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baba, are you looking at those two charts properly? The trend continues down. There’s no DV pandemic. That’s not good…
Next to Elon, Albanese is a moral pygmy. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1784428001024938421?t=bGdCXFnyEIjWaWo5FKNqlA&s=19
Allan prepared to apologise to indigiknees. Sorry for being shiite leader and Liar scumbag. I’ll continue to take huge amounts…
Dude, where’s my country!?
Dot:
That was the point I tried to make when ‘Patient Care Plans’ and other ‘Protocols’ were being introduced into the nursing game in the 80’s.
We, like the coppers above, were being locked into a system that gave bureaucrats in the health system carte blanche to deny responsibility to the medical and nursing staff if the shit hit the fan.
We are now reaping the rewards of the system being our masters and not our servants, throughout our entire society.
Sweet Granddaughter just demonstrated the kata she is practising towards her brown belt. It went something like this (with the relevant actions):
Neck, neck, eye, genitals, rip, eye, eye…
Genitals, rrrip?
Best Man’s eyes are still watering.
Went to the mall this arvo and there are still people QR checking in! It is two weeks since that was discontinued.
I suppose that rituals give some people comfort against their anxieties.
many actual Ukrainians in the western part who
Oh.
That’s awkward.
Looks like Sturmfuerher Freeland has abjectly backflipped on that too.
This aggregation of tweets on Instapundit is worth a perusal. Includes this one:
Mr Marazzo looks to be one of the trucker organizers from a brief DDG search.
Because they were tired of Russia inviting themselves back every decade or so to remind them whose vassals they were?
Oops, meant to link Mr Marazzo’s tweet so you can check him out for yourself. Odd that putting in ‘Tom Marazzo twitter’ into DDG (which uses MS Bing) gets no hits unless you force it by putting in the actual TomM71190988 tag.
Guess this means no more russian vodka?
Back on my European gas hub screen.
Some of the German hubs are now starting to not flash, more like a throbbing red.
This is not part of Bloomberg I’m entirely familiar with.
But I’m pretty sure a throbbing red icon when it comes to gas hubs isn’t a good thing.
I’m not saying it’s like Die Hard 4.0.
But I wouldn’t want to be short energy in Europe at the moment.
As KGB he wouldn’t have done boxing but Systema. Those chubby Russian guys look flabby but are hard underneath, very hard. Judo and jujitsu are very hard on your body. Most exponents of other martial arts don’t usually go to Judo as they don’t like the closeness or the hardness. I was doing MMA before it was a thing by about 25 years.
War in Ukraine.
Wheat, barley and oilseed prices spike up worldwide.
Canola could hit the $1,000 tonne level and here’s me with the crop unsold.
Mercenaries don’t necessarily carry guns.
All there on the page. Facts sorted, despite every pro-Left, pro-Russian and other edit that can be applied.
And here it is on Infogalactic.
Plus the Nuff-Nuff friendly edit that claims it was actually MH370 that was shot down over the Ukraine for you and your fellow crayon-snorters and COBRA-Catastropharians.
Micheal Weiss tweeting the developing situation in the Ukraine
Notice, the more hours provided of what happened on the ground, live, the more the propagandists repeat the bullshit that everyone has to repeat or get branded ‘evil’.
It’s old and tired.
If only we had a smart government which could mobilise our mineral and agricultural and energy advantages at this time.
It’s on the table. If you will the ends, you will the means.
So does this mean Anna Kournikova isn’t coming?
And that was from their base. He could have carried her there quicker.
Putin in Ukraine is biden’s fault:
Email Hidden for 5 Years Declared Hunter Biden ‘Undercut’ US Efforts to Fight Ukraine Corruption
Why did Trudeau suddenly walk back the Emergencies Act?
I was just listening to a Canadian economist on a talk show strongly opine that it was because the run on the banks when the whole account freezing fiasco was announced was freaking huge and scared the living hell out of them (the banks and the govt).
From what he said the money isn’t exactly flooding back into their coffers either. It’s going to take a while to rebuild trust and much of that money is never coming back.
If your oil content is over the usual 43% benchmark and you have clean, dry seed that hasn’t sprouted, you could make a killing. Crushing plants have a lot of trash right now.
Roll up for 1200 AUD/tonne cash prices???
But Putin can still offset his military’s carbon emissions with his credits surely?
You’d be living in America, early 2018.
apparently Biden has hit out with a claim this is ‘premeditated war’.
‘Spur of the moment’ war is acceptable?
Early this evening has been newcatallaxy at its best.
May it continue.
ZK2A:
Which is quite correct. The Geneva Convention gives no rights to people who dress as civilians and kill enemy soldiers.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes, ZK2A. Especially when you target SS units rushing to to Normandy to repel an invasion.
Is a Bloomberg like a Dirty Sanchez? It all sounds sick and sexual, you traders are rutting gimps.
What’s to stop Trudeau making cash payments over $10 illegal.
India did it a few years ago.
I think that’s where this is going.
Nahh, its like when we were kids. You’re walking into it! You’re walking into it!
Rod Marsh is going on 75, but was he up to date with his Vaccines?
Going to watch Sky tonight. I imagine it’s going to be sophomoric in excelsis. Looking through Twitter and people talking about the fight for ‘liberal democracy’. People, please. Learn from the last 20 years at the very least.
If your oil content is over the usual 43% benchmark and you have clean, dry seed that hasn’t sprouted, you could make a killing. Crushing plants have a lot of trash right now.
45% and perfect.
make a killing
I won’t be using that term for a war windfall if you don’t mind Dot.
Crime[a] of Passion, methinks…
#SomebodySlapThatMan
I don’t know if it’s apocryphal, but I read soemwhere that “bank run” was trending on Google in Canada after the freeze was announced.
All very well Winston.
You don’t think French resistance fighters had any moral grounds to take up arms against the German invaders?
The Geneva Convention had nothing to say about Nazi reprisals against the villagers of Ordadour-sur-Glane either I suppose.
See upthread, dover.
Western elites, including the media, are the last ones who’ll realise what’s happening to their “liberal democracy”.
It’s the old saying, whenever there’s a revolution about to happen, there’s always someone hosting a tea party.
Bolt.
Russia Russia Russia!
China China China!
Axis of evil.
Nazi reference.
Get this Dutchman a gun and a parachute.
Has there been a little civil war going on on Eastern Ukraine with some incursions into Russia for many years, as per the Washington Post article or did Putin just make that up?
Runnybum – all that is very well known by Cats. It was a Buk unit from Russia in LGM drag, with a colonel who was caught on phone actually ordering the shot then going oh shit afterwards. Whereupon they skedaddled back over the border.
MH17 crash: Russian general accused of authorising transfer of missile that downed passenger jet (Apr 2020)
That’s one of the first hits I get. It has many of the essentials. It doesn’t mention that 3 days before the same unit or one like it shot down a Ukrainian Airforce transport jet at a similar height. So it was a case of mistaken identity. Not the Russians thought they were definitely Russia air defense troops “on holiday” so the reporting went at the time. Weird how you are allowed to take your Buk rocket launcher with you on your holidays.
Scummo just gave a speech!
“We shall vax in Ukraine, we shall vax on the seas and oceans, we shall vax with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island from the Kung Flu, whatever the cost may be, we shall vax on the beaches, we shall vax on the landing grounds, we shall vax in the fields and in the streets, we shall vax in the hills; we shall never stop vaxing!”
“Not the Russians thought” should be “Not the Russians though,”.
It’s not just that, Roger, it’s the inability to view a problem outside of our ideological blinkers. This situation has nothing to do with ‘liberal democracy’.
There’s nothing mercenary about it – there were all those years when the price of grain barely covered the cost of production, and all the howler monkeys thought it immoral that you shoild make a profit out of providing the food that fed them and their useless offspring.
What has happened to the NT?
canbra pubes and lezos
Russia has liberated Ukraine from globalist occupation today. Great day for Ukraine and freedom!
The French Resistance were all communists, Sancho.
As a matter of fact, quite a few of them were hiding out from Franco, who was keen to have a quiet word with them over atrocities committed against Priests and Nuns during the Civil War.
Bloomberg is awesome for doing data extracts that you then feed into other software.
Then when something like this happens & you never know what you can find.
A while back I was fascinated with tracking ships during their time in Port Hedland.
I suspect Putin made that up because he’s claiming today that he’s “denazifying” Ukraine. Which is amusing since the guy acting most like a Nazi is him.
The Russian propaganda overnight is quite funny and rather over the top.
Bolt.
Russia Russia Russia!
China China China!
Axis of evil.
Nazi reference.
Get this Dutchman a gun and a parachute.
oh gawd- yes these people are great on others going into fight
Within the last week Russian border guards engaged and destroyed Ukrainian armored vehicles inside Russia. Can’t find the article where I saw it mentioned unfortunately.
LOL. Everyone in France was a ‘freedom fighter’ after the war. During the war, most frogs were compliant cowards just like we see here in Oz.
Stolen.
If you count the Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts as Russian territory (A thing Putin did post-facto before the first units officially moved in), then that claim would likely be accurate.
Tit-for-tat skirmishes and raids between Ukrainian Army and what-look-like-but-actually-turn-out-not-to-be-separatist-militia subunits could be interpreted as attacks on Russia, too.
Or Japan.
I dare say Putin wouldn’t say that.
Be that as it may, see my comment upthread about Fukuyama and the end of history for context.
Heh. It seems we are all ‘Nazis’ now.
Well, there is this lot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Battalion
Oh yeah, the Japs guzzled the Kool-Aid back in those days.
Only the Maquis, Grigory.
And they were, for the most part, more interested in murdering any and all potential post-war competition than they were fighting Germans.
nice one KD
Choo choo man, no FDR, no CVR, just Wikipedia …you have convinced me.
Back to driving the train….CHOO CHOO.
The “Nazi” thing is an even stronger propaganda buzzword there than it is to us who hear it hourly.
The cultural memories of The Great Patriotic War are still very strong, and a very useful unifier.
I don’t care what Putin does in the east of Ukraine.
Basically the areas that voted for independence a few years back.
And then if he goes further west, we’ll clime that hill of skulls when it happens.
Dover, at 5.37:
You know, it might just be that the territorial settlement of Ukraine following the collapse of the USSR was simply not fit for purpose. It was before then more a administrative unit rather than a political one; majorities in the East and Crimean peninsula never wanted to be part of an independent Ukraine.
Ukraine never, ever had a solid border. The closest they had to one was when the Blue Horde had the patch in the 13th century. Before that it was the ebbing and flowing Rus. I think it was also off and on with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth for a time.
Like Poland, its geographical position meant its borders changed according to whoever was strongest at the time. Like the Balfour Declaration, the latest was an administrative settlement which never pleased everyone, and whoever drew the map no doubt thought ‘Fuck it, that’ll do’ knowing that by the time serious territory disputes happened they’d either be dead or have moved to a juicy sinecure somewhere.
Blockquotes.
I’m blockquote-intolerant.
Propaganda but based on some truth. The US has been funding Ukrainian neo-Nazi militias under various auspices since its omnibus Bill funding Ukraine, 2014. And people in that part of the world have long memories.
If you listen closely you can still hear the ‘whoosh’.
LOL. What invasion? Are the media blowing smoke up our asses again?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJVeEF7o8Eg
so the Soviets were peacefully minding their own business when the evil USA came along with their missiles? No thoughts by the Soviets of undermining the West and enslaving their populations, like the millions of own citizens they murdered?
Watch the short vid. He is dead right.
We still have the vote. If all fails on election day then we just have to realise that the nation is stuffed and make do with what you can into the future.
Tropical Cyclone Advice No. 2 from the BOM.
Look at that pissant little thing.
Just look at it. An embarrassment.
Poor, lazy little incompetent and his lazy, incompetent and ignorant anklebiting.
A Cockpit Voice Recorder will not record crew warnings and audible missile alerts in a civilian airliner. Because airliners are not fitted with Radar Warning Receivers like military aircraft are.
And what would a Flight Data Recorder tell you? The plane was flying straight and level until it suddenly was not?
Not everything is as easy as saying the J**s run all central banks because you once watched a youtube video.
Keep snorting those crayons. SNOO SNOO!
More a Cleveland Steamer I would say.
FMD. Terry McCrann on the teev.
He looks like the Red Wiggle, circa 2070.
Rogersays:
February 24, 2022 at 7:24 pm
…..The US has been funding Ukrainian neo-Nazi militias under various auspices since its omnibus Bill funding Ukraine, 2014. And people in that part of the world have long memories.
Barry sure had a deft touch in foreign policy matters, didn’t he.
Lucky he had that VP who was the shrewdest most experienced foreign policy strategist in Washington DC – remember that guy…?
I was going to make that point Will, but that topic is a bit of a distraction atm.
The technological gap and lack of friends was something that really grated on Moscow. Right up to the point where Fidel Castro’s Revolution in Cuba succeeded.
I can only pray that they use the correct gender pronouns and have a ceasefire for gay pride week.
Choo choo man, you really are a fucking dumb shite, I never said the dues are in charge of central banks I said our governments aren’t in charge of them, how stupid can you get?
Regarding MH17, the info on those recordings is very important so just ask yourself why it has not been released in its entirety.
You should just drive trains & shut the fuck up.
Haha haha ha.
UAP ad on the teev. I hadn’t seen it.
Footage of Reagan saying ‘Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.’
Cut to map of Australia with a wall down the WA border. Voiceover:
‘Mr. McGowan, tear down this wall.’
That’s it. Brilliant.
It’s the little cyclone that could.
That would be the same Mearsheimer (and Walt) that put out that tendentious anti Israel thing in the early oughts that caused such a stink. Not that means he is wrong about this.
Was pointing it out more as there is nothing so black and white in history as people tend to treat it. The Soviet union was absolutely a totalitarian state, but how anyone acts is always going to take into account more than is often recorded. It’s only a couple of decades before that the USA was supply vast amounts of material to the same government for example.
You mean the bloke up to his neck in dealings in the Ukraine?
Runnybird’s had half a Dark and Stormy.
He’ll peak in 20 minutes, then it’s nap time.
Ed Casesays:
February 24, 2022 at 6:54 pm
From what he said the money isn’t exactly flooding back into their coffers either. It’s going to take a while to rebuild trust and much of that money is never coming back.
What’s to stop Trudeau making cash payments over $10 illegal.
India did it a few years ago.
I think that’s where this is going.
If he thought the truckers were upset, wait till he tries that one!
We are not short of literal Russian and Chinese disinfo guys.
Poor blog.
Knob dragger, go suck choo choo man’s willy.
Check your email.
The original Wiggles have got the band back together and are on tour with an adults only set. Quite raunchy on occasion according to the PR.
I seem to have upset the anklebiter.
Was it the crayons? I understand that folks with the habit are a little sensitive about it…
Settle, petal, it’s just Sancho again.
You’re concern is touching.
Glowie confirmed.
Just not one of ours…
Choo choo man, again show me proof the Australian government (taxpayers) own the RBA.
GO!
I dunno, KD. That sounds like premature capitulation to me.
I think you can get a spray on the Internet for that…
Ed Casesays:
February 24, 2022 at 7:12 pm
You don’t think French resistance fighters had any moral grounds to take up arms against the German invaders?
The French Resistance were all communists, Sancho.
You’re a bit dozey tonight, Dick Ed. It was rosie who made that comment.
Why? Would it contradict the Protocol?
Wheat, barley and oilseed prices spike up worldwide.
Canola could hit the $1,000 tonne level and here’s me with the crop unsold.
And you all laughed when I said China was keeping its fertilizer for domestic consumption in anticipation of the Ukraine copping a flogging.
https://gro-intelligence.com/insights/russia-move-on-ukraine-spurs-wheat-prices-higher
Much will hinge on Western sanctions against Russia, which could be more severe than those imposed in 2014. Russia and Ukraine combined produce 14% of global wheat and supply 29% of all wheat exports. They also provide 17% of worldwide exports of corn. The two countries play a dominant role in world sunflower oil supplies, shipping 76% of exports. Worldwide shortages have pushed a wide range of vegetable oil prices higher, and Black Sea sunflower oil futures are up 11% so far this year.
…
A strong harvest would be good news for global wheat supplies, which are at their lowest level since 2013.
China hoarding super.
https://norgemining.com/2021/10/18/fertiliser-price-squeeze-china-halts-phosphate-exports/#:~:text=Some%20of%20China's%20major%20fertiliser,therefore%20the%20country's%20food%20production.
Some of China’s major fertiliser companies say they’re temporarily banning the export of phosphate – a major component of commercial fertiliser – until at least June 2022. The reason behind this move is no secret: to ensure the domestic supply of fertilisers and therefore the country’s food production.
Russia supplies a fair bit as well.
https://gro-intelligence.com/insights/russia-fertilizer-export-quotas-to-control-inflation
Russia announced plans to impose export quotas on nitrogen fertilizers to ensure domestic supplies and contain price inflation. The move could further support surging fertilizer prices worldwide and tighten global fertilizer markets already searching for supply.
Russia’s announcement is the country’s latest effort to keep domestic agricultural prices in check, after taxes on wheat exports were introduced earlier this year.
Russia plans to impose a six-month quota on various fertilizer exports. Nitrogen fertilizer exports will be limited to 5.9 million tonnes and shipments of complex fertilizers containing nitrogen to 5.35 million tonnes. The measures will begin in December.
Why a person might almost think the 2 countries had planned this sort of thing….
You can’t show that info choo choo man can you?
So all you have is to throw childish insults at me you pathetic pos & have your little gang back you up.
What a fuckin wander, no wonder your greatest achievement in life is to drive a train.
It’s not all that ordnance being chucked about which is imperilling Ukrainian lives.
The Ukrainian lessons for Australia are thus:
1. Nuclear armed nations do not get invaded.
2. Ukraine should have not given up their nukes.
3. Clinton actually implemented this as a peace initiative.
You really didn’t like being mocked about the crayons, did you?
Excellent… 🙂
Yeah, if we ever get out of the hole this country’s in, there will have been 15 million of us in Canberra that glorious day!
Knobhead is right in one regard, I can’t be arse with this place after 7pm Brisbane time.
Bluey
but how anyone acts is always going to take into account more than is often recorded.
Something worth remembering about government records and archives is that much that was important was never recorded, while much that was recorded was not important.
On CPR, the Poms retained most of their red phone boxes and installed defibs which appears to be a superior use of public funds than is often the case.
Unfortunately, in the great nation of Australia they would probably be vandalised.
What chance do you imagine there is that our illustrious leaders have been planning on ways to account for the supply chain issues that have come to the fore in the last two years. They have had a while now to get onto it.
Oh that was ed.
No doubt the foundation of the Marquis was communist and in the south yes probably some Spanish Republicans, some of whom, incidentally, joined the French Army and got a very raw deal when the French capitulated but as the Germans turned the screws on the French
especially when they started forcing young Frenchmen to go work in Germany things changed.
Only you find something in crayons that nobody else can decipher….you need help.
The Ukrainian lessons for Australia are thus:
4. The world is now multipolar. Bush’s New World Order is no more.
5. We can’t rely on the US to underwrite our security indefinitely.
6. The dominance of liberal democracy post the Cold War can no longer be assumed.
Must be an election coming, was robopoll called an hour ago. Clunk goes the phone handset, once I worked out what it was about. Getting any meaningful data out of robopolling must be impossible. Who wants to talk to a computer?
Still bipolar. Russia/China vs the West. Main issue is the subversion of the West.
Russia did a huuuge energy deal with China last week as I recall. And has been building pipelines.
Nothing to decipher about your predilection for snorting them, Dribbles.
It’s reflected in everything you post.
That sounds like a flounce! 😀
Can I get the Judging Committee to the box, please?
KD, apart from the wind shear it is in some very good conditions to develop if it doesn’t make landfall first. Unfortunately there’s one trying to get going west of Weipa as well in a marginally less favourable environment. Like the whole season the monsoon hasn’t been particularly strong when it has dipped into our neck of the woods so one of these systems will probably wash out and the BOM thinks it will be the Queensland one at the moment.
Season is already transitioning here in NQ, some crisp nights but daytimes are still oppressive. I’d say any action will be in the Cape/Top End region now on.
So where are the Ukrainian refugees going to?
Russia and China are natural allies as both are now conventionally fascist. Slight differences since China came to fascism from communism whereas Russia came to fascism from a corrupt oligachy. So China is solider since the Party forms a strong base. Putin has been building his own Party as a base, it’s just not very solid.
The interesting thing is the West is also going fascist but with a mystical flavour that puts it in natural conflict with Russia/China. Maybe it would be better to call the West an emerging Gaia-version of Islam. Islam also has strong fascist features, but it too is in natural conflict with Russia/China.
The religiopolitical dynamics are fascinating, but I wish I wasn’t living in “interesting times” like these seem to be.
The US Indo-Pacific Strategy suggests they already realise that’s not the case and won’t be “going forward.” They’re calling on the rising regional middle power India to step up against China.
Australia has promised to expedite visa applications.
One of the few constructive things we can do.
Every cloud …
650,000 young Frenchmen forced to go to work in Germany, plus 250,000 Prisoners of war.
EU of course. Which will be very interesting since they’re the sort of refugees the EU doesn’t want.
Poland has been building a wall with Belarus because of the latter’s migrant invasion tactics. I would not be surprised if the EC suddenly decides they need to build a wall on the Romanian border.
a professional would have shot-gunned the whole can
Let’s place bets on the real issues:
1 When the chunks make a move on Taiwan
2 Iran gets the bomb
Dutch Safety Board Report on Investigation of Crash of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17
There is a massive amount of information in there which shoots down most of the conspiracy claims on this topic. Yes, there are even the transcripts of the air traffic controllers for those particularly hung up on that for some reason.
Runnybumsays:
February 24, 2022 at 7:33 pm
Choo choo man, you really are a fucking dumb shite, I never said the dues are in charge of central banks I said our governments aren’t in charge of them, how stupid can you get?
The Reserve Bank is totally under the control of the Commonwealth, since it is established by Act of Parliament and can thus have anything done to it that Parliament directs.
If you mean that the Executive Government isn’t in charge of the Bank, I’d say that’s at least an oversimplification since, among other things, the Treasurer is in control of the Bank’s profits and appointments to the Bank’s Board.
The fact that governments at least pretend to let the Bank be “independent” (and the Bank often does act that way) doesn’t change the fact that the government does have ultimate control.
Reserve Bank Act 1959
…
14 Membership of Reserve Bank Board
(1) The Reserve Bank Board shall consist of:
(a) the Governor;
(b) the Deputy Governor;
(c) the Secretary to the Department of the Treasury; and
(d) 6 other members, who shall be appointed in writing by the Treasurer in accordance with this section.
….
30 Profits
(1) Subject to subsection (2), the net profits of the Bank in each year shall be dealt with as follows:
(aa) such amount as the Treasurer, after consultation with the Reserve Bank Board, determines is to be set aside for contingencies; and
(a) such amount as the Treasurer, after consultation with the Reserve Bank Board, determines shall be placed to the credit of the Reserve Bank Reserve Fund; and
(b) the remainder shall be paid to the Commonwealth.
Chickens coming home to roost.
https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/other-industries/australian-building-giant-probuild-collapses-after-racking-up-losses/news-story/29cc4dccaca23d8bebdf51997b75d8e8
Plus seventeen more large construction businesses…all gone under now.
Russia and India also cooperate together.
It seems the threat of war is good news for goldbugs.
Spot price up 2.6% overnight to A$2670 per TOz.
Hold.
Tim
You illiterate clown.
You must have failed legislative interpretation a few times.
The Commonwealth means Jews, you idiot.
Anyone have any good links to the Russian moves into Ukraine.
A lot of dross in MSM and a lot of rehashing what we already know. So far very light on where they have crossed the border and where they are pushing to.
So far what makes sense, Russian cruise missile attacks on airstrips, ammunition storages and naval assets.
Fakebook tells me there are 100,000 temp jobs with the Electoral Commission for the upcoming federal vote.
I wonder if unvaxxed need apply?
Who gets invaded first?
Taiwan or Ukraine?
safe and effective
Probuild a victim of Andrew’s stupidity.
Entirely predictable.
And then he decided a super tax on building would be a grand idea.
Golden goose killer.
It not an invasion if the land was already theirs in the first place.
I am wondering if my upcoming Novavax vaccinations will give me more electoral votes than unvaccinated Australians?
Medical apartheid! Progress!
I used to be angry; now I am forlorn.
Typical slimy LWNJ. He has run out of other people money due to his greed and failures. Now looking for some quick cash.
One shot = one vote dot.
Fascinating to see the considered opinions here of people who a year ago wouldn’t have been able to find the Ukraine on a map – and many of them still couldn’t.
What is it about some people that the slightest prospect of war gets them hard in the groin?
The amount of confected outrage on both sides with the MSM beating the eggs up to meriunge status does not bode well for rational discussion.
It’s a feature, not a bug.
So the Welsh can take over England and deanglicise them and otherwise boot them back to Anglen, Jutland, Saxony & Norway?
Razey, are you an Aboriginal supremacist? Do you think non-aboriginal Australians should be deported?
And yet Australia is having a baby boom.
We’ll dibs the pretty ones, right Dot? 😉
The current geopolitical alignment is remarkably similar to the Cold War. The difference is that now China and Russia are fascist not communist. India is still neutral with a tendency towards Russia, just as they were during the cold war regarding the Soviets.
China and Russia are not entirely bosom buddies, but they weren’t during the Cold War either. They are however much closer to each other than with anyone else (other than Iran and the Norks).
The difference now is the West has gone gangrenous, so it’s rather like 1938, but with Russia and China instead of Germany and Japan. Will be interesting to see if the West cracks out of its funk. Unfortunately I think 80 years of Fabian subversion is terminal, particularly with the crazy woke and green fads now undermining everything.
Probuild’s current list of projects include the Victorian Police headquarters, which is 46 levels high, pharmaceutical giant CSL’s global headquarters in Melbourne, the Exchange at Curtin University, alongside the Greenland Centre, which is Sydney’s tallest residential building.
It’s beautifully poetic.
Dan’s fucked up the Cop Colosseum.
That’s not pleasant.
No war, thank you. A ceasefire and settlement ASAP is what I hope for.
Furthermore, it has got not much to do with us. Australia being involved would be insane.
Any potential conflict between the major powers is literally a threat to human survival.
This might turn very bad for Putin. Losing a guerrilla war and being actually unpopular with hailed dissenters is not a position of strength.
Putin may well end up before a firing squad.
Israeli elections could have a carnival like atmosphere.
g a o l e d dissenters
6. The dominance of liberal democracy post the Cold War can no longer be assumed.
Which liberal democracies are you talking about? I can’t think of any.
Childish insults.
Choo Choo man.
You be the JURDGE.
Jack Posobiec ??@JackPosobiec ·5h
Driving China and Russia together will be seen as one of the largest foreign-policy blunders in history
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Johanna – We’ve been talking about the Holodomor for about forever and Grigory had the Don Cossack flag for his icon for a very long time. Much discussion over the years about the Ukrainians in the German SS and Wehrmacht (which is somewhat understandable in light of the previous decade). Add in that many of us have read histories of those specific areas going back a lot of years. I certainly have and I know likewise Zulu and Roger have read much more than me. I suspect you’ll find more well prepared people on this blog than almost anywhere.
This insult has no standing. 🙂
Well.
That is good to know.
A wonder what they would of made of Robert ‘Bones’ McGhie from Richmond FC. He liked a durry and a beer.
A shower of rain here, and now the cicadas are chirruping like mad. That, and the cricket, are the sounds of summer in my Australia.
Bruce, cut the crap. That you or others on this obscure blog cared about the Ukraine years ago (which I doubt) has nothing to do with the worldwide confected outrage that we are seeing, coming out of nothing.
Seems unlikely Dot. Reports are that Russia has landed troops at at least two Ukrainian Black Sea ports, which I think implies the Ukrainian Navy no longer exists. Plus bombing Kiev, and apparently landing paratroops at the airport, is a serious indication that this is for all the marbles.
Bob Hawke lied about sending forces to Gulf War
What?! A politician lying?!
Holodomor
Up to 8 million people. I cannot bring my self to watch the clips on youtube and by means that give vivid descriptions.
He was on Nein news pleading “Nuffink to do wiv me”.
But the words didn’t match the body language.
He was flustered.
You could almost smell it running down his leg.
Yeah, but there were only 18 cells in solitary….. So that leaves 17
Speedbox’s considered opinion not good enough?
I don’t pretend to know much about the current situation in the Ukraine* but I am interested, not that what any of us think or say about any issue likely makes a whit of difference to what happens in the world but has never stopped us.
*I’m pretty sure I’ve flown over it once or twice.
It’s beautifully poetic.
Dan’s fucked up the Cop Colosseum.
Nicely put.
With Andrews it’s Cain-mother Russia redux- only worse this time. Just as predicted.
“The Ukrainian lessons for Australia are thus:
1. Nuclear armed nations do not get invaded.
2. Ukraine should have not given up their nukes.
3. Clinton actually implemented this as a peace initiative.”
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Yeah, the same way Clintons implemented “peace” in Yugoslavia & Libya.
Not crap Johanna, I am just pointing out that there are many very well read people on this blog (as an extension of the original Cat).
That they take different sides is fine. There is good reason to be on one or the other just as the guys in the US Civil War chose one or other side. There’s a lot of complex history in this, but really it comes down to one man, who is getting old. He’s rolling the dice.
Unfortunately like Bel Riose in Foundation (ie. Belisarius in Justinian’s Empire), one man has a limit to what he can do. There’s a bit of truth in “psychohistory”, or perhaps better described as societal and cultural inevitability. Once Putin is gone I suspect Russia will collapse again. The place is too corrupt, and just doesn’t have the institutional strength to maintain an empire.
I thought that the first mention of the Rus was a reference to the Rus Vikings who were in Sweden before venturing east. They were the only Viking group who sailed east, all other Viking groups, from Sweden, Norway and Denmark, sailed west. The Rus Vikings traveled fairly widely, they were a mercenary force in Constantinople for example, so they may have sojourned for a while on the Dneiper in the Kiev region, en route from the Baltic to Constantinople.
I’ve got my own pet totally unproven theory regarding their origins, I think that they are Canaanites. There is a mention, possibly in Books of Chronicles, that the Canaanites still living in the Land partnered with the Assyrians when they expelled the northern tribes of Israel. Some were taken by sea to various places and that quite possibly included the Baltic to work in the amber trade.
The Israelites and the Canaanites previously had a good relationship, together they created the Phoenician Empire which dominated the Mediterranean, however they allied themselves with the Assyrians and played a role in the dispersal of the northern Israelites when they were expelled from the Land.
I suspect that they were overthrown by their Israelite captives in Sweden, so they sailed away to the east, and entered recorded history as the Rus Vikings.
Is it possible to prove or disprove this theory, possibly so. We know that the Canaanites who left when Joshua came into the Land migrated to northern Africa and their descendants are now known as the Berber people in north-western Africa. I’ve wondered if there is a DNA relationship between the Berbers and the Russian descendants of the Rus.
It would be hard to prove though as Russia has such a diverse ethnic mix, the Rus mingled with the Slavs, central and far eastern Asian people, Georgians and others from the Caucuses,people from the ‘stan states, eastern Europeans, etc., it would be difficult to identify who is an actual Rus descendant.
That’s probably one of those questions we won’t have answered this side of the River Styx.
The whole thing is bizarre. Western lefties are supporting right wing militias and calling Putin a commie, misreading his name ala “Sadam” vs “Saddam” in the 1991 Gulf War. Alt righties supporting Putin save for his policies on taxes and private land ownership, he’d ban them and gaol them. Finally, the nationalists against globalism don’t want an independent Ukraine?
Another thing to think about is how the 1991 referendum was strongly for independence, but the east of Ukraine is now pro Russian? I can’t get over Ukraine handing over their nukes (1994) at the behest of the husband of the woman hated by the alt right for interference in making the Ukraine pro western!
Finally, Ukraine is very poor and corrupt – Russia might clean it up. Ironically, Timoshenko, who Russia targeted and accused of mismanagement, had an excellent economic record.
Mind boggling.
In his later years as a musician my husband worked Saturday nights at the Ukranian club at Cabramatta. I attended a few functions and Christmas parties there. Always for me a pleasant evening. Everyone was exceptionally friendly and the food was especially good.
My husband being Dutch born and having come to Aus when he was 22yrs fitted in well with the Ukranians. Everyone there treated me as one of their own. I was very impressed.
rosiesays:
February 24, 2022 at 8:45 pm
And yet Australia is having a baby boom.
Precisely! All the Catholic chicks on the rhythm method have been stooged by the vaxx.
You KNOW it makes sense!
Is Probuild another Josh Friedeggburger triumph?
Please no- one regard my idle speculation on the fight as well informed.
Vlads a clever turd.
The EU and US have been busy playing in what he considers his backyard and forgetting clever talk counts for bugger all when the fighting starts.
Rosie:
Then don a uniform like the rules say, rosie and don’t hide behind your civvie mates.
The Geneva Convention had a lot to say about the atrocity.
Postwar efforts to bring the SS men to trial were hampered by the difficulty of locating and identifying the Germans, many of whom had been subsequently killed in action, and by legal complications. Finally, in 1953, 21 of the 200 SS men were brought to trial. All but one were convicted; five of them received terms of imprisonment and two were executed.
We may not like the outcome, but it’s what happens when civilians get carried away by speech makers who don’t give a shit about the reality of the strife they arouse.
“Aux armes, citoyens!” makes for good movies, – the result is Lidice and Oradour-sur-Glane, and countless other villages.
Why not? I demand right of return.
johannasays:
February 24, 2022 at 8:44 pm
Fascinating to see the considered opinions here of people who a year ago wouldn’t have been able to find the Ukraine on a map – and many of them still couldn’t.
then…
johannasays:
February 24, 2022 at 9:06 pm
A shower of rain here, and now the cicadas are chirruping like mad. That, and the cricket, are the sounds of summer in my Australia.
Bruce, cut the crap. That you or others on this obscure blog cared about the Ukraine years ago (which I doubt) has nothing to do with the worldwide confected outrage that we are seeing, coming out of nothing.
The merry sounds of goalposts being shifted are part of any season here on the Cat.
And johanna, it’s poor form to “doubt” another commenter’s veracity unless you’ve got some evidence.
It could get really freaking ugly commodity wise. Russia is a very large wheat producer and so is Ukraine. Take them out because of sanctions and it could get ugly. Russia is also a significant fertilizer producer.
The New York Times has endorsed the notion that JK Rowling’s supposedly retrograde bio-essentialism is not merely unfashionable – it makes her very existence regrettable.– I despise what the western world has become. The old thief in DC symbolizes it perfectly
Unsure about Paratroopers in Kiev but they have definitely jumped into Khakov. Was massive by the looks of the footage. Also another video of Kamovs and Mil Mi’s of some sort flying in formation near Russia’s border towards Eastern Ukraine. Other footage has T90’s on the move in the same regions, all boots on ground seems to be in the eastern regions, at present. Some footage of low flying passes by aircraft in formation in an unnamed city but with the ground based missile threat why would you over Kiev, could be old footage. Missiles are coming down all over the country on strategic assets similar to when the US softens up it targets with Tomahawks. I’ll look at it again in the morning as all the footage I have found on twitter is getting very repetitive at present.
Night all. Look in to what you guys dig up over night tomorrow.
To be honest, Probuild isn’t down to any politician.
Not ScoMo, not Andrews, not Josh.
As I understand it they were bidding fixed price with thin margins on risky projects.
Grollo went the same way a while ago.
The die was cast before Kung Flu.
Crude oil just cracked the $US 100 mark’
Gold and silver up 5% and climbing hourly.
The reading of the entrails of a sacrificial goat do not portend good times.
ROFL. Russia is corrupt from top to bottom. Cleaning up Ukraine is a hilarious idea. Oh yes Putin will want to install a friendly like Yanakovich again, who was kicked out because he was totally corrupt as well as being a Russophile from the east.
Dot – a lot of Ukrainians hate Russians as badly as Tutsis hate Hutus, for pretty much the same reasons. Yes a division into a cultural Russian east and a cultural Ukrainian west is potentially possible, but Russia actually reintegrating Ukraine into a reborn Tsarist Empire is a different ask in the time of the AK-47. If Putin tries it may get messy. At least one grandmother was waving an AK around last week in Kiev. I think she’d just love a piece of a Russian.
Old Bloke:
The US had the vote too.
I think I see the problem
This is the big one.
Who else produces fertilizer in big quantities.
Saudi?
Canadia?
Who?
It’s a relative thing (but yes, read without any context, that’s actually very funny). Australia is quite corrupt, but we are saintly compared to India…and no, this isn’t analogous to different states of the former USSR.
Neither Yugoslavia nor Libya had nuclear weapons, Faulty 2.0…
Bullshit Brucie. There is no reason to be supporting Russia over this. And the idea that someone would support Russia/Putin because of the unacceptable nature of the western left is mind boggling. Putin is a piece of shit and always has been. He’s enriched himself to the extent that he’s now the richest man in the world by thieving off his own people – allowing the oligarchs to front for him.
Canada and Morocco, I believe.
I wonder if you need to be enrolled to vote.
Which is why I reckon Putes might be setting himself up for failure and a firing squad. I don’t even know if this “Russian east” thing is true. Look back at the 1991 referendum.
Gold is straight to the moon along with Peter Schiffs hardon.
Tonight Chris Kenny started his programme by talking about Wussia, Wussia, Wussia…but, but Kenny clearly understands some of the related issues here. He acknowledges the west is weak and corrupt. Kenny showed a recent Russian army recruitment advertisement and compared to a recent woke, very woke US army recruitment advertisement. The advertisements say it all.
Oh and many of us could easily find Ukraine on a map and many of us know its history. I know some of its history, and I know about its Jewish history, a history of pogroms and genocide but also a rich cultural Jewish history. Kiev is the spiritual centre of Russian orthodoxy. Once upon a time Ukraine was part of the Commonwealth of Lithuania and later it formed part of the Pale of Settlement, both of which stretched from the Baltic to the Black Sea.
Was talking to a builder mate today and we had both seen that.
And I will bet there was a bit of heavy lifting in the Creative Department to get it from -100 to +4.
Margin of 0.3% when it should be 15% on their projects.
The Brisbane high-rise is 65% complete you say?
I reckon it might be 72%.
Learning curve … embedded value in services instal … yada yada.
Thanks for the commentary, Cats.
Here’s the thing I think some have misunderstood about the Brandon Administration. I’m not sure where the cut off level is that would make the Brandons concerned because of the electoral impact. The Brandons would have welcomed higher fossil fuel prices because it meant more pain through consumption and hopefully persuading folks towards EVs.
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