Open Thread – Mon 31 Jan 2022


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

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Frank
Frank
January 31, 2022 7:39 pm

What kind of medical treatment are these 30 odd a day that are dying (on average) getting?

Lemsip and honey coupled with a stern talking to about isolation. If that doesn’t kill you then come in for ventilation.

bespoke
bespoke
January 31, 2022 7:40 pm

blue Barina

Clown car.

cohenite
January 31, 2022 7:41 pm

Kroger, FFS! What a pathetic lightweight he is. At least Steve may shine a light. Well, yes – he is. Morrison is not a leader

Correct. As well scomo is weak and has a political tin ear almost as big as turdball’s. When the fuck will conservatives be conservative and oppose wokeness, virtue signalling and all the big left issues. Trump did it and the media destroyed him so I guess that’s the answer.

Razey
Razey
January 31, 2022 7:42 pm

ulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
January 31, 2022 at 6:34 pm
This one’s for military type Cats.

DVA has deposited a whole FOURTEEN CENTS in my bank account! How should I spend such generosity?

Hmm, you’ve piqued my interest and wondering if I may also be eligible for a pension. I have an MSBS account!! Wooh.

rosie
rosie
January 31, 2022 7:42 pm

Seems to me in comparison to the Victorian outbreak in mid 2020 neither delta nor omicron have cut a similar swathe through nursing home populations.
And I’m pretty sure you can find the treatment protocols for those sick enough to be admitted to hospital, online.

rosie
rosie
January 31, 2022 7:43 pm

Windy sunny here in Marseilles, should have worn a jumper as well.

rickw
rickw
January 31, 2022 7:44 pm

Age: 5 in their 60s, 6 in their 70s, 10 in their 80s, and 6 in their 90s.

Still batting 85……

Frank
Frank
January 31, 2022 7:44 pm

Let’s not be too hard on Wilkinson, after all she’s been fucked by pirate pete for years.

Hard to tell which one got the worse deal.

JMH
JMH
January 31, 2022 7:45 pm

Cassie of Sydneysays:
January 31, 2022 at 7:38 pm
“Kroger, FFS! What a pathetic lightweight he is. At least Steve may shine a light. Well, yes – he is. Morrison is not a leader”

I would also add that my sudden affection for Bolt was short-lived as he had that ghastly dribbler on….Greg Sheridan.

Missed that bit. I only tuned in after I read your initial Bolt comment. I will hang in there to see what Brendan O’Neil has to say!

Frank
Frank
January 31, 2022 7:48 pm

More on the pirate, he appears to have been pumping iron and or (more probably) taking steroids. Makes for a bigger tosser in the pic.

JC
JC
January 31, 2022 7:49 pm

Trump did it and the media destroyed him so I guess that’s the answer.

I disagree and I think it worked in reverse. The MSM will never again be thought of in the same way because Trump essentially highlighted their disgusting fakeness and

phoniness
disingenuousness
artificiality
falsity
hypocrisy
insincerity
mendacity
perfidy
pretentiousness
quackery
affectation
casuistry
deceptiveness
dissembling
dissimulation
duplicitousness
duplicity
falseness
fraud
mendaciousness
cant
deceit
deceitfulness
deception
dishonesty
evasiveness
faithless
glibness
imposture
perfidiousness
pharisaicalness
pharisaism
sanctimoniousness
sanctimony
shiftiness
slickness
slyness
speciousness
unctuousness
backhandedness
deviousness
hollowness
snideness
tartuffery
unfaithfulness
untruthfulness
bad faith
double-dealing
falseness.

Trump changed the way the public new view the MSM. Nearly everyone on the right don’t believe them. Thanks to the Fat Orange Oaf.

Cassie of Sydney
January 31, 2022 7:50 pm

” I will hang in there to see what Brendan O’Neil has to say!”

O’Neil is always excellent.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 31, 2022 7:51 pm

bespokesays:

January 31, 2022 at 7:40 pm

blue Barina

Clown car.

Well, I do have big red shoes.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 31, 2022 7:51 pm

Oops.

rosie
rosie
January 31, 2022 7:53 pm

Shouldn’t be surprised about the wind, was once famous for thirteen moulins marching over the hill.

cohenite
January 31, 2022 7:54 pm

FFS head prefect if you’re going to quote dictionary verbatim quote from the sex section. This:

Trump changed the way the public new view the MSM.

If you follow Mark Dice’s public interviews and interact with the public generally one over-riding quality emerges: never under-estimate their stupidity. Take the black electorate; they still vote demorats 9:1 despite the US history of racism all by demorats and the manifest racism of the idiot biden: if you don’t vote for me you ain’t black.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
January 31, 2022 7:55 pm

Barry says:
January 31, 2022 at 7:37 pm
feelthebern says:
January 31, 2022 at 6:40 pm

The real question is in NSW what kind of treatment are omicron punters getting?

Quite sensibly they are not being given any treatment for COVID.

That’s because they ARE NOT DYING FROM COVID.

They are dying from cancer, cardiac, sepsis,pneumonia, dementia, parkinsons, i.e. all the diseases that carry off the elderly. So no point treating them for Covid.

A young guy (15/16 – lean & active/healthy) who works part-time at the local IGA store came down with COVID about 2 weeks ago. Diagnosed by tests and the doctor who came to see him.

He was given no treatment by the quack. The kid was quite sick. Is this appropriate?

I had something similar around the same time – mild headaches for a few days, felt a bit unwell & one day I woke up and thought I’d gone 10 rounds with Mike Tyson (aches & pains incredible).

Punchline is I’m 68 & unvaccinated, the kid is 15/16 and vaccinated.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 31, 2022 7:55 pm

Windy sunny here in Marseilles, should have worn a jumper as well.

Are there still armed soldiers everywhere?

JC
JC
January 31, 2022 7:56 pm

I had to quote the dictionary because everyone of those words applies to that subhuman scum.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
January 31, 2022 7:56 pm

I would also add that my sudden affection for Bolt was short-lived as he had that ghastly dribbler on….Greg Sheridan.

You think your stance on euthanasia is all sorted and then Sheridan comes along.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 31, 2022 7:57 pm

Can I join the convoy in my powder blue Barina?

Oh beep beep Barina !

(said in the same voice as Oh Behave).

Cassie of Sydney
January 31, 2022 7:58 pm

“You think your stance on euthanasia is all sorted and then Sheridan comes along.”

That’s just beautiful.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 31, 2022 8:01 pm

NO.

THAT IS ACTUALLY ACTIONABLE YOU STUPID BINT.

FUCKING STOP.

We can only conclude your raison d’etre is to have this blog shut down, now kindly get fucked!

Dot!
It could just be a case of too many tabs, not enough sleep.
Or perhaps we just have a common-or-garden sociopath on our hands.

rickw
rickw
January 31, 2022 8:02 pm

2 whole years to prepare

So serious and dire that not one of our megalomaniac politicians actually did anything tangible to prepare for the pandemic.

They did however close gun shops and buy the police lots of new toys to use on citizens.

Cassie of Sydney
January 31, 2022 8:02 pm

I really like Leo Puglisi and he’s got chutzpah.

Bons
January 31, 2022 8:02 pm

I watched The Lotus Eaters on You Tube because their website kept dropping out.
It was my first experience with big tech direct censorship.
Every mention of Covid, even if merely quoting official policy was screeched out and a red banner blanked out the screen.
The time for reaction will come, it always does, even if it can be a long wait.
People are smart, institutions are suicidal.

bespoke
bespoke
January 31, 2022 8:06 pm

If your not careful and look for balance anyone looking into the dark side of humanity can become unhinged, Sancho.

Bons
January 31, 2022 8:08 pm

Rosie, do take care in Marseilles. Despite any apearances, it is a dangerous place, very dangerous.
Even the outdoor restaurants around Vieux Port can be dodgy at night if you are alone.
Grab a bus to Cassis and spend a day lolling around like a movie star. It is ridiculously attractive and no one will pinch your bag there

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
January 31, 2022 8:08 pm

Definitely, this is about uniting rather than dividing. You’ll probably score an interview from Avi for your powder blue barina efforts!

Just keep Roger Moore away from the camera, and for pity’s sake don’t tell him where the cardigans and the AKs are being cached… 😉

#TaskForceWD40

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
January 31, 2022 8:10 pm

Thanks for the reminder about ‘The Family’ in Adelaide, Speedbox. The only question is how far it went up the political and legal ladders.

Needless to say, the GayBC shows no interest. Nor did Gillard’s leftist political sham of a royal commission.

custard
custard
January 31, 2022 8:10 pm

https://technofog.substack.com/p/has-peter-strzok-testified-before

Good read. Although long. Worth bookmarking perhaps?

Bushkid
Bushkid
January 31, 2022 8:12 pm

Top Ender says:
January 31, 2022 at 6:35 pm
Lisa Wilkinson blasted by Dr Nick Coatsworth over ‘inner-city privilege’
NICK TABAKOFF

Wow, not only did my comment make it past the Oz censors, but it gets a run here as noteworthy! Fame at last!! Thanks TE. 🙂

Frank
Frank
January 31, 2022 8:14 pm

Brendan O’Neil got paired with Blabbersac a few times on that ABC panel show Q&A. He would routinely show her up to be a dunce. The adverts for the next week would be a masterpiece of editing suite gymnastics that managed to make it look she held her own. Quite shameless really. She appears to have been quiet lately.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
January 31, 2022 8:16 pm

Wanna watch Bolt over dinner? enquires Hairy. He’s recorded it.
Oh. Ok, sez I. See what he’s got to say.

Special superior pork sausages and one of my excellent salads tonite. Hairy to cook them.
Pre-dinner Aperol going down well. An aircon day here, sticky hot Feb weather.
Getting plenty of interesting material of the genalogical historical variety coming in from my various enquiries. Keeping me rather busy. Some people are much more into it than I have ever been.

Roger
Roger
January 31, 2022 8:19 pm

“Lisa Wilkinson praising NZ for putting close contacts in 24 days of isolation just shows her inner city, multi-millionaire, guaranteed wage privilege.”

Lisa Wilkinson responded, “Privileged? Moi!”

It may be old but it never gets old.

bespoke
bespoke
January 31, 2022 8:22 pm

She only has the privilege the sycophants give her, no more.

Roger
Roger
January 31, 2022 8:23 pm

And it’s a long time since she toiled away for a mere wage, Nick.

Bushkid
Bushkid
January 31, 2022 8:23 pm

dover0beach says:
January 31, 2022 at 6:40 pm
I don’t know if the NSW death numbers for today were posted, but it was 27, 8 triple vaxxed, 16 double vaxxed, and 3 no vax. Age: 5 in their 60s, 6 in their 70s, 10 in their 80s, and 6 in their 90s.

As always, the question is “from” or “with”, and how many were suffering from co-morbidities? Sad for those families as always, but not an excuse or reason to push the enjabbenating of anyone, let alone children (and soon infants as well), or the third, fourth or fifth round for the already jabbed with an obviously ineffective substance (if it’s meant to be eradicating a virus.) That any of this farce is continuing is, well worse than farcical.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 31, 2022 8:23 pm

Frigates sink us further into risk of expensive duds BEN PACKHAMFollow @bennpackham

18 minutes ago January 31, 2022
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Australia has done it again, buying an unproven defence design and creating innumerable further problems by modifying it to meet our own requirements.

The classified “Engineering Team Assessment” of the $45bn Hunter-class frigate program, revealed by The Australian, should be a wake-up call to the government – without urgent political intervention, the frigates risk becoming expensive duds.

The report should also be a warning of the high risks of selecting a British-designed nuclear submarine.

The British government and its privatised defence giant, BAE Systems, claimed its Type-26 frigate was the most advanced submarine-hunting ship on the market.

But unlike its Italian and Spanish competitors, the British option existed only as an immature design, not a completed ship.

Defence and federal cabinet ministers somehow swallowed the BAE line that the huge risks of buying a “first of class” vessel would be mitigated by the delivery of the first Type-26 for the Royal Navy ahead of the initial Hunter-class vessel.

But the British vessel is running well behind schedule, and Australia’s mandated design changes have caused flow-on problems throughout the vessel.

The additions of a US AEGIS combat system and Australian-designed CEAFAR radar have increased the frigates’ designed weight so much that the hull has had to be enlarged and redesigned.

The extra weight means the ships will be slower than envisaged, have a shorter range, and draw so much power that commanders will have to decide whether to prioritise the radar or propulsion system.

There are also stark warnings over the ship’s radar and noise signatures, and risks to crew members in the event of floods and fires.

Staggeringly, the report reveals Defence has left itself with little contractual leverage to force the company to shoulder these risks and fix the problems at its own expense.

Taxpayers now face a drawn-out design and construction process, with escalating costs and delays, and no guarantees that the ships will do what they’re supposed to.

Unfortunately, the new AUKUS partnership between Australia, Britain and the US makes it all but impossible for the Morrison government to cancel the contract as it did with the French Attack-class subs.

An Albanese government might feel freer to revisit the decision to go with the British design.

Either way, Peter Dutton or his Labor successor will have to personally take charge of efforts to get the frigate program back on track.

johanna
johanna
January 31, 2022 8:26 pm

Lizzie, this is not Facechook or SnapChat or whatever.

Nobody cares about the minutiae of your personal life. What do you think this site would be like if we all did that?

Stop behaving like a 13 year old. It’s embarrassing.

Oh, and how sad it is when every second comment of yours needs Cassie cheering you on with inanities like ‘well said, Lizzie’ because nobody else will, or gives a rat’s.

Roger
Roger
January 31, 2022 8:27 pm

She only has the privilege the sycophants give her, no more.

That and an annual WEB in Paris or similar.

Pandering to the Twitterati pays well.

Not that I begrudge her that, but even Paris must get tired after a while if you’re not bringing much to it.

Baba
Baba
January 31, 2022 8:29 pm

dover0beach says:
January 31, 2022 at 6:40 pm
I don’t know if the NSW death numbers for today were posted, but it was 27, 8 triple vaxxed, 16 double vaxxed, and 3 no vax. Age: 5 in their 60s, 6 in their 70s, 10 in their 80s, and 6 in their 90s.

Never revealed is the number who contracted Covid after being admitted to hospital. I can’t imagine why it would be a problem.

Roger
Roger
January 31, 2022 8:32 pm

There are also stark warnings over the ship’s radar and noise signatures, and risks to crew members in the event of floods and fires.

They’re surely not still using Lucas ‘lectrics, are they?

Diogenes
Diogenes
January 31, 2022 8:33 pm

familiar with is “Shah-den-froy-deh”. Maybe that’s the Bavarian dialect pronunciation as most of my exposure to spoken German is in Bayern and Austria.

Apparently I speak an old fashioned German, heavens I still use subjunctive when speaking (my oma DID start teaching me 60 years ago) and people have difficulty with my accent which is said to be from somewhere around Hannover/Hamburg ( hardly surprising as mum and oma were from Hamburg, the only Hamburgerism I have is that I use neh (very soft E) instead of nein).
Afaiac your pronunciation is correct but would add the oy in froy is like the oi as in the identifying call of the yobbo ie Aussie Aussie Aussie oi oi oi.

If you want a real tongue twister listen to a Swabian saying “unangenaehm” (unpleasant).

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 31, 2022 8:35 pm

Well, we’ve heard Lisa Wilkinson’s considered opinion.
But I think we need a consensus of all former editors of Dolly to be sure.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 31, 2022 8:39 pm

Steady on Johanna.
We’re talking pork sausages here.
Superior grade pork sausages, no less.
You can never have too much pork talk.

Bushkid
Bushkid
January 31, 2022 8:40 pm

JC says:
January 31, 2022 at 7:49 pm
Trump did it and the media destroyed him so I guess that’s the answer.

Good lord, JC! I do hope you had someone to burp you after you ate that thesaurus! Swallowed it whole, by the look of it.

custard
custard
January 31, 2022 8:43 pm

The notion that Trump is destroyed is beyond parody.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
January 31, 2022 8:45 pm

Bushkid says:
January 31, 2022 at 8:40 pm
Good lord, JC! I do hope you had someone to burp you after you ate that thesaurus! Swallowed it whole, by the look of it.

tartuffery was a new one to me – been called most of the rest at some time or other…

Eyrie
Eyrie
January 31, 2022 8:45 pm

If that doesn’t kill you then come in for ventilation.
If that doesn’t kill ya, we’ll put you on Rundeathisnear.

Roger
Roger
January 31, 2022 8:46 pm

Not that I begrudge her that, but even Paris must get tired after a while if you’re not bringing much to it.

Imagine Lisa & Pete at Notre-Dame (before the dreadful fire):

“But it’s not even finished”.

Eyrie
Eyrie
January 31, 2022 8:50 pm

Eyrie, bist du Norddeutscher? Grias di!
Born there. German mother. Learned nothing but German until I was 3. Can’t run for Federal Parliament. Proving I have no other affiliation would be difficult. I figure I’ve a claim on Germany, the UK, Ireland and my Australian citizenship.

Bushkid
Bushkid
January 31, 2022 8:50 pm

Baba says:
January 31, 2022 at 8:29 pm
dover0beach says:
January 31, 2022 at 6:40 pm
I don’t know if the NSW death numbers for today were posted, but it was 27, 8 triple vaxxed, 16 double vaxxed, and 3 no vax. Age: 5 in their 60s, 6 in their 70s, 10 in their 80s, and 6 in their 90s.
Never revealed is the number who contracted Covid after being admitted to hospital. I can’t imagine why it would be a problem.

I’ve been wondering how many of those even have “covid” of any variety. We know the PCR and RA tests are unreliable, handing out false positives like scattering confetti. Remember, the CDC even admitted the PCR test couldn’t differentiate between “covid-19” and the ‘flu. Why does anyone believe any of this any more? It’s illogical to do so.

Baba
Baba
January 31, 2022 8:54 pm

I’m guessing a Margaret River boutique gin distillery using native botanicals would be rather woke?

Oops.

A distillery at Margaret River in Western Australia has been accused of being culturally insensitive for using the “essence” of a tree sacred to Noongar people to make gin.

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
January 31, 2022 8:57 pm

Don’t brag about being such a moneybags Zulu.
Btw are you good for five cents till Wednesday?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 31, 2022 9:03 pm

A distillery at Margaret River in Western Australia has been accused of being culturally insensitive for using the “essence” of a tree sacred to Noongar people to make gin.

I’m reading Tony Thomas new book “Foot soldier in the Culture Wars.”

“Tony also focuses on great Aboriginal questions of the day, like “who gets to be an Elder” “Can you be a younger Elder, and why are 80% of Elders worried about other Elder’s bona fides? As to who gets to be an Aborigine, one of 85,000 “New Identifiers”discovered her Aboriginality by talking to her chooks.”

We are supposed to take such malarkey seriously?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
January 31, 2022 9:03 pm

If you want a real tongue twister listen to a Swabian saying “unangenaehm” (unpleasant).

Simples.

Swabisch does away with all vowel sounds.

Much like certain areas of the North-East and South-Eastern Islands.

‘n’ng’n’hm

Unpleasant indeed. While I have never encountered a Swabian in the flesh, I rather imagine they sound like a rockcrusher powderising glass…

calli
calli
January 31, 2022 9:04 pm

Well, I cooked honey soy chicken tonight. And roasted Brussels sprouts.

Take that!

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
January 31, 2022 9:05 pm

I’m guessing a Margaret River boutique gin distillery using native botanicals would be rather woke?

Nah. Just folks looking for a different spin. Gin is still based around fermented juniper berries, after all.

calli
calli
January 31, 2022 9:08 pm

The Beloved is not allowed sausages. He’s been cutting down and has lost 7kg in 10 days.

Men are disgraceful that way. Despicable, in fact.

Frank
Frank
January 31, 2022 9:10 pm

The local rag, paywalled.

Change to booster shot eligibility for thousands of Tasmanians

The thumbnail of the embedded video directly beneath the title is of a man in a white lab coat and associated gear holding a vaccine bottle (the focus of the image) up to the camera which is labelled

COVID 19
Vaccine
OMICRON

Pretty blatant bs since there is no vaccine for Omicron yet. Newscorp seem to be well and truly in the tank with regards to pushing the get jabbed narrative.

Nelson_Kidd-Players
Nelson_Kidd-Players
January 31, 2022 9:11 pm

Pork, chevapi, chicken, beef.

Do I win? 😛

(Leftovers from yesterday’s family BBQ – yum!)

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
January 31, 2022 9:12 pm

So what ensued? Several diseased men, such as Lord Britton and Ted Heath, had their reputations trashed…

I’m assuming that was supposed to be ‘deceased’.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 31, 2022 9:12 pm

Rex A

Unpleasant indeed. While I have never encountered a Swabian in the flesh, I rather imagine they sound like a rockcrusher powderising glass…

Wasn’t Rommel a Swabian?

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 31, 2022 9:13 pm

A bloke I know has recently been diagnosed with Motor Neurone disease.
Maybe it would have happened anyway but curious it only arose last year and is aggressive in nature.

It’s always aggressive.
I read that ALS [Lou Gehrig’s Disease] and Motor Neurone Disease are pretty much the same thing, and may be caused by repeated head injuries.
Gehrig died quickly aged only 38, but he didn’t wear a helmet when batting and was knocked out several times, once for 10 minutes.

Cassie of Sydney
January 31, 2022 9:14 pm

“callisays:
January 31, 2022 at 9:08 pm
The Beloved is not allowed sausages. He’s been cutting down and has lost 7kg in 10 days.

Men are disgraceful that way. Despicable, in fact.”

Yep…bloody annoying, actually infuriating.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 31, 2022 9:15 pm

one of 85,000 “New Identifiers”discovered her Aboriginality by talking to her chooks.”

Chooks are from Thailand originally, so she’s now the proud owner of a piece of Bangkok.

Frank
Frank
January 31, 2022 9:16 pm

Well, I cooked honey soy chicken tonight.

Doesn’t the honey negate the no carbs thing?

bespoke
bespoke
January 31, 2022 9:18 pm

Dover, please ban calli.

For crimes against good taste.

Eyrie
Eyrie
January 31, 2022 9:19 pm

MND has been linked to exposure to proteins in blue green algae. Could be a form of prion disease. See Guam where there is a 50 times prevalence where the locals grind up cycads which grow in soil with lots of blue green algae for flour.
Had a niece die of this 3 years ago. Diagnosed at age 33 with 3 kids under 6. Died 3 years later. Tragic.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
January 31, 2022 9:20 pm

calli says:
January 31, 2022 at 9:08 pm
The Beloved is not allowed sausages. He’s been cutting down and has lost 7kg in 10 days.

calli – what’s his seclet (asking for a friend).

bespoke
bespoke
January 31, 2022 9:21 pm

seclet

?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 31, 2022 9:22 pm

I am still recovering from sausages being described as “the minutiae of life”.
Sausages are the essence of life.
As the French say, “joie de vivre” which, loosely translated, means “sausages for tea”.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 31, 2022 9:22 pm

Wasn’t Rommel a Swabian?

He was – so was Claus Von Stauffenberg…

srr
srr
January 31, 2022 9:23 pm

The Exposé News
@DailyExposeGB
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Countries with high Covid-19 Vaccination Rates all suffered an extraordinary rise in Excess Deaths in 2021 suggesting the Jabs are to blame

Countries with high Covid-19 Vaccination Rates all suffered an extraordinary rise in Excess Dea

“I think it’s highly likely that the next phase will involve death on a scale which will dwarf the claims of “covid-19 deaths” to date.” Dr. Mike Yead

https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/01/31/high-excess-deaths-worldwide-linked-to-covid-vaccine/
dailyexpose.uk
https://gettr.com/post/prlg5o85b5

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
January 31, 2022 9:24 pm

Unpleasant indeed. While I have never encountered a Swabian in the flesh, I rather imagine they sound like a rockcrusher powderising glass…

Clive James’ description of two Afrikaaners conversing:
“…clubbing each other with verbal truncheons of crushed Dutch”.

calli
calli
January 31, 2022 9:24 pm

Doesn’t the honey negate the no carbs thing?

He’s on high protein low fat. Complicated, but seems to work. He’s off the turps too poor lamb.

The marinade was basically wiped off before I baked it – probably about 2g carbs per serve was all that was left.

srr
srr
January 31, 2022 9:25 pm

Denmark Is First EU Country To Scrap All COVID Restrictions

ZeroHedge – On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

http://www.zerohedge.com
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/denmark-first-eu-country-scrap-all-covid-restrictions

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 31, 2022 9:25 pm

The Beloved is not allowed sausages. He’s been cutting down and has lost 7kg in 10 days.

Yikes. Sounds like he has dysentery and an extreme exercise fetish. In a good week I can manage about a kilo.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
January 31, 2022 9:25 pm

bespoke says:
January 31, 2022 at 9:21 pm
seclet?

It was a mispronunciation of the word “secret” by an East Asian in an advert many years ago.
calli might remember it…

srr
srr
January 31, 2022 9:26 pm

Starblazer
@Starblazer
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https://gettr.com/post/prld8m1cad

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
January 31, 2022 9:27 pm

LOL, look I am not all over what McSporran has done but Beattie pulled a similar trick when the CMC got too close to his smelly government so I am instantly sus. The media is no help by running Annas line and puff pieces like the below:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10458613/How-Annastacia-Palaszczuk-facing-one-toughest-tests-career-far.html

Fair or not fair, I consider Fitzgerald despite the commission he ran to root out corruption in the 1980’s, tainted these days especially when it comes to Labor.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
January 31, 2022 9:28 pm

Wasn’t Rommel a Swabian?

Not quite.

Rommel was born in the Kingdom Württemberg (granted, once part of Swabia. But its own Duchy and later, State around the time of Rommel’s birth and life).

Granted, they still speak Swabische… 🙂

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 31, 2022 9:28 pm

For example in Tasmania the Aboriginal population soared from 671 in 1971 to 19, 625 in 2016. Long – established Tasmanian Aboriginals claim they are being overrun by New Identifiers with spurious genealogies.”

“Foot Soldier in the Culture Wars” Tony Thomas, Page 122.

HT
HT
January 31, 2022 9:28 pm

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says:
January 31, 2022 at 6:34 pm
This one’s for military type Cats.

DVA has deposited a whole FOURTEEN CENTS in my bank account! How should I spend such generosity?

Yeah, I got 14cents too. No idea what that was about, but it was life changing I tells ya….

srr
srr
January 31, 2022 9:31 pm

Starblazer
@Starblazer
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https://gettr.com/post/prl7grc96f

custard
custard
January 31, 2022 9:33 pm

Donald J Trump

If the Vice President (Mike Pence) had “absolutely no right” to change the Presidential Election results in the Senate, despite fraud and many other irregularities, how come the Democrats and RINO Republicans, like Wacky Susan Collins, are desperately trying to pass legislation that will not allow the Vice President to change the results of the election? Actually, what they are saying, is that Mike Pence did have the right to change the outcome, and they now want to take that right away. Unfortunately, he didn’t exercise that power, he could have overturned the Election!

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 31, 2022 9:33 pm

Yeah, I got 14cents too. No idea what that was about, but it was life changing I tells ya….

I’m really worried that DVA might want the money refunded…

Beertruk
January 31, 2022 9:36 pm

This can be applied to the ABCess and/or any other virtuous signalling teev station:

Alex Belfield-THE VOICE OF REASON

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
January 31, 2022 9:38 pm

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says:
January 31, 2022 at 9:33 pm
Yeah, I got 14cents too. No idea what that was about, but it was life changing I tells ya….

I’m really worried that DVA might want the money refunded…

Yeah – and the bastards will probably add 100% penalty plus interest.
Watch your back ZKTA

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 31, 2022 9:38 pm

This McSporran appears to have witch hunted several LNP Mayors for years
He’s a Labor appointment anyway, so he won’t be missed.
All Local Government are rorts, but that doesn’t mean the Mayor or the Councillors are thieves.

HT
HT
January 31, 2022 9:40 pm

Onto Code Brown for Victoria. Just last Friday I finally got my much needed surgery in a large, Regional Victorian Private Hospital. This hospital typically performs 25 – 30 major elective surgeries as day (hip replacements and the like) plus a smaller theatre which does a bunch of day surgeries. On Friday I finally got my surgery (Cat 1). How many other operations conducted by this hospital Friday? Three. I was in until Sunday afternoon, I didn’t see or hear another patient in my wing. I know there was another patient somewhere because the nurse referred to having to attend to them, but there were none of the normal noises or any evidence of an active hospital. Caroadks empty, no deliveries or workers coming and going, barely anything to indicate it was a functioning hospital. I was lucky, I finally got the surgery I needed after 18 months, yet so many Victorians are still suffering whilst this, just one of many regional hospitals, sit idle. It’s bloody outrageous.

Beertruk
January 31, 2022 9:42 pm

DVA has deposited a whole FOURTEEN CENTS in my bank account! How should I spend such generosity?

Better check me bank account to make sure I haven’t missed out.

Beertruk
January 31, 2022 9:46 pm

Yikes. Sounds like he has dysentery and an extreme exercise fetish.

Eat like a bird and shit like an elephant.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 31, 2022 9:53 pm

Yeah – and the bastards will probably add 100% penalty plus interest.
Watch your back ZKTA

On a more serious note, I’ve heard all the horror stories about D.V.A. Any dealings I’ve had with them have been through a professional advocate at my State R.S.L – you don’t have to be a member – and I’ve never had any problems with them.

MatrixTransform
January 31, 2022 9:54 pm

Windy sunny here in Marseilles

send pictures

Razey
Razey
January 31, 2022 9:55 pm

HTsays:
January 31, 2022 at 9:40 pm
Onto Code Brown for Victoria. Just last Friday I finally got my much needed surgery in a large, Regional Victorian Private Hospital. This hospital typically performs 25 – 30 major elective surgeries as day (hip replacements and the like) plus a smaller theatre which does a bunch of day surgeries. On Friday I finally got my surgery (Cat 1). How many other operations conducted by this hospital Friday? Three. I was in until Sunday afternoon, I didn’t see or hear another patient in my wing. I know there was another patient somewhere because the nurse referred to having to attend to them, but there were none of the normal noises or any evidence of an active hospital. Caroadks empty, no deliveries or workers coming and going, barely anything to indicate it was a functioning hospital. I was lucky, I finally got the surgery I needed after 18 months, yet so many Victorians are still suffering whilst this, just one of many regional hospitals, sit idle. It’s bloody outrageous.

According to Dan’s fuck buddy, Sutton, waiting lists for surgery are not a public health issue.

cohenite
January 31, 2022 9:57 pm

More Trump election fraud evidence; nothing to be done except publicise it as much as possible.

WATCH NEW VIDEO! “2000 Mules” Exposing Ballot Traffickers Who Stole the 2020 Election in MASSIVE Election Fraud Bombshell

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
January 31, 2022 9:59 pm

I checked mine.
Not income tested.
No 14 cents.
I feel like I have been strangely defiled.

HT
HT
January 31, 2022 10:04 pm

Miss Anthropist says:
January 31, 2022 at 9:59 pm
I checked mine.
Not income tested.
No 14 cents.
I feel like I have been strangely defiled.

It was deposited 21 Jan 22. And since we all got 14cents, it wasn’t a CPI indexation.

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
January 31, 2022 10:05 pm

The majority of DVA staff are pleasant to deal with
The assessors are filth.
The tribunal members are filth.

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
January 31, 2022 10:11 pm

Well that was depressing.
Certainly didn’t get the 14 cents.

Louis Litt
Louis Litt
January 31, 2022 10:15 pm

Speedbox – ah yes Adelaide in the 70s & 80s – the premier had a vision of Adelaide was the Athens of the South. Hmmm, when he lost govt the kidnapping stopped

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 31, 2022 10:15 pm

The majority of DVA staff are pleasant to deal with
The assessors are filth.
The tribunal members are filth.

Maybe so, but you would have heard of some of the more spectacular attempts to rort the system?

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
January 31, 2022 10:18 pm

Miss Anthropist says:
January 31, 2022 at 10:11 pm
Well that was depressing.
Certainly didn’t get the 14 cents.

Well that’s certainly not surprising – given your attitude…

The assessors are filth.
The tribunal members are filth.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
January 31, 2022 10:23 pm

Louis Litt says:
January 31, 2022 at 10:15 pm
Speedbox – ah yes Adelaide in the 70s & 80s – the premier had a vision of Adelaide was the Athens of the South. Hmmm, when he lost govt the kidnapping stopped

Was that Dunstan – a rather “flamboyant” character?

rosie
rosie
January 31, 2022 10:26 pm

Thanks Bons
I never go out on my own at night when travelling so rest assured.
The French that thought dynamited the old port buildings in 1943 and replacing were evil AND stupid.
The replacement buildings compete with post war eastern Europe for the ugly, especially along the harbour front.
I walked around Le Panier it was okay if you like endless steps and what dogs leave, actually quite charming and currently in the process of gentrification. Someone who’d been evicted into social housing had posted notices of disgruntlement around the place.
I wanted to go to the church of the Accuell but all that is left of that 11th century church is the tower, thanks French Revolutionaries!
The hotel dieu hotel looks pretty impressive.
I bussed up to Notre Dame de Garde, thought it was windy in le panier, oops.
The doors to the basilica were closed, you had to go back down to the crypt and enter via the internal stairs, they actually drew up the drawbridge after I arrived (was also a fortress) because wind.
Amazing views of Marseille and the interior of the basilica is superb, at least now I’ve seen chateau d’if which the Navette office the bus drove past tells me is ferme.
Haven’t spotted a soldier yet Zulu and yes they were everywhere the last few times I’ve been in France.

rosie
rosie
January 31, 2022 10:28 pm

Pictures are only for loved ones sorry.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 31, 2022 10:33 pm

Was that Dunstan – a rather “flamboyant” character?

Pink shorts?

srr
srr
January 31, 2022 10:35 pm

Truckers4Fredom
@Truckers4Fredom
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10h
Australia now, freedom!
40km riding now in Australia towards the capital.
Join us also on fb to get things going there as well, join here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/11164047
And invite all of your friends on it! Lets do it
https://gettr.com/post/prk9mb813f

Top Ender
Top Ender
January 31, 2022 10:36 pm

DVA has deposited a whole FOURTEEN CENTS in my bank account…

Got mine too.

I can die happy.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
January 31, 2022 10:36 pm

Just to let everyone know, I have Heart…

MatrixTransform
January 31, 2022 10:37 pm

I walked around Le Panier it was okay if you like endless steps and what dogs leave, actually quite charming and currently in the process of gentrification.

good call on the pictures, don’t post them here

save them for your loved ones.

nothing says “I love you” like a charming poo

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
January 31, 2022 10:37 pm

Mac Sporran seemed tied up in the whitewashed Flood Inquiry, he certainly fell out of favour. The other Judge assisting Fitzgerald was appointed by D’Arth in the Bikie laws inquiry and opponent to Carmody. LOL never appoint a commission you don’t know the outcome of…

There’s a whisper I heard since arriving back in NQ that Chrisifulli is quite interested in delving into the particulars of the Quarantine Camp. Here’s hoping and a few ALP councils antics too would be nice.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
January 31, 2022 10:37 pm

From that fellow Bruce of Newcastle linked to earlier this evening.

https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2022/01/memes-that-made-me-laugh-94.html?m=1

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
January 31, 2022 10:40 pm

Nobody cares about the minutiae of your personal life. What do you think this site would be like if we all did that?

It would be exactly like what it currently is, for that is what many people do, including you, you tedious old miserybags. And that’s inbetween putting up other and more serious things, which is what I do and many others do too, just as you can do when you can get over your fixation with me and whatever I do here. You seem to desperately want to get the upticks for your stupid character assassinations and meme setting about me.

Sad, as I’ve said before. You should and could be better than that. I never say anything here that isn’t relevant in some way to some point of discussion. Even if that discussion is only about mealtimes, or Bolt’s return, or progress on my Church saving, as above.

Here’s 37 free upticks for you. Enjoy.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 31, 2022 10:40 pm

I got $1.26 deposited by DVA.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
January 31, 2022 10:40 pm
rosie
rosie
January 31, 2022 10:41 pm

Goodness me you’re a tedious sad sack.

srr
srr
January 31, 2022 10:41 pm

WetWinter ???????
@Wetwinter
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#Canberra #Australia

[video] https://gettr.com/post/prm2nq57fd

Posted on 9:47 PM · Jan 31st, 2022

cohenite
January 31, 2022 10:42 pm

Just watching the first season of Billions. No way the real New York looks like the New York in the show. The New York in this show is from when Rudy was in charge.

srr
srr
January 31, 2022 10:44 pm

Carl Benjamin
Reposted
John Wheatley @JohnWheatley
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgGLNpt
The world is marching, and nobody is reporting on it. (Even when the protest is right outside the BBC studios!)
The Worldwide Freedom Rally You Never Heard About

You can find the reading lists of each individual podcast episode on our website: https://www.lotuseaters.com/category/podcastFollow us on GETTR: https://get

http://www.youtube.com

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
January 31, 2022 10:45 pm

Goodness me you’re a tedious sad sack.

Heheheh…

srr
srr
January 31, 2022 10:46 pm

Carl Benjamin
Reposted
John Wheatley @JohnWheatley
·2h
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgGLNpt…
The world is marching, and nobody is reporting on it. (Even when the protest is right outside the BBC studios!)
The Worldwide Freedom Rally You Never Heard About

You can find the reading lists of each individual podcast episode on our website: https://www.lotuseaters.com/category/podcastFollow us on GETTR: https://get…

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
January 31, 2022 10:46 pm

The Beloved is not allowed sausages. He’s been cutting down and has lost 7kg in 10 days.

Calli. For goodness sakes. Food talk is verboten around here, Johanna’s rools.

This is the serious Cat where you can’t say what you want, just what is decreed by dickless uptickers.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
January 31, 2022 10:47 pm

Just watching the first season of Billions.

Cohenite, how dare you. Show talk is banned around here. Far far too unapproved.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 31, 2022 10:48 pm

For military Cats – what was the last major defence project in this country that was completed on time and within budget?

$45bn Hunter-class frigates slow, unsafe: Defence

Ben Packham
Foreign Affairs and Defence Correspondent
@bennpackham
42 minutes ago January 31, 2022
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Australia’s new $45bn Hunter-class frigates will be “substantially” slower, have a shorter range than originally intended, and could be vulnerable to detection by enemy vessels, a classified Defence Department report reveals.

The Defence “Engineering Team Assessment” of the frigates program, undertaken last November, warns the ships could also be less safe for crews, with the potential for sailors to become trapped below deck by floodwaters in “credible damage conditions”.

The 36-page report sets out an array of serious problems with the “immature” British design, which is being substantially modified to meet Australian requirements, and warns that the government’s contract with shipbuilder BAE Systems provides “very limited means … to influence contractor performance”.

BAE won the contract in 2018 to build nine anti-submarine ­frigates in Adelaide to replace the Anzac-class fleet, with the first ship due to enter service in 2033.

The company claimed its design was the most advanced and stealthy on offer. But unlike its competitors, Spain’s Navantia and Italy’s Fincantieri, BAE’s design was an unproven one.

Taxpayers could now face a drawn-out design and construction process – with escalating costs and delays – like those that dogged other recent Defence projects ­including the recently dumped French submarine program.

The report, seen by The Australian, is scathing in its criticism of the British contractor, which will be responsible for building the nation‘s nuclear submarines if Australia goes with the UK’s ­Astute-class boat.

It blasts slow feedback and “confusing and incoherent” provision of data by BAE, and says the company’s design process “does not adhere to normal system engineering practice”.

The report says Australian ­defence companies are being passed over, with BAE claiming local ­industry content requirements are “a complicating factor for system design maturity”.

The document, marked “sensitive”, warns that the inclusion of a US combat system and ­Australian-designed CEAFAR2 radar have pushed the ships’ “space, weight, power and cooling margins” to their limits, posing “significant potential risk”.

The proposed ships are now “substantially heavier” than BAE’s original Type-26 frigate ­design, which has also faced ­delays and design headaches, ­requiring a modified hull to ­accommodate the additional weight and design changes.

The report warns that the changes have caused serious ­design issues that have cascaded through the program, driving up electrical power consumption with “a negative impact on speed and range”, and causing problems with the cooling of the vessel’s combat system.

“The overall power demand of the Hunter-class frigate still ­exceeds its ­generating capacity … and is exacerbated in tropical and antarctic environmental conditions,” it says. “Vessel maximum speed at start of life will be substantially lower than comparable RAN surface combatants.”.

The report adds that the ­heavier-than-anticipated ship will face “increased fuel consumption and running costs, particularly in the 17-18 knots range”.

The shortfall in the vessel’s available power will force ­commanders to decide whether to “prioritise power allocation to ­either the CEAFAR2 Radar or the propulsion system depending on the ship’s operational requirements”, the authors warn.

The “System Design Review Exit” report says the ship’s mast design could increase its radar cross-section, and the ­additional thrust required from its propellers could breach the contract’s “underwater radiated noise” requirements, making the vessels more vulnerable to the submarines they are supposed to hunt.

The Defence engineering team says it has “low confidence” that the vessels will meet Royal Australian Navy weight-margin standards, leaving the first three ships potentially “unable to respond to technological surprise with future capability upgrades”.

It also warns that the new ­design of the ship’s topside mast is so immature that there is a risk it could destabilise the vessel “past the point where a feasible ship design is possible”.

The modified design’s ­additional displacement and draught have called into question previous assessments – based on the Type-26 – of its seakeeping performance. The need to fit in additional power and cooling equipment is reportedly degrading “the overall liveability of the ship‘s habitable space”, while the document warns of design compromises in the provision of fixed firefighting systems.

Last July, Defence Minister Peter Dutton approved a delay in commencement of construction on the first boat, from December 2022 to June 2024, but the report says this deadline is now tight.

It warns more schedule delays are expected, and there is a “very high risk” that increasing supply chain costs will “threaten project viability”.

BAE Systems is relying on its global supply chain, minimising risks associated with using unfamiliar Australian suppliers that would otherwise fall to the company, the report says.

The report predated the recent replacement of BAE Systems Australia chief executive Gabby Costigan, who will head the company’s global business development, by former chief technology officer Ben Hudson.

A Defence spokeswoman said the document was an internal management tool that provided a snapshot of program risks at a point in time, and solutions to the problems were “well underway”.

Chief of Navy Mike Noonan said he was “absolutely confident” that the Hunter-class frigates would be “a world-leading warship with state-of-the-art anti-submarine capabilities”.

Australian Strategic Policy Institute executive director Peter Jennings said the government should call “time out” on the program to ask “is this the right way to go?” He said Defence was “losing the confidence of government” because “it just doesn’t seem to be able to deliver”.

Australian Industry and Defence Network chief executive Brent Clark said delays in the Hunter-class program left BAE without a reasonable excuse to prioritise its foreign supply chain over Australian companies.

“Given our current strategic environment, the Australian government should be ensuring that an Australian capability is created by this and other defence programs,” Mr Clark said.

Under the revised timetable, the first ship will not be completed until 2031 and will enter service in 2033. The final frigate is scheduled to enter service in 2044.

Top Ender
Top Ender
January 31, 2022 10:48 pm

Rex Anger says: Just to let everyone know, I have Heart…

My Heart is much much better than yours, Rex!

Indolent
Indolent
January 31, 2022 10:48 pm

One doctor’s opinion of mRNA vaccines in general.

The University of Waterloo is in Ontario, Canada

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
January 31, 2022 10:49 pm

Windy sunny here in Marseilles

Rosie, Johanna has absolutely no interest in the weather in Marseilles.

Lift your game. Travel tales make her envious beyond belief. Shape up to orders or go, go now.

MatrixTransform
January 31, 2022 11:00 pm

a tedious sad sack

nothing like tales of dog poo and gentrification’s triumph over the down-trodden to lift the spirits of a sour prick like me.

keep posting your cheerful travelogues … don’t be tedious

MatrixTransform
January 31, 2022 11:01 pm

well … at least try not to

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
January 31, 2022 11:01 pm

For military Cats – what was the last major defence project in this country that was completed on time and within budget?

The latest round of EF88 Austeyr rifle acquisitions between 2017 and 2020, the LAND 121 Landrover and Mog replacement projects, LAND 400 Phase 1 in 2020-22 (The new recce cars for Armour) and the original M1A1 Abrams acquisition in 2007.

Granted, the new MAN trucks have had issues with axle loading and road permits, and the Abrams have never really been properly resourced (and it seems we are not keeping and having refurbished the original 59 gun tanks when the 75 new ones arrive in the next 2-3 years), and we have yet to see what shenanigans will accompany the full entry into service of the Boxer recce car. But they all seem to have been put together quickly and mostly in time and on-budget.

srr
srr
January 31, 2022 11:01 pm

James O’Keefe: “I’m sick of the whining!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEW1h5zzc3k

Jan 30, 2022
Lotuseaters Dot Com
103K subscribers

James O’Keefe: “I’m sick of the whining!

Carl interviews Project Veritas’ James O’Keefe about his new book American Muckraker.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
January 31, 2022 11:03 pm

I do wonder who are the people here who uptick this bitter and inane woman’s comments trying to refuse me the right to be here.

Why not identify yourself to me? If you are a regular comenter here.
I think I deserve that much honesty.
Some won’t be a surprise but please let me return serve.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
January 31, 2022 11:07 pm
Plasmamortar
Plasmamortar
January 31, 2022 11:07 pm

the LAND 121 Landrover and Mog replacement projects

I was seriously considering buying one of the ex army 110 Perenties a couple of years ago.
Ended up settling on a 1997 Landcruiser 75 series though.

Still, I wouldn’t mind one if the opportunity came up again.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 31, 2022 11:07 pm

But they all seem to have been put together quickly and mostly in time and on-budget.

My compliments, and thank you. The tale of defence projects in this country can seem to be one of thud and blunder.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
January 31, 2022 11:08 pm

Hairy in here now praising Boris for saying no to the Covid bedwetters, 62000 cases and who cares. Good stuff. Ok, I say, credit where it is due but he was getting a bad press over partying and had to ameliorate people. No, it’s not that, Hairy argues. It is genuinely a bold move, he has just told them all fuck it. Worthy of praise. I think I have to agree. But wish he would now get a damascene moment about net zero.

srr
srr
January 31, 2022 11:09 pm

Battleground Melbourne is BIASED, as we expected

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zY5a0xgKRM

Jan 31, 2022
Discernable
32.4K subscribers

‘Battleground Melbourne’ is BIASED, as we all suspected.

Here is the creator, Topher Field, explaining his bias and his motivations for starting the project.

Watch the full interview: https://youtu.be/wi4EztGVaXk

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
January 31, 2022 11:10 pm

I was seriously considering buying one of the ex army 110 Perenties a couple of years ago.
Ended up settling on a 1997 Landcruiser 75 series though.

Still, I wouldn’t mind one if the opportunity came up again.

The RFSV variants given to the Light Cavalry and Norforce, Pilbara Regiment and Far North Queensland Regiment are probably the best.

All ex-Army Perenties have a pretty bombproof little 4cyl Isuzu motor in them, but the RFSV gets a turbo, power steering and tend not to be quite as flogged out as any of the GS and FFR variants.

Plasmamortar
Plasmamortar
January 31, 2022 11:14 pm

The RFSV variants given to the Light Cavalry and Norforce, Pilbara Regiment and Far North Queensland Regiment are probably the best.

All ex-Army Perenties have a pretty bombproof little 4cyl Isuzu motor in them, but the RFSV gets a turbo, power steering and tend not to be quite as flogged out as any of the GS and FFR variants.

Yeah, I had been looking for one of the radio/recon ones with power steering.

In the end it was the availability of aftermarket support that won out.
Also the fact that the 1HZ cruiser engine will probably outlive me.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 31, 2022 11:18 pm

A sassy and attractive Aboriginal woman corrects him ‘There is also a bit you don’t know. We have the oldest surviving culture on Earth.” In realty, traditional culture died out 100 -200 years ago when the old men ceased passing down creation stories to youths who had refused the painful initiations.

“Foot Soldier in the Culture Wars” , Tony Thomas, P146.

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
January 31, 2022 11:20 pm

Fat Tony,
I meant to say they are fit.
Damned autocorrect.
Can I have my 14 cents now?

srr
srr
January 31, 2022 11:23 pm

The Vortex — Vatican Vax

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsXsOQhL9gU

Jan 20, 2022
Church Militant
282K subscribers

Watch Full Vortex Episode:
https://www.churchmilitant.com/video/episode/vortex-vatican-vax

TRANSCRIPT
The news Church Militant has broken over the last week is beyond terrifying.

In short, it appears that a massive international web of intrigue surrounding COVID has been in the works for years, and what is emerging now is that Pope Francis’ Vatican is a major player in the worldwide conspiracy.

The list of players and organizations involved is nothing less than frightening — and spans the globe: Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum (based in Geneva, Switzerland), Xi Jinping (based in Beijing), Albert Bourla’s Pfizer Pharmaceuticals (based in New York) and Pope Francis’ Vatican (in Rome).

And, of course, there’s the China-Vatican accord linking Pope Francis to Xi Jinping. The story involves the funneling of billions of dollars from Beijing to Rome — confirmed now by two independent sources.

The first of those sources is Dr. Francesco Galietti, founder and CEO of Policy Sonar — a Rome-based public policy institute that analyzes how political changes affect world economic markets. He tracks fortunes in zero–hedge fund markets. He was the first, in the course of his work, to uncover billions of dollars moving from Beijing to the Vatican — a discovery Church Militant first informed you about coming up on two years ago.

The second independent (and unrelated) source is exiled dissident Guo Wengui, who has accused the Vatican of receiving $1.6 billion every year since 2014 in bribes from the Chinese Communist Party. He says Beijing is paying the Vatican “to shut up about China’s religious policies.” And noteworthy — even to this day, the Vatican has never denied the very public allegations.

Before the COVID-19 international campaign of fear, top mainstream media like The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times hailed Wengui as a celebrity tycoon. Of course, Beijing has branded Wengui an attention-seeking criminal.

Italians are starting to vociferously turn against the Church.Gab
That Vatican–China relationship, twice corroborated independently, stretches back to years before the pandemic exploded on the world (out of a Chinese lab in Wuhan).

However, given the emergence of the Wuhan virus, another dynamic appears to have taken shape as well (dovetailing with the already-cozy preexisting relationship). Pope Francis has been one of the leading figures on the world stage pushing vaccines like crazy. And when news emerged recently by reporter Ed Pentin (and doubled down on by Church Militant’s Rome correspondent Jules Gomes) that Pope Francis had met secretly — not once, but twice — with Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, alarms went off.

Given the close relationship between The Vatican and Beijing, Bourla meeting with the pope twice was immediately viewed as extremely suspicious, especially given that the Vatican refuses to acknowledge it ever occurred.

But, as they say, there’s more.

A so-called Catholic media group called Aleteia is going after anyone in the Church who opposes Pope Pfizer and the pro-vaccine messaging. Aleteia, with close connections to Magnificat Magazine (as well as the Vatican Communications Department and the Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization), leads a newly formed consortium of roughly 30 pro-vaccine publications.

The main job of that far-flung consortium is to squash any rebellion to the Vatican’s pro-vaccine narrative. They’ve formed what’s called the International Catholic Media Consortium on COVID-19 vaccines and collected their efforts in a website, fallaciously called catholicfactchecking.com. Where did the money come from for all of that? Google. Google set up a $3 million fund to get so-called independent media sites to fight what they call COVID “misinformation.” Aleteia and its consortium partners were awarded a portion of those millions to conduct their “fact-checking” and slam any voice in the Catholic world telling you the truth about the COVID tyranny.

In an eyebrow-raising revelation, Aleteia’s group has on its self-described “scientific board” three members of the Pontifical Academy for Life (raising all kinds of ethical questions about an obvious conflict of interest). The Vatican backs the vaccine, so just how objective could an outfit be when “fact-checking” about the vaccine when it has close ties with the Vatican? And, spiritually speaking, how can a group touting itself as “Catholic” be taking money from an outfit like Google to shoot down other Catholics opposed to these abortion-tainted death-and-side-effect-causing jabs?

But Google isn’t the only outfit shoveling big bucks the Aleteia consortium’s way. So, too, are Goerge Soros and Bill Gates. Aleteia’s consortium consists of various groups that have received over $50 million from the anti-Catholic Soros and Bill Gates.

The people who fund Aleteia are the same people who are killing off Dr. Malone and others from social media.Gab
It’s all one stinking pot of Devil’s brew, concocted to shoot down any resistance from faithful Catholics — especially faithful Catholics in the media, and especially if those outfits, like Church Militant, conduct interviews with the likes of Dr. Robert Malone (inventor of the mRNA technology).

The people who fund Aleteia and its partners are the exact same people who are killing off Dr. Malone and others from social media and giant tech for telling the truth about COVID.

There are multiple things to be disturbed by here: China secretly funneling billions to the Vatican, secret meetings between the pope and the CEO of the most crooked pharmaceutical company on the planet, and all of this being conducted under the auspices of the global-reset agenda engineered by Klaus Schwab and his World Economic Forum.

But perhaps most troublesome is this: Despite Francis’ constant going on about being on the side of the poor and wanting a “poor Church” (which seems a little difficult to accomplish while communists are handing you billions and billions of dollars in hush money), Francis is doing the exact opposite, positioning himself and the Church actually against the little man.

In major cities all around the world, hundreds of thousands — millions — of people have taken to the streets to oppose the COVID tyranny. They are being persecuted by governments who enjoy the backing of these very people in these globalist outfits. Already, in Italy, Italians are starting to vociferously turn against the Church, rightly understanding the leadership cares nothing for them. Francis will be dead soon enough. But the damage he has done, setting the Church against the poor and putting the Church on the wrong side of history, will long outlast him.

Billions may buy you influence and access at the table of the wealthy, but it can’t buy you a single soul.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
January 31, 2022 11:26 pm

Someone’s gone strangely quiet. Probably still gloating over her upticks.
She comes in, fires up, and goes back to the bunker to stoke her righteousness.
And she’ll be back with some innocuous observation, till she needs another shot of upticks.

And now I’m going to do the final verboten, and say I’m off to bed.
Big day tomorrow. I am having a shingles vaxx.
Bit trepidatious but I think it is wise at my age.

Zatara
Zatara
January 31, 2022 11:26 pm

Thank goodness for Intellectual Frog Legs.

Like an injection of sanity with a humour chaser.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
January 31, 2022 11:29 pm

“Foot Soldier in the Culture Wars” , Tony Thomas, P146.

Tony writes regularly for Quadrant Online; he is a fantastic fencer with the pen.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 31, 2022 11:30 pm

Fat Tony,
I meant to say they are fit.
Damned autocorrect.
Can I have my 14 cents now?

No. Go and bang your head on the floor, until you are forgiven. It may take several weeks.

MatrixTransform
January 31, 2022 11:34 pm

Intellectual Froglegs

thanks for the link … something to do rather than take the micky outta rosie.

actually rosie, you should read the text under the Froglegs video

It says, “Pray. Walk by faith, not by sight”

good advice … he must have been to Marseilles

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 31, 2022 11:37 pm

Tony writes regularly for Quadrant Online; he is a fantastic fencer with the pen.

Tony wrote a very good “pocket sized guide” to Keith Windschuttle’s book on the “Stolen Generations.”
I’ve presented five copies to various “Social Justice Warriors ” i know, and, if they never speak to me again, well that’s a bonus.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 31, 2022 11:38 pm

Fair or not fair, I consider Fitzgerald despite the commission he ran to root out corruption in the 1980’s, tainted these days especially when it comes to Labor.

Definitely tame.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
January 31, 2022 11:39 pm

Here, Johanna. I don’t regard upticks as currency so you can have any I get.
Including the 37 spare ones I had hidden away and offered you up above.
Won’t be much in total, but no doubt ‘every little bit helps’ feed your hungry esteem machine.

Those who keep this crazy woman in fodder are really the ones I am cross with.
Poor thing, she just can’t seem to help herself, whereas certain others definitely can.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
January 31, 2022 11:39 pm

Sorry srr, but your latest Cause is very unimpressive.

Not enough tunnels.

Bad enough that Bergolio is running about demonstrating that Marx is his god, without you trying to bandwagon with folks going full nuffy on matters unrelated.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 31, 2022 11:40 pm

Ladies and gentlemen, please.
Can I ask that you refrain from upticking while the ball is in play.
Thank you.

Gabor
Gabor
January 31, 2022 11:42 pm

rugbyskier says:
January 31, 2022 at 6:17 pm

grüezi mitenand

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 31, 2022 11:43 pm

I’m sitting here, drinking very good single malt, and reading Martin Gilbert’s biography of Winston Churchill. If there is a more hopelessly, reactionary and conservative pass-time, could someone let me know?

Oh, and by the way, about the fourteen cents, deposited into my bank account by D.V.A. , I’ll donate it to the Greens..

srr
srr
January 31, 2022 11:44 pm

Zatara says:
January 31, 2022 at 11:26 pm
Thank goodness for Intellectual Frog Legs.

Like an injection of sanity with a humour chaser.

Yep, still one of the best shows on the interwebs.

srr
srr
January 31, 2022 11:48 pm

Pope Francis Met with Pfizer CEO in 2021 secretly – Dr. Taylor Marshall Podcast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Owo3Sxdy2w

Streamed live on Jan 19, 2022
Dr Taylor Marshall
368K subscribers

Pope Francis secretly met twice with P-fiz3r CEO Albert Bourla in 2021, according to Vatican journalist Edward Pentin.

srr
srr
January 31, 2022 11:54 pm

Tim Gill
@Timinator88
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2m
?This display alone should tell you there’s something VERY VERY WRONG happening with these folks mental health!!
https://gettr.com/post/prmeec6828

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
January 31, 2022 11:56 pm

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:
January 31, 2022 at 11:03 pm
I do wonder who are the people here who uptick this bitter and inane woman’s comments trying to refuse me the right to be here.

For fuck’s sake Lizzie – give it a rest. Nobody but you actually cares.
It’s simple – if someone gives you the shits, tell them to go fuck themselves and then ignore them.
Works for me.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 31, 2022 11:59 pm

I do wonder who are the people here who uptick this bitter and inane woman’s comments …

I’m Barabus!

Pogria
Pogria
February 1, 2022 12:02 am

rugbyskiersays:
January 31, 2022 at 5:43 pm

an online German language course said it was pronounced Skoodenfroodee.

I am happy to stand corrected. Would rather be corrected, than keep thinking I was right when I wasn’t.

Thanks also to everyone else that added their variations.

I speak one of the Yugo languages as a second language. Not very well these days as I only used it when speaking with my parents. They have both passed so, no need to use it. You become rusty.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
February 1, 2022 12:05 am

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says:
January 31, 2022 at 11:30 pm
Fat Tony,
I meant to say they are fit.
Damned autocorrect.
Can I have my 14 cents now?

No. Go and bang your head on the floor, until you are forgiven. It may take several weeks.

And sack cloth & ashes – and the penitent crawl to DVA HQ to beg forgiveness.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
February 1, 2022 12:08 am

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says:
January 31, 2022 at 11:43 pm
…Oh, and by the way, about the fourteen cents, deposited into my bank account by D.V.A. , I’ll donate it to the Greens..

Tell them you want a written receipt, by snail mail

rosie
rosie
February 1, 2022 12:09 am

I’ve seen everything now, in Beaume it was a little doggie being wheeled around to enjoy an unesco world heritage listed site in a special little doggie pram.
Today another little doggie in a special doggie backpack seeing the sights of Marseille.
I’m glad he had his coat on.
Sad sack thinks he’s taking the Mickey out of someone posting that ‘it’s windy in Marseille today’
Lol.

MatrixTransform
February 1, 2022 12:11 am

I don’t regard upticks as currency

leave off woman … you’re practically begging

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 1, 2022 12:13 am

Big afternoon of open tabs and no sleep, I see.

Back in D Town. The house looks exactly as it would if a 17 year had been living there by himself for a month. Which he has.

Fully restocked supermarkets by Wednesday, apparently. rsrsrrrss, if you want to load up on meth there’s plenty up here, and judging by this afternoon you’ve run your supply down a bit.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 1, 2022 12:14 am

Tell them you want a written receipt, by snail mail

Pay that one..

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
February 1, 2022 12:25 am

H B Bear says:
January 31, 2022 at 11:38 pm
Fair or not fair, I consider Fitzgerald despite the commission he ran to root out corruption in the 1980’s, tainted these days especially when it comes to Labor.

Back when it was all happening, we were all following the Fitzgerald inquiry and waiting for the bit where he got to the involvement of the police in the drug business.

Strangely enough, the inquiry stopped without touching police/drugs.

srr
srr
February 1, 2022 12:27 am

The Death of The University

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB_pIT55qLI

Jan 22, 2022
The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters
240K subscribers

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
February 1, 2022 12:29 am

Knuckle Dragger says:
February 1, 2022 at 12:13 am
…Back in D Town. The house looks exactly as it would if a 17 year had been living there by himself for a month. Which he has.

Any parties?

Nelson_Kidd-Players
Nelson_Kidd-Players
February 1, 2022 12:30 am

Is the Ferrari still in one piece?

srr
srr
February 1, 2022 1:01 am

We Have Now Passed ‘Peak Crazy’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M27X7w0K7M

Jan 29, 2022
Discernable
32.4K subscribers

Professor Gigi Foster is detecting an increasingly angry public sentiment in Australia and believes we have now passed ‘peak crowd’ when it comes to crowd dynamics.

Gigi believes that politicians have missed the opportunity to reframe the narrative and will struggle to do anything other than double and triple down despite any evidence to the contrary.

Watch the full interview with Professor Gigi Foster: https://youtu.be/wDgDWaXWeyY

Tom
Tom
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Tom
Tom
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Tom
Tom
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Tom
Tom
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Tom
Tom
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Tom
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Tom
Tom
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Tom
Tom
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Tom
Tom
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Tom
Tom
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Tom
Tom
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Tom
Tom
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Tom
Tom
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Tom
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Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
February 1, 2022 5:27 am

We could do with a few re-visits to Gilbert & Sullivan – the current all men are bastards theme reminds me so much of Princess Ida where the princess was betrothed to Prince Hilarion but she’d decided to eschew all men in favour of a cloistered life in Castle Adamant. Hilarity ensues when Prince Hilarion and his two mates dress up as women to join the Women of Adamant — at this link there are a couple of quite funny videos with the three blokes dressed as women reminiscent of the two nongs who were on Dr Phil with Matt Walsh a couple of weeks ago.

Real Deal
Real Deal
February 1, 2022 5:40 am

Sorry Dover, reported SRR’s comment at 5.34 ish. Maybe she needs reporting, but it was a mistaken report.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
February 1, 2022 6:14 am

I see La Sgrimia (Donna antipatica, insopportabile, acida – Unpleasant, unbearable, sour woman) is in then news again — La Sgrimia thinks her close connection with the cosmetic side of medicine makes her an expert on all things virological and epidemiological) Go Dr Nick Coastworth – I think pride is perhaps the most destructive of all deadly sins. Heard Andrew Klavan talk about that in his latest podcast.

calli
calli
February 1, 2022 6:25 am

Spooner’s toon is really sad. Littlest granddaughter starts school this week to the regime of RATS and masks. There is no need for them, just moronic government dictat.

On the rapid weight loss – it will slow down. He’s on a meal replacement for two out of three, so ULC for the present. He’ll drop it down to one in a few weeks. Like so many people (including me) he put on a heap last year. A combination of inactivity and a sense of hopelessness does that to some people.

No need for Affirmation Upticks. I’ve often wondered where all these agreeing people come from – I must be saying something wrong if everyone agrees with me here. No one ever does IRL! 😀

calli
calli
February 1, 2022 6:54 am

Where is everyone? Just been out on my little power walk and the place is still empty.

Hope I haven’t got you all guiltily measuring your waistlines!

Also, where’s Mater? Is he busy with plans to get his family out of Dodge?

calli
calli
February 1, 2022 6:59 am

La Sgrimia

Heh.

She’s an expert now, Tinta. An expert in exactly what remains to be seen, unless you count self promotion.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 1, 2022 6:59 am

Glorious article.

COVID Affects Your Memory

Masks have never worked. Testing has always been problematic. Kids were never high-risk. The past has never been altered. Welcome to the COVID consensus, circa midterms 2022.
BY
ALEX GUTENTAG

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/covid-affects-your-memory

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 1, 2022 7:05 am

Matt Taibbi
@mtaibbi
It’s shocking how many people on this site are pro-censorship. Twitter has become a groupthink machine.

What’s more crazy.
That Tipper Gore has finally got her way?
Or that Dee Snider (self appointed leader of the opposition to the “moral majority”) now agrees with her?

calli
calli
February 1, 2022 7:11 am

From Bern’s linked article:

This campaign manipulated the public into acquiescing to measures with catastrophic second-order effects but little epidemiological value. Now that the damage has been done, the old arbiters of truth and morality will not get back the trust or credibility they’ve squandered.

True for this little old black duck.

The final paras on the MIT study and their conclusions are worth reading.

  1. Zaf, that’s the lame and gay “people of Springfield” tune by some soy douche. This is the original house banger.…

  2. Roads, rates and rubbish. Or not (the Tele): Clover Moore’s City of Sydney council will donate $22,000 to Rising Tide…

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