Open Thread – Tues 1 March 2022


Cain and Abel, Jean-Charles-Joseph Rémond, mid-1800s

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Bluey
Bluey
March 1, 2022 10:40 pm

Just read an interesting opinion that Russia is only taking the opening gambit in a realignment of the world order that will involve China, India, iran and North Korea.
Not much in the way of details of what that might be, but I’d guess a clear demonstration of the perfidy of the USA would be in there.

rosie
rosie
March 1, 2022 10:43 pm

In other words John, lying.

Winston Smith
March 1, 2022 10:49 pm

Bruce O’Newk:
I’ve just assumed they were from recon units. As in cavalry/armoured cavalry.

rosie
rosie
March 1, 2022 10:55 pm

That Guardian did reveal one fundamental about educational outcomes, possibly inadvertently, without parental commitment to education no amount of money will make the slightest bit of difference.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 1, 2022 10:58 pm

Nice BTR-70 Nastya’s got there, Matrix… 🙂

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 1, 2022 11:00 pm

There’s reports that the Z has been seen on cars driving around Kiev, driven by men in blue serge uniforms.

Video here.

OK- That was well done. 🙂

Brian Blessed before he was King of the Hawkmen…

#OhWell,WhoWantsToLiveForever

#DIIIIIVE!Hahahaaa!

Winston Smith
March 1, 2022 11:01 pm

OK. This looks like a good roundup of the Canadia truckers strike, and just what Trudeau did to expose the WEF game plan.
He let the cat out of the bag…

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 1, 2022 11:02 pm

Lode, at 1.40 p.m.:

I got my first jab (Novavax) last week – I have a disabled sibling going into care. His disability and his age will make this a very difficult transition and contact with family will be vital.

And I still detest the forcing of people to be vaxxed and will continue to decry it every chance I get – in fact having compassion for my brother used as leverage to force me adds another level of anger.

St. Ruth says fuck you, fuck your job, fuck your family and wishes a clot and death upon you.

rosie
rosie
March 1, 2022 11:05 pm
rosie
rosie
March 1, 2022 11:09 pm

Up there with holymartyrsrr suggesting that those getting vaxxed to see a child and prospective grandchild overseas should be content with letters and the occasional phone call because that’s all she had when her sibling moved to the US thirty forty years ago.
No sacrifice by others is too much for the pure of blood.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 1, 2022 11:16 pm

This trial is over. Red rover, bend over, fin, sayo-fuckin’-nara.

Also – told ya. The NT News:

JURORS in Zach Rolfe’s murder trial have been shown shocking footage of a separate police shooting in the United States, in which an armed man is fired upon multiple times before continuing to threaten the arresting officers.

Under cross examination by Rolfe’s barrister, David Edwardson QC on Tuesday, Senior Sergeant Andrew Barram agreed he had shared the video on Facebook about a month before Rolfe shot and killed Yuendumu teenager Kumanjayi Walker during an attempted arrest in 2019.

This would be the tough-talkin’ ‘operational safety expert’ who apparently and allegedly has never pinched a crook in 20 years. He does, however, like a bit of mouthing off on social media. Good get by the defence.

The footage, recorded in Athens Clarke County, shows the man walking towards police as they shout at him to drop the weapon before he sets off at a running pace, still armed.

One of the officers then shoots the man repeatedly and he falls to the ground but then proceeds to regain his feet, approaching a second officer as the first draws his taser. The man is seen grabbing the second officer around the neck before the first officer returns to his pistol and shoots him again, after which he finally stops moving.

Yes. Because it’s not like the movies. As any decent defence mouthpiece does, he leads Barram down the garden path, giving him rope all the way:

Sgt Barram agreed he had shared the video with the heading “brings a little bit of reality into the argument” and that the post included the words “why officers shoot until threat has stopped”.

Sgt Barram said while he also agreed the footage showed an “entirely different” scenario to the one at the centre of the current trial, it depicted the man being shot multiple times before continuing to present a threat to the officers.

Aaaaaand:

“In that case, the police officer had distance, time and a visual perspective on his or her side, that is not the scenario that confronted Zachary Rolfe at all?” he asked.

“Because what we do know is that weapon, the potentially lethal weapon, namely the scissors, were presented in a split second after he had asked Kumanjayi Walker to put his hands behind his back?”

“Yes,” Sgt Barram replied.

Which is the only answer he could give. So – defence presents this (apparent) world-class brown-nosing dickhead with a clip of a bloke being tasered and shot multiple times and still being able to grab people’s throats, and with Barram telling people ‘this is why you shoot until the threat is stopped’.

And then gets Barram to concede that in that house, Rolfe had none of the distance, time and visual perspective the US cop had, and also that Barram – an ‘expert’ – has slammed Rolfe for NOT doing what he told countless people on the Net should have been done when others did it.

No promotion for you.

MatrixTransform
March 1, 2022 11:20 pm

Nice BTR-70

I’ve had the horn for Tanya from Command and Conquer since at least 1998

MatrixTransform
March 1, 2022 11:28 pm

warned that they could face up to three years in prison if they express support for Russia on social media

gotta nip that sorta wrong-think in the bud

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 1, 2022 11:28 pm

St. Ruth says fuck you, fuck your job, fuck your family and wishes a clot and death upon you.

And you are a psychotic denialist who will die in 14-44 months if you disagree…

John H.
John H.
March 1, 2022 11:39 pm

Mystery behind Russia not using advanced combat jets

Not a mystery. Russia has some excellent airframes but unlike many countries those haven’t been updated. So many would not have Radar Warning Receivers to warn the pilot of incoming missiles, or ECM, and infrar red search and track for ground attack. There are limited precision weapons, and stinger missiles are very effective against ground attack aircraft which due to the lack of precision weapons will have to fly so low as to be vulnerable to manpad launches. Russia can’t afford to lose any aircraft because it can’t afford to build any of the new models.

Gabor
Gabor
March 1, 2022 11:40 pm

Gabor says:
March 1, 2022 at 10:23 pm

srr says:
March 1, 2022 at 8:10 pm

Zelenskyy is the opposite to Putin (who doesn’t want the alphabet people grooming kids), which is very, very important to the EU & UN –

Agreed on this, not sure about the whole EU&UN, but certainly the movers and shakers are.
Just look at the animosity towards the states with more Christian values, within the EU.

Of course, there is a lot more to it than that, I hasten to add.
You see everything from one narrow point of view.

Dot
Dot
March 1, 2022 11:40 pm

Welp

Just a bit itchy now.

Goodbye frens.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 1, 2022 11:49 pm

Scomo covid positive!

If only it was something serious.

Baba
Baba
March 1, 2022 11:57 pm

Scomo covid positive!

Being triple jabbed It’s a pity he can’t pass it on to Greg Hunt.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
March 2, 2022 12:26 am

That Guardian did reveal one fundamental about educational outcomes, possibly inadvertently, without parental commitment to education no amount of money will make the slightest bit of difference.

That’s one of the best things that school fees buy. Your kids are in a classroom full of other kids whose parents care about education.

srr
srr
March 2, 2022 12:32 am

🙂

Frank says:
March 1, 2022 at 9:15 pm
Ukraine produces some nice looking girls too, this is an achievement not to be sneezed at.

Thank you.
😉

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 2, 2022 12:35 am

Gina’s gig at Curtin fundraiser fuels tycoon rivalry

Paul Garvey
Senior Reporter
@PDGarvey
7:41PM March 1, 2022
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A decades-long rivalry ­between Western Australia’s Hancock and Holmes a Court families has found a new source of tension, with Gina Rinehart agreeing to speak at a fundraiser for federal Liberal MP and Simon Holmes a Court target Celia Hammond.

While Mrs Rinehart has long been a supporter of the Coalition, her decision to speak at the “sundowner” organised by members of the WA Liberal Party’s Curtin division is an unusual intervention by the iron ore magnate.

Ms Hammond’s hold on the historically safe Liberal seat of Curtin is under attack from independent Kate Chaney, who is being supported with funding from Mr Holmes a Court’s $7m Climate200 action group.

Attracting Mrs Rinehart as a guest speaker was shaping up as a significant source of funding for Ms Hammond’s campaign – ­albeit one that could feed into Ms Chaney’s attacks on the Liberal candidate’s climate credentials – but the event was cancelled on Monday after WA Premier Mark McGowan announced new ­restrictions on gatherings in ­response to the state’s growing Covid outbreak.

Ms Hammond had no ­involvement in the planning of the event featuring Mrs Rinehart. Instead, the event was organised by individual branches within the Curtin division. It is understood Mrs Rinehart’s participation was aimed at raising funds for specific candidates, including some in marginal electorates, rather than the Liberal Party as a whole.

Curtin takes in Perth’s wealthy western suburbs and has always been both a safe Liberal seat and a significant source of funding. An invitation for the event, obtained by The Australian, said only those who were among the biggest backers of the party would be ­allowed to attend.

“The event is free, however ­details will only be made available to people who have made a substantial donation to the federal election campaign. All event costs are being covered by members of Peppermint Grove branch,” the invitation read. “This is a one-off prestigious event and we are ­extremely honoured Mrs Rinehart will be speaking to us.”

The Hancock and Holmes a Court families have been in the upper echelons of Perth society for decades, ever since patriarch Lang Hancock discovered the family’s iron ore riches around the same time corporate raider Robert Holmes a Court was building the fortune that would make him the country’s first billionaire.

But the families have long seen each other with mutual indifference, if not outright dislike, and have been marked by very different political persuasions.

Mrs Hancock has long been an advocate of conservative politics and pro-business policy, and has employed several former Liberal politicians within her business empire.

Robert’s widow, Janet Holmes a Court, meanwhile, is one of Perth’s most prominent patrons of the arts, while their son Simon is the driving force behind Climate200 and its efforts to get ­independent candidates elected in wealthy Liberal-held seats.

Ms Chaney, who briefly joined the Labor Party last year before deciding to try her hand as an ­independent, also hails from one of Perth’s most prominent families. Her father Michael is one of the state’s most prominent business figures, while her grandfather, Fred Chaney Snr, was a long-time federal Liberal MP and a former lord mayor of Perth.

The climate policy at the ­centre of Ms Chaney’s attempt to unseat Ms Hammond has proven to be a delicate issue for WA ­Liberals. At a state level, the ­decision by then-leader Zak Kirkup to campaign on a platform to close WA’s coal-fired power plants by 2025 and deliver a zero-emission electricity system by 2030 provoked outrage among colleagues and was blamed in part for the party’s disastrous result at last year’s election.

Holmes A Court? Alan Bond and Bell Group shares, anyone?

JC
JC
March 2, 2022 12:53 am

Bruce in WA says:
March 1, 2022 at 9:21 pm

Hey, JC.

Here’s a place for you!

Cheap … so you could afford to spend some dosh doing it up!

(In all seriousness, if I had the money, I’d have it in a heartbeat. Fabulous place.)

Bruce, I’ve never heard to the place. You have to be careful with Upstate, I think. Looks okay though.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
March 2, 2022 12:58 am

Welp

Just a bit itchy now.

Goodbye frens.

Does this constitute a flounce?

srr
srr
March 2, 2022 1:00 am

Gaborsays:
March 1, 2022 at 10:23 pm

srr says:
March 1, 2022 at 8:10 pm

Zelenskyy is the opposite to Putin (who doesn’t want the alphabet people grooming kids), which is very, very important to the EU & UN –

Agreed on this, not sure about the whole EU&UN, but certainly the movers and shakers are.
Just look at the animosity towards the states with more Christian values, within the EU.

It’s actually a UN Funded Campaign that’s long been pushed around the world, which of course means very many people have made very lucrative careers selling every aspect of early childhood sexualisation.

Anyway, just explore this site; plenty of the UN’s own material and both a 35 & shortened 10 minute video explaining what we’ve so long been up against.

The War on Children: The Comprehensive Sexuality Education Agenda
https://www.comprehensivesexualityeducation.org/videos/the-war-on-children-the-comprehensive-sexuality-education-agenda/

Mark from Melbourne
Mark from Melbourne
March 2, 2022 1:05 am

Do we actually have anything that resembles a health care system in this country?

Which is to say, a system when, if you’re crook, they look after you. Which is sort of how I define “health care”.

Posit this hypothetical situation…

Two old (90+) folk – who have always had a fondness for a certain area, and perhaps a casino therein… we’ll call it Cold Goast – head up for their “final hurrah” on the machines / tables / whatever.

In any event, they come back and test +ve for the dreaded couff.

Neither of them is allowed medical care. Well, to be more precise, family are informed that the choice is “go home and isolate” or the “public COVID wards… and you won’t come out of there alive” (direct quote, obviously a teeny, tiny tad overstated, but direct quote nonetheless).

When they improve, family is told of what a triumph this is for the jabs. No, truly. Not one goddamn thing between ‘go away, you’re jabbed, boosted and whatever, but you’re sick, we can’t have you in our hospital!‘ and, ‘geez, it all worked out well then, didn’t it? Especially those boosters.‘.

All hypothetical, of course.

When did we stop treating sick people? Especially sick, old people? And when did we (docs, I’m pointing at you) start bragging about it?

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
March 2, 2022 1:34 am

So Snot Moronson has the coof. Is that the one that causes stupidity of the highest level. PM level of stupidity, yep he’s got it, had it all the time. It was the hidden coof. Somehow I can’t see him ever recovering.

srr
srr
March 2, 2022 1:34 am

rosie says:
March 1, 2022 at 11:09 pm
Up there with holymartyrsrr suggesting that those getting vaxxed to see a child and prospective grandchild overseas should be content with letters and the occasional phone call because that’s all she had when her sibling moved to the US thirty forty years ago.
No sacrifice by others is too much for the pure of blood.

Paris By Night is an Expat Vietnamese musical theatre ensemble.
They are very good.
One of their stories is of families splitting up, some being left behind to care for the old folk, others risking their lives to get to a new country.
It’s deeply moving.

The story they tell still goes on around the world today.

There are families that make the decision to get some out to new lives even though those left behind will pay dearly, even with their lives.

While you tell us your single old lady pack packing around Europe tales, others hope those they will never see again, will continue the family in a place where they’ll at least have clean food & water so they can carry & raise a healthy child.

I find it sinister that you keep parading your ‘faith’ around like some, ‘touch me, touch us all’ threat, while managing to pretend you are unaware that people are still saying goodbye forever to their children for the sake of their future grandchildren and strong roots planted in healthy ground.

But do keep working at dragging everyone down to your lowest standard in everything that’s supposed to be high & hard.
It’s so much easier for you than to try to drag yourself up.

Twostix
Twostix
March 2, 2022 1:47 am

Up there with holymartyrsrr suggesting that those getting vaxxed to see a child and prospective grandchild overseas should be content with letters and the occasional phone call because that’s all she had when her sibling moved to the US thirty forty years ago.
No sacrifice by others is too much for the pure of blood.

Yeah you’re the victim here.

Those mean nasty unvaccinated people banned from life need to be brought down another rung or two.

Twostix
Twostix
March 2, 2022 1:55 am

It’s sinister watching the way some people who have caved in to taking the drugs then quietly start to campaign to pressure remaining people to be silent and not rally fellow hold outs to keep holding out. You can see the subconscious at work in real time.

I hung around with potheads in my teens and the exact same dynamic operated in that group.

A lot more than a vaccine comes with choosing to take those drugs, a whole new mentality, be careful.

Gabor
Gabor
March 2, 2022 1:57 am

How times change.
1956 Nov 4. Russian tanks ran down Hungary.
Not at peep from the west, with sanctions and hardly any real condemnation, only the usual polite tut-tut.
The UN wouldn’t even discuss the issue.
Then here we are today. What happened?
What’s the difference?

Winston Smith
March 2, 2022 1:57 am

Dover Beach:

The stuff I was hearing today about fighters and ‘no fly zones’ was worrying me that this would escalate into dangerous territory.

My immediate thought when I read about the No Fly Zone this afternoon was “Who’s going to police that one NATO? You’ve just put your balls in Putins hands for him to lop off whenever he feels like it.”

JC
JC
March 2, 2022 2:00 am

How times change.
1956 Nov 4. Russian tanks ran down Hungary.
Not at peep from the west, with sanctions and hardly any real condemnation, only the usual polite tut-tut.
The UN wouldn’t even discuss the issue.
Then here we are today. What happened?
What’s the difference?

Trade with Soviet Union was almost non-existent. There was far less control over the payments system for obvious reasons. You’re really asking this question?

Winston Smith
March 2, 2022 2:03 am

Is Dot still alive?

srr
srr
March 2, 2022 2:11 am

Gaborsays:
March 1, 2022 at 11:40 pm

Gabor says:
March 1, 2022 at 10:23 pm

srr says:
March 1, 2022 at 8:10 pm

Zelenskyy is the opposite to Putin (who doesn’t want the alphabet people grooming kids), which is very, very important to the EU & UN –

Agreed on this, not sure about the whole EU&UN, but certainly the movers and shakers are.
Just look at the animosity towards the states with more Christian values, within the EU.

Of course, there is a lot more to it than that, I hasten to add.
You see everything from one narrow point of view.

Yeah, be careful who you look like you may agree with on a point or few here. The irrelevant noises will come after you for unacceptable association.

I replied to an acceptable posters video of Zelenskyy doing the, ‘play the piano with your cock’, bit, on TV, with another video of his trans dancing on TV.

Earlier we also talked about Putin losing favour with the West’s Left after the Pussy Riot thing when the West’s Left realised he really wasn’t going to allow kids to be groomed with the whole alphabet agenda, which is actually backed & funded by the UN and countless other Govt Funded Businesses.

Zelenskyy’s past wasn’t an embarrassment but a desirable plus in a man they wanted to be sold as the hero who destroyed Putin.

I didn’t write their play book but the various Globalist Agendas are out there for anyone to read and if they do they will notice that the destruction of Christianity, family & children are the primary goals.

I replied to a post, on topic, not with an empty, ‘Rah Rah, Me To!’, but expanded it with little bit more on that topic.

As to narrow views; an obvious untruth as proven by the very wide range of news, views & topics I post here, most of which get ignored until one of the ‘Me To’s!’, reposts them as their own finds so the other, ‘Me To’s!’, know they’re now free to discuss those topics.

No wonder so many have got the Ukraine Russia thing so wrong, when they can’t even see the same propaganda methods being played here daily as are played by the Global Deep State’s Laundry Committee.

Winston Smith
March 2, 2022 2:20 am

srr:

No wonder so many have got the Ukraine Russia thing so wrong, when they can’t even see the same propaganda methods being played here daily as are played by the Global Deep State’s Laundry Committee.

It was the propaganda drumbeat that said to me something was amiss…

srr
srr
March 2, 2022 2:40 am

Mark from Melbourne says:
March 2, 2022 at 1:05 am
[…]
When did we stop treating sick people? Especially sick, old people? And when did we (docs, I’m pointing at you) start bragging about it?

They needed a lot of sick, suffering people, especially old people, being a drain on family nerves & finances, for a long time, before they could sell acceptance of the legal killing of old sick, sad and generally bothersome people to us.

The rate we’re going now since the Covid BS and it won’t be long before we have suicide vans being sent out to us instead of ambulances, as they do in those ever so cultured European countries.

Remember, it was the Medical bodies that gave us abortion on demand, trans kids & euthanasia.

rosie
rosie
March 2, 2022 2:52 am

I see I got a couple of word salads in response to someone thinking that getting vaccinated to see their only child isn’t good enough.
Let’s face it nothing is ever good enough for the pure of blood and their personal decisions.
And I have to say the two months and still going tears of rage over my personal decision to travel are as vintage champagne.
Already planning the next trip.

rosie
rosie
March 2, 2022 2:53 am

Still *gloating* about the surgically splattered people of the Ukraine hmsrr?

rosie
rosie
March 2, 2022 2:56 am

Said from the get go anyone pressuring others to take or not take the vaccine should myob.
Nothing has changed.

rosie
rosie
March 2, 2022 3:07 am

Angouleme.
The paper museum is the remains of the old paper mill over the Charente River which in turn was the remains of an abbey that mysteriously closed at the end of the 18th century.
Interesting but noisy as the water still gets forced through where the water wheels were.
The comic museum was pretty good, though they’ve closed the sections you could sit and read comics because of la grippe.
A lot of the old strips and movie shorts were in English, handy for me.
Included the first episode of Supermen from 1941 where he defeats the ‘mad scientist’.
Reminded me of how many comics we read and watched on TV when I was a kid, some of which got a mention, Superman, obviously, Popeye, Felix the Cat and Mr Magoo.
I walked back a bit of the way along the base of the ramparts, the French could spend a little money on repairing footpaths.

Gabor
Gabor
March 2, 2022 3:34 am

srr says:
March 2, 2022 at 2:11 am

Yeah, be careful who you look like you may agree with on a point or few here. The irrelevant noises will come after you for unacceptable association.

I don’t much care about approval here, ssr so what you say is not applicable.

I read some but not all your posts, but I have no time to follow up your links.
What I meant was that you seem to come from the same standpoint sooner or later, which is child molestation rings.

They do exist, no doubt, but not to the degree you make them out.
Quite frankly, this puts people off reading your posts straight away, it’s a pity bc some of them are relevant.

But your show, go for it, but pls don’t dismiss everyone with, “you just don’t like me”.

srr
srr
March 2, 2022 3:37 am

My Trip From Kiev to Kharkov Last Night (Birthday Stream)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zXeIBIpXfc

Streamed live 3 hours ago
Coach Red Pill

Tom
Tom
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Tom
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Tom
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Tom
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Tom
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Tom
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Tom
Tom
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Tom
Tom
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Tom
Tom
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Tom
Tom
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Tom
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Tom
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Tom
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rosie
rosie
March 2, 2022 4:49 am

“Bruno Le Maire returns to his remarks
After having attracted a very strong reaction from former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on the Twitter network concerning the remarks he made on Tuesday morning, on Franceinfo , declaring that France and the European Union were going to “deliver a total economic and financial war on Russia”, Bruno Le Maire returned, in a statement sent to Agence France-Presse on Tuesday at the start of the afternoon, to the belligerent vocabulary used.

The Minister of the Economy said that “the term war used this morning on Franceinfo was inappropriate and does not correspond to [their] strategy of de-escalation”. “We are not in conflict with the Russian people ,” stressed Mr. Le Maire.”

yes no

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
March 2, 2022 4:59 am

This is what Cassie and a number of other catallaxians have been saying for some time:

If my account of our moral condition is correct, we ought also to conclude that for some time now we too have reached that turning point. What matters at this stage is the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us.

— Alasdair MacIntyre

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 2, 2022 5:12 am

And then gets Barram to concede that in that house, Rolfe had none of the distance, time and visual perspective the US cop had, and also that Barram – an ‘expert’ – has slammed Rolfe for NOT doing what he told countless people on the Net should have been done when others did it.

KD, won’t Barram still have an illustrious career with NT Pol?
Even though under cross he was made to look like a fool, the most important thing for the big cheeses was that he went all in on their narrative & stuck to it.
He was willing to give up all credibility, all so he could stay in their cool kids club.
Just a thought.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 2, 2022 5:28 am

Nothing will happen to Zuckerberg for what he did but maybe it will mean he’ll have to change strategy for future elections.

Breaking: Special Counsel Finds Mark Zuckerberg’s Election Money Violated Wisconsin Bribery Laws

https://thefederalist.com/2022/03/01/breaking-special-counsel-finds-mark-zuckerbergs-election-money-violated-wisconsin-bribery-laws/

win
win
March 2, 2022 5:39 am

Both Daniel Andrews and Justine Trudeau have given themselves what seems to be Putin style powers .What can Daniel Andrews do with his emergency legislation? we know what Trudeau did with his.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 2, 2022 5:41 am

Apple has cut Russia off from the Apple Pay function on all its devices.
I’m still working out how just how bad this is.

Gabor
Gabor
March 2, 2022 5:45 am

feelthebern says:
March 2, 2022 at 5:41 am

Apple has cut Russia off from the Apple Pay function on all its devices.
I’m still working out how just how bad this is.

Displaying my ignorance here, but what is “Apple Pay”, and if it’s anything like PayPal are thy not cutting their own noses?

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 2, 2022 5:52 am

Apple pay is the tap function on your phone & apple watch that connects your bank account, credit card.
It’s another Big Tech beta test.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 2, 2022 6:16 am

Last night twostix posted about Victoria Nuland.
All of which was correct.
But she’s even worse than you pointed out.

From 2003 to 2005, Nuland served as the principal deputy foreign policy adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, exercising an influential role during the years the U.S. invaded and occupied Iraq.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Nuland

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
March 2, 2022 6:19 am

So Snot Moronson has the coof. Is that the one that causes stupidity of the highest level. PM level of stupidity, yep he’s got it, had it all the time. It was the hidden coof. Somehow I can’t see him ever recovering.

Is it the saline vaccine to blame?

Gabor
Gabor
March 2, 2022 6:21 am

feelthebern says:
March 2, 2022 at 5:52 am

Apple pay is the tap function on your phone & apple watch that connects your bank account, credit card.
It’s another Big Tech beta test.

Thanks
I have a Motorola, with numbers and letters on the keypad so no problem here.

Dot
Dot
March 2, 2022 6:22 am

Even though under cross he was made to look like a fool, the most important thing for the big cheeses was that he went all in on their narrative & stuck to it.

Chief Minister material. Maybe even a uniparty Lib/Lab PM.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 2, 2022 6:23 am

How many serious journalists know that one of the architects of the Iraq war (who is married to one of the key players in building the false AQ-Saddam connection) has been up to her neck in Ukraine politics for a decade & is the Biden Administrations point person on it now?

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
March 2, 2022 6:24 am

Just read an interesting opinion that Russia is only taking the opening gambit in a realignment of the world order that will involve China, India, iran and North Korea.

Read 2 pieces along the same lines yesterday by guys who have backgrounds in foreign affairs/intelligence. Remember the history lessons about the world before WWI, hard not to think we are witnessing an alignment of similar purposes and by a very large bloc sharing borders.

Dot
Dot
March 2, 2022 6:24 am

Not dead yet.

Just groggy and a headache from waking in the wee! hours with a very intense itching for an hour.

Arm is a tiny bit sore, no numbness or coldness.

I’ve only got 14 – 44 months to go. Definitely going to start dating single mothers and careless shark dives.

…Rosebud.

Dot
Dot
March 2, 2022 6:27 am

Bern

One of the good things about stoushes other than creative insults is if you read the whole argument as a third party, you get a better sense of the news than whatever pap is on MSM.

I doubt I would know who Nuland was if I watched The Projectile Vomit & CNNNNN.

Megan
Megan
March 2, 2022 6:28 am

Apple pay is the tap function on your phone & apple watch that connects your bank account, credit card.
It’s another Big Tech beta test.

Probably only the oligarchs will care. And then not much. It’s not exactly a survival critical component of modern warfare.

Like Dan Murphy’s completely pointless ban on Russian alcohol. It’s theatre for the dumb of mind and blunt of intellect.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 2, 2022 6:31 am

Probably only the oligarchs will care. And then not much. It’s not exactly a survival critical component of modern warfare.

Apple Pay means merchants don’t have thugs turning up on your shop door asking for cash.

Razey
Razey
March 2, 2022 6:38 am

Beware the ides of March.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 2, 2022 6:40 am

Big Tech does something, that’s ok, it doesn’t impact me.
Or it impacts people I don’t like.

Like Alex Jones getting deplatformed & banned from payment gateways.
Direct line from that to Trump getting banned.

Apple does this to an entire countries citizens.
What happens when a country votes a way Apple deems to be “unacceptable”?
There will be a direct line from the Russia Apple pay situation to that.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 2, 2022 6:41 am

Country’s.
Not countries.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
March 2, 2022 6:42 am

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/3/1/analysis-can-african-gas-replace-russian-supplies-to-europe

If they can work out the problems with infrastructure and protect a pipeline through some of the most unstable regions in the world with countries that hate each other or have rebellious provinces, then it could work. However looking at administrative side of the house a lot of admin problems, multiple countries/provinces/war lords to deal with and starting from scratch not a viable short term solution.

Anchor What
Anchor What
March 2, 2022 6:46 am

Today in Election Fraud news:
Wisconsin Special Counsel Implicates Obama Campaign Manager David Plouffe and ERIC’s David Becker in Wisconsin Election Fraud Investigation.
Link
Note 1 – the body supposedly looking at purification of voter rolls (ERIC) is funded by Uncle George and run by someone not sympathetic to conservatives. Gateway Pundit has done a series of pieces about this group, links at the link.
Note 2 – the judge has recommended that Wisconsin decertify the 2020 election.

miltonf
miltonf
March 2, 2022 6:48 am

What happens when a country votes a way Apple deems to be “unacceptable”?

well the USA voted a way Facefilth and Goolag deemed to be “unacceptable” in 2016 and we saw what happened- from antifa beating people up to censorship and misinformation. Just like to USSR.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 2, 2022 6:55 am

Ah the joys of the 21stC surveillance state: the recycling bin inspectors are peering into all the bins on my street. Who will get pinged this time? It’s Kafkaesque that these days even your garbage is not safe.

miltonf
miltonf
March 2, 2022 6:56 am

Remember when Austria elected Jorg Heider? That was unacceptable to that post democratic abomination called the EU.

Anchor What
Anchor What
March 2, 2022 7:01 am

Meanwhile over at News dot com the lefty kids serve up this:
Bathroom sex act you need to try!
Astrologer advises the time is right to experiment with something different.

miltonf
miltonf
March 2, 2022 7:03 am

Bathroom sex act you need to try!
Astrologer advises the time is right to experiment with something different.

more proof that the meja is evil- think too of mukky rags like Dolly corrupting minors

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
March 2, 2022 7:07 am

ABC rural radio full of climate change vomit this morning after the coastal flooding up north.
Will Stefan providing a finger down the throat quote and some tool from Federation University telling farmers they needed to reduce their use of fertilisers and pesticides to combat climate change.
He was happy that Wimmera Mallee farmers didn’t burn much.
The insufferable twat gave his approval of that. Fuck off!

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
March 2, 2022 7:18 am

Mentioning the saline jab Tinta, I am wondering about that in the ACT. Wife had AZ shot and was in a lot of discomfort,e.g. overheating and sore joints. Second shot, nothing. What I was thinking, was the second round here saline due to being APS town the government doesn’t want them going down cause they’re the biggest bunch of whingers around and certainly would let it be known. I never heard of many side effects at all. If I am sounding like ssr please tell me as this is just an observation not a conspiracy theory but these days the theorists seem to be winning hands down. Nothing surprises me now except the first shot in anger has not been fired back.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 2, 2022 7:26 am

I’ve only got 14 – 44 months to go.

13 – 43 months Dot. If you’ve ever considered a fling with a transexual librarian, time to start planning.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
March 2, 2022 7:27 am

BoN the inspectors have to prove it was you that put the infringing article in the bin. If its down the bottom may be a bit easier. If in doubt stick it in someone else’s bin.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 2, 2022 7:40 am

Dot, remember you only have a small window to do whatever you want & blame it on the jab side effects.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 2, 2022 7:44 am

KD, won’t Barram still have an illustrious career with NT Pol?
Even though under cross he was made to look like a fool, the most important thing for the big cheeses was that he went all in on their narrative & stuck to it.

The big cheeses won’t survive it either bern. From arms’ length, and because:
1. The NT jacks are only about 1800 strong compared to 15,000ish for the big southern states;
2. The head sheds are deeply entwined with government;
3. Rolfe was charged by the Commish, Chalker, because he owed the Chief Minister (Gunner) favours for giving him the job in the first place (Chalker jumped as an Assistant Commissioner into the Department of Housing, where he was in charge of squandering untold millions for remote housing for three years before coming back as the big kabana, AND at the time the crook was shot that government was in real danger of being ousted mid-election cycle;
4. They’ve already lost three Assistant Commissioners in the past two and a bit years – one whose name was on the charges is on permanent ‘sick leave’, another left because she was tricked into getting Rolfe back to the NT after the shooting where he was arrested and charged, and another resigned before Chalker could sack him after he lied about rooting the head HR chick; and
5. Moreso (it would appear) than any other cop show in the country, everyone knows each other;

Barram’s furtherance of his career as a sniveller will be unworkable. He will find piss in his locker, his keys will go missing, his tyres will be slashed and he will not be spoken to by anyone other than to be told to go fuck himself. His top cover – his beloved sponsors who he hitched his wagon to – are either gone or in complete self-preservation mode.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 2, 2022 7:45 am

Diplomats staging a walk out is childish.
How come the world is so retarded.

Razey
Razey
March 2, 2022 7:45 am

Tintarella di Lunasays:
March 2, 2022 at 4:59 am
This is what Cassie and a number of other catallaxians have been saying for some time:

If my account of our moral condition is correct, we ought also to conclude that for some time now we too have reached that turning point. What matters at this stage is the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us.

— Alasdair MacIntyre

Alasdair himself says that sentence was taken out of context.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA2LrtGgTM4

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 2, 2022 7:47 am

The ship full of EVs and Bentleys sank overnight.

Massive Cargo Ship Carrying Cars Sinks in Mid-Atlantic (1 Mar)

The Felicity Ace sank about 400 kilometers (250 miles) off Portugal’s Azores Islands as it was being towed, MOL Ship Management in Singapore said in a statement. A salvage team had put out the fire.

The 200-meter-long (650-foot-long) vessel listed to starboard before going under, the ship’s manager said.

There’s now talk of wrapping EVs in fireproof bags for transport.

Claim: Electric Vehicles are being Shipped in Fire Retardant Bags (28 Feb)

Looks like the car companies, and their insurers, are going to have a bit of a problem.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
March 2, 2022 7:48 am

That’s funny knuckles, I once knew one. It and its wife were divorcing. I was instructing his son in judo and when we showed up to a party at its place, invite through wife’s business, son was so embarrassed. Here’s his father in with his hair done up wearing a caftan but really looked more like a mumu. I had a chat with the kid after training during the week. Poor kid. These freaks are so self absorbed. Wreck everyone’s around them lives. I’ve only ever seen a couple of homos that were the slightest bit rational, all the rest made the stupidist decisions in the quest for the next bit of arse. I have no time for the alphabet contingent.

Pogria
Pogria
March 2, 2022 7:51 am

GreyRangasays:
March 2, 2022 at 7:18 am

I believe you are right in your thoughts.

I sincerely believe that all pollies have only received the saline shot, particularly if they had to do it for the meeja. The whole lot of the festering cabal became shit-scared of the jab after that NSW pollie had half his face drop after the jab. Haven’t heard from or about him since.

calli
calli
March 2, 2022 7:51 am

There’s now talk of wrapping EVs in fireproof bags for transport.

That’s nice.

Can the purchaser keep the fire proof bag for their garage?

Struth
March 2, 2022 7:51 am

St. Ruth says fuck you, fuck your job, fuck your family and wishes a clot and death upon you.

I see I got a couple of word salads in response to someone thinking that getting vaccinated to see their only child isn’t good enough.
Let’s face it nothing is ever good enough for the pure of blood and their personal decisions.
And I have to say the two months and still going tears of rage over my personal decision to travel are as vintage champagne.
Already planning the next trip.

Definitely nothing to interest the psychiatrist here!

Although what do they know?
They’d blame their parents and some sort of child hood drama.
Yet inner demons they are definitely fighting.
It’s so incredibly obvious, that although the sheeple here won’t have the guts to agree with me, you can see it a mile off.
The comment by Notafan is high delusion. Completely without logic and claiming the “pure Bloods” will never be satisfied, so fuck ’em, join the NAZI party and stick your finger up at them.
All while claiming her good Nazi holiday is actually a rellie run to see her kiddies, who are obviously waiting with a tear in their eye, like a 1970’s commercial for long distance phone calls, (the song memories the sound track) for her in the art galleries of Europe.
She also likes to delude herself that somehow her actions are causing tears of rage, which is no more than wishful thinking.
In fact, from February 2020, we’ve been able to use her as a prime example of every wrong response to this psych war, something she continues to this day.
She’s virtually certifiable.

However, some around here won’t notice, they too show just how lost they are, only too willing to gloat at Dot’s survival for 24 hours as if it justifies their position, and makes the jabs perfectly safe.
The childish emotion ridden mocking of me because he’s still alive, says way more about you than you realise.
I understand the arguments for resisting have long since been dismissed here, besides the health issues, and with that we watch the mental and moral decay of the fallen as they battle their inner demons.
It’s very sad.

calli
calli
March 2, 2022 7:52 am

Keep the travelogues coming, rosie. I’m enjoying them.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
March 2, 2022 7:52 am

Looks like the car companies, and their insurers, are going to have a bit of a problem.

Didn’t happen, not true.
Propaganda from anti climate change activists.
BELIEVE!

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 2, 2022 7:53 am

Mark from Melbourne, overnight, on the old people returning from the Goldy casino:

In any event, they come back and test +ve for the dreaded couff.

Neither of them is allowed medical care. Well, to be more precise, family are informed that the choice is “go home and isolate” or the “public COVID wards… and you won’t come out of there alive” (direct quote, obviously a teeny, tiny tad overstated, but direct quote nonetheless).

When they improve, family is told of what a triumph this is for the jabs.
….
When did we stop treating sick people? Especially sick, old people?

I’m not sure I understand this. What did the oldies (or their family) want for them? Is this a crack at the private hospital system, or something else? Go home, or if you’re sick enough go to hospital. What else is there?

Another question I feel should be asked:

What are their co-morbidities, given their age?

calli
calli
March 2, 2022 7:53 am

Oh dear. That was a poorly timed encouragement from me. As usual.

P
P
March 2, 2022 7:54 am

The Guardian
Josh Butler and Sarah Martin
Wed 2 Mar 2022 03.30 AEDT

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 2, 2022 7:56 am

I would not want to be a salesperson for Ovu-Mate today.

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/racing/savatiano-disqualified-from-group-1-cummings-slugged-10-000-20220301-p5a0r7.html

I’m guessing the process was contaminated.
Then again, nothing is out of the question.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 2, 2022 7:59 am

Worst plague evah news.

95-Year-Old Queen Beats Coronavirus, and Returns to Duties (1 Mar)

She’s a tough old biddy.

Razey
Razey
March 2, 2022 8:05 am

At this point, since we are no longer welcome in this country, all pure bloods should be granted free passage out of Australia for a country of their choice that has human rights.

Let the Sheep enjoy their new totalitarian paradise in peace.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 2, 2022 8:11 am

Anecdotal story from a reliable source.

A few years back this walking pine cone called Barram was driving around Alice Springs in the company car. Gets out of car. Does whatever. Loses keys while doing whatever.

Walks back to the station, where he hides for the rest of the shift. Goes home. Doesn’t tell anybody.

Nice expert witness you’ve got there, boys.

Struth
March 2, 2022 8:13 am

While the unjabbed remain fighting fit, our PM, triple jabbed apparently, gets covid.
You couldn’t make this shit up.
Meanwhile back here at the ranch, the lost continue their insanity.
There are millions of unjabbed in this country.
Millions.
There are more unjabbed and clued in people on twitter than here.
The once proud right wingers, ahead of the game, have lost the plot.
In an SA town I went through last week, I spent a night with some great young people all armed to the teeth.
Pig shooting.
They knew my stand on the jab, and not one of the 20 had been jabbed.
Fiercely opposed.
Just thought you’d want some good news here as you roll around in your sneering failure.
Some of you had emergency reasons to take the jab.
Most did not.
And it’s eating you up because you did.
Classic human behaviour to then find reasons to dismiss those that haven’t.
This blog has some psycho messes on it these days.
And the clear thinkers here know it, they just don’t say much.
So why do I?
Because as this globalist attack continues, mental decline and emotionalism is the goal of all socialists, and without constantly looking at our behaviour as citizens of a once free nation (people died to leave us), we’d continue to decline, doing things like watching the theatre in Ukraine and not watching what our enemies are doing as we do.
Without the psychological pressure the severe tyranny of the last two years has caused, who would really be jumping with glee to soak up every little detail of a border skirmish on the other side of the world that is being hyped up and started by those that want us under their total control or dead?
Oh……

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 2, 2022 8:20 am

In an SA town I went through last week, I spent a night with some great young people all armed to the teeth

Was this before or after you rammed the checkpoint?

Or before or after you compliantly followed the best health advice and left Quenthland without permission? To see those rellos you initially claimed had nobody to ‘look after them’, except they did?

Also – I thought ‘they have all the guns‘.

Oh……

Top Ender
Top Ender
March 2, 2022 8:21 am

Interesting article…some new angles…

Putin’s Ukraine invasion has killed Pollyanna politics
JANET ALBRECHTSEN

Vladimir Putin has not just invaded Ukraine, he effectively has slaughtered Pollyanna politics on his way to the capital, Kyiv. Pollyanna politics devises policy and implements it based on what we would like, or hope, mankind to be, not on what it is. Pollyanna politics is sweet, utopian and laudable but, alas, deluded.

Some of its hallmark beliefs include that war is terrible and thus we should not prepare for it; that even dictators are rational and thus can be appeased; that fossil fuels are disgusting and thus we should turn to renewables now even though renewables don’t yet supply baseload power. Pollyanna politics believes a rules-based global order in trade and defence is so manifestly preferable to the law of the jungle that even the kings of the jungle will play by the rules.

Angela Merkel was the poster girl for Pollyanna politics, though Barack Obama was a close second and Joe Biden is not far behind.

Merkel ran her country’s defence forces into the ground, phased out nuclear power and coal industries, rendering Germany reliant on Russian oil and gas in the deluded belief the Russians would play nice until the world found a way to make renewable energy supply our power needs instantly and without intermissions. When Merkel signed the Nord Stream 2 deal, the Kremlin put out this statement: “The Russian president praised the German side’s steadfast loyalty regarding the completion of this purely commercial project that is designed to strengthen Germany’s energy security.”

That Merkel, a patently smart woman, hoped Putin would comply with the global rules-based order long enough for Germany to invent renewable technology demonstrates the seductive power of Pollyanna politics.

The former German chancellor was surely well-motivated, generous and believed in the goodness and perfectibility of mankind. Just as she did when she swung open borders to refugees in 2015, only to have reality step in and force some restrictions on her migration policies. What’s German for Pollyanna politics? Wir schaffen das: we’ll manage this. Merkel used the phrase over and over again.

The problem with Pollyanna politics is it ignores the world as it is. It assumes that even all-powerful dictators such as Putin – and, it must be said, Xi Jinping – suffer enough checks and balances to make them rational and logical. This was clearly wrong in Putin’s case. While we should take talk of Putin suffering mental health issues with a grain of salt, clearly he lacks nay-sayers or political counterbalances that would cause him to worry about the consequences of his actions.

Even his military chiefs reportedly are concerned that he has put his nuclear deterrence forces on special alert. That said, Putin’s success in Chechnya, Syria, Crimea and in domestic Russian politics has led him to believe his propaganda. And Western weakness has only emboldened him.

This weakness has produced the appalling violence and terror of the invasion of Ukraine and will cause a profound shock in global trading systems. It will force countries, especially Germany, to re-evaluate the speed of carbon transition. The sanctions on Russia and the world’s increasing unwillingness to trade with it will largely sever Russia from the global trading system and dry up investment flows.

For too long the world has turned a blind eye to corrupt Russian inflows of money. And cosied up to Russian companies; former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder is on the board of Russian oil giant Rosneft. BP has announced it will offload its 19.75 per cent stake in Rosneft, which produces huge dividends for BP shareholders (including Australian and other global pension funds). BP is likely to receive a pittance for this stake, only a fortnight ago worth $US14bn ($19.3bn), given the only buyers will be Russian. These sorts of economic shocks will be echoed and multiplied across many companies and industries.

While Western economies and their voters and pensioners will survive the loss of trade with Russia because it is only a middle power economically, what if Xi takes Western weakness as a cue to invade Taiwan?

We can only hope that if China decides to offer the West a choice between trading with it and allowing it to invade Taiwan, our decision-makers are not Italian or Belgian. When, last week, the EU finally decided to impose serious sanctions on Russia, the Italians sought an exemption so its fashion industry could continue to sell Prada clothes and Gucci handbags to oligarchs and Belgium wanted an exemption to continue selling diamonds to Russia. The lesson for non-Pollyanna leaders is to start planning now for the day when trade with China may be suddenly cut off.

The headlong plunge into a carbon transition without reliable replacements for fossil fuels is also something that could survive only in a Pollyanna world. Merkel meant well but it was wishful thinking to throw Germany to the mercies of Putin and his gas fields by closing German nuclear and coal-fired power industries. Similarly, it’s surely not smart for Joe Biden to declare war on America’s oil and gas industries before the world works out how to fill the gap in energy supplies caused by Russia gas being declared unwelcome. This is not an argument against carbon transition – only an argument about its pace. There is no sense in ostracising fossil fuels until we have a reliable replacement in all reasonably foreseeable circumstances, including the circumstances we now face as a result of Russian aggression.

There are many other limbs to Pollyanna politics but the one to dwell on today is defence. After years of American pleading, the German government has acknowledged that it has denuded itself of a realistic defence capability and will now lift its defence spending above the 2 per cent of gross domestic product demanded by the US.

Western democracies, especially in Europe, for too long have buried their collective heads in the sand, preferring to spend money on welfare, not defence. Understandable, perhaps even laudable, at least in intent. But stupid, and predictably so.

There is an abject lesson for Australia, and other countries, given Xi shows all the signs of treating Putin’s Ukraine adventure as a test run for Taiwan. The non-Pollyanna thing to do would be to start planning now for the worst scenarios. By all means, let’s hope for the best – but let us plan for the worst.

Oz

Roger
Roger
March 2, 2022 8:22 am

ABC rural radio full of climate change vomit this morning after the coastal flooding up north.

Best advised not to click on any news feed link to Twitter reactions.

These people not only vote, they’re driving government policy.

They could give the Ukrainians lessons in propaganda.

Roger
Roger
March 2, 2022 8:24 am

Interesting article…some new angles…

All discussed here before, TE.

Check out Leak’s cartoon from yesterday too.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 2, 2022 8:27 am

Vladimir Putin has not just invaded Ukraine, he effectively has slaughtered Pollyanna politics on his way to the capital, Kyiv. Pollyanna politics devises policy and implements it based on what we would like, or hope, mankind to be, not on what it is. Pollyanna politics is sweet, utopian and laudable but, alas, deluded.

Make sure you have your bingo card ready for SOTU.

Biden To Pitch Climate Agenda, Revival Of “Build Back Better” During First State Of The Union Address (2 Mar)

Gretas are even worse than Pollyannas.

Dot
Dot
March 2, 2022 8:29 am

“The situation in Ukraine is complex…”

NAYZEE!!!

Cassie of Sydney
March 2, 2022 8:36 am

How many serious journalists know that one of the architects of the Iraq war (who is married to one of the key players in building the false AQ-Saddam connection) has been up to her neck in Ukraine politics for a decade & is the Biden Administrations point person on it now?”

Where are the “serious journalists”? I don’t know of any here in Oz. Watching Bolt the Dolt last night, when I wasn’t feeling physically sick, I felt a nauseating embarrassment. Chris Kenny and Janet Albrechtsen are okay but even they toe the line when it comes to stuff such as Ukraine/Russia. Jennifer Oriel, who I once thought was quite solid, seems to have lost the plot. I haven’t seen one piece in the Oz explaining Russia’s side or at least trying to show some balance/nuance about the complex situation. The MSM here have all decided to paint Putin as Hitler (he’s no such thing) and Zelensky as Churchill (he’s no such thing). I looked at the Oz yesterday and all I could see was wall to wall propaganda that Russia is evil and that Ukrainians are plucky little freedom fighters like the people of Belgian in World War I. As for Greg Sheridan, the less said the better. And the left? Across the West the left have sold their souls to global corporatism.

At least in the US and UK they have some quality independent journalists, such Greenwald, Mate and Taibbi, yet whilst they are sidelined by a corrupt MSM, they can get their message out. And Tucker Carlson is a godsend. But here in Oz, it’s a desert. Most people out there, who only read MSM rubbish, would be CLUELESS about the sinister activities of America, Nuland and her other half…the grotesque Kagan, in Ukrainian affairs. The unpleasant and unpopular truth is that the US has been using Ukraine as a satellite to destabilise Putin and Russia for over a decade. Zelensky is their puppet. Does anyone reckon that the US would tolerate a similar destabilising regime in…say…..Mexico? I doubt that very much.

The late Professor Stephen Cohen, the esteemed Russian historian, warned about this for years. Cohen died in 2020. He was hardly some far-right figure, his politics were always left and he was married to the editor of The Nation. But Cohen (and others like Mearsheimer) warned for years about the ramifications of what the US was doing in Ukraine, and since 2016 he and others warned how the deliberate use by the progressive left, the Democrats, the MSM and the various politically compromised security agencies such as the CIA, to use Putin and Russia as a tool to vilify and destabilise the democratically elected Trump would have profound consequences. You don’t say.

Trish Wood, who’s a semi-retired Canadian journalist, is really worth listening to. She’s probably one of Canada’s most eminent journalists. She blew the whistle on Fauci back in the 1980s for his outrageous mishandling of the AIDS crisis. Her stuff is great. She’s also called out the whole Covid fear governance and was anti-lockdown from the beginning. Given her experience with Fauci, she knew Fauci would mishandle the Covid management. Wood isn’t any Trumpist or right-winger but she believes, as I do, that the whole Covid fear and hysteria was beaten up by the MSM and left to destroy Trump. Recently she’s been calling out the Canadian MSM for the corrupt leviathans that they are. We’ve seen how the MSM in Canada treated the truckers, they simply parroted Turdeau’s line that they were all white supremacist, far-right, misogynist Nazis. Not one mainstream media outlet in Canada deviated from that line.

Wood has a weekly apple podcast with guests ranging from Gad Saad, James Delingpole, Meghan Murphy and even our own Sharri Markson*. Last night I listened to her discussion with Benjamin Boye (a good friend of Bret Weinstein and an-student of Evergreen) on Boyce’s podast. Woods talked about the corrupt MSM and how they deliberately paint, smear and silence anyone who doesn’t toe the official line. She also provides some nuance on what Putin’s moves.

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/trish-wood-is-critical/id1513237951

* re. Markson, not a bad journalist and she does actually do some investigatory journalism. But I suspect even she wouldn’t deviate from the Putin = Hitler and Russia = evil line.

Just to be clear, because I’m somewhat tired of having to preface everything by describing Putin as a “thug” or the invasion as wrong. Yes, Putin’s a thug…so what. Just remember, the US has propped up and protected many thugs over the decades. I’m also against the invasion. I thought Putin might simply try and take the Russian majority eastern regions, like he did with Crimea (a region which, until the 1950s, had long been part of Russia).

I pity the Ukrainian people. I don’t pity the US props Zelensky and the Ukrainian government.

We are witnessing is a major realignment of global power.

Apologies about the rant!

Roger
Roger
March 2, 2022 8:37 am

Biden To Pitch Climate Agenda, Revival Of “Build Back Better” During First State Of The Union Address (2 Mar)

Given discussions here in recent days…one rather obscure feature of BBB was expanding IRS powers to confiscate crypto-currency to recover debts.

Whether BBB gets up or no, you can be sure that legislation will at some point.

With governments, where there’s a will, there’s a way.

Struth
March 2, 2022 8:43 am

When an injection has killed people, even just one, and somebody mandates it, they are a murderer.
That is simple and straight forward logic.
Dot is angry, as he righty should be, forced to play the Government’s Russian roulette with a gun we find has more than one bullet, but it seems the breach is loaded and there is a twenty round magazine .

I note that all the doctors like Robert Malone and the American front line doctors have said, and many ACTUAL immunologists and experts since the beginning is coming true.

Sco Mo’s natural immunity is in the process of being destroyed if he has taken the jab.
If he hasn’t taken the jab, he has a cold.
The vaccines do the reverse of what is claimed they do.

A while back on Catallaxy, wise people would say things like, “whatever you suspect a lefty of doing, what they are actually doing will be worse”
The reasons most of the jabbed have only a few years left have been presented by the good doctors of the world again and again, and although dismissed from the start , EVEN ROBERT MALONE, they have been putting it out there now for years.
The evidence is overwhelming.
VAIDS.
Your natural immune system will fail, it kills it, and that’s without what it’s doing to your organs, especially hearts livers, kidneys and lungs etc, right now.
Of course, every death won’t be blamed on the jab, as AIDS lets all diseases in, and the spike protein

It wasn’t the soccer ball that killed the healthy young soccer players.
It wasn’t the football that killed the healthy young soccer players!
No matter what the CMO has to say about contaminated footballs.
You nearly all know someone who’s had bad side effects from taking these.
People that immediately drop dead after a shot are counted as unvaccinated if it occurs less than 14 days after the death jab, 3 weeks in NSW.
And so on it goes.
You all know these things.
You all know that this is global and pushed by the Davos mobsters, the WEF.
All that shit that fear made you denounce as conspiracy theory, which is was always fact?

Is the correct action to take a death jab, be angry about it, but then try to joke about your impending death ?
Or is it to ream the bastards that did it to you, another arsehole?

Cassie of Sydney
March 2, 2022 8:44 am

“Top Endersays:
March 2, 2022 at 8:21 am
Interesting article…some new angles…

Putin’s Ukraine invasion has killed Pollyanna politics
JANET ALBRECHTSEN”

Very good piece by Janet. At least she’s thinking outside the box. Also, clearly, Janet watched the Starkey piece that went viral.

Roger
Roger
March 2, 2022 8:44 am

How many serious journalists know that one of the architects of the Iraq war (who is married to one of the key players in building the false AQ-Saddam connection) has been up to her neck in Ukraine politics for a decade & is the Biden Administrations point person on it now?”

Who is Victoria Nuland?

Struth
March 2, 2022 8:47 am

Was this before or after you rammed the checkpoint?

We can see what’s eating you up, KD, no need to make it so obvious.

So I ask you this, if your parent or your son was dying on one side of a state border, and they stopped you crossing it, what would you do?

Living the dream
Living the dream
March 2, 2022 8:49 am

Cassie, propagandist of the Putin mob, completely whitewashes recent history. She ignores the blatant corruption of Putin’s puppets, who were literally punted from Ukraine by its citizens. People who stayed on the streets and were beaten and, finally shot (123 died) as they time and again simply stood up. Her disgraceful, utterly immoral position is simply apologia for a criminal Russian effort to extract wealth from the populations of these countries. I fervently hope she is deported (to Russia)

shatterzzz
March 2, 2022 8:49 am

I’ve noticed there are lotza memes and comments across the net comparing Putin to Hitler so I’ll assume that these folk aren’t history, especially, WW2 enthusiasts ..
Heinrich Himmler between 1942 – 1945 recruited over 650 000 foreigners into various branches of the armed SS .. of all the different nationalities he was most impressed by “his” Ukrainians because of their unbridled enthusiasm for partaking in the Eastern atrocities .. Ukrainian volunteers were heavily, and in most cases enthusiastically, involved in the “final solution’ and were fully engaged in numerous “einsatzgruppen” style operations in the occupied East ..!
This isn’t heresay it is FACT borne out by hundreds of documents & witness statements from various war-crimes trials conducted after WW2 ..
Lotza selective memories out there when it comes to the finger pointing!

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 2, 2022 8:50 am

On a familiar theme (the Hun):

A huge Russian military convoy was massing on the outskirts of Ukraine’s capital Tuesday as fears grew the invading forces were set to launch devastating assaults aimed at taking control of Kyiv and other major cities.

Satellite images showed a long build-up of armoured vehicles and artillery starting 29 kilometres north of the city

Okay….

The column is more than 65 kilometres long and covers the entire road from near Antonov airport outside Kyiv to the town of Prybirsk, US satellite imaging company Maxar said.

Ah. 65 kilometres long. Forget I said anything.

Where’s the Ghost of Kyiv when you need him?

sfw
sfw
March 2, 2022 8:52 am

Cassie, great rant and thanks for info on Trish Wood. I listen to heaps of podcasts and haven’t come across her before, I’ll give her a go. You mentioned James Delingpole, I’ve been a long time listener to his podcasts as well as London Calling. He’s still pretty good but appears to be becoming a foil hat wearer at times. Some of his guests are full on lizard men people and James doesn’t seem sceptical at all when they start expounding some crazy theories. I’ve always been one who when given the choice between a conspiracy and a coincidence I go for the coincidence, lately I’m starting to lean a little towards conspiracies especially re Trump but James is full on.

calli
calli
March 2, 2022 8:52 am

Apologies about the rant!

Chuckle. Just read it to the Beloved. He likes your style girlie!

The US and their manipulative foreign adventures while braying mitts off to anyone else is hypocrisy on stilts.

Cassie of Sydney
March 2, 2022 8:53 am

Everyone “Killing the dream”….aka the mediocre teacher from Toowoomba, has arrived on the OT. Aren’t we lucky!

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 2, 2022 8:54 am

Cassie

Does anyone reckon that the US would tolerate a similar destabilising regime in…say…..Mexico? I doubt that very much.

The Zimmerman telegram of 1917 comes to mind.

Roger
Roger
March 2, 2022 8:56 am

Kiev: ‘Thank you Poland, Bulgaria & Czech Republic for sending warplanes.’

Poland, Bulgaria & Czech Republic: ‘Er…we didn’t send any planes. We’re not getting involved.’

This Zelensky bloke has some chutzpah.*

*As defined in ‘The Joys of Yiddish’, not American film & TV.

calli
calli
March 2, 2022 8:57 am

I was thinking Cuba.

But it’s different when they do it.

calli
calli
March 2, 2022 8:59 am

If Putin = Hitler, does Communism = Nazi?

😀

Mind you, everyone you disagree with is Hitler.

Struth
March 2, 2022 9:00 am

Now KD.
You were desperate to get to your relatives interstate so you took the jab.
I understand that.
What the government did to you is to stand at an internal checkpoint and bar you access to your family and laughed in your face while they handed you a gun to point at your head and told you to pull the trigger Russian Roulette style, if you wanted to get to your family.
That is exactly what happened.
I didn’t do it.
Who should you be taking your anger out on?
How much anger should be taken out?
Hey, what’s done is done, I suppose.
If only Struth would shut up about it.

Roger
Roger
March 2, 2022 9:01 am

You mentioned James Delingpole, I’ve been a long time listener to his podcasts as well as London Calling.

There’s no shortage of journalists and anti-journalists on the Right who are monetising political controversy. It’s all about the hits.

Caveat emptor.

Struth
March 2, 2022 9:02 am

Must go to Brissy.
You’ll be spared anymore comments about the real war we are facing today.
You’ll be able to lose yourselves in the Ukraine to your heart’s content.

Cassie of Sydney
March 2, 2022 9:03 am

Oh and Killing the dream, I note you keep on avoiding the following question from the “Meme” thread…

Next time those theocratic fascist thugs, Hamas and Hezbollah, lob rockets into Israel, will you express your support and solidarity with Israel and the brave Israeli people?

Or are you selective when it comes to “freedom” and ‘freedom fighters”.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
March 2, 2022 9:06 am

Old Bloke, the Z cars clip brought back some great memories.
“Z Victor won this is Z Victor tew, kum in Z Victor won” was a oft repeated phrase in the little OSC household.
As for seeing young Judi Dench and Brian Blessed in black and white – wow!
Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

Cassie of Sydney
March 2, 2022 9:06 am

“sfwsays:
March 2, 2022 at 8:52 am”

Agree…but he’s still good. I think lockdown sent him a bit batshit crazy.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 2, 2022 9:06 am

Does anyone reckon that the US would tolerate a similar destabilising regime in…say…..Mexico? I doubt that very much.

Um, about that Mexican thought…

Migrant Apprehensions Surge in Texas’ Most Remote Border Region (28 Feb)

Exclusive: Texas DPS, Military Warn Border Personnel of Possible Retaliation from Mexican Gulf Cartel (27 Feb)

The sentiment is valid but the example is slightly unfortunate. Perhaps Vlad should build a wall ?

Cassie of Sydney
March 2, 2022 9:07 am

I just love how the progressive left suddenly believes in borders.

Roger
Roger
March 2, 2022 9:09 am

Hammer meets nail:

Hillary Clinton says Ukraine is Afghanistan 1980 (yep, she gets the year wrong) all over again.

We should arm Ukrainians like we did the Mujahideen and force regime change in Russia.

Cassie of Sydney
March 2, 2022 9:10 am

“sfwsays:
March 2, 2022 at 8:52 am”

You’ll like Trish.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 2, 2022 9:11 am

Speaking of Hamas, having a great big distraction going on has its uses for a wet lefty government.

Gantz announces more relief for Gaza (1 Mar)

Got to keep the Arab Muslim party in the coalition happy, since they’ve been showing signs of being antsy lately.

miltonf
miltonf
March 2, 2022 9:13 am

Great analysis Cassie- not a rant at all. I was only vaguely aware of Washington’s meddling in the Ukraine.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
March 2, 2022 9:14 am

Living the dreamsays:
March 2, 2022 at 8:49 am
Cassie, propagandist of the Putin mob, completely whitewashes recent history. She ignores the blatant corruption of Putin’s puppets, who were literally punted from Ukraine by its citizens. People who stayed on the streets and were beaten and, finally shot (123 died) as they time and again simply stood up. Her disgraceful, utterly immoral position is simply apologia for a criminal Russian effort to extract wealth from the populations of these countries. I fervently hope she is deported (to Russia)

How many tents were shot is a more worthy way of telling how the war is going. Send message to Uncle Ho.

lotocoti
lotocoti
March 2, 2022 9:15 am

Looks like thermobaric is the word of the week.
Sprinkle it about if you want to add extra evilness.

Roger
Roger
March 2, 2022 9:21 am

Looks like thermobaric is the word of the week.

Won’t be long before the AFP wants one of those.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
March 2, 2022 9:22 am

Biden To Pitch Climate Agenda, Revival Of “Build Back Better” During First State Of The Union Address (2 Mar)

He’s gonna get BLM to do the job. Oh they already have. Removed all those decrepit buildings that just needed burning down, causing more CO2 to accelerate climate change.

calli
calli
March 2, 2022 9:22 am

Won’t be long before the AFP wants one of those.

They’ll use it as a PA.

I trust them.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 2, 2022 9:26 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahDWLdYv5VA

Taibbi audible column on how the West set up Putin.
26mins.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 2, 2022 9:27 am

Roger, you were kidding about Nuland weren’t you?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 2, 2022 9:29 am

There’s much ululation in the usual places because of an IPCC report that’s been issued overnight. It’s even more lurid than the last one.

Which makes this fun:

UAH Global Temperature Update for February, 2022: 0.00 deg. C (1 Mar)

Yep, the global temperature measured by satellite is exactly average. CO2 has done nothing for the last 30 years.

Roger
Roger
March 2, 2022 9:30 am

LOL.

ABC RN just reported, “Joe Biden sees his State of the Union address as a chance to reframe his presidency while Americans are paying attention.”

Because otherwise they’ve generally given up on him.

Roger
Roger
March 2, 2022 9:34 am

Roger, you were kidding about Nuland weren’t you?

I was borrowing from Jeopardy, bern.

Where you have to answer the question in the form of a question.

As I said here a few days ago, that Blinken & Nuland still have jobs is offensive considering the destruction they’ve wrought over three decades.

With a little help from their friends, of course.

lotocoti
lotocoti
March 2, 2022 9:34 am

Looks like the Ukrainians might be the real baddies.

Gilas
Gilas
March 2, 2022 9:35 am

srr says:
March 2, 2022 at 3:37 am

My Trip From Kiev to Kharkov Last Night (Birthday Stream)

Thank you for this.
Almost 2 hours long, totally brilliant assessment of what’s really happening in Ukraine.
People who believe in tooth-fairy reality shouldn’t bother.

Will follow this guy.

Roger
Roger
March 2, 2022 9:36 am

Won’t be long before the AFP wants one of those.

They’ll use it as a PA.

More suitable as a heater for protesters on chilly Canberra days.

“I’m advisd we had no intentions of turning it up to vaporise mode, Senator.”

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
March 2, 2022 9:38 am

German Auto manufacturers are halting production as parts supplied by Ukraine and Russia are stopped.

Indolent
Indolent
March 2, 2022 9:43 am

How times change.
1956 Nov 4. Russian tanks ran down Hungary.
Not at peep from the west, with sanctions and hardly any real condemnation, only the usual polite tut-tut.
The UN wouldn’t even discuss the issue.
Then here we are today. What happened?
What’s the difference?

The West itself is now communist? Back then they just sympathised with totalitarians. Now that’s what they are – or aim to be. No resistance tolerated. Ergo

People in the NATO-member state of Czechia have been warned that they could face up to three years in prison if they express support for Russia on social media.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 2, 2022 9:44 am

Clive Palmer warned over attempt to import Adolf Hitler’s Mercedes Benz into Australia
Headshot of Lanai Scarr
Lanai Scarr
The West Australian
Wed, 2 March 2022 2:00AM
Lanai Scarr

Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews has warned billionaire Clive Palmer he will face the full face of the law if he breaches Australian import, customs and sanctions laws through attempting to import a vintage Mercedes, once owned by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.

Ms Andrews told The West Australian the Australian Government “absolutely condemns any glorification of Nazi history and neo Nazi extremist activity in Australia” after Perth MP Patrick Gorman wrote to the Minister over the purchase by the billionaire demanding action.

And Mr Palmer may actually be prevented from importing the car due to fears it could carry asbestos which could attract a $900,000 fine.

shatterzzz
March 2, 2022 9:50 am

Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews has warned billionaire Clive Palmer he will face the full face of the law if he breaches Australian import, customs and sanctions laws through attempting to import a vintage Mercedes, once owned by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.

He didn’t buy it to drive it .. he bought it to put on display in a museum .. how trivial can the Minister get .. petty politics cos she don’t like UAP .. FFS!

calli
calli
March 2, 2022 9:54 am

What does Andrews think he’s going to do with the thing?

Drive it?

Or…set it up as a shrine?

If it’s a prohibited import, fine. If it’s just da feelz, bugger off. Pay the usurious import duty and leave it alone.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 2, 2022 9:56 am

Sorry Roger, need more coffee.

Roger
Roger
March 2, 2022 9:59 am

Karen Andrews is one of the worst ministers in this government.

And that’s saying something.

It’s unfortunate that she’s in a safe seat.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 2, 2022 10:01 am

Palmer will be driven around in the thing, wearing ill fitting Hugo Boss.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
March 2, 2022 10:07 am

It appears that a global paedophile ring with account holders in Australia and NZ has been busted by NZ police.
The Australian, NZHerald, and StuffNZ are reporting large numbers of arrests and rescues of children.
Some of the abuse allegations are beyond distressing – barbaric is too kind a term.

Reading the details of the ages of the kids and the acts of depravity inflicted on them made me think of the death penalty.

If you are faint of heart, do not read the articles.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
March 2, 2022 10:08 am

Another day surviving in the Dannograd underground. I’m hoping that the winter will see the turtles forced into a long cold retreat.

Roger
Roger
March 2, 2022 10:12 am

1956 Nov 4. Russian tanks ran down Hungary.

1956 Dec. 6. Melbourne: Hungary 4 Russia 0.

There was blood in the water.

lotocoti
lotocoti
March 2, 2022 10:13 am

On the one hand, you don’t need a room full of hardware
to knock up something for shits and giggles, these days.
On the other hand, some News Prods are idiots.

Kneel
Kneel
March 2, 2022 10:15 am

“The seller would have to send the BTC somewhere, no?

Also , AUSTRAC would have a record or your withdrawals presuming it’s not done in dribs and drabs. Even small, but regular cash withdrawals attract peering eyes.”

Once the transaction is confirmed on the blockchain, the BTC is yours – no need to physically collect it.

As for spending it – do any of the (legal) peer-to-peer betting agencies allow BTC? Do they require “legit” documentation, or just money up-front? If the answers are “yes” and “no docs”, then that would be a way to “launder” your BTC.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 2, 2022 10:19 am

Nord Stream 2 isn’t a problem unless you’re worried about lost transit fees

This.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 2, 2022 10:22 am

Greenwald.
Mate.
Taibbi.
Blumenthal.
All immediately said sorry about saying the Russians wouldn’t invade.
They all said their bias was when the War Machine speaks through the Corporate Media, they typically are skeptical.
The question is, when was the last time the Corporate Media apologised for lying or amplifying a lie.

Bushkid
Bushkid
March 2, 2022 10:32 am

win says:
March 2, 2022 at 5:39 am
Both Daniel Andrews and Justine Trudeau have given themselves what seems to be Putin style powers .What can Daniel Andrews do with his emergency legislation? we know what Trudeau did with his.

Queensland Cats may not be aware that the state govt is trying to legislate emergency covid powers for a FURTHER TWO YEARS.

There is a submissions process available, closes this Friday, so get active if you want your voice to be at least listed if not actually taken any notice of – as it won’t be, of course.

The thing is, if we don’t voice any objection, we can’t complain when we’re hammered.

Roger
Roger
March 2, 2022 10:33 am

If you want a return to realism maybe focus on the motives of US policy here.

I just tried to think of an Australian journalist who might be capable of doing that.

All I get is Stan Grant.

Incidentally, did I see somewhere that Stan has been uninvited from Mrs. & Mr. Wilkinson’s social circle? Seems he opined that they take themselves too seriously.

miltonf
miltonf
March 2, 2022 10:36 am

Incidentally, did I see somewhere that Stan has been uninvited from Mrs. & Mr. Wilkinson’s social circle?

almost makes me think the yuckie Sydney meja parasites are even yukkier than the Melbourne ones.

Roger
Roger
March 2, 2022 10:38 am

Queensland Cats may not be aware that the state govt is trying to legislate emergency covid powers for a FURTHER TWO YEARS.

Linky, Bushkid?

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
March 2, 2022 10:39 am

The thing is, if we don’t voice any objection, we can’t complain when we’re hammered.

Submit your complaints to the council officers at Alpha Centauri by March 3.

miltonf
miltonf
March 2, 2022 10:48 am

The thing is, if we don’t voice any objection, we can’t complain when we’re hammered.

well last time I attempted to communicate with a politician (Bridget McKenzie) I was ignored. I’m not sure if it’s worth bothering.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 2, 2022 10:49 am

Struthsays:
March 2, 2022 at 9:02 am
Must go to Brissy.
You’ll be spared anymore comments about the real war we are facing today.

Wot? Everyone vs. Struth’s ego?

twostix
twostix
March 2, 2022 10:57 am

Firstly, the silence about the 2014 US-led coup and subsequent events.

Any “analysis” of current events in Ukraine that doesn’t deal heavily with the coup is just propaganda from the deep state for lickspittles of the deep state.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
March 2, 2022 11:00 am

Yep, the global temperature measured by satellite is exactly average. CO2 has done nothing for the last 30 years.

Sophisticated people that we are we have been blessed with a new logical faculty that earlier generations – the ones who invented aeroplanes, travelled to the moon, turned barren ground to plenty, banished countless sicknesses from their midst, and fashioned a society where even the poorest are only bored rather than fighting for survival – could never concieve.

Like all those people who have been triple vaxxed and boosted who teeter on the edge of death by coof and chance to fall back on the side of life proclaiming that the vaccine worked because they would have died (older generations would ignorantly ask how they can know that), the IPCC can assure us that without AGW the temperatures would have been lower, so if they are exactly in line with average it means we are being killed by heat.

All hail ‘da Science’!

miltonf
miltonf
March 2, 2022 11:01 am

Any “analysis” of current events in Ukraine that doesn’t deal heavily with the coup is just propaganda from the deep state for lickspittles of the deep state.

so pretty much what you would expect from Janet A.

srr
srr
March 2, 2022 11:03 am

Stupid people think stupid propaganda tricks still work.

Smarter cowardly people act as if no one notices the propaganda

until

enough of the mob suddenly turn …

Watching the Jab War being morphed into the, ‘The World War for The Globalists’ Blood Money Laundry’, would be devastating but for the numbers who have seen it to be another slice of the same propaganda pie.

Simply, people are getting tired of ‘influencers’ telling them to reject, unperson, cancel & hate family, friends & loved ones and are seeing the ‘reasons’ they’ve been given for cutting off real people are merely slightly tweaked versions of the same professionally applied lies.

twostix
twostix
March 2, 2022 11:05 am

I heard a report that the SES wouldn’t let people help fill sandbags at one SE QLD location if they weren’t double vaccinated. And everyone had to take a rat test.

These things are the “values” that the post covid coup junta keeps talking about. You’re living their utopian dream realised and they’ll start WW3 and then send everyone elses sons to defend them.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 2, 2022 11:06 am

Incidentally, did I see somewhere that Stan has been uninvited from Mrs. & Mr. Wilkinson’s social circle?

Stan has, indeed, been uninvited and one Louise Mulligan is on the guest list.

Living the dream
Living the dream
March 2, 2022 11:08 am

Cassie: it is not me who “chose” Putin. Your words. Nor have I made any effort whatsoever to defend terrorism anywhere, including in Israel. You, on the other hand, condone Putin’s criminal behaviour and express your admiration for “hard power”, which is no different at all to defending Hamas and Hezbollah. You are, in short a narcissist who spends her time whinging about a world that doesn’t conform to your prejudices.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 2, 2022 11:09 am

Stupid people think stupid propaganda tricks still work.

Vlad Bae still hasn’t delivered the pizza he promised you, has he?

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 2, 2022 11:10 am

Incidentally, did I see somewhere that Stan has been uninvited from Mrs. & Mr. Wilkinson’s social circle? Seems he opined that they take themselves too seriously

Mockery is an underrated tool. No wonder the Left requires so many closed shops.

C.L.
C.L.
March 2, 2022 11:10 am

Bolt sure has fallen in love with the Tony Barber of Ukraine.
He and Greg Sheridan last night furiously agreed that Ukraine and every other entity in Eastern Europe should have been signed up to NATO years ago.

Bushkid
Bushkid
March 2, 2022 11:10 am

Roger says:
March 2, 2022 at 10:38 am
Queensland Cats may not be aware that the state govt is trying to legislate emergency covid powers for a FURTHER TWO YEARS.
Linky, Bushkid?

I’ll try, Roger, never done a link here before.

The thing is, on the face of it by what’s presented initially it doesn’t look bad, but in the detail it seems that they want to extend the current emergency covid legislation for a further two years from the approval of this currently promoted legislation. It’s hidden away and in the wording itself, not openly stated. At present, the emergency has to be extended by two months at a time to remain in place.

lotocoti
lotocoti
March 2, 2022 11:12 am

Some thoughts by Godfrey Bloom.

There is much talk about the west getting militarily involved,
the same cry of ‘poor little Serbia in 1914’ that went well didn’t it?

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 2, 2022 11:16 am

Squawk.

Bushkid
Bushkid
March 2, 2022 11:17 am

Look for “Part 8AA – Expiry” for the mention of extension of covid emergency legislation.

Roger
Roger
March 2, 2022 11:18 am

See if that works. I don’t seem to be able to post the relevant section that appears to make the covid emergency stuff extend for another two years.

Thank you!

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
March 2, 2022 11:21 am

What does Andrews think he’s going to do with the thing?

Drive it?

Or…set it up as a shrine?

Andrews’ spotty advisors will read on Twitter and the ABC that it is a form of admiring Hitler, and the car will be a mecca for garage Nazis all over the country. And that is what Andrews will therefore think.

Remember there are garage Nazis everywhere!

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