Trudeau calls Canadian Truckers Terrorists

Your terrorist, my freedom fighter

Roger says:
January 26, 2022 at 11:45 am

Nevere tell a northern Indian they share most of their DNA with the Pakis.

Or vice versa.

Trust me on this.

It’s common practice in Pakistan to invent Arabian genealogies to pretend that your ancestors weren’t of Indian heritage. They prefer to pretend that their ancestors were the invaders rather than cowards who deserted their old gods for a new one, usually at the point of a scimitar.

It’s the same situation in Turkey, people don’t want to acknowledge that they are the descendants of the defeated Greeks, hence the outcry which forced Ancestry DNA to remove their report.

Interestingly, it’s the reverse situation here in Australia, we have plenty of Bruce Pascoe types inventing indigenous ancestries. I suppose that’s because we reward victims, and there’s some financial benefits available too.

For some reason I can’t bring myself to go into the shed and tinker on my own stuff.

Today I’m continuing the resurrection of a 40yo 13HP ex CFS trailer pump. I just spent 125 dollars on a battery, which means I now have $135 invested in it …

Bushkid!

bespoke says:
January 26, 2022 at 2:09 pm
Bushkid!

Yeah, what?

(Apparently the Dems have all the nukes and the F15s. Which would be an interesting matchup against a rifle behind every blade of grass.)

1) History tells us irregulars win every time.
2) Whats the bet someone in Texas has their own F15 under a tarp in a shed 😉

Trudeau calls Canadian Truckers Terrorists

Bing bong.
What’s he said about train drivers ?
Bing bong.

History tells us irregulars win every time.

I would like to hear cat’s opinions on the next big war.
Methinks the next will be different to anything else before because of automated sentries and automated command and control.
Also airborne attack/surveillance drones.

What’s he said about train drivers ?

Extra terrorists…

incoherent ramblersays:
January 26, 2022 at 12:44 pm
I’d also like to add that I personally think hydrogen will be the route we eventually go with.

H2 presents some bulk storage, transport and vehicle storage issues due to leakage.
Whilst these issues may eventually overcome,

indeed — but the Jap’s seem to be in the prototype stage of sorting the bulk transport.
https://www.bairdmaritime.com/ship-world/tanker-world/gas-tanker-world/vessel-review-suiso-frontier-japanese-lh2-carrier-sets-the-pace-in-hydrogen-transport/

Of course 1250 cubic metres of H2 is a fair way off the even a small panamax tanker, which can carry about 100x the energy in petroleum products.

After all, warfare is a uniquely human thing.

Despite all the efforts to scientise it, mechanise it, distance it, sanitise it and dehumanise it, it all comes down to 2 (or more) groups of humans facing off against each other to decide who is getting their way today.

Things can change quite rapidly, as the cake recommender found. Those big blades were sharp, and the basket was quite large enough even for her swelled-head.

She never did recommend cake though, that was 19th century Fake News.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake

Where and at whom they direct their anger, grief and disillusionment afterwards, nobody knows…

The unvaxxed of course!

Fat Tony Johnson is right.
Again.

How is it that countries (people) that have the brains to build and operate a nuclear reactor, do not see that human generated CO2 is a nothingburger?

NFI

How is it that countries (people) that have the brains to build and operate a nuclear reactor, do not see that human generated CO2 is a nothingburger?

Unchecked oppositionism can make people say and do foolish things.

Don’t fsck with Texas Rangers unless you want to die of natural causes*.

* Naturally, 150 holes in your torso means that will die.

Rex, as always, it will make no difference.

There is that.

They’ll just try to ‘properly’ implement socialism again. But the extra bitterness and cynicism will make each subsequent attempt that much crueller.

And in the end physics and chemistry will prevail over stupid pagan druid stuff.

It didn’t in Alexandria, BoN. We are seeing the end of Science as a significant force. It has lost to bureaucracy.

I would like to hear cat’s opinions on the next big war. Methinks the next will be different to anything else before because of automated sentries and automated command and control. Also airborne attack/surveillance drones.

Ubiquitous, real time surveillance and precision weapons have already ‘downsized’ fighting units considerably – gone are the days where you could march a 15,000 man division across the battlefield. Manoeuvre elements are now much, much smaller. On top of that, most wars in recent times have been asymmetric conflicts where the state power fails because their high end weaponry is too expensive or too destructive to use against dispersed targets (think Tomahawks vs Donkey carts), and doing so created even more ‘irregulars’ due to the collateral damage.

I am wondering if we are now seeing a preview of the next major war – biowar, possibly with cyberwar to be thrown in (there are a lot of parallels between respiratory viruses and computer viruses). We are already seeing many of the traditional elements of war in the war on COVID – censorship, propaganda, command economies, movement restrictions etc etc

Sorry for bad spelling

So you should but I forgive you, Tinta.

This is clever.
Rather misleading headline though.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-26/victorian-farmers-turn-to-automation-for-worker-shortage/100782236

Roger says:
January 26, 2022 at 1:15 pm

Thanks, actually very interesting.
As I recall, the interior was pretty full of metal work – couldn’t imagine 18 guys being squeezed in amongst it all doing anything useful. It certainly wouldn’t be the OHS-compliant workplace shown in the cutaway.

Not Saturday comp…seriously.

Australia Day comp. But you knew that.

A pity there’s no HQ’s there! Take my old spare set of keys and pick one I like! Thanks to Holden’s near universal key system!

It’s not just a Holden problem, it applies to all GM cars. I used to have a Chevy Impala and my neighbour had a Statesman, our keys could start both cars.

The EU incentivising and subsidies is 750bn Euros.

Amazing what social and practical good that much money would have done in the hands of the nations it was taken off, eh?

Bugmen dream, and people scream…

One group rabidly believes that we are all dooooomed, the other group looks for opportunities to look good.

The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

Yeats

The EU incentivising and subsidies is 750bn Euros.

Buy a lot of cake for plebs with a trillion US.
Tumbrils are cheap and easy to make though.

It didn’t in Alexandria, BoN. We are seeing the end of Science as a significant force. It has lost to bureaucracy.

And the resignation letter from the American Physical Society details exactly how it has been done.

Russia is doing nothing to escalate the Ukraine situation.
Ex the US, neither is NATO.
Neither is most of the Ukraine.
This is a small gang in Kiev using a declining window of Biden/DNC having Whitehouse & Congressional control.
That gang in Kiev has Biden over a barrel & the Washington War Machine is loving it.

Yep. Madness of crowds.

Not really Bruce. They are actually responding to Govt mandates, regulation and “incentives”. ESG being a BIG one which is also being driven from buyers. Which is what I have been saying for months. It’s pretty simple really.

I’d say a cyber war is the next thing. There is too much information coming out and the deep state is losing the narrative.

The Ukrainian-Russia scenario may well be linked to Biden and Burisma.

Seems to be the go to place if you are wanting a look over there distraction. Remember the first impeachment… The Steele dossier?

mass formation psychosis

I feel a South Seas bubble coming on. I need to scratch it.

Yep. Madness of crowds.

Not really Bruce. They are actually responding to Govt mandates, regulation and “incentives”. ESG being a BIG one which is also being driven from buyers.

Sounds like the madness of crowds and activist agendas combined into a perfect shitstorm to me…

#FuriousAgreement

yconoclast says:
January 26, 2022 at 3:24 pm

A< woman who stopped to help after a truck carrying 100 lab monkeys crashed in Pennsylvania fears she's caught an illness after one of the macaques hissed in her face, leaving her with pink eye symptoms.

As a public service, if you are involved in such an incident, do not under any circumstances report it to the authorities.

I’ve seen the movie, and they always strap you to a table and inject you with antidotes until you die.

Bit like what they do for Covid really.

The dreadful white Australia policy — racist legislation designed to bar non-European immigration into Australia and forcefully assimilate Aboriginals into white society — was only abolish in 1972 by the Whitlam Government.

Apart from being of dubious accuracy as a statement, it’s logically incoherent.

Does this statement mean that if we were able to establish that everyone in the First Fleet had some non-white DNA, the Aboriginals would withdraw their complaints about its arrival?

Nice monsoon day here today. Was hoping on firing the barbie up where we are but not happening. Too wet. Mate up here reckons I bought the rain with me, know the humidity I hit coming off the Mingela Range on the Flinders Hwy was quite oppressive. Happy Australia day everyone, I used to be low key about Aus Day and would love to get back to that but I think everyone should fly multiple flags to rub the lefts collective nose in it. Media seem to be beating up the black armband types.

Secondly WTF is Daily Mail doing hiring a pathetic far left hack like Candice Sutton. Her piece today is shoddy journalism at best but I even remember her having a soap box at Sun Herald, she was pretty poor then. Wow amazing how these people prosper…

So probably best stfu on that score.

Yeah, nuh.

Eyrie opines:

Ed Case, the primary problem with airships is economic. They are SLOW and hence can’t do many trips a year.

In 2022?
Sure, but the Airship era finished in flames in New Jersey in 1937.
At that time passenger planes had cramped room for 15 no frills passengers, at most.
Airships carried hundreds of passengers in First Class luxury that remains unequalled.

Opinion: Try to look at Australia Day from an Indigenous viewpoint

All that lovely baksheesh?

Thing is, it is not EU money – it is taxpayer money that is going into the pockets of the rich and/or devious instead of being spent by those who earned it in the first place.

Exactly the follow-up point I was going to make.

If there was an actual advantage to be had in any industry the automakers build for, they’d long have been at it. Or at least attempting to make it workable.

Instead, we hear how income is being redistributed in order to force it to happen. Mandates and “buyer-driven” demands or not, if somethinf is artificially imposed and paid for out of third-party funding, it will collapse or render itself impotent the instant the money-spigot goes. Look at the latter days of our own automakers, surviving almost solely on government fleet orders and government subsidies.

The level of ignorance and blind compliance is concerning.

Hm. I’m not so concerned. If it were enthusiastic compliance, I would be. But I don’t think it is. I think majority compliance came first and willingly from fear, but the fear has abated and so has the willingness to comply. Most do so begrudgingly, increasingly so, and at some point begrudging compliance will become meek non-compliance that grows increasingly bolder. I know quite a few double-vaxxed people who are a hard no on boosters, for instance. They were told the Covid emergency measures and restrictions were temporary, and they expect these to be lifted at some point in the not-too-distant future.

There remains a good 20% of the population that enthusiastically and obnoxiously comply – the Covid zealots – and these people are concentrated amongst the professional classes. Most of us come from these same professional classes, so we must be careful not to oversample from the people in our circles (or who are no longer in our circles) when we’re taking the temperature of the population.

I think public opinion is turning against Covid mandates and restrictions. Certainly, the 20% of the population that are Covid zealots hold disproportionate sway over governments to continue to maintain their mandates and restrictions, but the longer these remain in place, the harder and broader the opposition to them becomes – especially as the perceived threat from Covid diminishes. There will be a tipping point, and I don’t think it’s too far away.

I could be wrong about the above, but I don’t think I am. I reckon the average person is becoming heartily sick of this nonsense.

The dreadful white Australia policy — racist legislation designed to bar non-European immigration into Australia…

Have a look at China …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtVozQG2Q-4

Maybe one day we can scale down nuclear technology to the point where we can put a thorium reactor in a car and never need fuel again 😉
This brings in all sorts of other problems of course…

We can dream though…

At that time passenger planes had cramped room for 15 no frills passengers, at most.
Airships carried hundreds of passengers in First Class luxury that remains unequalled.

Wrong. In 1936, the Douglas DC-3 was carrying between 26 and 32 passengers, economically a worldbeater.

The large flying boats of the era (Shorts S.23 Empire, Martin M130, Boeing 314 and Sikorsky S-42) ranged from 24 to 70 pax. The Dornier Do X of 1924 could carry 66-100 pax all by itself, and outrun a Zeppelin comfortably.

Whitlam and Holt got together in 1967 to scuttle the 1904 Act and with it went Aboriginal opportunity in employment.

Funny how no stock stations in the far North or rural Queensland (or elsewhere for that matter) were suddenly inundated with furriners, Grigory.

And plenty of Aboriginal Australians had lived among whitefellas without apparent issue (and a great deal of Parliamentary favour and support) since the first white settlements. I mean, a would-be parliamentarian in southern NSW once wrote bitterly to Sir Henry Parkes innthe late 1800s, complaining he could not get a look-in, as the fully franchised and vociferously politically involved Aboriginal population in his district consistently gave his main opponent the electoral majority!

You might want to lay off the gypsum for a bit today…

Rex,
The tendency of Shermans to brew up was incorrect ammunition storage.
It was fixed.
Eventually.

The large flying boats of the era…

Were also very luxuriously appointed. This was the standard of the time, after all. The rest of us plebs went by steamship for a month to get somewhere. The upper crust could do it within 2 weeks.

Talking with an ex Army mate last night over a few beers. Russia will invade Ukraine, juries out on when. He also sees nothing but a Vietnam for EU countries if the get involved but he thinks they won’t either. The one to watch is China while all this plays out apparently and unencumbered after the Winter Olympics.

As for the future of kinetic warfare, his opinion drones. Reckons Recon elements are heavily into it already. He points to the Battle of Marawi and Azerbaijan – Armenia conflict to where warfare is heading when they work out how to arm these things at the smaller scale. He also reckons Australia is well behind the bell curve with mobile Infantry and when he discharged there were still voices trying to cling to the old ways.

Rex,
The tendency of Shermans to brew up was incorrect ammunition storage.
It was fixed.
Eventually.

True. I don’t remember which variants had wet-jacketing of the ammo storage, but I do know it was a late-war thing.

The Easy Eight (M4A3E8) was the best and final US variant in terms of weaponry, mobility and protection, and later went on to fight IS-2s and T34-85s in Korea.

Long Term Parking.
One of the great Soprano’s episodes.

About the most mechanically robust and reliable Allied armoured fighting vehicles of the era, but with a high profile, multiple shot traps, increasingly less effective armour in the latter years of the war and a tendency to burn. But they had lots of them.

And speed, which is important too. I liked the compromise of sloped armour on the front allowing enough room for stuff due to the unsloped sides. Lets the tank guys use the advantage of the forward armour tactically whilst finessing the difficulty of fitting everything in.

I read about this amazing tank this morning. Joseph Vollmer built the German Army’s first tanks in WW1 including Mephisto. Which was a huge beast, and very slow. He then designed the LK 1 light tank, and the LK 2. Forerunners of the PzKpfw I. Then the Swedes stole the design for the LK 2 and built their own tank in 1932: the Stridsvagn m/31.

Didn’t build more than 3 prototypes, but the design specs are better than a Pzkpfw II and anything the Allies had until about 1942. Swedes are amazing.

Forget the long past U.S. Election, focus on the upcoming one right here.
The ETU are running billboard Ads questioning Covid security at Polling Booths.
Expect the Mother Of All Steals to happen here in a coupla months, if that.

DrBeauGan says:
January 26, 2022 at 2:51 pm

And in the end physics and chemistry will prevail over stupid pagan druid stuff.

It didn’t in Alexandria, BoN. We are seeing the end of Science as a significant force. It has lost to bureaucracy.

If you’re referring to the destruction of the Alexandria Library, then Bruce’s explanation is more correct.

When the Arabs invaded Egypt, the new boss in Alexandria took the ancient scrolls from the library to use as firewood. Someone asked him if what he was doing was right, think of the many years of history and scientific knowledge that would be destroyed. He answered that anything worth knowing was already in the Qur’an, and if it wasn’t in the Qur’an, then it wasn’t worth knowing.

Hef was the Epstein of his day, Dot.

Someone mentions “crack pipe” and Googlery turns up.

Like clockwork.

Bill Cosby was a regular at the Playboy Mansion, eh?
Qaaludes, eh?

If you get accused of stuff 10 years after you die and it is mixed in with literal nonsense, I bet on it bring A grade BS.

If 19 year old women can be groomed, fanatical Sunni Islam is the only way.

Well argued, cucks. You are arguing for an Islamic theocracy Like the Taliban.

Hef only died in 2017, Dot.
That ain’t 10 years ago.
Hef was also known for being extremely litigious during his lifetime.
Jimmy Savile was another one who was extremely litigious and also resorted to Extra Judicfial threats.
So?
Savile, Dot?
Baddie, or misunderstood?

Russia isn’t going to invade Ukraine, unless Ukraine starts some shit in the Donbas. Hell, even the Ukrainians have hosed down the increasingly bizarre US/UK warnings of an imminent Russian invasion.

It didn’t in Alexandria, BoN. We are seeing the end of Science as a significant force. It has lost to bureaucracy.

Dr B – yes.

There’s a stoush between the relativists and the absolutists. The relativists maintain that if they believe something it is true. The absolutists say if something doesn’t fit with the laws of physics it ain’t true. (Christians are also absolutists re God’s word in the Bible, which works empirically pretty well also as we’ve discussed.)

Unfortunately now for some inexplicable reason the elites and the bureaucracy have latched onto a bunch of stuff which isn’t scientifically defendable. Covid stuff (masks, “vaccines”, lockdowns), climate stuff (renewables which don’t work 24/7). There’s a strange narcissistic wishful thinking syndrome which has affected the elites. And they can’t extricate themselves from it because any of them who dissent get cast out.

Expect the Mother Of All Steals to happen here in a coupla months, if that.

How does this work with preferential voting, more robust voter ID rules and more clearly identified and tightly enforced absentee ballot rules in Australia, Grigory?

Are you trying to say your fellow bugmen are more entrenched and controlling than we know them to be, and all will bow before your twitching, scuttling masses come May?

Q. What do you call a trader* when a bubble bursts?

Q: When the bubble bursts, what’s the difference between a trader and a pigeon?

A: The pigeon can still put something down on a Porsche.

All party support for the immigration policies that are lumped together as the “white australian policy”, upon which this country was literally founded, was born out of the the open borders, open slather parasitical mass immigration, high crime, high violence, low trust, utter chaos of the gold rush era. Locals weren’t all that happy with the prospect of that situation continuing for one more minute once the gold began to run out and the good times ended and the legion of mercenary foreign locusts that had descended on rural Australia to strip the creeks and flats bare, now broke and bored, began to hang around the cities and cause a real nuisance. The Commonwealth and strict immigration controls, was a solution sold to the everyman from laborers to urban sophisticates, that would end all of it.

Something akin to the situation we’re in today.

“White Australia Policy”-
Fake name invented later to describe the entirely legitimate Aliens Exclusion Act of 1904.
The situation was that by the 1890s Australia had a significant population of Chinese, Kanakas, Japanese, Filipinos, New Guineans and others.
They didn’t appear to be contributing a whole helluva lot to Australia despite being here for 40 years in the case of the Chinese.
At the time, Politics was divided between the Protectionists, who favoured Tariffs, High Wages, and Immigration Restriction, and the Free Traders, who favoured open slather immigration and the Industrial Law of the Jungle.
At the time, the Australian Labor Party was just kicking off, they were in Office 6 days in Qld in 1898, and they needed an issue to hang their hats on.
Enter the Aliens Exclusion Act.
Labor got a Mandate for it at the 1904 Election and the rest is history.
They’re all Free Traders since Whitlam and Holt stitched up a deal in 1967 to scuttle the 1904 Act.
Here’s a list of Executions carried out in Australia in the 19th Century.
The Queensland List may be instructive.
Bottom Line:
For 62 years, a White Australia was Federal ALP Policy and they ran on it at every election between 1904 and 1966.

List:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_legally_executed_in_Australia#Queensland

If you’re referring to the destruction of the Alexandria Library, then Bruce’s explanation is more correct.

I’m not. I’m referring to Hypatia, who was murdered by a mob of ignorant savages. Christians, officially. And which went on from there to bring down the whole of the neo-Platonist supremacy.

Grigs seems to be trying to provoke something nasty here.

Can we ban him for trying to get the Cat noticed and shut down with such an egregious glow posting?

Drove into the ancestral seat just in time for a cracking storm.

Plenty, and I mean plenty of the white really quick stuff and the loud stuff.

Aside from the lack of humidity, very Darwinish. Poor old Mum’s petrified of the stuff. I told her to wait at the bowls club until it’s over.

Just had a quick glance at the Australia Day Awards. It would seem the top award is reserved for ‘scientists’, such is the level of esteem these fuckwits are now held in society. 50% or more of the top two awards were given to women. This includes the military awards. Nothing token about this at all of course. Well deserved girls.

Also, can the Australia Day committee explain how Dylan Alcott can be the Australian of the Year while ‘only’ being awarded the second top gong in the Order of Australia?

The large flying boats of the era (Shorts S.23 Empire, Martin M130, Boeing 314 and Sikorsky S-42) ranged from 24 to 70 pax.

A Sunderland once took on six Ju-88s and won.

It’s recounted in Ivan Southall’s autobiography “Fly West“. One of the most amazing stories I’ve ever read. I’ve been trying to find my copy in my bookcases but can’t. Sadly not available as an ebook.

Stephen Hawking?

The cad.