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Massacre of the Innocents, Jacopo Tintoretto, 1582-8


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Zipster
Zipster
December 9, 2021 3:43 pm

On a another note, I read this today. I don’t know who accurate it is but it certainly seems plausible.

crackpot stuff, someone would have noticed by now that your white blood cell count is low in the 100s of millions vaccinated

srr
srr
December 9, 2021 3:44 pm

Rex Anger says:
December 9, 2021 at 2:06 pm
I can vividly imagine him driving down Hunter St with twin overhead foxtails going uurrrrrh at sight of anything female.

He clearly never let a chance go by…

[Oh Lord]

#WhatAreYa?!

#WotAreYou?!

Thanks for the memouries –

Bob Hudson – The Newcastle song.1975, #1,(4),
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZSSYqHYjxY

The songs lyrics describe the actions of novocastrian males driving along Hunter Street Newcastle. The car of choice is of course, the FJ Holden with drive down Hunter Street in their hot FJ Holdens with chrome plated grease nipples and double reverse overhead twin cam door handles.

Aside from its topical humour and catchy chorus, the song was an incisive piece of social commentary. Hudson had been performing the song for several years before recording it. Hudson wrote a straight novelty sequel to `The Newcastle Song called `Rak Off Normie, which Maureen Elkner recorded. The single reached #6 in June. Folk/blues singer Margret Roadknight covered another of Hudsons social-observations-set-in-song, `Girls in our Town (from The Newcastle Song) and scored a minor hit in the process. Hudson and Roadknight later toured together.

MAUREEN ELKNER RAK OFF NORMIE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6XNhMpO7Bw

Frank
Frank
December 9, 2021 3:46 pm

Defiling Day.

The thing about modern progressive sensibilities is that the concept of defilement is fluid and becoming more perverse as time goes by. Merely sticking a stake through the heart will probably not cut it for the kids in 2100. Couple that with advances in science it isn’t hard to imagine reanimating some piece of biltong and tormenting it on national TV before putting it back in the crypt.

A girl can dream anyway.

Fuckers cancelled my pool membership for not having a vaccination passport. Pity that being healthy is one of the best defences against the pox.

areff
areff
December 9, 2021 3:46 pm

Hudson always looked up to Roadknight.

Kneel
Kneel
December 9, 2021 3:47 pm

“…double reverse overhead twin cam door handles.”

DOHC = Double Overhead Headlight Covers.

Ellen of Tasmania
Ellen of Tasmania
December 9, 2021 3:51 pm

Reprint from ICAN’s lead attorney, Aaron Siri, posted at aaronsiri.substack.com

A prior post explained that the FDA has asked a federal judge to make the public wait until the year 2076 to disclose all of the data and information it relied upon to license Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. Literally, a 55-year delay. My firm, on behalf of PHMPT, asked that this information be disclosed in 108 days – the same amount of time it took for the FDA to review and license Pfizer’s vaccine.

The Court ordered the parties to submit briefs in support of their respective positions by December 6, 2021. The FDA’s brief, incredibly, doubles down. It now effectively asks to have until at least 2096 to produce the Pfizer documents. Not a typo. A total of at least 75 years.

Other than producing an initial ~12,000 pages in around two months, the FDA thereafter only wants to commit to producing 500 pages per month. The FDA also disclosed that it actually has approximately at least 451,000 pages to produce.*

Each side gets to file response briefs on December 13, 2021, and then there is oral argument on December 14, 2021 before the Judge. If you want to read the response to the FDA’s position, a copy of the introduction in the brief my firm filed is below. And below that, a downloadable copy of each side’s full briefing is available.

Enjoy. And if you find what you are reading difficult to believe – that is because it is dystopian for the government to give Pfizer billions, mandate Americans to take its product, prohibit Americans from suing for harms, but yet refuse to let Americans see the data underlying its licensure. The lesson yet again is that civil and individual rights should never be contingent upon a medical procedure.

*In addition to the original 329,000+ pages, the FDA discloses there is another “approximately 39,000 pages,” an additional “tens of thousands of additional pages,” and an additional 126 data files, many of which have over ten thousand rows for which the FDA intends to treat twenty rows as one page. Assuming an average of only ten thousand rows per data file, and that its amorphous “tens of thousands of additional pages” amounts to 20,000 pages, the grand total is at least 451,000 pages.

https://www.icandecide.org/ican_press/the-fda-now-asks-judge-to-grant-it-until-2096-to-fully-release-pfizers-covid-19-vaccine-data/

calli
calli
December 9, 2021 3:53 pm

Okay. The Beloved is almost 70 and was double vaxxed by June this year.

If his white cell count is so immuno-suppressed, why hasn’t the bugger got sick? Why, oh why must I wait so long for his insurance payout?

In other news, he just told they had 5 cases of Corona at liquorland and he was going up to get them. I nearly freaked out, my mind being on something altogether else. How come the vaxx hasn’t suppressed the rotter’s sense of humour also?

Razey
Razey
December 9, 2021 3:53 pm

rickwsays:
December 9, 2021 at 3:17 pm
It was very a poor quality recording. Bandwidth was the issue, getting audio and video from so far away, no Zoom meetings on the moon in those days.

They used Fourier Transform for the analogue signal conversion to digital and then back.

They need to use Fast Fourier Transforms 😉

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 9, 2021 3:57 pm

Navy recruit told to stay quiet about Operation Resolute horrors lest his career be affected
Alex Druce
4 min read
December 9, 2021 – 3:16PM
NCA NewsWire

A serving member of the Australian navy, who was badly affected after carrying dead asylum seekers out of the ocean, says he was told by an on-base psychologist to keep his feelings to himself, lest his career be affected.

Harrowing evidence given to the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide on Thursday included testimony from an anonymous serviceman who said soldiers’ mental health struggles were often treated by Defence Force officers as a weakness, ignored, and even used against them.

Soldier BR2 – who used a voice modifier to give evidence – said he had been deeply scarred by the lack of support provided to him during and after his stint patrolling Australia’s northern borders as part of Operation Resolute nearly 10 years ago.

He told the inquiry in Brisbane the activities carried out at sea – and the disinterest of the system to help him process them – had later manifested as post-traumatic stress disorder and suicidal ideation.
Soldier BR2 said there were other barriers to recruits seeking help, including on one ship where the psychologist’s office is located in a visible, busy area near a canteen that did not allow for discretion.

Soldier BR2 said Operation Resolute had also left him and many others questioning the sense and compassion of Australia’s wider border policy, with the detention of asylum seekers generating a sense of anger and betrayal among recruits who helped save them from drowning.

“Once you started saving these people and doing your job, it became a lot more than just doing a job … like, you cared for these people that you were saving,” soldier BR2 said.

“It was tough for us to know that these people were going to refugee camps as a political power move.”

BR2 was in his early 20s when he was posted to an Australian Navy ship patrolling the waters between the northern border and Indonesia.

He said the pre-operation training was “underwhelming” and certainly did not prepare recruits for what they would soon encounter.

srr
srr
December 9, 2021 4:00 pm

areff says:
December 9, 2021 at 3:46 pm
Hudson always looked up to Roadknight.

Why wouldn’t he –

Margret RoadKnight – Girls In Our Town (Official Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttLJ4lTrux0

rosie
rosie
December 9, 2021 4:05 pm

I’m confused. People joined the armed services in the expectation of never seeing a dead body?
Then he clearly morphs into politics.
We’ve had testimony from someone who posts here thst was involved in picking up boaties who clearly took a view that many were fakugees.

feelthebern
feelthebern
December 9, 2021 4:06 pm

I haven’t been around much.
Have you guys already discussed Cardi joining Clive & the gang?

jupes
jupes
December 9, 2021 4:07 pm

Warner gorn! 94

P
P
December 9, 2021 4:08 pm

Margret RoadKnight – Girls In Our Town (Official Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttLJ4lTrux0

My husband said she was always a pleasure to work with.

jupes
jupes
December 9, 2021 4:09 pm

Soldier BR2 said Operation Resolute had also left him and many others questioning the sense and compassion of Australia’s wider border policy, with the detention of asylum seekers generating a sense of anger and betrayal among recruits who helped save them from drowning.

“Once you started saving these people and doing your job, it became a lot more than just doing a job … like, you cared for these people that you were saving,” soldier BR2 said.

“It was tough for us to know that these people were going to refugee camps as a political power move.”

Wow. This is what basic training delivers these days. No wonder there is a mental health problem.

He said the pre-operation training was “underwhelming” and certainly did not prepare recruits for what they would soon encounter.

You think?

jupes
jupes
December 9, 2021 4:10 pm

Green! Good grief!

Rabz
December 9, 2021 4:10 pm

Filled up the car’s tank today – premium unleaded $2.10 per litre – WTF? Mind you, I haven’t bought any petrol for almost six months.

Thanks Biden, you stupid senile syphilitic criminal deadshit.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
December 9, 2021 4:13 pm

Razey answer the question or do you not have any principles?

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
December 9, 2021 4:14 pm

Jupes,
People like that make it harder for proper claims to go through DVA.
I blame the maudlin vomit inducing recruitment ads these days for the sort in the services.

jupes
jupes
December 9, 2021 4:16 pm

This Royal Commission is going to completely destroy what little is left of the fighting capability of the ADF. They will come to the conclusion that more care and compassion is needed for the frail servicemembers that their pathetic training is producing.

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
December 9, 2021 4:19 pm

Ok.
Scrolled up. Said soldier was a sailor. Say no more.

rickw
rickw
December 9, 2021 4:23 pm

This Royal Commission is going to completely destroy what little is left of the fighting capability of the ADF.

Isn’t that the objective?

rickw
rickw
December 9, 2021 4:26 pm

I’m confused. People joined the armed services in the expectation of never seeing a dead body?

I knew a bloke in the navy who avoided boarding party duties because he didn’t like those icky guns.

Obviously there’s some people who think the ADF tampon ads are real.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
December 9, 2021 4:26 pm

Say no more.

Hello thaylor!

jupes
jupes
December 9, 2021 4:26 pm

Scrolled up. Said soldier was a sailor. Say no more.

Just hopeless.

Rabz
December 9, 2021 4:30 pm

This Royal Commission is …

An absolute joke and a massive waste of taxpayers’ money, which they invariably are.

Anyone who was screeching for it to be held has been duped.

JC
JC
December 9, 2021 4:31 pm

Eyrie says:
December 9, 2021 at 9:39 am
What a pity that Dover doesn’t run Adam d.’s “No dickheads” policy here.

A natural entrepreneur, this Hallward. The Adam cat has about 4.43 commenters. I can’t imagine anyone going there to read those 4.43 galahs still posting. But Here’s Hallward advising to follow a dead site.

Hallward the aviator, always the smartest guy in the room.

Eyrie
Eyrie
December 9, 2021 4:33 pm

Reprint from ICAN’s lead attorney, Aaron Siri, posted at aaronsiri.substack.com

So how did the FDA read all that stuff and approve the vax in 108 days?

P
P
December 9, 2021 4:34 pm

Supermarkets, grocery stores could REFUSE unvaccinated in Queensland
Fraser Barton For Australian Associated Press 1 hour ago

Eyrie
Eyrie
December 9, 2021 4:34 pm

What was that noise? Nope, can’t extract any signal, just random noise.

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 9, 2021 4:34 pm

Gez

The Victorian health system is built for administration not medicine. All the worshipping of the Danbots won’t change the stats.

Now why does this remind me of an episode of Yes Prime Minister?

JC
JC
December 9, 2021 4:37 pm

Old Bloke,

I made a comment yesterday suggesting that NASA had the recording and film of the moon landings touched up by Hollywood based film experts. I’m not sure what it is that you’re trying to convey by explaining exactly how NASA did the broadcast relay live. How does any of what you’re saying invalidate my comment in that moon landing denier imbeciles have used the NASA and film expert connection to create these conspiracy theories? Please explain as I’m not getting your point.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
December 9, 2021 4:39 pm

Supermarkets, grocery stores could REFUSE unvaccinated in Queensland

I’m thinking of a movie title:

Revenge of the Unvvaxxened

JC
JC
December 9, 2021 4:39 pm

But congrats, Hallward. You’re one of the two people who have had comments removed for making defamatory/dishonest assertions about other posters here. Another feather in your cap, you ridiculous galoot.

JC
JC
December 9, 2021 4:40 pm

CL, I’ll reply a your site.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
December 9, 2021 4:41 pm

How come those moon men didn’t bring back any cheese? huh?

Boambee John
Boambee John
December 9, 2021 4:42 pm

Eyriesays:
December 9, 2021 at 4:33 pm
Reprint from ICAN’s lead attorney, Aaron Siri, posted at aaronsiri.substack.com

So how did the FDA read all that stuff and approve the vax in 108 days?

Perhaps the learned judge could ask them (or their legal representatives)?

Aaron
Aaron
December 9, 2021 4:44 pm

Hmm.
If everybody is vaxxed, how do you decide what killed those who contract Covid after vaxx?

The scenarios presented are a very small slice of society, with no mention of infection on top.

Aaron
Aaron
December 9, 2021 4:57 pm

Regarding the FDI, look at this and tell me you have any faith.

Scott Gottleib

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 9, 2021 4:59 pm

He said the pre-operation training was “underwhelming” and certainly did not prepare recruits for what they would soon encounter.

You know what training prepares you for dealing with ‘fugee boats?

Nothing.
Because nearly everyone on board is lying to you for a start. All have destroyed any proof of ID.
The very few women/children will be used by their menfolk to get what they want.
Mixed in with average chancers and genuine people will be thugs and crims of the worst sort.

It took at least 2 years of doing migration detention to get a handle on the job.
50% of people quit within a year.
Most (80% or so) in 5.

This bloke had dead bodies whereas I copped a chap landing on me out of a tree, his neck broken, then trying to stabilize his spine while other officers fought back to back to stop other detainees beating me/pulling me off him.
Thats about 8 officers vs more than 100 detainees.

Its a shit job dealing with some really shit people.

And the worst part, seeing some of the most violent criminal shits receive visas while people who were decent and didnt claim Saddam sicced his T-Rex on his village didnt get one.

twostix
twostix
December 9, 2021 5:00 pm

Supermarkets, grocery stores could REFUSE unvaccinated in Queensland

Look at these pigs, geeing up food stores to ban unvaccinated people because the government don’t yet have the numbers in QLD to round us up and send us to Toowoomba.

And suddenly Labor is all about private property rights and businessmen having the right to discriminate and also order workers what medical procedures to get if they want to keep their jobs.

Every single politician knows where the line is on this, they won’t step over, instead they’re getting dumbarse businesses to do it for them. Knowing that in 12 or 24 months if things go pear shaped they can say ‘we politicians never forced anyone to do anything…they did”.

Aaron
Aaron
December 9, 2021 5:01 pm

His partner in crime.
Albert Bourla

srr
srr
December 9, 2021 5:03 pm

Boambee John says:
December 9, 2021 at 4:34 pm
Gez

The Victorian health system is built for administration not medicine. All the worshipping of the Danbots won’t change the stats.

Now why does this remind me of an episode of Yes Prime Minister?

It all reminds me of, “The Thick Of It”, as we’ve moved well past the attempts to seem civil in the publics eyes – I also kept seeing it as the script for Kevin/Julia days, even down to the dangerous spin doctor –

The Definitive Malcolm Tucker Rant Anthology | The Thick Of It – BBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjKHPv7b3fQ

JC
JC
December 9, 2021 5:03 pm

I just re-joined the LDP having been prompted by a friend. All done and dusted along with a nice donation. It’s the only political party worth it who will not deviate from its manifesto.

Eyrie
Eyrie
December 9, 2021 5:09 pm

Which were they JC?
You are the main culprit for making posts attacking and insulting other posters or their links, with by your own admission not even reading the linked articles. Stupid. You are a bully and a blowhard but you have a glass jaw. You love handing out insults and then act all hurt when you get it back.
It is amusing watching you try to tackle logic, science or technology here. Kind of like watching a chimpanzee tackle a differential equation on a piece of paper( hint the chimp grabs the paper, eats it or wipes his arse with it.
90% of your posts attack other people or their opinions without adding any information to the discussion. The other 10% seem to be about the voodoo science of Macro Economics and I doubt you have any expertise in that. as some said the other day, stick to robbing people.
As the Russian saying goes – Nekulturny

H B Bear
H B Bear
December 9, 2021 5:09 pm

The Beetrooter has Covid? Lucky it’s not a death sentence

jupes
jupes
December 9, 2021 5:11 pm

Its a shit job dealing with some really shit people.

Exactly.

srr
srr
December 9, 2021 5:11 pm

Alec Baldwin’s Killer Publicity Stunt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncTdQty4Uzc

Dec 9, 2021
The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

Roger
Roger
December 9, 2021 5:15 pm

Knowing that in 12 or 24 months if things go pear shaped they can say ‘we politicians never forced anyone to do anything…they did”.

Small businesses are facing $13K plus fines for not complying with the government’s covid regime from 13/12. That’s a fair amount of coercion for most, I would say.

I was thinking earlier, however, that mass civil disobedienbce is the only way to push back here. Businesses should refuse to comply and refuse to pay the fines. As the ladysaid, “We are book sellers, not bouncers.”

Aaron
Aaron
December 9, 2021 5:20 pm

Fraser Coast dentist.
Check for rules re 21 Dec app.

“Oh we treat anybody and everybody here”.

Money talks and bullshit walks.

These ain’t shiny arse public servants.

Help out the good ones.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 9, 2021 5:22 pm

But remember, the Libs think their ABCcess cant be touched.

‘Dangerous monopoly’: Labor and Greens support judicial inquiry into media diversity and News Corp
Report backs call by Kevin Rudd for inquiry into Murdoch media empire and recommends probe with powers of a royal commission be established

Oooh nooo, we couldnt defund/nuke from orbit their ABCcess, how could i show my face at the yacht club BBQ…
Instead we will continue to fund it with rivers of taxpayer cash and allow it to pay its staff 6 figure salaries plus free promotion of any turgid crap they put out.

Acid test for my vote.
Will you defund/privatize/destroy the ABC?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 9, 2021 5:22 pm

We’ve had testimony from someone who posts here thst was involved in picking up boaties who clearly took a view that many were fakugees.

Many of the Chocko Cavalrymen I knew who did rotations thru Darwin between 2010 and 2012 said exactly the same thing.

Large, well-fed and arrogant Iranians (up to and including bodybuilders) with all their bling, consumer items and utter disdain for their putative hosts tended to really spoil the leftwits’ “poor, downtrodden and desperate refugees” Narrative…

JC
JC
December 9, 2021 5:25 pm

Which were they JC?

Yours. You made a defamatory comment that was a lie and it was removed by the blog owner, you dishonest piece of shit. Go ask the owner which one it was. If you’re not groveling to me trying to make nice, you’re posting angry defamatory bullshit. Seriously, fuck off.

You are the main culprit for making posts attacking and insulting other posters or their links, with by your own admission not even reading the linked articles. Stupid. You are a bully and a blowhard but you have a glass jaw.

You’re lying again.

You love handing out insults and then act all hurt when you get it back.

Go ahead and insult me. If you’re not insulting me, you’re groveling . And the groveling is about as interesting as a 300 lb sheila trying to woo me. It’s fucking revolting.

It is amusing watching you try to tackle logic, science or technology here.

It’s even more amusing watching a wanker like you pretend you’re some sort of Howard Hughes. You’re not. You’re a wanker.

Kind of like watching a chimpanzee tackle a differential equation on a piece of paper( hint the chimp grabs the paper, eats it or wipes his arse with it.

Lol… Someone at the chat room reckons you act like a big time aviator who wears a toweling hat in glider as well as pretending you’re some Howard Hughes character.. Kind of funny , no? Seriously, do you wear the toweling hat as the commenter reckons you do?

90% of your posts attack other people or their opinions without adding any information to the discussion.

You’re lying again. 90% of your posts are from propaganda sites. If it were up to me I’d kick your arse off of the site quicker than you can say Karl Denninger is a fraud.

The other 10% seem to be about the voodoo science of Macro Economics and I doubt you have any expertise in that. as some said the other day, stick to robbing people.

Who cares what you think. You post stuff from Denninger which makes you fraud as well as a fucking idiot.

As the Russian saying goes – Nekulturny

Back to you scrubber. I wouldn’t advise defaming anyone again, as it could end being your last comment here, which would be quite ironic seeing you’re always wanting other people turfed.

Now fuck off and stop talking to me, you fraud.

Rabz
December 9, 2021 5:25 pm

Acid test for my vote.
Will you defund/privatize/destroy the ABC?

They’ll get my vote if they only advocate the latter option.

Let’s not mess about here, peoples. It’s our sacred duty to see the ALPBC utterly obliterated in our lifetimes.

twostix
twostix
December 9, 2021 5:25 pm

Small businesses are facing $13K plus fines for not complying with the government’s covid regime from 13/12. That’s a fair amount of coercion for most, I would say.

What I mean is no politician in Australia has passed a law or mandate that says “you must get vaccinated to work or eat”. Instead they all pass orders saying “businesses must do x, y and z”, which has the exact same outcome but lets them say “we never forced anyone to under go a medical procedure!”.

They think they’ve found a clever loophole around the whole Nuremberg thing, which is pretty sick.

Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
December 9, 2021 5:25 pm

Soldier BR2 said there were other barriers to recruits seeking help, including on one ship where the psychologist’s office is located in a visible, busy area near a canteen that did not allow for discretion.

These were a mix of FFG’s and minor war vessels doing this work, they would have had to magically install an extra compartment for that

Soldier BR2 said Operation Resolute had also left him and many others questioning the sense and compassion of Australia’s wider border policy, with the detention of asylum seekers generating a sense of anger and betrayal among recruits who helped save them from drowning.

These were not recruits, they were rated sailors and members of the ships company. BR2 is beginning to sound like a messdeck lawyer.

“Once you started saving these people and doing your job, it became a lot more than just doing a job … like, you cared for these people that you were saving,” soldier BR2 said.

“It was tough for us to know that these people were going to refugee camps as a political power move.”

ICB on this

BR2 was in his early 20s when he was posted to an Australian Navy ship patrolling the waters between the northern border and Indonesia.

He said the pre-operation training was “underwhelming” and certainly did not prepare recruits for what they would soon encounter.

I was 17 when i first went on deployment, nothing prepares you for what you will experience, workups and shakedowns don’t give first timers the realities only experience will do that. And FFS this gazoo was not a recruit.

johanna
johanna
December 9, 2021 5:26 pm

Arky says:
December 9, 2021 at 12:46 pm

I remember the first house I moved into after leaving home.
With this crazy dressmaker lady called Margaret.
It was a hundred year old falling apart place. At one point a sapling was coming up through the bathroom floor.
I freaking loved it. It looked like a postcard picture of a rumble down cottage.
The landlady hated the place and hoped it would fall down. Probably on us.
Betty was her name. Margaret called her “Black Betty” after the song because Betty was a bit dour.
They lived in a house next door which was new and sat in a perfectly sterile block devoid of vegetation. The contrast was like between The Shire and Mordor.

Heh. Reminds me of a rental I had in Rozelle, Sydney in the 80s.

The landlord, a deaf (thankfully) elderly bloke of the old working class, lived with his wife next door. They had an immaculate house, and he bred budgies in the back yard. He grew silver beet to feed the birds, and some other vegies. There was not a single tree or shrub on the property – the silver beet was the tallest plant allowed to grow.

My place was inherited from a friend who rented it for a few years, and she had planted some fast growing native shrubs and trees in the back yard. It was very pleasant – until one day I came home and everything had been razed to the ground.

Upon enquiring of the landlord what had precipitated this event, he looked at me as if I was mad, and said:

“They drop leaves.”

Bruce in WA
December 9, 2021 5:27 pm

Dear Arec Barrwin

Here is your homework. Prease watch and rearn.

This ain’t Dodge City

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
December 9, 2021 5:31 pm

Large, well-fed and arrogant Iranians (up to and including bodybuilders) with all their bling, consumer items

Michael Smith ran a series of photographs of those imposing physical specimens arriving on Christmas Island. Taken by shazza of Christmas Island IIRC.

Gretel O'Toole
Gretel O’Toole
December 9, 2021 5:34 pm

Apparently Vic SRO [State Revenue Office] is preparing for differential Land Tax Charges for Unvaxxed. That’s the problem when everyone has a Government App on their phone, they can slice and dice you to ribbons.

Google worked it out first, the more information they hold, the more powerful they are.

Big.Gov is finally starting to catch up. Service Victoria App – Orwellian nomenclature. Or maybe they are using the equine variant of “To Service”

JC
JC
December 9, 2021 5:34 pm

Hallward, It’s kind of funny and if you had a sense of humor you’d get a kick out of it too.

It was posted by someone at a private chat site where people make fun of some sillier posters here. I’ll leave the other bad stuff out you as it’s kind of defamatory and I don’t want to have a comment removed… like you.

Eyrie fancies himself as a aviation wizard but he talks about gliders all the time. The daggy old uncles of the aviation world.
They wear towelling hats FFS under their plastic glider canopies.

Bruce in WA
December 9, 2021 5:35 pm

Here we go — again. If the k**ts reintroduce this tax aka “death duties”, there will not be a single red cent in my name by the time I cark it. I swear to God they will get SFA more of what I worked 50 years to get.

Baby boomers are expected to keep getting richer as young millennials miss out on the housing boom, a government report predicted.

The Productivity Commission is expecting the real estate boom to entrench the generational wealth divide with a think tank calling for taxes targeting older, richer Australians.

‘The modelling also suggests that wealth will become more concentrated among older age groups,’ it said in a research paper.

‘The study shows that so far, each generation has been wealthier on average than the previous one at the equivalent age, though baby boomers have done particularly well.

‘Historically high returns on housing, as well as wealth that is assumed to be inherited from partners in old age, are large drivers of this result.’

Brendan Coates, an economist with the Grattan Institute think tank, said a revival of inheritance taxes and an end to the 50 per cent capital gains tax discount would tackle the phenomenon of baby boomers getting richer at the expense of the young.

‘We’ve got growing concentrations of wealth in Australia – it’s not just amongst older Australians, it’s also just amongst the wealthy,’ he told Daily Mail Australia.

‘That is largely housing plus superannuation – if we don’t do anything about that, then wealth inequality is likely to worsen in future.

‘Inheritance taxes are a pretty efficient form of taxation, most economists are in favour of it because it’s better to tax an unearned transfer of wealth than it is to tax income.’

Winston Smith
December 9, 2021 5:37 pm

Dover Beach:
I don’t get what the hell is happening in the video.
The bloke wants to pay for his fuel, but the other bloke won’t let him?
Because he hasn’t signed in?
But all the information they need is on his card.
This must be one of the things my mum warned me about but I didn’t listen.

Winston Smith
December 9, 2021 5:41 pm

Fat Tony:

Every now & then i come across people who have been friends since beginning primary school and wish I could have as well.
Probably explains why I’m a bit of a grumpy loner.

Same here.
I haven’t met anyone from High School since I left and don’t particularly want to.
They didn’t like me, and I didn’t like them.
The Universe is in balance.

custard
custard
December 9, 2021 5:42 pm

If only Bananaby would take some HCQ and Ivermectin (basically follow the Zelenko protocol) and relate his story of how the early treatment and its low cost cured him of the ChinaVirus.

It would be epic trolling.

Franx
Franx
December 9, 2021 5:43 pm

Just a thought about Djokovic and the Australian Open – might come under Federal auspices, something like Djokovic being contracted Federally, making it that jabbing not mandatory. Could give the Spring St monster an out. Or it could infuriate him, ha.

JC
JC
December 9, 2021 5:44 pm

Brendan Coates, an economist with the Grattan Institute think tank, said a revival of inheritance taxes and an end to the 50 per cent capital gains tax discount would tackle the phenomenon of baby boomers getting richer at the expense of the young.

‘We’ve got growing concentrations of wealth in Australia – it’s not just amongst older Australians, it’s also just amongst the wealthy,’ he told Daily Mail Australia.

Frightening , isn’t it. Let’s go Brandon is actually describing the typical pyramid found in any non-communist society where there are fewer rich that those who aren’t. And Let’s go Brandon makes the startling observation that older people are on average richer than younger people. This is supposedly coming from a think tank.

Takeaway points from Let’s Go Brandon.
1. There are fewer rich people that those who aren’t
2. Older people are richer than those who are just starting out.. younger people
3. Slug them with much more taxes than they already pay.

Let’s Go Brandon.

Razey
Razey
December 9, 2021 5:46 pm

GreyRangasays:
December 9, 2021 at 4:13 pm
Razey answer the question or do you not have any principles?

Nahh mate, I know some good Christians. You may well be one of them.

I was more referring in general. Eg The Hunchback Fascist and Scummo are clearly fake Christians.

Dot
Dot
December 9, 2021 5:47 pm

rosiesays:
December 9, 2021 at 4:05 pm
I’m confused. People joined the armed services in the expectation of never seeing a dead body?

The cops are pretty bad at this too.

I think it is all a scam for compo.

I liked it back when they were drunk, sex obsessed crooks who didn’t violate your civil liberties.

twostix
twostix
December 9, 2021 5:48 pm

Boris is in big trouble because last year during the depths of their insane lockdown the Tories were having christmas parties.

Nobody believes this shit at the national level.

So in response to his corruption he orders a whipping for the public – like Gladys did.

Roger
Roger
December 9, 2021 5:49 pm

They think they’ve found a clever loophole around the whole Nuremberg thing, which is pretty sick.

Right.

But I’m not sure that would fly if any of them were arraigned before the ICJ at The Hague.

I’ve already noted which clauses of the Rome Statute could be relevant.

feelthebern
feelthebern
December 9, 2021 5:50 pm

The moon landing was real.
The audio was real.
The footage was not.
Eric Weinstein discussed with Joe Rogan a million years ago how at the time it was impossible for live/delayed footage to get back to earth with the tech at the time of the moon landing.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
December 9, 2021 5:52 pm

said a revival of inheritance taxes

Underpants gnome economics

1: Old rich people die
2: Tax the shit out of the inheritance
3: ???
4: Young people become wealthier.

Aaron
Aaron
December 9, 2021 5:53 pm

Yes Boris, mandatory shots.
Optional hangings.

JC
JC
December 9, 2021 5:53 pm

Bern

Explain? What are you suggesting was broadcast then?

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
December 9, 2021 5:53 pm

How crook do you get after a normal vax?

Over the years I’ve been vaccinated against pretty much everything mainstream, other than MMR – plus a few exotics.

Sore injection sites at worst – except for the injectable cholera, which always gave me the worst, flu-like symptoms for two days. (Officially that reaction was due to a preservative – although, obviously, it was more likely to have been nano-wigglers.)

The cholera vaccine provides a perspective on the ‘WuVaxx is a treatment not a vaccine’ thesis.

Cholera is a serious and nasty bacterial illness that, untreated, routinely (and rapidly) kills a decent proportion of those infected.

The vaccine slows the infection and is about 60% effective in stopping you shitting yourself to death if you are susceptible and untreated. However it does nothing to eliminate the bacteria from your gut, or stop you transmitting the disease to others.

It’s efficacy also wears off quickly. The injectable version gave you reasonable protection for about 18 months – and my travel doctor advises a repeat of the current oral version every six months.

Yet there it is. Widely regarded as a ‘real’ vaccine that saves millions of lives.

Eyrie
Eyrie
December 9, 2021 5:54 pm

JC, you are becoming unhinged. Check your meds or check into a mental hospital.

Razey
Razey
December 9, 2021 5:55 pm

Was speaking to a retired colleague that seemed to think the Hunchback fuck face was doing ok. I let rip with how dodgy he was using lots of facts. He really had no response, I’m fucking right.

Additionally, he seemed ok with mandates, but when I countered that he WILL be getting jabbed every 6 months, well that brought out the comment, its only going to once a year and mandates will end in March.

Clearly even hardcore vaxers think this is all ‘temporary’. Nope. They didnt drop $billions for all this to be temporary.

Even if he disagreed, it’s important to stand up for what you believe.

Hunchback must be put in prison with that Sutton fuckhead as well.

harrys on the boat
harrys on the boat
December 9, 2021 5:56 pm

Gave up on England, after the squad announcement. Picked a team destined to lose. Shithouse.
But fuck it, when the cnut Warners wicket went down….. perked me up. England can’t lose to this team of absolute woke and horrendous scum.

Eyrie
Eyrie
December 9, 2021 5:57 pm

Dover, which post of mine did you remove?

Winston Smith
December 9, 2021 6:00 pm
Razey
Razey
December 9, 2021 6:01 pm

harrys on the boatsays:
December 9, 2021 at 5:56 pm
Gave up on England, after the squad announcement. Picked a team destined to lose. Shithouse.
But fuck it, when the cnut Warners wicket went down….. perked me up. England can’t lose to this team of absolute woke and horrendous scum.

Fuck all these so called ‘elite’ sports turds. Overpaid, woke, pampered cry babies the lot of them.

Just think, if no one watched these assholes, they would have go and get a real job.

JC
JC
December 9, 2021 6:01 pm

Doc F

About a decade ago we traveled to Vietnam to meet up with friends. Wifey caught some stomach bug and was in and out of sickness for a few months. She had a gastro dude do an upper gastrointestinal endoscopy and found a bug as a result of sample test. She was told that if left untreated the bug would cause a cancer within a decade. FMD.

JC
JC
December 9, 2021 6:02 pm

Eyrie says:
December 9, 2021 at 5:54 pm

JC, you are becoming unhinged. Check your meds or check into a mental hospital.

Yea, Okay Hallward.

Dot
Dot
December 9, 2021 6:03 pm

Brendan Coates, an economist with the Grattan Institute think tank, said a revival of inheritance taxes and an end to the 50 per cent capital gains tax discount would tackle the phenomenon of baby boomers getting richer at the expense of the young

That CGT discount being removed will stop me from ever becoming rich.

Insane. There is no such thing as a decent economist who is a lefty.

BTW – anyone get on DRE – Dreadnought Resources? Eye popping mineralisations reported yesterday.

Razey
Razey
December 9, 2021 6:04 pm

JCsays:
December 9, 2021 at 6:02 pm
Eyrie says:
December 9, 2021 at 5:54 pm

JC, you are becoming unhinged. Check your meds or check into a mental hospital.

Yea, Okay Hallward.

A lot of us are becoming unhinged because of the Fascist rulers.

Zipster
Zipster
December 9, 2021 6:04 pm

Binance Australia is pleased to announce we have become the world’s first Digital Currency Exchange (DCE) to commence reporting on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) metrics, under a universal framework developed by the World Economic Forum (WEF).

the ever encroaching tentacles of fascist squid

Indolent
Indolent
December 9, 2021 6:06 pm

More insanity

I was going to say this is unbelievable but, actually, it is fairly typical of life under communism. Total disregard for the individual and each and every petty tyrant doing their bit to tighten the screws.

feelthebern
feelthebern
December 9, 2021 6:06 pm

What are you suggesting was broadcast then?

What the US government thought the punters would expect to see on a moonscape.

There is no doubt the US went there.
But they had to have something for TV.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
December 9, 2021 6:06 pm

I am not Christian, as I said the 10 commandments of which from 4 on offer a good way to lead your life if your not a Christian. I care for my fellow man, this is not just the prerogative of Christians.

JC
JC
December 9, 2021 6:06 pm

Dot

These people are insane. A 50% CGT would be enormously destructive. There’s no such thing as a leftwing economist.

Razey
Razey
December 9, 2021 6:06 pm

Zipstersays:
December 9, 2021 at 6:04 pm
Binance Australia is pleased to announce we have become the world’s first Digital Currency Exchange (DCE) to commence reporting on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) metrics, under a universal framework developed by the World Economic Forum (WEF).

the ever encroaching tentacles of fascist squid

This is what its all been about.

feelthebern
feelthebern
December 9, 2021 6:08 pm

Brendan Coates, an economist with the Grattan Institute think tank, said a revival of inheritance taxes and an end to the 50 per cent capital gains tax discount would tackle the phenomenon of baby boomers getting richer at the expense of the young

What a fuck wit.
This is why I want to leave Australia.

JC
JC
December 9, 2021 6:10 pm

Bern

The broadcast was real, but also it was terrible. The blurriness made it impossible to really get excited. There were some very short spell good shots though.

calli
calli
December 9, 2021 6:10 pm

Interesting, Faustus.

Cholera ran through the village behind our home back in ‘87. Nothing we could do about it apart from being scrupulously clean ourselves and making sure the house staff were the same. Naturally they were and were grateful for the means we gave them to do it.

We seem to live in a time when westerners are afraid of everything except the very thing that will kill them – too much sugar and not enough exercise.

Razey
Razey
December 9, 2021 6:10 pm

Dotsays:
December 9, 2021 at 6:03 pm
Brendan Coates, an economist with the Grattan Institute think tank, said a revival of inheritance taxes and an end to the 50 per cent capital gains tax discount would tackle the phenomenon of baby boomers getting richer at the expense of the young

That CGT discount being removed will stop me from ever becoming rich.

Insane. There is no such thing as a decent economist who is a lefty.

LOL. Will never get up, especially a death tax. The sheep will happily line up to to be injected with poison, but get in the way of their money, all hell will break loose.

Roger
Roger
December 9, 2021 6:11 pm

My goodness, someone in the human rights sector finds a voice: the QLD Council for Civil Liberties is calling for “balance” after the Small Business Minsiter (what a shocker she is) said essential businesses could ban the unvaccinated.

“We say that the correct balance is if you have a mandate, it must provide an exception of people who are conscientious objectors,” QCCL president Michael Pope told AAP.

Note the QCCL is not a government linked organisation.

calli
calli
December 9, 2021 6:12 pm

Most baby boomers are only wealthy because we paid off our homes early.

My kids are richer than me by a country mile. Dunno what the rest of them have been doing with their time and money.

feelthebern
feelthebern
December 9, 2021 6:12 pm

The broadcast was real, but also it was terrible. The blurriness made it impossible to really get excited. There were some very short spell good shots though.

It was fake.
When I have a million free hours I’ll go through the Weinstein/Rogan shows and find where he says that.

JC
JC
December 9, 2021 6:13 pm

and an end to the 50 per cent capital gains tax discount would tackle the phenomenon of baby boomers getting richer at the expense of the young

Look, I’m not trying to start a stoush, but this is what Stix is suggesting. He’s a zero summer where he thinks older people are making out at his expense or his generation. There is a little truth to this when it’s about real estate. But nothing else.

JC
JC
December 9, 2021 6:14 pm

Bern

I love you like a red headed step child, but the broadcast was real. 🙂

feelthebern
feelthebern
December 9, 2021 6:15 pm

FAKE.
They didn’t have the capacity to broadcast from the moon.
They landed a fuel tank with a pod.

Chris
Chris
December 9, 2021 6:18 pm

BTW – anyone get on DRE – Dreadnought Resources? Eye popping mineralisations reported yesterday.

Jammy bastards.
Wish I could find some eye-popping intersections.
Mind you lightning did strike…

Delta A
Delta A
December 9, 2021 6:24 pm

There is no doubt the US went there.
But they had to have something for TV.

Did you ever watch TV in 1969, bern?

The very best special fx were woeful in those dark days. Even the best producers would not have been able to pull together a passable film and synchronise it with the (real) sound.

What we saw, glued to our lounge chairs, was the real thing. No doubt.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 9, 2021 6:24 pm

Most baby boomers are only wealthy because we paid off our homes early.

Best advise I was ever given. Put all you can, into paying off your mortgage.

JC
JC
December 9, 2021 6:24 pm

Bern

But really, Rogen is a decent interviewer and such, but he’s on the meathead side of the ledger at the margin if you know what I mean. The broadcast wasn’t that difficult from moon to the earth up to the atmosphere as there wouldn’t be that much interference in a relative sense.

Chris
Chris
December 9, 2021 6:25 pm

Let’s not mess about here, peoples. It’s our sacred duty to see the ALPBC utterly obliterated in our lifetimes.

Rabz the bastards.
Shut it down
Fire them all
Mountain of skulls. Wipe the archives (except Graeme Abbott’s programs which should be rebroadcast).

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 9, 2021 6:26 pm

ROFLMAO.

CIA Chief: No Evidence Iran Is Seeking Nukes (8 Dec)

The alphabet agencies seem to be on a different planet from the rest of us lately. I do hope Trump runs and wins, their discombobulation would be so much fun. I’d want good security though, they’d be quite likely to contemplate executive action.

Eyrie
Eyrie
December 9, 2021 6:27 pm

FAKE.
They didn’t have the capacity to broadcast from the moon.
They landed a fuel tank with a pod.

Bird level derangement.

JC
JC
December 9, 2021 6:27 pm

What we saw, glued to our lounge chairs, was the real thing. No doubt.

But there wasn’t much to see, Delta. It was all fuzzy crap. I recall we were in grade school like in 7 or 8 grade. They had a tv set up in the room. We stayed for about an hour and then some of us took off as there was nothing to see.

Winston Smith
December 9, 2021 6:28 pm

Feelthebern:

Having said that , isn’t the promotion of nuke a good thing?
Very much so.

Yes.
But there’s a tiny voice in my head saying “What sort of nuclear reactors?” and “Who owns the fuel?”
Is the uranium market capable of being turned into a cartel?
If the fuel is Thorium, who controls the market?
If it’s gypsum, we’re home and hosed.

JC
JC
December 9, 2021 6:28 pm

Bird level derangement.

You’d know, you supported him, Hallsie.

bespoke
bespoke
December 9, 2021 6:29 pm

Omg! bern. Stop eating lead pencils.

Eyrie
Eyrie
December 9, 2021 6:32 pm

Bird at least provided some amusement when he was going off on his anti semite rants. Even Numbers was better than you, JC.

JC
JC
December 9, 2021 6:33 pm

I think the later Apollos had better broadcasting. I can’t recall which one it was but they took a beach buggy with them and the images were pretty decent from that one.

Old bloke
Old bloke
December 9, 2021 6:33 pm

JC says:
December 9, 2021 at 4:37 pm

JC, I misunderstood your post referring to the film being doctored, according to the conspiracy theorists, when the astronauts returned. You were referring to the films / photos they took on the moon and I thought you were referring to the film (videotape) of the live broadcast.

The only conspiracy theories I have heard regarding the Apollo 11 mission was that the whole lot, live feed and later films / photos, were all staged in some back-lot in Hollywood.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 9, 2021 6:33 pm

Here we go — again. If the k**ts reintroduce this tax aka “death duties”, there will not be a single red cent in my name by the time I cark it. I swear to God they will get SFA more of what I worked 50 years to get.

Smart solicitors everywhere should be getting very conversant with the setup and administration of Trusts.

The minute some stooge introsuces the first Bill into Parliament, find yourself one…

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 9, 2021 6:35 pm

I can’t recall which one it was but they took a beach buggy with them and the images were pretty decent from that one.

Apollo 14 onwards.

Plus the transmission equipment was much better by 1971-72 relative to 1969.

Just a shame that the public had effectively gone ‘Meh!’ by then…

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
December 9, 2021 6:35 pm

Winston and Dover,
I enlisted to get away from the entitled arrogant vulgar turds Imwent to school with.
Wouldn’t commission because I would have to be with them again. .
Keep moving further south in the Eastern Suburbs and they keep following me.
My parents offered me life membership in the old boys assoc.. No thanks.
I curse Whyndam because I had to spend another year with them.
Otherwise I’m easy.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 9, 2021 6:36 pm

Every now & then i come across people who have been friends since beginning primary school and wish I could have as well.

Hehe, was recently contacted through LinkedIn by a person I was in school with from year 7. So I did as you do, checked their profile. Friend of the ABC, Friend of the SBS.

Ahh, nope.

Razey
Razey
December 9, 2021 6:36 pm

Eyriesays:
December 9, 2021 at 6:27 pm
FAKE.
They didn’t have the capacity to broadcast from the moon.
They landed a fuel tank with a pod.

Bird level derangement.

Rubbish. It was made in a Hollywood basement. The Red Hot Chili Peppers said so!

Indolent
Indolent
December 9, 2021 6:37 pm

Small businesses are facing $13K plus fines for not complying with the government’s covid regime from 13/12. That’s a fair amount of coercion for most, I would say.

What about that pub in Singleton which was fined $15,000 for not enforcing QR codes and passports and won its case in court? Does anyone have the details? I suspect there is absolutely no legal basis for any of this and it’s nothing but a great big bluff with the government pushing the dirty work onto business.

JC
JC
December 9, 2021 6:37 pm

Bird at least provided some amusement when he was going off on his anti semite rants. Even Numbers was better than you, JC.

That really wasn’t what you said about Bird, you whack job. It’s only now that you’re making reference to his dreadful jew hating sprees. Only now because it would be too uncomfortable to avoid. Homer Paxton is a few superior contributor you Hallward and he’s pathetic in every way. Homer also doesn’t maliciously defame people like you. He’s just not a fraudulent c..t as you are.

JC
JC
December 9, 2021 6:39 pm

Hehe, was recently contacted through LinkedIn by a person I was in school with from year 7. So I did as you do, checked their profile. Friend of the ABC, Friend of the SBS.

Ahh, nope.

Bruce, was he 65 and still a virgin though? 🙂

H B Bear
H B Bear
December 9, 2021 6:39 pm

Best advise I was ever given. Put all you can, into paying off your mortgage.

For most people their house is the only thing they will ever own that will increase in value. If inflation really does kick off, being geared to the eyeballs is neither here nor there. Provided you keep your job.

Bruce in WA
December 9, 2021 6:40 pm

LOL. Will never get up, especially a death tax. The sheep will happily line up to to be injected with poison, but get in the way of their money, all hell will break loose.

Really? Both Labor and Greens support it. Young people think it’s a feckin’ great idea!

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
December 9, 2021 6:40 pm

The ALPBC reached it’s apogee with Aunty Jack. Downhill from there.

JC
JC
December 9, 2021 6:40 pm

Okay Old bloke. No probs,

Winston Smith
December 9, 2021 6:40 pm

“gesundheitpasse”
I like that one.
Must use it more often.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 9, 2021 6:40 pm

Smart solicitors everywhere should be getting very conversant with the setup and administration of Trusts.

There was more then one legal firm, in Perth, the last time this country had death duties, that specialized in advising family businesses on how to structure those businesses so as to minimize death duties.

Indolent
Indolent
December 9, 2021 6:41 pm

They think they’ve found a clever loophole around the whole Nuremberg thing, which is pretty sick.

If the EU gets it’s way the Nuremberg Code will be swept aside. They know they’re violating every human rights code and treaty.

Razey
Razey
December 9, 2021 6:41 pm

Bruce in WAsays:
December 9, 2021 at 6:40 pm
LOL. Will never get up, especially a death tax. The sheep will happily line up to to be injected with poison, but get in the way of their money, all hell will break loose.

Really? Both Labor and Greens support it. Young people think it’s a feckin’ great idea!

Young people think its a great idea for the .gov to steal their own inheritance?

JC
JC
December 9, 2021 6:43 pm

For most people their house is the only thing they will ever own that will increase in value. If inflation really does kick off, being geared to the eyeballs is neither here nor there. Provided you keep your job.

Is it the house or is it the land though. Realistically, homes depreciate at around 3% a year. The real poison, the real problem is wholesale land price appreciation. That’s socially and economically poison.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
December 9, 2021 6:44 pm

I was 17 when i first went on deployment, nothing prepares you for what you will experience, workups and shakedowns don’t give first timers the realities only experience will do that. And FFS this gazoo was not a recruit.

I’m now just waiting for the Commission to find a RADM/LTGEN/AVM Pell OAM CSC, to fit up and sacrifice to the Left as a universal scapegoat for the Sins of the Services.

After all, here’s [Un]Able Seaman J, yesterday there was the WO2 who apparently took the games and overacting of Recruit Training at Kamp Krusty(!) so seriously it gave him the Nightmares, and so on and so forth.

How the hell you might be able to identify actual bad actors and processes to fix between the noise flung up by the assorted Main Chancers, Bird-like characters, clumsily-painted-over-leftwit-activists-trying-damned-hard-to-LARP-as-Service-Personnel and grudging arseholes looking for someone to screw back for offences both perceived and actual, I will never know…

jupes
jupes
December 9, 2021 6:45 pm

Just think, if no one watched these assholes, they would have go and get a real job.

Very true. Too bad for you that plenty of people love watching them and are happy to pay to do so.

Indolent
Indolent
December 9, 2021 6:45 pm

Boris Johnson raises spectre of mandatory jabs: PM hints of move towards increasing restrictions for unvaccinated Britons following similar move in Austria so wider lockdowns can be avoided
Asked about mandatory vaccinations, PM said there will be a ‘national conversation’ about way forward

Funny how they’re all moving towards this at the same time. Austria, Germany, Italy, New York is trying it on, U.K. And don’t tell me that the state emperors going crazier by the day here aren’t leading up to exactly this. I wonder if it hasn’t already happened in the NT. All in lockstep.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 9, 2021 6:46 pm

It was made in a Hollywood basement.

Capricorn One was a lot of fun. I even forgive them having O J Simpson in it.

rosie
rosie
December 9, 2021 6:47 pm

It’s the land.
Why outer outer burb blocks are now less than 400 square metres.

Bruce in WA
December 9, 2021 6:47 pm

Young people think its a great idea for the .gov to steal their own inheritance?

Many young people I’ve spoken to about it see it as old farts getting their comeuppance. Usually they’re the ones who who won’t get an inheritance anyway.

cohenite
December 9, 2021 6:47 pm

thefrollickingmolesays:
December 9, 2021 at 5:22 pm
But remember, the Libs think their ABCcess cant be touched.

‘Dangerous monopoly’: Labor and Greens support judicial inquiry into media diversity and News Corp
Report backs call by Kevin Rudd for inquiry into Murdoch media empire and recommends probe with powers of a royal commission be established

The left want to control the media, there is nothing new about this. People who whinge about the LNP should consider that if the liars/filth get in blogs like this will end. Brown’s Finkelstein showed what their intent is. This bullshit about Murdoch is a revisitation of the lies about Murdoch which preceded the Finkelstein enquiry, that Murdoch has a monopoly.

The facts are:

News … publishes 32 per cent of all Australia’s newspapers. Parliamentary library figures suggest News’s share of circulation – as distinct from ownership – is 68 per cent in the capital cities and 77 per cent of the Sunday market.

Murdoch is a classic case of market forces with the public choosing Murdoch over the other media outlets. And Murdoch is privately funded. But the LNP only has itself to blame; it could have curtailed the abc many times but lacked the guts to do it.

dopey
dopey
December 9, 2021 6:47 pm

Some of these contracts must be interesting. “You will attempt to hit the ball before it hits the stumps.”

Frank
Frank
December 9, 2021 6:48 pm

I suspect there is absolutely no legal basis for any of this and it’s nothing but a great big bluff with the government pushing the dirty work onto business.

A lot of businesses wouldn’t require much pushing, particularly if the are large enough to support an HR department.

rosie
rosie
December 9, 2021 6:50 pm

Why would dead people care about inheritance taxes?
The only people who shouldn’t care about them becoming a reality are the ones whose parents and grandparents never bothered to save a dime.

JC
JC
December 9, 2021 6:51 pm

The facts are:

News … publishes 32 per cent of all Australia’s newspapers. Parliamentary library figures suggest News’s share of circulation – as distinct from ownership – is 68 per cent in the capital cities and 77 per cent of the Sunday market.

Do these figures include online?

johanna
johanna
December 9, 2021 6:51 pm

srr, like most fanatics, has no sense of humour.

Bob Hudson looked up to Margret Roadknight because he was a shortarse and she was about 6ft tall, you wally.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
December 9, 2021 6:57 pm

Wow what a wanker in that servo. Should have had the cash and thrown it on the counter walking away.

Below is NSW link to what is critical and not, guess what numbnuts at a self serve servo after he’s filled I’d say you can’t refuse him. Scroll down the page for critical businesses.

https://www.nsw.gov.au/covid-19/business/covid-safe-business/vaccination-rules

LOL. The dumbass doesn’t even know the law.

Diogenes
Diogenes
December 9, 2021 6:59 pm

very now & then i come across people who have been friends since beginning primary school and wish I could have as well.

Mrs D is still friends with a girl she met in kindy class. That was 55 years ago.

Razey
Razey
December 9, 2021 6:59 pm

rosiesays:
December 9, 2021 at 6:50 pm
Why would dead people care about inheritance taxes?
The only people who shouldn’t care about them becoming a reality are the ones whose parents and grandparents never bothered to save a dime.

Jokes on the fascist .gov. A lot of people will be much more inclined to bludge off the system and die with nothing. If the fascist are just going to steal it anyway, what the point?

cohenite
December 9, 2021 7:01 pm

Do these figures include online?

They’re 2011 figures. I don’t know about the online or the TV figures; something similar I’d guess. On talkback this is a growing issue with the lefties ringing up constantly about Murdoch’s monopoly and unfair influence. The left never sleep and are going after Murdoch as the only non-left media outlet.

Razey
Razey
December 9, 2021 7:04 pm

rosiesays:
December 9, 2021 at 6:50 pm
Why would dead people care about inheritance taxes?
The only people who shouldn’t care about them becoming a reality are the ones whose parents and grandparents never bothered to save a dime.

Knowing the Fascists would be getting their grubby hands on my cash would not sit well with me. I’d rather print it all out and burn it than give it those fucking bastards.

Winston Smith
December 9, 2021 7:08 pm

Dover Beach:
In Boris the Ragamuffin boy PM’s speech – I love the “NHS Civet Pass” at the 3.00 point.
Hang on, I think that was COVID Pass. , as if it were not his pass – “it was another unelected QANGO document so don’t blame me”
Cannot the British see past this Trudeau/Macron/Boris Clone?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 9, 2021 7:08 pm

On talkback this is a growing issue with the lefties ringing up constantly about Murdoch’s monopoly and unfair influence.

LOL.

Far-left Axios Is Mad Conservatives Are Building Their Own Internet

As Instapundit, whose link this is, says:

What did they think would happen? I’m so old, I can remember when lefties told everybody to “learn to code.”

Yup, they did. Trump looks to be making shedloads on his new platform.

rickw
rickw
December 9, 2021 7:10 pm

The way things used to be, in the 1950’s you would probably need to give up your beer money for a year to afford one of these. Then you would need to convince the missus that she needed a new washing machine, or some other appliance, so you could nick the motor out of the old one. Very cute!

https://imgur.com/gallery/nvKfKJx

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
December 9, 2021 7:10 pm

Cholera ran through the village behind our home back in ‘87. Nothing we could do about it apart from being scrupulously clean ourselves and making sure the house staff were the same.

The best approach. PNG I assume?

In my travels through the Turd World I’ve always tried to be super cautious about hygiene.

I am still strongly motivated by the death of a colleague in Mozambique, about 45 years ago.

He picked up what he thought was a routine ‘ice in drink’ bug, woke up feeling lousy and sent his driver away, planning to sleep it off.

His driver came back at the end of his shift to check and found him unconscious on the bathroom floor of his quarters – black with congealed diarrhoea and flies.

After a series of traditionally African misunderstandings he died that evening in the mine clinic.

johanna
johanna
December 9, 2021 7:15 pm

Gez

The Victorian health system is built for administration not medicine. All the worshipping of the Danbots won’t change the stats.

Oh yeah. Read the Victorian Ombudsman’s report (linked at Arky’s thread) in case you are in any doubt. Every objection was met by a purely bureaucratic response that never addressed the issue.

One that caught my eye was a case of someone who was in a part of NSW where there had not been a single case of COVID, ever. Yet this person was refused permission to go home. When asked why by the Ombudsman, the response was along the lines of “the whole of NSW is a leper colony. End of. Suck it up.”

OK, the words were more polite. But that was the message.

Facts? We don’t need no steenkin’ facts!

Bons
December 9, 2021 7:16 pm

Bullshit “there is some truth in Boomers screwing the housing market”!
Do a simple analysis of what Boomers paid for their first homes compared to their income at the time. The equation is very nearly a constant with the current generation (this holds true even for Sydney which has always been outrageous for first home buyers). Of course Boomers were prepared to live in the sticks to get into the market. They didn’t demand the ‘inner city living experience’.
Next, examine the employment of disposable income between the generations. Boomers overwhelmingly focused on mortgage repayment and kids education.
Fun came after debts and obligations were satisfied.
Millenials focused on frivolous expenditure which destroyed their deposit saving capacity until they hit high incomes (invariably higher earlier than Boomers ever saw).
Once debts were cleared, Boomers looked to ‘helping the kids’, a leg-up that will disappear if the whinging scroates get their jealousy taxes in place.
Hey dickheads, if your policies are implemented M&D’s money won’t come to you or your generation, it will go to public servants and cronies. You will find yourself in exactly the same circumstance as the Boomers, who received nothing from their parents and had to do it on their own. Too sad idiots.
If you want to be as wealthy as that old prick down the street – work for 45 years and save.
As a PS, it is always hilarious to hear public servants and think tankers refer to ‘unearned income’. I’ve never actually seen them define ‘earned income’.

calli
calli
December 9, 2021 7:24 pm

Dr Faustus says:
December 9, 2021 at 7:10 pm

Yes. PNG.

All the hand wringing over climate, the vast sums being transferred into deep, greedy, unworthy pockets.

Yet the greatest need of all is safe, clean drinking water.

I know where the “crime against humanity” lays, and it isn’t CO2.

rosie
rosie
December 9, 2021 7:28 pm

Family members in the western suburbs have covid neighbours.
Both older people, fully vaxxed afaik and just isolating at home.
Missed it by that much. 🙂

calli
calli
December 9, 2021 7:30 pm

***News Update***

The Beloved brought home the five cases of Corona.

They’re isolating in the garage.

rosie
rosie
December 9, 2021 7:31 pm

Corona for Christmas!

Stavrogin
Stavrogin
December 9, 2021 7:35 pm

The Beloved brought home the five cases of Corona.

..
Dead?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 9, 2021 7:36 pm

Yes. PNG.

Calli – I was reading just now of a place north of Kokoda called Wiaropi.
See if you can get the reason for the name. 😀

Roger
Roger
December 9, 2021 7:38 pm

I know where the “crime against humanity” lays, and it isn’t CO2.

Probably an unpopular view, even here, but decolonisation hasn’t been all it was cracked up to be.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 9, 2021 7:39 pm

Oops, spelling. It’s Wairopi.

Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
December 9, 2021 7:42 pm

rosie says:
December 9, 2021 at 6:50 pm

Why would dead people care about inheritance taxes?

Rosie, if you have worked hard all your life, been successful as far as you were concerned, payed a shedload in tax to the local, state and federal squandermonkeys, and as you approach the end of your days the gift you want your children or grandchildren to have is now fair game for the same squandermonkeys to piss up against the wall. Would you not feel a little aggrieved.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 9, 2021 7:43 pm

Probably an unpopular view, even here, but decolonisation hasn’t been all it was cracked up to be.

Not with me. Pax Britannia had quite a lot going for it, like Pax Romana. The regimes could be bastards (especially certain Roman Emperors) but the net effect was pretty good in keeping locals from massacring each other constantly.

Crossie
Crossie
December 9, 2021 7:45 pm

I’m watching Sky and while talking about the Chinese Winter Olympics boycott they are showing Chinese people walking past a checkpoint and presenting their palms to a phone/camera. Is this a new thing instead of fingerprints?

Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
December 9, 2021 7:46 pm

Yes. PNG.

All the hand wringing over climate, the vast sums being transferred into deep, greedy, unworthy pockets.

Yet the greatest need of all is safe, clean drinking water.

I would also add don’t get pissed and stab each other and cigaterra (sic) contaminated fish is not a great dietary choice or parasite infested pork

Frank
Frank
December 9, 2021 7:46 pm

Carpe Jugulum says:
December 9, 2021 at 7:42 pm

the gift you want your children or grandchildren to have is now fair game

Or your wife.

Rabz
December 9, 2021 7:47 pm

Johnson raises spectre of mandatory jabs: PM hints of move towards increasing restrictions for unvaccinated Britons following similar move in Austria

Poor ol’ Nige Farage, Unless I imagined it, he was on Rowan Dean’s show last night stating that Britain would never implement mandatory vaccinations like certain countries (that shall remain nameless) in the EU.

Cue Nige’s latest show on GB news (recorded presumably about a few hours later) and he’s bemoaning that fat mop headed imbecile announcing exactly that, via a (one way) “conversation”*.

*AKA a “monologue”.

Crossie
Crossie
December 9, 2021 7:48 pm

Bruce of Newcastle says:
December 9, 2021 at 7:43 pm
Probably an unpopular view, even here, but decolonisation hasn’t been all it was cracked up to be.
Not with me. Pax Britannia had quite a lot going for it, like Pax Romana. The regimes could be bastards (especially certain Roman Emperors) but the net effect was pretty good in keeping locals from massacring each other constantly.

According to the film Apocalypto the peoples being used as human sacrifices by Aztecs weren’t too fussed about the Spanish colonists.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 9, 2021 7:48 pm

On the other hand Pax Britannia and Pax Romana were fairly enlightened and hands-offish. Whereas we now have Pax Wokerati, which is more like a boot on a human face forever. Unfortunately technology has made that a lot easier to do than in the times of Victoria or Augustus.

Rabz
December 9, 2021 7:52 pm

Why would dead people care about inheritance taxes?

I intend going to my grave millions of dollars in debt. Tax that, you collectivist cockheads!

rickw
rickw
December 9, 2021 7:53 pm

fat mop headed imbecile announcing exactly that, via a (one way) “conversation”

I’m genuinely starting to think that this shit is only going to stop when the shooting starts.

Dot
Dot
December 9, 2021 7:54 pm

Millenials focused on frivolous expenditure which destroyed their deposit saving capacity until they hit high incomes (invariably higher earlier than Boomers ever saw).

That’s bullshit.

Mortgage payments to income peaked in around the end of the Gillard era.

Like you say, do some analysis.

Dot
Dot
December 9, 2021 7:55 pm

Why would dead people care about inheritance taxes?

You have a legacy, now respect it.

Quite frankly, I am depressed and ashamed.

calli
calli
December 9, 2021 7:58 pm

I would also add don’t get pissed and stab each other

Lol, yes. There was the most magnificent fight out the front one morning between two meris over a ne’er do well man. Injuries all round which I was called upon to treat. No way those girls were going down to the Haus Sik.

Just as well. It wasn’t safe. 😀

rosie
rosie
December 9, 2021 7:58 pm

While I’m living carpe I might, but once I’m dead, not so much.

Do you think I haven’t worked hard all my life all my life and would like to leave something to my children and grandchildren?
Inheritance taxes mainly spite the living, not the despicable boomers they are intended to.
Like I said these moves most likely come from the children of feckless long term Aussies (or people like the migrants interviewed by sbs, who’ve lived in Australia for four years, work in entry level jobs and think they should be able to afford to buy in Glen Waverley ).
They are certainly the ones who will vote for inheritance taxes.

Crossie
Crossie
December 9, 2021 7:59 pm

Rabz says:
December 9, 2021 at 7:52 pm
Why would dead people care about inheritance taxes?
I intend going to my grave millions of dollars in debt. Tax that, you collectivist cockheads!

I would like to leave to my children and grandchildren the fruits of mine and my husband’s labours, not to Scott Morrison or some other idiotic resident of The Lodge.

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
December 9, 2021 7:59 pm

Bruce
What have the Romans ever done for us?

Dot
Dot
December 9, 2021 8:00 pm

We might only get hardcore libertarian government after a vindictive populist government.

Hi, Pauline!

Yep

Lower house 1 LDP 2 PHON 3 UAP

Upper House 1 LDP 2 UAP 3 PHON

Barry
Barry
December 9, 2021 8:00 pm

Death duties or no death duties, the $2Tr of public debt that we will owe by the end of this calamity must all come out of the pockets of the living.

Since there’s about 7Mio true private sector workers in Australia, that’s $300k each. So on average you’ll effectively all work for the man unpaid for 5 years to pay it off.

calli
calli
December 9, 2021 8:01 pm

Bruce, wai is water, ropi I’m not too sure about. String of water?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 9, 2021 8:01 pm

Would you not feel a little aggrieved.

Well said, Carpe!

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
December 9, 2021 8:01 pm

Bruce, wai is water, ropi I’m not too sure about. String of water?

Wire rope bridge?

calli
calli
December 9, 2021 8:02 pm

I do know what the Pek Pek farm was. Saw someone diving into it one day. Brrrrrrr.

Crossie
Crossie
December 9, 2021 8:02 pm

Johnson raises spectre of mandatory jabs: PM hints of move towards increasing restrictions for unvaccinated Britons following similar move in Austria

Why did they bother leaving the EU if they will follow in the their lunatic footsteps?

Dot
Dot
December 9, 2021 8:03 pm

They are certainly the ones who will vote for inheritance taxes

The rich might vote for inheritance taxes.

Look at the US. Blue States and cities are the least equitable. All they do is talk! Their policies are actually more regressive than Red States and cities.

Joe Bloogs likely cannot structure 30 shell corps to hide his windfall of finding a diamond deposit on his farm.

Billionaires? You bet your sweet can, my sweet summer child.

rosie
rosie
December 9, 2021 8:05 pm

Just stating the bleeding obvious, I thought, that those with the most to lose from inheritance taxes are the heirs.
Smart people who want their heirs to get stuff when it’s useful to them will make suitable arrangements, like they did inheritance taxes were last around
people going to great lengths to avoid inheritance tax

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 9, 2021 8:06 pm

Wire rope bridge?

Yep! Pidgin is fun.
Prize goes to Zulu, sorry Calli.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
December 9, 2021 8:14 pm

Been to PNG exactly once, in 1970. Moresby, Goroka, Mt Hagen, Lae. So I’m an expert! 😀

It’s a fascinating place though. Agriculture in PNG dates back nearly to ME agriculture. But the geography favours lots of little potentates so they got stuck in roughly 8000 BC compared with the fertile crescent area.

Roger
Roger
December 9, 2021 8:14 pm

Inheritance taxes are theft from the dead.

And dot is correct, the really well off can structure their affairs to avoid them.

Now my advice for those who die (taxman!)
Declare the pennies on your eyes (taxman!)
‘Cause I’m the taxman
Yeah, I’m the taxman
And you’re working for no one but me (taxman!)

Noted economist George Harrison

JC
JC
December 9, 2021 8:17 pm

Roger , it’s not as easy as what you think when suggesting the rich can structure their affairs. It costs a great deal of money to do that. If death duties are imposed , so will gift duties because the two need to go hand in hand for obvious reasons.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
December 9, 2021 8:21 pm

Death duties.
It’s not as if they don’t tax everything that’s not nailed down.
Income tax
Land tax
Stamp duty
Registration
Excise
CGT
Rates
Plus more levies than you can poke a stick at. I’m sure the list is longer.

Zipster
Zipster
December 9, 2021 8:23 pm
Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
December 9, 2021 8:24 pm

Shove inheritance taxes. Only ones affected will be the lower middle class. I didn’t get much when dad passed and when mum goes I know I’ll get nothing. That’s fine I don’t need or expect it.

However when I go I know there will be a house and modest amount of assets to pass on. The Government can get stuffed, all my working life I am forced to pay for frivolous crap like a Womyns Ambassador, Human Rights Council (Who have been soooo proactive in the last 2 years, sarc) and cosy sinecures that don’t have any productive use for just about every overweight cat lady from the lengths of the land. Sorry find your budget fix elsewhere and not on my grave!

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