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Am I lucky this morning?
3 down. Australia will probably lose tomorrow. Despite all the bullshit, I still support Australia.
Well spotted Ceres.
At this moment in time, Jasprit Bumrah is playing his 41st Test and is holding a bowling average of 19.94.…
Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity says:
March 7, 2022 at 4:47 pm
Announcing proudly that she’s Moldovan should confuse ’em.
You’re right of course, but she never will. She was born in Russia – take it or leave it. And whilst she doesn’t directly support the war, she’s smart enough to know the longer history behind it and more recent events up to now. In any case, she’ll be damned if she will apologise for something that she didn’t initiate and cannot control, merely because of birthplace.
I’m old enough to remember broadcasting footage of POW’s was called a war crime.
During the Iraq war the Press Council & ACMA fielded hundreds of complaints about it.
Now it’s ok.
Apparently.
Hey Calli,
the sixties rule this week, so you better get used to it!
Runs away chortling!
Thanks. Stolen.
Good on her. Dealing with fuckwits is always tiresome, but it’s worth knowing who they are.
MMT has NOT been tried in the West and anyone suggesting that is a fucking moron.n In fact, anyone making that suggestion here ought to be banned for idiocy.
FFS, the amount of stupid shit coming out of Queersland is just fucking unreal.
Rabz, if you’re about, I’ve just had a look at your thread.
+1 for Crossie on Robert Plant and Calli on Talking Heads.
But I would add:
Dave Warner from the Suburbs: I’m just a Suburban Boy.
(I saw him in 1979).
Can’t link ?
mole
Did you read my comment at 1059 yesterday? He really has been reading too much alarmist crap. I had hoped he would come back today, but nothing!
Would you be surprised the last two years blew up a lot more than just the social more of not asking about people’s medical privacy and unleashing tirades against people in public?
Once a social barrier breaks, everything it was holding back flows, and in our hyper repressed bolshevik society, that’s a lot.
Latest on the Ukraine situation from Andrei Martyanov:
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com
Speedbox, another option for your wife would be to name the Oblast she’s from and walk away with a smile.
With the exception of a few obvious ones, most Aussies wouldn’t have a clue where they are apart from being somewhere east of Germany.
some history
Incidentally, I haven’t seen Faustus about recently.
Hope he came out of the floods OK.
Let me explain MMT in a very, very simple way so even Queerslanders may understand after a hundred years of deep thought- although that’s doubtful.
MMT means that the finance ministry bypasses the market and essentially dumps a load of bonds onto the central bank’s balance sheet. The central bank in turn takes the monetary equivalent and credits the fin min with the corresponding funds ( in other words, money.). The fin min then allocates the funds as the government directs.
This not what is going on in the West. We’re quantitatively easing but the entire process goes through the financial markets and the central bank is creating money not to finance the fin min, but liquefy the system in order raise nominal GDP. In other words, the markets fully understand QE to me a monetary policy tool and NOT a way to fund the government/fin min.
What happens?
The central banks decides 0n the quantity of money it estimates to raise nominal GDP and buys government bonds through a reverse auction periodically. The market decides on the price of bonds in exchange for currency. The last sentence is extremely important so let this sink in. If it’s too difficult then no one can help you.
Yes, western governments are currently running sizeable deficits and the central banks are funding the deficit through the issue of government bonds in the market place.
These two functions are qualitatively different.
This is NOT MMT FFS.
Dr. John Campbell may be a bit late arriving at the party, but he is there now.
In his latest video he looks at two studies, from Florida and Brazil, on the efficacy of ivermectin used as both a prophylaxis and as a cure for SARS-Cov-2. He has now arrived at the conclusion that it should have been used to treat and prevent Covid-19 long ago, and he says that its non-use amounts to a “huge scandal.”
He’s still on YouTube even though he mentioned the “i” word, I wonder for how much longer.
Struth
Shouldn’t you be at the furniture factory because only yesterday you did a fake flounce then?
The vax has done its damage and the Sheep have been fully brainwashed, which the kindly nurse had a big hand in. I don’t think they will drop him from youtube.
I would say criminal corruption on an industrial scale. remember the palacechooke made it illegal to prescribe in qld for treating covid.
Do NOT rebuild: Shock advice to flood victims as they are told they must ‘face reality’ and leave their homes forever
JC the optics of someone who can live in America, willingly living in victoria having an opinion about anyone else.
It’s bad man.
How can I live in the US, Stix? I don’t have a green card as I gave it up on my return. I’m not going there in the winter and the intention has always been we spend 3 months of the year there, which is what a tourist visa and the weather permits.
Also, since when was I ever meant to impress you?
Australian army “helping out” after a flood.
How embarrassment.
Ridiculous. As long as they are insurable, who cares.
Hey JC, I’d like you to show me where and when I flounced?
C’mona, you canna tella me where Ima flounce-a, or you canna be a good a boy and go fuck yourself.
Stix
Also, read and understand what I’ve said. I’ve never suggested every Queerslander in a complete imbecile. I’ve just made the observation that you ever see a stupid, ridiculous comment- 9 times out of 10, it’s usually uttered by a moronic Queerslander. How much fairer could I be?
I think carnival of hypocrisy is a perfect description for this woke clownshitshow unfolding in the west.
In the first week of lockdown I optimistically told the wife this will be all over in 6-8 weeks. Now she is worried about a nuclear war, I keep telling her nobody is stupid enough to start this…. hmmm mmyesss.
Struth..
I saw someone comment about your fake flounce just yesterday or Saturday.
Speedbox’s wife sounds nicely spirited to me. It won’t be long before she serves the crappy customers something not listed on the menu. All with a ladylike smile, I imagine.
All the best, Mrs Speedbox.
Socialism:
We’ll do it right this time.
Timcast
Very interesting, wide-ranging discussion on the madness surrounding us at the moment.
Bill Gates DID Plan To Use MOSQUITOES To Deliver Vaccinations
I hope the fuck that everyone has signed this petition.
https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN3886
Not good enough, doodle head.
So lube up that freckle, you’re going in.
Person 18, a serving member of SASR, likened the SAS to a “country wives club….”
WTF people! Don’t be so fvcking rude. Asking a complete stranger their original birth place (because you know they sound ‘eastern European’).
Would like to know the demographic, most likely not truck driver, train driver or any man or woman on the tools. Will be some fucking Karen or Neil or some lefty twat.
A man who got jabbed that was on this site and knew all the reasons not to, who didn’t have to, shouldn’t really be talking about other’s intelligence levels.
They admit it….oops.
Let me know if Putin nukes Washington. Anything less interesting, don’t bother to mention. I find hysteria somewhat irritating.
The head of Bayer also confirmed that the mRNA clot shot is gene therapy.
The Sheep are pretty dumb. Baaaaaaaa
No, Vlad has confirmed he is going to drop a nuke on the Hunchbacks house first.
Mark Steyn reacts to Prof John Mearsheimer saying the West ‘encouraged’ Putin’s invasion of Ukraine
Razey.
How’s the weather in Japan?
Who’s side are you on?
The WEF or Russia’s?
Decisions, decisions.
Child Prostitution in Ukraine, eh?
No wonder Vlad went in, boots first.
who would have thought gowdy would turn out to be a neocon warhawk
I haven’t been following the Roberts-Smith trial closely, but the snippets I have read suggest that somewhere in the last 15 years or so, the SAS selection process has broken down completely.
DrB is in his bunker well supplied with cigars and is happy!
“Phone Hasn’t Stopped Ringing” – The World’s Ultra Rich Are Panic Buying Doomsday Bunkers (7 Mar)
Remember to duck and cover.
The Army went woke years ago.
But they ARE already on the short list. The fact the Brisbane and Newcastle are on shows just how seriously this exercise is being taken, ie not at all
rickw says:
March 7, 2022 at 6:15 pm
Would like to know the demographic…..
Both male, 50’s to early 60’s, nicely dressed and who you would otherwise regard, in appearance at least, as ‘gentlemen’.
Having a nuclear sub run over by a coal ship would ruin my whole day. Maybe I need to buy one of those bunkers. Very reasonable prices!
…balanced against each other and prioritised
Where are the marginal seats?
How many Karen/doctors’ wives votes will we lose?
How many worker/small business votes will we gain?
I’m thinking that it’s the result of sending SASR/Commando’s to do repeated tours, to do a job that any rifle battalion could have done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_WpSXsWs80The grouping of troops of Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics, with the fire support of the Russian Armed Forces, continues successful offensive operations.
The units of People’s Militia of Donetsk Republic are successfully developing offensive in Mariupol from the north-western and eastern directions.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation strike at the assets of the military infrastructure of Ukraine.
On March 6, the airfield of the Ukrainian Air Force in Vinnytsa was disabled by high-precision long-range weapons.
Fighter aircraft and air defence of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down three more Ukrainian Su-27 fighters and three unmanned aerial vehicles in the air.
In total, for yesterday and incomplete today, the Ukrainian Air Force lost 11 assault aircraft and 2 helicopters.
Almost all combat-ready aviation of the Kiev regime has been destroyed.
At the same time, we know about Ukrainian assault aircraft that had previously flown to Romania and other border countries.
The use of the airfield network of these countries for basing Ukrainian military aviation with subsequent use against the Russian Armed Forces can be regarded as the involvement of these states in an armed conflict.
Russian high-precision long-range weapons and military equipment of Ukraine are put out of action.
The Kiev nationalist regime forces employees of enterprises of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine to restore damaged military equipment for subsequent deployment to the areas of hostilities.
As part of the task of demilitarizing Ukraine, the Russian Armed Forces will defeat Ukrainian enterprises of the military-industrial complex with high-precision weapons.
In order to avoid a threat to the lives of employees of enterprises of the Ukrainian defence industry, we warn in advance of planned strikes against such facilities.
We call on the personnel of the Ukrainian defence industry plants not to be led by the Kiev nationalist regime and to leave the territories of their enterprises.
During a special military operation, the facts of the Kiev regime’s emergency cleanup of traces of a military biological program funded by the US Department of Defence implemented in Ukraine were revealed.
We have received documentation from employees of Ukrainian biological laboratories on the emergency destruction of especially dangerous pathogens of plague, anthrax, tularemia, cholera and other deadly diseases on February 24.
Now the documents are being analyzed by Russian specialists of NBC protection troops.
It is obvious that with the beginning of a special military operation, the Pentagon had serious concerns about the disclosure of conducting secret biological experiments on the territory of Ukraine.
The received documents confirm that the development of biological weapons components was carried out in Ukrainian biological laboratories, in the immediate vicinity of the territory of Russia.
In order to prevent the disclosure of facts of violation by the United States and Ukraine of Article 1 of the UN Convention on the Prohibition of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons, the Ukrainian Ministry of Health sent an instruction to all biological laboratories on the emergency liquidation of stored stocks of dangerous pathogens.
In the near future we will present the results of the analysis of the received documents.
? https://disk.yandex.ru/d/dyWUEF3tDZGauw
fixed linky
Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry spokesperson
Link doesnt work.
Mine also. BBS wouldn’t have a day at all.
she could layer the accent on as thick as possible and say with raised eyebrows, “I came here 173 years ago from Transylvania”
Both male, 50’s to early 60’s, nicely dressed and who you would otherwise regard, in appearance at least, as ‘gentlemen’.
Of course “respectable” people…. fucking Neil’s.
Lord Sumption: Lockdown errors & importance of due process for oligarchs | The Colin Brazier Podcast
Gays from UK Woke army heading for Ukraine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_Lgx7oQM9g
Russian Naval Expert Andrei Martyanov speaks about America’s imminent collapse.
https://www.unz.com/audio/kbarrett_andrei-martyanov-on-russia-ukraine-disintegration-of-us/
Truth is, I have run out of cigars and the next lot aren’t due until Wednesday. But I’m tough. I can handle it.
What gets up my nose is the loony press peddling panic. Or it would if I took any notice of it. Figuring out that politicians and press want me in a state of hysterical panic, over a virus, over nuclear war, whatever, was pretty easy. Deciding to ignore the daft buggers was even easier.
So I don’t need a bunker. The chances of Putin targeting Perth are too small to consider. I only have to worry about Mark McClown going even further off his chump. And that should provide some innocent entertainment.
What do you think his next step will be?
Extraordinary.
(Her wiki is interesting. I suspect Vlad has watched the whole Nikita series, since he’s KGB and a fan of hers.)
Putin meeting with his trusted advisors. He’s outwardly very courageous and not surprising he wrestles defanged bears..
Bruce of Newcastle says:
March 7, 2022 at 7:13 pm
haha, thanks Bruce.
There’s two ways he can go. He can face up to the fact that masks don’t work, something well known to everyone with a functioning brain, that lockdowns don’t work, ditto, and that vaccines don’t work, ditto. The downside of this is admitting that every Australian government screwed up.
The alternative is to slither out using any excuse he can find.
It’s possible that he’ll double down, but this won’t work because every other country is giving up. So my money is on a slither.
Not letting anyone manipulate your frustrations is the key, DrBG.
The chances of Putin targeting Perth are too small to consider.
Choose a target of no great importance to anyone but those living there. Nuke it in a standoff to prove you are for real.
Perth fits the bill and I once was told served that role in the cold war. I don’t know what the Russian equivalent was.
Vladivostok?
Speedbox
Both male, 50’s to early 60’s, nicely dressed and who you would otherwise regard, in appearance at least, as ‘gentlemen’.
Sound like Friends of Their ABC.
just checked Nuke Map and the Tsar Bomba would a do the job
… Margaret River would still be ok
Speedy – I’ve mentioned a time or two the Russian vacation students who were placed in our lab. From Mendeleev and Moscow State. The guys were excellent and the ladies breathtaking. A mix of innocence and spring steel, since they could drink any of us under a table. When they arrived our boss’s motherly PA took the ladies down to Bar Beach first thing, and they paddled in the Pacific Ocean. They’d never seen the sea before.
Boambee Johnsays:
March 7, 2022 at 5:03 pm
cohenite
For your edification, extracts from one of Homer’s comments at CL’s site (the Putin/Murdoch thread.
Dum dum, you do know AEMO has coal power constantly on because it is not dispatchable and solar plus wind power is switched off when supply exceeds demand.
FMD. Dispatchable power means power on demand: only non weather dependent power sources such as coal, gas, nuclear and hydro (while the water lasts) can do this. Batteries can’t because they do not produce power only store it inefficiently. Wind and solar are weather dependent and cannot supply power on demand. They are therefore non-dispatchable energy sources.
Solar and wind are switched off or rather their power is run up a pole because they often produce excess power when demand is lowest, such as noon with solar or in the middle of the night with wind.
S&W get preference to the grid when they do work which means the big coal generators have to keep operating because they cannot be switched on and off without being able to sell their power. As well the big coal generators have to buy Large Scale Energy Certificates from the W&S producers for every watt of power W&S do manage to produce, which is only 20% of the time averaged over the year. To rub salt into the commercial wound big coal has to keep running to back up the intermittent W&S.
When you add the $13 billion in direct subsidies W&S receive from the government you then realise the fraud that W&S are. Unless of course you are a pompous stupid greenie.
just checked Nuke Map and the Tsar Bomba would a do the job
You need a grid of 1 km with a smaller weapon on each point. One bomb on most Australian cities will leave large parts undamaged.
Why choose Perth when he could get the support of the Australian ppl by taking out Canberra?
It pays to keep a matchbox of dead skin filed from ones feet handy at all times.
I do remember that scenario – pick a city on a remote continent, flatten it with nuclear weapons, add biological weapons to taste, and dare anyone to go from there.
You’d get the support of WA if you nuked Perth.
Or, more specifically, ground zero Rockingham.
S&W get preference to the grid when they do work which means the big coal generators have to keep operating because they cannot be switched on and off without being able to sell their power. As well the big coal generators have to buy Large Scale Energy Certificates from the W&S producers for every watt of power W&S do manage to produce, which is only 20% of the time averaged over the year. To rub salt into the commercial wound big coal has to keep running to back up the intermittent W&S.
When you add the $13 billion in direct subsidies W&S receive from the government you then realise the fraud that W&S are.
Is this the shit Howard inflicted on the country copied from Merkel-land?
Excellent link borrowed from over on currencylad.
https://usrussiaaccord.org/acura-viewpoint-jack-f-matlock-jr-todays-crisis-over-ukraine/
Why choose Perth when he could get the support of the Australian ppl by taking out Canberra?
That would be targeting the leaders. They may retaliate or their command and control system would.
Piss off. Victoria first. Spring St to be exact.
Is this the shit Howard inflicted on the country copied from Merkel-land?
Krudd and the slapper did. Little johnny’s crime was not resisting it; just like all conservatives.
cohenite
My response to Homer at 1059 yesterday.
Non Mentis
My apologies. I had forgotten that someone who never completed pre-school needs to be coached in terms suitable for a pre-schooler.
you do know AEMO has coal power constantly on because it is not dispatchable and solar plus wind power is switched off when supply exceeds demand.
Dispatchable electricity is electricity that is available whenever it is needed. It is needed when someone, somewhere, turns a switch on, any time, day or night, sunny or not, windy or not. Constantly available coal power is immediately available when the switch is turned on. Intermittent power is not.
Solar power is intermittent. It is not available during the night, and drops out randomly during the day if clouds pass between the sun and the solar collector cells. Wind power is intermittent. It is not available when the wind isn’t blowing, or is blowing too softly, or is blowing too hard. For these reasons, ruinables are not a reliable source of continuous power.
Is that simple enough for your tiny, poorly developed, mind to comprehend?
Do you think that I might have gone a bit too heavy on the patronising contempt?
well all Howard seem to do after he lost office was promote Trumble and convince him not to do the country a favour and leave politics.
This has to be the best Bee post ever
One bomb for Perth, one for Adelaide and two for the East Coast. That would be 80-90% casualties for the Australian population.
Status-6 Oceanic Multipurpose System (wiki)
Do you think that I might have gone a bit too heavy on the patronising contempt?
na
No.
Eyriesays:
March 7, 2022 at 7:31 pm
just checked Nuke Map and the Tsar Bomba would a do the job
You need a grid of 1 km with a smaller weapon on each point. One bomb on most Australian cities will leave large parts undamaged.
Which is the reason the US, followed later by the Soviets, switched from missiles with a single large warhead to multiple smaller warheads. Far too much overkill wasted at the drop point with the Tsar Bomba type, and the damage not spread widely enough to wreck a large city.
Sorry, the para starting “you do know AEMO …” was Homer’s.
It’s too late for Rockingham, McGowan has already moved out because the people living there were saying rude things to him.
Poesidon is of course the tsunami bomb. Roughly a ten megatonne warhead exploded deep in the ocean off shore. Tsunami heights up to 500 m.
Check the nuke map. Australian cities are huge and spread out. One bomb will take out a CBD but leave most of the middle and outer suburbs.
Do you think that I might have gone a bit too heavy on the patronising contempt?
You can never go too heavy with lefties.
Speaking of which when will the LNP ever do something about the fucking abc; that bloated kunt louise has now scored the trifecta of conservative men: Pell, Porter and Tudge, all whom admittedly did not go all in back at the cesspool.
Or, more specifically, ground zero Rockingham
I gather it is known as *’nam*.
Never heard of Tsar Bomba– sounds frightening and sinister. The things you learn here.
There’s a disgraceful ad on FTA TV- lotsa “WA says thankyou WA, for continuing to obey WA orders and getting the jab for WA and being nice and showing your papers to thankful WA police and graciously phone-logging into grateful WA businesses who thankfully administer the QR checkpoint, all in masks, thankfully!”
Nothing about internal border enforcement, nothing about masking kids, nothing about mandatory jabs, “complete” jabs, “booster” jabs, nothing about locking loved ones out of hospitals and care homes.
The ad concludes with a fop scanning his phone onto a plastic plinth, then showing it to a masked doorman, turning to the camera and saying “Thankth, WA, for keeping uth all thafe!” Lone metrosexual then puts on a mask and enters empty venue, alone.
The man is Mark MacGowan.
Bruce of Newcastle says:
March 7, 2022 at 7:29 pm
…….the ladies breathtaking. A mix of innocence and spring steel, since they could drink any of us under a table.
Yep. 100%. Many years ago my wife and I rented a holiday house for Christmas and assorted rellies came to stay for the Christmas/New year period. My sister/her husband and my nephew who was around 23 years old at the time. Long story short, he challenged (!!!) my wife to a vodka drinking competition. I shit you not.
Two things about this: First – never, ever, challenge a Russian about anything. Secondly – ….see number one.
My nephew thought that because he was young, fit etc that he could outdrink my wife who is a petite woman. Big mistake. Huge.
Anyway, she clobbered him. Eventually, he vomited and passed out on the lawn. He was severely hung over the next day and my wife cooked up bacon and eggs placing them under his nose. She was ruthless. If she had any residual after effects, she didn’t show them – and never would.
It was a masterclass.
Part of our family legends these days. Still spoken about how (Mrs Speedbox) showed (the nephew) how to drink.
Invaluable for the young to learn these lessons.
There’s a video. The plane dropping the bomb barely survived it.
thanks Bruce- horrifying and fascinating
The Drum and SBS have built whole programs around the suffering and heroic struggle new arrivals to this country go through.
Prominent among the torments they must face is a question: ‘Where are you from ?’
Outrageous.
‘No, but where are you really from?’ then follows.
One is left pondering why we have a Human Rights Commissioner.
Oh for the glory years of Possumarse !
What, you’re from Russia you say. Monster ! War criminal ! Nazi ! Racist !
Awe, Speedbox. You have a fine lady wife!
I got rung up by head office one day. They’d noticed how good our Russians were. Guy in charge of such things says to me on phone “we want to offer her a scholarship”. So I get student into my office and offered her an all expenses paid PhD scholarship at Murdoch with very serious folding money, plus a guaranteed job at a big company where the chief met was a Russian lady also.
She said no.
She had the worst case of homesickness I’ve ever seen in my life and just wanted to get back to Moscow and her man. Russians.
Does Homer still claim to be the only true conservative?
Never heard of Tsar Bomba– sounds frightening and sinister.
57 megatonnes yield. That was the small version. They left out the outer U238 layer of the final fission stage which would have taken it to 100 megatonnes.
These things work by using a small fission stage which ignites a fusion package which produces lots of neutrons and other energy. If you wrap U238 around it the neutrons fission large amounts of the U238 releasing far more energy and lots more fission products. Nasty.
Easy there, Eyrie tiger-
you’ll have ASIO shutting down the site because we’re far right neo nayzees discussing how to construct bombs
Rumor is Azov bridge have rigged a Nuke reactor to blow if Ukraine lose the war.
yep diabolical- do they still have it?
Bleh, brigade.
*sigh*
A nominally conservative forum I read has gone full retard. Russia is shooting civilians using the humanitarian corridors! Troops who refuse are executed! They’re recruiting Syrian jihadists to fight in urban areas! Russians are deliberately shelling schools/kindergartens/churches! Chechens are torturing people! They’re burning people alive in mobile crematoriums!
I want off this planet.
I don’t have the twenty or thirty billion dollars we’d need.
Maybe we could start a GoFundMe.
Any of the bush lawyers here care to comment?
Jorge says:
March 7, 2022 at 8:02 pm
Countless times over the years my wife has been asked ‘where are you from?’ and until recently, she has happily obliged and her answer has been greeted with genuine interest. It seems that a number of people haven’t actually met a Russian or at least, don’t know much about the country.
That has changed in the past few days. Now, she seems expected to flail about and apologise for the actions of the President. But back up a minute – my wife has been a resident of Australia for over 20 years. She is a citizen, a wife, mother of three and a taxpayer who has never broken the law (excepting a low grade speeding fine). Yet, the Russia/Ukraine war is her fault or she is somehow complicit because she was born there? She deserves contempt?
Fvck that. If anything, I can see it has hardened her attitude and God help the next person who decides she deserves scorn because of her birthplace.
Also ebola and anthrax from all the secret US labs in the country.
Russian news sources for both these stories today.
It’s fun to see all this hyperbowl.
Ukrainians aren’t any better. Tokyo Rose would blush.
Yet, the Russia/Ukraine war is her fault or she is somehow complicit because she was born there? She deserves contempt?
there really are some spiteful cretins out there
Bullshit Razey-San.
Woke my arse.
This has more to do with (alleged) Alphas getting all antsy about who got the biggest bit of tin.
None of them have come out of this looking like men.
Including BRS.
There will be many horrors no one is seeing. Neither side is especially enamored of the Geneva Convention and they really really hate each other. The eastern front areas are probably very bloody right now, but there’re no journos on the ground and neither side wants to upload vids of what they’re doing.
no. no. I don’t think you are wrong at all.
Hehe. Nice trolling. 😉
Russian gymnast adds ‘Z’ to vest on medal podium
There’s a video of a MMA fighter being tortured because he’s done a training camp in Russia in the past. So I don’t know about it being particularly hidden.
Yeah, nah.
miltonfsays:
March 7, 2022 at 7:51 pm
Never heard of Tsar Bomba– sounds frightening and sinister. The things you learn here.
Test of a giant Soviet nuclear weapon in the 1950s. Exploded over Novaya Zemlya, with an estimated yield of 75 Megatons.
No need.
You’ve just posted 2,500 words, every one a lie sponsored by the US/UK.
Campbell has always been a bit too keen to advocate the ‘lockdowns, masks, distancing, vax to protect the vunribble’ … but to give him his due, he has been onto Vitamins I and D for quite a while
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
March 7, 2022 at 7:55 pm
Never heard of Tsar Bomba– sounds frightening and sinister.
There’s a video. The plane dropping the bomb barely survived it.
A Tu-16 Badger was shown taking off, the next sequence showed a Bear. There might have been a bit of editing!
Great Gooooglin’ SpongeBob, tell us again how you took Homer to the woodshed?
Thats the point – they cry ‘couldnt get insurance’ and Scomo rolls out another ‘flood levy’
Bluey – It isn’t entirely horrific, there was a story that a prisoner swap took place in the NE sector. Five Ukr soldier types for one Russian officer. I hope that sort of thing continues, since it’s an incentive for them to be reasonably decent to prisoners.
Looks like Samizdata and Sarah Hoyt have picked sides, shame.
Quite … Special forces are for Special Ops, NOT routine grunt work – they are too valuable to burn out doing 5 tours of that.
“WTF people! Don’t be so fvcking rude. Asking a complete stranger their original birth place (because you know they sound ‘eastern European’). And then following that with a turned up nose ‘cos you don’t like the answer.
My wife is showing great restraint but that dam will burst sooner or later.”
I hope the dam bursts big time. In an earlier post today I mentioned similar things happening during World War I and World War II. Germans, many of whom had lived in Britain, Australia and the US for generations, were singled out for physical and verbal abuse, their businesses targeted and many lost their livelihoods. Many families with German surnames changed their names so to avoid abuse and censure. It was disgraceful and I can’t believe such xenophobia is happening again.
I hope your wife stays strong. She’s Russian and she should be proud of it. Russia has gifted you a wife and gifted to the world the following….
Pushkin
Solzhenitsyn
Chekhov
Turgenev
Nabokov
Tolstoy
Pasternak
Lermontov
Tyutchev
Gogol
Dostoyevsky
Akhmatova
Tchaikovsky
Rachmaninoff
Stravinsky
Prokofiev
Shostakovich
and hundreds more. The above is just a smidgen of what Russia has gifted to the world.
Was the first short vid I could find from a reasonable source. My comment that the plane only just survived is from memory. Here’s what the wiki says:
“The bomb, weighing 27 tonnes (30 short tons), was so large (8 m (26 ft) long by 2.1 m (6 ft 11 in) in diameter) that the Tu-95V had to have its bomb bay doors and fuselage fuel tanks removed.[2][44] The bomb was attached to an 800-kilogram (1,800 lb), 1,600-square-metre (17,000 sq ft) parachute, which gave the release and observer planes time to fly about 45 km (28 mi) away from ground zero, giving them a 50 percent chance of survival.”
Yikes. The wiki goes on to say if the third stage had been added the drop aircraft chance of survival was zero point zero.
Bruce, I’ve seen some claims that the Russian negotiators are trying to get Macron to guarantee the humanitarian corridors, with exits toward both sides. The allegation is the Ukrainians keep scuttling it.
Hard to find much concrete about anything though I do think the Russians are trying to use as soft a touch as they can.
Dickless Ed
Great Gooooglin’ SpongeBob, tell us again how you took Homer to the woodshed?
Nah, I don’t go the woodshed with strange blokes, I don’t share your fascination with flaming.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
PS, no need to Google for things I have known about for decades.
If Zelensky’s Jewish how come part of the military are supposed neo-Nazi? How is that working out?
I’ve heard of soldiers with eight to ten tours of the place.
Eleven bats was a good read for insight into that.
“None of them have come out of this looking like men.
Including BRS.”
Yes.
Boom. Gold toped $2k USD.
https://www.ainsliebullion.com.au/
Cassie
Many families with German surnames changed their names so to avoid abuse and censure.
My uncle flew with Bomber Command under his real name Schmidt. One of his cousins Anglicised his name to Smith, joined the AIF, and ended up in Changi.
Gas and oil going through the roof.
Bruce of N
The Bear is a Tu-95. The Badger was probably a sampling aircraft.
Once we hit $3/L everyone will be working from home again. Wonder how Dictator Dan’s vax’d economy is going hahahah. Suck shit Dan.
Ukraine update:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJhdd45NpLc
Several French factories, including Michelin, shut down due to lack of materials from Russia.
https://www.usinenouvelle.com/article/crise-en-ukraine-deja-quatre-sites-michelin-a-l-arret-en-france.N1790842
The Ukrainian sources say the Russians keep scuttling it, and the Russian sources say the Ukrainians keep scuttling it. I’ve been reading both. The attempted evacuation of civs from Mariupol just didn’t happen. Ceasefire lasted minutes, if at all. I have no idea which side was at fault, or both.
And wheat.
Looks like Samizdata and Sarah Hoyt have picked sides, shame.
Yeah, people I thought were smarter have been shown to be dumb and susceptible to propaganda. Glenn Reynolds also.
I guess Putin will nuke HMAS Stirling so I should be OK. I live North of the River, or, ass my Nedland’s mate would say, the moronosphere.
The patriarch of one of the Italian families in this part of the world was interned as an enemy alien during World War Two. Two of his sons served in the AIF.
Zelenskyy is an American Puppet currently hiding out at the Embassy in Poland.
Nazis have been active in Ukraine for 80 years.
So, there’s no connection between the 2.
and hundreds more.
Can’t believe that Kalashnikov didn’t make the A list!
The nexus is Kolomoisky.
STFU Mr Ed.
I’m baffled by the whole thing. Surely there were officers in charge of these enlisted ranks when the alleged atrocities took place?
Has any officer in the SAS or other services been held to have responsibility for what occured? Has the question ever been asked?
5 years ago if a young man or woman wanted advice to join the Australian Armed Forces I would of highly recommended it. Whilst young and single it is a great lifestyle and you can get good skills for post uniform life.
Now I wouldn’t because the leadership at the highest levels does not have you back. Monash would be turning in his grave.
Had a look at Lismore on Google Earth earlier this evening. There’s plenty of high ground and ridgelines around but they built the town in the lowest areas around the river. DO NOT REBUILD THERE.
Also heard this afternoon that all the aircraft and hangars went underwater at the airfield. Some found 5km away.
No insurance as can’t get cover for flooding there.
first I have heard of this crack-up boom
Is that the Ukrainian oligarch?
There’s a lot of concern around the traps about the wheat price issue. Especially in MENA, where it is a staple. Egypt especially must be in a serious bind. I’ve seen several articles today likening this to the Arab Spring period: the people get understandably excitable when they can’t afford bread.
What I haven’t seen anywhere is any comment that nearly half the US maize crop goes into car fuel tanks as ethanol. Of course there’re a number of reasons why the MSM might not be interested in that issue.
And Ladas
I knew a Dunera boy, he died a few years ago. Being Jewish he fled Austria after the Anschluss and was lucky to get to the UK in 1939. He was one of thousands of Jews and political refugees who fled Germany and Austria and managed to get to the UK. But upon war being declared in 1939, they were targeted as “Germans”….rounded up and interred, along with Italian fascists and German Nazis.
“As a wave of fear over a German invasion gripped the nation at the start of World War II, thousands of foreign nationals were kicked out over fears that they might be enemy spies.
They were put on the ship HMT Dunera, which had a capacity of 1,600 including the crew. It set sail from Liverpool 70 years ago on 10 July 1940, without the passengers – later known as the Dunera Boys – knowing where they were going.
The vessel was crammed with some 2,000 mostly Jewish refugees, aged 16 to 60. Alongside them were genuine prisoners of war, 200 Italian fascists and 251 German Nazis, meaning the ship was hugely overcrowded.
After a 57-day journey in appalling conditions, during which the ship was hit by a torpedo, the internees’ eventual arrival is regarded as one of the greatest influxes of academic and artistic talent to have entered Australia on a single vessel.”
I remember asking him what the voyage was like….he told me it was abysmal, the conditions were shocking, but nothing prepared him for for the internment camp at Hay here in NSW…the heat and the flies were overwhelming. But upon release, when he was conscripted into the Australian army, he fell in love with Australia and Australians (and married one).
Andrew Hastie is supposed to be giving evidence for the defence.
Any of the bush lawyers here care to comment?
To make a Russian soldier cry for a propaganda piece there has clearly been some horrific shit done.
BBS wouldn’t have a day at all
Calli, I’m away at the minute so as long as it’s worked out before I return, I should survive.
And on the choice of site- no votes for the SFLs ‘round here now they’ve turned their backs on coal with the nett zero emissions Glasgow bull dust.
Port Kembla seems to be getting the (early) nod and has an advantage; all of course on the pros and cons. But do I detect from stage right a Govt shepherd’s crook searching out the Seat of Gilmore?
Well, there can’t be any takers for Brisbane, given its moveable and erratic high water mark.
Yes.
What are your alternatives?
Uh oh, flanneries are arriving at the Cafe with much thunder. I hope the brushtails got away, they were here about 20 min ago. Mum had her slice of bread and her carrot, young lady got a large piece of carrot. She wasn’t as ansty as yesterday, when she was out on her own for the first time (I bled a small amount, but not too much).
Cafe news is that one of the young grey butcherbirds yesterday accepted food from hand for the first time, and was getting pretty acclimatized with it today. I think he’s a male, he follows dad around but is otherwise independent.
Also heard this afternoon that all the aircraft and hangars went underwater at the airfield.
Was talking to a bloke who upgraded the fuel installation there. The porta office was a metre off the ground and was chained down to anchor blocks. Gone, the anchor blocks just pulled out of the ground.
I was talking with a nursey type about a year back. She was saying her hubby was in the process of resigning from the ARA (specifically 5RAR) after his most recent deployment to the ME.
Apparently quite of few of his mates are doing the same, because although they go over there they are ‘not allowed’ to do the work that grunts train their guts out for, and that they are supposed to do.
That is, fighting patrols. This chick said they were being farmed out time and again to either the SF blokes or the ones supposed to be doing long-range recon.
Big if true. I have no idea whether the discharge numbers reflect it. What I do know is my young bloke will turn 18 in September and is extremely keen to join the Army.
Which he isn’t going to do until he gets Year 12 under his belt. Looks like that’s my last mandated, non-negotiable position.
How many ports do we have potentially capable of servicing nuclear subs?
On the east coast.
You’re asking the wrong question.
The question you might ask is:
Bottom line:
Don’t join the Army, because if one of their pets gets in strife, they’ll throw you under the bus and leave you for dead to save him.
They’ve got form for doing it too.
Voter fraud? What voter fraud?
Manhattan contrarian does an excellent job of explaining voter fraud in Wis.
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2022-3-5-wisconsin-report-reveals-how-systematic-election-fraud-is-done
The report believes 90,000 nursing home votes were fraudulent. The demented crudball supposedly won by 20,000 .
This isn’t even counting Fuckerberg’s fraud.
Such as, Grogarly?
The only one I can suggest is Bundaberg.
Mark Steyn gives his view that we are experiencing a ‘Western apocalypse’
Many books written about the Voyager Affair.
Do yourself a favor …
I’ll check back tomorrow.
Has any officer in the SAS or other services been held to have responsibility for what occured? Has the question ever been asked?
Not that I’m aware and, correct me if I’m wrong, command was ensconced in Dubai iirc.
But yeah I thought the officers, the ‘gentlemen’, were meant to be ultimately responsible.
Jervis Bay looks better to me. No inconvenient coal ships or greenies. Might need dredging of the main channel.
The NT News:
If a camel spits on you, don’t spit back.
Follow me for more life hacks.
Grogs, you do know the difference the Army and the Navy?
these cretins are frog marching us to a world war. countdown to taiwan is on
Perth fits the bill and I once was told served that role in the cold war. I don’t know what the Russian equivalent was.
Maybe Yakutsk in Siberia, although it’s a difficult comparison given that Yakutsk is miles better because it doesn’t have McClown.
We need guys like that. So long as he can distinguish the crap from the important stuff, which I am confident young Mr Dragger will know after years of preparation.
Ed Casesays:
March 7, 2022 at 9:23 pm
Many books written about the Voyager Affair.
Do yourself a favor …
Do yourself a favour, and actually read more than the publisher’s blurb on the dust cover.
Much like Toowoomba, Eyrie, though the latter is nowhere near as prone to flooding as Lismore.
Odds on the local indigenous folk advised settlers re flooding but were ignored because the settlers were unfamiliar with sub-tropical rain patterns and wanted to be handy to the fresh water supply.
Bruce of N
No inconvenient coal ships or greenies.
No coal ships, but lots of Slime. And they already had a practice run in the early 1990s, when it was proposed to move Fleet Base East there. Dust off the old propaganda, change the dates, and they will be back screeching fit to be heard on Mars.
Well said Bear Necessities.
Would I put my kids with any of these egotistical dickheads?
The one thing I would expect from that life was discipline.
A deep seated self-discipline.
It is apparent that the players in this pathetic drama have none of that, but seemed to be very good at demanding it of others.
I know that the Government didn’t waste time with a Conscription Referendum in WW2, that how bad a reputation the Army and Navy had for incompetence in WW1.
Too far south, Bruce.
The simple fact is that the people living in the West failed the test.
– We didn’t reject the degeneracy of the LGBT movement
– We didn’t reject the constant lies spewed from all governments
– We didn’t hold the media accountable
– We didn’t even stand up for the right to refuse forced government medical procedures
While some of us stood against all this, we were too few.
Reap the whirlwind.
News this morning is that Poland has nixed that idea.
Russian Minister said that would be interpreted as a hostile act.
Relevance?
More rain in Sydney…for weeks it has rained and rained and rained. Everything is wet and damp, nothing dries. I’m beginning to understand how Noah felt.
Just a hunch, but I reckon commods have topped out for the time being. Looking to now short the CRB index.
I see it’s time to signal virtue again.
Tell each other how disgusted you all are in those currently slotted for their 3 minutes of hate.
Evil bad racists.
Picking on others because of where they were born, is no longer fashionable.
Yeah, that’s how everyone will know how good you all are.
Still, that’s today.
Not so not long ago, when Dot wrote off East Europeans as paedophiles and Cassie wrote off Ukrainians as Anti-Semites, racially vilifying whole Nations just so they could ‘excuse themselves’ racially vilifying someone they couldn’t beat with facts.
Ah but that was fine, cheered on by fellow cats.
Now cats keep pretending it didn’t happen, and so what if it did?
The cool cats can say & do whatever hypocritical backflips they want.
This chap has them pegged – much lower than contemptable tenth rate trash & cowardly bullies –
3 very important minutes of Gonzalo Lira
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7NTLZDd4tc&t=4717s
Yeah, I agree.
Why is that? You wouldn’t want it at Bundaberg because of proximity to da Reef (holy to Gaia).
And that would require a large chunk of the proposed $10bn going into local infrastructure.
Which would be better spent on the main project.