areas to cover were.
They told me, not far from home.
I take the DiL out on a drive.
Now I HATE ‘canola’ oil, like ‘vegetable’ oil, stinks & tastes like, yuk, BUT, my God, driving around my countryside of rolling green hills breaking out in glorious rolling blankets of bright yellow around this bend, over that rise, in that dip, with a creek running through another, a few ancient gums in the middle of it all. Beautiful sights for hours.
Pity about lockdowns, I reckon a rapeseed field locator app would do very well. Foreigners who’ve lived their lives in cramped cities know how to be grateful for glorious sights we take for granted.

Bruce in WA
September 1, 2021 11:13 pm

SRR, trouble is, that pretty yellow flower plays absolute havoc with my sinuses — hay fever to the max. I hate the shit.

Arky
September 1, 2021 11:18 pm

No doubt the City people visit the “bush” at some stage, and it’s not to their liking. Too boring.

..
Not if you take another person, a shovel and a tin of petrol.

Thefrollickingmole
Thefrollickingmole
September 1, 2021 11:23 pm

Sneakers ramping the successionometer to the redline.
Apparently Morrison is conniving to kill Sandgropers by deliberately infecting them with the coof.

This just a day after crowing about securing the Coof grand final for WA

Thefrollickingmole
Thefrollickingmole
September 1, 2021 11:27 pm

For a long time there was a paddock just outside Northampton which deliberately was left chokers full of Patterson’s curse.
Always tourists stopped to take piccies of the pretty purple paddock.

Bruce in WA
September 1, 2021 11:32 pm

For a long time there was a paddock just outside Northampton which deliberately was left chokers full of Patterson’s curse.
Always tourists stopped to take piccies of the pretty purple paddock.

😀 😀

Reminds me of being down at Cape Leeuwin in the carpark when a huge tour bus pulled in.

The door opened and “hordes” of Japanese tourists streamed out with cameras, and dropped to their knees in the carpark, snapping away furiously at something on the verge. The only word we heard and understood was “wildfrower”.

After they’d gone, mate and I wandered over for a look at the “wildflower”.

It was a dandelion.

Armadillo
Armadillo
September 1, 2021 11:40 pm

Watching the interwebs, I’m so tempted to call the American people a “pack of gutless bastards” for not holding this dickhead Biden and his Administration to account. What the hell is the matter with these people? It’s fucking disgraceful, and their leaders need to be held to account. What’s occurring in America is ludicrous. It’s dishonourable and disgusting. They need to act, and NOW. It’s an absolute clown show, and the media is the circus director.

The problem is, that I can’t.

People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.

Aussie Cossack is right. As Australians, we once held the moral high ground to an extent. That is no longer the case. We are worse than the Americans, cowering in our own homes because some sheliah in NSW and a marxist in VIC point their fingers at us in a daily presser. Lecturing us. Intimidating us. We will obey.

We have no right to lecture anyone.

We need to look in the mirror.

The sky rocketing suicides isn’t the Governments fault. Don’t blame them.

The blood is entirely on our collective hands. We stood by and watched this shit unfold, and we barely raised a collective murmur. We just obeyed.

Just like Biden taunts the American public with his “Extraordinarily Successful Evacuation”, so do our Governments taunt us with the “Extraordinarily Successful COVID Response”.

It’s a total and utter shit show. They know. We know it.

srr
srr
September 1, 2021 11:47 pm

yep –

Axl Rosé says:
September 1, 2021 at 11:33 pm

Cops imposing brutal lockdown in Sydney’s west are caught throwing a PARTY at their police station for LGBTQIA awareness

“When religion begins to break down, it does not do so alone, it is the whole of the cultural order itself that breaks down. Institutions lose their vitality; the armor of society becomes friable; and though slow at first, the erosion of all values eventually becomes precipitous; the entire culture risks collapse and, at some point, collapses like a house of cards.”

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 1, 2021 11:48 pm

The Hun:

Melburnians are set to be locked down until the end of October, notching up a dire world record for the number of days spent under harsh stay-at-home laws.

The city will spend its 235th day in lockdown on September 23, when 70 per cent of Victorians are tipped to have had their first jab and restrictions will be eased slightly.

Buenos Aires in Argentina is now out of lockdown, but is the current record holder on 234 days.

The world’s most lockdownable city. Better than Buenos Aires.

Armadillo
Armadillo
September 1, 2021 11:49 pm

This just a day after crowing about securing the Coof grand final for WA

These fuckers are openly mocking us.

When footballers and wags get into a state in preference to grieving relatives wanting to bury their dead, it might be an indicator that these people simply don’t give a fuck about the Australian people.

It’s just a hunch.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 1, 2021 11:55 pm

Tell you what.

The ‘never getting to zero Covid’ and SlugGate might be tracking towards the same nasty little point for Hot Button Sutton:

The council health officer accused of planting a slug at I Cook Foods has told a parliamentary inquiry she believes it fell from a storage box.

Greater Dandenong City Council environmental health officer Elizabeth Garlick denied to the inquiry for a second time that she planted the slug or that it she had smuggled it into the factory in her pocket.

She also strenuously refuted suggestions she had conspired with supervisor Leanne Johnson to doctor photos of the mollusc for their prosecution case against I Cook Foods. “No, the slug was not planted and the photo was definitely not altered in any way,” Ms Garlick said.

I. Believe. It. Fell. From. A. Storage. Box.

Uh huh.

srr
srr
September 2, 2021 12:03 am

Bruce in WAsays:
September 1, 2021 at 11:13 pm
SRR, trouble is, that pretty yellow flower plays absolute havoc with my sinuses — hay fever to the max. I hate the shit.

Sorry to hear that.
Is it just canola season you suffer through or are you one of those sensitive types who can’t enjoy most flowers or live with carpets & curtains?
It must be awful to have a body that hates natural delights.

Armadillo
Armadillo
September 2, 2021 12:05 am

I. Believe. It. Fell. From. A. Storage. Box.

She slipped over and accidentally fell on my dick.

Equally believable.

srr
srr
September 2, 2021 12:06 am

Arkysays:
September 1, 2021 at 11:18 pm
No doubt the City people visit the “bush” at some stage, and it’s not to their liking. Too boring.

..
Not if you take another person, a shovel and a tin of petrol.
____________________________

OOH, that reminds me, I’ve finally got the first two seasons of, “Mr Inbetween”, to watch 🙂 😉

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
September 2, 2021 12:08 am

A Punch cartoon from the depths of my memory:
A line of policemen are beating through knee-high bushes searching for runaway jailbirds.
One policeman yells “Come in Smith. You’ve got Patterson’s Curse”
Final frame – one jailbird stands up and yells “Damm you Patterson”.

It was funny at the time.

Armadillo
Armadillo
September 2, 2021 12:10 am

Salvation Jane.

srr
srr
September 2, 2021 12:13 am

Thefrollickingmolesays:
September 1, 2021 at 11:27 pm
For a long time there was a paddock just outside Northampton which deliberately was left chokers full of Patterson’s curse.
Always tourists stopped to take piccies of the pretty purple paddock.
.
Always tourists stopped to take piccies of the pretty purple paddock.

Reminds me of the first time I moved away to a live in job breaking horses, the stuff was everywhere. Never saw it before then. Now any mention of Patterson’s Curse and my mind flies straight back to that place, breaking crazy horses in terrible conditions. Good Times! Yes really, very good times 🙂

Bruce in WA
September 2, 2021 12:17 am

Is it just canola season you suffer through or are you one of those sensitive types who can’t enjoy most flowers or live with carpets & curtains?
It must be awful to have a body that hates natural delights.

I can enjoy most flowers, but canola isn’t one of them. The worst offender, however, is wattle. When it’s in bloom and the easterly is blowing (in Perth), I wake up with nostrils caked in dried blood and crap dripping down the back of my throat.

Claratyne helps a little bit.

But hey, in the big scheme of things, it’s a case of “Toughen up, Princess”.

Arky
September 2, 2021 12:21 am

The worst offender, however, is wattle.

..
Wattle takes it up the arse.
Cut them all down. They kill me.

srr
srr
September 2, 2021 12:28 am

The worst offender, however, is wattle.

Oh no, I couldn’t handle that, seriously … ok, I could, but I’d be very unhappy about it.
One of my favourite dog walks is chockers with beautiful wattles full of that luscious, vanilla/caramel, Mr Whippy Ice Cream scent. I look forward to it every year.

There’s also the Oleander’s that straight out smell of Mr Whippy, well the real ones do. Some silly plant breeders have made them with some new fancy flowers, but no scent at all.
What the hell’s the good of Oleanders if they don’t transport you back to summers at Torquay with the ice cream & street trees both smelling delectable?

Armadillo
Armadillo
September 2, 2021 12:34 am

Cut them all down. They kill me.

Arkys kryptonite.

Noted.

Armadillo
Armadillo
September 2, 2021 12:37 am

Oleanders

Very popular around a homestead yard. Cattle kryptonite.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
September 2, 2021 12:48 am

Just as the entire USA State Department and hangers on should be obliterated from DC, the entire DFAT and hangers on should go.

srr
srr
September 2, 2021 1:02 am

Armadillo says:
September 2, 2021 at 12:37 am

Oleanders

Very popular around a homestead yard. Cattle kryptonite.

OK, I know I’m no spring chook, but my Torquay days were well past the days of cattle grazing the long paddock. They were nature strip flora.

Armadillo says:
September 2, 2021 at 12:34 am

Cut them all down. They kill me.

Arkys kryptonite.

Noted.

And, Arky, stock up on your antihistamines and, Never Show a Soft Flank to cats again!
… unless you mean to draw them in for an easy kill …. 😉 🙂

Armadillo
Armadillo
September 2, 2021 1:09 am

… unless you mean to draw them in for an easy kill …. ? ?

My chances of getting run over by a Model A won’t be keeping me awake at night.

srr
srr
September 2, 2021 1:23 am

🙂

Armadillosays:
September 2, 2021 at 1:09 am

… unless you mean to draw them in for an easy kill …. ? ?

My chances of getting run over by a Model A won’t be keeping me awake at night.

Be fair Arma.
If you threaten a Model A Ford you believe won’t make it out of the garage, with kryptonite, you know you have to accept a running stand in, like say, a super charged Willy’s Rat Rod … or even something really mean, so … sounds like beer o’clock, no knitting ladies allowed. 😉

srr
srr
September 2, 2021 1:27 am

Steve trickler says:
September 2, 2021 at 12:49 am

Rebel News in the UK now. Good stuff.

“Turn off the BBC and do some research” Londoners protest U.K. vaccine passports
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REG7r571MSw

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