It’s not commonly known, but Teslas use Righteous Electrickery (RE), so all is balanced with Gaia. Namaste.
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I see scrolling down at his Cricinfo [age that Joe Burns made 108 not out for Italy vs. Romania. Forza…
https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/joe-burns-326632 Joe Burns is out of calculations as he is now representing Italy in cricket, the rotten Dago turncoat. Neil…
Only if he builds a new road to the house.
Yes, but that would be counter propagandical.
Public ‘Elf strikes again, I suppose…
Old and busted: Political parties must be generously funded by harvesting vote moneys and private donations
…
Now: NOOOOO!!!! not like that!!!!
United Australia party’s $80m-plus war chest sparks call to limit election spending
Integrity blueprint aims to remove the influence of money in federal politics and fix ‘weakest donation laws in the country’
Roger
The worry is that on conclusion of his second term 45% of Americans thought he would be remembered as an above average or outstanding POTUS.
Rusted on DemonRats?
That’s because the Left believe in thermageddon and Covid as the Black Plague of our time.
They want action. They know a properly far-left Pres will never get elected, but they also know that Biden is senile so does what his far-lefty handlers tell him. Which is actually what they’re approving of.
Survey: Majority of Democrats Support Justin Trudeau’s Crackdown on Freedom Convoy Protesters (22 Feb)
Two thirds of the Left are happy with full-grade fascism. That’s the problem right there.
Multiple local residents told Daily Mail Australia the suffering man had asked a doctor to amputate his leg, but no medical professional would agree to do the procedure.
Army Warrant Officer working in the same building in the 1970s had bad tropical ulcers on one leg. Years of treatment failed to cure them, so he asked for the leg to be amputated. When he got back to work, he said it was the best he had felt for a long time.
“A truly detestable man. No idea what he was doing – just thought he was so cool the way he did it.”
A very good description of the Kenyan.
Errr… That’s more or less in line with the historical pattern for left-leaning folks. Those few who don’t like the tyranny still really like the high-minded ideals and the titillating prospects of power and control, they’re just squeamish about the implementation.
thefrollickingmole
The article is clearly identifying Palmer as a source of influence and just assumes that the influence is bad. Then later in the article it quotes some expert saying that the current laws hide the identity of donors and the public won’t know who is influencing elections. How can they have it both ways?
Just a hatchet job on Palmer disguised as reporting.
Now make that assessment whilst someone is going all stabby on you, sweetie.
Other Grudnaia: How DARE those dirty fascist alt-right homophone anti-vexxxxxxxers have more money to spend than us! It’s a crime! Nay, a sin!
“It’s a small pair of scissors, so it only expands about 3cm from the hand. So in order to get that relatively blunt, thick tip to any part of Eberl’s body and cause significant penetrating injury, I don’t think he would have been able to generate enough force to overcome all the resistance posed by the covering, into the skin and soft tissue and structures of importance to cause serious injury.”
Wow.
Just wow.
Pursuing this copper from the NT sounds like the biggest get square ever.
United Australia party’s $80m-plus war chest sparks call to limit election spending
From who?
Did they comment on Holmes-a-Court’s kid?
thefrollickingmolesays:
February 23, 2022 at 11:33 am
Old and busted: Political parties must be generously funded by harvesting vote moneys and private donations
…
Now: NOOOOO!!!! not like that!!!!
United Australia party’s $80m-plus war chest sparks call to limit election spending
Integrity blueprint aims to remove the influence of money in federal politics and fix ‘weakest donation laws in the country’
Simple: Ban political advertising, then the need for money is limited, and the candidates have to approach their electors personally to win them over.
This could, of course, be a somewhat scarifying experience for them.
sfw
the current laws hide the identity of donors and the public won’t know who is influencing elections.
A good argument for secret voting in the Parliament. Then any “influencers” using financial incentives would never know if their targets actually delivered on their deal (unless, of course, the vote was unanimous, which in itself would be a message to the “influencers”).
And the Congress won’t pass suitably loony green stuff so via his handlers Biden is using the administrative state and executive orders to deliver the far-left agenda.
Biden Federal Agencies Advance Climate Change Agenda (22 Feb)
Biden Administration Halts New Drilling in Legal Fight Over Climate Costs (NYT, 21 Feb, paywalled)
The latter is ironic since the Dems have been panicking about the gasoline price, so much they are starting to push to remove Federal gas tax off of it. And Biden recently extended the fake Covid state of emergency by another six months. I wonder if these things are linked at all?
Given the amount of rubbish the media passes off as truth this may or may not be correct ..
be your own judge .. LOL!
https://ibb.co/106yQ6G
Rebel News
@RebelNewsOnline
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@ThevoiceAlexa
of Rebel News speaks with Candice Sero, one of the protesters who was severely injured by the RCMP mounted unit when they charged in front of the crowd of peaceful protesters in Ottawa that were demonstrating against vaccine mandates.
https://rebelne.ws/3BB86ql
https://twitter.com/RebelNewsOnline/status/1496283399526535168
Simple: Ban political advertising, then the need for money is limited, and the candidates have to approach their electors personally to win them over.
Hold town halls and deliver stuff to their communities!
Theyd never get time to address all the urgent QWERTY and gerbil worming business, nor set up all those after politics sinecures they are entitled to.
They’re good, they’re very very good. Via Instapundit:
Ukraine Invites Kyle Rittenhouse To Guard Their Border (24 Feb)
I don’t think you need to guess whose headline this is…
probably told NATO and the EU to pull their fucking heads in ?
Everyone will be happy to know the pacifist hippies at the gruiaid are champing at the bit to enlist and fight that nasty Mr Putin.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/22/west-appeasement-putin-russia-ukraine#comments
The comments are hilarious.
Trump live rent free in their heads, and Boris is a Russian agent!
JumpedUpElectrician
I think the plan he’s had took a major hit when his puppet in America didn’t get re-elected. Of course he still has a good deal of control of the UK. boris has essentially been side lined by the west. All external reports you hear will be ‘The US’, ‘NATO’ ‘Germany’ ‘France’ ‘EU’, no mention of UK. This has a lot to do with the massive security risk boris is to the west. When the UK was attacked by a careless nerve agent attack NATO leaders met to discuss the attack on a member, boris, UK foreign secretary, sneaked off to a party in Italy thrown by the son of an (ex) KGB agent instead! The UK has massive amount of money laundered in London through properties, piles of cash donated to the ruling party and many of its members supplied by Russia. boris has even made said Russian agents son a lord so he can vote on and have voice and access to UK legislation and policy. The Russia report that was suppressed for a long time stated the tories had instructed the security services not to investigate Russian interference in the UK (as that would rather expose the tories puppet masters) Be interesting to see what ‘world beating sanctions’ we raise on the £100’s of billions we have in Russian assets in our country. I suspect precious little.
But, but, but…. the SCIENCE!!?
“United Australia party’s $80m-plus war chest sparks call to limit election spending
Integrity blueprint aims to remove the influence of money in federal politics and fix ‘weakest donation laws in the country’”
So does this apply to Holmes a Court, GetUp and the unions?
Funny how The Malcolm Guardian and progressives never have a problem when it’s their side with the war chests.
I reckon they’re going full HAM purely for PR cover.
Correct! 10 tons of water AND quarantine for 3 days as spontaneous re ignition is common.
Place hand firmly on hand in pocket, turn the outside of the hand trapped. push down on bent elbow with other hand. much pain ensues for pickpocket.
There’s always a silver lining though, few of these monstrosities on the road. Just imagine colliding with one. The whole suburb would probably explode.
Well deserved.
Abuse shouted at Ardern by anti-mandate protesters in Westport
Any idea how long Canadian governmental terms are?
No more than five years.
Beertruk:
February 22, 2022 at 4:55 pm
Canadian voters will have to put up with these shitweasels in power until the next election in October 2025.
Aaron Berg is one of my current favourite comics.
He’s now hiring.
Aaron Berg
??@aaronbergcomedy??
Hiring a full time assistant.
Stage time and keys to showbiz.
I’ll pay you and teach you who you can and can’t jerk off in front of.
Need either a nerdy guy or a hot chick with big cans and good at secret keeping.
Must be good at clips and booking first class travel.
I don’t thing I’ve seen a more honest job application.
Another from the “believe it or not” drawer.
Justin Trudeau claims Canada ‘stands against authoritarianism’, announces sanctions against Russia
Job ad.
Not application.
I shall offer to stab her with same scissors and see if she is worried it could be lethal or at minimum in the words of the Black Knight, “a mere scratch”
thefrollickingmole says:
February 23, 2022 at 12:21 pm
“… attacked by a careless nerve agent attack”
Umm, how exactly does that work? Does anyone have any idea what he’s talking about?
Unless of course they ‘withdraw their consent to be governed’
@ Zatara-
The Grauniad stooge was referring to that political assassination of a Russian dissident/oligarch (I don’t remember exactly) a few years back in the UK using novichok, which also happened to kill a few innocents who inadvertently handled the stuff .
I think that’s why the response Justni chose to the Freedom Convoy folks was so heavy-handed. The warning shot from the smattering of little folks who turned up in Ottawa was replied to with a (sloppily aimed) massed volley in the general direction of everyone in Canada.
If you withdraw your consent, we will govern you harder, anyway! And we won’t even ask first!
#SeeWhatYouMadeMeDo,Proles?
One for naval history gazers:
Centuries-old naval warfare capture documents now online (Phys.org, 22 Feb)
A link to the portal is here.
Thanks Rex.
Knew it would be something moronic but just didn’t account for how moronic!
The Largest Lithium-Ion Battery in the World Keeps Melting
Recall the old saying that went something like; “if that is what Canada is doing, look elsewhere for a solution “.
A consistent 60+% leftist constituency is extraordinary. I have not succeeded in locating any meaningful analysis to explain it.
Perhaps it’s weather related – Canada – Victoria.
Dr. Jordan Peterson Tells Fellow Canadians They Have No Idea What Was Done to Them Yesterday
Neil Cavuto Demonstrates How Cognitive Dissonance Is the Driving Force Behind Pandemic Panic Theater
re: shipping EV’s. They need a mechanism to be able to eject them overboard.
TheLastRefuge
@TheLastRefuge2
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2h
Title?
https://twitter.com/TheLastRefuge2/status/1496263715775262722
A consistent 60+% leftist constituency is extraordinary. I have not succeeded in locating any meaningful analysis to explain it.
Mass and carefully targeted migration.
Apparently Jimmy Carr’s Holocaust/Gypsie joke crossed a line.
The state of Georgia will formally memorialize Ahmaud Arbery on Wednesday, the second anniversary of his death.
The Georgia General Assembly passed a resolution this month declaring Feb. 23 to be Ahmaud Arbery Day in perpetuity. Lawmakers called Mr. Arbery one of the state’s “most distinguished citizens” and declared that he suffered a “senseless loss of his life because of the color of his skin.”
I suggest it goes back at least to the very effective anti-US, anti-western culture campaigns during the Vietnam War executed by the Soviet GRU.
Soviet propaganda efforts to destabilize Western culture and society were devastatingly effective and have much to do with the cesspools we live in now.
duncanm says:
February 23, 2022 at 1:00 pm
re: shipping EV’s. They need a mechanism to be able to eject them overboard.
This can’t be happening.
I was reliably informed on this blog that only rednecks like me believe batteries are a fire hazard.
Thanks BoN. Already bookmarked.
The Ukraine posts here this morning have been a great read. Humorists, conspiracists, economists, journalists, ethnocists and thought leaders in abundance. Good stuff.
Soviet propaganda efforts to destabilize Western culture and society were devastatingly effective and have much to do with the cesspools we live in now.
yes very true- they were hopeless at economics but brilliant at politics and propaganda
re: shipping EV’s. They need a mechanism to be able to eject them overboard.
I reckon launching rails like they have for the lifeboats.
#Sproing!
Lawmakers called Mr. Arbery one of the state’s “most distinguished citizens” and declared that he suffered a “senseless loss of his life because of the color of his skin.”
Arbery was a thief who was pretty well caught in the act and the idiots who caught him were dumb enough to shoot him rather than let him “jog on” for the cops to deal with later.
Soviet propaganda efforts to destabilize Western culture and society were devastatingly effective and have much to do with the cesspools we live in now
Don’t forget the Frankfurt School and Critical Theory
Companies, Celebs Decided to Be ‘a Little Evil’ on China and Become Their ‘Bitch’
Excellent. I have to admit, Bill Maher, the HBO ‘comedian’, has really changed his political stripes lately.
I don’t know if these times have cause me late onset dyslexia but every time I try to write the name of the Prime Minister of Canada the consonants do not correctly align — the result is always Turdeau
Embattled Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón’s staffers say he was shamed into changing his stance on ‘outlier’ juvenile sentencing because of a bombshell report that suggested one of the criminals he advocated for had little remorse.
He flip-flopped on his famously reformative approach to justice last week after jailhouse audio recordings obtained by Fox News captured transgender pedophile Hannah Tubbs bragging about her light sentence in a juvenile facility.
Tubbs was sentenced to two years in jail for molesting a 10-year-old girl inside a restaurant bathroom.
After the top prosecutor became aware of troubling comments Tubbs made in jail – including that she wouldn’t have to register as a sex offender and that ‘nothing’ would be done to punish her – Gascón said he’s rethinking his approach.
‘It’s unfortunate that she gamed the system,‘ Gascón told the Los Angeles Times. ‘If I had to do it all over again, she would be prosecuted in adult court.’
However, his critics say his apparent remorse is just a public stunt as recall efforts against him grow.
SMH headline: ‘Loud blast heard in Donetsk as Putin invades Ukraine’
No mention of the shelling of Donetsk by Ukrainian artillery in recent days, targeting the airport and civilian areas in violation of the Western brokered cease fire agreement, as reported by Reuters (hardly a pro-Russian outfit).
Did any Western leader pick up the phone to Zelensky and warn of consequences if it didn’t stop?
It’s now provided a pretext for Putin to send in his troops.
Perhaps Mr. Zelensky should have stuck with his comedic career.
I’d say Critical Theory is a direct descendant of the Soviet liberation theology program. It eventually led to Black theology, feminist liberation theology, etc., etc. etc..
Liberation theology was first out of the box because Latin America in the 1950s and 60s was just so ripe for it. It morphed and spread from there getting more and more bizarre as it spread to whatever groups the Soviets could identify as feeling ‘oppressed’ and could channel that into the paths they desired. The roots were/are deep.
Having massive experience in the international organization of labor organizations was a good basis for these programs.
So is the Ukraine invasion the first of Biden’s truly public failures?
“Lawmakers called Mr. Arbery one of the state’s “most distinguished citizens” and declared that he suffered a “senseless loss of his life because of the color of his skin.””
America 2022 is a dystopian mess.
In 2020 progressives and the MSM canonised George Floyd, porn star and all round thug and now the same are describing a petty thief, Ahmaud Arbery, as “distinguished”.
First? Not even.
“Excellent. I have to admit, Bill Maher, the HBO ‘comedian’, has really changed his political stripes lately.”
Maher has always been able to think outside the box.
Bill Maher has joined Russell Brand and Johnnie Rotten? Good to see.
“and the idiots who caught him were dumb enough to shoot him rather than let him “jog on” for the cops to deal with later.”
Yep…what those three men did was wrong.
Meanwhile, Under the Radar, Congress Is Going to Vote on Biden Extending COVID-19 National Emergency
February 22, 2022 | Sundance | 55 Comments
Last Friday night, the White House quietly submitted their notification to congress that Joe Biden intends to extend the national state of emergency around COVID-19. [LINK HERE] The extension provides the U.S. government with more unilateral authority and emergency power.
U.S. Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS) has introduced legislation seeking an end to the national emergency declaration.
TODAY – The bill would revoke many of the federal government’s extended powers regarding the pandemic, Fox News reported, adding that Congress has the duty to determine whether an emergency under the National Emergencies Act should be extended, but, to date, has mostly abdicated its role to the executive branch.
(more…)
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/02/22/meanwhile-under-the-radar-congress-is-going-to-vote-on-biden-extending-covid-19-national-emergency/
same.same.
both derive from marx/engles
snap, zatara
Yeah, I quite like Bill Maher. He still has eruptions at the idea of Trump or conservatives in general, but when he is actually drilling down into an issue – looking past the partisan surface – he is quite sensible.
Nah the video I saw clearly shows he runs directly for and grabs the shotgun that one of them was holding in the “at arms” position, and they wrestled over it then he was shot with it.
That’s the video the police and DA were initially shown too – and why they weren’t charged. Until it got BLM political.
Isn’t positive ‘racism’ still ‘racism’?
There were those who fell “hook, line and sinker” for the Party line…
twostix
I could quibble with what you saw, but the problem was not so much he was shot as the blokes trying to perform an armed detainment of someone without (from their actions) competency and for a relatively minor crime which the cops could have picked him up for later.
Its a stupid meets a stupid comin’thro’the rye….
Both “sides”played a stupid game and won a stupid prize.
“Yeah, I quite like Bill Maher. He still has eruptions at the idea of Trump or conservatives in general, but when he is actually drilling down into an issue – looking past the partisan surface – he is quite sensible.”
He never liked Trump…but, unlike so many of his feeble, dim-witted peers in the entertainment industry, he understands why people voted for Trump and he doesn’t diss on them the way others do.
Most of the human race is only too happy to have someone else do their thinking for them. As a species, the name homo sapiens is cruel irony.
Just re-read C.L.’s the Irony Curtain has Descended – it really is superb – he does have a way with words does C.L.
Making citizens arrests of criminals who are brown people in modern west is politically dangerous and white people who do it may be “stupid” in that they haven’t learned the new rules of life under the gentle hyper-tolerant liberal order, I guess.
Same stuff happened in the British midlands in the late 90’s early 2000’s when muslims rape gangs were operating with complete impunity and british dads and brothers occasionally got uppity and tried to do something about it. They learned their place, everyone learned.
“twostixsays:
February 23, 2022 at 2:28 pm”
We have a current example….Zachary Rolfe.
“Jeroen Weimar – Commander, COVID Response ” in Victoria explains that six year olds are being punished with masks until their parents get them “jabbed” with an experimental drug for a virus that has no effect on children at all.
Your children will have their protection or will be punished, get it?
Trudeau says Canada “will defend democracy” and “stand against authoritarianism.”
Ouch….
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/putin-must-look-at-the-west-and-laugh
Two-thirds of Nato members do not meet the alliance’s two per cent of GDP guideline on defence spending, while 47 per cent of coal, 41 per cent of natural gas and 27 per cent of crude oil imported into the EU comes from Russia.
Hmmmm. How many “Russian” troops are already in Ukraine? [Try find out!!!].
I’d say none
And why would Putin want to invade? The effort would bankrupt Russia economically and militarily, relationships with other nations will deteriorate, and managing a population where the holodomor is still recent will be a massive poison pill. Lose Lose Lose.
And I still think that Putin is not scared of NATO anywhere near as much as he is off Chayna – that is the big game. Strategically, the West is falling apart and it is inevitable that if Russia is the only nation left to oppose Chayna … Euro people/nations will naturally lean that way. Chyna is resource hungry and Putin can’t fight on two fronts if Chayna expands northwards to get the gas, coal etc up there!
A major invasion is not going to happen. Putin is just being strategic/smart and pushing the western dominos over faster. The win is to become the remaining western superpower to face up to Chayna!
Two-thirds of Nato members do not meet the alliance’s two per cent of GDP guideline on defence spending, while 47 per cent of coal, 41 per cent of natural gas and 27 per cent of crude oil imported into the EU comes from Russia.
I bet they all max out at 100% on their globohomo targets.
Enrolments in private and religious schools are up!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-23/public-school-enrolments-drop-as-suburban-parents-choose-private/100851644
The ABC must be choking their goat’s cheese.
Be a change form choking the chicken.
2020 wild eyed conspiracy theory #213 now casually explained to be true: CDC explains it took 10% of all of the PCR test swabs taken and stored and sent them around the world for genetic sequencing experiments.
From the CDC:
Reminder that Palachook’s own dad is now chairman of a DNA sequencing and storage company that operates out of China.
Hey I’m sure it’s all nothing.
“genetic data goldmine” – explains palachooks data about mass DNA storage and sequencing from his lair in China.
And I still think that Putin is not scared of NATO anywhere near as much as he is off Chayna
The collapse of the Russian birth rate, particularly in Siberia means there is nothing Putin can do.
Those south of the border literally just have to wait it out and move in when the last Russian has left/died.
Strange that they had to swab deep up inside people’s skulls all over the world for a year or two for a super ultra contagious virus, wasn’t it?
I’m sure that genetic data goldmine taken from one quarter of the world’s populatoin was all thrown away.
The songs dated and so is the technology but it’s good for an afternoon memory.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb85NvjbBm8
The ABC must be choking their goat’s cheese.
I suspect the ABC employees are contributors to this school enrolment figures.
Among the panolopy of Soviet misinformation and false flag operations including CND, SDS, the Non-Aligned Movement, the Labor and Labour Parties, the State Department, the Foreign Office, the Dept of Foreign Affairs; a number stand out as pure genius:
. Andrapov convincing the West that Ceausescu was the new liberal face of Communism. The proposition was so outrageous that it could only have gained the traction it did through Soviet control of Western media.
. The profoundly stupid and subverted, but impossible to criticise, Women of Greenham Common endlessly protesting cruise missiles on behalf of the ‘caught on the hop’ Soviets. The idiocy persists, I recently saw an ABC creature discussing the dupes with near religious reverence.
. Capture of every single West German university providing a launching pad for Antifa and WOKE into the West immediately after the Wall came down. Both infections were false flagged as having originated in the anti-Mosely battles in pre-War UK, rather than having exclusively East German totalitarian imperialist origins. Both followed the same path into the West – Berlin Free University – Guttenberg University – Evergreen College.
But none of the Sov false flag succsses can compare to the Greta genius.
WEF of course deploy identical tactics but have employed greed rather than ideology to capture the powerful.
Fraud then, fraud now.
You know that Canada “freezing banks accounts” thing?
And the “digital economy”.
This just happened back in September:
In Australia you’ll soon be able to deplatformed from fincancial life in one convenient place.
Bank of Russia is having a big day in global debt markets.
This is a big fuck you to Biden.
It’s absolutely nothing in the scheme of things.
Literally a mosquito on an hippo.
But to be doing deals, no trouble at all with counter parties (other central banks) is says what are these sanctions of which you speak.
What is the worth of a lawmaker that thinks laws do not matter?
I have not been following the case but from a quick perusal of non-ABC and non-NYT sites on the intertubes the killing does sound a rather stupid crime. Guys got what they deserve.
What about on the road? Where do you eject them there? I see these cars with electronic doors that lift up and they give me the creeps. What if the electronic system is down? What then?
Your sacrifices for Gaia will be remembered, Comrade…
Demography is destiny. Never a truer word said. China ain’t looking too hot on that front either. Better than the Russians though.
Go and watch the video and make up your own mind instead of post BLM hostage-like interpretations of it from terrified media outlets.
I went to Fox.
I see nothing in that clip that somehow vindicates the guys who brought the guns.
Apologies if already mentioned but I see that Clinton operatives are now running BLM and have control of all its millions.
Mark Elias is now a director.
Poor old Jack the Insider…..real name Peter Hoysted, he’s an obsessive man, a mediocre journalist whose mediocrity stands out even from other mediocre journalists, he only has two or three topics he can write about, one is the evil, wicked Trump, another was Catholic priests and pedophilia in Victoria, a topic which thankfully since Pell’s acquittal and the era of Covid began two years ago, he’s mercifully stopped writing about but…but….but…..he’s now moved on to writing obsessively about “anti-vaxxers”. Every week he churns out a piece of dross re. anti-vaxxers. He’s a strange man. He’s obsessed…and this afternoon he vomits up a smear piece which combines all his pet hates….Craig Kelly, Aussie Cossack, Donald Trump, Wussia, Wussia, Wussia and anti-vaxxers.
Here’s his latest dross….perhaps dross is too kind….
It’s time to put Putin’s useful idiots on notice
JACK THE INSIDER
The term ‘useful idiots’, often attributed to Vladimir Lenin for non-communists who propagandised communism, is now a catch-all for those who ignore a regime’s excesses and outrages, preferring to clamber up onto a soap box to extol its virtues.
Putin has so many useful idiots, it’s hard to know where to begin. Some from the left, others from the right. Many are academics obsessed with dubious neo-Marxist constructs about western imperialism.
NYU’s Professor of Russian Studies, Stephen F. Cohen who died in September 2020, maintained the leftist fiction that Putin’s hand was forced when Russia annexed Crimea in 2014.
Cohen wrote that “media malpractice” had resulted in the “relentless demonisation of Putin” who was “not an autocrat.” It was all the West’s fault. The West had humiliated Russians in the post-Soviet era, wantonly threatening the Federation by extending invitations to Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic to join NATO. Ukraine, Cohen argued, was the point in which Putin was obliged to say, thus far and no further.
Since the start of the century, populists on the left and the right have clamoured around Putin. Those on the right have done so because they see Putin as standing up to the European Union. Those on the left are drawn to the despot because they see anybody who opposes the West as a kindred ideological spirit.
In 2020, when the Russian Federation held its constitutional referendum which would allow Putin to remain as President for 16 more years, 60 foreigners from 29 countries were flown into Russia to act as Putin appointed election “observers.” Some were members of the European parliament, including Thierry Mariani from the French far-right party National Rally (National Front) and Prussian separatist, Volker Chapke.
The informal observers were wined and dined across Russia before declaring the vote was free and fair. Save a few minor administrative mistakes, the votes when counted were a fair expression of the people’s will, they reported.
Genuine independent observers were far from impressed. Senior associate at the German Institute for Security and International Affairs, Janis Kluge, tweeted that “the dimension of fraud in the 2020 constitutional vote” was “simply staggering.” A physicist and data expert who has monitored Russian elections for the past two decades, Sergei Shpilkin, published statistical evidence that up to 22 million votes were fraudulent.
Perth man Anthony Maslin had lost his three children when flight MH17 was downed over Ukraine. In 2018, Maslin condemned Donald Trump as “kissing the arse of Vladimir Putin”, after an awful performance at a summit in Helsinki where the 45th POTUS sided with Putin ahead of his own security services over the issue of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. On Sky News, Craig Kelly responded to Maslin’s comment published on Facebook, lapsing if not into apologism then a sort of amoral realpolitik.
“I’m sure that any father that’s lost three kids would be absolutely devastated but the reality is nothing is going to bring those three kids back,” the then Liberal MP, now independent, said.
“So, what is best for the continued future of the world? And it is best, in my opinion, that the leader of the USA and the leader of Russia at least have a good talking relationship.
“And if that means some of the things that Russia have gotten away with in the past have to be slightly looked over, well, I’m sorry, that’s the price that we have to pay sometimes to have good relations going forward.”
In total, 283 passengers and 15 crew were killed when a Russian built surface-to-air missile was fired at the Boeing 777 by what was found to be Russian-backed separatist fighters. Thirty-eight of those killed were Australians.
On 8 February, Kelly invited a group of protest leaders from the Freedom Movement into his parliamentary office. Much was made about vaccination status and how those opposed to mask wearing felt obliged to wear them. What was genuinely surprising was the appearance in Kelly’s office of Simeon Boikov.
Boikov is a Sydney-born pro-Putin Russian ultranationalist who calls himself the Aussie Cossack. Perhaps unkindly, some have described the self-branded Aussie Cossack as Putin’s man in Australia if Putin knew who he was.
In 2018, told a Russian media outlet, “We have a unique opportunity to support Russia from within an enemy state.” The enemy he alluded to is Australia.
Boikov, who has more than 12,000 followers on Instagram, is unashamed about spreading a pro-Putin, pro-Russian message by lobbying politicians.
In August 2020, Russian Opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent and evacuated to Berlin where he recovered. Navalny accused Putin of being responsible for his poisoning, and an investigation implicated agents from the Federal Security Service (FSB) the successor to the KGB, Putin’s alma mater. He returned to Russia in January 2021 and was jailed for two and a half years in February 2021.
Protesters gathered worldwide to call for his release. In Sydney a group of a hundred or so protesters did the same and Boikov assembled a counter-protest.
“We’re here with our President Vladimir Putin,” Boikov said, pointing to a poster of Putin toted by one of the counter-protesters, supporting Vladimir Putin, supporting the President against this opposition scum.”
When asked by Four Corners journalist Sean Nicholls if he supported the idea of murdering political opponents, Boikov replied, “I wouldn’t say murdering. I would say liquidating. Murdering is a bad word.”
As the Morrison government sanctions Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, some big questions need to be put to political candidates who overtly have endorsed Putin’s conduct.
Our security agencies will be on full alert. Putin has useful idiots everywhere.
And here’s a comment to the above dross, which has already garnered the most likes…
“paul
33 MINUTES AGO
Strange how Trump was brought into this commentary – alongside Traincrash Kelly and the other so-called useful idiot – this character named Boikov (never heard of him).
The MH17 atrocity happened in 2014 – no mention here of Obama and other western leaders who had adequate time to force the issue with Putin. All of these individuals, our fearless western leaders, were totally ineffective. So of course Trump cops some sort of blame for having the temerity to hold a meeting with Putin in later years. I’m certain he wasnt the only western Leader to do so following the MH17 tragedy.
Regarding pro-Putin groups. Unfortunately, or otherwise, we live in a Democracy so these people are allowed out on our streets to push their views. Just like all other disaffected waste-of-space groups have done for decades.
The Other Paul”
Hoysted with his own retard.
Whatever can he be driving at?
That Putin and Trump denied the Wussia Wussia Wussia connection – we had the Muller circus that strained its eyes till they were cross trying to find any actual evidence, cheered on by the Dimocrats and the MSM, and they found nothing.
And not we have the news from Durham about the Hilderbeest spying on Trump and instigating the false flag operation.
Why cite so comprehensively repudiated a narrative?
American police in the south don’t walk around like armed retards because they like it. They do it because they get shot at all the time by “jogging” from the scene with a 9mm in his pants “Mr Arbery’s”.
Georgia’s crime stats (population similar QLD): 2020:
VIOLENT CRIME
1 every 17 Minutes and 36 Seconds
MURDER
1 every 12 Hours 38 Minutes and 19 Seconds
ROBBERY
1 every 1 Hours 56 Minutes and 39 Seconds
RAPE
1 every 3 Hours 18 Minutes and 52 Seconds
AGGRAVATED ASSAULT
1 every 23 Minutes and 53 Seconds
—-
Perpetrator Demographics:
Type of Crime | White | Non-White
Murder | 67 | 213
Robbery | 134 | 565
Aggravated Assault | 2,415 | 3,436
Burglary | 905 | 733
Larceny-Theft | 5,016 | 6,236
Forgive me if I don’t apply my own standard of handling crime living in an homogeneous peaceful low crime, low violence country to people living in a crime ridden third world war zone.
Pay that one!
Further to Hoysted’s dross…another comment calling him out..
“neville
44 MINUTES AGO
Good to see how you managed to link the anti vaxxers to the pro Putin lot. Kelly is no more or less an idiot than the G20 countries who after the downing of MH17, voted to allow Putin to attend the G20 summit in Brisbane. Abbott was condemned for his “Shirt Front” comment by Jacqui Lambie who said “Putin has great values.” I can’t wait to see the next chapter on Xi’s useful idiots.
Likethumb_up59
That’s right, I was reminded again of that bush pig from Tasmania, gifted to us by Fat Clive….this is what she said back in October 2014…..a few months after the MH17 tragedy….
Australian senator Jacqui Lambie has lauded the Russian president in the wake of the threat by the Australian prime minister, Tony Abbott, to “shirtfront” Vladimir Putin. The Palmer United party member called Abbott’s rhetoric “extremely immature” during an interview on Radio National and called for the restoration of civil ties. Consistently mispronouncing Putin’s first name, Lambie told the ABC: “Yeah, I do like Vladimir Putin. I think he has very strong leadership. He has great values.”
LOL.
Just waiting for Christi Spicuzza Day to be declared.
An Uber driver begged for her life and pleaded that she had four children before a Penn Hills man fatally shot her during what investigators believe was a robbery attempt, according to a transcript of dashcam video.
On a video retrieved from Ms. Spicuzza’s dashcam, investigators saw her arriving to pick up Mr. Crew on Feb. 11. He entered the vehicle and produced a handgun, pointing it at the back of her head, the complaint says.
He told her to keep driving. When she reached back and felt the gun, she responded, “You’ve got to be joking,” the complaint reads
Mr. Crew reiterated that he had a gun, and she told him that she had a family, the complaint says.
“I got a family too,” Mr. Crew said. “Now drive.”
“I’m begging you, I have four kids,” she said at one point.
He repeatedly told her to “complete the trip” as she again asked him to put the gun down. He kept the gun pointed at the back of her neck.
“Please take that off of me,” she said. He reached forward and took her cell phone off of the dashboard, the complaint says.
“Do what I say, and everything will be all right,” he told her. The video ends as Mr. Crew reaches forward and grabs the dashcam, the complaint says.
Police found Ms. Spicuzza, of Turtle Creek, dead with a single gunshot wound to the head in a wooded area near the 500 block of Rosecrest Drive
Those statistics do not inform the specific case at hand.
@ Cassie-
I seem to recall that era was one where any abuse of Tony Abbott was celebrated and used to drive further acts of madness.
And it seems to have gone up a notch with Scomo.
Hyperbole beyond even what relative failures of each man’s character and policy might render reasonable.
“Rex Angersays:
February 23, 2022 at 4:32 pm
@ Cassie-“
Correct….remember the progressive left and MSM and social media scum guffawed, mocked and smeared Abbott because he said he’d shirtfront Putin?
Cassie, it was a dumb thing to say. I know all pollies say and do dumb things but I thought Abbott would know better, but then again he did his best to ruin Pauline Hanson for no good reason, except politics.
Perfect timing. Thank you Mr Putin
Australia Post boss warns of higher prices due to COVID, Ukraine crisis
No.
Idiocy and alcohol.
FMD.
If that was his cunning plan, do it in the hospital car park outside the doors of A&E, FFS.
On a quiet Tuesday afternoon.
With a torniquet handy.
Maybe with a little bit of pain dulling medication on board.
At the time of his demise, Mr Arbery was on probation for theft and weapons offences.
Leopards, and all that.
No doubt there will be citizens who in the future get to hold on to more of their hardearned than would have been the case had Mr Arbery not expired.
And that is a good thing.
Sancho Panzer says:February 23, 2022 at 4:45 pm
This is one of those cases where ‘lived experience’ provides valuable insight.
Sancho may, in the event he has to remove own leg, think about how he’s going to cope once the leg is off.
The demographic involved in this case is unlikely to have planned that far ahead.
Just watched a film friend bought from someone in the US on the actual happenings on January 6th made by a journalist who attended Trump protest . It showed millions of people all colours all races marching peacefully towards CapitolHill .,carrying flags and signs Many oldies also on walkers and wheelchairs someone received a phone call to say that Capitol Hill had been broken into before they started marching . On the other side of building that Trump people arrived at 25 minutes later . police removed barriers , stood back and let them in .They walked in peacefully staying inside the red ropes . Men who didn’t go in have been arrested with no charged locked up for weeks without access to phone call . They can now get up to 76 years jail . Terrible stuff has gone on by FBI . Lots of BLM there they had video of leader there egging people on inside to burn the place down he was not arrested . The shooting of Ashlee also shown she was backing away . 5’ 2 and 110 pounds according to her husband . Wish I could remember the name Capitol something .
I am not sure the guys that shot him had access to that information. According to FOX they said that they (thought they) recognised him from TV reports (or similar).
But they escalated it to homicide. And if he was on probation what crime could they claim? That he should not be on probation?
Running past people while on probation is not a capital crime that they were executing as righteous citizens, nor is it an imminent threat.
You may be correct. I made no comment on the ethics, morality, guilt or otherwise of the 3 whites.
I stand by the point that the remaining Americans are probably better off.
Ashli Babbit, killed by Lt. Michael Byrd on Jan 6, 2021.
Unarmed.
The Antifa AP who filmed it all walked away.
This much is apparent.
I was responding to BoN questioning whether it was the ban on elective surgery which drove him to it.
If you wanted to force their hand with your severed foot, do it right outside the hospital, and get your mate to leg it with the leg so re-attachment is off the table.
They would then have to clean up the leg.
It is telling that his request for amputation was refused.
It sounds like he might have been one of those amputation/mutilation fetishists.
I was going to point out the glaring pachyderm in the kindergarten but mother lode beat me to it
Mother Lodesays:
February 23, 2022 at 4:21 pm
The “Wussia, wussia, wussia” this was a pile of ‘Illery ‘orseshit.
Anyone still using it to tar Trump is a submong.
I’m stumped as to how you came up with that idea…
Among the panolopy of Soviet misinformation and false flag operations including CND, SDS, the Non-Aligned Movement, the Labor and Labour Parties, the State Department, the Foreign Office, the Dept of Foreign Affairs; a number stand out as pure genius:
. Andrapov convincing the West that Ceausescu was the new liberal face of Communism. The proposition was so outrageous that it could only have gained the traction it did through Soviet control of Western media.
. The profoundly stupid and subverted, but impossible to criticise, Women of Greenham Common endlessly protesting cruise missiles on behalf of the ‘caught on the hop’ Soviets. The idiocy persists, I recently saw an ABC creature discussing the dupes with near religious reverence.
. Capture of every single West German university providing a launching pad for Antifa and WOKE into the West immediately after the Wall came down. Both infections were false flagged as having originated in the anti-Mosely battles in pre-War UK, rather than having exclusively East German totalitarian imperialist origins. Both followed the same path into the West – Berlin Free University – Guttenberg University – Evergreen College.
But none of the Sov false flag succsses can compare to the Greta genius.
WEF of course deploy identical tactics but have employed greed rather than ideology to capture the powerful.
Fascinating post- East Germany was a particularly poisonous attack snake/stealth snake for the USSR. Sorry for the mixed metaphor.
As for Romania, everyone used to parrot “Romania has its own foreign policy” when I was in year 10.
Scumbag arsehole who killed daughter and son in law sentenced to only 35 years. Key world, islam, omitted from all articles.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9267805/Controlling-father-Osman-Shaptafajwho-killed-daughter-husband-pleads-guilty.html
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/newlyweds-lindita-and-veton-were-murdered-by-her-father-in-2019-he-s-just-been-jailed-for-life/ar-AAUborE?ocid=entnewsntp
“sfwsays:
February 23, 2022 at 4:43 pm
Cassie, it was a dumb thing to say. I know all pollies say and do dumb things but I thought Abbott would know better, but then again he did his best to ruin Pauline Hanson for no good reason, except politics.”
What was a dumb thing to say?
What Tony Abbott said about Putin? No, that wasn’t a dumb thing to say. But he was scorned at the time by the left, by the MSM, by Palmer and by Palmer’s lovely gift to Australia, Ms Lambie.
What Clive’s gift to Australia Ms Lambie said about Putin? Yes, that was a dumb thing to say. Perhaps she should have her words read back to her, because you know, I’m a bit tired of the double standards. The truth is that Lambie is a disgrace.
Oh and I don’t absolve Abbott for his involvement in what was done to Hanson.
Perhaps others could also have the maturity to call out Fat Clive for his selfish, clownish and unstable behaviour over the years.
“Yes madam, we have tracked your AusPost parcel down. It’s in our Donbas sorting facility. Do you speak Russian?”
Someone posted this headline earlier
Australian parents turn to private schools as public enrolments slide
Mrs M… made the decision because her daughter was entering high school and she wanted to prioritise values.
“I wanted her to be around people who pray the same way, are brought up the same way and have the same priorities and same ideas,” Mrs M… said.
I thought such anti diversity and anti inclusive thoughts would too risky to say in public.
Obviously not.
What Tony Abbott said about Putin? No, that wasn’t a dumb thing to say. But he was scorned at the time by the left, by the MSM, by Palmer and by Palmer’s lovely gift to Australia, Ms Lambie.
it wouldn’t matter what Abbott said when he was PM- it would have been ridiculed and condemned. Almost a coordinated campaign. After the most noxious maliciously government had been removed. What followed Abbott is another story of course.
What followed Abbott is another story of course.
Potential greatness….so much potential….great….ness…
That may be true, but can you imagine the disaster that would unfold if we made that a principle of society – people we (as in, ultimately, someone in authority) decides is not a net positive can be killed?
The guy was in trouble for weapons possession and related misdeeds, not murder or assault or putting pineapple on pizza. Judging him as if her was, say, a murderer because murderers are likely breaking weapons laws is a step too far for me.
Going back to my earlier comment, I looked at the Fox post but also looked at the comments to see if the article was skipping stuff. From the comments I read there was an acceptance that the guys had done wrong, and most questioning seemed to be regarding why the give people life plus 20 years or why things are sent to Federal court when the states have sentenced them to life (to which the consensus seemed to be that the appeals process might result in the rescinding of some parts of a verdict, but not others – all part of the labyrinthine workings of legal systems).
What’s with this Fiona Martin?
Her wikipedia page raises more questions than it provides answers.
Indisputably she’s a lightweight. I tender as evidence;
Davy Boy’s video from 2 yrs ago
Aussie Cossack’s video from Monday. (The Cossack’s videos, both the 10-minute & the 1-hr version, are brilliant – he’s right when he says the only thing destroyed was her reputation)
She held a “come & ask me some questions” day in the park, then shot through like a Bondi tram as soon as the first constituent came within sight.
Who picked this ditz to be pre-selected? (I’m not suggesting, not for one minute, that she was providing certain services to powerbrokers in the Liberal Party in return for a seat, I’m not suggesting that at all)
BoN’s hypothesis is quite plausible.
Very implausible.
I just watched Wobbleguts on Chris Kenny saying Putin is acting like a thug and a bully — anything to say about that tyrants, thugs and bullies in Canada you pathetic spineless nong?
ABCcess curiously incurious as usual.
First off there is a 90% chance the bloke involved is a gronk. Probably a gronk who has been broken into a number of times.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-23/man-charged-over-alleged-involvement-in-karratha-vigilante-crime/100854592
A 51-year-old Karratha man has been charged with a string of offences in relation to an alleged vigilante crime group in the city.
Detectives yesterday executed a search warrant at a Karratha house, where they arrested the man and charged him with incitement to commit an indictable offence, stealing and other offences.
The man is alleged to be the leader of a vigilante group which police say had been targeting certain houses* and conducting night-time street patrols.
It was allegedly being organised through a private Facebook group.
Superintendent Kim Massam said alleged vigilante groups were not acceptable.**
“This is terrible. I think the behaviour of some people on that Facebook site that we were referring to is deplorable,” he said.***
The Facebook group has been shut down.
Followed by the next sub heading
Crime rising across the north-west
If only there was a possible link… anything, anything at all…
…
Superintendent Massam said a significant number of Newman children had been charged with criminal offences.
“[It] is not something that I’m proud of, because it makes no difference, those children still come home to the social environment that they live in,” he said.
“Locking kids up isn’t the answer to most of those issues.”****
* Targeting…houses, or the people they thought were committing crimes.
** Especially when they make us look like fat doughnut munching quambies
*** Let me guess, they were less than euphemistic about the people robbing them?
**** This is what you want, this is what you get
Salvatore simply put: Fiona Martin is the Julia Banks of the electorate of Reid –Aussie Cossack is her constituent as am I —
“Salvatore simply put: Fiona Martin is the Julia Banks of the electorate of Reid –Aussie Cossack is her constituent as am I —”
As is my sister. My sister loathes her.
Martin, a mediocrity, will be gone after the election.
Last I heard she doesn’t even live in the electorate.
Yep, because ‘tearing down the wall’ flooded the West with the Godless Communists who craved the luxuries of the West at any cost, while Maggie & Ronnie pushed the, ‘wealth makes health & justice’, for all it was worth.
It was worth a LOT to those who discovered that Communist infiltration of Education and all the other Western Institutions had already been well underway for decades and backed by international bodies such as the UN, along with various other literally Anti-Christ social manipulation tools such as the Green Movement, Destruction of Family & Early Childhood Sexualisation.
P’s link here –
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1496214764183240713.html
– is just another little reminder of how many generations The Baddies have been playing us, letting us have little clean up ‘wins’ here & there when we start to smell the source of the stench.
It also reminds us of why the ‘Justin’s & Jacinta’s’ of the world are so arrogant in their blatant totalitarianism.
They know they’re backed by generations of the super influential & wealthy who invested in building their, ‘save the planet, kill the people’, army that they’ve made ‘untouchable’, even down to their lowest Antifa levels.
Oh but it’s no sinister cabal, just generations of all sorts making ‘smart’ investments.
IIRC Cossack says this in one of Monday’s videos.
In response to her staffers jeering at him that he’s no right to be in that park, he says, “At least I live here, unlike Fiona” (He’s very good with at ridiculing targets & leaving them no avenue of return fire)
Where does the name “Martin” come from? Her online bio says she’s a Greek, born with some Poulos-Poulos type Greeky name, & married to a Dane, with some guttural Scandi type name.
Also mention that she ‘has’ 4 children, with no mention of the sire(s).
(I’m not suggesting she’s some sort jezebel who’s climbed up by doing lots of ceiling gazing or kneepadding, not at all suggesting that)
What does this mean?
It’s a free country, kids can go out of the house and walk, run or skip down the street, right?
This is a fairly pissweak level of commenting.
From Michael Smith News -for anyone following the Rolfe trial.
Guys with guns…
Just to clarify, though, I’m not for a minute suggesting that it’ QuiteGay to exhibit a piercing interest in the minutiae of some woman’s sex life.
Not for a minute.
Notable piece of trolling in Cossack’s vid (in a video crowded with police making unforced errors while standing in front of Cossack’s cameras)
The part where he almost got the Muslim bloke copper to fondle his own fly on camera. That would have been masterful had it come off.
The uptight cops who attended must have had blood pressure that’d bust the gauge.
Oh great.
Another Simpsons reference.
Cassie, for a prominent person on the world stage to say that he would ‘Chest’ another leader is really dumb, 1 – unless you are prepared to do it, 2 – prepared for your country to come under attack and 3 – for that country to be in a position to back up the words.
Dumb and dumber.
Quite right.
They found them there.
In Australia if you have a ute people will often throw in their empty coffee cups and pie wrappers, but in the US…
Really?
You thought he literally meant he would physically shirtfront Putin?
Pretty sure he was speaking to an Australian audience, which would be familiar with the expression as a non-literal one.
Did you think at some level he wanted to tell Putin he was going to grab at his shirt?
In your experience to players who shirtfront their opponents respond through calamitous diplomatic channels or threaten nuclear Armageddon?
“sfwsays:
February 23, 2022 at 6:08 pm
Cassie, for a prominent person on the world stage to say that he would ‘Chest’ another leader is really dumb, 1 – unless you are prepared to do it, 2 – prepared for your country to come under attack and 3 – for that country to be in a position to back up the words.
Dumb and dumber.”
Nothing to say about what Palmer’s odious gift to Oz in our senate said back in 2014…months after the downing of MH 17….“Yeah, I do like Vladimir Putin. I think he has very strong leadership. He has great values.”
I call that “dumb and dumber”.
Spare me.
Piercing a woman’s minutia, interesting or not requires consent, Grigory.
Otherwise, it’s a crime. And all your CCTV footage won’t save you…
I wish to make a comment regarding vigilantism.
A sensible one.
But I will restrain myself.
Welcome to the world of what we have to deal with when you log on and start ‘tarding at us, Grigory…
Sancho, what did he mean if not what he said?
Cassie, I’m no lover of Putin however when you look at the west at this time he does stand for Russia, there’s not much in the way of greens, wokeism, transgender etc. He is an authoritarian brute and I doubt that he’s good for Russians in the long run but at the moment he’s miles ahead of every western leader when it comes to defending traditional values.
Mother Lode
“In your experience to players who shirtfront their opponents respond through calamitous diplomatic channels or threaten nuclear Armageddon?”
If you can’t back up your words, don’t say them. I like Abbott but utterly disgusted with his failure as PM but only the US President has the power to back up a threat to shirtfront. It was a dumb thing to say and those who defend it appear to place loyalty to a failed PM higher than reality.
The State’s top cop said crime has gone down since officers were deployed to the Kimberley, but they are still seeing youth violence on the streets.
But that cant be right, he said arresting the kids wasnt a solution in the other article.
If the Mudrock news organisations get to be just another left-leaning yes-mob (whether by the hard left or by the new squishy scion management) it will really be time to head for the hills and live off-grid.
If reports are correct (I saw a link above) this process of leftivisation started in September 2021.
those who defend it appear to place loyalty to a failed PM higher than reality.
Whatever Abbott’s faults were or are, he was a loss to this nation because so many LINOs wanted the top job or the factional sway.
“I like Abbott but utterly disgusted with his failure as PM”
But you’re not disgusted with Palmer failings? Many of us here were hugely disappointed with Abbott and many of us have said this here time and time again. But I’ll take Tony Abbott any day over Clive Palmer.
Imagine the scenario if some of Clive’s candidates in the lower house win seats and have the balance of power, you don’t think that Palmer will want his say?
LOL.
South Carolina doctors can prescribe ivermectin to treat COVID, says state attorney general
ProBuild facing administration
workers told to stop work
5 Billion work in-hand
… try to imagine the chain of subbies, consultants, and investors that this will fuck
beginning of the end
ps: this is why I avoid working for builders and their major subbies
What? Are you saying Abbott wasn’t going to directly confront Putin about the crash? And this idea that only the US President can confront a leader? I don’t believe that at all. Do we really have to outsource our diplomacy to bigger allies? Especially when the comically impotent Obama would not say anything.
Doesn’t mean Abbott was threatening war. But we actually have trade, and he would have been speaking on behalf of (or even in concert with) other nations who had lost people.
Abbott was saying he was going to be direct, not allow himself to be muted by niceties. I know The Age and the Seeping Moaning Haemorrhoid disapproved, but so what?
The simpering KRudd, Gillard, and later Trumble (and now Morrison) ought not be taken as the standards of international communication.
He meant “confront, challenge, berate”.
Do you really honestly think he meant it to be understood that he was going to physically barrel into Putin?
Mind you, a physical brawl between Tony Abbott and Vlad Putin would make for interesting viewing, both men are fit, very fit.
My money would be on Tony Abbott.
The banality of evil.
“I wanted her to be around people who pray the same way, are brought up the same way and have the same priorities and same ideas,” Mrs M… said.
I thought such anti diversity and anti inclusive thoughts would too risky to say in public.
Obviously not.
Maybe “Mrs M…”‘s name contains the letters o,h,a,m,m,e and d.
Russia offered a better deal, acknowledge Russian sovereignty over Crimea and we’ll acknowledge Ukrainian sovereignty over the Donbass region (and end support for the separatist movement there.). They will also toss in five year’s free Russian gas for the Ukraine into the deal as a sweetener.
That however that would mean that Ukraine’s energy company Burisma Holdings would go broke, and interested parties in the US would lose their bonus payments from Burisma, so the US wants to start WW III so the Biden family can continue to enrich themselves.
Yep…
In the next few months, Trudeau will release a book recounting the events of the protests titled ‘Mein Kampf 2.0’
It’s about time for Morrison to appear surrounded by generals as backdrop to discuss the Ukrainian invasion. Sternly resolute and sombre would be my suggestion for the makeup artist.
If the Mudrock news organisations get to be just another left-leaning yes-mob (whether by the hard left or by the new squishy scion management) it will really be time to head for the hills and live off-grid.
it’s just another legacy outfit so of course it will bleat for whatever the marxist establishment wants.
Knock off time at the reskinning shop.
They supported Whitlam and Rudd so what’s new?
Sancho don’t play the ingenue, you know that I and everyone else doesn’t believe that Abbott would physically accost Putin, however he did threaten him and that’s a dangerous game to play.
Cassie, Abbott had his chance, failed miserably sat on his core and now prances the world stage on his exorbitant taxpayer pension. Clive is putting his money where his mouth is and has skin in the game.
Sorry, meant shat not sat.
It’s about time for Morrison to appear surrounded by generals as backdrop to discuss the Ukrainian invasion. Sternly resolute and sombre would be my suggestion for the makeup artist.
just like Oceana versus Eurasia
Abbott had his chance, failed miserably sat on his core and now prances the world stage on his exorbitant taxpayer pension. Clive is putting his money where his mouth is and has skin in the game.
good point and after the way the lieborals treated him I’m surprised he hasn’t gone over to the LDP. I was going to say UAP or PHON but maybe not!
At the time public discussion descended into a derailing childish segment of people trotting out the most obscure/unrealistic possible definition of “to shirtfront” & then argue that this was literally what Tony Abbott was going to do immediately upon sighting Putin.
Ffs don’t anyone start it again here. Sancho is correct.
“Shirtfront” = stand in front of someone & present your case in an emphatic, unmistakeable manner.
That was what Tony Abbott meant, & anybody arguing otherwise should be in a straightjacket.
I find the picture of Abbott as a tough, strong man too preposterous.
Salv, if he really meant it, then he is a bigger idiot than I thought.
Ooooh yes. Definitely not a Murphy.
Putin, whose opponents are dead or in jail,
and who does not have to deal with problematic journalists, coz they are dead or in jail,
is not going to worry too much about a western liberal democratic Prime Minister of no G-7 importance, saying he’s going to “talk” to Putin at some point.
Clive Palmer is not the messiah.
“Ffs don’t anyone start it again here. Sancho is correct.
“Shirtfront” = stand in front of someone & present your case in an emphatic, unmistakeable manner.
That was what Tony Abbott meant, & anybody arguing otherwise should be in a straightjacket”
Indeed.
I’ll take almost anybody who is not;
Liberal, Greens, ALP.
sfw is sounding like another of Sancho’s wacky characters.
Are you another Queenslander, sfw?
Cassie, I agree completely, Clive is not a messiah, he’s a flawed individual like all of us. He’s done and said dumb things like all of us. He may have an ulterior motive but he’s spending $80 million in the chance he can achieve it. He has skin in the game, he’s assembled a pretty good team and has relinquished most of his control. Tell me another anti Lib Labor person who has come close to this. Plus I’m sure he’s learned from the Lambie experience.
Ed, I told you before, I skip over your inanities and expect you to do the same for me. You don’t exist.
I thought you were, Grigory…
The real issue was that Russia had no involvement in the MH14 shootdown, but Tony Abbott pronounced Putin guilty straight off.
No Presumption of Innocence there, from memory none of his colleagues backed him up either?
Sure, sfw, but the problem is that you’re always on the defensive [Putin is a brute, Clive is a … whatever] so it’s difficult to see a real person behind your sfw handle.
A straight man for Sancho, yeah, I can see that …
It’s about time for Morrison to appear surrounded by generals as backdrop to discuss the Ukrainian invasion. Sternly resolute and sombre would be my suggestion for the makeup artist.
Morriswine, with his generals 2022 colourised and moving pictures.
(Probably more like this though)
Aside from the 9K37 Buk tracked Surface to Air Missile System identified as belonging to the Russian Army’s 53 Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade, the logistical system that deployed and replenished it, the training provided to the (allegedly Donbass separatist) operators of said Surface to Air Missile System, and the same logistical system that frantically recovered it and trucked it back into Russian territory once it was realised that there were pieces of Boeing 777-200ER and pax and luggage all over the Donbass rather than Ukrainian Su-27?
Right, Grigory?
Ed Mong adds defending the shits who shot down a civilian airliner to KKK and Hitler worship.
What a weird little thing it is.