Open Thread – Tues 8 March 2022


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

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srr
srr
March 8, 2022 11:53 pm

Ashley Deadwyler @RedBottomResistance
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·Trump Warriors 4

Tucker:The Third Moral Panic in Less than Two Years
@RedBottomResistance
https://tv.gab.com/channel/redbottomresistance/view/tuckerthe-third-moral-panic-in-less-62273bc9f896697b5a3f3ed4

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 9, 2022 12:06 am

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

Nah, I go looking for these things to troll the family with.

The Angers once had a little Maltese for 13 years. We loved that dog so dearly, we couldn’t bear to have another. Much as we’d love one. 🙂

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
March 9, 2022 12:34 am

Test.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
March 9, 2022 12:58 am

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

I do.

I think LGBTQIXYZ is merely a symptom of a culture that’s lost contact with reality. In a healthy society the daft buggers would have been laughed at.

We’re suffering a surfeit of intellectuals bereft of actual intellect.

John H.
John H.
March 9, 2022 1:18 am

DrBeauGansays:
March 9, 2022 at 12:58 am
” I think the LGBTQI has gone too far but I don’t see it as a threat to our way of life. “

I do.

I think LGBTQIXYZ is merely a symptom of a culture that’s lost contact with reality. In a healthy society the daft buggers would have been laughed at.

We’re suffering a surfeit of intellectuals bereft of actual intellect.

I see it like I see so many social innovations. The momentum builds, often becomes absurdly excessive, then settles down and eventually becomes part of the background. The decline of religion was supposed to destroy us. Apparently without belief in God our original sin would have free reign. Yet the most secular societies are among the most peaceful in the world with very high standards of living.

What we’re suffering from is too many whining panic monkeys and intellectuals love that stuff.

John H.
John H.
March 9, 2022 1:26 am

I think LGBTQIXYZ is merely a symptom of a culture that’s lost contact with reality.

That’s wrong. Those people have always existed but kept out of sight or been locked up or kept themselves hidden from society. If anything their coming out is a reflection of our culture having better contact with reality.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
March 9, 2022 1:35 am

Yet the most secular societies are among the most peaceful in the world with very high standards of living.

You see the climax of Western civilisation and yes, it’s impressive. I see the rot that’s consuming it. And it’s horrific.

If you want to see the future, look at the education of the young. When I was a child, I was enamoured of Astronomy, then of Physics. I could see very plainly the romance of science. I have seen the collapse of rationality in the schools over the decades, and the poverty of the background education of university entrants. Universities have abandoned their mission and are now run by HR departments.

This is not grounds for optimism.

johanna
johanna
March 9, 2022 1:35 am

Re the monster cat I mentioned yesterday – thanks for the reminders, it was indeed a Maine Coon.

This one had very striking markings and eyes as well as being humungous – I’ve never seen anything like it. Despite her considerable heft, according to the owner she is not the boss – a male Persian about 2/3 her size is. Boyz rool in the cat world, it seems. 🙂

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
March 9, 2022 1:38 am

That’s wrong. Those people have always existed but kept out of sight or been locked up or kept themselves hidden from society. If anything their coming out is a reflection of our culture having better contact with reality.

They kept a low profile when it was generally perceived that there was something wrong with the way their brains worked. It’s one thing to acknowledge their human rights, quite another to encourage their delusions.

John H.
John H.
March 9, 2022 1:49 am

DrBeauGansays:
March 9, 2022 at 1:35 am
Yet the most secular societies are among the most peaceful in the world with very high standards of living.

You see the climax of Western civilisation and yes, it’s impressive. I see the rot that’s consuming it. And it’s horrific.

If you want to see the future, look at the education of the young. When I was a child, I was enamoured of Astronomy, then of Physics. I could see very plainly the romance of science. I have seen the collapse of rationality in the schools over the decades, and the poverty of the background education of university entrants. Universities have abandoned their mission and are now run by HR departments.

This is not grounds for optimism.

Education is a problem because it is has been monetized so much that the profit motive takes over. I know of a lecturer who lost his position because overseas students became aware he was a hard marker so no-one signed up for his lectures and he was dumped. A former collaborator had Jack Cohen for maths and noted he was a notoriously hard marker but in today’s environment Cohen probably would have a hard time even getting tenure.

Yes there are problems in education but why assume those problems will always remain? One of the fundamental mistakes prophets make is they project from the current state of affairs as if there is no response by the culture to those affairs. It is like they never heard of operant conditioning. It operates at both the individual and cultural level.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
March 9, 2022 1:56 am

One of the fundamental mistakes prophets make is they project from the current state of affairs as if there is no response by the culture to those affairs.

I await the revolution, and am doing my bit to promote it. But it does not appear to be imminent. Quite the contrary. And once you’ve lost a few generations of skills, it’s a very long haul to get them back.

Tom
Tom
March 9, 2022 4:00 am
Tom
Tom
March 9, 2022 4:01 am
Tom
Tom
March 9, 2022 4:02 am
Tom
Tom
March 9, 2022 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
March 9, 2022 4:04 am
Tom
Tom
March 9, 2022 4:06 am
Tom
Tom
March 9, 2022 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
March 9, 2022 4:08 am
Tom
Tom
March 9, 2022 4:09 am
Tom
Tom
March 9, 2022 4:10 am
Tom
Tom
March 9, 2022 4:11 am
Tom
Tom
March 9, 2022 4:13 am
Tom
Tom
March 9, 2022 4:14 am
Tom
Tom
March 9, 2022 4:15 am
Tom
Tom
March 9, 2022 4:16 am
Tom
Tom
March 9, 2022 4:17 am
2dogs
2dogs
March 9, 2022 4:22 am
132andBush
132andBush
March 9, 2022 4:51 am

Yet the most secular societies are among the most peaceful in the world with very high standards of living.

Who?

Gabor
Gabor
March 9, 2022 5:16 am

132andBush says:
March 9, 2022 at 4:51 am

Yet the most secular societies are among the most peaceful in the world with very high standards of living.

Who?

Yes I was pondering about that too, point me to those societies.

rickw
rickw
March 9, 2022 6:15 am

Mark Felton, German WWII steam locomotives still in service:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH96yjd6BKU

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 9, 2022 6:24 am

One of rsrsrs’ links overnight:

Time to start legal both criminal and civil against Fauci, MSM, big Pharma and some politicians

I thought that as of yesterday morning, that race had been run. And apparently won.

johanna
johanna
March 9, 2022 6:30 am

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says:
March 8, 2022 at 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.

I did that too, although I was older when I was able to buy. Every pay rise (I was a Pube then) went straight into the mortgage, as did every tax refund and any other spare cash. I lived like a student for years, no fancy holidays or clothes and very sparing spending on outside entertainment.

Best thing I ever did. In my old age, I am reaping the rewards.

I’m not saying that it is easy for young homebuyers nowadays – it isn’t – but it has never been easy, the degree of difficulty has varied, that’s all.

When I was growing up in a lower middle/working class suburb (Miranda) a lot of the people buying their houses in my area were recipients of schemes to assist returned servicemen. Without that, they would never have been able to buy.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 9, 2022 6:31 am

Nickel prices have quadrupled over the past week on fears of further curbs on supply.

Russia not only supplies about 10% of the world’s nickel but Russia’s Nornickel is the world’s biggest supplier of battery- grade nickel at 15%-20% of global supply, said JPMorgan analyst Dominic O’Kane.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 9, 2022 6:41 am

Two pieces, right next to each other in the Hun this morning. The first (Charles Miranda):

Ukraine today is something akin to occupied France 1942 where war has arrived and thousands of displaced women, children and the elderly shuffle in one direction brushing past soldiers striding in the other.

The ebb and flow of the tide of human misery is breathtaking but inescapable and is being seen in every town and city in a country that only 30 years ago tasted freedom for the first time when it became an independent nation in Europe, breaking free from the shackles of the Soviet Union.

Now that freedom, like the nation, lies in ruins and people are being forced to flee.

The second (Anthony Blair):

Demoralised Russian soldiers want to quit the army and say they are being “massacred” in Ukraine, according to intercepted phone calls to friends and loved ones back home.

English translations of several alleged phone calls from Russian troops were shared online by Ukrainian politician Anton Herashchenko, an adviser at the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

In them, Russian troops claimed the war could drag on for “months”, and one soldier claimed his battalion was out of food and that forces were looting a nearby supermarket to eat, The Sun reports.

In one chilling clip, a soldier phoning home complained: “We have no aviation, no f***ing support. We are like cannon fodder.”

It’s a Walkley-off. As someone said last week, not a single C.E.W. Bean among them.

johanna
johanna
March 9, 2022 6:47 am

Unfortunate NT residents have to put up with this moron:

The territory’s wide-ranging vaccine mandate will face a separate challenge in the NT Supreme Court later this year.

Mr Gunner said he was “confident” it would be successfully defended.

“We’re confident in our mandate and the laws around it,” Mr Gunner said.

“As we protect ourselves against the current variant and any future variant, the vaccine is the strongest form of protection.”

‘The vaccine’ – has anybody ever asked him whether he considers all of the products on offer to be equal? If so, why are there several of them, and what are the differences?

Don’t get me started on why they are not ‘vaccines’ in the sense widely understood pre-COVID.

And, what sort of gibbering idiot claims that nostrums designed for one thing will automatically ‘protect’ against another?

This guy would be banned at Adam’s.

Gabor
Gabor
March 9, 2022 6:50 am
Gabor
Gabor
March 9, 2022 6:53 am

missed a comma, they are vital

min
min
March 9, 2022 6:58 am

Zulu etc at 9.42pm
Re rise of STD s one of the things that i noticed was the increase
in my libido from 0 t o 200 % after vaccinations , likewise the new man in my life . How else can you explain two well past their use by date able to do what we have been doing more than once a day.?

Gabor
Gabor
March 9, 2022 7:02 am

min says:
March 9, 2022 at 6:58 am

Zulu etc at 9.42pm
Re rise of STD s one of the things that i noticed was the increase
in my libido from 0 t o 200 % after vaccinations , likewise the new man in my life . How else can you explain two well past their use by date able to do what we have been doing more than once a day.?

It will fade, like all lust, trust me on this.
Only a lot faster than when you were younger.
Experience tells me so.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 9, 2022 7:03 am

joh:

Chief Minister Michael Gunner says he won’t be abandoning the NT’s coronavirus vaccine mandate, despite several unvaccinated police officers being allowed to return to work while waiting for the result of a legal challenge.

I know one of these blokes through crikkiting circles.

Much as the public health legislation around the country was bent out of shape and twisted to include ‘and people’ and ‘and covid’, the NT jacks have gone down a path usually used for cops who’ve developed chronic illness or non work-related injury. It’s (apparently) called ‘retirement on the grounds of an inability to carry out the duties of a police officer.’

These punters have refused the jab. The (for now) Commish, Chalker, has come out and said if you haven’t had the full battery of jabs – well this is just not allowed, and because I said you have to be jabbed and you haven’t, you can’t perform your duties and are now retired due to ‘inability’.

However, and because he took refusals as a personal affront, the relevant process wasn’t followed and they were ‘retired’ before a legislated appeal process could take place. So the ‘retirements’ have been rescinded, BUT they’ve now been suspended because something something to do with jabs.

There’s been next to no covid enforcement (walk throughs of pubs, checking for maskage) by the jacks up here for almost a year. They appear to be singularly uninterested. Except for the top rung, who are acting like Ministerial media lackeys with keys to the lolly shop.

Top Ender
Top Ender
March 9, 2022 7:09 am

As the Rolfe trial reaches its final stages:

Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker has been off playing golf at the Australian Police Golf Championships in South Australia while one his members, Constable Zach Rolfe’s murder trial comes to an end, and while police and fire services make contingency plans for potential violence stemming from the verdict, sources have told the NT Independent.

Five police sources have told the NT Independent Mr Chalker was at the golf tournament, expressing outrage and disbelief he would choose to go interstate at such a critical time.

Constable Zachary Rolfe is on trial in Darwin charged with murder for the 2019 shooting death of Kumanjayi Walker in Yuendumu, while he and another officer were trying to arrest him. One of the most high profile trials in Northern Territory history, it is due to finish this week.

“He is obviously more concerned about making par than with one of his members facing life imprisonment,” one source said.

Former Alice Springs police officer Carey Joy said he knew through police sources that Mr Chalker was in South Australia, and said NT Police had sent extra officers to the Yuendumu community, as well as the Territory Response Group to Alice Springs, in readiness for the verdict.

“We are in the middle of one of the biggest criminal trial events in NT Police history,” he said.

“We even have TRG in Alice to respond to potential riots from Yuendumu when the Rolfe verdict is handed down.

“And where is Chalker?”

More at the NT Independent…

min
min
March 9, 2022 7:10 am

Gabor I know about pheromones increased serotonin , dopamine etc when lust happens . The point is how come two oldies got a dose like a couple of randy teenagers . Lucky we haven’t had heart attacks.

Gabor
Gabor
March 9, 2022 7:16 am

min says:
March 9, 2022 at 7:10 am

Gabor I know about pheromones increased serotonin , dopamine etc when lust happens . The point is how come two oldies got a dose like a couple of randy teenagers . Lucky we haven’t had heart attacks.

Don’t know about them fancy words, but good luck and enjoy as long as you can, I’m jealous. LOL

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 9, 2022 7:23 am

Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker has been off playing golf at the Australian Police Golf Championships in South Australia while one his members, Constable Zach Rolfe’s murder trial comes to an end

This will end extremely badly for Chalker. I mentioned last week the plonker who gave ‘expert evidence’ for hire for the prosecution during the trial in the hopes of being promoted, a gormless pumpkin called Barram. Well, the defence had their actual expert in the box yesterday (the NT News):

On Tuesday, veteran former Australian Federal Police special operations team leader and field supervisor, Ben McDevitt, told the court it was “ludicrous” for prosecution witness detective Senior Sergeant Andrew Barram to suggest Rolfe should have used “empty hand tactics” instead.

And:

Mr McDevitt also said it was “entirely appropriate” for Rolfe to “at least” have his hand on his gun while searching a house in which Mr Walker was previously known to have rushed at police armed with an axe in the lead up to the shooting.

“They are going into potentially a very, very dangerous situation, they had, certainly, reason to believe Kumanjayi Walker may be inside the premises,” he said.

“They were aware of his history of violence, in terms of his criminal record, and they’d also been made quite graphically aware of the propensity and preparedness by him to take up a weapon.”

And:

…… he rejected Sgt Barram’s view that the threat posed by Mr Walker had been neutralised once he and then constable Adam Eberl fell to the ground, saying it actually “became a far more dangerous and dire situation for Constable Eberl”.

AND:

When asked whether he agreed with Sgt Barram’s opinion that Rolfe should have reholstered his pistol and switched to “empty hand tactics”, Mr McDevitt said he did not.

“It’s a ludicrous statement and it’s just not in accordance with the training or with the use of force model,” he said.

Oh ho ho ho. Defence closes this morning. Verdict this week, I would imagine.

srr
srr
March 9, 2022 7:27 am

A short – posted 5 hours ago –

What It’s Like To Live In A War Zone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh_0LNQQYb8&ab_channel=GonzaloLira

Mar 9, 2022
Gonzalo Lira

srr
srr
March 9, 2022 7:34 am

A 12 minute short, posted 22 minutes ago –

What Is “The Dollar Is The Reserve Currency”—and Why You Will Be Poorer Now That It’s Not

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0KXRyg_Fmo&ab_channel=GonzaloLira

Mar 9, 2022
Gonzalo Lira
71.4K subscriber

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 9, 2022 7:40 am
calli
calli
March 9, 2022 7:47 am

Heh

Thanks Bruce. And Tom and Will. We are spoiled for choice.

I see many toonists are doing the Hitler quickstep again. Guys…get some fresh material.

srr
srr
March 9, 2022 7:48 am

Combine the WEF ‘prediction’ of a ‘Covid like Cyber Attack’ that shuts down electronic communications world wide (details posted earlier), with this below, and I still can’t see how anyone can say your cyber money is safe –

Coinbase Cuts Off 25K Russian Wallets Over Allegations They’re Engaged In “Illicit Activity”

WEDNESDAY, MAR 09, 2022 – 05:45 AM
Despite CEO Brian Armstrong having just the other day implored the public not to judge the company too harshly for continuing to service its accounts in Russia, Coinbase has now gone and done just the opposite: shutting down 25K wallets belonging to Russian customers due to suspicions about “illicit activity.”

Previously, Armstrong had vehemently insisted during a series of tweets that he wouldn’t deny anyone access to their Coinbase accounts for no good reason. Now, he’s apparently going back on his word to target a sizable portion of the company’s customers in Russia.

Fortunately for their investors, this move won’t have a big impact on Coinbase’s profits: The blocked addresses represent about 0.2% of Coinbase’s 11.4 million monthly transacting users, based on 2021 data.

In a company blog post, Paul Grewal, Coinbase’s chief legal officer, announced that the largest US crypto exchange had banned access for sanctioned individuals. Cryptocurrency trading platform Coinbase said it had blocked over 25K wallet addresses related to Russian individuals or entities that it believes to be engaging in illicit activity.

The leaders of Coinbase and Binance have said they will comply with government mandates to restrict sanctioned individuals, but won’t ban all Russian users. Brian Armstrong, Coinbase’s Chief Executive Officer, earlier said some ordinary Russians are using crypto as a “lifeline now that their currency has collapsed.”

Major crypto exchanges including Coinbase and Binance have said they will comply with government mandates to restrict sanctioned individuals, but won’t ban all Russian users. Brian Armstrong, Coinbase’s Chief Executive Officer, earlier said some ordinary Russians are using crypto as a “lifeline now that their currency has collapsed.”

CEO Armstrong said earlier this month that Coinbase wouldn’t act against individual Russians unless sanctions specifically instructed them to do so. The exact protocol for determining which accounts may be engaged in illicit acts simply weren’t made clear.

sfw
sfw
March 9, 2022 7:53 am

Re Customs/Border Force in Melbourne. Around ten years ago I returned from a ski trip in NZ. On arrival in Melb but before customs I had to use the toilet. Now I often use the disabled toilets if possible, they’re cleaner and bigger, I used one. Got to customs with my brother, he was waved through, I got the third degree plus full search of all my baggage. They didn’t say why but later on I found out through a customs officer relative. They watch the security cameras and entering a disabled toilet is a red flag, you may be rearranging your drugs so it’s special treatment for you.

srr
srr
March 9, 2022 7:57 am

Biden Announces Ban on Russian Oil Imports, Simultaneous With US Gasoline Prices Hitting Record High
March 8, 2022 | Sundance | 298 Comments

Gasoline is now at the highest price ever recorded. The average cost of a retail gallon of unleaded gasoline hit $4.173, according to the American Automobile Association, with many regions now far exceeding that price. It is not uncommon to see $5/gal gasoline in many areas.

Against this backdrop, Joe Biden announced today that his administration is banning the import of oil, liquified natural gas (LNG) and coal from Russia. [We do not import LNG or coal from Russia, so that political point is moot.] You can read the executive order HERE.
[see link below for this gob smacking graph of retail petrol prices since Team Biden/Clinton & Co stole the White House]

The executive order also bans any U.S. entity from investing or facilitating the investment of Russian energy development. That section explains why there were earlier reports of Oil companies withdrawing from Russia. They were obviously given a heads up.

The way the order is currently written, and a lot of it has to do with extremely generous interpretations by the U.S. Treasury Dept., it would appear that any energy company currently operating in the U.S. cannot simultaneously be operating in Russia (or be part of the subsidizing and insurance network that supports energy development in Russia). The Treasury interpretations here are fraught with complexity.

The part that matters is boiled down in this section:

(i) the importation into the United States of the following products of Russian Federation origin: crude oil; petroleum; petroleum fuels, oils, and products of their distillation; liquefied natural gas; coal; and coal products;
(more…)
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/03/08/biden-announces-ban-on-russian-oil-imports-simultaneous-with-us-gasoline-prices-hitting-record-high/

As the meme says –
People are already getting used to owning nothing, they just wonder when the ‘being happy’ starts.

Winston Smith
March 9, 2022 7:57 am

SHOOTERS in South Australia have some of the most draconian firearm regulations anywhere – and a police minister who, as far as we know, hasn’t lifted a finger to help them.
The government even has a regulation in place that requires shooters to dob in their mates.
This How-to-Vote information is MUST READ for every shooter in South Australia.

The main issue driving our recommendations is the Firearm Regulations 2017.
These regulations predate Tarzia’s tenure as police minister, so we don’t blame him for bringing them in. However, he’s the current police minister which means he’s responsible for deciding whether they stay or go.
The way regulations work – unlike legislation which has to go through parliament – imeans Tarzia could easily remove or amend them. Instead he’s done nothing about them that we know of.

This is the part that infuriates me – regulations passed without any input from our Parliaments.
It needs to stop.

Pogria
Pogria
March 9, 2022 7:58 am

Michael Ramirez is becoming seriously unhinged.

calli
calli
March 9, 2022 8:01 am

What is this about a six year old? Did I miss something?

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
March 9, 2022 8:02 am

Energy price hikes will eventually lead to lower production and much higher food prices.
Urea is at $1400 p/t
400-600 being the usual range.
Filled a few fuel tanks yesterday with a $10,000 cost.
The high prices are balancing this out but you wouldn’t want to hit a drought.

srr
srr
March 9, 2022 8:04 am

Jack Posobiec ??
@JackPosobiec
·
21h
Posobiec: China watching every move on Russia-Ukraine War, see U.S. “powerless” to defend “Allies” | Just The News

https://justthenews.com/podcasts/john-solomon-reports/jack-posobiec-chinas-watching-every-move-russia-ukraine-war-see-us

Tom
Tom
March 9, 2022 8:05 am

Russia is threatening to send the price of oil through the roof if the West cuts off Russian oil imports in response to the invasion of Ukraine.

RTWT

Winston Smith
March 9, 2022 8:06 am

Payton’s statement flies in the face of a large part of the trial narrative that shameless prosecutors, aka Regime puppets, Jeffrey Nestler and Risa Berkower presented of Reffitt by using his teenagers as pawns against him. They told jurors Reffitt was a man who physically threatened his children to not talk to the FBI and implied he threatened to “shoot them or shoot their phones” if they turned him in for January 6th events he had told them about.

There is no way the American people can ever trust the FBI.

Cassie of Sydney
March 9, 2022 8:07 am

“That’s wrong. Those people have always existed but kept out of sight or been locked up or kept themselves hidden from society. If anything their coming out is a reflection of our culture having better contact with reality.”

If you’re talking specifically about gays, lesbians and bisexuals, I’m pretty sure that there would be no one here who wouldn’t acknowledge that “those people” have a right to lead dignified lives and not be persecuted because of their sexuality. However whilst it’s one thing to be respectful and accord full legal rights to LGB people, it’s quite another thing to now wave past sinister perversions and fetishes under the banner of “normality”. The LGBTQI+ umbrella is no longer about “LGB”, it’s about permeating and normalising sinister fetishes, such as the sexualisation and indoctrination of children, transgenderism, queer theory (based on Foucault and other post-modernists) and other such sinister ideologies.

Winston Smith
March 9, 2022 8:09 am

Just In: Biden to Sign Executive Order to Regulate Cryptocurrency after Assault on Dollar
According to the report, “The order will direct federal agencies to examine potential regulatory changes, as well as the national security and economic impact of digital assets.”

Cassie of Sydney
March 9, 2022 8:11 am

“Tomsays:
March 9, 2022 at 8:05 am
Russia is threatening to send the price of oil through the roof if the West cuts off Russian oil imports in response to the invasion of Ukraine.

RTWT”

I wonder how long before Russia turns off the gas taps to Germany?

srr
srr
March 9, 2022 8:12 am

kaysee says:
March 8, 2022 at 7:20 pm
How the NWO works

Welcome to Australia ??
100,000 Ukrainians inbound.
Wouldn’t let one Serbian in.
Probably all unjabbed too.

Winston Smith
March 9, 2022 8:16 am

On Friday, March 4, 2022, the Washington State Tea Room, a monumental state-wide movement, attempted to serve Washington state officials with over 30,000 lawful affidavits from the Citizens of Washington demanding an end to all mandates and requesting a forensic audit of the 2020 election.

We’ll see how it goes – the chances of the O’Biden/Harris Administration holding another election are diminishing fast.

According to their news release, Inslee’s office refused to accept service or sign for the documents as well as the AG Fergusons office, Jinkins’ office, Murray, and Cantwell’s offices. Only Lt. Governor Heck’s office signed for the documents and took service.

Tom
Tom
March 9, 2022 8:17 am

Hahahaha. Albo thinks voters have short memories about the reckless spending spree launched by Rudd in 2007. Paywallian headline:

I’ll be more like a Hawke or Howard: Albanese

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
March 9, 2022 8:21 am

Welcome to Australia ??
100,000 Ukrainians inbound.
Wouldn’t let one Serbian in.
Probably all unjabbed too.

We could give the Azov battalion safe refuge. It’d give the Federal Police something to do instead of hanging around the coffee shops at Halls Gap.

calli
calli
March 9, 2022 8:21 am

I’ll be more like a Hawke or Howard: Albanese

And even more like Peter Garrett:

‘once we get in, we’ll change it all’

shatterzzz
March 9, 2022 8:24 am

hard to believe but it appears that Football Australia management is, actually, more inept than than the “Sunday park footie” mob over at the NRL ..!
Reading this morning that Sydney FC qualified for the Asian champions League with a win over a Korean team last night .. soooooo, here am I a “fitba” fanatic who follows several “fitba” sites, daily including the FAA official one and not on any site did I come across mention of this game being played or televised .. and the “fitba” hierarchy wonder why the game is struggling to attract a decent sized audience .. duuuuuh!
On the crowd sizes issue .. last Saturday night’s “derby” between Western Sydney Wanderers & Sydney FC garnered a crowd of 14 002 (official) .. th esmallest ever attendance for a Sydney “derby” since the A League’s inception …..!

Winston Smith
March 9, 2022 8:28 am

Net Zero Samizdat:
Multiple stories on the European energy market.

Germany’s economy and climate minister Robert Habeck from the Green party earlier this month said that ensuring energy supply security could take priority over climate action, adding that “this should not obscure the fact that, fundamentally, independence and sovereignty in energy policy and climate-neutral energy production are the same thing.” He said his ministry will assess whether to let coal and nuclear plants scheduled for closure stay open to ensure a secure power supply.

“this should not obscure the fact that, fundamentally, independence and sovereignty in energy policy and climate-neutral energy production are the same thing.”

No – they are not the same thing, you bloody fool of a man.

calli
calli
March 9, 2022 8:30 am

Just got an evacuation order for the office – deja vu all over again. Water didn’t quite reach last year, but the river is flowing higher and faster this time around.

And not a thing I can do about it.

Cassie of Sydney
March 9, 2022 8:39 am

Just like they did with the bushfires, progressives on social media sewers and the MSM are trying to blame Scumbag for the upheaval from the floods.

It’s groundhog day.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
March 9, 2022 8:42 am

Albo thinks voters have short memories …

He is right.

Zatara
Zatara
March 9, 2022 8:42 am
Mother Lode
Mother Lode
March 9, 2022 8:43 am

Michael Ramirez is becoming seriously unhinged.

Nah. Not becoming.

And not as unhinged as many. He is just not as careful a thinker and sometimes falls for progressive talking points.

He dismissed Orange Man Bad’s claims of Democrat cheating in the last election as childish petulance. And in this case he has been duped into thinking that the conflict in Ukraine is as stark as the pure and good, and the disfigured and diabolical.

But he draws well.

custard
custard
March 9, 2022 8:44 am

This tweet is about the woman who orchestrated the colour revolution of Ukraine in 2014.
https://twitter.com/jackposobiec/status/1501309774759038976?s=21

Victoria Nuland

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
March 9, 2022 8:49 am

Biden Mulls Trip to Saudi Arabia to Beg For More Oil as He Shuts Down Domestic Drilling

If he is worried about the environment then surely it is better to drill for oil in the US where he has the authority to ensure it is done to the highest environmental standards, rather than having it done by people perhaps less rigorous in their obsequiousness to Gaia.

PT
PT
March 9, 2022 8:52 am

My account just got disabled by Discord from Nilk’s site for who knows what reason.

shatterzzz
March 9, 2022 8:53 am

Miracles do happen!
Earlier I wrote about Sydney FC playing last night but didn’t realise, at the time, they played at Leichhardt Oval .. the same ground on Sunday afternoon had a game scheduled and cancelled 10 minutes before kick-off due to rain & a water-logged pitch .. now I’m not sure about Leichhardt but in Fairfield it was raining all day Sunday, Monday & Tuesday, virtually, non stop yet somehow HUGHIE granted the inner west a reprieve and the pitch dried out enuf for a Tuesday night game to go ahead .. as I said .. miracles do happen .. LOL!

srr
srr
March 9, 2022 8:58 am

Farmer Gez says:
March 9, 2022 at 8:21 am

Welcome to Australia ??
100,000 Ukrainians inbound.
Wouldn’t let one Serbian in.
Probably all unjabbed too.

We could give the Azov battalion safe refuge. It’d give the Federal Police something to do instead of hanging around the coffee shops at Halls Gap.

The scary thing is that they are most desperate to escape the Justice Putin’s promised to deliver them for things like burning civilians alive and other barbaric tortures.

They are also in the best position to trample the average Ukrainians who’ve lost everything to those WEF Nazi Stormtroopers and make it to the head of the line of those to get out to a WEF Nazi Friendly country like Australia.

Indolent
Indolent
March 9, 2022 9:03 am

I had never heard of Alistair Crowley but, watching this, it seems to make a lot of sense. One of the most bewildering things today is the utter destructive nihilism of the PTB. The total not just disregard but malevolence towards others.

This seems to go some way towards explaining that.

Alistair Crowley – His Cult is Everywhere – It is the elite’s and Hollywood’s biggest secret

132andBush
132andBush
March 9, 2022 9:04 am

Onya, min!!

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
March 9, 2022 9:05 am

Unprecedented floods in the Sydney area.
The only unprecedented factor in these events is the urbanisation of the majority of the catchment and the multitude of structures inhibited the free drainage of flood water.
Your house floods because it’s in the way and backs up water moving to sea.
The only way to fix this is to create more flood storage or bypass channels that intercept big flows.
A man made problem needs a man made solution.

Frank
Frank
March 9, 2022 9:07 am

That’s wrong. Those people have always existed but kept out of sight or been locked up or kept themselves hidden from society. If anything their coming out is a reflection of our culture having better contact with reality.

There is a big difference between not discriminating against someone on the basis of their orientation and being expected to venerate them because of it. We are currently in the latter phase.

srr
srr
March 9, 2022 9:16 am

custard says:
March 9, 2022 at 8:44 am

This tweet is about the woman who orchestrated the colour revolution of Ukraine in 2014.
https://twitter.com/jackposobiec/status/1501309774759038976?s=21

Victoria Nuland

custard, Twitter blocked me before I could copy it but very near the top of Posobiec’s Twitter feed there’s a Tweet about the US no longer being trusted as a country you can make deals with.

Could you please find & post it here.

It’s kinda big.

It also ties in with the many predictions of the US Dollar losing it’s power/value.

When a Nation is not only seen as, but keeps proving to be, ‘too schizophrenic’ to do business with, other Nations start looking for more stable business partners.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 9, 2022 9:18 am

From KD at 6:41.

In them, Russian troops claimed the war could drag on for “months”, and one soldier claimed his battalion was out of food and that forces were looting a nearby supermarket to eat, The Sun reports.

OMG!
St Ruth predicted empty shelves!
He was right!

Tom
Tom
March 9, 2022 9:24 am

Warnie’s pony, Sacred Oath, is the odds-on favourite in the second at Ipswich today at 3.13pm AEDT.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 9, 2022 9:25 am

Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker has been off playing golf at the Australian Police Golf Championships in South Australia while one his members, Constable Zach Rolfe’s murder trial comes to an end, and while police and fire services make contingency plans for potential violence stemming from the verdict, sources have told the NT Independent

Wonderful example of leadership.

“When the Rolfe verdict was handed down, and the riots kicked off, where was the Commissioner? His game of golf was more important.”

Bluey
Bluey
March 9, 2022 9:46 am

dover0beachsays:
March 9, 2022 at 9:09 am
Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald
· 19m
Ukraine has “biological research facilities,” says Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland, when asked by Sen Rubio if Ukraine has biological or chemical weapons, and says she’s worried Russia may get them. But she says she’s 100% sure if there’s a biological attack, it’s Russia.

Surprise. These people are despicable.

The Russian claims don’t seem so far fetched now.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 9, 2022 9:50 am

Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker has been off playing golf at the Australian Police Golf Championships in South Australia

The Christine Nixon Cup?

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
March 9, 2022 9:53 am

The Christine Nixon Cup?

No. That cup is a flood mitigation device.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 9, 2022 9:55 am

The Christine Nixon Cup?

Pay that one!

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
March 9, 2022 10:00 am

incoherent ramblersays:
March 9, 2022 at 8:42 am
Albo thinks voters have short memories …

He is right.

Voters are the stupidest cohort anywhere.

srr
srr
March 9, 2022 10:01 am

Ta custard –

custard says:
March 9, 2022 at 9:42 am
https://thepostmillennial.com/biden-official-us-ukraine-bio-research-facilities-russia

Try this srr

-BUT, it was a specific Tweet (first or second on Jack Posobiec’s Tweeter feed), that mentioned the US no longer being trusted as a country to do business with.

It doesn’t matter how much natural wealth a country sits on (like ex-soviet ‘corruptocracies’), if people can’t trust the Nation to protect their investments from Govt Theft, they just won’t risk investing.

The US is now such a country that’s considered ‘too schizophrenic’ to do business with.

This is not a good sign for global wealth traders but it is something that was considered a necessary step on the way to the WEF’s Great Reset of Owning Nothing …

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 9, 2022 10:03 am

Albo thinks voters have short memories …

A useful working assumption.

srr
srr
March 9, 2022 10:08 am

Poland Calls Secretary Blinken’s Bluff, Refuses To Help the United States Start World War-III Against Russia
March 8, 2022 | Sundance | 270 Comments

Last weekend, U.S secretary of State Anthony Blinken said Poland was in preparations to send their MIG fighter planes to Ukraine, and the U.S. would be replacing them. It was a stunning statement considering that Poland is a NATO ally, and Russia would certainly see this effort as increasing direct confrontation. However, a few hours later Poland issued a statement essentially refuting the claims by Secretary Blinken and saying they had no intent to send fighter jets into Ukraine. Essentially the government of Poland called Blinken a liar.

In a stunning exhibition of poor diplomacy, with very serious consequences, the State Department did not retract the weekend claims by Blinken. Instead, they doubled down saying that Poland was going to send fighter planes into Ukraine, which means NATO would be entering the conflict, which means U.S. forces would soon join the battle. Drawing the U.S. into the war looks like the intent of Blinken’s effort.

However, in a statement today, again highlighting they have no intent to trigger World War III (despite the best efforts of the U.S), Poland is calling Blinken’s bluff {SOURCE}. I screen captured it, because I do not want anyone to miss the direct framework of the Polish position:
[image of statement at link below]

Everything about that statement, including the headline, shouts that Poland is calling Anthony Blinken’s bluff.

Essentially, Poland is saying: “Bulls**t, on all of this. The U.S. is lying. We are not going to start World War III, but if you intend to – well, here’s the tools, you start the war.” It is a stunning statement, and a jaw-dropping situation.

The U.S. State Department is trying to use Poland to trigger a NATO war against Russia. Poland wants no part of that and is directly and specifically telling the world that Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is lying. Yet somehow, the media don’t report on this.

Here’s the previous stuff:
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https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/03/08/poland-calls-secretary-blinkens-bluff-refuses-to-help-the-united-states-start-world-war-iii-against-russia/

Top Ender
Top Ender
March 9, 2022 10:11 am

The idiotic state of law and order in the NT can be seen from typical stories like these – from just one day of the NT News:

Youth hands himself in after Top End break-in
A youth smashed his way into a Top End shopping precinct premises but then realised he ‘buggered up’ and called the police.

and

Darwin’s pedestrian culture is off its chops
Pedestrians walk across the road at the corner Knuckey and Smith Street in Darwin city centre.
If you’re not concentrating while driving in Darwin, you have good odds of cleaning up a mindless wanderer not paying attention, writes FLOSS ADAMS

and

Police arrest seven adults after Palmo Tavern smash and grab
Police say the glass of the Palmerston Tavern was smashed in by seven adults for a handful of grog overnight.

and

REVEALED: More details emerge in Palmerston shooting
Police gather a street away from where an alleged police shooting of a young Aboriginal man happen in Palmerston suburb of Grey. Picture: (A)manda Parkinson
Key details around the moments leading up to the shooting of a young man in Palmerston have been revealed.

(One media outlet is still reporting the perp is dead; while another says “in surgery”. What’s the best he is gone but the gov is leaning on the media not to report it yet so as to avoid rioting?

and

‘Only a matter of time’; self-harm crisis in Don Dale
Top End experts have said it is only a matter of time before a child will die by suicide inside Don Dale Youth Detention Centre.

Meanwhile the chief copper is on a golfing holiday interstate….

Kneel
Kneel
March 9, 2022 10:11 am

“We get to know they killed many of us and many more will die…”

Is this any more silly than the “safe and effective” lines?
Both are highly polarised responses, and IMO likely both are wrong.
Yes, many may die (maybe even me).
Their justification is that the vax will kill less than the disease.
Their unspoken and never mentioned justification may be that there are other more serious pathogens that could be hidden behind the spike protein “shell” and vax will protect you from those as well. Maybe.

I made my choice – right or wrong. I will bear the consequences – good or bad. This is how it is, regardless of the fact I did not get a free choice, regardless of the fact that I tried to avoid it, regardless of the fact that I complained about a human rights violation and was ignored by the very Gov body that is supposed to protect me from such.

At least you acknowledge that I tried to hold out – thank you for that.

Please stop with the “You’re all gonna die and you know it” puff – as above, it is as ridiculous as the “safe and effective” lies. What has been done is irreversible. Let’s just watch it unfold before we jump to any conclusions, OK?

When someone holds a gun to your head and says “You’re money or your life” you don’t say “Take my life, I want my money for my old age”. They held a gun to my head (figuratively) and I kept my life by doing what they demanded. I ain’t happy about their behavior. You’re damn right I want revenge (not so silly as to ask for “justice”, I want revenge, pure and simple). TPTB better hope you are wrong, because as I promised here before, if you are right, I will be getting my revenge before I depart.

srr
srr
March 9, 2022 10:17 am

McConnell Says House Will Send $14 Billion Ukraine Aid Package to Senate in Massive Omnibus Spending Bill
March 8, 2022 | Sundance | 140 Comments

This is beyond ridiculous. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell announces a $14 billion Ukraine aid package will come over from the House of Representatives inside a massive Joe Biden Ominbus spending bill, because there is no budget process being followed.

The Democrats know the Senate Republicans want to send Ukraine a bunch of money to continue funding the graft, kickback and payment schemes used by the Senate in order to enrich their donors and families. So, Nancy Pelosi takes the massive Omnibus spending bill to fund the Biden agenda and inserts the $14 billion Ukraine package she knows the Republican Senators will vote for. WATCH:
[at link below]

It’s a typical UniParty manuever. The Republicans cannot be seen on record funding Biden’s agenda, so wink-wink, nod-nod, adding the Ukraine aid gives the Republicans political cover. Mitch, and the DeceptiCons, will now say they had to vote for Biden’s massive spending Omnibus because it’s the only way they could get the money to support the babies in Ukraine.

A vote against the Joe Biden massive Omnibus spending package is a vote to kill the Ukrainian people by not sending them $14 billion.

House Democrats shut down the government over President Trump’s budget request for $10 billion to build the southern border wall, but House Democrats can prioritize $14 billion in deficit spending to protect the borders of Ukraine. See the agenda?
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https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/03/08/mcconnell-says-house-will-send-14-billion-ukraine-aid-package-to-senate-in-massive-omnibus-spending-bill/

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
March 9, 2022 10:20 am

H B Bearsays:
March 9, 2022 at 9:50 am
Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker has been off playing golf at the Australian Police Golf Championships in South Australia

The Christine Nixon Cup?

Clever. Here have some pants.

Kneel
Kneel
March 9, 2022 10:30 am

“Catching the thing was a bugger though. And skinnin’ it.”

I’m impressed you avoided the “tastes like chicken” line.

Struth
March 9, 2022 10:30 am

We get to know they killed many of us and many more will die…”

Is this any more silly than the “safe and effective” lines?

It’s a statement of fact, and every day more admit it.
There’s way too much evidence now, and I can understand you wanting to doubt, but do you really want me to start posting stuff ?
I thought it might be better to just be able to call me a fruit loop than me shoving articles in your face, as most here wilfully ignore it, as it’s too overwhelming.

But let’s see , I’ll just post one.
You know there is mental sickness with regard to this.
Shane Warne, dying or not dying of the jab should be top priority.
Anyone suspected of dying of the jab should be looked at as top priority.

And whoever doesn’t really want it looked at, or just wants to forget it and move on has mental issues.

I could almost guarantee that between you posting your last comment Kneel, and me posting this, some sick minded denialist will be salivating to have a go at me, showing the sane exactly what we are up against.
Just one recent article WITH VIDEO, showing how the truth is now coming out.

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
March 9, 2022 10:31 am

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

Try this

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

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
March 9, 2022 10:32 am

Ivermectin, when do we start to hear the apologies?

The ivermectin ban was the best evidence for massive corruption in the big pharma scam.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 9, 2022 10:36 am

Much Aboriginality.
Wow.
Very impressed
High court big chief smoothbrains…

Check the pic.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-09/act-brendan-thoms-immigration-detention-compensation-high-court/100893584

The majority of the High Court bench found that if a person met the tripartite test, even though they are born overseas, they are not subject to migration laws.

“We agree that Aboriginal Australians … are not within the reach of the ‘aliens’ power conferred by section 51(xix) of the Constitution,” the court said in its four-to-three ruling.

Theres an even smoother brained case coming up.
Whatever the court decides, it could all be academic if the Commonwealth gets its way, with plans to challenge the original decision in a High Court appeal later this year.

In that case, the government will take on New Zealander Shayne Montgomery, who is fighting extradition after a stint in jail on the grounds he’s a Mununjali man who does not need to have biological Aboriginal ancestors to be considered Aboriginal under the traditional laws and customs of his group.

areff
areff
March 9, 2022 10:36 am

Goodbye, COVID. Hello, Japanese encephalitis.

Victorian election is eight months off and the Wuhan shtick isn’t working anymore, not as thousands of people get it every day and realise it’s no big deal.

One door closes, another opens.

Now we have Andrews’ cabinet minions announcing that widespread vaxxing is in order because one person has caught SRNH (swine-related Niponese headache) and died.

Your challenge, Dan: keep the hysteria building so you can use the emergency powers the upper house independents gave you to make sure the populace casts the right sort of protect-us-daddy votes in November.

Meanwhile, the SFLs go all in for net zero.

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
March 9, 2022 10:36 am

If anything their coming out is a reflection of our culture having better contact with reality.

No.

This is the same argument that is used by promoters of child m*l*st*rs.

Zipster
Zipster
March 9, 2022 10:39 am

shit for brains

Australia’s largest medical research foundation says it is suspending the University of Melbourne from its multi-million-dollar fellowship program because the university has only awarded honorary doctorates to men over the past three years.

Key points:
Last week, the University of Melbourne released a photo of six Caucasian men receiving their honorary doctorates
The Snow Medical Research Foundation has suspended funding to the university until it commits to improving gender and cultural diversity
The University of Melbourne says the foundation’s decision to pause funding was based on a single event, which is not reflective of the institution as a whole
Snow Medical Research Foundation said it was cutting ties with the institution until the university could prove a commitment to gender and cultural diversity.

Anchor What
Anchor What
March 9, 2022 10:39 am

Barr demonstrates on Fox News Special Report that he’s a real Swamp Creature.
Brett Baier doesn’t ask the tough questions, accepts that all the evidence about election fraud is wrong.

Zipster
Zipster
March 9, 2022 10:40 am

The ivermectin ban was the best evidence for massive corruption in the big pharma scam.

industrial scale corruption

areff
areff
March 9, 2022 10:44 am

The Christine Nixon Plate is a more fitting tribute to Big “I had to eat’ Kev.

JohnJJJ
JohnJJJ
March 9, 2022 10:47 am

Worth keeping up with this bloke if you want a bit of balance for the general West PR machine on the war.
Alexander Mercouris
I have intelligent friends who are completely taken in by this massive PR campaign. After the years of wars and constant lies, one would hope they would at least try to find out the history and the other side to this conflict. But no, Putin EVIL reigns supreme in their minds.
Interestingly there are two wars: the PR and the real war. If we look back at Vietnam, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, PR lost conclusively.

Struth
March 9, 2022 10:49 am

I’d be planning your revenge, Kneel.

Let me know If I can be a help.

I have posted a word wall over at the furniture shop, regarding the decline of the Australian nation’s mental state, which you might appreciate , there are reasons for trying to get people thinking clearly and not emotionally….because obviously, that’s extremely dangerous.
I wanted to leave it here a while because I have declared that next is inflation and the shelves starting to go bare…….of which I was mocked.
As I knew I would be, and as everyone is a witness to.
And I stand by it.
A mental sickness to mock something like that in these times,……you might have thought anyone sane may stop and consider what was stated……..
Anyone know how cyber attacks work? Cause Klaus is telling us that’s next.
Would they empty the shelves?
Would high fuel prices have an effect on food production?
Truckies know just how much that might have an effect.
But why not ask a unionised rail worker who spends all day on his phone hanging around Freo, or an ex public servant, cop…….or maybe Geelong’s favourite spelling Nazi?
Companies require a certain volume sold.
As prices rise, and the volume sold therefore decreases, as the poor can no longer afford it what happens?
If it is cost of production that needs to be covered….and transport via high fuel prices, do you think you’re going to get an over supply when only the rich can afford it.
To scoff at the shelves going bare and that the jab kills, shows severe mental decline ,with what we are seeing before our very eyes.
So I’ll just leave it there today.
Why not ask those brainwaves who thought crypto to be untouchable by government?

Zipster
Zipster
March 9, 2022 10:53 am

“this should not obscure the fact that, fundamentally, independence and sovereignty in energy policy and climate-neutral energy production are the same thing.”

two legs bad, four legs…

Bar Beach Swimmer
March 9, 2022 10:53 am

From the Newcastle Herald 7/3/22

Recruitment for submarine service is hard. Spending seven weeks or more crammed in a steel tube with about 60 other people isn’t the most attractive job out there.

And finding recruits for this work is so much harder when the base is about 3000 kilometres from most of the country’s population.

That’s the main reason why Australia will establish an east-coast base for some of our eight planned nuclear submarines. The facility will supplement the one we have near Perth that currently supports our six diesel boats.

Newcastle is among three candidate locations, Prime Minister Scott Morrison says. The others are Brisbane and Wollongong – specifically, Port Kembla.

If Newcastle is chosen, the facility will almost certainly be on the former industrial land at Mayfield or on the south side of Kooragang Island. The Stockton Bridge says so.

The base probably would support at least four Australian submarines plus visiting US and British boats and employ more than 1000 people, including the submarine crews. Supplier companies would set up nearby, too.

In general, the jobs would be highly skilled and well paid.

A Newcastle defence industry is already growing around RAAF Williamtown. With a submarine base, it would surge.

Although Australia’s submariners come from all over the country, it’s easier to hire and keep people from the area near a base. With a population of just over 2 million, Perth just doesn’t offer a big catchment area.

This problem will worsen as we increase the size of our fleet. Also, the nuclear boats will have bigger crews.

A base at Newcastle or Wollongong would have Sydney within its catchment area. Brisbane might offer fewer people, but at least it would be on the more populous side of the country.

Having a base for nuclear submarines in a city means having nuclear reactors there: each boat has one. But the safety record of nuclear propulsion in Western warships is outstanding.

In operating our future submarines, Australia will have to absorb the safety obsessions of the US and British navies, train to their high standards and buy all the necessary equipment. Our allies won’t let us have nuclear technology if we don’t.
Still, it’s easy to foresee political opposition to a new base.

In any possible location, “there will be just as many people who don’t want this as those who do want it,” says Marcus Hellyer, an analyst with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.

We’re talking big money. Morrison says the base will be part of new submarine infrastructure costing $10 billion. This is partly explained by the exacting standards that must be applied to anything associated with naval nuclear propulsion.

The base will need maintenance facilities and space for at least its own submarines, each 100 metres or more in length. There may be a ship lift for taking the vessels, each weighing at least 7000 tonnes, out of the water.
Training equipment, such as simulators, will be needed, along with an administration centre and warehouses. Facilities for storing ammunition (not nuclear weapons in our case) may also be needed; they can’t be too close to residences.

A naval base should not be upstream from a bridge, because air attack – for example, by cruise missile – might collapse the structure and thereby block access to the sea.

Since the government is not likely to pay for a replacement tunnel, this means a Newcastle base would have to be downstream from Stockton Bridge. That limits the possibilities to sites at Mayfield or on Kooragang.

As the government considers its candidate locations, it will note that Newcastle and Wollongong have the advantage of being close to the surface warships kept at Sydney. These need to exercise with submarines.

Wollongong has the further advantage of closeness to HMAS Albatross at Jervis Bay, the landward home of the navy’s helicopters. They’re tasked with hunting submarines, so having some home-ported 80 kilometres up the coast would be convenient for practice.
Yet Newcastle is only 260 kilometres from the aviation installation, not at all far by the standards of nuclear submarines, and it has air-defence coverage from the country’s biggest fighter base.

Commercial maritime traffic presents problems. At Newcastle there’s a lot of it, so the navy might not always be able to come and go as it pleases.

Also, the navy would have to worry about the presence of Chinese merchant ships near a base. It’s not far-fetched to imagine an attack launched from an apparently innocent vessel at the outbreak of a war.
Another consideration is whether a fully laden bulk carrier could be thrown sideways and rapidly scuttled in the deep channel of the Newcastle Harbour entrance, blocking it.
Port Kembla’s entrance is narrow, too.
Tugs should be able to control a ship attempting to swing off course, but presumably the crews would have to be alert to the danger.

It’s hard to see the government wanting to pay financially and politically for a special channel for submarines through the neck of Stockton.
The three cities are the candidates because other population centres can’t be. Our submarines generally head north for operations, so Melbourne is an unsuitable choice. Adelaide’s location is even worse, and its population is smaller than Perth’s.
A base for diesel submarines might have been squeezed into the navy’s facilities in Sydney, but that possibility disappeared with last year’s decision to switch to nuclear propulsion. Our future submarines will certainly need more room than is available at the current Sydney base, Hellyer says.
Buying more land fronting Sydney Harbour would be madly expensive, and the navy seems never to have considered Botany Bay as a candidate. A lot of it is shallow.

(Bradley Perrett is a regular ACM columnist with a focus on Australia’s relationship with China, covering defence, strategy, trade, economics and domestic policy. He was based in Beijing as a journalist from 2004 to 2020.)

Bar Beach Swimmer
March 9, 2022 10:58 am

Whatever the court decides, it could all be academic if the Commonwealth gets its way, with plans to challenge the original decision in a High Court appeal later this year

Why the delay?

local oaf
March 9, 2022 10:59 am

PT says:
March 9, 2022 at 8:52 am

My account just got disabled by Discord from Nilk’s site for who knows what reason.

Discord is a pain in the arse for anyone using a VPN. Every time I try to log in, it refuses because I’m not using the exact same location as before (maybe even the same IP).

Have to go through the email and confirmation and re-login every time.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 9, 2022 11:03 am

Should be another LOL filled day of evidence in the Sneakers v Fat Clive sideshow.

Zipster
Zipster
March 9, 2022 11:05 am

Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry
The grouping of troops of Lugansk People’s Republic, continuing offensive operations, took control of Pudovka and Nizhnee.
The units of the People’s Militia of the Donetsk People’s Republic took control over Olenovka, Pol’noe and Yuzhno-Donbass.
In Mariupol, after the end of cease-fire, the units of the Donetsk Republic advanced another 800-900 meters.
The units of the Russian Armed Forces took control of Peredovoe and Kariernaya.
During the day, bomber and assault aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed 32 military facilities.
Among them: 4 command posts, 3 radar station, 2 fuel depots and 11 areas of concentration of weapons and military equipment.
In total, 2,581 military infrastructure facilities of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.
Among them: 90 command posts and communication centres of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, 123 S-300, Buk M-1 and Osa anti-aircraft missile systems, as well as 81 radar stations.
Destroyed: 897 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 95 multiple rocket launch systems, 336 field artillery and mortars, 662 units of special military vehicles, 84 unmanned aerial vehicles.

Struth
March 9, 2022 11:05 am
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 9, 2022 11:07 am

I’m impressed you avoided the “tastes like chicken” line.

Which Cat said yesterday that Florida is selling tours to hunt iguanas with BB guns? Although there was also a warning a few weeks ago to watch out for falling iguanas in cold weather. So maybe the BB gun is unnecessary and all you have to do is wait a week or two.

Tom
Tom
March 9, 2022 11:08 am

Barr demonstrates on Fox News Special Report that he’s a real Swamp Creature.
Brett Baier doesn’t ask the tough questions, accepts that all the evidence about election fraud is wrong.

This puts Tucker Carlson in an interesting dilemma later tonight US time: protect the network or tell the truth.

Zipster
Zipster
March 9, 2022 11:13 am
dopey
dopey
March 9, 2022 11:14 am

Areff. Christine Nixon Plate. Weight for Age or Handicap?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 9, 2022 11:15 am

Barr demonstrates on Fox News Special Report that he’s a real Swamp Creature.

I was amused by this headline this morning.

Pence Not Ruling Out 2024 Presidential Bid (8 Mar)

He’s delusional. Republican voters would crawl over broken glass to not vote for him after he betrayed his boss.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
March 9, 2022 11:22 am

Thanks Tom

Tomsays:
March 9, 2022 at 4:17 am
Tina Norton.

wins today with “The Shift Change”

JC
JC
March 9, 2022 11:23 am

Nice post on Russia, makka.

I was out last night so better late than never.

shatterzzz
March 9, 2022 11:26 am

Overcast but dry out here in Fairfield, NSW .. 1st time without constant rain since Saturday .. managed to get the grass out back mowed .. foot high .. lol! .. took an hour & a half .. not a bad effort for 74 years young tho!

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 9, 2022 11:35 am

Today might be another good day to ask, why do people live in Sydney? A$ tax rates, shit traffic, shit transport, good beaches, shit parking. Why would you do it to yourself?

Vicki
Vicki
March 9, 2022 11:35 am

Just got an excited email from a friend who told me that the threat of a world war was over because the Russian economy has collapsed under the economic sanctions.

My concern is that our society is incapable of really understanding the nature of the the political information war. Mainstream media, for reasons of incompetence or something more sinister, has been captured by information coming from government and bureaucracies. And the ignorance does not simply stem from a collapse in quality education. My friend is an otherwise intelligent lady who is a retired geologist.

P
P
March 9, 2022 11:36 am

PTsays:
March 9, 2022 at 8:52 am

My account just got disabled by Discord from Nilk’s site for who knows what reason

.

Spotify and Discord are back online after outage.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 9, 2022 11:38 am

shaterzzz, I would say buy a cow. But not at these prices.

Zipster
Zipster
March 9, 2022 11:39 am

JUST IN: Cruz Confronts Top State Department Official Over ‘Mistakes’ That Led To Ukraine Invasion
At today’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) blamed President Biden’s actions for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland.

Eyrie
Eyrie
March 9, 2022 11:40 am

Just got an excited email from a friend who told me that the threat of a world war was over because the Russian economy has collapsed under the economic sanctions.

The nuclear missiles are all paid for. The west has gifted Russia with all investment that western companies put into Russia, not to mention 400 leased airliners which the Russian aviation industry will be able to keep going for quite a while. Note the Iranians are still flying the Shah’s F-14’s.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
March 9, 2022 11:46 am

Oil or gas from Russia is only one of the sanction problems.
Mine production: 13 million MT

Russia’s phosphate output dropped by 1 million MT in 2020 from the previous year, coming in at 14 million MT. As per the USGS, the country has 600 million MT of phosphate in reserve.

Health concerns over cadmium, which is a heavy metal and a carcinogen, could be creating further opportunities for the phosphate-mining industry in the country. Fertilizer requirements out of the European Union have put limits on the amount of cadmium residue permitted in phosphate imports.

The proposition prompted Polish MEP Tomasz Wlostowski to say, “The limits will only benefit Russian producers, which have monopolized low-cadmium apatite phosphate deposits and which already dominate the EU fertilizer market.”

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 9, 2022 11:53 am

Truckies know just how much that might have an effect.

The Kenworth King, who has not so much as looked lustily at his gearstick in years and shits in his hands and claps at us from the sidelines by choice l, happens to know so much better than everyone else about how life and civic society works.

Yet cries when his claim of being especially special because he once drove a truck is ridiculed.

And he accuses everyone else out there of being mentally unstable…

Has anyone contacted Mrs Struth and asked her to please control her woman, yet?

Here is another nice model I would like to send the Kenworth King if I could. He will need to build his own DeAtH CaMp to drive it to, however…

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
March 9, 2022 11:55 am

Saudi, Emirati Leaders Decline Calls With Biden During Ukraine Crisis

Persian Gulf monarchies have signaled they won’t help ease surging oil prices unless Washington supports them in Yemen, elsewhere

Swirling down the pan.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 9, 2022 12:00 pm

Zipstersays:
March 9, 2022 at 11:05 am

Sounds distinctly like the Russians have aimed the destruction of pretty much the entire Ukrainian army on the ground now.

They should have this all wrapped up by tomorrow. 🙂

Unless there’s more than a few shades of the Luftwaffe in 1940 hiding amongst their confident claims…

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 9, 2022 12:02 pm

Note the Iranians are still flying the Shah’s F-14’s.

To be fair they’re building their own knock-off F-5s too.

Zipster
Zipster
March 9, 2022 12:12 pm
Roger
Roger
March 9, 2022 12:12 pm

Persian Gulf monarchies have signaled they won’t help ease surging oil prices unless Washington supports them in Yemen, elsewhere

“Elsewhere” being Iran.

How’s that reset on ME policy working out, Joe?

P
P
March 9, 2022 12:19 pm

Kyle Becker@kylenabecker · 2h

Wikipedia is now such a clown car operation that questioning why the president’s son got a position at a corrupt Ukraine gas company that Biden shielded from investigation is now a “conspiracy theory.” en.wikipedia.orgBiden–Ukraine conspiracy theory – Wikipedia

https://twitter.com/kylenabecker/status/1501333669637758976

Struth
March 9, 2022 12:21 pm

You don’t do much, do you comrade Choo choo?
Even for a union Rail wanker.

Consider that when I don’t respond from now on, it’s because I feel that I can let it go as you’re inflicting more harm on yourself than I could.
Holy crap, look at that last emotional flip out.
Keep it up.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
March 9, 2022 12:21 pm

“Elsewhere” being Iran.

How’s that reset on ME policy working out, Joe?

One misstep away from US$200/bbl.
Send in the clowns…

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
March 9, 2022 12:26 pm

H B Bear says:
March 9, 2022 at 11:38 am

shaterzzz, I would say buy a cow. But not at these prices.

Plenty of sheeple around and going cheap.

Roger
Roger
March 9, 2022 12:29 pm

Blinken: Say, let’s start a European war and send gas prices to historic highs…

Biden: Go get ’em.

Do I get ice cream now?

P
P
March 9, 2022 12:30 pm
Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 9, 2022 12:33 pm

You don’t do much, do you comrade Choo choo?

I don’t shit in my hands and clap… 🙂

Consider that when I don’t respond from now on, it’s because I feel that I can can’t let it go as and you’re inflicting more harm on yourself me than I could on you and you’re getting under my skin and I am struggling to feel superior to you now.

Edited for clarity. Iampeter often used almost exactly the same words to describe his frustration when he was almost completely exhausted by his failures to troll me too, Struth. 🙂

Holy crap, look at that last emotional flip out.

Asking Mrs Struth to Control [Her] Woman is really starting to get to you, eh Kenworth King? 😉

Here’s another water tanker for your tears… 🙂

custard
custard
March 9, 2022 12:34 pm

From GeorgeNews

??China urges Pentagon to disclose alleged “biolabs” in Ukraine “as soon as possible”

FM spox Zhao Lijian claimed Tuesday that Beijing believes the laboratories in Ukraine are just the “tip of an iceberg” and that the US Dept of Defense “controls 336 biological laboratories in 30 countries around the world.”

Zhao also said that according to data “released by the United States itself,” there are 26 US laboratories in Ukraine. He urged “all parties concerned” to ensure the safety of the labs in light of Russia’s military offensive.

On Monday, Moscow claimed Ukrainian authorities had been destroying pathogens studied at 30 US-financed biolabs in the country. Kiev has denied developing bioweapons.

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https://t.me/georgenews | @GEORGENEWS

Kneel
Kneel
March 9, 2022 12:35 pm

“…why do people live in Sydney?”

You kind of get stuck in it.
As I’ve said before, every time I leave the joint for more than a day or two, I swear I’m only going back to move away – to live somewhere where saying “G’Day!” to someone you don’t know elicits a similar response rather than someone looking at you like you come from the moon or something…

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 9, 2022 12:38 pm

Carbrook Golf Course on the Gold Coast has now become safer for golfers.

Previously if you drove into the lake and tried to recover your golf ball you could be eaten.

For over two decades, bull sharks have called a Brisbane golf course home after, it’s believed, a flood washed them into the course’s lake in 1996. Now, after severe floods connected their landlocked home back to the river system, these sharks have gone missing, perhaps attempting to seek larger water bodies.

Floods rapidly turn land habitats into underwater habitats, allowing aquatic animals to venture into places you wouldn’t expect. Flooding during northern Australia’s annual wet season, for example, sees crocodiles occasionally turn up in people’s backyard pools.

While many Australian wildlife species are well adapted to dealing with periodic natural disasters, including floods, we and wildlife will face even more intense events in the future under climate change. Cutting greenhouse gas emissions can lessen this impact.

There you go. Global warming causes crocodiles in backyard swimming pools, and sharks on golf courses.

Winston Smith
March 9, 2022 12:38 pm

Zipster:
Key points:

Last week, the University of Melbourne released a photo of six Caucasian men receiving their honorary doctorates
The Snow Medical Research Foundation has suspended funding to the university until it commits to improving gender and cultural diversity
The University of Melbourne says the foundation’s decision to pause funding was based on a single event, which is not reflective of the institution as a whole
Snow Medical Research Foundation said it was cutting ties with the institution until the university could prove a commitment to gender and cultural diversity.

What you won’t hear from the University of Melbourne:
“It is unfortunate the Snow Foundation has decided to withdraw funding on the basis the University refuses to take into account the gender and skin colour of an award recipient.
The Snow Foundation can take its money and find another University to bribe, or failing that, stick its money up its arse.”

Struth
March 9, 2022 12:42 pm

This isn’t a Russian/Ukraine war.
It’s a war against the west.
A few troops and skirmishes while the WEF use it to destroy the west.

Biden’s an idiot, that’s for sure.
But whoever thinks he’s in charge of the USA is a bigger idiot.

What do you hear when the President mouths “Build back better”?

Struth
March 9, 2022 12:46 pm
Struth
March 9, 2022 12:47 pm
Winston Smith
March 9, 2022 12:48 pm

What’s wrong with Jervis Bay for a sub base?
Deep enough for a submarine, shallow enough that no can sneak in like the bloke who sank the Ark Royal in WW2? Kretschmeyer or something?

Indolent
Indolent
March 9, 2022 12:54 pm

Martin Geddes. I always him interesting. Please remember these are his views, not necessarily mine.

13 concerns about The Great Awakening
My written response to interview questions from Mark Devlin

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 9, 2022 12:57 pm

What’s wrong with Jervis Bay for a sub base?

Roger likes Bundaberg. Admittedly sailors have a long history with rum, so if I was a sailor on a sub I’d prefer Bundaberg to Jervis Bay too.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 9, 2022 12:59 pm

Silent Otto

One of the chaps who actually survived the war.

https://uboat.net/men/interviews/kretschmer.htm

https://uboat.net/men/kretschmer.htm

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 9, 2022 1:04 pm

Winston Smithsays:
March 9, 2022 at 12:48 pm
What’s wrong with Jervis Bay for a sub base?
Deep enough for a submarine, shallow enough that no can sneak in like the bloke who sank the Ark Royal in WW2? Kretschmeyer or something?

Put aside the screeching from the Slime that the mere suggestion would cause, the lack of supporting industrial infrastructure (dry docking facilities, engineering workshops, and such) would make it suitable only as a “forward” operating base, with industrial support provided elsewhere (preferably not too far away).

Lysander
Lysander
March 9, 2022 1:08 pm

Historic carbon emissions in 2021, due to largest spikes by China. Green groups call for world to act to ensure the year doesn’t repeat itself

Translation: You, get poor for China.

Winston Smith
March 9, 2022 1:10 pm

Boambee John:

Put aside the screeching from the Slime that the mere suggestion would cause, the lack of supporting industrial infrastructure (dry docking facilities, engineering workshops, and such) would make it suitable only as a “forward” operating base, with industrial support provided elsewhere (preferably not too far away).

OK. I was assuming there would be a new base, with all the docks/wharves/boat thingies having to be built.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 9, 2022 1:10 pm

A few troops and skirmishes while the WEF use it to destroy the west.

Jessica Mauboy and [Not] Grace Tame (Seriously Struth, you linked a picture of her smiling yesterday and demanded the Cat take it seriously. We all know the woman does not smile…) are not doing a particularly good job of that, Struth.

The shelves are still full, inflation is driving people into the arms of small government and fiscal responsibility types, and for all your fuss, only a single DeAtH Wellcamp, which cannot even take the full population of Texas (let alone whatever the true numbers of unvaxxxxxed Queenslanders might be) has gone up in Queensland.

They are not very good murdergenociders, Struth. You need to pick your Nuffy Nemeses better…

custard
custard
March 9, 2022 1:16 pm
Rabz
March 9, 2022 1:21 pm

What do you hear when the President mouths “Build back better”?

A foul cretinous syphilitic ol’ incontinent geriatric, who can’t remember his name and who isn’t aware of what day it is, what office he (allegedly) holds or what planet he’s on.

Or is this some sort of trick question?

Razey
Razey
March 9, 2022 1:22 pm

custardsays:
March 9, 2022 at 1:16 pm
Is Pfizer delisting off the NYSE?

https://twitter.com/chomcgoo/status/1501374174933118980?s=21

The date on the doc is 2018, so doubt it.

custard
custard
March 9, 2022 1:26 pm

It’s also dated 7/3/22

Kneel
Kneel
March 9, 2022 1:27 pm

“Or is this some sort of trick question?”

Very tricksy, precious!

custard
custard
March 9, 2022 1:28 pm

From telegram, interesting…

If Putin and Xi are working to end the NWO it doesn’t make sense for China to release the virus. Everything seems centered around Ukraine in a plot twist worthy of rivaling any movie. Biden, Soros, McCain, Romney, Pelosi, and many more deep state players orbit around the cess pool that is Ukraine.
What if Soros and the US deep state wanted to pin the release of Covid on China?
A false flag of worldwide significance. What if Putin is making a chess move that will put an end to this charade?
It boggles the mind to consider the possibilities.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
March 9, 2022 1:33 pm

The Snow Medical Research Foundation has suspended funding to the university until it commits to improving gender and cultural diversity

A spokeswoman for the university said a number of other awardees, including three women and an Indigenous man, were unable to attend the ceremony and would be handed their awards later.

That won’t get them off the hook – it’s a serious Appearances Crime and Temporal Discrimination.

Also: three too few women, no evidence of Queer Empowerment, and no obvious tranny.

Medical research under this much oppression can fuck right off.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 9, 2022 1:34 pm

Ghastly, if true.

Visegrád 24@visegrad24
Lamborghini is halting sales in Russia
10:53 AM · Mar 9, 2022

Kneel
Kneel
March 9, 2022 1:37 pm

“That won’t get them off the hook – it’s a serious Appearances Crime and Temporal Discrimination. “

Oh, come come – some Universities in the US have racially segregated graduation ceremonies, that’s what this is. It’s about equity, see? And “safe spaces” for BIPOC graduates. All above (woke) board and (leftist) sensible, innit?
Mind you, somewhat insensitive to not have the BIPOC ceremony first, but that’s just a wrinkle in the process – it’ll be sorted net year, you’ll see…

Top Ender
Top Ender
March 9, 2022 1:38 pm

Having lived in Jervis Bay for five years:

– narrow winding road into the area, very unsuitable for heavy building trucks by the many hundred for whatever period of building would be needed. (Bringing in building supplies and bulldozers etc by ship would be more realistic, but how easy it that?)
– concrete pad at the end of the road not nearly big enough for a base
– slippage area would need massive dredging to make it big enough for subs
– all of the area is a National Park so consider the screaming

That’s apart from the wartime considerations. The entrance to Jervis Bay for example, is narrow and could be easily mined.

johanna
johanna
March 9, 2022 1:39 pm

Re the monster cat I mentioned yesterday – thanks for the reminders, it was indeed a Maine Coon. Or, as Delta correctly reminded us, a Maine Cheers. 🙂

This one had very striking markings and eyes as well as being humungous – I’ve never seen anything like it. Despite her considerable heft, according to the owner she is not the boss – a male Persian about 2/3 her size is. Boyz rool in the cat world, it seems.

Top Ender
Top Ender
March 9, 2022 1:41 pm

Shootee with spear in Darwin said to be only 20 or so, not 32 as said yesterday.

Also, says the ABC, alive, but “critical”.

Pic available, and:

Mr Bradley said he knew the man who had been shot and said people in the area were upset about what happened.

He said he believed the man was around 20 or younger.

“He was a harmless little boy, he’s not a violent person or anything,” he said.

“Everyone knows him, he hangs with us.”

Frank
Frank
March 9, 2022 1:41 pm

Medical research under this much oppression can fuck right off.

Indistinguishable from all that tainted research that came out from the axis powers during the last world war. It would be immoral to take the cure.

Kneel
Kneel
March 9, 2022 1:42 pm

“Lamborghini is halting sales in Russia”

That’s to prevent the bourgeois capitalist pigs from buying one.
Can’t let those oligarchs get too uppity – they might believe they are as good as the ones in the west! Everything is bigger and better in the US – oligarchs included (but not, alas, batteries – hence Biden’s ones are so low, no-one wants to even open the cover any more…)

Kneel
Kneel
March 9, 2022 1:45 pm

“He was a harmless little boy, he’s not a violent person or anything,” he said.

So also saith the mothers and neighbours of every serial murderer ever caught…

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
March 9, 2022 1:50 pm

Whatever the court decides, it could all be academic if the Commonwealth gets its way, with plans to challenge the original decision in a High Court appeal later this year

Why the delay?

SloMo doesn’t want this during an election.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 9, 2022 1:51 pm

If Putin and Xi are working to end the NWO it doesn’t make sense for China to release the virus

And, to put on the Morpheus voice:

“What if I told you that every major powerplayer in this world had his own individual agenda for amassing and exerting power and control. Completely independent of any others, except where an expedient temporary alliance with someone else would get what both parties wanted against a mutual enemy sooner…”

And finish that mental image with the unique sort of gap-toothed cheeky bastard smile that only Laurence Fishburne can pull off…

Roger
Roger
March 9, 2022 1:51 pm

“He was a harmless little boy, he’s not a violent person or anything,” he said.

Clearly the spear led him astray.

srr
srr
March 9, 2022 1:56 pm

Shy Ted says:
March 9, 2022 at 1:26 pm
National press Club shortly

National Press Club Address Ronni Kahn – CEO of OzHarvest
12:30PM – 1:41PM Ronni Kahn, social entrepreneur and founder of Australia’s leading food rescue charity, OzHarvest, addresses the National Press Club on the topic On Purpose: Believe, Discover, Give.

*Call me a cynic about charities but it’s the way tehy dress that makes me suspicious.

*Anyway, here’s the financials –
Briefly, revenue $29mill, expenses $27mill, employee benefits $13mill!!!
Cash flows from operating activities –
Receipts from donors and customers $26,560,132
Payments to suppliers and employees $25,906,107

It seems much of the food is surplus from Colesworths and repeat funders are state gummints. Is it me or is there not an awful lot of money left for the less fortunate?

* links here –
https://catallaxy-files.com/open-thread-saturday-05-march-2022/comment-page-3/#comment-138585

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 9, 2022 1:57 pm

Clearly the spear led him astray.

This argument does have a point…

#OhGod

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
March 9, 2022 2:00 pm

Admiral Agrees With Hawley: China Could Use Nukes To Compel US To Surrender In War Over Taiwan

Too dim to survive if they didn’t.
China has watched Russia wield the veiled nuclear threat- and get a result.

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

Re the monster cat I mentioned yesterday – thanks for the reminders, it was indeed a Maine Coon.

One of my ex-colleagues is a hydrometallurgist who had six Maine Coons. She was living in Ncl and commuting each week to WA. Seff Efrican. She’ll be in great demand now, since the nickel price has tripled in three days. We metals chemists are an eccentric species.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 9, 2022 2:07 pm

So how many fucking bio labs is the US funding outside the US?
It should be the number one question being asked today.
Why would you fund a bio lab in China?
Why would you fund a bio lab in Ukraine, one of the most corrupt countries in Europe, next to a country like Russia, with one of the most porous non-Schengen borders.
Seriously WTF America?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 9, 2022 2:07 pm

Anyway, here’s the financials –
Briefly, revenue $29mill, expenses $27mill, employee benefits $13mill!!!
Cash flows from operating activities –
Receipts from donors and customers $26,560,132
Payments to suppliers and employees $25,906,107

It seems much of the food is surplus from Colesworths and repeat funders are state gummints. Is it me or is there not an awful lot of money left for the less fortunate?

Way to miss the point, SRR.

OzHarvest and the various food banks around Australia take seconds and otherwise viable ‘expired’ food items from the major chains and offer them at or very near to cost-price for low income folks, pensioners and welfare recipients.

Strictly speaking, they are ‘non-profit’ organisations that take some of the burden off State and Federal Governments for social support, by enabling the welfare money paid out to people ‘go further.’ What revenues they make after tax (because even charities and non-profits are subjected to it to some extent) and their own salaries and overheads are cleared, go straight back into the organisation.

OzHarvest and other food banks are not full-service welfare organisations, so the claim of there ‘not being an awful lot of money [presumably for redistribution or other support services] left over for the less fortunate’ is a polite misinterpretation at best, and from you, disingenuous when you inevitably put something up without further context.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 9, 2022 2:09 pm

Razey or Bluey, were you the first to post re the biolabs in Ukraine?
Or was it another “ey”.
Can you let us know the website that you first posted from a few weeks ago?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 9, 2022 2:09 pm

Seriously WTF America?

That’s assuming even one poofteenth of the claims are accurate.

It’s a propaganda war. If we go through our own media sources with enough salt to fill Lake Eyre to ankle depth, why not apply the same scrutiny to the Russian Federation’s press releases?

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 9, 2022 2:11 pm

Rex, Nuland confirmed it in response to the Rubio questioning.
That was within the past 12 hours or so.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 9, 2022 2:11 pm

Even Glenn Greenwald was shocked that Nuland would admit it so readily.

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