I wouldn’t trust the ABC if it said the sun sets in the west.
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It was very, very Okay…
first builder dumb enough to try a VX mandate on me is about to find out what ‘essential’ means.
Rabz, if it wasn’t two hours past my bedtime, I’d initiate a raging, blood-soaked debate about human emotions and motivation. However, I have the label of a bottle of lime rum to lick. So … better offer an’ all that.
Sleep restfully peeps, and remember: The world needs us, so stick around.
Andrews is already lying. Today he said 70% fullVax in VIC would be 26 October.
The Age is forecasting Mid November, which looks more realistic given the way the fullVax rate is rolling over.
It’s looking like 80% fullVax might not be till 2022, and maybe never.
So he’s gonna have to walk it back somehow.
Abbott conspired with the ALP to deregister Pauline Hanson for…… taking votes “that don’t belong to her”.
Abbott may or may not have been on board with the jailing. (The jailing was unjust)
At the time, Beattie was like a roo in the headlights. Public opinion was robustly in support of Pauline, & at the same time a labour party-friendly magistrate was jailed for threatening a witness.
Beattie was baffled why the public was happy for the magistrate to be in jail, but angry over Pauline’s jailing.
In his mind it was the reverse, jailing a labor party figure was beyond the pale, while jailing a racist bitch was a good thing.
He really really really misread the room over that one.
Politicians aren’t the people you think they are. They are spokespeople for those who are paying the bills.
Somebody might have helped the lady retain some dignity, FFS.
Everybody waves at me when I come clattering through Fremantle on container shuttle duty. Especially during the daylight hours.
My personal favourite though, was the gorgeous little Shih Tzu puppy who bravely raced up to the fence to protect Mummy from the 2,100+ tons of steel rolling serenely past.
(Watching a fire-twirler get distracted- I like to think it was my fault 😉 – And drop her flaming twirly bits on the grass at South Beach Park was a personal highlight of one dinnertime shuttle run…)
boom!
coming soon, to a political theater near you
Sacré bleu!
… ?
Time to bow out, peeples … 😕
Is 1984 Becoming a Reality? – George Orwell’s Warning to the World
Brilliant exposition of what has happened before and is happening here and now.
It’s the length of the chain that counts.
Arma, there never has been a chain. What we had in the past were politicians who were constrained by their own religious faith/ethical framework/respect for the electorate. Now, because of the end of religion as a constraining influence – a Sword of Damocles – there’s nothing to warn – to constrain – the politicians.
On top of that, the bigger the nation gets, the further away from the electorate is the representative. Once people knew their local member and importantly the local member knew them. Now, head office makes the selection and imposes the candidate on the electorate – who’s going to invest time and effort into that process? Also, preferential voting hasn’t helped – there’s no-one to vote for but your vote goes there anyhow.
And with the rise of numerous international agreements, politicians have “friends” elsewhere and are therefore influenced by external forces where, perhaps, a job at some supranational organisation may await the post political career – in the Australian context, I’m looking at you, Matthias Cormann/Mitch Fifield et al. But its probably even worse in Europe where ultimately the EU sucks in everyone.
The lady with the Russian accent was furious at the cops.
She’s not accustomed to being accosted by a group of belligerent & impolite men, then being knocked down, skirt lifted, felt up & given a kicking, for the crime of walking in the park while not carrying papers.
The demeanour & body language of those cops said they sure had something to hide.
Exactly.
AEC harvesting.
Rex Angersays:
September 19, 2021 at 10:33 pm
Rex, I’ll accept your extra very.
err, gee, really, Mr Pangolin?
See also: Grub Oakeshitte.
Algernon – it’s been a while, but it’s not about the smarts but about the humanity.
Like illness. It is not unimportant. It is necessary. Getting up in the middle of the night to tend to the sick infant or the sick parent is to learn to love them.
Ah, yes.
Using coreflutes from elections past and getting his ABC boost.
Never a chance, but at $3 a vote, it’s a tasty earner.
Wonder what he is up to now.
No doubt listening to the ring-tone run to message bank on all the numbers of his “besties for life circa 2010”.
32 minutes of beautiful ugleeness, panzers.
She’s resigning her job as a nurse, in protest.
What is Oakeshott doing now?
Fat Tonysays:
September 19, 2021 at 10:17 pm
I’d like to think that is what it is – cos then we have a chance.
However, the dark side of me keeps coming up with the world-wide depopulation agenda.
Too many governments around the world are doing the same thing, at the same time
Tony, that’s where the medical public servants seem to be coming in. They’ve ensured that the relevant legislation conforms to those external forces – the WHO as the prime catalyst for the changes – see the change to the definition of pandemic. In Australia, legislation/regulation would have had to be changed to conform to that WHO change.
We can also see it in the push for reductions in CO2 emissions – all out of the UN. So the politicians has been led into much of the other stuff – there are of course a few who seem to be fully immersed in the machinations. Cardi has shown up Greg Hunt’s links as an example.
Not every major player has the same motive but that doesn’t mean that they’re all not using the process. There are some on that bus who are interested in population but, equally, there’s a number of them out to make a lot (LOT) of money and clearly another group who are interested in bending to their will every nation – so a bunch of socialists/communists – Schwab?
Health inspector for Dandenong City Council.
I am sure that if Abe Lincoln had been alive to witness Oakeshott’s Magnum Opus he would have said, “You know, maybe I should have padded out my Gettysburg PowerPoint presentation and milked it for a bit more dramatic tension”.
Nah.
He’s the slug.
I gave a cautious uptick on this, but I still find some elements of this video very disturbing. Ok, so she’s most likely a Russian friend of his wife and she may have mouthed off at police. She shows evidence of some coaching re the ‘men of Australia’ schtick in her highly emotional piece, although it is not unrealistic she might have said that before Kossak took it up as his theme. But her skirt was pulled right up, and any sensible cop would have laid off and helped her to pull it down rather than keep on going, as they did. Which gives rise to the suspicion that they pulled it up by decking her, not giving a tinker’s cuss about it, and she was vastly outnumbered in that fray. It was unbecoming conduct by police at the very least, and the optics, as with the Vicpol older lady, were simply terrible. I tend to believe this young woman and her story, for the optics support it, regardless of whether it was pre-planned as a stunt which some might suspect. Police would surely be alert to this if that was the case. This lot seemed quite happy to deliberately monster the girl and shuffle off.
Every word that comes out of Andrews’s mouth is a lie, including “and” and “the”.
(H/T Mary McCarthy.)
My attitude to vaccination is if they had called for the first volunteer, I’d have put my hand up if no one else had.
But if they say you can’t get a haircut or go to church unless you’re vaccinated, then I’ll say, no, I’m not going to do it.
And I might well weaken, but I’ll try and do my best.
And I’m self-employed and I work from home anyway. And it’s amazing how much you can do with a pair of scissors in front of the mirror.
Damn straight.
The fact the Australian government didn’t dump the Chicom bought and paid for WHO, after they lied to support the Chicoms at the beginning of this insane shitfight, shows what they really think of the national interest.
Scum.
Are people with personality disorders capable of recognising the need to save face?
All speculation here – I have no special knowledge or training on personality disorders. But narcissists are into adulation, including basking in their own. Being found out is not, I expect, about saving face – they’re only interested in the “other” for the worship they bring. If that worship is denied then their ability to soak up the admiration is gone, which would jar their sense of self.
See Rudd when the Liars got rid of him. He went into the HoR, sat on the backbench, morosely waiting for some attention. Later, he turned the whole thing into being wronged by his party and by the electorate. I suppose when reality punches a narcissist in the face, the problem is reality, not the narcissist. The “they didn’t know how good they had it when they had me” response. In fact, any other reaction would destroy the narcissist, I would think.
Reading between the well-spun lines put out by the premiers recently, that’s exactly what they are doing without being seen to do so.
Once upon a time in this pandemic, case numbers were the holy grail of markers causing “freedoms” to be removed and totalitarian restrictions put in place.
Up went the cases, so up went the lockdown levels.
Now, we have a mild easing of restrictions in both NSW and Vic despite cases being in the hundreds and 1000 per day. We are now enduring deaths in the same numbers as previous case statistics which caused localised lockdowns and ramped up restrictions.
Gulag Glad and Chairman Dan are softening up the public with predictions of soaring cases, increased deaths, and hospital bed shortages. It was only a month ago that they were hysterically toughening the Stasi-like control over we minions despite lower case numbers than they are predicting.
What has changed? Secret polling and public protests is my guess.
Gulag Glad and Chairman Dan are softening up the public with predictions of soaring cases, increased deaths, and hospital bed shortages. It was only a month ago that they were hysterically toughening the Stasi-like control over we minions despite lower case numbers than they are predicting.
What has changed?
OSC, it’s all about the jabs – they’re rising; we’re getting to the 70%-80% rates, which is what this is all about. A month ago that was not the case. Politicians can say now, “well, you’re jabbed you won’t get sick – just a mild illness, so we can open up.” And that’s also why they’re threatening the unvaccinated, which is having the desired effect on the electorate. The lockdowns mean people can’t work, the jabs mean the economy will open up. simples.
Internal polling maybe providing feedback that shows that everyone wants out. The heavy-hand of the police would be feeding into a possible/likely polling backlash as well. But the change to the politicians’ messaging is to get the rates up as the way out of this crap, imho.
The idea that NSW executive tells me what freedoms I have is repugnant.
Had a beer with a bloke I know really well today. Threw down a few bowls. His SIL was a Highway Patrol dude who got shot by one of “the baddies” a few years back.
His take on the Melbourne riots was different to mine. We didn’t actually discuss it, but we both knew it wasn’t a subject to be broached. It was like a “let’s not go there” moment. Bowls and beers. And cheers.
Pondering that, there are plenty of coppers at that protest who probably didn’t want to be there. They were rostered on, doing their duty.
It must have torn their hearts apart. Sworn to protect the people, but also to pepper spray them.
We don’t have a deficit of of good people in Australia, we have a deficit of leadership. Yesterday could have been avoided. Absolutely.
Time fur bed.
Another Sat’dy nite at home. It used not to be like this. 🙁
Tradies coming up from the South West termorra to finish off the verandah enclosure job. Yes, the place will be vacated, I assure their Covid-safe construction company manager. We will be located in the ‘cabin’ we have made in our garage, some distance from the property.
Tiling’s done, the ceiling’s gyprocked, the electrician has made all ready for our choice of lighting, the frameless glass with its chromed top strip is in, the sliding frameless windows are in, and I have taken off me diamond rings and sullied my little mits with some ‘no more gaps’ over some loosely fitting elements of construction left over from when it was just a pergola, on the basis that if I don’t do it it won’t get done.
Should put them somewhere safe, I think to myself, before I forget where they are or a burglar discovers them in the night, but I can’t be bothered. Too tired. See y’all. Dance class at 9.30am.
The thing is though, that getting the rates up will change nothing. Vaccines, masks, lockdowns and all their other utterly bonkers regulations don’t work. Obviously.
The fact we are heading into summer might just give them a bit of cover to claim victory over the virus. That’s for those premiers who actually want to get out of this mess. Some, like McClown, just love the ‘rona. He hopes it lasts forever.
Us against them. It’s a pitiful way to run a society.
Real leaders need to put a stop to it. Now is the time.
fuck ’em
she has her time zones mixed up again
jupes, it’s not that they work – it’s that the politicians’ with the help of the msm are pushing the message that it does. And there are lots of people who actually believe it as well as another group who are materially benefiting from all of it – much of the-work-from-home public service crowd.
It’s the emperor’s new clothes that’s in full swing at the moment. Until we reach the 70%-80% fully jabbed, or the people wake up, or the msm call it out, or the court challenge in the Supreme Court of NSW throws out all this stuff, it will continue. And apart from any of that happening, the only other way the politicians will pull back is if their electoral defeat is palpable.
The cure is deadlier than the disease. I’ve seen families and friends furiously debate this stuff. Never to be friends again. Businesses destroyed.
I probably should ask.
Do any Cats know of someone who has actually died of COVID? I mean a close family member or a friend. Not a news report or something. Pushing up daisy’s and stuff. Like stone cold dead. Fell off their perch. Carked it.
Anyone?
Armadillo
No.
The bodies should be piling up in the streets.
Vic Plod very deftly avoided any confrontation the day before.
But that was CFMEU blokes, not Grandmas.
One dead & one very ill (3 weeks in hospital unable to walk)
The dead one was a staff of mine from 10 years ago. Apparently fit, healthy & in his mid-30’s. I struggle to believe there wasn’t more to his story.
no
closest I’ve come is my good friend the Irishman
his sister in law in the old country is apparently in an induced coma
her husband has it as well
lucky they were double vaxxed he told me.
coulda been worserer
spoke to a bloke on Friday in a conference call that was in ISO
2 days overdue for release
… and no info and no communication from Health or Justice
dont even know any body sick or anybody with a positive test
total fucking frogshit
Dover – nomination for that sidebar of yours, if you don’t mind.
I’ve seen it reported that the elderly lady pushed over by plod broke a hip and suffered concussion. Will be interesting to see how Mitchell and Elliot spin this tomorrow.
KD, the author?
Sliced the underside of my hoof earlier today while cleaning out a pile of shit next to the verandah.
Discovered it a couple of hours ago when it started throbbing and swelled up. Because it’s on the ball, near the toes, a bit of pins and needles as well.
Just waiting for the nurofen to kick in and the ice pack to do its work. Perhaps a trip to Dr. Bulkbill on the morrow.
Dover – Armadillo, just upthread.
KD
Don’t need leading.
Need people to do what is asked of them. Sometimes they are paid for it and sometimes not. Authority is something given.
they’ll have been up all night rolling that turd in glitter
Franx:
Authority, and rank for that matter, is merely a role. Oftentimes it is begged for by the eventual recipients.
Leadership is an
. 24/7.
Instead of dead bodies, we see coppers (who probably don’t want to be there) pepper spraying grannies.
I want to see the COVID corpses. In fact, I demand it. Video of the mass graves and bulldozers filling the pits.
I’ve been to a couple of “Virtual Funerals” so far. Nothing to do with COVID whatsoever. Really good people. Salt of the earth. You just want to be there, to hug them, or preferably their loved ones.
Aha.
Perhaps the drugs are working.
The recipients of authority are by that virtue the ones who bequeath it. True authority is a gift. It is agreed-to, not simply assumed.
with authority, comes accountability
He might have died of shame. What did the coroners report say?
KD
Yes, accountability for the entrusted role.
When we say we want leaders it’s not because we want or need leading by the nose but because we entrust decision-making roles to persons dedicated to evaluating factors involving decisions . It’s a trust situation. Sometimes it’s a situation of obedience. But it’s never a situation of abrogating the will. In fact it can be a matter of enlivening the will.
My point is that once we reach 70 – 80% fully jabbed, the virus – as it’s measured today – won’t be ‘cured’. There will still be over a thousand cases and a handful of deaths every day. The bullshit will continue as goal posts are moved. Only summer can save us.
The obvious way to really make the crisis go away, is to stop releasing stats and talking about it. Treat it like the flu in 2019 i.e. remove all restrictions and report the stats in September the next year.
No one would notice it.
Excellent advice.
Jupes, elegant solution.
Ha.
It’s a thing……..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fearmongering
Armadillo
Virtual funerals, except they are not funerals by either virtue or in essence.
Not that such things matter to the Almighty who nevertheless understands.
Virtual wakes are crap.
In the video clip taken from the footpath to her right, at least 10 police officers walk past and ignore her lying there.
Whatever happened to “the standard you walk past is the standard you accept?” As the video cuts out there is one uniformed female who seems to have a heart that is moving into to help. That quote needs to be attached to that clip.
It is truly shocking that this is considered acceptable. Not only acceptable but making excuses for it.
Funerals and wakes
There will yet be ways of recurring to ‘wakes’ quite some time down the track, after the reign of tyranny.
No doubt, we will in due course, in the wake of waves and surges of time and tide, reflect on lives to recall stories of the magnificence, great and small, of those who perished in a time of distress.
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Warren Brown.
David Rowe.
Patrick Blower.
Morten Morland.
Bob Moran.
Peter Brookes. More here.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Steve Kelley.
Al Goodwyn.
A.F. Branco #2.
Gary Varvel.
Knuckledragger ,if that was me I would be off for a Tetnus injection ASAP.
looks like main stream media now questioning police tactics at Saturday’s protest, especially we can all clearer photos of the elderly lady knocked down and pepper sprayed emerge.
Australian politicians are addicted to tyranny and fearmongering. We must learn from Sweden, writes James Bailleau. Our policies must always be measured by what is good for the whole of society. At crikey news, will hit paywall.
read in full here? Article published 7 September
the two Americas
New edition of Joe Don Gorman’s Intellectual Froglegs!
Leak is excellent as usual. I presume “Jaws” in the Knight one is the electorate.
Brown gets the prize for zero self-awareness. Make the customer black and the venue a Mississippi café circa 1960. Or South Africa. But, hey! He’s white so it’s funny.
Agonising slow path to freedom, all right.
I wonder if nsw and qld will allow Victorians in at our 70 percent?
The Age.
tightrope? No Victorians dance at the end of the puppeteers strings. All about nurses, after all this time.
win:
Normally I would just get on with it, because history so far has demonstrated that I am unkillable. Then I took this into account from Professor Google:
As tantalising as the prospect of becoming the Northern Territory’s first covid death is, I will probably go and see some Indian bloke with a stethoscope this arvo.
I tell you I got news for you…
A song for Dodgy Dan the Tightrope Man.
Dot:
Correct.
About ten years ago I remarked that the amount of advertising in the media for government product was such a waste.
I was wrong – that money was well spent.
It was a pot of gold for an industry that was up for sale to the highest bidder.
Wuflu death – I enquired about an old neighbour of mine, his daughter was very upset, she told me that “dad died from covid late last year (Vic)”. Then she told me he was 95, but the covid killed him.
I’m intrigued by some of the comments on that Twitter feed. The approval for what the police did to that woman appears to come from a younger cohort.
What’s going on here? I look back to my youth and the conscription demmos – always the young front and centre protesting. It was the older demographic who would be super critical of the demonstrators. “Run over the bastards!”, from our state Premier was applauded.
Now it’s the compliant young who appear to demonise the demonstrators, with the sprinkling of hip and happenin’ oldies who’ve mastered the art of the tweet.
We appear to have gone full circle.
From The Daily Telegraph…
“Christian Porter has resigned from the ministry after accepting funds from a blind trust
Industry, Science and Technology Minister Christian Porter has resigned from the ministry after months of pressure, taking a swipe at the ABC on the way out.
Denying wrongdoing and railing against the ABC and Twitter “mobs”, Christian Porter has resigned as a minister, conceding his acceptance of secret donations was a distraction for the federal government.
Mr Porter had held on as a member of cabinet for more than six months after outing himself as the subject of historic rape allegations, which he has strenuously denied.
But yesterday Prime Minister Scott Morrison accepted Mr Porter’s resignation as Industry, Science and Technology Minister, following intense scrutiny over his decision to allow the anonymous Legal Services Trust to cover “part” of the bills for his now settled defamation case against the ABC.
Mr Morrison last week sought official advice on whether the use of the trust breached ministerial standards but is yet to receive a response.
Mr Morrison said he would receive and “act” on any future advice to update the ministerial standards and ensure “greater clarity” about donations.
In an extensive statement, Mr Porter maintained he had appropriately accepted and disclosed the mystery funds, confirming he had received assurances from the trustee that “none of the contributors were lobbyists or prohibited foreign entities”.
However he conceded “uncertainty on this point” was a “very unhelpful distraction for the government in its work”.
Mr Porter said he did not have the right to find out and disclose the sources of the trust and argued he would not subject the donors to the “inevitable” public “trial by mob” if they were outed as his supporters.
Despite moving to the backbench, Mr Porter confirmed he was seeking re-election in his WA seat of Pearce.
He was also scathing of the media’s handling of the historic rape allegations made against him.
“Having set in motion its trial by accusation, the ABC unleashed the Twitter version of an angry mob,” he said.
Mr Porter sued the ABC and journalist Louise Milligan after outing himself as the subject of an article alleging an unidentified cabinet minister had been accused of rape in January 1988.
In May, Mr Porter agreed to discontinue the case, after the ABC agreed to add an editor’s note to the article stating that it did not intend to suggest Mr Porter had committed the alleged offence, and that any such interpretation was “regretted”.
The ABC also agreed to pay Mr Porter’s mediation costs, but not damages.
His legal bills are thought to be between $600,000 and $1 million.
Mr Morrison announced Energy and Emissions Reduction Minister Angus Taylor would assume Mr Porter’s Industry, Science and Technology portfolio on an acting basis, with any formal decision to be made after his trip to the US this week.”
Missive to Christian Porter…
1. I noted your silence, in your capacity as Attorney General, about the great injustice done to Cardinal George Pell.
2. I noted your rush to side with Pell’s detractors and to further humiliate and embarrass the man after his HC acquittal when you authorised the release of the RC findings.
3. I noted your silence about the frenzied “ABC and Twitter mobs” that went after George Pell and his defenders…notably two men, Tony Abbott and Andrew Bolt. Both men were called “Pedophile defenders” and subjected to vicious attacks. Sky Australia and its advertisers were attacked for hosting Bolt’s programme.
4. I noted your silence when progressive maggots discovered George Pell had a secret fund to help his legal bills, and the progressive maggots at their ABC and elsewhere also wanted to unearth who was supporting George Pell….so as to embarrass them.
5. I note your claim ““Having set in motion its trial by accusation, the ABC unleashed the Twitter version of an angry mob.” Quite so Mr Porter, this is what George Pell endured for years. I have long noted your silence. I note that not once since Pell’s acquittal did you ever speak up for Pell nor did you ever condemn the feral ABC Twitter mobs that went after George Pell and his defenders.
6. I also note that you said nothing when Bettina Arndt was the subject of an unhinged ABC and progressive smear campaign last year and I note you said nothing when your senate colleagues sided with Labor and the Greens to censure Arndt.
As I wrote here last night, I hope Christian Porter finds time to reflect on this. Perhaps some good can come out of this but I doubt it, their ABC is out of control and I’m sure that the various witches at their ABC and in the progressive world are already sharpening their knives for their next Liberal, conservative, libertarian scalp.
Cats, I scored “Letter of the Day” in Melbourne’s Herald Sun today.
Only the last line was edited, with the first five words and final nine words removed.
***
The Editor
Funny how your perceived most-likely cause of your own death changes over time.
In the 1960s mine was the monster under the bed.
In the 1970s it was misadventure, from playing in flooded rivers in kayaks.
In the 1980s it was recreational motorcycling.
In the 1990s it was job-related, as a firefighter.
In the 2000s it was becoming a road statistic while doing a lengthy commute.
In the 2010s it was an accumulation of medical issues.
In the 2020s, for the first time since the 1960s, it is again an external threat – monsters, no less.
Monsters masquerading as democratically elected governments, who disregard our UN-UDHR human rights, ignore our national Constitution, and interfere in our doctor-patient relationships.
In 2021, the most likely cause of my death – and maybe yours, too – are the unprecedented, unwarranted and unjustifiable actions our elected reps are taking in the name of COVID-19.
Mandating an experimental vaccine while making the cures impossible to get? Muzzling our GPs then telling us to ask their advice? Only monsters do that – and they have.
You – yes, you, reading this – you cannot comply your way out of tyranny. Now, what’s your most-likely cause of death, and what are you going to do about it?
The police, now acting as a repressive wing of government, made a tactical error on Saturday.
They physically attacked the Press.
This may be a pivotal point in the whole, sorry mess.
HMMMM
I somehow doubt they were demonizing the BLM and Extinction Rebellion protests.
It will be interesting to see what happens with the latter when the Glasgow Climate Shindig starts up in a month or so. Will there be Greens demonstrating and will Vicplod monster them too?
Over at dash MH linked to some very clear footage from the high footpath in the Barker’s road cutting of the ‘push and spray’ completely unnecessary.
The more people see that, the more they will believe their lying eyes.
Then there was Sunday.
‘As if Covid didn’t exist’: Bondi packed again (Daily Telegraph today, paywalled)
Strategic defeat.
roadmap explained in detail
Front page of Melbourne’s Herald-Sun has one big word and a pic of a doleful-looking Daniel Andrews. In huge letters, the word is ‘HOPELESS”.
Desperate families and businesses were pleading with their Premier to reveal a road map of real hope. What they got was ‘HOPELESS…
VICTORIANS will be living under tough restrictions even after 80 per cent of the state is fully vaccinated.
The state’s plan has been dubbed a “road map of roadblocks”, with Melbourne’s lockdown to continue for at least another five weeks – a world record-breaking 267 days since the start of the pandemic.
Daniel Andrews unveiled the long-awaited plan to freedom, which will delay the return to school for most students, force shops to operate outdoors and limit pubs and cafes to “restrictive” customer caps.
The state will only begin to open gradually once restrictions in metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria align at 80 per cent vaccination coverage – expected on November 5.
People in NSW will be able to visit family and friends at 70 per cent double dose, while Victorians will have to reach 80 per cent to do that.
Opposition Leader Matthew Guy said the measures appeared to be “too harsh for too long”.
And Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry chief Paul Guerra said Victorian business were looking for a path to prosperity but what they got was a “road map of roadblocks.”
Cassie,
Quite so. On all counts. That small matter resulting in the anonymous donation in the first place will now no doubt be quietly dropped, now that Porter is no longer a high-value target.
Still, and with apologies to William H. Bonney in one of the many really cool bits of Young Guns:
Hmmmm
Armadillo:
Not a one.
Nor do I know first hand of anyone getting it.
Song inspired by “Flowers for Algernon” by Kathy Mar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJQFS0_mSzE
Lol, those victorians sure have excellent math skills!
KD – your tetanus jab will last ten years, during which time you would qualify for 20 Covid jabs at the going rate.
Knuckle Dragger:
Hope your Tetanus is up to date – we don’t need you taking up an ICU ventilated bed, there’s an epidemic on, you know.
Like Winston, I do not even know, or know of, anyone who is said to have caught COVID (bearing in mind the dodgy testing) – let alone anyone who got sick, or died of it.
Where are all these ‘casualties’ we keep hearing about?
I’m not all that concerned about tetanus.
We do have a thing up here called meliodosis. To quote Steve Irwin – ‘See that little thing? That’ll kill ya!’
It’s a bacterial thing that lives in dirt. It activates somehow when it gets damp, and loves open wounds in the lower limbs.
Dot
especially given the full court press the media is so complicit with the establishment politicians on this matter. As for the last point, I still do not understand this. The loyalty ultimately must (“must” ?) derive from rivers of government advertising gold for gelding cucks.
It is almost impossible to turn on the Teev and NOT see an ad for Kung Flu action within a very short period. If that disappeared, the MSM would also disappear very promptly.
The obvious way to really make the crisis go away, is to stop releasing stats and talking about it
This has always been the problem- this is Reiner Fuillmich’s case – the PCR Test is the problem. It’s not built for purpose; set at too many amplifications and it registers false-positives, even fragments of dead viruses. So the govt – all govts – have purchased the same test kit – a faulty test kit – and they keep announcing cases. Instead of focusing on sick people in hospital and the deaths.
Gladys said months ago, before she had her brain snap (read Frewin getting the Vax Supremo job) that we had to stop counting cases. But we’re still focusing on a big nothing.
The other day I referred to Lismore and the lack of sewage data because of septic tanks. So the govt, again, said “get tested” because of the one case in the place. If there was a problem in the place, there would be sick people at the quack, on their way to the hospital in ambulances or dropping in the streets. But nothing because there is nothing.
And the only way to register something other than nothing is insist that people self-isolate if they’ve come into contact with someone who tested positive, and rinse and repeat.
However, the politicians have no way out of this mess. It’s one of the things I wrote last night and if not, it’s the 70-80%.
(Like most others, I don’t know anyone who has had it).
And Sal, was wondering whether your 30 yo had the jab?
The obvious way out is to put up some of the more recent stats on the flu in Australia, say that it wasn’t as bad as predicted, and get on with life.
However, this tweet hits the nail on the head:
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Andrews can’t let it go. His fear of opening up is not that it’ll result in mass sickness. His fear is that opening up won’t result in mass sickness and therefore end his political career as the sunk costs of 2 years are realised
oops. Told youse I was tired. Of course ’twas Sunday nite, but the Sat’day was was front of mind.
For various reasons. Anyway, the tradies from down south, all masked up, arrived earlier than expected and we are now up. They are two very nice guys who don’t care if we stay in here or not and arrive wearing masks which soon disappear.
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I think more civil disobedience should be applied. By more people, doing simple things like going out of area and allowing people into your house. We know that plenty of people in Sydney are doing this already. You cannot imprison people in a city for too long. People give lip service to their ‘compliance’ but in Sydney their behaviour is definitely telling. They have had enough of it. So have we.
Not in Australia but a friend of my mother from the US died last November of complications after being put on a ventilator, she was in her early 70s. A few skiing friends caught it in Europe and the US early last year, one ended up in an ICU but recovered.
I know someone who had Covid…..my other half. He caught it in hospital. All he had was a splitting headache.
Not surprising. We’re a almost a virgin population as far as Covid is concerned.
No-one here has had it outside a few aged care homes and quarantine hotels.
I’m hoping that there is a small but significant undercurrent here already of people who have been exposed over the past year and a half but who have not been sick and who have thus not come to any official attention. That, plus the level of some protect by being vaxxed, would at least make all of us a little less likely to all come down with it at once should we break free or be ‘given’ freedom.
Should a lot of people get Covid though, it will still be mild for most. Except the vulnerable over 60’s.
eergh. Typos. I’ve only just got up.
Jupes @ 1:11am
The UK experience – same virus, same vaxx cocktail – tells us this is nearly the full story.
Vaccination does not deliver herd immunity: transmission and infection amongst the vaxxed continues at a lower rate – but the severity amongst the infected is significantly reduced.
Not clear that Summer significantly reduces the pox – although that’s the pissy UK summer.
This.
Unfortunately our Leaders have handed responsibility over to their Health Supremos and turned Covid into a political Numbers competition.
Green shoots in the East, but a long way to go…
I do so hope this is true
As regards Covid deaths, how many people have died through lack of early treatment and then through the “approved” protocol in hospitals which uses a toxic drug which causes kidney failure? This was deliberate murder of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of people. And then, of course, the interference in the doctor patient relationship. There can be no benign explanation for any of this.
Similar to my friend in Britain, who looked dreadful when we spoke on Skype. She was basically OK after a week but her husband nearly died in great pain as she nursed him at home with no help and his mother, who was dumped on them sick by the NHS, did die. Covid carried this older lady off, although she had a weakened immunity due to cancer.
Look up the varied British experiences to see how the first wave of untrammelled Covid hit Britain.
Australia so far will tell you nothing.
The Brits were hit by alpha variant, apparently much worse than Delta seems to be.
We may have dodged a bullet there. But at what cost in stupid lockdowns?
We’ll all get exposed to Delta sometime. Might as well be soon.
Clicked on some various media this morning. More weasel words from Channel Stokes, the senior Sergeant that floored the old lady was certainly not straight out of the Academy, the first Constable that joined in the fray would have minimum 2 years.
News.com not even covering not even covering the ladies condition.
Daily Mail Aus has wiped comments (Hmmm, maybe not the narrative they want) and sits on the fence. They do acknowledge the incident but it is buried near the bottom of the article which is well down their news feed.
Media is trying to move on already. Also the speed at which they denied the doxed cops name I’d guess people were over target, I hope that worm squirms.
Tony Blair: Govt Should Vaccinate ‘Nursery’ Age Children and Impose Vax Passes to Prevent Another Lockdown
Tony Blair doing his best Grim Reaper imitation.
Like Winston, I do not even know, or know of, anyone who is said to have caught COVID (bearing in mind the dodgy testing) – let alone anyone who got sick, or died of it.
Where are all these ‘casualties’ we keep hearing about?
And what about the testing?
I ride past a BAT FLU drive-in (been there since the 1st lockdown) at approx the same time every day (10.30am) and very rarely has the cars waiting exceeding 5 & this is just off the Fairfield CBD a, supposed, hot-spot …
I also pass another in Rooty Hill, once a week, parking for 250 vehicles and several hi-vis guides standing around .. never seen more than 2 cars in the place at the same time …..
Somewhere must be verrrrrrrry busy .. but where?
Very interesting post, Cassie, thank you.
bullshit Lizzie.
It is the normal annual ‘flu’ repurposed for political mayhem.
I want to know how many Australians have NOT been exposed.
BBS
A couple of very good summary pieces by you in the last day or so.
Keep up the good work.
Definitive Proof Of Australian Treason And A Planned NWO Invasion
This is from a blog called Nuremburg-19 and it’s based on a bill before the Victorian parliament.
The latest version of this bill is before the Victorian Senate. There’s a link at the site. Andrews is authorising the use of foreign police and troops against the Australian population.
How well will the Covid passports go once the streets are full and long queues develop checking in an showing the shop screw your tick?
Spring and Summer will hammer the virus and positives will plummet. The empty Covid beds in hospitals will kick the crutch out from under “take the pressure off” mantra.
From “The Age.” Andrew’s storm troopers about to take to the streets! No 72 year old lady will be safe!
Andrews seems to be calling for a revolution.
This is a tight community. Neighbour’s son caught it in Sydney, brought it back. Off to quarantine, family (tested -ve) locked down poor sods. A sprinkling of Ruby Princess pax last year. Rumours of +ve people roaming the streets of Nelson Bay. Ditto Raymond Terrace and Medowie.
That is all.
At least they weren’t poisoned with ivermectin. So there’s that.
Vaccination does not deliver herd immunity: transmission and infection amongst the vaxxed continues at a lower rate – but the severity amongst the infected is significantly reduced.
Really?
Karl Denninger’s latest:
Vaccination does not deliver herd immunity: transmission and infection amongst the vaxxed continues at a lower rate – but the severity amongst the infected is significantly reduced.
Take away message:
“Much worse is that in Britain it is impossible for there to be widespread communicable disease even for a a virus with an R0 worse than measles:
Based on antibody testing of blood donors, 97.7% of the adult population now have antibodies to COVID-19 from either infection or vaccination compared to 18.1% that have antibodies from infection alone.
It is impossible for Britain to have any material Covid-19 infectious activity among adults given this level of prevalence unless the jabs are largely or entirely worthless, or much worse, enhance infection.”
Remember the chinese & russian propagandists pumping videos of blood frothed citizens collapsing in the streets of Wuhan on Sinc’s cat in Feb/March 2020?
https://www.technicalpolitics.com/articles/more-dead-than-alive-videos-from-wuhan-show-people-collapsing-dead-in-the-streets-as-the-coronavirus-spreads-across-china/
Dover- nice to see the return of the Liberty Quote, thankyou. I’ll start emailing in pithy SF extracts, let’s make NuCat a little bit more edgy!
One of the tradies from the outer west takes his mask off outdoors to tell me he was just down at our local shops, and noticed the carefree atmosphere immediately. They don’t give a shit, were his actual words. In his area compliance has been far more enforced. He was proud of his area’s response though – told me they were 90% vaccinated now, and so they should be free to go. I agreed, and said I felt ashamed to see people on our local beaches a weekend ago all enjoying life in groups, and that I was glad that at least the pools in the west and southwest were now open. This should end, I said, and he didn’t disagree, though his expectation was that he would be forced to wear a mask for work for many months to come.
Sorry, I misunderstood. It’s actually before the Australian parliament, not Victorian.
Andrews seems to be calling for a revolution.
Well the entire rotten, corrupt edifice of Australian government at all levels needs to be torn down and rebuilt.
This time with a real Australian Constitution that severely restricts what government can do AT ALL LEVELS.
If some thing is unconstitutional for governments to do, no companies or private individuals can do it either.
Comment at Teh Paywallian highlights the problem succinctly:
Another one for the list, Dover:
Now that Porter is out of the ministry he can make it his life’s work to put things right for what the ABC did to him but also the purgatory they put Pell through as well as others mentioned by Cassie .
Being a a minister limits what you can say and do so maybe we don’t know his true beliefs on those matters . The amount of cognitive dissonance required to remain in the club must be mind confusing at times .
Indolent
This Federal legislation, it has nothing to with Dan or Victoria – its on Scummo
I thought the majority of current cases in Australia were in immigrant communities in north west Melbourne and south East Sydney.
My lga recorded 2 cases last week.
Not really surprised that not many people know anyone with it.
The inevitable gloat piece from the ABC over Porter:
https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-20/christian-porter-frontbench-to-backbench-mystery-donation-legal-/100474818
It that foreign powers legislation regurgitation of claims made in late 2020 when people (anne?) were breathlessly claiming Chinese planes were landing at Tullamarine and marching up the freeway to the cbd?
this legislation?
I remember Zyconoclast keeping us up-to-date with them, and good on him.
A few may have been staged by various parties interested in creating trouble either at home or abroad (one of a young woman upended in a fruit shop comes to mind as creating suspicions in me at the time), but some were probably real as sick people stoically carried on alone until the point of collapse. Also, collapse can be due to many other conditions, such as sudden heart attacks, in a population of eleven million. The hospital chaos was certainly real.
The initial attacks of a new virus are often the worst ones. Some of the reports from the 1918 start of the Great Influenza showed some terrible and very sudden cases, bloody outcomes and quick deaths.
One of Dr. Norman Swan’s gems of wisdom:
“It’s not germs we have to worry about in a pandemic, it’s how we live.”
Proof he’s a misanthrope in the guise of a physician.
Thank you Tom. Some good comments this morning.
Pretty dispondant down here in Danistoria.
Be interesting to see what fellow work colleagues say this week.
My overseas colleagues think we are fucking mental. …and we are. I used to be proud of this country. Not so much any more.
I’ll put it down to Monday morning blues.
Have a better week everyone.
Well, there’s no ‘mystery’ about who funded the ABC prestitutes’ defense is there?
Magnificent.
Christian Porter was being groomed as a future State Premier of Western Australia, but chose to make the move to Federal politics..
With an inbuilt ZERO Taxation.
No-one should be able to compulsorily seize your goods under the guise of ‘taxation’ nor your individual sovereignty under the guise of mandatory drug testing.
Paying for items of public “good” is entirely voluntary for sovereign individuals and should not be dictated by the ‘demos’.
Don’t let the buggers get you down Fair Shake.
Another Liberty Quote:
Sneakers on ABCcess news.
All anti coof jab protesters are far right nazis…
Hes an unhinged streak of frogshit.
and again.
Life goes on, Fair Shake. Head for the little luxuries – a shower with pine forest soap, some good coffee, a bit of bonhomie at the take-away counter or at work. You are not alone either. Vent here.
I’m heading for my online dance class now before I am accused by an ill-wisher of ‘forcing my remedies’ on you. These are just things that work for me and seem sensible, like taking vitamins. 🙂
Thank you Calli.
May also be due to the bottle of red I polished off last night. ?
Onward!
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@TheLastRefuge2 · 22m
Good to see people recognizing the importance of fellowship amid all of this created COVID madness.
Welcome to the bigger issue.
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Every word of this.
They’ve spent 12 years in school being indoctrinated, calli.
The prog-left motto is:
“If you control the children you control the future.”
@Fair Shake
Further to Calli’s comment above there is nothing wrong with continuing pride in Australia.
The real purpose of excess in Australia and all Western Nations is to drive us to the Great Reset.
Never met or know of a good military lawyer.
As noted upthread, Victoriastan already has a Road Safety authority that has a target of 0 road deaths – this is a real target, not some aspirational goal, and they have a whole series of punitive measures to get there.
The state apparatus absolutely refuses to acknowledge economic damage in any analysis. It’s almost a religious aversion.
Until this changes (which I can’t see happening) we’re in lockdown. 2022, 2023, 2024 … we will spend every May – Dec locked up.
At the grand old age of 44, Tom Brady threw 5 TD passes today.
That has got my antennae twitching.
The numbers have always been whatever we were told they were. But how do we know they are correct, accurate or even if they are a fabrication?
To even form that question in the mind indicates the utter trashing of trust that has happened because of the way our supposed “betters” have handled this.
Perhaps some enterprising “journalist” could have a bit of a bo-peep into where the testing is actually occurring, how many people are really turning up at the testing stations etc.
If anyone else passes any testing stations, perhaps we could collect some indications here.
In my own larger regional town there is a testing centre which I do sometimes drive past. Only once have I seen any vehicles there, and then only a few when there was a scare on in the SE corner. One in the nearest regional city just looks abandoned and forlorn any time I drive past.
Of course it’s all about the great reset aka new world order. Hazzard actually said it.
You could hardly be more of the “political class” than Christian Porter.
Ambition in spades, but what does he believe in other than himself?
looks like a typical Dutch measles party
The Nazis were best understood as people who wanted the government out of their lives and defend the right of all individuals to make their own decisions.
Sneakers be a very deeeep thinker.
That’s my take on this too, Eyrie.
How can it be possible or legal for a private company or business to do something that it is illegal for the federal government to do?
If federal law – by order of the Constitution – overrides all other levels of law, how is it legal for any business to enforce something that the feds cannot?
I cant access fecesbook at the moment, can someone rescue the video of Sneakers ‘deep thoughts” on people protesting AGAINST government restrictions on their lives as “nazis”.
https://www.facebook.com/abcperth/videos/901142234112414/
I wonder how many people who feed off domestic media only have the slightest idea that there are large scale protests overseas as well.
These are people who will actually respond to things like the 70 year old woman being knocked down and pepper sprayed by two police thugs with glib rejoinders like ‘Serves her right. She should have followed the CHO’s rules and stayed home.’
“A good military lawyer” is a contradiction in terms.
Cassie earlier.
I agree with all of that except maybe point 2.
I think the release of the redacted HC sections was a good thing. Remember, this was going to be the silver bullet “evidence” which launched a thousand civil cases. It turned out to be nothing more than idle speculation about who knew what and when.
Had he not released it there would have been rolling “special investigations” by the ABC quoting “anonymous sources familiar with the RC” talking about the “damning secret evidence”.
ScoMo’s appalling “stand with victims” comment at the time I would take issue with.
And, as they are wont to do, these chickens are coming home to roost.
The ABC is all over accusations of sexual assault at ScoMo’s church, Hillsong.
More and more, this springs to mind:
Come now, my child,
if we were planning to harm you,
do you think we’d be lurking here beside the path
in the very darkest part of the forest?
Like I said.
Those AR-15’s beckon, they call to these small souled bugmen in their dreams, glistening black, oh god how badly they want to unleash them on the filth.
..
He died of being 95, and took some covid off the planet with him.
There actually are, on the “Daily Mail” online comments section.
Any update on the lady that Vikpol slammed into the pavement and pepper sprayed? Is she ok?
Chinese aligned Government that has abolished democracy now declares anyone who organises to complain is officially an enemy of the state.
You are in a revolution that is now going hot. Do you know that? Do I? Do any of us really internalise what is happening here?
Let us start with what is obvious: What is happening is a permanent and fundamental political transformation of our society, government, culture and politics, at the point of a gun.
Police harassment
This has NOTHING to do with a virus or health and safety.
NSW is a total police state.
Those AR-15’s beckon, they call to these small souled bugmen in their dreams, glistening black, oh god how badly they want to unleash them on the filth.
Yes, a solution in search of a problem.
What good little shiny shoed toadies.
What makes it even more appalling is that until the ABC’s accusations against Porter came to light, this government had a track record of overlooking the right to the presumption of innocence; indeed, Porter and Morrison were two of the worst offenders in that regard.
Further to my comment @ 9.13 am –
The Importance of Fellowship and What Happens When Vaccine Passport Rules Creating Second Class Citizens are Demanded
September 19, 2021 | Sundance
Will the PM also “stand with victims” of police brutality?
Thought not.
Age photographer story in their own newspaper – was open access for me so hopefully for you too:
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/age-photographer-capsicum-sprayed-by-police-during-protest-20210919-p58sx7.html
10cc – Rubber Bullets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tqSIpr0T0w
The mentally ill should not be allowed on planes.
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1439482349557669890
If they are that afraid of COVID, they should be staying at home in a bunker.
After all, he stood with the victims of SAS brutality.
(sarc)
Drug fucked arseholes from the 60’s 70’s 80’s, whenever, now want purebloods to participate in drug testing to justify their own fucked in the head ‘logic’…