Open Thread – Weekend 25 Sept 2021


Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps, Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1812

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Zipster
Zipster
September 25, 2021 2:13 pm

Synthetic biology for future food: Research progress and future directions

The fake meat sections at the local coles and woolies has grown substantially over the last few years and not just tofu substitutes. I also noticed that powdered crickets is now on the “health food” shelves.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
September 25, 2021 2:16 pm

do some of you intelligent folk not understand that Australia is a Fabian construct??

Do you know where Karl Marx wrote his thesis???

Do you know that Karl Marx’s cemetery plot and headstone will never be defiled???

Do you know that it is easy to be a communist in a free country BUT it is impossible to be free in a communist country????

Australia… obey now.

Mater
September 25, 2021 2:17 pm

I also noticed that powdered crickets is now on the “health food” shelves.

A great incentive to fast.
I hear fasting is good for you.

cohenite
September 25, 2021 2:19 pm
Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
September 25, 2021 2:21 pm

Last link, then back to lurking as I need a circuit breaker. Guardian manages to spin it as garage nasties but I’d say QPol realises this diminishes their standing.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/oct/01/queensland-police-cracks-down-on-unapproved-uniform-patches-linked-to-far-right-groups

My late father used to scorn things like this as Sepo BS. As soon as I saw it last night I was like wow, as if the cops have their own death cards and throwing them everywhere. How childish.

Arky
September 25, 2021 2:22 pm

If poolice are now going about with “predator” badges, that is entirely appropriate.
Maybe signage should be put up near police stations with similar warnings:
“Caution:
police building
Watch out for
predators”

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
September 25, 2021 2:23 pm

wichittee grub home delivery

has a certain marketing zest.

Arky
September 25, 2021 2:24 pm

Everyone needs to start doing what crims have done for generations: Warn their children not to talk to the police. If you are lost, ask a passer-by. You’ll be safer.

srr
srr
September 25, 2021 2:34 pm

Topher Field
https://www.facebook.com/TopherField/
3 hrs ·
Seems like St Kilda beach is the place to be on this Spring day…

Winston Smith
September 25, 2021 2:37 pm

FeeltheBern:

Winston, have you seen TIK’s part 2 on Operation Keelhaul?

Just watched it.
There’s no doubt that there is treachery at the very highest levels of our society and that the Deep State – whilst not being a vast bureaucratic organisation – is a conglomeration of like minded individuals in a competitive society.
That this aggregation of individuals would find it easy to hand over millions of innocents to Stalin’s mass graves and gulags is of no surprise to me.
After all, the victims weren’t really human – just peasants, less than the dust beneath their desks.
This is where the recategorisation of humans leads us.
Labels like Jew, Communist, Serf, Anti Vaccinator, Black, White, Etc all have one thing in common – the terms deny the essential humanity of the labelled.

srr
srr
September 25, 2021 2:40 pm

Topher Field
5 hrs ·
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!
https://www.facebook.com/TopherField/posts/4332064663497574?__tn__=-R
Comments –
Horst Gunther the fact that you and your aquaintances can make your free speeches, pictures, abuses and organise get togethers in order to create civil disobedience shows me what a democratic country we live in. You could not do this in a police state they would have put you away long ago
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Topher Field
Horst Gunther Of course, so we should completely ignore the shutting down of protest, the shooting of unarmed civilians on sight, the abandonment of our parliamentary process…
Everything’s fine, because they haven’t gone door to door loading us into rail cars yet.
Forgive my bluntness, you’re a historically ignorant fool.

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duncanm
duncanm
September 25, 2021 2:42 pm

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.

lots of cheap shots.

It shits me eternally – why does it matter what side of the political fence Rukshan sits on? People need to view his material and make their own decisions. .. but no, Crikey is all “Trump supporter, fan of the far right!”

Any idiot who’s actually watched Rukshan’s live feed knows that he adds very little partisan commentary, rather letting events speak for themselves.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
September 25, 2021 2:45 pm

I can’t wait to watch Police in ALL States administer ‘the jab’.

What would Captain Cook have said????

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
September 25, 2021 2:47 pm

There is nothing fundamentally wrong with morale latches. Some of them are damned hilarious, in an appropriate, professionally humorous and subversive manner.

Others are meant to convey mutual badassery and professional fraternity. Which is why the Grauniad was screaming its tits off about the ‘Thin Blue Line’ and ‘Punisher’ patches some QPOL members were allegedly wearing. these things are deemed by leftists as anti-BLM ans anti-Narrative, as they suggest unity to organisations said leftists want to obliterate and ultimately remake as jackboot enforcers of their ideology alone.

Same BS occurred under Angus Campbell, when he made a blanket ban on ‘death imagery.’ Allegedly this was unprofessional, and suggested a lack of humility in his eyes.

Morale patches are the modern era’s subversive Mess art, undershirt slogans and dirty songs.

Just because a group of people whose behaviour we now.hate does it, does not make it a blanket ‘bad…’

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
September 25, 2021 2:47 pm

There is nothing fundamentally wrong with morale patches

Correction…

johanna
johanna
September 25, 2021 2:48 pm

BTW, just in case anyone still believes that Google provides accurate information – try entering the exact page here (F6, copy) into Google.

You will be sent to Trove, Sinc’s archives.

Nothing to see here, move along.

Roger
Roger
September 25, 2021 2:49 pm

china is the by far the biggest totalitarian shithole in human history

East Germany on steroids (!).

It would be an anachronism to apply the term ‘totalitarian ‘ to pre-20th C. states, but it should be noted that in human history freedom or liberty is the exception rather than the rule.

Most human beings have lived under some form of servitude, sometimes it was an enlightened form of servitude but it was servitude nonetheless.

If anyone is interested in a survey of how Western liberalism* slowly developed over centuries Larry Seidentop’s Inventing the Individual is as good a place as any to look.

*Liberlaism in the classical sense, not its debased modern form adrift from its roots in Christianity.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
September 25, 2021 2:50 pm

I see the leftist scumbags at Crikey have a hit piece on Rukshan.
Trying very hard to prove guilt by association.
Is there a bigger pile of steaming dog shit than Crikey?

Winston Smith
September 25, 2021 2:50 pm

Boambee John:

I doubt that KRuddy knew more than Bonhoeffer’s name.

I know this family – they run the Austrian Bakery down near the servo.
They do a great applestrudel…

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
September 25, 2021 2:52 pm

Obviously Aboriginal and Torres Straight Indigenous need to be forced with the Governments experimental drug.

After all.

It’s for their own good!

shatterzzz
September 25, 2021 2:52 pm

The fake meat sections at the local coles and woolies has grown substantially over the last few years and not just tofu substitutes. I also noticed that powdered crickets is now on the “health food” shelves.
I bought some plant based mince on clearance at woolies for 25cents .. 1/2kg .. been feeding it to the maggies they seem quite happy …… no intention of trying it myself tho .. LOL!
did swallow a coupla mothfuls of some plant based yoghurt, again on clearance, coupla weeks ago …. absolutely bloody awfie!

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
September 25, 2021 2:53 pm

Rudd Survives will say sorry… sometime!

cohenite
September 25, 2021 2:55 pm

Is there a bigger pile of steaming dog shit than Crikey?

The abc, simply because it’s taxpayer funded.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
September 25, 2021 2:58 pm

The EU is the greatest concentration of absolute filth on the entire planet.

Prove me wrong.

shatterzzz
September 25, 2021 2:58 pm

I see the leftist scumbags at Crikey have a hit piece on Rukshan.
Trying very hard to prove guilt by association.
Is there a bigger pile of steaming dog shit than Crikey?

The Betoota Advocate comes close .. nothing more pathetic than a leftie mouth piece trying to pretend they are either middle of the road or right-wing …….

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 25, 2021 2:58 pm

Rabz

Has there ever been a more laughable and ridiculous bunch of tyrants in human history?

Even Caligula’s horse would be a better option.

Old bloke
Old bloke
September 25, 2021 2:58 pm

Arky says:
September 25, 2021 at 2:22 pm

If poolice are now going about with “predator” badges, that is entirely appropriate.

My question was, are these people actually police or are they a contracted private security force?

Dan has got a track record for using private contractors, that didn’t work out too well with the hotel quarantine situation.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
September 25, 2021 3:00 pm

The EU are sanctimonious suck holes.

shatterzzz
September 25, 2021 3:03 pm

china is the by far the biggest totalitarian shithole in human history
The chicoms get away with most of what they do simply because unlike Oz the rest of the western world isn’t that close (news worthy) to them ..
Only the BIG China stuff makes the regular news in Europe …….

rickw
rickw
September 25, 2021 3:03 pm

I don’t know if this is just another conspiracy story, see Australia is using mercenaries in enforce their lockdown

The pig patch is exactly the same as patches you can buy from eBay.

Victoria police are actually beating the shit out of people, no one else.

The patch is typical of the Vikpol wanker mindset that is leading to them following illegal orders with gusto.

The patch is an unauthorised insignia and therefore any dip shit caught wearing it should be subject to disciplinary action.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
September 25, 2021 3:04 pm

China is a problem but the EU is a threat.

Prove me wrong.

Winston Smith
September 25, 2021 3:04 pm

Rogersays:

This week’s award for the most egregious lies uttered on the international stage is shared by China lackeys Indonesia & Malaysia, who opined that Australia’s nuclear propelled subs would provoke an arms race.

Well that was a bloody great waste of money and bullets protecting those Malaysians back then, wasn’t it?
So I guess it may well be time to shut down Butterworth AFB just so we don’t destabilise the area.
I’m sure China would love to base a few of its fighter and bomber squadrons there.
+ a couple of infantry divisions.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 25, 2021 3:04 pm

Someone put this up last night. I thought it was satire. Then, old bloke at 1.14:

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).

It’s a Predator velcro badge. Available on eBay and thousands of online sites to anyone, and it’s not a copyrighted image. The original post from someone on Gab made the claim that it was on ‘an Australian Victorian Police Official Bullet Proof Vest’ or something, complete with capitals.

The problems with this include, but are not limited to:
1. It’s not a VicJack Inc issue vest. It is also a generic item, complete with about a dozen extraneous loops across its upper half which look good to some people, and also available anywhere online;
2. It’s not configured to hold the equipment VicJack Inc use;
3. It is configured to hold generic yellow items, not a Taser; and
4. The font for the wording of ‘POLICE’ is also wrong, too small and too thin, and in any event does not appear on the middle of the front of any such vest (except actual ballistic vests with kevlar plate behind it).

A pineapple says both these things were bought on Wish.com by a basement dweller somewhere.

Does anyone really think that VicJack Inc, the wokest of woke organisations in this day and age, who actively promote transgenderism, who are front and centre at every Mardi Gras and who have recruited the fattest, softest knee-benders in the country for the past 15 years or more would allow anyone to put badges of the same type the ADF banned on their gear?

It’s this exact sort of shit that enables Hot Button Sutton to call perfectly rational people who oppose being covid-vaccinated ‘irrational whack jobs’ without a murmur of dissent.

This cause – and make no mistake, it’s a cause – is being ruined by every conspiracy nut both in and outside this country attaching their own SovCit/tunnels/red shoes/pizza/Stonecutters theories to it, knowing all the while that their own nuffie ideas will gain no traction on their own.

Once again – the quote of this century:

Hysterical activism is the greatest dead weight an otherwise noble cause can have.

JC
JC
September 25, 2021 3:04 pm

Speechless

In Chicago on Saturday, a boy named Kaden Ingram was confronted by his mother, Fallon Harris, because he didn’t know where a digital memory card had been left, according to prosecutors. When he couldn’t produce the card, she shot him, they say. Then she took a phone call.

In Chicago on Saturday, a boy named Kaden Ingram was confronted by his mother, Fallon Harris, because he didn’t know where a digital memory card had been left, according to prosecutors. When he couldn’t produce the card, she shot him, they say. Then she took a phone call.

Afterward, Harris returned to her wounded son and asked again for the card. He still didn’t know where it was, so she allegedly shot him a second time. Kaden died at the University of Chicago Medical Center. He was 12. Chicago is on pace this year to have the most homicides in a quarter-century, with at least 60 people shot, seven fatally, last weekend alone.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
September 25, 2021 3:04 pm

Hit piece on Rukshan is by some soy boy called Cam Wilson.
Hiding in his little Crikey cubby house sniping like the little bitch he is while real men like Rukshan go where’s it’s dangerous and real.
Piss off you pissant.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
September 25, 2021 3:05 pm

The EU is by far the biggest totalitarian shithole in human history

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 25, 2021 3:06 pm

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.

The Puritans and the founding fathers certainly gave them a flying start.

shatterzzz
September 25, 2021 3:06 pm

Dan has got a track record for using private contractors, that didn’t work out too well with the hotel quarantine situation.

Worked out very well for DAN .. he just ignored the criticism .. and it went away .. he’ll do the same with the plod violence and get the same result ………!

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
September 25, 2021 3:08 pm

EU

does your banana bend correctly???

Roger
Roger
September 25, 2021 3:08 pm

Well that was a bloody great waste of money and bullets protecting those Malaysians back then, wasn’t it? So I guess it may well be time to shut down Butterworth AFB just so we don’t destabilise the area.

I had the same thought re Malaysia, Winston.

Incidentally, I think we handed Butterworth over to the Malaysians some time ago although we still have a presence there. Oldest son was based there for a jungle warfare exercise a few years back.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 25, 2021 3:09 pm

Rex and rickw:

Yes, and yes.

rickw
rickw
September 25, 2021 3:11 pm

I can report that Vikpol has done something useful.

They found one of my stolen rifles after raiding some Mong. No reports as to whether or not said Mong used a hacksaw on it.

Apparently I get it back after they do ballistics testing on it.

srr
srr
September 25, 2021 3:14 pm

duncanmsays:
September 25, 2021 at 2:42 pm
[…]
Crikey is all “Trump supporter, fan of the far right!”
[…]

That’s like someone on Topher Field’s Facebook page, saying we’re perfectly free and another that the Freedom movement is infiltrated with white-power, neo-nazi etc.

I wonder if Govt paid propagandists would get a bonus if they actually went off script and came up with a sensible sounding bit of BS?

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
September 25, 2021 3:14 pm

Incidentally, I think we handed Butterworth over to the Malaysians some time ago although we still have a presence there. Oldest son was based there for a jungle warfare exercise a few years back.

and we handed most military guns over to Indonesia.

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 25, 2021 3:16 pm

rosiesays:
September 25, 2021 at 12:59 pm
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.

Sorry, rosie, but: Imperial College? Home of the great //sarc// modeller Prof Pants Down Ferguson, who has never modelled a medical event even remotely correctly?

Try again, for a more reliable source,

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

I can report that Vikpol has done something useful.
They found one of my stolen rifles after raiding some Mong.

You don’t go to gaol for failing to store firearms with sufficient care?

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
September 25, 2021 3:17 pm

Given the antics of the established churches lately, I have declined having any of their functionaries standing between myself and my god. Well everybody’s god I suppose.
I can worship when, where and how I choose.
The commandment is you mustn’t murder. Murder, not kill
And I have never coveted anybody’s oxen.
Made no graven images.
Worshipped no other god, not even mammon.
That last should make me a better Christian than the god bothering fakes.
There are a few commandants that circumstances have prevented me from breaking. Mea Culpa

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 25, 2021 3:19 pm

struthsays:

September 25, 2021 at 11:12 am

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.

I assume you disobeyed that directive and sang it anyway, right?
Like, just do it and cough up for the copyright breach.
For the country.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
September 25, 2021 3:20 pm

Rex Angersays:
September 25, 2021 at 2:47 pm

Fair call Rex, can see what you are saying but IMO shouldn’t be visible in public. The look is very cavalier.

I also just ran these things past a mate who is an ex reg SNCO. Like you said same, nothing new but was vigorously policed (no pun) to keep inhouse. Optics and all that. He is adamant though, in public and especially something as charged as this is these guys commander should have been hauled in and dressed down. He mentioned something called situational awareness.

rickw
rickw
September 25, 2021 3:21 pm

You don’t go to gaol for failing to store firearms with sufficient care?

Not yet! They were in a safe, they had a bloody big pry bar and used it to open everything, the safe included.

Hot tip: Make sure the door on you safe is well set back from the front edge. This one had the door slightly proud of the frame and that gave them a start.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 25, 2021 3:21 pm

shatterzzzsays:

September 25, 2021 at 3:06 pm

Dan has got a track record for using private contractors, that didn’t work out too well with the hotel quarantine situation.

Worked out very well for DAN

Yep.
And he has loaded up a grateful Liars donor with $30 meg.

Makka
Makka
September 25, 2021 3:22 pm

There is nothing fundamentally wrong with morale latches.

Yeah. The lightening flash SS was a real morale booster for those in the Warsaw ghetto.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

Top Endersays:
September 25, 2021 at 2:54 am

(I myself, as I have noted here several times, am a black lesbian lady of 150kg blogging from a caravan in Florida, USA.)

Hint: When passing yourself off as a redneck American, use of Australian terminology does not assist us to readily accept your cover story.

Roger
Roger
September 25, 2021 3:22 pm

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.

Well, it ain’t his song; written by American Tom Kimmel.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 25, 2021 3:23 pm

rickwsays:

September 25, 2021 at 3:21 pm

You don’t go to gaol for failing to store firearms with sufficient care?

Not yet! They were in a safe, they had a bloody big pry bar and used it to open everything, the safe included.

Ah, even if it was lying on the kitchen table, you jemmy open the safe yourself before calling Plod.

rickw
rickw
September 25, 2021 3:24 pm
Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
September 25, 2021 3:24 pm

Boambee Johnsays:
September 25, 2021 at 3:16 pm
****
BJ, there’s something seemingly missing in the paper to which rosie links.
See Timothy Neilsonsays:
September 25, 2021 at 2:09 pm
It needs someone with better stats skills than me to check it properly, but I’ll remain unconvinced until a reliable source corroborates it.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
September 25, 2021 3:26 pm

I think the EU are getting away with killing our country under the guise of Chinese alarmism.

cohenite
September 25, 2021 3:29 pm

The EU is the greatest concentration of absolute filth on the entire planet.

Prove me wrong.

Biden’s administration. Biden is literally destroying the West. He is worse then the EU because he has more power and influence. He is the Manchurian candidate.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
September 25, 2021 3:30 pm

Shane Patton’s clever plan to crush protests have elevated independent journalist content to world notice and it looks really bad for black shirts in VicPlod.
Sheer genius Wile E Patton.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
September 25, 2021 3:30 pm

Every revolution needs a battle song.
Men of Harlech adapted as required.

Men of Melbin, stop your dreaming
Can’t you see their spearpoints gleaming
See their warrior pennants streaming
To this battle field

Men of Melbin stand ye steady
It can not be ever said ye
For the battle were not ready
Righteous never yield

From the hills rebounding
Let this war cry sounding
Summon all at freedoms call
The mighty foe surrounding

Men of Melbin on to glory
This will every be your story
Keep these burning words before ye
Righteous will not yield

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 25, 2021 3:31 pm

Is there a bigger pile of steaming dog shit than Crikey?

Remember when it was launched?
It was going to be bigger than Murdoch and Fairfax within five years because innernet savvy.
How did that work out?
Sure, a couple of people cashed in on some suckers but that is about it.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
September 25, 2021 3:32 pm

The EU are a pack of despicable people that have fought each other for a thousand years or so.

They have their just deserts now.

P
P
September 25, 2021 3:33 pm
Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
September 25, 2021 3:33 pm

The fake meat sections at the local coles and woolies has grown substantially over the last few years and not just tofu substitutes.

I’m prepared to accept that people might have a moral objection to eating meat because it involves killing sentient creatures.

The thing that puzzles me is why they apparently enjoy meat substitutes. The thing that puzzles me even more is why there is a market for meat substitutes that are meat flavoured.

Personally I wouldn’t go at baby-flavoured textured soy protein.

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 25, 2021 3:34 pm

Arkysays:
September 25, 2021 at 2:22 pm
If poolice are now going about with “predator” badges, that is entirely appropriate.
Maybe signage should be put up near police stations with similar warnings:
“Caution:
police building
Watch out for
predators”

You missed the space bar when spelling “poo lice”.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
September 25, 2021 3:36 pm

cohenite says:
September 25, 2021 at 3:29 pm

The EU is the greatest concentration of absolute filth on the entire planet.

Prove me wrong.

Biden’s administration. Biden is literally destroying the West. He is worse then the EU because he has more power and influence. He is the Manchurian candidate.

whats the difference???

srr
srr
September 25, 2021 3:37 pm

In Chicago on Saturday, a boy named Kaden Ingram was confronted by his mother, Fallon Harris, because he didn’t know where a digital memory card had been left, according to prosecutors. When he couldn’t produce the card, she shot him, they say. Then she took a phone call.

Afterward, Harris returned to her wounded son and asked again for the card. He still didn’t know where it was, so she allegedly shot him a second time. Kaden died at the University of Chicago Medical Center. He was 12. Chicago is on pace this year to have the most homicides in a quarter-century, with at least 60 people shot, seven fatally, last weekend alone.

When people mock Australians for not caring to fight for their rights & freedoms like Americans, it’s because of this sort of, ‘preparedness to fight for every little thing’, that makes Australians baulk at going off tap at the drop of a hat.

Again, compare American protests to Australian protests.

They murder, pillage & burn down their own communities, that never get built up again, while the main ‘right’ they ‘win’ from those riots is to sink into yet more unhampered, Govt assisted even, self destructive criminality.

We are not that stupid.

Do we have to do more than trust our next vote to a known corrupt electoral system & remedies to corrupt courts?

Hell yeah, but knocking Police off their champion podium for being the most hateful, violent, unjust, unthinking agents of a Dictatorial Govt is NOT something we average, decent Aussies want to do.

We never want people to doubt who The Baddies are … while we sensibly come to terms with how we are best to go about Fighting The Good Fight for the first time since we’ve been a Federated Nation, on our own soil, against our enemies within.

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 25, 2021 3:39 pm

Winston Smithsays:
September 25, 2021 at 2:50 pm
Boambee John:

I doubt that KRuddy knew more than Bonhoeffer’s name.

I know this family – they run the Austrian Bakery down near the servo.
They do a great applestrudel…

Ah. Explains why KRuddy knows them (and why he has stacked on so much fat lately).

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
September 25, 2021 3:39 pm

DrBeaugan you communist xunt.

Where are you with all this Christian questioning in the face of communism???

JMH
JMH
September 25, 2021 3:39 pm

I expect we will never know the numbers of CFMEU protesters, Setka has tracked down, identified and contacted their employers with the instruction to terminate – or else.
If the rank and file had some loyalty backbone, they should call at State-wide strike against Setka and his goon squad, but I doubt that will eventuate.

rickw
rickw
September 25, 2021 3:40 pm

Excellent NSFA film on ornate iron work. Old Australia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-z-xra3xgQ

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
September 25, 2021 3:42 pm

I’ll admit I did like the Plane Matters blog on Crikey till the author carked it. Despite Sandilands pro Airbus bias was usually informative of aviation at laymen’s terms and at that time I was racking up hundreds to a thousand Status Credits a year. Rest of it worse than the ABC. Had a quick scan this morning after that Rukshan piece, I reckon it has gotten a lot worse (and a paywall, WTF). Hence my warning to bleach eyes afterward.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 25, 2021 3:42 pm

Farmer Gezsays:

September 25, 2021 at 3:30 pm

Shane Patton’s clever plan to crush protests have elevated independent journalist content to world notice and it looks really bad for black shirts in VicPlod.

He is the General William Westmoreland of Australian policing.
He is running a war of attrition using very expensive resources against a smaller, more resolute enemy with time on their hands.
And, like Westmoreland, public opinion will shift from whether the cause is just, to whether the method of prosecuting the war is worth the cost.
And I reckon Patton has about 43.4% of the smarts Westmoreland had.

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 25, 2021 3:42 pm

Winston

So I guess it may well be time to shut down Butterworth AFB just so we don’t destabilise the area.
I’m sure China would love to base a few of its fighter and bomber squadrons there.
+ a couple of infantry divisions.

Given the racist attitude of the Bhumis to anything Chinese, that should be fun to watch!

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
September 25, 2021 3:43 pm

Let us have guesses.

Which French Christian Church will next be set on fire???

Megan
Megan
September 25, 2021 3:49 pm

And I reckon Patton has about 43.4% of the smarts Westmoreland had.

Overly generous in my opinion.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
September 25, 2021 3:49 pm

JMH, relative I was helping yesterday with his problems with vax coercions. A tradesman down that way reckons unionised tradies are off Setka big time and he’s on borrowed time. In the country anyway. Unsure if it is anywhere else like in the CBD, Tailgunner may be better source for that.

cohenite
September 25, 2021 3:49 pm

I’m prepared to accept that people might have a moral objection to eating meat because it involves killing sentient creatures.

I think the only animals which can claim to be sentient are some monkeys -chimps, orangs, gorillas etc – and porpoises. The Africans eat the monkeys under the guise of bush meat and the Japs and some other asians do the same with the porpoises. I personally would not eat either. And since I grew up on a farm I have killed all the meat I eat: chickens, cows, sheep and piggies. I respect the food I eat.

The cruellest killers of animals are other animals, particularly lions which because they eat such big prey always do so before the animals are dead. I’ll listen to fucking vegans after they do something about those lion shits.

cohenite
September 25, 2021 3:51 pm

whats the difference???

Like I said biden and the US are more powerful then the euro trash.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 25, 2021 4:00 pm

He is the General William Westmoreland of Australian policing.

Interesting comparison. Do you think VicPol capable of coming up with a Creighton Abrams?

Cassie of Sydney
September 25, 2021 4:07 pm

“I’m prepared to accept that people might have a moral objection to eating meat because it involves killing sentient creatures.”

As I am. I don’t have a problem with vegetarianism….most vegetarians eat dairy and eggs and I think a vegetarian diet can be healthy….but I wouldn’t say the same about veganism. And veganism is a cult.
Every vegan I’ve ever met has always delighted in telling me that they’re “vegans”…it’s like they’re on a holy crusade…and every single vegan I’ve ever met has never looked very healthy.

JMH
JMH
September 25, 2021 4:09 pm

JMH, relative I was helping yesterday with his problems with vax coercions. A tradesman down that way reckons unionised tradies are off Setka big time and he’s on borrowed time. In the country anyway. Unsure if it is anywhere else like in the CBD, Tailgunner may be better source for that.

Rockdoctor, I thought the writing should have been on the wall for Setka when the CFMEU headquarters were given the rounds last Monday. The bastard seems to be still there. I agree, country unionists probably have the pulse. It’s the city lot and where their heads are at, I’m concerned about. A State-wide tools down would inflict mortal wounds on the Andrews regime, which would be an added bonus. My only reservation with regard to a good throw-down is those members trying to pay mortgages and put food on their tables may think twice.

srr
srr
September 25, 2021 4:10 pm

mh says:
September 25, 2021 at 11:52 am
Paul Joseph Watson

Aussie Thought Police Pay Home Visits to People They Suspect May Protest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sue4tcMP-g

Cassie of Sydney
September 25, 2021 4:14 pm

“They murder, pillage & burn down their own communities, that never get built up again, while the main ‘right’ they ‘win’ from those riots is to sink into yet more unhampered, Govt assisted even, self destructive criminality.”

Who are “they” Nong?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 25, 2021 4:19 pm

Excellent NSFA film on ornate iron work. Old Australia.

New Australia:

National Gallery commissions its most expensive acquisition — a $14m sculpture representing inclusion and diversity (23 Sep)

Ouroboros will also be a sustainable piece, and Lee’s aim is for it to be not only carbon neutral but, hopefully, carbon negative.

It looks like a giant steel dog turd.

Joanna
Joanna
September 25, 2021 4:21 pm

I went down to St Kilda to have a look. The crowd was gathered on the park near the marina, about two hundred metres away from Luna Park. It was all fairly quiet whilst i was there. At one stage a guy next to me said ‘look’ and when i turned around there was a line of police stretching from the water to the road. I decided to leave. By the time i crossed the road, the police line had stretched all the way across to the houses on Marine Pde. I was blocked in, but fortunately i was let through.

I’m ashamed that i was afraid. That the fear tactics of Vicpol worked.

JC
JC
September 25, 2021 4:22 pm

Real estate porn

It’s so beautiful. Brooklyn Heights.

Winston Smith
September 25, 2021 4:23 pm

Zipster:

Bloomberg reported officials as saying that capital needed to be moved from housing to “productive” industry. there is no industrial shortage in china. clearly china is preparing for war.

One of the things that WW2 showed us was the need for trade. Germany lost that war because she couldn’t get the raw materials necessary for a prolonged war, nor could Japan. Russia could build as many tanks as they wanted, but without the aluminium for the engines from Canada, were essentially immobile.
The US established a Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act in 1939 to address a perceived issue in case of a prolonged war.
Many nations went through a cannibalising period of resourcing the necessary metals and clothing required to keep the machine running. Witness the aluminium pots and pans drives in GB and Germany. Old vehicle bodies recycled for their steel. Shot down enemy aircraft were a handy supply of aircraft grade aluminium.
One thing to look at is the emptying of the Wests scrap steel stockpile over the last two decades. China has been taking in scrap for its electric arc furnaces for years and has denuded a vital resource from us. Look at the imports of iron ore and coal – far beyond what it needs, but obvious for a Chinese version of a national stockpile.
I strongly suspect China has been storing finished steel products not so much as to feed her industries, but to deny some parts to us. It is the industrial version of the cruise ship prawns – take all you can even if you never eat it because it means others can’t have it. It’s a very Chinese practice.
Note the US stockpile has finished products in inventory – railway tracks and flat steel plate, coil wire and copper wire.
It’s very easy to sit back and remark we will just mine more, but mining, processing, and finishing products take time – time that will have to be bought by the profligate waste of our soldiers lives. It takes time to rebuild the industries that our industrialists have so casually sold off overseas in search of higher profits, to train the workers to run the machinery, and to remove the counterproductive policies that have crippled us.
Yes. I’m looking at you, Greens, Bureaucrats, Unions, and other vested interests that have said “I’m all right Jack, my kids won’t be manning those subs/aircraft/ships/foxholes etc. They’ll be sitting in Staff meetings under ten meters of concrete and steel – safe.”

“Time lost at the start of a campaign can never be recovered.” von Manstein.

*Dover, if you want to put this as a separate thread, I’m fine with that.

Cassie of Sydney
September 25, 2021 4:23 pm

“I’m ashamed that i was afraid. That the fear tactics of Vicpol worked.”

Don’t be ashamed….I think many of us would have also felt afraid.

Joanna
Joanna
September 25, 2021 4:27 pm

Thanks, Cassie. It’s all just a bit much at the moment.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 25, 2021 4:30 pm

I can report that Vikpol has done something useful. They found one of my stolen rifles after raiding some Mong.

So when does the FPO take effect Rick? Presumably right after they return it. Make sure all your hard drives have no record of “Catallaxy” on them, and that you have copies of Marx and Mao prominently visible on a coffee table. A framed portrait of Dan probably would be worth acquiring, if you haven’t already.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
September 25, 2021 4:32 pm

I’m ashamed that i was afraid. That the fear tactics of Vicpol worked.

No need Joanna, the shame is all theirs.
They’ve had a Saturday being bussed around instead of an easy shift or being at home ready to watch the GF.
The rosters will be a mess and they can’t keep it up indefinitely.
They’ll get more and more pissed off and unfortunately, likely to take an arrest to a tragic level.
Eventually the bad blood rising in plod will fall upon the commanders and the TaliDan clique.

JC
JC
September 25, 2021 4:33 pm

Joanna

Hang in there. You did good.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 25, 2021 4:34 pm

We never want people to doubt who The Baddies are

Fat chicks?

By the way – who is ‘we’?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 25, 2021 4:34 pm

The rosters will be a mess and they can’t keep it up indefinitely.

Without any doubt at all.

Zipster
Zipster
September 25, 2021 4:35 pm

I think the EU are getting away with killing our country under the guise of Chinese alarmism.

what are you, rumulus sucking china dick again?

JMH
JMH
September 25, 2021 4:36 pm

I’m ashamed that i was afraid. That the fear tactics of Vicpol worked.

Joanna, never feel guilty. When you do that, the Stasi wins. The word around town is quiet civil disobedience. The more of us who civilly disobey, the better.
I understand you felt threatened – but that what the Jack Boots want you to feel.

Cassie of Sydney
September 25, 2021 4:36 pm

I never thought I’d be living in a country dominated by fear, I used to read about such countries. Yet I now look at this country and I see how, over the last eighteen months, fear is dominant…..it’s consumed everything. It began with fear of a virus and now we have reached the situation where people are rightly fearful of police who dress like SS goons and walk around threatening people for demanding their fundamental rights.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 25, 2021 4:37 pm

Megansays:

September 25, 2021 at 3:49 pm

And I reckon Patton has about 43.4% of the smarts Westmoreland had.

Overly generous in my opinion.

Sorry.
Typo.
Should have read:-

“And I reckon Patton has about 43.4% of the smarts Westmoreland’s pet labrador had.”

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
September 25, 2021 4:38 pm

Like I said biden and the US are more powerful then the euro trash.

And the American, and Australian, so called elite bare their bum where????

Where does US Global Warming fk head, victor of Vietnam, Kerry have his palace in France???

After stepping off his private aircraft!

fk off

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 25, 2021 4:38 pm

Every day, VicPlod has to be on top of their game.
Every day’s a GF for them.
They can’t keep it up.

John H.
John H.
September 25, 2021 4:39 pm

Meta-Reviews Are Amplifying Bad And Even Fake Ivermectin Data, Researchers Warn

In a letter published in Nature, the authors argue we should no longer include any studies in a meta-analysis unless we have access to the raw individual patient data (IPD).

If the original study authors are not willing or able to provide such detailed information, then the clinical trial should simply be excluded.

An old friend said to me that when he sees a meta-analysis he reaches for his gun. The above is one reason why. It is very time consuming to examine the raw data and it is a pain that the quality of research is often so parlous that needs to be done. Unfortunately all too often meta-analyses do not dig that deep.

P
P
September 25, 2021 4:39 pm

Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
September 25, 2021 at 4:16 pm

Thanks Zulu.

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1441575095038849025

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
September 25, 2021 4:40 pm

Regarding eligibility for church attendance

You believers are at least weird, and prima facie dishonest. You claim to believe in a loving God in whom you trust, but you talk about keeping the unvaxxed out of church lest you get carried off to heaven a bit earlier than expected. You are debating whether to trust God or trust the government to protect you.

I don’t trust either, but I don’t pretend to believe in a loving God. You do. Obviously you don’t really either. You just pretend to.

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 25, 2021 4:40 pm

KD

On the old thread yesterday, someone linked to a sequence of a bloke with a toy trumpet playing while a line of Plod walked past. All the coppers’ heads were down, and their shoulders slumped. They looked to be at the end of their tether. Another week of chasing minor demos across Melbin, and they will be finished (assuming the shot was of VicStapo).

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
September 25, 2021 4:42 pm

Biden does not know what day it is, except ice cream, little girl.

America is controlled and run by The Deep State.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 25, 2021 4:42 pm

Knuckle Draggersays:

September 25, 2021 at 4:34 pm

The rosters will be a mess and they can’t keep it up indefinitely.

Without any doubt at all.

Which is why the best guerilla tactic is randomly calling protests all over the place, of which 1 in 20 is the real deal.
How long before we see photos of “exhausted” Ninja Turtles sleeping on the bus, or doing TikTok dance videos in full regalia?

calli
calli
September 25, 2021 4:42 pm

I’m ashamed that i was afraid. That the fear tactics of Vicpol worked.

I would have been too.

These are not the “police” of our childhood.

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 25, 2021 4:43 pm

feelthebernsays:
September 25, 2021 at 4:38 pm
Every day, VicPlod has to be on top of their game.
Every day’s a GF for them.
They can’t keep it up.

The demonstrators only need occasional victories. The VicStapo cannot afford a single loss.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 25, 2021 4:43 pm

Boambee Johnsays:

September 25, 2021 at 4:40 pm

KD

On the old thread yesterday, someone linked to a sequence of a bloke with a toy trumpet playing while a line of Plod walked past. All the coppers’ heads were down,

It is my melancholy duty to inform you that the video came from Italy.

Cassie of Sydney
September 25, 2021 4:44 pm

“I would have been too.

These are not the “police” of our childhood.”

Quite so Calli…..I would have done exactly what Joanna did.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 25, 2021 4:45 pm

The protesters need to get on the soshuls about now and call several protests for 7:15 tonight (Grand Final start time).

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 25, 2021 4:46 pm

In a letter published in Nature

Immediate appeal to authority. Nope, smells extremely smelly to me.

That press release was in Phys.org a few days ago. Immediate alarm bells rang in my cranium. There’ve been several of these ‘horse medicine’ articles lately. Seems coordinated.

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 25, 2021 4:46 pm

Sancho

It is my melancholy duty to inform you that the video came from Italy.

Bugger! Still, it might be prophetic?

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
September 25, 2021 4:49 pm

Also most coppers spend their time doing sweet FA.
The blood pressure of some of the senior sergeants will be off the meter.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
September 25, 2021 4:50 pm

The EU have perfected the Police State.

Lithuania is part of the EU program

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 25, 2021 4:50 pm

How’s this?
About a month ago I tried to book my car in for a service.
They told me at the time it would be a about a two month wait due to COVID restrictions.
Anyway, I just get a call saying they can get me in this week.
I can only imagine some of the ridiculous COVID hoops they’ve been put through.
Also, service centre didn’t use to operate on Saturday’s so I can only imagine they are on a 6 day cycle to clear backlog.

JMH
JMH
September 25, 2021 4:51 pm

Which is why the best guerilla tactic is randomly calling protests all over the place, of which 1 in 20 is the real deal.
How long before we see photos of “exhausted” Ninja Turtles sleeping on the bus, or doing TikTok dance videos in full regalia?

YES. I said much, much earlier in this thread that this kind of tactic is incredibly useful. (Not quite those words!) False Flags have the Jack Boots running around with their arses on fire and wasting manpower and resources – which is what they so deservedly reap!

calli
calli
September 25, 2021 4:53 pm

I remember my tall, handsome cousin in his magnificent police uniform. We were so proud of him.

Mum, my aunty and I went into Martin Place to watch him on point duty. We stood outside the Bank of New South Wales in George Street and just…watched. I adored him. He had the big white gauntlet gloves, and as a little girl, I was amazed that the vast amount of traffic would stop at his gesture, and pedestrians would hurry across to the GPO as he beckoned them with a smile. I’m sure he gave all the pretty girls an extra dazzling one.

Those days are lost. If any of my grandsons decide to go into the force, and if it is anything like it is today, I will be disappointed and a little unnerved. A malignant malaise has crept in. A worse pestilence than any virus.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 25, 2021 4:54 pm

The protesters need to get on the soshuls about now and call several protests for 7:15 tonight (Grand Final start time).

Yep.
This is the time to protest from the couch with a cold beer while VicPlod are sent here & there.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 25, 2021 4:55 pm

You believers are at least weird, and prima facie dishonest. You claim to believe in a loving God in whom you trust, but you talk about keeping the unvaxxed out of church lest you get carried off to heaven a bit earlier than expected. You are debating whether to trust God or trust the government to protect you.

Dr B – Please don’t insult my intelligence with that rubbish. Sheesh.
Try to read more carefully the comments made on this issue and the biblical citations.
Christians don’t not give a shit about being “carried off to heaven a bit earlier than expected”. We do however wish to do God’s will in accordance with his instructions. It therefore is necessary to consider his instructions, which is what we have been addressing today.

I get surprised by you sometimes by your Dawkins-like ignorance of Bible knowledge, yet that doesn’t prevent you from coming out with statements like this one, which is quite leftily ignorant.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 25, 2021 4:56 pm

Not “don’t not”. I should edit. Sheesh. I’m worse at it when I’m annoyed though, there’s that.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 25, 2021 4:58 pm

Boambee,

someone linked to a sequence of a bloke with a toy trumpet

The Imperial March or somesuch, and piss funny is was too.

But you’re right. Slumped, fucked after another day of ‘Where are we going?’ On buses. Off buses. Stand around. Walk for a block or two. On buses, off buses. Stand around. On buses. Dragging all their shit with them, every time. It’s exhausting.

I mentioned the other day that VicPol has never, ever run three days of significant protest activity consecutively. Early last week would almost certainly have been a ‘surge capacity’ thing. By now they would be running on canvas. Gez was bang on just now. Their rosters would be up in flames.

I’m hearing that jacks are being dragged in from regional areas and the bush as well. All the usual grind of work and paperwork doesn’t go away. It just builds up and up and up, ready for when they go back to whatever it is they usually do.

It is just not sustainable. Paris and London and other really big cities with more regular protests, G20 events and soccer World Cups have catered for this for decades when they planned the size of their police forces. Nowhere in Australia has needed to do this. Until now.

I think it was Napoleon who said whichever side throws their last battalion into a battle will win. VicPol are very quickly running out of battalions.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
September 25, 2021 4:59 pm

Farmer Gez don’t forget the $4K odd an hour cost to have 1 Leonardo in the air and today there were 2. This has been going on now for 6 days. Overtime too. This wouldn’t be budgeted for even with minimum pilot hours factored in and by the looks all states are having dramas recouping fines. Funny that with all those people out of work.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
September 25, 2021 5:00 pm

I’ve just read about a bloke who arranged to have the imperial march darth vader theme played at his wedding when the bride walked down the aisle.

Joanna
Joanna
September 25, 2021 5:01 pm

Thank you for the kind words, everyone. It is really appreciated.

or doing TikTok dance videos in full regalia?

Now this, i want to see!

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 25, 2021 5:02 pm

It is my melancholy duty to inform you that the video came from Italy.

There you go. Fell for the oldest trick in the book – believing every single thing posted on one subject happened that very day, and in the exact area that people are focusing on.

Silly me, and mea culpa. I was smacking a couple of mates about last night for this very thing.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
September 25, 2021 5:04 pm

“Dr” Beagan is a known communist shill.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 25, 2021 5:05 pm

The old ‘ABC’ tenet should have applied:

Ask questions.
Believe nobody.
Check everything.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
September 25, 2021 5:05 pm

The cat has failed me.

Im feeling very let down.

Its enough to make baby Jesus cry.

You should all go and collectively hang your heads in shame.

This has been out for more than a year and its magnificence has never been shared here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwqJ9IXn4WU

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 25, 2021 5:07 pm

Mole,

She’s purdy.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 25, 2021 5:07 pm

I’ve just read about a bloke who arranged to have the imperial march darth vader theme played at his wedding when the bride walked down the aisle.

I know a bloke who worked out how to play his wedding videos in reverse – he says it’s quite fun watching himself walk out of the church, a free man.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 25, 2021 5:09 pm

This has been out for more than a year

She’s turning wet dreams into nightmares?
Sounds like several lady politicians, who I won’t name.
I suspect if you look closely at any of them you’d find tentacles.

Top Ender
Top Ender
September 25, 2021 5:10 pm

The comments below this article in the Oz are cutting to say the least:

Stones point way to Indigenous Silk Road

AMOS AIKMAN
NORTHERN CORRESPONDENT
@amosaikman

Hidden among the gibber plains and dry river beds of the Channel Country in outback Queensland are clues to understanding the seemingly sophisticated civilisation that operated in Australia before Europeans arrived.

Researchers working with the Mithaka people have, for the first time, uncovered a vast network of quarries spread over an area about the size of Belgium. They believe the quarries produced grindstones sold into transcontinental trade linking the commercial and ceremonial activities of pre-contact Aboriginal people.

Dating suggests the sites were occupied a few hundred to a few thousand years ago, making it possible to join early ethnographic accounts with archaeological evidence and modern techniques like remote sensing, genetics and isotope chemistry.

The researchers believe the Mithaka lived in seasonal villages of gunyahs (huts) usually situated near the water, where they harvested waterfowl, fish and mussels. They believe the Mithaka economy revolved around bartering grindstones for pituri (a weak narcotic), ochre, fibre and resin, often accompanied by exchanges of songs and dances. The network has been likened to a First Australian version of China’s modern Silk Road.

Josh Gorringe, a custodian and chief executive of the Mithaka Aboriginal Corporation, says the ongoing research is vital to helping his people rediscover their past. The Mithaka language and some aspects of cultural knowledge were lost during the early years of settlement, when many elders were preoccupied with pastoralism and droving.

“The science is helping us ­explain to the wider world who we are … it gives us an arsenal of knowledge to help show what our people did,” he said. “We know our stories from history. The science helps us put things in perspective … it gives us a lot more concrete evidence to show that we’ve been here for a long time.”

The Mithaka have Native Title rights over about 33,000 square kilometres of land and applications over another 22,000 square kilometres. Their archaeological sites are short-listed for National Heritage listing in recognition of their cultural value.

Michael Westaway, the University of Queensland archaeologist leading the research, was with Mr Gorringe this week ­examining a spectacular stone ­arrangement shaped like the Scorpius constellation and possibly used in initiation rituals.

“We think this is the first physical representation of a fairly complex ceremony,” he said.

“I’ve seen a lot of stone ­arrangements in Australia but nothing quite like this before.”

Dr Westaway says studying Mithaka food production, ceremonial and settlement systems could “revise a lot of our understanding of the complexity of ­Aboriginal society”. His team’s most significant discovery to date has been the scale of Mithaka quarrying. “There’s this massive, almost industrial-scale production of grinding stones,” he said.

“The scale of these queries is unlike anything in Australia. It’s really been access to new technologies … that has exposed the scale of the landscape.

“Ethnohistory doesn’t actually talk about the scale of production … but it’s linked with the fact there were hundreds of thousands of square kilometres of native grasses they were processing – it’s like a quasi-agriculture system … there’s no evidence that they were domesticating these things, but we haven’t done the science to look into that yet.”

Mike Smith, an influential arid lands archaeologist now semi-­retired but still affiliated with the National Museum, said the project was the “most significant … in the arid zone in the last 20 years”.

He believes the Mithaka maintained a complex foraging society rather than a sedentary one, inhabiting seasonal villages during boom times when rain brought the land to life. “The evidence shows what foragers can do if they are not disrupted by outsiders,” he said. “They are very adept at stabilising the returns from a very harsh environment.”

Dr Westaway would like to see a cultural centre established to help tell the Mithaka story. “It’s an incredibly powerful national narrative that most Australians have absolutely no idea about,” he said.

Mr Gorringe’s priorities are closer to home. He wants Mithaka knowledge compiled for future generations so the process of restoring it to its former glory can continue. “My kids and their kids will get a hell of a lot out of the ­research we’re doing,” he said.

In a paper published in ­Antiquity in June, the researchers argued Mithaka country could be used to develop a system for investigating Aboriginal villages.

It was “an exciting and significant opportunity to obtain new insights into Aboriginal subsistence, trade and settlement,” they wrote.

Zipster
Zipster
September 25, 2021 5:12 pm

FlyingPigssays

have you been told today?? gun git faarrked

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
September 25, 2021 5:12 pm

The protesters need to get on the soshuls about now and call several protests for 7:15 tonight (Grand Final start time).

“Leak” that its time for the big push/march on parliment and to bring their (molotov) cocktails and piano wire.

Maybe arrange a unlocked phone to be found with the detailed “battle plans’ and hundreds of fake email contacts… a la operation mincemeat.

Top Ender
Top Ender
September 25, 2021 5:13 pm

A sample:

Loretta
3 HOURS AGO
I’ll have two points, ah, two flats, and a packet of gravel.
Likethumb_up4
Loretta
3 HOURS AGO
Basically invent any narrative you want that a few arranged stones will fit in to. A bloke called Von Daniken was good at it.
Likethumb_up18
Frank
4 HOURS AGO
Where do these historians(?) come from?…
Likethumb_up14
Jeremy
4 HOURS AGO
Looks like an initiation site.
The circles are very similar to the o e in the NT.
After the young boys had their forskins cut they had to stay in the rings until all was healed.
Fact.
Likethumb_up5
Lara
4 HOURS AGO
I shocked by the commentary of many of the commentators here. You are blind by you’re prejudices and fail to understand the significance. You’d rather whitewash out OUR history, and by OUR I mean the history for all Australians.
Likethumb_up1
Livinglife
3 HOURS AGO
Better than making up history in my opinion.
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Otto
4 HOURS AGO
” manufactured news”…………?
Likethumb_up14
Grant
4 HOURS AGO
How does it look at ground level? Not from a drone. No indigenous person would have seen these rocks as in the photo. A disingenuous story.
Likethumb_up17
Plum Jam
4 HOURS AGO
(Edited)
Looks like a proposal for a PhD . Could take years to do and take lots of money. .
Likethumb_up20
Terence
4 HOURS AGO
Trying to make sense of the shadows seem to be placed on a flood path how did they get rid l all the type marks
Likethumb_up
ChrisQ
5 HOURS AGO
Very strange that none of the existing indigenous folklore refers to the manufacture or trading of grinding stones. How could such a significant enterprise just be ‘forgotten’.

Jon
5 HOURS AGO
I remember an exploration program in the Pilbara. The consultant archaeologist came across a circle of white rocks on the ground. He was ecstatic, a classic example, a unique artefact etc etc.

Later that afternoon a helicopter landed right in the middle of the circle. The archaeologist was furious until the pilot explained he had put the rocks there a few days ago to mark his landing ground.

If you search you can find scholarly papers on Egyptian hieroglyphs on a granite outcrop in Qld, evidence supposedly of a visit, perhaps by Hapshetsut’s trading fleet, in reality couple of kids copied some pictures and carved them in the seventies. There was a circle of standing stones in Scotland assumed to be neolithic until proper investigation revealed them as being of mid Victorian, say 1860s CE, vintage.

The bottom line of claiming nomadic culture is equivalent to civilisation is a misrepresentation of the term and implies that nomadic culture is less worthy than settled cultures. This, of course, is the trope that undepins Pascoe’s Dark Emu.
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Damien
5 HOURS AGO
Funny how on one hand we have a cohort bursting to research and learn about their past and on the other hand there is a cohort working flat out to bury their past.

DJD
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Ilan
5 HOURS AGO
The researchers believe the Mithaka lived in seasonal villages of gunyahs (huts) usually situated near the water, where they harvested waterfowl, fish and mussels. They believe the Mithaka economy revolved around bartering grindstones for pituri (a weak narcotic), ochre, fibre and resin, often accompanied by exchanges of songs and dances. The network has been likened to a First Australian version of China’s modern Silk Road.
The word “believe” appears a lot in the above paragraph. So far all evidence of pre-colonial settlement indicates Australia was inhabited by primitive cultures more akin to Stone-age civilisation.

That is not to say it is not valuable to investigate and strive to improve our understanding, but I think we should stick to facts rather than what we hope is true and can prove some narrative that really will not change disadvantage in Indigenous communities happening today.
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Chris
5 HOURS AGO
So, have these traded Birdsville grinding stones shown up the length and breadth of Australia? I can’t say I’ve ever heard of that before.
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Mary
5 HOURS AGO
Why would anyone go to the trouble of mining rock with which to make grinding stones when they could be picked up at any river or dry creek bed.
Hardly a rare commodity worthy of instigating something comparable with the Silk Road.
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Lee
5 HOURS AGO
A bunch of rocks does not indicate a sophisticated “Silk Road” type trading enterprise
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Chris
5 HOURS AGO
The negativity on this page is disturbing.
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David
3 HOURS AGO
Maybe we are realistic
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Wal
5 HOURS AGO
No doubt Erich von Däniken, author of Chariots of the Gods published 1968, would be inspired by the archeological fin in dings in the Australian desert.
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Ross
5 HOURS AGO
Bit of a stretch and massive hypothesis.
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Terry
5 HOURS AGO
Seemingly a conflation of dreams used to construct a myth and misrepresent it as reality.
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The Australian
5 HOURS AGO
Reads like a research funding proposal.
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Andrew
6 HOURS AGO
Nice rocks. Most cultures have managed to arrange rocks.
Andy
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Chris
5 HOURS AGO
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Yes and they’ve become major tourist attractions where they’ve lasted for Millenia as is the case here.
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David
5 HOURS AGO
Good one
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Gregory
6 HOURS AGO
What tests, pub tests or more demanding ones, did this pass?
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Lytton
6 HOURS AGO
Awaiting confirmation by Bruce Pascoe?
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Charles
6 HOURS AGO
Changing history??
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Lynne D
6 HOURS AGO
Don’t know how many people have seen the Diamantina River and her channels in full flood , a mighty sight indeed, the pace and volume of water is extraordinary, I think over a couple of hundred years of floods , even the Stone Henge would have toppled. This is a very interesting find indeed and how they were placed in such a way as to withstand such forces needs investigation as I’m sure modern buildings in flood prone areas would benefit from such techniques.
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Il Gattopardo
5 HOURS AGO
You have raised a very interesting point, Lynne. On that score, even if the area was not subject to inundation in the Wet seasons, I wonder how those neat lines of stones managed to stay visible on the surface. It is indeed remarkable that they remained uncovered by sand drifts after perhaps, millennia !! Was there an unseen hand at work here? Maybe Bruce Pascoe has the scientific answers.
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Ilan
5 HOURS AGO
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I am a structural engineer…. You’re joking right?
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Merlin
4 HOURS AGO
If you understood the geography and geology of the channel country you would see that the photo depicts the stone circles are set in red sandy country. We called this the outside country. In all probability the stone circles etc may only be 100 to 300 meters from a major waterhole. The stone circles/formations would most certainly be above the major flood level as then known to the Old people.
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Lennard
6 HOURS AGO
It’s a bit like the show I listened to about 3 months ago where the announcer was saying we should recruit more first nations people into our space industry because of their superior knowledge of aerodynamics they have in the design and manufacture of the Boomerang, no mention of the fact that one day someone threw a bent stick at a kangaroo and it came back, so they looked for similar bent sticks, and around the campfire they polished them up with a piece of sandstone.
There never was or never will be a Aboriginal school of advanced aerodynamics, a bit like this story and dark emu a lot of dreaming trying to rewrite history.
These people did quite well to survive in some parts of this harsh country with very limited tools, celebrate what they did do like the Woomera a spear launcher wich as far as I know no other earlier people’s used rather than inventing history.
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David
3 HOURS AGO
Boomerangs were found in Tutankhamun’s tomb.
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Gimiston
6 HOURS AGO
Bruce Pascoe will grab hold of this to justify his silly claims in Dark Emu.
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HowardAp
6 HOURS AGO
“The network has been likened to a First Australian version of China’s modern Silk Road.”

Maybe President Xi will come to hear of this and take more interest in making further claims on this little island.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 25, 2021 5:15 pm

Stones point way to Indigenous Silk Road

Curious how often Bruce Pascoe is mentioned in the comments, isn’t it?

cohenite
September 25, 2021 5:16 pm
thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
September 25, 2021 5:16 pm

“The scale of these queries is unlike anything in Australia.

I dunno, mardi gras must come pretty close.

JC
JC
September 25, 2021 5:18 pm

Rones

You’re so self unaware. Of any commenter here, the last person to be talking about reversing out of weddings etc, is you.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 25, 2021 5:19 pm

Stones point way to Indigenous Silk Road

Bit of a stretch, that.
I suspect Zheng He’s guys visited Oz in 1410 or thereabouts.
And found it was a worthless dump.
No silk and no roads.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 25, 2021 5:21 pm

Sancho

It is my melancholy duty to inform you that the video came from Italy.

Bugger! Still, it might be prophetic?

I think we are getting there.

Mater
September 25, 2021 5:26 pm

It is my melancholy duty to inform you that the video came from Italy.

There you go. Fell for the oldest trick in the book – believing every single thing posted on one subject happened that very day, and in the exact area that people are focusing on.

C’mon guys,
I was the one who linked to the video, but never claimed that it came from here. The ‘magnifico’ at the end was the give away that it wasn’t.

I was just giving some ideas of how mockery could be effectively used.

For those who missed it:
https://twitter.com/_dee_1982/status/1440667624883449864?s=10

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
September 25, 2021 5:26 pm

One imperial march, France 2019.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls8JDrYgjxo

destroying dreams, its what i do.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
September 25, 2021 5:32 pm

BoN, you were just faffing around trying to decide whether biblical authority was on the side of obeying the government on the matter of bans on who was allowed into Church, or not. I’d have thought that this is a fairly straightforward matter of rendering unto God. As was pointed out, once the government gets to decide who goes to church and who doesn’t, you’ve ceded everything to Caesar.

Diogenes
Diogenes
September 25, 2021 5:32 pm

I’ve just read about a bloke who arranged to have the imperial march darth vader theme played at his wedding when the bride walked down the aisle.

I had that as the ringtone for any work related numbers

Mater
September 25, 2021 5:33 pm

Or “magnifique”

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
September 25, 2021 5:34 pm

I was just giving some ideas of how mockery could be effectively used.

Hold a newbie bagpipe players class?
Donuts on poles like fishing lines?
Rancid butter bombs?
Police cosplay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fahf77qzEnE

Diogenes
Diogenes
September 25, 2021 5:36 pm

I think it was Napoleon who said whichever side throws their last battalion into a battle will win. VicPol are very quickly running out of battalions.

In Qld it appears that they are preparing to loose 10% of their Thin Blue Line due to the vaccine mandate and say it will not affect operations. That would indicate to me that they are at least 10% overmanned and can cut the police budget by the equivalent of the salaries of that 10%

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 25, 2021 5:37 pm

The talk of Plod being run ragged is spot-on and, if the protest organisers keep a cool head, time is on their side, in so many ways:-
1. Fatigue. Plod is stretched to the limit. Sick and stress leave will be massive, because these are precisely the types they have recruited (“I dinna sign up fo’ this”).
2. Poor Recruitment Criteria. Speaking of recruitment, they don’t have enough people with the physical characteristics to stand up to it either.
3. Weather. As the weather warms up, the Ninja Turtles will have to stand around on tarmac for hours in full kit in temperatures over 30 degrees.
4. The formation of unholy coalitions. At the moment this is “building unions and anti-vaxxers”. But there is another cohort out there who are getting mightily pissed off. The vaxxed. When they find that 80% or 85% vaxxed means jack-shit it could get ugly.

JMH
JMH
September 25, 2021 5:39 pm

I’m hearing that jacks are being dragged in from regional areas and the bush as well. All the usual grind of work and paperwork doesn’t go away. It just builds up and up and up, ready for when they go back to whatever it is they usually do.

That’s nothing new as you well know KD. Someone farts and the regionals are then deployed. Who gives a shit about ‘real’ crime in regional areas that gets no response – because serious stuff in the Metropolis. Not the first time and by no means, the last.

Zipster
Zipster
September 25, 2021 5:41 pm

The demonstrators only need occasional victories. The VicStapo cannot afford a single loss.

I got arrested decades ago when the pigs shut down a party, spent hours in a paddy wagon somewhat bruised. Released outside darlinghurst police station hours later and not charged with anything. The paperwork was probably too much for them. I had to catch a taxi back to my car in the wee hours of the morning.

These $5k fine though are pure fascism. Not paying them and starting a class action is an option.

Diogenes
Diogenes
September 25, 2021 5:43 pm

I was just giving some ideas of how mockery could be effectively used.

Maybe a boombox playing teenage mutant ninja turtles themes being played everywhere the fully kitted out Vicstasi are deployed.

areff
areff
September 25, 2021 5:43 pm

Blind Melbourne’s speed/revenue cameras. Losing $3 million a day is apt to get Plod’s attntion.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
September 25, 2021 5:47 pm

Maybe a boombox playing teenage mutant ninja turtles themes being played everywhere the fully kitted out Vicstasi are deployed.

Babyshark run on an 8 hour loop.
Played through Millers vehicle

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 25, 2021 5:51 pm

I was just giving some ideas of how mockery could be effectively used.

Exactly Mater.
This was also in the context of the Ninja Turtle running at Mr Orange Fluoro the other day and, when Mr Orange Fluoro just stared him down, he had to meekly walk back to his line.
I will bet four of KD’s pineapples that Mr Orange Fluoro said something derogatory and cutting about the ridiculous uniform and paintball gun.

calli
calli
September 25, 2021 5:52 pm

That would clear the streets in an instant, TFM.

Whose side are you on? 😀

srr
srr
September 25, 2021 5:53 pm

This is another version of the Commodification of Children that Arky rightly warned of.
This Industry has had massive Global Govt Financing for decades and is pushed heavily by the UN.
When some people can’t help but take information like this and make sick jokes of it, you have to wonder …

BTW, this is more important to the Global Agenda pushers than enforcing lockdowns & jabs, the enforcement of which having already trained enough to comply.

When they are arresting pregnant mothers in their homes for daring to speak against lockdowns, what do you think this new ginned up Police Force will do to those who commit the, already on the books, crime, of praying for and teaching their children the truth about the lies they’ve been told?
https://hrla.org.au/not-affirming-transgender-children-is-family-violence-in-victoria/

“kaysee says:
September 25, 2021 at 5:12 pm

The full article via this site.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/french-medical-professionals-and-academics-push-back-against-transgenderism/
However, the names of the signatories were linked to the site, and hence “disappeared” with the article.

Some fifty shrinks, doctors and intellectuals denounce an “ideological hold on children’s bodies” in the name of the emancipation of the “transgender child”.

? We can no longer remain silent about what appears to us to be a serious drift committed in the name of the emancipation of the “transgender child” (the one who declares that he was not born in the “right body”). Radical discourses legitimise requests for sex change on the basis of feelings alone, which are set up as the truth. But this is at the cost of lifelong medical or even surgical treatment (removal of breasts or testicles) on the bodies of children or adolescents. It is this phenomenon and its high media profile that concerns us, not the choices of transgender adults.

Perhaps thinking it might provide an answer, the Scottish Government has issued new LGBT inclusion guidelines since 12 August, under which children from primary school age will be able to change their names and gender at school without their parents’ consent. Without their consent and even without their parents being informed if the child requests it.

Children are made to believe that a girl could become a boy and vice versa because they have decided to do so without the advice of adults, and this is happening at an increasingly young age.

What is happening in our neighbouring countries could very quickly happen in France: the protean diffusion of these beliefs has resulted in a considerable inflation of requests for sex changes among children and more particularly among teenage girls in recent years. According to Jean Chambry, a child psychiatrist in charge of the CIAPA (Centre Intersectoriel d’Accueil pour Adolescent) in Paris, nearly ten years ago there were about ten requests per year; in 2020, there will be ten requests per month (only for the Ile-de-France region). He talks about a worrying acceleration in medical responses to these transitional requests.

Trivialised speeches claim that we could do without the biological reality, the sexual difference between men and women, in favour of chosen singularities based solely on “feelings”. These misleading ideological discourses are transmitted on social networks where many teenagers with identity problems come to seek solutions to their malaise. In the name of “self-determination” – a slogan that appeals to all progressives — children and teenagers are convinced that they can change their sex with the help of hormone treatments or even mutilating surgery. This rhetoric, spread by activists in many Western countries, uses fallacies designed to deceive.

Childhood abduction

How did we get here? And do we (still) have the right to react without being insulted or threatened? How can these rights to self-determination be a fulfilling progress? This phenomenon, the “transgender child”, is in reality a contemporary mystification that must be vigorously denounced because it is a matter of ideological embrigadement. They would have us believe that, in the name of the well-being and freedom of each individual, a child, freed from the agreement of its “reactionary” parents, would be able to “choose” its so-called gendered identity.

But the child is a being under construction, his or her future is in constant evolution before reaching a stage of maturity. Neuroscientists, developmentalists, psychoanalysts, child psychiatrists, paediatricians and all specialists in early childhood are unanimous on this subject.

The child, and even more so the adolescent, is subjected to a hold which leads to mental destabilisation, a break with the family if it does not support the child and with all those who refuse to share its point of view. This hold generates an anti-social and accusatory discourse, a specific idiom or even a novlanguage is imposed on those around them. The discourse of these young people is often stereotyped as if they had lost all critical thinking (which is a characteristic of the hold).

We denounce this abduction of childhood. It is now urgent to inform as many citizens as possible, of all professions, of all sides, of all ages, about what could well appear tomorrow as one of the greatest health and ethical scandals, which we would have watched happen without saying a word: the commodification of children’s bodies. For by persuading these children that they have been “assigned” a sex at birth, and that they can freely change it, they are made lifelong patients: lifelong consumers of hormonal chemicals marketed by pharmaceutical companies, recurrent consumers of ever more surgical operations in the pursuit of the chimerical dream of a fantasy body. At present, countries that were in favour of medical transition before the age of majority are banning hormone treatments for minors (Sweden, the United Kingdom and some states in the USA …).

This dogmatism leads to great confusion so that no one knows how to act and raise their voice, often for fear of certain LGBTQI+ associations. But this acronym covers very different people, some of whom, like us, are worried about the current drifts. Some are subject to the law of silence that reigns in this environment. The Swedish documentary Trans train shows that young adults, left to their own devices and threatened if they speak out publicly, have been pressured by their trans community if they have expressed doubts or “detransitioned.”

Confusion reigns, largely maintained for the purpose of manipulating humanity in its deepest substratum: its evolution, its temporality, its wanderings and its doubts. In the name of rejecting a supposed gender assignment, we are in the process of witnessing, embarrassed, without understanding anything, an identity assignment. Thus Claude from the Club des cinq, once described as a tomboy, is now presented as transgender. We could laugh about it if it weren’t symptomatic of our era, which is struck by political radicalisms that pre-empt all debate.

No, in the name of protecting children we can no longer remain silent! We refuse to accept that, in the name of “human rights”, we should challenge this common base — the universalism of rights — which constitutes the foundation of humanity. ?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 25, 2021 5:54 pm

I’d have thought that this is a fairly straightforward matter of rendering unto God.

Apologies Dr B. I cannot directly engage you on this. I urge you to read the considered comments on this thread the last couple of days, and the biblical citations.

Unfortunately there’s an aspect in all of this which directly and personally affects the church which I attend, which I cannot talk about. You may have noted that while Calli has talked about the issue as it affects the church she attends I have not done so. I’m waiting and hoping the NSW government opens the door to some sort of sensible compromise, but I’m not sanguine about this likelihood.

Winston Smith
September 25, 2021 5:58 pm

Bruce O’Newk:

It looks like a giant steel dog turd.

I reckon a bucket of H2SO4 would lend a nice patina to that thing.
And it wouldn’t hurt the ‘sculpture’ either.

rosie
rosie
September 25, 2021 5:59 pm

On the plus side KD all those regional cops being dragged into Melbourne has been triffick for people wanting a long weekend in the country.

Muddy
Muddy
September 25, 2021 6:01 pm

Balls. Lot of balls. Big inflatable beach balls, small $2 rubber balls. Hundreds of ’em. Everyone brings one. Nothing in them, not to be used as weapons (and be careful not to trip on your own balls – how embarrassment). Balls as symbols. Different colours (diversity – geddit?). We haven’t had any symbols so far. Balls might be a pest if they get in Legion Danvik’s way, but they’re not dangerous. If Legion Danvik gets cranky with the balls, well … think of how that is going to look overseas.

This is a battle for influence.

srr
srr
September 25, 2021 6:01 pm

“kaysee says:
September 25, 2021 at 5:09 pm

A couple of hours ago, I came across a link to this article via another website:

Some fifty shrinks, doctors and intellectuals denounce an “ideological hold on children’s bodies” in the name of the emancipation of the “transgender child”.

It was published in the  Observatory of Ideological Discourses on Children and Adolescents. I was just about to post the link here, and it comes up with an error:
Page not found.

Must be the censoring arm of the very powerful alphabetxyz lobby.”

____________________

Yep, there are very powerful and very active arms of the Child Commodification Lobby, dedicated to looking for things like this bury.

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 25, 2021 6:06 pm

Mater

C’mon guys,
I was the one who linked to the video, but never claimed that it came from here. The ‘magnifico’ at the end was the give away that it wasn’t.

Look at their backs. I’m not sure that “Police” is the Italian version. Shouldn’t it read “Polizia”?

Muddy
Muddy
September 25, 2021 6:07 pm

Plus you can write a message on your ball/s.

Zipster
Zipster
September 25, 2021 6:08 pm
Boambee John
Boambee John
September 25, 2021 6:08 pm

PS, there is a giant Ferris/viewing wheel in the upper right corner, right at the end. Anyone recognise it? I don’t.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
September 25, 2021 6:09 pm
Woolfe
Woolfe
September 25, 2021 6:11 pm

And maybe put some paint in those balls, for identification of course

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
September 25, 2021 6:11 pm

VicStapo cannot afford a single loss.

They still haven’t found the missing turtles!

Cassie of Sydney
September 25, 2021 6:13 pm

Hey Mrs Nong, who’s they?

They murder, pillage & burn down their own communities, that never get built up again, while the main ‘right’ they ‘win’ from those riots is to sink into yet more unhampered, Govt assisted even, self destructive criminality.”

Or is this a case of you engaging in “racial vilification”?

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
September 25, 2021 6:13 pm

Unfortunately there’s an aspect in all of this which directly and personally affects the church which I attend

I’m sorry to hear that, BoN. I should defend freedom of belief to the death; although preferably someone else’s. I’m not the believing sort, but it’s a fundamental human right. Comes with being a human being.

Too many have decided to worship the state. They’re entitled to, but not to compel anyone else to do the same.

srr
srr
September 25, 2021 6:15 pm

Police swarm on The Others.
Saturday, 25 September 2021

Police swarm and detail a hostile couple @theheraldsun pic.twitter.com/c9M6z5BTDQ

— Olivia Jenkins (@byoliviajenkins) September 25, 2021
_____________________________________

A Suggestion
A Suggestion
September 25, 2021 6:17 pm

Too many have decided to worship the state. They’re entitled to, but not to compel anyone else to do the same.

It was Catholicism that surrendered it’s entitlement to compel worship that directly led to worship of the state. A vacuum is ALWAYS filled.

P
P
September 25, 2021 6:21 pm

I’m waiting and hoping the NSW government opens the door to some sort of sensible compromise, but I’m not sanguine about this likelihood.

Keep your eye on DP. He doesent want this arrangement. In the next two weeks I predict that GB will no longer be the leader.

srr
srr
September 25, 2021 6:22 pm

Real Rukshan
6 mins ·
“Who is the Real Rukshan?…Independent media or right-wing antagonist?” – The Age.

Comments are disabled on The Age’s post, which tells you everything you need to know about the mainstream media.

1.4K likes
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rosie
rosie
September 25, 2021 6:23 pm
FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
September 25, 2021 6:26 pm

Zipster says:
September 25, 2021 at 5:12 pm

FlyingPigssays

have you been told today?? gun git faarrked

wow
you got a gun….
hope you don’t shoot yourself!

r u a garage nasti?

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
September 25, 2021 6:30 pm

Zipster

have logged your gun threat.

thanks for playing

Zipster
Zipster
September 25, 2021 6:40 pm
MatrixTransform
September 25, 2021 6:41 pm

Excellent NSFA film on ornate iron work. Old Australia

nice !!

I worked in an casting plant in Dandenong in the early eighties making engine parts for Nissan.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
September 25, 2021 6:41 pm

My 2c worth srr. After wading through that sewer on Crikey this morning even I could see that some on the left aren’t blind to the fact that what goes around could come back around. Perhaps The Age knows comments will in the similar vibe, no surprises on the cowardice though. Gotta tow the line, Dan’s the man and all that…

Rabz
September 25, 2021 6:41 pm

Bluddee hell – they aren’t even bothering to hide it anymore …

iPhone 13: “Hollyweird in your pocket”

Yeah, no thanks, I tells ya. ?)

Zipster
Zipster
September 25, 2021 6:41 pm

FlyingPigssays

I am so scared, so you want to meet in the car park here?

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 25, 2021 6:41 pm

P

Keep your eye on DP. He doesent want this arrangement. In the next two weeks I predict that GB will no longer be the leader.

We can but hope!

Rabz
September 25, 2021 6:42 pm

Grate – another emojee triumph 🙂

vlad redux
vlad redux
September 25, 2021 6:42 pm

Cassie, there’s a joke along the lines of what you said, ie

Q. How can you tell if someone’s a vegan?

A. Don’t worry, they’ll tell you.

John H.
John H.
September 25, 2021 6:42 pm

The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain

Individuals who huge chunks of the brain missing but if you met them you wouldn’t know. Within one hour of wearing an eye mask the visual cortex starts responding to non-visual stimuli. I didn’t realise how quickly brain regions can switch function.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
September 25, 2021 6:43 pm

Zipster you fking mouth

ever talked down a gun carrying person and brought yourself and him through police gun lines?

fuck off and die miserably from covid you miserable xunt.

Muddy
Muddy
September 25, 2021 6:43 pm

Woolfe says:
September 25, 2021 at 6:11 pm
And maybe put some paint in those balls, for identification of course

NO, Woolfe!
The idea is to grab attention, not from our own feral media, but from overseas, by using everyday objects of fun and enjoyment as symbols. Yes, it sounds weird, but image is everything. Balls used in recreation are non-threatening. Balls bounce (can society bounce back?). With the power of the feral media, we need every PR tactic we can get.

Balls to the street!

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 25, 2021 6:44 pm

rosiesays:
September 25, 2021 at 6:23 pm
an Italian tourist in Marseilles?

Could be. Note that in the clip, the street signs are blanked out (Photoshop?). I knew it wasn’t the London Eye, but didn’t know of the Marseilles one.

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