This angel doesn’t look particularly holy or compliant either. No. She looks like a very naughty girl. Of a type…
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The Aussies always have problems with swing, India is the side who currently has the biggest swinging balls.
What does holy or compliant look like Lizzie?
Ozzies 4-19 chasing 534. Magnificent stuff.
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“GreyRangasays:
December 27, 2021 at 9:38 am
Good to see you feeling a little better Cassie.”
Thank you…….still plagued by pain but it’s dissipating by the day.
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Perhaps one of the more interesting WWI brigadiers, as a character, was Pompey Elliott.
Born on a selection to a family who could never afford to repay the government ten pound seed money.
Basically deserted by the farther who regularly disappeared on non-productive prospecting ventures until one day coming home very, very rich. He devoted himself to mostly good works and of course Pompey went off for a first class education.
He was a good leader, perhaps overly strict, and like others experienced a mutiny during the 100 days when the diggers decided that they had had enough.
Post war he was successful but gradually PTSD emerged manifested as an obsessive concern for his diggers welfare and distress for those who fell and for their families.
He died of his own hand.
The volumes of lessons related to the impact of command stress were of course not noticed.
The Defenders Of Free Speech
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We are in upside down world now.
The Establishment
Most likely Knight thought it was a Falcon, but he got the rear quarter light wrong, same for Valiant and Datsun. You can see an air intake similar to the Falcons on the hood. Also 12 slot wheels on rear. His rear quarterlight is wrong for all of them.
The problem is that someone has to interpret and apply it in specific cases.
I think we’d get better results with a committee of upstanding citizens decided by sortition.
Yes, the parasite elite.
New Study: Natural Immunity Persists 12+ Months After Infection, Strong Antibodies | Facts Matter
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This week’s climate change toll:
I concur. My parents bought a new one in 1972. I regret not buying it from them when they sold it but didn’t have the coin.
I have had six knee operations culminating Two total knee replacements with the last one not all that good, but still a lot better than it was. The surgeon made my leg longer to level up my hips. Never knew I had a short leg. Wrecked my dynamic balance. The last one I had done I found frozen peas worked better than endone. Off the drugs after two weeks. Keep walking even short ones, it works.
Arma – you’ve never seen “Narcos Mexico”?
As for bloody Howard, whoever noted above that the stupid li’l garden gnome gollum should keep his big trap shut, was spot on.
Howard getting about trying to pass himself off as some éminence grise is as preposterous as Keating trying on the same. Just go away, you sad silly ol’ jokes, no one give a rodent’s.
Tom Switzer on the ALPBC? All the proof collectivists need of that marxist megaphone being “fair and balanced”. Funnily enough, Switzer’s (yet) another “conservative” suffering from eternal Trump derangement.
That’s Knight. Enough details to identify them usually, but also enough wrong for the aficionados to quibble!
Ivan Denisovich says:
24 December, 2021 at 5:18 pm
https://thecurrencylad.com/2021/12/24/indeed/#comment-8608
[…]
Francis loves to hide behind contradictions, for instances, by calling abortion a hit job and by calling the abortionist Emma Bonino one of the “great Italians.” What “tactic” is behind this?
This again is typical Peronism, throwing out contradictory signals to opposite parties. An Argentinian would understand it perfectly well, but to the rest of the world it appears incomprehensible.
[…]
QR codes return as state records 6324 new cases
OK, so how the hell does it help that we are all doing QR codes when the huge number of new cases is overloading the “case tracers”?
Why are we wearing masks that have been conclusively discredited? Masks are about stopping droplet-borne bugs, not airborne viruses.
Hospitalisation is not down to omicron, it is still delta.
We are governed by charade characters.
And yes, Cassie, Howard should have handed over to Costello at least two years before the election he lost. But it wasn’t all his fault, it was the party that fluffed the deal; too many others with aspirations.
Stupid Joe Hockey blundering around trying to answer Howard’s question “should I go” when it was far too late.
That has Marxist overtones.
For c. 90% of the world’s population we – white Westerners – are the parasitic elite who have amassed wealth beyond their imaginings by exploiting their ancestors and their lands.
Just ask an Indian or African when their guard is down.
That’s the narrative they’ve been fed by their post-colonial education systems.
Of course there is some truth to it, but it’s certainly not the whole story. But when you’re crafting a post-colonial national story to meld often disparate peoples together subtlety is not desirable.
We should be wary of demonisinbg wealth and power altogether. The elite, like the poor, will always be with us (just ask former Soviet citizens how that worked). The challenge is to ensure they don’t amass a disproportionately great amount of wealth and power that is incompatible with the aspirations of a democratic society in which every member is a valued citizen with responsibilities and rights.
Covidiocy strikes again. The poms will be late for today’s start of the cricket after being forced to have bat flu tests.
Lunacy on stilts.
Is it in the bookshelf up on lego?
amassed wealth beyond their imaginings by exploiting their ancestors and their lands.
If Britain hadn’t colonised it would have been France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Germany, Holland or Russia.
Colonisation=development. It meant establishing administrations and infrastructure. It meant farming and mining. It meant seaports, roads and railways.
The indigenes weren’t going to do any of that, so how were they going to be better off without colonisation?
The post-colonial story of Africa is one of despots, kleptocrats, civil wars and bloodthirsty strongmen.
All bankrolled by taxpayers in the West.
‘We should be wary of demonisinbg wealth and power altogether. The elite, like the poor, will always be with us (just ask former Soviet citizens how that worked). The challenge is to ensure they don’t amass a disproportionately great amount of wealth and power that is incompatible with the aspirations of a democratic society in which every member is a valued citizen with responsibilities and rights.”
I don’t demonise wealth….I believe in free markets, capitalism and making a buck. I’m very wary of too much power…particularly government power but my wariness also applies to excessive corporate power. This is why I’m a right-wing libertarian who believes in limited government. But I’m now living in a society full of people who seem happy to accept excessive government and corporate power. This will not end well.
Quite possibly.
Although I see what I want to see 😉
The communist Chinese may be all sorts of totalitarians but they are not stupid. That quality belongs to our elites
Zena @ 8:58
I was about to respond to Crossie by substituting traitor for elite. Perhaps, at the moment, that will do the heavy lifting, Zena?
The “despots, kleptocrats, civil wars and bloodthirsty strongmen” were often funded/banrolled by lucrative industries that had been developed by the awful colonialists and taken over by the “presidents for life” and their families and other cronies.
“The last one I had done I found frozen peas worked better than endone. Off the drugs after two weeks. Keep walking even short ones, it works.”
Eating frozen peas? I do like frozen peas.
Zena
The ‘elite’ may have more wealth, but it is us who assign them power and status. Those who give them, can take them away.
Unfortunately, we have no current ability to remove power nd status from those self-selected so-called “elites”. That rests with political machines operating in backrooms (for the politicians) and with the politicians and the bureaucracy for the wealthy.
That said, most of them are far from “elite”. They are generally pretty ordinary. Take away the backroom political machines and the ability to lobby for tax concessions and subsidies to harvest, and they would be much diminished.
And the success of those backroom machines and lobbying relies on sympathetic media coverage. Destroy the MSM as a start. Fight back. Don’t use their “news”, rely on selected www resources. Don’t be a slave to their advertising. Ignore Their ABC.
PS, parasites is a good alternative to elites.
If the idea of natural immunity post infection takes off then the collision between it and those that are expected to gets boosters after contracting Omicron will be fun to watch. Much pretzel logic to ensue.
A zero-life-experience political insider, with passion fingers. Hockey attracts far too little criticism for the consistent damage he did over many years.
HIH, WorkChoices, devotion to emissions trading, stupid political messaging, 2014 and 2015 flounder budgets – he fucked Australian conservative politics royally.
And then pissed off for a public holiday in Washington.
Wanker. Complete wanker.
#peaceandgoodwillamongstmen
Cassie
Just scanning down.
Snap!
An antonym for ‘elites’ is ‘dregs’.
For whoever asked on the Thail-Japanese relationship from WWII last night. Miss Anthropologist?
Ch 10 of Thailand’s Political History by BJ Terwiel covers the 1925-1945 period and is pretty good.
The other book on the whole region I am having trouble finding, may have lent it to someone & never got it back. It is also good when I find it as goes goes into the French arrogance, occasional brutality and how by WWII the Viet populations sympathies for the Japanese initially.
callisays:
December 27, 2021 at 9:49 am
We are in upside down world now.
The Establishment
Full description: Running dog lackeys of the fascist establishment.
Rumour.
The word is around legal circles in Melbourne that VicPol is after Pell with fresh charges.
Deep deep corruption and malice here.
Didn’t Howard disarm the Solomon Islanders as well as us? Doing the CCP’s work for them?
Let’s see the case against “Jay” for perjury first.
Let’s see the chat logs and show us the receipts.
Let’s see the Red Shirts affair be properly investigated.
3 down. Elites (7, 5)
Yes, two words. I’ll give you a clue, the second word starts with C
best joke I saw today …
What do pro-Vax and the anti-Vax have in common?
… they’ll both never be fully vaxxed
sortition
I have tears of joy right now.
Crabs?
Unfortunately replacing one set of elite’s with another eventually ends up with something just as oppressive. The US is just one example. Peoples need to leave a legacy plays apart in this. Happens in small sporting clubs the drift away from the original mandate in supplying facilities to free charging and sun screen. All under the banner of progress.
Bread and circuses has been around long before Marx or the Romans.
“The word is around legal circles in Melbourne that VicPol is after Pell with fresh charges.”
Surely not. If this is true and they proceed…..I don’t want Pell to return from Rome.
Melbourne, Australia.
A grotesque car crash of Salem, MA. and East Berlin.
Placed on swelling, but after being refrozen many times I doubt they taste any good.
Disgraced cardinal Becciu sends hostile note to George Pell
The Australian
By TESS LIVINGSTONE 4:38PM DECEMBER 26, 2021
Disgraced Vatican cardinal Angelo Becciu published a hostile pre-Christmas letter to Australian Cardinal George Pell a few days ago, refusing to explain why he authorised millions of euros of Vatican funds to be sent to Australia in the lead-up to Cardinal Pell’s criminal trial.
Written in 1991.
This Pell shit is laughable.
Vivian Waller accused him of crimes when he physically wasn’t in the country to commit said offences.
(I have seen this in NSW as well – it would require customs staff in two countries to lie, the Australians twice – such cases should never even come close to laying charges let alone a court room).
Fox hounded him for years and came up with nothing, and started to believe his own bullshit.
Jay probably lied during the committal, lied at least three times in his complaints and must have committed perjury at least once.
Remember the Victorian Police and Royal Commission openly asked for accusers back around 2015 to 2017.
Now – now after an acquittal and overturned conviction, now “the real accusers” turn up?
No mention of the Red Shirts, Jay’s perjury of the “Gate Hinge Fund-Gate”.
On the Solomons.
Solomon Islands accepts Chinese offer for riot police help
My Solomons friends tell me that China’s initial offer was for boots on the ground to match the [spit] Australians – which, far from ‘helping defuse civil unrest’ as their ABC imagines – would have been an instant trigger for civil war and PM Sogavare’s head in a basket.
China’s ‘offer that can’t be refused’ was negotiated down to a plane load of batons, shields and teargas, plus six Chinese instructors – who won’t set foot on the streets.
Well said Crossie. I used to be a big fan of John Howard. However, the further away John Howard is from office the more I realise how blinded I was to his narrow-minded meanness and lack of concern for the citizens of this country who lived in rural and remote Australia. He cared nought for Australia his concern was for the party NOT the people.
A fake conservative disarmed the citizenry and gave us Turnbull. Fie on his fakeness and yes he should just STFU.
Anyone know how often the 5 – 11 year olds will need to have booster shots? Like everything else I don’t think this has been thought through terribly well.
just 2 things you need to know:
1. the value of anything is what someone else will pay for it, usually based on rarity; and
2. humans, even intelligent ones, follow fads and fashion
Dr Faustussays:
December 27, 2021 at 10:58 am
I asked a mate last week who served in one of the first RAMSI missions. He said same if Chinese troops land it would be on for young and old especially with Malaita and a few Western Provinces the Chinese have been stripping the reefs of fish. He seemed to think police or paramilitary but seemed to think that it was more an exercise to put men in harms way then if harmed to use that excuse to send troops to “protect national interest.” Wait and see I suppose, don’t forget the Taiwanese would be doing their own stirring as well trying to discredit the PRC.
“Dotsays:
December 27, 2021 at 10:56 am
This Pell shit is laughable.”
Worse than laughable, it makes me feel sick. Here’s my take, I reckon this shit is coming directly from the Fuhrer of Victoria, Danny Boy. Remember that 2022 is an election year in Victoria. It’s all about deflection and giving the public a scapegoat.
I don’t suppose you’re game to try holding your breath until that happens?
Victoria is corrupt to the core has been my conclusion for a few years now. At least somewhere like Vietnam or Thailand the corruption has a sort of honesty to it, you can bribe the cops to let you off a speeding fine for example, where here it’s all high and mighty BS while there’s all sorts of back room deals and convenient careers after politics. Here is all pretend, instead of everyone knowing where the lines are.
Why yes, before someone asks, I am bitter….
do you eat them or apply them to the affected area?
“do you eat them or apply them to the affected area?”
You apply them…like ice packs.
Comment on a Pam Geller post about muzzie women lying about being the subject of wacist attacks:
Faisal Shahzad, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Pakistan, was convicted for the attempted 01 May, 2010, Times Square car bombing. Shahzad was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
At his sentencing, federal judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum of the Southern District of New York asked Shahzad “Didn’t you swear allegiance to this country?” Shahzad replied, “I sweared, but I didn’t mean it.”
There is no oath a Muslim can swear to a non-Muslim that can be trusted.
5-11 year olds are all in primary school, so they’ll just get a booster at school every term.
That’s why it’s 5-11 and not 6-11 or 4-11.
It’s been thought out all right, don’t worry about that.
Adverse reactions?
Schools don’t do First Aid any more, they ring the parent/guardian and tell them to come on down pronto and take the kid away.
You know I get that feeling even just listening to “creatives” from Melbin on the radio.
Backslapping, maaates, bullshit.
Turdball is the worst post WW11 PM; krudd and the slapper tie for second with little johnnie 3rd. The 2 stringbeans, mal and gough come in 4th. Howard is a POS not just for what he did, disarming us, signing up to Paris and starting the whole alarmism BS but also what he did not do: close down the abc.
My, my. How the world has changed.
In the 20th century, the political left was a freedom movement for the working class, struggling to remove the economic chains of the downtrodden.
But in the 21st century, the left has become the useful idiot of Big Government and Big Business, doing whatever it takes to make the rich richer.
For example, Jeff Bezos became the world’s richest man by harnessing the sociopathy of Silicon Valley’s leftist HTML coders, who hate the human race so much they spend their lives talking to computers in preference to people.
Bezos invented the world’s biggest retailer Amazon but knew he would need special measures to protect his fortune, so he bought the Washington Post as a lobby influential in Washington and used his wealth to buy the US Congress so it wouldn’t ever be tempted to break up his retail monopoly as free market orthodoxy requires.
The past two years have been tailormade to increase Amazon’s global size and reach as state and federal US governments (and governments in other countries like Australia) have persecuted small business while Amazon’s warehouses are free to do a roaring trade.
And in the past two years, the Australian federal government has left big business alone while enabling border closures by mainly Labor state governments and financed their persecution of small business.
Stopped clock is right, he’s due again in 12 hrs time, mark the time down.
I prefer the word “parasites“.
Yes, the parasite elite.
Transnational Oligarchical Psychopathic Scum
But maybe I am being too kind.
I did sales for a while (it’s a tough racket, have a drink/shoot an associate producer) and I couldn’t get away from technology. Got quite good with pivot tables and MS CRM.
Agreed. Failing to sack that fat loser was possibly the greatest of Abbott’s many failures.
This is Bird bait if I have ever seen it.
The Great Man as only the 4th worst PM? Extraordinary. And possibly correct.
Transnational Oligarchical Psychopathic Scum
Straw poll. How many Australian politicans are just simply… TOPS!
One who comes straight to mind is a lovely chap with a nickname that resonates well with the last word in said description. Enough said, a list here is likely a bad idea, please fill in the blanks at home at your leisure.
A synonym for ‘elites’ is ‘middle-class dregs’
Cardinal George Pell On the Record | EWTN News In Depth December 17, 2021
I reckon any mandate on 5-11 yo vaccinations will be widely ignored, more so than 12months ago. I know a lot of parents and it conjures up some pretty strong emotions and language best not aired in polite company. I don’t think they will do it till after the election, unless they want to hand Palmer a swathe more votes. Even then I think they will have a fight on their hands.
Victoria is corrupt to the core has been my conclusion for a few years now. At least somewhere like Vietnam or Thailand the corruption has a sort of honesty to it, you can bribe the cops to let you off a speeding fine for example.
My wife’s mother runs a housing and rental business in Thailand. Eminently easy for small to medium players to make their way, just pay the right people and your on your way. In Victoria it’s high level corruption that is impossible for small and medium players to gain access to.
Victoria is a disgusting shithole. Thailand and Vietnam in contrast aren’t.
Don’t agree with that, the Middle Classes can never make it to the Elite.
Let’s look at the bloke who made this statement, Kim Beazley.
If anyone was from the dregs of the middle classes, it was him.
Cardimona’s new relo:
Johnny Depp’s ex-wife Amber Heard names new dog Barnaby Joyce after the Australian Deputy PM (27 Dec)
If you ask me he looks more like Boris Johnson.
A mandate can’t be ignored, children have had to be vaccinated to attend School for a Generation now.
MatrixTransform says:
December 27, 2021 at 10:16 am
Not quite. In an old shoebox. Until I took it out for a picture. Actually the noise looks more lake a later one, but I always assumed that was a concession to making them easy to manufacture. The shape of the window opening is the key feature and is spot on.
Aggggh! Must proof read!
Amber Heard strikes me as a complete self-promoting nut but it’s hard not to admire her work. Let’s hope somebody takes the Beetrooter to obedience classes.
The loose change from Becciu’s $2m Get Pell slush fund rattling it’s way through the Victorian slot machine.
The purpose remains the same.
Readin g somewhere that the risk of nasty side effects for mRNA vaccines is 1 in 1,000 compared to 1 in 1,000,000 for traditional vaccines.
After the 6th Booster, what would the odds be then?
Might be why an awful lot of the switched on blokes I’ve known have ended up there. Pretty bloody sad statement on Australia so many of the best leave like that.
Mr Ed
Let’s look at the bloke who made this statement, Kim Beazley.
If anyone was from the dregs of the middle classes, it was him.
Actually, it was Kim Beazley’s father. He was a strong “old Labor” man, who could see the problems that would ensue when the “Dregs of the middle class” gained power in the party (or anywhere else).
Fvck off fvckwit.
All the right reasons to have a dog.
Err, like there’s any need for the corrupt sack of excrement to explain?
Ed Casesays:
December 27, 2021 at 11:49 am
I reckon any mandate on 5-11 yo vaccinations will be widely ignored,
A mandate can’t be ignored, children have had to be vaccinated to attend School for a Generation now.
Being a horse, Mr Ed is not familiar with the concept of Irish democracy.
PS, how are you going with identifying failed Australian officers in WW I who became generals in WW II?
And, fvck off fvckwit.
Thank you, I know it’s a thankless task, schooling the unschooled, but I know you like a challenge.
Not just Victoria and perhaps not strictly sacks of cash corruption.
It seems such is the whole country now, if you are big enough to have an actual legal department,
you’re likely to find a friend at some level of government eager to help you trample underfoot
anyone who isn’t big enough to have an actual legal department.
Poor Johnny Depp. Amber Heard appears to’ve stuffed her glory box full of revenge reminders, seeing she’s still grudged with Barnaby over Pistol and Boo six years later. He’s never going to be rid of her methinks. Depp, I mean. Barnaby only if Amber is even nuttier than I think she is.
P @ 11:42
Thank you.
Re Ms Heard, nuttier than a fruitcake in a Basic Instinct sort of a way probably but, props to her for the inventive defilement of the marital bed as an extension of argumentation by alternative means. That one still cracks me up.
It may be time to take legal advice and demand proof of the clinical trials that:
Mixed drugs.
Used “boosters”.
Used varying intervals.
Otherwise, there is no way they can be declared safe.
I believe Moderna is now an option?
Why should Pfizer have all the fun.
OK.
Pell’s arch enemy Becciu is in a corner and fighting back.
(This is the guy who sent the “gate money” to Australia which has been subsequently untraceable … or untraced I should say).
So, just as the heat comes on Becciu with his impending trial for fraud, up pops hints and rumours about Pell.
What a coincidence.
0.00598501998501. Approximately.
Snap Dr F at 11:55.
No.
Vaxx triumph new:
ABC.
News
They died with Covid rather than from Covid.
Giving a Nonagenarian 2 doses of an experimental Vaccine doesn’t sound like responsible behaviour either.
It sounds like outright moneygrubbing.
Everyone gets Omicron, everyone is immune from SARS COVID 19, what then will be the excuse to keep pumping for vaxxes and sign in apps?
My mind keeps circling back to what a lefty mate said back in 2020: “It isn’t this one that’s the worry, this is just the first of many”.
Could they possibly make everyone stay vaccinated under the illusion that there may come another corona virus in the near future, and “our best bet to slow the spread of a new SARS – COVID virus is that everyone is vaccinated?
It’s a long shot I know, but it wouldn’t surprise me either.
You guys are talking about A. Head while another Head is batting.
Coincidence? Or
Something more sinister?
“props to her for the inventive defilement of the marital bed as an extension of argumentation by alternative means.”
Amber Heard is a very nasty and malicious liar.
..
Taken so young.
The horror.
What astounds and puzzles me is why there is any mystery at all about the money Becciu sent to Australia. AUSTRAC/ASIO etc KNOW where it went. They must know. But despite AUSTRAC’s known intervention, no reports were forthcoming about the firm that received the money. I’ve looked up the firm’s name and it is a shonky-sounding, vague registered entity that appears to have no commercial or trading purpose.
Apparently they mend fences, C.L. And gates.
And they don’t come cheap.
Some excellent commentary this morning, made while I was returning to Mongyang.
Has Harris done enough to save his career?
Rolf or Kamala?
The most terrifying thing about COVID is how it doesn’t discriminate between the old and the very, very, very old.
jupes,
He’s got a session and a half to get through, I reckon.
Ed Harris was good in “Enemy at the gate”.
If we win the Test, yeah.
If he gets a flukey tortuous Century, yeah.
Otherwise, no, he’s out of his depth in Test Cricket.
An average of 25 puts too much pressure on Davey.
Their best bet is to move Labuschagne or Smith to opener, play Wadey at no. 6 and make him Captain.
Ryan Harris was a great bowler, could swing a bat too.
And catch the ball.
Perhaps the Selectors have confused M. Harris with R. Harris?
CL, can you share the company name.
Hence my self correction.
“Untraceable. Or should I say untraced”.
If someone dumped $2meg into Australia to fund Craig Kelly’s campaign, we would all know about it before morning tea.
Driller, the Mexican side of the duo has more hair on his face that Mohammad Atta and that’s just a mo.
Now fuck off and stop talking to me. Go converse with Thought Leader who was groveling to you the other evening because he doesn’t like me anymore.
Seriously, just fuck off as that was the part of the agreement with Dover. Do not talk either directly 0r indirectly, you worthless piece of human trash.
Its not fair on the dog to be associated with Amber or Barnaby. How would you like it? Mind you following her around may not be all that bad,,,,,,, scratch that. 11 on the crazy/hot matrix.
Nice of Cummins to give the Goat a chance of a first ever test fifty.
He got ten as nightwatchman, which is ok.
Harris has the right stuff…
Inurance cash-outs are great for someone who wants to virtue signal.
I’m coming to the conclusion that John Howard should keep his mouth shut or he will end up being as detested by his former voters as is Kevin07.
John Howard is 82. There’s a few old crackers on this site who’s judgement could be called into question in there twilight years. After all, the decisions and voting patterns of that generation have led us to where we are.
Areff, as Keith W and others have reported, the company is US “technology and security company,” Neustar.
I should have said that it’s Melbourne ‘office’ – which received the money – struck me as purposeless. The parent company has a legitimate profile – notwithstanding that it sounds as vague as Air America or Universal Exports.
Ed Davey Wadey matey maaaaate.
Have you sought the advice of ‘Paino*’ on your latest effort?
*Not, and never was Tim Paine’s nickname.
Why hold back? Say what you really think.
He should never have been allowed to get to this point.
But, one way or another, Amazon is going to be broken up, along with others.
I missed it.
Who is a “worthless piece of human trash”?
Has the peace and goodwill dissipated?
One of the oldest tricks in the senior ecclesiastic’s play book.
Forget the Australian end.
Becciu is shitting bricks that the Vatican will disclose his dirty game.
Why do you think he is bleating about “secret men’s business which couldn’t possibly be disclosed”.
Dirty secrets are not helpful to the Church.
Bezos has style. He sells books that I can receive from the US in thirty seconds, and also tickets to fly into space in a giant penis-shaped rocket. How good is that?
He should have a word with Elon though, since the Left will destroy him pretty soon I suspect. WaPo is not going to provide protection.
Australia is well down the road to a Washington DC model infested with lobbyists, political insiders and special deals. Once restricted to media moguls, Crown, the AMA, the unions, military suppliers and property developers whose entire business exists at the whim of government as governments increasingly intrude into the minutiae of life it is people who want to build a patio or cross a State border.
It is only going to get worse.
Cardinal Pell’s reply to the question, prompted here at 4:48 –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugIoShFhsyI&t=298s
This was October 2020:
Three days later: Victoria police won’t investigate claims of Vatican money transfers to Australia linked to Pell case.
In other words, Victoria Police – not exactly famous for respecting the privacy rights and good offices of the Catholic Church – decided to take Becciu at his word.
Who Bezos/WaPo endorses in 2024 will certainly be interesting.
Bwah ha ha ha ha.
Thanks Ed.
After reading this morning’s predictions, I had some money on Marcus Harris.
To score 50 – @ $2.30.
To score 100 – @ $11.00.
To top score Australia’s first innings – @ $18.00.
Collected on the fifty, looking good for top score and might snag the 100 too.
“He should never have been allowed to get to this point.”
Correct. Bezos is the ultimate corporate globalist fascist.
But, one way or another, Amazon is going to be broken up, along with others.
When? Even if the GOP regain both houses….watch them do nothing.
Am proud to say that I have never used Amazon for anything and I never will.
Not just Victoria and perhaps not strictly sacks of cash corruption.
very simple example of politics and cash ending up as cash +salary = whatever you want it too .. no questions asked ……..!
When Jacinda was elected PM of NZ she, publically, stated she had a total of $NZ8 000 to her name ..
four years on and a salary of $NZ470 000 a year (no idea if it is taxed) …
her current worth is estimated at $NZ24 000 000 …
“In other words, Victoria Police – not exactly famous for respecting the privacy rights and good offices of the Catholic Church – decided to take Becciu at his word.”
Funny that. This is material for classic good old fashioned investigative journalism. But wait, we no longer have any good old fashioned journalists and ninety percent of the MSM have bought into the lynching of George Pell…..despite him being acquitted 7-0.
It’s not just the GOP it’s also the Democrat left.
Bipartisan bills before Congress this year have forced Amazon to discuss how they might voluntarily spin off businesses to avoid being forced to. Jeff Bezos is not going to be the world’s richest man indefinitely.
But, one way or another, Amazon is going to be broken up, along with others.
very unlikely, as long as the demon-rats hold sway .. the anti-trust cases that cost the likes of Microsoft $USbillions to contest & lose are a thing of the past ..
nowadays the, accepted, standard is .. GREED IS GOOD ..
after all, those, now, controlling the purse strings of gummint and big business ………………….. ARE ALL IN IT TOGETHER ..!
Thanks, CL
Maybe instead of producing four hours of the same program – Bolt/Panahi/Murray – Sky could actually do some investigative work.
What does Neustar do in this county – and for whom? Who are its principals? Call me a conspiracy theorist but that outfit sounds a lot like an employer of ex-cops.
Armadillo:
It’s about damn time someone put all the cards on the table and pointed out facts to the Aboriginal people.
While they continue to be used as a battering ram against the Right in Australia by the Left, they will continue to live in squalor and die of preventable illnesses way before their time.
It’s time to stop the bullshit and start treating them equally with us, removing the pedestal that is really a prison camp for the powerless ones.
Decisions have consequences. Especially bad ones.
Gordon Gecko would be considered a pauper now days.
Greed doesn’t cut it anymore, it makes you poor.
Corporate communism is all the go.
I saw a reference by Dot to Bird-bait earlier this morning.
You needn’t worry about any of that- Graeme is so happy that Struth is letting him shit all over the couches at the Furniture Store- Thus demonstrating how much more open and heroic and committed to Freedom our mighty Road Warrior-Troubador is, by allegedly showing all comers the true depths of Bird’s madness- That we will likely not see him try to raid us for a very long time…
…At least until FlyingPigs and co. have had enough of the obnoxious, repetitive monomania and thread-clogging and ban him from there, too.
The funny thing is our lot of effin useless bunch of pollies are such cheap sellouts. They’re not even big fish in a small pond.
I used to go out with a strapping young lass; she was a real Amazon.
The Bird modus operandi does not lend itself to being spread thinly. Enjoy his absence.
I notice Neustar, Melbourne, shares the eighth floor at 10 Queens Road with this mob, VSMA. Wondering if there’s a link.
Bezos has style. He sells books that I can receive from the US in thirty seconds, and also tickets to fly into space in a giant penis-shaped rocket. How good is that?
Lotza short memories abound .. I can remember way, way back to the late ’90s/early 2000s when internet shopping was a still a babe-in-arms & the media wuz cheering-leading on the fact that Amazon was losing money left right & centre with its, new fangled, world-wide shopping ideas and would soon be a memory sooooo buyer beware ..!
fast forward 20 years or so and now it’s all … BOO HISS BAH! .. its not fair AMAZON is too big and making too much money lets bad-mouth it ….. whilst Jeff is laffing all the way to the bank (which he, probably, owns as well!) .. LOL!
Even funnier, SRR’s now joined in the fun too, seemingly thinking that whinging about us with her fellow ‘Troo Beeleevahs’ will be accepted with open arms.
Birds of a feather, Faulty together in Struth and harmonee, I suppose…
How long before RUBY starts getting ideas …….?
https://catholicherald.co.uk/new-zealand-okays-euthanasia-for-covid-patients/
Indolent:
This is the interesting part of the whole WZV HairOnFire Scene.
Our governments are at the start of the cattle run where they get to choose between gate 1 -‘Crack Down Hard on the Recalcitrant Bastards’ or gate 2 – Back to the Paddock.
It looks like Germany/Austria all for Gate 1 and repression.
It looks like GB is tossing up between the two.
It looks like Sveden never bothered rounding the cattle up.
A word to the world leaders – the people are watching closely at your decision, while picking up pitchfork, matches, and nooses.
Choose wisely.
Zena:
I picked “Brahmin Class”.
Try that one on for size.
Winston Smithsays:
December 27, 2021 at 2:27 pm
Indeed Winston. I have spent a lot of my adult working life well outside city limits. The victim culture is making them worse, even the choice of music for the younger mob has changed from Slim Dusty to this gangsta rap that certainly wouldn’t be helping. Lately I am starting to see something which these Sov Cit types carry on with in NSW, white man law and society doesn’t apply to us (Gimmie your money though). The courts seem to cater to this with negligently light sentences and Police brass leant on by Politicians call police off at every chance.
Don’t know what the solution is but I do know there is already vigilantism occurring in Townsville which is particularly hard hit that has resulted in deaths. Other more subtle Neighbourhood Watch style vigilantism was around when I was still living there, I saw it twice in my suburb resulting in a few bruised and bloody teens who had been attempting to break into cars. Media has been ignoring the serious injuries from joyriding, earlier this year I know of 2 elderly ladies and a child hospitalised from daylight collisions with joyriders on one weekend from 3 accidents, one made the news as an accident that’s it. Rinse and repeat in Cairns and handful of other Qld regional cities.
Only had one booby, huh?
Winston,
I think just Brahmins. They totally lack class.
shatterzzz
nowadays the, accepted, standard is .. GREED IS GOOD ..
after all, those, now, controlling the purse strings of gummint and big business ………………….. ARE ALL IN IT TOGETHER ..!
Another example of the political fascist left having now become what they campaigned against only a couple of decades ago.
Nothing new here in the Wild West -after the High Court handed down the Mabo judgement, a deputation of “tribal elders” informed the local police sergeant that “Mabo means we don’t have to follow whitefella law any more.”
Dot:
Settle, petal.
🙂
Your time is coming.
There’s no chance of that happening here, so why do you continually talk up the likelihood of Armed Insurrection?
The left are so cunning; why they are converting the US military to wokeism:
https://choiceclips.whatfinger.com/2021/12/26/why-would-you-defend-something-that-is-evil-wokism-is-destroying-our-military/
Doc Faustus:
That would have been interesting to see.
I believe a scenario which involved 7 pikes would have occurred – 6 for the ‘instructors’ and one for Sogovare.
BJ, I agree with most of the above except for the ABC, not to be ignored, it must be destroyed. I will vote for any party that will promise to defund it or sell it off. Those who want it can pay for it, I am sick and tired of subsidising those who malign and sneer at me.
The U.S. Military was always pretty Woke, compared to the standards of the day.
It’s only purpose is the waste of Blood & Treasure, so it doesn’t matter what they do.
Funny one last year, 2 Lezzos on a ship refused to speak to one another, result:
Their ship collided with another ship.
Crossie
BJ, I agree with most of the above except for the ABC, not to be ignored, it must be destroyed. I will vote for any party that will promise to defund it or sell it off. Those who want it can pay for it, I am sick and tired of subsidising those who malign and sneer at me.
I’m prepared to compromise. Sack them all, burn it down, pile of skulls!
Bluey:
You’re allowed that, especially after the morally and intellectually bankruptcy of our Brahmin Class over the last 50 years.
(I’ll even give the Dot meister the chance of a tumescent few minutes by agreeing sortition could work better with a Parliament from each state of 50 random individuals providing a National Government of 21 – as long as a recall option was available.)
Apparently, its three to start with because two just won’t do. Who knows where it will go from there, if they’re still alive that is.
From the COVID Madness thread.
Mr Ed there:
You can’t argue with this logic, because it’s insane to start with.
Things have the potential to get much more Totalitarian, but, You Can’t Comply Your Way Out Of Tyranny.
Mr Ed here:
There’s no chance of that happening here, so why do you continually talk up the likelihood of Armed Insurrection?
Does the left side of your brain know what the right side is typing?
Fvck off Fvckwit.
With untested drugs KNOWN to have high levels of side effects, including death, for an illness with 99% recovery? I hardly think so. Corona viruses have always been with us and always will be, although Covid 19 almost certainly had a human element helping it along. Why do you think that was?
My biggest quibble is that freedom doesn’t seem to rate with him at all. Not worth a mention. A faux conservative if ever there was one.
Brahmins were/are not necessarily mercenary/miserable/soulless/nasty/stupid etc persons. An upper caste, yes, and not always just, yet impropriety or malice is not intrinsic to Brahminism which I think is really a priestly caste of Hinduism. And I really know nothing about it all except to think that the persons who have screwed Australia are not worthy to be considered Brahmins.
The ignorance and relative apathy (OK, I being mean- Tolerance) of the Australian people in the same era has not helped, and the party political system of this country has moved itself over time to exploit this.
Rusted-on voters, Party Discipline and the average voter’s attitudes of ‘She’ll Be Right’ and ‘I hate ’em all equally’ have led to this point. And the crash-education we have all had in just how robust our Federation actually is, albeit with no political or legal recourse for the folks ruined by the economic sanctions and border shenaniganry has been harsh and horrible.
We are stuck with informal voting for the time being, and being quietly incandescent and unofficially rebellious enough for even the blindest political hack to take notice, shit themselves and beg their Minister/Premier/PM to change course before their brilliant careers are wrecked on the rocks of an angry electorate…
Hedley Thomas and Ross Coulthardt are the only ones I rate that I can remember. But both seem to have dropped off the radar. Be interesting to know what Tom thinks.
I didn’t know Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, no females in Combat Arms Units and unit segregation by race (All historical US Military Policies) were woke, Grigory?
Now I know you haven’t finished chewing your last propellor blade from yesterday’s Canberra Air Disaster debacle, so why are you not in your corner again?
Freedom of Trade and Freedom of Movement supposedly having been the bases of the States working woth each other in Federation, back in 1901…
There was a thread a while ago where there was some questionably humorous posts about how many jabs would be dictated to the ungodly.
Currency Lad:
How odd?!
Got a link for the name?
I may just decide to waste a week or two.
Howard’s modus operandi was to consolidate power in the hands of parliament and therefore the two main political parties at the expense of ordinary people’s rights. When we see Morrison’s Liberals making it more difficult for minor parties to register to contest elections and ganging up with Labor to censure a citizen – Bettina Arndt – because she dared venture an opinion which challenged a particular narrative we see Howardism at work still.
Given one of the few rights we are supposed to have is free movement between states, I reckon it’s pretty safe to say we’re not in a society were the law/constitution matters. From there, well, drawn your own conclusions….
In Queensland, guided by Lex Luther, Our Lady of Laissez Faire still appears to be heading us towards Gate 2.
By contrast, McGowan sees many, many votes in driving the pox-ridden in Perth and Peel through Gate 1.
It’s almost as though we don’t have a strong Federation.
C.L:
Is ok – I got to the Nuestar link.
One of the good things about having a Monarchy is that one can look at things like corruption in Victoria and gaol the miscreant and forfeit all his/her/xims property whilst said miscreant languishes in a shit coated cell, existing on food that even John Wests dogs dung beetles would reject, until they come good on disclosing just what they did…
ScoMo is way in front all of them, he has destroyed this country in less than two years.
Interesting info emerging about the demorat kunt, the NY AG, trying to criminalise Trump:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUN1TIGfdRc
Until conservatives learn to treat the left like the left treats them and stop pretending there are rules the decline of the West will continue.
Bluey, the interpretation and application of the Constitution was vested in the High Court, which was envisaged by our founding fathers as being the guardian of the people’s constitutional rights should they be infringed upon by the various legislatures, Commonwealth and state. They have failed.
Seems the Wooroloo/Chidlow bushfires, that went up here, in the Wild West, on Boxing Day, were deliberately lit….Arsonists should be given a fair trial, then hanged, drawn and quartered…
ScoMo is way in front all of them, he has destroyed this country in less than two years.
I don’t think so. Scomo has no majority and a party full of scags so he does have both arms tied behind his back. But he did treat Kelly badly and his lack of support for Christensen and general disregard for conservative principles and the culture war makes him a useful disciple of the giant fucks who preceded him.
Jimmy Anderson’s efforts today have put all his team mates to shame. Here’s hoping he gets the five for.
Ollie returns at half rat power. Save him for the second innings, FFS.
Not bad for a 39 y.o., eh?
They’ll need to rest him for Sydney though.
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Hard to get past the view that SloMo was only intended to be a placeholder by the Waffleworth “moderates” to ensure Spud Dutton didn’t get the top job. KRuddy’s stupid rules (which the Lieborals foolishly adopted) means you are stuck with them until they lose an election.
When Jimmy Anderson first played Test cricket Cameron Green was 2 y.o.
He’s had a hard time in test matches here. To have witnessed his efforts today is what Test Match Cricket is all about.
Looks like the BOM have missed the Perth max by 3 degrees (41 v 44). As Roy & HG would say make of that what you will.
Apologies to the BOM today’s forecast max was revised down to 40.
Since Wussiagate hoax, I’ve begun to believe even Watergate was just leftist made-up bullshit. Schiff is the real insurrectionist and deserves capital punishment.
All out and England now have a torrid time coming up.
17(?) overs remaining, 82 behind, batting in the third innings.
Show some grit, for goodness’ sake. Think of poor ol’ Gatts and the Gooch, not to mention the Boycott.
There’s still over three days left, FFS.
Why? In the name of God, why are you buying in Victoria. Just stop!
Cassie from Sydney:
I have to admit of consorting with the enemy. I’ve bought over 850 books from Kindle.
I’m happy with the purchases, apart from the bit where Amazon can just take back/delete my entire library under their T&C operating currently.
I’d like to OWN the books I’ve bought just like my non on line books.
That will need to be considered when the Amazon Monster is chopped into little bits.
To me test cricket is about the story that events weave together in the match, with unexpected twists and turns in the plot and each player a character, major or minor.
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