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Zatara
Zatara
February 4, 2022 2:41 pm

Peter Dutton says if troops are needed to staff aged care homes ‘that’s what we will do’

I’m sure the staffs will appreciate the help building bunkers, clearing fields of fire, and stringing concertina wire.

srr
srr
February 4, 2022 2:43 pm

Avi Yemini
@OzraeliAvi
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The freedom convoy isn’t leaving Canberra anytime soon.

FULL STORY: rebelne.ws/3AVF0l7

Cassie of Sydney
February 4, 2022 2:43 pm

“Many people of Irish descent still think that Northern Ireland is a confected state with little justification for being kept apart from the rest of the island.

I suspect Putin would say the same about Ukraine and China about Taiwan.

srr
srr
February 4, 2022 2:44 pm

DrEddyMD
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Areas of #Canada with high #covid “ #vaccine ” #uptake see 28X #increase in #stillbirths

Areas of Canada with high covid “vaccine” uptake see 28X increase in stillbirths

A new wave of stillbirths is spreading across Canada, and the culprit is Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) “vaccination.” According to Dr. Daniel Nagase, stillbirth cases in Canada are explodi…

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srr
srr
February 4, 2022 2:45 pm

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ENDLESS SHOTS: #Canada just ordered 7 doses of #covidvaccines for every #man, #woman and #child
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ENDLESS SHOTS: Canada just ordered 7 doses of covid vaccines for every man, woman and child

Under the limp-wristed leadership of Justin Trudeau, Canada is on a mission to “build back better” and implement a “Great Reset” – code-names for communism and population control. This syste…

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Bourne1879
Bourne1879
February 4, 2022 2:46 pm

From Bern’s post above :

“And that 60k people in NSW aged care facilities die every year”.

So 5,000 per month. Those dying with Covid in aged care are therefore seriously under represented in population !

Meanwhile Deputy Premier Qld in press conference today was blaming Federal Government because people die in aged care homes. Average age was yet again mid 80’s. The BS is mind blowing and the failure of the press is staggering.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 4, 2022 2:47 pm

Many people of Irish descent still think that Northern Ireland is a confected state

As a friend of mine would say (or something like it)
Well they would not be for having any fookin idea for the what they would not be for talking about.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 4, 2022 2:47 pm

It’s a lazy response and it’s not the purpose of the army, whether reserve or full time.

Reminiscing about the good old days of Stop the Boats and “on water matters”.

srr
srr
February 4, 2022 2:51 pm

Half of Democrat Voters Are Insane Tyrants

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

Feb 4, 2022
The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 4, 2022 2:54 pm

ScoMo walks back Dutton’s comments.
What a pack of retards.

Cassie of Sydney
February 4, 2022 2:55 pm

Great country we’re living in now…from The Oz….

“Claim WA police stopped church mass for vax checks
Paul Garvey
PAUL GARVEY

Western Australian police have been criticised on social media after a photograph emerged appearing to show officers conducting proof of vaccination checks in the middle of mass at a Perth church.

The image, posted to Instagram, was purportedly taken on Thursday night during a service at St Bernadette’s Catholic Church in Glendalough.

Social media users described the image as “disturbing” and “disgusting”.

“It’s the arrogance and casually brutal attitude of a Government that has received near total compliance for 2 yrs and now believes it can make no mistakes and that no one will stand up to them,” Instagram user lancescott55555 wrote.

Proof of vaccination requirements came into force in Perth on Monday. Anyone visiting venues including bars and restaurants, bottle shops, entertainment venues or indoor events with over 500 patrons are required to show proof of their Covid-19 vaccination.

Churches and places of worship with fewer than 500 people in attendance are not on the list of venues requiring proof of vaccination.

WA police have been contacted for comment.”

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
February 4, 2022 2:55 pm

I’m in the demographic that Australian filth seem to like attacking.
Gutless momgrels.
They’ve certainly trashed their brand.
I quiver I’m fear of the nasty diversity hires.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Timothy Neilson says: February 4, 2022 at 11:29 am

… Nick Spanos and Stephen Melrose aren’t widely known these days…

Yep, spot on.
IIRC they were lawyers, working in London, having a few days on the continent.

The IRA claimed that it was a “mistake” and they’d thought Spanos and Melrose were British soldiers

This is almost certain to be true. Despite a previous instance of shooting dead a German woman (in Germany) in the belief she was British Army, the violent psychopaths in the IRA reviewed their rules of engagement only as far as checking visually for a conservative haircut & male clothing before opening fire.

The attack was in Roermond, a couple of km from the German border & not far from several British bases (in Germany). The men both had conservative haircuts (check) were of military age (check) able bodied (check) driving a British registered car – so they must be British military.

and that they didn’t want to kill people who had nothing to do with the Irish conflict…

Un huh, sure.
With such indisputably poor target verification, the really big risk for the IRA was they could just as easily have machine-gunned a pair of holidaying lawyers from Boston named say, Flaherty & O’Neill.

Whatever one says about the Ulster Protestant militias at least they didn’t do world-wide random killing tours.

It is possible the Prod paramilitaries played at home pretty much because they had to.
Unlike the IRA, the Protestant militias lacked a heavyweight financial, political & moral support base in the USA.
The IRA also had access to a world-wide Marxist movement with ample arms & experience and a geo-political grudge against their enemy, the UK govt.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 4, 2022 2:56 pm

What a pack of retards.

Wishy washy understatement of the day!

Cassie of Sydney
February 4, 2022 2:56 pm

Alan Joyce likens WA to North Korea.

He’s right.

Cassie of Sydney
February 4, 2022 2:58 pm

“It is possible the Prod paramilitaries played at home pretty much because they had to.
Unlike the IRA, the Protestant militias lacked a heavyweight financial, political & moral support base in the USA.
The IRA also had access to a world-wide Marxist movement with ample arms & experience and a geo-political grudge against their enemy, the UK govt.”

Correct.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 4, 2022 3:00 pm

Cmon bern, let it out.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
February 4, 2022 3:01 pm

Telling a numbskull “you have hurt me” is tactically insane. It does nothing for the injury and gives the attacker satisfaction.

Calli, please pass this on to Lizzie.

calli
calli
February 4, 2022 3:01 pm

I’ve never actually encountered the converse, despite growing up in very much a British-descended Protestant environment

Timothy, my great Uncle was a Loyal Orangeman. I don’t picture him as a terrorist or a supporter of terrorists. Clearly, as a member, he wanted the British to stay in Northern Ireland.

He died long ago. I expect his lodge died out long ago too.

I don’t know what his thoughts on Israel were. He probably didn’t have any. All I know is he sat and read his Bible every night.

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
February 4, 2022 3:02 pm

I am also pleased that Pairotits didn’t keep me locked up for more time than he did after the vaxxies.
That is not mandated jabs. Just a bit of friendly pressure.
Kiss my arse LNP spruikers.
Not that you cretins aren’t entitled to the opinions fed to you.
Fascist running dogs.
No offence.

shatterzzz
February 4, 2022 3:02 pm

Spotify problems escalate .. LOL!
https://ibb.co/KG5Xxtj

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
February 4, 2022 3:04 pm

Aussie cops covering themselves in glory, again!

Aussie cops in most Australian states will never recover their good reputation. I have always said that the police are necessary to protect democracy and freedom of the individual. I now believe they are a tool of the oppressors and in some states deserve to be called “Gestapo”.

twostix
twostix
February 4, 2022 3:05 pm

QLD is to NSW, as NSW is to Victoria as Victoria is to WA, as WA is to NT, on this stuff.

This isn’t to be all rah-rah, it’s just reality.

NSW nearly made it – and was holding strong with a high level of resistance until August last year, but collapsed as a society when treacherous Gladys was faced with her corruption and so tried to save her neck by selling out the entire state to covid mania. The people haven’t recovered and it’ll take a couple of years to undo what she did – it won’t be until Hazzard and Chant are gone, in fact. That is what it is. But it’s still number two on the list.

People are just going to have to accept that people make culture, culture makes politics and QLD has by far, by light years in distance, resisted the worst of Covid Mania because its cultural make up prevented the Brisbane based political class from going to town on the people in a state that it barely controls north of Noosa and west of Toowoomba (and are a little bit afraid of).

If you care about politics, instead of being a butt-hurt Victorian with a massive chip on your shoulder about Queenslanders, and start looking at who did better than who then naturally QLD and Florida and NSW pre-August are the places you start looking at. Nobody on planet earth is looking at Victorians say “myesss we have a lot we can copy from down there!”.

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
February 4, 2022 3:05 pm

Good heavens.
WA filth are anti Catholic bigots.
Like the RIC.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 4, 2022 3:06 pm

ScoMo walks back Dutton’s comments.

Expect to see more of this as more Lieborals prepare for life in Opposition.

Cassie of Sydney
February 4, 2022 3:06 pm

Clearly Scumbag isn’t interested in standing by those on his own side……Kelly, Porter, Christensen, Tudge….

Scott Morrison says Alan Tudge will not be education minister when parliament resumes

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been grilled about an inquiry into a senior minister who had an affair with his staffer.

Scott Morrison says Australia’s education minister – who stepped aside over abuse allegations last year – will not return to the role before parliament resumes next week, despite a review into his conduct being due a week ago.

Speaking in Mulgrave, in the marginal Victorian seat of Chisholm, on Friday, Mr Morrison was grilled about the inquiry tasked with investigating Alan Tudge’s relationship with his former staffer Rachelle Miller.

The results were due to be finalised and handed to the Prime Minister’s department last Friday.

“When will the Government respond to the allegations about Alan Tudge given they were due on January 28?” he was asked.

“We are working to this process is now,” he answered.

He was then asked if Mr Tudge would be reinstated as the education minister by the time parliament returned on Tuesday.

“We won’t have that resolved by the time,” he conceded.

Mr Tudge stood aside as minister last year after an inquiry was called to examine allegations of emotional and physical abuse made by Mr Miller.

Both Mr Tudge and Ms Miller have admitted to an extramarital affair in 2017 but Mr Tudge has strongly denied any mistreatment.

Ms Miller declined to take part in the investigation, saying it was not truly independent.”

calli
calli
February 4, 2022 3:07 pm

WA police simply don’t understand the concept of holiness.

I wonder if they conducted a check at the local mosque?

Thefrollickingmole
Thefrollickingmole
February 4, 2022 3:11 pm

Don’t forget the vile Kennedy family funnelling dough and running protection politically as the IRA was bombing the UK.
https://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/10/world/clinton-to-permit-fund-raising-in-the-us-by-top-ira-figure.html

And lionising the chap who paved the capitulation of the UK to a terrorist group as a peacemaker.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1209324/Ted-Kennedy-loathed-Britain–did-Gordon-Brown-knight-him.html

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 4, 2022 3:12 pm

I wonder if they conducted a check at the local mosque?

Bwahahaha

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 4, 2022 3:14 pm

During 2022 I have watched:
1) zero sky news;
2) zero free to air TV;
3) zero Australian Open;
& I will be watching zero of the Winter Olympics.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
February 4, 2022 3:14 pm

“It is possible the Prod paramilitaries played at home pretty much because they had to.
Unlike the IRA, the Protestant militias lacked a heavyweight financial, political & moral support base in the USA.
The IRA also had access to a world-wide Marxist movement with ample arms & experience and a geo-political grudge against their enemy, the UK govt.”

Yep, fair comment.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
February 4, 2022 3:15 pm

Half of Democrat Voters Are Insane Tyrants

Over half the Western World is currently insane.

Maybe that’s what happens when people are no longer gainfully employed in real (productive) jobs

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 4, 2022 3:16 pm

The IRA also had access to a world-wide Marxist movement with ample arms & experience and a geo-political grudge against their enemy, the UK govt.”

IIRC, wasn’t the Libyan regime of one Colonel Gaddafi supplying the I.R.A. with heavy machine guns, R.P.G.s and SAM 7s?

srr
srr
February 4, 2022 3:16 pm

Pope Francis teaches HERESY: Pope Pius XII condemned the heresy of Francis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzxvFNb59Ug

Streamed live 8 hours ago
Dr Taylor Marshall
368K subscribers

Pope Francis on Feb 2 2022, taught, “that in Christ no one can ever truly separate us from those we love because the bond is an existential bond, a strong bond that is in our very nature…who have denied the faith, who are apostates.” Pope Pius XII taught the exact opposite when he wrote of those: “who have not been so unfortunate as to separate themselves from the unity of the Body, or been excluded by legitimate authority for grave faults committed….as does schism or heresy or apostasy.” Pope Francis is condemned by Pope Pius XII. Only one can be right on this matter. It is Pius XII. Dr. Taylor Marshall reads the texts. You decide.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 4, 2022 3:18 pm

Until Christians get litigious in Australia, they are going to be easy pickings for the state.
The turn the other cheek approach doesn’t work.

Aaron
Aaron
February 4, 2022 3:20 pm

I think Farmer is mixing up his Serbs and Croats.

Unbelievable horrors.

Cassie of Sydney
February 4, 2022 3:24 pm

“Don’t forget the vile Kennedy family funnelling dough and running protection politically as the IRA was bombing the UK.”

What’s interesting is that JFK was an Anglophile…who preferred England to Ireland….he revered Churchill, McMillan and others….as opposed to his Nazi sympathising father. One of the interesting tidbits to arise out of the November 22 assassination was that when you watch the Zapruder film you will see a man standing on on the grass with an umbrella…….

“A person popularly dubbed the “umbrella man” has been the object of much speculation, as he was the only person seen carrying, and opening, an umbrella on that sunny day. He was also one of the closest bystanders to President John F. Kennedy when Kennedy was first struck by a bullet. As Kennedy’s limousine approached, the man opened up and lifted the umbrella high above his head, then spun or panned the umbrella from east to west (clockwise) as the president passed by him. In the aftermath of the assassination, the “umbrella man” sat down on the sidewalk next to another man before getting up and walking towards the Texas School Book Depository.”

“After an appeal to the public by the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), Louie Steven Witt came forward in 1978 and claimed to be the “umbrella man”. He claimed to still have the umbrella and did not know he had been the subject of controversy. He said that he brought the umbrella simply to heckle Kennedy, whose father, Joseph, had been a supporter of the Nazi-appeasing British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. By waving a black umbrella, Chamberlain’s trademark fashion accessory, Witt said he was protesting the Kennedy family appeasing Adolf Hitler before World War II. An umbrella had been used in cartoons in the 1930s to symbolize such appeasement, and Chamberlain often carried an umbrella. Kennedy, who wrote a thesis on appeasement while at Harvard, Why England Slept, might have recognized the symbolism of the umbrella. Black umbrellas had been used in connection with protests against the President before; at the time of the construction of the Berlin Wall, a group of schoolchildren from Bonn sent the White House an umbrella labeled Chamberlain.

Testifying before the HSCA, Witt said “I think if the Guinness Book of World Records had a category for people who were at the wrong place at the wrong time, doing the wrong thing, I would be No. 1 in that position, without even a close runner-up.”

History is fascinating.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
February 4, 2022 3:25 pm

Many people of Irish descent still think that Northern Ireland is a confected state with little justification for being kept apart from the rest of the island.

A majority of the inhabitants want to be apart. They’re not being “kept apart”.
Yes, that does evoke the description of democracy as “two wolves and a sheep voting on what’s for dinner” but if you’ve got a better idea (e.g. like how the PLA ensured that Tibet wasn’t “kept apart” from China) feel free to share it.

Miltonf
Miltonf
February 4, 2022 3:28 pm

Re calling in the army for this, that and the other, the mediocre trash that make it into politics usually get their ‘inspiration’ from the West wing.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 4, 2022 3:29 pm

“Many people of Irish descent still think that Northern Ireland is a confected state with little justification for being kept apart from the rest of the island.

Having been based in London for more than three years in total, and despite having (some) Irish descent, I never felt any urge to visit either part of that benighted island.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
February 4, 2022 3:30 pm

Timothy, my great Uncle was a Loyal Orangeman. I don’t picture him as a terrorist or a supporter of terrorists. Clearly, as a member, he wanted the British to stay in Northern Ireland.

calli, I’ve only known two people who I knew to be members of a lodge. One was an atheist with that animus against Irish Catholics that seems to persist (though he was a generation older than me and had grown up in country Victoria when sectarianism was quite common). The other’s best friend was a Catholic with a name that makes Paddy O’Flaherty look Saxon.

srr
srr
February 4, 2022 3:32 pm

Do Science & God Mix? | John Lennox and Alex Tuckness at Iowa State University

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx0F97YNCb4

Feb 3, 2022
The Veritas Forum
145K subscribers

John Lennox (Oxford University) and Alex Tuckness (Iowa State University) discuss science and God in “Cosmic Chemistry: Do Science & God Mix?”. Forum hosted by The Veritas Forum at Iowa State University (2/1/2022).

Speakers:
John Lennox – Mathematician, Bioethicist, Christian Apologist, Author from Oxford University
Alex Tuckness – Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Iowa State University

Miltonf
Miltonf
February 4, 2022 3:32 pm

Sitting in a bar ATM. Fortunately my back is to the tv which is silent. I had the misfortune to glimpse Gunner trash pontificating and the old thief pretending to be presidential. Yuk. Smoldering rubbish.

Miltonf
Miltonf
February 4, 2022 3:39 pm

The loathsome ABC still full hysterical mode re the China bug.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

… Prod paramilitaries played at home pretty much because they had to.
Unlike the IRA, the Protestant militias lacked a heavyweight financial, political & moral support base in the USA.
The IRA also had access to a world-wide Marxist movement with ample arms & experience and a geo-political grudge against their enemy, the UK govt.”

Also, the IRA’s enemy, the UK govt & establishment, had world-wide interests and a world-wide presence.
Proddy paramilitary’s enemy was……. the IRA. A somewhat intangible & underground outfit.

Going after the IRA world-wide would have consumed incredible manpower & resources, a herculean logistical effort, for minute (if any) gain. Plus without a home ground beehive & home population in which to hide, the casualty rate for their operatives would have been unsustainable.

Besides, the UK security agencies & military were already alert & gunning for the IRA overseas. Why bother to add your mouse-roar to that comparative herd of elephants?

Dot
Dot
February 4, 2022 3:50 pm

I suspect Putin would say the same about Ukraine and China about Taiwan.

Come now, this is getting silly.

Also the Israeli flag. Are they “let’s admire Oskar Schindler” pro Israelis or the “white people are real Israelites, Israeli is run by ZOG Khazarians” “pro Israelis”?

duncanm
duncanm
February 4, 2022 3:51 pm
Cassie of Sydney
February 4, 2022 3:53 pm

“Also the Israeli flag. Are they “let’s admire Oskar Schindler” pro Israelis or the “white people are real Israelites, Israeli is run by ZOG Khazarians” “pro Israelis”?”

Eh?

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 4, 2022 3:57 pm

Dot, no ayahuasca before sun down.
You know the rules.

Dot
Dot
February 4, 2022 3:58 pm

A majority of the inhabitants want to be apart.

Irish unification is actually inevitable.

Britain should be a confederation (regional capitals in Winchester, Cardiff etc) and have their own mini-eu (military, common currency, customs union) with a united Ireland.

That would solve about every problem except socialism…

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 4, 2022 3:58 pm

Weapon linked Roberts-Smith to Afghan killing, SAS soldier tells court
Michaela Whitbourn
By Michaela Whitbourn
February 4, 2022 — 2.47pm

An elite soldier has told the Federal Court that he witnessed an Australian soldier shoot an Afghan man who had a prosthetic leg at close range with a distinctive machine gun that he later saw in the possession of war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith.

Person 14, a serving Special Air Service soldier who cannot be identified for national security reasons, gave evidence in Sydney on Friday in Mr Roberts-Smith’s long-running defamation action against The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Canberra Times.

The SAS soldier said he was involved in a mission with his patrol on Easter Sunday, 2009, which involved clearing buildings in a compound known as Whiskey 108.

He said he witnessed three Australian soldiers outside the compound who appeared to be from two different patrols with “a black object which was … similar to a human”. The object was “thrown to the ground” with a thud, he said, before a soldier raised a machine gun known as an F89 Para Minimi and “fired, like, an extended burst”.

“That person turned and walked away out of sight back into Whiskey 108,” Person 14 said.

He said he could not recognise who fired the gun, but they were carrying the “distinctive” Para Minimi weapon that was “not carried by many [soldiers], sometimes not at all”.

He said that typically “at least one to two” of the light weapons were carried in a troop.

“From my angle … it wasn’t favourable conditions to identify [the soldiers] … given that we all dress similar and wear similar items. However, the things that did stand out was the Minimi and the choice of campaint [camouflage paint],” he said.

Person 14 said the camouflage paint used by one particular patrol, led by a troop commander known as Person 5, was distinctive in that they chose grey-brown colours “typical to urban environment”, making their faces stand out against the green of their surroundings.

He said two of the soldiers he witnessed in the group had “highly illuminated grey-brown campaint” on their faces, while the third “was definitely wearing the same, or similar, campaint style as Ben Roberts-Smith”.

He “saw who had the Minimi” after the mission was completed, he said, and it was “Ben Roberts-Smith”.

Person 14 said he later inspected the black object with the soldiers and established “it was a human”.

“He was laying on his back, he had a shaved head, little bit of a beard, dark Afghan robes, dress, but then he also had … a prosthetic leg,” he said. He said he did not see a weapon on the body.

He later saw the prosthetic leg used by soldiers as a drinking vessel at the SAS headquarters in Afghanistan as well as in Australia, he said, and had drunk from it himself. Asked if Mr Roberts-Smith ever drank from it, Person 14 said: “Not that I’m aware of.”

Earlier this week, a serving SAS soldier known as Person 41 gave evidence that he saw Mr Roberts-Smith on the same day in 2009 “frog-marching” an Afghan man, throwing him to the ground and firing “three to five rounds” into his back. He said he became aware after the alleged killing that the man had a prosthetic leg.

Person 41 told the court he was not in Person 5’s patrol.

Giving evidence earlier on Friday, Person 14 said he heard Person 5 say in front of troops at their Tarin Kowt base before the Whiskey 108 mission that he was going to “blood the rookie”.

Asked what he understood that to mean, Person 14 said it referred to a new member of the troop getting a “kill”. He believed the “rookie” was Person 4.

“Was Mr Roberts-Smith present on that occasion?” Mr Owens asked. “Yes,” Person 14 replied.

He said he heard Person 5 say after the mission: “I finally blooded the rookie.”

The first SAS witness, Person 41, told the court on Wednesday that Mr Roberts-Smith told Person 4 to kill a different Afghan detainee during the Easter Sunday mission.

Mr Roberts-Smith has denied giving any such direction and insisted that a man he killed with a prosthetic leg on that day was an armed Taliban insurgent who posed a threat.

Mr Roberts-Smith is suing for defamation over a series of reports in 2018 that he says portray him as a war criminal. The defamation trial resumed in the Federal Court in Sydney on Wednesday after a six-month break.

The Age and the Herald, owned by Nine, and The Canberra Times, now under separate ownership, are seeking to rely on a defence of truth. They allege Mr Roberts-Smith committed or was involved in six murders of Afghans under the control of Australian troops, when they cannot be killed under the rules of engagement.

The former SAS soldier maintains any killings in Afghanistan were carried out lawfully in the heat of battle.

WTF is a “Para Minimi?”

Dot
Dot
February 4, 2022 3:58 pm

Wignat “Israelites”.

Yes, it’s a thing.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 4, 2022 4:03 pm

Weapon linked Roberts-Smith to Afghan killing, SAS soldier tells court

Seems there’s another bloke giving evidence, after being granted immunity from prosecution.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
February 4, 2022 4:07 pm

Irish unification is actually inevitable.

It’s certainly more probable than not, anyway.
The demographic trend has been towards a Catholic majority for a long time, and though it won’t happen very soon there’s no reason to think that it won’t.
And then the argument against switching to the Republic, if there is one, will be largely economic – arguing against going fully EU with the south in favour of staying with the UK with the consequent border problems.

Speedbox
February 4, 2022 4:08 pm

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says:
February 4, 2022 at 3:58 pm

This: https://www.army.gov.au/our-work/equipment-uniforms/equipment/small-arms/f89-and-para-minimi

Pedro the Loafer
Pedro the Loafer
February 4, 2022 4:10 pm

WTF is a “Para Minimi?”

This is a Para Minimi.

Pedro the Loafer
Pedro the Loafer
February 4, 2022 4:13 pm

Snap, Speedbox.

Disclaimer: I have absolutely zero military knowledge, but I do have a neighbour who was in the SAS and knows about this stuff.

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
February 4, 2022 4:13 pm

The ABC’s usual enthusiasm for all things MeToo seems to have vanished when it comes to the complaints of Emma Walters (the former Mrs Setka) about her unlovely ex. I wonder why?

duncanm
duncanm
February 4, 2022 4:15 pm

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

5.56 squad automatic open bolt.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 4, 2022 4:17 pm

Thanks, Pedro and Speedbox.

Speedbox
February 4, 2022 4:17 pm

Pedro – I also have no military experience and neither do I have any friends/neighbours I can ask. My families military involvement ceased after WW2. I defer to your neighbour and the numerous Cats who do have relevant experience.

Dot
Dot
February 4, 2022 4:18 pm

And then the argument against switching to the Republic, if there is one, will be largely economic – arguing against going fully EU with the south in favour of staying with the UK with the consequent border problems.

I am saying Ireland should leave the EU as well. The EUR was not good for Ireland. It was not part of an “optimal currency zone” with Europe.

Dot
Dot
February 4, 2022 4:19 pm

I will never forgive Ireland for NSW justifying banning smoking in pubs…because Ireland did it.

Miltonf
Miltonf
February 4, 2022 4:20 pm

Staying at a hotel flicking through the tv, there seem to be more shitty government channels than shitty commercial ones. Bloated is an understatement

Miltonf
Miltonf
February 4, 2022 4:21 pm

Remember the Celtic tiger. Just something made up by some bum jorno no doubt.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Irish reunification (under their own independent govt). They’re 800 years or so into the project, they’ll probably eventually get there.

John H.
John H.
February 4, 2022 4:25 pm

Timothy Neilsonsays:
February 4, 2022 at 4:07 pm
Irish unification is actually inevitable.

It’s certainly more probable than not, anyway.
The demographic trend has been towards a Catholic majority for a long time, and though it won’t happen very soon there’s no reason to think that it won’t.
And then the argument against switching to the Republic, if there is one, will be largely economic – arguing against going fully EU with the south in favour of staying with the UK with the consequent border problems.

The problem I have with these “always was, always will be” arguments is the potential denial of self-determination to the generations that were born and who now live in places like northern Ireland, Taiwan, and Ukraine. The world turns and historical justifications for a return to the past status quo fail to consider that if that happens there is potentially going to be more conflict because present generations will feel they have been robbed of their autonomy through no fault of their own. It becomes a vicious cycle and for what? Some lines on a map, the restoration of pride, but rarely of any practical good for either party; though admittedly Russia has a vested interest in regard to the Black Sea but having already occupied Crimea and built that ship blocking bridge across the strait pretty much makes that moot.

Get over it, move on, stop living in the past.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
February 4, 2022 4:26 pm

Cassie of Sydney says:
February 4, 2022 at 2:43 pm
“Many people of Irish descent still think that Northern Ireland is a confected state with little justification for being kept apart from the rest of the island.

I suspect Putin would say the same about Ukraine and China about Taiwan.

Because the Republic of Ireland is a totalitarian state ruled by a despot?

Timothy can post pictures of the big IRA rallies in Australia.

Runnybum
Runnybum
February 4, 2022 4:26 pm

Timothy N, in the very distant future united Ireland may happen but it is much like saying the dues & the Muslims will be firm friends in the future.
I have worked with them & as far as I understood there was no real love between them, individuals yes, but groups a big fat no.
Look at the football teams in the UK, Man Utd…catholic, Man City…protestant, same in Glasgow with Celtic & Rangers….a long time before these rifts will change.

Bluey
Bluey
February 4, 2022 4:28 pm

Police covering themselves in glory again. Rebel news have footage that looks like a cop punching a mother to the ground in front of her kids as they tow away her(?) car in Canberra.
Looks like it’s spreading all over social media too.

Roger
Roger
February 4, 2022 4:37 pm

ScoMo walks back Dutton’s comments.

Expect to see more of this as more Lieborals prepare for life in Opposition.

It’s actually the most sensible thing he’s said in months.

Cassie of Sydney
February 4, 2022 4:38 pm

“Because the Republic of Ireland is a totalitarian state ruled by a despot?

Timothy can post pictures of the big IRA rallies in Australia.”

Who said the Republic is ruled by a despot? The Republic isn’t perfect…no country is. I can understand why Ulster Protestants didn’t want unification…particularly when the Church was ascendant however, as we know, that’s no longer the case…the last twenty years has seen the Church’s authority collapse however there is now something that’s probably a lot worse than the Church…much more sinister and much more pernicious and that is a form of secular socialism which is running amok in Ireland.

Now I don’t know about IRA activities here in Oz…but the IRA sure received a lot of financial support from the US……and most particularly in and around Boston.

Figures
Figures
February 4, 2022 4:39 pm

However, if this is true, they really did believe they had a problem. This heartens me. It means that some of the response, at least at the beginning, was done in good faith

Retarded. Gormless. Myopic. Gullible. Psychopathic. Evil. Communist.

These are words I associate with our leaders.

“Good faith” – not quite as much.

Runnybum
Runnybum
February 4, 2022 4:41 pm

Cassie, the IRA had a lot of support in Australia.
You don’t seem to like protestant people?

Top Ender
Top Ender
February 4, 2022 4:42 pm

IIRR Lord Haw Haw left hung aroung in Germany when they were defeated, and some local betrayed him.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 4, 2022 4:45 pm

Fook the oyrish. Build a wall around the place.

Speedbox
February 4, 2022 4:45 pm

Bluey says:
February 4, 2022 at 4:28 pm
Police covering themselves in glory again. Rebel news have footage that looks like a cop punching a mother to the ground…..

A large cop pushed her in the back, not punched, and she fell heavily but yes, it was a dreadful display and utterly unnecessary. The force he exerted on an unprepared much lighter person would likely constitute serious assault for the rest of us.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
February 4, 2022 4:45 pm

When I was in Ireland in 96 the police stations in the North had barbed wire and guard towers.
The Garda stations had picket fences.
The people of the South didn’t much care for the politics of the North as they were doing too well out of fleecing the EU coffers to keep the place quaint for tourists.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Regards the Police Force of Western Australia stomping into Mt. Hawthorn Roman Catholic Church yesterday, interrupting the liturgy for the purpose of having everybody in the pews verify their vaccination status:

Were I the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Perth (I’m not) this is what would be happening:
All RC chaplaincy to police would be suspended instantly, & all cooperation extended to police withdrawn (temporarily)
This would have to be with instant effect. Any priest pulling a “Father Bob” & ignoring this would be same day sent to Fitzroy Crossing, Docker River, or somesuch to minister to souls there. That’s if I couldn’t get the Prelate of Burma on the phone & send ’em there to minister to souls in Rohinga country or something.

Then I’d call in the Police Commissioner. If he didn’t come around I’d pronto turn up at his place (his home if necessary) dressed in full Roman Catholic regalia. (Fast forward past a few minutes of preamble about the long relationship between church/police focusing on the aspects beneficial to police) then:
“Commissioner, if your shitheads ever again crash God’s liturgy for temporal political purposes, then they’re not going to be buried by God’s church. Just try me on this. Upon my receipt of your personal written apology, chaplaincy & [insert other cooperation measures/charity etc] will recommence.”

“By the way Commissioner, the Roman Catholic Church recognises as fair dinkum marriages, a marriage conducted by several denominations, including but not limited to [insert list of proddy denominations, being sure to noticeably include several happy clapper & the like] so from this moment you’ll not be interrupting their holy worship either.”

“Commissioner, the church fully supports the police in enforcing public health measures, conduct vaccine verification, with my blessing, outside the church, as the congregation is leaving/ arriving.”

Next, the President of the Police Union (for rank & file) would be summoned/visited, who’d receive the same spiel, along with the same inflexible requirement for an apology.

I hope the above is what happened this morning.

Cassie of Sydney
February 4, 2022 4:47 pm

“Runnybumsays:
February 4, 2022 at 4:41 pm
Cassie, the IRA had a lot of support in Australia.
You don’t seem to like protestant people?”

Is this person lacking basic comprehension?

Old bloke
Old bloke
February 4, 2022 4:48 pm

It’s no accident that the Loyalist/Nationalist divide on Israel/”Palestinians” breaks the way it does.

Apart from sharing a sense of being surrounded by hostile neighbours, the The Ulster loyalists would also feel a connection to the Israeli flag as they both share a six pointed star.

Perfidious Albino
Perfidious Albino
February 4, 2022 4:50 pm

Is O’Keefe’s ‘discussing a business deal’ media code for an argument over payment with a working gal?

Franx
Franx
February 4, 2022 4:50 pm

The IRA, like the ANC, while no doubt engaging in murderous warfare, were a consequence of a struggle against injustice.

Runnybum
Runnybum
February 4, 2022 4:51 pm

No Cassie, you seem to be, have you a thing against protestant people, simple question?
The other day you said about Catholics living as a multitude living in cramped accommodation in Belfast, did that mean the protestants were living in Luxury in Belfast?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 4, 2022 4:56 pm

Gez at 1:26.

Give it a break Timothy.
IRA evil and Loyalist and Orange Orders are the good guys?
None of them are or were, all scumbags.

Exactly.
It is actually worse than that.
There is a fair amount of evidence that members of the Ulster Defence Regiment moonlighted as part-time Ulster People’s Liberation Front terrorists (or whatever the fuck they were called).
And a lot of the weaponry used by the Orange Terrorists bore striking similarities to gear “stolen” from the Brits.
So, as Tony Abbott said of Syria, “there are no goodies in this one”.

mizaris
mizaris
February 4, 2022 4:56 pm
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 4, 2022 4:57 pm

Hey, Ted, are you on your way to the Exchange Hotel so I can sort you out?
I am just walking there from the tram.
Catch you in five.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
February 4, 2022 4:58 pm

The IRA, like the ANC, while no doubt engaging in murderous warfare, were a consequence of a struggle against injustice.

Struggles against injustice frequently attract murderous thugs. I hope those trying to suppress protestors in Canada and Australia understand this, though I doubt if they do.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
February 4, 2022 4:59 pm

Runnybumsays:
February 4, 2022 at 4:26 pm
John H.says:
February 4, 2022 at 4:25 pm

All absolutely true.

But if in the future the demographics in Northern Ireland shift (naturally, not by US/Dem illegal immigrants type stuff) so that a majority of the genuine rightful residents in the UK Province of Northern Ireland vote to leave the UK and become part of the Republic, what would be the argument to say that the then minority should be able to overrule them?

As John H says, these historical anomalies are always fraught.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

mizaris says: February 4, 2022 at 4:56 pm

Mizaris, see my above @ 4.46 pm

calli
calli
February 4, 2022 4:59 pm

after reportedly receiving tips about improper mask behaviour.

Well, someone tipped them off.

And it must have been someone in the church. Texting during the liturgy.

There is always more to these stories.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 4, 2022 4:59 pm

Perfidious Albinosays:

February 4, 2022 at 4:50 pm

Is O’Keefe’s ‘discussing a business deal’ media code for an argument over payment with a working gal?

I was thinking it might have been a negotiation around the wholesale and retail aspects of the free-range pharmaceutical trade.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 4, 2022 5:01 pm

Is this person lacking basic comprehension?

Don’t annoy Ted right now.
He is just about to join me for a beer at the Exchange.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
February 4, 2022 5:02 pm

Ulster People’s Liberation Front terrorists (or whatever the fuck they were called).

As long as they weren’t People’s Liberation Front of Ulster.

Splitters!!!

Runnybum
Runnybum
February 4, 2022 5:02 pm

Biggles, I am local to Brisbane, give me a bit more notice.

mizaris
mizaris
February 4, 2022 5:03 pm

Western Australian police have been criticised on social media after a photograph emerged appearing to show officers conducting proof of vaccination checks in the middle of mass at a Perth church.

The oz has it all wrong – as usual.

Gestapo were checking mask wearing only. Every person in the Church who was not wearing a mask had a valid exemption.

Gestapo did not have the common decency or respect to remove their caps or guns either.

Runnybum
Runnybum
February 4, 2022 5:04 pm

Biggles, I would love to meet you.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
February 4, 2022 5:05 pm

WA police.
The Black & Tans of Australia.
VicPlod will be jealous.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Gestapo were checking mask wearing only.

This does not alter the substantive theme of my above @ 4.46 pm
Just changes a few words, that’s all.
WAPlod would still be receiving a reaming & threat to let Lucifer have all the ones who want a church burial.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 4, 2022 5:06 pm

When I was in Port Melbourne there was certainly more appropriate places for a bar fight than the Exchange along Bay St. You might spill somebody’s espresso martini.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 4, 2022 5:07 pm

The problem I have with these “always was, always will be” arguments is the potential denial of self-determination to the generations that were born and who now live in places like northern Ireland, Taiwan, and Ukraine.

Preußenlied intensifies.

JMH
JMH
February 4, 2022 5:07 pm

A large cop pushed her in the back, not punched, and she fell heavily but yes, it was a dreadful display and utterly unnecessary. The force he exerted on an unprepared much lighter person would likely constitute serious assault for the rest of us.

It should constitute assault in this case, but it won’t. One has to wonder if a large man such as this officer can basically king hit a woman from behind, what does he do at home?

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 4, 2022 5:08 pm

Gestapo were checking mask wearing only.

We won’t use the prickly end of the pineapple.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
February 4, 2022 5:09 pm

IIRC, wasn’t the Libyan regime of one Colonel Gaddafi supplying the I.R.A. with heavy machine guns, R.P.G.s and SAM 7s?

Sarah Two-Dads pointed out that the IRA received support and a place to set up camp in Libya.

She saw it on an American Quiz Show called ‘Patriot Games’.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
February 4, 2022 5:10 pm

Sancho Panzer says:
February 4, 2022 at 5:01 pm
Is this person lacking basic comprehension?
Don’t annoy Ted right now.
He is just about to join me for a beer at the Exchange.

Yeah, nice one Sancho as I’m stringing wire along an old fence to keep it sheep proof for another year.
I check the blog on the phone for light relief. I’m easy stopped, as the old man would say.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 4, 2022 5:11 pm

Runnybumsays:

February 4, 2022 at 5:02 pm

Biggles, I am local to Brisbane, give me a bit more notice.

WTF?!?
Righto, same place, same time next Friday.
The Exchange, 5 0’clock.
Be there.
In the meantime, stop mouthing off about people not showing up to meetings they are summoned to.
You can hardly talk, having stood me up today.

Bons
Bons
February 4, 2022 5:12 pm

Ireland fulfills the same role for the EU that they did for the NAZIs: a salient into the UK sphere.
Why, one must ask, would any Northern Protestant contemplate unification with a socialist lunacy which, following the last elections, has the IRA (Sinn Fein) ascendant.
The only place on the globe where Trudeau would not be noticeable is Ireland.
Ireland displays the same smug woke human rights arrogance as Sweden but with other peoples money. They have simply exchanged Catholic totalitarianism for Marxist totalitarianism.

Runnybum
Runnybum
February 4, 2022 5:12 pm

Tim N,
I worked offshore in both the Irish Sea & North Sea in the 90’s, there was a mix of all nationalities but mostly Scottish, English & Irish, all got on very well as individuals do, but I remember a Scottish superintendent (very good at his job) & those days on your application form you had to state your religion, he said any application from a protestant was screwed up & thrown in the bin….charming.

Runnybum
Runnybum
February 4, 2022 5:13 pm

Biggles, don’t worry I will be there.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 4, 2022 5:13 pm

And it must have been someone in the church. Texting during the liturgy.

rosie should have a solid alibi.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
February 4, 2022 5:16 pm

I just DDGd “CNN boss sacked for affair”
Many….many hits for bosses having affairs with staff.
It must be the way of the world.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
February 4, 2022 5:17 pm

Bons
At least it’s Marxism with Guinness and a sense of humour.
And in Victoria….

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 4, 2022 5:17 pm

BTW Ted.
No-one knows me as Sancho at the pub.
Just tell security you are here to meet Takepi.
There’s always a couple of my bro’s on the door.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 4, 2022 5:18 pm

Had another call from the vaccine mob to my site chap who had the anaphylactic reaction and wants an exemption.

It was quite plain the lady had a preset spiel, I interrupted at the blokes request to read the medical notes after she tried the “well it was after a few minutes, so it might not have been the vaccine”.
And, as god is my witness, “it might have been the weather” was put forward instead.

After i read the medical notes from the previous immunologist the lady decided she should bring up the notes for review from her own department.

Shes begged off the rest of the call to go and read the notes and ‘consult” and is supposed to ring back around 3:00

They have him down as a level 2 anaphylaxsis which is very incorrect. Level 2 is not life threatening.
His reaction was quick to the shot, and the vaccine nurses gave him 2 shots of adrenaline BEFORE he went to the nursing post for more antihistamines/corticosteroids etc.

Cassie of Sydney
February 4, 2022 5:20 pm

Just watching Chris Kenny, he’s talking about the Perth Mass outrage…..apparently someone outside the church rang the police because this person saw people walking in maskless.

Someone took a picture….it’s unbelievably disgusting.

Further to what Calli said earlier, I can guarantee you that policeman wouldn’t dare walk into a mosque.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
February 4, 2022 5:21 pm

And it must have been someone in the church. Texting during the liturgy.

You know those religious paintings where people say the eyes seem to follow you wherever you are – maybe they do.

Perhaps Francis (I shan’t call him Pope – that would be to mar an office held previously by earnest and pious men) has sent word to all the religious icons telling them that they must support his slimy stinking worthless perfidious degenerate quest to bring about another miserable socialist revolution.

Frank
Frank
February 4, 2022 5:21 pm

Trudeau speaks!

Delusional freak.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 4, 2022 5:23 pm

I expect Sneakers cafe ban will give succour to all kinds of overreach in the West.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
February 4, 2022 5:24 pm

Trudeau spqueaks!

FIFY

Runnybum
Runnybum
February 4, 2022 5:25 pm

So you need your bros now biggles?

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
February 4, 2022 5:27 pm

ABC doing the Feds over on the Aged Care deaths.
The obvious truth that these vaccines are mostly useless for the elderly will never be conceived in the minds of the believers.

JC
JC
February 4, 2022 5:27 pm

The name CNN’s big boss’s (Jeff Zucker$ mistress is Allison Gollust. Tell me there’s no simulation.

Jeff Zucker and Brian Stelter look like they were separated at birth. They both resemble a thumb.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 4, 2022 5:27 pm

The appointment of the Commissioner of WAPlod as Vaccine Czar didn’t happen by accident.

calli
calli
February 4, 2022 5:30 pm

Thanks for clarifying that, Cassie.

This is why we’re so careful – there are dobbers everywhere.

I’m amazed that the police even bothered. Or do you have to wear masks outside in WA too?

Roger
Roger
February 4, 2022 5:30 pm

Ireland displays the same smug woke human rights arrogance as Sweden but with other peoples money.

The Swedes have gone up somewhat in my estimation since they bucked the lockdown lunacy.

Runnybum
Runnybum
February 4, 2022 5:34 pm

Hey take pie, is that steak & kidney, or apple pie?

JC
JC
February 4, 2022 5:34 pm
Bourne1879
Bourne1879
February 4, 2022 5:36 pm

With reference to the “leg” and Ben RS case.

I remember an article last year which suggested the person who souvenired it and took it back to base was a senior SAS NCO who last year was the RSM of Special Forces. When the story came out he was supposed to be looking into the culture of the SAS and had to step down from his SF role.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 4, 2022 5:39 pm

That will help with the booming WA tourism!

Not.

dopey
dopey
February 4, 2022 5:39 pm

Any thoughts on Irish cheese?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 4, 2022 5:40 pm

Runnybumsays:

February 4, 2022 at 5:25 pm

So you need your bros now biggles?

I very much doubt it Ted.
Just saying that I am well known at the pub, and will be easy for you to find.
I still think it was a piss poor effort to not show up after I summoned you, just because it was a trifle inconvenient.

Roger
Roger
February 4, 2022 5:43 pm

Perhaps Francis (I shan’t call him Pope – that would be to mar an office held previously by earnest and pious men) has sent word to all the religious icons telling them that they must support his slimy stinking worthless perfidious degenerate quest to bring about another miserable socialist revolution.

Speaking of the pope, it will be interesting to see if Francis rebukes Cardinal Hollerich of Luxembourg, president of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the EU, who has given an interview saying the church needs to change its position on homosexuality, contradicting Catholic doctrine and the previous pope.

Exiles from mainstream Anglican & Protestant churches will know this is how the rot begins – a high ranking clergyman or theologian breaks ranks on doctrine and remains undisciplined, thereby giving tacit permission for others to follow. This reveals that the higher authorities were complicit all along.

The same specious arguments are being used too – including that if the church doesn’t change it will lose the support of young people and that the Bible does not mention homosexuality as it exists today but was only against cultic prostitution because it involved idolatry. Did God really say…?

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 4, 2022 5:43 pm

Bloke in Africa looks to Australia…

Decides its a misgoverned shithole populated by la la nancy boys and pooftahs.
https://www.takimag.com/article/nowhere-to-run-to/
In Australia, a country I so recently believed was made up of people imbued with a form of rugged individualism, it appears the “nanny state” has prevailed and produced a nation filled with hysterical hypochondriacs, scared witless by the blandishments of bureaucrats and politicians intoxicated by the acquisition of excessive power readily discarded by the frightened citizenry who obey rules to the nth degree. And out of this confected climate of fear a police state has revealed itself for all to see. Any country that proclaims Novak Djokovic—one of the world’s greatest-ever tennis players and a role model to the world—“a threat to public order” has surely lost its way.

I look at this all and tumble to the fact I live in a country in the grip of awful misrule, but I also now know, the better options I once thought were there no longer exist.

Dot
Dot
February 4, 2022 5:44 pm

The only place on the globe where Trudeau would not be noticeable is Ireland.
Ireland displays the same smug woke human rights arrogance as Sweden but with other peoples money. They have simply exchanged Catholic totalitarianism for Marxist totalitarianism.

This is pretty unhinged, even by LOLcow standards, but pray tell who is a “Catholic totalitarian”?

Duterte? Salazar? Franco? The smart aleck “beep boop”conservatives told me they were the good guys. Maybe they will grow up one day.

Is a “Catholic totalitarian” any worse than an Orthodox one? Oh that’s right, he’s one of the “good guys”.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 4, 2022 5:46 pm

Cassie of Sydneysays:

February 4, 2022 at 5:20 pm

Just watching Chris Kenny, he’s talking about the Perth Mass outrage…..apparently someone outside the church rang the police because this person saw people walking in maskless

Time to dob in a Mosque.

Runnybum
Runnybum
February 4, 2022 5:46 pm

Biggles, you daft bastard, I didn’t know you summoned me, I don’t spend 24 hrs a day on this site like you, I have commitments in life .
But don’t worry I will have support too seeing as you have threatened me with your gangster mates.

Anchor What
Anchor What
February 4, 2022 5:46 pm

ABC doing the Feds over on the Aged Care deaths.
Did they cover Cuomo’s NY fiasco?

Runnybum
Runnybum
February 4, 2022 5:48 pm

Biggles, what worries me is will you be bringing your sniper rifle?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 4, 2022 5:48 pm

Runnybumsays:

February 4, 2022 at 5:25 pm

So you need your bros now biggles?

BTW, Ted, that could be a very awkward path to go down, given who you are trying to run interference for.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 4, 2022 5:49 pm

Calm down, Ted.
We’re just going to have a beer and a chat.

Runnybum
Runnybum
February 4, 2022 5:49 pm

Biggles, do shut up you fucking nonce.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 4, 2022 5:50 pm

To start with at least.

Roger
Roger
February 4, 2022 5:50 pm

…apparently someone outside the church rang the police because this person saw people walking in maskless.

That was a pretty good response time, fellas.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 4, 2022 5:52 pm

Ted, promise me you won’t get angry in the pub.
I don’t want to be associated with people who the bro’s have to turf out.
Do you think you can do that for me?

Runnybum
Runnybum
February 4, 2022 5:52 pm

Like fuck we are going to have a beer & a chat, we won’t be allowed to go at it in the pub, but there is a nice quiet green area not far away from the boozer.

calli
calli
February 4, 2022 5:53 pm

if the church doesn’t change it will lose the support of young people

Wow! Lose the support of young people! What a catastrophe.

Apart from the fact that it’s a lie…the church has a choice here.

Lose the “support” of young people or lose the support of God.

Bushkid
Bushkid
February 4, 2022 5:54 pm

thefrollickingmole says:
February 4, 2022 at 5:18 pm

These people are either totally indifferent to the harm they’re causing people, or they are actually meaning to cause harm. I want them to tell us straight out which it is.

No sensible medical professional would or should ever insist a person repeat a treatment that has already caused them that degree of reaction -especially to what is still an experimental jab that we already know can cause harm while being ineffective.

That your man has to either submit to another such injection, at potentially considerable risk to himself, or lose his employment – by government diktat policed by some unknown and most likely unqualified bureaucrat – is unethical, inhuman and utterly immoral. If it’s legal at all, then the law is a complete ass. You don’t “save” someone by making them do something that you already know could kill them.

As to the comment about the reaction maybe being caused by the weather – that’s just vile! That person should be ashamed, but it seems they know no shame.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 4, 2022 5:54 pm

Runnybumsays:

February 4, 2022 at 5:52 pm

Like fuck we are going to have a beer & a chat, we won’t be allowed to go at it in the pub, but there is a nice quiet green area not far away from the boozer.

Calm down Ted.
I’ve called a meeting for the pub.
No switching venues.
Be there.

Frank
Frank
February 4, 2022 5:57 pm

Stelter is 36 years old which is pretty unbelievable. Ace was hitting his stride today, having conniptions over the CNN crowd.

Runnybum
Runnybum
February 4, 2022 6:00 pm

Biggles, I am not changing venues, getting it on in the pub isn’t going to do any good.
There is an area close by, quite secluded.

jupes
jupes
February 4, 2022 6:01 pm

I remember an article last year which suggested the person who souvenired it and took it back to base was a senior SAS NCO who last year was the RSM of Special Forces. When the story came out he was supposed to be looking into the culture of the SAS and had to step down from his SF role.

Ha ha ha. Serves himself right for siding with the emasculators.

Frank
Frank
February 4, 2022 6:02 pm

Time to dob in a Mosque.

All those shoes piled up higgledy piggledy out the front must be spreading some sort of disease.

Roger
Roger
February 4, 2022 6:02 pm

Apart from the fact that it’s a lie…the church has a choice here.

Yes, betray the young faithful of today and tomorrow for the sake of the world’s applause or continue to teach sound doctrine on this matter.

The Cardinal is a wolf in shepherd’s clothing.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 4, 2022 6:06 pm

Is O’Keefe’s ‘discussing a business deal’ media code for an argument over payment with a working gal?

An excellent question.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 4, 2022 6:06 pm

No Ted.
I called the meeting.
The venue doesn’t change.
I hope you are not suggesting that Cats can run their own race after being summoned to a face-to-face meeting?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 4, 2022 6:08 pm

Runnybumsays:

February 4, 2022 at 6:00 pm

Biggles, I am not changing venues, getting it on in the pub isn’t going to do any good.

“Getting it on”?
You are not propositioning a sexual encounter, are you?

Runnybum
Runnybum
February 4, 2022 6:08 pm

Biggles, I am suggesting nothing, I am looking forward to meeting you.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

That was a pretty good response time, fellas.

Zackerly.

johanna
johanna
February 4, 2022 6:10 pm

These people are either totally indifferent to the harm they’re causing people, or they are actually meaning to cause harm. I want them to tell us straight out which it is.

No sensible medical professional would or should ever insist a person repeat a treatment that has already caused them that degree of reaction

There was an article at TheirABC this morning about the ‘vaccine hesitant’ where some dickhead medico was explaining that there are virtually no valid medical reasons to exempt anyone from getting jabbed. The fact that people had previous severe reactions to e.g. flu jabs is irrelevant, so safe and benign are all varieties of COVID jabs, claimed this moron. Being aged and very frail, almost dead of cancer, high risk pregnant – you name it – is no excuse.

It was absolutely fanatical, as if granting a few thousand medical exemptions would result in the fall of civilisation. This is the mindset of a significant section of the medico/bureaucratic establishment, the ones who reckon we should all wear masks all the time forever and so on.

The sheer lack of compassion and human sympathy in these robots posing as being concerned about our welfare is terrifying. They are the modern equivalent of those who wanted to destroy a village to save it.

The fact that no prominent public figures have the guts to call these psychopaths out is very disturbing.

Thefrollickingmole
Thefrollickingmole
February 4, 2022 6:10 pm

Bush kid.

If I wasn’t listening to the calls I’d have trouble crediting the single mindedness of them.

A life threatening reaction?
No biggie, come to have your next shot at a hospital.

We killed the patient but the operation was a success.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 4, 2022 6:13 pm

RunnyTedBundybum’s dissembling reminds me of another great Quenthlander, who a couple of years back was invited to join some other people who were once in the same line of work for a discussion.

The same sorts of faffle were produced, along with demands for an apology and a guarantee of ‘personal safety’ beforehand.

And he still didn’t go. Stayed hermetically sealed in his MX5, he did.

Quenthland – the ‘last holdout’, populated by the only white Anglo Christian blokes that can save the country. Apparently.

As I may have alluded to this morning – if some Quenthlanders want to throw catch-all shit at other people, and at the same time generically paint themselves in the manner of Washington crossing the Delaware, they can’t be too put out if others find it pisstakingly hilarious when they fall short of the mark.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 4, 2022 6:14 pm

The Media Watchdog returns for 2022. Woof woof.

Top Ender
Top Ender
February 4, 2022 6:14 pm

Going camping in the Territory – police assaulted with a ” folded gazebo”…

NT Police have charged three people in total after a “disturbance” in a Tennant Creek town camp on Wednesday night, where they allege two people assaulted officers, including hitting one with a folded gazebo, after officers tasered a man who approached them with a knife.
Police media manager Rob Cross said in a statement said officers were responding to reports of a “disturbance” but when they arrived at the town camp about 9.15pm, they were allegedly approached by a 19-year-old man armed with a knife.
“The man ignored police directions to drop the weapon and continued to approach police, when he was tasered by attending officers,” Mr Cross said.
He said while police were arresting him, a 38-year-old man allegedly ran at an officer, attempted to kick her to the head, before assaulting her with a folded gazebo.
Officers retreated to the car but they were surrounded by people who threw rocks at the car, shattering the passenger side window, cutting the officers’s faces, Mr Cross said.
The officers were treated at Tennant Creek Hospital.
Mr Cross said a 19-year-old man was charged with assaulting police, processing a controlled weapon at night, and engaging in violent conduct.
While another 19-year-old man was charged with engaging in violent conduct, and being armed with an offensive weapon at night, he said.

NT Independent

Franx
Franx
February 4, 2022 6:15 pm

I should just say that when it comes to struggles against injustice, the term ‘murderous warfare’ as per eg the IRA or the ANC, was not intended to be made synonymous with ‘murderous thugs’. Warfare, unlike thuggery, can be lawful and justifiable, deadly though it be. (As for thugs at freedom protests, they have so far in this contrived pandemic not been amongst the protesters but amongst the law enforcers.)

Roger
Roger
February 4, 2022 6:17 pm

The fact that no prominent public figures have the guts to call these psychopaths out is very disturbing.

You probably mean politicians, but Nick Coatsworth has been having a go at them and he’s been targeted as a result but, to his credit, has persisted.

bespoke
bespoke
February 4, 2022 6:17 pm

John H.says:
February 4, 2022 at 4:25 pm
Get over it, move on, stop living in the past.

It would help if outsiders some well meaning stop picking scabs.

twostix
twostix
February 4, 2022 6:17 pm

This is completely insane.

What if our ruling classes are insane? Like the Soviet ruling classes were. What then?

only four of the 20 people who tested positive reported having any symptoms, prompting Dr Gerrard to reiterated the importance of masks.

A sane person would read that and say 80% of the tests are false positives.. That is, if 80% of the tests were “positive” but the people aren’t sick, then the tests are completely broken and cannot be relied upon at all.

But here in insane clown posse asylum world, with a straight face we’re told that 80% of the tests incorrectly diagnosing people as having “covid” who don’t means we all have to wear masks.

And why?

Because it is upon these tests that “cases” are reported. And it is upon “cases” that this unlimited power that these two or three people wield continues. So the tests could be 100% wrong, and you will be wearing masks and banned from life and the unlimited power dictatorship will continue.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 4, 2022 6:21 pm

Right Ted.
No more mucking around.
The Exchange.
Friday 11th February 5:00 PM.
No exchanges, no refunds.
Ask for Takepi at the door or behind the bar.
And this time have the good manners to post here in advance if you are going to wimp it.

Old bloke
Old bloke
February 4, 2022 6:22 pm

JC says:
February 4, 2022 at 5:27 pm

Jeff Zucker and Brian Stelter look like they were separated at birth. They both resemble a thumb.

I’ve seen a few video clips of Brian Stelter where he has this really annoying child-like voice. I assumed that was a comical voice-over of the actual sound track, but I’m now wondering if that’s his actual voice. How could anyone sit in front of a TV and listen to that.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
February 4, 2022 6:23 pm

he said any application from a protestant was screwed up & thrown in the bin….charming.

Apparently there used to be a lot of that in Australia – both ways.
VicPol were very Catholic – which presumably explains a lot of why there was such a problem for Pell to deal with.
Likewise the Tax Office.
But the Fire Brigade in Victoria were very Protestant.
And there were certainly Catholic law firms and Protestant law firms.
I believe that the insurance industry was quite Protestant as well. (An insurance executive was the only person who ever tried a Masonic handshake on me.)

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 4, 2022 6:24 pm

Speaking of guarantees of personal safety, did mUnty ever make it to Malmo? Probably lucky with Covid and all that. He would still be there working through the ABBA back catalogue.

Iron Cove
Iron Cove
February 4, 2022 6:26 pm

Thank you FTB.
So, pre pandemic 165 deaths in aged care per day in Oz.
About one in three were in NSW, or 55 per day.
60% of these were in palliative care.
Since the government can give us daily updates on COVID related deaths they should be able to give us up to date figures for all aged care deaths. This would show if the numbers indicate “excess” deaths or not in Aged Care.
It might even be in the NSW and Fed Libs interest to do so.
The moment my last skerrick of respect for Gladys disappeared was back in August when she told us about the 93 year old who caught COVID and died while in palliative care and I should wear a mask when outside my house!

jupes
jupes
February 4, 2022 6:26 pm

But here in insane clown posse asylum world, with a straight face we’re told that 80% of the tests incorrectly diagnosing people as having “covid” who don’t means we all have to wear masks.

This despite the obvious fact that masks make precisely zero difference. Fuck I hate them.

Runnybum
Runnybum
February 4, 2022 6:31 pm

You have no worries on wimping it Biggles, I am looking forward to it, in fact I am training hard.

Runnybum
Runnybum
February 4, 2022 6:33 pm

Hey Knobdragger, go fuck yourself :))

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
February 4, 2022 6:35 pm

That was a pretty good response time, fellas.

For the police, anyone unlikely to fight, resist, or break a nail, and the police are there in a heartbeat.

Pose any potential threat and they will always be conveniently looking at their watches or tying their shoelaces, or gauging their longitude with a sextant, and only arrive when everyone who was in danger of having the scheisse kicked out of them has – then they will ask questions which lead nowhere.

Then it is back in the clown car with the flashing lights -whoooo-whoooo-whoooo…

Runnybum
Runnybum
February 4, 2022 6:35 pm

Hey biggles, you do mean the Royal Exchange, I don’t want to be at the wrong place.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 4, 2022 6:35 pm

Runnybumsays:

February 4, 2022 at 6:31 pm

You have no worries on wimping it

Already one no-show so forgive my scepticism.

Frank
Frank
February 4, 2022 6:36 pm

I’ve seen a few video clips of Brian Stelter where he has this really annoying child-like voice.

That is his real voice. He is married to Jamie Shupak and has a child which is more unbelievable to me than the voice. Perhaps she will tire of sleeping on her stomach one day.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
February 4, 2022 6:36 pm

twostix says:
February 4, 2022 at 6:17 pm
Because it is upon these tests that “cases” are reported. And it is upon “cases” that this unlimited power that these two or three people wield continues. So the tests could be 100% wrong, and you will be wearing masks and banned from life and the unlimited power dictatorship will continue.

And this is exactly what will happen – all this totalitarian shit is not going to stop.
There will be times when the governments ease off a bit to give people hope, then the # of “cases ” will force them to come down heavy again.

Australia is the big test case – our governments will keep going with this until they are forcefully stopped. They are not going to willingly hand freedom and power back to the people.
Scummo’s already taken his 30 pieces of silver – as have the others. Australia will be delivered as promised.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 4, 2022 6:38 pm

Runnybumsays:

February 4, 2022 at 6:35 pm

Hey biggles, you do mean the Royal Exchange

WTF?!?
No!
The Exchange.
Bay St, Port Melbourne.
Corner of Rouse St.
SW corner of the intersection in case you are really lost.
FMD, you don’t get out much, do you?

Runnybum
Runnybum
February 4, 2022 6:39 pm

Keyboard warrior.
We can keep being brave on here, let’s see in real life biggles.

cohenite
February 4, 2022 6:39 pm

Essay on that ugly, tone deaf POS neil young and the hippie counter-culture generally:

In truth, the supposedly liberty-loving artists of the ’60s were anything but liberty-loving. They were soft-serve Jacobins attacking established power not for the sake of some vision of freedom but for the purpose of imposing their own values on the culture.

And they succeeded beyond anyone’s expectations. The ubiquity of identity politics and anti-Western rhetoric are their doing, and the collectivist mentality of “You’re either with us or against us,” a ’60s trademark, characterizes what we are seeing today with COVID restrictions and vaccine mandates. Why wouldn’t Neil Young, one of the era’s high priests, try to dislodge a naysayer like Rogan and his freedom-loving, free-thinking guests? Rogan’s actions in advocating for freedom directly question the hegemony of the culture that the ’60s crowd have created—and in their eyes, that is unacceptable.

bespoke
bespoke
February 4, 2022 6:42 pm
Runnybum
Runnybum
February 4, 2022 6:42 pm

Biggles, you are full of shit, you know I am in Queensland.
You are an absolute 100% tosspot.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
February 4, 2022 6:43 pm

jupes says:
February 4, 2022 at 6:26 pm
But here in insane clown posse asylum world, with a straight face we’re told that 80% of the tests incorrectly diagnosing people as having “covid” who don’t means we all have to wear masks.

This despite the obvious fact that masks make precisely zero difference. Fuck I hate them.

Not entirely. After 67 years being asthma free, last year I had to wear a mask for 2 days during commissioning a rail construction machine.

Shortly after, I developed chronic asthma – something for which I still need treatment, and will for the rest of my life.

Obviously just a coincidence – coulda been the weather… (h/t thefrolickingmole )

areff
areff
February 4, 2022 6:43 pm

Tim, VicPol in the old days had evolved an entente cordial between Masons and Catholics, who each had their own squads. The reason there was an abortion graft royal commission in the last Sixties had to do with that system breaking down and Catholics getting a leg up in the Homicide Squad, noticing the abortion racket the Masons had been pointedly ignoring (in return for a little brown bag cash, it must be said).

In the wider Vic public service, Board of Works was overwhelmingly Protestant and Harbour Trust solidly Catholic.

Ah, for the old days, when there was genuine diversity. Today, all Vic public service departments are run by Green and Labor hacks. They make the old days look like an improvement.

Roger
Roger
February 4, 2022 6:44 pm

Apparently there used to be a lot of that in Australia – both ways.

When I was a kid in the 1960s I stayed with family in a northern NSW country town for a while – long story. The school bus was a double-decker. Proddies went up top and Catholics got the bottom, or vice versa, depending on which school the driver stopped at first (I think he tried to be even handed). Never the twain did meet unless it was Saturday arvo on the footy field; on opposing teams…naturally.

Runnybum
Runnybum
February 4, 2022 6:49 pm

Biggles, why the fuck would anybody with a brain fly to vickitoristan, it shows how dumb you fuckers are.
You daft bastards sell up & move to this shithole….amazing.

JC
JC
February 4, 2022 6:49 pm

Runnybum says:
February 4, 2022 at 6:42 pm

Biggles, you are full of shit, you know I am in Queensland.

Really Ted, you’re from Queersland. We would never have guessed. Go pick bananas.

Franx
Franx
February 4, 2022 6:51 pm

The churches are so disappointing. I’m trying not to be abusive. The impression is that so many in the clergy are not there as believers. Bishops and all. More an apparatus of the state, to use a Marxist term. Take, for instance wearing masks at Mass, otherwise termed Eucharistic services. Now, if the priests truly believed that the liturgy was a Eucharistic feast, a Eucharistic banquet, a sacred meal, or, more shockingly, a deification whereby the human conforms to the Divine, they would then know to say that the wearing of masks in law did not apply – that is the people there are in togetherness at the table of the Lord. No masks required at tables of any sort. But the truth needs to be honoured, and when it’s not, people are treated shabbily both in and out of sacred spaces, by all manner of priesthoods, political, scientific, legal, let alone religious. Bad faith all round, but for the voices in the wilderness.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 4, 2022 6:51 pm

Seeing that the usual suspects are having such fun with Runnybum and his anklebiting, I shall wish them the best and watch on amusedly from the sidelines… 🙂

areff
areff
February 4, 2022 6:52 pm

How rooted is the Vic public service?

So rooted the state education dept hired an English woman as a nob exec.

Her previous job? Ignoring Rotherham’s grooming gangs and being pilloried for such by the eventual investigation.

She left the dept when her history came out but still gets work as a senior member of a consulting group.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
February 4, 2022 6:52 pm

They were soft-serve Jacobins attacking established power not for the sake of some vision of freedom but for the purpose of imposing their own values on the culture.

Persactly!

When they complained about free speech and such, it was not because they wanted everyone to benefit from it, but because they thought they were not being gifted enough prominence.

Everyone was to have the freedom of their speech. None other.

Dot
Dot
February 4, 2022 6:52 pm

gangster mates

Runny bum

WTF!?

Runnybum
Runnybum
February 4, 2022 6:52 pm

Head Prefect, bananas are shot not picked….ya dumb fk.

Dot
Dot
February 4, 2022 6:53 pm

When I was a kid in the 1960s I stayed with family in a northern NSW country town for a while – long story. The school bus was a double-decker. Proddies went up top and Catholics got the bottom, or vice versa, depending on which school the driver stopped at first (I think he tried to be even handed). Never the twain did meet unless it was Saturday arvo on the footy field; on opposing teams…naturally.

Sounds like Clunes.

johanna
johanna
February 4, 2022 6:54 pm

only four of the 20 people who tested positive reported having any symptoms, prompting Dr Gerrard to reiterated the importance of masks.

A sane person would read that and say 80% of the tests are false positives.. That is, if 80% of the tests were “positive” but the people aren’t sick, then the tests are completely broken and cannot be relied upon at all.

You’re over-egging the pudding, twostix. No doubt there are a lot of false positives, but being asymptomatic doesn’t mean you are not infected. That is what our immune systems are for – to fight off the bugs even as they are within us.

The real issue is that people get bugs and are asymptomatic all the time – it just means that our immune systems are doing their job. Zeroing in on one particular bug and portraying it as a major threat is a total distortion of what is going on anywhere people are interacting, anytime.

Dot
Dot
February 4, 2022 6:55 pm

Head Prefect, bananas are shot not picked….ya dumb fk.

Yeah okay, tomatoes are catapulted, beef graduates from bovine university and petrol ages like fine wine.

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