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Napoleon’s Retreat from Moscow, Adolph Northen, 1866

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MatrixTransform
February 14, 2022 11:42 pm

tsk tsk … youse people are so easy to fuck with

srr
srr
February 14, 2022 11:43 pm

Speedy13 @Speedy13
· 28m
https://gettr.com/post/pugpkrd746

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 14, 2022 11:44 pm

When are you up for the booster MT?

srr
srr
February 14, 2022 11:45 pm

The Vigilant Fox ?
@VigilantFox
·
22h
Yesterday in Paris, police beat, kicked, tackled, tear gassed, crippled legs, and left peaceful protesters in serious condition for daring to challenge Macron’s vaccine mandates.

Is this really about a virus?
Video – https://gettr.com/post/pu9el702db

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 14, 2022 11:46 pm

When are you up for the booster MT?

Aaaaaand that will be stumps.

As usual.

MatrixTransform
February 14, 2022 11:46 pm

driving to Adelaide tomorrow for a small jerb
be there until Sunday

heave away, haul away

MatrixTransform
February 14, 2022 11:47 pm

When are you up for the booster MT?

I’ll get a booster on the same day you stop being a knob

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 14, 2022 11:48 pm

Don’t forget to pack the Big Green Tick.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 14, 2022 11:50 pm

I’ll get a booster on the same day you stop being a knob

I think the expression is …
“tsk tsk … youse people are so easy to fuck with.”

HT
HT
February 14, 2022 11:51 pm

Eyrie says:
February 14, 2022 at 8:35 pm
Get yourself a real GPS with speed readout. You can calibrate your car speedo. They are allowed to read 10% over your real speed according to ADR’s.

No, that’s not what the ADR allows. The ADR for cars (trucks are different) say that the vehicle speedometer must not display a speed less the vehicles true speed, and may only display a speed faster than the actual speed by no more than 10% + 4km/h. That means a car travelling at (actual) speed must display a reading of 100km/h to 114 km/h. In other words, the Speedo is only allowed to be out 10% in one direction, it is only allowed to indicate a higher speed than the actual number.

The law changed in early 2000’s from memory.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 14, 2022 11:51 pm

heave away, haul away

Told you jetskis were involved.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 14, 2022 11:52 pm

I know Adelaide people aren’t smart, but really?
There’s no-one there who can undo four screws and replace a control board?

srr
srr
February 14, 2022 11:54 pm

TommyRobinson1
@TommyRobinson1
·
14m
Israeli convoy for freedom rolling into the capital Jerusalem
https://gettr.com/post/pugbub3c10

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 14, 2022 11:54 pm

Come on, man!
They are just simulators.
They can’t make you vomit like the real thing.
Unless you are a total girly-man who had too many Midoris the night before.

It’s supposed to have been possible to fly missions over Hanoi, in the simulator at Williamtown, in the late 1970’s…

MatrixTransform
February 14, 2022 11:55 pm

I think the expression is …

here we go, it’s the Cross Traffic Alert

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 14, 2022 11:56 pm

When this is all said and done, there is one thing I can hold my head high about.
I never, ever induced anyone to flush their career by fudging my vax status, whilst I secretly got my Green Tick and kept my job.
A small thing, but something to be proud of, I think.

MatrixTransform
February 15, 2022 12:02 am

sancho, are you working or retired?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 15, 2022 12:03 am

The funniest thing is, when you have an offline conversation with a couple of people, and then someone who wasn’t party to the conversation rocks up two hours later and drops exactly the same stuff.
KD at 11:10 … your crystal ball is tuned in!

MatrixTransform
February 15, 2022 12:03 am

don’t answer
you’re never too old for politics

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 15, 2022 12:05 am

MatrixTransformsays:

February 15, 2022 at 12:02 am

sancho, are you working or retired?

Semi-retired consultant.
Work from home.
Don’t get out of bed for less than …
how much is a jesski?

MatrixTransform
February 15, 2022 12:07 am

Semi-retired consultant

LoL

MatrixTransform
February 15, 2022 12:10 am

thing is, in forum like this, why youse would bother so much to try and keep the conv within ‘certain bounds’

youse sure do spend a lot of screen time running around with Incredulity Boners

rosie
rosie
February 15, 2022 12:18 am

In Girona.
Am staying at the foot of the cathedral which is high above the river requiring a bit of mountain climbing up narrow medieval streets/stairs to get to.
My apartment incorporates Roman era elements with 12th and 15th century renovations. No windows though.
For the first time since I’ve been here I’ve had to deploy my rain coat. Thunderstorm with bonus hail and the steep narrow streets quickly became surging creeklets.
I ducked into a restaurant along one of covered walkway streets where the English language menu was hilariously unintelligible so had to switch to Spanish. What is ‘Baked in Oven’?
The houses along the shallow river have a Venetian feel and the Jewish quarter is reputed to be the best preserved in Spain, and there is a Jewish museum.
Still haven’t been asked for a vaxx pass but plenty of people still voluntarily wearing their masks outdoors.

MatrixTransform
February 15, 2022 12:27 am

My apartment incorporates Roman era elements with 12th and 15th century renovations. No windows though

I’m incredulous, no completely astounded, that after centuries they still don’t have windows.

Seriously, a modest sonic impact driver could easily make an suitable aperture.

omg … rosie, I realise yr probably typing with your last breath but ruok?

rosie
rosie
February 15, 2022 12:29 am

It’s a DIY GraNd JUrY.
I’ve got a spare arrest warrant if anyone needs one.
Not to mention a drawful of sealed indictments.

rosie
rosie
February 15, 2022 12:30 am

Do morons ever rest?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 15, 2022 12:31 am

I’m watching the Ben Roberts Smith action, and thinking “Good luck in attracting soldiers for selection, and Special Air Service Regiment after this.

MatrixTransform
February 15, 2022 12:34 am

Do morons ever rest?

rosie, tell us all another dog poo story.

rosie
rosie
February 15, 2022 12:36 am

Apparently not.

rosie
rosie
February 15, 2022 12:37 am

If only I was going to Adelaide this weekend.
Gosh some people live the life of Reilly.

MatrixTransform
February 15, 2022 12:43 am

dear rosie,
we had a great time in Adelaide
the whole team bonded and quite enjoyed working together to achieve the desire outcome
the end of trip meeting was the best of all
we decided that it was much betterer going to Adelaide that it would have been if we were a lonely old mole in some some windowless European shithole dodging barkers-eggs everyday

srr
srr
February 15, 2022 1:01 am

Dot says:
February 14, 2022 at 9:20 pm
srr

I am friends with a few people here.
[…]
Sinclair […]
Sinclair […]

Dot, I don’t name drop.
I’ve mentioned this before.

I don’t trust people who name drop.
That’s something I have in common with people who do well.

I’d name some of them but they’re friends and in my world you don’t drag friends into squabbles with low level people who don’t like you.

While we’re on names; I can’t see that name you dropped, twice, without thinking of Crosby Textor, well, not them so much as one above them and how good he is at staying out of public scrutiny.

srr
srr
February 15, 2022 1:04 am

rosie says:
February 15, 2022 at 12:30 am

Do morons ever rest?

Nah.
That’s why their owners have to keep sending them to the other side of the world to return some favours with their custom.

srr
srr
February 15, 2022 1:16 am

GreyLady @GreyLady
·Feb 13
Lara Logan – Nobody owns me & nobody ever will.
@laralogan
·4h
Many doctors tell me that when all is known, Fauci will be recognised as “the biggest mass killer in history” – their words, not mine. Yet one after another, this is what they say. You may not agree & this is still a free country so you can think/say what you like, agree or disagree. But as a journalist, I have a duty to consider why so many medical professionals feel this way, just as I have a duty to consider those who do not agree. None of this happens in a vacuum. It can only be accurately measured in the context of the truth – and the truth is not on Fauci’s side.
https://gettr.com/post/pu6epr68f1

Meh, it’s simple.
rosie aka notafan [of the truth but a big fan of Big Pharma & the dividends she gets from her investments with them] already ‘explained’ it, again and again –

‘The front line doctors keeping their patients alive with the simple, cheap, proven treatments that Big Pharma made Govts make Illegal, are really the bad guys’.

srr
srr
February 15, 2022 1:44 am

Ian56a @Ian56a
· 5m
Brussels fears total chaos as ‘European freedom convoy’ prepares to descend on EU Headquarters demanding an end to Medical Tyranny, Vaxx Mandates, and Vaxx Passes

Brussels fears total chaos as ‘European freedom convoy’ prepares to descend on EU HQ

BRUSSELS is bracing itself for a massive protest tomorrow as the so-called ‘European freedom convoy’ descends on the Belgian capital to protest outside the European Union headquarters.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1565445/European-Union-protests-Brussels-freedom-convoy-Paris-Canada-Ottawa-latest-news-vn
http://www.express.co.uk
Posted on 1:29 AM · Feb 15th, 2022
_____________________

The ‘European freedom convoy’ is “so-called” because it is so.

P.S. remember folks, that long ago, the best media propagandists got moved out of Papers & TV into Social Media.
Yet those Top Tire Social Media Propagandists are having even worse meltdowns and resorting to gibbering at the real people it’s their bloody well paid job to try to humiliate into silence and obscurity.

srr
srr
February 15, 2022 1:47 am

Carl Benjamin @carlbenjamin
·16m
The myths of communism that still persist can be swiftly rebuked by the people who lived under communism..

Top 5 Communist Myths | Lotus Eaters

Communism in the Soviet Union is applauded to this day by proponents of Marxist ideology for the benefits it supposedly brought to society. Below, I will outline the top five myths about communism in the USSR from my empirical standpoint I. Every…

https://www.lotuseaters.com/top-5-communist-myths-14-02-22
http://www.lotuseaters.com

srr
srr
February 15, 2022 1:48 am

Disclose.tv
@disclosetv
·
1h
NOW – Convoy of trucks and vehicles arrives in #Jerusalem, Israel’s capital, to protest Covid restrictions.
https://gettr.com/post/pugvu297eb

rosie
rosie
February 15, 2022 2:16 am

For the record.
I don’t have any investments in ‘big pharma’.

For the record.
‘Front line doctors’ have a telehealth link on their website.
Go on, you can find it if you try really hard, the telehealth appointments advertised are $US 90 and if you get a ivermectin prescription expect to pay $US 30 to $40.
That’s hardly ‘cheap’.
Still
Nothing wrong with the profit motive.

Top Ender
Top Ender
February 15, 2022 2:19 am

The futility of mandatory masking now ripped bare

ADAM CREIGHTON

In 1918 San Francisco proudly put its success in avoiding the first and second waves of Spanish flu, a virus people tended to die of, not with, to its strict mask mandate.

Then the third wave came and it ended up among the worst-hit cities across the rest of relatively unmasked California.

“They thought they had controlled it, stopped it. They were mistaken: the masks were useless … the city had simply been lucky,” John Barry wrote in his history of the period, The Great Influenza.

Our obsession with attributing the rise and fall in Covid-19 cases to government actions hasn’t changed through the years; indeed, it has become worse.

In December California Governor Gavin Newsom said sarcastically “What could go wrong?” when Texas and Florida, unlike his state, refused to impose new mask mandates to combat the sixth wave. Well, nothing did, relatively speaking. As any proper scientist would have expected, it made no meaningful difference.

Unlike Australia, where the states all have imposed much the same policies during Covid-19, the US became a humiliating laboratory for supporters of forced masking, providing endless case studies highlighting uselessness.

Picking the most stupid mandate of the pandemic is tough given the rich pickings: wiping down surfaces, multi-month school closures, plexiglas dividers, contact tracing – the list goes on. If these could be forgiven for a time, though, because of lack of previous evidence, the forced masking of hundreds of millions of people for hundreds and hundreds of days could not, and so takes first prize.

For a start, billions of useless plastic and cloth masks, often made with slave labour, have been spewed into the oceans.

Masks aren’t “better than nothing”, they’re worse. Unless the wearer enjoys flaunting their obedience, masking is costly. Non-verbal communication is obliterated, speech is muffled, glasses fog up, kids can’t socialise properly at school and they create a divisive atmosphere of fear.

No one has done more to highlight the futility of mask mandates during Covid-19 than Ian Miller, 34, an American data analyst in the entertainment industry who lives in Los Angeles.

His new book, Unmasked: The Global Failure of Covid Mask Mandates, is a rigorous demolition of forced masking that will shake readers’ faith in the intelligence of the population and the honesty of public health officials.

It includes many of the amusing charts for which Miller has become well known, showing the stunning irrelevance of mask mandates across nations, US counties and states, alongside the clueless forecasts of journalists and experts.

As Miller lays out, scientists including Anthony Fauci, who has became a masking champion, have known for a long time that masks don’t stop viruses.

“The typical mask you buy in the drugstore is not really effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through the material. It might, however, provide some slight benefit in keep(ing) out gross droplets if someone coughs or sneezes on you,” Fauci wrote in February 2020 in a private email later released under Freedom of Information requests.

“There’s no reason to be walking around with masks,” he told US 60 Minutes on March 8, 2020.

Three days after that, when the US government changed its advice on masks, recommending them for every American, Fauci received an email from a scientist at the National Institutes of Health, summarising the data from nine “diverse randomised control trials”.

“Bottom line: generally there were no differences … when masks were used,” the expert said, summarising the consensus among scientists and the World Health Organisation.

Yet three days after that email, on April 3, 2020, no time obviously for new evidence to emerge, Fauci and public health experts changed their view on masks, prompting a domino effect across the developed world: masks worked because we said they do.

Science became The Science, pushing the developed world into an egregious period of collective stupidity. It might seem intuitive that putting a piece of cloth over one’s mouth would reduce the chance of spreading disease. It also once seemed intuitive that the world was flat.

Twenty-two months later the dam is finally breaking. The Washington Post, which accused the state of Iowa of “not caring if people die” last year when it dared to remove a mask mandate, now concedes the bleeding obvious.

Last week a Bloomberg opinion piece said: “There’s no avoiding it: The benefits of universal masking have been difficult to quantify.”

Authoritarian health experts openly have started calling masks “facial decorations”.

Last week California, Delaware, New Jersey and Connecticut abolished their statewide mask mandates in quick succession. Walmart, the biggest US employer, did the same for its employees on Sunday.

Mask mandates have given politicians a seemingly low-cost way of appearing to do something, even if they don’t believe in the health benefits themselves.

Stacey Abrams, a Democrat candidate for governor of Georgia, drew national scorn last week when she sat down in the classroom for a photo opportunity, sans mask, among a group of schoolchildren in their masks.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s magnificently colour-co-ordinated cloth masks (the most useless kind) suggest the 81-year-old enjoys making a political statement more than staying safe.

For Democrats, they’ve become MAGA hats. For others, they are a class signifier, dividing low-wage service workers, who must wear them all day, with the rich, who rarely do.

Mask mandates have come at a cost of misleading and dividing voters too. In New York a father who refused to wear a mask was physically dragged out of a school board meeting last week.

Parents in the outer suburbs of greater Washington DC, where outdoor masking is still a badge of pride, are taking the new Republican governor of neighbouring Virginia to court for trying to make masking optional.

The extraordinary folly of this period will become clearer in time. People won’t be so trusting of health officials next time.

Oz

Tom
Tom
February 15, 2022 4:06 am
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Tom
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Tom
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Tom
Tom
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Tom
Tom
February 15, 2022 4:10 am
srr
srr
February 15, 2022 4:11 am

Dave Cullen
@DaveCullen

5h
·
Doctors are testifying that COVID-19 vaccines are giving people cancer and AIDS

https://vaccinedeaths.com/2022-02-04-doctors-testifying-covid-vaccines-causing-cancer-aids.html

Tom
Tom
February 15, 2022 4:11 am
Tom
Tom
February 15, 2022 4:12 am
Tom
Tom
February 15, 2022 4:13 am
Tom
Tom
February 15, 2022 4:15 am
Tom
Tom
February 15, 2022 4:16 am
Tom
Tom
February 15, 2022 4:17 am
Tom
Tom
February 15, 2022 4:18 am
Tom
Tom
February 15, 2022 4:19 am
feelthebern
feelthebern
February 15, 2022 5:16 am

The Oz is a great entertainment this morning.
The F-35A contract looks like a multi decade grift, but look on the bright side, it’ll look like chump change once the subs deal gravy starts to flow.

Next up, who’s the bigger retard?
The AFP chief talking about cracking down on disinformation during the election campaign thinking people believe his weasel words.
Or for Cameron Stewart to write the column.

Anchor What
Anchor What
February 15, 2022 6:30 am

The 2020 election was stolen, and the coup continues with a vast overhaul of voter registrations being carried out by ERIC, a body under the control of a hard nosed anti-conservative. Can the USA pull out of the nosedive it is in?
Gateway Pundit

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 15, 2022 6:52 am

Director Ivan Reitman died.
Interview with Arnie on what a good director he was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3ENQT3le7k

From back when the ABC was funny.

Anchor What
Anchor What
February 15, 2022 7:05 am

The global vaccination campaign is courting catastrophe!
Vasko Kohlmayer at American Thinker reviews the unseemly haste with which experimental vaccines were not just approved for widespread usage but in many countries made mandatory. If they had followed the usual trial course these vaccines would not be finished Phase III trials and declared fit for use until April 2024. Further studies would normally follow and performance and problems would continue to be monitored thereafter.
link

Anchor What
Anchor What
February 15, 2022 7:13 am

I keep a bit of an eye on the Powerline blog in the hope that someone there other than Hinderaker might start to hammer out some hard truths instead of for the most part being oh so careful in what they say.
It’s encouraging to see some disputation between the writers!
A bit like the circular firing squad syndrome encountered here at times.

Perfidious Albino
Perfidious Albino
February 15, 2022 7:19 am

Cameron Stewart, certainly one of the dimmer bulbs in that mastheads stable. Every piece he wrote from Washington was copy/paste progressive narrative de jour.

Dot
Dot
February 15, 2022 7:21 am

Dot, I don’t name drop.
I’ve mentioned this before.

I don’t trust people who name drop.
That’s something I have in common with people who do well.

Oh but you did name drop, just negatively.

In fact, you name drop constantly. You have no fucking manners.

Now shut the fuck up about this fake grand jury bullshit.

Cassie of Sydney
February 15, 2022 7:25 am

“I keep a bit of an eye on the Powerline blog in the hope that someone there other than Hinderaker might start to hammer out some hard truths instead of for the most part being oh so careful in what they say.
It’s encouraging to see some disputation between the writers!
A bit like the circular firing squad syndrome encountered here at times.”

I am a reader of Powerline and I admire Hinderaker’s work. I read Mirengoff’s ridiculous piece about Trump flushing papers down the toilet, a claim straight from Maggie Haberman at the NYT. Mirengoff is a long time sufferer of TDS yet who is also someone who, I think, is rather jealous of Trump. What bothers me is that this absurd claim was published a few days ago here in The Australian. To me this encapsulates just how rotten the MSM is. The toilet claim is crap. The MSM has to be extinguished.

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/how-you-know-trump-toilet-story-crap/

Cassie of Sydney
February 15, 2022 7:27 am

“Perfidious Albinosays:
February 15, 2022 at 7:19 am
Cameron Stewart, certainly one of the dimmer bulbs in that mastheads stable. Every piece he wrote from Washington was copy/paste progressive narrative de jour.”

I cancelled my sub a few days after the November 2020 election mainly due to Stewart’s hysterical TDS. It was sickening.

Dot
Dot
February 15, 2022 7:28 am

Can Stewart is too nice to wake up. Plus, he was a law professor IIRC.

More name dropping for the lunatic grist mill.

Twostix would find him like flypaper and itching powder.

Watching those Arab Bros being beat up by the cops outside a servo just after they bought some masks to comply on a loop, eyelids spread for maximum mental penetration, listening to Beethoven’s ninth, that should do the trick.

sfw
sfw
February 15, 2022 7:31 am

Some one mentioned atomic clocks up thread. I was listening to a Sean Carroll podcast the other day and the experimental physicist he was interviewing mentioned as an aside how accurate atomic clocks are now. She said that if they are raised a few millimetres the time change due to gravity is measurable. I find that amazing.

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/

calli
calli
February 15, 2022 7:33 am

For Democrats, they’ve become MAGA hats. For others, they are a class signifier, dividing low-wage service workers, who must wear them all day, with the rich, who rarely do.

Interesting take from Creighton, not that it hadn’t been mentioned here before, but that the Oz is now publishing it.

Contact tracing is a joke. Husband got a message this morning about a visit on Feb 7. That was probably the last time he bothered. It’s broken, now running under its own momentum of futility.

The masking is now sinister and selectively applied. The “true believers” in their designer cloth masks, the sadly resigned in their hospital throw-aways. And some of them are filthy. The health implications are real and sickening. All those compromised airways just waiting for the next flu season.

Beertruk
February 15, 2022 7:43 am

MatrixTransform:
February 14, 2022 at 11:22 pm

Here we go.
it’s a sancho and knuckles v the Maloo Bros cage match

rosie
rosie
February 15, 2022 7:45 am

I forgot to grab a mask when I went out in the pouring rain.
I did not feel like climbing the mountain again to get one so winged it.
Went to supermarket, took my purchases to the counter and explained, the ladies behind the register were horrified and immediately got me a new one from behind the counter, and charged me 20c.
I just put it on for the thirty seconds I was still there.
When in Spain.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
February 15, 2022 7:45 am

Cassie of Sydney says:
February 15, 2022 at 7:25 am

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/how-you-know-trump-toilet-story-crap/

Good article.
Essential reading for anyone ploughing the internet and hoping to come up with information.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 15, 2022 7:45 am

God bless you Russell Brand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wts4yY7jRU

His “being anti war is now right wing” is a keeper.

Anchor What
Anchor What
February 15, 2022 7:51 am

Tame and Higgins “changing the debate about women” gushes The Australian.
Changing it not in a good way. The male chauvinist pig argument is so last century, although some footballers are keeping it alive.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 15, 2022 7:53 am

The toilet claim is crap.

Yeah the old “anonymous sources”. Same stinky trick was used by WaPo to smear Trump as calling fallen American soldiers “losers”. This was a month or two before the election and was a completely obvious attempt to lower his popularity with the rank and file in the military.

The ABC reported it gleefully, but I don’t think they retracted after everyone on the flight individually refuted it.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
February 15, 2022 7:56 am

In Chords of G’zing and G’zung news:

Band Dragon weighs in after Scott Morrison performs their song April Sun in Cuba on ukulele

On Monday morning, the band weighed in – sharing a TikTok video in which Mr Morrison plays the instrument in front of superimposed images of the bushfires.

“Once again, Dragon are famous for all the wrong reasons,” the band captioned their Instagram post.

First time round they were famous for their own lo-talent version of a rubbish number.

Eyrie
Eyrie
February 15, 2022 7:58 am

Get yourself a real GPS with speed readout. You can calibrate your car speedo. They are allowed to read 10% over your real speed according to ADR’s.

Read that again HT. What you said agrees with it except that I didn’t know about the 4 kph in addition. This is a disgrace and causes traffic on highways to dawdle when it doesn’t need to. Also causes overtaking.
Our 2000 Honda Accord was only doing 93kph when indicating 100kph. Written off doing 5kph.

Cassie of Sydney
February 15, 2022 7:59 am

“The ABC reported it gleefully, but I don’t think they retracted after everyone on the flight individually refuted it.”

Their ABC, paid for by you and me, with more money thrown at them last week by a spineless, supine, craven, cowardly Coalition government, never retracts and never apologies.

Ask George Pell.
Ask Christian Porter.

Four Corners has never taken down its three part “stunning” expose on the the Trump Wussia collusion…..a three part series of pure unadulterated fiction and manufactured bullshit.

Razey
Razey
February 15, 2022 8:00 am

Dr Faustussays:
February 15, 2022 at 7:56 am
In Chords of G’zing and G’zung news:

Band Dragon weighs in after Scott Morrison performs their song April Sun in Cuba on ukulele

On Monday morning, the band weighed in – sharing a TikTok video in which Mr Morrison plays the instrument in front of superimposed images of the bushfires.

“Once again, Dragon are famous for all the wrong reasons,” the band captioned their Instagram post.

First time round they were famous for their own lo-talent version of a rubbish number.

Scummo is going down. That smirking, lying POS. That bitch’s days are numbered.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 15, 2022 8:03 am

Has the legacy media in Australia shown the footage of the Haka in front of the NZ Parliament House?
Protesting the jab mandates?
Or does that not fit the narrative?
Along the same lines as the fire at Old Parliament House in Canberra was actually started by white anti vaxxers?

Cassie of Sydney
February 15, 2022 8:04 am

Last night Andrew Bolt had on the lawyer who’s acting for the accused in the Higgins’ case. Good. The lawyer spoke about how the trial has been severely prejudiced (thanks Scumbag) and how they’re requesting the trial be stalled …..but justice delayed is justice denied.

And….

Former NRL player Jarryd Hayne to apply for bail today

Former NRL player Jarryd Hayne has had his sexual assault convictions quashed on appeal – and is now set to face a third trial.

Jarryd Hayne could be released from prison as soon as today when he will apply for bail after serving nine months behind bars.

Hayne’s story took a dramatic turn on Monday when he sensationally won his attempt to have two rape convictions overturned and was ordered to face a third trial.

Hayne’s first trial ended after the hung jury could not reach a unanimous decision.

In the second trial, a jury found Hayne guilty of two counts of sexual assault without consent against a women in her Newcastle home in 2018.

He was sentenced to a maximum five years and nine months, with a non-parole period of three years and eight months. He has served nine months of his term and is currently at Cooma Correctional Centre.

On Monday morning, a panel of NSW Criminal Court of Appeal judges – Chief Justice Tom Bathurst and Justices Helen Wilson and Ian Harrison – ordered Hayne’s convictions be quashed.

In appealing against his conviction, his legal team argued Judge Syme gave the jury ‘flawed’ directions.

They also argued there was inconsistent evidence and that an outburst from the woman in court when she yelled “no means no” under cross-examination, was prejudicial.

Hayne – who turns 34 on Tuesday – will face the District Court before Judge O’Brien at the Downing Centre to apply for bail.

The decision on whether to pursue a third trial lies with the NSW Director of Public Prosecutions Sally Dowling SC, who will ultimately make the call with her office.

She will have to weigh up a number of factors including whether the cost of going to trial again can be justified.

The DPP will also consider the alleged victim when making the decision about a third trial, including her mental health and the psychological effect it would have on her.

If they decide not to go ahead with the trial, Hayne will be acquitted and the charges will be dropped.

The Telegraph is waiting on a statement from the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions on whether they will pursue a third trial.

His solicitor Rami Qutami did not wish to make a comment.

Dot
Dot
February 15, 2022 8:04 am

His “being anti war is now right wing” is a keeper.

Always was.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 15, 2022 8:04 am

In all fairness, I sort of wanted the Gorilla Channel thing to be true because gorillas are awesome.

Sadly, that one was straight out of Scarface where Tony Montana watches a pile of nature docos on TV. Before he got coked out and all assault rifley.

sfw
sfw
February 15, 2022 8:05 am

Nearly all modern cars read around 5kph faster than the real speed. This is why people complain that trucks are speeding because they get passed by trucks on freeways. Most trucks have accurate speedos and are speed limited, They cannot exceed 100 kph, except perhaps on downhills, and even then most company trucks have automatic reporting systems that notify head office of overspeeds. Toll has a policy of 3 overspeeds (even for a few seconds) in one year and you’re out.

Roger
Roger
February 15, 2022 8:05 am

Tame and Higgins “changing the debate about women” gushes The Australian.

That’s funny…all they seem to talk about is men.

calli
calli
February 15, 2022 8:07 am

Watched the Brand piece. It was a simple commentary on the Jacobin article on political corruption and financing, but he managed to make it very entertaining and insightful. He’s also calling for what amounts to a “third way” in the political landscape.

Be careful what you wish for, Russell.

My takeaway was a phrase “the tributaries of truth”, for those rejecting the MSM.

Dot
Dot
February 15, 2022 8:07 am

Does Dr Professor Reinhardt Fullermich have 50,000 sealed indictments yet?

Cassie of Sydney
February 15, 2022 8:08 am

“Or does that not fit the narrative?”

Nothing true fits the legacy media’s narrative. And now they’re shilling for war with Russia.

Faaaaaaark.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 15, 2022 8:08 am

The state has unlimited resources.
All cases should proceed on the defendants timeline.
If the state delays a case for any reason, the state should pick up the defendants tab.

Dot
Dot
February 15, 2022 8:09 am

Toll has a policy of 3 overspeeds (even for a few seconds) in one year and you’re out

Sounds like a fantastic workplace totally not run by psychotic jobsworths who have never driven a truck in their lives.

Where do I sign up?

custard
custard
February 15, 2022 8:10 am

Donald J Trump

Can you imagine that, what should be the biggest story of our time, bigger than Watergate, is getting absolutely no mention, ZERO, in the New York Times, Washington Post, ABC Fake News, NBC Fake News, CBS Fake News, ratings-dead CNN, and MSDNC. This in itself is a scandal, the fact that a story so big, so powerful, and so important for the future of our Nation is getting zero coverage from LameStream, is being talked about all over the world. Just like they wouldn’t talk about the many Biden corruption scandals prior to the Election, (or for that matter now!), they won’t talk about this, which is potentially even bigger. It shows how totally corrupt and shameless the media is. Can you imagine if the roles were reversed and the Republicans, in particular President Donald Trump, got caught illegally spying into the Office of the President? All hell would break loose and the electric chair would immediately come out of retirement. The good news is, everybody is talking about not only this atrocity against our Nation, but that the press refuses to even mention the major crime that took place.

calli
calli
February 15, 2022 8:11 am

What is it with these tired old bands and their preciousness over who sings their stupid songs?

Do they really think they’re that important?

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
February 15, 2022 8:11 am

Anthony Albanese hits back at ‘nonsense’ suggestion China wants Labor to win federal election

According to the Nine newspapers, unnamed security sources confirmed that Dutton was referring to a Chinese plot to interfere with NSW Labor’s preselection process.

Albanese hit back on Friday, saying national security was “too important to engage in game-playing, such as what we saw on the floor of the parliament yesterday, however much the government needs a distraction”.

Someone didn’t get the memo:

Labor senator Kimberley Kitching names billionaire Chau Chak Wing as ‘puppeteer’ in foreign interference plot

A federal senator has used parliamentary privilege to suggest a prominent Chinese-Australian political donor is the mysterious “puppeteer” behind a thwarted foreign interference plot to back political candidates in the next election.

Therapeutic Albo; the Manchurian Candidate – as a keen observer once said: “bought for a lunch bag of used fivers”.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 15, 2022 8:15 am

It should be the choice of defendants (or respondents) in all cases whether it’s heard before a jury or judge only.
This is the kind of thing the NSW Libs should be getting sorted right now with the help of Latham in the upper house.
No excuses.
Or is that already the situation in NSW?
Dot, you’re my lawyer, help a brother out.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 15, 2022 8:16 am

Does Dr Professor Reinhardt Fullermich have 50,000 sealed indictments yet?

He’s written ‘many’ books and articles you know. He has been on TikTok.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 15, 2022 8:20 am

sfw:

Toll has a policy

Dot:

Sounds like a fantastic workplace totally not run by psychotic jobsworths who have never driven a truck in their lives.

With the amount of things tucked away in Toll loads up and down the country because of certain groups who have had their hooks deep into them, it’s unsurprising that higher management don’t want to attract attention – let alone a reason for nosey plod to wave them down.

The drivers are rarely aware of what they’re actually carrying, of course.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 15, 2022 8:24 am

DC dropping the vaccine requirement to enter businesses.
Mask mandate will have to follow soon.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 15, 2022 8:26 am

A federal senator has used parliamentary privilege to suggest a prominent Chinese-Australian political donor is the mysterious “puppeteer” behind a thwarted foreign interference plot to back political candidates in the next election.

Did this stupid, stupid woman seriously expect the Director-General of ASIO, in Parliament, to say something like ‘yeah, Ching Barry Wang is towards the top of our to-do list’?

Ease up on the spring rolls from now on, Kimmy. You don’t know what’s in them.

duncanm
duncanm
February 15, 2022 8:26 am

The horrors in Ottawa.

Inflatable hot tubs on the street!
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/pro-tips-for-police-and-society/comments

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 15, 2022 8:28 am

Come on Trudeau, do it, declare martial law.

duncanm
duncanm
February 15, 2022 8:30 am
calli
calli
February 15, 2022 8:30 am

The problem is that once the MSM is rejected in favour of independent broadcasters and commentators, you have the swamp of self interest and snake oil to contend with.

It’s like the hydra’s head.

And today in Australia Post – a parcel posted in Mayfield West (40 minutes away) was posted on Thursday and is coming to us via Victoria. It is currently in Sunshine West, ready to come back to Sydney.

Are the employees in Australia Post unable to read? Is there something wrong with their system? Why are parcels posted in NSW to NSW addresses going via Victoria? This is the second one in a row.

Dot
Dot
February 15, 2022 8:30 am

The Liberals in NSW swallowed the Laura Norder Kool Aid too, bern.

We have had a long chain of terrible, incompetent and unprincipled Attorney Generals in NSW. Hazitsergos, Upton, Speakman (an utter c..t), they’re all terribly people, believe me.

The last good one…was John Hannaford in the Fahey government.

No double jeopardy, majority verdicts, affirmative consent, it’s a fucking shitshow. It means the more extreme red pillers are right.

Then we also have crap like declaring millenia old indictable offences are able to be heard as summary offences.

How much will it cost you to appeal multiple convictions for serious indictable offences from a local court, where you can be retried as often as the DPP likes?

The Crown won’t run out of money, but you will.

God help us if they get creative after reading Federal legislation and start declaring absolute liability wherever they see deadshit authoritarian voters.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
February 15, 2022 8:34 am

For a start, billions of useless plastic and cloth masks, often made with slave labour, have been spewed into the oceans.

I was in the supermarket yesterday and saw they were selling masks in packs of 50. I asked the staff if they sold them in smaller packs or even individually, and they said no.

Now, considering how people are expected to mask up so dutifully it crossed my mind that people who have, perhaps driven to shops, or left their home and walked without a mask (surely almost as bad as Gillian Triggs’ nightmare of people having unregulated conversations at home), or perhaps they left the mask in the office, or perhaps it was damaged.

So even though they have a plethora of masks at home, poking out from cupboards stopping the doors from closing, floating in rafts in the bathtub, strewn across the floor, and some bleached and hardened by the elements in the back yard, they must buy FIFTY more when they need one.

Most will be useless and will end up in landfill or, if you were one of those idiots who believed plastic bags were instinctively migrating to water ways to reach the sea like salmon, they will end up descending in pack on innocent turtles, strangling them till they be stark dead.

And all because no one bothered to check if the damned pansy things work.

Eyrie
Eyrie
February 15, 2022 8:35 am

The world financial system relies on GPS timing so if the sats go down we’re screwed. Actually if the ground control station at Colorado Springs is taken down (there is at least one backup) the system becomes useless pretty soon. Those folks keep adjusting the satellite clocks and tracking the satellite locations and they are pretty good at it.
The deliberate dithering of the civilian GPS signal was abandoned in May 2000 much to my loud cheering as it avoided having to design yet another electronic pressure altimeter circuit. Only good thing Bill Clinton did.
One of the GPS accuracy problems is due to ionospheric refraction which bends the signals from the satellite so the path length to your receiver differs slightly from the straight line. Your position is the intersection of 4 spheres of the path length from 4 (or more) satellites. By using a second frequency (these are now available for civilian use) this can be largely eliminated.
The US GPS system has no inherent advantage over Beidou. This is a pretty simple overview.
https://equalocean.com/analysis/2020082614631
On broad acre farms nowadays it is common to have a GNSS base station and by differential techniques the machinery knows where it is to 1 to 2cm on the farm. Amazing!

Dot
Dot
February 15, 2022 8:36 am

One tragedy of the Australian legal system is that our courts are loathe to find administrative law based defences to criminal proceedings, but the whole system is being refashioned into an administrative state organ itself.

Yet, they insist they act as model litigants in civil proceedings.

Madness.

Gab
Gab
February 15, 2022 8:37 am

I’m seeing all sorts of ”news” reports about Putin about to invade the Ukraine, but cannot find the reason as to why he’s going ahead. Did the Ukraine piss off Putin in some special way? Anyone know the why?

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 15, 2022 8:39 am

Dot, if I’m a defendant in NSW can I choose a jury or judge only trial?

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 15, 2022 8:40 am

Fun fact.
Crypto exchanges spent more than $US100mill on Super Bowl ads yesterday.

Cassie of Sydney
February 15, 2022 8:40 am

“We have had a long chain of terrible, incompetent and unprincipled Attorney Generals in NSW. Hazitsergos, Upton, Speakman (an utter c..t), they’re all terribly people, believe me.”

All useless……..fucking useless but Sleazman is the worst…by a long shot.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 15, 2022 8:42 am

On This Day:

706 – Byzantine emperor Justinian II has his predecessors Leontios and Tiberios III publicly executed in the Hippodrome of Constantinople.

The Byzantines knew how to do it. This was a solid display.

If we as a country had the common sense to do this, there would have been no R-G-R and most certainly no Turnbull hanging around the edges of polite society, stinking up the joint with unwanted mouth about windmills.

Keating as well. No downside.

Dot
Dot
February 15, 2022 8:43 am

If the DPP agrees to it bern.

Tom
Tom
February 15, 2022 8:43 am

I’m seeing all sorts of ”news” reports about Putin about to invade the Ukraine, but cannot find the reason as to why he’s going ahead. Did the Ukraine piss off Putin in some special way? Anyone know the why?

Simple, Gab: with Biden in the White House, no-one is going to stop him.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 15, 2022 8:45 am

If the DPP agrees to it bern.

Motherfuckers.
So no.
It should be the choice of the defendant only.
NSW Libs won’t do anything about.
Uniparty cucks.

Razey
Razey
February 15, 2022 8:45 am

feelthebernsays:
February 15, 2022 at 8:24 am
DC dropping the vaccine requirement to enter businesses.
Mask mandate will have to follow soon.

It was never about ‘health’.

Cassie of Sydney
February 15, 2022 8:46 am

“Gabsays:
February 15, 2022 at 8:37 am
I’m seeing all sorts of ”news” reports about Putin about to invade the Ukraine, but cannot find the reason as to why he’s going ahead. Did the Ukraine piss off Putin in some special way? Anyone know the why?”

Actually Gab, Nigel Farage overnight has said it best. This is primirily a fuck up by the EU. And worth note that Germany is rather silent because, LOL, they’re now dependent on Russian gas because they’ve fucked up their energy grid….due to overzealous climate change policies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty5ycY66oL8

I think DB made an astute comment yesterday (or the day before) re. eastern Europe. Eastern Europe should form a bloc of its own rather than join the morally, economically and socially bankrupt EU.

Dot
Dot
February 15, 2022 8:47 am

The judge can also tell the DPP they are not being reasonable and hear it alone.

custard
custard
February 15, 2022 8:48 am

Surely the whole Ukrainian thing is a false flag. Look over there…

It’s all BS as best I can gather.

Dot
Dot
February 15, 2022 8:50 am

It is written as a lawyer’s picnic, bern.

For a while, it was an automatic right. What changed this? The stupid Laura Norder culture we have, egged on by talkback loonies.

Now it would be generally granted, but it can rack up more billable hours.

The judge has the final say unless both parties agree to judge only.

Gab
Gab
February 15, 2022 8:51 am

I;m getting in my ‘thank you’ to any who answer amy Putin query as the NBN is still out but at least they fixed the 4G. It’s not just my place but effects the area.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 15, 2022 8:51 am

When was the last time an invasion was announced a week in advance so US corporate media could add it to their schedules?
On the weekend, the US & Russia were party to talks winding back the sanctions on Iran.
Saturday, US & Russia work together.
Wednesday, US & Russia at war?
I just can’t see it happening.

Roger
Roger
February 15, 2022 8:53 am

Four Corners has never taken down its three part “stunning” expose on the the Trump Wussia collusion…..a three part series of pure unadulterated fiction and manufactured bullshit.

I hear the lady responsible is vying with the vivacious Ms. Tingle to replace Leigh Sales at 7:30.

Roger
Roger
February 15, 2022 8:57 am

Wednesday, US & Russia at war?
I just can’t see it happening.

Heading into rain and snow in the Ukraine (surprise!).

Not great weather for an incursion, even by Russians.

But if they did, the US won’t be going to war.

Cassie of Sydney
February 15, 2022 8:58 am

The member for Warringah…


“Independent MP Zali Steggall says she did not attempt to publicly conceal a $100,000 donation from the family trust of coal investor John Kinghorn, describing the decision as both a “rookie error” and an accounting error.

Ms Steggall said she has never met Mr Kinghorn and did not know the donation had been split — taking the donation below the threshold that requires public disclosure.

“I think you have to ask the question of why they choose to donate like that. It is because people feel they will be targeted if they make a donation,” Ms Steggall told ABC RN.

“I was trying to unseat a former prime minister who has been there for 25 years with a two million dollar war chest. People donating to my campaign were incredibly nervous about being targeted by the Liberal Party with recriminations.”

Ms Steggall said once the Australian Electoral Commission had raised the issue — informing her office they had only declared a single 100,000 donation — the record was immediately corrected.

The Independent MP for Warringah said it was hypocritical for the Liberal Party to attack the honest mistake because they received “millions in undisclosed donations”, adding that the system is “rigged against independents when compared to the party machine”.

Ms Steggall characterised the reporting of the $100,000 donation — broken by the Nine newspapers — as “a hit job”, suggesting the Liberal Party also played a part.”

LOL…..you have to laugh out loud at the slag’s sanctimony. The whole Steggall/GetUp campaign back in 2019 was one big “hit job”

Twostix
Twostix
February 15, 2022 9:01 am

The ACT Police (not all police, mind, which is what I originally said) are too much of a fairy flossed, Greens-infested Amnesty International pestering organisation to use LRADs on anyone.

That’s precisely why they would use violence on right wing neo Nazi insurrectionists who turn up on parliament’s front lawn.

You want to think the ultra woke AFP are weak and soft because you’ve only ever seen them dealing with their pet ‘protestors’.

Everyone thinks the ACT magistrates are soft too, and indeed they let murderers off with good behavior bonds, but flyingduk just spent a week in solitary confinement after refusing to clear out of town like it’s the old wild west.

2022 ultra woke leftwing institutions are extremely dangerous and capable of and are gagging to unleash unlimited violence against their enemies.

Jan 6 protestors foolishly thought the same thing in the US by the way – about the DC police, because of their history of soft soaping and letting off leftwing rioters year after year.

Now they rot in hell.

You’ve just never seen what these “woke’ police forces are like when dealing with an opposition because there never was any.

And sadly I know you want to believe that the thick necked “wallopers”, the average ” copper” doesn’t actually believe this bullshit and when they go home and plonk themselves in front of the TV are secretly still right wing bigotry bigots underneath it all, but the reality is (and this is the case in every profession) city based cops have mostly drunk the diluted professional everyman approved brand of woke kool aid too.

Dot
Dot
February 15, 2022 9:02 am

Also remember Bern if you want a jury trial for a Federal matter, they can try you “not” on indictment. Also at least constitutionally you don’t have a right to a judge alone trial.

Also, without an interview, warrant or committal, the police can hit you with a CAN and the DPP can give you an ex officio indictment.*

*To which I was a juror on years ago – I should have voted not guilty on principle.

We are literally centuries behind America. This rigging of the game wouldn’t fly over there.

Zatara
Zatara
February 15, 2022 9:06 am

The problem is that once the MSM is rejected in favour of independent broadcasters and commentators, you have the swamp of self interest and snake oil to contend with.

But on the positive side, the left have to deal with it as well and frankly the right has more experience at effective guerilla newscasting these days.

Dot
Dot
February 15, 2022 9:06 am

Unlimited ex officio indictments to be heard summarily with no limits on retrying anyone. Affirmative consent and absolute liability.

We’re in hell.

The birth rate will go to zero.

Dot
Dot
February 15, 2022 9:07 am

Ah yes

…and NO statute of limitations criminally.

Good. Luck. Australia. There. Will. Be. No. More. Future. Aussies.

Gabor
Gabor
February 15, 2022 9:08 am

Roger says:
February 15, 2022 at 8:57 am

Wednesday, US & Russia at war?
I just can’t see it happening.

Heading into rain and snow in the Ukraine (surprise!).

Not great weather for an incursion, even by Russians.

But if they did, the US won’t be going to war.

Any sane army would only attack there in the middle of high summer when it’s dry, or middle of high winter when everything is frozen. The place is mostly a swamp, a dank wet forest.
Only place the partisans had a really effective campaign against the Germans.

But you are right, why would Russia attack?
For what?
There must be something going on in the US they want to divert attention from.

Dot
Dot
February 15, 2022 9:10 am

I know a dude who is now married but he screwed his way through university like a gigolo.

I seriously fear for his future. I assert he did nothing wrong. All it takes is one crazy who fell in love with his sexual prowess and he has no future.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 15, 2022 9:10 am

Smh runs an article on Peter Thiel.
They are just so behind the curve on this.
Surprise surprise, they get a misleading quote from Bannon.
Bannon you gone fucked up, fat boy.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 15, 2022 9:10 am

Did the Ukraine piss off Putin in some special way?

The Russian client President of Ukraine was booted. Corrupt as. But he was Putin’s guy. That was a quite a long while ago though.

As well as that Ukraine has the main pipelines going through it and there’ve been ructions about those for a long time. If this sabre rattling is about getting the EU to allow operation of Nordstream 2, thereby cutting out Ukraine, that would make some sense. And if he really does invade he gets the Ukraine pipelines and won’t need Nordstream 2 anyway.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
February 15, 2022 9:10 am

Does Dr Professor Reinhardt Fullermich have 50,000 sealed indictments yet?

I remember early in Trump’s Presidency my BiL’s absolute certainty that Trump was about to be arrested and perp-walked in front of the world. This was on one of the many occasions when Herr Mueller had hinted big things a-comin’.

I told him I doubted it very much, but he would not be swayed.

Even now, with the ABC’s strict policy of never admitting they are wrong almost certainly meaning they have still not corrected the stories they broadcast and their opinionista’s certainty that nothing they say is wrong because they are so very much more clever than the people they dump on, my BiL will still be nursing the conviction that Trump avoided prison through some poisonous manipulation of justice and that he is still guilty of everything the ABC accused him of.

Like most of the people who watch the ABC, he desperately wants to be in the know so he can look down on others, and the ABC is a closed little club where he can be treated as being ‘in the know’.

Razey
Razey
February 15, 2022 9:12 am

Twostixsays:
February 15, 2022 at 9:01 am

You’ve just never seen what these “woke’ police forces are like when dealing with an opposition because there never was any.

No, we got a taste of their rubber bullets, armored vehicles & pepper spraying old ladies on the ground down here in Danistan. It certainly was a wake up call for those with their eyes open.

The truth is that Aus is under full control of the globalist elites with a bought and paid for media and dumbed down and compliant population.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 15, 2022 9:12 am

Thiel started on the mid term strategy in November 2020.
While Bannon was negotiating his own pardon from Trump, Thiel was rolling on protecting free speech.
Tells you everything about the Bannon grift.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
February 15, 2022 9:13 am

And worth note that Germany is rather silent because, LOL, they’re now dependent on Russian gas because they’ve fucked up their energy grid….due to overzealous climate change policies.

Germany is massively dependent on Russian gas. Annual German domestic gas consumption is around 3,000PJ (~3x Australia’s domestic gas market) – two thirds of which come from Russia.

If Russia goes into Ukraine, and Biden unleashes Sanctions Hell, Germany will be spread out on the BBQ.

Big strategic fuckup.

Putin is not dithering. He’s doing the West slowly.

Cassie of Sydney
February 15, 2022 9:13 am

“The problem is that once the MSM is rejected in favour of independent broadcasters and commentators, you have the swamp of self interest and snake oil to contend with.”

We now live in a time where there is more truth to be found in the self interest and snake oil than anything in the MSM.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
February 15, 2022 9:16 am

Nanny Neil Mitchell 3aw asking listeners which restriction should be eased.
Answer – Masks.
14 people on ventilators today in Vic. You need to go back to Sept 21 to get the same number.
It’s over but the defence of Berlin is still being planned in the premier’s bunker.

Dot
Dot
February 15, 2022 9:18 am

Bannon you gone fucked up, fat boy.

He’s a fat rich kid from Naval Intelligence.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 15, 2022 9:20 am

rosiesays:

February 15, 2022 at 12:29 am

It’s a DIY GraNd JUrY.

Oh.
One of those.
Which means it is more correctly called a “meeting”, not a Grand Jury.
A meeting of the Society for People with Delusions of Adequacy.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 15, 2022 9:21 am

He’s a fat rich kid from Naval Intelligence.

With a little bit of Goldman Sachs.
Never forget the GS.

Dot
Dot
February 15, 2022 9:22 am

DIY grand juries, what about DIY nukes?

Tell me which one is actually more crazy.

Roger
Roger
February 15, 2022 9:22 am

And if he really does invade he gets the Ukraine pipelines and won’t need Nordstream 2 anyway.

That would require an occupation of western Ukraine with an associated insurgency that I don’t think Russia has an appetite for.

Cassie of Sydney
February 15, 2022 9:24 am

“Putin is not dithering. He’s doing the West slowly.”

Yep.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 15, 2022 9:25 am

What os really funny about the GrANd JuRy is that, when the JURDGE hands down his/her/xe’s INDICTMENTS, they will probably end up before a real Grand Jury for legal fraud.

Eyrie
Eyrie
February 15, 2022 9:26 am
Beertruk
February 15, 2022 9:30 am

Cassie of Sydney:
February 15, 2022 at 7:59 am
“The ABC reported it gleefully, but I don’t think they retracted after everyone on the flight individually refuted it.”

Their ABC, paid for by you and me, with more money thrown at them last week by a spineless, supine, craven, cowardly Coalition government, never retracts and never apologies.

Ask George Pell.
Ask Christian Porter.

Four Corners has never taken down its three part “stunning” expose on the the Trump Wussia collusion…..a three part series of pure unadulterated fiction and manufactured bullshit.

Except when it is convenient for Their GreensALPBC to do so.
Gerard Henderson Media Watchdog:
The Silence of the Aunty: ABC SILENTLY CENSORS ITS OWN HISTORICAL 7.30 PROGRAM – (STARRING SABRA LANE & LOUISE MILLIGAN) ON CARDINAL PELL

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 15, 2022 9:31 am

Keep in mind, anytime the ATO calls you about a $100k mistake, just reply & say:
“Sorry, I was a rookie error”.
It’s the Zali defence.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
February 15, 2022 9:32 am

LOL…..you have to laugh out loud at the slag’s sanctimony. The whole Steggall/GetUp campaign back in 2019 was one big “hit job”

I think her office is near Spit Junction. It exudes a strange ambiance. I have never seen anyone enter, or leave. And somehow (obviously a trick of memory) I can’t think of anyone walking in front of it. It is like some strange portal to a stupid dimension.

Obviously Zali would spend very little time there, it would be a menagerie of diversity hires none of whom are particularly good at their job, and there will likely be a token white man running more on oestrogen than testosterone who is there to apologise for all the straight white man’s sins and give the rest of Zali’s flock the feeling of victory over the patriarchy. But she really is a non-entity, matching gullibility, cupidity, and adoration of her image of herself as a the messianic figure that the whole of the North Shore has for over a century been working up to.

win
win
February 15, 2022 9:32 am

Putin doing the west slowly turning the BBQ with Boris and Biden on the rotisserie.

Roger
Roger
February 15, 2022 9:34 am

“Putin is not dithering. He’s doing the West slowly.”

Not difficult considering the pork chops in charge in W. Europe.

calli
calli
February 15, 2022 9:34 am

describing the decision as both a “rookie error” and an accounting error.

Zali, the “young and naive” defence is old and busted.

“To keep you safe” is the new hotness.

Try “that money was used to keep the people of Warringah safe from Tony Abbott”. That will work.

lotocoti
lotocoti
February 15, 2022 9:35 am

And now they’re shilling for war with Russia.

When Putin doesn’t nuke Kiev, oh-bright-and-early tomorrow,
not only will it be down to Brandon’s balls of steel, but also conclusive proof
he couldn’t possibly be in Vlad the Terrible’s pocket.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 15, 2022 9:37 am

Trump Organization Accountants Disavow Years of Company Financial Statements

The Trump Organization’s accounting firm has disavowed years of financial statements it prepared for Trump and his company, court filings show.

Bwahahahah.
Shit don’t work like that bean counters.
It’s like they think the TV show NCIS is real life.
“If we say we disavow, that’ll clear us of everything won’t it, yes yes”.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 15, 2022 9:38 am

Top o’ the thread too !

sfw
sfw
February 15, 2022 9:38 am

The UAP is publicly announcing all their candidates today, well in Vic at least. The advertising will be ramped up as well.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
February 15, 2022 9:41 am

But if they did, the US won’t be going to war.

That will be painted as a masterstroke.

Biden will stand on the tarmac below Airforce One holding a piece of paper aloft, flapping in the wind. He will say “Here is the paper…”, and one of the tame reporters will ask “What was it?” and Biden will bring it down to eye-level and declare “It was chocolate chocolate chip. Chocolate choc…choc…and chip…”

From the rear of the press mob a lone voice will ask “Mr President, what can you tell us about events in Ukraine?”

And Biden will reply “What a…what a…stupid son of a bitch…”, before he turns abruptly and is only prevented last moment from walking into the jet engine.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 15, 2022 9:42 am

Biden the peacemaker.
Fuck off already, you decrepit POS.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 15, 2022 9:43 am

When Putin doesn’t nuke Kiev, oh-bright-and-early tomorrow, not only will it be down to Brandon’s balls of steel, but also conclusive proof he couldn’t possibly be in Vlad the Terrible’s pocket.

Pelosi Just Gave The Game Away Over Ukraine (15 Feb)

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 15, 2022 9:44 am

Dotsays:

February 15, 2022 at 9:10 am

I know a dude who is now married but he screwed his way through university like a gigolo.

Come on, man.
Doxxing is a dog act.
Everyone is going to know that is me.

lotocoti
lotocoti
February 15, 2022 9:44 am

In this case, the actual source would have to be an intimate staffer, or at least a White House plumber.

a White House plumber
*snork*

Roger
Roger
February 15, 2022 9:50 am

Love your work, ML.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
February 15, 2022 9:51 am

I should say that I do not consider Chamberlain to be anywhere near a culpable (if at all) as Biden.

I have no doubt that he earnestly desired peace and desperately wished to avoid a repeat of the carnage that was WW1. Another generation of dead young men for a far off land that had only been an independent country for 20 years. Besides which Hitler and his Germany had not yet revealed their true depraved nature so he had no idea what would be unleashed on Europe and reason to believe he really had made the world safer.

Beertruk
February 15, 2022 9:51 am

On broad acre farms nowadays it is common to have a GNSS base station and by differential techniques the machinery knows where it is to 1 to 2cm on the farm. Amazing!

Eyrie, was that invented, patented and developed by the ‘Firtists Nations Peoplesists’ prior to 1788?

Asking for a friend.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 15, 2022 9:51 am

It was chocolate chocolate chip

‘Chocolate chocolate chip in our time.’

Eyrie
Eyrie
February 15, 2022 9:54 am

Eyrie, was that invented, patented and developed by the ‘Firtists Nations Peoplesists’ prior to 1788?
Asking for a friend.

Yes, the navsat system was one of the first aims of their eventually extensive space program.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
February 15, 2022 9:56 am

if the Biden Presidency and its machine last for a thousand years, men will still say, ‘This was their finest flavour.’

WolfmanOz
WolfmanOz
February 15, 2022 9:57 am

Mother Lode says:
February 15, 2022 at 9:51 am
I should say that I do not consider Chamberlain to be anywhere near a culpable (if at all) as Biden.

I have no doubt that he earnestly desired peace and desperately wished to avoid a repeat of the carnage that was WW1. Another generation of dead young men for a far off land that had only been an independent country for 20 years. Besides which Hitler and his Germany had not yet revealed their true depraved nature so he had no idea what would be unleashed on Europe and reason to believe he really had made the world safer.

100% agree.

There was also a certain amount of sympathy to Germany in the 30s re the harshness of the Treaty Of Versailles.

In addition Britain wasn’t ready for war, you could argue Chamberlain bought them time to start ramping up their war capabilities.

Hindsight is wonderful.

lotocoti
lotocoti
February 15, 2022 9:57 am

Justine Castreau gets heavy.

Without a court order, banks will be able freeze personal accounts of anyone linked with the protests.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 15, 2022 9:57 am

As someone once said:-

I’ll take “all double-vaxxed punters who used to look at power boards for commercial aircons are neck-tatted fairies with lots of opinions and less skill than they let on and have Maloo utes and three jetskis and go SIIIIIIUUUUUUUUU at the tennis’ for a dollar.

I think that says it all.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 15, 2022 10:01 am

I have no doubt that he earnestly desired peace and desperately wished to avoid a repeat of the carnage that was WW1.

Popular opinion in Britain was bitterly opposed to war, the British Army was not equipped to fight a war on the Continent, the Royal Air Force was approaching block obsolescence, and the Dominions would not have joined Britain at war.

bespoke
bespoke
February 15, 2022 10:02 am

Besides which Hitler and his Germany had not yet revealed their true depraved nature so he had no idea what would be unleashed on Europe and reason to believe he really had made the world safer.

Just a quibble , ML.

He made very clear in his intent though his books and speeches from the start. Just many took it as boilerplate for the masses. And the elite thought they could control him.

johanna
johanna
February 15, 2022 10:03 am

Dr Faustus says:
February 15, 2022 at 7:56 am

In Chords of G’zing and G’zung news:

Band Dragon weighs in after Scott Morrison performs their song April Sun in Cuba on ukulele

On Monday morning, the band weighed in – sharing a TikTok video in which Mr Morrison plays the instrument in front of superimposed images of the bushfires.

“Once again, Dragon are famous for all the wrong reasons,” the band captioned their Instagram post.

First time round they were famous for their own lo-talent version of a rubbish number.

Wow, you must be a real treat at parties, Faustus.

I don’t think anyone has ever claimed that April Sun is deep and meaningful like, I don’t know, songs by Neil Young and Joni Mitchell.

But, it is a rollicking pop tune, the like of which we do not see very often these days. Nothing wrong with that, at all. Contrary to what you might believe, it is not easy to produce something like that, either.

I mentioned recently a memorable gig at the Wifeswapper when Dragon were at their peak, and April Sun had every person there bopping away and feeling happy. What’s more, the live version was not a million miles away from the recorded version – they really could play (and sing).

Can I recommend Leonard Cohen to you? While he was a great talent, he was also President of the Miserable Bastards club. 🙂

srr
srr
February 15, 2022 10:04 am

Carl Benjamin
@carlbenjamin
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34m
Trudeau has not given an inch: the truckers are evil and a threat to his government, is the message of his speech. Now he will begin persecuting them with the full force of the state. The question now is whether the truckers have the resolve to take the punches and see this through to the bitter end; if they can hold out, Trudeau will be revealed for the evil WEF tyrant that he is. If they capitulate, they’ll be treated like the Jan 6 protesters.

Posted on 9:30 AM · Feb 15th, 2022

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
February 15, 2022 10:06 am

Did Pascoe ever get around to explaining how it was that the most advanced culture on Earth, which taught astronomy to the Mayans, Law to the Romans, navigation to the Vikings, and inscrutability to the Chinese, was subdued and erased by a few hundred sailors, marines, and convicts?

It would seem that there would have to be an explanation, but I can honestly believe Pascoe never explained it. Or at least nothing more than a vague reference to a climatic event which wiped out their society when it was at its peak but did not in earlier epochs when they had less technology and fewer resources.

srr
srr
February 15, 2022 10:08 am

SusanBBPM
@SusanBBPM
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20m
Replying to @carlbenjamin
The truckers haven’t changed – they believe what their government/establishment have been teaching them to believe for decades.

If the government have now completely changed their minds about what’s good/bad, right/wrong then the onus on them is to convince the population. Not demonize them and then change the law to persecute them.

Trudeau is using the language of genocide. Look up the 10 stages of genocide – he’s ticked most of them off already.

The truckers were right to force the issue – because this was coming their way no matter what.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
February 15, 2022 10:08 am

Mark Steyn on Chamberlain:
“…..he was an honorable man who believed he was acting in the interests of his country and the British Empire which he loved. When Churchill became prime minister he kept Chamberlain on and had him chair the War Cabinet in his absence. And Churchill wept over Chamberlain’s funeral casket, and claimed he was an honorable man who just happened to be wrong.”

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 15, 2022 10:09 am

Kimberley Kitching – the political equivalent of a burner phone. PeanutHead’s mate has a shorter shelf life than badly frozen prawns.

Roger
Roger
February 15, 2022 10:10 am

He made very clear in his intent though his books and speeches from the start. Just many took it as boilerplate for the masses. And the elite thought they could control him.

And he was perceived as a useful bulwark against Bolshevism, not just among the German elites (Germany had experienced its own Communist uprising in 1918-19) but also in Britain.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
February 15, 2022 10:10 am

In the end curiosity got the better of me and I gave up and Googled Reiner Fuellmich.

Good Lord.
An entire alternative New World Order Gerät – prosecutors, expert witnesses, Grand Jury and everything.

The only thing I didn’t see was counsel for the defence.

But I’m pretty sure there would be one – probably down the bottom along with the bailiffs, Treuhänder, and interrogators.

Roger
Roger
February 15, 2022 10:12 am

Without a court order, banks will be able freeze personal accounts of anyone linked with the protests.

My…the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
February 15, 2022 10:14 am

Justine Castreau gets heavy.

Without a court order, banks will be able freeze personal accounts of anyone linked with the protests.

Justine may be making a rod for his own (supporters’) backs.

But he is panicking. Desperate times call for desperate measures, so they must be Cuisenaire rods.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 15, 2022 10:22 am

BHP report today.
Should be yuuuuge.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
February 15, 2022 10:23 am

But, it is a rollicking pop tune, the like of which we do not see very often these days.

People change.

When Dragon first penned that song they were young, brimming with energy (even creative), likely indulging in a crude hedonism, and uncertain as to how far their career as a band might go – in rock music perhaps more than anywhere fortune is, while promiscuous enough, even more fickle.

Now they have homes, paunches and grey hair, and royalty cheques. Fame however is gone, and the only way to stay at all connected to the industry is to play the grand old statesmen tut-tutting as required.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
February 15, 2022 10:24 am

The masks are a minor issue for me. It is the coercion to get the next jab, and restrictions on unvaxxed, that is the main point and obvious to see they are still going down that road.

Farmer Gezsays:
February 15, 2022 at 9:16 am
Nanny Neil Mitchell 3aw asking listeners which restriction should be eased.
Answer – Masks.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 15, 2022 10:31 am

BHP report today.
Should be yuuuuge.

$2.10 Aussie per share dividend..

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 15, 2022 10:33 am

BHP to pay record $US1.50 interim dividend as profit jumps to $US9.44bn, driven by surge in commodities

Nick Evans
Resource Writer
45 minutes ago February 15, 2022
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BHP will pay a record $US1.50 ($2.10) interim dividend after booking a $US9.44bn half-year profit, buoyed by a surge in the price of key commodities.

The mining giant’s after-tax profit has more than doubled for the six months to December 31 from $US3.88bn a year earlier, on the back of stronger pricing in iron ore, coal, oil and copper.

BHP narrowly beat consensus analyst expectations, booking underlying earnings before tax, interest, depreciation and amortisation of $US18.46bn.

Consensus analyst expectations had tipped a $US1.24 a share dividend on the back of underlying EBITDA of $US18.32bn.

The strong result backs up a transformative year for chief executive Mike Henry after the company agreed to sell its oil and gas assets to Woodside Petroleum and shareholders voted to end BHP’s decades old dual-listed structure.

BHP’s Pilbara iron ore operations shrugged off the impact of skilled labour shortages in Western Australia in the first half of the year, lifting shipments in the December quarter to near record levels.

HT
HT
February 15, 2022 10:36 am

Eyrie says:
February 15, 2022 at 7:58 am
Get yourself a real GPS with speed readout. You can calibrate your car speedo. They are allowed to read 10% over your real speed according to ADR’s.

Read that again HT. What you said agrees with it except that I didn’t know about the 4 kph in addition. This is a disgrace and causes traffic on highways to dawdle when it doesn’t need to. Also causes overtaking.
Our 2000 Honda Accord was only doing 93kph when indicating 100kph. Written off doing 5kph.

Opps, sorry 🙂

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 15, 2022 10:36 am

Mother Lodesays:
February 15, 2022 at 9:10 am
Does Dr Professor Reinhardt Fullermich have 50,000 sealed indictments yet?

I remember early in Trump’s Presidency my BiL’s absolute certainty that Trump was about to be arrested and perp-walked in front of the world. This was on one of the many occasions when Herr Mueller had hinted big things a-comin’.

Munty is your BiL?

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
February 15, 2022 10:37 am

From TrialSiteNews.

After analyzing the data in this fashion for 145 unique countries, the results demonstrate that in over 80% of countries the public policy of mass inoculation with novel inoculations for a novel coronavirus does not appear to lower cases or deaths, it increases them over and above what would have been predicted by the Bayesian model. In some countries, this effect is very stark (e.g. Vietnam, Mongolia, Thailand, Cambodia, Seychelles), where we have countries that had near zero cases or deaths before mass vaccination for over 1 year of the pandemic, then they begin the mass vaccination, and they have a surge in cases and deaths. There are many potential reasons for these results that other researchers have discussed and/or warned of prior to the initiation of the mass vaccination campaigns including leaky vaccines, low absolute risk reduction in the first place, a debilitating effect on the immune system, a reaction to the spike protein cytotoxin that may present in hospital as COVID-19-like symptoms and are thus labelled as COVID-19 cases and deaths, mass false-positive testing, an ineffectiveness of the vaccines against new variants, and others. These possibilities and more will continue to be investigated.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 15, 2022 10:40 am

bigger than Watergate, is getting absolutely no mention, ZERO, in the New York Times, Washington Post, ABC Fake News, NBC Fake News, CBS Fake News, ratings-dead CNN, and MSDNC. This in itself is a scandal, the fact that a story so big, so powerful, and so important for the future of our Nation is getting zero coverage from LameStream, is being talked about all over the world.

Yes Custard.
They not only broke into a candidates communications, but rolled on with it while he was president.
All with the active connivance of the Alphabet agencies.

Zatara
Zatara
February 15, 2022 10:41 am

France to build up to 14 new nuclear reactors by 2050, says Macron

French president says ‘renaissance’ of atomic energy industry will help end country’s reliance on fossil fuels. Maybe they can buy the ones Germany pulled the plugs on? Now time for the rest of the western govts to wake up.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
February 15, 2022 10:41 am

Like most of the people who watch the ABC, he desperately wants to be in the know so he can look down on others, and the ABC is a closed little club where he can be treated as being ‘in the know’.

The ABC and Fairfax. Purveyors of off the rack fashion statement opinions to the mentally defective so they can cosplay as “intellectuals”.

twostix
twostix
February 15, 2022 10:45 am

Boy all those magically “emergency powers” acts that got passed and amended in the last decade, and all of the “non lethal” weaponry and new military style police forces that were built, sure are coming in handy for the people that passed and built them.

Hugh
Hugh
February 15, 2022 10:46 am
incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 15, 2022 10:48 am

and all of the “non lethal” weaponry and new military style police forces that were built …

Crossbows.
It’s all good until the peasants get their hands on the same weapons. Then the king is never safe.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 15, 2022 10:50 am

Now they have homes, paunches and grey hair, and royalty cheques

ML, I think two of The Dragons are deceased.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 15, 2022 10:51 am

And he was perceived as a useful bulwark against Bolshevism, not just among the German elites (Germany had experienced its own Communist uprising in 1918-19) but also in Britain.

Its also worth pointing out that the French/UK had a reason to declare war on Russia, which they let slide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-British_plans_for_intervention_in_the_Winter_War

It would be difficult to map out how the war would have proceeded it this had taken place.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
February 15, 2022 10:52 am

In addition Britain wasn’t ready for war, you could argue Chamberlain bought them time to start ramping up their war capabilities.

True.
However, as a senior member of the government from 1931, he must share some of the responsibility for that unreadiness.
If the government had heeded the admonition of the incomparable Bulldog Drummond, as recorded by “Sapper” in the literary classic “Bulldog Drummond at Bay” first published in January 1935, the UK would have been almost four years better advanced in military preparedness by the time Chamberlain had to negotiate at Munich.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 15, 2022 10:56 am

ABCcess had a üniversity”spokesmong on to say what was wrong with Western Mongstralia and its low covid testing rate.

It was because there wasnt enough fear in the community.
The government wasnt ramping the fear factor up enough to cause people to line up for 1/2 a day to get tested like in Sicktoria.

Another for the gibbet when the Bane court is held.

cohenite
February 15, 2022 10:56 am

H B Bearsays:
February 15, 2022 at 10:09 am
Kimberley Kitching – the political equivalent of a burner phone. PeanutHead’s mate has a shorter shelf life than badly frozen prawns.

To be fair she has lost weight. Kathy Sherriff looks at kimberley and thinks that could have been me: a rabbit permanently frozen in the headlights. Women in the liars and greens look like crazed cat ladies or if not like Kaushaliya Vaghela have a brief moment in the headlines before they retire to their council flat with the electricity cut off.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
February 15, 2022 10:58 am

Munty is your BiL?

Dunno.

They are all interchangeable.

The left rails against industry and mass production – and yet they spend all their time churning out bland, identical, disposable people.

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