Open Thread- Monday 27 Sept 2021


Forest Sunrise, Albert Bierstadt, late 19th Century

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Baba
Baba
September 27, 2021 9:50 pm

Dotsays:
September 27, 2021 at 9:47 pm
Holy cow, Leunig has cured himself of insanity and red pilled himself.

Maybe Leunig was right all along.

Muddy
Muddy
September 27, 2021 9:52 pm

Bruce in WA says:
September 27, 2021 at 9:13 pm

Stick around, Bruce. We need you. We need all of us.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 27, 2021 9:52 pm

More than 1400 people would be killed or severely injured and $160bn worth of damage caused if an earthquake similar to the one that hit Victoria last week struck directly beneath Melbourne, expert modelling shows.

If your aunty had balls she’d be your uncle. But it’s Melbourne, so she might be anyway.
I visited the epicentre of the earthquake in 2003 for work. It was like the dark side of the moon* (a ferocious bushfire had been through).
If a city of 100,000 had been it’s path, 80,000 would have died.
It wasn’t.
They didn’t.
So it wasn’t news.
.
* I kid you not. There was mile after mile of nothing left above 3-4 metres above the ground and knee deep ash in what was previously dense bush.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 27, 2021 9:54 pm

Stick around, Bruce. We need you. We need all of us.

Second that one, Muddy. Stick around, Bruce.

rickw
rickw
September 27, 2021 9:55 pm

Men, in general, are more willing to rock the boat and look further into the second and third order impacts of appeasement. It’s nature.

Wanted to take the little bloke to the farm this weekend. Do some tractor driving and fishing. Missus refuses because “it illegal”, retort of course is that this shit is never ending.

This led to my earlier comment about these Government fuckers stealing our most precious commodity, time. I only get to do this stuff once with my little bloke when he’s 6.

Muddy
Muddy
September 27, 2021 9:57 pm

Wally Dalí says:
September 27, 2021 at 9:28 pm

Muddysays:
September 27, 2021 at 8:56 pm
Ah, Trio Mandili.
Simple, pure, classy.
Is that a review, L to R?

More like (L to R): Solid, Cheeky, Heartbreaker.
Hard to choose.

Baba
Baba
September 27, 2021 9:57 pm

Stick to your guns. I will, until I shoot myself on the foot.

May I suggest elevating the barrel 90 degrees?

duncanm
duncanm
September 27, 2021 9:57 pm

rickwsays:
September 27, 2021 at 9:55 pm
..
Wanted to take the little bloke to the farm this weekend

There’s something dads’ usually say before kids have fun with them.

“Don’t tell mum”

JC
JC
September 27, 2021 9:58 pm

My “compliments”, Rones.

Keep this in mind though, I very much doubt anyone, save for the Driller, would be saying that about you.

Fess up, have you lent him money?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 27, 2021 9:58 pm

Bosi interviews doctors

‘Tell me, Doctor Equilibrium, in your professional medical opinion – what form should the death penalty take for those convicted of political warfare, as laid out in our manifesto?’

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 27, 2021 10:01 pm

Muddysays:
September 27, 2021 at 9:52 pm
Bruce in WA says:
September 27, 2021 at 9:13 pm

Stick around, Bruce. We need you. We need all of us.

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers and sisters …

Stay with us Bruce.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
September 27, 2021 10:05 pm

Bruce… that’s hard. Never make big decisions tired, angry or hungry.
My otherwise brainy wife and I had similar blowup a week or two ago- she opened with “I know you’re against it, but I’m seeing my GP this arvo and booking in the jab tomorrow.” …
She’d been quietly dismissive of vaxx pressure for the last six months or so, where I had been speaking against any turkey who piped up about it, with humility and I hope humour, but never holding back on the stats. A few of our friends had been talking of getting the flu jab in early winter, which I now suspect was a euphemism for the AZ/Oxford/YouTube, and then when Pfizer came to town more were outing themselves. Particularly the pinko lefty wing very vocal, middle grounders a bit bashful and “she’ll be right”, and more I suspect were modest about it. Age range from mid fifties to early forties, all of us with upper primary kids… we haven’t discussed kid needling en masse ie as a group discussion yet, but after GF get together where no-one claimed to know about jackbooting Vic Pol, I’ve realized that a lot of the sheeple simply do not wish to know. No-one wants to talk about the slippery slope of totalitarianism, do so many think that they’ll be allowed to scramble back up sometime if they just keep their heads down in the meantime?
Anyway, mine wife is totes brainy and when in the right mood charming too. I’ve been citing her example whenever any cuck has given me the “you’re getting the jab aren’t you? You don’t believe the deniers?” “Nope. No bloody way. Dr [wife] isn’t going anywhere near any of them, and she’s smarter that both of us put together.”
The thing that prodder her into ln was the thought ofnot being able to travel, in prticular to relsin Scotlnd and a work gig she has on Cocos Island.
I gave her a lot of reminders. Capitulating to the fascists. A procedure which does diddly for the healthy and vulnerable alike. Unproven, uninsured. Toeing the line, bending over and asking for the vaccine passport to be created.
I flatly said that I will never be needled, even if it means never travelling and living under the yoke.
I outright asked her to join the resistance.
Nope, she’s fallen.
And somehow, I’m the bad guy for saying what I’ve been saying for years now, and making her face up to the implications of her choice. It’s not the hardest time in our marriage, but we’ve definitely crossed a rubicon.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 27, 2021 10:05 pm

From th Australian – I’ve posted the whole article. Fight you bastards, fight! I hate peace! Can’t they both loose?

Talk of deceit and outright lies as Turnbull feud hits court

Yoni Bashan
State Political Reporter
@yoni_bashan
10 minutes ago September 27, 2021
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Just a few years ago, the Turnbull and Pillemer families remained longstanding friends and professional allies, both bound up in the dizzying world of corporate ­finance with a shared stake in a boutique funds management firm, Pengana Capital.

These days, the only conversations the two families have are through their respective legal teams, the relationship having soured through a failed share deal and litigation in which the Turnbulls are suing Pengana’s chief executive, Russel Pillemer, for millions of dollars in lost profit.

Allegations of deceit and outright lies are hallmarks of this case, but at its centre is a claim that Mr Pillemer engaged in “misleading and deceptive conduct” by depriving the Turnbulls of critical information. That information — that Pengana Capital was months out from merging with another investment house, Hunter Hall — could have increased the value of the Turnbull family’s stake in Pengana by millions.

In the NSW Supreme Court on Monday, Alex Turnbull said that, had this knowledge been shared between old friends, it is unlikely he would have accepted Mr Pillemer’s offer to purchase the Turnbull family’s shares for $6.1m.

Instead, he would have sold later at a higher value.

Alex Turnbull’s company, Maurtray Pty Ltd, is suing Mr Pillemer for damages of up to $12m. Giving evidence from Singapore, Alex Turnbull denied several explosive allegations put to him during cross-examination, including that he changed his evidence on the instruction of his father, Malcolm Turnbull, and that he ­deliberately tried to conceal his ­father’s stake in Pengana while he was prime minister of Australia.

Listening in to the proceedings, held on Microsoft Teams, was Lucy Turnbull, according to a list of ­participants, and Clive Mathieson of crisis communication firm Cato&Clive, a former prime ministerial staffer for Malcolm Turnbull now engaged by Alex Turnbull.

During his time in parliament, Malcolm Turnbull made disclosures stating he held no shares in public companies. There is no ­suggestion this is untrue, however his son’s litigation against Mr Pillemer has cast light on a tranche of shares loaned to the Pengana chief executive in 2008, for which no money changed hands. Whether this amounted to a form of equity in the company is something Alex Turnbull denies; the eventual sale of these shares in 2017 is also what ended the friendship and lit the fuse on a court case.

In his defence, Mr Pillemer has alleged that Alex Turnbull rejected offers to hold on to the shares because he feared that, through the eventual sale, his family’s ­involvement in Pengana, and any associated conflict, would become known to the media and cause ­embarrassment to his father.

Touching on the sharp-elbowed world of corporate finance and the delicate egos of its titans, Alex Turnbull’s evidence eventually moved towards the allegation that he had been hoodwinked by Mr Pillemer, a trusted associate who once cited Malcolm Turnbull as one of the “key influences” of his life, alongside his own father.

“That must have been an appalling thing to understand, that this longstanding friend had directly lied to your face,” said Robert Newlinds SC, acting for Mr ­Pillemer. “It was hard to believe and comprehend,” Alex Turnbull ­replied, adding that he lacked the hard proof at first that he had been allegedly deceived. It was for this reason that he never confronted Mr Pillemer. “He has a very fragile ego, Mr Newlinds. He would not take it well.”

Family dynamics were another focus of the cross-examination, as Alex Turnbull spoke of the opportunity costs associated with being the son of an Australian prime minister.

He said it effectively cost him a job at Goldman Sachs where he had worked on the mergers and acquisitions desk until restrictions to manage potential conflicts became too onerous.

This became a perennial problem wherever he attempted to work in corporate finance.

His father later loaned him and his sister, Daisy, $10m in seed funding so they could start their own hedge fund.

But even then he could scarcely cut a deal without drawing unwanted media attention. “By virtue of being his son, that problem existed. What choice did I have in the matter? It was largely a fixed cost of annoyance, that’s simply what it was, regardless of what I did,” Mr Turnbull said.

The association between the Turnbull and Pillemer families stretches back several decades, beginning when the two men worked at Goldman Sachs during the 1990s.

In 2003, they founded Pengana Capital, with Malcolm Turnbull selling most of his shares in the company to the National Australia Bank in 2008, around the time he was elected leader of the Liberal Party.

He was unable to sell-off his entire share, thus a deal was worked out between the two friends in which Malcolm Turnbull loaned his remaining stake to Mr Pillemer, valued at $6m.

Under the arrangement the shares would be either ­returned or paid out in cash.

In November 2015, two months after Malcolm Turnbull became prime minister, his company Turnbull & Partners transferred the loan and guarantee to an entity known as Maurtray Pty Ltd, an entity owned and operated by Alex and Daisy Turnbull.

Mr Newlinds queried whether the loan could be described as “synthetic equity”, given that it came with an entitlement of dividend payments. Alex Turnbull rejected the assertion. “It was still a loan,” said Mr Newlinds, “but even though he wasn’t a shareholder, he received dividends that were paid in relation to these particular shares.”

“This is how securitisation works, Mr Newlinds. That’s a loan,” Mr Turnbull said.

“I know that. But the jargon would be it’s synthetic equity.“

“Absolutely not,” Alex Turnbull said.

Further portions of Monday’s cross-examination were spent unpacking the details of this transfer between father and son, and why, in one affidavit, Alex Turnbull said this transfer was a loan, but in another it was called “a gift” from his father.

Alex Turnbull put the discrepancy down to an administrative error while Mr Newlinds suggested he had changed his ­evidence on the instruction of his father. This was denied by Mr Turnbull. “I didn’t have written records. That’s normally how I recall these things,” he said.

During questioning, Mr Newlinds alleged that by classing the transfer of the loan as a gift, it could allow Mr Turnbull to skirt any obligation to disclose it on the members’ register, because no money is owed in return.

“It doesn’t change his disclosure obligations in any way,” Alex Turnbull replied.

“Of course it does,” Mr Newlinds said. “You don’t have to disclose a gift once you’ve given it. What you have to do is disclose investments which might cause conflicts of interest.”

The hearing will continue on Tuesday.

Cassie of Sydney
September 27, 2021 10:08 pm

“Many of my colleagues, friends and family who have been coerced into having it (more everyday), are fucking angry about it. They will not forget, and will be fighting to save others from the same.”

I’ve had my first jab….and will be having my second jab in three and a half weeks, I’ve outlined my reasons why….but I’m fucking angry at what’s going on, the denigration, the demonisation, the smearing, the coercion and the compulsion. I am totally opposed to vaccine passports.

I will never forget and I will never forgive

Thefrollickingmole
Thefrollickingmole
September 27, 2021 10:09 pm

Faint memories of Mum driving away from the farm and dad using the absence to blow up drums near the Chookyard.
My sister and me providing the extremely impressed audience.
Only for Mum to come trundling back to billowing black smoke and drums flying through the air.
She’d forgotten her purse.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
September 27, 2021 10:11 pm

How many Poofta Xunts control Australia while the silent arzeholes are preparing???

JC
JC
September 27, 2021 10:12 pm

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says:
September 27, 2021 at 10:05 pm

From th Australian – I’ve posted the whole article. Fight you bastards, fight! I hate peace! Can’t they both loose?

Oh God, the family war cry could make a showing. How does it go again?

Oh yea..

“Nolli Illegitemum se Carborundum”

The war cry of the “Two Alpha” family

Roared out loud in pub brawls, knocking shops, and low dives, from Amsterdam to Wellington.

“Don’t ever let the bastards grind you down.”

and

I hate peace.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
September 27, 2021 10:13 pm

5.8 earthquake under Melbourne. Wonder how the big bluestone buildings would do? As for the rest of the city the houses aren’t built for earthquakes I reckon there would still be quite a bit of structural damage and I had a quick look at the Newcastle earthquake with similar magnitude and depth to confirm my suspicions. But $160mil seems hyperinflated and most of the southern suburbs of Newcastle close to the epicentre are still there with beautiful old houses.

There are some big faults to the north west being the Heathcote Fault and a smaller one called the Rowsley Fault all at arms length. Some smaller faults along the Mornington Peninsula as well. Doubt it would happen under Melbourne but close to the say down Mt Martha way on the Selwyn Fault that would do some damage. I myself would be more concerned with the dormant Volcanoes still dotting Victoria than killer earthquakes.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
September 27, 2021 10:14 pm

want to know how to knock out your government filth???

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
September 27, 2021 10:14 pm

I wished I’d had watched Neil Oliver, in an excellent recent piece he said (paraphrasing) “I won’t be entering any country which demands to see my “vaccine” status, because that will not be a free country. I will not be entering any premises which requires a recent PCR test, because that would not be my kind of joint. I wouldn’t want to go into any house where the host would ask to see a government-issued pass, because they would not be my kind of people.”

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
September 27, 2021 10:16 pm

it is simple

Bruce in WA
September 27, 2021 10:16 pm

It’s not the hardest time in our marriage, but we’ve definitely crossed a rubicon.

Indeed.

I never in my wildest dreams thought it would come to this.

Tekweni
Tekweni
September 27, 2021 10:17 pm

Found my way here! Looks like I was way behind.

rickw
rickw
September 27, 2021 10:19 pm

There’s something dads’ usually say before kids have fun with them.

“Don’t tell mum”

There’s plenty of that happening! We normally spend a bit of time working on a sanitised version of events.

vlad redux
vlad redux
September 27, 2021 10:20 pm

Strange times make for strange bedfellows, but the enemy of my enemy – Michael Leunig – is, as of today, my friend.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
September 27, 2021 10:20 pm

why do you think Dutton got Google, Facebook and Twitter, et al, to lick the dick????

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
September 27, 2021 10:20 pm

He is a fucking copper.

rickw
rickw
September 27, 2021 10:23 pm

Look at these blood right wing extremists:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0mTkW3WGB8

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 27, 2021 10:24 pm

Knuckle Draggersays:

September 27, 2021 at 9:58 pm

Bosi interviews doctors

‘Tell me, Doctor Equilibrium, in your professional medical opinion – what form should the death penalty take for those convicted of political warfare, as laid out in our manifesto?’

No, no.
Get mono-brow closet gay kid to moderate a debate between Bosi and Equilibrium about the many and varied ways of offing traitors and seditionaries (is that a word?)

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
September 27, 2021 10:27 pm

Judith Sloan whinges about Cormann

How fucked in the head is she????

Dot
Dot
September 27, 2021 10:28 pm

Get mono-brow closet gay kid to moderate a debate between Bosi and Equilibrium about the many and varied ways of offing traitors and seditionaries (is that a word?)

WTF!?

rickw
rickw
September 27, 2021 10:28 pm

Absolutely everyone in the world knows we’re fucked:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3Iaw93XfOQ

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
September 27, 2021 10:34 pm

rickw says:
September 27, 2021 at 10:28 pm

Absolutely everyone in the world knows we’re fucked:

Judith thinks we are fine.

Indolent
Indolent
September 27, 2021 10:38 pm

I hate to generalise, but it seems that whilst a lot of women may not be sold on the medical necessity of kids getting the vaccine, they see it as preferable to them being ostracised, isolated and disadvantaged in their formative years.

A bit of perspective.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 27, 2021 10:38 pm

Cassie at 10:08.
I am in the same boat.
Living in hill-billy country, the virus carries very few immediate fears, but I will probably eventually get vaxxed, on the balance of probabilities of the virus reaching the back-blocks and also based on some family medical history.
It’s a close run decision but, whatever I do, I object to others being pushed into it.

MatrixTransform
September 27, 2021 10:38 pm

… they were both interested in psychedelics.

calling Dr Leary … paging Dr Leary

Muddy
Muddy
September 27, 2021 10:43 pm

From rickw’s link above:

Avi: “… the grandmother-shooting cops who have come here today…”
Nice work, Avi.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 27, 2021 10:43 pm

We normally spend a bit of time working on a sanitised version of events.

‘Mum, there was only one 44 full of paint thinner, and that tractor was upside down when we got here.’

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 27, 2021 10:44 pm

Team selection suggestions for Tom’s ‘toons:-
In: Leunig
Out : Rowe

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 27, 2021 10:47 pm

Every 21st birthday speech in rural Australia involves a 44 of flammable/carcinogenic spontaneously combusting and an inverted tractor.
Those that make it to 21, at least.

John H.
John H.
September 27, 2021 10:48 pm

MatrixTransformsays:
September 27, 2021 at 10:38 pm
… they were both interested in psychedelics.

calling Dr Leary … paging Dr Leary

Leary be damned. He spooked the government so much they banned all the current research on psychedelics. A friend of mine who was around at that time and was in NY said Leary was despised by the wider professional community. After the ruckus his assistant went to India and returned as Ram Dass. He came something of a guru celebrity for the counter culture.

It’s taken 40 years to start the research again, with a professor in the UK playing a leading role. The early trials are promising.

My interest is from the therapeutic side. A friend of mine who was involved in treating veterans for PTSD said MDMA showed particular promise but unfortunately many of the veterans were also smoking pot which confounded their efforts. Pot does seem to help some veterans but there are risks because THC can potentiate psychosis and anxiety.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
September 27, 2021 11:10 pm

Bruce in WA
Ditto here several days ago. Me v Mrs OSC and our adult daughter.
Time heals. Find alternative things you both agree on to be the focus of your conversations.
Good luck.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 27, 2021 11:13 pm

This afternoon, Tim Blair referred to Jacinta Ardern as:

a surfboard-gobbed pretender

My God, that’s good.

Muddy
Muddy
September 27, 2021 11:15 pm

Checking out Rukshan’s faceache page and watching his interview on Outsiders yesterday, I’m reading through the comments and noting how many compliments he’s getting from so many members of the public. It makes me think that if we’re to keep up our reputation as a dangerously racist nation where anyone slightly different is in fear for their physical safety, we really need to up our game.

Muddy
Muddy
September 27, 2021 11:18 pm

Way beyond my bedtime again.

As always: Stick around. We need you. ALL of you.

MatrixTransform
September 27, 2021 11:25 pm

My interest is from the therapeutic side

no offence intended Mitch but, seriously why would anybody listen to a bong smoking doctor.

I just wanna know if you have treated any covid patients

…tripper

Arky
September 27, 2021 11:26 pm

Bruce in WAsays:
September 27, 2021 at 9:13 pm
Well, just had a screaming match with my wife over vaccination for children

..
Divorce that bitch.
Start drinking heavily and rooting around.
*This is medical advice.

Gab
Gab
September 27, 2021 11:30 pm

Covid death rate Australia: 0.004784615%

Arky
September 27, 2021 11:31 pm

it seems that whilst a lot of women may not be sold on the medical necessity of kids getting the vaccine, they see it as preferable to them being ostracised, isolated and disadvantaged in their formative years.

..
Sigh.
I had to say this eventually:
Women are shit.

Arky
September 27, 2021 11:33 pm

Even the good ones we make honorary blokes here on the cat require careful monitoring to ensure they don’t backslide in to their wily ways.

John H.
John H.
September 27, 2021 11:35 pm

MatrixTransformsays:
September 27, 2021 at 11:25 pm
My interest is from the therapeutic side

no offence intended Mitch but, seriously why would anybody listen to a bong smoking doctor.

I just wanna know if you have treated any covid patients

…tripper

Not a doctor.

Arky
September 27, 2021 11:36 pm

Come on, that at least deserves a thumbs up for courage.

Arky
September 27, 2021 11:43 pm

You have to be careful advising blokes to leave their women, if you jest.
I had a good mate who had this stunning girlfriend, a blonde Scottish lass, with enormous boobies. He had some stupid minor disagreement with her and whined to me about it and I joked “You should leave her”. And he did. I thought he’d get it that she was gorgeous and way, way above his grade.
The moron.

Arky
September 27, 2021 11:46 pm

Still, at least I got my mate back to go to the pub pool comp.

Arky
September 27, 2021 11:47 pm

He should thank me really.

Dot
Dot
September 27, 2021 11:50 pm

no offence intended Mitch but, seriously why would anybody listen to a bong smoking doctor.

The alternative is Dr Simon Chapman, Dr Kerry Chant etc.

Arky
September 27, 2021 11:51 pm

The moral of the story is this: Never underestimate your ability to influence people.
It’s a power you should use wisely or preferably not at all.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
September 27, 2021 11:52 pm

Arky says:
September 27, 2021 at 11:26 pm
Divorce that bitch.
Start drinking heavily and rooting around.
*This is medical advice.

Dr Arky – do you do Zoom consultations & can I claim on Medicare?

Dot
Dot
September 27, 2021 11:52 pm

I had a good mate who had this stunning girlfriend, a blonde Scottish lass, with enormous boobies. He had some stupid minor disagreement with her and whined to me about it and I joked “You should leave her”. And he did. I thought he’d get it that she was gorgeous and way, way above his grade.

The moron.

You are a social landmine.

“Arky, the Happy Little Claymore”

Arky
September 27, 2021 11:52 pm

Dot, did you just upvote all my dumb comments because I told people to?

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
September 28, 2021 12:00 am

Arky says:
September 27, 2021 at 11:52 pm
Dot, did you just upvote all my dumb comments because I told people to?

No – I did, you dumb fuck. Someone has to encourage you to set up your medical practice.
You’d do a much better job than all the fucktard CHOs in the country.

Arky
September 28, 2021 12:03 am

No – I did, you dumb fuck.

..
On the contrary.
I just wrote the dumb comments, whereas you actually liked them.
Who’s the dumb fuck now?

Arky
September 28, 2021 12:08 am

There’s another moral to the story.
If you have a nice bird and one of your dero mates says you should leave her: ignore him.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
September 28, 2021 12:10 am

How rude ……

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

Just merrily posting some of the clips Dover has up on the front page under
Victoria’s ‘finest’
and placing them onto VicPol twitter feed as they are asking if anyone saw a man being assaulted.

Huh? Due to ….er… robust….. public feedback, Vikpol a day or two ago switched off comments on their Twitter feed (their entire twitter feed, even about lost dogs & cats in the Wimmera)

When did they switch it back on?

John H.
John H.
September 28, 2021 12:17 am

Dotsays:
September 27, 2021 at 11:50 pm
no offence intended Mitch but, seriously why would anybody listen to a bong smoking doctor.

The alternative is Dr Simon Chapman, Dr Kerry Chant etc.

There are some interesting studies indicating neuroprotective potential of cannabinoids.

https://www.pnas.org/content/95/14/8268

Another interesting aspect are studies pointing to THC inhibiting protein aggregation which nearly everyone over 50 has to some degree.

https://www.nature.com/articles/npjamd201612
https://scholar.harvard.edu/onderalbayram/node/529501
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/345942128_Emerging_potential_of_cannabidiol_in_reversing_proteinopathies
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160629095609.htm

Now of course most people never hear about this. I only became interested because I stumbled upon the Hampson et. al. paper when it was published. That piqued my interest.

Here’s a paradox ….
From wiki

In spite of all of this supposed evidence of a causal relationship – or suggestion of a causal relationship – between cannabis and psychosis, the general population statistics shows no increase in psychosis incidence rates in any developed country over the last 50 years, in spite of a five-fold increase in cannabis use rates. To quote Macleod et all 2004: “Cannabis use appears to have increased substantially amongst young people over the past 30 years, from around 10% reporting ever use in 1969–70, to around 50% reporting ever use in 2001, in Britain and Sweden. If the relation between use and schizophrenia were truly causal and if the relative risk was around five-fold then the incidence of schizophrenia should have more than doubled since 1970. However population trends in schizophrenia incidence suggest that incidence has either been stable or slightly decreased over the relevant time period.”[42]

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

The most recent tweet, “Have you seen these two thugs?” with mugshots of a pair of armed robber looking types, had 492 replies.

I went through them all. Two were supportive/neutral.
The other 490 were most uncomplimentary.

Arky
September 28, 2021 12:29 am

The most recent tweet, “Have you seen these two thugs?” with mugshots of a pair of armed robber looking types, had 492 replies.

..
Vicpol have made a major strategic error.
They’re idiots.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
September 28, 2021 12:31 am

It’s hard being the man of the family.
To teach kids to assess risk, and that fortune favours the brave.
To play sport and play fight, and to be a good sport and a cool temper if push comes to shove.
I’m mindful that I carry the example of what all men should be, ie constant and competent, but also need to joke around and horseplay. Being firm- I’m actually the only one who insists on manners and graces- but not rigid. Forgiving and ungrudging, but not the silly feminine sides of dismissiveness and disengagement. I’m flat out teaching my kids of the evils of socialism, collectivism and corporatism, and it’s a balancing act between seeing it everywhere and seeing angles of these seductive evils in everyone, and being tolerant and proportionate when and if one might need to take up arms, allegorically.
I’m dead proud of my kids, who have got a reputation for naturally fronting up to grown-ups and easily chumming along with fellow younger persons. They also have a reputation for standing up for Trump, being the only girls at school (and there’s only five all up anyway) who can ride bikes with no hands and saying pithy truisms like “chicks dig scars”, but that’s by the bye. I’ll also admit that I have a famously close relationship with my eldest, and a tense detente with the younger. But I never yell in wrath at the kids, my preciously gorgeous wife has long ago weaned me off smacking them, and I don’t lose much sleep chewing over what mistakes I make and what I could be doing differently. It’s a combination of instinct, co-operation with the mrs and knowing the mistakes my parents, in particular my dad, made. And thanking my lucky stars that I don’t have boys…
…..

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
September 28, 2021 1:06 am

Anyway where was I?
Oh yeah
Fathers are naturally individualistic and anti-coercion.
Mothers are naturally communitarian and non-confrontational.
There will be many a spat, and surely a spike in divorces showing in the stasi-state stats, over needling kids.
Of course, all this grief could be avoided if the TGA simply stuck to its knitting, and didn’t get seduced by the Lizard People into binning HCQ and ivermectin, and waving through treatments bought and advertised by YouTube.
And of course mkII,
there is no pandemic
there never was
it’s just like the common flu
all together now
It’s not about safety
It’s about control.

jupes
jupes
September 28, 2021 1:48 am

This is gold.

The Project suffers ratings slide after return of Hamish Macdonald

But according to The Australian, the journalist’s homecoming has been plagued by the same low ratings issues that had befallen his gig at the ABC.

Since the 40-year-old rejoined The Project, nudging out his replacement, Peter van Onselen, ratings have slid, the paper reports.

Rating lower than PVO! Hahahahahaaha

Tom
Tom
September 28, 2021 4:11 am
Tom
Tom
September 28, 2021 4:13 am

Mark Knight. For northern Cats, the angel is Jim Stynes, the only Irish-born AFL Brownlow Medallist who died of cancer at 45 in 2012.

Tom
Tom
September 28, 2021 4:14 am
Tom
Tom
September 28, 2021 4:16 am
Tom
Tom
September 28, 2021 4:17 am
Tom
Tom
September 28, 2021 4:18 am
Tom
Tom
September 28, 2021 4:19 am
Tom
Tom
September 28, 2021 4:20 am
Tom
Tom
September 28, 2021 4:21 am
Tom
Tom
September 28, 2021 4:22 am
feelthebern
feelthebern
September 28, 2021 4:57 am

God bless Joe Rogan.
He retweeted this video overnight.

https://twitter.com/samuel_films/status/1430734908817874948?s=20

srr
srr
September 28, 2021 5:10 am

Outsiders Panel Discussion on Protests in Melbourne & Media Freedom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTv-5cqZ3EE

Sep 27, 2021
Real Rukshan

Discussing the week of protests in Melbourne and government attacks on media freedoms in Australia on the Outsiders program on Sky News Australia.

duncanm
duncanm
September 28, 2021 5:47 am

Another for the cartoon roll Tom?
Leunig

calli
calli
September 28, 2021 6:02 am

Baba says:
September 27, 2021 at 9:57 pm
Stick to your guns. I will, until I shoot myself on the foot.
May I suggest elevating the barrel 90 degrees?

Baba, it’s the re-holstering – gets me every time. 🙂

jupes
jupes
September 28, 2021 6:10 am

Another for the cartoon roll Tom?

Interesting but unsurprising this little disclaimer below the cartoon.

[This cartoon was not published by The Age or The Sydney Morning Herald]

Of course not.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 28, 2021 6:16 am

Leunig.

Oh yeah.

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
September 28, 2021 6:17 am

Thank you Tom

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 28, 2021 6:23 am

Leunig.

Oh yeah.

Not published in the Phage or the Silly eh?
I have a tiny suspicion why that might be… 😀

duncanm
duncanm
September 28, 2021 6:27 am

As pointed out by quite a few, healthcare (sorry, ‘healthcare’) workers protesting compulsory vaccination, while maintaining social distancing and wearing face masks in the park, are dispersed by a busload of riot police. 24hours later, AFL fans parade through the streets unhindered.

rickw
rickw
September 28, 2021 6:29 am

Pastor David Lyn stares down police in Montreal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpmkX-oY_XU

rosie
rosie
September 28, 2021 6:29 am

It’s fantastic that, no doubt, thanks to very high vaccination rates, Australia has a very low death rate from covid.
Hopefully that continues as NSW and and Victoria end their lockdowns, the sooner the better.
Elderly relative back to golf Monday and 91 yo neighbour back to tennis.
These activities no longer kill as of 11.59 this evening.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 28, 2021 6:30 am

Late last night, when nobody else was around and I was getting stuff ready for today, I had one of those epiphanies that lets you move on with life.

I’d been trying to figure out who Peta Credlin reminds me of. It’s been bugging me for years, but I couldn’t put my finger on it.

And then I realised. I wasn’t even watching TV at the time.

It’s Stan Smith from American Dad.

Rorschach
Rorschach
September 28, 2021 6:32 am

Oi Ou Oi – there’s thunder down under!

https://www.bitchute.com/video/JvCYJd2SkKt8/

duncanm
duncanm
September 28, 2021 6:33 am

Demons fans vs. Healthcare workers*

https://fb.watch/8hV0eR06DQ/

* ‘healthcare workers’ &lt/sarc>

duncanm
duncanm
September 28, 2021 6:35 am

Rorschachsays:
September 28, 2021 at 6:32 am
Oi Ou Oi – there’s thunder down under!

Sums up the anger nicely.. they even slow-mo’d ninja protest guy

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 28, 2021 6:39 am

Interesting story:

Sydney Trains, NSW TrainLink Intercity and Regional services to grind to a halt over industrial action (Sky News)

It’s interesting because nowhere in it can I work out the reason for the strike action. Just this rather coy statement:

“The very least workers deserve is the right to be safe at work and to be paid fairly for the work they do,” RTBU NSW Secretary Alex Claassens said in a statement last week.

“At the moment, the NSW Government is refusing to provide either of those things for Sydney and NSW Trains workers.

I have my suspicions. And I also have my suspicions why Sky might not want to be clearer in their reporting…

duncanm
duncanm
September 28, 2021 6:42 am

Bruce of Newcastlesays:
September 28, 2021 at 6:39 am

BoN – more info here (yes, socialist rag): https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/09/25/nsra-s25.html

Ditching guards on the intercity fleet.

A central aspect of the rail dispute is the introduction of the New Intercity Fleet (NIF), a line of 55 Korean-built trains that Transport for NSW (TfNSW) is planning to introduce for commuter service on the Central Coast and Newcastle, Blue Mountains, and South Coast lines.

The NIF was originally expected to roll out in 2019, but has not yet begun carrying passengers due to the objections of workers, who have raised concerns about the safety of the trains.

The new “Mariyung” trains were explicitly designed for driver-only operation, raising the possibility that guards will be eliminated.

Eyrie
Eyrie
September 28, 2021 6:43 am

rickwsays:

Wanted to take the little bloke to the farm this weekend. Do some tractor driving and fishing. Missus refuses because “it illegal”

Illegal is a sick bird. Heinlein via Jubal Harshaw, Stranger in a Strange Land.
Looking around now, aren’t we all?

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
September 28, 2021 6:45 am

John H.says:
September 27, 2021 at 10:48 pm

My son introduced me a few years to the research being done on Psychedelics and the use thereof for those with PTSD – just mind-boggling stuff in how psychedelics can be curative — I wonder if it helps those with mental illness who are on really heavy anti-psychotics — I wonder if Big Pharma don’t want people to be well — is that even remotely possible ?

sarc/

Eyrie
Eyrie
September 28, 2021 6:46 am

It’s fantastic that, no doubt, thanks to very high vaccination rates, Australia has a very low death rate from covid.

LOL! This has a long way to go to play out. The vaccine “protection” is very temporary. How many clot shots are you prepared to take? In any case Covid ain’t ebola and the death rate from Covid is very low anyway. Even lower if treated properly, early.

Crossie
Crossie
September 28, 2021 6:47 am

Since the 40-year-old rejoined The Project, nudging out his replacement, Peter van Onselen, ratings have slid, the paper reports.
Rating lower than PVO! Hahahahahaaha

Both Hamish and PVO are men of childish opinions but so bad that they don’t even appeal to children any more. Most children find more humour and inspiration on Tik Tok. Adults, on the other hand, are so pissed off they don’t watch anybody.

Cassie of Sydney
September 28, 2021 6:52 am

“I wonder if Big Pharma don’t want people to be well — is that even remotely possible ?”

Of course they don’t people to be well…….it’s money, money, money.

Cassie of Sydney
September 28, 2021 6:58 am

“Both Hamish and PVO are men of childish opinions but so bad that they don’t even appeal to children any more. Most children find more humour and inspiration on Tik Tok. Adults, on the other hand, are so pissed off they don’t watch anybody.”

You have to laugh at Hamish, he even fucked up Q&A, that’s how bad he is.

sfw
sfw
September 28, 2021 7:02 am

One of my customers age 85, his wife died of cancer earlier this year, his family in Sydney unable to travel to see him. Anyway he had the vax injection a few weeks ago, around two weeks later had a stroke on the verandah, fell and hit his head. He managed to call the neighbour somehow but couldn’t move. He is still in hospital and can’t come home as there is no one to help him and his daughter can’t get a travel permit.

Anyway I was talking with the neighbour who helped him until the ambulance arrived. The neighbour is around 60 former soldier in the British Army. He told me that when he got to the old man the way the old mans head was bleeding from a large wound was very strange. He said head wounds normally bleed a lot but in this case he said it looked like chopped liver (his words) was coming out of the wound. The blood was clotting in large lumps as it came out. He has no evidence of course but he reckons it was the vaccine that caused the stroke and the subsequent almost immediate clotting from an open wound. Anyone else heard of things like this?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 28, 2021 7:08 am

Duncan – Ok that makes more sense. But why would Sky not say it was a strike because of the removal of guards on intercity trains, and the low wage increase offer?

At the same time Gladys has hit the NSW public sector with a mandatory vaccination requirement, which implies all those who refuse will be stood down, lose pay or be fired. The tone from WSWS (eg this one) is they’re full on vaccination, as is the Grauniad. I think there might be some CFMEU-style rank and file stuff that’s not being reported.

Mater
September 28, 2021 7:09 am

How many clot shots are you prepared to take?

That’s an interesting perspective that people may wish to consider.

If the more militant ‘vaxxers’ think everyone should ‘walk through the valley of the the shadow of death’ to retain their basic rights as humans and citizens, how many times are they willing to spin the barrel, put the muzzle of the revolver to their head, and pull the trigger?

There may only be one round in the revolver, and you might get away with it once, twice, thrice, but eventually…

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
September 28, 2021 7:12 am

sfwsays:
September 28, 2021 at 7:02 am

sfw – that is just terrible.
Our political ‘leaders’ and ‘health’ bureaucrats and the vaccine-porn-pushers in the media are committing crimes against humanity in the name of protecting us.

calli
calli
September 28, 2021 7:18 am

How many clot shots are you prepared to take?

Depends how desperate people are to keep their jobs, or travel, or enjoy simple pleasures. They will trade their long-term health for immediate gratification or basic financial survival.

As Chant says, we’re never going to go back to normal.

Why? Because she says so.

struth
struth
September 28, 2021 7:19 am

Good Moaning.

This is a most important video to watch.
It is the culmination of an intense investigation taking over a year
Remember Dr Fuellmich.
It puts it all together.
I sent it to some reps like Llew O’Brien and others claiming it’s all coming out now and we note the stand you have taken was with the criminal globalists.
It is circulating and I have posted it here before, but due to the various shifts and irregular visitation by many cats, feel it is worth reposting.
They are taking this to the international criminal courts.
Here.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
September 28, 2021 7:20 am

Morn, got a busy day coming up so before I am engaged I thought I’d share this for others morning coffee:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10031933/Gina-Rinehart-warns-Australia-end-impoverished-like-Sri-Lanka-Argentina.html

Crossie
Crossie
September 28, 2021 7:25 am

Last night Paul Murray was touting a poll that said Tyrant Dan, Palacechook were in the 60s and Gladys in the 50s and that’s why there will be no end to lockdowns.

That anybody could trot out those figures with a straight face is beyond me. Unless of course, those are the percentages of the workforce employed by the state governments.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
September 28, 2021 7:27 am

Doctored Norman Swan on radio explaining new research on vaccines.
The usual insofar as the results confirm the reduction in severe illness and symptoms overall.

Transmissibility was raised and Swan speculated that perhaps there is a reduction in live or viable virus that could be read into the outcomes but you can’t measure that with a PCR test as it cannot differentiate between the two. He said that such a claim would only be proven by studies of infection rates amongst non vaccinated and vaccinated groups.

This leads the obvious conclusion that we are to be subjected to vaccine passports on an unproven and so far an unprovable supposition. The very essence of the cart before the horse.

This absurdity is amplified as always by the TaliDan. One of his trial zones for passports will take place in small towns in the Buloke Shire. The local bakery in Wycheproof was on the ABC website yesterday announcing they were part of the trial and that would be good…..why?

No cases of Covid have been located in the Buloke Shire for the entire outbreak except for close contact with travellers that went nowhere, including the bakery. The lockdowns in country Vic have not been nearly as harsh or long as the city and they were never needed in towns like Wycheproof. The bakery has been open to all locals, surrounding areas and any regional traveller going through for most of the time.

What precisely are they gaining except putting up an additional and completely unnecessary barrier for their customers, that may be people who don’t want the jab or the far greater number of the vaccinated who hate the totalitarian concept.

You can’t teach common sense.

politichix
politichix
September 28, 2021 7:28 am

George Christensen interviews Tony Nikolic (AFL Solicitors) and Jack McGuire (alternative unions incl. nurses and drs). Both discuss their approaches to taking on the mandatory jab mandate due 30 Sep for healthcare workers.

Muddy – watch it!!

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 28, 2021 7:29 am

Neat excuse!

Australia’s PM Scott Morrison Might Skip U.N. Climate Summit

Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Monday he is undecided about attending the U.N.’s COP26 climate change conference in November as he is sick of quarantining after foreign trips.

“It’s another trip overseas… and I’ve spent a lot of time in quarantine,” Morrison told the West Australian newspaper.

Add that the whole thing would be a waste of time, and he’d be a pinata for Gretas and Greens because we’re an easier target than the US, EU and China.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 28, 2021 7:30 am

Extremely encouraging news for followers of cricket worldwide.

David Warner was dropped for the second time this IPL season. His team, Sunrisers Hyderabad, went on to win by six wickets without him.

The houso flat in Penrith beckons.

Crossie
Crossie
September 28, 2021 7:30 am

sfw – that is just terrible.
Our political ‘leaders’ and ‘health’ bureaucrats and the vaccine-porn-pushers in the media are committing crimes against humanity in the name of protecting us.

Tinta, these are ignorant people who are hellbent on repeating the monstrous parts of history. Ignorance does kill.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 28, 2021 7:31 am

Anyway Frydenberg would be a better pinata to send, since he deserves it.

Crossie
Crossie
September 28, 2021 7:33 am

As Chant says, we’re never going to go back to normal.

Calli, power is very seductive, there is no way she is giving up her precious without force.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 28, 2021 7:33 am

Warner would last about ten seconds in Wyche.

Crossie
Crossie
September 28, 2021 7:38 am

Transmissibility was raised and Swan speculated that perhaps there is a reduction in live or viable virus that could be read into the outcomes but you can’t measure that with a PCR test as it cannot differentiate between the two. He said that such a claim would only be proven by studies of infection rates amongst non vaccinated and vaccinated groups.

So why not then stop now when you have a sizeable non-vaccinated group to compare? I fear they want the unvaccinated to be a very small group so they can say the study is inconclusive due to insufficient sample population. Heads they win, tails we lose.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 28, 2021 7:40 am
Bushkid
Bushkid
September 28, 2021 7:40 am

Bruce of Newcastle says:
September 28, 2021 at 7:29 am
Neat excuse!

Australia’s PM Scott Morrison Might Skip U.N. Climate Summit

Oh the poor little darling! He’s so sick of being in quarantine so often!

I’m guessing he wasn’t locked in a stuffy hotel room for 14 days with no access to fresh air, dependent on hotel food being shoved through the door. And I’ll bet he didn’t pay for it himself.

What he “suffers” is a mere fraction of what the ordinary pleb has to tolerate to return to their home country, or even to enter their home state. Then there are the imposed lockdowns, curfews, travel restrictions, forced separation of families, closed schools, denied medical treatments, loss of jobs and income etc., that never inconvenience the “important” people like him.

And the poor little boy also supports Dan Xi Man’s vicious head-cracking clampdown on Victoria’s fed up citizens.

Stiff cheese, Morrison. You wanted to be PM, take the difficulties along with the perks, or hand over to someone of better character.

Eyrie
Eyrie
September 28, 2021 7:43 am

Anyway Frydenberg would be a better pinata to send, since he deserves it.

As long as he doesn’t come back.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
September 28, 2021 7:43 am

Big Pharma! The medications I have taken over the years all seem to have the same or similar side effects as the original complaint. A family member with a serious medical condition took themselves off all the prescribed medications. Within a week started to feel better and now has resumed part time work. The physician who had been treating him years ago successfully was prevented from using the treatment drug because the TGA hadn’t approved it for that disease. This is the same TGA that approved a vaccine that doesn’t vaccinate anyone.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 28, 2021 7:44 am

And why stop at only four?

Watch: Israelis Rise-Up Against Vaxx Passports After Being Told More Shots Needed To Be Considered “Fully Vaccinated” (27 Sep)

Protests have finally erupted in Israel as it has slowly dawned on people there that the goalposts for vaccine passports keep being shifted by the government.

It is now expected to be announced that at least FOUR vaccinations will be needed to be considered ‘fully vaccinated’ and able to engage in society.

Over the weekend marches took place in the streets of Tel Aviv against the so called ‘Green Pass’

Still doing the same thing over and over expecting something different to happen eh?

Cardimona
Cardimona
September 28, 2021 7:44 am

Practical relaxivism

**
1. Email from me to the manager of Black Star Radio, which proudly serves remote indigenous communities.
**

RE: Misleading advertisement
From: Cardi
To: Candice Siedler-Twine – manager at qram dot com dot au
Date: 04/09/2021

Hi Candice

I wanted to discuss one of the current overload of pro-vaccine ads.

Now, I appreciate you’re probably desperate for ad revenue, and that the ads are paid for by the cabal (national cabinet) that have taken over our governments, but one is particularly misleading.

It relates to informed consent for the vaccinations.

The particular ad is voiced by a kind Aunty and advises the listener to consult their doctor on the advisability of vaccination.

Here’s where the problem is.

The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency have banned all Australian Health Practitioners, including GPs, from giving any opinion on vaccines except the one promoted by the government cabal.

Therefore the ad is misleading because it suggests GPS can offer their frank and honest views on the vaccines. They can’t.

To do so could get them prosecuted. Here’s a couple of extracts from the Ahpra Position Statement (RTWT at the link below.)

“Health practitioners are reminded that it is an offence under the National Law to advertise a regulated health service (including via social media) in a way that is false, misleading or deceptive. Advertising that includes false, misleading or deceptive claims about COVID-19, including anti-vaccination material, may result in prosecution by Ahpra.”

Ahpra has told your doctor it’s an offence to not be pro covid vaccination. Ahpra went on to remind your doctor that he or she is being monitored.

“Any promotion of anti-vaccination statements or health advice which contradicts the best available scientific evidence or seeks to actively undermine the national immunisation campaign (including via social media) is not supported by National Boards and may be in breach of the codes of conduct and subject to investigation and possible regulatory action.

“National Boards have developed social media guidance to help registered health practitioners understand and meet their obligations when using social media. The guidance explains that registered health practitioners must make sure that their social media activity is consistent with the regulatory framework for their profession and does not contradict or counter public health campaigns or messaging, such as the Australian COVID-19 Vaccination Policy.”

Do you see the problem? The ad is misleading and could lead to poor choices because the listener cannot get the objective advice the ad claims they can.

The government has exempted itself from being sued for future health damage from vaccines, and extended that exemption to vaccine manufacturers and doctors.

But is the radio station covered if it runs ads that get people thinking their doctors are allowed to be honest about a medical procedure that carries quantifiable risks?

Cardi
Qld
https://www.ahpra.gov.au/documents/default.aspx?record=WD21/30750&dbid=AP&chksum=fzAfcVE%2F5L%2BakgX%2BZZZ%2FqA%3D%3D
https://www.ahpra.gov.au/About-Ahpra/Who-We-Are.aspx
**

2. Email from the manager of Black Star Radio to me.
**

RE: Misleading advertisement
From: Candice Siedler-Twine – manager at qram dot com dot au
To: Cardi
Date: 06/09/2021

Hello Cardi

Hope this email finds you well.

Thanks very much for your feedback.

We will investigate this and if there is an issue, we will make appropriate amendments.

Kind Regards
Candice Siedler-Twine
A/General Manager

**
3. Email from me to the manager of Black Star Radio
**

RE: Misleading advertisement
From: Cardi
To: Candice Siedler-Twine – manager at qram dot com dot au
Date: 28/09/2021

G’day Candice

How’d you go with this matter?
I note that the ad was still playing on Saturday…

I’ve put in a Press Council complaint on editor Jennifer Spilsbury of the Cairns Post for also making this false claim about doctors’ advice.
Will you be withdrawing the false ad?
Or should I prepare a Press Council complaint about you, too?

Remember, if the vaccines have the side effects that 860,000* medicos are concerned about, Black Star is participating in a genocide against the indigenous people of Australia.
It would be worth your while to find 39 minutes to watch Dr Fuellmich speak on the “Summary of findings of the Corona Investigative Committee. 15 September 2021” – https://youtu.be/V2YZAnKeGmM

Cheers
Cardi

* https: // gbdeclaration .org/

calli
calli
September 28, 2021 7:48 am

Perhaps never getting back to “normal” has become a survival stragegy for Chant and her cronies.

If we ever got back to normal, she would be unable to walk down the street unmolested.

Mr Urine from Seven News had a taste of things to come at the Melbourne protests. It hasn’t quite dawned on the dumber “useful idiots” bust must have occurred to the smarter ones.

Joanna
Joanna
September 28, 2021 7:48 am

I received this message from a Melbourne Fernwood yesterday for outdoor PT sessions:

Following government regulations, we can train with groups of up to 5 people per session. In line with the government mandate, all participants need to be vaccinated and provide proof of double vaccination status to the trainer upon arrival.

Five people. Outdoors. Double vaxxed. They are positively insane. It will be interesting to see how an industry that already operates on tight margins is going to go when it loses 10-20% of their members.

They will be getting a ‘stick your membership’ from me.

calli
calli
September 28, 2021 7:49 am

bust = but

Must have been thinking about that horrid balloon popping.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 28, 2021 7:54 am

Mr Urine from Seven News had a taste of things to come at the Melbourne protests.

Not sure which one is Mr Urine since I don’t watch TV these days, but I’ve found Ms Urine.

A ‘shaman’ in California accused of igniting a wildfire claimed the blaze began by accident while she boiled bear urine to consume, according to the New York Post.

“Alexandra Souverneva, 30, faces up to nine years in prison for allegedly sparking the Fawn Fire, which has destroyed 41 homes and 90 smaller structures and is threatening 2,340 others, officials have said. She has pleaded not guilty,” the outlet stated Monday.

Only in California.

Indolent
Indolent
September 28, 2021 7:54 am

This clip of Dr. Ryan Cole on Twitter was posted under Mater’s item on Ivermectin but, just in case you haven’t seen it –

Cancer spikes following vaccination

Dr. Cole previously raised this possibility but he now seems to be getting the clinical proof.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
September 28, 2021 7:55 am

Farmer Gez. What they aren’t telling you is how much money is being offered to businesses and the Shire to be a trial. Knowing country folk don’t reckon too many will be willing participants.

Now on population ponzi news, shock horror Symonds predicts an Australian housing price collapse. Hasn’t he said that before? Anyway $200K shave off an $800K fibro 3 bed in somewhere like Hoxton Park rd would be a start:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10031227/IMF-issues-urgent-warning-Australian-house-price-crash-property-values-hit-record-highs.html

calli
calli
September 28, 2021 7:56 am

Paul Dowsley, Bruce.

The same charmer who hounded Cardinal Pell from Melbourne to Sydney upon his release. Because “News”.

Mater
September 28, 2021 8:01 am

From an interview on 10 Aug 21 with Professor Skerritt (Head of the TGA):

PETER STEFANOVIC:
Yeah, I mean, I would have just thought it’d be handy to have one at home like they do in America. If you wake up one morning and you’re feeling not too bad, you’ve got a slight sniffle, you know, and do it yourself, I would have thought that that would be okay.
JOHN SKERRITT:
Yeah, yeah. But, as I said, the challenges we have in Australia are these tests aren’t as reliable. So, they give you false positive and false negative answers. And we have to have a way of managing that, let’s say you get a positive test, you’re immediately taken off to have a PCR test, the gold standard, reliable test, or if you get a negative test, the message is clear that that doesn’t mean you’re negative forever.

There’s a fair bit to unpack in just this bit, but a couple of things jump out.

1. The PCR as a ‘Gold Standard’? I’m no expert on this aspect, but that’s not exactly what I’m hearing.

2. “you’re immediately taken off to have a PCR test”? WTF? Are they holding out on these rapid antigen testing until they are centrally linked to a monitoring system? Fuck! Who exactly turns up at your door and ‘takes’ you for further testing?

I’m sorry, Morrison might state that “If Professor Skerritt gives it the tick, then I’m happy to take the jab”, but the more I look, more dubious I become. So many personality cults going on at the one time, it’s hard to keep up.

Top Ender
Top Ender
September 28, 2021 8:01 am

We’re in Machans Beach, Rock Doctor. Nice and quiet on the waterfront.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
September 28, 2021 8:05 am

You have to laugh at Hamish, he even fucked up Q&A, that’s how bad he is.

I don’t understand it.

The ABC has repeatedly assured us that the reason they must pay their talking heads so much is because otherwise they would be poached by the private sector – yet when they venture out into the private sector it turns out they have little value.

Crossie
Crossie
September 28, 2021 8:08 am

calli says:
September 28, 2021 at 7:48 am
Perhaps never getting back to “normal” has become a survival stragegy for Chant and her cronies.

If we ever got back to normal, she would be unable to walk down the street unmolested.

Neither she nor Gladys will be able to go to any small business that took a huge hit without being booed. Waiters can also do a lot of things behind the scenes.

Indolent
Indolent
September 28, 2021 8:08 am

Biden Says 97% To 98% Of Americans Need To Be Vaccinated Before Returning To Normal
Could it be any clearer that they have no intention of EVER letting go of our strings?

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
September 28, 2021 8:09 am

The Israeli Green Pass is the dead canary telling us that vaccine passports have nothing to do with opening up businesses.
They ensure that all the planned booster jabs and whatever other emergency measures are forced upon the community without consultation or electoral approval.
Won’t be long before they announce a tax surcharge on the non compliant.

Dot
Dot
September 28, 2021 8:12 am

Dot, did you just upvote all my dumb comments because I told people to?

I upvote a lot of comments. I agree with most people here on most matters, perhaps more than you think.

Which makes contretemps hilarious, like a debate on MEMRI TV over the Iran Iraq War, or a Palestinian Municipal Council Election.

*By Allah, behave, or you will taste my shoe!”

lotocoti
lotocoti
September 28, 2021 8:13 am

Morten Morland. More here.

Such a pity it outshone Sweet Angie’s poignant tale of growing up so poor she once had Palmolive shaving foam on her jelly because her mum couldn’t afford to read.
Cos Fatcher or sumfink.

Dot
Dot
September 28, 2021 8:14 am

98% vaccinated.

Then quarterly shots, twice a day pills and the anal swabs.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
September 28, 2021 8:16 am

It’s fantastic that, no doubt, thanks to very high vaccination rates, Australia has a very low death rate from covid.
Oh Rosie, that’s a bit naive. The impressive- nay, miraculous! very low death rate is obviously a multifactorial miracle, and scrimping on any one of the myriad measures forced upon us by the lizard people might have made us all into soylent green by now. Have you forgotten? It was crucial to-
Flat panic stations, because chinee on the internet were obviously dropping dead in the street
Cease anyone entering any hospitals until we could build enough respirators to stop everyone dropping dead in the foyer
Cease anyone entering any hospitals until flatten the curve, because treating the taxpayers is obviously a bit confronting to the professionals
Put GP consults all onto “Zoom”, because why bother feeling feeling for lumps when proles might drop dead in the kitchen
Cancel elective surgeries, because who needs private health when there’s CHOs and YouTube giving us free and unbiased instructions… er advice
Close the international borders, because obviously any traveller other than chinese students was going to spread the plague and then drop dead on the street
Close state borders, because anyone other than truckies, sports players and A-listers were going to spread the wuhan wog and then drop dead on the street
Close transport, because the wicked virus can live for fourteen days on stainless steel surfaces
Close schools, because w spray-n-wiping everything saves kiddies from dropping dead while snogging behind the bike sheds
Enforce hotel quarantine, because the Dr Evil of viruses can remain airbourne for thirteen days, but not fourteen
Lance the sinuses of any sucker who fronts up, because sometimes you have to dig deep and keep the testing cycles above forty reps to find the slippery suckers
Take the temperature of everyone entering an aged care home or big box shop, because the invisible asymptomatic evasive virussy buggers can hide everywhere, but folk can hit 105.8*F and be blissfully unaware that they’re about to drop dead on the street, killing everyone they love too
Have paper facemasks loudly enforced by anyone with a proactively community-minded disposition, ie cops and Karens, because that one-size-fits-all blue paper snoutbag is DYNAMITE against nanoparticles
Have all the shoppers drench their hands in aloe and alchohol, because it turns out coronabugs is also just like the flu in some ways
Maintain a socialist distancing of a varying measure, between exactly 1.5, to 1.8, to 2 metres, not for the purposes of spacing out the proles for the facial recognition cameras, oh no, it’s actually because the flying virus of death has a limited effective kill range
Carefully winnowing between superspreader people- ie proles- and the officially approved, ie cops, actors, activists, who can actually travel freely and fearlessly, because righteous leftism actually stops transmission
Carefully winnowing between public events which actually spread awareness- like BLM all over the place- and those which spread the awful augue, like the “health “care”” “workers” in Edinburgh Gardens who were selflessly pariah’d by a ring of jacks.
Carefully outlawing the use of old faithful drugs like HCQ, Zn, ivermectin, and deregistering any med who might prescribe them, even giving pharmacists in Qld the right to refuse filling scrips if they thought they were a bit suss.
AND EVEN THEN rosie, we were all about to collapse in the street, but we were miraculously delivered from the sixth wave of corpses by the arrival of vaccines… months ago.
BUT LIKE GLENN CLOSE RISING FROM THE BATH we were all about to fall in a heap again, but luckily a CHO or something realised that a booster shot- ie, the same “vaccine” all over again- would definitely save our lives forever.
And we cannot rest!
Death Fest waves 7 through to 11 can only be averted by a THIRD BOOSTER
Lowering the age threshold to jab kids under 16, under 12, under 5, and in utero is the only way to bring the horrific rate of fatality down
A supervariant is definitley likely, if not inevitable, so our ONLY HOPE is throwing money at the pharmas and waving away all that bothersome liability and disclosure business, for ten years at least (30 in Is@el)

Honestly rosie
I mean I’m happy that you’re relaxed and comfortable, but you obviously haven’t been paying attention to how close-run this dance with death has been.

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 28, 2021 8:16 am

The Green-Left Weekly Radio (now Half )Hour switches seemlessly between climate Armageddon in the Nationals and electricity shortages in China. And then finds some Danish whakadoodle from a climate Ponds Institute to tell us they are not related.

We pay $1bn a year for this.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
September 28, 2021 8:19 am

Last night Paul Murray was touting a poll that said Tyrant Dan, Palacechook were in the 60s and Gladys in the 50s and that’s why there will be no end to lockdowns.

Paul Murray strikes me as someone who has a great appetite for indignation but without the patience to be discerning or reflective – greedily snatching at the nearest available thing. It just happens he works in Skah where occasionally he will sometimes encounter a non-progressive opinion first.

Dot
Dot
September 28, 2021 8:25 am

WOW.

H/T to the other poster.

1. Sydney Northern Beaches: up 33.8 per cent to $2,218,510

2. Richmond-Tweed, northern NSW: up 29.5 per cent to $808,348

3. Central Coast, NSW: up 29.4 per cent to $866,690

4. Baulkham Hills, Hawkesbury in Sydney’s north-west: up 28.5 per cent to $1,672,218

5. Southern Highlands, Shoalhaven: up 28.3 per cent to $795,339

6. Mornington Peninsula, Victoria: up 28.3 per cent to $854,275

7. Sunshine Coast, Queensland: up 27.6 per cent to $819,831

8. Coffs Harbour, Grafton in northern NSW: up 27.6 per cent to $621,146

9. Tasmania south-east: up 26.5 per cent to $523,699

10. Launceston and Tasmania’s north-east: up 26.3 per cent to $448,715

Source: CoreLogic, CommSec data for August 2021 for houses and units together

———————————————————

I have heard of regional places getting 45% in the past year, I believe Ganmain, NSW actually had over 15% in one quarter.

Nuts!

calli
calli
September 28, 2021 8:28 am

Wally Dali. You’ve made me soooo fwitened!

I’m going to book my shot now. No, not just one. No scrimping. I want value for money. One of each sort just to be sure. And forget biannual boosters. I want one every three weeks.

Otherwise I’ll drop dead on the street, but not before I’ve swamped the hospital system and killed all the neighbourhood dogs.

Baba
Baba
September 28, 2021 8:29 am

Top Endersays:
September 28, 2021 at 8:01 am
We’re in Machans Beach, Rock Doctor. Nice and quiet on the waterfront.

Machans used to be swampbilly country.

lotocoti
lotocoti
September 28, 2021 8:33 am

I don’t understand it.

Traditionally, their ABC is a haven for those looking for a WEB.
It’s also a significant addition to the CV if you’re angling for the big money in J’isming.
Ministerial Media Advisor.
Followed by a jump into the public service and that diamond encrusted gold ring –
XXX Department’s Director of Media Communications.

areff
areff
September 28, 2021 8:36 am

Was watching Alan Jones’ return to the screen last night when he kicked off with a monologue about early treatments for the Xi virus.

‘Ah’, I thought, ‘he’ll rabbit on about the ivermectin ban.’

But no, not a word.

I think we can assume the fix is in at Sky, as everywhere else.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
September 28, 2021 8:38 am

Easy there Calli. It’s all a bit of fun, but bring the dogs into this and I might get a bit John Wick on the subject…

struth
struth
September 28, 2021 8:39 am
H B Bear
H B Bear
September 28, 2021 8:41 am

A job at the ALPBC is like winning Journolotto. Market rates and a job for life (or a Quentin Dumpster long goodbye in your 70s). Ask La Tingle and Andwew Pwobyn.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
September 28, 2021 8:41 am

Won’t be long before they announce a tax surcharge on the non compliant.

Almost inevitable.
The script writes itself: “I make no apology for asking people to pay for the additional costs brought about by their decisions…

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
September 28, 2021 8:42 am

Australia’s PM Scott Morrison Might Skip U.N. Climate Summit

And as penance he will institute legislation that establishes that people are only allowed to draw every second breath. This will reduce CO2 emissions.

There will be exemptions for politicians, their staffers, and the public service because spending keeps the economy going and the people spending the country’s wealth are more important than the people who create it.

All around the country Karen’s will be confronting people who, when they do breath, do so with a bit of a gasp since they have been holding their breath, catching them on their iPhones and uploading the imagery along with their screeching.

When the temperature of the planet does not drop Morro (and his national cabinet) will tell us we must try harder and that we will be down to one breath in three until there is a 2 degree drop.

Cassie of Sydney
September 28, 2021 8:44 am

“I think we can assume the fix is in at Sky, as everywhere else.”

Yep…..and note Sky doesn’t have Craig Kelly on anymore….apart from Craig’s adverts for Palmer’s party.

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 28, 2021 8:44 am

Poor old Norman Swan. Trying to spruik vaccination and explain away the reality of the UK and Israel.

struth
struth
September 28, 2021 8:44 am

Sco Mo may not go, but the hundreds of Lanyard wearing Globalist surrender monkeys in our swamp that head off to these things will still go….to surrender officially a bit more to the globalists.

struth
struth
September 28, 2021 8:48 am

On the subject of Sky….they have been threatened and muzzled.
Not only was Jones interviewing scare mongering doctors, I noted he was struggling.
He was off for a knee operation.
He was struggling to get a breath last night.
He has been jabbed.
If I was Jones I’d be very very wary of what was done to him in hospital as well.
My prediction is he will not be around much longer.

Zipster
Zipster
September 28, 2021 8:52 am

How many clot shots are you prepared to take?

zero. One of me kids has lost his job for refusing the jab.

natural immunity is preferable. But it looks like you can get covid multiple times from talking to someone who has to travel through europe. He is still alive.

from the little research I did, I could be wrong but it looks like MERS bioweapon has an S2 spike not an S1 spike like SARS, I can’t find anything that suggests the current mRNA vax protects against S2.

Cassie of Sydney
September 28, 2021 8:52 am

“My prediction is he will not be around much longer.”

Really Nostrastruth?

Eyrie
Eyrie
September 28, 2021 8:54 am
Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
September 28, 2021 8:55 am

The ABC announces the fuel shortage in the UK is caused by Brexit.
The whole report about a lack of truck drivers and not a single mention of the impact of Covid on the free movement of transport and the endless health checks at borders for the the drivers. It’s a problem right across the EU, not just the UK.
The elephant is big and covered in pink spots but the narrative is blind.

Tom
Tom
September 28, 2021 8:58 am

Thanks, Duncanm, for the brilliant Leunig cartoon.

I leave him off my list of regular cartoon checks because, unlike his former colleague John Spooner, he’s not game to live outside the Fairfax-Nein loony left echo chamber – even though he is and always has been (especially back in the 1970s at Nation Review) a free thinker.

And, because he is surrounded by tribal zombies, he can’t talk with anyone at work about stuff that troubles him about the police state we’re now living in.

Of course, he didn’t even submit that cartoon for publication at The Age or the SMH because he knew they wouldn’t publish it as it violates tribal rules.

What a sad old hypocrite Leunig has become.

Roger
Roger
September 28, 2021 9:00 am

Setting aside the incident at the heart of this story, the details of which seem a bit murky, this has to be one of the unintentionally funniest news reports in recent times:

The self-described indigenous woman and activist pictured told a QLD Rail employee to “stop talking down to me with your white privilege.”

Naturally the ABC, ever one to divide Australia on “race”, is running with it.

No further comment.

Bushkid
Bushkid
September 28, 2021 9:02 am

Joanna says:
September 28, 2021 at 7:48 am
I received this message from a Melbourne Fernwood yesterday for outdoor PT sessions:

[…]

I wonder how some of those young people who might develop cardiomyopathy after being double jabbed will go in their exercise classes.

Zipster
Zipster
September 28, 2021 9:04 am

Thanks, Duncanm, for the brilliant Leunig cartoon.

he is about to be excommunicated by the church of woke

struth
struth
September 28, 2021 9:04 am

We can protest peacefully in our millions.
It will not free us.
It won’t even be reported on the MSM unless they can spin it in a negative light, as they did with the convoy.
The reality that is shocking to say, but someone needs to say it, is that now, the complete destruction of the west, and therefore the world, the death and ruin of billions of lives can only be saved by the removal of such a small number of people as to be warranted in any way it can occur.
We have just got to ask what our choices are if they refuse to be subject to a democractic process.
That’s what it boils down to.
We either rid mourselves of the globalists or they will have us turning on each other.
Their stated goals, Klaus says it himself, is to create chaos and misery, for people to rise up against their national governments and each other.
To take advantage of ensuing civil wars and national conflicts, so people turn to their only alternative which will of course be One world government (by these unelected psychpaths)
So few need to be “ousted from power” to save so many, as to be ridiculous.

struth
struth
September 28, 2021 9:06 am

“My prediction is he will not be around much longer.”

Really Nostrastruth?

Yep.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
September 28, 2021 9:08 am

ABC news now claiming the Trump administration had a plan to assassinate Julian Assange if he left the Ecuadorian embassy.
I’m sure it’s based on actual verifiable sources.

Roger
Roger
September 28, 2021 9:13 am

I’m sure it’s based on actual verifiable sources.

Another Sarah Ferguson exclusive in the works perhaps?

Rabz
September 28, 2021 9:13 am

Señor Dali, your post 8:16am at is a Tour de Force.

We have been played for suckers from the get go.

Never forget what they have stolen from us.

calli
calli
September 28, 2021 9:15 am

Roger, the photos tell it all.

Definitely discrimination.

Rabz
September 28, 2021 9:15 am

ABC news now claiming the Trump administration had a plan to assassinate Julian Assange if he left the Ecuadorian embassy.

First heard this last evening and thought I must have imagined it.

struth
struth
September 28, 2021 9:19 am
Mater
September 28, 2021 9:20 am

Bruce of WA,
If you are reading, and in regards to your ‘discussion’ with your wife, maybe ask her to read this.

From the Australian National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (funded by Government, so hardly biased against vaccinations):

Under-12s are increasingly catching COVID-19. How sick are they getting and when will we be able to vaccinate them?

Summary:
They are catching it, but are neither dying from it or suffering long term ill effects. The only reason to give them the vaccine is to potentially stop the oldies getting it and to stop governments fucking up their young lives and social development.

Top Ender
Top Ender
September 28, 2021 9:22 am

Hilarious!

The self-described indigenous woman and activist pictured told a QLD Rail employee to “stop talking down to me with your white privilege.

Note the “self-described”? Sooner or later even the ABC will balk at describing white people as black.

wivenhoe
wivenhoe
September 28, 2021 9:23 am

Roger, the photos tell it all.

Definitely discrimination.

Nothing suitable compensation payout can not fix.

jupes
jupes
September 28, 2021 9:24 am

A ‘shaman’ in California accused of igniting a wildfire claimed the blaze began by accident while she boiled bear urine to consume, according to the New York Post.

First question: How did she collect the urine?

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 28, 2021 9:25 am

This Parrot is dead.

Too soon?

Roger
Roger
September 28, 2021 9:25 am

Biden Says 97% To 98% Of Americans Need To Be Vaccinated Before Returning To Normal

Dr. Jeannette Young says “Hold my chardy…”

rickw
rickw
September 28, 2021 9:27 am

Anti mandatory vaccination trucking protest on its way to Melbourne Airport.

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 28, 2021 9:27 am

Chairman Dan says we can play golf again. He obviously not seen my drives. I’m rarely within 100m of anybody.

Indolent
Indolent
September 28, 2021 9:28 am

I wonder how some of those young people who might develop cardiomyopathy after being double jabbed will go in their exercise classes.

I was thinking exactly that but hesitated to say it.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
September 28, 2021 9:31 am

Is Leunig really off the Koolaid?
Wonders never cease…..

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 28, 2021 9:32 am

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Rockdoctorsays:

September 28, 2021 at 7:55 am

Farmer Gez. What they aren’t telling you is how much money is being offered to businesses and the Shire to be a trial. Knowing country folk don’t reckon too many will be willing participants.

I would say zero.
The mayor of one of these towns was on 3AW yesterday saying they found out about an hour beforehand and had to watch it on telly like everyone else to figure out what was going on.
I suspect this is the state system being replicated at local level. That is, regional ‘elf officers will be making all the decisions and democracy will take a seat on the bench.
It also provides massive rivers of gold for the Cert III TAFE accreditation industry.
Training in recognising vax passports, telling the great unwashed fuck off, and how to liquidate a business when it goes broke.

Rabz
September 28, 2021 9:32 am

How did she collect the (Bear) urine?

I’ve heard of taking the piss, but that is ridiculous.

Roger
Roger
September 28, 2021 9:33 am

Sooner or later even the ABC will balk at describing white people as black.

Before or after they stop referring to trans males as women?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 28, 2021 9:33 am

Gez – It turns out the truck driver shortage is because the UK government made a regulations change that penalizes agency or contract drivers, it looks like.

‘It’s NOT Brexit!’ Raging lorry driver reveals REAL reason for UK petrol crisis (28 Sep)

HGV driver Paul from Sutton called in to speak to Naga Munchetty on BBC Radio 5 live to reflect on the current driver shortages and in turn petrol crisis facing the UK. He argued that Brexit was not the reason the country was currently facing a crisis. The caller claimed that it was rather the IR35 reform was the root cause.

He said the exodus of drivers was due to the Government taking away limited companies and European drivers then choosing to return to their European countries because of it.

The caller said: “The one thing that I wanted to mention is that this mass exodus of drivers, this never happened with Brexit.

“We still had all the drivers, there was no loss.

“This happened when the Government decided to take limited companies away.

“I know quite a few drivers where I’ve worked in the agency area all the time.

“They have gone home with bounce back loans that everybody else has got to pay for and it is all guaranteed by the Government.

“Why would you want to come back? You have got pay PAYE like any other limited company and it is a no brainer.”

I don’t understand exactly what he means by limited companies, but it seems pretty clear from a search that the IR35 “reform” would be just the sort of thing to cause something like this. Never underestimate the government’s ability to cock things up.

Dot
Dot
September 28, 2021 9:34 am

Of course, he didn’t even submit that cartoon for publication at The Age or the SMH because he knew they wouldn’t publish it as it violates tribal rules.

What a sad old hypocrite Leunig has become.

I am not sure how that makes him a hypocrite.

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 28, 2021 9:34 am

How did she collect the (Bear) urine?

I’d rather not talk about it.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
September 28, 2021 9:34 am

I’m sorry, Morrison might state that “If Professor Skerritt gives it the tick, then I’m happy to take the jab”

What does Morrison’s decisions mean to me? Is he infallible? Is he a genius? Am I to assume that I cannot make wiser choices than him on various topics?

At some point in his past Morrison made a decision not to become a plumber, or a computer programmer, or an engineer, or an epsilon minus semi-moron elevator operator (a natural fit if every I saw one), but instead to become a politician.

As I have remarked before, I find the idea of choosing to become a politician a very strange one. Look at the reasons people go into careers. Doctors and nurses want to cure the sick. Engineers want to build things that people will use. Teachers will often start out wanting to nurture children. A carpenter might find he has a flair for working with wood and gains satisfaction getting things right. In return they enjoy the pay which they can spend on themselves when they are young and the families when they are older. This is happening all around us every day and you hardly notice because it is something people are content to keep to themselves and those around them. The accountant across the hallway has no interest in demanding what I do with my money, and the nurse downstairs is not demanding to go through and stock my medicine cabinet.

But a politician? What draws them in. There have been the occasional person who has entered politics to trying to tame the beast, such as Trump. He had ego in spades but it did not feed on power. For the most part these are people who think they can manage you, me, or us to some dimly glimpsed end that it not ours. What sort of a flawed person would you have to be?

There is the saying that people who want power should by no means ever be given it. Well we are a bit stuck because the vast majority of people who do not want power are not putting their hands up. So instead we put restraints on those in power, and in the last resort we make them to re-apply for the job every three or four years.

But they have used this ’emergency’ to suspend restraint which it turns out has become the time they need to be restrained the most. It is like drawing a circle with a compass – at the centre is their small selves with almost no dimensions at all, and the arc drawn by the pencil describes their ambition. But what they also create is area inside the circle, all that empty space which dwarves substance of the outline and the centre point – their insecurities. They know they are small but that they talk big, so they lie, deal, cajole, coerce, obfuscate, delegate, and as we now see turn the brute force of the state upon us to stop anyone saying “No, I think I will go this way.”

Scum. The lot of them.

Cassie of Sydney
September 28, 2021 9:35 am

“struthsays:
September 28, 2021 at 9:06 am
“My prediction is he will not be around much longer.”

Really Nostrastruth?

Yep.”

I think he’ll return to radio.

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 28, 2021 9:36 am

I am not sure how that makes him a hypocrite.

Maybe he’s not cashing his paycheques?

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