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Napoleon’s Retreat from Moscow, Adolph Northen, 1866

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Gabor
Gabor
February 17, 2022 8:42 am

Gilas.

It’s simple really, the government, we can only complain but do not much about, fellow forumites on the other hand, we can destroy utterly.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 17, 2022 8:43 am

The stoush between Faulty and the gang of twenty which led to Faulty’s slow and inevitable meltdown 

Ah … good times.
Faulty seemed to have an uncanny knack of starting a shitfight with bystanders.
I often wondered if he was a but dyslexic and confused people’s names.
Someone who hadn’t been around for days would turn up …
“Evening all”.
Faulty: “What’s that supposed to mean?”
“Ah … nothing … just good evening”
Faulty: “Paid up Liberal scum!”

Cassie of Sydney
February 17, 2022 8:44 am

Dr Faustussays:
February 17, 2022 at 8:37 am
Swimmer dies after being attacked by a shark off Sydney’s Little Bay Beach

Someone sent me an uncensored video clip of the attack – which I suppose is floating around on the net.
I’m not often shocked, but I was.”

Was the swimmer out far from the beach? That’s my impression. Dreadful.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
February 17, 2022 8:45 am

In Organic Hemp Bicycle news:

Big oil all talk, no action on climate change? Researchers say they’ve got the proof

Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell and BP are failing to meet green energy investment pledges and lack consistent transparency in their reporting of investments, the researchers say in science journal PLOS ONE.

They say fossil fuel production was maintained or increased by Chevron, Shell and BP between 2009 and 2020, despite committing to, or in Chevron’s case “aspiring to”, net-zero emissions by 2050 or before.

The World needs and wants a steady flow of oil and gas – and there would be mass panic if it stopped.

Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell and BP are in the business of satisfying that need. They are also discovering that delivering weasel words, rather than a swift FOAD, doesn’t pay dividends.

Iron Law: You can’t placate the Green movement.

Baba
Baba
February 17, 2022 8:51 am
feelthebern
feelthebern
February 17, 2022 8:52 am

Re the uncensored footage of the shark attack.
The seagulls were all over it.
Fucking seagulls.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
February 17, 2022 8:53 am

In Taking the Piss news:

‘Power to kill’: Clive Palmer tells defamation trial he feared for his life

Billionaire Clive Palmer has told a defamation trial that he believed a law passed in Western Australia gave Premier Mark McGowan power to murder him with impunity.

Mr Palmer said it all became too much for him and he “ended up vomiting”.

He even likened the situation to a James Bond film and Nazi Germany.

“I was a bit frightened what they might to do me, or my family … they could really do anything to me,” he said.

So, standard Fat Bastard plop plop.
The good bit is that McClown has been dragged out of his lair and forced to listen and respond to this stream of ordure.

#nexttreasurerofaustralia

Anchor What
Anchor What
February 17, 2022 8:55 am

Origin to close Eraring coal fired power station – which supplies 20% of NSW’s power – seven years earlier than planned, now to happen in 2025.
We are governed by idiots.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 17, 2022 8:55 am

So Dr Faustus.
Are you suggesting that Big Oil are selling all their product?
They aren’t just doing it for Gaia destroying sport?
And … gasp … some of those stamping their feet about it might actually be consumers of those products?

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 17, 2022 8:55 am

Newly retired NSW Police commissioner Mick Fuller did not declare racehorse shares to NSW government

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-17/inside-mick-fullers-nsw-police-punters-club/100818960

A copper not disclosing race horse ownership, not so hot.
A police chief not disclosing race horse ownership, oh my.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 17, 2022 8:57 am

Mick Fuller: But I let the BLM protests happen & cracked down on the anti vaxxers…why is the ABC going after me?

What a moron.

Anchor What
Anchor What
February 17, 2022 8:59 am

Can we reform pre-selections so engineers become candidates for parliaments instead of lawyers and political staffers?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 17, 2022 9:00 am

Mr Palmer said it all became too much for him and he “ended up vomiting”.

The Australian has the actual film clip.

bons
bons
February 17, 2022 9:00 am

Spender Airhead is an interesting example of intergenerational deleterious mutation.
John S was a more than good lawyer, and a conservative’s conservative who was contemptuous of burecucracy, sneered at the arts establishment, worked to subvert regulations and genuinely detested socialism.
Of course he was sufficiently wealthy to be pretty much impervious to all of those plagues, but he didn’t hesitate to enunciate his beliefs.
But the girls were brought up in Mum’s kissy kissy arty doctors’ wives world, especially during the period (four years ?) when when John worked in Paris.
It was inevitable that the girls would fall into the frivolous, no consequences, rich crony corruption paradigm.

Twostix
Twostix
February 17, 2022 9:00 am

Notafan Covid Karen, modern Mrs Magoo, on her grand tour blindly steps over the unvaccinated homeless in Italy, misses the protests, street fights, sit ins and police beatdowns of unvaccinated in Paris and declares the protests back here simply can’t be real.

“Now fetch me my coffee my mandatorily masked young Spanish force triple jabbed, vaccine passport suffering servant waitress, and bother me not with your problems. For I am Australian boomer woman on my fourth well deserved European Grand Tour, hear me roar!”

Gilas
Gilas
February 17, 2022 9:03 am

Cassie of Sydney says:
February 17, 2022 at 8:38 am

Here’s a thought, since you are rightly concerned about the state of the country and the west (as I am and as most here are too), perhaps you could post a comment dealing with issues and where you’re not passing sanctimonious judgment on others here. Those of us who do engage in the occasional stoush actually do post interesting and pertinent comments.

Here we go again…
I have made several additions to the Cat; quality, not quantity is my m.o. But the short-term memor-ism here is strong. I find it tedious repeating the same fundamental truths for the n+1 th time.
Others are different, vive la difference!
Besides, you perfectly proved the point of my initial post.

Kindly have the last word and have a nice day.

Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
February 17, 2022 9:05 am

Anchor What says:
February 17, 2022 at 8:59 am
Can we reform pre-selections so engineers become candidates for parliaments instead of lawyers and political staffers?

As an engineer, I used to think the same thing, more benevolent engineers in politics. However, it dawned on me that, by and large, we don’t have the character flaws that modern politics requires.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
February 17, 2022 9:07 am

Can we reform pre-selections so engineers become candidates for parliaments instead of lawyers and political staffers?

You really don’t want engineers running the country.
Trust me on this.

Roger
Roger
February 17, 2022 9:11 am

Ha! Within weeks!
You weren’t expecting that, eh Putin.

To be fair, NATO’s Generals will have to workshop the deployment intersectionally, considering whether they have enough combat ready soldiers to fill the required diversity quotas.

These things take time.

And while they do, the ice and snow will begin turning to slush and mud.

Megan
Megan
February 17, 2022 9:11 am

Forgotten so quickly…Mater (et. al. ) v The Towoomba Weasel.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
February 17, 2022 9:12 am

So Dr Faustus.
Are you suggesting that Big Oil are selling all their product?

They need the money to give to starving children in Calcutta.

At least, I think that’s what they do with it.

bons
bons
February 17, 2022 9:12 am

Two young engineer students cycling through their campus. One remarks on the other’s new bike.
“Yeah, it was strange.” ” A young woman rode up to me, dumped her bike, ripped off her clothes and yelled- take whatever you want”.
“Yeah good choice Mate”. “Her clothes would never have fitted you”.

Roger
Roger
February 17, 2022 9:23 am

Can we reform pre-selections so engineers become candidates for parliaments instead of lawyers and political staffers?

First out of the blocks would be this bright young lass.

Anchor What
Anchor What
February 17, 2022 9:23 am

You really don’t want engineers running the country.
They couldn’t do a worse job of running energy and transport than the idiots we now have.
And they would certainly be capable of doing the numbers on COVID.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 17, 2022 9:25 am

I have made several additions to the Cat; quality, not quantity is my m.o.

Oh dear.
These delusions of adequacy?
How long have you been experiencing this?
Probably best to let others judge the quality of your contributions.
As measured by upticks.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
February 17, 2022 9:26 am

If you find a starving dog and make it prosperous, it will not bite you. This is the principle difference between a dog and man.

— Mark Twain

I think this is a quote never ages

Anchor What
Anchor What
February 17, 2022 9:26 am

Yassmin used to be an engineer (sort of) before she became a race-baiting activists, darling of the left media. She’d be about as much use in politics as AOC.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 17, 2022 9:27 am

Anyway.
Enough of this doomsday stuff.
Has anyone been watching Married at First Sight?
How about that Chloe?
What a piece of work.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
February 17, 2022 9:28 am

Yassmin used to be an engineer (sort of) before she became a race-baiting activists, darling of the left media. She’d be about as much use in politics as AOC.

Indeed, Mark Twain was right

Roger
Roger
February 17, 2022 9:29 am
Roger
Roger
February 17, 2022 9:31 am

Yassmin used to be an engineer (sort of) before she became a race-baiting activists, darling of the left media. She’d be about as much use in politics as AOC.

That was my point.

You’d end up with engineers more interested in politics than in engineering.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
February 17, 2022 9:32 am

Hughsays:
February 17, 2022 at 7:51 am
Another protest in Canberra this Saturday.

Not a good idea, I fear.
That’s the mistake they made in Melbourne.
The organisers got so pumped by the success of the first protest that they just kept expecting people to turn out week after week after week, and inevitably the numbers started to decline, the novelty wore off for the general public, and Maximum Leader was able to ride it out.
And do they seriously expect people to trek to Canberra again? This one will be way down on impact and will enable the tyrants to declare victory.

Roger
Roger
February 17, 2022 9:33 am

Normal people, by and large, aren’t attracted to politics as it is done today.

Twostix
Twostix
February 17, 2022 9:33 am

Not for nothing but Victoria, then Australia, now Canberra and Canada shows that notafan and Lowe lowe owe struth a major, major apology.

The solution was mass civil disobedience, blockades, mass protests and street fights after all. We should have all done this stuff in 2020. And this is some sort of neo-communistic 21st century revolution of a our “elite” against us.

And the biggest as-yet unswallowed pill, now being curiously examined by 2gb, etc: that this was just a bad dose of “the flu”. Repackaged and politically weaponised against us using corrupt cherry picked statistics and slimy egg-head’s redefinition of two little words: “with” and “of”.

Eyrie
Eyrie
February 17, 2022 9:35 am

You really don’t want engineers running the country.
Trust me on this.

A lot of the Chicom leadership have engineering degrees.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
February 17, 2022 9:39 am

Sancho Panzer says:
February 17, 2022 at 9:27 am
Anyway.
Enough of this doomsday stuff.
Has anyone been watching Married at First Sight?
How about that Chloe?
What a piece of work.

This is a Putin style propaganda diversion.
There is no Chloe.
Nice try Vladimir.

local oaf
February 17, 2022 9:40 am

Anchor What says:
February 17, 2022 at 8:32 am

The business trips to Adelaide.
Tim Blair has a lot of fun at Adelaide’s expense.

Geez, what did we in Adelaide ever do to you guys – we sent you Glenn Ridge, Shaun Micallef and David Hicks; what more do you want???

Roger
Roger
February 17, 2022 9:43 am

When corporate activism goes wrong, very wrong:

Hyundai issued a Tweet supporting Pakistan’s claims on Kashmiri Solidarity Day.

Trouble is they sell about 500 000 more vehicles in India per annum than they do in Pakistan.

A grovelling apology which called India “Hyundai’s second home” failed to prevent the Indian government complaining to South Korea.

And probably lost them their Pakistan market too boot.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 17, 2022 9:45 am

Anchor Whatsays:

February 17, 2022 at 9:26 am

Yassmin used to be an engineer (sort of) before she became a race-baiting activists, darling of the left media. She’d be about as much use in politics as AOC.

Bwah ha ha ha ha.
A parliament full of engineers.
Decision making crippled for the want of a little more data.
They would be sitting in London in 1941 with the bombs dropping all around just waiting for that last bit of evidence to confirm Yitler’s intent.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 17, 2022 9:46 am

Geez, what did we in Adelaide ever do to you guys – we sent you Glenn Ridge, Shaun Micallef and David Hicks; what more do you want???

And a certain bear if I’m not mistaken.

P
P
February 17, 2022 9:46 am

Canadian Prime Minister Blocks Domestic Travel in Effort to Stop Protests Against His Government – Compliance Minister Declares Federal Restriction Zones Where Travel Is Verboten
February 16, 2022 | Sundance

According to the ministers carrying out the Emergency War Measures Act, any Canadian citizen who travels into a restricted zone, as defined by the Canadian government, will face a fine of up to $500 on summary conviction, or imprisonment for six months for their noncompliance. An indictment against a dissident subversive comes with a $5,000 fine and up to five years in jail.

Additionally, the Canadian federal government has announced they will seize the children of any citizen who travels with a minor child for the purposes of entering one of the federally defined no-go zones. Reunification will be dependent on re-education at one of the jails, compounds or institutions of incarceration.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 17, 2022 9:47 am

Geez, what did we in Adelaide ever do to you guys – we sent you Glenn Ridge, Shaun Micallef and David Hicks; what more do you want???

The Chappell brothers.
Pie floaters.
The Jarman brothers.
Kochie.
Bodies in barrels.
Don Dunstan.
The Beaumont children.
The misnaming of potato cakes.
Should I go on?

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 17, 2022 9:48 am

The only people attracted to politics these days are ugly, either inside or out or both.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
February 17, 2022 9:49 am

A lot of the Chicom leadership have engineering degrees.

I rest my case, m’lud.
You’d either have your life managed to three decimal places – or there would be committee rooms full of autists in the foetal position, moaning softly.

Plumbers, taxi drivers, and corner store operators would be a better bet.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
February 17, 2022 9:50 am

Pie floaters.

Delicious.
What’s wrong with you this morning?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 17, 2022 9:51 am

There is no Chloe.

Wut?
There’s always a Chloe.
And she’s always a piece of work.
Don’t tell me they’ve departed from the tried and true formula.

Cassie of Sydney
February 17, 2022 9:53 am

“There’s always a Chloe.
And she’s always a piece of work.”

I know of a “Chloe” who ordered removalists a week or two before an election result.

Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
February 17, 2022 9:54 am

Adapted from somebody else’s wisdom pertaining to medicine and politics,

‘When you mix engineering with politics, you get politics.’

Roger
Roger
February 17, 2022 9:55 am

Should I go on?

Even Coopers went over to the dark side.

And I’m not referring to the ale.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 17, 2022 9:56 am

Let’s not forget pink Stubbies.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 17, 2022 9:59 am

Jeebers, P’s post up ahead sends a shiver down my spine.
And not in a good way.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
February 17, 2022 10:00 am

And a certain bear if I’m not mistaken.

With no trousers on.
A Don Dunstan era innovation.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 17, 2022 10:00 am

What were the highlights you ask?
No doubt about it.
The business trips to Adelaide.
Particularly where it was an overnight stay on a Tuesday.

1/2 price drinks night at the blue oyster?

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 17, 2022 10:01 am

If everyone who threw a poofta in the Torrens did the same thing to Sydney Harbour you could walk from Kirribilli to the CBD.

Eyrie
Eyrie
February 17, 2022 10:02 am

‘When you mix engineering with politics, you get politics.’
Substitute icecream for engineering and dogshit for politics

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 17, 2022 10:04 am

Dr Faustussays:

February 17, 2022 at 9:50 am

Pie floaters.

Delicious.
What’s wrong with you this morning?

Not enough upticks.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 17, 2022 10:07 am

On theuir ABCcess this morning.
AM starts with the laaaaydy compere grovelling to the didjabringabongalong people on the wubbla nation land.
Looks like thats going to become standard for the slime.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 17, 2022 10:07 am

Don’t upset the Indians. Ask the ACB and MCC. They know all about reverse colonialism.

Cassie of Sydney
February 17, 2022 10:07 am

“Additionally, the Canadian federal government has announced they will seize the children of any citizen who travels with a minor child for the purposes of entering one of the federally defined no-go zones. Reunification will be dependent on re-education at one of the jails, compounds or institutions of incarceration.”

Full blown totalitarianism. When they come for your children, it’s over.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 17, 2022 10:09 am

The Adelaide Central Markets are lovely. Possibly the best in Australia?

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 17, 2022 10:10 am

federally defined no-go zones

Just like China & North Korea have.
Western governments can no longer lecture others on human rights.
But that was the plan all along.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 17, 2022 10:13 am

Wesfarmers interim dividend 80cents a share – down 10% on last year. Mumble, bitch, mutter, mutter.

calli
calli
February 17, 2022 10:14 am

Not quite.

If the parent/s are arrested and cannot care for their child the child, or should they become separated.

“CASO has a mandate to protect a child when their parent becomes unavailable to exercise their custodial rights over the child and the parent has not made adequate provision for the child’s care and custody,” said the statement.

“If parents and children are separated following police efforts in ending the demonstration in the downtown core, CASO will work to reunite families as soon as possible.”

Read the entire statement, not just a commentator’s “take” on it for eyeballs and clicks.

Not good, far from good, but not exactly taking children off to “undisclosed sinister locations”.

calli
calli
February 17, 2022 10:15 am

Apologies for the stutter.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 17, 2022 10:15 am

calli, please go back to being angry calli from this morning.
Not rational calli.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
February 17, 2022 10:16 am

Megan says:
February 17, 2022 at 9:11 am
Forgotten so quickly…Mater (et. al. ) v The Towoomba Weasel.

Not forgotten.
A brilliant excoriation is never forgotten.
Nor is the backdown phrase from the Weasel “Well if its not factual then its family lore”

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 17, 2022 10:18 am

I wonder how that taxpayer funded PHD is going?

calli
calli
February 17, 2022 10:18 am

Electricians out of the ceiling now. I have a new outdoor enclosure, fully motorised for the grandies to play with – those big patio blinds that keep the mozzies out.

At sunset, I can now sip long cool drinks with umbrellas in them without being carried off by Hexham Greys.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 17, 2022 10:22 am

Hmmm what to watch..

Another Australian kitchen sink drama dreamed up by luuuuvies
or
An Australian low budget zombie mashathon?

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
February 17, 2022 10:24 am

Nanny Neil Mitchell 3aw is foreshadowing TaliDan easing restrictions this morning.
Is it safe to dance?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0QDKLglEP5Y

Roger
Roger
February 17, 2022 10:25 am

Not good, far from good, but not exactly taking children off to “undisclosed sinister locations”.

I thought that bit had been “sexed up” a bit for impact.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
February 17, 2022 10:25 am

Has anyone been watching Married at First Sight?

Sancho, I prefer to watch the new comedy “Winter Olympics”.
The funniest parts are the interviews between masked reporters and masked athletes.
Reporter: mrmph hurrumpf ski yesss (uninteligible) fast ergh?
Athlete: rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb!
Cut back to studio stooges – What a brilliant interview and isn’t our athlete wonderful!

Unfortunately this series will be over soon and the writers will begin looking for new plots to aired in 4 years time.

calli
calli
February 17, 2022 10:26 am

I enjoyed being angry this morning, and I hope it was righteous anger.

The Beloved has finally come around to the realisation that he has been well and truly conned, which is a good thing but confronting for him. Nearly fell off my chair at the “you were right, I was wrong”.

This is definitely a situation where having “the last word” never pays. It’s enough to see the light dawn and the jaw set in opposition. His far superior handle on figures and statistics means he sees to magnitude of the deception even more clearly now than I do.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 17, 2022 10:27 am

Considering it’s mask optional in Chicago schools, there is no cover for the covidians to continue to demand it here in Oz.
Just dump it.
If people want to keep wearing them, that’s their choice.
Should have been mask optional from the get go.

Hugh
Hugh
February 17, 2022 10:27 am

Timothy Neilson says:
February 17, 2022 at 9:32 am

Not a good idea, I fear.
That’s the mistake they made in Melbourne.
The organisers got so pumped by the success of the first protest that they just kept expecting people to turn out week after week after week, and inevitably the numbers started to decline, the novelty wore off for the general public, and Maximum Leader was able to ride it out.
And do they seriously expect people to trek to Canberra again? This one will be way down on impact and will enable the tyrants to declare victory.

That might be true. I do not know.

I wonder though, would having ten people protesting enable the tyrants to declare victory any more than having zero people protesting?

As I say, I do not know. I am just wondering.

Indolent
Indolent
February 17, 2022 10:27 am
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 17, 2022 10:27 am

Lambie blasts Steggall: You’re not helping independents
Georgina Noack
GEORGINA NOACK
Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie has slammed Independent MP Zali Steggall’s “tap dancing” around a $100,000 campaign donation, saying it doesn’t help aspiring independent politicians.

“I tell you what, Miss Steggall, that’s not helping independents come up through in the future,” she told Sky News.

“You are not helping them by tap dancing. You’ve done something wrong, girlfriend. Come out and take ownership of it and admit it.”

Senator Lambie said it’s a blow to the integrity of independent candidates, who already have “Buckley’s hope” when they go up against the major parties and well-funded political figures such as Clive Palmer.

Ms Lambie also addressed ASIO boss Mike Burgess’ criticism of the government’s politicisation of ASIO for election votes, saying these issues could have been avoided if the parties would support an inquiry into Chinese government interference.

“We’ve seen Aldi bags only a few years ago with $100,000 in them, and we see all these lunches and dinners going on and we have no idea where that money is coming from.”

“You don’t have to politicise ASIO,” she said. “We could’ve started an inquiry on this two years ago.”

Wasn’t Jackie Lambie first elected to the Senate under the banner of the Palmer United Party?

srr
srr
February 17, 2022 10:27 am

Fauci Admits on Camera There Is No Exit Plan for Masks | Direct Message

https://rumble.com/embed/vshinz/?pub=5f67r

The Rubin Report – Published February 16, 2022
Rumble — Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” talks about Dr. Fauci’s lack of a plan for mask mandates, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki requesting censorship laws and Justin Trudeau’s unearthed dictator comments. First, Dave shares a clip of Anthony Fauci being asked about the future of the plane mask mandate. Fauci’s answer reveals that there appears to be no metric to evaluate public policy and that he appears to have no exit strategy or plan for the mask mandate. Meanwhile, at the University of Reno students are having a mask mandate protest because the mask mandate is being repealed. Next, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki surprised an interviewer when she appeared to want the U.S. government to create laws that restrict speech that is harmful, but legal. Does YouTube care about the 1st amendment at all? Why would a tech company demand social media censorship be imposed on it? Things are not getting easier for Justin Trudeau. After passing the Emergencies Act to squash the freedom convoy vaccine mandate protest, old footage of him praising the dictatorship of China has gone viral online. Canada struggles to deal with the Canadian truckers as numerous tow trucks have refused to remove the trucker convoy.

Roger
Roger
February 17, 2022 10:28 am

Justin Trudeau@JustinTrudeau
Officiel du gouvernement – Canada

We’ll always defend the rights of Canadians to peaceful assembly and to freedom of expression. We’ll also do whatever is necessary to reinforce the principles, values, and institutions that keep all Canadians free – and that’s what we’re doing with the Emergencies Act.

He fights Fascists!

Gab
Gab
February 17, 2022 10:30 am

The Beloved has finally come around to the realisation that he has been well and truly conned, which is a good thing but confronting for him.

Yes very confronting but he was reasoned enough to admit it. Not many of his ilk around these days. I admire him for this.

local oaf
February 17, 2022 10:30 am

Sancho Panzer says:
February 17, 2022 at 9:47 am

The Chappell brothers.
Pie floaters.
The Jarman brothers.
Kochie.
Bodies in barrels.
Don Dunstan.
The Beaumont children.
The misnaming of potato cakes.
Should I go on?

Dang, I forgot the sparkling wit and incisive commentary of I.M. Chappell.

Pretty impressive list, I must admit. Also one Rupert Murdoch got his start here with the Adelaide News. 🙂

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

Not good, far from good, but not exactly taking children off to “undisclosed sinister locations”.

Always check back to source.
Everyone is doing fake news with their ears pinned back.
It’s the new normal.

Roger
Roger
February 17, 2022 10:32 am

Let me just say that my feelings for Prince Charles are less than positive. I hope karma hits him with a baseball bat.

As I wrote yesterday, Charles is more of a danger to the continuation of the monarchy than the ongoing Andrew scandal.

calli
calli
February 17, 2022 10:32 am

We’ll also do whatever is necessary to reinforce the principles, values, and institutions that keep all Canadians free

By abandoning those principles, values and institutions.

That village needs to be burned to the ground, otherwise how can it be saved?

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 17, 2022 10:32 am

I hope this bloke got enough for his house deposit and a new ute..
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/feb/16/man-wrongly-identified-as-cleo-smith-accused-reaches-settlement-with-seven-network
The man wrongly identified as Cleo Smith’s alleged kidnapper by the Seven Network has had a victory in the Western Australia supreme court, after suing the network for defamation.

On Wednesday the WA supreme court chief justice, Peter Quinlan, read out consent orders in favour of Terrance Flowers, a 27-year-old Nyamal man from the town of Karratha.

Flowers sued the network in November after his photograph was mistakenly used in Seven’s broadcasts, an online article, a tweet and a Facebook post about the arrest of a different man. The man arrested has a similar name to that used by Flowers on Facebook where he used his mother’s maiden name, Kelly.

Roger
Roger
February 17, 2022 10:37 am

By abandoning those principles, values and institutions.

By subtly redefining them.

Keep the language, change the meaning.

Diabolical.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 17, 2022 10:38 am

I hope this bloke got enough for his house deposit and a new ute..

He’ll be “humbugged” out of the lot in forty eight hours…

Bluey
Bluey
February 17, 2022 10:38 am

I laughed this morning at the Russian foreign ministry asking for a full list of dates they are going to invade the Ukraine. It looks like someone is having fun.

Cassie of Sydney
February 17, 2022 10:39 am

Clive Palmer has a history of vomiting……he and his PUP party vomited up Lambie in 2013.

Winston Smith
February 17, 2022 10:39 am

sfw:

I guess we have a somewhat similar situation here but much of the risk is in home loans, it won’t take much of an interest rate rise, say a couple of percent and many will be unable to keep up with the mortgages. The Federal Gov is dying to start up the ponzi immigration scheme asap but even with that interest rates will rule what happens. How long can it last?

Use one of the bank interest/repayment calculators they have on their sites for an ugly look at how much it costs to get the average home loan paid off.
If it doesn’t curl your toes, then nothing will.

Roger
Roger
February 17, 2022 10:40 am

I hope this bloke got enough for his house deposit and a new ute..

Even after the mistake was obvious they continued, reporting that the accused had “put on weight” compared with his Facebook pics.

cohenite
February 17, 2022 10:43 am

Origin to close Eraring in 3 years. Eraring and Liddell produce 30% of NSW’s power. NSW requires about 12000MW daily. There is 25000 installed wind and solar in NSW. In the last 24 hours w&s produced 18% or 2160 MW. Renewables are entirely sustained by subsidies. Coal cannot compete because when the renewables are producing, about 20% of the time, usually in the middle of the day when demand is lowest, coal cannot sell it’s electricity and must buy large scale energy certificates from the renewables. The subsidies, certificates and preferential access to the market are why renewables are cheaper then coal.

We’re fucked.

Origin to close Eraring seven years early

EvilElvis
EvilElvis
February 17, 2022 10:45 am

Has anyone been watching Married at First Sight?

MaFS is fantastic. A train wreck but fantastic.

Anyone who watches the ABC or news on the other main stream channels and feels they can shit on us fine purveyors of trash are kidding themselves. MaFS has more going for it than the Covid porn most here have diligently lapped up for the last two years.

PS, Hi Lizzie!

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 17, 2022 10:46 am

SP

I often wondered if he was a but dyslexic and confused people’s names.

Over at Currency Lad, Homer (Not Trampis) gets confused all the time.

srr
srr
February 17, 2022 10:48 am

JC says:
February 17, 2022 at 7:14 am
Leave the Durham investigation well alone, USSR. You’ll ruin it with your usual demented conspiracy crapola. Stop talking about it.

For those who haven’t twigged yet, JC & others are personally invested in misbranding, with insanely over the top libels, certain people they know know shit about shit people, and hey, if they want to put themselves so solidly in the camp of shit people, they are perfectly free to do so.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 17, 2022 10:48 am

Mick Fuller, eh?
Before I clicked I had a mental picture of a work syndicate of a dozen work colleagues who chip in $10 a week for a 5% share in some plodding nag which he just forgot to declare.
But no.
It’s a little more direct than that.
And the co-owners had “dealings” with NSW Plod as both suppliers and “clients”.
And to think a Premier fell on his sword over a bottle of wine.

Roger
Roger
February 17, 2022 10:49 am

Origin to close Eraring seven years early

Will be interesting to see how the Federation survives the coming electricity drought.

“Queensland’s electricity is for Queenslanders!”

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 17, 2022 10:50 am

Try again.
Has anyone been watching Married at First Sight?
What about Arthur and Hyacinth, eh?

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
February 17, 2022 10:50 am

Hughsays:
February 17, 2022 at 10:27 am

I wonder though, would having ten people protesting enable the tyrants to declare victory any more than having zero people protesting?

Fair question Hugh. Personally, I think it’s easier for the tyrants to make a big issue out of the fact that an organised protest has attracted only ten people than the fact that no protest has been organised. In part at least, if they start prancing around saying “look, no protest”, they’re inviting a response – the unknown is always more scary than the known, and they may not want to risk provoking another big turnout – and their provocation might well create more enthusiasm for one more big effort than can be maintained by week after week expectations that people will front up.
It’s true that if no protest is organised then something else needs to be done to keep making it clear that people are angry. Social media, letters to the press, maybe posters put up at shopping centres and public transport hubs etc, are the kinds of things that keep people conscious of the issue. The big protests can then be kept for occasions where there’s a special motivating factor (e.g. Maximum Leader’s replica of Hitler’s 1933 Enabling Bill being before the State Parliament), or where there may be special impact (e.g. if Melbourne had been handled properly there could have been a big protest around the time of the Australian Open).

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
February 17, 2022 10:55 am

So, no mask mandate removal for Vic.
Trivial Pursuit is still popular in the TaliDan land.

Roger
Roger
February 17, 2022 10:56 am

Mick Fuller, eh?

Via the ABC…

NSW Sports Minister Stuart Ayres yesterday endorsed [Fuller] as a candidate “of the highest integrity” [to serve on the Board of Racing NSW].

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 17, 2022 10:58 am

cohenite Johnson is right!

We’re fucked.

Bluey
Bluey
February 17, 2022 11:00 am

PJ O’Rourke, American political commentator has died. Some choice quotes:

“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.”
“If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free.”
“When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.”
“Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history, mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over their fellows and toss commands in every direction and would boss the grass in the meadow about which way to bend in the wind are the most depraved kind of prostitutes. They will submit to any indignity, perform any vile act, do anything to achieve power.”
“The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns.”
“No one has ever had a fantasy about being tied to a bed and sexually ravished by someone dressed as a liberal”
“God created a free universe. He could have created any kind of universe he wanted. But a universe without freedom would have been static and meaningless — the taxpayer-funded-art-in-public-places universe.”
“You can’t get good Chinese takeout in China and Cuban cigars are rationed in Cuba. That’s all you need to know about communism.”
“Foreigners may pretend otherwise, but if English is spoken loudly enough, anyone can understand it.“

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
February 17, 2022 11:01 am

Sancho Panzer says:
February 17, 2022 at 10:50 am
Try again.
Has anyone been watching Married at First Sight?
What about Arthur and Hyacinth, eh?

Give it up Vlad.
I suppose your favourite beer is Fosters.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 17, 2022 11:02 am

We’re fucked.

Fact check: True

Zatara
Zatara
February 17, 2022 11:06 am

Just ran across another option for the Canadians to take on Trudeau’s bastardization of their Emergencies Act.

Any temporary laws made under the act are subject to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. That means any attempt by the government to suspend the civil rights of Canadians, even in an emergency, can be challenged in court.

ANY Canadian can file that suit.

Hugh
Hugh
February 17, 2022 11:07 am

Timothy Neilson says:
February 17, 2022 at 10:50 am

Fair question Hugh. Personally, I think it’s easier for the tyrants to make a big issue out of the fact that an organised protest has attracted only ten people than the fact that no protest has been organised. In part at least, if they start prancing around saying “look, no protest”, they’re inviting a response – the unknown is always more scary than the known, and they may not want to risk provoking another big turnout – and their provocation might well create more enthusiasm for one more big effort than can be maintained by week after week expectations that people will front up.
It’s true that if no protest is organised then something else needs to be done to keep making it clear that people are angry. Social media, letters to the press, maybe posters put up at shopping centres and public transport hubs etc, are the kinds of things that keep people conscious of the issue. The big protests can then be kept for occasions where there’s a special motivating factor (e.g. Maximum Leader’s replica of Hitler’s 1933 Enabling Bill being before the State Parliament), or where there may be special impact (e.g. if Melbourne had been handled properly there could have been a big protest around the time of the Australian Open).

Thanks Timothy.

Some good points there, and some useful suggestions.

Rabz
February 17, 2022 11:07 am

Braindead bureaucrats and lamestream meeja language manglers in action – apparently being mauled by a shark is now referred to as “an interaction” with the aforementioned creature.

Greenfilth – they may nominally represent a small minority of MPs in various parliamentary jurisdictions across this country, but their loathsome idiotic anti-human agenda effectively drives the actions of the bureaucracy, the meeja, corporations and our parliaments.

They need to be extirpated, root and branch (PTP).

Roger
Roger
February 17, 2022 11:10 am

ANY Canadian can file that suit.

Their civil liberties association has been very vocal in their criticism.

I think they’d be supportive of any who did.

lotocoti
lotocoti
February 17, 2022 11:10 am

Hey Johnny, what are you rebelling against?
Whadda you got?
They probably think they really are The Wild Ones.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 17, 2022 11:12 am

Trudeau’s bastardization of their Emergencies Act.

A poem.

God save the queen
The fascist regime
They made you a moron
Potential H-bomb

I might’ve borrowed it from somewhere, but John Lydon probably won’t mind.

srr
srr
February 17, 2022 11:14 am

“Twostix says:
February 17, 2022 at 9:33 am
Not for nothing but Victoria, then Australia, now Canberra and Canada shows that
notafan and Lowe lowe owe struth a major, major apology.

The solution was mass civil disobedience, blockades, mass protests and street fights after all. We should have all done this stuff in 2020. And this is some sort of neo-communistic 21st century revolution of a our “elite” against us.

And the biggest as-yet unswallowed pill, now being curiously examined by 2gb, etc: that this was just a bad dose of “the flu”. Repackaged and politically weaponised against us using corrupt cherry picked statistics and slimy egg-head’s redefinition of two little words: “with” and “of”.”
_______________

Yeah but they can’t do that, not because they’re too thick to see it now, they’re far from thick, so far from thick that they would have seen it from the get go, it’s just that it would let their side down.

Top Ender
Top Ender
February 17, 2022 11:15 am

Idiotic sight of the Top End #1:

– workers laying fibre optic cable outside in Darwin. All wearing masks.

Zatara
Zatara
February 17, 2022 11:19 am

– workers laying fibre optic cable outside in Darwin. All wearing masks.

More and more I suspect that the wearing of masks in most cases has more to do with hiding identity than preserving health.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 17, 2022 11:26 am

– workers laying fibre optic cable outside in Darwin. All wearing masks.

My favourite is NBN cable guys taking a lunch break and leaving cables stretched out on the nature strip.
Bloke comes out and mows nature strip. Chaos.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
February 17, 2022 11:30 am

Additionally, the Canadian federal government has announced they will seize the children of any citizen who travels with a minor child for the purposes of entering one of the federally defined no-go zones. Reunification will be dependent on re-education at one of the jails, compounds or institutions of incarceration

Yeah, threatening to take people’s children away is always a good step to pacifying them.

Shows how much Justine understands the people he pretends to speak for. He must be there frozen on the spot with his mouth open, trying to register how his people could knowingly be defying his wishes.

twostix
twostix
February 17, 2022 11:30 am

Helter Skelter, there were three fully boosterised covid karens with sore throats taking rat tests and keeping kids off school and living some personal nightmare in a meeting I attended this morning. Don’t ask how they are, because it’s become corporate culture that they always hijack the meeting and tell everyone all about their weirdo private lives.

lotocoti
lotocoti
February 17, 2022 11:37 am
Boambee John
Boambee John
February 17, 2022 11:43 am

Rogersays:
February 17, 2022 at 11:10 am
ANY Canadian can file that suit.

Their civil liberties association has been very vocal in their criticism.

Unlike ours, which have been complete lapdogs.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 17, 2022 11:54 am

I am shocked.

Shocked by people exclaiming of their shock. Specifically, those people’s shock at an animal, whose efficient design made it almost unnecessary to evolve for 400 million years, doing what it is designed to do.

It’s a big fuck-off shark. Sharks operate by swimming up to things at speed, chomping on those things with automatically-replacing giant teeth, eating bits of it then swimming off.

Surely this would form part of the risk management process that goes through people’s minds. Of course, lots of people go swimming in the ocean and aren’t eaten. But when it does happen, I can’t understand why people are shocked by it.

There was some nancy local mayor on the teev this morning, describing his shock in a ‘How could this have possibly happened?’ manner. This was followed by a declaration that if caught, the naughty shark would be tagged and ‘taken further out to sea’.

I will venture to say that this is the exact mentality of someone who catches a taipan in their backyard, and then releases it on their nature strip – confident to their very soul that there is no way whatsoever that the same taipan will make its own way back to where it was found.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 17, 2022 11:58 am

Will be interesting to see how the Federation survives the coming electricity drought.
“Queensland’s electricity is for Queenslanders!”

I think the Revenue from interState sales will overcome any love Pony Girl has for the Queensland proles.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
February 17, 2022 12:00 pm

UnHerd has an interesting interview with a financial analyst. Title is
What the Moderna share price reveals about the vaccine.
Looks at what has happened to the share price and what it means. Makes an interesting comparison between South Africa and Israel. If the vaccine works Israel should be better than SA but it is not. Goes against the narrative. Unherd comes up with some possible reasons such as age of population and more testing.
Can’t remember his name but one of the former FDA bosses is the CEO of the company behind Moderna.
Also remember it is Moderna that the Federal and VIC Governments are planning to open production centre with in VIC. In 2024 !

calli
calli
February 17, 2022 12:03 pm

Here is the UnHerd Moderna interview.

I haven’t watched it yet so can’t comment on contents.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 17, 2022 12:04 pm

Origin to close Eraring seven years early

Have a look at the prices they get for the rest of their fleet and the costs they save.

Zatara
Zatara
February 17, 2022 12:08 pm

Leftists Threaten to Throw Bricks at Cafe Owner ID’d in Freedom Convoy Hack

Tammy Giuliani, owner of Stella Luna Gelato Cafe, said she has been forced to close the doors of her Ottawa business due to threats from extremists after her name appeared on the list of donors hacked from givesendgo.

Others, like Vicki Dutton and her husband, are also concerned about possible reprisals after their names appeared in the list of nearly 93,000 people, which allegedly included personal information such as emails and postal codes.

From a commenter:

See the difference? The protestors have been in Ottawa for weeks and not a single building has been burnt, no one raped or murdered, no fights…

The left gets info on who donated to them and the next day donors are receiving death threats and threats to their business. Ahhhh yes the tolerant left.

RCMP response to this threat of violence? Eh?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 17, 2022 12:10 pm

Can we reform pre-selections so engineers become candidates for parliaments instead of lawyers and political staffers?

In the name of all things good, why?

Seriously, it’s a coin flip. There is a site called – I am not kidding – engineergirl.org. It has a Q&A function. This is a sample:

Q: I really want to do engineering, but I am having self doubt in thinking that I’m too stupid to do it. What should I do, go for it or don’t even bother especially that I’m not great maths?

The answer, from Wendy Sahli at the Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society:

I wasn’t smart at ANYTHING in high school. I was told I wasn’t smart enough for college. I put myself through college and started in business administration. I learned very quickly that I actually had technical talent by applying myself and ended up in technology full time. Open your mind to explore options and you’ll find something that fits you, not the other way around.

‘Technology full time’. Uh huh.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 17, 2022 12:12 pm

Hopefully Simon Holmes a Court will encourage someone to rake over the ashes (pun more or less intended) of his old man and his dealings. For history’s sake.

lotocoti
lotocoti
February 17, 2022 12:14 pm

‘How could this have possibly happened?’

I spy with my little doll’s eye something beginning with Seal.
Chomp.

bons
bons
February 17, 2022 12:14 pm

The Canberra protestors did an excellent job keeping the foul mouthed commies and white blackfellas off the podiums.
Both wrecked the credibility of most previous city protests. They even dominated the small town protests that I attended, but were not as agressive. Quite a few folks walked away when they started their blabber.
I realise that popular revolts are always vulnerable to the actions of agent p’s, but it was surprising that the ordinary folks didn’t shout them down or unplug them.
Anyone know how the Canberra folks kept them out?

shatterzzz
February 17, 2022 12:17 pm

Soooo .. what’s the behind-the-scenes thinking on this?
Got an email this morning from the bank (CBA) customers making cash DEPOSITS (I assume any amount as it didn’t state otherwise) will, in future, be required to show proof of ID ..

johanna
johanna
February 17, 2022 12:21 pm

I see that someone here has characterised the recent deluge of comments by a sad, obsessed narcissist as me vs them. Not true.

I have deliberately maintained radio silence while comment after comment attacking me yesterday spewed forth from this unfortunate person. Hardly an interactive experience.

As I said on the occasion of the last faux (look at moi! look at moi!) flounce, I consider my work in that department done.

Razey
Razey
February 17, 2022 12:21 pm

bonssays:
February 17, 2022 at 12:14 pm
The Canberra protestors did an excellent job keeping the foul mouthed commies and white blackfellas off the podiums.
Both wrecked the credibility of most previous city protests. They even dominated the small town protests that I attended, but were not as agressive. Quite a few folks walked away when they started their blabber.
I realise that popular revolts are always vulnerable to the actions of agent p’s, but it was surprising that the ordinary folks didn’t shout them down or unplug them.
Anyone know how the Canberra folks kept them out?

Sent them on a quest to find the mythical Golden Meth Pipe.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 17, 2022 12:22 pm

Hopefully Simon Holmes a Court will encourage someone to rake over the ashes (pun more or less intended) of his old man and his dealings. For history’s sake.

Trevor Sykes did a very good job in “The Bold Riders.”

HOLMES A COURT POSITIVE ON BELL GROUP’S FUTURE
By MARTIN PEERS
Nov 1, 1988 – 11.00am

Bond Corporation was the “most logical owner and controller of the Bell Group” and would “provide new direction and performance for the Bell companies in the future”, says Bell former chairman, Mr Robert Holmes a Court, in the Bell Group annual report.

Mr Holmes a Court, who retired as Bell Group chairman last week, said the rejection of his plan to merge Bell Group and Bell Resources, “coupled with my own decision to sell my interest in the Bell Group to the Bond Corp and the Western Australian

SGIO” led to the Bond Corp bid for Bell Group.

He said the asset sales achieved and under way would put Bell Group “in a strong position to embark on its new course within the Bond group of companies”.

shatterzzz
February 17, 2022 12:22 pm

Oh & someone took a baseball bat to Bob Saget.
The injuries were brutal.

Another one to add to the list .. starting to get amazed at how many of these , now newsworthy deceased, “celebrities” I haven’t heard of before .. LOL!

Pogria
Pogria
February 17, 2022 12:24 pm

Was in the bush again for a few days. No connection to anything as usual.
I go straight to the Cat to receive my News fix. No point going anywhere else, the best links and research are found right here.

However!, after speed reading a few pages, I find I missed out on an EPIC histrionic run. sigh……………..

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 17, 2022 12:25 pm

As I said on the occasion of the last faux (look at moi! look at moi!) flounce, I consider my work in that department done.

I wouldn’t bet on it.

Cassie of Sydney
February 17, 2022 12:26 pm

“Their civil liberties association has been very vocal in their criticism.

Unlike ours, which have been complete lapdogs.”

Canada actually has a robust conservative civil liberties organisation……The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF).

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 17, 2022 12:28 pm

I think I paid an SGIO levy for a few years. How about a refund Simon?

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 17, 2022 12:29 pm

RCMP response to this threat of violence? Eh?

But if a group showed up to protect the place of business, you can bet the RCMP would be all over them to ensure they weren’t breaking any laws.

Fuck the police.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 17, 2022 12:29 pm

The Canberra protestors did an excellent job keeping the foul mouthed commies and white blackfellas off the podiums.

Yes.

Both wrecked the credibility of most previous city protests.

Yes. Kudos to the organisers for keeping the ‘pedo fuckin’ pedos in government’, ‘rescue the children from the tunnels’, ‘abolish speed governors and logbooks for heavy vehicles’, ‘bring back Denis Walter for Carols by Candelight’ and various 5G and chemtrail-related enthusiasts away from the microphones.

It’s too important to be hijacked by those cockheads.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 17, 2022 12:30 pm

Half a box of Heytesbury Chardonnay and we’ll call it square.

Roger
Roger
February 17, 2022 12:30 pm

Canada actually has a robust conservative civil liberties organisation……The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF).

Yes, but even the liberal one is actually half decent, unlike ours.

Roger
Roger
February 17, 2022 12:34 pm

I think the Revenue from interState sales will overcome any love Pony Girl has for the Queensland proles.

If she’s still in government at the time, that will surely be the final nail in her coffin.

(That’s a metaphor, btw, ASIO.)

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 17, 2022 12:36 pm

How long has pony girl had the colour through the hair ?

Roger
Roger
February 17, 2022 12:36 pm

Soooo .. what’s the behind-the-scenes thinking on this?

Fighting crime, shaterzz.

Purely a token gesture as the crims will have fake IDs anyway.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 17, 2022 12:44 pm

NSW announces major COVID rule changes

NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet is announcing changes to the state’s COVID-19 restrictions.

From Friday, the two square metre density limit will be scrapped and QR code check-ins will only be required for nightclubs as well as music festivals with more than 1000 attendees.

Singing and dancing will be allowed in all venues.

From February 25, face masks will only be mandatory across a more limited range of venues including public transport, planes, airports and hospitals.

Roger
Roger
February 17, 2022 12:45 pm

How long has pony girl had the colour through the hair ?

According to the Palaszczuk News Network*, as it has been dubbed by journos, since August 2021.

* Taking a leaf out of Donald Trump’s book, Palaszczuk now makes announcements directly to the punters via social media rather than through an unkind and antagonistic press. Funny, she loved the cameras so much during the pandemic. Anyway, having brought all sympathetic journalists into her press team, she now finds that those left aren’t that enamoured of her.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
February 17, 2022 12:49 pm

‘How could this have possibly happened?’
I spy with my little doll’s eye something beginning with Seal.
Chomp.

Exactly. Nature in action, doing natural instinct stuff.

The swimmer’s last moments were horrific. But the poor bastard never gave up: despite being rag-dolled and clearly terribly injured, when the shark lost its grip for a second, he/she instantly started to try to swim for the shore.

Also instinct.

Indolent
Indolent
February 17, 2022 12:54 pm
Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 17, 2022 12:55 pm

The Chappell brothers.
Pie floaters.
The Jarman brothers.
Kochie.
Bodies in barrels.
Don Dunstan.
The Beaumont children.
The misnaming of potato cakes.

Adelaide Airport.
West End Draught.
Natasha Stott Despoja.
Port Pirie.
Mike Rann.
The inability to obtain a pizza on a Tuesday.
Stephen Kernahan.

bons
bons
February 17, 2022 12:55 pm

I don’t believe that it is Gillardesque ‘hyperbowl’ to suggest that Fidel’s putrid child’s tyranny represents an inflection point in the development of Western democracy or at least Anglosphere democracy.
But change will have to be forced, it won’t come from any element of the political class.
Watching the Canadian Parliamentary debates is shocking. Absolutely no displayed awareness of the momentous issues at hand and the consequences of their refusal to suspend business as usual and fight for their people.
If by some chance there is ever another election permitted in Trudy’s reich, candidates are going to face some searching scrutiny by the non-public sector demos.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 17, 2022 12:57 pm

The sooner Kangaroo Island secedes, the better.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 17, 2022 1:01 pm

Their ABC wants a ‘First Nations’ political reporter in Canberra – Aboriginals only

Michael Smith News. Didn’t we point the big finger at South Africa for similar behavior a few years ago?

srr
srr
February 17, 2022 1:02 pm

rwmalonemd @rwmalonemd
· Feb 7
Have you or a loved one been injured by the COVID-19 vaccines?

https://gettr.com/post/psxrxx7823
00:03
Posted on 9:51 AM · Feb 7th, 2022
_____________________

It’s a list of the admitted ‘side effects’ of these Govt Mandated Jabs.

When you watch it do think of rosie/notafan, JC and others who made it their mission to insult those who dared warn against the Jabs.

You know, all those really smart people who kept telling you which actual experts to ignore because those actual experts weren’t doing good for those Big Pharma Companies that JC, rosie/notafan et al are so proudly invested in.

Ah yes, those actual, frontline doctor experts (who rosie/notafan so happily spits on), who made a living out of keeping people alive, unlike those non-medical professional propagandists who make a living helping Big Pharma make a killing, killing people.

local oaf
February 17, 2022 1:07 pm

Knuckle Dragger says:
February 17, 2022 at 12:55 pm

Mike Rann

To be fair, Rann was a pom via NZ.

Also, he was gifted the rule of South Aussie by a supposedly conservative rural independent, years before the rest of the country knew that sort of thing could happen.
Ours was a weirdo by the name of Peter Lewis, known as “the mouth of the Murray”.

Oakeshott & Windsor later brought the joy of being South Australia to the whole country.

srr
srr
February 17, 2022 1:12 pm

Rhett Van Leeuwen
@rhettvan
·
Feb 15
Yup
https://gettr.com/post/pukx4w6c60

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 17, 2022 1:12 pm

We need benevolent aliens to arrive to enslave us.
At least there wouldn’t be this “keeping you safe” fakery.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 17, 2022 1:16 pm

To be fair, Rann was a pom via NZ.

Point conceded, oaf.

However, I stand by the midweek pizza deficit.

srr
srr
February 17, 2022 1:17 pm

Lulubelle @Lucretia21
· 2h
The only thing necessary for tyranny to fall is for good men to disobey.
#ElectionFraud #January6thSetup
#CovidHoax
#TruckersForFreedom

WarRoom @WarRoom
· 6h
“Using the powers of the State is Fascism.” -Peter Navarro, @RealPNavarro
https://gettr.com/post/puzq7ua57e

Delta A
Delta A
February 17, 2022 1:20 pm

bonssays:
February 17, 2022 at 12:14 pm

Anyone know how the Canberra folks kept them out?

Daughter said that the protesters were told no law-breaking, no violence and no interacting with the disrupters. She saw quite a few trying to bait people early in the march, but they were roundly ignored and moved on.

Protestors were also warned about nutters trying to hijack the event. Perhaps organisers were particularly careful in their choice of speakers.

I’ve seen various public mouths deriding the protestors as extremists trying to push their individual agendas. Nothing could be further from the truth. Those people were united in heart and mind. D tells of strangers greeting and hugging strangers, thanking those who had travelled great distances to be there. Uplifting.

She still hasn’t come down from the high of being part of it all.

local oaf
February 17, 2022 1:21 pm

Zatara says:
February 17, 2022 at 12:08 pm

Leftists Threaten to Throw Bricks at Cafe Owner ID’d in Freedom Convoy Hack

Tammy Giuliani, owner of Stella Luna Gelato Cafe, said she has been forced to close the doors of her Ottawa business due to threats from extremists after her name appeared on the list of donors hacked from givesendgo.

Is the list still visible anywhere online? I’d like to see my name in print.

Also, when do I get a call from the ABC?

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 17, 2022 1:23 pm

oaf, it’s on twitter.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 17, 2022 1:23 pm

The Tele:

TV news legend George Negus has been moved into a Sydney nursing home, after he was diagnosed with dementia.

They’ve only just found this out?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 17, 2022 1:25 pm

quite a few trying to bait people early in the march, but they were roundly ignored and moved on.

Same in the Darwin protests Delta. A couple of noisy sheepdogs rolling around the outside of the crowd, who were robustly advised to go fuck themselves by the normal people.

Cassie of Sydney
February 17, 2022 1:28 pm

“Rogersays:
February 17, 2022 at 12:30 pm
Canada actually has a robust conservative civil liberties organisation……The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF).

Yes, but even the liberal one is actually half decent, unlike ours.”

Correct…..Canadian Meghan Murphy, on her youtube channel, yesterday uploaded a very good discussion with a lawyer from the JCCF, Jay Cameron. They discuss Trudeau invoking the Emergencies Act.

Also, Canada has a Bill of Rights.

We’ll see what happens.

srr
srr
February 17, 2022 1:28 pm

Gateway Pundit @gatewaypundit
· Feb 12
EU Investigates Reports of Menstrual Disorders Following Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 Vaccinations — As We First Reported Last Year

EU Investigates Reports of Menstrual Disorders Following Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 Vaccination

The European Medicines Agency’s risk assessment committee announced on Friday that it would review reports of menstruation irregularities after thousands of women have reported changes to their monthly cycle after getting the COVID vaccine. “After re…

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/eu-investigates-reports-menstrual-disorders-following-pfizer-moderna-covid-19-vaccinations/
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com

Cassie of Sydney
February 17, 2022 1:29 pm

“I’ve seen various public mouths deriding the protestors as extremists trying to push their individual agendas. Nothing could be further from the truth”

Progressive aren’t interested in truth.

srr
srr
February 17, 2022 1:29 pm

Ramonagirl @Ramonagirl
·Feb 15
Replying to @gatewaypundit

EU is a little late, tell this to my friends 16 years old granddaughter that had to have hysterectomy because of shot. Everyone quit calling it “vaccine “, it’s not, it’s a mrna kill shot.

srr
srr
February 17, 2022 1:31 pm

The National Desk @TND
· Feb 9

“Joe Rogan is an interesting and popular guy, but he’s got to stop apologizing to the Fake News and Radical Left maniacs and lunatics,” Trump says

READ: Trump says Joe Rogan should stop apologizing to ‘Radical Left maniacs’ https://thenationaldesk.com/news/americas-news-now/trump-says-joe-rogan-should-stop-apologizing-to-radical-left-maniacs-others-agree-donald-president-spotify-neil-young-racial-slur-ron-desantis

Cassie of Sydney
February 17, 2022 1:31 pm

“If by some chance there is ever another election permitted in Trudy’s reich, candidates are going to face some searching scrutiny by the non-public sector demos.”

I’d be interested to know if the Emergencies Act enables the ruling party to suspend elections….it probably does.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 17, 2022 1:33 pm

Less adderall, srr.

Zatara
Zatara
February 17, 2022 1:37 pm

Watching the Canadian Parliamentary debates is shocking.

Couldn’t agree more. The Speaker seems more suited to teaching kindergarten, focusing on getting his pet student Trudeau out of tough spots, and the members are either asleep or playing Super Mario on their smart phones.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 17, 2022 1:40 pm
bons
bons
February 17, 2022 1:44 pm

https://youtu.be/qRSyLI15ZCw
Sorry, messed up the link.

Anchor What
Anchor What
February 17, 2022 1:47 pm

Breaking!
QR check-ins to go in NSW and VICTORISTAN.
Better late than never, but it is certainly late.

Top Ender
Top Ender
February 17, 2022 1:47 pm

Knuckles, my next book is being launched at the Darwin Aviation Museum at 5pm today…come along and have a drink on me if you like.

calli
calli
February 17, 2022 1:51 pm

Contact tracing was dead last month. Its corpse was being flogged by the faithful and fearful, hoping that by genuflecting before the strange square image the covid monster would pass them by.

It died under the weight of its own futility.

If only our governments and their idiotic and dangerous “mandates” would do the same.

calli
calli
February 17, 2022 1:54 pm

QR checkin and masks should go NOW, not on the 25th.

What magical thinking has it out until next week?

A covid particle hiding beneath someone’s bed? Or, more likely, to make the now obviously naked CHOs look like they’re at least wearing a G string?

Top Ender
Top Ender
February 17, 2022 1:56 pm

On sharks.

Back in the day I was a divemaster and scuba instructor. We used to teach how to handle sharks if encountered. Turn and face; stand your ground, don’t act like a fish in distress etc.

One of the worst things to be in shark territory is a surfer. Sharks looks up, and sees a white oval shape – like the underside of a fish. Has a fin at the back – like a fish. Has a thing (human legs) flapping each side – like a fish in distress. Shark thinks “lunch” and goes up and take a bite.

Bad naughty shark, doing what comes naturally.

local oaf
February 17, 2022 1:57 pm

feelthebern says:
February 17, 2022 at 1:23 pm

oaf, it’s on twitter.

Joining twitter is too high a price for the thrill of being doxxed by loonies 🙂

Cassie of Sydney
February 17, 2022 1:57 pm

“What magical thinking has it out until next week?”

It’s about control….obeying government…they decide everything.

Vicki
Vicki
February 17, 2022 1:57 pm

Peterson says it better than anyone could.
They will come for him!

They have come for him before – leading to the end of his formal teaching career. For years they have defamed him, ridiculed him….and feared him. I don’t know how long this remarkable man can continue to exercise his incredible intellect at the load that he does.

But he will fight them to the very end. He is such an inspiration to so many – especially young men. God keep him strong.

cohenite
February 17, 2022 1:59 pm

With Liddell and Eraring gone and rub and tug putting the kibosh on the Kurri gas plant what is happening in the UK under slothman and in Europe dependent on Putin’s gas will happen here. Some excerpts from the UK/Eurotrash predicament:

https://mailchi.mp/a63417970c49/uk-factories-at-risk-of-shutting-down-for-good-as-energy-prices-soar-187162?e=170323d89f

Zatara
Zatara
February 17, 2022 2:01 pm

That end of that Peterson video reminded me of a quote I came across yesterday:

“Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should,
we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could
itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.”
– Eisenhower

Ike was no dummy.

Cassie of Sydney
February 17, 2022 2:03 pm

“Vickisays:
February 17, 2022 at 1:57 pm
Peterson says it better than anyone could.
They will come for him!

They have come for him before – leading to the end of his formal teaching career. For years they have defamed him, ridiculed him….and feared him. I don’t know how long this remarkable man can continue to exercise his incredible intellect at the load that he does.

But he will fight them to the very end. He is such an inspiration to so many – especially young men. God keep him strong.”

Yep…Jordan’s great friend, Professor Gad Saad, who is the author of “The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense” (a book I highly recommend) uploaded a video on Youtube yesterday. He states very calmly that he and his wife are now seriously thinking about leaving Canada because of Fuhrer Trudeau. Professor Saad has tenure at Concordia University in Montreal…..he and his family escaped the civil war in Lebanon back in 1975 (his family were virtually the last Jews remining in Lebanon). He basically said that Canada is over.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 17, 2022 2:06 pm

They had some uni mong on the ABCcess talking about how peoples sensory experiences had changed during covid.

One of the examples of deprivation/change was “People no longer pick up avocados in the shops to check them before purchase”…

Which leads me to the conclusion one of the most radical ways we can cause Karens and Kens to out themselves is the old fashioned hand shake.
If they are terrified of fondling fruit in the supermarket an outstretched hand will be the visual equivalent of presenting the meat and 2 veg or squashed wombat at them.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

shatterzzz says: February 17, 2022 at 12:17 pm

Soooo .. what’s the behind-the-scenes thinking on this?
Got an email this morning from the bank (CBA) customers making cash DEPOSITS (I assume any amount as it didn’t state otherwise) will, in future, be required to show proof of ID ..

They’re late to the party.
My bank branch has for at least 2 years flatly refused to accept a deposit without full ID of the person making the deposit.

They actually turn away a person holding a significant commercial cash deposit.

Zatara
Zatara
February 17, 2022 2:20 pm

My bank branch has for at least 2 years flatly refused to accept a deposit without full ID of the person making the deposit.

At some level aren’t reports to the taxman of deposits required?

In the US I think it’s $10,000.

Cassie of Sydney
February 17, 2022 2:22 pm

“Top Endersays:
February 17, 2022 at 1:56 pm
On sharks.”

Growing up we were taught…

1. never swim at dawn or dusk,
2. never swim near fish or fishermen,
3. never swim with dogs,
4. never swim near estuaries; and
5. avoid swimming on overcast days.

Zatara
Zatara
February 17, 2022 2:22 pm

Database of world shark attacks.

Some surprising (to me) info there.

calli
calli
February 17, 2022 2:23 pm

One of the examples of deprivation/change was “People no longer pick up avocados in the shops to check them before purchase”…

Silver linings.

One of my pet peeves.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 17, 2022 2:28 pm

presenting the meat and 2 veg or squashed wombat at them.

Squashed wombat.

Heh.

sfw
sfw
February 17, 2022 2:30 pm

I posted a UAP Candidates link, but t doesn’t show up. Perhaps I’ve been sinbinned?

https://www.facebook.com/morgancjonas/photos/a.114999376649192/523939739088485/

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