Open Thread – Mon 31 Jan 2022


Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1558

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Thefrollickingmole
Thefrollickingmole
January 31, 2022 12:01 am

Sneaky, sneaky….

Tom
Tom
January 31, 2022 12:04 am

Podium!

rosie
rosie
January 31, 2022 12:10 am

Look away for five minutes.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
January 31, 2022 12:27 am

Drugs not working.

Tom
Tom
January 31, 2022 12:50 am

Hahaha. Clowns like this are now a dime a dozen in Australia: his attempt to gotcha an LNP cabinet minister has backfired spectacularly:(Paywallian):

The climate change activist who failed to eject Josh Frydenberg from parliament over his citizenship says he faces a legal bill of between $1m and $2m and has openly resorted to a publicity campaign to stave off financial ruin.

Melbourne man Michael Staindl, 68, was ordered to pay the Treasurer’s costs after the Federal Court found there was no ­evidence to back his claim under section 44 of the Constitution that Mr Frydenberg was ineligible to stay in parliament because of his mother’s Hungarian citizenship.

Mr Staindl has written to fellow climate change activists in inner-eastern Melbourne pleading for help, saying he has no chance of finding the money needed to pay for the legal action.

An email to the Lighter Footprints lobby group details Mr Staindl’s concerns but also his insistence that the case he brought against Mr Frydenberg, who declined to comment, had substance. “I have no further legal options or financial options,’’ he laments.

“Frydenberg through his lawyers Arnold Block (sic) Liebler (sic) has said he plans to take and sell my wife’s house, and accordingly he issued bankruptcy proceedings on Christmas Eve (two days after burying my 93-year-old father and with my wife just out of hospital and very ill).

“Publicity is my last-ditch hope.”

Gabor
Gabor
January 31, 2022 12:59 am

Tom says:
January 31, 2022 at 12:50 am

Hahaha. Clowns like this are now a dime a dozen in Australia: his attempt to gotcha an LNP cabinet minister has backfired spectacularly

I suppose he put the house in his wife’s name before the proceedings?
What is Frydenberg supposed to do, cop it sweet and pay the bills for a lawsuit he never wanted or started?
Liking him or not has nothing to do with it.

Seriously, some people have no idea what the outcome might be when they start some idiotic action.

Wally Dali
Wally Dali
January 31, 2022 1:12 am

Top ten
Rafa looks inevitable against the skinny ruski with the Lenin forehead

Tom
Tom
January 31, 2022 1:12 am

Nadal!!! What an epic in five sets.

Bruce in WA
January 31, 2022 1:13 am

“This” close, Chief!

Armadillo
Armadillo
January 31, 2022 1:42 am

The next time that Biden shows up with an ice cream, a reporter needs to ask him how much it cost, rather than what flavour it is.

He won’t have the slightest clue.

#GSTbirthdaycake

DP
DP
January 31, 2022 1:53 am

Dear Dover0beach

Gosh it’s tomorrow already.

UK Worldometers cases deaths and tests to last Monday:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/189200946@N04/51841411394/in/dateposted-public/

Update tomorrow day after tomorrow.

Excess all-cause mortality by age group for England and Wales to Friday 14 January 2022, week 2:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/189200946@N04/51841461142/in/dateposted-public/

Next update Wednesday Oz time.

DP

Armadillo
Armadillo
January 31, 2022 2:06 am

Politicians are geniuses when it comes to the value of money.

Flash the plastic at taxpayer expense. Print more currency. Build a bigger trough.

These are the golden rules.

rosie
rosie
January 31, 2022 2:07 am
srr
srr
January 31, 2022 2:19 am

Ian56a
@Ian56a
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1m
MPs Launch Investigation into Government Covid Propaganda After Psychologists Criticise Nudge Unit For “Grossly Unethical Tactics” of Fear

MPs Launch Investigation into Government Covid Propaganda After Psychologists Criticise Nudge Unit For “Grossly Unethical Tactics” of Fear – The Daily Sceptic

The Government’s “grossly unethical” uses of its “nudge unit” stoked fear among the public during the pandemic, psychologists have said – prompting MPs to launch an investigation into the Government’s Covid propaganda.

dailysceptic.org
https://dailysceptic.org/2022/01/29/mps-launch-investigation-into-government-covid-propaganda-after-psychologists-criticise-nudge-unit-for-grossly-unethical-tactics-of-fear/

srr
srr
January 31, 2022 2:30 am

jordansarmo
@jordansarmo
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12h
THE FRINGE MINORITY THAT HAS A DICTATOR HIDING ??
#ConvoyForFreedom2022

https://gettr.com/post/prduo15865

srr
srr
January 31, 2022 2:36 am

TheoPrinse
@TheoPrinse
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31m
‘I’m unf—ing cancellable’: Kid Rock has message for haters; will not play at venues with vaxx mandates
https://www.bizpacreview.com/?p=1194774

rosie
rosie
January 31, 2022 2:38 am

I’m actually staying in a replacement block, directly below Saint Laurent church

an interesting story of racial purification with the French government under Petain having dirty hands.

srr
srr
January 31, 2022 2:40 am

TommyRobinson1
@TommyRobinson1
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October 22, 2021
Senator Rand Paul annihilates Fauci by exposing (again) his lies about GAIN OF FUNCTION.
video – https://gettr.com/post/peu5usc3c6

srr
srr
January 31, 2022 2:42 am

Just Some Lady That You Used To Know
@LadyRedWave
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Jan 25
Dr. #RobertMalone Claims COVID Vaccines Can Permanently Damage Children’s Brains, Hearts, Immune Systems

Dr. Robert Malone Claims COVID Vaccines Can Permanently Damage Children’s Brains, Hearts, Immune Systems

“They may damage their brains, their heart, their immune system, and their ability to have children in the future. Many of these damages cannot be repaired,” Malone said.

video – https://nationalfile.com/dr-robert-malone-claims-covid-vaccines-can-permanently-damage-childrens-brains-hearts-immune-systems/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=newsletter-NF&ff_campaign=dailyam&ff_content=national-file
nationalfile.com

srr
srr
January 31, 2022 2:47 am

TommyRobinson1
@TommyRobinson1
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43m
Our children have been betrayed
https://gettr.com/post/prgbrzf332

[answer to her question – it was a quick & easy way into a jet setting life for low lifes]

srr
srr
January 31, 2022 2:51 am

MICHAELDET????
@MICHAELDET
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52m
FAKE PRESIDENCY BREAKS THE LAW
DEMANDS FOR IMPEACHMENT IMPEACHMENT IMPEACHMENT NOW

#FoxNews
Biden admin torched over bombshell footage: ‘Literally breaking the law’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyLhI7YVweE

srr
srr
January 31, 2022 2:53 am

Truckers4Fredom
@Truckers4Fredom
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13h
Update from the corespondents: “Mask mandates are useless in Canada’s capital, Ottawa. Hotels and malls are allowing people to be maskless. In my hotel alone, there are hundreds of maskless people like myself. And the staff are respectful and don’t even bother asking anyone to wear one.

PEOPLE ARE DONE! ”
video – https://gettr.com/post/prddpyaef2

srr
srr
January 31, 2022 3:01 am

Callum
@Callum
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1h
‘Stand Up To Racism’ walked away when Robinson’s film started with quotes from survivors about their race based child sexual exploitation.

video – https://gettr.com/post/prgq9z7644
___________________________________

40 YEARS of Govt & Police backed Child Sex Slavery … and laughing, “Pizza!”, doesn’t make it not be so. It further enables it.

srr
srr
January 31, 2022 3:02 am

BreadMaker ??
@BreadMaker
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26m
Replying to @Callum
Imagine the awful red pill moment of those who discover that all this time they were part of the problem.

Literally running interference so 11 year old girls could be systematically gathered and sold.

Hopefully they were the ones who went there with good intentions, but instead got the lesson they had been missing all this time.

srr
srr
January 31, 2022 3:04 am

DreamElecSheep
@DreamElecSheep
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30m
Replying to @Callum
These middle class virtue signalling idiots probably dont even know anything about the work Tommy does. They are just out there screaming racism because thats what the BBC and Guardian told them.

They are protecting paedophiles and corrupt police and local authorities.

srr
srr
January 31, 2022 3:07 am

Benjamin Harnwell
@harnwell
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Jan 29
Great old-school investigative journalism. @DrJulesGomes digs deep and exposes the rotten nexus between the NWO honorary chaplain (#NotMyPope), George Soros and Google — and their concerted attempt to funnel millions into fake ‘Catholic’ media to suppress the truth about covid vaccines. Plus great quotes from me!

Francis Defends Google-Funded Fact Checker
https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/francis-backs-google-funded-fact-checker
http://www.churchmilitant.com

srr
srr
January 31, 2022 3:11 am

Gonewiththerain
@Gonewiththerain
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Jan 19
WARNING: Official data suggests the Triple Vaccinated are developing Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome and certain CANCERs.

Official data suggests the Triple Vaccinated are developing Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

An in-depth investigation of 5 months worth of official UK Government data published by the UK Health Security Agency seems to confirm predictions previously ma

https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/01/15/triple-vaccinated-developing-ade/
dailyexpose.uk

srr
srr
January 31, 2022 3:17 am

David Vance ???
@DavidVance
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1m
Unspeakable evil!
[in Western Australia]
https://gettr.com/post/prgx9zda2f

Gabor
Gabor
January 31, 2022 3:19 am

Jan 19
WARNING: Official data suggests the Triple Vaccinated are developing Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome and certain CANCERs.

Come now, cancers?
How long is it since triple vax?
Pls be serious if you want to be taken seriously.

srr
srr
January 31, 2022 3:20 am

Gonna Be Biblical ?????????
@JediQ
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8m
True The Vote has spent the last several months since late last year collecting more than 27 terabytes of geospatial and temporal data—a total of 10 trillion cell phone pings—between Oct. 1 and Nov. 6 in targeted areas in Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Texas.

“From this we have thus far developed precise patterns of life for 242 suspected ballot traffickers in Georgia and 202 traffickers in Arizona,” True The Vote’s document says.

“According to the data, each trafficker went to an average of 23 ballot dropboxes.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/0

@KanekoaTheGreat

True The Vote Conducting Massive Clandestine Voter Fraud Investigation

Election integrity group True The Vote has been conducting a months-long massive and clandestine voter fraud investigation into 2020.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/24/exclusive-true-the-vote-conducting-massive-clandestine-voter-fraud-investigation/
http://www.breitbart.com

srr
srr
January 31, 2022 3:24 am

Tim Gill
@Timinator88
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15m

*Trump had a lil’ get together yesterday & as usual, a PACKED house!! How’s Biden’s attendance numbers of those who want to hear what he has to say??

[*MASSIVE!]
https://gettr.com/post/prgy4m2d90

srr
srr
January 31, 2022 3:26 am

TommyRobinson1
@TommyRobinson1
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19m
You better believe it!

https://gettr.com/post/prhbuo5036

Tom
Tom
January 31, 2022 4:02 am
Tom
Tom
January 31, 2022 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
January 31, 2022 4:04 am
Tom
Tom
January 31, 2022 4:05 am
srr
srr
January 31, 2022 4:06 am

BlueskyGettr (Athena)
@BLUESKYGETTR
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11h
Perth Australia? you can buy groceries at Aldi, but must be vaccinated to take a bottle of wine through the same register ??
#endthemandates #fightforfreedom #truckerconvoy2022

img – https://gettr.com/post/preogeb166

Tom
Tom
January 31, 2022 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
January 31, 2022 4:08 am
Tom
Tom
January 31, 2022 4:09 am
Tom
Tom
January 31, 2022 4:10 am
srr
srr
January 31, 2022 5:08 am

Not mincing words here …

LoraConnor ??????
@LoraConnor
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Jan 5
U.S./ German Trial Lawyer Dr. Reiner Fuellmich, indictes and names Bill Gates and Klaus Schwab before a Polish Parliament Hearing as criminal conspirators of the global pandemic that has caused endless suffering and the deaths of millions of innocent victims around the world.
He denounces Agenda 2030 for what it is; a tyrannycal plan to own and control everything and us!
~QtimeNetwork

video – https://gettr.com/post/pm3p3tfc8b

srr
srr
January 31, 2022 5:30 am

Gaborsays:
January 31, 2022 at 3:19 am

Jan 19
WARNING: Official data suggests the Triple Vaccinated are developing Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome and certain CANCERs

.

Come now, cancers?
How long is it since triple vax?
Pls be serious if you want to be taken seriously.

Scroll down to the end –

https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/01/15/triple-vaccinated-developing-ade/

“Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a condition that leads to the loss of immune cells and leaves individuals susceptible to other infections and the development of certain types of cancers. In other words, it completely decimates the immune system.”

srr
srr
January 31, 2022 5:42 am

Darren of Plymouth ??
@DarrenPlymouth
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22h
“The minute they hand you that vaccine passport, every right that you have is transformed into a privilege contingent upon your obedience to arbitrary government dictates. It will make you a slave!”

Robert Kennedy Jr.

video – https://gettr.com/post/prbmff85e1

Anchor What
Anchor What
January 31, 2022 6:10 am

Today in No Evidence of Voter Fraud:

Dinesh D’Souza Releases Movie Trailer for “2000 Mules” Exposing Ballot Traffickers Who Stole the 2020 Election.

Link

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 31, 2022 6:13 am

NewsCorp are replacing Albo?
It was always going to happen close to the Election.

Cassie of Sydney
January 31, 2022 6:24 am

“Tomsays:
January 31, 2022 at 12:50 am
Hahaha. Clowns like this are now a dime a dozen in Australia: his attempt to gotcha an LNP cabinet minister has backfired spectacularly:(Paywallian):”

Michael Staidle should ask his friend Simon Holmes a Court to put the money up.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 31, 2022 6:25 am

What is Frydenberg supposed to do, cop it sweet and pay the bills for a lawsuit he never wanted or started?

Okay, but how do you get a legal bill of between $1 and $2 million dollars?
Presumably Staindl’s legals were gratis, but what about Josh?
Were his blokes wearing solid Gold capes and shoes?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 31, 2022 6:37 am

Human headlines.

Meghan and Harry Join Joe Rogan Protest, Demand Spotify Make ‘Changes’ on COVID ‘Misinformation’ (30 Jan)

Meghan Markle and her husband Prince Harry — who both founded the anti-disinformation “Archewell” project — have denounced COVID “misinformation” on the streaming platform Spotify, demanding that the service make “changes” on issues concerning the Chinese coronavirus.

Sure to work, although there’s this one teensy tiny problem…

Harry and Meghan fail to deliver on $30 million Spotify deal (25 Jan)

Spotify has been forced to take Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s $30 million deal into “its own hands” after the pair failed to produce any content in 2021.

Ooh, embarassment! To expect those two to actually do some work is beyond the pale.

sfw
sfw
January 31, 2022 6:40 am

Started to watch the clip of Craig Kelly that someone put up on the old thread. Craig started well but then had a question from the audience, the bloke asking was a UAP candidate for somewhere. Anyway the bloke started carrying on about paedophilia charges for some prominent people and I turned off. I am interested in these things and want any proven offenders punished but I don’t want to listen to long rants about someone’s favourite hangup at a political rally about freedom. The UAP are the best hope of causing a change in our politics but getting sidetracked like this by candidates is not the way to go.

bespoke
bespoke
January 31, 2022 6:57 am

Cranks aways sabotage momentum, sfw. Extremely frustrating.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 31, 2022 6:59 am

Where’s the evidence that Holmes ‘a Court was behind Staindl’s suit?
The bottom line is that at least 58% in Kooyong don’t want Josh as the Member.
All Homes ‘a Court is doing is draining votes away from someone who could tip Josh out.

132andBush
132andBush
January 31, 2022 7:08 am

Cranks aways sabotage momentum, sfw. Extremely frustrating.

That’s right.

All the Covid panic pushers need do is sit back and watch the conspiracy whack jobs destroy the anti mandate argument from the inside.

Cassie of Sydney
January 31, 2022 7:12 am

“sfwsays:
January 31, 2022 at 6:40 am
Started to watch the clip of Craig Kelly that someone put up on the old thread. Craig started well but then had a question from the audience, the bloke asking was a UAP candidate for somewhere. Anyway the bloke started carrying on about paedophilia charges for some prominent people and I turned off. I am interested in these things and want any proven offenders punished but I don’t want to listen to long rants about someone’s favourite hangup at a political rally about freedom. The UAP are the best hope of causing a change in our politics but getting sidetracked like this by candidates is not the way to go.”

Quite so sfw….and who are those “prominent people”? Oh let me guess….a former senior judge? The father of a famous Oz actress? A well known Catholic prelate? All of this pedophilia rubbish belongs in the loon bin but these nonsensical allegations follow the same vein as the Carl Beech fantastic stories in the UK……and which led to innocent people’s lives being ruined…..

They are….

1. Untrue
2. Defamatory and dangerous
3. Distracts parties on the right from genuine issues
4. Gives the left and MSM valid reasons to belittle and target minor right-wing parties as havens for conspiracy mongers, the unhinged and the whacko.

Did Kelly slap the nonsense down? Because that’s what he should have done….it should be vigorously denounced by Kelly and the UAP.

“and want any proven offenders punished but I don’t want to listen to long rants about someone’s favourite hangup at a political rally about freedom”

And hang-ups they are. I’ve written here several times that as soon as someone rants on about “pedophile conspiracies”…..it’s time to run a mile……because it’s nonsense.

We all want proven offenders to be punished…but the key word is proven because it is by and large bunkum.

And by the way, the other night I was accused by a well known conspiratorial nong who posts here of focusing on “George Pell”. Well George Pell was an innocent man and as far as I’m concerned one innocent man or woman who is falsely persecuted, charged, prosecuted and imprisoned for any reason IS ONE TOO MANY.

sfw
sfw
January 31, 2022 7:17 am

Cassie, I didn’t wait to see Craigs response, I don’t have the time or patience to sit through rants. We’re at a cusp and the forces against the UAP, LDP etc are powerful and well funded. They’ll pounce on things like this and paint everyone who opposes the uniparty as foil hat wearers.

Cassie of Sydney
January 31, 2022 7:18 am

” They’ll pounce on things like this and paint everyone who opposes the uniparty as foil hat wearers.”

Correct.

calli
calli
January 31, 2022 7:27 am

Love the art!

The modern equivalent is one of those clickbait “when you see it” photos.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 31, 2022 7:32 am

A fair bit of ‘too many open tabs and not enough sleep’ last night I see.

Dot
Dot
January 31, 2022 7:32 am

I am still not convinced Bosi isn’t a spook.

Cassie of Sydney
January 31, 2022 7:39 am

“Dotsays:
January 31, 2022 at 7:32 am
I am still not convinced Bosi isn’t a spook.”

What makes you say that?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 31, 2022 7:39 am

‘the bloke started carrying on about paedophilia charges for some prominent people’

Oh Jesus wept, again with this bullshit. Is the banned Anne a UAP candidate yet?

This will ruin legitimate challenges to the dickheads currently pulling the levers. Surely Kelly et al would be aware of this.

Because ‘paedophile’ is one of the (deservedly) most repulsive terms going around does NOT mean you throw it in the direction of anyone you dislike.

Report it. Report it with evidence to back it or fuck off.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
January 31, 2022 7:43 am

Omicron is destroying the Covid panic merchants by sheer experience. It’s easier to count families who haven’t had the coof in local towns.

The RAT testing of school kids will be the final nail in Vic. The ultimate use of coercive power in pursuit of the pointless.
If they find 5-10% of the kids positive, what happens next?
Are schools expected to run full classes and remote learning simultaneously?
Will the family of the infected kid then be automatically reported and expected to drop work immediately?
Disaster Dan creates another shit fest.

JC
JC
January 31, 2022 7:43 am

Okay, but how do you get a legal bill of between $1 and $2 million dollars?

Easy, ask big fat Clive. Although I think he’s lying.

Mr.Ed, it’s early in the day for you to be sundowning.

Cassie of Sydney
January 31, 2022 7:43 am

“Because ‘paedophile’ is one of the (deservedly) most repulsive terms going around does NOT mean you throw it in the direction of anyone you dislike.

Report it. Report it with evidence to back it or fuck off.”

Liberty quote.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 31, 2022 7:47 am

On another – yet related – note, it pleases me to see Mr Staindl on the hook for up to $2 million because of bullshit accusations without proof.

Mr Staindl evidently thought Frydenburg’s legal would be ‘covered by the government’, thus displaying the lifelong greenie’s worldview that gummint is a free and endless Amazon River of money.

I am led to understand that the unkempt appearance of recycled poverty is popular with the well-to-do 20-somethings living in Toorak and Malvern granny flats. Mr Staindl’s ‘sacrifice to the cause’ will now have that realistic edge to it.

duncanm
duncanm
January 31, 2022 7:55 am

Tomsays:
January 31, 2022 at 12:50 am
Hahaha. Clowns like this are now a dime a dozen in Australia: his attempt to gotcha an LNP cabinet minister has backfired spectacularly:(Paywallian):

That is beautiful.

This is the turd.. https://www.theage.com.au/national/cbd-melbourne-activist-has-morrison-in-his-sights-20200406-p54hmc.html

even after losing the Frydenburg case, he went after Morrison.

Does Michael Staindl ever tire of tenuous legal disputes?

Now he’s at it again. This time his target is none other than Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Staindl claims Morrison defamed him

calli
calli
January 31, 2022 7:57 am

Thanks DP for that Worldometer link and All Causes Mortality chart.

The first shows pretty much what we all know – it’s run out of puff. Spiking cases and flat-lining deaths. The second, once averaged out over the two years, will show a slight rise in some age groups and something-nothing in others.

But, ooooooooh! Those biiiiiig spikes! Reeeeeeee! Let’s ruin ourselves by panicking.

duncanm
duncanm
January 31, 2022 8:00 am

Ed Casesays:
January 31, 2022 at 6:59 am
Where’s the evidence that Holmes ‘a Court was behind Staindl’s suit?
The bottom line is that at least 58% in Kooyong don’t want Josh as the Member.

that’s not how elections work in this country headcase.

79% don’t want the greens, and 83% don’t want Labor.

Who do you suggest should have been elected?

bespoke
bespoke
January 31, 2022 8:00 am

Report it. Report it with evidence to back it or fuck off.”

This is what I used to say at my old club. KD.

An instructor was adopting students as surrogates for his childless wife and himself.

It raised genuine concerns that the club wasn’t set with necessary safeguards or part of its mandate.

Polarized the place and nothing constructive came out of it.

calli
calli
January 31, 2022 8:01 am

Of course, the pretence will be that the vaxx has stopped the thing – vaxx formulations for an iteration that was well over the horizon before the next one came along. And the idiocy of “boosters” for same.

What has happened is that the natural world has prevailed. And hubristic “pseudoscience” can’t handle the fact.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 31, 2022 8:01 am

I’m late to this whole story, but wtf about this plot twist?

Palaszczuk on the run over integrity

There was a media feeding frenzy in Brisbane last week, with the Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk under intense media pressure, not over Covid-19, but the issue of integrity.

The issue of Omicron was put on the backburner by Brisbane’s press gallery, as newsrooms were more interested in chasing claims of a stolen laptop, secret files deleted and two bombshell resignations.

The drama started last Monday, after The Australian’s Michael McKenna broke the news that Queensland’s Integrity Commissioner Nikola Stepanov had quit midway through her second term.

It follows allegations that the Public Service Commission raided Stepanov’s office, took her laptop and wiped its contents without consent.

Palaszczuk was visibly irritated when her Monday Covid press conference was hijacked by questions about the mystery laptop.

What was on it? Why was it seized? What was deleted? Is there a cover-up? Was Stepanov closing in on a major political scandal? Was she pushed?

Australia is a shit stained latrine of corruption.
At least in other countries you just hand over the cash.
In Australia, corruption has a symbiotic relationship with the system.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
January 31, 2022 8:05 am

Bruce of Newcastle posted about Megan and Harry criticising Spotify over Joe Rogan and Covid misinformation.

The Courier Mail has an article about it which appears to be from the Sun and has this bit :

“Ivermectin a drug usually taken to treat parasitic infestations in animals.

In January 2022, 270 scientists, physicians, professors, doctors, and healthcare workers wrote an open letter to Spotify”.

Two bits of misinformation right there. Anybody who mentions only animal treatment in relation to Ivermectin and not Noble prize and extensive human use is peddling misinformation. The 270 is also misinformation.

Razey
Razey
January 31, 2022 8:05 am

sfwsays:
January 31, 2022 at 7:17 am
Cassie, I didn’t wait to see Craigs response, I don’t have the time or patience to sit through rants. We’re at a cusp and the forces against the UAP, LDP etc are powerful and well funded. They’ll pounce on things like this and paint everyone who opposes the uniparty as foil hat wearers.

The long term consequences of the genetic therapies will sort out the covid nazis.

duncanm
duncanm
January 31, 2022 8:06 am

Nice little conflict you’ve got going there.

The Department of the Premier and Cabinet supplies IT services through the PSC to the QIC. So of hampers you if you’re trying to dig up dirt.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-27/qld-integrity-commissioner-says-independence-of-office-at-risk/100786286

Dot
Dot
January 31, 2022 8:08 am

The RAT testing of school kids will be the final nail in Vic. The ultimate use of coercive power in pursuit of the pointless.
If they find 5-10% of the kids positive, what happens next?
Are schools expected to run full classes and remote learning simultaneously?
Will the family of the infected kid then be automatically reported and expected to drop work immediately?
Disaster Dan creates another shit fest.

Hold up.

The sheer chaos might convince people this nonsense has gone too far and gone on for far too long.

Razey
Razey
January 31, 2022 8:09 am

feelthebernsays:
January 31, 2022 at 8:01 am
I’m late to this whole story, but wtf about this plot twist?

Palaszczuk on the run over integrity

There was a media feeding frenzy in Brisbane last week, with the Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk under intense media pressure, not over Covid-19, but the issue of integrity.

The issue of Omicron was put on the backburner by Brisbane’s press gallery, as newsrooms were more interested in chasing claims of a stolen laptop, secret files deleted and two bombshell resignations.

The drama started last Monday, after The Australian’s Michael McKenna broke the news that Queensland’s Integrity Commissioner Nikola Stepanov had quit midway through her second term.

It follows allegations that the Public Service Commission raided Stepanov’s office, took her laptop and wiped its contents without consent.

Palaszczuk was visibly irritated when her Monday Covid press conference was hijacked by questions about the mystery laptop.

What was on it? Why was it seized? What was deleted? Is there a cover-up? Was Stepanov closing in on a major political scandal? Was she pushed?

Australia is a shit stained latrine of corruption.
At least in other countries you just hand over the cash.
In Australia, corruption has a symbiotic relationship with the system.

And yet Dictator Dan gets away with way, way worse.

Razey
Razey
January 31, 2022 8:11 am

Dotsays:
January 31, 2022 at 8:08 am
The RAT testing of school kids will be the final nail in Vic. The ultimate use of coercive power in pursuit of the pointless.
If they find 5-10% of the kids positive, what happens next?
Are schools expected to run full classes and remote learning simultaneously?
Will the family of the infected kid then be automatically reported and expected to drop work immediately?
Disaster Dan creates another shit fest.

Hold up.

The sheer chaos might convince people this nonsense has gone too far and gone on for far too long.

Had a bit of chuckle.

We are talking about victorians here. They Love lockdowns, mandates and the fascist hunchback c*nt. They will ask for more!

calli
calli
January 31, 2022 8:14 am

I understand why paedophilia accusations are filling the atrocity vacuum.

You can no longer get traction from homosexuality or sexual deviancy which today’s society has normalised, so it’s the only one left apart from bestiality. And being a “red” or even a “nazi” is now laughable. People just don’t care.

But children, now. That’s a rich seam to exploit. And while all the smoke gets blown around the “prominent figures” no one looks at the real wickedness going on in remote communities and sometimes under our own noses.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 31, 2022 8:16 am

See ya Razey.

Send a post from Tokyo when you get there. You’re still going, right? It wasn’t all mouth, right?

duncanm
duncanm
January 31, 2022 8:17 am

Mr Staindl ..

“Frydenberg through his lawyers Arnold Block (sic) Liebler (sic) has said he plans to take and sell my wife’s house

This is disingenuous bullshit of course. The bloke transferred ownership of the house before the case was heard.

Leon L.
Leon L.
January 31, 2022 8:19 am

Israel: A Profile in Vaccine failure and a Warning to the World

The Israeli data now definitively proves “vaccination” is the problem not the answer.
The combined evidence on early treatments and “vaccinations” tells us that the phrase “conspiracy theory” has one word too many.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 31, 2022 8:19 am

Where’s Australia’s truck convoy?

calli
calli
January 31, 2022 8:19 am

Breaking News: He’s a Green. He’s a liar.

I’m shocked!

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
January 31, 2022 8:20 am

“Tomsays:
January 31, 2022 at 12:50 am
Hahaha. Clowns like this are now a dime a dozen in Australia: his attempt to gotcha an LNP cabinet minister has backfired spectacularly:(Paywallian):”

It always staggers them when they discover there can be consequences to themselves personally. It would have been a good day ‘at the office’ top have embarked on his vexatious path to ruin Friedeggenburger’s career and leaving him to pick up the pieces of his life, but having to pay for doing so – where the innocent (in this at least) guy is spared and the malicious is punished – is a tragedy.

“Publicity is my last-ditch hope.”

As usual for one of these people, he needs other people’s money. But publicity is their natural element. In all areas of their antics there are bodies involved in economic matters, scientific, ordinary people with jobs, and so on, but these activists thrive in a thin film of publicity that surrounds them and corrupt the signals they send to each other. They themselves are alien to economics, science, hoi polloi.

They are a virus.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
January 31, 2022 8:20 am

If kids don’t supply RAT test results or not all required, what’s next?
Banning them from school.
Siblings asked to leave as well.
Visits from VicPlod to cuff kids and escort them off the school grounds.

Dot
Dot
January 31, 2022 8:23 am

LOL

https://raphaeljerome13.medium.com/why-i-dont-date-liberal-women-3714d8561451

Why I Don’t Date Liberal Women

Specifically White Liberal Women! Black Guys They See Us As Pets and Trauma Bonding Buddies

Razey
Razey
January 31, 2022 8:24 am

feelthebernsays:
January 31, 2022 at 8:19 am
Where’s Australia’s truck convoy?

We tried that in Oz 6 months ago, 2 trucks turned up.

calli
calli
January 31, 2022 8:24 am

There were never any “consequences”, Lode.

If he lost, so what? There was nothing to lose. These creatures don’t value reputation or “good name” like we do. They are beyond such bourgeois attitudes.

He got some notoriety, Frydenberg tied up in a malicious case, and the public questioning whether he was qualified to be in parliament.

Until delinquency of this type is punished by prison time, it will continue. And always from the same source.

Razey
Razey
January 31, 2022 8:25 am

Farmer Gezsays:
January 31, 2022 at 8:20 am
If kids don’t supply RAT test results or not all required, what’s next?
Banning them from school.
Siblings asked to leave as well.
Visits from VicPlod to cuff kids and escort them off the school grounds.

Why do you think they built the concentration camps?

Roger
Roger
January 31, 2022 8:26 am

Your Word of the Day, Cats:

Injectioneering.

From Leon’s link to American Thinker just above.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 31, 2022 8:29 am

Worlds worst twitter boxer.

Dr Julia Baird
@bairdjulia
GUYS WE DID IT!!!! Raffa too but also, that took a LOT of magical thinking on behalf of all of us at home peering between fingers, hiding behind cushions, cleaning cupboards, crossing ankles, timing bathroom trips for that guy to win. Well done all.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 31, 2022 8:37 am

Dick Ed

The bottom line is that at least 58% in Kooyong don’t want Josh as the Member.

If 58% of Kooyong voters didn’t want Josh as their member, he wouldn’t be their member. And if they have changed their mind since the last election, he won’t be after the next.

All of which has nothing to do with a vexatious lawsuit against him, and the costs thereof.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 31, 2022 8:38 am

‘GUYS WE DID IT!!!!!’

Guys?

Sexist bitch. The standard you walk past, goddammit!

Gab
Gab
January 31, 2022 8:39 am

I understand why paedophilia accusations are filling the atrocity vacuum.

If society continues on its current trajectory spearheaded by the left, paedophilia will be a thing of the past because it will be normalised. The nascent phase began with the ”ethicists” and the homo community (especially back in the ’70s), the DSM will next normalise it as a ”condition” but it won’t gain traction until Hollyweird begins to promote it in order to normalise it. I give it ten years or so.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
January 31, 2022 8:41 am

Raffa didn’t meet or beat the world’s best player.
Barty won on her merits but Nadal’s victory will always be tainted by the Novak fiasco.

Gab
Gab
January 31, 2022 8:42 am

After all, ”love is love”, right?

lotocoti
lotocoti
January 31, 2022 8:44 am

he issued bankruptcy proceedings on Christmas Eve (two days after burying my 93-year-old father and with my wife just out of hospital and very ill).

Anything other colour to add to this tale of Joshie’s utter bastardry?
The Malvern Star got a double puncture?
Simon the pet tortoise went off his lettuce?

calli
calli
January 31, 2022 8:51 am

When you have 19 yr olds being touted as “underage” for outrageous outraging against “people we don’t like”, the normalisation of sex with children may still have a way to go.

The press, the lefties and the agitators will have to decide. It’s their fork in the road, not ours.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 31, 2022 8:52 am

he issued bankruptcy proceedings on Christmas Eve

Best time to do it.
Either that or the Thursday before Easter.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 31, 2022 8:52 am

If I was going to potentially bankrupt someone, I’d send out the notification on Christmas Eve as well.

If someone was going to bankrupt me, I would appreciate their timing if I got the email on the Monday after any one of Collingwood’s 27 Grand Final losses.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 31, 2022 8:55 am

‘When you have 19 yr olds being touted as “underage” for outrageous outraging’

Or 24 year olds.

*cough* None *cough*

Razey
Razey
January 31, 2022 8:56 am

callisays:
January 31, 2022 at 8:51 am
When you have 19 yr olds being touted as “underage” for outrageous outraging against “people we don’t like”, the normalisation of sex with children may still have a way to go.

The press, the lefties and the agitators will have to decide. It’s their fork in the road, not ours.

They decided many years ago.

Let’s be mature about pedophilia | Madeleine van der Bruggen | TEDxSittardGeleen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egiBgmvv8wA

Top Ender
Top Ender
January 31, 2022 8:56 am

FitzSimons full of ‘nauseating hypocrisy’

Sky News host Rowan Dean says sanctimonious blowhards like Peter FitzSimons are full of nauseating hypocrisy.

AFLW player Haneen Zreika did not wear the Giants’ pride jersey because it went against her Muslim faith, with Mr FitzSimons writing that it was a “non event” in the Sydney Morning Herald.

Mr FitzSimons, however, penned upwards of 30 columns criticising former rugby player Israel Folau for expressing his views on homosexuality.

He was also quiet when former boxer Anthony Mundine expressed medieval views about homosexuals in 2018, according to fellow Outsiders host James Morrow.

“Why? Because Mundine, like Zreika, is a Muslim, and sanctimonious blowhards like FitzSimons are too gutless to criticise them,” Mr Dean said.

“You know what takes our breath away, Peter FitzSimons? Nauseating hypocrisy.”

Sky News

Indolent
Indolent
January 31, 2022 8:58 am

George Christensen Interview with Prof. Mattias Desmet about his explanation for the pandemic-induced societal insanity we see all around us which he calls ‘mass formation’.

What Has Caused COVID Madness? — with Prof. Mattias Desmet

Mattias Desmet is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at Belgium’s Ghent University. He also holds a Masters degree in statistics. Prof. Desmet has been outspoken on the irrationality of societal responses to the pandemic since its early days and formulated the psychological concept of ‘mass formation’ to explain that irrationality.
He has just written a book that will be published in English later this year titled “The Psychology of Totalitarianism”.

Franx
Franx
January 31, 2022 8:58 am

Farmer Gez
Agree about the tennis.
As things stand, and having denigrated the no.1, there is a sense in which:
‘Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.’

Roger
Roger
January 31, 2022 8:58 am

The press, the lefties and the agitators will have to decide. It’s their fork in the road, not ours.

And by and large its the normies who are having children, not the chattering classes (twittering classes?). There will be a battle over the children but it’s about control not sex. In fact it’s already begun.

Dot
Dot
January 31, 2022 8:58 am

When you have 19 yr olds being touted as “underage” for outrageous outraging against “people we don’t like”, the normalisation of sex with children may still have a way to go.

Yeah…like the grifter who reckons Epstein “groomed” her.

Ah yes, 24 year old “Our Kate” Upton was “pre pubescent”. Utter insanity.

calli
calli
January 31, 2022 8:58 am

Razey, that’s fringe stuff. What Gab is talking about is normalisation, as in mainstream acceptance.

This won’t happen, if it does happen, over law suits and cakes. It will happen over dead bodies.

Roger
Roger
January 31, 2022 8:59 am

Remember Gillian Triggs’s “If only we could control what is said around the dinner table”?

JMH
JMH
January 31, 2022 9:01 am

Spoiling my breakfast by monitoring Nanny Mitchell, mainstream media’s 3AW to see if he knows where Canada is and also, if he knows where Canberra is. I suspect the word “convoy” has been deleted from his vocabulary!

calli
calli
January 31, 2022 9:02 am

Bandana Man and his toxic missus are frightened of Islam. Really frightened.

After all, they were eye witnesses to the Paris atrocities several years ago and live Tweeted* the action.

They know.

* from their apartment two arrondissements away.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 31, 2022 9:03 am

FitzSimons has also been silent on Mundine being charged with breaching the Public Health Orders.
But couldn’t stop gushing about the citizen journalist who snapped Tony Abbott riding his bike.
Being a hypocrite is a feature of his working, not a bug.

JC
JC
January 31, 2022 9:04 am

If society continues on its current trajectory spearheaded by the left, paedophilia will be a thing of the past because it will be normalised. The nascent phase began with the ”ethicists” and the homo community (especially back in the ’70s), the DSM will next normalise it as a ”condition” but it won’t gain traction until Hollyweird begins to promote it in order to normalise it. I give it ten years or so.

It will be sold as a regular, run of the mill human right.

Top Ender
Top Ender
January 31, 2022 9:07 am

A Brisbane school is requiring parents to sign a contract that states their children will identify as their birth gender or face being excluded from the school.

Citipointe Christian College, in Carindale, gave parents little more than a week before school returns to consider its new contract, which also proclaims beliefs that homosexuality and bisexuality are destructive to society.

The contract sparked outrage at the weekend, with more than 15,000 people signing an online petition calling on the Prep to Year 12 school to recall the amendments.

Courier-Mail

calli
calli
January 31, 2022 9:08 am

Chuckle. Sums up my attitude to Covid and RATs.

I had my patience tested. I’m negative.

Dot
Dot
January 31, 2022 9:09 am

The contract sparked outrage at the weekend, with more than 15,000 people signing an online petition calling on the Prep to Year 12 school to recall the amendments.

Simple. Don’t send your kids there.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 31, 2022 9:10 am

‘homosexuality and bisexuality are destructive to society’

Bisexuality is fine.

As long as both chicks are hot.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 31, 2022 9:13 am

JMH

I suspect the word “convoy” has been deleted from his vocabulary!

From Wiki:

“Convoy” is a 1975 novelty song performed by C. W. McCall (a character co-created and voiced by Bill Fries, along with Chip Davis) that became a number-one song on both the country and pop charts in the US and is listed 98th among Rolling Stone magazine’s 100 Greatest Country Songs of All Time.

Some lyrics:

‘Cause we got a little ol’ convoy
Rockin’ through the night.
Yeah, we got a little ol’ convoy,
Ain’t she a beautiful sight?
Come on and join our convoy
Ain’t nothin’ gonna get in our way.
We gonna roll this truckin’ convoy
‘Cross the U-S-A.
Convoy!

Who knows a DJ who would play the song?

Ivan Denisovich
Ivan Denisovich
January 31, 2022 9:15 am

It will be sold as a regular, run of the mill human right.

I can envisage the age of consent here being lowered to 15, given the right circumstances. It would have to come from a female Labor Premier, but not from Qld where the price would be deemed too high. Either NSW or Vic would be the first to lead the way, most likely Vic, with other States to follow eventually. The Libs would offer little to no resistance.

Razey
Razey
January 31, 2022 9:15 am

callisays:
January 31, 2022 at 8:58 am
Razey, that’s fringe stuff. What Gab is talking about is normalisation, as in mainstream acceptance.

This won’t happen, if it does happen, over law suits and cakes. It will happen over dead bodies.

I agree, but most of us never thought ‘normal’ people would accept an experimental medical procedure just in order to work, yet here we are…

cohenite
January 31, 2022 9:17 am

From the last thread concerning the bankrupt climate activist who sued Frydenberg:

Sancho Panzersays:
January 31, 2022 at 12:23 am
Then there is this doozey …

Mr Staindl, a prominent climate change activist, said he had acted on what he had “perceived” to be Mr Frydenberg’s falsehoods over climate. He said when questions had arisen over Mr Frydenberg’s citizenship, he received a report from a Hungarian professor who said Mr Frydenberg had a Hungarian bloodline and therefore citizenship.

So, his court action, by his own admission, was vexatious and frivolous, because it was motivated by politic emnity rather than any real concerns over citizenship.
I hope Frydenberg puts the deadshit in the poorhouse. It might act as some sort of brake on half-arsed lawfare.

This is a good result. It shows what you have to do to the left: crush the bastards.

Ivan Denisovich
Ivan Denisovich
January 31, 2022 9:17 am

SA might also be first.

Razey
Razey
January 31, 2022 9:19 am

Anecdotal? Yeah….

Both my aunt and uncle were the first to get the clot shot + boosted. Now both have early onset dementia.

hmmmm

Gab
Gab
January 31, 2022 9:24 am

It will be sold as a regular, run of the mill human right.

Absolutely. You know, even 15 years ago, people never bought into the idea of ”gays” getting married. It’ll never happen, they said and yet here we are. The same will be true of the normalisation of pedos.

bespoke
bespoke
January 31, 2022 9:27 am

Ivan Denisovichsays:
January 31, 2022 at 9:17 am
SA might also be first.

Wouldn’t surprise me, the Catholics and other denominations are very wet.

duncanm
duncanm
January 31, 2022 9:27 am

Why I Don’t Date Liberal Women

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM6eNQhmLHs

Razey
Razey
January 31, 2022 9:27 am

Gabsays:
January 31, 2022 at 9:24 am
It will be sold as a regular, run of the mill human right.

Absolutely. You know, even 15 years ago, people never bought into the idea of ”gays” getting married. It’ll never happen, they said and yet here we are. The same will be true of the normalisation of pedos.

Australia died when they allowed these perverts to ‘marry’.

duncanm
duncanm
January 31, 2022 9:29 am

The contract sparked outrage at the weekend, with more than 15,000 people signing an online petition calling on the Prep to Year 12 school to recall the amendments.

how many of those send their kids to the school?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 31, 2022 9:30 am

Cassie earlier:-

And by the way, the other night I was accused by a well known conspiratorial nong who posts here of focusing on “George Pell”. 

Because said conspiratorial nong hasn’t been quite able to come to terms with Pell’s exoneration by the High Court.
To be fair, he does have red shoes.
And likes pizza.

Franx
Franx
January 31, 2022 9:32 am

Perhaps it’s time the non-state schools who wish to be autonomous rejected all levels of state funding. Not impossible. Same goes for churches who, if not wishing to be vassals of the state, might choose to reject funding under the auspices of ‘heritage’ preservation or some such.

Dot
Dot
January 31, 2022 9:32 am

Australia died when they allowed these perverts to ‘marry’.

Quite frankly I am more worried about the digital identity bill and never ending emergency powers, but carry on.

rickw
rickw
January 31, 2022 9:38 am

Prof. Desmet has been outspoken on the irrationality of societal responses to the pandemic since its early days and formulated the psychological concept of ‘mass formation’ to explain that irrationality.

Propaganda around disease seems to be able to tap into a deep seated fear that is present in many individuals. The German propaganda of the 1930’s around the disease risk posed by Jews served as a solid foundation for the Holocaust. Yet this irrational fear of disease propaganda is often forgotten due it being supplanted with more conventional and well known conspiracy propaganda. The later conspiracy propaganda ultimately found a home among Germans because the foundational fear was based on disease.

rickw
rickw
January 31, 2022 9:40 am

how many of those send their kids to the school?

Zero, just a flash outrage mob.

lotocoti
lotocoti
January 31, 2022 9:40 am

how many of those send their kids to the school?

Probably somewhere between zero and none.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 31, 2022 9:40 am

Knuckle Draggersays:

January 31, 2022 at 8:16 am

See ya Razey.

Send a post from Tokyo when you get there. You’re still going, right? It wasn’t all mouth, right?

I assumed he was already there.
You’re not still in this – what’s the word? – “shithole” are you Razey?
Say it ain’t so.

Roger
Roger
January 31, 2022 9:40 am

The contract sparked outrage at the weekend, with more than 15,000 people signing an online petition calling on the Prep to Year 12 school to recall the amendments.

Remember when homosexuals just wanted toleration?

bespoke
bespoke
January 31, 2022 9:42 am

The state has no business in defining what marriage is.

Roger
Roger
January 31, 2022 9:43 am

There are two Islamic colleges in the vicinity that would have the same policy.

The “outrage” is very selective.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
January 31, 2022 9:44 am

From duncanm says:
January 31, 2022 at 8:17 am

On Christmas Eve, the Treasurer’s law firm, Arnold Bloch Leibler, informed Mr Staindl’s lawyers it was issuing a bankruptcy notice. But Mr Staindl says he has not been served the notice.

Obviously unwise to trust anything from Mr Staindl, but if Freydenberg is holding off recovering legitimate costs from this POS for electoral reasons, it better be on his own dime.

It was personal litigation, and as I understand personally funded.

Frydenberg’s costs had better not somehow turn up on the public tab to avoid the political horrors of selling up the very calculating Mr Staindl. It will be noticed and broadcast – probably by Staindl himself.

rickw
rickw
January 31, 2022 9:44 am

Either NSW or Vic would be the first to lead the way, most likely Vic, with other States to follow eventually. The Libs would offer little to no resistance.

Overall the swamp is pretty strategic. They wedge issues in where the cost is lowest, allow acclimatisation and then introduce elsewhere after the public has developed a false sense of security “that wasn’t to bad was it?”.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 31, 2022 9:48 am

If society continues on its current trajectory spearheaded by the left, paedophilia will be a thing of the past because it will be normalised.

By all means fight that fight.
But naming “high profile” members of “worldwide pedo rings” sans evidence is disgusting.
Nearly as bad as the crime itself.
We’ve had a couple of serial offenders here and at the Old Cat.
The next time might be their last.

Morsie
Morsie
January 31, 2022 9:49 am

If Staindl is made bankrupt then his trustee can get the house unless the wife paid full value.If you are going to go bankrupt you need to transfer assets years in advance a la Allan Bknd6

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
January 31, 2022 9:49 am

On the Australian Open.

It was heartwarming to see all four singles finalists lavish praise on Craig Tiley – who would normally expect formal thanks along with the staff, volunteers and ballkids.

It’s almost as if they were circling the wagons around his role in the Djokovic Debacle.

Tom
Tom
January 31, 2022 9:51 am

‘homosexuality and bisexuality are destructive to society’

KD, my favourite quote on the subject was from Jeremy Clarkson of Top Gear.

Some media type asked him if he was bigoted against homosexuals.

“Not at all,” he responded. “I love lesbians on the internet”.

rosie
rosie
January 31, 2022 9:53 am

The left whatever tried and failed to normalise sex with children back in the 70s, they got big push back from parents.
As long as Christianity influence remains strong they won’t get a look in.
Christianity was what revolutionised Roman attitudes to sex with children (as liberal as you could get).
Rechristianising the west is what people should be focusing on

Franx
Franx
January 31, 2022 9:55 am

It takes quite some courage to overlook goading.
Admirable.

lotocoti
lotocoti
January 31, 2022 9:56 am

There are two Islamic colleges in the vicinity that would have the same policy.
The “outrage” is very selective.

Like a pretty girl, the rules do not apply.

Eyrie
Eyrie
January 31, 2022 9:57 am

Come now, cancers?
How long is it since triple vax?
Pls be serious if you want to be taken seriously.

https://rumble.com/vt9s0g-1000-increase-in-neurological-300-increase-cancer-and-miscarriage.html
US Military DMED database. Younger than usual population on average. 300% increase in cancer diagnoses compared to previous annual over 5 years and that was for the first 10 months of 2021.

bespoke
bespoke
January 31, 2022 9:59 am

Rubbish, most none religious and atheist are against it to, rosie.

Eyrie
Eyrie
January 31, 2022 9:59 am

That supports what Dr Ryan Cole was saying by mid 2021. Screw with your immune system at your peril.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 31, 2022 10:00 am

feelthebernsays:

January 31, 2022 at 8:52 am

he issued bankruptcy proceedings on Christmas Eve

Best time to do it.
Either that or the Thursday before Easter.

This is what is funny.
The lawyers who ran with this are over it.
Moved on.
But Staindll thinks they are his besties.
Fellow traveller eco-warriors.
So, with the bankruptcy winding up notice in his trembling hand on Christmas Eve, he rings his lawyer:-
“I need somebody to doooo something!”.
Lawyer : “Yeah. Right. Look I’m just heading off to Sorrento. The office closed until the 18th January. Tell you what. Why don’t you call one of our junior associates in bankruptcy then? Merry Christmas!”

Exquisite timing.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
January 31, 2022 10:03 am

If Staindl is made bankrupt then his trustee can get the house unless the wife paid full value.If you are going to go bankrupt you need to transfer assets years in advance a la Allan Bknd6

Reaching back into the mist of time, I seem to remember that Bond, Alan Bond managed to scalp a fair chunk from his trustee via a marriage separation settlement with Mrs Bond.

From duncanm’s link it appears the well-advised Mr Staindl’s convenient loss of house was in settlement of a “personal issue”.

Tragic, as well as naive.

Frank
Frank
January 31, 2022 10:04 am

Mr Staindl is broke so does that mean the lawyers get stiffed, or is it wrong to pick a side. Pity they can’t both lose.

calli
calli
January 31, 2022 10:08 am

I agree from an historic standpoint, rosie. I also think, as Christianity is the sum of the Law and the Prophets, that children were to be treated differently to the ancient world norm in Israel too.

It was their cruelty to children that was railed against by the Almighty, amongst other things.

The west has been built on these two great pillars of faith. Regardless of an individual’s faith, the inheritance stands. As products of this tremendous wealth, it is no surprise to me that both atheist and agnostic abhor the commodification of children also.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 31, 2022 10:08 am

Reaching back into the mist of time, I seem to remember that Bond, Alan Bond managed to scalp a fair chunk from his trustee via a marriage separation settlement with Mrs Bond.

The cynical suggested that that separation was artificial – purely designed as an exercise in asset preservation…

Pogria
Pogria
January 31, 2022 10:10 am

Last night I watched the doco “a Day in Auschwitz”, on SBS. It was followed by a doco on Nuremberg which I also watched. The Nuremberg doco wasn’t bad, It was rehashed scenes from better docos, but!!!, the last five minutes was spent on predicting the rise of far Right extremism which will lead to another round of War, complete with ancient footage of German Neo Nazis and, wait for it!, footage of President Trump. They even mentioned the Jan 6 riots and how Nationalist talk can lead to future uprising.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 31, 2022 10:11 am

From duncanm’s link it appears the well-advised Mr Staindl’s convenient loss of house was in settlement of a “personal issue”.

Wasn’t there a mining entrepreneur who failed in an effort to “put the house in his wife’s name, the consideration being natural love and affection?”

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 31, 2022 10:16 am

About this time two years ago, Pelosi was telling everyone to go to China town & hug an Asian person.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
January 31, 2022 10:17 am

The cynical suggested that that separation was artificial – purely designed as an exercise in asset preservation…

Cynics everywhere did that.
Although I think Bond actually did make off with a bimbo someone for whom Age Isn’t An Issue, We’re Very Much In Love.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 31, 2022 10:21 am

Bankruptcy laws have changed.
20 years ago a horrible fellow I knew planned to enter the bankruptcy sausage machine so went on a trip to the US a month or so before.
He & his missus ripped up 20k on the Amex on that last trip.
Which Amex settled for pennies on the dollar.
That doesn’t happen anymore.

Speedbox
January 31, 2022 10:22 am

Dr Faustus says:
January 31, 2022 at 9:49 am
It’s almost as if they were circling the wagons around his role in the Djokovic Debacle.

No doubt about that. Under normal circumstances you would expect the CEO of Tennis Australia and Director of the Australian Open to say ‘a few words’. Thank his staff personally etc. Apparently not.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 31, 2022 10:22 am

Wow.
The Bengals beat the Chiefs and are into the Super Bowl.

Bluey
Bluey
January 31, 2022 10:24 am

https://www.rt.com/russia/547437-traditional-values-foreign-amorality/

Russia names alternative to Western ‘amorality’
Western ideas are harmful to Russian society, Moscow officials have argued
Russia names alternative to Western ‘amorality’

Russia’s Ministry of Culture has published a draft order setting out “traditional values” that it says must be protected from encroachment by foreign ideas, terrorists, and extremists amid a “global crisis” for public morality.

The document was posted on the ministry’s website this week for consultation, ahead of being presented to President Vladimir Putin for his signature, and is designed to provide “the foundations of government policy for the protection and strengthening of traditional Russian spiritual and moral values.” The ordinance lays out what the authors see as integral Russian values and puts forward strategies for defending them against alleged incursion by foreign perspectives.

The draft text defines “traditional values” as “moral guidelines that form Russian citizens’ worldview, transferring from generation to generation, guaranteeing civil unity, forming the base of Russian civilizational identity and the nation’s unified cultural space, and manifesting uniquely and distinctly in the spiritual, historical, and cultural development of the multiethnic people of Russia.”

According to the order, examples of these values include “life, dignity, human rights and freedom, patriotism, civic consciousness, service to the Fatherland and responsibility for its fate, high moral ideals, a strong family, creative work, prioritizing the spiritual over the material, humanism, charity, justice, collectivism, mutual support and respect, historical memory and continuity between generations, and the unity of the peoples of Russia.”

The report claims, however, that these values are under threat from outside forces including terrorist and extremist organizations, multinational corporations, NGOs, and the US and its allies. Among the foreign ideas said to be invading Russia, the authors name egoism, permissiveness, “amorality,” and the refusal to grant Russia a positive place in history and culture.

Putin comments on transgender rights

Last month, President Putin told journalists that he believes progressive Western ideas are infiltrating Russia, particularly in the area of LGBT rights. “I believe that the traditional approach is correct,” he commented. “Male is male, female is female, mother is mother, and father is father. I sincerely hope that our society has the moral armor to protect us against this.”

In 2013, Putin signed Russia’s so-called “gay propaganda law,” which prohibits the distribution of material deemed to promote “non-traditional sexual relationships” among minors. The legislation, which was passed with the stated goal of protecting children from being exposed to homosexuality, has been criticized domestically and internationally as an attack on LGBT rights. The Kremlin has defended it as a measure to preserve traditional family values.

Last year, Putin signed into force a series of constitutional reforms following a nationwide vote. Among them was the stipulation that marriage is defined solely as a union between a man and a woman.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 31, 2022 10:24 am

Although I think Bond actually did make off with a bimbo someone for whom Age Isn’t An Issue, We’re Very Much In Love.

T.T. rings a bell..

duncanm
duncanm
January 31, 2022 10:25 am

Franxsays:
January 31, 2022 at 9:32 am
Perhaps it’s time the non-state schools who wish to be autonomous rejected all levels of state funding.

or perhaps every kid should get a fixed amount (voucher) for their education which they may cash at any school of their family’s choosing?

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 31, 2022 10:27 am

This is a helluva achievement by Burrow & Bengals.
Only the 2nd time in 20 years the Heisman Trophy winner has gone to a Super Bowl.
Unsurprising because the best prospects get drafted to the worst team/teams.
So in two seasons, Burrow has taken the Bengals from the worst team in the NFL to the big one.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 31, 2022 10:30 am

Listening to ALPBC – sounds like Sneakers vaccine apartheid will have a few issues today.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
January 31, 2022 10:30 am

Death threats, ghost researchers and sock puppets: Inside the weird, wild world of dodgy academic research

Bad science is a curse.

Interesting article, which strangely doesn’t spot an issue with ‘climate science’ – arguably the most corrupted branch of the family.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 31, 2022 10:33 am

‘climate science’ is not part of science.
It belongs to “The Science™”.

C.L.
C.L.
January 31, 2022 10:34 am

Last month, President Putin told journalists that he believes progressive Western ideas are infiltrating Russia, particularly in the area of LGBT rights. “I believe that the traditional approach is correct,” he commented. “Male is male, female is female, mother is mother, and father is father. I sincerely hope that our society has the moral armor to protect us against this.”

In 2013, Putin signed Russia’s so-called “gay propaganda law,” which prohibits the distribution of material deemed to promote “non-traditional sexual relationships” among minors. The legislation, which was passed with the stated goal of protecting children from being exposed to homosexuality, has been criticized domestically and internationally as an attack on LGBT rights. The Kremlin has defended it as a measure to preserve traditional family values.

Last year, Putin signed into force a series of constitutional reforms following a nationwide vote. Among them was the stipulation that marriage is defined solely as a union between a man and a woman.

Great stuff.
The truth is the EU/NATO is now the communist bloc.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 31, 2022 10:37 am

NHS workers will no longer need the jabbening.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
January 31, 2022 10:38 am

how many of those send their kids to the school?

Probably somewhere between zero and none.

I see you have been rounding out numbers.

I would proffer a value of Zero point Nil Nada Zip Nought Nix Zilch Cypher None Diddly

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 31, 2022 10:41 am

Mr Staindl is broke so does that mean the lawyers get stiffed

The bankruptcy court should order him to work in an underground coal mine for twenty years to pay back the money. It’d be fitting. The ferals who block coal trains can go on shift with him. Manacles and chains would be suitable attire.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 31, 2022 10:43 am

He & his missus ripped up 20k on the Amex on that last trip.

Flip side.
I knew a bloke who once worked as an sales rep for an Australian exporter.
Company goes bust while he is in the Middle East.
He thinks, “Fuck it. I’m out of a job. May as well have a bit of fun on the way home.”
Partied it up on the Amex.
Imagine his horror when he found out about the “joint and several liability” clause in the Corporate Amex contract.
I tried to avoid Corporate Amex like the plague after that.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 31, 2022 10:44 am

Phrase of the day:-
Frydenberg Schadenfreude.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 31, 2022 10:45 am

Didn’t watch the tennis presentations. I hope that Rafa thanked SloMo and the Federal Court. Unfortunately for him his record will always carry a *.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 31, 2022 10:46 am

The truth is the EU/NATO is now the communist bloc.

Yep.

patriotism, civic consciousness, service to the Fatherland and responsibility for its fate

And Russia is now literally the Fatherland. History seems to repeat very Twainishly sometimes.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 31, 2022 10:46 am

That NHS news is from the Telegraph in the UK.

Razey
Razey
January 31, 2022 10:51 am

feelthebernsays:
January 31, 2022 at 10:37 am
NHS workers will no longer need the jabbening.

Will the happenings in England put pressure on our dim witted politicians and public?

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 31, 2022 10:51 am

Amex bit of a sui generis in the world of credit cards. Never got much assistance from US card issuers when dealing with bankruptcy in the UK in the mid 90s. They just wrote off fraud as the cost of doing business and push the cost across to everyone else.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
January 31, 2022 10:54 am

In Integrity news:

Spotify to add advisories to podcasts discussing COVID-19 after Joe Rogan controversy

Spotify says it will start adding content advisories before podcasts discussing COVID-19 in response to concerns raised by musicians and content creators including Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex.

Neil Young (who?);
Joni Mitchell (too wrinkly);
James Blunt (chuckle);

Harry and Meghan – Faaark!!!

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 31, 2022 10:55 am

Best not to own your own home if you plan to be a strawman. Kangaroo Court is the gold standard.

Vicki
Vicki
January 31, 2022 10:55 am

A revolution unlike any that we have seen in the past…….maybe? Ask the truckies of Canada & all the average working class people who have been undermined and thrown under the bus by governments and bureaucratic bunglers.

For this proposition see:

https://brownstone.org/articles/now-is-the-time-for-mass-resignations-from-within-the-ruling-class/

twostix
twostix
January 31, 2022 11:01 am

2013 Groundhog day redux.

Democrats trying to gin up thermo-nuclear war with Russia via the Ukraine because Russia don’t let fags get married.

Libertarians explaining that the gangsters in Canberra can redefine the word ‘marriage’ via legislation.

Bushkid
Bushkid
January 31, 2022 11:01 am

Top Ender says:
January 31, 2022 at 9:07 am
A Brisbane school is requiring parents to sign a contract that states their children will identify as their birth gender or face being excluded from the school.

Citipointe Christian College, in Carindale, gave parents little more than a week before school returns to consider its new contract, which also proclaims beliefs that homosexuality and bisexuality are destructive to society.

The contract sparked outrage at the weekend, with more than 15,000 people signing an online petition calling on the Prep to Year 12 school to recall the amendments.

I wonder how many of those 15,000 people who signed the petition actually send their kids to the school….

More confected outraged outrage, perhaps?

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
January 31, 2022 11:04 am

Game on: Australia opens Hypersonic Research Precinct to develop missiles faster than the speed of sound

Australia’s commitment to developing and defending against missiles faster than the speed of the sound is at the fore following the opening of a $14 million state-of-the-art Hypersonics Research Precinct at Eagle Farm in Brisbane last week.

$14 million?
At the fore.
Game On.

Vlad, Emperor Xi, and Phat Phuc will be reaching for clean underwear.

twostix
twostix
January 31, 2022 11:05 am

Perhaps it’s time the non-state schools who wish to be autonomous rejected all levels of state funding.

There’s a chicken and egg problem with that.

Rejecting state funds doesn’t remove the vast web of totalitarian regulations that the state places on completely privately funded private schools.

So you end up with no funds and being bossed about by the government anyway.

Frank
Frank
January 31, 2022 11:06 am

‘climate science’ is not part of science.
It belongs to “The Science™”.

Climate Science is part of the whole environmental science thing, basically the gender studies of the science world. Shame really because modelling the climate is a worthy goal.

Roger
Roger
January 31, 2022 11:07 am

Spotify says it will start adding content advisories before podcasts discussing COVID-19 in response to concerns raised by musicians and content creators including Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex.

Seems Hazza & Megs haven’t been creating much content.

bespoke
bespoke
January 31, 2022 11:08 am

It was Howard that made the distinction more explicit that sparked the challenge, Dover.

Look I’m agnostic on SSM, not you or the state can say what my marriage means to me and my wife. Everyone regardless of what group they identify with has some deviation on what it means.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 31, 2022 11:11 am

Pregnant journo rejected by NZ, embraced by Taliban

By Afp
AFP
16 minutes ago January 31, 2022
16 Comments

A pregnant New Zealand journalist denied re-entry to her home country to give birth due to strict Covid-19 regulations says she has been offered refuge by the Afghan Taliban.

“This just feels like such a breach of trust,” Charlotte Bellis told Radio New Zealand on Sunday from Kabul.

Bellis had been working for Al Jazeera in Afghanistan, but said she didn’t realise she was pregnant until she was at the media company’s headquarters in Doha, Qatar.

It is illegal to be pregnant and unmarried in Qatar, so Bellis kept her pregnancy secret as she prepared to return to New Zealand.

Upon being told she did not qualify for an exemption under New Zealand’s strict Covid border controls, Bellis said she called senior Taliban contacts and was told she could give birth there.

“We’re happy for you, you can come and you won’t have a problem,” Bellis said the Taliban had told her.

“They also said, ‘Don’t worry. Everything will be fine’,” she told the New Zealand Herald. “In my time of need, the New Zealand government said ‘you’re not welcome here’.

“When the Taliban offers you – a pregnant, unmarried woman – safe haven, you know your situation is messed up.”

Bellis, who once questioned the Taliban about what they would do to ensure the rights of women and girls, said it was “brutally ironic” she was now asking the same question of her own government.

After going public with her situation, and involving lawyers, Bellis said she had been contacted by New Zealand officials who said her rejected application was under review.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 31, 2022 11:12 am

modelling the climate

Atmospheric physics is a good start.
None of the climax scientimists would be able to handle the math.

Speedbox
January 31, 2022 11:13 am

Dr Faustus says:
January 31, 2022 at 11:04 am

Staffed by 60 people, the purpose-built facility was unveiled by the Minister for Defence Peter Dutton to advance the understanding and use of hypersonic technology through flight test vehicles.

Ok, so that $14m will pay the wages of 60 for about 2 years. Then what?

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 31, 2022 11:13 am

Bellis had been working for Al Jazeera in Afghanistan, but said she didn’t realise she was pregnant until she was at the media company’s headquarters in Doha, Qatar.
It is illegal to be pregnant and unmarried in Qatar, so Bellis kept her pregnancy secret as she prepared to return to New Zealand.

Two points.
One, will Saint Lisa Wilkinson critique Ardern regarding this?
Two, Qatar will be hosting the 2022 World Cup, will the sister hood be calling for a boycott?

Perfidious Albino
Perfidious Albino
January 31, 2022 11:14 am

Might have been better off putting the $14m on the last at Eagle Farm…

Roger
Roger
January 31, 2022 11:18 am

…not you or the state can say what my marriage means to me and my wife.

The thing is marriage has, since time immemorial, been a res publica – a public matter – not a private one. The modern notion that the purpose of marriage does not extend beyond the self-interest of a husband and wife is really where we – by which I mean conservatives or traditionalists – started losing the argument on marriage, well before ssm was contemplated.

Aaron
Aaron
January 31, 2022 11:20 am

How does it feel to have a booster and still fear the walking dead?

Asking for a Dan.

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