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Hope you one and all have a brilliant year.

My New year’s resolution.

Try harder to complain less about trivial stuff because some control freak will think they have the numbers to ban or put a sin tax on it.

Happy gnu year! Like a wildebeest I suspect 2022 will be an ugly creature.

Malone podcast available on Spotify.
To quote Joe Rogan “you can download Spotify FOR FREE”.
3 hours long.

Apple is preparing for China’s takeover of Taiwan.

2022 is going to be a very interesting year.

Struth’s New Year Message
A happy new year to you Mater.
and a few others here.
I can’t say that honestly and mean it to all of course.
The jetsetting Nazis and those whos heads I obviously live in, those whose sole existence seems to be this blog and believe that near 24/7 commenting is having a life and implies righteousness,…..let me send you this time honoured wish for 2022.
May your chooks turn into emus and kick your dunny door down.
Oh, and for those little tribalist sheeple here, let me remind you of your wrongology …..the furniture shop has been right about so much more than you have.
If you could pull your head out of your arse for a second you may not have been proven so wrong by those trying to teach you a few things.
So we can only hope in the New year you realise how stupid you have been and how it was born of stubborn pride and a need to feel accepted.
So let us pray.
May those so fucking thick as to take a poison from criminals refrain from calling others trying to save them “nuff nuffs at the furniture shop” .
The wrongology of the past two years of these people has now been clearly shown.
Born of denialism.
These dumb bastards mocked and they know they did.
Told nearly two years ago this was all about bringing in a social credit control system. ..they mocked.
Told the jab would kill….they mocked.
Told about the new world agenda they mocked.
Told they’d need never ending boosters they mocked.
Told about WEF globalists like Greg Hunt….they mocked.
These many quite insane people who were also told the virus was a nothingburger went and injected a poison into their arms and then have the audacity to still talk as if people at the furniture shop like myself are the weird guys.
Yes the real world is stranger than fiction.
Those people on this blog know who they are.
Those of you who know I and others have been proven right know who they are.
People that believe in right and wrong know notafans behavior should be criticized.
My hope for the new year, although I won’t hold my breath, is that I can get an answer from those who, by virtue of declaration, consider themselves the arbiters of sanity…..how many boosters are you going to have?

Paragraphs and page breaks… a fogotten art apparently.

Betty White didn’t make it to her 100.
Pity.

Happy New Year to all.

Joe Rogan is so dumb sometimes.
Question to Malone: There are rumours that hospitals get paid more for COVID deaths.
Then Malone goes on some long winded answer.
Says it was a CDC decision.

It’s in the fucking CARES Act.
Don’t people read the legislation.

POG Juice for a recovery morning:

Zatara, it is not the first time I have been called Juicy, but thank you! 😉

Rogan provides an awesome platform, but the DMT must be killing his memory.
Last year when Elon was on, he said that incentivising hospitals to report COVID deaths was the worse part of the CARES Act.
He was right.
And the GOP supported it in the House & Senate & Trump signed off on it.

An hour into the Malone podcast with Rogan.
Zero new news.

Arky you are talking to us not your neighbours, keep the language to yourself. Just pathetic. Don’t care if you’re pissed there’s no need.

If you have ESPN, college football semi about to kick off.
Alabama v Cincinnati.
The line in the US is 13.5 but Ladbrokes in Oz hasn’t been offering anything like that before they stopped taking bets yesterday.
I saw the Ladbrokes line at 20.5 at one stage.
Australia is such a shit hole.

As Gabor says, cartoons are here.

Top o’ the mornin’ Cats!

Happy New Year!

Thanks for the comments Cats still laughing. But I also think the microcosm of life in this complex reflects the general community more interested in what is going on in my bedroom than the corruption in Daniel Andrews government

We had a lovely evening sitting around a roaring fire
Not really necessary as it was a warm evening
Lots of chat and laughter until….
The hostess fell into the fire !
Badly burnt hand but otherwise OK

Zatara I’m always me so have fun giving answers that can be interpreted anyway they want to eg what would you prefer a sleepover or a Wombat ( eats , roots and leaves)

When’s Tet? I want better fireworks.

Also, do we get Eye of the Tiger as a theme song for 2022?

Spoke too soon. Tom had a booster. Tom had an obituary.

Clover Moore got somethin g right then.
The clue is in the name-Rape Crisis Centre.
Ideologues don’t have the right to withhold public funding at whim.

Shit up, Grigs. You know as well as I do that they’re a considerable risk TO RAPE VICTIMS. “I wuz raped. Where da women at?”

I’ll keep asking.
Who is going to get their booster?

‘even are you having sex’

This is when you bring out lurid tales of Batman suits, how you never knew tentacle porn gets you so fired up, of tying each other up via ropes attached to ceilings and how cocaine keeps you going.

Finish with a glance at the nearest table, and say ‘I wouldn’t eat off that if I were you.’

Idiot newsreader saying New Years Day tomorrow unless it was pre-recorded but I don’t think so.

Pleasing to see that the year also begins with an appeal for more Furniture Shop readership by one of the few members of its echo chamber.

Recent highlights include a short word wall from one contributor, musing on the lack of crowd attendance for one of his recent vocal and instrumental performances at a pub.

All sorts of things are blamed for this. One possible reason, and not one which appears in said piece is that the author is shit at it.

GreyRangasays:
January 1, 2022 at 9:14 am
Gower

That’s the one. Very high opinion of himself.

KD adressing the issues with his usual….meeeeeoooowww!
Nothing to say in the year 2022 either.
Just spite.

Who is going to get their booster?

Haven’t even had the first shot.

Going for the booster Frank?
Just asking a simple question.
Not that hard is it?

Israel and the UK and the USA.
Don’t suppose we will be different…

Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.

What’s it to you St Ruth?

struthsays:
January 1, 2022 at 9:13 am
I’ll keep asking.
Who is going to get their booster?

It isn’t my habit to share private medical information other than with close family members and treating doctors, but if it will make you feel better, I could try to scan the photos from my latest colonoscopy and publish them here.

she told me she tried to fix a hole in a walk with glad wrap under plaster

True story, friend of mine had a landlord that came with a slightly doddery father that liked to fix things about the place. He came home one day to find that pops had patched a hole in a corrugated fence by plugging it with an onion and then fibreglassing over the top of it. It must have fit. He stuck around until they came home to show off his handiwork.

And I’ll keep asking.
Is it really “my body, my choice”?

Not really the issue though, is it?
All he’s asking is if you’re going to get Boostered.
Unless you’re claiming privacy, why not give a straight answer [AKA, the truth]?

Posts a rambling word wall about the sanctity of personal freedoms and medical privacy, then starts badgering people about their vax status.
Like it is his business or something.

You’re using a handle, so your privacy is protected.
Why not give a straight answer, such as, the truth, for a change?

Ed Casesays:
January 1, 2022 at 9:38 am
And I’ll keep asking.
Is it really “my body, my choice”?

Not really the issue though, is it?
All he’s asking is if you’re going to get Boostered.
Unless you’re claiming privacy, why not give a straight answer [AKA, the truth]?

Have you responded to Struth yet, Dick?

Are bushfires common in Colorado this time of year?
It’s weird seeing snow a few blocks from where fires burnt down entire blocks so much so you can see into the holes that were the basements.

FFS, JC had a crack at your bad language overnight (reasonably) and chips away at your economic cred.

Old Mother Grundy is outta bed early today, look out Baaaad Language aficionados.

Are those boosters my choice or not, Breadvan boy?

That wasn’t the question.

Bear I used pick up a mooring at Thompson’s Bay during the week, no one ever complained. If it was the weekend drop the pick at Geordie Bay which was preferable anyway. There was a mooring 2 back from the beach people had a job picking up, we’d sit at the pub and bet on how many tries before they gave up.

Everyone please read up on the warrantless surveillance being proposed in Australia now.

These are dark times. This needs to be knocked on the head.

Please inform the UAP, LDP and PHON about your displeasure over this.

Thank you.

Has everyone got really bad hangovers this morning? Cheer up, it’s a whole new year spread before you with all its possibilities.

Just because someone asks an impertinent question. Simply don’t answer the damn thing. Easy.

See how it works? I’m not telling you what to do, just what not to do. 😛

You will sober up more quickly if you read up about warrantless surveillance in Australia.

Shut up shuttin’ up.

Okay Dover. Ban me for using stupid Bugs clips.

I feel like I’m talking to children.
I am asking adults to discuss what they may consider the pros and cons of getting an injection as yet none of them have had.
Although they try to deflect by lying…..the fact is I’m not asking for their medical status.

Although they try to deflect by lying…..the fact is I’m not asking for their medical status.

Yes you are. Please stop. This is what is so offensive about da green tick.

Arky, no. No ban box.
You are one of the reasons I come here. I never mind a bit of biff and yours is more enjoyable than most. It obviously comes from the heart, not from “ooh, ooh, look at moi”.
Stay.

ps, who hasn’t done their share of swearing when shitfaced? At least you didn’t use spray paint?!?

This is where we currently are.

https://digitalrightswatch.org.au/2021/09/02/australias-new-mass-surveillance-mandate/

No I am not. Dot you cheeky little dishonest lawyer type.
Fos that you are, Mr open borders.
I am quite simply asking for their thoughts on future medical interventions they may be contemplating taking.
What are the pros and con?

Has there been a media blackout or are Google etc cooperating with the filthy tyrannical government we have?

https://dailytelegraph.co.nz/opinion/new-law-allows-for-warrantless-spying-on-australians-where-next/

This is the full article off Muck Rack I couldn’t get before. Don’t diss the source because they aggregate other news of a less than verifiable character. This full article was hard to find. No au sources.

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NEW LAW ALLOWS FOR WARRANTLESS SPYING ON AUSTRALIANS – WHERE NEXT?

By
Kit Klarenberg
December 1, 2021

Kit Klarenberg, an investigative journalist exploring the role of intelligence services in shaping politics and perceptions.

The Australian Signals Directorate, Canberra’s equivalent of Britain’s GCHQ or the US National Security Agency, will be granted sweeping new powers to spy on Australians for the first time since its November 1947 founding.

The move allows the agency to collect signals intelligence on individuals within the country without a warrant, although allegedly only in situations where there is an “imminent risk to life.” Domestic terror suspects are cited as a key target in the Directorate’s crosshairs, and it will also collect intelligence in conjunction with the Australian Defence Force for military operations, with ministerial authorization.

Rules governing the reform and protecting citizens’ privacy will be published on the agency’s website, and subject to review and scrutiny by the Australian parliament’s security and intelligence committee. While framed as sincerely concerned with keeping Australians safe, experts have expressed grave reservations about the development. Among them is John Blaxland, Professor of International Security and Intelligence Studies at the Australian National University, himself a military intelligence veteran, who warned the powers were ripe for abuse.

“I’m a former insider…I have a much greater appreciation of the need for checks and balances, because power tends to corrupt,” he cautioned. “My concern is the legislation we put forward is being drafted by insiders, it’s drafted with their own concerns in mind.”

Drafted by insiders, the legislation certainly was – it’s inspired by the findings of an extensive review by Dennis Richardson, former chief of Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, the country’s FBI, conducted in close consultation with Australia’s assorted intelligence services, in a manner akin to foxes being quizzed on how best to guard a henhouse.

Published in December 2020, his appraisal’s discussion of “authorisations” noted that these agencies can already conduct warrantless intelligence-gathering if they believe it to be “necessary, proportionate, reasonable and justified” in certain circumstances, and “would like the ability” to not only use various investigative techniques without official permission, but also with “protection from criminal liability” when doing so.

Leaked documents exposed by journalist Annika Smethurst in April 2018 showed that high-level plans for untrammeled domestic spying by the Australian Signals Directorate date back even further. They revealed how the respective heads of Australia’s Defence and Home Affairs ministries had discussed allowing the agency to access citizens’ emails, bank records and text messages without approval, or trace. A government source told Smethurst they were “horrified” by the proposals, given “there is no actual national security gap this is aiming to fill.”

Australian Federal Police raided both the alleged leaker of the files and Smethurst the next year. In a perverse irony, the charges against her were dropped in May 2020, as Australian High Court judges unanimously ruled that the warrant secured from a magistrate in relation to the raid was invalid, because it not only “misstated the terms of the offence” but was also ambiguous if not outright absurd.

“[The warrant] lacked the clarity required to fulfil its basic purposes of adequately informing Smethurst why the search was being conducted and providing the executing officer and those assisting in the execution of the warrant with reasonable guidance to decide which things came within the scope of the warrant,” the High Court damningly concluded.

In other words, it was impossible to know from the warrant’s wording what the investigation actually concerned, what evidence or information was sought, and what, if any, crime she may or may not have committed. That this baseless and broad investigative authorization was formally granted at all renders the Directorate’s newfound power to conduct warrantless surveillance all the more disquieting. If such procedural perversion can occur even with putative oversight, what abuses will be engaged-in without any meaningful supervision?

Misuse of these capabilities is almost inevitable. In 1973, the US Supreme Court ruled warrants were mandatory for domestic intelligence gathering. Two years later, a Senate investigation found that the NSA and other US intelligence agencies had nonetheless been engaged in unauthorized spying on American citizens, including anti-war protesters, civil rights activists, and political dissidents, monitoring all their private communications from telephone conversations to telegrams. This led to the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which made it a dedicated criminal offense to eavesdrop on American citizens without judicial oversight.

Yet,it was revealed in late 2005 that the NSA had all along continued illegally intercepting the phone calls and digital communications of US citizens, with the witting help of major telecoms giants, which passed copies of all emails, web browsing and other internet traffic to and from its customers at home and abroad to the agency, and its British counterpart GCHQ. Files disclosed in 2013 by whistleblower Edward Snowden confirmed this criminal dragnet was truly global in scale, and very much ongoing.

Key components of this international spying network, known as ‘Five Eyes,’ are situated in Australia, at the Pine Gap and Kojarena satellite surveillance bases. According to investigative legend Duncan Campbell, around 80% of the messages intercepted by the latter – which employs US and British staff in key posts – are sent automatically to GCHQ and the NSA. While every Five Eyes member can theoretically veto requests for such material, “when you’re a junior ally” like Canberra, “you never refuse,” Campbell records.

One can’t help but wonder if the Directorate’s new domestic purview is an experiment, gauging levels of backlash and controversy among the Australian public, before similar measures – provably or potentially already in operation – are openly codified across all Five Eyes member states. Ongoing legal battles against mass data collection in various jurisdictions clearly necessitate the practice being legalized and legitimized. If Canberra’s American and/or British friends politely requested they run such a pilot scheme, would or even could they decline?

Reinforcing this interpretation, mere days after the Directorate’s remit was expanded, the Australian government pledged to introduce new laws forcing social media giants to “unmask” anonymous users who post offensive comments, with hefty fines doled out to those companies which are unwilling or unable to do so. The reasons for Canberra’s haste are unclear, although it’s surely no coincidence that London and Washington have battled for many years to end online anonymity for good – it’s only due to intense domestic opposition that these efforts have so far failed.

Yes you are. Please stop.

He’s using a handle.
Why can’t he give a straight answer?

This is what is so offensive about da green tick.

It prevents anonymous commenters on Blogs from giving straight answers?
Dat Green Tick be a Baaad MoFo indeedy, bruh.

Dot, do you find it embarrassing that Shakespeare thought lawyers were a bunch of twunts?