March 2021.
Open Thread – Tues 14 Sept 2021
- Bumtree #1
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Bang on Milonf he idiot student union with its hedonism of sex, substance addiction and entitlement to a bougise lifestyle…
Wow. Will the corporate media drop everything and hound Albo every hour of every day until names are named?
Feminism has come full Circe and it’s a joke. female jobs in essence have not changed. women have allways worked…
Linked to this article by Samantha Maiden which should be shared far and wide before the eSafety Commissioner gets the…
Oooh, loooxury, a Tuesday open fred.
Haha! Second!
Best result evar…
We kowtow to the traditional custodians of this blog and its elders past present and futurama.
#4, if you please!
Hail DoverLord!
We who wish not to be smited [O mighty smiter] salute thee!
Nice drapes. Does the carpet match?
#7 A PB Top 10 result.
China’s richest woman Whitney Duan disappears without a trace
Top ten!!
Well that’s all I’ve got.
Later dudes.
Oooh, still has that new car smell
Nice.
Planning a Melbourne outing this weekend….
Melbourne weather outlook for Saturday: Cloudy with a chance of protests followed by bands of fascism. Warning: keep sheep indoors.
Vic Public Transport Announcement: There will be interruptions to all buses and train lines to the CBD for all those wishing to attend Spring Carnival 1000m People chase.
VikPol announcement: Please secure your BLM balaclava and Antifa merchandise well in advance to avoid pepper bullet nightstick blue on blue contact.
Here’s a suggestion for the thread, Dover.
We are being hunted relentlessly into places unknown.
You’ve steam cleaned the carpet and wiped down the leather chairs and they were already spotless!
I do like that one, Calli, but I’m feeling bullish.
from comments –
https://joannenova.com.au/2021/09/tga-bans-largely-safe-drug-because-people-might-not-get-vaxed/#comment-2468020
The relevant government petitions relating to Ivermectin and “vaccines” you need to review ,sign and pass onto like minded contacts are:-
https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN3141
https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN3214
https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN3179
BTW, Calli, who is the artist?
Liked THE HUNT IN THE FOREST Calli
Lol, just scrolled up. When you said “bullish”, I thought it might be Bugs and Ferdinand…
The Uccello can wait its time.
Made the firsts.
Bullish painting for the header?
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Calli’s one is good too.
A young lady in the top 5% of American earners wore a $100K dress to $30 000+ a ticket fashion gala in NYC overnight.
The dress was adorned with the slogan ‘Tax the Rich’.
The young lady in question was Ms. Ocasional-Cortex.
She fails to see the irony.
It’s Uccello, Dover. He did lots of battle scenes (Battle of San Romano most famous), a lot of perspective studies and foreshortening.
The paintings seem to swirl with action and entice you in. Even his more two dimensional works are fascinating, borrowing from the medieval with an energetic Renaissance flavour.
I have never understood these “kill off nan & pop & get their assets” laws.
If you want to top yourself, do it.
All this bizarre shit of having some panel of people approve & endorse your choice to top yourself just doesn’t compute.
& then to suck up resources in a hospital to actually do it.
Are people that full of themselves?
Seriously, the next thing these boomers will demand is a rim job while they are getting put to sleep.
Also, Roger, not a mask to be seen on the alleged celebrities.
But all the help were made to wear one.
ABC reports – good year for agriculture, with footage of live-trade cattle being loaded on a ship. They’ll always find a negative our ABC.
Top 100 or thereabouts.
Thanks Dover for the good work.
Dash-Cat got to over 9100 before a new fred. But, Adam is in quarantine with 6 kids.
1:10pm Mass at St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney –
The Exaltation of the Holy Cross – 14th September 2021
I’m pretty certain she did see the irony. From what I understand, those outfits are on loan to influencers from designers to attract publicity and suck in the real paying customers, the filthy rich.
I never understood that one either. For the terminally ill to be eligible for euthanasia they must be capable of agreeing. They of all people have access to some of the deadliest drugs around.
Seriously, the next thing these boomers will demand is a rim job while they are getting put to sleep.
Cause of death: morphine enema administered orally by nubile 3rd world prostatot.
Covered by medicare of course.
..
It’s a strange kind of evil to demand that other’s MUST become complicit in your own death.
And banal too.
Why can’t you do it with some elan. Say, neck a bottle of Jack Daniels while operating a tree shredder?
Superb painting Arky.
..
Hangs in the National gallery Victoria.
Today I ordered a chicken BLT from my coffee shop in town.
What I got was a chicken BLT on a bed of chips smothered in chicken salt.
Dear Lord.
I ate every single one.
I savoured every single one.
I haven’t had chicken salt for so long, it was like crack.
Food coma to start shortly.
Albo digging holes again.
Defending Bambi (aka FucKeneally) as a great migrant story.
The Vietnamese lass raises her eyebrows.
Chicken salt is the work of the devil.
You are in hell.
Satan introduces you to your new roommates for all eternity.
Keneally, Wong & Pilsbezerk.
What sin did you commit?
Do you swap with hitler?
The interweb reports chicken salt was invented in South Australia.
This ended up in the wrong thread –
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Shy Tedsays:
September 14, 2021 at 11:38 am
Re the carrot lady. Scroll past if you don’t want to know or read on. It’s about the “a” sound (not “A”). She says Saturday even though the answer is Sunday. (a). First month – January (a). She says hand (a). It’s the repetition. You “need” an answer with the “a” sound. You potato and cucumber people need to a Freudian analyst.
And what are you missing on t’other Cat? Quite the most hilarious and offensive toons.
It’s not defined by Bird. In fact IMHO he’s far les offensive than yer MSM and poliarticians.”
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Yes, our 24/7, MSM pushing the FOREIGN UNELECTED BODY’S DEMANDS that we MUST Submit to Jabbing, Sacrifice Our Children To Jabbing or ACCEPT WE HAVE CHOSEN TO BE UNTERMENSCH, makes those who ‘feel compelled’ to REPEAT the Propaganda on the very few, barely open public forums, hard to stomach, especially when they KNOW that it is also ILLEGAL for our doctors to give us fully frank advice & care, having to stick to Political Dictates over best medical care.
Sneakers bans logging in “old growth” forests in WA. Liar over-reach underway.
Reading how FEMA has been dragging out the disaster classification post Ida.
In New York state, it turns out the redder the county, the longer it’s taken to be called a disaster zone, meaning FEMA money doesn’t flow.
How come all the delays impacts the “deplorables”.
Makes perfect sense.
Land Down Under.
Occasional Cortex
“working class female of colour”
https://youtu.be/gDat9gA3NG8
Let’s get hammered!
I don’t usually drink Martell cognac, but the name is close enough to be apposite.
Rory COVID update.
80 days of NSW lockdown.
11,800 deaths.
186 from/with COVID.
San Diego Could Lose Half Their Police Force From Vaccine Mandate, 45 Percent Are a Hard NO and Willing to Be Fired
September 13, 2021 | Sundance
This isn’t an attack on the unvaccinated, this is an attack on the employed.
More excellent artwork. The Battle of Tours in 732, when Charles Martel kicked serious arse.
Lions attacking horses previously, along with empire destruction.
Seriously, and although I’m aware I can appear flippant at times, this is really good stuff.
*applause*
Link:
San Diego Could Lose Half Their Police Force From Vaccine Mandate, 45 Percent Are a Hard NO and Willing to Be Fired
My comment at the Oz provoked 561 likes! My best yet. Perhaps it was the recycled GetUp quote from 1975.
On an ABC article:
From the NSW COVID update.
NSW has recorded 1127 new locally acquired Covid-19 cases and two deaths in the 24 hours to 8pm last night.
Of the deaths, one was a man in his 50s from western Sydney who died at Concord Hospital and the other was a woman in her 80s from western Sydney who died at Ryde Hospital.
The man had received one dose of a Covid vaccine just three days before testing positive and did not have any underlying health conditions.
The woman in her 80s had received one dose of a Covid vaccine and has underlying health conditions.
So is the chap including in the COVID numbers, the adverse vaccine numbers, or both.
Albanese is in full pisstake mode:
Albanese tells dumped Labor candidate Tu Le not to be discouraged by Keneally seat swap
Translation: Wait your turn for a go at the trough, girlie. Be a real shame if something happened to that bright future of yours.
Look at them larfing…
Sadly Dr, that sums up politics on both sides.
What is to be done??
I am against the kind of society that would be created by doing what my emotions demand.
Based on a review possibly in Quadrant, I ordered Roger Scrutons ‘Fools Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left.’
Wow. Economy of words, delivering the point home.
Craig Kelly MP
@CraigKellyMP
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1h
Completely unacceptable Gladys
REOPEN NSW Parliament NOW
Supermarkets, hospitals & public transport are operating but NSW Parliament is NOT functioning to keep Govt accountable
STOP trashing our Parliamentary democracy
STOP acting like a Dictatorship
‘Dan Murphy’s is open but parliament isn’t?’
MPs slam ‘preposterous’ NSW sitting delay
Regional MPs say the government’s decision to delay the return of parliament by another month is leading to a lack of scrutiny when it’s needed most.
abc.net.au
Well done Babylon Bee.
AOC Now Selling ‘Tax The Rich’ Caviar For Just $10,000 A Can
Always a bright future in the Liars for yellow people with a vagina (or at least without a penis).
A lot more good has been done at DM’s than Parliament.
In Darebin Council (see Fitzroy Vic) you can only apply for a job as a street sweeper if you’re female.
But if you’ve got tackle you can get a guernsey if you IDENTIFY as a sheila.
That’s Danistan.
Things a vaccine passport doesn’t do:
– Stop you from getting COVID
– Stop you from spreading COVID to vaccinated and unvaccinated people
– Stop you from testing positive to COVID
– Stop you from completing two weeks quarantine should you test positive
– Allow you to travel interstate by plane if you test positive
– Allow you to visit a pub, restaurant or sporting match, if you test positive
– Excuse your participation in mandated lockdowns, curfews or outdoor movement restrictions
Things a vaccine passport does do:
– Shows your tacit endorsement of a two-tiered society divided by privilege
– Allows you to indulge in moral righteousness at the expense of your fellow citizens
– Allows State and Federal government to monitor and regulate your medical status and health directive compliance in perpetuity and in real time.
Soooooooooo … how many plod does it take to check on someone in home quarantine .. LOTZ …
One of the kids next door is in house detention, apparently, someone at his work tested positive..
Anyway, this morning, unmarked, black car pulls up and 4, yep, 4 uniformed plod pile-out and knock on the door , 2 minutes later back in car and drive off …!
They’d come to check he was home .. apparently, door knocking is fairly common for home lock-up ..
Wonder how many turn up if an , actual, crime occurs?
Anyone who thinks there’s going to be a change in the governor’s mansion in California is delusional.
Hey, it’s just an equipment issue. No biggie at all.
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/san-fernando-valley-residents-have-trouble-casting-recall-ballots/
Some days it feels like the 44th.
Great Grandad X4 fought at Quatre Bras .. awarded the WATERLOO MEDAL …
CITATION .. https://ibb.co/p2gNFnR
Dan Murphy’s provides a service.
Oh yes.
I have firsthand experience of LNP careerist shittery.
Why you need to vax .. LOL!
https://ibb.co/JsPhGbk
Made a post saying that on the old thread. Too many highly placed people with too much to loose can’t have the sunshine an Elder admin may bring.
They know that they got away with it (probably many many times) so … what is the difference?
If caught / challenged, they will use the argument that I suspect they used to SCOTUS: You can’t go there! If you do YOU will be responsible for [destroying democracy / civil war / end of world .. pick what floats the boat the most]
It will be most instructive to watch the Cali Recall Election count tomorrow. I am predicting that the outcome will be not known on the day…
There is already a LOT of scuttlebut re improprieties.
https://twitter.com/RubinReport/status/1437488290995703808?s=20
https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1437443098695643143?s=20
And I suspect that they [the DS leftards] may underestimate the amount of steal necessary.
There are signs that the left is on the nose BIG TIME. The chants at the stadium, the disrespect at the 9/11 memorial … and compared to the crowds that greeted DJT wherever he went, the crowds gathered to diss Biden are huge. Here is one form Cali just recently:
https://twitter.com/realJamesKlug/status/1437612375708876806?s=20
SO tired of this.
Making my own arrangements for liberty.
Indeed. The vote is likely to come in during the night.
You’d have to wonder at the quality of Mzz Durant’s work when she was in the Army.
So the Arab Spring was about the seasons after all.
“Thank you Cassie of Sydney, for proving you are more dangerous than Graeme Bird, because while he rants the same old Jew Hating BS, YOU ACT as the Nazi German Jew Haters ACT AGAINST THOSE YOU DECLARE, “BENEATH” YOU –
I am Jewish and what “ssr” has written above is disgraceful. I don’t like being compared to a Nazi. There was a reason why Sinclair banned her. She’s a menace and an unstable one at that.
lotocotisays:
September 14, 2021 at 3:56 pm
You’d have to wonder at the quality of Mzz Durant’s work when she was in the Army.
She is described as a “former director” in the Department.
In other words, a middle level worker, one of probably up to a thousand at that level. Her tyres are being pumped up further that Dolly Parton.
than Dolly …
So is there any news as to when Melburnians might begin to enjoy a normal life? Or is it imprisonment until further notice?
Even the ABC was running interference on Newsome’s behalf against Elder this morning.
roger
Even the ABC was running interference on Newsome’s behalf against Elder this morning.
Waddya mean “even”? was there ever any doubt as to Their ABC’s position?
I think the poisonous parasitic ABC thinks it’s a player in US politics.
“Even the ABC was running interference on Newsome’s behalf against Elder this morning.”
Did they say that Elder was a far-right white supremacist?
Close…”black conservative talk show host”, iirc.
I just thought…why would they bother? Any Californian living in Australia & listening to the ABC has already posted in their vote for Newsome.
So all you troglodytes are talking about yellow stars on your clothing, bells, and other assorted symbols of 4th class and unclean non persons?
The NSW Minister for Digital and Customer Service Victor Dominello says “hold my beer”.
The NSW Government has confirmed that the Covid vaccination status of residents will appear on their phone’s display when they use a QR code to check into venues from around mid October. (The Oz)
Bastards.
Evergrande?
Never heard of it.
George Carlin – who owns America 2006:
https://youtu.be/iK7FPSFdkEc
Prescient… Not wrong.
Must be important if Zerohedge is right.
Expect much more pain once the company finally pulls the plug, and China’s Lehman moment arrives.
Another snippet from the ABCcess.
3 flogbags “debating* over ‘Illiberal democracy”
Can you guess which of these it was about.
a: Locking down whole states for months at a time. Treating people as second class citizens unless they undergo a medical procedure. Sending thousands of businesspeople to the wall while giving themselves payrises.
b: Orban, India and brazil and how they are doing democracy wrong…
They are relentless in their constant “no enemies to the left” propaganda.
One of the big complaints, Brazil sold off its public broadcaster…. We should be so lucky.
*pleasuring each others opinions
I caught the end of a MASH repeat recetly while waiting for ‘Escape to the Country’ to begin.
I could barely stand the show the first time around, but it was interesting to see the Alan Alda character joking about his father “stuffing ballots for the Democratic Party for all those years.”
Liberals don’t make jokes like that anymore.
The Bush filth continue to out themselves as globalist traitors.
So many of these traitors have decided it’s no longer necessary to pretend.
Evergrande?
Never heard of it.
Posted a snippet on this a week or so ago.
Could be a big deal if enough suppliers are stiffed as well.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/09/china-property-market-evergrande-300bn-debt-share-slump
The online market trading platform IG said Evergrande posed “a risk of contagion” after Bloomberg reported that Credit Suisse and Citibank were no longer accepting the bonds of another highly indebted Chinese property developer, Fantasia, as collateral.
There were also reports from China on Wednesday of employees protesting outside the company’s offices about salaries not being paid. Evergrande claims to employ 200,000 people and indirectly generate 3.8 million jobs in China.
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The company has run up liabilities totalling more than $300bn, after years of borrowing to fund rapid growth and a string of real estate acquisitions as well as other assets including a Chinese football team.
But the firm has struggled to service its debts and a crackdown on the property sector by Beijing has made it even harder to raise cash, fuelling concerns it will go bankrupt.
The value of new home sales has fallen 20% in China since the peak in the first three months of this year, and the value of land sales are also sharply down. Along with Beijing’s tougher regulation, these factors have made it much harder for Evergrande to dispose of unsold properties even with huge discounts.
It’s a strange kind of evil to demand that other’s MUST become complicit in your own death.
Exactly, Arky. This isn’t about people wanting the ‘right’ to die. It’s about compelling other people in hospitals and nursing homes to tale part in killing them, and compelling the taxpayer to pay for it.
Speaking of the taxpayer, the ABC is getting in a lather about anonymous donors contributing to Porter’s legal fees. Well we all know who pays the ABC’s legal costs, and the private legal costs of its privileged hacks and hackettes such as Milligan, don’t we? The poor bloody taxpayer again.
If Kenneally and the ALP want to burnish her multicultural credentials, they can always remind us of her distinguished career as a sock puppet for Eddie Obeid and Joe Tripodi.
What happens when a person is terminally ill and in no condition to authorise being murdered?
Does the State send them in anyway?
her distinguished career as a sock puppet
Hmmm Im not sure you spelt Cock correctly.
That speech of Bush’s was one of the most appalling public utterances I can remember in recent years, and not only because of his comparison of January 6th demonstrators with al Qaeda. There was also no humility and no expression of remorse for the hundreds of thousands of innocents needlessly killed in the Afghan war, including US & Coalition troops along with civilians.
Well heres the “please allow us to leave like curs in the night and dont hack off heads till weve gone” money incoming…
Biden, Blinken under fire after announcing $64 million aid to Taliban controlled Afghanistan
https://newsthud.com/biden-blinken-under-fire-after-announcing-64-million-aid-to-taliban-controlled-afghanistan/
God Bless Viktor Orban.
“nilk — Yesterday at 20:29
https://twitter.com/sachinettiyil/status/1437346325683589123?s=12 lols
Sachin Jose (@Sachinettiyil)
During the Apostolic Visit of Pope Francis in Hungary, Victor Orban, the Prime Minister of the country, gifted the Pope a 13th century letter from Hungarian King Bela IV to Pope Innocent IV, asking the then- Pope’s help to resist the Tatar invasion of Europe.”
Three women charged with child sex offences relating to a 14 y. o. boy in regional SE QLD.
Won’t be reported in the msm.
Excellent article just published at Speccie Aust Gladys vs. God
Worth a look.
I won’t spoil by quoting too much. Go read it and give them the clicks.
Tony Galati started his own shopping chain that continues to barnstorm along merrily for the same reasons.
I think the two examples of Leonard Casley and Tony Galati are most useful for us in our arguments with micromanaging bugmen and their predilections for centralised control.
Do not play the bastards at their own Statist game, as Casley did.
Do a Galati, and rub their noses in your success.
While some of our more combative (and front-bar urgy) Cats declare ‘You Can’t Comply Your Way Out of Tyranny,’ The Spudshed proves this is not a complete truism. He has complied with their demands on how much he’s allowed to grow to sell officially by WA rules, then let his extra stock go free. And the bugmen gave up and ran away.
Carlin is good but long before him Chomsky sounded the warning.
srr, how about you lay off the Jewish stuff for a bit.
Fresh from recreating the iconic strap on scene in 7even with the AIDs riddled body of the Star Wars franchise Hollyweird has decided another iconic old series needs to be ass-raped by Kathleen Kennedy.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge* may flip the script on Indiana Jones.
The English actress, 37, could be replacing Harrison Ford as the lead in the fifth installment of the “Indiana Jones” franchise, which is set to hit theaters next summer, according to The Daily Mail.
Sources told the outlet that producer Kathleen Kennedy was looking to make “big” changes — which could include replacing the lead character with a woman.
“It would be a huge statement, and a great role for Phoebe,” one insider told the Mail.
It was announced earlier this year that the “Fleabag” star had been cast opposite 79-year-old Ford in the film, the name of which has not yet been revealed.
The iconic franchise has starred Ford as the lead since the first film, “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” was released in 1981.
It’s not clear who Waller-Bridge’s will portray in the upcoming movie, but a source told the Mail, “The gossip on the set is that this character will slot into the leading role.”
The project has long been delayed, and was pushed off again this summer after Ford injured his shoulder while shooting a fight scene.
* Whos main claim to fame is a series about her being a trainwreck slut.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkXZfooNoNw
177cm and… 58 kg…
The new Indiana Jones.
More like MiniAnna Jones right?
I just stumbled across a decent Liars ad on the interthingy, the tagline being:
“If they haven’t done it in eight, how long do we wait?”
Catchy.
The Beloved has just been told by his club that he has to produce his proof of vaccination in order to play in teams of four.
The creeping nazi-ism has begun. No legal imperative, just Karening by business.
Now you know how it started 80 years ago.
“feelthebernsays:
September 14, 2021 at 5:58 pm
srr, how about you lay off the Jewish stuff for a bit.”
Thanks Bern..she’s a disgrace.
@ mole-
As already skewered by the Critical Drinker, in a most awesomest way. Check out his other reviews, too.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aJrLxO8CGRg
How about if they ALL go on strike in protest?
Sorry, Bern for the allusion in my comment just now. The budding and attempted marginalisation seemed apt.
What happens when a person is terminally ill and in no condition to authorise being murdered?
Does the State send them in anyway?
That Soyent Green isn’t going to make itself….
Can you imagine what would happen if club management demanded HIV status of its players in order for them to play in groups?
It’s outrageous.
Casley did sorta have the deck stacked against him.
Roadside stalls selling seed wheat may not trade as briskly as a shop selling spuds.
Calli, don’t be silly.
Scroll up for srr’s word wall which was ripe.
What was even more ripe was when I read it, two people had liked it!
FMD.
I’m told even the non-terminally ill elderly Dutch avoid hospitals if at all possible.
guest post
We really do have health fascists marching around the state at the moment.
With zero accountability.
With zero transparency.
With tax payer funding.
This never ends well.
Bern I’m very disturbed by this development. These people are neighbours. I’m shocked to the core.
I met Prince Leonard once. He had a Lake Amphibian he used to fly.
Dan Murphy offer a choice
The best thing for oldies at the moment is to get them out playing bowls & golf.
Vitamin D is just so goddam important for them.
Has lesson been learned from defence debacles?
ROBERT GOTTLIEBSEN
When Defence Minister Peter Dutton and Foreign Affairs Minister Marise Payne visited Indonesia, India and South Korea there was one subject that each of the three regional nations would have had difficulty raising – the fact that Australia is squandering around $400bn on three massive defence equipment purchases that add little to regional security.
Just as bad, we are being hoodwinked into becoming almost totally dependent on overseas supplies to maintain whatever contribution this equipment may make.
Most of the Dutton-Payne discussions would have been on regional issues like Covid-19, the role of the US, the rise of China encompassing the Australia-China trade war and the dangers in the South China Sea and Taiwan.
In an era when the region may need to rely less on US defence power, the ability of Australia to spend such vast sums could have been a major plus for the region. Instead, the submarine, frigate and Joint Strike Fighter/F-35 programs show the region that we lack clear direction in defence and, long term, cannot be relied on for meaningful help.
But during the Dutton and Payne regional tour a first step in overcoming the disasters was actually taken by Treasurer Josh Frydenberg when he declared: “There will be times when we must pay a ‘premium’ to protect our economy and ensure our long-term economic resilience. It is also the case that Australian businesses will need to enhance their own resilience.”
Frydenberg was addressing Australian enterprises and consumers. His second step must be to give the government and particularly the defence department the same instructions to set Australia back on a path towards being a better contributor to regional defence.
The need for a local industrial base was underlined in World War II and we built significant capacity in the decades that followed.
Accordingly both the Collins submarines and the first frigates built in Australia used extensive Australian components. Then foolish people in Treasury and Defence decided that they should source vital equipment around the world at the best price. We contracted with three overseas-based prime operators to design and build the three big projects – the JSF (the US), the submarines (the French) and the frigates (Britain). In each case the design process has had little relationship to total cost and to local suppliers.
The Joint Strike Fighter has some local content but in all three cases the overseas prime contractor was anxious to button their local supply chain into the projects. They argued their supply chain will provide equipment at much lower cost. They also designed the frigates, submarines and JSF with specifications that gave their local supply chains an advantage.
In the pandemic we have been taught a valuable lesson because we are finding it difficult to access supplies and naturally the container shippers are ripping us off with huge charges. But that’s nothing to what will happen if there is a serious rise in tensions in the region.
When we decided that an industrial base no longer mattered we began step by step to dismantle fast segments of it. Frydenberg now understands the cost of this mistake.
We are going to need the defence industry to help us rebuild that base. But we will need to make sure this time round that we do not allow bad work practices to unnecessarily boost the costs and we must take advantage of modern technology.
Meanwhile there is actually encouragement from Peter Dutton.
The giant submarine fiasco will cost in the vicinity of $150bn to build and operationally will head towards a total cost of $300bn. By the time we have an operational fleet in 2040 and beyond the technology being developed in China makes this huge investment a waste of money. At some point the Australian community must be told the truth by whichever party wins the next election.
It will be easier for the ALP to do it but I suspect the Coalition is also prepared face the truth. We could have taken the project to the manufacturing stage but it is still in design.
It would have been a lot cheaper to cancel the contract now but the electoral implications were too great. It can still be cancelled after the election at a higher cost but it’s a token outlay compared to the hundreds of billions set to be squandered.
In the case of the frigates we thought we were buying an already designed vessel but instead we are trying to design a new one that’s running into all sorts of bother. The British want to use their supply chain.
The prime contractor will not admit it but senior American defence chiefs now know that the JSF is a failure and we have to help them devise a way around the problem and in the process this time make sure there is more Australian content.
The key to previous defence projects was that we had an Australian prime contractor that kept control of the exercise to make sure it could be integrated into the local industry. We need to go back to that style.
There is not much good that will come out of the pandemic but if it teaches the nation the need for an industrial base given our isolation then there will be at least some benefit.
ROBERT GOTTLIEBSEN
BUSINESS COLUMNIST
What about all those medical privacy forms we lodged?
Anne Frank wouldn’t have lasted 2 days in NSW during 2021.
OSC
The NSW Government has confirmed that the Covid vaccination status of residents will appear on their phone’s display when they use a QR code to check into venues from around mid October. (The Oz)
Given that this is private medical information, I will unfortunately be unable to show it to any gatekeepers at shops.
Today’s Pope is a Latin American Socialist. Deaf ears . His perspective is likely to be that European history and it’s conquests brought misery to the New World so Europe deserves a good dose of the same back.
“Now you know how it started 80 years ago.”
Calli, I’ve been thinking a lot about that lately…..I’ve often wondered how it happened and now I know.
I now know how revolutions begin
Rogersays:
September 14, 2021 at 5:54 pm
Three women charged with child sex offences relating to a 14 y. o. boy in regional SE QLD.
“Woomba?
Is there any news on Alan Jones?
I see you don’t like context being given to show those you roll with, while they cry, ‘Poor Me!’, are these very fascists you then warn of.
The problem with huffing and puffing about Australia’s ‘Defence Industry,’ is that it is as much a farce and a rort as the bugmen who order it.
Take it from a former End-User whose basics (boots, pack, load-bearing equipment) was so crap he bought his own, only to then suddenly have COMCARE arbitrarily ban all non-issued magazine pouches and load-bearing equipment for some 4-5 years because it somehow caused live ball ammunition to get mixed in with blank ammunition on a Reserve excercise in Victoria, and diggers got hurt. The risk assessment and controls was too hard.
If buying something off the shelf means it isn’t shit (e.g. Virginia/Astute SSNs or Apaches or current-spec Blackhawks), then do it. And make sure you have competent third-party suppliers in Oz who can make the spares and even whole products afterwards.
But sadly, not too many companies outside of Thales (Lithgow Arms, the Bushmaster PMV plant, all our munitions, etc.) and General Dynamics (M1A1 Abrams and ALSAV support) or Boeing (FA-18A and F, Wedgetail, C17, P8, A330 MRTT maintenance, etc.) seem to be able to do the jobs demanded of them. Which is particularly bad for us, given that our geography demands capable naval and aviation capabilities to put down/pick up boots on the ground and keep the sealanes open…
I will also mention that I even went to the trouble of getting my own Goretex rain jacket.
Goretex does indeed save lives…
Take it from a former End-User whose basics (boots, pack, load-bearing equipment) was so crap he bought his own,
All of these things ‘Proudly Australian-made…’
Rex Angersays:
September 14, 2021 at 6:02 pm
Bless the drinker….
Always a good watch.
Who do I roll with, srr?
Genuine question.
In most parts of the world rioting is a legitimate form of public expression. It has recently become required in the former Commonwealth of Australia.
Rex, were you the one who posted the submarines scam on the old Sinc Cat?
The hour long youtube on how the scam started in 2007 as soon as Krudd was elected?
He used to own land in the district where the family farm is, before re-locating to Hutt River. He didn’t win too many friends when he referred to the district as being “barren, waterless, wastelands.”
did he not point the stupid in their stance by saying some thing constructive?
Like … fuck off then, you mongs
@ bern-
Everyone who is a meany poo-bum to srr for thinking her carry-on is overwrought at best, and malicious at worst.
Kind of like a female Faulty, minus the doxxing threats, cunning linguism and predilection for ‘luvverly laydeeeeees…’
Rex Anger says:
September 14, 2021 at 5:55 pm
While some of our more combative (and front-bar urgy) Cats declare ‘You Can’t Comply Your Way Out of Tyranny,’ …
My interpretation of the original statement you quote, Rex, was that anyone who thinks that by complying, they will be rewarded, is likely to be disappointed. Any ‘rewards’ offered will be repackaged versions of what has already been stolen, and by identifying oneself as compliant, you also identify yourself as a useful tool.
I don’t think so.
Long spiels about the ongoing debacles that are Airbus MRH-90 and Tiger ARH, maybe. But not the sub BS.
He didn’t win too many friends when he referred to the district as being “barren, waterless, wastelands.”
If the family farm was where I think it was from your hints, he wasn’t far wrong. Used to have a mate at uni whose farm out there was next to the rabbit proof fence but on the western (cultivated) side. He reckoned it was pretty sad and the emus used to look hungrily through the fence at the farm.
Followed by a demand for a pro rata refund of his membership fees.
I’m sure vaccine passports weren’t mentioned when he signed up.
Indeed so, Muddy.
But on sites like the Dash-Cat, that phrase is effectively a virtue signal for certain members of the ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It!’ brigade, against anyone who does not publicly accept their dictates of overt and/or violent resistance.
Especially where historical examples of the consistent failure of generations of East European Communist Governments to fully (if at all) capture the psyches of their subjects are brought up…
Br’er Rabbit says…
if they can’t form teams, then they don’t have a club
if they don’t have a club, then they don’t have revenue
and if they don’t have revenue, then they’re mongs
The club has been instructed to demand vaccination status by someone called “Health”, as a way to return to normal* conditions.
Health does not appear to understand that vaccinated people can catch and spread the virus. Health also appears to think that four people on a fairway and driving their own carts are at risk of … something. Probably enjoying themselves in the fresh air.
Health is the most corrosive, antisocial and malignant power ever to rear its head in this country. I wish nothing but ill on Health.
* remember when life was simple and carefree and no one cared where you went or what you did?
“* remember when life was simple and carefree and no one cared where you went or what you did?”
That Australia is gone.
The lunatic is now totally totally offensive.
“Do you even care that your, “Jewish Politically Active princess”, behaviour makes a lot more people see Jews negatively “
The lunatic that wrote needs to go…or at least be warned.
Jam it, srr.
You have tried to out-Faulty Faulty.
Again.
And all the screaming and pointing grubby fingers at the rest of us to deflect from your self-kak is risible.
Congratulations on self-selecting for removal.
As per Newton’s Third Law, you have brought this upon yourself…
(And even if- Like Bird- You don’t believe in Newtonian physics, you will likely get a lesson in it from the moderators if you do not pull your head in).
I don’t believe that Cassie. You aren’t putting my grandchildren in danger.
That would be the socialists pretending to be a conservative government, and the out and proud socialists and worse.
“I don’t believe that Cassie. You aren’t putting my grandchildren in danger.”
Thanks Calli. I don’t have children…which has been a cause of some sadness in my life but I have Jewish nieces and nephews and one day I hope to have Jewish grandnieces and grandnephews and I don’t believe that I’ve ever put them in danger.
Also, I think you have done sterling work in your guest post pieces, cataloguing and eviscerating the Libs and Nats for the spineless, rudderless politicians they are, living off the dwindling contract made with their base long ago.
My patience with them is up. Expired. Kaput. But I don’t matter. They told me that.
worth a watch
The Proliferation of COVID Variants
The community is so small and tight knit Cassie, you probably know my grandchildren, or at least their family. I’m happy to share. 😀
Why do you ALWAYS leave out the relevant details in your ‘hit’ ‘quotes’, Cassie?
My Grandchildren are Jewish and YOUR behaviour is a real threat to them, as I explained in my previous post.
“callisays:
September 14, 2021 at 7:27 pm”
Thank you. I like writing them…hope to do more. I’m not as good as someone like C.L….who writes beautifully….he’s a wordsmith.
Yom Kippur starts tomorrow night….
Ooh…the media are all gooey over TaliDan’s Sunday roadmap.
A plan from the worst managed government in Australia shouldn’t be a cause for hope.
Get ready to be appalled.
“My Grandchildren are Jewish and YOUR behaviour is a real threat to them, as I explained in my previous post.”
Please DB……get rid of this.
things were better when they were worser
(works best when said with Aldo’s accent)
Pull your head in, srr.
Lest you start to fly into the same well-washed windows we often set up for Bird…
Massage Man crushes dissent with an Iron Broom:
Except Ms Le isn’t discouraged:
So, that’s a fuck right off then.
It reminded me of the Joni Mitchell song, but also this. 😀
Calli I could tell you a funny story about a bossy 14 mo boy but it’s not that kind of blog.
Too be honest, neither of those candidates are good enough.
It would be nice to see an independent take the seat.
full Rogan Podcast. Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying
Dan’s Covid roadmap homework.
‘Zero Covid’ heading crossed out and ‘Vaccine Passport’ written in with crayon.
Doc, spent some of my childhood round Liverpool. Had relatives there till they started the move further SW, most now around Camden. I know Cabramatta as well, the Viet community is very strong there as well as other South East Asians like Cambodians, Lao’s and some Thais. These people never forget too, if you take a train ride along the line from Liverpool to Granville just past the Cabravale Club there is a house still flying the RVN flag, I have seen it elsewhere too within the suburb. I was last there 18 months ago.
I was waiting for the backlash and it didn’t take long. I don’t think she will meet with the same fate as John Newman but the factions round there will damage her in other ways and we are already seeing the leaks coming. Is it me or is the ALP doing it’s darndest to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory???
It BEGINS WITH people like you deciding people like me, kids born crippled, people who are branded ‘undesirable others’, should be removed from society –
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/nazi-persecution-of-the-mentally-and-physically-disabled
Leftwits gonna Left, RockDoctor…
[Shrug]
QR sign in apps suddenly transforming into health passports ay?
Who ever could have predicted that?
Do people think they were joking when they declared we’d be living in a ‘New Normal’ once this was all over?
Srr, are you in all honesty trying to get yourself banned?
For pity’s sake, woman! Drop it!
Rex
Join CSOCTO with me.
(Chaos Sea of Claws Treaty Organization).
Are there cannons?
I like cannons…
Good news
Victorian businesses spruik jab or no jab policies at the Age may be paywalled
“It BEGINS WITH people like you deciding people like me, kids born crippled, people who are branded ‘undesirable others’, should be removed from society –”
Apart from the fact that what you’ve written above is obscene, you clearly need help….although it’s probably way too late.
Seriously, what law is this made under?
Rex – you have outed yourself as a Dawi Zharr.
I am a simple purveyor of red meat, milk, beer and blondes.
I was more of a Macro-Cannon or Nova Cannon fan, but I’m not too picky.
In 2020 everyone was ordered into their houses, a revolution was staged, the internationalist public health class overthrew the bureaucratic class and fundamentally transformed society and now you must pass a loyalty test to join their post-revolutionary technocrat data-driven mass surveillance society.
The biggest black pill is they haven’t lied once about it. In March last year I first read the words “New Normal” and articles explaining that what was happening- which politicians were pretending was temporary – wasn’t going to officially end until 2022 with mandatory vaccines and ‘passports’ and digital ids and permanent contact tracing and them reigning supreme forever.
There are roadmaps and policy documents and WHO guidelines and orders that all public health departments all over the world are operating off and have been since Feb 2020. Nothing is happening off the cuff, everything is being implemented when certain societal ‘markers’ are reached in each country.
They’ve never lied, it’s always been so clear where we are going.
But it’s not over yet.
Every revolution has to do something the guard against the counter-revolution. The reactionaries always have to be taken care of before they can mount a response.
I was thinking about qr codes today.
There must a few people who apparently never leave home because they never qr code. 🙂
Get rid of qr coding!
And in that order?
I’m reliably informed I’m a bit tall for a Dwarf, and my beard is too short to be respectable.
Worse, I also happen to like those dratted newfangled things…
This woman has been openly psychotic for a few weeks now.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/aug/24/nsw-covid-update-mask-wearing-and-vaccine-passports-may-be-needed-for-years-as-753-cases-recorded
Mask-wearing and vaccine passports may be needed for years as NSW reports 753 cases.
People who dream this up are not well.
Just remember that it isn’t the size that counts, but the way you use them… 😉
plain sight, mate
in plain sight
Nauseating slimeballs with punchable faces.
https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/nab-changes-logo-to-jab-to-encourage-vaccination/news-story/80e3daee07152d5aaa385caa14405531
Christ I feel like a mong having multiple accounts there.
The ticket out of lockdowns, you stupid self aggrandising fuck knuckle, is to repeal those odious Public Health Acts.
looks like the dictator is giving us a road map on Sunday and yes Bruce he will be demanding Sudetenland
Major Jesuit Tramples The Eucharist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk_9hw3Rvwg
Sep 14, 2021
Return To Tradition
Modernism continues to rear its ugly head whenever the Eucharist comes up, which is a lot these days.
excellent suggestion, it could be the covid zone
Warringah Golf Club too, from next Monday I think.
A “public” course.
Unvaccinated non-persons can still play in 2s but it will be harder to get a slot.
Daily Mail.
What is this QR code of which people speak?
All this modern new dangled technochologies goes way over this old blokes head.
Just drink in the beer garden and wonder off when the filth come.
Old timers disease. It’s for winners.
I have searched the Public Health Act 2010 (NSW) & the Public Health Regulation 2012 (NSW) – and also the Public Health (COVID-19 Gathering Restrictions) Order (No 2) 2021 (NSW) and Public Health (COVID-19 Safety) Order 2021 (NSW)…and finally the Public Health (COVID-19 Additional Restrictions for Delta Outbreak) Order (No 2) 2021 (NSW).
There is no legal authority so far for “Health Passports” (but they have been effectively forced on other industries).
They just ASSUME that they can make the order legally, and with no opposition.
This will get a lot more resistance than what we see now.
Reading lotza stuff regarding KK hovering over Fowler and other than a bit of media interest wondering why anyone cares? I’ve lived in Fairfield for over 30 years and for 28 of them was in McMahon held always by Labor and I’ve NEVER once come across anything that the sitting member has done that made any difference .. the effort seems to consist of a coupla tax-payer funded glossy brochures resplendent with the turtle’s pix a coupla times a year + a tax-payer funded Chrissie card .. end of story!
The only thing I can remember Labor doing that benefited McMahon was build a swimming pool in 1993 but even then it wasn’t the local member’s initiative it was Paul Keating doling out free pools Oz-wide trying to solve the recession-we-had-to-have that he created … LOL!
Been in Fowler since the last redistribution (last street in the electorate on the Parramatta side LOL!) and until this KK publicity and I couldn’t recall the name my local member until earlier this week when I saw it in print ..
Basically, I couldn’t care less which party puts who up for election because three days after it’s all forgotten until glossy brochures/Chrissie cards times roll around …
There may be some folk lucky enuf to live in electorates where the sitting member gets something or other dun but not when you live in, hereditary, Labor fiefdoms like MCMahon or Fowler .. the vote is guaranteed and they know they can enjoy the trough until the next one rolls around ……….
Rogersays:
September 14, 2021 at 5:06 pm
Did they say that Elder was a far-right white supremacist?
CNN called him “the black face of white supremacy”.
If nothing else, this demonstrated how afraid the so-called “progressives” are that the blacks might walk off the plantation.
Yes, OSC. Anyone playing in a “two” is marked as “unvaccinated”.
This is a test of character for our friendship groups, neighbourhoods and towns.