Open Thread – Tues 8 March 2022


The Fight Between Carnival and Lent, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1559

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Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 8, 2022 6:45 pm

Serious story of nurses living in terror in Bourke on the ABC radio. Violence in hospitals and no feeling of safety away from work.

Seems that Covid, frustration and disenfranchisement are to blame..

Struth
March 8, 2022 6:45 pm
DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
March 8, 2022 6:45 pm

What did we get in return? 45 years of cold war, continued attempts of subversion, spies and agents of influence all through our respective Parliaments and nations. Industrial sabotage via the Unions, and proxy wars where Russian pilots flew Russian aircraft killing our soldiers and airmen.
To hell with Russia.

That wasn’t Russia. That was the soviet union. They’re different.

Struth
March 8, 2022 6:46 pm

But just about now all our shelves should start emptying…….

Razey
Razey
March 8, 2022 6:47 pm

Zipstersays:
March 8, 2022 at 6:37 pm
Tucker: We are at war with Russia

A very good question Tucker asks what does the US or these warhawk politicians including graham and dowdy stand to gain from war with russia.
Is the annihilation of a billion people the end goal? Is this the build back better agenda?

Who is ‘we’. I am not at war with Russia and have no intention to. I wish I could somehow take back my portion of the $70mil the Overlords are sending to Ukraine. Maybe I could rip out a small tree from the park and plant it in the backyard.

There are 14.7 million tax payers, so the Overlords owe me $4.76, lets round it up the 5 bucks.

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/australia-s-one-per-cent-budget-reliance-on-high-and-middle-income-earners-grows-20210607-p57yrj.html#:~:text=The%20annual%20taxation%20statistics%20from,%24213%20billion%20in%20income%20tax.

srr
srr
March 8, 2022 6:49 pm

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JC
JC
March 8, 2022 6:49 pm

Struth says:
March 8, 2022 at 6:46 pm

But just about now all our shelves should start emptying…….

Here we were thinking you’d learnt your lesson making stupid predictions about mass starvation. And you’re off again. You really appear to be focused on food all the time – what do you weigh? 200 kgs is my guess.

Struth
March 8, 2022 6:51 pm

The vaccinated are dying “with covid” like everyone else has done.
OF something else, said to be “with” covid.
They’re dying of side effects….”with covid”

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 8, 2022 6:51 pm

Idolent, if you want to watch Francis Collins hang himself with ample rope he was he given, Lex Fridman had him on his podcast.
It’s up on youtube.
The body language is bizarre even though it’s from the chest up.

Struth
March 8, 2022 6:52 pm

Here we were thinking you’d learnt your lesson making stupid predictions about mass starvation. And you’re off again. You really appear to be focused on food all the time – what do you weigh? 200 kgs is my guess.

Remember this shit.
It perfectly illustrates my earlier comments.

Razey
Razey
March 8, 2022 6:53 pm

Struthsays:
March 8, 2022 at 6:46 pm
But just about now all our shelves should start emptying…….

Australia currently makes enough food to feed 60 million people, we will not have empty shelves. We are also self sufficient in toilet paper. I never understood the toilet paper hording fiasco.

https://theconversation.com/australia-cant-feed-the-world-but-it-can-help-11269

JC
JC
March 8, 2022 6:54 pm

Struth says:
March 8, 2022 at 6:51 pm

The vaccinated are dying “with covid” like everyone else has done.
OF something else, said to be “with” covid.
They’re dying of side effects….”with covid”

From Professor Struth, world renowned virologist and vaccinologist.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 8, 2022 6:56 pm

Knock down & rebuild JC.
The place would be full of mould.

JC
JC
March 8, 2022 6:57 pm

Remember this shit.
It perfectly illustrates my earlier comments.

Yes. You were totally wrong last time you yanked out the starvation scare card and also likely to be wrong now.

FMD, you’re mouthy Queersland imbecile. Aren’t you embarrassed how you ended up with egg all over your face last time. STFU

JC
JC
March 8, 2022 6:58 pm

LOL Bern.

JC
JC
March 8, 2022 6:59 pm

Has Amex pulled the pin on Russia?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 8, 2022 7:00 pm

From Professor Struth, world renowned virologist and vaccinologist.

From this morning’s performance, we have established beyond reasonable doubt that the Kenworth King is a highly credentialled and experienced.victimologist…

Razey
Razey
March 8, 2022 7:01 pm

JCsays:
March 8, 2022 at 6:59 pm
Has Amex pulled the pin on Russia?

Yip. Tik Tok is no loss however.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/american-express-netflix-tiktok-join-growing-list-of-companies-suspending-business-operations-in-russia/ar-AAUHtlT

John H.
John H.
March 8, 2022 7:01 pm

Winston Smithsays:
March 8, 2022 at 6:41 pm
John H:

After the collapse of the USSR the USA and Europe should have reached out the hand of peace but instead has continued to regard Russia as a potent threat.

We did that in 1941 when they were invaded by Germany. We gave them tanks, guns, strategic minerals, food – you name it, we gave it.
What did we get in return? 45 years of cold war, continued attempts of subversion, spies and agents of influence all through our respective Parliaments and nations. Industrial sabotage via the Unions, and proxy wars where Russian pilots flew Russian aircraft killing our soldiers and airmen.
To hell with Russia.

Winston that highlights the problem I have with Putin. As long as he remains in power we are effectively still dealing with the USSR of 1941. I’m probably dreaming but if the Russians had chosen a leader more inclined towards seeking peace and democracy then perhaps the situation today would be very different. As it now stands I think that unless Putin is removed and the Russians finally managed to create a government with some hope being much better than now we are left with little alternative but to not trust them and to continue seeking the removal of Putin.

Long ago I said at a dinner that the Russians seem incapable of choosing good governance. People abused me for that but nothing has changed. I don’t know why but if it is true that the people get the government they deserve then the Russians must be among the most evil and dumb bastards in all of history.

BTW the USA went so far as to fly fighter aircraft from the USA, to Alaska, across Siberia, and to the west. Incredible effort given the limited range of the WW2 fighters and the navigation required. You are correct, they stabbed us in the back. Putin will do the same so I don’t understand why some are supporting him.

Struth
March 8, 2022 7:01 pm

I made predictions that the vaccines weren’t vaccines.
Scoffed at.
I made predictions they come with a vaccine passport.
Scoffed at
I made predictions this was organised through the WEF.
Scoffed at.
Etc etc.
ETC.
Truth is, I didn’t make any predictions.
I just read what those had in mind intended for us.
All correct of course.

Hyperinflation and supply break down is next, blamed on a far away war.

That’s what they tell us.
And I’ve been right about all, while you, you silly bastard JC, sneered and mocked and got yourself jabbed like a fucking goose.
And call other people thick!!!

You need to pull your head in, and fast.
The mocking of reality will do you no good.

Frank
Frank
March 8, 2022 7:01 pm

JC says:
March 8, 2022 at 6:52 pm

You details are appearing in the link there for some reason, you might want to log out.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 8, 2022 7:03 pm

Here’s a well paid job, doesn’t mention Vaccine Status:
https://twitter.com/spriter99880/status/1500958027939291143/photo/1

Zipster
Zipster
March 8, 2022 7:03 pm

from above

The DoD database, Johnson wrote, also showed an increase from 2020 to 2021 in the following conditions: hypertension (2,181%), diseases of the nervous system (1,048%), malignant neoplasms of esophagus (894%), multiple sclerosis (680%), malignant neoplasms of digestive organs (624%), Guillain-Barre syndrome (551%), breast cancer (487%), demyelinating (487%), malignant neoplasms of thyroid and other endocrine glands (474%), female infertility (472%), pulmonary embolism –(468%), migraines – 452% increase, ovarian dysfunction (437%), testicular cancer (369%), tachycardia (302%).

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 8, 2022 7:04 pm

Nickel prices have doubled in 2 weeks?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 8, 2022 7:04 pm

Here we were thinking you’d learnt your lesson making stupid predictions about mass starvation. And you’re off again. You really appear to be focused on food all the time – what do you weigh? 200 kgs is my guess.

Remember this shit.
It perfectly illustrates my earlier comments.

Yes it does. You’re off your tits, and you’re a selfish bastard for not sharing whatever it is that makes you so superbly dissociative…

#Drergs

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 8, 2022 7:05 pm

Nickel prices have doubled in 2 weeks?

Pays better than gypsum.

Bluey
Bluey
March 8, 2022 7:05 pm

Reading some estimates that 1/3 to maybe half or slightly more of the Ukrainian army is trapped in the southeast. The only way out is covered by fire. If it’s true that’ll be a big moral hit to lose, not to mention the combat power.

Meanwhile Russian banks are moving to Unionpay for credit card services, and sanctions are starting to bite the EU. Few other countries are looking at alternatives to SWIFT, and trying to de-dollarize their trade.

The west has top men in charge. Top. Men.

JC
JC
March 8, 2022 7:06 pm

Frank

You mean the pic etc? That’s Monty. I have his pic as a reminder for a number of reasons, but primarily how not to appear at a gold course.

Razey
Razey
March 8, 2022 7:06 pm
JC
JC
March 8, 2022 7:07 pm

golf… not freaking gold.

Frank
Frank
March 8, 2022 7:09 pm

No, it is encoded in the link you posted to that house. When you go to it your email and full name appears in the form there. Ask Dover to edit the link or delete your comment.

JC
JC
March 8, 2022 7:11 pm

Thanks Frank.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 8, 2022 7:12 pm

I made predictions

None of which seem to be doing a very good job of standing up, Kenworth King. Despite your most strenuous efforts at fluffing them.

Amd your really Nuffy ones, like the WEF murdergenocides and DeAtH CaMps seem, amusingly, to be even further away than ever.

But never let the intrusions of unkind reality* interrupt the Gear-jamming (phrasing) of the mighty Kenworth King…

(* Like people waking up,
but not in the way he’d like. Energy and strategic security are things that a VaCcInE PaSsPoRt (which even the more energetic Europeans are abandoning, as per Rosie’s ground reporting from France…), being a benign First World Problem, will always melt away in the face of…)

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 8, 2022 7:13 pm

The Biden administration officials (not just mayor Pete) smirking, telling people to buy EV’s to avoid higher fuel prices is generating real hatred.
More than what was there before.

Winston Smith
March 8, 2022 7:13 pm

ZK2A:

Seems that Covid, frustration and disenfranchisement are to blame..

Bourke Hospital has always been as dodgy as hell, even before the kidnapping and murder of the nurse years ago. Admin doesn’t give a damn, they’d rather lose staff than admit putting aboriginals on a pedestal and worshiping the tribe.
One of the very few places I refused to work in.

Razey
Razey
March 8, 2022 7:14 pm

Refreshing attitude from Uniqlo boss.

“Uniqlo parent Fast Retailing has decided to maintain its Russian operations because, according to CEO Tadashi Yanai, “clothing is a necessity of life” and “the people of Russia have the same right to life as we do.” Yanai does not appear to be very bothered about ESG issues, having previously declined to comment on Uniqlo’s sourcing of cotton from China’s oppressed Xinjiang region. “

https://fortune.com/2022/03/07/these-companies-exiting-russia-have-been-going-well-beyond-whats-required-by-sanctions-ceo-daily/

Roger
Roger
March 8, 2022 7:16 pm

The Biden administration officials (not just mayor Pete) smirking, telling people to buy EV’s to avoid higher fuel prices is generating real hatred.

“Let them eat cake.”

Razey
Razey
March 8, 2022 7:16 pm

feelthebernsays:
March 8, 2022 at 7:13 pm
The Biden administration officials (not just mayor Pete) smirking, telling people to buy EV’s to avoid higher fuel prices is generating real hatred.
More than what was there before.

Can we install lunar panels to charge our cars over night?

calli
calli
March 8, 2022 7:17 pm

The rain is back. Roos are doing backstroke in the lake, together with the swans.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 8, 2022 7:17 pm

But just about now all our shelves should start emptying…….

It’s terrible over here, Struth.

The supply situation is so bad that soda cans are on special…

All Hail the Trans-Australian Railway, upon which greater than 80% of West Australia’s logistical needs are met…

(Except for express stuff from the couriers and Auspost. That comes by plane…)

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 8, 2022 7:18 pm

Bourke Hospital has always been as dodgy as hell, even before the kidnapping and murder of the nurse years ago.

I’m going back to the early 1980’s – there was a major Defence Force exercise based on Bourke, and some of the locals were spreading the story that the Army had been called in to keep certain members of the population in line…

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 8, 2022 7:20 pm

Putin is no longer a Judo black belt.
The big cheeses at the world judo body has stripped him of his titles.

PS Russian gas still getting pumped west.

Zipster
Zipster
March 8, 2022 7:22 pm
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 8, 2022 7:24 pm

Nickel soars to record above $1357000 per tonne
Agency writers
AGENCY WRITERS

The price of nickel skyrocketed to a record high on Tuesday over concerns about Russian production as the Ukraine conflict has rocked commodity markets.

The metal, which is used to make stainless steel and batteries for electric vehicles, briefly traded at $US101,365 ($137,447 ) per tonne, nearly double its 2007 peak.
It later eased to $US82,195.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Western sanctions against Moscow have caused turmoil in the markets, sending the prices of everything from oil to gas to aluminium to wheat soaring, while equities have fallen.

Russia is the world’s third-biggest producer of nickel, noted Benjamin Louvet, analyst at OFI Asset Management.

“For now, the main producers of metals in the country have been spared by sanctions, but many companies in this sector are headed by oligarchs close to Vladimir Putin,” Mr Louvet said.

“The impact of such sanctions could be significant, as 37 percent of Russian exports go to the Netherlands and 16 percent to Germany,” he said.

Makka
Makka
March 8, 2022 7:28 pm

Long ago I said at a dinner that the Russians seem incapable of choosing good governance. People abused me for that but nothing has changed. I don’t know why but if it is true that the people get the government they deserve then the Russians must be among the most evil and dumb bastards in all of history.

I lived and worked in Russia for a couple of years in 2000’s. I know it was a while ago but somethings just don’t change as I’ve found from people I still keep in touch with there. Russians are a generally patriotic people so it is foolhardy to impose sanctions to the extent of impoverishing them. This will only make them more insular and distrusting of the west.They aren’t stupid either, they know Putin isn’t a “good guy” but they do trust his love of “Mother Russia”. Mostly they feel helpless with the governance structure they have because I sense they think the way to resolve it will involve lots of violence and massive economic upheaval- and every Russian knows their terrible violent history and the enormous hardship that brings with it. Decades long.

“the people get the government they deserve” Russia has only known tyranny, despotism and autocracy for several hundred years. Russians have never experienced a true working sustained democracy themselves or the fruits of it. Russians have been and are conditioned to fall in behind a strong leader. Like it or not. That is not something they “deserve” which really is just being flippant. Russians by and large are thoughtful , educated proud people. Decent folk. They are victims of their brutal history. So in many cases their approach is every man for himself which makes it extremely difficult to muster and effective numerically significant opposition to the current regime. And looking at what the perverse, weak and utterly corrupt west has become, we are no longer that shining attractive alternate example we once were. You only have to look at that senile pervert in the WH and our embrace of all the deviant LGBTQI garbage to see how low the west has fallen.

Razey
Razey
March 8, 2022 7:32 pm
GreyRanga
GreyRanga
March 8, 2022 7:34 pm

JC you worry me, this year you’ve settled down a lot which is good for your blood pressure but having a picture of the fat fuck even if you lunch together is a bit much. You go down this path much further and suddenly Ken Worth will be staying the night. It can get out of hand so to speak very quickly.

lotocoti
lotocoti
March 8, 2022 7:35 pm

PS Russian gas still getting pumped west.

Maybe not for much longer.

Cassie of Sydney
March 8, 2022 7:41 pm

“Makkasays:
March 8, 2022 at 7:28 pm”

I think you’ve said it best.

““the people get the government they deserve””

We here in the West no longer have the leaders of the calibre of Thatcher, Reagan, Pope John Paul II, Kohl and even Mitterand. We now have the leaders we deserve, a sad reflection of our corrupt societies, just look at our clown of a PM, Blob Johnson, Tiny Macron and the Sniffer in Chief.

Bruce
Bruce
March 8, 2022 7:42 pm

Here’s a link for those “wanting more government”:

https://me.me/t/wants-more-government

miltonf
miltonf
March 8, 2022 7:42 pm

The west has top men in charge. Top. Men.
and wimmin- don’t forget the geriatric mafia princess and the blow job eggs spurt.

How fucked can you get?

Cassie of Sydney
March 8, 2022 7:42 pm

“PS Russian gas still getting pumped west.

Maybe not for much longer.”

I’ve been waiting for that to happen.

miltonf
miltonf
March 8, 2022 7:43 pm

Thanks for your explanation re west coast/messed coast earlier Cassie.

Old bloke
Old bloke
March 8, 2022 7:47 pm

Gab says:
March 8, 2022 at 3:37 pm

Information and list of adverse reactions from aircrew staff now fighting Qantas in court:

Sroll down for the full list of adverse reactions.
https://www.reignitedemocracyaustralia.com.au/qantas-aircrew-adverse-reaction/

That is concerning if it’s correct. Airline pilots are claiming they are having cardiac and other problems following the vaxx, but they won’t report these incidents to their employer for fear of being sacked on medical grounds.

The list of complaints is here:
ADVERSE EVENTS VACCINE INJURIES
Airline Crew
Australia and New Zealand

Bluey
Bluey
March 8, 2022 7:50 pm

miltonfsays:
March 8, 2022 at 7:42 pm
The west has top men in charge. Top. Men.
and wimmin- don’t forget the geriatric mafia princess and the blow job eggs spurt.

How fucked can you get?

Well, if you believe the likes of Ms. Tame they’re too busy being harassed, belittled and put down to run anything. Glass ceiling and all that.

miltonf
miltonf
March 8, 2022 7:51 pm

Great post Makka- where did you work in Russia? Never been myself but my parents have.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 8, 2022 7:52 pm

That is concerning if it’s correct. Airline pilots are claiming they are having cardiac and other problems following the vaxx, but they won’t report these incidents to their employer for fear of being sacked on medical grounds.

Like your reputation, your Medical clearance can be wiped away in an instant. And is all but impossible to re-establish…

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 8, 2022 7:54 pm

Fascinating story. Two weeks before it happened The Marine Corps University (ie. the university of the USMC, there is one) did a wargame of Russia and Ukraine.

The Wargame Before the War: Russia Attacks Ukraine – War on the Rocks (2 Mar)

In the two weeks prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Marine Corps University ran a four-day wargame to simulate the first several days of just such an invasion. One of us ran the wargame while the others played the Ukrainian and Russian forces. Despite a few stark differences, the current Russian offensive is playing out in ways eerily similar to that simulation.

By the time the wargame ended, the overall situation appeared very much as it does on the ground in Ukraine, with only two major deviations. First, the Russians have pushed harder out of Belarus to the west of the Dneiper — north of Kyiv — to strike the city from the rear. And secondly, the Russian assault in Kherson was temporarily halted, as the axis of advance in the south for a time turned northeast toward Mariupol. Both of these actions were, however, discussed by the players in the wargame.

RTWT, it’s long. The essence is that the guys in the wargame emphasised destruction of Ukrainian air and AA assets first, and delayed the ground invasion to allow that. Which then gave much better air support for the subsequent ground phase a few days later (game time). In the real invasion the RGS seem to have gone all-in on the decapitation option, and went in fast and hard on the ground, only to get bogged down. But aside from that the similarities are uncanny.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 8, 2022 7:55 pm

Struthsays:

March 8, 2022 at 6:46 pm

But just about now all our shelves should start emptying…….

Bwah ha ha ha ha.
Looks like the supermarkets will be bursting at the seams then.

miltonf
miltonf
March 8, 2022 7:56 pm

And looking at what the perverse, weak and utterly corrupt west has become, we are no longer that shining attractive alternate example we once were. You only have to look at that senile pervert in the WH and our embrace of all the deviant LGBTQI garbage to see how low the west has fallen.

my thoughts too- it just disgusts me and I admit to being genuinely shocked at what has transpired in the US. It seemed like senile pervert’s candidature was a joke- instead the US has turned out to be a sick joke with the FBI being their version of the NKVD.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
March 8, 2022 7:57 pm

Reference first post by Zatara at start of thread about US media receiving Government money in relation to positive vaccine coverage.

I seem to recall about 2 years ago Australian Government gave money to news outlets to support journalists at start of Covid. For some reason thinking it was 50 million. Not long after a lot of the smaller regional newspapers closed down anyway.

Anybody recall more ?

Makka
Makka
March 8, 2022 7:59 pm

milt, Moscow and east to the eastern side of the Urals at Ekaterinberg and north to the circle and down to the ‘stans in the south.

One thing I’ms sure of, sadly. The average Russian has a greater love of his country than I’m feeling for mine at present.

Winston Smith
March 8, 2022 8:00 pm

Ed Case:
Nickel up
Nickel
USD/T
80025.00 31,824.00 66.02% 213.12% 239.51% 399.02%
That’s an awful lot of movement.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 8, 2022 8:01 pm

Hey JC.
Check out Discord!
Some stuff you might find funny.

Zipster
Zipster
March 8, 2022 8:03 pm

SARS-CoV-2 infection and persistence throughout the human body and brain

OVID-19 is known to cause multi-organ dysfunction1-3 in acute infection, with prolonged symptoms experienced by some patients, termed Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC)4-5. However, the burden of infection outside the respiratory tract and time to viral clearance is not well characterized, particularly in the brain3,6-14. We performed complete autopsies on 44 patients with COVID-19 to map and quantify SARS-CoV-2 distribution, replication, and cell-type specificity across the human body, including brain, from acute infection through over seven months following symptom onset. We show that SARS-CoV-2 is widely distributed, even among patients who died with asymptomatic to mild COVID-19, and that virus replication is present in multiple extrapulmonary tissues early in infection. Further, we detected SARS-CoV-2 RNA in multiple anatomic sites, including regions throughout the brain, for up to 230 days following symptom onset. Despite extensive distribution of SARS-CoV-2 in the body, we observed a paucity of inflammation or direct viral cytopathology outside of the lungs. Our data prove that SARS-CoV-2 causes systemic infection and can persist in the body for months.

Winston Smith
March 8, 2022 8:04 pm

Wodger:

The Biden administration officials (not just mayor Pete) smirking, telling people to buy EV’s to avoid higher fuel prices is generating real hatred.

“Let them eat cake.”

The Democrats must be very confident they will win the next elections. That’s if they are held at all.

miltonf
miltonf
March 8, 2022 8:04 pm

Thanks Makka. I had never heard of Tsar Bomba till yesterday. Bruce linked to a good video. Here is another interesting one (Russian with subtitles)Diabolical, frightening, fascinating and impressive

miltonf
miltonf
March 8, 2022 8:09 pm

America is Marxist

miltonf
miltonf
March 8, 2022 8:10 pm

The big corporations in the US are also agents of the state.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 8, 2022 8:10 pm

Short gypsum. Long nickel and mutton.

miltonf
miltonf
March 8, 2022 8:11 pm

And the big US corporations, being part of the American establishment, also hate America.

cohenite
March 8, 2022 8:13 pm

This is the sort of shit the left-wing media vomits:

Climate change: Five things we’ve learned from the IPCC report

1- Things are way worse than we thought

2 – Loss and damage gets scientific backing

3 – Technology is not a silver bullet (the technology is of the sort of machines to suck CO2 out of the air!)

4 – Cities offer hope (because they will rely on renewable energy!)

5 – The small window is closing fast. (8 years according to the demented squirrel, AOC)

Investing in nature will also be a bulwark against the worst, says the IPCC, which calls for 30-50% of the world to be conserved.

“Nature can be our saviour,” said Inger Anderson, the head of the UN Environment Programme.

“But only if we save it first.”

These people are fucked in the head.

miltonf
miltonf
March 8, 2022 8:14 pm

The Democrats must be very confident they will win the next elections. That’s if they are held at all.

they got away with the theft in 2020 so 2022 should be a doddle- just tweak it a bit more. Sorry for my cynicism.

Razey
Razey
March 8, 2022 8:15 pm

Zipstersays:
March 8, 2022 at 8:03 pm
SARS-CoV-2 infection and persistence throughout the human body and brain

OVID-19 is known to cause multi-organ dysfunction1-3 in acute infection, with prolonged symptoms experienced by some patients, termed Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC)4-5. However, the burden of infection outside the respiratory tract and time to viral clearance is not well characterized, particularly in the brain3,6-14. We performed complete autopsies on 44 patients with COVID-19 to map and quantify SARS-CoV-2 distribution, replication, and cell-type specificity across the human body, including brain, from acute infection through over seven months following symptom onset. We show that SARS-CoV-2 is widely distributed, even among patients who died with asymptomatic to mild COVID-19, and that virus replication is present in multiple extrapulmonary tissues early in infection. Further, we detected SARS-CoV-2 RNA in multiple anatomic sites, including regions throughout the brain, for up to 230 days following symptom onset. Despite extensive distribution of SARS-CoV-2 in the body, we observed a paucity of inflammation or direct viral cytopathology outside of the lungs. Our data prove that SARS-CoV-2 causes systemic infection and can persist in the body for months.

How many of them had received the mRNA poison clot shots? I bet they didn’t mention that.

John H.
John H.
March 8, 2022 8:17 pm

And looking at what the perverse, weak and utterly corrupt west has become, we are no longer that shining attractive alternate example we once were. You only have to look at that senile pervert in the WH and our embrace of all the deviant LGBTQI garbage to see how low the west has fallen.

But Makka we are still far better off than the Russians. A people have to transcend their history. Australia did that. I think the LGBTQI has gone too far but I don’t see it as a threat to our way of life. Trump, Biden, May, Johnston, Turnbull, Morrison, none of them have impressed me but a modern democracy is more than its leaders.

People here keep saying the west has fallen but crime rates are very low, unemployment is low, even the poor can afford big screen TVs, computers, and mobile phones. Infrastructure is the best it has ever been, cars now have 7 year warranties when 2 years was the norm, the populace is more educated than at any time in history, modern medicine is advancing at record rates, life expectancy is still rising which is almost miraculous because it must top at in the very near future. My computer has a 12nm lithography chipset that is less than 4 years old. This year Samsung released 4 nm, AMD 5 nm. That’s remarkable materials progress. Just because the state of affairs doesn’t accord with one’s moral sensibilities doesn’t mean the joint is being trashed.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 8, 2022 8:17 pm

Uni of Melbourne banned by Snow Medical Research Foundation
Tim Dodd
Higher Education Editor
@TimDoddEDU
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One of Australia’s largest private benefactors to university research, the Snow Medical Research Foundation, has banned the University of Melbourne from future grants because its latest honorary doctorates awarded last week went to six white men, leaving out women and people from other ­diverse backgrounds.

Speaking on International Women’s Day, Snow Medical chair Tom Snow said he was “deeply upset” by the university’s decision to go ahead with the ceremony, which was shown in a photo on the university’s website.

“That photo was sending a message to every young woman trying to achieve in their fields that no matter how hard you work, white men will be awarded ahead of you,” he said. “This is their most prestigious award. It should be an opportunity to inspire.”

Mr Snow, a former University of Melbourne Rhodes Scholar whose family owns Canberra Airport, is major figure in Australian medical research. In the past four years, his foundation has committed nearly $100m to research projects, with University of Mel­bourne researchers receiving $16m, and other major grants going to Monash University, the Australian National University and medical research institutions.

In a further blow to the University of Melbourne, political leaders from both sides backed Snow Medical’s action.

Opposition education spokeswoman Tanya Plibersek said she sincerely hoped it would lead to change. “Good on Snow Medical for taking a stand like this. There are many women and people of ­diverse backgrounds who deserve to have their achievements recognised too,” she said.

Federal Financial Services Minister Jane Hume, a University of Melbourne graduate, said she expected the university to do better. “I find it incredible they couldn’t find as least one female recipient. This perpetuates the problem which several University of Melbourne academics can tell you (about),” she said.

Doug Hilton, head of WEHI medical research institute which has close ties with the University of Melbourne, said Snow Medical’s move had sent repercussions through the Australian academic community. “To me it’s fabulous when a foundation or funding organisation links their culture or aspirations to the money,” he said.

University of Sydney deputy vice-chancellor (research) Duncan Ivison said Snow Medical was a “really exceptional foundation” and its statement had given universities a “great challenge”.

“It provides a very strong incentive for universities to walk the walk and not just talk the talk. I’m sure Melbourne is really committed to addressing the issue.”

Roger
Roger
March 8, 2022 8:20 pm

The essence is that the guys in the wargame emphasised destruction of Ukrainian air and AA assets first, and delayed the ground invasion to allow that.

SEAD is a basic doctrine of modern warfare the Russians seem to have neglected.

Or did they want to avoid associated civilian casualties?

Either way it’s made their task much more difficult.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 8, 2022 8:23 pm

SNL Has NEVER Featured Crackhead Hunter Biden Despite the DOZENS OF VIDEOS of Him Smoking Crack and with Hookers

Yeah, because it’s impossible to parody Hunter Biden.
Plus, now that Warnie’s gone, he’s all we’ve got.
Don Jr?
Meh

miltonf
miltonf
March 8, 2022 8:23 pm

I think the LGBTQI has gone too far but I don’t see it as a threat to our way of life.

I think it is when infants are being indoctrinated with this stuff against their parents’ wishes.

Roger
Roger
March 8, 2022 8:26 pm

John H.,

That’s a purely material assessment.

There are abundant signs that the Western psyche is profoundly out of kilter with reality.

Razey
Razey
March 8, 2022 8:27 pm

John H.says:
March 8, 2022 at 8:17 pm
And looking at what the perverse, weak and utterly corrupt west has become, we are no longer that shining attractive alternate example we once were. You only have to look at that senile pervert in the WH and our embrace of all the deviant LGBTQI garbage to see how low the west has fallen.

But Makka we are still far better off than the Russians.

Materially ‘better off’ completely due to overseas innovations, but Australia is spiritually and morally a cesspit. Just look at the forced medical procedures in order to keep a roof over your head and the Sheep willing accepted it all. Rubber bullets & police brutality to people simply wanting freedom.

My grandfather was a factory hand. He raised three children, paid off his house before 30, his wife never worked a day in her life. No bro, things are not ok here.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 8, 2022 8:28 pm

Russia has only known tyranny, despotism and autocracy for several hundred years. Russians have never experienced a true working sustained democracy themselves or the fruits of it.

Excellent comment Makka.

On recommendation of a Cat, I think Zulu, I read this book on the lead up to WW1 and the Russian Revolution.

Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia (Lieven)

Two things struck me. One was the fact that Russia was a serf based feudal country as late as 1900. Two was that when the Tsar attempted to rectify this situation and educate the peasants with village schools, the newly minted Marxists moved right in as the village teachers. So like Australia today.

The upshot is that democracy cannot ever be imposed from above, it is only ever an emergent. To emerge it must have certain basic structures in place for a long time: a society which distrusts authority, a lot of real education, and a Christian ethos or something like it. Without all those it seems futile. In Russia in the late 19th and early 20thCs there was a Christian ethos, but it was white-anted by the new Marxist learnings. And that didn’t get better when Lenin’s bunch got in. Since the fall of the CCCP there’s been a grass roots improvement in education and distrust of authority, but unfortunately oligarchs have pretty much captured the place and the people don’t get much of a look in to running the country these days.

I’ll leave this comment with the first few lines of Lieven’s introduction, which are creepy:

As much as anything, the First World War turned on the fate of Ukraine. To an English-speaking audience, this statement will seem final confirmation that most professors are crazy. No Allied soldier believed he was risking his life over Ukraine. Few of them had heard of the place. … Nevertheless, my statement is not as far-fetched as it seems. Without Ukraine’s population, industry, and agriculture, early-twentieth century Russia would have ceased to be a great power.

There you go. WW1 is still going on as I write.

Makka
Makka
March 8, 2022 8:30 pm

But Makka we are still far better off than the Russians.

Russians aspire to a better standard of living. Without doubt. But they don’t necessarily see that as being similar to what has become of the west of today.

miltonf
miltonf
March 8, 2022 8:32 pm

So this Canbra twerp thinks the colour and sex of the people doing the work counts more than the quality of the work. Notice how both Lieboral and Labor wimmin both backed the canbra twerp.

lotocoti
lotocoti
March 8, 2022 8:33 pm

‘We do not want to unconditionally celebrate or commemorate people who contributed to or benefited from the tragedy that was the slave trade.’
The Church of England sets a new standard for clown world.

Roger
Roger
March 8, 2022 8:34 pm

WW1 is still going on as I write.

The last 100 years have been a coda to WWI.

It put in place the basic structure of our world.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
March 8, 2022 8:34 pm

People here keep saying the west has fallen but crime rates are very low, unemployment is low, even the poor can afford big screen TVs, computers, and mobile phones. Infrastructure is the best it has ever been, cars now have 7 year warranties when 2 years was the norm, the populace is more educated than at any time in history, modern medicine is advancing at record rates, life expectancy is still rising which is almost miraculous because it must top at in the very near future. My computer has a 12nm lithography chipset that is less than 4 years old. This year Samsung released 4 nm, AMD 5 nm. That’s remarkable materials progress. Just because the state of affairs doesn’t accord with one’s moral sensibilities doesn’t mean the joint is being trashed.

That’s almost all based on technology, in turn based on science. How much longer can that survive given that our engineers and scientists are having their education replaced by woke shit? How long before our planes no longer fly and our bridges fall down because our engineers are incompetent? And don’t forget, mathematics is racist and, like engineering and science, based on white supremacy.

miltonf
miltonf
March 8, 2022 8:36 pm

And don’t forget the lesbian bridge in Florida that collasped.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 8, 2022 8:38 pm

Yeah, because it’s impossible to parody Hunter Biden

You know, I’m actually curious to see where the warble-fly is going to chew its way out of this ambit’s corpse…

Bluey
Bluey
March 8, 2022 8:41 pm

Bruce has it right. Russia is not, and has never been a democracy. They don’t have the cultural legacy of it, and it’s not ever been realistically practiced there. They went from a king to commie, to devastated. They had a strongman who picked up the pieces and put something workable together afterward.

Where they are now is pretty bloody good, given the history.

miltonf
miltonf
March 8, 2022 8:43 pm

Where they are now is pretty bloody good, given the history.

yeah- me feeling is they’ve gone ahead considerably since the Yeltsin humiliation

rickw
rickw
March 8, 2022 8:43 pm

Mark Dice, conspiracy fact:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMovtx-sRxo

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 8, 2022 8:44 pm

The rain is back. Roos are doing backstroke in the lake, together with the swans.

Endless stream of wet birds at the Cafe today. They resembled wet feather dusters and were very hungry.

miltonf
miltonf
March 8, 2022 8:45 pm

Come to think of it Britain has its own Boris Yelstin now.

Winston Smith
March 8, 2022 8:46 pm

Bruce O’Nuke:

In the real invasion the RGS seem to have gone all-in on the decapitation option, and went in fast and hard on the ground, only to get bogged down. But aside from that the similarities are uncanny.

Did they try my Dnieper River stop point?

miltonf
miltonf
March 8, 2022 8:46 pm

I wouldn’t even insult Brezhnev by comparing him to the old thief.

rickw
rickw
March 8, 2022 8:49 pm

That’s almost all based on technology, in turn based on science. How much longer can that survive given that our engineers and scientists are having their education replaced by woke shit? How long before our planes no longer fly and our bridges fall down because our engineers are incompetent? And don’t forget, mathematics is racist and, like engineering and science, based on white supremacy.

Overlay that with promotions based on gender, wokeness and anything else you care to mention besides a proven track record of making good decisions.

Frank
Frank
March 8, 2022 8:49 pm

Where’s Dot?

Cassie of Sydney
March 8, 2022 8:50 pm

” I think the LGBTQI has gone too far but I don’t see it as a threat to our way of life. “

I do.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 8, 2022 8:50 pm

Don Jr dating a Tranny 10 years older than he is.
Yeah, I can see some humorous possibilities there.

miltonf
miltonf
March 8, 2022 8:52 pm

I think Dot got cranky because some people here had some nice things to say about Russia.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 8, 2022 8:53 pm

Pat Robertson [yeah, he'[s still alive] came outta retirement to tell us this:
https://news.yahoo.com/prophecy-being-fulfilled-eyes-121208138.html

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 8, 2022 8:54 pm

Ed – Any comments on Jill Biden or Brigitte Macron?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 8, 2022 8:54 pm

Don Jr dating a Tranny 10 years older than he is.

Oh well.

The Flamer clearly couldn’t help himself and got stuck into the nose-gypsum.

I sometimes hope for some organic comedy value out of Grigs’ bullshit, but all too often it’s just mutton-spasms…

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 8, 2022 8:55 pm

I think Dot got cranky because some people here had some nice things to say about Russia.

He also got vaccinated. And reported some side effects as I recall. I hope he’s OK.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 8, 2022 8:57 pm

Ed – Any comments on Jill Biden or Brigitte Macron?

I did wonder why Grigs was muttering under his breath about ‘Re-up holster[ing] the Lazy-Boy one day…’

rickw
rickw
March 8, 2022 8:57 pm

My grandfather was a factory hand. He raised three children, paid off his house before 30, his wife never worked a day in her life. No bro, things are not ok here.

Australia is one of the least densely populated places on earth. Has weather that allows construction of cheap infrastructure. Has weather that allows construction of cheap houses. And most people will spend a lifetime paying off their house…..

srr
srr
March 8, 2022 8:58 pm

MikeNewZ ??@MikeNewZ
·
29m
New Zealand Goes BatShit Crazy – Nurses With Covid Can Work…
Unvaccinated Nurses Can’t.

Covid-positive healthcare staff can now work as a ‘last resort’

Critical healthcare employees can now work while Covid positive, but only as a last resort and with strict conditions about how they spend their day. …

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/covid-19/covid-19-omicron-outbreak-critical-healthcare-staff-can-now-work-while-covid-positive-as-a-last-resort/
http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz
_________________________________

A gardening accident the other day had me whisked off to a major regional city hospital where my great ambo spent many hours with me & two other patients in the halls of emergency. Taking obs, administering meds, keeping our morale up & pushing to get us seen to.

The halls were full of ambos and their patients on trollies.

The further I progressed along the care path, the less of it there was.
Severe understaffing was the reason.

By the second day there was only one nurse in all of emergency treatment.
This left me immobile & alone in a room without a call buzzer, pain relief, food or water for 9 hours.
I also had to ask about a tetanus shot 3 times as they kept saying they’d do that next and forgetting again.

The wound was not cleaned up & I wasn’t prescribed antibiotics until I got to see my doctor 3 days later.

Again, it was a gardening accident with a deep puncture wound from a very heavy rock in a garden bed, which would normally call for tetanus & antibiotics straight up as I’d had neither for decades.

That my blood was shooting into the air, thick fast like a fountain was good as far as pumping out some muck but the wound was left uncleaned & rebandaged after it did some more spraying of blood around the hospital & then allowed to ‘seal’ under pressure, on top of bone chips mixed with garden muck that felt like someone twirling a red hot rusty poker inside me.

Fortunately my doctor & his nurse were great, as are my family, without who’s instant & expert first aid I would have bled to death and they’d have got their inheritance early but instead they’re being excellent 24/7 ‘nurses’.

miltonf
miltonf
March 8, 2022 8:58 pm

And most people will spend a lifetime paying off their house…..

yes all thanks to actions of the political class and the pubes

Makka
Makka
March 8, 2022 8:59 pm

Just because the state of affairs doesn’t accord with one’s moral sensibilities doesn’t mean the joint is being trashed.

When your own Govt brutalizes , intimidates and victimizes you with complicit support from media and corporates, I’d say we are well past any sensible moral boundaries. You’re in the region of tyranny and despotism. You’re trivializing what’s happened to us these last couple of years, saying it’s all good in the name pf what- progress? Fuck that!

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 8, 2022 9:01 pm

I’m old enough to remember when there was a mouse plague in rural Australia.

rickw
rickw
March 8, 2022 9:02 pm

“That photo was sending a message to every young woman trying to achieve in their fields that no matter how hard you work, white men will be awarded ahead of you,” he said

Tom Snow is a fucking wanker.

miltonf
miltonf
March 8, 2022 9:02 pm

I think when people are murdered on the street and in their own homes or humiliated in their own homes by people imported by the political class, it’s obvious that they are at war with the demos.

Roger
Roger
March 8, 2022 9:02 pm

” I think the LGBTQI has gone too far but I don’t see it as a threat to our way of life. “

I do.

The family is the foundational unit of any society.

Any society which tolerates or promotes attacks on the family will not prosper long, no matter what gadgets are available to distract its population from its malaise.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 8, 2022 9:03 pm

And most people will spend a lifetime paying off their house…..

Had my house paid off by the time I was 30 – I put every spare penny I had into getting it paid off. My (then) wife had other priorities – trips to Bali with ‘the girls” and a new sports car…

miltonf
miltonf
March 8, 2022 9:04 pm

Tom Snow is a fucking wanker.
Tom Snow was born and raised in Canberra

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 8, 2022 9:04 pm

No one ever really asks how the Snow family scored Canberra Airport so cheaply.
The process wasn’t as competitive as Sydney airport.

rickw
rickw
March 8, 2022 9:07 pm

When your own Govt brutalizes , intimidates and victimizes you with complicit support from media and corporates, I’d say we are well past any sensible moral boundaries.

Yep. The joint is fucked. The fact that these fucking pricks were democratically elected makes fuck all difference. Look at what they did. There’s been Kings and Dictators who’ve been more benevolent than this bunch of arseholes.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 8, 2022 9:08 pm

Tom Snow is a fucking wanker.

He’s not getting any support in the “comments” section.

miltonf
miltonf
March 8, 2022 9:09 pm

The fact that these fucking pricks were democratically elected makes fuck all difference.

because usually you only get to choose approved candidates

rickw
rickw
March 8, 2022 9:11 pm

No one ever really asks how the Snow family scored Canberra Airport so cheaply.

As soon as I read that they owned it, I automatically concluded MAAAAATES!!! Of course the fucks then carry on like they’re self made, when in fact they’re undervalued taxpayer asset made.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 8, 2022 9:11 pm

I’m old enough to remember when there was a mouse plague in rural Australia.

As recently as January?

Cassie of Sydney
March 8, 2022 9:11 pm

“Rogersays:
March 8, 2022 at 9:02 pm

The family is the foundational unit of any society.

Any society which tolerates or promotes attacks on the family will not prosper long, no matter what gadgets are available to distract its population from its malaise.”

Correct, which is why I found this vapid statement “it’s no threat to our way of life” bullshit. Only six years ago, if someone had said that a man who simply identifies as a woman and thus should be able to enter a women’s space such as a toilet and change room, where there are also young children, you would have been rightly laughed out of polite company. But now, just a few years later, we have apologists for this queer nonsense insisting that there’s nothing wrong with this and that if you object, you’re a bigot and a transphobe. Well then, I’m a proud bigot and transphobe.

The destruction of the family in the West is tied in with the collapse of religion. No society can withstand this.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 8, 2022 9:13 pm

Ed – Any comments on Jill Biden or Brigitte Macron?

Bruce- are you saying Mrs Brandon and Granny Macron are Trannies?

Winston Smith
March 8, 2022 9:15 pm

MiltonF:

they got away with the theft in 2020 so 2022 should be a doddle- just tweak it a bit more. Sorry for my cynicism.

It’s not cynical of you – it’s a necessary mindset to counter the fact the Democrats will cheat. They cannot afford not to.
If they don’t cheat, then as Hillary said “We will hang from nooses.”
This time is for all the marbles. They cannot back out now and still save their arses.

rickw
rickw
March 8, 2022 9:18 pm

I seem to recall about 2 years ago Australian Government gave money to news outlets to support journalists at start of Covid. For some reason thinking it was 50 million. Not long after a lot of the smaller regional newspapers closed down anyway.

I think they gave them a tax holiday because COVID. That’s what put the COVID disaster porn into overdrive.

Eyrie
Eyrie
March 8, 2022 9:22 pm

They managed to run the entire piece with interviews and not once mention the likely culprits. The violence against women that dare not speak its name.

In Bourke, it’s the “cheers” that are the problem.
Spent a night there in early 2016. Had to fly solo from Port Pirie to Toowoomba. After 3 hours 45 arrived in Bourke and weather ahead was problem so stayed. Was texting Mrs Eyrie who was in NZ about that autopilot we never bought.
Personally never had a problem with the cheers.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 8, 2022 9:24 pm

Say what you like about Hunter Biden, he ain’t dated no Trannies, as far as we know.

rosie
rosie
March 8, 2022 9:26 pm

I don’t know about the rest of the country but Singapore wins hands down for mask and face shield wearing at the airport.
Singapore bound passengers had to disembark first so they could be swooped on for testing.
None of that in Europe, anywhere I saw.
I got bailed up for the third degree from a Australian Border Force officer in Melbourne, asking me all sorts of stupid questions about my reasons for travel. Yes I made some marvellous new friends in Spain and I’m carrying this totally non suspicious gift they gave me to give to their other friends in Australia.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 8, 2022 9:27 pm

Ed Casesays:

March 8, 2022 at 9:24 pm

Say what you like about Hunter Biden, he ain’t dated no Trannies, as far as we know.

Yeah.
I guess once you’ve left your pregnant girlfriend to screw your dead brother’s wife you’ve pretty much maxxed out on depravity.

Bar Beach Swimmer
March 8, 2022 9:27 pm

Zulu @ 8:17:
One of Australia’s largest private benefactors to university research, the Snow Medical Research Foundation, has banned the University of Melbourne from future grants because its latest honorary doctorates awarded last week went to six white men, leaving out women and people from other ­diverse backgrounds

No need for any of them to worry about those men. Let the grants’ beneficiaries self identify as women and all will be well in the world of the political feminist movement.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 8, 2022 9:27 pm

Comment from the uproar going on over honorary doctorates. I hope Snow has the grace to apologise.

James
6 minutes ago
Apparently 3 women and one non-white man were also nominated, they just declined to attend the ceremony. This is just a storm in a teacup, showing how sexist and racist our society has become. Don’t believe the equity crowd, they don’t want equality of opportunity.

Razey
Razey
March 8, 2022 9:27 pm

rickwsays:
March 8, 2022 at 9:11 pm
No one ever really asks how the Snow family scored Canberra Airport so cheaply.

As soon as I read that they owned it, I automatically concluded MAAAAATES!!! Of course the fucks then carry on like they’re self made, when in fact they’re undervalued taxpayer asset made.

Nailed it.

Game of Mates.

Game of Mates: How billionaires get rich at our expense

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 8, 2022 9:30 pm

Say what you like about Hunter Biden, he ain’t dated no Trannies, as far as we know.

My impression is that anything that moves with a suitable hole in it would be of interest to Mr Hunter. Also a lot of stationary thing with holes in them. He seems slightly oversexed.

rosie
rosie
March 8, 2022 9:31 pm

Where are these Canberra airport owners on the man made climate change spectrum?
Also Melbourne university getting castigated over insufficient wokeness.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 8, 2022 9:33 pm

A certain person likes to compare the GDPs of Italy and Russia unfavourably.
Here’s an infographic that compares Japan, Germany, Russian Federation and Italy on a Purchasing Power basis [PPP]:
https://imgur.com/2OOGIGx

2dogs
March 8, 2022 9:35 pm

Here’s an infographic that compares Japan, Germany, Russian Federation and Italy on a Purchasing Power basis [PPP]:
https://imgur.com/2OOGIGx

Yep – the period 2005 -2010 on that graph is the main reason why Putin is so popular in Russia.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 8, 2022 9:36 pm

I guess once you’ve left your pregnant girlfriend to screw your dead brother’s wife you’ve pretty much maxxed out on depravity.

Well, no.
For a start, he waited til his bro was in the ground, and
2. That chick was a looker

MatrixTransform
March 8, 2022 9:37 pm

The destruction of the family in the West is tied in with the collapse of religion. No society can withstand this

all of this was laid out by the early post-modernists
and has been expanded upon for several generations of the same

it’s the end-game and I told youse this 2 years ago

rickw
rickw
March 8, 2022 9:38 pm

I got bailed up for the third degree from a Australian Border Force officer in Melbourne, asking me all sorts of stupid questions about my reasons for travel.

They recruit a special type of Mong that is never embarrassed no matter how banal or stupid the question.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 8, 2022 9:39 pm

With reference to the Biden clan.
Michael Malice points out how cruel it is for Biden, who has always used his family as props (post the suicide by truck “accident” Joe held a press conference in his kids hospital room), he has never publicly acknowledged Hunter’s kid with the stripper.
It show’s just how petty & mean Biden is.
Hunter is a real Biden so gets a pass on everything.
But Hunter’s kid is excluded.
I hope it doesn’t have anything to do with the stripper being a POC.

rickw
rickw
March 8, 2022 9:40 pm

For a start, he waited til his bro was in the ground

How many minutes exactly?

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 8, 2022 9:41 pm

I got bailed up for the third degree from a Australian Border Force officer in Melbourne, asking me all sorts of stupid questions about my reasons for travel.

Well, if you were traveling to Uke to take up a $2grand/day “job” with the State Department, it serves you right.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 8, 2022 9:42 pm

All right, what are you mob in Melbourne up to?

Infectious diseases expert baffled by five-fold increase of sexually transmitted disease in women living in outer suburbs of Melbourne

A surge of gonorrhea cases has been detected in Melbourne’s outer suburbs
Associate Professor Eric Chow said rising cases among women were concerning
In 2010 there were 291 cases detected in Victoria but in 2021 there were 1600

rosie
rosie
March 8, 2022 9:43 pm

A young blonde couple ahead of me at passport control were here on working holiday visas, been waiting for ages to come.
There’ll be backpackers everywhere before you can blink.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 8, 2022 9:44 pm

Pat the Captain Activist actively striving for Tim Paine’s abysmal review record.

Out? No review.

Not out? Review.

Pillock.

Razey
Razey
March 8, 2022 9:46 pm

Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
March 8, 2022 at 9:42 pm
All right, what are you mob in Melbourne up to?

Infectious diseases expert baffled by five-fold increase of sexually transmitted disease in women living in outer suburbs of Melbourne

A surge of gonorrhea cases has been detected in Melbourne’s outer suburbs
Associate Professor Eric Chow said rising cases among women were concerning
In 2010 there were 291 cases detected in Victoria but in 2021 there were 1600

Easy. VAIDS. The immune system is much weaker from the clot shots hence the body can no longer naturally keep the disease under control.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Upon return to Australia I’ve never been asked any question by Border Farce, beyond “These details on your arrival card, are they correct?”

I got bailed up for the third degree from a Australian Border Force officer in Melbourne, asking me all sorts of stupid questions about my reasons for travel.

Not sure I’d answer much more than; name, rank, serial no. – if they ever asked.

I’ve seen Border Farce in action, they’re very close to, nay they are, the most inept, stupid, un-Australian commenwealth dept.

srr
srr
March 8, 2022 9:48 pm

A Large Scale False Flag Cyber-Attack Now Imminent?

A false flag attack on the US or Europe (or both) is now imminent, and what I mean by “false flag” is that the attack will be designed to benefit the globalists and not necessarily the country that is blamed for it.

TUE MAR 8, AT 9:00 PM

In early 2021 at the height of media generated covid fear the World Economic Forum released a series of panel discussions and white papers outlining a “pandemic” of a completely different nature; what they referred to as an impending “cyber-attack with covid like characteristics.” The program agenda at the WEF was titled “Cyber Polygon” and headed with unsettling zeal by globalist Klaus Schwab.

The WEF and Schwab are best known for two things:

Their involvement in a war game called Event 201 which simulated the global spread of a coronavirus pandemic. This simulation was held two months BEFORE the real thing happened in early 2020 and a majority of the measures played out in the game were in fact implemented almost immediately following the outbreak.
Klaus Schwab’s excited announcement that the pandemic was the perfect “opportunity” to institute what he calls the “Great Reset” of the global economy along with the rise of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which is the complete centralization of world trade and governance into a global socialist empire where you will “own nothing, have no privacy, and like it.”
The fact that the WEF was so prescient when it came to the covid pandemic was quite a miracle. It was almost as if they knew it was going to happen, and their political friends in various nations wasted no time carrying out their draconian mandate policies around the world. But something happened that seemed to throw a monkey wrench into the plan –
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/large-scale-false-flag-cyber-attack-now-imminent

Candace Owens talking about it –

The People Unifier@ThePatriot46
· 4h
Must listen to Candace…
https://gettr.com/post/pythh266c5

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

So the people of Melbourne are shagging around while married & diseased?

Bluey
Bluey
March 8, 2022 9:50 pm

Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
March 8, 2022 at 9:42 pm
All right, what are you mob in Melbourne up to?

Infectious diseases expert baffled by five-fold increase of sexually transmitted disease in women living in outer suburbs of Melbourne

A surge of gonorrhea cases has been detected in Melbourne’s outer suburbs
Associate Professor Eric Chow said rising cases among women were concerning
In 2010 there were 291 cases detected in Victoria but in 2021 there were 1600

rosiesays:
March 8, 2022 at 9:43 pm
A young blonde couple ahead of me at passport control were here on working holiday visas, been waiting for ages to come.
There’ll be backpackers everywhere before you can blink.

Hmmmm….related?

rickw
rickw
March 8, 2022 9:51 pm

Awaken with JP, WEF agenda loud and proud:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G3nWyoQ5CQ

calli
calli
March 8, 2022 9:53 pm

Welcome home rosie.

Run into Dr Chant in the south of France? I believe that’s where she’s having her WEB.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

In the days before covid (BC) the number of ‘backpackers’ (i.e. holders of a Working Holiday visa) in the country hovered around 200,000 – 250,000
Since the border (haha) re-opened there have been a bit more than 30,000 such visas granted.
To date somewhere between 1,000 – 1,500 have arrived.

There’s a fair way to go. Plus Australia has some self-inflicted PR fallout, internationally.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 8, 2022 9:57 pm

Knuckle Draggersays:

March 8, 2022 at 9:44 pm

Pat the Captain Activist actively striving for Tim Paine’s abysmal review record.

The best attack in the world is now eight-strong.
Only the opening batterers and the keeper haven’t had a bowl.
Combined Paki total in two digs is 4/693.

Gabor
Gabor
March 8, 2022 10:00 pm

miltonf says:
March 8, 2022 at 8:52 pm

I think Dot got cranky because some people here had some nice things to say about Russia.

Could be part of the reason, but he was behaving out of character lately.

Bruce in WA
March 8, 2022 10:00 pm

Here you go, JC.

The USA isn’t the only place with classic housing porn.

Check this one out in WA!

And the upside is if you woke up with a hangover and threw up on the carpet … no worries! You’d never see it.

Bonus: It’s Heritage Listed, so you can’t screw around with it.

Gab
Gab
March 8, 2022 10:05 pm

Check this one out in WA!

Oh dear. Looks like it was designed by some gay Italian in the 1970s.

Top Ender
Top Ender
March 8, 2022 10:07 pm
Thefrollickingmole
Thefrollickingmole
March 8, 2022 10:09 pm

Are put up a bit about covid positive nurses being allowed to work.

The next level of pandemic in WA has the same thing.
Critical workers can work while sick.

Thefrollickingmole
Thefrollickingmole
March 8, 2022 10:11 pm

ssr put up…
Bloody spellwrecker

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 8, 2022 10:14 pm

‘I’m more Bob Hawke or John Howard, and less Bill Shorten’: Anthony Albanese

Simon Benson
Political Editor
36 minutes ago March 8, 2022
26 Comments

Anthony Albanese is pledging to end Labor’s class and climate wars, govern in the style of Bob Hawke and John Howard if ­elected, and put the cost of living and wages growth at the centre of Labor’s economic policy – in a re-run of former Labor leader Kevin Rudd’s 2007 promise to be a fiscal conservative.

In a sharp rebuttal of the platform Labor took to the last election in 2019, the Opposition Leader is seeking to assure the business community that he is pro-enterprise and will seek a new accord with unions to grow the economy and lift productivity.

The pre-election pitch to voters and business that he can be trusted to manage the economy comes as the Coalition sharpens its attack to portray Mr Albanese as a class-war warrior from the left side of politics who has a history of supporting higher taxation.

Mr Albanese is promising to pursue regulatory reform for business and cut red tape, while seeking to “rediscover the spirit of consensus” between Labor’s industrial wing and corporate Australia to encourage profits and put wages growth as a central theme of the Labor Party’s federal election pitch. He is also pushing back against criticism that he has not held an economic portfolio and is unqualified to be prime minister, saying his role as infrastructure minister in the Rudd government is qualification enough.

In a speech to be delivered to a Sydney summit on Wednesday, the Opposition Leader will say that he is seeking to reform the economy in the same fashion as former Liberal prime minister John Howard and Labor prime minister Bob Hawke.

In a veiled swipe at his predecessor Bill Shorten, he will say that Labor has spent the past three years being “diligent” in ­trying to restore trust with the business community, claiming company profits will be a key driver of growth.

“A former Liberal prime minister often said that in the race for economic reform, you would never reach the finish line because it was always advancing and there would always be something else to do to make our ­economy stronger and more productive,” Mr Albanese will say in his address to the business summit.

“I agree. It’s always a race – the race for improvement. But the current Liberal government has abandoned the field.”

Mr Albanese will also make the pledge to model a future Labor government on the Hawke/Keating era, rather than the Whitlam legacy that underpinned Labor’s 2019 election campaign pitch.

“If Labor is successful in the coming federal election, I will take my lead from Bob Hawke and his successor Paul Keating,” Mr Albanese will say.

“I want to bring Australians ­together to build a better future. We must put this nation on a growth trajectory that will lift ­living standards and underpin prosperity in coming decades.

“After nearly a decade of division and policy inertia under the Liberals and Nationals, collaboration lights our way forward.

“We must rediscover the spirit of consensus that former Labor prime minister Bob Hawke used to bring together governments, trade unions, businesses and civil society around their shared aims of growth and job creation.

“He brokered reforms that yielded benefits for all parties – not just better wages for workers, but stronger profits for businesses, along with the introduction (of) landmark reforms adding to the social dividend, such as Medicare and superannuation.

“The result was three decades of continuous economic growth.”

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 8, 2022 10:15 pm

Easy. VAIDS

Hopefully the Glowie has not been dipping his wick.

His ‘pureblood’ status might be in trouble…

rosie
rosie
March 8, 2022 10:15 pm

Thank you calli I did not run into her.
She has excellent taste in holiday destinations
Flight back as far as I could see was only half full on the Singapore Australian leg and I only heard Australian accents once, on the bus to the railway station in Marseille, I’m sure they’ll be arriving in numbers now that the risk of snap lockdowns has clearly passed.

Zipster
Zipster
March 8, 2022 10:16 pm

Briefing by the Chief of Russian NBC Protection troops
The Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation has repeatedly drawn attention to the biological programmes implemented by the Pentagon in the post-Soviet area.
Including the territory of Ukraine that has united a chain of more than 30 biological laboratories divided into those for scientific research and for sanitary-epidemiological investigations.

Those works have been ordered by the Defence Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). A firm affiliated to the defence department (Black and Veatch above all others) are involved in the implementation of the projects.

The works refer to three main branches. In the first place, it refers to the biological situation observation in the areas of possible deployment of the NATO military contingents, according to the Pentagon. In the second place, it is dedicated to collecting and transporting the strains of dangerous microorganisms. The third branch of activity refers to scientific investigations on potential biological weapons agents that are specific for that region, possessing natural focuses and able to be transmitted to humans.

For example, since 2021, the Pentagon has been carrying out the project called ‘Diagnosis, observation and prevention of zoonotic diseases in the Armed Forces of Ukraine’ funded with 11.8 million dollars.

In 2020-2021, the German Ministry of Defence examined the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, leptospirosis, meningitis, hantaviruses causative agents within the Ukrainian-German initiative for biological security on the external borders of the European Union.

Under the pretext of testing agents for the treatment and prevention of the coronavirus infection, a few thousand of serum samples taken from the infected individuals that refer to the Slavic ethnicity have been transported from Ukraine to Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.

At the same time, the activity of the biological laboratories that, according to our data, has been intensified since 2014 and the so-called Ukrainian healthcare system ‘reforming’ programme implemented by the United States have led to an unmanageable increase of hazardous and economically important infections morbidity.

Thus there has been noted an increase of rubella, diphtheria and tuberculosis cases in Ukraine. The incidence of measles has increased more than 100 times. The World Health Organization has declared Ukraine a country with a high risk of the poliomyelitis outbreak.

We are considered that in the year of 2007 a strain of African swine fever with high contagiousness was constructed in the Georgian biological laboratory which is subordinate to Pentagon. It`s spread caused significant economic damage to a number of states including Ukraine and Poland and excluded them from a number of pork exporters.

The Department of the Chief of the Russian troops NBC protection constantly analyzes the biological situation on the territory of Ukraine.

According to our data an emergency phasing out of the biological programmes takes place. The analysed documents confirm that Ukrainian Health Ministry has set a task to completely destroy the bio-agents in the laboratories since 24th of February.

At the same time the analysis of the instructions given to the laboratory officials indicates that liquidation procedure is aimed at the irrevocable destruction of the collections. Apparently, everything necessary for continuation of the implementation of the military biological program has already been taken out of Ukraine.

The analysis of the acts of destruction shows that work was carried out with pathogenes of plague, anthrax and brucellosis in the Lviv biological laboratory, pathogens of diphtheria, salmonellosis and dysentery in laboratories in Kharkov and Poltava. Here are some of them: only in Lviv 232 containers with the casuative agent of leptospirosis, 30 containers with tularemia, 10 with containers brucellosis, 5 containers with plague were destroyed. In total more than 320 containers. The nomenclature and excessive number of bio-pathogens indicate that the work was carried out within the framework of military biological programs.

The curators from the Pentagon understand that if these collections get to Russian experts a fact of violation of the Convention on the Prohibition of Biological and Toxin Weapons by Ukraine and the USA will most likely be confirmed. Namely: carrying out work to enhance the pathogenic properties of microorganisms with usage of synthetic biology methods.

Only this can explain a haste with which the liquidation was carried out.

This is only a small part of documents. We continue the work and will inform you.

MatrixTransform
March 8, 2022 10:16 pm

Check this one out in WA!

Romans

rosie
rosie
March 8, 2022 10:17 pm

In Europe that is.
Plenty of Australian accents Singapore to Melbourne.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 8, 2022 10:18 pm

The best attack in the world is now eight-strong.
Only the opening batterers and the keeper haven’t had a bowl.
Combined Paki total in two digs is 4/693.

Sounds like the Paki groundsman wasn’t taking any chances. From a Paki news site:

Imam-ul-Haq and Abdullah Shafique added another century stand in batting practise conditions in Rawalpindi on Tuesday, as Pakistan’s first home Test against Australia in 24 years ended in a boring draw.

Getting the pitch preparation wrong in that part of the world could be permanently bad for one’s health, given how seriously they take their crikit.

rosie
rosie
March 8, 2022 10:20 pm

Zipster
Does that mean Ukraine stopped its childhood immunisation programs?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 8, 2022 10:21 pm

Every time Albo opens his mouth, I’m reminded of Arthur Augustus Calwell……

Razey
Razey
March 8, 2022 10:22 pm

Interesting.

Coins in Australia are all copper and nickel. A 20 cent coin weighs 11.3 grams and is 75% copper 25% nickel. So 8.475 grams of copper, worth AU 12 cents and 2.825 grams of nickel worth AU 14 cents. So a 20 cent coin is worth 26 cents as metal.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 8, 2022 10:25 pm

Anthony Albanese is pledging to end Labor’s class and climate wars, govern in the style of Bob Hawke and John Howard if ­elected, and put the cost of living and wages growth at the centre of Labor’s economic policy – in a re-run of former Labor leader Kevin Rudd’s 2007 promise to be a fiscal conservative.

Oh yes. I believe everything he says. Not. Does he think we’re idiots?
Well I suppose he believes a lot of people are, or he wouldn’t tell such gigantic porkies.

Bruce in WA
March 8, 2022 10:27 pm

Watching a report about looting in Queensland.

In wartime, weren’t looters shot on sight?

Well?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 8, 2022 10:28 pm

The NZ Herald:

The head curator of Sheikh Zayed Stadium in the United Arab Emirates died hours before New Zealand’s T20 World Cup match against Afghanistan at the Abu Dhabi venue on Sunday night (NZT).

Late last night reports emerged that Mohan Singh had been discovered dead in his room that morning.

Abu Dhabi Cricket later confirmed in a statement: “It is with great sadness that Abu Dhabi Cricket announces that head curator, Mohan Singh, has passed away today. Mohan has been with Abu Dhabi Cricket for 15 years and has played a pivotal role in all of the venue’s success during that time.

And:

Police are reportedly investigating the cause of death, which remains unknown.

Dun dun DUNNN.

Cassie of Sydney
March 8, 2022 10:28 pm

Remember how Kevin Rudd, back in 2007 when he was Labor opposition leader, stated that he was a fiscal conservative, he believed in border protection and that little would change if he was elected.

Rudd lied in 2007.

Albanese is lying in 2022.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 8, 2022 10:29 pm

That’s it.

Khawaja’s bowling.

I’m done.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 8, 2022 10:37 pm

Voters under 30 were at School when Rudd was PM first time around and all they heard was how good he was.
Albanese is running on nostalgia for an imaginary Golden Past, meanwhile the MainScreamMedia are totally in the tank for Labor.

cohenite
March 8, 2022 10:38 pm

Krauts laughing at Trump when he warned them from becoming dependent on wussian gas instead of giving up green shit and becoming energy independent:

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

You can never trust a kraut.

John Brumble
John Brumble
March 8, 2022 10:42 pm

Dover, I retract my statement and replace it with this one:

“You need to do something about your troll problem.”

If you’re not careful, you’ll end up with a group of internet tough guys flaming back and forth until one of the more intelligent leftists among them gets the site banned.

Queue Eternal September clowns trying to defend abusing what was once a great site so they can get their daily dose of dopamine from abusing other under-graduate clowns.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 8, 2022 10:44 pm

Oh yes. I believe everything he says. Not. Does he think we’re idiots?
Well I suppose he believes a lot of people are, or he wouldn’t tell such gigantic porkies.

Albo and the Greens in coalition..

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 8, 2022 10:46 pm

Cranky Blog Uncle is in the house.

Demanding things of the owner. ‘You need to’.

bespoke
bespoke
March 8, 2022 10:49 pm

miltonf

My brother has lived in the US for around thirty years. And up until the last few years Id describe him as a stereotypical loud and proud yank. But lately he is as dismayed with the place as you are. He also has the same concerns about Australia. Still he is doing what he can like many hear.

My point is I think it prudent not to embrace worse alternatives just because things seem dyer.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 8, 2022 10:49 pm

You have a free run, Cranky Blog Uncle. Farter time for me.

P.S. Joe Burns is shit.

Dover, don’t change the decor.

Zipster
Zipster
March 8, 2022 10:49 pm

Does that mean Ukraine stopped its childhood immunisation programs?

I just post these, make of them as you will. it’s not like any of these official briefings are even mentioned in the msm.

Zipster
Zipster
March 8, 2022 10:58 pm

Ingraham: They’re selling another war
Laura Ingraham says Russia-Ukraine conflict could have been prevented if the Biden administration were competent and adds that the media is egging for war.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 8, 2022 11:09 pm

Tiktok banned uploads, eh?

Things are looking up. 🙂

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
March 8, 2022 11:22 pm

A surge of gonorrhea cases has been detected in Melbourne’s outer suburbs
Associate Professor Eric Chow said rising cases among women were concerning

Onlyfans is destroying society?

Zipster
Zipster
March 8, 2022 11:24 pm

Ivermectin, more evidence
Dr. John Campbell

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 8, 2022 11:34 pm

Cats, this Open Thread needs more peace. And love. And puppies.

So I give to you a Gratuitous Distraction Fluffy…

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uUJoFCsvRVQ

#SoFluffy

#VeryWow

jupes
jupes
March 8, 2022 11:36 pm

Anthony Albanese is pledging to end Labor’s class and climate wars

I believe the dickhead on ‘climate’. The ‘climate’ wars are over. Liberal, National and Labor will all implement Greens policy on ‘climate’.

I still can’t get over the fact that people are still pushing this utter bollocks on ‘climate’. Seriously. After 30 years of 100% false predictions, idiots still believe grifters telling them they will change the weather.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 8, 2022 11:36 pm

Gonorrhea in Melbourne’s outer suburbs. As if you really needed another reason not to visit them.

jupes
jupes
March 8, 2022 11:41 pm

So I give to you a Gratuitous Distraction Fluffy…

Poor little bugger could hardly see before his haircut.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
March 8, 2022 11:50 pm

Bah, that Rex Fluffy in his fluffy world, getting the softball treatment from Youtube. Sheer lux-reh!

By contrast, I don’t know why The Algorithm suggested I watch WWII ARMY GROUND FORCES TRAINING FILM ” HOW TO GET KILLED IN ONE EASY LESSON ” 1943. Maybe Google knows more about imminent escalation of the Ukraine war than we do? Clearly Rex is exempt but it’s going to be conscription for me.
Google sees all. Google knows all. Google decides all.

srr
srr
March 8, 2022 11:50 pm

Eric Thom @Drkstknght
1h
Edited
Study shows Ivermectin works Remdesever didn’t. Guessing MSM won’t cover this, neither will any politicians. Time to start legal both criminal and civil against Fauci, MSM, big Pharma and some politicians

https://youtu.be/rfyOihhAD4A

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