And, please, no one with the reflexive ‘Trump won’t be President, the Dems will cheat!’ That is just an attempt…
Open Thread – Weekend 25 Sept 2021
- Australia ain’t what it was
- A Military Realist’s View of the Ukraine War Thread
- Open Thread – Weekend 11 May 2024
- Bumtree #10
- Bumtree #9
Perth and WA was a great place. Yep, I was a regular at the Silver Slipper, the Red Parrot and…
It’s okay Baba, he probably punched himself. https://twitter.com/PatriciaHeaton/status/1789281219504390572?t=r4q-bDatIN1v33F4g7zSeg&s=19
Perth, in the late 1970’s and early 80’s, was reputed to have the best nightlife in Australia..
When they brough back the Holden Monaro (exported to the US too and sold as a Pontiac), it really seemed…
I suspect that Evergrande is only one of the residents at the cockroach hotel.
A couple of observations from the RSBN livestream of the Maricopa County forensic election audit.
The several different mechanisms of election fraud long discussed here* have been verified.
The fraud was more than required to change the election results.
Certain individuals will be referred to law enforcement authorities.
Arizona’s election laws will need to be reformed.
Arizona’s cyber-security will need to be upgraded
*includes previous and alternate Cats.
Australia can prevent a Chinese war of aggression by acquiring nuclear weapons.
We only need a handful of tens of W-88s.
It could devastate their largest cities, military and utility assets. Naval fleets wiped. Army Corps wiped.
At a very low cost, it could deter the most destructive war in human history – hopefully it never happens.
Joe Biden won’t save us.
“Peace is our mission”
On Telegram, DJT says
And…
And…
Dover, an older but not forgotten case of police brutality.
https://twitter.com/K_for_rats/status/1441380783676030983?s=20
Australian State Police Are The Enemy Of The People.
apparently we are all citizens now.
We only need a handful of tens of W-88s.
Would you like to know more?
Indeed, you fat li’l communist f*ckwit. Because until 18 months ago we nominally existed in “liberal democracies” as opposed to totalitarian shitholes ruled by evil imbeciles like you. We had “freedom of choice”, because we didn’t exist in an ants nest in a pile of dung.
They have, you fat ugly li’l maggot. And like various other bloviating fascist imbeciles, it won’t end well for them.
A billion Ch!nks and crypto currencies. What could go wrong?
Boy these new freds pop up quick. I’ll repeat this one from the last one:
Winston Smithsays:
September 25, 2021 at 5:03 am
Top Ender:
Heinlein has been gone many a year. I hesitatingly admit to doing an Honours dissertation on his later works about 30 years back. While there are some great SF ideas, there is lots of cringeworthy sex bits. His obsession with nubile females was the least of it.
He lost me with “The Door Into Summer”.
He went seriously weird there – and not in a pleasant way.
It does have Heinlein’s favourite sexual fantasy of using time travel to successfully realise an attraction to an underage girl. Other then that its full of Heinlein’s usual engineering potpourri. Heinlein was a natural story-teller and could make asinine plots totally convincing but his sense of his own mortality and interesting sexuality got the better of him in his later novels. But there is no doubt overall he is maybe the top S-F writer of all time.
naval build up. nuclear missile build up. relentless technology theft. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist that to see once china considers itself capable of invading taiwan and the world not daring to counter attack due to mutual annihilation it will do so. the countdown is on.
Real Rukshan at Northcote. How long before these scenes start alienating even supportive public pockets…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIvVz0lrzo0
It’s all happening here.
Translation: Japan is rattling the regional defence cage and unnerving us.
China is starting to shit itself over rising Japanese military assertiveness. Not because they are planning to invade Manchuria, but a Rising Sun Bomb on board a nuclear submarine would be an awkward turd in the China Sea soup bowl.
The droplets are splashing KL and Jakarta.
Presentation of the Maricopa County Election Audit
https://twitter.com/ElectionWiz/status/1441546086640807944
A commenter on Instapundit’s post in regard to Victoria taking the world lockdown record. Finally, there’s something to like about the Oils song:
Out where the river broke
The bloodwood and the desert oak
Holden wrecks and boiling diesels
Steam in 45 degrees
The time has come
To say fair’s fair
Our rights are ours
And they don’t care
The time has come
A fact’s a fact
They belong to us
Let’s take them back!
Rog, surprising the amount of distrust in places like Thailand outside big cities to the Japanese that lingers. I met an old lady about 10 years ago in a rural area who remembers the war as a girl though she did say they never saw many soldiers round there but everyone knows what they did. Mind you the Chinese have done themselves no favours as well recently.
Dot says:
September 25, 2021 at 9:58 am
Hi frens.
An Adam Calhoun reference, Dot? Next you’ll be laying down Tom MacDonald bars.
Chaos and confusion as drone pilot ARRESTED at Brisbane freedom rally
Saw similar in the Indonesian Archipelago as well.
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Back then the problem was lion mouths, as Paul said.
Today the problem is lyin’ mouths. Lots of them.
Fair do’s, srr is – shall we say, not so tightly wound – but she does put up some good links.
I am currently listening to the one where Matt somebody (anyone know?) interviews Rukshan Fernando, intrepid and invaluable citizen video journalist, back in March.
Rukshan has a successful wedding video business, and he likes his job – he really enjoys going to weddings. But make no mistake, he is also very smart and perceptive about politics and the media. He is a pleasure to listen to, and this was recorded before his recent elevation to the top table with the likes of Avi and Topher – both of whom he gets on well with. Topher even held his camera for a while to give him a rest at the Shrine of Remembrance demo.
He is of Sri Lankan background, presumably came here young as his accent is very Australian. Really nice bloke.
BTW, this Matt person – I do hope someone knows his name – is an excellent interviewer. In fact, this is the best interview I have heard for years.
Linky.
It’s a tough one, in the sense that it requires courage on the part of bishops and church leaders to tell Caesar where to get off
It’s only 1945 if people let it be so.
And on the verse in Romans, on obeying rulers.
Especially in the earliest of times, in Rome, Christianity was a derided and outlawed religion. That’s why Christians met in secret and had secret ways of knowing each other. Essentially, what they were doing – meeting in the catacombs – they were disobeying the laws of Rome.
From Tacitus on the Great Fire in Nero’s reign (via wiki).
(That was the crime Christians we’re charged with).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacitus_on_Christ
From the beginning, there is a fine tradition of Christians not obeying the state. The Galatians passage disallowing any difference between the believers would not have been accepted by the Roman authorities- not separating slave/free, male/female, Jew/Gentile would have been anathema to Roman law. But it didn’t stop Christians from refusing to discriminate one from another. So, too, there is no vaccinated/unvaccinated in Christ.
Crossie said up thread that the church is God’s house – not the state’s.
I would add: as communicant members, (all) are the Body of Christ.
The Chinese spread across Asia and in particularly Indonesia have not been well liked for many decades because a) they are the merchant class ie moneyed and b) their religion ie not Izlarmists. They are tolerated but tend to know their place.
They adopt local names and spread the loot around to keep the peace.
Can you imagine the screeching and institutional self-flaying if it was vision of Australian soldiers bashing and brutalising civilians like VikPol are in Afghan or somewhere?
That’s possibly one of the more disgusting elements at play here for me. If we do ultimately find ourselves once again in broad sunlit uplands, we need to rub that in the faces of the now silent and/or propagandising every time they have the temerity to open their traps.
Oh, and BoN, I commented on a remarkable local Peewee over at Adam’s – you might be interested.
If your Christian faith is that deep it has to hide behind a wall of “very private” then it is not true faith at all.
Bitcoin has had the shit kicked out of it .. I think, since China said it was banning foreign cyrptos.
It’s fallen 20% since early Sept. FMD.
Dot, and you think we could run a global economy on a “currency” that sways 20% in less than a month.
I still believe cryptos are worth zero. 🙂
Zipster
It’s a corrupt, micromanaged totalitarian shithole. This is the model that awaits us with social credit.
The old Soviet system, we will pretend to work, they will pretend to pay us.
Mongyang.
Heh. Using it.
I think Farnham sang it best.
We have the chance to turn the pages over
We can write what we want to write
We gotta make ends meet, before we get much older
We’re all someone’s daughter
We’re all someone’s son
How long can we look at each other
Down the barrel of a gun?
You’re the voice, try and understand it
Make a noise and make it clear
Oh, whoa
We’re not gonna sit in silence
We’re not gonna live with fear
Oh, whoa
This time, we know we all can stand together
With the power to be powerful
Believing we can make it better
Ooh, we’re all someone’s daughter
We’re all someone’s son
How long can we look at each other
Down the barrel of a gun?
Should be sung in the faces of VicPlod.
Their acts brutality is a direct result of their feelings shame.
I see on the FaceBooks that a bunch of Tier 2 exposure sites have popped up in Victoria’s southwest.
Maybe twenty locations in Hamilton, Terang, Camperdown and Warrnambool.
All from a week ago.
I don’t get why this is surprising.
The place began a penal colony and I wouldn’t think the “boss” during those times was that kind and decent.
The Eureka stockade was a good example of the elite’s disgust with the common man.
Now, I’ve always had this in my mind, how governments of all persuasions consider the average dude to be mere fodder.
The property you own is essentially the surface. The government owns the heavens to the core. Mineral rights belong to the state.
We never never had a war of independence. We’ve had dependence.
One S too many there but you get the drift.
Farmer Gez says:
September 25, 2021 at 8:51 am
847 cases in Pyongyang today.
Danpyongyang?
FG,
Absolutely!!
The USD is more volatile than ceyptocurrencies and it is constantly depreciating.
The USD is a shit coin.
As for whether or not the Churches should allow all to worship inside, Father Damian DID NOT discriminate. He did this a hundred years before there was a cure.
Dot
You don’t get a 20% move in the greenback in less than a month across everything. Please!
Having it off with a colleague who is an ICAC person-of-interest, and then with her own ICAC lawyer, without apparent church formalization (which used to be called “marriage” until the Left stole the word) is a bit of a tell too.
Perfidious Albino says:
September 25, 2021 at 10:48 am
Can you imagine the screeching and institutional self-flaying if it was vision of Australian soldiers bashing and brutalising civilians like VikPol are in Afghan or somewhere?
I recall the uproar after an allegation that a trooper had kicked a dead body in East Timor.
“If there is a major covid outbreak (or any other serious infectious disease) in your community and there is a chance you have it, would you go out of your way to potentially expose vulnerable people, even if they have been vaccinated, because you also know that those vaccines are never 100% effective and their effectiveness wanes over time.”
*******
Well, since there’s zero difference between vaxxed and unvaxxed when it come to catching and transmitting the virus, that question has zero relevance to whether churches should obey a government edict to shut out the unvaxxed.
jupes, on Brand.
Thanks for putting that up. It is the cross pollination of political parties and the media and back again that I think has been the most destructive of the body politic (as well as ex-politicians ending up with influential jobs in academia). We’ve got full disclosure re donations we now need full disclosure of journalists’ affiliation. Maybe there should be no straight move from one to the other. How? I don’t know; better brains than mine need to work on it.
I just realised that there are so many sad, empty people who’ve become dependant on the fake lives & personalities they’ve invented for the web, that they’re burned by real people like vampires are burned by sunlight & Holy Water.
For instance, how’s this for an example of one who constantly claims fear of being ‘othered’ for their ethnicity, actually ‘othering’ someone for their ethnicity –
“….clearly you have an unhealthy obsession with Jews…because that’s probably hereditary.”
This is ACTUAL RACIAL VILIFIFATION to ‘justify’ vile lies.
First they lie about me, demand that I couldn’t possibly have Jewish grandchildren I love & worry about in this Jew hating climate, then they deny my heritage and then, bang, they change tack for their attack & go with, ‘it’s in my Ukrainian blood to hate Jews’.
Again, this is an actual, considered and decided upon act of racial vilification and worse still, I already know how many of you will come out to put your support fully behind them & not even letting it cross your mind to even kindly suggest that this time, out of so many vicious lies, they have literally gone too far.
The USD rising or falling around 15 – 20% per.month happened recently in 2002, 2003, 2007/8 and 2014.
It’s an unstable shit coin with no intrinsic value, no asset backing and without the utility of ceyptocurrencies.
To the hysterical.
If the vaccine works, no need to check on who’s entering the church.
If the vaccine doesn’t work, no need to check on who’s entering the church.
TRY TO STAY SANE.
JC – China has now banned all crypto transactions.
China Declares All Virtual Currency Transactions “Illegal”, Sending Crypto Prices Tumbling
No t allowed to escape from the gulag Chinese people types. It’s Xi’s money, not yours.
(Btw nice Mr Xi also arrested another billionaire yesterday. This is getting to be a habit. I suggest the escape route through Burma billionaire Chinese guys.)
JC at 10:55 – unless you have experienced it (which I haven’t), most people have little concept of the relationship between Americans and freedom.
Farnham and a good song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDJMgANjLwk
Konstable!
In Australia this is spelt with a u.
Yes. Bootlicking by the barrel full as well.
ALLODIAL TITLE IS NON-NEGOTIABLE.
Struth – You might like to suggest that to Gladys. It’s her who’s doing this not us.
The last time I went to Mass regularly, with the exceptions of weddings and funerals were in 1987, and that was mandatory anyway so I can’t be classified under any circumstances as a man of faith. In some ways, I’m envious of those who are because I don’t have that ‘fallback’ to rely on. I was going to say ‘safety net’, but I think that’s an even more inaccurate term.
Crossie is right in saying that once the government begins announcing who may or may not go to church, that it stops being God’s and starts being the government’s.
The concept of faith (for those who have that) has supported people through some of the worst times in history for millennia, albeit that faith – much like medical ‘science’ more recently – has also been used as a cloak for ruling classes to achieve their goals.
There’s also (I think) an element of synchronicity in congregations – that is, that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. If one were to combine that with faith, and the concept that the church is a good thing and assists its adherents in getting through tough times, then it is difficult to see why any government worth its salt, and which is interested in as little dissent as possible would deny its citizens the opportunity to be part of it.
I was told I wasn’t allowed to sing “Freedom” By Farnham at the freedom protest because he did not want his song associated with the protestors.
He spat it when he found out they’d used it in a Melbourne protest apparently.
JC, what are the keys to a viable currency?
Portability. Fungibility. Scarcity.
Gold has the latter but runs into large problems with the first two. Fiat has the first two but is terrible at the latter.
Bitcoin has all three. In spades. And yes it’s true that there are lots of cryptos but that’s no different to saying there’s lots of types of precious metals but gold and silver have been the dominant two for all of history. Some of the other cryptos will have their place but they’ll be minor roles and most will be worth zero. Not because bitcoin is intrinsically better software but because the use of a currency is circular – in order for something to be widely accepted as currency it has to be widely accepted as currency (like why gold and silver have been widely used as currency but platinum never has). Bitcoin is practically there already so all the others will soon be ignored.
My comment was a dressed to the hysterical, Bruce.
Not you.
Winds of Change
I’ve Been Looking fur Freedom
Good alternatives.
JC:
The place began a penal colony
JC, it may have started as a penal colony but ultimately it was decided that there would be no difference between the emancipists and the free settlers and nor between the currency lads and lasses and their sterling cousins.
This is a country built on democracy.
Real Rukshan at Northcote. How long before these scenes start alienating even supportive public pockets…
Police beating the shit out of people in the CBD is a little abstract. (Who’s even been there in the last 12 months?!)
Police beating the shit out of people where you buy your groceries and sit down for a quiet cuppa gets people’s attention.
Great change in strategy. Bring ordinary people face to face with these fascists in their own backyard.
Great
It’s not the tokens that matter.
It is a new banking system emerging that matters.
Look on ICO Drops. So many people are inventing new payment systems.
Goodbye Woke Big 4, goodbye Woke Payment Processors.
No more gatekeeping or cancel culture.
*You get what you fucking deserve…*
A spare “Great” there if anyone wants to use it.
Biden and soy boy Truedough suck china dick
Huawei CFO Meng free to return to China after striking deal with U.S. to end extradition
Topher Field
1 hr ·
I’ll be live on http://www.newsmaxtv.com at about 10:05am this morning, telling the world about the descending police state that we are experiencing here in Australia.
Join me there just after 10am today!
_____________________________
I hope someone caught it & that he can post it later because I can’t find how to go back an hour on the Live Site.
Mongyang.
Heh. Using it.
I like it to!
To the compliant.
Lose your job for your country.
Get a fine for your country.
Disobey, for your country.
Refuse the non working , useless …..except if it’s goal is to kill you, non vaccine jab.
Open the fucking door and be free.
Abuse the Karens, for your country.
Do not QR code, for your country.
Get arrested for your country.
And all of that sacrifice is nothing compared to what others have sacrificed, for your country.
Your mind is killing you and your country.
HBB, the Americans that I have worked with, lived their freedom and were all prepared to die for it.
The difference is that Ostrayans want to live it, but have no interest in fighting for it.
Danpyongyang
I prefer Muddy’s; with the other one it’s not clear enough who are the mongs. (Didn’t that idiot Sutton calk the demonstrators mongs?).
Unfortunately the mining thing has turned out to be a fatal error in its design. So much electricity and hardware is being used for it that national grids are failing, and graphics cards are in short supply. Which is pretty amazing when you think about it.
Johnny Farnham
Age Of Reason
What about the world around us?
how can we fail to see?
now that our fathers are gone
and we’re left to carry on
what about the age of reason
The world is watching and get it better than we do.
An avocado a day keeps the doctor away.
That Tacitus chap certainly had a turn of phrase.
Many of us will be familiar with this one:
One of the joys of studying Latin was that great writing can be discerned by even schoolkids like I was. Both Tacitus and Cicero wrote the Latin equivalent of Plain English, which is much harder to do than bogging down every sentence with adjectives and adverbs and imprecise meanings (see TheirABC online for numerous examples).
OTOH, towards the end I began to grasp how poets and satirists used the language as well. As the Romans had a Western mindset, their jokes and poems are still perfectly comprehensible – and the jokes are still funny.
Tacitus and Cicero’s critiques of politicians might have been written yesterday.
“feelthebernsays:
September 25, 2021 11:31 am at 11:31 am
An avocado a day keeps the doctor away.”
They’re cheap at the moment too Bern.
“Knuckle Draggersays:
September 25, 2021 at 11:12 am”
Excellent comment KD.
calli, I’m no theologian (to put it mildly) but my understanding is that the crux of the problem is defining what is legitimately Caesar’s and what it God’s.
If you can sort out that baseline issue, the rest might fall into place.
ussr is a bit nutty but I’d rather have her than the Qld creeps any day.
Inco – I disagree with that having read fairly recently the accounts of the 6th, 7th and 9th Divs in the Middle East in 1940-42.
The guys were very prepared to fight for freedom.
The difference is between fighting for freedom legally and fighting for freedom illegally.
The Left are prepared to do the latter. The Right are not, because of a strong Judaeo-Christian ethos and an adherence to justice and the rule of law.
You will find that if a Ft Sumter event occurs which enables Righties to fight righteously in the US that the Democrats will be obliterated. But the Dems have been extremely careful not to cause a casus belli.
Does Farnsey even own the song? He didn’t write it, just performed it. He may have part ownership through various arrangements, but when has that stopped spontaneous renditions by the public?
Zipster says:
September 25, 2021 at 10:37 am
Chaos and confusion as drone pilot ARRESTED at Brisbane freedom rally
Just over 11 minutes, but worth being patient and watching the whole thing.
Douglas Murray on Relations Between the Sexes
James Delingpole & Douglas Murray | Delingpod Clips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4pA5EWwwrU
Sep 24, 2021
The James Delingpole Channel
In this video, Douglas explains differences between the sexes and how modern society thinks differently, as well as his feelings on cancel culture.
“Women, they’re great, but they’re also bloody evil.”
Avocado & truffle salt.
That’s the breakfast of champions.
Farmer Gezsays:
September 25, 2021 at 10:12 am
Fifty one days since TaliDan’s doughnut day and he’s over 800 cases.
Compare the total cases accumulated in NSW for the first fifty one days of Glad’s “out of control” Covid to the Dictator’s “hard & fast” method.
NSW – 2,352
Vic – 11,571
Is Perry the Verry Tedious One still rabbiting on over at Dash Cat about “Gladys, Keeper of the Pyrite Standard”, and making unfavourable comparisons to the brilliance of Dan of the Dead’s fast, hard, LockDan? Or has the evidence become so clear that even he has to acknowledge it?
“feelthebernsays:
September 25, 2021 at 11:41 am
Avocado & truffle salt.
That’s the breakfast of champions.”
On sourdough.
People must not go down the road of “well you let aids ridden junkies into your x, y and z”. Normal healthy people aren’t being accommodated in our own society.
Normal people are normal people. Healthy and regular, perfect equals to ‘vaccinated’ people and their strange biotech injections. We will not be run out of our society to make way for some envisaged bizarre dystopian society where everyone has mandated biotech injections.
I see where you’re coming from, Bruce, but the Australia of 1942 has been deliberately watered down through the successive waves of migration. The Italians of the They’re A Weird Mob mould made an effort to blend their culture with the Australian, but I’m less sure of the latter waves from the ME and central Africa. Does enough of it remain?
Jesus wept. He’s gone all pumped up again.
You first. Oh, wait. You have a job. Or jobs. Or, lose it and immediately get another, better one with twice the pay, like the story that was told once and then died an extremely quick death.
You first. From George Street.
Stop telling people what to do.
That’s a given. Doesn’t need to be suggested. Nobody I know QR codes anything. Preaching to the choir.
Take that fucking slouch hat off, and stop handing out white feathers* from the safety of your couch. You couldn’t bring yourself to ‘get arrested’ during your last episode ten years ago – in fact, you fanged off as quickly as you could from jacks with broomsticks.
When, and only when, you are leading the charge and breaking the VicJack Inc lines in Richmond, you will have credibility on this subject. Not from the security of regional Queensland, and especially not when you’re not doing in your own capital what you demand of others in theirs.
The protests are righteous, and their cause is just. I will assert they can do without peanuts being thrown at them from above.
*h/t Leigh Lowe, from another blog and another time.
Mongdanpyongyang?
That’s a killer word for Scrabble!
What We Are Doing to Old People?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXOX64-PY4Q
Sep 24, 2021
Discernable
Let’s talk about what we are doing to old people.
This is a segment from the Season 5 Finale of The People’s Project with Andrew Bogut: https://youtu.be/bCg2vNti3ec
Well, yes.
A little grey-haired lady on the news last night:-
“Well, I think the reaction is excessive, really.”
My great uncles were at Tobruk and El Alamein.
Tough critters.
I didn’t mean to upvote this silly green pap.
Johanna – I’ve only read the English translations of Tacitus, but one of the fun things was to see the difference in tone between the first and the second book. The first was all bright-eyed Herodotus-ish history-is-fun stuff. The second was much more cynical and disgusted with the powers-that-be. Quite dark. He also really really didn’t like Tiberius, probably with good cause.
Season 5 Finale of The People’s Project: The Silence is Deafening with Andrew Bogut
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCg2vNti3ec&t=0s
Premiered Sep 10, 2021
Discernable
In Episode 9 (Season 5 Finale) of The People’s Project:
1. Bogut goes on a rant and starts a fire for the working class
2. The elite cement their privileged place in society
3. Influencers get paid to support government lockdowns
4. Reversing the onus of lockdowns – isolate the sick, free everyone else
Churches that enforce government policy written by the unelected are no longer churches.
They are an arm of bureaucracy.
After you, champ.
JC
It was lost overleaf but in 2002, 2003, 2007/8 and 2014 the USD was about as volatile as you are bemoaning BTC for being.
The new cryptocurrency payments platforms can end the wokist banks & credit card companies.
Which is bloody brilliant.
It would not make me unhappy to see continued natural spread of Tier 2 locations all across the nation. Roll it out, let the chips fall where they may. Soon. Then we might have a closer to normal Christmas than we are headed for.
Different Australia back then. Different people.
We need the call and chat logs of the CGHOs, Premiers, Ministers, national cabinet, TGA, AHPRA, health execs, police commissioners, pro lockdown influencers, etc.
It will be glorious.
To the compliant.
Lose your job for your country.
Get a fine for your country.
Disobey, for your country.
What country?
Why?
Where will you be?
I do salt and pepper never tried truffle salt, will have to give it a go
Bern, JC.
Check your email. I think we can make a Motza this Christmas.
The public want Tiger Rocks.
Luna Park today at 12 noon (allegedly!)
In Marxism a dictatorship of the proletariat is a necessary precondition for the final stage of communism, what does a dictatorship of the comfortable office dwelling middle-class bring?
It will be glorious.
That kind of talk gives me a mighty erection.
Dot Johnson is right.
Bitcoin is a winner. (at least for my offspring )
This might be repetitious, but again, it’s worth watching the whole 10+ minutes.
Interviews with Western Sydney shoppers.
Rebel News, Avi, Rukshan, Topher, etc. are doing an awesome job. I don’t want to call them ‘journalists’ though, because that’s now an insult.
OMG Dot.
Just skimmed it.
We’ll be rich, rich I tells ya !
The property you own is essentially the surface. The government owns the heavens to the core. Mineral rights belong to the state.
In Queensland apparently the first 6 ft is yours and not the minerals there. You apply to the government for a lease to mine said minerals and sell them but the Government collects royalties. Then regulates the bejesus out of you so the only solution is to feather the exploration reports till it attracts the attention of a bigger fish. Lot of it going on now with coal prices peaking.
Not green pap Dot.
Collapsing electricity grids in places like Iran and China for the sake of mining a commodity which is designed to increase in price, but which has no actual practical use, is quite dangerous. People need electricity, especially cheap electricity.
If you are undermining real wealth creation you are doing it wrong.
The correct strategy would have been to establish exactly 100 Bitcoin by blockchain, or etc, then let things rip. No mining to increase the supply, however elegant the algorithm is.
Forcing up the price of electricity for production of a fiat currency is harmful to economic activity. Even you should recognize that Dot. Libertarians aren’t entirely clueless, I’ve observed.
One day I will retire to a farm to grow truffles & have an army of weimaraners searching for them.
When they’re not attacking the hordes of zombies that will soon inhabit these lands.
The current day will be referred to as “the before times”.
Thanks again, everyone. I have collated all the replies. No names, natch.
It has been good to get replies from the mixed bag, too. Christians, atheists, lapsed and agnostics. What the people outside think of us is just as important as what those inside think. And, of course, for us the most important issue is what the Almighty thinks.
Obviously if I do send it on I may change a word here and there (without sacrificing meaning), or even a phrase, so that a search won’t lead too far down the rabbit hole. I will also type it up into a hard copy – why make doing such a thing easy?
Actually I forget myself, many office workers are proles. Selling unskilled labour to survive just like factory workers.
BC, Bern.
Before Covid.
The preposterous hell we’ve been existing through the last 18 months.
Has there ever been a more laughable and ridiculous bunch of tyrants in human history?
Knuckle Dragger says:
September 25, 2021 at 11:50 am
Churches […] are an arm of bureaucracy.
We’re gonna need a name for this super-octopus.
Good one calli.
BC before COVID.
DC during COVID.
Nothing comes after that before if governments have their way, COVID will be with us forever.
Maybe we go from BC to FC, forever COVID.
digital fascism 1.0
And look where it has got us.
A Constitution that isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.
A Federation that was a mirage , that now allows the states to run feral, tramping all over it’s citizens. With a Judiciary that supports the oppression with silence and the 3 monkeys strategies.
This country was built on vested interests, for vested interests. The political elite and their corporate collaborators nowadays fleece us of our hard earned at will. At a whim with no lawful consent these fkers are robbing us daily of our freedoms and imposing ever more stricter conditions and constraints on how we are allowed to go about our PRIVATE daily business. We are being constantly surveiled and monitored. All information reaching the public domain is censored, monitored and spun to suit the elite’s narrative. NO dissent or questioning is allowed unless you want to be lawfared into your grave.
This country ,BBS , has become a Soviet/Communist East European style shithole.
And as JC suggests, there’s only one cure for that , which we have not seen and doubtfully ever will- Revolution. We have never had to fight for this nation on our own soil. Australia was gifted to us and therefore never really appreciated except by those who unfortunately died in its defence and preservation. Outside that illustrious cohort and their families, Australia was never properly appreciated, save being a place from which to reap profit. Freedom is an abstract concept to most these days.
In essence we are fkd. There is nothing I can see anyway on the horizon that can turn the tide.
“callisays:
September 25, 2021 at 12:03 pm
BC, Bern.
Before Covid.”
I fear there won’t be an AC.
“twas Cicero I think opined that ‘politicians are not born, they are excreted’.
Real Rukshans attracted the eye of Crikey. Author seems to sit on the fence mostly but with a couple of cheap shots and the comments are evenly divided. Below for those who can stand the bleach based treatment of the eyes of going there:
https://www.crikey.com.au/2021/09/24/real-rukshan-live-stream-melbourne-protest/
Every real man’s ambition. Someone finally said it.
How’s this: just noticed the three top stories on Quadrant’s homepage all feature thumbnails of animals. In descending order, a bat, a parrot and a swine.
“Rockdoctorsays:
September 25, 2021 at 12:15 pm
Real Rukshans attracted the eye of Crikey. Author seems to sit on the fence mostly but with a couple of cheap shots and the comments are evenly divided. Below for those who can stand the bleach based treatment of the eyes of going there:”
I don’t have the stomach for it….but are there comments accusing Rukshan of being a far-right Nazi white supremacist?
Sorry not thread bombing but this is a good link from Michael Smith News and seems to back up what KD is saying there’s a lot of division and mental stress leave among the thin blue line. One of the comments has an alleged letter from a Vic Pol Snr Const, if true is another example of the culture being fostered at the moment.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2021/09/covid-message-from-fmr-nsw-police-officer-alexander-cooney-to-police-in-australia.html#comments
Wombat truffles
https://www.google.com/search?q=Wombat+poop&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwiwztmmiJnzAhXIFnIKHfVIBOgQ2-cCegQIABAC&oq=Wombat+poop&gs_lcp=ChJtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1pbWcQAzIICAAQgAQQsQMyBQgAEIAEMgUIABCABDIFCAAQgAQyBQgAEIAEOgQIABBDOgYIABAHEB5Q0FdYgnJgmXdoAnAAeACAAYMCiAHwEZIBBTAuOS4zmAEAoAEBwAEB&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-img&ei=nYdOYfCLLMityAP1kZHADg&bih=826&biw=414&rlz=1CDGOYI_enAU914AU914&hl=en-GB#imgrc=gl5NJTvVTTi4lM
I laughed areff. Once. For a second.
“After covid” is better. That way you could have AC/BC, which is nearly as good as the original.
Jailbreak (1976)
All in the name of liberty!
Pedro will have his dorper’s hunting for truffles if he can get them off the lounge room rug.
Anything below the billionaire class are pretty much considered proles these days, bugmen think themselves a separate class but they are nothing but numbered sexless worker drones for their queens.
“twas Cicero I think opined that ‘politicians are not born, they are excreted’
Tinta, he knew his stuff.
I agree.
End the Fed.
Rockdoctor
I haven’t heard or read anything similar from a vikboar or viksow.
The time for any good cops to take a stand has passed.
“It wazzen us, we’re just the camp cards who were only following orders.”
Come the revolution …
Oh, no.
It’s far more damning that that.
Apparently he … (gasp) … doesn’t have a Degree in J’ism!
Haha, Dot, out of curiosity just now I put ‘fiat currency’ into DDG.
The first result was the present USD/Euro exchange rate. 😀
Although from the wiki Bitcoin seems actually to be fiduciary money.
I’ll swap my bitcoin for your USD any day.
I told JC the chunks will wreck it.
They do not give a fk if evergreen goes splat,
as far as a communist cares… so what
the EU are the real shitheads
Rogue Bogues by Andrew Bogut
Andrew Bogut
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/rogue-bogues-by-andrew-bogut/id1541789772
Q. “Do you or have you ever worked for the Viktoristan government?”
A, “Glug glug glug. Gurgle gurgle.”
Q. “Vonce more I vill ask. Do you or have you ever worked for the Viktoristan government?”
…
It is a start to chapter one.
I’m just going to point out that there is evidence that vaccinated are significantly less likely to catch and pass on covid.
coronavirus infections three times lower in double vaccinated from imperial college news in the UK.
China is not the enemy…
It is the EU….
full of sanctimonious arseholes.
No Australian Army will ever again protect EU arseholes.
and that includes England, Ireland and Scotland.
You can go and get fkd.
Don’t forget the Jesuit judiciary!
Ridiculous. Your enemies are sitting in Canbra and the state capitals. These are the enemies that will thieve your wealth, your future and that of your family.
as usual the heading bears little relationship to the content.
no mention of sick people
Rockdoctor says:
September 25, 2021 at 12:22 pm
Brilliant letter. Thank you.
Oh my Señor Panzer.
That means #notajournslist is going to trend on twitter!
Calli:
…and that, Calli, is the question.
“Who are you going to turn away, Pope Francis?”
your one of the despicable law firm????
Abccess homepage news headline.
Police patrol inner Melbourne as doctors fear “very real” threat of Superspreader protests
Which when clicked on assumes a far more “sensible news’ tone of: Police patrol inner Melbourne ahead of potential anti-lockdown protests
ABCcess have been doing this quite a bit, full propaganda headlines on their news page with a more ‘you can trust us not to be sensationalist” headline at the actual news story.
a cynical person would call it deceptive or agenda pushing shit in place of news.
Evidence, schmevidence:
A larger rally on Tuesday included a number of anti-lockdown and anti-vaccination protesters as well as far-right agitators, who shut down the West Gate Bridge as they marched across the CBD for hours.
…
“This week has been a really difficult one for Melbourne. The violence is obviously horrible.
“And spitting at healthcare workers, being violent with police, is obviously a devastatingly damaging way to deal with your anger.”
Heres the first story on ‘spitting on a nurse”, and pretty well the only one apart from some people spitting or coughing on cops as they are harassed (2 cases)
A woman has been arrested for assaulting an emergency worker after she allegedly spat on an Adelaide nurse who was walking to work on Tuesday morning.
Police said the 42-year-old woman spat a drink over the nurse, who was wearing blue scrubs, as she walked along Hindley Street in Adelaide’s CBD about 7:30am.
Her alleged attacker, who is homeless, was arrested and charged with assaulting a prescribed emergency worker.
Obviously a far right neo nazi homeless madwoman then??
Why is the head of the AMA pretending there is an epidemic of covid related “spitting on nurses” events?
No one uses graphics cards for BTC mining these days. All ASIC.
For this latest round of the REACT study, 98,233 people swabbed themselves at home and their samples were analysed by PCR testing. 527 of these were positive, giving an overall prevalence of 0.63%. 254 of these were successfully analysed in the lab to determine their origins, 100% of which were the Delta variant. In the previous round, the figure was just under 80% for Delta with the remaining Alpha.
Swabbing themselves.
Rubbish in – rubbish out.
You need to read the actual report to get that layer of detail IC
and who is propping up the EU???
A mate died recently.. covid they said… fattest Covid victim.
But he was a Dutch hi up in NATO.
fk off.
You’re an idiot. Fuck off yourself.
incoherent rambler says:
September 25, 2021 at 12:36 pm
Rockdoctor
I haven’t heard or read anything similar from a vikboar or viksow.
The time for any good cops to take a stand has passed.
“It wazzen us, we’re just the camp cards who were only following orders.”
That could be a legitimate plea if the Vic government is actually using mercenaries to do the bashings which the plod doesn’t want to do.
I don’t know if this is just another conspiracy story, see Australia is using mercenaries in enforce their lockdown
From the Predator Security & Defence website (same symbol).
From Rosie’s link above.
I’m happy to be corrected, as I have no medical knowledge, but I was under the impression that the PCR tests were only the first stage in diagnosing someone with Covid-19? Even the WHO states that for a confirmed diagnosis, other tests (I forget which, sorry) need to be undertaken. So a PCR test would make a person a SUSPECTED case, which could then go on to become confirmed or negative. Is it just me, or is it somewhat disingenuous to use only suspected cases in statistics such as this?
Maybe so.
After Ban, Chinese Bitcoin Miners Are Flooding the Market With GPUs (2 Jul)
This put it pretty well, Calli.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/the-word-from-a-vaccinated-preacher-we-don-t-urge-law-breaking-but-we-cherish-religious-freedom-20210916-p58sfa.html
Jesus was open to outsiders – including women, tax collectors – he was attacked for dining with “sinners”. So, from His example, the whole idea of splitting society into the ins and out is contrary to Christian ethos.
I would incidentally note that a lot of parish churches are open at all sorts of hours; open to all and sundry and sometimes there’s even a priest in the confessional at such times. So the idea that you have them guarded 24/7 on the government’s orders is contrary to existing practice.
I’m glad to see Australian Government “Police” Forces keep you safe from The China Flu!
YOU ARE ALL GOING TO DIE AT SOME TIME AND SOME WHEN.
I saw that same link. It couldn’t be real. Could it? Shirley?
ok wakka
tell me your problem
YES.
Calli, I’ve been on the road all morning working, just catching up while having a break under a shady tree on a country backroad.
My thoughts on access to worship – for anyone – must never be restricted by a constructed for the purpose “pass” to indicate compliance with a government edict.
I’m Anglican, not a regular church-goer, but definitely Christian in belief.
Denial by a government edict of spiritual comfort in one’s chosen faith is evil.
Old bloke says:
September 25, 2021 at 1:14 pm
There appears to be a similarity between the symbols, Old Bloke, but that’s not much to go on.
Why the symbol at all on the cop armour?
A comment from the Michael Smith thread that Rockdoctor linked to earlier:
incoherent rambler says:
September 25, 2021 at 1:19 pm
I saw that same link. It couldn’t be real. Could it? Shirley?
I really don’t know Rambler, can the Police Minister or Commissioner just deputise outsiders to take on policing roles?
Sorry, that block quote was lengthier than I realised.
what are you, another chinese stooge? they seem to be everywhere these days defending the homeland against bad words
Has Asst Comm. Gravy Warboat said anything stupid lately?
From Michael Smith again (h/t Rockdoctor), my extract from a letter by an alleged member of the Vic Police Service:
looks fake
Has anyone surveyed the use of the nickname “Tubby” in Ostrayan police forces?
it has to be put out there
china is the by far the biggest totalitarian shithole in human history
A lot of activity around St Kilda Botanic Botanic Gardens. Any protest news?
Two helicopters with the tell-tale ball of string flight paths.
dunno wakka
wat u thinken
Freedom at 80? 90? percent vaxxed is assuming a close to 100% efficacy.
‘Three times lower’ in double vaxxed is never going to cut the mustard.
But one can dream.
I like the idea of using ‘You’re the Voice’ at freedom rallies, and tfb if Farnsie objects.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m2m_9Uijso
How Does China’s Social Credit System Work?
Didn’t he have an, err, ethics problem a couple of years ago?
We really do have a fkg Einstein among us .
Any more unique insights, Sherlock?
From Rosie’s link to the UK data about risk of catching the virus with the headline of 3 times less risk of infection if vaccinated
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/227713/coronavirus-infections-three-times-lower-double/
Always worth looking at the actual data.
We see that in this study the risk of getting the virus in the unvaccinated was 1.21%, and among the double vaccinated was 0.4%.
Ok, so the relative risk reduction is by a factor of 3.
But the actual risk reduction is only about 0.8% (i.e 1.21% minus 0.4% = 0.81%).
When actual risk is already pretty low, the relative risk figures can be misleading for many.
“Luna Park” is trending on Twitter.
Or PHOO
I think I know what the masterplan might be.
Flightradar24 is a great tool for following the action. Yesterday I noticed the activity around Northcote. Same thing – 2 helis doing sweeps and circles.
That’s Freedom was a cover version of a Tom Kimmel original.
So tell Farnsy to stick it up his jumper.
you thickhead craphead
where is the global warming shit coming from???
where is the Great Reset shit coming from???
why is Poland and Hungary ostracized in the EU.
fk off you dimeiy/
Belt and Road is keeping the EU elite in power.
Prove me wrong
Old Bloke, I’d never heard or a morale patch but there you go, marketed to police/military or wannabes.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/193279204027?hash=item2d00569abb:g:vHwAAOSwLy1eCoSm
At the same time as I saw last night I had a little rank about the obvious lack of professional standards/culture in the force and if you have a FB/Twitter account probably something to embarrass the Vic Pol command about. MSM seem to be hellbent on finding nasties under the bed instead of asking questions about this.
FFS rant not rank.
Casting my mind back to last week… and it appears quite obvious why Vicpols links to their crowd control procedures went to “404 not found”.
In the unlikely event a court stenographer ever asked an actual valid question of one of the mongs in charge they might want to inquire if any of the actions being taken are legal if there is no procedure covering it.
If there is no procedure being followed is “anything goes” the new law?
Or are they acting illegally and unbound by procedure?
42. ®ight wing supreme
Yep. It’s on the menu at the local chinese restaurant.
“I’m just going to point out that there is evidence that vaccinated are significantly less likely to catch and pass on covid.”
******
Looking at the paper I’m not sure they’ve done their work properly.
They’ve done a variety of analyses showing higher infection rates among various demographics usually regarded as deprived, and showing higher rates of infection among unvaccinated, but it doesn’t seem to show whether there’s any correlation between being unvaccinated and being in the deprived/high infection demographics. If there is such correlation, and they haven’t adjusted for it (and I can’t see any clear statement in the paper that they have) then the results don’t tell us much about the vaccine.
Note also that the blurb about the paper quote mines the most alarming figure, which in the paper itself the authors point out has been superseded. Not surprising – this comes from Imperial College where COVID alarmism is under the auspices of Neill “Pants Down” Ferguson, world’s leading hysterical wrongologist.
(I’m not accusing the paper’s authors of any wrongdoing – they seem to have set out what they did and what results they got very openly.)