Putin made clear what needed to be accepted at a minimum to get negotiations going.
Open Thread- Monday 27 Sept 2021
- The more you gets the less you eats
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- From darkness to the promise of light
But who is leading the Euro ‘Lefties’ here? The US. Oh, but the US is lead by ‘the Lefty’ Biden.…
What’s the bet that the cows will all start dying or be sterile? Gates and Bezos want to kill all…
Just in case anyone still thinks that COP29 was anything other than a grievancefest and international platform for humbuggery: ‘Protect…
I don’t know if anyone linked to this earlier, but here’s a really good account of the hole the UK…
In No Chloe, You Can’t Have a New iPhone for Christmas news:
Power shortages in China hit homes and factories prompting global supply fears
Central planning is a wonderful thing.
Particularly in China, where nobody is game to say ‘Hold on, think about it, that’s not going to work…’
Bern
Wasn’t coal around 70 bucks a ton for the longest time?
WTF!
Smoke float to mark they found
submarinea whale smoking a bongI love the self-inflicted wounds. 😀
Millions Of Chinese Residents Lose Power After Widespread, “Unexpected” Blackouts; Power Company Warns This Is “New Normal” (27 Sep)
I suspect the Olympics and Climapalooza excuses are squirrels, and that the real reason is the exquisite financial pain of paying $200/t for thermal coal (which implies a $200/MWh wholesale electricity price, since the rule of thumb is one tonne = one megawatt-hour). The price would immediately halve if Xi relented on punishing naughty Wuhan-fingering Aussie class-enemies, but he can’t do it without enormous loss of face. Which he can’t afford. It’s fun to see a guy like Xi faceplant so abjectly.
Meanwhile we’ll just sell them coal through intermediaries. So what if we only get $180 a tonne?
I am not sure why we would be laughing at that.
Quite simple really, the western governments either strongly believe or know that Covid-19 got out of Wuhan before it was ready and that China is about to have a deadlier virus ready to go. Why else is China making war sounds? Why else is ScoMo anti CCP and has been for a while now? However, nobody can openly accuse CCP on present evidence.
Zipster:
So in the contest between the ballot box and the bullet box, which has emerged as the only logical outcome?
Too many real-life parallels.
Might worry people.
44.46% of all NSW kids 12-15 have had one shot.
Who are these parents?
Fucking Mongs. If there are serious side effects to these vaccines, particularly around reproduction. This is going to be the greatest gene pool clean up ever. The NWO is only going to have grumpy, angry, dangerous contrarian bastards to deal with.
The warning about Soma becomes Soma.
Bern, brucie
Coking coal is $500 bucks a ton? WTF?
JCsays:
September 28, 2021 at 4:51 pm
On the subject of the Gools.
A few years ago, he came onto the Cat complaining about a diabolical headache brought on by a brain tumor. He didn’t exactly say, but he made out his time above ground was limited and lots of people said they’re goodbyes to him. He’s still around, meaning he must have had a miraculous remission.
Or he is a lying prick?>
My compliments, JC.
Am in the library with a copy of Jayne’s Massey Fergusons in the Battle of the Somme.
S’lainte. Sorry, that was a bit slurred.
The memsahib is chopping a bit of firewood.
How have you been ?
Remember, the family warcry heard in knock shops all over the world: ‘Wha’s better than us …… something something none other …. something something something…..’
Yes, that BHP dividend was damn fine.
Zipster:
Isn’t that the Panadol OD reversal agent?
….
Actually, yes it is.
Is there a surge of Paracetamol ODs in the US?
Hard to beat Max von Sydow in any role!
Dr F
Particularly in China, where nobody is game to say ‘Hold on, think about it, that’s not going to work…’
And who in the west is prepared to say ‘Hold on, think about it, that’s not going to work…’? Not too bloody many of our grate “leaders”.
I remain the only person I personally know to have had Covid, and at least half a dozen of my friends confirm that I am the only person they know to have had Covid.
And as with feelthebern’s mate, I caught it in hospital.
Any yes, anticipating Struth, I don’t really know if I had covid. I was relying entirely on what the hospital med staff told me, following a test I had had that morning.
Sancho – It’s slightly tough to avoid schadenfreude when a guy and his country has inflicted several million deaths upon the rest of use, as well as extremely painful economic consequences. If communists can’t understand free market economics that’s their worry.
Maybe the people in those cities could tell their Party leaders to take it up with their boss.
I see Gladys Andrews is talking shit to Kenny on Sky.
Btw nice Mr Xi has been severely persecuting Chinese Christians. I hope he repents, or he might just find out what thermal coal feels like in the hell of a combustion chamber.
Not that anyone will listen, but the intent by globalists is to cause Chaos through civil wars and normal wars, turn people against each other wherever possible.
The CCC radio…at least listen to WEF graduate, Boris Johnson who for some reason, believes getting rid of cash with everything else is top priority.
They are using Covid and Climate and soon it will be much more climate, to introduce crushing tyranny.
Listening to WEF radio is sickening if you are sane. These people are just brain dead fucktards with nothing but the ability to parrot nonsense, and it goes on.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/413DMlJPeANIYduSmbv7HI?go=1&sp_cid=f04ac0f490a17c3748f1529a7ad19850&t=120&utm_source=embed_player_p&utm_medium=desktop&dl_branch=1&nd=1 here. Radio Davos. Make sure you have a drink in your hand.
That’s something about our current debacle that really frustrates me. We pray for and send money and resources to Chinese Christians who are being punished in all sorts of ways, including via the social credit system.
And now, here in this country, some Christians are flirting with adopting a social credit system at the church door. They should be fleeing it and rejecting it, but are mumbling about “submission to authority”.
Good summary of wind power, an oxymoron:
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=4563422990389459&set=g.241426845941348
farting cows.
Probably dropped a smoke flare into the water to do some training around. Maybe a rescue drill or similar.
On that note, I can’t resist.
😀
Arthur Andersen ugly? Arthur who?
Submission to authority is indeed part of the Christian ethos. But when St Paul exhorts Christians to be subject to the governing authorities it should be noted that he has in mind an authority which upholds and rewards good conduct and punishes what is evil. There is hardly a government in the Western world which meets those criteria presently; indeed, in many jurisdictions the opposite increasingly applies. That doesn’t mean Christians can wantonly disregard authority, but it does mean that we need to exercise discernment and have the courage to disobey government mandates that subvert the purpose of the church. The ‘Confessing Christians’ of 1930s-40s Germany provide some guidance here. Our ultimate submission is to the Triune God, not man.
Zipster:
There are many, many novels on the release of a biological agent.
I may have read most of them.
Airports, bus stations, railway stations – especially underground ones, anywhere people are confined in air conditioning.
The possibilities are almost endless.
But remember that an ineffective bioweapon is also a very effective psychological weapon, as we’ve seen with the Wuhan Zombie Virus.
racist insanity.
Since Milley will be giving the CCP a heads-up then China has already won the war. Preparing in the Pacific is completely pointless. I’ll believe the Yanks are serious when Milley is jailed.
I read today that methane is now 81 times worse than CO2, up from 15 times they’ve always claimed. Amazing how physics and chemistry works. By 2030 methane will be a thousand times worse than CO2. It’s inflationary flatulence is what it is.
Ronnie Barker – Mispronunciation Sketch
Leunig’s tank-man wasn’t a one-off.
Indeed not, there are some quality works in the old guy’s recent output.
Better late than never – good on him!
Bruce of Newcastle says:
It’s inflationary flatulence is what it is.
It’ll blow over soon, Bruce.
I’ll believe the Yanks are serious when Milley is jailed.
They’re serious when they shoot him.
“Muddysays:
September 28, 2021 at 6:21 pm
Ronnie Barker – Mispronunciation Sketch”
Ronnie Barker was a genius. I still love Porridge.
WHY I AM A CONSPIRACY THEORIST
by Hans Boersma
9 . 27 . 21
The truth is, we don’t get to choose our issues. Vaccine passports are becoming commonplace, and we cannot avoid making up our minds. They are a dangerous step toward the imposition of a social credit system. Such an imposition is all the more likely considering the rapid disintegration of shared moral horizons, which would inhibit rulers and nations from demanding compliance to more egregious demands in the future. At the very least we must be alert to the conspiratorial origins of vaccine passports.
Arthur who?
King of the Britons
Who are the Britons?
Monty Python has a lot to answer for.
Ronnie Barker was a genius.
Streets ahead of Ronnie Corbett.
Daily Mail.
Head and shoulders above him, I’d say.
A propos of nothing, but there is something of a link between the featured Mc Cubbin Bush Burial and the also earlier featured Millet Angelus (?) insofar as Salvador Dali always held that the Angelus was a burial scene of an infant. I think some later analyses of the Millet revealed that a container of sorts – buried in the field where the two adults were praying – had been painted over in the Angelus. Dali himself painted many version of the Millet.
“Barking Toadsays:
September 28, 2021 at 6:33 pm
Ronnie Barker was a genius.
Streets ahead of Ronnie Corbett.”
Without a doubt.
Head and shoulders above him, I’d say.
Lovely darts Roger
My compliments too, Jorge. 🙂
Just a small correction. The Messerschmitt was built in Rotterdam.
Once the passport is in, they are going for your cash, and so, basically your job won’t matter anymore.
What they have planned for us is horrifying and it all, ALL only possible by introducing the social credit scheme.
You are allowing a permission system to live by submitting to it.
And you will be constantly seeking permission to actually just live.
You may have a job because you submitted and took the jab, but it won’t make you any better off, because you won’t own anything, and your purchases will only be able to be made not on a wealth basis, but on a carbon/climate basis, and without cash, you’ll only be able to purchase what they permit.
Losing your job by resisting this will in the long run, be the best thing you could do, because complying, if enough do it, will bring in a system where you won’t own anything that the jobless don’t own anyway.
Funny, freedom,……….. see the goal posts have already moved.
That’s a memory.
Now it’s comply and let them introduce a social credit scheme or you can’t keep your job.
Remember when people contemplated getting the jab so they could fly internationally?
And now they tell you that you will be going………some time in the future, …of course only once you are jabbed, BUT HOW WILL THEY KNOW THAT?
They are bringing in a system of world wide poverty and enslavement, death and misery and keeping your job is pointless if it means complying with a passport.
They are closing hospitals and sacking nurses, and pushing as hard as they can.
Too much pushback, some of them back off for a bit.
Dan Andrews prides himself in not doing so.
Either way, they are going to keep pushing.
Do you really believe the construction industry won’t need a jab?
You’ll be getting into a restaurant unjabbed after December in NSW?
They haven’t won everywhere, but Australia, like Britain, is front line.
People think they are getting freedoms back.
My god.
It’s nearly summer and they know they can’t hold millions of people down in good weather.
They have to be seen to be giving what would be taken if they didn’t.
That is all.
We are the scum who are killing the planet.
Socialist know who did this.
Bloody white people with their industry and civilisation and markets and wealth……..look what we made them do.
They have to kill us to save others.
Insane evil is upon us.
You won’t be eating meat, you won’t be drinking coffee, you’ll be eating bugs, no matter you kept your job by submitting.
Hopefully you heard that cash must be done away with for the sake of saving the planet…..these people are truly insane.
And they are in power.
Yes, isn’t it
I couldn’t find the graph I saw yesterday but this says the same thing. Their cases and deaths have taken off they started administering the third jab. There are also serious protests now as people start to understand what is happening.
Worked superbly as a duo. Like Abbott and Costello (not the pollies).
The Two Ronnies were staple TV for us, along with Dave Allen at Large.
Real comedy is now impossible, sadly.
They don’t hate our freedoms. They don’t want to be like us. We based global policy and American lives on finding a handful of Afghan women who wanted to wear mini skirts when the bulk of them simply wanted to be left alone. The lesson was always obvious; earlier, they didn’t want to be British, either.
The always worth reading Peter Van Buren on the folly of Afghanistan.
Sad story, sfw. There is this vid doing the rounds.
Can’t attest to it’ validity.
BoN
Dave Allen with a fag and a glass of scotch.
Beautiful comedy.
Point is accurate.
However there is no such thing as a Fair Work “Judge”.
No legal skills, training, or background is required to become a Fair Work Commissioner.
This is painfully obvious to anyone who has read a decision by the FWC, or has been involved in even one case at the FWC.
Victorian hospitalisations
Steptoe & Son, Dad’s Army, Fawlty Towers, The Good Life.
It was a golden era of TV comedy.
“It Ain’t Half Hot, Mum.”
“Meet the Wife” with Thora Hird. (Probably Repeats).
We never missed an episode.
BTW mentioned in one of the Beatles songs.
A majority of likely voters believe the radical left is using the Chinese coronavirus pandemic as a “Trojan horse for permanent socialism,” a Rasmussen Reports survey released Monday found.
Watch The Death of Stalin. One of the funniest political satires ever produced.
A Kangaroo Court with actual kangaroos. I’m surprised Gillard didn’t appoint Thommo to it. If she had the numbers and a 2nd term, who knows?
Dave Allen at his finest…..
From the old dead thread. Sorry been out, missed the turn over –
“struthsays:
September 28, 2021 at 11:18 am
The church of government, (communism)
https://twitter.com/GraduatedBen/status/1442604025954799618 ”
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SSPX SPARKS CIVIL WAR OVER VACCINE PASSPORTS
NEWS: WORLD NEWS
by Jules Gomes • ChurchMilitant.com • September 27, 2021 66 Comments
Traditionalists slam Latin Mass body for sanitizing abortion-tainted jabs
https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/trads-slam-sspx-for-sanitizing-fetal-cell-jab
Yes, very real, and it isn’t just a ‘blip’ in the communities that call themselves “God Fearing” or even Christian.
There’s a reason I’ve posted the clip of the Human Sacrifice scene from, “Apocalypto“, along with other news of Official normalisations of the diabolical.
This short from Tim Pool, is about the religion of the Cartels & other Mexicans being the continuation of that most bloody religion of the Aztecs, and that in has come out of Mexico & is now practiced in America.
Former Mexican Law Enforcement Describes Occult Leanings In Mexico And How They Affect The Cartel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY2xzw3sj6k
Sep 27, 2021
Timcast IRL
Meanwhile Francis revers the Amazonian ‘goddess’ Pachamama while opening The Church to giving unrepentant abortion industry investors the Eucharist & not opening churches to the faithful.
The world is suffering for want of Good Shepherds to not only lead the flocks but also to fight off the wolves that have grown in number, strength & hunger.
Comedy.
And let’s not forget Dr Sir Leslie Colin Patterson.
And his research assistants – the Lesettes.
His tome, The Traveller’s Tool, set the standard for travelouges.
Bruce of Newcastle says:
September 28, 2021 at 6:21 pm
“…farting cows…methane…”
Is there a word for demonisation of animals (panisation?)? I get the impression there is a bit too much blaming of cows going on when methane is concerned. Undoubtedly part of creating the market and demand for the insect based, broccoli/ prawn/ marzipan/ ice-cream flavor food cube marketing (or such like).
I have never seen anything written in the Australian press about the melting permafrost in the Arctic/ Siberia releasing a whole lot of methane. My understanding is ending red meat farming tomorrow would have not change much at all longer term.
However it is hard to take stuff like this very seriously as a read of the abstract will elucidate:
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/21/e2100163118
“There is an urgent need to incorporate the latest science on carbon emissions from permafrost thaw and northern wildfires into international consideration of how much more aggressively societal emissions must be reduced to address the global climate crisis.”
Nothing like a good bit of propaganda. Nothing to do with any natural process of course.
It is interesting how little snippets of seemingly unrelated, yet to be fully exploited “scare the masses material” show up . Scroll down a bit on this link and would you believe, some climatology/ wildlife people in between drilling ice cores and the like, had the time to go looking for :
“Four ancient viruses have been uncovered in previously frozen soil since 2004.”
https://arcticwwf.org/newsroom/the-circle/arctic-tipping-point/thawing-permafrost/
“Sorry been out, missed the turn over –”
You’re never missed Nong.
Did the Aztecs cook pizzas?
No the Aztecs made and cooked tacos!
Watts applauds BJ:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/09/26/aussie-deputy-pm-hilights-britains-climate-policy-energy-crisis/
Anyone would be better then boris and his greenie sprag.
My compliments, Rones. That’s so funny and you’re even funnier. My compliments.
“Watch The Death of Stalin. One of the funniest political satires ever produced.”
It’s superb.
..
Leunig is more often right than wrong, and may well have been right about things which I was wrong about.
Also, the dude is a genius.
fuck. I read that as four ancient virtues before I corrected myself.
Timcast IRL – National Guard Will Replace Nurses Fired For Refusing Vaccine Mandate w/Robert Murphy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6DLT9MHO4M
In global warming/climate change news…. They are letting water out of the Upper Yarra dam(the headwaters of the Yarra) In anticipation of more rain to come. Locals in Warburton have seen the river rise a couple of feet without an actual rain event. Big rains a comin
Timcast IRL – National Guard Will Replace Nurses Fired For Refusing Vaccine Mandate w/Robert Murphy
The CORRECT Link – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFHFjDNTu74
Sorry, the first link I posted, the one below, is the wrong link.
YouTube is getting very fast with playing the next video now if you don’t click on the ‘replay’, even though they don’t play them once, just load them after waiting forever –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6DLT9MHO4M
HD – Methane is harmless since it absorbs IR on the same wavelengths as liquid water.
The water evaporates and locks the energy as “latent heat of vaporization” until the now gaseous water molecules diffuse and convect to the high troposphere, where they condense to form clouds and release the energy to space, above most of the CO2 and methane in the air column below.
The climateers seem to ignore liquid water despite it covering three quarters of the planet (plus all the soil moisture on most of the land masses).
BIDEN & BERGOGLIO: Even Black Lives Matter Has Had Enough
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=389BEjIgpMc
Premiered 9 hours ago
TheRemnantVideo
Michael Matt explains how the Build Back Better sabotage of America is directly impacting deliveries and construction work on the new RTV studio project. Lumber, supplies, even food is in short supply all across the country, as some 70 cargo ships off the coast of California are not allowed to unload their cargo.
What’s going on?
Michael argues that we’re witnessing the intentionally orchestrated collapse the U.S. economy, which includes wrecking small business (because it provides independence from government), paying Americans not to work, opening the borders and — last but not least — putting a total buffoon in the Oval Office.
If they’re going to “build back better,” our globalist friends first have to destroy everything in this country…including the once greatest healthcare system in the world. If you don’t think this is intentional, you need to watch this video.
Meanwhile, Pope Francis provides the moral authority for the whole sick and twisted project, taking it upon himself to mandate vaccines, encourage the Great Reset, and now condemn Catholic media groups such as EWTN as the “work of the Devil.”
The good news? Resistance is working. From Croatia to Mississippi and from Florida to Romania the people are fighting back. Finally! And Monica Smit got released from prison down in Australia this week, proving that resistance is NOT futile at ANY level.
Lots of good stuff in this one, including Michael’s contention that the greatest champion of the Unite the Clans movement in the world today is, incredibly, Pope Francis. Why? Watch and see.
2 things –
Slow motion of fake jab.
Incoming flights.
Comments worth scanning over.
Might be a bit late.
No idea what’s going on re flights and such but a fair bit of unusual fighter jet activity on Old Coast and emergency services putting their sirens on willy nilly despite there being lower than normal traffic.
Tacos are bent pizzas.
The Aztecs don’t seem to’ve had cheese though.
Poor bastards.
“Bruce of Newcastlesays:
September 28, 2021 at 7:54 pm
No the Aztecs made and cooked tacos!
Tacos are bent pizzas.
The Aztecs don’t seem to’ve had cheese though.
Poor bastards.”
No… but they had human flesh.
““Four ancient viruses have been uncovered in previously frozen soil since 2004.””
I remember reading about this…”Six unearthed bodies yield clues to 1918 Spanish influenza outbreak; Frozen corpses found in Norwegian Arctic help scientists study virus”
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1999-11-18-9911180290-story.html
Rockdoctor
It’s not going to happen.
Just been in communication with a mate down there, one I thought would be 100% against all this shit and be pushing back.
Alas he’s taken the “rosie approach”.
Quote: I really don’t care any more as long as they open shit up.
Floored me a bit.
Srr
The solution to fired unvaxed will be imports. NSW already is sacking, education union flippantly had an Antoinette moment stating they would be replaced from people overseas.
Well, we’ve motored on up to Cape Tribulation. Now staying in a donger by the sea – all very green and solar powered (so it says) and so on.
Had to pay $40 return to cross the Daintree river, and before that Mrs TE insisted we go into Mossman Gorge. $12 each basically for a bus ride up to the gorge. Fairly spectacular.
For only $82.50 we could however have had a guided indigenous walk, where we would have been told what bits of tree we could eat and so on. No thank you. I notice most of the place names we’re driving past have alternative unpronounceable and forgettable names now too.
For my troubles Mrs TE had promised we can go to a local cafe where they do the full breakfast tomorrow morning. Bacon solves all.
Cheers Gez, speachless I am. LOL am taking Wycheproof obviously isn’t Clermont Qld.
“has promised…”
What’s all this then?
Being accused of this and that again that I never said again.?
I said I could live with a vaccine pathway out of the stalemated zero covid in Victoria, I also in several separate comments said opportunity to vaccinate would suffice.
Which incidently pretty much what ended up being official ldp policy which I endorses.
My view re a vaccinate pathway never extended to vaccine passports or mandated vaccines
ldp policy here.
Seems to me like some people here are angry vaccine passports aren’t permanent, because it seems like they like to be perpetually angry.
Im sure we’ll revisit the ‘vaccine death toll’ again and again as those ‘excess deaths’ start mounting up, or not.
Cassie – I’ve always been on the side of Cortés. Bit feral though.
Leunig’s best cartoon:
https://me.me/i/cartoon-by-great-australian-cartoonist-michael-leunig-that-i-thought-8ca0d1ac10bd4442800d3ffbabe5e440
I still think he on the woke side of weird.
Srr a non Catholic seems to be very very committed to critising the Catholic church.
Sadly I doubt all that effort will lead to a single defection amongst the practicing Catholic readers of this forum to whatever wacky group of heretics she belongs.
“Bruce of Newcastlesays:
September 28, 2021 at 8:13 pm
Cassie – I’ve always been on the side of Cortés. Bit feral though.”
As have I and that was the scene at the end of Apocalypto…..the boat showing the Spanish arriving. Cortes was aided and abetted by rival tribes of the Aztecs who were sick and tired of the Aztec’s thirst for blood.
Just blundered onto a Village Voice piece* about a 2020 Bob Gruen rock photography book. Here’s two fantastic photos from it:
Debby Harry at Coney Island
The Ramones on a Subway platform
*I first read a different piece about Mamet’s wandering off the collectivist reservation well over a decade ago. Fantastic stuff – I remember a quote along the lines of “My liberal friends kept telling me conservatives were monsters, yet all the conservatives I knew were decent down to earth people, something just wasn’t right”.
Thank you for the reminder, Barking:
Sir Les Patterson
The Unofficial Webshite
The Traveller’s Tool
When Sir Les Patterson at last agreed to wet his nib and set down on paper his guide for the modern man on the move he made his intention very clear:
“I’m a man’s man and I call a spade a spade, so if you’re a blue-nosed wowzer, a raving pillow-biter or a loony old lezzo with a face like a half-sucked mango, I’d chuck this book away now because in the pages that follow I employ the direct, no-holds-barred lingo of a serious Australian diplomat at the top of his profession and the height of his sexual powers.”
In The Traveller’s Tool Australia’s most articulate high-flyer lays bare the international life-style as he has lived it. The book is not only packed with practical advice, but is also, in Sir Les’s own words, ‘as funny as buggery’.
Sex Down Under – What a Red-Blooded Bloke Might Come Up Against is a self-explanatory chapter title typical of Sir Les’s state-of-the-art approach to matters that the majority of readers will have in hand as they fondle the raunchy reading material.
The book includes advice on drinking (“I’ve got full on everything in the alcoholic alphabet from Advocaat to Zambucca, no worries”) and some tips for the married man (how to keep the wife off the scent). Sir Les’s Blue Guide to his favourite hot-spots around the globe will fill a gap felt by every randy, high-profile world traveller and Sexual Abuse in the Work-place – A Buyer’s Guide examines one of today’s burning social issues.
The Australian Tongue – How and Where to Use It is a guide to contemporary Oz-speak from Abo to Zipper-ripper for visitors to Sir Les’s beloved, wide-brown continent. Readers will find a large appendage at the back of the book which includes jokes for every occasion and Sir Les’s all purpose speech which will stand on in good stead whether accepting the Americas Cup or categorically denying scurrilous, tasteless and baseless allegations of corruption at the highest level.
The Traveller’s Tool is an up-market man’s man’s manual which will find its place next to the Nivea on every executive’s bedside table.
The Author
Wit, sage, raconteur, late Cultural Attaché to the Court of St James; Sir Les Patterson is all these – and more. Millions of people around the world have enjoyed Sir Les’s stage and television appearances with Dame Edna Everage and men everywhere hope to emulate his raunchy, no-holds-barred life-style. Sir Les Patterson is a career diplomat whose present role as Chairperson of the Australian Chapter of the International Cheese Board takes him all over the globe. He and Lady Patterson (former hand model, Gwen Dolan) have two children, Craig and Karen.
Attention music lovers everywhere. Les Patterson, the thinking man’s Leonard Cohen, has laid down twelve inches of hot tracks including, “Give Her One For Christmas”, “My Motel Mini-Bar” and “Never Trust A Man Who Doesn’t Drink”.
Now available at all up-market record shops.
You’ll enjoy the RoyalSoc paper from which this brain fart emerges.
One of the many sins of methane is that it deposits H2O in the high atmosphere when it oxidises. Apparently it’s not otherwise possible for water vapour to be there clogging up the spectrum.
(Oh, and it’s 86x worse than CO2, not 81x – according to the UK Earth System Model.)
From memory, when Sir Les Patterson made his debut, there were complaints made as to what this oaf was doing as the “Cultural Attache to the Court of St James” from those who didn’t see the joke..
Time for ADF chief Angus Campbell to go before he’s pushed
Ross Eastgate – The Spectator
Defence Minister Peter Dutton has never shirked from hard decisions, and for the first time in some years a minister has the temerity to ask the searching questions of the ADF uniformed hierarchy and make contrary decisions to theirs.
It seems, like a certain other politician, they don’t like it.
Dutton is a canny politician who has never been shy about upsetting some community interests when he believes his instincts are better than theirs.
Like the canny copper he once was, he knows when push comes to shove, you only get one opportunity to prosecute a successful outcome. He gathers and assesses the evidence, often in this case a brief prepared by trusted staff, weighs the pros and cons, then acts.
It seems his determination to overturn some decisions made by the CDF Angus Campbell have annoyed some of Campbell’s close associates, not to say the general himself, who some Canberra insiders are now describing as a “lame duck”. Among those contentious issues creating friction are Dutton’s directive the Meritorious Unit Citation awarded to 2 Squadron SAS not be rescinded.
He also seems determined to prevent Campbell’s inner circle from controlling the agenda to reorganise the SAS following allegedly adverse recommendations in the heavily redacted Brereton report, exact details of which are known only be a select few.
Criticism from some in the ex-ADF community that Dutton’s interference in Campbell’s decision making is undermining Campbell’s authority begs the question, what authority Campbell has left? Not to mention credibility.
Informed insiders also claim Campbell has lost the confidence of many ADF personnel by appearing not to accept responsibility for alleged actions that clearly occurred on his immediate watch in numerous command positions in Australia and overseas.
Low morale is hard to quantify but anecdotal evidence of individuals either resigning from the ADF or refusing further service suggests all is not well.
Figures from the SAS suggest the equivalent of a whole operational squadron has simply walked away, losses of specialised personnel neither the SAS nor the wider ADF can continue to absorb without loss of some serious capability.
Even the Australian Defence Association’s Neil James challenged whether it was appropriate for the minister to overturn decisions made by the CDF.
Dutton’s unequivocal response has been as minister he has that right because ultimately the buck stops with him.
Having lost the minister’s trust, Campbell should now walk before he is pushed.
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Ross Eastgate OAM is a graduate of the Royal Military College Duntroon and military historian who writes a weekly column on defence issues and blogs at Targets Down.
A train platform to be precise ( I think). I don’t believe the subway extends out that far. Forrest Hills is in Queens (so uncool even then). Trump hails from Forrest Hills
Rones, you haven’t mentioned Whitlam for an entire week. What’s wrong?
Now, when even the most trusting & stodgy are admitting just how many Conspiracy ‘Theories’ turned out to be Actual Conspiracies, watch out for those who’ve become even more bitterly angry at people who did forewarn of things like Govt taking over & changing the contents of your electronic communications.
That isn’t the behaviour of those who care about truth & the ability of people to make informed decisions.
Good luck with attracting applications for either the Special Air Service Regiment, or Commando’s after this.
Ongoing societal collapse
Why Aren’t Men Going To College?
“Zipstersays:
September 28, 2021 at 8:53 pm
Ongoing societal collapse
Why Aren’t Men Going To College?”
This is superb…..Dr Warren Farrell on Triggernometry “Why Men & Boys Are Struggling and No One Cares – Dr Warren Farrell”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og68K4mJ7Z8&list=WL&index=5
Victorian hospitalisations
Hospitalisations, 78% were vaccinated and 17% were partially vaccinated.
Either the vaccines are useless or the vaccines are putting plenty of people in hospital.
WTF?
They have actual brains.
He works for Dutton.
Okay, King Angus eh? Bollocks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=389BEjIgpMc&t=1218s (2 mins)
Tonight’s AJ was superb.
Every segment.
Life surely is a soap opera these days.
We spent today in the glorious Upper Murray, sunshine and water everywhere, beautiful balm for the soul.
Open All Hours and Sanford & Son are the best old school comedies, along with the bawdy Derek & Clive.
Open All Hours was a clear winner.
Street running in Wycheproof:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qWtZEJ8MTY
1980s – Al Czervik & Bill Murray.
1990s – Norm. I sure he’s in a better place now with Albert Fish.
Boom!
‘Ger-ger-ger-Granville….’
Rumpole of the Bailey.
Careful now, I’m a professor of logic.
The NSW report today:
Health Minister Brad Hazzard announces 863 COVID-19 cases, three NSW communities ‘on notice’
I think we can all guess the circumstances of the one (1) unvaccinated guy from Dubbo who died. Always fun to read between the lines of such reports. Sorry for him and his family though.
TE
I hope Dutton has enough time to kick the shit out of the supposed ADF woke hierarchy.
Shutting down Duntroon would be a good start and shifting signals to Pine Gap would be better.
Watched the 1st two episodes of FOUNDATION .. obviously a lot of money spent on production but ..Oh dear! .. how slow can you get! .. It’s like week 6 of a Gladys 15 days to flatten the curve .. ten minutes out from the end of episode 2 I was close to throwing something at the screen when they flipped the story completely and left an ending which forces the need to watch, at least the start of, 3 to see where it is going .. been that long since I read the book(s) I’ve forgotten the plot-line so no idea if it is sticking to script but gonna take an effort to stay for 10 parts .. 4/10 & that’s being generous!
Fortunately, I also watched episode 1 of DUNE , as a saver, and that is excellent .. following the story line tho skipping lotza book bits .. part one manages get all the way to the Fall of House Attreides, to give you some idea .. Bit over the top portraying the Harkonnen’s as cartoon type villainy plus like most sci-fi stuff flies into Star Wars territory when it comes to aerial combat … worth 8/10 and only 3 90 minutes episodes all up so shouldn’t drift too far off script ….!
The first civil war started by a property ponzi collapse?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_K0gHbDBIQ
From Top Ender’s link at 8:30.
I would characterise it as Dutton correcting Campbell’s propensity to make decisions with one eye on political considerations and his standing outside the ADF.
Yeah. Just saw a AAMI ad plugging the vax with Rhonda & Ketut. Wow. Most cringeworthy thing I have ever seen.
It was said during the Vietnam war that Duntroon graduated gentlemen trying to be officers, Portsea graduated officers trying to be gentlemen, and Scheyille graduated neither, trying to be both.
Dr Faustus says:
September 28, 2021 at 8:20 pm
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Thanks for the paper.
I find it annoying how in the context of methane, the long running anti-meat vegan thing where red meat is portrayed as somehow making a dramatic difference to methane generation. My understanding is the consensus always was until recently, termites and the methanogens that live in them are putting out in the region of 80% the methane that ends up in the atmosphere. Ever heard termites denigrated outside of the context of eating somebody’s’ roof(?) If anything given the havoc that pesticides like the neonicotinoids have on local ecology and insect populations, you would think be a major decrease in methane generation. That and the proportion of the world cleared not “producing” termite food in the form of dead wood.
While red meat farming does cause all kind of land and water management issues, the methane thing doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. Wouldn’t something the hell else be eating the grass and farting an equal quantity(?)
These papers such as the link above proposing a black box solutions as is suggested by the abstract are a similar insult to intellect as the absurdity the world has been subjected to in the last eighteen months.
Get the jab you bigot.
Now, thanks to Colesworths, Cow Jerkin’ and JAB banking, enjoy your powdered cricket and meatless burger king soma.
Three reasons spring to mind:
Andrew Wilkie.
Stuart Robert.
Mr Canehard, my high school maths teacher.
No legal skills, training, or background is required to become a Fair Work Commissioner.
And the pays is not only better than a federal backbencher but requires less work ( I know hard to believe!) .. Apparently these commissioners have NO specific numbersto get thru and NO time limit on how long they take deliberating ..
Read elsewhere that one has concluded 3 cases in 12 months & another has only one ongoing file and hasn’t reached a decision on it in over 12 months …… we’re talking folk on between $195 000 and 300 000 plus freebies depending on your workplace title …… !
The heir to the empire got his P plates today.
Makes the last few years of teaching him how to do handbrake turns, while unwrapping a cheeseburger and lighting a smoke all worthwhile.
Not all humans deserve the complimentary title.
The JUSTIFIED Execution Of Dorothea Binz – The Beast Of Ravensbruck.
10 mins.
Net-zero is a ‘completely meaningless concept’
Knuckle Draggersays:
September 28, 2021 at 9:10 pm
Boom!
‘Ger-ger-ger-Granville….’
Later DI Jack Frost, a much more human personality than Morse, though the later series with Lewis is not bad, with the able support of Laurence Fox as his sergeant.
Cassie of Sydney says:
September 28, 2021 at 8:56 pm
This is superb…..Dr Warren Farrell …
The same Warren Farrell who wrote “The Myth of Male Power”? A bit old now (in terms of the stats quoted), but worth reading. I also have a copy of his “Father and Child Reunion” which I don’t think I’ve read yet (I’m a recovering book addict).
MSM hates Avi and Rushkans guts!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KZscdH_v7c
“The same Warren Farrell who wrote “The Myth of Male Power”?”
Yes.
I used to live in Machans, TE.
Loved it till I got the dengue
As previously raised, Israel’s hospitalisations and deaths went straight up from commencement of the booster shot in June.
Flicking back through “The Myth of Male Power” again, it’s an excellent book which I would highly recommend.First published in 1993, with a second edition in 2001. Worth tracking down if you can.
As each to the heirs to the empire graduated from P – plates, they were presented with an advanced driving course – a husband and wife team ran the local driving school – she took students up to P – plates, he ran the advanced driving courses. The rumour was that he’d been the getaway driver for an English gang of bank robbers……
From Liberal Democrats –
All rumours are completely & reliably true, especially in rural districts & small towns.
Knuckle Dragger says:
September 28, 2021 at 9:34 pm
The heir to the empire got his P plates today.
Makes the last few years of teaching him how to do handbrake turns, while unwrapping a cheeseburger and lighting a smoke all worthwhile.
KD – I hope you taught him how to roll a smoke one hand as well while doing those handbrake turns…
from tga
fuckwits
Mamet is a helluva writer, but his work in Glengarry went to another level, turning key scenes into a type of rhyming Beat poetry.
Alan Alda tells an interesting story in his memoirs about having trouble learning the lines in that play, not understanding the material and really not being able to get any sort of handle on it, until (this is how he tells the story) he took a break from it at home, turned on the TV and there was an Abbott and Costello movie on. And as he watched the boys, something in his head clicked and he decided that Mamet’s play was like a crosstalk comedy script – like Who’s On First – so he decided to play it like that – and it worked for him!
I can’t wait to get to Europe!
Greenie energy leaves Europe in the cold — the freezing cold
By Monica Showalter
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/09/greenie_energy_leaves_europe_in_the_cold__the_freezing_cold.html
WA Cats should get ready for a lockdown.
..
Ketut takes it up the arse.
Hard to beat Max von Sydow in any role!
Jim Caviezel gets my vote as the best on-screen Jesus ever. He was the only actor who was the right age (as far as I know) and looking at him I believed, as I never believed of any of the others, that he could have worked as a carpenter.
He was also (of this I’m confident) the only actor to play Jesus who was struck by lightning during filming.
…who is your mole, ftb?
Or are you reading the flight of birds?
From the “Australian.”
lol… Kevin Rudd spills his guts on those rat fuckers!
Xi’s desperate roll of the dice
By Peter Skurkiss
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/09/xis_desperate_roll_of_the_dice.html
McGowan wants to go.
The two AFL fans.
The COVID punter on the military plane that’s landed.
The ship with the 11 COVID punters will be the nail in the coffin.
Ronnie Barker wrote a lot of his own material on The Two Ronnies, including the classic “four candles” sketch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi_6SaqVQSw
rickwsays:
September 28, 2021 at 9:44 pm
MSM hates Avi and Rushkans guts!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KZscdH_v7c
Paul barry is revolting. A pox on every LNP pollie who could have gutted the abc but didn’t. Barry without his huge tax-payer stipend would be bearing his arse on street corners for a living.
Liberty Quote
thankfully we have taxpayers to provide the 16billion to build an underwater power cable to Singapore.
Coal’s future lies in Asia
By Vijay Jayaraj
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/09/coals_future_lies_in_asia.html
Paul Barry reached his peak in 1989, when he exposed Alan Bond’s lurks and jerks. It’s been all downhill from there.
Absolutely loved that show. Nurse Gladys. Arkwright. Granville. What characters!
Reading through that Louise Milligan Twitter thread linked above.
Geeze it’s bizarre. Dozens if not hundreds of dullards boasting about being double vaxxed but “I’m complying with the lockdowns anyway”. Compliance as a virtue.
I think “Why are these people so afraid of dying? Don’t seem like the lives they lead are worth two pinches of shit”.
We’ve hit 1989 with some inane nonsense and slowly but surely we’re making our way to Whitlam.
Naturally, if you’re good slave material, you want to advertise it.
Whitlam was a better bloke than John Howard.
Get a load of this. I’m sure most people here have read about the US$3.5 trillion infrastructure bill being held up in Congress and uncertain if it will be passed.
This is what passes for infrastructure to the American Left.
Yep, paid leave, child care and caregiving is like updating a state highway.
FMD.
WSJ
Whitlam was a better bloke than John Howard.
Whitlam wasn’t a bloke. He was an over-educated turd.
Which PM did more to destroy Australia?
Whitlam or Howard!!!!!!
And I’ll say this about Whitlam, that it was a remarkable feat to become a QC when you were no longer a practising barrister.
Fact check status: True
Whitlam did not confiscate guns.
That was Howard.
White is black. Seriously. White is black and trying to make a little money.
Why do you say that Piggles?
lawyers
Howard just finished off what Whitlam was hell-bent on doing. Destroying Australia.
Whitlam served as an air navigator in the Royal Australian Air Force for four years during World War II
Driller, in the past, haven’t you self described as Labor royalty leaving aside one time how you self described as a very influential publican?
Would I be correct in calling this out as an influential Labor aristocratic publican?
Help us out here.
Whitlam was where the rot set in. The rot began before him, all but invisible, but with him it really, really set in.
What did Howard ever do?
Yea naaa. The electorate voted for change and the got it good and hard. Along came Fraser who promised to undo nearly all of whitlam’s damage and choked. Not only did the turd choke but later in life he become a greens supporter like members of his family. Fraser was worse.
did I deny that.
I think he was a fking arsehole but he was a better man than both Fraser and Howard.
Really?
Workchoices, the most important labor market reform since federation.
Junking the appalling system of indirect taxation (sales tax) and introducing the GST to replace the previous shemozzle.
That’s two.
Workchoices possibly saved us from a very severe recession as a consequence of the GFC because the labor market was so flexible.
The entire Liberal Party of Australia deserves burning to the ground.
That’s interesting, but not the Liars party? This is the Liars Party doing its best to move Victoria towards fascism.
Whitlam was bad, but proved that you can become a QC after leaving the Bar. Impressive.
Fraser was bad.
Hawke was okay for someone who was bad.
Keating was bad.
Howard – for someone who was bad – was … not all bad.
Who came next?
Rudd? Someone named Rudd? He was bad.
Then Gillard. She was bad.
Then Rudd again. Who was bad again.
Abbott; nice man. Pathetically nice, but bad.
Turdbull was the worst ever.
And then ScoMor’on who was worse.
Gorton was the last really good PM and he was terrible.
You know, I can appreciate some of the anger shown towards the Libs but to only attack them after what the diabolical hunchback is doing in Victoria means the attacks aren’t serious. It’s just childish emotional nonsense.
G.K. Chesterton has some real zingers: I
NADT
work choices is a political joke… if your not vaxxed what choice???
and sales tax v gst… whats the real difference???? it is still a fking rip off….
luxury car tax
alcohol crap
excise
whats the difference really???
I forgot McMahon. He was much better than he gets credit for.
People have decent things to say about Holt. If the idiot didn’t have to go swimming in one of the most treacherous beaches in Australia and drowned himself, the direction of the country could have been very different.
agree
McMahon was Fraser light
Gorton came after Holt, JC.
Holt was okay.
I occasionally think if Calwell had won the 1961 election, which he came within a whisker of doing, there would have been no Australian involvement in the Vietnam war, the sixties (so to speak) would never have happened down under, and there would have been no Whitlam in 1972 to FUBAR the country forever after.
And we wouldn’t have had Numbers on the old blog, either.
Holt was a dingbat.
How could you be married to Zarah and be creditable.
No wonder he went swimming down Portsea.
lol
I hadn’t suggested otherwise, but merely who was in the pecking order of good and bad with those pm’s around that time. It was Menzies who essentially chose Holt to lead.
Meanwhile,
Back at the ranch.
Scummo is pushing for zero co2 and 100% vaxxed.
“What did Howard ever do?”
*****
Howard and Costello presided over an extraordinary decade of prosperity that enabled ordinary Australians, electricians, refrigeration mechanics etc. to have the kind of life they wanted.
The Greens voting inner urban tertiary credentialled types will never forgive them for that.
The lie is that it was commodity prices that did it, but Rudd/Gillard/Rudd had commodity prices way beyond what Howard and Costello could have dreamed of and they sent mainstream Australia way backward. Howard and Costello left Australia with net zero debt and it’s been all downhill since.
There’s things to criticise Howard for, but if we’d had someone like him in power from 2007 till now we’d be unimaginably better off than we are.
My two bob’s worth-
If Abbott was still in the Lodge, the Panic Plandemic would never have happened- we would have been the Sweden of the Southern Hemisphere.
Died with/from COVID vaccine.
Another thought
Maybe if the vox pop had run up more resistance to made-up brain-fart innovative concepts which in and of themselves were touted to lubricate the insertion of a new golden age of the brotherhood of man- you know, like Recognize, the Voice To Parliament, Welcomes to Countries, One and Free- we might have been more awake to made-up fascist knee-jerk jackbootkicking innovative manhandling mechanisms which are still held up as totally fine and without a doubt beyond question she’ll be right mate- you know, like National Cabinet, Mask Mandates, State Border Closures and Vaccine Passports.
The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #229
https://www.lotuseaters.com/the-podcast-of-the-lotus-eaters-229-28-09-21
Published 28th Sep
Callum and Leo discuss
the BBC’s Jimmy Savile Docudrama,
the Lancet’s terrible two weeks,
and the NHS vs. Kemi Badenoch.
Stopped the boats. Committed troops to the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq – these were good things at the time. Refused to kowtow to Aboriginal worship.
dang, too many open tabs, not enough sleep –
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic. He has been referred to as the “prince of paradox”.
Chesterton early discovered the value of paradox as “truth standing on its head to gain attention,”
John Spooner.