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Winston Smith
October 19, 2021 11:24 pm

JC:
Come on, it’s a fair bet.
The Financial Master of the Universe vs The Retired RN.
You know you want to.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
October 19, 2021 11:25 pm

@miltonf

The concentration of devil worshipers increases the closer you get to power.

srr
srr
October 19, 2021 11:41 pm

Who needs to SEE a doctor when a doctor can ‘Dr Google’ for you over the phone –

“asking GPs to see patients is harassment”
https://www.lotuseaters.com/the-podcast-of-the-lotus-eaters-244-1-10-21

yet another aspect of Idiocracy that’s become real world main stream –

Hospital computer interface of the future – Idiocracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXzJR7K0wK0

JC
JC
October 19, 2021 11:55 pm

You’re just sad, turtle head.

Explain to us, how would you have sued anyone when you’re posting under an alias?
You slimeball, you threatened Sinclair after he allowed you to post crap on his site covering it in shit.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
October 20, 2021 12:00 am

If Australia ever gets out of this crap then public health will be torn down.

Doctors will be apprenticed to successful doctors and not protected by a medical mafia as currently operates.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
October 20, 2021 12:03 am

JC says:
October 19, 2021 at 11:55 pm

You’re just sad, turtle head.

put the crack pipe down JC.

concentrate on your therapeutic painting.

A Suggestion
A Suggestion
October 20, 2021 12:07 am

FlyingPigs says:
October 19, 2021 at 11:16 pm
People who worry bout da gaia and da globull warmenining have always been on a sheltered workshop guided tour and would not have a fucking clue how real nature works.

Nature has but one job to do – kill you. For without your death there is no evolution and without evolution there is no progress.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
October 20, 2021 12:17 am

A Suggestion says:
October 20, 2021 at 12:07 am

lol

aint that the truth

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
October 20, 2021 12:54 am
FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
October 20, 2021 12:57 am
FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
October 20, 2021 1:04 am
FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
October 20, 2021 1:49 am

Eventually its gunna be interesting to watch ‘someone’ go through “gun free” sanctuary city Chicago like ‘someone’ went through Faluja.

FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
October 20, 2021 1:55 am

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FlyingPigs
FlyingPigs
October 20, 2021 2:39 am
Tom
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Tom
Tom
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Tom
Tom
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Tom
Tom
October 20, 2021 4:06 am

David Rowe with the half-naked blokes (again).

Tom
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Tom
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Tom
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Tom
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Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
October 20, 2021 4:23 am

Thankyou Tom

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 20, 2021 4:45 am

Behind Taibbi’s paywall.
Will free when he does.

“The Bidens”: Is the First Family Corrupt, or Merely Crazy?
Politico reporter Ben Schreckinger’s new book is an equal opportunity offender that may push a reluctant national media to re-examine ugly questions about President Joe Biden

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 20, 2021 4:47 am

The Malice episode on Rogan has been uploaded onto spotify.
7mins in & they’re dropping bombs on Biden & everyone.

Winston Smith
October 20, 2021 5:15 am

JC:

Explain to us, how would you have sued anyone when you’re posting under an alias?
You slimeball, you threatened Sinclair after he allowed you to post crap on his site covering it in shit.

JC retreats to his fallback position – abuse, name calling, and lying.
Still don’t want to go for the bet?
– gees, it’s only a dollar, it’s not like it’s your first born.
You can afford a measly dollar can’t you?

rosie
rosie
October 20, 2021 5:37 am
rosie
rosie
October 20, 2021 5:54 am
rosie
rosie
October 20, 2021 5:55 am
Mater
October 20, 2021 6:11 am

On the Twitter thread Rosie linked to:

Crikey
@crikey_news
12h
History has taught us that to force change, one must become ungovernable. And in the face of the existential threat of climate change, set to cause violence and destruction, fighting violence with violence could well be a viable option, writes @thejimmalo

crikey.com.au
Violent anti-vaxxers are wrong. But can their tactics hold any lessons for climate activists? Climate change’s promise of death and destruction is violence, so why shouldn’t its victims be violent in self-defence?

Where are the police and this new found ‘incitement’ law?

https://twitter.com/crikey_news/status/1450352265412370432?s=20

rickw
rickw
October 20, 2021 6:18 am

Who benefits during a manufactured national crisis?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9rkn–kncs

Cassie of Sydney
October 20, 2021 6:35 am

“But can their tactics hold any lessons for climate activists? Climate change’s promise of death and destruction is violence, so why shouldn’t its victims be violent in self-defence?”

The police and MSM – nothing to see here. Move along.

Islamic terrorist’s promise of death and destruction is violence, so why shouldn’t its victims be violent in self-defence?

The police and MSM – right-wing, Nazi, white supremacist incitement. Charge anyone holding and promulgating such threats.

will
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October 20, 2021 6:46 am
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 20, 2021 6:53 am

Dilbert #5.
He’s been reading the VAERS debate.

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 20, 2021 6:54 am

If the FDA approves mixing & matching of booster shots, won’t this make the data deliberately unusable?
“I got the Pfizer booster then got sick”.
“Couldn’t have been the Pfizer, must have been the Moderna you had previously”.

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 20, 2021 7:03 am

I think it’s nuts that the FDA is going to approve the mix n match boosters based of a study of 458 people.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.10.21264827v1?mc_cid=ca5d18e512&mc_eid=6cb9ef82da

calli
calli
October 20, 2021 7:07 am

The police and MSM – nothing to see here. Move along.

Exactly what Hitchens discusses on the “pigs” thread.

The police check with the government to see if they need to do something, or to leave it. Or, her in Australia, save the phone call.

Just watch morning TV to get their orders.

Indolent
Indolent
October 20, 2021 7:23 am

Evelyn Rae
@_evelynrae
· 39m
Well done to the main stream media for their continual efforts in spreading fear porn and propaganda. In typical style they have slapped unvaccinated Australians with the label of ‘Roadkill’….

Give the MSM a good shove next time you see them.

We’re not alone with this.

‘Defund The Media!’: Protest Against Vax Mandate Erupts Outside New York Times Building

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 20, 2021 7:34 am

Mater, just above the excellent Dilberts:

Where are the police and this new found ‘incitement’ law?

It’s always been there, but rarely used. It was intended for people who incited others to commit proper offences, like child trafficking and high end theft-to-order where deriving any direct benefit for that activity was in question.

Like quite a bit of legislation in this day and age, it’s been repurposed so that a minor-league public servant with a degree in Fat Kid Lunchboxes can change the fate of nations.

But yes. Geese, gander and equally good.

Cassie of Sydney
October 20, 2021 7:49 am

“The police check with the government to see if they need to do something, or to leave it. Or, her in Australia, save the phone call.

Just watch morning TV to get their orders.”

Correct……and just watch the police in various states abuse their powers when the Online Safety Bill passes, because the police have been politicised and are now official tools of progressive ideology and ideologues. Look at the UK over the last few days, instead of talking about the real issues behind the Amess murder, immigration…..and let’s be specific about what I mean by immigration…..I’m talking about immigration of third world Muslim scum and the ensuing lack of assimilation of the Muslim scum, radicalisation in mosques across the UK and so on….all they’re talking about, in order to deflect from the real issues, is “online anonymity” as though that would have prevented the MURDER of Sir David Amess….oh and let’s just spell it out what happened last Friday night in Southend, it wasn’t a killing, it wasn’t a passing, it was MURDER, premeditated at that.

Even me writing the above sentences would warrant a knock on the door for “hate speech”…..I open the door and there’s a police officer who says to me “I’ve come to check your thinking”…….and don’t think for a moment it won’t happen, it’s already happened in the UK.

Please note that this is all brought to you by a so called Liberal government. I don’t know if anyone watched Bolt last night but he had on Campbell Newman and Tom Switzer, both of whom have joined the Lib Dems (as I have). Both Newman and Switzer were scathing of the Liberal Party of Australia….federally and state.

I’m not looking forward to an Albosleazy government but I’m sure looking forward to seeking the smirk wiped off Scumbag Morrison’s face.

Indolent
Indolent
October 20, 2021 7:55 am
calli
calli
October 20, 2021 7:57 am

It’s like an alternative universe…the LNP gifting government to Albanese’s Labor. They must know they’re doing it.

Are things going to get so bad they have no stomach for government and are throwing the therapeutic slitherer a hospital pass? Batten down the hatches, kids.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 20, 2021 7:57 am

This is so good. Just so, so good. It’s ‘there are no further sufficient words’ good (The Hun):

A Melbourne property developer is suing his “sugar baby” after she allegedly warned others online he was a “rampant sex scammer” and “demon dressed up as an angel” when their romance died.

Barry Wang, 40, has demanded his ex-lover, Jessie Qin, cough up $350,000 in compensation for her WeChat posts where she portrays him as a sexual predator and expert pick-up artist who was immoral, manipulative and played mind games with women.

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 20, 2021 7:57 am

Correct……and just watch the police in various states abuse their powers when the Online Safety Bill passes

There’s a chap in Toowoomba who is going to be their number one customer.

feelthebern
feelthebern
October 20, 2021 7:59 am

Any Victoria Cats got a spare 30mill?
https://www.domain.com.au/1-21-sandy-point-road-somers-vic-3927-2017289545

Makes me laugh that in lefty Victoria, you can effectively have your own private beach.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 20, 2021 8:02 am

Barry Wang?
Really?

miltonf
miltonf
October 20, 2021 8:03 am

Good morning all- good to see RDA and UAP getting together. Now we need to extend the deal to include PHON and LDP one way or another. Agree that Quilty and Limbrick are doing a good job. The Lyinhole episode had put me right off the LDP I must admit.

calli
calli
October 20, 2021 8:04 am

And another thing…

It’s been almost a year now, and just about every head of state has met the US Fauxident. If his mental capacity is as portrayed by his enemies, every single one must know. There’s no getting away from it. Morrison must know. Boris ditto.

So, either his decline is greatly exaggerated and he’s perfectly fit to govern, or these guys are in on it and are keeping vewy quiet.

Cassie of Sydney
October 20, 2021 8:06 am

“Are things going to get so bad they have no stomach for government and are throwing the therapeutic slitherer a hospital pass? Batten down the hatches, kids.”

Tom Switzer nailed it last night on Bolt…..he said that there was a troika of interests here that are now embedded in LNP governments and to which LNP governments are now beholden to…….big media (including News Corp), big business and big government…even big unions.

The party of Sir Robert Menzies….a party of limited government, small business, individual responsibility, free speech, religious liberty (oh and where’s that “Religious Freedom” bill we were promised) is dead, more extinct than a dodo or mammoth, and the rotting corpse needs to be cremated and its ashes tossed into the wind.

It would have been better if Bill Shorten and Labor had won in 2016 or 2019.

miltonf
miltonf
October 20, 2021 8:06 am

Makes me laugh that in lefty Victoria, you can effectively have your own private beach.

In lefty societies there is always a nomenklatura.

miltonf
miltonf
October 20, 2021 8:08 am

So, either his decline is greatly exaggerated and he’s perfectly fit to govern, or these guys are in on it and are keeping vewy quiet.

The latter. Of course they are in on it.

rosie
rosie
October 20, 2021 8:08 am

I’m not convinced that Morrison is gone.
The twitter pr machine in Victoria has been in overdrive for months pining the hotel quarantine aged care deaths on the federal government but outside that bubble i don’t see any that think the federal government is solely responsible.
Seems to me covid management is clearly settled as a state responsibility, for most people.
Queensland hospitals, after all, are for Queenslanders, etc
The 2050 is where Morrison has really sold us down the river but will voters turn to the ALP if they don’t support the climate con?

miltonf
miltonf
October 20, 2021 8:10 am

Yes I’m sorry the Howard protege just won in 2016. I certainly didn’t vote for him.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 20, 2021 8:11 am

Barry Wang?
Really?

Really. More Finbarr Saunders/Kelvin Cunningtons in the same piece:

She said she wished to “expose” Mr Wang “and show everyone the harm done”.

But Mr Wang has painted Ms Qin as a jilted lover who was scamming him for Australian permanent residency, showing the court messages where she had asked him to lie about them living together so she could get a cohabitation certificate.

“I am really not able to do it,” Mr Wang had responded to her requests.

The court heard the pair met in 2018 on the dating website, Seeking Arrangements, which promotes itself as providing a platform for sugar babies “to look for the perfect sugar daddy in Melbourne”.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 20, 2021 8:12 am

she wished to “expose” Mr Wang

Fnarr. Snork.

Indolent
Indolent
October 20, 2021 8:13 am

So, either his decline is greatly exaggerated and he’s perfectly fit to govern, or these guys are in on it and are keeping vewy quiet.

Yes.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 20, 2021 8:15 am

“I am really not able to do it,” Mr Wang had responded to her requests.

Haha. Fnarr.

Dot! Get in here!

Arky
October 20, 2021 8:16 am

she wished to “expose” Mr Wang

..
Are we allowed to do that now?
Things sure move fast these days.

Bushkid
Bushkid
October 20, 2021 8:22 am

A Suggestion says:
October 20, 2021 at 12:07 am
FlyingPigs says:
October 19, 2021 at 11:16 pm
People who worry bout da gaia and da globull warmenining have always been on a sheltered workshop guided tour and would not have a fucking clue how real nature works.
Nature has but one job to do – kill you. For without your death there is no evolution and without evolution there is no progress.

Quite correct, and applies to more than just the gerbil worming.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
October 20, 2021 8:22 am

comment imageIf this is where education has got us I’d rather not be here. It is so true.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 20, 2021 8:23 am

Perhaps Mr Wang’s button mushroom could do with a bit of fresh air.

lotocoti
lotocoti
October 20, 2021 8:32 am

I thought we weren’t doing phrasing anymore.

Zipster
Zipster
October 20, 2021 8:34 am

So, either his decline is greatly exaggerated and he’s perfectly fit to govern, or these guys are in on it and are keeping vewy quiet.

It’s fairly obvious they are keeping quiet about far more than Let’s go brandon’s mental decline.

Dot
Dot
October 20, 2021 8:36 am

The court heard the pair met in 2018 on the dating website, Seeking Arrangements, which promotes itself as providing a platform for sugar babies “to look for the perfect sugar daddy in Melbourne”.

After this clearing of the air and exposure, he’s looking more like a champignon rather than a champion now.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 20, 2021 8:36 am

David Warner.

Golden duck overnight in the T20 warm up. Great day.

Razey
Razey
October 20, 2021 8:39 am

Knuckle Draggersays:
October 20, 2021 at 7:57 am
This is so good. Just so, so good. It’s ‘there are no further sufficient words’ good (The Hun):

A Melbourne property developer is suing his “sugar baby” after she allegedly warned others online he was a “rampant sex scammer” and “demon dressed up as an angel” when their romance died.

Barry Wang, 40, has demanded his ex-lover, Jessie Qin, cough up $350,000 in compensation for her WeChat posts where she portrays him as a sexual predator and expert pick-up artist who was immoral, manipulative and played mind games with women.

Wang Qin ……. I get it, LOL.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 20, 2021 8:42 am

Short Dave Warner. Roxy has some work to do.

rosie
rosie
October 20, 2021 8:42 am

I’m not really sure what people are expecting from Sugar Daddy.

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 20, 2021 8:42 am

Cassie

Look at the UK over the last few days, instead of talking about the real issues behind the Amess murder, immigration…..and let’s be specific about what I mean by immigration…..I’m talking about immigration of third world Muslim scum and the ensuing lack of assimilation of the Muslim scum, radicalisation in mosques across the UK and so on….

The only (slim) possibility for making multiculturalism work is if all the cultures involved are prepared to respect each other equally. However, Islam is a culture of superiority and domination. Multiculturalism can never, ever, work between Islam and any other culture.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 20, 2021 8:43 am

Having Wang problems.

Cassie of Sydney
October 20, 2021 8:43 am

I should also add that the police won’t be visiting imams at mosques on Friday afternoons or Islamic organisations spruiking genocidal Jew hatred and charging them for “hate speech”. They will be ignored. No, the visits from the police will be strictly confined to right-wing, white, European men and women. The selectivity is quite amazing….this is from May of this year, in a Sydney street in Sydney’s western suburbs……

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v-jgVV_NKE

Of course, no charges have been laid for this “hate speech”. Further, the MSM were strangely silent about this little gathering. Whadda you think would have happened if a similar group of far-right or neo-Nazi men and women had gathered in a Sydney street to scream genocidal hatred, do you think that the MSM and various government agencies would have ignored it?

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 20, 2021 8:45 am

Calli

So, either his decline is greatly exaggerated and he’s perfectly fit to govern, or these guys are in on it and are keeping vewy quiet.

They are all in on the scam, either willingly or blackmailed.

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 20, 2021 8:47 am

Cassie

It would have been better if Bill Shorten and Labor had won in 2016 or 2019.

Preferably 2016, to utterly humiliate Turdball.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 20, 2021 8:49 am

It would have been better if Bill Shorten and Labor had won in 2016 or 2019.

I have my doubts about this. But the Liars at least do what they say on the packet and deliver for their stakeholders (funders).

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 20, 2021 8:51 am

But Mr Wang has painted Ms Qin as a jilted lover who was scamming him for Australian permanent residency,

Noooo!
Surely not!

Cassie of Sydney
October 20, 2021 8:54 am

“Preferably 2016, to utterly humiliate Turdball.”

Yep and also to punish the Liberal Party for stabbing a sitting PM, a sitting PM that had gifted the Liberal Party a massive electoral win in 2013. I recall James Allan arguing this in Quadrant or the Speccie in late 2015 or early 2016.

rosie
rosie
October 20, 2021 8:57 am

David Amess’s murderer was referred to the ‘prevent’ program in 2014 but only 22% of referrals are now islamists despite 90% of those on MI5’S watchlist being islamists.

manufactured fear of right wing extremism again

lotocoti
lotocoti
October 20, 2021 8:57 am

Golden duck overnight in the T20 warm up. Great day.

Joe Burns sobbing What About Me in the shower.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
October 20, 2021 8:58 am

The 2050 is where Morrison has really sold us down the river but will voters turn to the ALP if they don’t support the climate con?

Retail and principle-free to the last drop, Morrison is playing this as ‘smart politics’.

Going Net Zero 30 years down the track de-fangs the ALP’s grip on the issue and provides a reason for doctors’ wives and pale green Liberal voters not to flirt with things like Zali Steggle.

The fact that it opens the door wider to the horde of renewables troughers sucking the life out of the productive economy the economy is political nit-picking.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 20, 2021 9:01 am

A Melbourne property developer is suing his “sugar baby” after she allegedly warned others online he was a “rampant sex scammer” and “demon dressed up as an angel” when their romance died.

Anybody want to hazard a guess around the timing of when the romance died and the payments stopped? Always cheaper by the half hour, apparently.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 20, 2021 9:05 am

It’s tough being a Grampian N A Z I in the UK. Particularly with Covid and the border closures.

Cassie of Sydney
October 20, 2021 9:06 am

“The only (slim) possibility for making multiculturalism work is if all the cultures involved are prepared to respect each other equally. However, Islam is a culture of superiority and domination. Multiculturalism can never, ever, work between Islam and any other culture.”

Correct.

calli
calli
October 20, 2021 9:07 am

A Melbourne property developer named Wang. How surprising.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
October 20, 2021 9:08 am

More wild weather brewing for Queensland as authorities brace for ‘state of extremes’

Hailstones and heatwaves.
The BOM opines:

“Mother Nature has given us a timely reminder that severe weather season is now upon us, and these conditions are expected to continue over the coming days, particularly around south-east and central Queensland,”

Severe Weather Season: we used to call it Summer.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 20, 2021 9:09 am

I am surprised that a “Sugar Daddy” site is attracting both young ladies who post enhanced photographs of themselves and older gentlemen who overstate their sugar reserves.

rosie
rosie
October 20, 2021 9:09 am

Good point Dr Faustus.
You see people like Julian Burnside in blue ribbon liberal seats thinking the Greens are in with a good chance, it might well be the solution for the ‘pale green Liberal’ as you call them.

calli
calli
October 20, 2021 9:10 am

The Severe Weather Season full of Extreme Events.

They should sell tickets.

rosie
rosie
October 20, 2021 9:12 am

On the other hand we could get the nuclear option.
That would be nice.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 20, 2021 9:14 am

Queensland weather is for Queenssslanders.
Youse can’t have it.

Delta A
Delta A
October 20, 2021 9:19 am

So, either his decline is greatly exaggerated and he’s perfectly fit to govern, or these guys are in on it and are keeping vewy quiet.

They’re all in it together.

Strange that not a single journalist has questioned Morrison’s quick conversion to the climate religion following his much-praised deal re the new subs and alliance with UK and USA. He even mentioned it himself briefly – very briefly – that net zero was the trade-off, but no-one has picked up on it, or pointed out how flimsy (and easily bought) are our PM’s convictions.

rosie
rosie
October 20, 2021 9:20 am

My daughter sent me a photo of a nice collection of hail from her part of Queensland.
If only they could escape to Victoria and return without spending two weeks in hotel quarantine.
🙁

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
October 20, 2021 9:22 am

Tax commissioner Chris Jordan facing Senate investigation after refusing to provide JobKeeper details

The Senate had ordered ATO boss Chris Jordan to reveal the names of businesses with a turnover of $10 million that received taxpayer funds, but he had refused, citing privacy provisions.

“One of my fundamental roles as Commissioner of Taxation is to safeguard the integrity of the tax and super systems by ensuring the community’s confidence in taxpayer secrecy is maintained.”

JobKeeper was administered by the ATO, but never formed part of the tax and superannuation systems.

Another of Jordan’s fundamental roles is to preserve the ATO’s awesome power to say Fuck Right Off to anyone it chooses.

rosie
rosie
October 20, 2021 9:24 am

Andrews of course is still muttering about international quarantine arrangements but at the same time already opened the border between NSW and Victoria.
What’s he going to do if Victorians fly home to Sydney then find an alternative route home?

lotocoti
lotocoti
October 20, 2021 9:26 am

The Severe Weather Season full of Extreme Events.

Had to wait until 1930 for yesterday’s forecast 8mm-15mm worth of severe weather
to finally show up.
Turned out to be the other end of extreme, 8 to 15 drops.

rosie
rosie
October 20, 2021 9:27 am

Is Jordan between a rock and a hard place?
If jobkeeper is covered by the secrecy provisions he could go to prison for revealing that information.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
October 20, 2021 9:36 am

The Senate had ordered ATO boss Chris Jordan to reveal the names of businesses with a turnover of $10 million that received taxpayer funds, but he had refused, citing privacy provisions.

Something like this cropped up a while ago with Second Commissioner Jeremy Hirschhorn and some process was reached where the info never became public. Looks like that’s not on offer here. Seems like in this case either a Senator is just LARPing, or the Senator desperately wants to name and shame people.
Could get interesting.
The ATO is, unusually for a government department, totally sincere about fulfilling its privacy obligations.
And Jordan isn’t the sort of person to appreciate some contemptible self-promoter in the Senate trying to push him round.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
October 20, 2021 9:37 am

Having done a policy 180, the Palacechook sends her winged monkeys out to explain what the future looks like for the unvaccinated in Queensland.

New benefits set for fully vaccinated businesses ahead of Queensland border opening

The new benefits could see a reversal of all COVID-19 restrictions for some businesses, which could soon be operating at full capacity and pre-pandemic levels.

But for restrictions to be scrapped, all staff members and all customers must be fully vaccinated to enter the premises.

My moles tell me that the Queensland Public Service is currently having an apex moment developing class leading rules for Queensland lives.

Whiteboards, blueberry muffins, late nite pizzas – and zero life experience…

Mater
October 20, 2021 9:39 am

citing privacy provisions

LOL!
FMD.

We’ve been forced to check in to every location we visit, show our licence to every cafe worker if we want a coffee, give our address to every teenager working at Rebel Sports, write our names and contact details on a sheet of paper available to anyone who subsequently visits, and we’ll soon be required to give our personal medical details to all and sundry.

All such bets seem to be off, and this government prick has the gall to use privacy as a concern?

rickw
rickw
October 20, 2021 9:44 am

Just had a quick chat with boss.

Consensus is that I’m most probably screwed.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
October 20, 2021 9:50 am

Best wishes rick.
Hard to say anything of actual help to you but I’m hoping it all works out to your advantage in the long run.

JC
JC
October 20, 2021 9:51 am

JC retreats to his fallback position – abuse, name calling, and lying.

This is coming from the pathetic clown making another buffoonish prediction .
To make himself look legit he backs the prediction up with the offer of a bet. When I take him up on the bet, he downgrades it to wanting to just bet a dollar.

I call him turtle head because he once put up a picture of himself and I said he looks and reminds me of a Caribbean turtle. He does.

I was mocking him just after the monstrous imbecile came out with that outlandish , clownish “scenario”. This was his best attempt so far at being a complete tosser. He suggested the Chinese military could invade Australia by flying (filled) China Air flights into Melbourne international airport.

I subsequently received a series of texts from Sinclair informing me that Turtle Head was threatening legal because I was making fun of him. Sinclair asked me to stop even though he amusingly conceded that it would be difficult for turtle head to sue seeing he was operating under an alias. We laughed.

Still don’t want to go for the bet?

Yes I do.

– gees, it’s only a dollar, it’s not like it’s your first born.

Lol.

You can afford a measly dollar can’t you?

I’m guessing he can’t afford more.

jupes
jupes
October 20, 2021 9:52 am

The only (slim) possibility for making multiculturalism work is if all the cultures involved are prepared to respect each other equally.

It will never work. I don’t respect any third world culture.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 20, 2021 9:55 am

Short rope and a long drop would fix all Julian Knight’s problems….

Hoddle Street mass murderer sues prison over ‘price gouging’ on phones

exclusive
Liam Mendes
Reporter
@liammendes
9:36PM October 19, 2021

Hoddle Street killer Julian Knight, who murdered seven people in Melbourne in the 1980s, is suing Corrections Victoria for “price gouging” prisoners, claiming he and other inmates are being overcharged for phone calls.

Knight, who gunned down seven and wounded at least 19 others in a rampage at Clifton Hill, in the city’s northeast, in August 1987, is also demanding access to a computer and complaining about a levy imposed on cigarettes.

The 53-year-old has accused prison operator G4S and Corrective Services of “misleading and deceptive conduct, and unconscionable conduct”.

He is seeking an unspecified amount of compensation and declarations from the court that his claims are true.

The claim filed in the Federal Court alleges he and 1100 other prisoners at Port Phillip Prison – Victoria’s largest maximum-­security jail – are in “unequal bargaining positions”.

Citing Australian consumer law in his application, Knight argues that since 1997, the prison operator has profited from price increases of items sold in the prison canteen, and says those profits were not directed to amenities benefiting prisoners.

The prison has been owned and operated by G4S since September 1997.

“The applicant also seeks from the court a declaration that the increase in the price of almost all goods sold to prisoners through the Port Phillip Prison canteen since 1997 constitutes misleading and deceptive conduct, and unconscionable conduct,” the application reads.

Profits generated by these sales were not expended on prisoner amenities but were instead treated as company profits, Knight claims.

Knight also complains about a levy imposed on cigarettes and tobacco from 2004-15, which he says should have been invested towards “quit smoking initiatives”.

Smoking was banned in all ­Victorian prisons in 2015.

The bespectacled killer, who has been incarcerated for more than 34 years, says Corrections Victoria is “price gouging” its ­prisoners through their being over-charged to make phone calls.

He is seeking daily access to a computer and printer, as well as an injunction in a bid to have ­LexisNexis Butterworths Un­reported Judgments Disks 1-4 and the Thomson Lawbook Co ­Federal Cases database added to the prison library computer ­server.

Knight was 19 when he took three guns to Hoddle Street and went on a random shooting spree in 1987, intending to kill as many innocent people as he could find.

Six of his victims were aged in their 20s and the other was a 53-year-old fork lift driver on his way to work.

The failed army officer candidate has technically been eligible for parole since 2014 but lost a High Court bid in 2017 to overturn laws designed to keep him incarcerated until he dies.

He has launched numerous legal challenges during his time behind bars and in 2004 was banned from launching legal ­action in Victoria’s courts for a decade after a judge branded him a “vexatious litigant”.

Arky
October 20, 2021 9:58 am

Inflation.
They want inflation.
Lots of inflation to inflate away their debt and your savings.
The only question is not will there be inflation, but will they be able to walk the knife edge between the lots of inflation they want and run away inflation that causes the impoverished peasants to rise up and murder the fucking lot of them.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
October 20, 2021 9:59 am

In Freedom of Speech news:

Scientist warns against boosting climate change deniers in Australia

Dr Woodthorpe is expected to highlight deep concerns about the way scientists are treated online, calling for action from news companies and platforms such as Facebook and Twitter.

“Don’t amplify the denigrators and conspiracy theorists,” she will say.

“Balance is not one climate denier vs one climate scientist. It’s 2000 scientists before the denier gets their chance.”

“And the effort it takes to refute any one of their articles, tweets or other postings takes an order of magnitude more that it took the conspiracy theorists and their trolls and bots to invent it and disseminate it.”

So, more about convenience, not so much about The Science.

Yet another FMD moment being normalised.

rickw
rickw
October 20, 2021 9:59 am

Seriously, does anyone know an emigration agent in Australia? Googling away but all I can find is immigration agents.

Diogenes
Diogenes
October 20, 2021 10:00 am

But for restrictions to be scrapped, all staff members and all customers must be fully vaccinated to enter the premises.

If any business does not want my money thats fine. I have a long memory and can hold a grudge eg I have not directly spent 1c with Telstra since 2003 en they sent my job to India

P
P
October 20, 2021 10:01 am
Eddystone
Eddystone
October 20, 2021 10:06 am

ckw says:
October 20, 2021 at 9:44 am

Just had a quick chat with boss.

Consensus is that I’m most probably screwed.

Sorry to hear that rick.

Have you had contact with any lawyers, there are quite a few fighting this, and there’s some looking to mount some type of class action?

https://concernedlawyersnetwork.net/

https://aflsolicitors.com.au/

It might be worth contacting them and seeing what’s going on. I know the South Australian ambos* are in contact with both.

*Pureblood ambos,not the union scum, whose outgoing president has said publicly that any ambo not getting jabbed doesn’t deserve to have a job. Apparently his wife has some chronic health condition that means covid would kill her. He said the jabs put her in bed for weeks, but she didn’t die, so he’s all for them. F***wit!

miltonf
miltonf
October 20, 2021 10:07 am

Is that filthy transsexual thing in the Bidet regime in the military too? Wow this make I Claudius and the Weimar Republic seem chaste and restrained. This is of course in your face Cultural Marxism. Mocking everything that is good and decent. It’s also designed to humiliate regular citizens.

Filthy trash

miltonf
miltonf
October 20, 2021 10:08 am

Does that dirty creature have no shame?

miltonf
miltonf
October 20, 2021 10:10 am

I have not directly spent 1c with Telstra since 2003 en they sent my job to India

I deeply dislike Telstra too, trouble is they has the best mobile coverage unless you can suggest an alternative?

lotocoti
lotocoti
October 20, 2021 10:13 am

How can you not laugh at them when the first ever female four-star admiral
is a bloke?

rosie
rosie
October 20, 2021 10:16 am

I cannot believe qld is still holding to 17 December.
It might be too late for their tourism industry.

C.L.
C.L.
October 20, 2021 10:18 am

Again…

ABC and Fairfax provide no vaxxed vs. anti-vaxxed details re today’s alleged covid deaths.

They were doing this as a matter of editorial policy until about a fortnight ago.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 20, 2021 10:19 am

I deeply dislike Telstra too, trouble is they has the best mobile coverage unless you can suggest an alternative?

Unless you want 5G there are a number of resellers on their 4G network. Some of your $ will still end up with them. I rarely leave the metro area so coverage is not an issue for me. Haven’t used them for years.

Diogenes
Diogenes
October 20, 2021 10:21 am

I cannot believe qld is still holding to 17 December.
It might be too late

Supposedly the phones have been running hot with bookings since the announcement. None of our acquaintance group still stuck in NSW trust the Qld govt enough to make even a refundable booking – small sample size, (Mrs D’s walking group on FB , my ex-colleagues -all up @ 40 people)

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
October 20, 2021 10:22 am

Lots of inflation to inflate away their debt and your savings.

Its just short term… he said nervously…
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-kingdom/inflation-cpi

Apparently last month was about 4.5%.
Seems to be over 10% for the year….

USA.. so far.
https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/current-inflation-rates/
5.4% so far this year..

Australia way back in the pack.
https://tradingeconomics.com/australia/inflation-cpi#:~:text=Inflation%20Rate%20in%20Australia%20averaged,the%20second%20quarter%20of%201962.
3.8%

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 20, 2021 10:24 am

JC.
“I subsequently received a series of texts from Sinclair informing me that Turtle Head was threatening legal because I was making fun of him. Sinclair asked me to stop even though he amusingly conceded that it would be difficult for turtle head to sue seeing he was operating under an alias. We laughed.”
……
This sort of thing seems to have been relatively commonplace.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 20, 2021 10:26 am

None of our acquaintance group still stuck in NSW trust the Qld govt enough to make even a refundable booking

Same, same.
Not even thinking about going near Queensland whilst the Pole-Mole is going feral.

miltonf
miltonf
October 20, 2021 10:26 am

I think the other take away from the military’s promotion of transsexualism is just how stinking, corrupt and abominable the Washington War Machine is. Come to think of it, no one every really explained why the English speaking world got involved in WWI. One story is a secret deal between the British and French military.

lotocoti
lotocoti
October 20, 2021 10:28 am

Snap Miltonf.
Chester Nimitz
Ray Spruance
Bull Halsey
Rachel Devine
One is not the same as the others.
They’re all blokes, but the USPHS Admiral thing is a 19th century hold over.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
October 20, 2021 10:28 am

whilst the Pole-Mole is going feral

I was young and needed the money…

cohenite
October 20, 2021 10:30 am

Great toons; what a grub biden is; and the creatures behind him; all of them are walking, shuffling endorsements of the need for capital punishment.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
October 20, 2021 10:32 am

Maximum Leader in full support of the Australian Open:

He also took another swipe at World No. 1 Novak Djokovic saying it was very unlikely players who are unvaccinated or refuse to reveal their vaccination status would even be allowed into the country in order to compete.

When the wheels fall off…

Delta A
Delta A
October 20, 2021 10:36 am

I deeply dislike Telstra too, trouble is they has the best mobile coverage unless you can suggest an alternative?

Miltonf, check out Aldi mobile. We used it while travelling Australia and had same coverage as Telstra, for a fraction of their cost. We have one prepaid phone for $15.00 p/m and the other fixed for $15.00 p/m, which covers all calls and texts, and an internet allowance for the fixed.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 20, 2021 10:36 am

He also took another swipe at World No. 1 Novak Djokovic saying it was very unlikely players who are unvaccinated or refuse to reveal their vaccination status would even be allowed into the country in order to compete.

Uh-huh.
Must be looking like another shit day at IBAC.

rosie
rosie
October 20, 2021 10:38 am

In the meantime Dan is allowing the unvaxxed in from nsw, subject to pcr test and 72 hours isolation.
He’s all over the place.

miltonf
miltonf
October 20, 2021 10:39 am

The Senator for MBNA…
MBNA hired Hunter Biden (then 26 years old and a recent law school graduate) during the years when then-Senator Joe Biden was pushing for bankruptcy reform legislation supported by the company, which became law and makes it more difficult to acquire bankruptcy protection.[15] Because of the close relationship between Biden and MBNA, an article in the conservative political magazine National Review referred to Biden as the “Senator from MBNA”.[16] [17] [18] [19]

MBNA was one of the companies mentioned on a 2004 Frontline WGBH Boston PBS special about unfair business practices by credit card companies.[20] Some practices that Frontline claimed MBNA has engaged in included doubling or tripling of interest rates, shifting billing due dates/payment cycles monthly and raising rates for customers whose payments were a day or two late. MBNA has been found to be one of the leading implementors of rate-jacking. For further information and links, see credit card.

In Ireland, MBNA was accused of calling consumers up to eight times a day who were behind in making payments, which prompted the state debt advisory service to publicly state that harassment is outlawed. Affected people were advised to complain to the relevant authorities.[21] The company in December 2009 admitted overcharging 500,000 Irish consumers up to €18 million.[22][23]

In the UK, MBNA has come under fire for its interpretation of rules under which credit card providers must allocate payments to the debt with the highest interest rate first: one consumer site called MBNA’s interpretation of these rules a “disingenuous money-making tactic”.

Diogenes
Diogenes
October 20, 2021 10:39 am

ome to think of it, no one every really explained why the English speaking world got involved in WWI

The UK was a guarantor of Belgian neutrality and when the Germans invaded the UK was obliged to act, especially given the propaganda opportunities the Germans gave the British yellow press.

This is particularly ironic given the Poms had no problem violating Greek neutrality.

JC
JC
October 20, 2021 10:41 am

Sanchez

I only received a few notices over the 10 or so years he owned the site. So no it wasn’t common.

The problem with stupid turtle head is that he knows I don’t want to talk to him and have zero interaction. He knows this but breaks the rule and then starts bawling to the site owner. It’s a very simple rule. NO direct nor indirect interaction with JC. Ever!

Go upthread , look at what the piker posted about his claim which he then backed up with a bet. He not only walked and piked but he’s calling me abusive. Unreal.

No interaction, not even grovelling. It’s a simple rule turtle head needs to obey.

miltonf
miltonf
October 20, 2021 10:41 am

Thanks Delta

Razey
Razey
October 20, 2021 10:41 am

rickwsays:
October 20, 2021 at 9:44 am
Just had a quick chat with boss.

Consensus is that I’m most probably screwed.

Might be time to consider moving to NSW. I think they will be the freest for the unvaxed, provided you move to regional.

Since the Fed’s are mandating people 12+ must be vax’d to leave the country, seems my Japan escape is delayed. I dont want the kids vax’d.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
October 20, 2021 10:44 am

Green energy.. too taxed to meter.
UK’s net zero plan falls short on ambition and funding, say critics
Government says strategy would create 440,000 jobs, but Treasury warns taxes may need to rise to fund changes

Sooo, taxes to rise to pay for green fantasy power generation.
Ministers on Tuesday revealed a plan that they said would create up to 440,000 jobs and “unlock” £90bn in investment in the next decade, most of it from private sector companies.

Come on down subsidy harvesters…

And taxes will have to rise because we were taxing fuels at a ridiculous rate and now they are going away..

The Treasury also warned, separately, that taxes might need to rise to support the move, as the £30bn a year in tax revenues from fossil fuel duty would decline rapidly.
……….
Boris Johnson said: “The UK’s path to ending our contribution to climate change will be paved with well-paid jobs

Yes, yes it will, just not in the way he thought he meant it. lots and lots of well paid jobs will disappear.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
October 20, 2021 10:46 am

Same, same.
Not even thinking about going near Queensland whilst the Pole-Mole is going feral.

The cunning plan appears to be working splendidly.

No politically inconvenient border restrictions – day trips to the Byron Coast AOK. And the filthy, Wupox-ridden Southerners stay away in droves.
Win-win-win.

Roger
Roger
October 20, 2021 10:50 am

One story is a secret deal between the British and French military…

…and the politicians.

Behind it all was a growing rivalry with Germany, which had only become a nation state in 1871 but was rapidly expanding its navy to rival Britain’s, not to go to war so much as to extract concessions in regard to colonial possessions, as Germany thought it deserved an empire of its own.

In the end the Liberal government, which was largely non-interventionist, gave in to war because they feared losing power to the Conservatives.

It was a massive failure of the political class on all sides.

calli
calli
October 20, 2021 10:53 am

He’s all over the place.

That’s the point. A capricious and uncertain environment makes it easy to abuse the people. No one wants to cop a huge fine for doing something they thought was perfectly “legal”. So they self-limit, self-censor.

He’s perfected the tyrant mode to suit Australian conditions.

struth
struth
October 20, 2021 10:53 am

The WEF have told us specifically for years now, we’ll be eating much less meat.
See what is happening.
Supply chain collapse, the end of cash etc are not conspiracy theories. It’s what the enemy are telling you they are going to do and are now doing, while the majority in the west deny there’s a great socialist cock up their freckle.It’s amazing to watch the denialism.
You also won’t own anything and be happy.
Said many many many times over the last 20 months, while people still consider Sco Mo is worried about elections and just weak, whether or not a vaccine will save you from something you weren’t going to die from anyway.
Insanity is everywhere and it’s quite confronting.
I reckon I could get on here everyday for the next six months and report what the WEF are telling us is coming next, every minute of the day, virtually grab people by the digital scruff of the neck and make them visit the WEF’s own sites, and the second I stop, someone will immediately talk about the confusing aspects of trying to work out if Pfizer or Astrazenica is better to take to save your life from the death sniffles.
You can’t fight when your side won’t even admit there is a fight to be had, refuse to believe they have had war declared upon them, after being held prisoner for nearly two years.

rickw
rickw
October 20, 2021 10:53 am

Might be time to consider moving to NSW. I think they will be the freest for the unvaxed, provided you move to regional.

My place in county vic is just on the border, so that’s a plus, already in discussion with potential employers who would allow me to work from home in the short term.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
October 20, 2021 10:53 am

In the meantime Dan is allowing the unvaxxed in from nsw, subject to pcr test and 72 hours isolation.
He’s all over the place.

It’s strange situation. Labor’s normal modus operandi is to keep out the plebs and give exemptions to celebrities. But Dan’s monomanic demagoguery against the people disobeying his edicts has now trapped him. If he lets the Djoker in after having grandstanded about banning him, he cops the flak about elitism. If he doesn’t, he risks stuffing the political showboating opportunities the Open would otherwise give him.
Why couldn’t the ghastly little twerp have just said that he expects tennis stars will be treated the same as proles? Answer: that wouldn’t have given him an omnipotence boner.

rickw
rickw
October 20, 2021 10:54 am

Since the Fed’s are mandating people 12+ must be vax’d to leave the country, seems my Japan escape is delayed. I dont want the kids vax’d.

If you can’t flee the pogrom, what’s left?

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
October 20, 2021 10:57 am

rickwsays:
October 20, 2021 at 10:53 am

My place in county vic is just on the border, so that’s a plus, already in discussion with potential employers who would allow me to work from home in the short term.

That’s great news rickw.

When you do get a job, be sure to send Maximum Leader a personal message about how you’re bringing the deadliest of all deadly NSW deadly disease back to Victoria 5 days a week.
[No, maybe not. The vindictive little turd would probably personally arrange a visit from VicPol.]

rickw
rickw
October 20, 2021 10:59 am

Have you had contact with any lawyers, there are quite a few fighting this, and there’s some looking to mount some type of class action?

Have a meeting booked for tomorrow, was earliest I could get, they’re inundated. (Surprise!)

Dot
Dot
October 20, 2021 11:03 am

Berejiklian jalopy railed by the Maguire express.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 20, 2021 11:04 am

New York City Hall banishes founding father Thomas Jefferson

By Will Pavia
The Times
58 minutes ago October 20, 2021
7 Comments

A statue of Thomas Jefferson, who drafted the Declaration of Independence but was a lifelong slaveholder, will be moved from the council chamber at New York City Hall.

The eviction of a founding father from the chamber was agreed by a unanimous vote, following a long campaign by black and Latino council members. Some historians had argued that it should remain somewhere in the building.

However, the committee that voted to move the statue then infuriated those calling for its expulsion by deciding to delay its removal until the end of the year while they considered where it should go.

“We are deeply disappointed that the Public Design Commission voted to prolong the indignity of having the statue of Thomas Jefferson … lord over our members as they conduct the people’s business,” the council’s Black, Latino and Asian Caucus said in a statement. Its members worked “on behalf of more than five million New Yorkers of colour, who themselves do not measure up to Jefferson’s own standards of liberty and equality, as his own personal correspondence suggests,” it said.

Jefferson held more than 600 people as slaves during the course of his life and fathered at least six children with one of them, Sally Hemings. He later freed all her children and is also credited with allowing several runaway slaves to remain unpursued. The rest were sold upon his death to pay off his debts.

Though he wrote that slavery was evil, he espoused a “paternalistic racism”, according to the foundation that manages his former estate, Monticello, and compared freeing slaves to “abandoning children”.

Roger
Roger
October 20, 2021 11:06 am

NYC going to the dogs and they’re arguing about a statue.

struth
struth
October 20, 2021 11:08 am
Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
October 20, 2021 11:08 am

A capricious and uncertain environment makes it easy to abuse the people. No one wants to cop a huge fine for doing something they thought was perfectly “legal”. So they self-limit, self-censor.

And they are disproportionately thankful for small mercies.

The CMO Druids and The Science are absolutely key to making this process politically safe.

twostix
twostix
October 20, 2021 11:08 am

Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some. The sight of this arbitrary rearrangement of riches strikes not only at security but [also] at confidence in the equity of the existing distribution of wealth.

Those to whom the system brings windfalls, beyond their deserts and even beyond their expectations or desires, become “profiteers,” who are the object of the hatred of the bourgeoisie, whom the inflationism has impoverished, not less than of the proletariat. As the inflation proceeds and the real value of the currency fluctuates wildly from month to month, all permanent relations between debtors and creditors, which form the ultimate foundation of capitalism, become so utterly disordered as to be almost meaningless; and the process of wealth-getting degenerates into a gamble and a lottery.

Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.

australia-money-supply-m1
RBABalanceSheet

MatrixTransform
October 20, 2021 11:10 am

test -> text

twostix
twostix
October 20, 2021 11:11 am

QLD hotels in SEQ seem booked solid on weekends.

Instead of Bali and NSW people have to holiday locally now and that’s filling up rooms more than people think.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 20, 2021 11:16 am

JCsays:

October 20, 2021 at 10:41 am

Sanchez

I only received a few notices over the 10 or so years he owned the site. So no it wasn’t common.

What I mean is that others have made similar comments about people threatening other commenters and Sinc with litigation over trivial issues.

Bushkid
Bushkid
October 20, 2021 11:20 am

calli says:
October 20, 2021 at 9:10 am
The Severe Weather Season full of Extreme Events.

They should sell tickets.

Indeed, Calli.

Heard a breathless ABC weather report the other day “warn” that some suburbs of Brisvegas could expect “up to 20mm of rain in an hour”!

20mm in 10 minutes would hardly lay the dust. It seems the BOM have gone full retard on the panic and warnings over the past few years. Everyone used to know that spring storms could be violent, and even dump a bit of rain or hail. It seems that the more information people have access to via the internet, and the more they watch TV series, the more removed from reality they have become.

I’ve come across people who can quote story lines and even dialogue from shows on TV and Netflix or whatever, yet haven’t the slightest knowledge of weather cycles, what the squiggly lines on the weather map mean, or even why we have seasons. What used to be known in primary school seems to be jaw-dropping revelation to adults now, or even beyond their comprehension. The general ignorance is dismaying.

No wonder so many have fallen for the “global warming”, covid and jab stuff – their entire reality is on TV and their “smart” phones.

Rorschach
Rorschach
October 20, 2021 11:27 am

why-is-data-about-deaths-being-held-back?

No idea. Been following this detailed – normally weekly – summary. Archive of all available here:

https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/covid-19/Pages/weekly-reports-archive.aspx

It contains data of reinfections, and cases and deaths with / without vaccines. It has not been updated since the last report on 4 September.

miltonf
miltonf
October 20, 2021 11:27 am

Yes interesting Roger- the more I think about WWI the more I understand what an absolute disaster it has been for the west. I still look at the young men’s and boys’ names and think what a loss. What a disgusting waste of young lives and lives of their children who were never born and the lives of those women who never married.

struth
struth
October 20, 2021 11:28 am

why-is-data-about-deaths-being-held-back?

No idea.

sigh.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 20, 2021 11:32 am

Instead of Bali and NSW people have to holiday locally now and that’s filling up rooms more than people think.

Some data.
Latest Queensland Tourism data shows that International visitor numbers FY June 21 were 49,000.
Down by 97.5%.
That implies a previous baseline of 2,000,000 International visitors, excluding the rest of Australia.
You are not replacing that volume out of a Queensland population of 5,000,000.
This is the line being pushed by PalaceChook and Miles.
“Queensland holidays are for Queenssslanders”.
I’m not buying it.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
October 20, 2021 11:34 am

Behind it all was a growing rivalry with Germany, which had only become a nation state in 1871 but was rapidly expanding its navy to rival Britain’s, not to go to war so much as to extract concessions in regard to colonial possessions, as Germany thought it deserved an empire of its own.

“Dreadnought” by Robert K Massie demonstrates in detail, by reference to tonnage and ship type and geography, that the fleet the Germans were building could have only one possible use – to support an invasion of Britain.
They may have wanted to extract concessions, but clearly the British couldn’t just sit back and watch their safety vanish. (The converse didn’t apply of course – there was zero risk to Germany of being invaded by Britain.)
So whatever failures might be attributed to Britain’s ruling class, the lion’s share of the blame has to fall on the German rulers.

[PS include “Massie” in an internet search for the book, otherwise you’ll get a load of hype for some novel with a teenage transgender hero[ine]. Unless you want to read that novel, of course.]

struth
struth
October 20, 2021 11:37 am
JC
JC
October 20, 2021 11:44 am

What I mean is that others have made similar comments about people threatening other commenters and Sinc with litigation over trivial issues.

Oh yea. He often mentioned that. Ironically the worst complaint offenders were the most abusive with racist comments directed at individuals and the regular pile on offenders. The posse and pile on offenders there were the most diabolical scum the good lord ever conceived.

Lord I wish I could name these animals, but I’m sure you get the gist of who they are.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

twostixsays:
October 20, 2021 at 11:11 am

QLD hotels in SEQ seem booked solid on weekends.
Instead of Bali and NSW people have to holiday locally now and that’s filling up rooms more than people think.

That’s 28% occupancy, or somewhere about the point where receivers get appointed.

shatterzzz
October 20, 2021 11:47 am

Woolworths have removed knives & scissors from the supermarket’s shelves after the Melbourne stabbing for safety concerns .. next week they are removing food after concerns about obesity .. LOL!

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure

Sancho Panzer says:
October 20, 2021 at 11:32 am

Latest Queensland Tourism data shows that International visitor numbers FY June 21 were 49,000.

Closed border. 49,000 international visitors.

shatterzzz
October 20, 2021 11:49 am
John of Mel
John of Mel
October 20, 2021 11:51 am

Indolent

Covid-19 is a plandemic. Check it for yourself

This is from Canada. Not easy to explain away.

I tried to replicate his result, but couldn’t.
Is he a bs artist, or did Canada’s gov quickly remove the “offending” page? Not sure.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 20, 2021 11:51 am

49,000 footballers, WAGs, reality TV show contestants and people from Hollywood got to go to Queensland in the FY ending June 2021.

There we go.

miltonf
miltonf
October 20, 2021 11:56 am

This is interesting…
Real Mark Latham
@RealMarkLatham
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Major development in the NSW upper house tonight where Liberal, Nationals and Labor have combined to allow the Government tracking of Electric Vehicle movements without owners’ consent.
A great advertisement for sticking with your petrol-driven private vehicle.

I also wonder about cars with built in sat-nav. Do they have a sim card? At least you still have the option not to carry your smart phone everywhere you go.

Shy Ted
Shy Ted
October 20, 2021 11:57 am

Dr Faustussays: October 20, 2021 at 9:59 am

She’s on the NPC today.

One of Australia’s most influential people in research and technology innovation, Dr Katherine Woodthorpe AO, delivers the 2021 Ralph Slatyer Address on Science and Society.

Sigh. Ence.

miltonf
miltonf
October 20, 2021 11:57 am

Why do people like the parrot? He wouldn’t be there without Photios’s approval.

Diogenes
Diogenes
October 20, 2021 11:59 am

“Dreadnought” by Robert K Massie demonstrates in detail, by reference to tonnage and ship type and geography, that the fleet the Germans were building could have only one possible use – to support an invasion of Britain.

While the theory is valid, it can only go so far. Britain built the RN, in terms of the number of capital ships(Battleships & large cruisers) was to be larger than the next 2 largest navies combined. Britain also had a much larger specialised industrial(ie large shipyards and guns) base & treasury to build ships than Germany. Germany could never outbuild Britain as it simply did not have the shipyards nor large gun manufacturing capability, and it would have crippled the German treasury to even try to expand this capacity.

miltonf
miltonf
October 20, 2021 11:59 am

Dr Katherine Woodthorpe
Who? Oh another don.

twostix
twostix
October 20, 2021 12:09 pm

Date 5 October 2021

At its meeting today, the Board decided to:

= maintain the cash rate target at 10 basis points and the interest rate on Exchange Settlement balances at zero per cent
– maintain the target of 10 basis points for the April 2024 Australian Government bond
– continue to purchase government securities at the rate of $4 billion a week until at least mid February 2022.

continue to purchase government securities at the rate of $4 billion a week until at least mid February 2022.”

Just another 68 billion dollars.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
October 20, 2021 12:09 pm

Britain built the RN, in terms of the number of capital ships(Battleships & large cruisers) was to be larger than the next 2 largest navies combined.

Then the US took over Britain’s rôle. Now they have admiral Rachel.

So much for the anglosphere. We’re gone.

miltonf
miltonf
October 20, 2021 12:15 pm

Yes I was only 15 or 16 when I watched I Claudius but I remember an orgy with a transvestite. Just like modern Washington DC.

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