Farmer Gez, the word you want is ‘segue’ pronounced segway. A segway is a kind of machine that you can ride.

Does anyone know which countries ‘gear’ is going into building traitor Turnbullshitters Snowy Mountain 2.0?

Voith Hydro, Germaneee.
With subcontracts let everywhere.

Actually, where does the Patterson whizz kid stand on this assault on liberty and enterprise?

NT News today is carrying reports Uk soldiers will be rotated through the Top End, just like the US Marines are….

Has anyone seen media of Lord Waffleworth on submarines?

The slightest bit:

Mr Turnbull, who is reserving his position until briefed, nonetheless reminded people of his autobiography in which he revealed the French subs were chosen because they could one day be converted back to nuclear.

So:
• I am still relevant and central to everything, someone needs to brief me so my golden thoughts may flourish;
• Read my book;
• I was right all along.

And, now, back to the important business of shitcanning Christian Porter and discomfiting the ungrateful Government that never appreciated me…

So: Does anyone know of a doctor about whom they are confident will give honest and disinterested advice and assistance?

It is illegal for doctors to disinterested advice. They can be prosecuted if they recommend not to take the vaccine.

Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
September 17, 2021 at 8:43 am
For military type Cats – 17th September – anniversary of the opening of Operation Market Garden, and the battle for the Rhine Bridges, in 1944.

I trust you are not suggesting that has historical parallel with AUUKUS.

Mr Turnbull, who is reserving his position until briefed, nonetheless reminded people of his autobiography in which he revealed the French subs were chosen because they could one day be converted back to nuclear.

LOL

Then why didn’t you just by the nuke version you fucking dipstick?

Also, if SloMo briefs the fuckwit then he is bigger moron than even I took him for.

Mr Turnbull… revealed the French subs were chosen because they could one day be converted back to nuclear.

Errr… Nope.

Do you even Engineer, bro?!

This is not some simple, basic re-engining of a paddlesteamer on the grounds that a diesel engine and reduction gearbox can do the same job of twirling the wheels more cheaply.

(Notwithstanding the technological heresy and historical vandalism of even thinking to commit such an act…)

Lockdowns, btw, also diminish death by other causes, in the short term at least. Fewer motor vehicle fatalities for a start. Fewer deaths from risk-taking sports and travel. Later we may begin to see some excess deaths emerging due to the results of lockdowns, particularly in cancers and other life-shortening diseases not picked up early and in suicides as more people are driven to a financial edge, a process which can take a year or two.

effectively making it illegal to have a tipple during picnics unless done under the mask, through a straw.

lol. Any port in a storm.

The baddy, a serial killer who also wants to blow up Melbourne

That’s bad?

*ducks, as Melbournians raise hackle feathers for a fight*

Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
September 17, 2021 at 8:43 am
For military type Cats – 17th September – anniversary of the opening of Operation Market Garden, and the battle for the Rhine Bridges, in 1944.

The original account of A Bridge Too Far has its inaccuracies and biases.

The movie itself suffers the same fate.

But damned if it isn’t a rollicking good show. And the music is just a corker…

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4Gls47FozfQ

Aussie Cossack More community policing by NSW Fascists

jupes says:
September 17, 2021 at 8:53 am

It is illegal for doctors to disinterested advice. They can be prosecuted if they recommend not to take the vaccine.

Correct.
The NSW Medical Council and the Australian Medical Council’s Chair, Dr Anne Tonkin (yes, another Karen) wrote to all Drs months ago about this, threatening disciplinary action for giving the “wrong” advice
Australian fascism is real, make no mistake.

Hey Rugby Skier,
Have a look at the WAZE app, this allows public input of speed cameras, accidents, road debris, police, etc

his head

Although why not make it a few others, as was often done to evil supporters of Bad Kings?

This head-chopping business, now sadly out of style except in remnant religions, was also a grand British tradition from the pre-Christian Iron Age period. In Lancaster when we were living there for six months in 2010 a drain cover discovered by Council workers turned out to be a Roman ‘Riter’ grave stone, showing the usual picture of a triumphant Imperialist Roman trampling a poor smote barbarian underfoot. On this classical memorial stone though the Roman soldier in full Roman dress had a group of four heads tied to his saddle to add to his own collection and that of the just smote barbarian was going to make number five. Our Centurian was going native, I expect. 🙂

Then look at this and feel a little rage…

‘Despicable’: Sydney police stop Muslim mourners from watching funerals from cars
NSW police say people were in breach of public health orders as four men arrested at Rookwood cemetery

Leaving aside the special pleading about the religious aspects of the burial its despicable and vile and whomever decided this was necessary should be sacked.

Under lockdown rules, only 10 people can attend a funeral.

The sense of anger was palpable, according to another mourner, who said people had asked police why they were breaking up a funeral and “not in Bondi”.

So people found a way to attend a funeral which had zero health risks and some retarded spider monkey in head office decides they should be dispersed anyway.

I was too distracted by iron ore shitting itself & missed seeing met coal at $US360/t.
That beautiful, black stuff.
Keeping NSW afloat.
That and stamp duty.

Numerology

Chaldean name numerology for Covid = 21
Chaldean name numerology for Stalag = 15

Covid-19 –> 21 – 19 = 2
Stalag-13 –> 15 – 13 = 2

and 2 stands for Adam and Eve = Humanity imprisoned for eternity.

It’s all preordained in the stars.

WE are already seeing increases in deaths from cancer, diabetes and dementia (Mater posted a link to ABS data on a separate thread a couple of days ago).

OK. They are quick these days. I’ll pay that.

One thing that funeral director mentioned that I found interesting was his moan that the NHS was not treating people properly for end-of-life conditions such as pancreatic cancer, where it was difficult to access specialist services (the long wait) and people were send home with some Gaviscon to die.

That was pretty much the experience of my friends, where his mother was sent to them for care in her last days, dying of Covid, but suffering terminal cancer too without having had much treatment.

And yet this couple still swear by ‘The NHS’. She even sewed masks for the NHS in the early days of PEP shortages. It’s a National Religion, but letting its believers down quite a lot now.

This couple’s mum/m-in-law died in their home and they both came down with bad Covid. They were given panadol, although for a week he was apparently on the edge of death. Nurses visits only.

Ergas promoting Vax Passports from Paywallian

It is undoubtedly true that preventing people who choose not to be vaccinated from engaging in ­activities that are open to the vaccinated involves a degree of coercion. But that hardly means any such restrictions ought to be opposed by those who place a high value on liberty.

There are, on the contrary, arguments for restrictions of this kind that should appeal even to libertarians.

After all, no one has a right to impose a harm on others by negligently disregarding their rights and interests. And it is surely clear that negligently infecting another person with a potentially serious disease breaches their right to live safely and securely, undermining a fundamental freedom that govern­ments have a duty to protect.

Indeed, for most accidental harms, the law of torts – which towering libertarians, such as Friedrich Hayek, have not only endorsed but eulogised – serves precisely that purpose, entitling the victim of a negligent act to rely on the coercive powers of the state to secure compensation from the act’s perpetrator.

Were tort law readily applicable to highly contagious diseases, it would not only help compensate victims; the threat of being sued would deter negligent transmission, inducing people to seek vaccination, or, knowing or suspecting that they have a communicable disease, to self-isolate.

There are, however, obvious difficulties in relying on the remedies offered by the law of tort to control the spread of Covid.

In part, those difficulties relate to the complexities of making out a case: it would, for example, be virtually impossible to unambiguously identify the culprits in a lengthy chain of transmission.

But even if those issues could be addressed, many of the costs of Covid do not fall on those who catch the disease; they are instead borne by society as a whole, through broader economic and social losses that tort law is neither designed to recover nor to effectively prevent.

And with an infection that can spread explosively, it is surely preferable to pre-emptively reduce the probability of outbreaks, rather than relying, almost certainly unsuccessfully, on private legal action to pursue those who helped trigger an outbreak once it had ­occurred.

Given those difficulties, other instruments – such as “vaccinal passports” – must fulfil the functions that tort law cannot serve, including preventing immediate harm and encouraging the taking of reasonable precautions.

Moreover, since those other instruments are merely regulatory substitutes for the (coercive) law of tort, it is scarcely sensible to criticise them for being coercive; rather, the only real issue is whether they are more coercive than they need to be.

Inevitably, the answer to that question depends on an assessment of the facts.

If one believes that Covid is not a serious disease, then any restriction on the unvaccinated is plainly unjustifiable. And much the same would hold were vaccination ineffective or unduly dangerous. But if one accepts the Doherty Institute report and the latest modelling by the US Centres for Disease Control, the picture is altogether different.

Those studies suggest that the unvaccinated are about five times more likely than the vaccinated to catch Covid. Even assuming that the unvaccinated and the vaccinated transmit the disease at exactly the same rate, that implies that adding just one unvaccinated person to a group of five people who are vaccinated doubles the risk of there being a person in the group who has Covid.

To that extent, the unvaccinated free-ride on a benefit they have done nothing to secure, other than by making a trivial contribution to the fiscal cost of the vaccines. It could be argued that their free riding on the risks and inconvenience borne by the vaccinated causes no harm, as the benefit remains intact, at least in the short term; but it is reasonable to suggest that a free society will struggle to survive if the principle of mutual obligation can be lightly disregarded, including when it comes to sharing the cost of vital public goods. Rather, just as refusing to be conscripted in times of war should not come cheaply, so the refusal to be vaccinated when one readily and safely could ought to come with hurdles and burdens attached.

Of course, it may be that imposing any such penalties will prove unnecessary. Perhaps the intense fear of Covid that has gripped Australia will make very high levels of vaccination easy to achieve. But even if it did, there would still be a risk that when the vaccinations have to be renewed, the passage of time will have dulled the panic, causing herd immunity, and the benefits it brings, to be lost.

Having lived in fear for the past two years, wouldn’t it be ironic if now all we had to fear was the waning of fear itself?

HENRY ERGAS COLUMNIST

And yet this couple still swear by ‘The NHS’. She even sewed masks for the NHS in the early days of PEP shortages. It’s a National Religion, but letting its believers down quite a lot now.

Is it time to rethink “preventative” medicine in light of rights infringements?

Woolfe, I read Ergas after the Tony Abbott column.
Another shit day at the Oz.

It’s vindicating how ‘covid’ has outed every ‘conservative’ or ‘liberal’ leaning columnist and figurehead as the self interested frauds they are and have always been.

If a person is on column speed dial with the tiny australian media oligarchy, they’re literally on the payroll and will say what they’re allowed to say, which is what suits the narrative of the ruling class at any given moment.

And it is surely clear that negligently infecting another person with a potentially serious disease breaches their right to live safely and securely, undermining a fundamental freedom that govern­ments have a duty to protect.

flu vax passports now!

China Threatens To Send WARSHIPS To US Territory, Gen. Milley Subverted And Weakened The US Military

an interesting response from the tyrant. clearly the cocksucker wants to avoid war.

Many…many words to soothe his fear by blaming others and wanting them to be punished.

What a guy! What a towering intellect!

Speaking of Krudd, he is in Darwin this weekend, speaking at the local “Railway Club” in support of the local federal backbencher. China will feature, so it is said. $50 cash only at the door, apparently.

Darwin of course was where he once appeared sporting a shaving cut, which linked him to the real world. As did the pic of him wading through floodwaters in Qld, carrying a suitcase. Suggestions that the cut was make-up, and the suitcase contained balls of newspaper only have been hotly denied.

Rumours that Knuckles has the hot dog concession going outside have been heard…

$50 cash only at the door, apparently.

Cash, maaaaaaaate.

negligently infecting another person with a potentially serious disease breaches their right to live safely and securely, undermining a fundamental freedom that govern­ments have a duty to protect.

Selfish old man wants to turn all of society in a tyrannical mass retirement village so he doesn’t have to admit he’s old and needs to accept he has to cede the public and society and life as he lived it to the next generations.

TE:

The Railway Club’s tucker is shit. Therefore, it’s a potential one-night goldmine for local smallgoods entrepreneurs.
With a bit of luck I’ll be able to provide a slightly different product to what Rudd ordered.
Then he might find out that not everyone’s a RAAF stewardess.

So, the English NHS vax passport is completely benign, eh?

What about this:

he app records a video and then sends it to iProov to compare the user’s face against government ID photos in order to prove they are indeed who they say they are. The smartphone app also records information such as date of birth, postcode, phone number, and either a photo of a passport or driving licence.

The National Health Service and iProov have claimed that the data collected is anonymised and put under strict privacy protocols, however, an NHS spokesman admitted to the paper that facial recognition and other data is shared with law enforcement agencies, with the caveat that a special panel reviewed such decisions.

Facial Recognition Vaccine Passports Being Developed by British Tech Firms https://t.co/EIeyAvjVPo

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) March 27, 2021

An expert in surveillance law warned that domestic and foreign spying agencies will likely try to obtain such data, saying: “If GCHQ acquired it and it was of use, the likely position is that they would share that with the [US] National Security Agency.”

It is the case that the United Kingdom and United States are bound together in an intelligence sharing alliance — alongside Canada, Australia, and New Zealand — where all intelligence is freely distributed between the partners without restriction, making the cross-border flow of these facial recognition videos basically inevitable once they reached the hands of the security services.

As we know, Qld and WA cops were using QR data to find people after we were promised that the data was secure and private. They only stopped because they got caught.

Never believe a word they say about the security and privacy of your data. It is always a lie.

And it is surely clear that negligently infecting another person with a potentially serious disease breaches their right to live safely and securely, undermining a fundamental freedom that govern­ments have a duty to protect.

How about herpes Henry? Or flu, syphilis, HPV and HIV?

A number of lefty US states have decriminalized the infection of a partner with HIV, which is known to knock a decade off someone’s lifespan even now. And require them to take a cocktail of drugs for the rest of their lives.

I can’t recall Henry writing hysterical articles about herpes. It’s a mystery.

Oh, and as for Henry Ergas, in my experience every time he strays outside his field into politics he comes up with the wrong answer.

This latest incoherent excuse for an argument gets an F from me.

Has gas revealed himself to be an eletist egghead twerp during the trump era. A nasty one too.

Tony Abbott has written a column in the Oz today that has a Greg Sheridan level of stupid.

What does he say? The IPA is boosting him remorselessly. Mainly becos people there have staffed for him.

He might have drinkies next to a free range unvaxxed person on the Riviera.

Now that has me thinking…he might sit on a park bench next to an unvaxxed person at home.

Or…he might pass by one of them in the supermarket aisle as they scuttle out to forage for food.

He would never know. He would be “at risk”.

If only there was some way of identifying them so they could be avoided….

*ducks, as Melbournians raise hackle feathers for a fight*

Light the fuse anytime, Lizzie. There’s nothing left of the Garden State worth saving.

The language of vaccination has changed.

As a young mum, I never thought of having the children, or even myself, vaccinated as anything other than a precautionary measure. It never entered my head that it was a dutiful response to the “public good”, whatever that was. I never really thought about people who were unvaccinated, until it became a news item about babies contracting whooping cough.

Now, we have people rolling up their sleeves and extolled for doing “hard work” and “making a sacrifice”.

It reminds me of Mater’s bizarre Soviet and Nazi posters with strong, young, muscular types striding forward as one to crush the enemy. Naturally its antithesis is something entirely different – those recalcitrant unvaxxed. I wonder how they might be portrayed?

calli

Couple of suggestions here.

one

Two

If a police officer stops you on the street, he’ll ask to see your vaccine status, you’ll open the app, take a photo of yourself or scan your fingerprint (initially it’ll let you enter a pin to ease the migration), and that will authenticate you as you, then show your status. It’ll probably keep you authenticated for some minutes, have a caching system to handle low signal etc.

Version 1.0 won’t have this stuff, too intrusive, they’ll roll them out without authentication then let the media gin up an ‘outcry’ of people passing their phones around to each other, which the government will ‘crack down’ on by rolling out authentication.

That’s how this will work.

Once established, in five years, these apps will be everything, you’ll be using them all the time, eventually they’ll turn on location data.

The vision of the new ‘data driven’ utopian society is:
Population Surveillance (already here QR Codes, Google maps data, and eventually they’ll just turn on location data in the ‘passport’ app)
Real time behavioural compliance checks and social enforcement, aka social credit (already here in the ‘passport’)
Authentication and Trust (John Q Citizen is officially authenticated and endorsed as compliant by the NSW / QLD / Commonwealth Government – infrastructure and policy is already done, just have to turn it on).

What normal people call control, I.e banning you socially from X if you don’t comply with edict Y, they couch in language like ‘risk mitigation’ and ‘property rights’.

This class of people – bugmen – are the ultimate passive aggressive shits. They won’t stick a gun in your face like last century’s tyrants, they’ll pleasantly smile and tell you how relaxed and cool they are, while they create a Rube Goldberg like apparatus that sticks a gun in your face for them.

Besides which, most of the time he’s 17 000 kms away and nobody cares.

Terrible. Let us have governors who can get recalled.

Republican features of government may curb the mob, but they also require accountability.

Such as recall elections & ostracism.

I think most of you would know about John Adams? (This is from Telegram)
…………………………………..

“A DRAMATIC ESCALATION has occurred between the NSW Government & myself.

This morning I am in Sydney conducting some essential business.

In my absence, two officers of NSW Police came to my house this morning asking about my whereabouts & asking if I had information about planned protests this weekend!

My wife took their number & called me DEEPLY DISTRESSED about the visit which my 2 year old daughter didn’t appreciate.

I called the officers immediately. I was described on the phone as a “PERSON OF INTEREST.”

I told them that I have no plans leaving home this weekend & I have no information about planned protests (which is 100% truthful).

I also told them that visiting my house was a completely unnecessary escalation given that the STATE INTELLIGENCE UNIT has my phone number already.

I was assured that this was not POLICE INTIMIDATION, but pro-active community engagement? ?

Nevertheless in a similar occurrence to Monica Smit (from Victoria), I have now made the political enemies list of the NSW Government for actively resisting TOTALITARIANISM on social media.

I am being WATCHED & MONITORED.

No doubt the NSW Government is waiting for me to slip up before they POUNCE.”
These are indeed SCARY TIMES for all Australians who cherish freedom.
………………………………..

I’m going to forgive him the capitals because I understand how upset he would be. As if the cops wouldn’t know he wasn’t at home. So, it’s not police intimidation, hey, but “pro-active community engagement”.

Serfs up, Australia.

For now, the Prime Minister is still ruling out nuclear power on land, to match nuclear power at sea; but this is almost certain to change, if only because civil nuclear engineers will be needed to maintain a naval capability.

it’s a good foot in the door, next is nuclear power stations and then ballistic nuclear missiles. this is the only viable deterrent against chinese aggression.

(vaccinations for COVID19)…a damned sight better for risk taking than getting Covid if you are over 50 or 60 unless you take good care of your immune system in other ways.

any actual evidence for this assertion?

Yes, but imagine California now with Newsom’s extended family entrenched as a royal family – in an official, permanent capacity.

It’s just terrible.

Political dynasties do go away eventually and more quickly.

Saying we need the US subs because the Frog subs are bad is a Ben Shapiro high school debating trick.
We never needed the French ones.
We don’t need the US ones.
& we definitely don’t need to become intertwined with the US defence ecosystem.

We’re just buying holiday homes for the consultants & intermediaries.

Eyrie/Panzer:
The wiki page has multiple articles on nuclear warheads – some of them quite specialised.
Here.
Just for reference and light reading.
The Tomahawk had capability for nuclear payload, but was scrapped* for the Arms Limitations Talks.
*Scrapped in this case probably means the nuke was replaced by glitter and put into storage for the commissioning celebrations of CVN 169 “Hello Kitty”.

Open-ended much?

8.3 An existing [Queensland Health] employee is required to receive the prescribed subsequent dose/s of a COVID-19 vaccination (i.e. booster), as may be approved by the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI), within any recommended timeframe following the second dose. Evidence of vaccination, confirming the employee has received prescribed subsequent dose/s of the vaccine, is to be provided …

Washington will fleece the Australian tax payer and hardly deliver on anything.
And in the miniscule chance that China does do anything, Washington will do nothing.

We are getting played for fools.
Again.

If one posts a comment and self-reports it, does that function as a hotline to our new Doomlord.

Testing: 3, 2, 1…

China condemns AUKUS pact, Tony Abbott flags a ‘common danger’, Kevin Rudd urges caution