Still waiting to hear if https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kash_Patel#Post-government_career gets a guernsey in Trump’s cabinet. Wasn’t he touted not long ago as favourite…
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Very cynical, Wally. 🙂
Sancho, absolutely. I expected better from my bilateral knee replacement. However, apart from the rehab in hospital, I wasn’t able…
accusing them of eating their patients Eating Fido? That’s terrible! Dog chow mein, yum.
I have been a journalist all my life. My instinct is that Hildebrand is being paid to be a political…
First?
Anyway…look at Australia pulling out the big sanction guns:
Dan Murphy’s, BWS to remove Russian-made products from shelves after invasion of Ukraine
LOL take that Russia!
It’s a good thing we don’t get all butthurt when China arbitrarily imposes steep tariffs on our wines, because if we did it might make us look like fucking hypocrites.
Goodbye Summer…
LOL take that Russia!
It’s great to see that new Australians from Ukraine have whole heartedly taken up our longstanding culture of victimhood and cancel culture. Here’s to them, cheers!
*Clink*
Russians have arrested a tranny journalist in the Ukraine!! That really is taking things too far, the ALPBC, Jacinda, Justin, Dan and Sleepy Joe will immediately declare war on Russia.
Is this a farmer towing away a Russian vehicle?
If they start saying Keeeev and spelling it ‘Kyiv’, then I’m going back to calling the country The Ukraine. Peripheral bumpkins.
Death by suicide…..Headstone reads….”I wanted to keep my job, so I got jabbed, but now the bastards won’t employ dead people.”
Fucking insanity.
Look at the mental gymnastics notafan is doing ,even tonight.
Look at the trouble she’s having living the lie, and living with her good Nazi behaviour.
It’s as obvious as tits on a bull.
She’s not well.
A few others around like that.
I have good friends who took the jabs early and now, after the information is flooding in, admit they made a big mistake. They are decent people.
I bring this up to state that even if you don’t go into deep psychotic over compensating delusion, you will have to live every day like they do……..never knowing.
Why do you think a few here get their knickers in a twist with my comments?
It’s not good to have in the back of your mind dot.
Seriously.
This o well come what may attitude isn’t the reality of your existence once jabbed and you can never go back.
Every day I am more sure I have done the right thing and everyone who’s had the jab regrets it, even if like stubborn notafan, she denies it.
It makes no sense.
And it plays on them.
Big time.
Always know I really tried to get you not to take it.
It has killed thousands and thousands of people.
This new one is still the same mrna crap.
Please do not take it.
Caving in to this shit is not healthy for your mind either………no matter if you fluke living on a few more years.
After all this, with all the evidence, and all the lack of testing etc. All the deaths and injury, besides it being your duty to not comply, you’re going to do this?
Postpone some more.
You don’t know what is around the corner.
You really are submitting to Karens?
Here
and here.
here
Go to bed Struth.
There is no audience for the King of Kastle Kenworth to perform to tonight.
#StunningAndBrave
Maybe the article I read claiming novavax did not submit their vaccine to foetal testing was correct, after all.
“Pressed about the study, a Novavax spokesperson said the company “did not use HEK-293 cells in the testing of NVX-CoV2373.”
The reference in the Science paper to HEK293 cells was based on well-established scientific knowledge, did not include our vaccine protein, and is completely independent of Novavax COVID-19 vaccine development,” the spokesperson said in a followup email.”
novavax not involved in foetal testing?
I have regrets I’m not aware of.
Now runnyruth is a qualified psychologist too.
Al jazeera on the ukraine negotiations
Jury’s still out on his horoscopic talents and fortune-telling ability.
His 14-44 month window of accuracy for predicting the deaths of every Cat he doesn’t like or doesn’t know took the stabs ranges between December 2022 and about June 2026.
Enough time to completely forget his original bullshit, and try to angrily dissemble and spin up an excuse to hide from the cringe when reminded…
I’m not sure Angoulême is a must do French stop over, but okay for a couple of nights, tomorrow I’m going to visit the paper and comic museums.
Like most French towns much that might have been wonderful to visit is missing, destroyed in this war or that, or pulled down by the vindictive perpetrators of the reign of terror.
Even in the 19th century a 13th castle was removed and replaced by a covered market, and much of the castle in which Marguerite of Angoulême was born demolished to create the hotel de ville.
Of course the homage to René Goscinny is entertaining. What a stroke of fortune his father’s work took them to Argentina in 1921.
Born to Polish Jewish migrants in Paris in 1921, his father from Warsaw, his mother from a small village outside Kiev.
René Goscinny wiki
It’s okay Rex I remember when he was claiming fifty percent of the vaccinated had already died.
Another great 2021 announcement by various people which has been quietly, quickly swept under the carpet.
It’s time to steal what was good about the nevertrumpers – the label – and appropriate it for new noble purposes.
#NeverShwabers.
Spread the word.
I’ll just pu this here
ooops putbut you knew that
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Warren Brown.
David Rowe.
Peter Schrank.
Christian Adams.
Steve Bright.
Brian Adcock.
A.F. Branco.
Gary Varvel.
Tom Stiglich.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
first round of talks concluded
I suppose this is goodbye.
Consider it a living wake.
A question for the moral ethicists: is what I am doing a form of assisted suicide?
Committees of we, the people may want to know in the future.
A reader asked about storing my genetic material.
Don’t worry, there’s fridges and jars full of that.
Just make sure you label it well dot.
Going out with a smile?
That’s good Garrison.
I reckon about 2% of the population will swallow that shit.
But 100% of the corporate media will be pushing it hard.
All of the sudden I just got religious.
Probably should go to confession one last time.
If you see a bright flash, start walking towards it. You won’t feel anymore pain.
Bat Flu contains a gene sequence patented by Moderna 3 years ago…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgy5maB5Mvo
Good heavens today’s Liberty Quotes are certainly apposite for humanity’s current travails:
Relatives and friends in the lower areas of Lismore and surrounding villages and hamlet like Coraki are being evacuated, Lismore is a disaster — a cousin who is a farmer in high ground above Lismore said she looked out when she could finally see more than just across the road – that below her it looked like a muddy ocean.
For the first time in the last 100 years the house I grew up and which is still owned by my family has gone under water. The property manager said the tenants have had to be evacuated to higher ground. Friends have had to move to the second floor of their home due to flooding and they have no power.
The roads are cut between Lismore and Casino and between my home town and surrounding areas – what’s a cubit again?
Dot, don’t worry about the jab.
Just remember, if you find yourself alone riding in green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled, for you are in Elysium and you’re already dead!
Today in “No Evidence of Election Fraud 2020” the Gateway Pundit has this:
Word on the Street Is Democrats and RINOs Will Use WaPo this Week in Effort to Discredit Experts Involved in Investigation of Pennsylvania Voting Machines
link
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Switzerland joins EU sanctions on Russian assets.
Russians in 2023 when sanctions are lifted: Hi can we get our money ?
Switzerland: What money?
Do the Russian’s that have Swiss bank accounts actually care about the sanctions when they can have the bankers families sanctioned. The Swiss have the morals of Oxford Street.
The ABC’s 7.30 Report to be hosted by Sara Ferguson?
As far as I was concerned it was already dead, but with Ferguson they’d be adding buried and cremated, to borrow Tony Abbott’s unfortunately awkward phrase.
Laura Tingle would be no better. David Speers, who we always suspected to be a fellow traveller of the collective, was the best candidate.
Tintarella di Lunasays:
March 1, 2022 at 5:52 am
A mate who lives at Ballina and has retired from NSW Ambulance (he worked at the Lismore sation), said the standard joke about Lismore is that ‘if everyone in Lismore flushed their crappers at the same time, the river would flood.’
Grrr…: station
Yep. Mrs Snowcone to do to 7:30 what hubby did to Lateline.
” The Swiss have the morals of Oxford Street.”
Yep.
“Tintarella di Lunasays:
March 1, 2022 at 5:52 am”
I’m sorry to hear Tinta….my thoughts are prayers are with you.
Not sure what happened with Tom but today’s Leak is one of his best. Maybe a cache issue?
One of the January 6th guys, who merely walked in an open door, stayed within the ropes and took a few photos, has after a year in custody given up hope and committed suicide.
Meanwhile, Pelosi has cancelled the Capitol mask mandate just in time for the State of The Union address, which will be another fake event. The union is disintegrating under the effects of far left Dem and weak RINO hammer blows.
There is a reason people live on flood plains. Ask the ancient Egyptians.
Dear Dover0beach
A comparison of excess mortality in the 0-44 age group for England and Wales:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/189200946@N04/51909445878/in/dateposted-public/
DP
Amazon cancels mask wearing for all its warehouse slaveforce.
COVID is over.
The polling really must be terrible.
While punters are getting plucked from the water, is it too soon to raise poor water management as an issue?
Has anyone told Sneakers? His focus group must happen later in the week.
ftb – wait for the inquiry. Please.
” The Swiss have the morals of Oxford Street.”
Talking about Oxford St, it must be getting close for Alphabet Brigade annual recruitment drive/march.
Another event to ignore. Along with ‘earth day.’
Don’t know if this link will work — Johannes Leak in today’s Australian
rickw says:
March 1, 2022 at 5:41 am
Bat Flu contains a gene sequence patented by Moderna 3 years ago…..
Remember the fuss about debil debil Monsanto patenting gene sequences for herbicide resistant GMO crops.
Big Pharma not a word.
For all those here who are obsessed with a far away war that has nothing to do with us. Here’s a list of the current wars around the world, quite a few are a lot closer to us than Ukraine. Perhaps you can obsess over a few of these.
https://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker/?category=us
Don’t know if this link will work — Johannes Leak in today’s Australian
Or try this one.
LIVE: Russia’s U.N. ambassador holds a briefing. It’s comical theatre, sadly.
https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1498380739217281026
My cousin and her husband just spent the night in their car at Clothiers Ck. So near home and yet so far – the Highway is cut. Poor buggers.
One of the January 6th guys, who merely walked in an open door, stayed within the ropes and took a few photos, has after a year in custody given up hope and committed suicide.
Meanwhile, Pelosi has cancelled the Capitol mask mandate just in time for the State of The Union address, which will be another fake event. The union is disintegrating under the effects of far left Dem and weak RINO hammer blows.
as I say, how is the US in its current incarnation any better than the USSR ?
Another month dawns upon the world.
Only 13 to 43 to go before something happens to some people.
I missed this news.
Remember all the coverage of Rio’s adventure in Mozambique & how ASIC was going to send a bunch of executives to jail.
Was settled after 4 years for a $750k fine & an admission of a minor breach.
Seriously, if you are a lawyer who is lucky enough to jag a contract with an Australian regulator (ASIC, AUSTRAC, APRA) you know you are in for a multi year, 7 figure per year deal & most likely you’ll never have to see inside a courtroom.
It’s a scam.
Reposted from the tail of the OOT, and from OSC’s John Nolte quote in Breitbart:
On point.
Again – too good for the back of the dead thread. Slackster at 12.20 overnight:
The concept of ‘phony war’, most recently practised in 1940 has been taken to the next level.
thanks for posting KD
feelthebern:
March 1, 2022 at 6:58 am
While punters are getting plucked from the water, is it too soon to raise poor water management as an issue?
Hmmmm…about that line of questioning.
From the Paywallian:
Hurricane Hedley Thomas descends on Palaszczuk
By Stephen Lunn
Annastacia Palaszczuk could be forgiven for doing a Laurel and Hardy-esque double take at her flood emergency press conference on Sunday.
Flanked by a phalanx of weather experts, emergency service heads and water boffins, the Queensland Premier would have felt well-prepared with the stats and data around the extent of the unfolding catastrophe and confident she could handle the usual press gallery pack.
That is until she saw the imposing presence of our own Hedley Thomas, multi-award winning investigative journalist and podcaster, in the room.
Thomas, with a deep history reporting on bureaucratic stuff-ups with Queensland dam releases and the terrible downstream flood impacts, wanted to know why – with such grave forecasts of extreme rainfall – the operators didn’t do a pre-flood release of dam water to give themselves more capacity for the incoming flood.
Thomas peppered Palaszczuk with questions about the limitations of the dam’s new operations manual, brought in after the 2011 man-made Brisbane flood disaster, which deems BOM weather forecasts insufficient information for dam operators to justify pre-emptive releases. Normally very happy to hold court, the Premier was quick to take a step back and to the side and put SEQWater’s Mike Foster in the Thomas firing line.
Hurricane Hedley continued the interrogation, breezily brushing aside attempts by Palaszczuk’s spinner Chris “Cobbie” O’Brien to wind up his line of questioning, with Foster eventually admitting his organisation’s hands were tied by the manual.
Imagine that, not being able to rely on extreme weather forecasts to mitigate a flood event. That’s fundamentally stupid, says Thomas.
Thanks for alerting me, HB Bear. The Paywallian has posted a John Spooner in its daily cartoon slot online, while Johannes Leak is actually doing his best work.
Today’s Johannes Leak.
Just scrolled back, Tinta. It’s a big one all right.
All The Beloved’s family come from the Tweed.
Leak!
Compare and contrast with the other lockstep ‘toonists.
HahahaHAAAAAA.
Skah TV. Junior Stef sombrely informing the punters that a ‘battle’ is underway in Kharkov. This is reinforced by the banner at the screen’s base saying ‘Battle Underway in Kharkov’.
What purports to be night time Kharkov appears. Sound on. Nothing. Junior Stef, realising this, goes into reverse from ‘reported heavy fighting’ to ‘ah, although it does seem at the moment to be relatively calm’. By which, of course, he means ‘calm’.
Cut. That’s a wrap.
Thanks Beertruck much better you are a little clever clogs thank goodness.
“while Johannes Leak is actually doing his best work.”
Yep. Hard to believe it’s coming up five years since Bill’s death. I’m sure Bill is smiling down on Johannes.
Johannes Leak is insightful and clever and with a few strokes writes a five thousand word essay.
Yes Tinta. He looks behind the facade (any facade will do) and exposes the idiocy and hypocrisy.
Just like Dad
Sky News
‘A one in one thousand year flood event devastated SE Queensland and Northern NSW.’
The evidence for any such a rain event before settlement wouldn’t last ten years yet alone a thousand.
Complete and utter bullshit and said with the serious face of authority.
This is a very concentrated low pressure system that didn’t significantly effect localities less than a hundred kilometres from the worst hit areas. That’s called weather.
It’ll be interesting to see if energy prices driven ever upward by the Ukraine war will have the same effect as polls seem to’ve done on Covid stuff.
Proof polling killed covid restrictions (Surber, 28 Feb)
A Return to Energy Realism? | Power Line (27 Feb)
At the end of the latter these a tale of woe about an ETF set up with great fanfare for green investments. No one invested in it except the seed money guys who set it up. And now it is quietly being dismantled. Money is like polling as it too nicely focuses the minds of politicians.
Why anyone would build a home on a flood plain, or buy one on a flood-plain, is beyond me. So I have no sympathy whatsoever with the jerks who are now suffering due to their own stupidity. Kids etc excepted. Extra funny is the dopes paying big bucks (say millions in Brisbane) for their idiotically-placed totally-drenched rat-boxes.
Two years ago it was Townsville. Last year Taree…before that the Hunter…before that western Sydney…before that Rockhampton…Taroom, Theodore. You name it…Goondiwindi and Inglewood three months ago.
Suck eggs you numbskulls!
The CEO of Moderna fumbles explaining why COVID-19 contains a gene sequence that was patented three years before the pandemic.
“Accident is Possible. Human makes mistakes.”
https://twitter.com/vigilantfox/status/1497256829692395524?s=21
“‘A one in one thousand year flood event devastated SE Queensland and Northern NSW.’”
The MSM.
The CEO of Moderna fumbles explaining why COVID-19 contains a gene sequence that was patented three years before the pandemic.
This is something that has to be addressed, investigated etc.
A lot of people who you’d call more lefty than conservative have been asking this question too.
The joys of Woolworths shopping .. this morning scanned 4 items, all same product, 3 came up at $7.50 the other one at $15.00 .. calls service .. re-scans .. all came up at $15.00 each ..
I laffs, “Ya gotta be kidding” .. “No, no that’s the price” ..
Me, “It doesn’t even say $15.00 on the shelf sticker, it sez $9.00” .. “I’ll get it checked” ..
Waits 3 minutes .. no response .. stuff not important .. walks out, leaving it all on register ..
We’re talking 7.10am in a near(customer) empty store but lotza staff …
Hmm, the daily cartoon at the Oz is still Spooner’s one from yesterday. I wonder if the editors fear putting Leak’s one up too prominently might attract wrath from certain people called “James”, or maybe “Lachlan”?
There’s a reason the old houses on the river flats are up on stilts.
Some may find thi post interesting.
https://victorygirlsblog.com/some-subversive-thoughts-on-ukraine/
Things Said To Shock People Into Action*, Vol. I:
Sea levels will rise 100 metres
Shipping containers will be used as mobile morgues
Acid rain will kill all life on Earth
The unvaccinated will be herded onto cattle cars and sent to extermination camps already gasfitted for the purpose
Sitting is the new smoking
Face masks are safe and effective
The Great Barrier Reef could die in several million years
Ukrainian conflict compared to WW2^
Local man distraught about not being treated as a woman
The WEF are lizard overlords in the final stages of their 1000 year plan to kill all life on Earth and enslave the remnant
All jabbed people will die in 13 to 43 months
*Results may vary
^Spoken just now, on the teev
Bushfires in Dec 2019/Jan 2020 weren’t helped by terrible rates of hazard reduction.
Let’s blame climate change.
Another lot of floods in SE QLD & NE NSW weren’t helped by terrible water management.
Let’s blame a once in a 1000 year weather pattern (PS climate change anyone?).
Thanks Knuckles for listing the Media Maggotry. There’s so much of it one becomes overwhelmed for choice.
There are amounts of water dumped in natural weather “events” that are far beyond the means of man to “manage”.
“Weather event” – I really hate that term! We used to call what happened a rain depression, or a tropical low, if it was a bit further north. If it developed sufficiently low central pressure it was a cyclone. Everyone used to know what it was, and knew what to expect. Suddenly, nobody knew there was going to be a shitload of rain and that there would be flooding? WTF has happened to this country?
Natural systems are notoriously hard to “manage”. Apart from setting up levee banks and flood barriers, and preventing development on marginal land, there’s not a lot to be done.
All that happens is the problem is shifted downstream. Sometimes you just have to accept risk.
Snap Bushkid. You said it best.
That’s because it’s very difficult to tax them.
“Media Maggotry”
Perfect description Calli. Can I use it?
I don’t trust one word, not even one syllable, that the MSM utters about anything, be it about climate change, transgender gunk, the floods, Ukraine etc.
When the MSM aren’t lying to us, they’re gaslighting us. When they’re not gaslighting us, they’re flat out lying to us.
It’s a tragedy.
calli (8.12am). Don’t know if you are replying to my 8.06am comment, but further to it…
I’ve just bought a holiday home 0n the slopes of Mt Etna in Sicily, and a palatial spread on the San Andreas fault in California. Currently wondering whether to add to my holdings by putting a mobile home into a trailer park in Tornado Alley USA and maybe another on an Aussie bush-block totally surrounded by tinder-dry explosive eucalypts, with a shithouse exit road.
I hope everyone will help me with donations if one of these choices goes pear-shaped while I’m there….and I need some dough!
From the powerline blog article on energy realism, this is from the wall Street Journal:
Why All Those EV-Battery ‘Breakthroughs’ You Hear About Aren’t Breaking Through
Type the words “battery” and “breakthrough” into your search engine of choice, and you’ll encounter page after page of links. They include breathless news articles and lofty pronouncements from battery startups.
And yet, according to scientists, engineers, startup founders and analysts, the use of the word “breakthrough” in the context of battery technology is misleading at best. Claims that the latest research finding or startup launch will bear fruit in the near future are almost always nonsense, they say. . .
“People like a breakthrough, but when we write papers we try to avoid using these kinds of words,” says Xin Li, a researcher at Harvard University whose team recently published a paper on a new kind of higher-capacity solid-state battery in the scientific journal Nature. “There are too many battery ‘breakthroughs’ in my opinion in the past 5 years, and not many can be implemented in a commercial product.”.
KD, the Great Barrier Reef WILL die in considerably less than a million years. It does so every time an ice age occurs and the sea levels drop. It will be dry land. We are 10,000 years into this interglacial and they last no more than 50,000 years or so and some considerably less than that.
Anyway, 1:1000 flood event doesn’t mean once every 1000 years, it’s simply a probability. A 1:1000 could happen twice in one year, although highly unlikely.
A musical interlude for the change of season.
Cassie, just the list of MM (repeated from the OOT above) on this latest conflict is mind boggling. And I include all the jokers on social media posting garbage for sh*ts and giggles.
Our politicians respond because they think there’s votes in it, not out of any high minded principles. The media fertilises the germinating stories with foetid bullsh*t and the handwringing virtue signallers water it with virtual tears. No wonder the selected strain grows and flourishes. And woe betide anyone who questions the narrative!
Meanwhile, people…real people…suffer and perish.
The thread header is apt.
“Our politicians respond because they think there’s votes in it, not out of any high minded principles. The media fertilises the germinating stories with foetid bullsh*t and the handwringing virtue signallers water it with virtual tears. No wonder the selected strain grows and flourishes. And woe betide anyone who questions the narrative!”
Seeing that clown of a PM trying to wave a big stick around. I actually don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Meanwhile, people…real people…suffer and perish.
And that’s the tragedy.
The problem is that, due to the diligent work of the water authorities in the 40’s to the 80’s, a lot of flood mitigation infrastructure was installed (e.g. Wivenhoe)
This eliminated all but the really “big ones”. So people didn’t get the regular little reminders that they live in a flood prone area.
When I was a kid, Enoggera Creek always used to flood and inundate the playing fields. Coronation Drive was under water every couple of years.
It’s a perverse result – people now take bigger risks with buying low set properties on concrete slabs in flood prone areas. Analogy is cars with ABS and other driver aids get driven harder, and it’s all OK, until you exceed the limits of the safety system – and then all hell breaks loose suddenly. No graceful understeer – sudden overcorrection by the driver, flip and lights out.
The NT News:
The grapevine indicates that this was one of Matt Wright, of reality TV notoriety’s choppers. Apparently it was on a job picking up croc eggs from nests.
Please, please let it be a five metre saltie that latched onto one of the skids and brought it down, Apocalypse Now-style.
one of those one-in-a-thousand things that’s happened in the 200-odd years of written history that we have.
1857 – QLD floods and this develops into an East Coast low that hits Sydney and smashes the Dunbar on South Head.
1893 – Mary at Gympie – 25.5m, Hunter River – 11.4m)
1898 (Mary – 22m),
1955/56 El Nina (Qld and in NSW, hunter at 11.4m
Or all of these Brisbane floods
but yeh BOM and media – once in a thousand.
Watching the ‘news’ last night, interviewing a homeowner who had just ripped out all the gyprock in their downstairs rooms.
I know the street, it flooded in 1974, 1983, 2011 and again this time. Owner said they also ripped out the gyprock in 2011 – dumb thought strikes- “You are in a flood area, wtf are you doing putting gyprock in rooms you know will flooded, and you know you will need to tear it out when inevitably those rooms go under? I would be lining the walls with Besser blocks or bricks.”
If building on a flood plain best to start with a steel barge rated for the weight and build the house on that. Including garage and disconnects for power, water, sewerage and enough local storage to last for a week or so.
Bruce of Newk at 8.12am, knowing how newspapers work, I don’t think the non-appearance of the Leak cartoon in the Paywallian’s daily cartoon slot was a conspiracy, but a stuff-up caused by the dual-gauge nature of publishing in the modern age.
Subeditors nowadays have to do their jobs twice — once to assemble a newspaper (in this case the Paywallian, printed simultaneously at Holt Street, Surrey Hills, and News Corp satellite presses around Australia) and then the online product.
Even though the latest Leak appears on the op ed page of the Paywallian — as it should — a John Spooner cartoon still appears in the paper’s online address reserved for the daily cartoon.
The J-school kiddies on the day shift are too stupid to notice. Hopefully an actual editor will pick up the stuff-up sometime today.
Razey wrote “Anyway, 1:1000 flood event doesn’t mean once every 1000 years, it’s simply a probability. A 1:1000 could happen twice in one year, although highly unlikely”
That’s what they tell us but the question is : how many thousand years have they been following the weather type (in this case: rain) in question?
Have there been 50 events in the past 50,000 years of rainfall recording? Or have they been recording the rainfall totals for about 150 years and just made everything up?
BTW: If there’s a record 700mls (say) in Lismore today then that’s a 1 in 20 year event since the gauge ( now at the Lismore airport) has only been recording for 20 years!
exactly.. the probability of it occurring any year is 0.1%.
.. but that means the probability of three or four of them in a couple of hundred years (we have history of similar events to this one they’re now calling ‘one in a thousand’), is somewhat tiny.
And a lot of people believe people like Flannery when he says the dams won’t fill again.
The government keeps telling people that the climate is at risk. They put two and two together and decide that it’s OK to build on a slab on a flood plain, because rain and floods are a thing of the past.
Palacechook says weather is so unpredicatable, nothing could have been done better.
But climate models are so accurate that we have to destroy our power infrastructure, and strangle our economy because of the forecast dooom.
Tom – The Oz has slavishly adhered to the Murdoch kiddie edict that they must celebrate Net Zero as holy doctrine. Leak is being very critical today of Net Zero.
Will you guys cut it out with your maths and ratios and probabilities and other mind hurty stuff?
It’s the feelz and hashtags that count! And the references to the IBM (Indigenous Bureau of Meteorology), active and recording for 30 gazillion years.
Because da gubbermint will bail them out with a ‘national flood levy’ or similar every 10y when the inevitable happens – of course they will – they ‘cant get insurance’ for some bizzare reason
Yeah, yeah. Sure. But it is cyclical, and you can expect these “events” fairly regularly.
Just commiserating with the New Broom who has a massive backlog of work and can’t do it because rain. Exactly 20 years ago, almost to the day, we went through an entire month where not a single sod was turned because of rain. That put it into perspective for him.
The ghouls at The Guardian just can’t help but feed their obsession off human distress:
‘Climate scientists warn global heating means Australia facing more catastrophic storms and floods’
Never mind that the ANU expert cited pours cold water (sorry!) on attributing current events to the warmening, of which not much has been seen of late, I note.
I am every day staggered at the level of ignorance of j’ismists.
They always seem like someone who has studied how to write poetry in Latin – learning the standard verse forms, syntax, declensions, conjugations, pronunciation, imagery etc – but never learned a word of Latin itself.
These kids go to uni and learn how to compose a story but have absolutely no grasp of content, no sense that something sounds wrong, no general knowledge, no intuition that there may be another side that their interlocutor is keeping silent about – none of that.
Oh, and such wretched composition too. I find that j’ism from the UK, for example, is much denser. Having read Australian j’ism I am frequently amazed at how much info is in Daily Mail UK (for example) stories. Australian j’ismists seem to repeat themselves in successive paragraphs:
Etc.
Now this photo from Lismore really alarms me.
Kids on a tin roof with solar panels in rising floodwater.
I hope that those panels have suitable isolators and safety circuits on them so people clambering on the roof in wet conditions don’t get electrocuted.
They forgot bushfires.
And drop bear plagues.
Two ultra stupid examples from the dim and distant past….both places with which I am very familiar…utter dickheads….Gundagai and Clermont. WTF!
https://digital-classroom.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/gundagai-floods
https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/rockhampton/flashback-cq-flood-kills-60-forces-town-to-relocate/news-story/6589566dbbf2d518b509312a91fbe0a3
Lismore peaked at about 14m — 1.6m or so above the 1 in 100 level.
https://lismore.nsw.gov.au/files/Lismore_Flood_Events_1870-2017.pdf
“I am every day staggered at the level of ignorance of j’ismists.”
I think you’re way too generous.
I am every day staggered at the level of malfeasance of journalists.
I would imagine the circuits have already shorted and failed. But you make an excellent point.
Where is our blog sparkie? We need his opinion.
You don’t apply unless there is an open invitation. NATO welcomed their aspiration to join and supported their application. The idea that NATO is innocent of its implications is absurd given past commitments and the immediate reaction of France and Germany.
A ‘one in 1,000 years’ flood in a country where weather records are only a few hundred years old, and patchy for most of that period? Give me a break. They are just making stuff up.
I feel for the people suffering from the floods, I really do. But, being a scaredy cat when it comes to natural disasters I have always chosen, very deliberately, to live in places where such events are very unlikely indeed. Even within those parameters, if there is a slope I will only live on the higher side, if there is a waterway I will only live well above it. I would never live next to (let alone in the middle of) bushland or a tree plantation.
You pays your money and you takes your chances, IMHO.
On a more cheerful note, I hit the local Anglicare charity shop yesterday in search of reading material, and hit the jackpot.
For $4.00, I am now looking forward to reading a new (for me) Robert G. Barrett – Goodoo Goodoo, plus Billy Thorpe’s (aka Forpie of The Aztecs) Sex and Thugs and Rock and Roll – A Year in Kings Cross 1963-1964.
What a bargain! Both are in excellent condition and will join the groaning bookshelves when I get around to having a home again.
Anyone who grew up in Brisbane in the 1960s & ’70s will be experiencing deja vu.
There’s nothing especially extraordinary about the rain that fell (for extraordinary cf. the 400mm that fell on a day in 1869) and the same suburbs that always flooded are flooding again along with those since approved to be built on the flood plain.
Palaszczuk is perhaps just a little bit young to have those memories and migrants from the southern states won’t have them at all.
Russian gas still flowing through Ukraine to Europe.
Just sayin’.
Poor Morrison has bungled Teddy Roosevelt’s policy.
Morro instead says:
First off we’re talking about Urkaine. Ukraine was never invited. And even if they were, that’s a good excuse for Russia to invade?
They may now compose on computers but it’s still boilerplate text.
Scene in NATO Head Office, 9 am. General Secretary reads morning mail.
GS: Oh, look! An application from Country X to join NATO! Well, well. What a surprise. How totally unexpected.
(To PA) – Take a note that we find out a bit more about Country X and why they want to join. We do have to be a bit careful about these things.
——————————————–
Not.
Applying to join NATO is not like applying to join the Golf Club. By the time a formal, public application is lodged, there have been months, maybe years, of informal discussions behind the scenes.
A good summation – at the link – of the sinking of HMAS Perth, lost in action 80 years ago today. Hec Waller should have been given the Victoria Cross for his brave last stand. His fellow commander, Captain Rooks of the USS Houston, was awarded the Medal of Honor – the USA’s highest bravery award – for his actions as his ship also went down fighting nearby. Why was our man overlooked? He did not even receive his Mention in Despatches until after the war – Rooks was given his award mere months later.
https://www.navy.gov.au/hmas-perth-i
Because da gubbermint will bail them out with a ‘national flood levy’ or similar every 10y when the inevitable happens – of course they will – they ‘cant get insurance’ for some bizzare reason
Happened in Queensland in 2011. Many on flood plains could not buy affordable or any flood insurance (the clue is in the name morons) so went without. So the government compensated the morons and mandated flood insurance for all Queensland properties including those under no threat of ever flooding.
It pisses me off to pay for others’ stupidity.
It pisses me off to pay for others’ stupidity.
This is Australia.
This is what we do.
Which there were in the 2000s in Ukraine’s case, culminating in 2006 when all NATO foreign ministers approved Ukraine’s entry & they looked about to be given a Membership Action Plan.
Internal politics subsequently put the kibosh on that, perhaps not without Russian interference.
Post-2014 and Russian intervention in Donbas the calls to join NATO grew again.
The story of humanity. Again, take a look at the header painting.
Well, we are all paying for the stupidity of our governments at all levels, all the time.
Add “rain bomb” to the ever increasing shrillness of our “elite”.
Add “rain bomb” to the ever increasing shrillness of our “elite”.
Yep, gotta love all these ‘war phrases’ which spread like fire amongst our clean PPE clad journos bravely reporting from the rear
Spotless yellow fire gear, barely within range of the glow = ’ember attack’
Blue flak jacket and helmet, miles from the front = ‘tanks shelling the area’
etc etc etc
We call it ‘Federation’.
Imagine to cost of infrastructure if we had to design pipes, culverts and drains to handle a 1:1000 year rain event. It just not practical.
Good Moaning.
Dot, you should be able to tell from the response to my comments last night that taking the mrna concoction that has never been even proven as a vaccine is getting to people.
It’s not me living in their heads, it’s what they’ve done.
I’m just what they lash out at instead of themselves.
This comment shows that there are people on this blog who get it.
………..Who can see how easily sheeple can be lead, especially people that to different level of degrees , want to be lead, to find another enemy, to engage in simpler warfare than the psychological war they personally lost.
They refuse to believe in the evil in their own governments, and the globalist agenda, making their analysis of the Russian invasion infantile, and just what the NWO want.
They do it willingly.
Dot, it effects much much more than just your physical being.
Taking the jab, has great psychological repercussions, and surely, if you are honest with yourself, having remained unjabbed for so long, you can see it.
We who have not changed our stance for two years, and who have never been taken in by propaganda to make absolutely insane decisions, devoid of the slightest hint of common sense, despair at the minds of the jabbed.
Make no mistake, they are going through personal hell, and it effects the mind.
Do you forget the days of scoffing about a vaccine pass, or scoffing at the idea of a booster. Scoffing especially hard at the idea that a foreign body of power hungry internationalist billionaires and communists would have any effect on our governments?
Remember the “conspiracy theory ” accusations now all shown to be fact?
Underneath, they know what they have done, and it is effecting them…..their very thought processes.
We see different ways to cope, but let’s tie it in with this Russian Invasion response.
Do you really think there is cynical evaluation going on here?
That yes, Putin is bad, but there isn’t a “free world” to fight him.
There is a global cabal, tied with the UN/WEF monsters.
Which one is worse?
Can unjabbed people leave Russia?
Yes.
Are you forced to take a jab in Russia?
No.
Etc etc.
Looking at the evil on our own side, and the bleeding obvious as to who’s in charge…(hint, the most submissive governments to the WEF, and the most infiltrated by it’s globalists are the most vocal against Russia), and the “flooding 24/7 of bullshit propaganda about covid” put out non stop for the last two years shows what the media is capable of, means that prior to “wanting to believe” by many a jabbed, they would still be understanding someone like ScoMo who still won’t let me leave the country, (only good Nazis like Frau Notafan) talking about Ukranian freedom and coming out swinging against Russia, would raise alarm bells.
Such is the jabbed psychosis, they will talk non stop about the war in Ukraine yet again today.
Why?
Because they want to.
They need to.
Don’t get jabbed dot.
You’ve seen the psychological deteriation here.
You’re not that stupid.
Bruce of Newk, the fascinating thing about the Mudrock/News Corp decision to promote Net Zero in all News publishing platforms is that the company isn’t forcing News opinion columnists or reporters to toe the company line – because that would be outright censorship that wouldn’t work and would cause mass resignations.
As you know, Net Zero has nothing to do with science. It is a religion whose primary doctrine is the junk science that CO2 is driving the earth’s temperature even though it is just a trace gas of 40 parts per million in the atmosphere. Childish, huh?
The junk science is popular with milleniials, ex-Christians and Gen-X kiddies like the Mudrock children because an essential part of the belief system is that the human race is evil.
But, praise Gaia, the human race can be remade under Year Zero communism after the free market is abolished.
Everyone with basic knowledge of science knows that, while “climate change’ is rubbish, endless climate variability determines what goes on in the earth’s atmosphere.
“Climate change” is merely a dumbed down fashion for a large minority who have swallowed two decades of media hysteria about the weather.
deterioration
Yes, the government here lies too, they all sicken me.
I’m getting pressure at work now to get ‘done’ as we are on a big project with a tier 1.
I simply said, ‘have a chat with Dan Andrews, because I wont be getting ‘done’.’
Up to them now, because I wont be getting an unnecessary medical procedure just to work.
Does anyone also get the impression I do, although I’m no expert, that the Russian equipment looks really old and ramshackle compared to the American stuff?
400
Soft South Queenslanders.
They whinge when they get a North Queensland drizzle.
Drainage at Suncorp Stadium looks to be a little under done.
Didn’t they realise that a sunken stadium needs a fuck ton of drainage & pumps like the sunken stadiums in Europe have?
Just as the ASIC legal proceedings against Rio end, lawyers won’t go hungry as the AUSTRAC case against Crown begins.
Expect it to wrap up in 2-3 years, a fine, nothing major in the scheme of things.
Just imagine a world without lawyers (h/t Lionel Hutz).
Most of the tension we’re seeing in Europe is as a consequence of climate change. Climate change policies have caused a reduction of oil and gas supplies.
When you see comments that climate change causes wars believe it, but not in the way Greta Thumbnail thinks it does.
Russia’s flagship aircraft carrier, built 1982-85 & launched as Leonid Brezhnev, chugging through the English Channel in 2016 on the way to Syria.
Mind you, Russia’s military power ranking is still #2 in the world, just ahead of China.
Bruce O’Newk:
The whole point of the Green agenda was to cut energy use by making it more expensive. They succeeded in that. Where they failed is in the non realisation people would accept that price rise and lowered their standard of living.
And why wouldn’t they? Everyone important agreed with them. The Greens never listened to the peasants, why would they? If they were important, they’d be at the Climate Fests or in Parliament.
Sun Tzu: His Part in My Victories, The Book of Winston.
oops; link
Profits for the State. Losses for the Commonwealth. Older than COAG.
Um, by the way.
All good in my neck of the woods.
Anyone with hald a brain doesn’t live in a flood zone in Queensland, full stop.
My beautiful old Queenslander is also on stilts just to keep me above the mozzies and keep me cool.
We used to drive through Townsville shaking our heads at all the ignorant building brick veneer on flood plains.
If you are on low ground anywhere near a river, or in tropical areas especially, what the fuck do you expect?
Did you look at all those old houses on stilts and think they only made them that way so people could get exercise on the stairs?
Plenty of flood zone maps out there.
It’s as dumb as taking a concoction from criminals who worked with AIDS…………
They were invited. If I were Russia, I would see that as threatening. Does it excuse their actions, no, but I understand them. The US would react exactly the same to a peer power cozying up to a country next them or their strategic interests.
“‘Climate scientists warn global heating means Australia facing more catastrophic storms and floods’”
Ah.
We needed desalination plants to get water because the dams would never fill again due to climate change.
Now that we’ve neglected flood defenses, climate change causes floods.
Drought – climate change.
Flood – climate change.
Same models, eh? I believe it – the error bars are so wide anything is possible, and therefore nothing is certain.
The only constant is change.
I heard they deployed conscripts early using their older equipment.
Never a truer word said.
Am I wrong in stating that if Russia was serious about taking Ukraine, it would be done and dusted?
Doesn’t anyone’s alarm bells go off, now we know what are governments are, and who they answer to?
The New young President of Ukraine, who is he really?
The WEF can put a young twenty something bimbo into the PM’s chair in Norway, who still goes “clubbing”.
How soon we forget that the media reporting on his awesomeness, is the same media that pushed the age old practice of Hindus burning bodies in the street as a Covid disaster.
The same media that sent notafan insane with scary stories from Italy.
What do we know?
Really?
Is she trying to tell you something?
Putin is a bad prick, but who is worse?
Roman Abramovich.
Champion of Europe.
PS, I don’t believe any of the horseshit on news.com.au
In God’s good time down came the rain;
And all the afternoon
On iron roof and window-pane
It drummed a homely tune.
And through the night it pattered still,
And lightsome, gladsome elves
On dripping spout and window-sill
Kept talking to themselves.
It pelted, pelted all day long,
A-singing at its work,
Till every heart took up the song
Way out to Back-o’-Bourke.
And every creek a banker ran,
And dams filled overtop;
“We’ll all be rooned,” said Hanrahan,
“If this rain doesn’t stop.”
Excerpt by Mr O’Brian
“These kids go to uni and learn how to compose a story but have absolutely no grasp of content, no sense that something sounds wrong, no general knowledge, no intuition that there may be another side that their interlocutor is keeping silent about – none of that.”
I believe that one of the reasons Tucker Carlson is so popular is his stated position that in a room of 100 people, if 99 agree, he wants to hear from the one that doesn’t agree. Not because they are right, but because maybe – just maybe – that one person has an insight/question that others do not and have not considered. We should at least hear them, IMO. And get their insight/question out there so that the 99% can depose/answer it.
Seems worthwhile to me.
KD at 8:14.
Brilliant little montage of Chicken Little alarmist clap-trap.
Eighty years since the sinking of HMAS Perth, and haven’t scrap metal merchants almost stripped the wreck?
Has there not been a stand off with forces facing each other on the Ukraine/Russian border for years?
It seems to me we have a communist evil dictator in Putin who I am not apologising for, who is seriously concerned for his own borders more than just expansion.
Sure, he’ll expand when he can, but the NWO (it’s not the west anymore) cannot have sovereign nations dictating terms.
Can anyone deny that the evil Putin is not a nationalist?
You might even be correct in thinking he is an Emerialist who sees himself as a zsar of a Great and strong Russia.
How does that play into the plans of the globalist NWO
Commos all, are war lords who don’t play well with other commos.
A Cat of the past, a pre covid cat (PCC) would be coming up with answers already.
They’d be following the money and the power grabs.
There would be healthy cynicism.
Nowadays healthy cynicism is seen as conspiracy theory by many who have fallen to the psychological war waged against us, by what I’d describe as governments as equally evil as Putin.
And far more traitorous to their own nations.
If you’re gonna do a high-end resort in the Canary Islands, then count me in.
Today I feel sorry for the smokers & vapers of Sydney.
They pay so so much extra tax, yet on stormy days like today are forced to into some little nook to partake in their addiction.
If only we treated the taxpaying smoker a tenth of how the heroin addict is treated.
If anyone had read the past several threads, they would have seen that cynicism is alive and well.
Extreme cynicism. Cynicism to the Max.
And rightly so.
Anyway, 1:1000 flood event doesn’t mean once every 1000 years, it’s simply a probability.
A probability based on a premise delivered to you by a corrupt and incompetent public service
Yes, the wreck of HMAS Perth – and USS Houston nearby – have been badly depleted by scrap salvage companies over the years.
I have somewhere a sad photo of a crane on a pontoon positioned over the wreck.
Looking at the current persecution of Trump supporters in the US, how is the FBI any better than the NKVD? It ain’t Efrem Zimbalist Jr any more.
However, if you want conspiracy theory……anything in this? Many are reporting rain bombs going off North of Dalby, all at once that circled clockwise straight into the coast…..right when massive protests were about to happen. There’s a real conspiracy theory…will it become fact?
The Bee is Brilliant.
Sudden Spike In Women Advocating For Traditional Gender Roles Now That WW3 Starting
We are waist deep in elfy cynicism here.
How is Comorbidity Clive today?
Post-2014 and Russian intervention in Donbas the calls to join NATO grew again.
Tell us about Ukraine’s democratic elections preceding this action, thanks Roger.
meh, a few hundred dc volts is nothing
and there’s no sun there won’t be any oomph behind it
anyway the first kiddie that gets a nasty belt will serve as a lesson to the others.
our factory flooded 2 years in a row.
one year I waded knee deep up to the switchboard which was still on
all the power points underwater
nothing tripped
I flipped the mains switch off.
Who’s more hypocritical than Morrison? The Twitter crowd!
Led by an ALP parliamentary nonentity, they piled on Morrison for granting Piers Morgan a 45 minute interview while “Brisbane is under water, Lismore is about to be, SE NSW is bracing for a deluge [&] Ukraine is under siege.”
Truns out the interview was given last week before any of these things happened.
And Albo also granted 45 minutes to Morgan.
Meanwhile, as Russian troops were rolling up to Kiev, Joe Biden spent the weekend on holiday at his Delaware home.
“If only we treated the taxpaying smoker a tenth of how the heroin addict is treated.”
Strange, innit, how we treat people based on what they are addicted to – socially, I mean.
Caffeine: Don’t talk to him until he’s had at least two cups of coffee!
Nicotine: Filthy habit, you should give it up.
Alcohol: You’re sick – it’s not your fault.
Others: Filthy druggo, stay away from me!
Based on health of individual? Nope – Nicotine and alcohol do greater damage than heroin.
Based on damage to society? Nope – alcohol causes more social issues than any other.
Based on how addictive? Nope – nicotine more addictive than most “illegal” drugs.
Odd!
The footage of Joe getting off Marine One after his weekend away was not good.
He looks like an old man with a crook back shuffling up the Whitehouse lawn.
Old and busted – heavy rain
New hotness – rain bomb
Try this for a headline.
Putin Threatens Nuclear Escalation as Biden Goes on Vacation (28 Feb)
I suppose he has to have his oil changed and nipples greased before he gives the SOTU speech tonight. Whatever they stick in his veins must be good stuff, but doesn’t seem quite up to handling nuclear wars.
Thanks Matrix.
Nothing like an expert opinion!
My old iron used to trip the circuit. Floods were my last worry. 😀
Scepticism maybe. Cynicism is rarely healthy.
Death by electric fan.
You can have drainage or development. But not both – at least cheaply. I live opposite a netball centre. About a dozen lawn courts were replaced by hard courts (virtually on top of 2 ft interlocked drainage tanks). Have already seen it covered in a foot of water. And Perth is basically a giant sand filled sump.
“Death by electric fan.”
Core balanced circuit breaker (“Safety switch”) means no longer possible.
I tripped one many years ago with a metal case electric drill that was faulty – other than a sooty mark on the palm of my hand I didn’t even notice.
While refusing to answer reporters’ questions.
All valid points Kneel.
If I smoked, I would have a t-shirt that said “My smoking pays for your hospital”.
But I don’t, so I won’t.
This was laughed at, scoffed at heavily by the usual knobs here, but oh dear, it ain’t conspiracy theory anymore……crickets.
What’s going on while we look at war theatre?