You know whats funny.
There is probably some glowie sitting in a FBI/ASIO/signals directorate trying to crack the “lathe code” on this site full of garage natzis.

“30NB upgrade spindles, hmmm, that could be a code for a 303 converted to full auto”????

I am very close to blurting out Nancy Wakeisms.

Even if it were possible to sustain mass protests week after week, “familiarity breeds contempt” might kick in.

The contemporary Australian political process absolutely depends on the Voter Goldfish model.

If you can survive the first days/ weeks of any shock-horror imbroglio, you can hope that it will have sunk gently back into the ooze at the bottom of the cesspit.

It’s the job of the ‘media-as-political-agent’ to ensure that these turds are strategically resurfaced at opportune moments.
Or stay firmly buried.

Jo Nova has a piece about the awful WHO wanting to kick off a new treaty so that all nations can be made toe the line on Pandemics as well as climate. Just what we need, another supra-national clusterferk of power hungry political hyenas.

And that’s why, seemingly the whole world’s elites were trying to get rid of Trump.
He understands their game and is willing to play against them.

The UN merely pushes the agenda of the US establishment.

It operates from and is largely funded by the United States.

In case of an Omicron attack.
Duck and cover
Duck and cover.

It just says “Old lathe good for parts AL-340A” and has photos.

It may be of use.

Don’t be to scared of the rust, relatively bright red so hasn’t been that way for to long. Big question is where’s the tailstock? D1-4 spindle nose, 40NB spindle nose. H&F can probably still get you parts for it, it may even still be a current model.

The Benefits of Vaccinating Kids against COVID Far Outweigh the Risks of Myocarditis

Leaving aside the strong assumptions about the known unknown health effects on small children, the Scientific American piece actually strays across the key sensitivity in the modelling:

FDA researchers also modeled the risk-benefit tradeoff for vaccinating kids under higher and lower rates of COVID transmission and hospitalization. Under the lower-transmission scenario, the risks of myocarditis from vaccination could potentially exceed the benefits of vaccination, especially for males.

Very hard to justify a briskly confident “Far Outweigh” conclusion from modelling:

• which is based on no real data;
• shows an inconclusive benefit; and
• scenario testing that shows the opposite outcome.

In any other technical environment, anyone trying to support a risky proposal with major consequences on that basis would be shown the door.
Toot sweet.

(Disclaimer: Filthily vaccinated, COW, Whore to Socialism, awaiting certain death, etc etc.)

The first ‘covid death’ in the NT.

A late 70s, heavily comorbid indig woman from a community outside Katherine. Got it in quarantine from Howard Springs, shipped to RDH where she dropped off the perch. No ICU. No ventilators.

Just doing what comorbid old people who don’t look after themselves do, but it will be viewed as Armageddon by what passes for government here.

I’m 30 minutes out from boarding. Just give me that half hour.

My wife bought our dog a kangaroo tail bone which he happily trotted thru our house and dropped behind the couch.

Our (late) dog performed a DIY version of this trick with a well-aged possum corpse.

Luckily we don’t have carpets.

Australia omicron and vaccinations
Dr. John Campbell

As a new article reveals the levels of influence Bill Gates has within media – which he has bankrolled to the tune of millions of dollars – we ask, is Bill Gates’s image all a creation of his own making?
Russell Brand

The UN merely pushes the agenda of the US establishment.

It operates from and is largely funded by the United States.

That rather depends on who is driving the train. This article, from the ‘United Nations University’, illustrates the international socialist panic when Trump was elected.

The UN in the Era of Trump

Much as parts of her stuff reduce men to ravaging caricatures, when shes right, shes right.

Bindel takes the whole MAP issue out behind the woodshed for a well deserved flogging.

https://thecritic.co.uk/call-a-child-rapist-a-child-rapist/

John of Melsays:
December 3, 2021 at 12:46 pm
Jo Nova has a piece about the awful WHO wanting to kick off a new treaty so that all nations can be made toe the line on Pandemics as well as climate. Just what we need, another supra-national clusterferk of power hungry political hyenas.

And that’s why, seemingly the whole world’s elites were trying to get rid of Trump.
He understands their game and is willing to play against them.

Trump stated “they aren’t after me, they are after YOU.”

In a previous life, I graduated from university as an actor with an associate diploma in theatre arts. Thankfully, it cured me of the idiotic desire to perform for strangers in a darkened room.

So it now sickens me to see a paid liar like Alec Baldwin, whose only professional skill is emoting on demand, “breaking down” for the cameras and denying he shot and killed a cinematographer on the set of the moving he was acting in when he admits the gun went off in his hands.

In other words, he’s trying to trick leftard idiots into believing he’s not guilty of manslaughter – in advance of any trial.

Baldwin is doing what every US Democrat has decided is the best way of avoiding justice – to buy, intimidate or otherwise influence the judge or jury.

Perth gym scene must be different to the Sydney gym scene.
But there’ll be some feisty cougars prowling the weight stands at Curves now…

Professor Mattias Desmet talks about his work that connects past historical episodes of what is called “Mass Formation” (aka Mass Psychosis) and current events. The risks are as grave as they come. Unless a few brave and courageous people are willing to stand up and say “I don’t agree!” history suggests that we will end up with a fully totalitarian outcome.

Beryl : But I gave you my $5 for the powerball.

Shazza : No you didn’t Beryl, that was for the previous syndicate you owed us for.

You can’t really deny we are living in the times that may be called the Revenge of the Nazis.

Block quote fail

Perhaps the best obituary for Christian Kerr was written 17 years ago. It also dates me, as I was subscribed to the Crikey mailing list in this era (never becoming paid up, though) before moving on to Bolt’s pre-blog letters-to-the-columnist page, Blair and The Cat. H/T.

Crikey! Name behind column comes clean on dishing dirt
July 4, 2004 — 10.00am

It started as an idea to expose what was going on behind the scenes in politics and the media.

It was fomented over a drink in a pub in Sydney with maverick Victorian journalist Stephen Mayne. It was named after an identity used by James Bond. And it became Australia’s most notorious tell-all political column.

Featured on the Crikey.com.au site since 2000, Hillary Bray’s funkily written grab-bag of tidbits, gossip and stories has caused blow-ups, political pile-ups, shunnings and shamings.

The curiosity about the well-placed gossip columnist took on a life of its own. A string of hapless politicians, staffers, journalists and others stood accused of being Hillary Bray, while others devoted time and resources to the quest.

Leads pointed to someone well connected in the Liberal Party, the press gallery, or maybe a lobbyist. Everyone had a theory.

Now the real Hillary has drawn up his 188-centimetre frame and confessed to The Sunday Age, telling a remarkable story of political pressure that took him to the bottom of the bottle and out again.

Backroom boy Christian Kerr, 39, former staff member to a string of federal Liberals and a premier, has spent four years stirring the political and media world with a constant stream of delicious and sometimes highly vicious gossip.

Writing runs in the blood. He comes from three generations of journalists, and by 14 was seriously interested in the confrontational tactics of punk rock, political image-making and getting a grounding in the mix of satire, gossip and investigative journalism by reading Britain’s Private Eye.

Kerr calls himself “a weird Liberal – an economic dry who needed the social dimension”. He did stints as a party office-bearer, worked for a string of moderates and in campaign headquarters in the 1996 federal election.

A former employer, Senator Robert Hill, earns the rating of “a secular saint”, his time with Senator Amanda Vanstone was “terribly frustrating”. Advising former South Australian premier John Olsen was “soul-destroying stuff”.

Despite the excitement of the work, the pressures started mounting. A social drug habit (a bit of ecstasy, a bit of cocaine) had morphed into the beginnings of an alcohol problem as he got caught up in more compromise.

“On the surface I was pretending to be cool and unrattled,” he said. “I wore a double-breasted suit, french cuffs and a f–k-you tie during the day.” He wasn’t alone. He said any number of staff members were out of their depth, under pressure to make major decisions, not necessarily with the skills to do so.

The answer was: “Don’t worry, have another glass of red”, living on wine and takeaway at night in order to cope during the day.

He started suffering depression and “huge self-doubt” in a world where, he says: “There are no support mechanisms”.

By 1999 he was sick, burnt-out, disillusioned, and he left. In that mood he told journalist and former Jeff Kennett press secretary Mayne that he hated what Mayne was doing on the jeffed.com site, but “loved the way it was said. It was erratic, passionate and took enormous courage”.

The spin and the sheer amount of information kept from the public and understated by the media concerned them both.

Mayne offered Kerr the job as Crikey’s political gossip columnist. By then he had a corporate affairs position, so he had to take the Crikey job anonymously.

It was, he said, “a bit of a lark – I wasn’t doing anything else Sunday afternoons”. From the moment the column appeared with an email address dangling tantalisingly at the end, the gossip came flying in – from ministers, CEOs, insiders and outsiders.

Kerr used his extensive knowledge to add information and pull it together with devastating effect.

Virtually nothing was off limits – personal and lobbying relationships, spin and damage control were laid bare.

“Hillary became a grotesque caricature,” said Kerr. “She used too much alliteration, her style was tabloid infused with pop culture and historical references. She became a monster.”

Two years into it, he said, Hillary was almost out of control. While the information was pouring in, the columns were pouring out, he was pouring down the grog. “I think you will find there are enough journalists who do that,” he said. “Hillary was a manifestation of how unhappy I was.”

Kerr had “absolutely hit the wall” trying to cure anger and disillusionment with both the bottle and the pen.

Mayne pulled his star columnist up during the hard times and was, said Kerr, “incredibly supportive”. Kerr went teetotal about 15 months ago – “there were only two ways I could go”.

He does have regrets – losing himself, hurting some people with stories and the isolation.

“I did Hillary because I had a lack of belief in myself – that is why I am coming out now.”

Some stories under the byline were not his, some were wrong.

Kerr said he did not knowingly publish anything that was untrue, though asking if a senator had ordered Campari in a rural pub recently was a margin call.

Drawing on the speech Robert Kennedy gave the night Martin Luther King was shot, Kerr said his motivating factor was unpacking politics and shaking out the secrets and lies.

“It’s terribly important to me,” he said. “It’s what politics can be unspun.”

Coming out is not the end of Hillary Bray. But Kerr said he was relieved to have reclaimed himself.

He is doing a masters degree in politics at Adelaide University and, after being described as Australia’s most feared columnist, has decided to take a tilt at mainstream journalism.

Now that’s scary.

The constitution overrides state law anyway.
Something scomo shat on along time ago.
It would have prevented alol thgis, and there are supreme constitutional Laws banning what Daniels has done.
The Victorian laws, are constitutionally invalid, because quarantine can only be practiced by the feds and you can’t coerce vaccines either.
So pray tell good citizen, what is Sco mo introducing a law for?

This is called theatre.

Tom, were you ever a member of the Film Actors Guild?

You’re a constitutional lawyer now, Struth?

Why?
I went to school and can read English.
It’s not efan gort big words or nuffink like that an it’s rool easy ‘n that.

Watched Aussie movie ‘Mystery Road’ last night, because someone near and dear was peripherally involved in the prequel being filmed near Kalgoorlie now.
Interesting. To start with I thought it was going to be pretty ABC-ish, but actually there was a lot going for it.
It shows much misrepresentation and disrespect for the reality of outback policing and the disciplined people who do it. Also cartoonish flat characters for far-out rural white people.
In the end the shitty reality of life for many substance-affected white, aboriginal and mixed families was not too badly represented.
And the gunfight at the end! Bloody stupidity portrayed as bloody stupidity, a really fitting wrap to the rest of the story.

America doesn’t have communist elites?
Since when?
Will people stop trying to muddy the waters with bullshit.
Call a fucking spade a spade.

It shows much misrepresentation and disrespect for the reality of outback policing and the disciplined people who do it. Also cartoonish flat characters for far-out rural white people.

And in a special for you struth, they tried to blame mysterious ‘truckies’ for murdering an aboriginal girl who was ‘on the game’ to be ‘on the gear’.

Labor to target inner-city Greens voters with community battery rollout

G Scale railway progress. The little bloke and I had a fair crack at it this morning. Still waiting on Bunnings to deliver our ballast and the glue to hold it down!

https://imgur.com/gallery/6gNv8ai

G Scale railway progress. The little bloke and I had a fair crack at it this morning. Still waiting on Bunnings to deliver our ballast and the glue to hold it down!

Looking good, Rick!

New series of Mystery Road is currently being filmed at Coolgardie in WA.

A crew and I had to drive up to Kalgoorlie to do a ballasting job down at Salmon Gums about 2 weeks ago, and had to do a big detour around Main Street. The place is old and semi-desert outpost, so perfect for a Western-style show like that.

struthsays:
December 3, 2021 at 2:19 pm
You can’t really deny we are living in the times that may be called the Revenge of the Nazis.

struth, if you go back to the tweet you posted, scroll down to see the standard of Oz journalism. hint, it’s not pronounced “appateed”.

A New COVID Variant Discovered – SOUTH PARK: POST COVID

The constitution overrides state law anyway.

No it does not, you old fool.

The Constitution and Federation permit States to follow their own Constitutions (whether clearly enunciated in State Consitutions like NSW, or scattered between 7 or 8 separate pieces of Legislation like WA’s). Each allows for every State to act in the name of the good governance of it people. That includes Environmental regulations, health and quarantine, policing, taxation and so forth.

The only time the Federal Government can involve itself (s.51 Powers) is where a State’s planned or enacted activity will interfere with a Federal responsibility (e.g. Defence) or something that is internationally binding. The Tasmanian Dams case under Bob Hawke is a deliberately stretched example (using a UN Treaty as an excuse to interfere on behalf of Tasmanian Greens and leftwits for local political advantage).

Quarantines amd various Emergency Acts always were and are a State purview. Before any Federal legislation to harmonise or deal with international requirements (i.e. international port and airport arrivals) get brought in.

says:
December 3, 2021 at 3:38 pm

Pauline Hanson’s Please Explain Episode 5 “Please Explain Climate Change” Guest Star #GretaThunberg

I’d vote for her for that alone.

rickw:

G Scale railway progress. The little bloke and I had a fair crack at it this morning. Still waiting on Bunnings to deliver our ballast and the glue to hold it down!

You are an awesome dad.
Would you like to adopt me?

Please email Scott Morrison – form online to contact- just google ‘contact PM’- and ask him to cancel the Health and Wellbeing pandemic bill 2021.

Please also email the Attorney General Micahaelia Cash and her assistant the Hon. Amanda Stoker to uphold their positions of power and cancel the bill. (Amanda Stoker is already on record as having said she would cancel it if it went through).

By what mechanism would it be *cancelled*?

I can’t see them doing this, even though they have the power to do this, and in my opinion, a moral obligation.

I have a feeling Morrison would gladly join the Happiness Patrol. Stoker would be happy he was glad. Cash would be glad she’s happy.

Quarantines amd various Emergency Acts always were and are a State purview. Before any Federal legislation to harmonise or deal with international requirements (i.e. international port and airport arrivals) get brought in.

This is why the National Cabinet exists. To harmonise the States’responses with the Feds and their various legal requirements. In a Struth-level explanation: “To stop everyone stepping on each others’ toes, mate!”

That this has never, ever been adequately explained to anyone is an indictment on our Education system and the media.

The PM is not a US President, with direct involvement and final veto power or his own legislative enacting capability through Executive Orders. We understand their system better than ours, due to the power of Pop Culture.

The only time the Federal Government can involve itself (s.51 Powers) is where a State’s planned or enacted activity will interfere with a Federal responsibility (e.g. Defence) or something that is internationally binding.

So the Universal Declaration of human rights doesn’t fit under the this condition?

That last sentence is rather awkward isn’t it?

Clive Palmer is looking to challenge Andrews Pandemic Bill in court, he’ll take it all the way, using his own money. Now I know a lot here despise him but he is about the only one doing anything about it and using his own money. So tell me again how bad he is.

Is there a link, sfw? This could be awesome if true because we know the Slomo will do nothing to protect the rights of Victorians.

So the Universal Declaration of human rights doesn’t fit under the this condition?

No. Regardless of its ratification status in Parliament, that is a figleaf/bureaucratic compliance statement like the Victorian Human Rights Bill. I.E. “This Act complies with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by…”

Remember that the Tasmanian Dams case was predicated on a UN Treaty obligation. And really it was a stretch to justify it.

The Belt and Road Bill was canned under some other assessment of being an international sovereign risk. Like if a State tried to contract Huawei for some big IT job.

Or if WA enacted some legislation that would screw with SA and the NT. It could be struck down by Canberra under s.51 if WA refused to amend it.

Or if WA enacted some legislation that would screw with SA and the NT. It could be struck down by Canberra under s.51 if WA refused to amend it.

ahem..
https://auspublaw.org/2020/09/clive-palmer-takes-a-sovereign-risk-challenging-the-authority-of-wa-parliament/
On 13 August 2020, the Western Australian Parliament amended the Mineralogy State Agreement (referred to by commentators as the ‘Palmer Act’). The Palmer Act abolishes the rights of particular companies and persons (the rights of Mineralogy Pty Ltd, International Minerals Pty Ltd and Clive Palmer as a director of Mineralogy) to seek damages for an alleged breach of a State Agreement term, namely, the State Development Minister’s (Colin Barnett’s) 2012 failure to approve the Balmoral South Iron Ore Project development proposal (‘Balmoral mine’). Mr Palmer’s statement that the legislation is ‘draconian and disgraceful’ was joined by commentators who have described the Act as ‘an outrageous abuse of power’ that ‘violates fundamental legal principles’. The WA Law Society stated that the new law departs from the ‘rule of law’, which entails that ‘all people whatever their status are subject to the ordinary law of the land. Departure from that principle has the capacity to affect the foundation of our democracy’. While the Act is unusual, it is within the power of the state legislature to acquire property rights including rights to a cause of action without compensation.

Excellent

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-03/bhps-vaccine-mandate-unlawful-fair-work-commission-finds/100673390

The mongoloid horde in charge of WA are fiercely protecting us from…

/spins wheel…

Rapid antigen testing kits being available for use.

Im supposed to design a way to get the site out of restrictions, yet the only tool i have available is banned on penalty of 20/100 thousand dollar fines.

Theres not even a figleaf of rationale behind this.
This is pretty well the entire act.
https://www.wa.gov.au/system/files/2021-09/Prohibition-on-the-use-of-Rapid-Antigen-Testing-No2.pdf
I, Dr Andrew Robertson, the Chief Health Officer, authorised as an emergency officer under
section 4 of the Act to exercise any of the emergency powers while the public health state of
emergency declaration in respect of COVID-19 is in force, consider it reasonably necessary to
give the following directions to all persons in Western Australia to prevent, control or abate
the serious public health risk presented by COVID-19 pursuant to sections 157(1)(k) and
190(1)(p) of the Act.
PREAMBLE
1. The purpose of these directions is to prohibit a person from using a SARS-Co V-2 rapid
antigen test (“Rapid Antigen Test”) as an acute illness diagnostic tool for COVID-19,
as their use may adversely affect the prevention, control and abatement of the serious
public health risk presented by COVID-19.*
CITATION
2. These directions may be referred to as the Prohibition on the Use of Rapid Antigen
Test Directions (No 2).
COMMENCEMENT
3. These directions come into effect upon signing.
DIRECTIONS
4. Unless otherwise directed under the Act, a person must not use a Rapid Antigen Test
as a tool to detect or diagnose COVID-19.
5. Despite the operation of paragraph 4 above, a person may undertake a Rapid Antigen
Test as a tool to detect COVID-19 as directed under paragraph 14 of the Transport,
Freight and Logistics Directions (No 4) as amended or replaced from time to time.
PENALTIES
It is an offence for a person to fail, without reasonable excuse, to comply with any of these
directions, punishable by a fine of up to $20,000 for individuals and $100,000 for bodies
corporate.

*Bullshit, just spastic bullshit. “oooh if we let people test themselves they might not get vaccinated”….

So if someone gets the coof in my remote location i shall swab their nasal cavities, then freight out the sample and wait the 2-3 days for a result.
Awesome logic.

custardsays:
December 3, 2021 at 4:57 pm
Excellent

+++
They couldnt wait to slobber over government choad, I hope it costs them a shitton.

World Rugby 7’s on YouTube from Dubai.

Not one team taking the knee.

I don’t know who Bradbury is

It’s Morrison. Nicknamed for his falling over the line performance in 2019, like Steve Bradbury’s gold medal in speed skating at the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics when all the other competitors took each other out 10 metres from the finish line and he skated through.

You are useless Arek Barwin you are useless Arek Barwin…

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/dec/03/alec-baldwin-questions-how-bullet-got-on-rust-set-in-emotional-abc-interview
In a clip from the interview released Wednesday, Stephanopoulos asked Baldwin, who was also a producer on the film, to confirm that the script didn’t call for the trigger to be pulled. “Well, the trigger wasn’t pulled. I didn’t pull the trigger,” Baldwin says.

The actor said he “let go of the hammer” on the weapon and the gun went off. “I never pulled the trigger,” he said.

So he basically did the idiot equivalent of “fanning the hammer’
From 1:45 on this clip shows it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr0azVhRZUQ

Pulling the hammer back (cocking the pistol) and releasing the hammer before it locked and engaged the trigger.

I may be wring, Im going off an old rifle my granddad had where you could fire it just pulling the hammer back about 2/3 of the way then letting it go.

Ya gotta admit that slomo is no different to trumble, he just has a different smirk on his face as he fks us over.
The old bullshit of vote for lnp because they aren’t labor is total dogshit, they are labor.
The next election will define the future of Australia, if either of these shithouse party traitors get the reins again we are fkd.

Scomo has the same judgement as Turnbull. Fatally flawed.

Gruinaid commentators showing they really truely care about “a society”, not individuals.

Note: These are all acceptable comments on the ferociously moderated comments.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/02/omicron-restrictions-prejudice-against-unvaccinated-people-virus#comments
Deny the unvaccinated NHS treatment or unemployment benefits, it’s very simple.
Don’t want to fulfil the (tiny) obligations of living in a society? Then you don’t get the benefits that brings either.
What an absolute bunch of cry babies these people are.
….
Being prejudiced against the unvaccinated is rather like being prejudiced against drunk drivers. It’s their choice not only to put their own lives at risk but also everyone else’s by creating conditions in which the virus can spread and mutate.
…
I have no sympathy with those who could get vaccinated from shirking their duty to do so. It’s anti-social and they act are breeding grounds for mutations that they then pass on to vulnerable people.
…
The reason why the vaccinated are being put on to a hamster wheel of vaccination every three months isn’t to protect them – it’s to protect the unvaccinated.

If you’ve had two vaccinations you have protection against serious illness and death. But our immunity is to be kept topped up to maximum to keep cases down, lest the unvaccinated catch Covid. They are vulnerable, but they refuse to protect themselves.

The lunacy on display is bracing.

JMH, instead of having a dig at Palmer, support him?

JMH, I have no problem with that, but you insinuated that clive put his money where his mouth is, i merely asked what you were doing in support?
Instead you have a dig at me.

I’m somewhat bemused to read the debate about the relative weight of Commonwealth versus State law. It’s not as if Australia is presently operating under the rule of law. Wherever the ALP is in office, the law is whatever the ALP wants it to be. And the Libs are almost exactly the same: wherever the Libs are in office, the law is still whatever the ALP wants it to be. If the Libs had sense or courage or principle or just a basic decent respect for fellow citizens, they’d recognise Diktator Dan’s Enabling Act for what it is and either find or (if necessary) create a legal basis to smash it.* But no. The Libs can’t ever fight back. Because . . . reasons.

* And, at the same time, conduct an eye-wateringly proctological special investigation of ALP / union crime in Victoria that would focus Dan Andrews’ time and energy on staying out prison.

I heard one say “Aut cum scuto, aut in scuto”

Assuming you introduced yourself as Biggus Dickus and offered the young ladies dibs on first and second conjugations.

From that Aus Clinical info site

“Overlapping and combined phases of clinical trials, the urgency of a need for a safe and effective vaccine, international collaborative efforts, funding and pre-planning in manufacturing have allowed vaccine development time-frame to be compressed to about 10 months. COVID-19 vaccines are being rolled out for emergency use authorisation in several countries. However, as there are limited safety data, full registration of the vaccine will only be given after extended safety monitoring, which will take several years (refer to Figure 2)”.

Which means I may roll up for a jab.

In several years.

Runnybumsays:
December 3, 2021 at 5:54 pm
JMH, I have no problem with that, but you insinuated that clive put his money where his mouth is, i merely asked what you were doing in support?
Instead you have a dig at me.

Listen up. I was not having a go at you. You came in guns blazing re whether I support/non-support Clive and I answered your question. I’m sure my replies were in basic English!

Peace JMH.

Gruinaid commentators showing they really truely care about “a society”, not individuals.

scratch the left’s “compassion” and it is clearly utterly fake

Sounds like it is, only has one lever over the back for changing feed direction?

Yes, that’s it.

Cool, I’ll send you a spindle when I run a few off.