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Napoleon’s Retreat from Moscow, Adolph Northen, 1866

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Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 15, 2022 3:32 pm

We need Roger Ramjet and his Eagles!

Say no more! 😀

***Cheaply-animated Freedom Intensifies***

#MoreCheeseThanMyLocalItalianDeli

#Glorious

pete of perth
pete of perth
February 15, 2022 3:33 pm

We need Chicken Man to sort this globalist shithole He’s everywhere he’s everywhere

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 15, 2022 3:36 pm

Aaaaaay! Top o’ de page with glorious 1965-era animanation! 😀

Winston Smith
February 15, 2022 3:38 pm

Twostix:

We have been run for two years by a secretive Junta of seven people that meets over zoom a couple of times a month and calls itself the “National Cabinet” and illegally pretend to exist as a formal governing legal entity under the Commonwealth – despite already being smacked by a magistrate saying they’re not.

Somewhere there are copies of these meetings.
All we have to do is find and air them.
The intarwebs are forever.

JC
JC
February 15, 2022 3:38 pm

I can say , there are some recriminations if a Liberal party power broker is to be believed. I met this dude through Sinclair at an IPA dinner and because he lives nearby I see him about once every couple of years. I got talking to him as we were both ordering a coffee a fee months ago during lockdown. He believes the Liberal Party requires a complete make-over and the recruitment policies need to be totally revamped because they only appear to be attracting political adviser type doofuses as candidates and members. He even asked me to text him so he could have me join the party. They appear to be aware of the problem.

duncanm
duncanm
February 15, 2022 3:38 pm

Indolentsays:
February 15, 2022 at 3:29 pm
Triple Vaccinated accounted for majority of Covid-19 Cases, Hospitalisations & Deaths in England during January

that’s dishonest trash. What’s the numbers PER HEAD of each sub-population?

The UK is > 70% “fully vaccinated” (which I read to mean 2 or 3 shots).

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 15, 2022 3:41 pm

I’d commission El Kabong to pay a visit to a certain Imperial Personage who resides in Rockingham…

…If I could trust him to not get over-excited.

#Olé!

Kneel
Kneel
February 15, 2022 3:43 pm

“no visible or audio sign when the things are in use.”

If it’s at 2.5kHz, you’d definitely hear it! Would be like a switchmode camera flash re-charging – high pitched whine. Would even be audible over a telephone (but just annoying on the other end)

JC
JC
February 15, 2022 3:43 pm

This shocking.

A CNN poll released today found that 51% of Democrat and Democrat-leaning voters do not want to see Biden run again in 2024. Just 45% say they would support Biden on another run.

Who the hell are the 45% who want Brandon to run again?

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
February 15, 2022 3:44 pm

Dover,

Reposting the booster article from HS. There were some subsequent comments by myself and others.

Bourne1879 says:
February 14, 2022 at 10:38 am
This is going to be used to justify mandating 3rd shot.

Herald Sun today by Health Editor – no comments allowed

Data reveals effect of booster jabs on Omicron

The difference a booster jab makes to hospital and ICU admissions has been revealed, as data shows the true impact of vaccines on Omicron. Victorians who catch Covid after having two vaccinations are more than seven times more likely to require intensive care than those who have also received a booster shot.

The growing gap between the risks faced by different sections of the community has become so great that completely unvaccinated Victorians are now 34 times more likely to end up in an ICU than those who have had a full three doses.An in-depth analysis of Victoria’s Omicron infections prepared for the Herald Sun reveals the full impact of booster shots within the state for the first time.

After the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation updated its stance to consider only those who have received three Covid vaccines to be “up to date”, it can be revealed unvaccinated Victorian adults are now 88 per cent more likely to die from a Covid infection than those of the same age who are fully jabbed.

Deputy chief health officer Dan O’Brien said the majority of the death and serious illness during the latest Omicron wave is being born from people who’ve had two doses of the vaccine, including many who had a false sense of security.

“The fact is, it’s not a two dose vaccine, it’s a three dose vaccine,” Associate Professor O’Brien said.
“With the two doses, over time that protection reduces significantly so three months or more out from your second dose, you’re starting to really lose your protection and the benefits.

“I just really would love people to really get that concept of the third dose. It’s not just a sort of added window dressing – it’s actually really important and I think those figures really emphasise that.”

The latest Department of Health data shows Victorians who were infected after they had three vaccine shots have been four and half times less likely to end up in hospital than those who have had only two shots since January 1 – and a massive six times less likely to require hospitalisation than the completely unvaccinated.

The analysis of Victoria’s Omicron wave reveals:

• Those with two vaccine doses have been 7.6 times more likely to be in ICU than someone who had three doses

• Someone who was unvaccinated was more than 34 times more likely to be in ICU than someone who had received three doses

• Those who are not vaccinated at all are 4.5 times more likely to be in ICU than someone who had received two doses

The Alfred hospital infectious disease physician and former ATAGI chair Prof Allen Cheng said about one in five of the recorded hospitalised Covid cases had been admitted due to other health concerns, however there was no doubting the impact a third vaccine was having in cutting rates of serious illness.

“Probably the best evidence we have from the UK is that it raised your protection against hospitalisation from about 50 per cent (with two shots) to about 90 per cent (with the shots), so that is quite a lot and broadly what we are seeing in your data.”

“It’s like Russian roulette – most people who get Covid are going to be perfectly fine, but you just don’t want to be the one who gets really sick and people do get really sick with this, we have hospitals full of them.”

As of February 8 there were approximately 268,260 Victorian adults who had not had a single Covid vaccination – yet they accounted for 28.9 per cent of all ICU Covid patients.

By comparison, the 2.4 million triple jabbed Victorians only accounted for 7.9 per cent of ICU admissions, while the 2.5 million to receive two vaccinations made up 60 per cent of intensive care cases.

Since the Omicron wave ramped up on January 1, only one person in every 200,000 to receive a Covid booster has required hospitalisation, compared to 4.6 people in every 200,000 who have had only two shots.

More than 6.1 people in every 200,000 unvaccinated Victorians have had to be hospitalised due to Covid since January 1.

Because older and vulnerable members of the community were the most likely to be fully vaccinated early as well as serious illness, University of Melbourne epidemiologist Prof Tony Blakely said the benefit of triple vaccination may ever greater than demonstrated in the latest figures.

“That vaccination reduces one’s risk of hospitalisation, and if hospitalised reduces your risk of ICU, and reduces your risk of death, is indisputable and massive,” Prof Blakely said.

While it is difficult to compare the ICU, hospitalisation and death data because not all categories are adjusted for age and sex, Deakin University epidemiologist Prof Catherine Bennett said they showed a consistent story: “Vaccination is protecting people from serious illness and hospitalisation, and the reduction in risk is substantial”.

“This added protection from the booster against serious illness and death includes a reduced risk of symptomatic infection in the first place, which is more than halved for at least three months,” Prof Bennett said.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 15, 2022 3:45 pm

It’s not about the court it’s being held in, KD. It’s about getting information out into the public view.
And while it may not be a ‘real’ court, as in the name the “Court of Public Opinion” I hope it works at getting exposure.

I am calling bullshit on that Winston.
The “Grand Jury” thing is clickbait for the gullible.
They could call it a “Citizen’s Inquiry” or somesuch.
At what point do they say, “Just gaggin’. It isn’t a real Grand Jury, but now that we’ve got your attention …”?
They don’t.
Because they want to present themselves as (ahem) “people with standing” and their proceedings have “legal gravitas”.
If they want me to take them seriously they would need to drop the “People’s Court” schtick.
It sounds very Bosi.

Kneel
Kneel
February 15, 2022 3:46 pm

“We need Chicken Man…”

Shirley you mean “Super Chicken”?

“When you find your life in danger,
When you’re threatened by a stranger,
When you fear that you will take a lickin’
<bu-gerk>

Just call for Super Chicken <be-gurk>”

Delta A
Delta A
February 15, 2022 3:46 pm

Indolentsays:
February 15, 2022 at 3:22 pm

Great vid, Indolent.

Thanks for posting.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 15, 2022 3:47 pm

So you’re saying this isn’t the sonic weapon that was used in Canberra?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7SiuQxhAjg

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
February 15, 2022 3:47 pm

Just vote LDP

Not on offer in Brisbane – at least it wasn’t in 2019.

Unless things change closer to the election I’ve got the Uniparty, Greens, worse Marxists than the Greens, Fat Bastard, and PHON. (I doubt Fraser Anning is coming back from the political grave.)

Given the way things are, drawing a dick on the paper seriously risks a Green getting up on Labor preferences.

Awful.

Indolent
Indolent
February 15, 2022 3:48 pm
Indolent
Indolent
February 15, 2022 3:50 pm
Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
February 15, 2022 3:52 pm

After the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation updated its stance to consider only those who have received three Covid vaccines to be “up to date”, it can be revealed unvaccinated Victorian adults are now 88 per cent more likely to die from a Covid infection than those of the same age who are fully jabbed.

So, less than twice as likely?
Or am I reading something wrong there?

Chris
Chris
February 15, 2022 3:54 pm

After the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation updated its stance to consider only those who have received three Covid vaccines to be “up to date”, it can be revealed unvaccinated Victorian adults are now 88 per cent more likely to die from a Covid infection than those of the same age who are fully jabbed.

Vibe feels like they want us to read it as 88 times as likely, not 0.9 time MORE likely.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 15, 2022 3:55 pm

How fucking dare Jarryd Hayne smile as he leaves the clink on bail?
If only there were laws where a panel consisting of Laura Tingle, Lisa Wilkinson & Carrie Bickmore could decide who is guilty & their penalty.

Winston Smith
February 15, 2022 3:55 pm

Dover Beach:

So, not only are they allowed to freeze accounts without court order, they are legally immune from any recourse.

So he’s authorising banks to lock certain accounts.
Which accounts?
Who chooses?
The banks need to be very careful here because if they do freeze accounts without cause, then what happens to the rest of their depositors?
Trudesceau may just have started a run on the first bank that does freeze an account.

Kneel
Kneel
February 15, 2022 3:56 pm

“Who the hell are the 45% who want Brandon to run again?”

The ones who want to make sure HillBillary doesn’t run again?

Alternatively, CNN, ABC, MSDNC, The New York Slimes…. and everyone in a position of power that knows damn well that Joe is not really making the decisions. For them, he’s the gift that doesn’t stop giving – Joe takes the blame, they get the bribes, what’s not to like?

Indolent
Indolent
February 15, 2022 3:57 pm

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

I found the 2nd day livestream capture which gives the historical background and it is absolutely fascinating. This is really the big picture.

For anyone interested.

calli
calli
February 15, 2022 4:00 pm

Too many “so” starts on the blog today Cats.

2/10

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 15, 2022 4:00 pm

Dr Faustussays:

February 15, 2022 at 3:22 pm

Dr Faustus – Rusted on Uniparty member.

Far from it.
The Liberal Party/LNP is dead to me.
Labor has never been a live option.
A Labor/Green coalition is a foretaste of Hell.

None of this means I have any interest in supporting Cloive’s clown circus 3.0.

It is possible to hold these two positions simultaneously:-
.1 The LNP/ALP/Greens are a fuck up on roller skates and I don’t want to vote for them; and
.2 The UAP is a fuck up on roller skates and I don’t want to vote for them either.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 15, 2022 4:00 pm

So he’s authorising banks to lock certain accounts.
Which accounts?
Who chooses?

Karen.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 15, 2022 4:01 pm

For anyone interested.

I’m not.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 15, 2022 4:01 pm

So Calli, why the interest in so ?
It’s pretty so-so if you ask me.

calli
calli
February 15, 2022 4:02 pm

it can be revealed unvaccinated Victorian adults are now 88 per cent more likely to die from a Covid infection than those of the same age who are fully jabbed.

Another “tell” that it’s a lie.

“It can be revealed”

And what were the chances of death in the first place? Oh, that’s right. Half of bugger all.

Kneel
Kneel
February 15, 2022 4:03 pm

“It is possible to hold these two positions simultaneously:…”

Pick the lesser of two weavels. (not a typo)

calli
calli
February 15, 2022 4:06 pm

Just mucking around, bern.

My beef about the “so” start is that it’s often followed by a rewriting of an original comment into something that the author obviously didn’t mean. Or a goofy scenario that bears little resemblance to reality.

There are plenty of legitimate “so-ers”, of course. But it is fun to watch the so…er…show.

Kneel
Kneel
February 15, 2022 4:07 pm

“And what were the chances of death in the first place? Oh, that’s right. Half of bugger all.”

Not if you’re an obese octogenarian gay transgender woman with type 2 diabetes and severe arterial sclerosis!

Zatara
Zatara
February 15, 2022 4:07 pm

So he’s authorising banks to lock certain accounts.
Which accounts?
Who chooses?

According to their Finance Minister, they have authorized the BANKS to freeze any accounts THEY find “suspicious”. No further authorization or court order necessary.

calli
calli
February 15, 2022 4:08 pm

Doxxer!

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 15, 2022 4:08 pm

JC

Who the hell are the 45% who want Brandon to run again?

Civil War (Confederate) veterans, illegal immigrants, felons?

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 15, 2022 4:10 pm

The gold medal “so” was the Jordan Peterson lady interviewer.
One day I hope to be meme worthy.
My goal in life.

Cassie of Sydney
February 15, 2022 4:10 pm

“None of this means I have any interest in supporting Cloive’s clown circus 3.0.”

I can second that. I’ll be voting LDP as number one in Wentworth, Sharma will be way down….just above the greens and Allegra Da Big Spender. Any lingering sympathy I had for Sharma was evaporated by him crossing the floor last week. In the senate I will vote under the line and my top choices will be LDP and PHON.

As for Fatty Palmer, I don’t trust him. Whilst I like Craig Kelly and I understand why Kelly has hitched himself to Palmer’s dosh, I have a long memory and I remember Palmer’s behaviour between 2013 to 2016…it was disgraceful…..he was fawned over by their ABC precisely so as to embarrass and humiliate Abbott and he loved it.

And what did Clive gift us? The bush pig from Tasmania.

No thank you.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 15, 2022 4:10 pm

Or am I reading something wrong there?

Red meat for the midwits.

Delta A
Delta A
February 15, 2022 4:11 pm

Too many “so” starts on the blog today Cats.

So what? 🙂

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
February 15, 2022 4:13 pm

Sounds terrible but another example of the BS statistics we are being fed by the media :

“it can be revealed unvaccinated Victorian adults are now 88 per cent more likely to die from a Covid infection than those of the same age who are fully jabbed”.

Now tell us the odds for an unvaxxed healthy 60 year old with Omicron actually dying (see NSW stats in previous thread as they seem to be most comprehensive). They never actually tell you average age of those dying and that is the most obvious “tell”. It is about 85 and with serious comorbidities.

The other “tell” is no comments allowed as can’t be subjected to analysis.

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
February 15, 2022 4:13 pm

cohenite says:
February 15, 2022 at 3:47 pm
Big tech surveillance and it’s threat to the West.

Headline: Silicon Valley Has the Power to Destroy the Republican Party

Good. The sooner the better.

Lysander
Lysander
February 15, 2022 4:14 pm

Liberal Party requires a complete make-over and the recruitment policies need to be totally revamped because they only appear to be attracting political adviser type doofuses as candidates and members.

Have witnessed this first-hand in WA JC. Just look at Kirkup as a prime example. And it follows a typical and dangerous pattern – kid, young adult, goes to uni, gets involved in politics, gets a job after uni at an electorate office, if good enough might get a kick upstairs to being an MPs advisor, then a Ministerial advisor etc… This can take place, and I’ve seen it happen, over a decade or more.

Said advisor eventually gets to stand for Parliament.

They’ve never ran a business, never had a real job in the real world, live inside an echo-chamber and then run the country/state…

Cassie of Sydney
February 15, 2022 4:15 pm

“feelthebernsays:
February 15, 2022 at 3:55 pm
How fucking dare Jarryd Hayne smile as he leaves the clink on bail?
If only there were laws where a panel consisting of Laura Tingle, Lisa Wilkinson & Carrie Bickmore could decide who is guilty & their penalty.”

I wonder if the DPP are going to push for a third trial?

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
February 15, 2022 4:16 pm

Soooooo 88% more likely to die if your unvaccinated.
Death rate as a percentage of the total Australian population is 0.018.
Being very old is the overwhelming factor in your risk of death. No children or young adults are anywhere near this cherry picked lotto draw figure.
Shameful conflation by people who should and need to be precise.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 15, 2022 4:17 pm

…  I remember Palmer’s behaviour between 2013 to 2016…it was disgraceful…..he was fawned over by their ABC precisely so as to embarrass and humiliate Abbott and he loved it.

And what did Clive gift us? The bush pig from Tasmania.

This is a pretty fair summary of where I sit.
Fool me once, Fat Cloive, shame on you.
Fool me twice, Fat Cloive, shame on me.

Lysander
Lysander
February 15, 2022 4:19 pm

Having what I said about the Libs “recruitment” process pretty much goes for Liebor too; you just make your way through union ranks instead of having a real job.

Razey
Razey
February 15, 2022 4:20 pm

Bourne1879says:
February 15, 2022 at 3:44 pm
Dover,

Reposting the booster article from HS. There were some subsequent comments by myself and others.

Bourne1879 says:
February 14, 2022 at 10:38 am
This is going to be used to justify mandating 3rd shot.

Herald Sun today by Health Editor – no comments allowed

Data reveals effect of booster jabs on Omicron

Nothing ‘justifies’ mandating a medical procedure.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
February 15, 2022 4:22 pm

O sole mio

twostix
twostix
February 15, 2022 4:23 pm

so much for the constitutional monarchy providing protection

Nah having been unmoored from all that in our post “colonial” countries – we and the Canadians live in naked “democracies” now.

Shit, violent, unstable societies run by whoever has control of the biggest or most fanatical and violent mob of lunatics.

calli
calli
February 15, 2022 4:25 pm

I would add “whoever has control of vote counting” to that.

Lysander
Lysander
February 15, 2022 4:25 pm

I didn’t bother reading it but the opening paragraph of Chris Ughlman’s article on why “we should not ignore Canberra protests” looked to be off to a good start…

I tend not to read any journo who steals secret notes and publishes them. So, pretty much, all journos…

Winston Smith
February 15, 2022 4:26 pm

The Western Provinces have a great deal of oil and minerals.
They also are getting Jack of the drain without adequate compensation of their resources.
They are also getting a bit annoyed with this tyrant who is pissing off the country.
Trudesceau needs to be careful they don’t secede and start their own country.
There would be advantages for China to start stirring things up – the route between the two countries is over the Pacific, and Canada needs export markets. They are not tied to the US.

twostix
twostix
February 15, 2022 4:30 pm

“it can be revealed unvaccinated Victorian adults are now 88 per cent more likely to die from a Covid infection than those of the same age who are fully jabbed”.

One day, god willing, we’ll be able to use the levers of power to make up fake medical statistics and boom them all across the land in service to our political ideology.

Bluey
Bluey
February 15, 2022 4:31 pm

Lysandersays:
February 15, 2022 at 4:14 pm
Liberal Party requires a complete make-over and the recruitment policies need to be totally revamped because they only appear to be attracting political adviser type doofuses as candidates and members.

Have witnessed this first-hand in WA JC. Just look at Kirkup as a prime example. And it follows a typical and dangerous pattern – kid, young adult, goes to uni, gets involved in politics, gets a job after uni at an electorate office, if good enough might get a kick upstairs to being an MPs advisor, then a Ministerial advisor etc… This can take place, and I’ve seen it happen, over a decade or more.

Said advisor eventually gets to stand for Parliament.

They’ve never ran a business, never had a real job in the real world, live inside an echo-chamber and then run the country/state…

That describes my state and federal MPs pretty much exactly. Both Labor. Both, in my experience, will ignore you as a constituent unless you toe their line.

dopey
dopey
February 15, 2022 4:34 pm

I remember hearing that Dragon song many years ago. Thought it was about a bloke catching a cab. ‘Take me to the airport sonny, Cuba, oh ho ho.’ Must be some shit about a hijack I thought.

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
February 15, 2022 4:34 pm

Think of the children

‘This is what defines me’: Why a first-term Liberal MP crossed the floor

Liberal MP Dr Fiona Martin said she thought of children she has treated as a psychologist when she crossed the floor to vote against the government

Hugh
Hugh
February 15, 2022 4:37 pm

Cassie of Sydney says:
February 15, 2022 at 4:10 pm

And what did Clive gift us? The bush pig from Tasmania.

But to be fair, at least he ate her afterwards.

Cassie of Sydney
February 15, 2022 4:43 pm

“Zyconoclastsays:
February 15, 2022 at 4:34 pm
Think of the children

‘This is what defines me’: Why a first-term Liberal MP crossed the floor

Liberal MP Dr Fiona Martin said she thought of children she has treated as a psychologist when she crossed the floor to vote against the government”

Yes Ms Martin, you’ll be remembered as a “one-termer”.

Adios.

Baba
Baba
February 15, 2022 4:49 pm

Someone who was unvaccinated was more than 34 times more likely to be in ICU than someone who had received three doses

And

it can be revealed unvaccinated Victorian adults are now 88 per cent more likely (ie less than double the chance) to die from a Covid infection than those of the same age who are fully (triple) jabbed.

What does this mean? The unvaxxed respond amazingly well to treatment in ICU? Or the unvaxxed are being unnecessarily admitted to ICU in support of the narrative?

sfw
sfw
February 15, 2022 4:50 pm

Sancho, go for it. If there’s no LDP or suitable candidate for you in your electorate, by all means send your vote to the Uniparty. I guess that’s better for you than voting for the only alternative. You appear to have CDS (Clive Derangement Syndrome).

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 15, 2022 4:51 pm

The odds of ending up in ICU with omicron are miniscule full stop.
If it’s 0.01% versus 0.08%, who gives a flying fuck.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
February 15, 2022 4:53 pm

Too many “so” starts on the blog today Cats.

So what you’re saying is, the word ‘so’ should be banned.

calli
calli
February 15, 2022 4:55 pm

Lol!

A perfect example.

10/10

Gab
Gab
February 15, 2022 4:56 pm

So what’s been happening today?

Gab
Gab
February 15, 2022 4:56 pm

So the NBN and $G is fully operational now in my area. Finally!

Old bloke
Old bloke
February 15, 2022 4:58 pm

duncanm says:
February 15, 2022 at 3:15 pm

this is not true.

The LRAD’s do not work at some inaudible frequency.. they use (like I said) about 2.5-3kHz, just like a smoke alarm or intruder alarm designed to pain a burgler out of your house.

Thank you Duncanm, i was under the impression that these things work at both audible and sub-audible levels.

Winston Smith
February 15, 2022 4:59 pm

Eyrie:

Brits come to accommodation with Germany in 1938-39. No declaration of war when the Germans and Russians invade Poland. Neither wants the Poles on the other side when the main event starts.
US continues to sell military equipment to Britain -maybe, as Brits may want to protect themselves in event agreement falls apart. Brits arm themselves, become porcupine.

Interesting scenario.
.1 What happens with France? Overrun or left alone?
.2 Remember that the French surrender provided the Wehrmacht with enough trucks to last the first year into Russia.
.3 Does Germany invest heavily in the Ploesti oilfields to enable it to be independent from Russian imports?
USSR/German war ends with USSR losing and Stalin removed. New USSR government sues for peace. German frontier now well east of Poland.
.1 After the war, Ukraine borders moved West about 500 Km. (accuracy?)
.2 Logically Greater Germany would encompass all of Poland and up to the old Ukraine borders, + the Baltic states up to and including Estonia.
.3 Ukraine + Belarus would become Protectorates.
However, this doesn’t take into account that the decisions made, while good for Germany politically and strategically, it wouldn’t necessarily be good for the Nazi Party.
When you look at Hitlers decisions, he always put the Party ahead of Germany’s needs.

Cassie of Sydney
February 15, 2022 5:07 pm

“CDS (Clive Derangement Syndrome).”

Clive Palmer was a significant factor in Campbell Newman’s government losing office in 2015.

Clive Palmer behaved disgracefully whilst in parliament between 2013 to 2016. He was a buffoon….albeit a dangerous one that probably helped to destabilise Abbott.

You see, at the end of the day, it’s all about Clive Palmer and nobody else.

No thank you.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 15, 2022 5:11 pm

Clive has said shit about making exemptions public.
Makes you wonder why.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 15, 2022 5:11 pm

Without the Russians stirring the anti-colonialisation pot the Brit Empire retains most of Africa along with Italy having some in North Africa. Maybe Algeria and Morocco go to Germany.

I think we all agree the last 70 years in the Middle east/Africa have been varying levels of clusterfucks.
Now take that and multiply it by Italy running the joint.

And I think the prediction of Franco like sclerosis would be spot on.

However if Germany had been kicking USSR ass earlier then maybe the “strike north” faction of imperial Japan might have fancied a rematch instead of kicking Uncle Sam in the ‘nads and getting their poo pushed in as a consequence.

Tom
Tom
February 15, 2022 5:15 pm

So what you’re saying is, the word ‘so’ should be banned.

No, Beaugy. It’s enough to point out that people who habitually begin sentences with a preposition like “so” are illiterate bogans.

PS: my apologies to the tribe with whom you identify.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
February 15, 2022 5:15 pm

February 15, 2022 at 4:53 pm
Too many “so” starts on the blog today Cats.

A thread needle pulling so.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 15, 2022 5:17 pm

Any time I mention the exemptions, in any situation, it sets people off.
The fact that some people during the past two years have been able to work, travel & quarantine differently to others is still such a raw issue.
For the life of me I don’t know why this isn’t being exploited.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
February 15, 2022 5:19 pm

So what you’re saying is, the word ‘so’ should be banned.

No, Beaugy. It’s enough to point out that people who habitually begin sentences with a preposition like “so” are illiterate bogans.

I was just kidding Tom. I understood that calli was teasing us, so I gave an example of really dumb soism.

Winston Smith
February 15, 2022 5:19 pm

Dot:

China would rule with less inefficiencies but more anal swabbing.

With or without Violet oil, Dot?
Curious -and deviant – minds wish to know.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 15, 2022 5:21 pm

instead of kicking Uncle Sam in the ‘nads and getting their poo pushed in as a consequence.

A brilliant strategical exposition!

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 15, 2022 5:22 pm

Russia is in the ME right now. For very good reason. They want to prevent Qatar et al from building a gas pipeline to Europe. By stuffing around in Syria Putin has achieved that strategic aim quite well. It’s reverse colonialism: going into a ramshackle country to make it worse, not better.

calli
calli
February 15, 2022 5:27 pm

I gave an example of really dumb soism.

Bern did too – that hideous Jordan Pedersen interviewer. She was an expert.

I suspect Bartlett did the same more recently, but I haven’t the heart to review it. Don’t want to spoil dinner.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 15, 2022 5:27 pm

Have witnessed this first-hand in WA JC. Just look at Kirkup as a prime example

I expect Collier and all the other usual suspects are still in place behind the scenes. Harder to kill than onion grass.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
February 15, 2022 5:29 pm

The disturbing story of a 12 year old Utah boy who took his own life after being bullied has a minor sub-plot: the use of language to minimise the concept of personal responsibility.
‘Angry, hurt and broken’: Family speak out to raise awareness after bullied boy, 12, dies by suicide (9News)
Note that he didn’t “commit suicide” i.e. cause his own death by his own hand.
He was killed by a noun, just like guns, falls, and accidents are nouns.

Personal responsibility or agency have taken a major step to the rear in today’s media.

JC
JC
February 15, 2022 5:29 pm

I don’t get this.. okay it’s about green bullshit but still. The UK is supposedly sitting on huge reserves of gas, so are a decent number of countries in Europe. Why the need to go cap in hand to an unstable neighbor in Russia/ Putin and buy their crap?

local oaf
February 15, 2022 5:30 pm

Farmer Gez says:
February 15, 2022 at 5:15 pm

February 15, 2022 at 4:53 pm
Too many “so” starts on the blog today Cats.

So, if I think I’m the only real person here – is that a so-lipsism?

Or just a so-lecism?

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
February 15, 2022 5:30 pm

so I gave an example of really dumb soism.

And got 10/10 for it! So there!

calli
calli
February 15, 2022 5:32 pm

Handing out some high quality upticks…I’d better stop. It might be habit for ing.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 15, 2022 5:36 pm

JCsays:
February 15, 2022 at 5:29 pm
I don’t get this.. okay it’s about green bullshit but still. The UK is supposedly sitting on huge reserves of gas, so are a decent number of countries in Europe. Why the need to go cap in hand to an unstable neighbor in Russia/ Putin and buy their crap?

Jo Nova had a good column on this about a week ago. In short, during some “experimental” fracking a very minor (Richter 1.5) earthquake was detected, and the Slime blamed the fracking. That it was not strong enough to even rattle the teacups was ignored, and after much screaming, fracking was banned in the UK. I think it was the same column that mentioned that pile driving for offshore wind turbines was, quite literally, shaking homes on shore, but the Slime had nothing to say about that.

The Greens are Ebola on the earth.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 15, 2022 5:37 pm

This one’s for agricultural Cats. It’s an ill wind…

Wheat farmers take heed of Ukraine tension
Liv Casben and Jonathan BarrettAAP
Tue, 15 February 2022 8:07AM

Australian grain farmers are preparing for the main sowing season as global wheat prices trade near decade highs over concerns a Russian invasion of Ukraine would disrupt global exports.

Russia and Ukraine account for about one-third of grains and oil seeds traded globally, which means any disruption to shipping caused by conflict and sanctions would send ripples through the market.

GrainGrowers Limited chair Brett Hosking said the tension was creating uncertainty but it was unlikely to impact what growers planted.

“Potentially, what is a good market opportunity at the moment may not be in a period of time,” Mr Hosking said.

Australia is one of the world’s biggest wheat exporters, with many grain farmers recently harvesting back-to-back bumper crops after years of drought. The planting window for the upcoming wheat season opens around April.

Mr Hosking, chair of GrainGrowers Australia, said that while there was likely to be a short-term bump in wheat prices for Australia, that pricing could change significantly between now and when crops are planted and harvested.

He said with commodity prices high, “any crop is a good choice at the moment”.

Global currency, commodity and equity markets have been impacted by the increasingly tense situation on the Russia-Ukraine border, where troops are stationed, with investors seeking out safe-haven assets.

US officials have warned an invasion could happen at any time.

Rabobank agricultural analyst Dennis Voznesenski forecasts that global wheat prices could rise by 50 per cent or more if there is a full-scale conflict and grain exports from the Black Sea region are stripped from the already tight global market.

M Voznesenski said wheat was very price sensitive because buyers can’t readily substitute it for alternatives.

“Wheat is probably the most reactive because wheat is the most inelastic in terms of demand,” Mr Voznesenski said.

“We are at multi-year highs for wheat prices already so this has been another factor that adds to that.”

Australian farmers have been making the most of good growing conditions in recent years by selling grain into a market where demand has been strong, caused in part by poor harvests in major northern hemisphere grain-producing countries.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 15, 2022 5:41 pm

Why the need to go cap in hand to an unstable neighbor in Russia/ Putin and buy their crap?

Because the less unstable neighbour, for all their faults and extortionism, is still more sane than their cohort of rich (or gov’t sponsored), bubble-dwelling anti-industrialists and Keep-It-In-The-Grounders at home who are utterly and violently agin’ any form of carbon emissions or heavy industry that are visible from home (on the telly), but perfectly OK if someone else is doing it elsewhere.

NIMBYism at its most metastasised…

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 15, 2022 5:43 pm

So,

Snap to Boambee John! With examples provided.

sfw
sfw
February 15, 2022 5:43 pm

So, all the CDS people out there, if there’s no LDP candidate, and there’s not many, then go ahead vote for the Uniparty, better than giving Clive and his team a go. If you want more of what we’ve had for the past two years you’ll get it.

Indolent
Indolent
February 15, 2022 5:44 pm
rickw
rickw
February 15, 2022 5:45 pm

.2 Remember that the French surrender provided the Wehrmacht with enough trucks to last the first year into Russia.

And Brit trucks. Important to remember that the Wehrmacht weren’t some sort of wonder army, terribly short of trucks and very reliant on horses.

Gilas
Gilas
February 15, 2022 5:49 pm

sfw says:
February 15, 2022 at 2:01 pm

Razey, by not voting or voting informal you merely support the uniparty by your inaction. So from now on don’t comment on anything to do with Australian politics as you do not engage with it.

What bollocks sfw! You are usually better than that.
Do you need to understand quantum mechanical tensors, or use them in your daily life, to comment or take an interest in the subject?
Do you need to play the piano at all, to appreciate piano music?

Not taking part in a corrupt enterprise doesn’t exclude one from trying to change it, in whatever way they can.

Razey
Razey
February 15, 2022 5:50 pm

feelthebernsays:
February 15, 2022 at 4:51 pm
The odds of ending up in ICU with omicron are miniscule full stop.
If it’s 0.01% versus 0.08%, who gives a flying fuck.

It’s not about ‘health’.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 15, 2022 5:51 pm

@ rickw-

Yep.

In terms of raw mechanisation, the British, French and even to an extent the Poles were better equipped than the Wehrmacht in 1939-40. And same went for Russia in 1941.

The German advantage was in its all-arms tactical training, strategic massing of its resources, good communications and general co-ordination of ground and air forces (initially), and the sheer shock of what this looked like when applied on a large scale.

rickw
rickw
February 15, 2022 5:54 pm

RCMP sabotages privately owned excavators on private property, and admit it.

“Mounted” might take on a whole new meaning if they keep this up. Mounted as in mounted on some patriots trophy wall.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 15, 2022 5:57 pm

In terms of raw mechanisation, the British, French and even to an extent the Poles were better equipped than the Wehrmacht in 1939-40. And same went for Russia in 1941.

Between 75% and 80% of the Wehrmacht was horse drawn – they took nearly 750,000 horses into Russia in 1941.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 15, 2022 5:59 pm

COVID deaths from the ABS, updated today.

Gareth Parker
??@G_Parker??

New release from the ABS on COVID-19 mortality today.
“The median age for those who died from COVID-19 was 83.7 years (81.2 years for males, 86.0 years for females)”
(In 2019, median age for all deaths in Australia was 78 for males and 84 for females.)

https://www.abs.gov.au/articles/covid-19-mortality-australia

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 15, 2022 6:00 pm

In terms of raw mechanisation, the British, French and even to an extent the Poles were better equipped than the Wehrmacht in 1939-40. And same went for Russia in 1941.

British Army was fully mechanized by 1936.

Gab
Gab
February 15, 2022 6:03 pm

So you see, Calli, when we’re told not to do something, we then go ahead and do it anyway 😀

Indolent
Indolent
February 15, 2022 6:05 pm

Pretty good overview of what is being done to us. Never mind the virus.

Laura Ingraham: This was never about the virus

Zatara
Zatara
February 15, 2022 6:06 pm

And Brit trucks. Important to remember that the Wehrmacht weren’t some sort of wonder army, terribly short of trucks and very reliant on horses.

And tanks. The German tank formations were outnumbered by the Allies in France. Germans started with 2,582. Allies had 4,204.

The Allied tanks were also more heavily armored and armed.

twostix
twostix
February 15, 2022 6:06 pm

So I made a poem for our big brained literates.

How now brown bureaucrat;
Consider how long Australian humans spend receiving “education”.
But zero ability to understand basic maths?
Two Australian individuals vs one Australian individual is more than 88% more, on.
See what I did there? Cerebral Nigerian princes calculate odds in their minds and email Australia, relative risk.
Consider how long Australian humans spend receiving “education”.

Fin.

I’m open to offers for an arts grant, etc.

Cassie of Sydney
February 15, 2022 6:07 pm

“Bruce of Newcastlesays:
February 15, 2022 at 5:22 pm
Russia is in the ME right now. For very good reason. They want to prevent Qatar et al from building a gas pipeline to Europe. By stuffing around in Syria Putin has achieved that strategic aim quite well. It’s reverse colonialism: going into a ramshackle country to make it worse, not better.”

What are you smoking? I’ll take Russia any day over Qatar…financier of Hamas and other Islamist terrorist groups. Qatar is a nasty country that uses slave labour. Better that Europe is dependent on Russia than Qatar. And how did Putin “stuff around” in Syria? Whilst western countries sat back and did fuck all, it was Putin and the Russians that stepped in to save Christians, Yazidis and other minorities from ISIS and other Islamist groups in Syria, some of those murderous groups received money from Qatar.

Really BoN.

Baba
Baba
February 15, 2022 6:10 pm

Malcolm Roberts: LRAD outside Parliament House?

AFP shiny bum:

That would be something that, ah, is for our police methodology which we would have to look at some sort of public interest immunity claim, Senator.

https://youtu.be/ip7BEmXkLCA

twostix
twostix
February 15, 2022 6:10 pm

Inspiration flows.

I really could have been someone.

lotocoti
lotocoti
February 15, 2022 6:10 pm

He must’ve got permission to…
Permission?
…to walk about freely.

The mighty Went the Day Well? on GEM.

bons
bons
February 15, 2022 6:12 pm

JC, I bumped into some folks from our local branch, which I quit when Photios’ ‘Moderates’ took over. They agree with your contact that the Party structure requires a complete revamp, but they are clueless regarding how to achieve change.
According to them, all decisions are now taken at the central office, and the branches have been cut out of preselection. The central office also controls party rules and membership. Apparently the courts don’t view this as a problem.
I commented that none of this would have occurred if they had supported those of us who opposed the ‘Moderates’ takeover, instead of agressively putting us down in support of Photios/Turnbull. Hurrumphs.
The local Photios agents of destruction were an estate agent and a newsagent. They were extremely well coached.
The branch is now responsible for morning teas for visiting central office hacks, organising the annual picnic and selecting delegates to attend the complete sham state conference.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
February 15, 2022 6:14 pm

New release from the ABS on COVID-19 mortality today.
“The median age for those who died from COVID-19 was 83.7 years (81.2 years for males, 86.0 years for females)”
(In 2019, median age for all deaths in Australia was 78 for males and 84 for females.)

So you’ll live longer if you get WuFlu!

Baba
Baba
February 15, 2022 6:15 pm

Between 75% and 80% of the Wehrmacht was horse drawn – they took nearly 750,000 horses into Russia in 1941.

You can’t eat a truck.

rickw
rickw
February 15, 2022 6:20 pm

That would be something that, ah, is for our police methodology which we would have to look at some sort of public interest immunity claim, Senator.

Yes we have them, yes we used them, now we have realised that using them on peaceful protesters and their children makes us look like Nazi arseholes.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

johanna says: February 15, 2022 at 1:48 pm

… Janis Joplin: freedom’s just another word etc:
Me and Bobby McGee,

Favourite version:
Ted Egan singing it in Pitjantjatjara.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 15, 2022 6:23 pm

You can’t eat a truck.

Careful, now.

Struth’ll wordwall ya…

#Denunciation

Razey
Razey
February 15, 2022 6:25 pm

twostixsays:
February 15, 2022 at 6:06 pm
So I made a poem for our big brained literates.

How now brown bureaucrat;
Consider how long Australian humans spend receiving “education”.
But zero ability to understand basic maths?
Two Australian individuals vs one Australian individual is more than 88% more, on.
See what I did there? Cerebral Nigerian princes calculate odds in their minds and email Australia, relative risk.
Consider how long Australian humans spend receiving “education”.

Fin.

I’m open to offers for an arts grant, etc.

88% of Lim —–> 0 = ?

bons
bons
February 15, 2022 6:26 pm

Just back from a road trip through central QLD.
What a season, the place is emerald. The 10,000 acre paddocks were bursting with crops.
Exciting to see but all the way I suffered voices in my head: “the Greens are fucking morons”.

Dot
Dot
February 15, 2022 6:27 pm

New release from the ABS on COVID-19 mortality today.
“The median age for those who died from COVID-19 was 83.7 years (81.2 years for males, 86.0 years for females)”
(In 2019, median age for all deaths in Australia was 78 for males and 84 for females.)

I hope the masses see this.

We have been absolutely dudded.

rickw
rickw
February 15, 2022 6:28 pm

The Allied tanks were also more heavily armored and armed.

Those Polish light tanks with the big gun did some damage when they got in amongst them.

lotocoti
lotocoti
February 15, 2022 6:28 pm

You can’t eat a truck.

On the other hand, half your trucks aren’t tied up carrying truck fuel.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
February 15, 2022 6:31 pm

We have been absolutely dudded.

It was never about health.

For me that was obvious from the ruby princess data. That was a long time ago.

rickw
rickw
February 15, 2022 6:32 pm

I hope the masses see this.

We have been absolutely dudded.

The median age of death from the worst pandemic ever was actually above the median age of death by all causes?!

Get COVID, live longer!

2dogs
February 15, 2022 6:33 pm

Tucker: Trudeau has declared Canada a dictatorship

There are a lot of protections in the Emergencies Act, is a legal challenge possible?

At the very least, I would have thought the restriction of the GiveSendGo funds would trigger a right to compensation under section 48 of the Act.

rickw
rickw
February 15, 2022 6:34 pm

For me that was obvious from the ruby princess data. That was a long time ago.

The Ruby Princess data is what they will hang by. It is the marker of precisely and definitively when they knew how bad it wasn’t.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 15, 2022 6:37 pm

In 2019, median age for all deaths in Australia was 78 for males and 84 for females.

It’s the AIDS first and everywhere a poofta disease moment. Please resume whatever you were doing.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 15, 2022 6:38 pm

Between 75% and 80% of the Wehrmacht was horse drawn

Horses don’t use petrol.
That, for the Wehrmacht, was quite important.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 15, 2022 6:39 pm

Cassie – Russia and Qatar are baddies vs baddies. I eat popcorn. However it’s useful to consider the strategic reasons why people do stuff.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 15, 2022 6:41 pm

For me that was obvious from the ruby princess data. That was a long time ago.

The Ruby Princess data is what they will hang by.

Diamond Princess, not Ruby Princess, which was the ship Gladys let infect NSW.

Zatara
Zatara
February 15, 2022 6:41 pm

The lie that was COVID

The most significant take-away from this review is simple: Routinely, government officials, especially those in states controlled by Democrats, lied repeatedly in order to create fear and terror in the general population. Almost every claim they made, edict they declared, or mandate they ordered, was either an outright lie, or designed to obscure the truth. Let’s take them one-by-one.

Since day one of the epidemic practically every policy decision by government and the largely Democratic academic community has been based on lies. And those lies caused the initial response to COVID to be wrong and misguided. It was panicked, thoughtless, based on very flawed models rather than the actual data, and did far more harm than good. The later and continuing mandates requiring the COVID shots and masks to keep one’s job, to fly on airplanes, to cross borders, to even go to school or attend public events, are even more insane, based not on the now long-known facts but on lies and fear and the urge by those in power to wield that power corruptly.

It is long past time for everyone to stop buying into these lies.

I’ll be sending a copy of that to the next friend or rellie who starts into the Covid Creed sermonizing to me.

Anchor What
Anchor What
February 15, 2022 6:44 pm

Have NSW Libs been Photioshopped?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 15, 2022 6:46 pm

sfwsays:

February 15, 2022 at 4:50 pm

Sancho, go for it. If there’s no LDP or suitable candidate for you in your electorate, by all means send your vote to the Uniparty. I guess that’s better for you than voting for the only alternative. You appear to have CDS (Clive Derangement Syndrome).

No.
I just remember what an oxygen thief he was last time and how he pissed away opportunities for real change to pursue petty squabbles with Abbott and others, and also push his own interests.
Remember, the fat fuck was on The Snowcone Show every other week.
Why was that?
Because he sucked the ABC’s dick in their anti-conservative pile-on, that’s why.
So that is not “derangement”.
It is acting in exposed form.
The Reps might be difficult to frame my vote the way I want, but it is fairly futile anyway, apart from AEC funding and messaging.
The Senate?
There will be plenty of candidates I can put in front of The Fat Cloive Party.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 15, 2022 6:48 pm

Here’s the full song.

“April Sun In Cuba” lyrics
Dragon Lyrics
“April Sun In Cuba”

I’m tired of the city life
Summer’s on the run
People tell me I should stay
But I’ve got to get my fun

So don’t try and hold me back
Ain’t nothin’ you can say
Snake eyes on the paradise
And we got to go today

Take me to the April sun in Cuba (Oh-oh-oh)
Take me where the April sun
Gonna treat me so right, so right, so right

I can almost smell the perfumed night
And see the starry sky
I wish you comin’ with me baby
‘Cause right before my eye

Castro in the alley way
Talkin’ ’bout missile love
Talkin’ ’bout J.F.K
And the way he shook him up

Take me to the April sun in Cuba (Oh-oh-oh)
Take me where the April sun
Gonna treat me so right, so right, so right

I’m tired of the city life
Summer’s on the run
Birds in the winter sky
Are headin’ for the sun

Woah, we can stick it out
In this cold and rain
Snake eyes on the paradise
And we got to go today, yeah

Take me to the April sun in Cuba (Oh-oh-oh)
Take me where the April sun
Gonna treat me so right, so right, so right

Take me to the April sun
Come on take me
Take me to the April sun
Come on take me
Take me to the April sun
Come on take me
Take me to the April sun

But what’s it about?
Well, Castro and JFK were both Flamers,
but it’s probably about harry [and Flamers].
This is looking more and more like the It’s Time
scam of 1972, it featured a lotta broken down worn out luvvies too.

Razey
Razey
February 15, 2022 6:49 pm

Dotsays:
February 15, 2022 at 6:27 pm
New release from the ABS on COVID-19 mortality today.
“The median age for those who died from COVID-19 was 83.7 years (81.2 years for males, 86.0 years for females)”
(In 2019, median age for all deaths in Australia was 78 for males and 84 for females.)

I hope the masses see this.

We have been absolutely dudded.

Hehe, as Rick just pointed out. If your a bloke, your better off gettin the rona, you’ll live longer. LOL.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 15, 2022 6:52 pm

bonssays:

February 15, 2022 at 6:12 pm

JC, I bumped into some folks from our local branch, which I quit when Photios’ ‘Moderates’ took over. They agree with your contact that the Party structure requires a complete revamp, but they are clueless regarding how to achieve change.
According to them, all decisions are now taken at the central office, and the branches have been cut out of preselection. The central office also controls party rules and membership

Who voted for UAP candidates at a local level?
Or were they all hand-picked by Fat Cloive?

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 15, 2022 6:53 pm

How is average lifespan calculated?
All we know for sure is that if you’re over 80 and get vaccinated, you’re probly gonna die.

calli
calli
February 15, 2022 6:54 pm

Diamond Princess, not Ruby Princess, which was the ship Gladys let infect NSW.

It was a long time ago, but didn’t the ratios of infected/not infected match along the 20:80 line?

Which meant that you had two petri dishes, separated by both distance and climate that resembled each other.

Please correct me if I’m mistaken. So much squid ink has been poured over this that the rear view is murky.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
February 15, 2022 6:57 pm

Why the need to go cap in hand to an unstable neighbor in Russia/ Putin and buy their crap?

Europe started buying Russian gas because it was ridiculously cheap.

Post Gladnost/Soviet break up, Russia was desperate for currency and had shitloads of gas parked in its eastern oil basins – so it was a fire sale.

At first it looked like the EU was looting confused ex-communist wood ducks. Then, once entire energy economies were hooked on the huge volumes (especially Germany and Italy ), Gazprom started the squirrel grip and Russian gas became market priced.

Plentiful supply on the margin has kept prices low enough to discourage development of central North Sea gas reserves. Unconventional gas development (shale and CSG) has been squashed by bureaucratic risk management and the usual Green bullshit.

So there is gas available to the UK (and Europe) to replace Russian supply. It just needs political will, 10+ years of exploration and development, and billions of dollars to bring it to market.

Massed missiles and tanks and troops are partly for display (at least for the West). Putin is jiggling the power cord knowing that nobody can do anything to stop him.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

bons says: February 15, 2022 at 6:26 pm

Just back from a road trip through central QLD.
What a season, the place is emerald. The 10,000 acre paddocks were bursting with crops.
Exciting to see but all the way I suffered voices in my head: “the Greens are fucking morons”.

Bons, were you up that way undercover in the anti-Adani protest camp at the mine gate?

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 15, 2022 6:59 pm

Yeah, it is about harry, with a nod to Castro.
So Scotty remembers a catchy tune from when he was 8 years old and he’s the baddie?
Perhaps more scrutiny of this Scotty character is needed, what role did he play in the Dismissal of Australia’s greatest Government, the one that ended Childhood Poverty and the Vietnam War?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 15, 2022 7:00 pm

WTF!
My broker just sent me notification of my BHP dividend.
$124,000 and some change!
What have they been up to?

Razey
Razey
February 15, 2022 7:01 pm

Ed Casesays:
February 15, 2022 at 6:53 pm
How is average lifespan calculated?
All we know for sure is that if you’re over 80 and get vaccinated, you’re probly gonna die.

Probability of an 80 year old dying in 1 year = 0.056

Probability of an 100 year old dying in 1 year = 0.34

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html#fn1

2dogs
February 15, 2022 7:01 pm

The UAP has been effective in getting a sizeable parcel of ALP voters to give them their first preference vote.

If the UAP doesn’t come before the Libs in first preferences, those votes will go back.

Your choice is between Palmer or Albanese at the next election.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Your choice is between Palmer or Albanese at the next election.

Faced with that binary choice, I’d have to choose Palmer as PM.

Razey
Razey
February 15, 2022 7:03 pm

Ed Casesays:
February 15, 2022 at 6:59 pm
Yeah, it is about harry, with a nod to Castro.
So Scotty remembers a catchy tune from when he was 8 years old and he’s the baddie?
Perhaps more scrutiny of this Scotty character is needed, what role did he play in the Dismissal of Australia’s greatest Government, the one that ended Childhood Poverty and the Vietnam War?

Scummo smirked while the States medically raped us.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 15, 2022 7:05 pm

So, I….

Ah shit.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 15, 2022 7:07 pm

Result!

Ute tank drained, lines flushed, filter systems replaced, replaced with diesel.

Plus full (other) fluids and filters, and all the bolts given a quarter turn to the right.

$430. Dodged a massive bullet.

sfw
sfw
February 15, 2022 7:08 pm

Re Dragon, I always liked their song “Are you old enough?”, the film clip is fantastic, Melbourne (Fitzroy) before it was trendy and a hot girl, trams, ciggies and a sleaze.
I was dragged to the Tarmac Hotel In Laverton in the mid/late 70’s by a girl I was trying to bed. The pub was full of girls, half of them under 18, probably 16, and there on the stage was Marc Hunter and his crew. He sang “Are you old enough” to a room of girls who probably weren’t and they loved it. I can only imagine the party afterwards.

Can’t see that happening nowdays.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSMyBm9QMLQ

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 15, 2022 7:10 pm

WTF!
My broker just sent me notification of my BHP dividend.
$124,000 and some change!
What have they been up to?

Essington Lewis’s ghost is laughing it’d head off………

BHP paid $30bn in dividends to shareholders over past year, instead of chasing deals: Robert Gottliebsen @BGottliebsen

1:40PM February 15, 2022
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With a market capitalisation approaching $A250bn and virtually no debt BHP has the financial ability to buy any mining company in the world.

While this is not a new situation, it has been brought into focus by the merging of the two BHP corporate arms. An acquisition costing, say, $A50bn would almost be a snack for The Big Australian because it can be funded by low-cost debt.

A more expensive target of, say, $A100bn might require equity but it would be an easy process to raise the money. Few other companies in the world so financially dominate an industry that they have a full menu of potential targets.

Yet BHP, at least to date, has chosen not to use its financial muscle and instead in just over 12 months has paid its shareholders an incredible $A30bn in three dividends (including the latest interim), which represents a return of around 13 per cent on the current market capitalisation.

These enormous BHP dividend payments have contributed to the liquidity in the Australian securities market.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
February 15, 2022 7:10 pm

Also – towies love pineapples.

The Mike Nolan preferred payment method never fails.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 15, 2022 7:11 pm

If the UAP doesn’t come before the Libs in first preferences, those votes will go back.

You’re confused.

Your choice is between Palmer or Albanese at the next election.

No it’s not.
Palmer isn’t winning any Lower House seats with 14%, though he could get a fair few Senators if that vote holds up.
UAP voters favor the Coalition 2:1 over Labor on first preferences, so Scotty has only gotta find another 4% Primary voters and it’s 2013 again for the Coalition.

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 15, 2022 7:15 pm

Scummo smirked while the States medically raped us.

Why be a FrootLoop your whole life?
Scotty can’t give the State Premiers orders and if he tries he’ll end up in the High Court getting a stern talking to.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 15, 2022 7:16 pm

Calli – There’s a wiki.

Of the 3,711 people on board, 712 became infected with the virus

That’s in a month sitting on a ship with not much treatment or any particularly special medical actions.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 15, 2022 7:17 pm

Knuckle Draggersays:

February 15, 2022 at 7:07 pm

Result!

Ute tank drained, lines flushed, filter systems replaced, replaced with diesel.

I put salt in the pepper shaker once.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 15, 2022 7:23 pm

So, I see Grigory has decided to target redheads today in his latest gypsum-fuelled wrongology bender…

Is there anyone Grigs won’t obnoxiously ‘tard against?

Runnybum
Runnybum
February 15, 2022 7:25 pm

Struts, time to come & get rent money for living in choo choo man’s head.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 15, 2022 7:25 pm

Chinese propaganda outlet endorses Anthony Albanese as ‘better PM’ than Scott Morrison

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Sharri Markson
Investigations Editon
56 minutes ago February 15, 2022
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The Chinese Government’s propaganda mouthpiece, The Global Times, has published an article endorsing Labor leader Anthony Albanese as a better prime minister than Scott Morrison.

The government-owned media outlet, which espouses the views of the Chinese Communist Party, is promoting an article praising Albanese as a “safe leader”, saying he “positively shines compared to Morrison”.

By contrast, Morrison is described as a “clown” and is accused of leading a government that is “imploding through corruption, failure to manage Covid-19 and a range of other anti-social programs and prejudices”.

The Global Times tweeted on February 14: “Albanese will not be a charismatic leader but he positively shines compared to Morrison. Such is abysmal state of Oz politics. One would like to see a reset in ties with China, but Oz leadership is weak and US pressure is sustained.”

The author of the piece is Bruce Haigh, a former diplomat with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Good luck, Albo, living this one down….

lotocoti
lotocoti
February 15, 2022 7:26 pm

Horses don’t use petrol.
That, for the Wehrmacht, was quite important.

Except, the further the front moves from the nearest railhead,
the fodder to bullets ratio of those horse wagons eventually makes them a nett liability.

Runnybum
Runnybum
February 15, 2022 7:33 pm

Biggles don’t worry, with your help & that windfall the uniparty will get back in & it’s back under the bed for you.

Winston Smith
February 15, 2022 7:34 pm

Remember when sites on the web would offer a ‘printer friendly’ copy?

cohenite
February 15, 2022 7:34 pm
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 15, 2022 7:36 pm

Europe started buying Russian gas because it was ridiculously cheap.

No.

Europe started buying Russian gas because they got Green Disease. Germany especially built a horde of wind turbines and stupid solar panels (especially stupid in a country with such poor climate, high latitude and snow in winter.) They’re doubling down having shut half of their few remaining nuke plants so far this year.

And as we all know you need fast response gas turbines to keep a grid going when you have the amount of renewbulls Germany has. They’ve already caused Austria and Poland to be pissed off with them by using those countries’ grids as batteries. German retail electricity prices are the highest in the world right now. And France was going to shut half their nukes too for the same stupid lefty reasons until Macron got enough balls recently to say fuck off to the Green lobby. I suppose when you are as unpopular as he is you may as well.

So (that word again) the EU is going to be totally dependent on gas to keep the lights on for the next decade or more.

No one in Europe is allowing fracking because green. And same as here the greens are vigorously opposing any gas extraction or exploration. And no CSG! So where are they going to get their holy Gaian gas from eh?

As I said Putin has been working hard to prevent alternate supplies via pipeline from the Gulf by maintaining his blocking force in Syria.

The fun thing is Biden, who has prevented all new gas production pretty much. That’s fun because when Russia turned off the gas taps recently (they’re still off as far as I can see) the US shale gas guys stepped in by diverting a large fleet of LNG tankers to Europe. Good money, but undermined Putin’s strategy. Hence Vlad has an interest in keeping Joe in place, since eventually those alternative gas supplies will dry up.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 15, 2022 7:36 pm

For me that was obvious from the ruby princess data. That was a long time ago.

There were two Princesses. I thought the Diamond Princess was the one stranded off Japan, when only about 20% of those on board got the Kung Flu, despite being locked up together for weeks, and the Ruby Princess was the one that NSW Health totally cocked up when it returned to Sydney?

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 15, 2022 7:38 pm

Bruce of N

Belated Snap!

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 15, 2022 7:41 pm

Struts, time to come & get rent money for living in choo choo man’s head.

What a lazy anklebiter you are, Shit Dribbler.

Remind me, who is it that you think runs Bartertown again?

Winston Smith
February 15, 2022 7:41 pm

I’m doing my research now – I’ll make up my mind on the day.
You never know what the arseholes will do before then.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 15, 2022 7:42 pm

Except, the further the front moves from the nearest railhead

The Soviets were careful to have a different rail gauge.
So it took a lot more effort of redo the rail lines.
Not dumb, Russians.

Of course if you have abundant gasoline you can get around that. But to get abundant gasoline the Germans had to reach Baku, which they could not do without abundant gasoline…

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 15, 2022 7:46 pm

Dick Ed

UAP voters favor the Coalition 2:1 over Labor on first preferences,

I realise that evidence is not your forte, bur perhaps you could favour us with some to support this statement?

It’s Remarkable
It’s Remarkable
February 15, 2022 7:46 pm

BJ: I think you have it right.
The Diamond Princess was the one stuck off Japan.
The Ruby Princess was the one that caused some issues for NSW Health.
The Diamond Princess was a great case study in natural immunity.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 15, 2022 7:48 pm

The author of the piece is Bruce Haigh, a former diplomat with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

And long time leftist hack.

local oaf
February 15, 2022 7:53 pm

If the AFP actually had LRAD devices at Parliament house, does that mean they were expecting the crowd to storm the building?

If they’ve all bought into the MSM narrative re Jan 6 in the US, did they actually think they were dealing with a possible local insurrection?

If so, what else might they have been prepared to do – open fire perhaps?

Runnybum
Runnybum
February 15, 2022 7:53 pm

Choo choo man, I think you run bartertown.
Is faulty bouncing around your head tonight?

Winston Smith
February 15, 2022 7:53 pm

Lotocoti:

Except, the further the front moves from the nearest railhead,
the fodder to bullets ratio of those horse wagons eventually makes them a nett liability.

IIRC, in Russia, the distance 20 – 30km from the railhead/supply point. After 30 km, trucks were more economical.

shatterzzz
February 15, 2022 7:55 pm

Scotty can’t give the State Premiers orders and if he tries he’ll end up in the High Court getting a stern talking to.

Maybe he can’t give orders but he does contol the purse strings .. he enabled the premier’s whims by funding the whole charade!

Razey
Razey
February 15, 2022 7:56 pm

Ed Casesays:
February 15, 2022 at 7:15 pm
Scummo smirked while the States medically raped us.

Why be a FrootLoop your whole life?
Scotty can’t give the State Premiers orders and if he tries he’ll end up in the High Court getting a stern talking to.

What’s a Frootloop?

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 15, 2022 7:58 pm

I realise that evidence is not your forte, bur perhaps you could favour us with some to support this statement?

On second thoughts, it’s closer to 70/30 Coalition.
Labor can’t win with 8% Green vote since only 6 or 7% will preference Labor.
Scotty has taken heaps of abuse off Albanese without retaliating, but he’s going after him now.
‘I’d say another fortnight and the wheels on the Labor Bandwagon will start a’ wobblin’.

Roger
Roger
February 15, 2022 7:59 pm

The author of the piece is Bruce Haigh, a former diplomat with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Henceforth to be known as Lord Haigh Haigh.

JC
JC
February 15, 2022 8:01 pm

Sanchez

I don’t get it. It was only a few days ago that you told us you owned 40 million in BHP shares. Buy you only received $124,000 div. What the hell happened?

Ed Case
Ed Case
February 15, 2022 8:02 pm

If the AFP actually had LRAD devices at Parliament house, does that mean they were expecting the crowd to storm the building?

No, they were just trying out the technology.
A practice run with live subjects, if you like.
This tech has been around since the Fifties, so it’s likely to have been tested here before, likely on soldiers.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 15, 2022 8:04 pm

This tech has been around since the Fifties, so it’s likely to have been tested here before, likely on soldiers.

Sigh…

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WlJn5f-GZK0

#FuckOffGrigory

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 15, 2022 8:09 pm

Choo choo man, I think you run bartertown.

Are you calling me a Perfidious J, Dribbles?

Is faulty bouncing around your head tonight?

I think Bird’s been running amuck for far too long in yours…

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 15, 2022 8:10 pm

Are you calling me a Perfidious J, Dribbles?

I’m honoured…

calli
calli
February 15, 2022 8:12 pm

Thanks for the links, cohenite and Bruce.

Pretty much as I remembered it.

The Ruby Princess people were seeded throughout NSW because they were allowed to disembark. There was an enquiry and argy bargy between NSW health and the ship’s medical officer. Like the Diamond Princess, despite being in confined conditions, not everyone caught it. The writers of cohenite’s study claim that it’s “highly transmissible”, yet a large cohort remained uninfected.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
February 15, 2022 8:15 pm

BJ: I think you have it right.
The Diamond Princess was the one stuck off Japan.
The Ruby Princess was the one that caused some issues for NSW Health.
The Diamond Princess was a great case study in natural immunity.

I daresay you’re right. I’m not too good with princesses. Don’t meet many in my line of work.

Diogenes
Diogenes
February 15, 2022 8:15 pm

Of course if you have abundant gasoline you can get around that. But to get abundant gasoline the Germans had to reach Baku, which they could not do without abundant gasoline…

Just been watching the TIK history on the subject of oil in WW2. I wonder what would have happened if Hitler had ignored Halder who pushing for offensives targetted towards Moscow and followed his gut and made his primary target the Caucuses. That would have helped Germany and hindered the USSR at the same time.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 15, 2022 8:16 pm

PreOmicron Sneakers quarantine security guards routinely returned to multi person share houses for days without the virus ever spreading to a housemate.

calli
calli
February 15, 2022 8:18 pm

Diamond Princess was in Yokohama harbour. In January. Lucky passengers with balconies could escape from their cabins to the outside and freeze. Economy passengers with portholes or inside cabins were cocooned without a glimpse of the sky.

There was one poor sod caught there with his family.

Floating petri dish is a perfect description.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 15, 2022 8:18 pm

I’m not too good with princesses. Don’t meet many in my line of work.

Surely you know the story of the princess and the ??
It’s very irrational, but good for the mattress making profession.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 15, 2022 8:19 pm

Blast, I thought pi would render.
All I got was a question mark but.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 15, 2022 8:20 pm

PreOmicron Sneakers quarantine security guards routinely returned to multi person share houses for days without the virus ever spreading to a housemate.</blockquote

And Delta only ever got one bloke post-hotel quarantine, his missus and some poor sod sitting some 10-15m away from them in a crowded restaurant.

Aside from the aforementioned security guard who, in addition to sharing a small house with 4 or 5 mates, was also moonlighting as an Uber/UberEats driver across most of Perth's inner-northern suburbs in his off-time…

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 15, 2022 8:21 pm

Sigh.

Blockquote fail.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
February 15, 2022 8:22 pm

Blast, I thought pi would render.

Sounds like it would have made a circular argument.

Or a truly radian-t anecdote…

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 15, 2022 8:26 pm

Just been watching the TIK history on the subject of oil in WW2. I wonder what would have happened if Hitler had ignored Halder who pushing for offensives targetted towards Moscow and followed his gut and made his primary target the Caucuses.

Diogenes – The AWM war history makes much of the threat to the British ME through Turkey. General consideration was the Germans could go through Turkey like poo through a camel. That was partly the basis for the 1941 Syrian campaign and the keeping of a division in Mosul vicinity for quite a while. Fairly futile of course since if the Germans had launched through Turkey nothing we had would’ve stopped them.

What did stop them was the Barbarossa timetable. If Hitler had not decided to attack Russia there were abundant forces to reach the oilfields in Iraq via Turkey.

cohenite
February 15, 2022 8:29 pm

Lee Smith on Tucker re:: the Durham evidence that shrillary was actively bugging and spying on Trump’s Whitehouse:

It’s amazing that we, the US, have been living in the psyche of this deranged, depraved harridan for 5 years.

bespoke
bespoke
February 15, 2022 8:32 pm
Winston Smith
February 15, 2022 8:33 pm

BoN:

Of course if you have abundant gasoline you can get around that. But to get abundant gasoline the Germans had to reach Baku, which they could not do without abundant gasoline…

So, just a curious thought, after von Manstein took Sevastapol could light tankers of 50,000 bbl (The Ohio of Malta fame was carrying 100,000 bbl of fuel when she made her penultimate trip) gotten past the Kerch peninsula and up the Dnieper, (a look on Google Earth shows it would have been trafficable) or at least Mariupol which was then in German hands.
The biggest issue was the Russian naval bases along the Eastern Black Sea but I’ve no idea of the warships/submarines located there at the time.
Of course it would have been thought of but I have not heard of it being attempted.

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