Open Thread – Tues 8 March 2022


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

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Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 9, 2022 2:15 pm

Struth says:
March 9, 2022 at 1:57 pm

just about the male /female breakdown I’d suggest.

Because no Anglo-Saxon Christian White Man would ever roll his eyes and tell his bosses what they wanted to hear (knowing how upset you would get), would they Kenworth King?

If “It was that woman you gave me wot dun it! Iz all her fault!” didn’t work as an excuse for Adam in the Garden, Struth, whatever would possess you to think it would work now?

@ Mrs Struth- Control. Your. Woman.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 9, 2022 2:18 pm

She’ll be in great demand now, since the nickel price has tripled in three days.

I seem to recall nickel being around $20,000 a ton back when I was underground.

The pit ponies would have been farting through silk at todays prices.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 9, 2022 2:20 pm

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

Welp, when the truth prima facie sounds even Nuffier than what the Nuffies have been flinging around themselves for the last two years, what does one do other than skewer the shoutier ones and wait for the situation to continue to develop?

Reality does out in the end.

custard
custard
March 9, 2022 2:20 pm

National Pulse has more on the bio-labs

Tried to link not working…

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 9, 2022 2:20 pm

The US is sending $US14bill to Ukraine (that will be stolen).
The Russian gas is still going west to Europe (US oil imports are small and will take effect in 45 days & the UK sanctions don’t take place until the end of 2022).
The Germans aren’t doing anything to upset their trade partners China & India who by abstaining are in effect supporting Russia.
The Germans have increased their military spend as a percentage of GDP.

A lot of winners from all this.
Not the average punter in Ukraine, Russia or the US though.

Kneel
Kneel
March 9, 2022 2:22 pm

“The 2020 election should be regarded as most consequential since WW2. That will hold true until 2024. Democracy was and is very much on the ballot”

Certainly true – pity democracy lost, innit?

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
March 9, 2022 2:23 pm

Rand Paul doing the important Libertarian work.

Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, who held up popular bipartisan anti-lynching legislation in the Senate last Congress, announced Tuesday that he now supports and has signed on as a co-sponsor of a new version of the bill.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 9, 2022 2:26 pm

With reference to the Ukrainian couple who got blown apart by the Russian military that is doing the rounds on social media.
What are the odds that they would encounter the Russian military vehicle, in a semi rural area, in front of a structure that just so happened to have a functioning security camera positioned to capture the engagement in all its brutality.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 9, 2022 2:29 pm

Here’s a link to the footage that’s going viral.

https://twitter.com/YWNReporter/status/1501184219812442114?s=20&t=uW88huD3uwO3SvlKrPelbA

Just to be clear, the footage in this tweet is savage, but safe for work.
However in the feed is footage of the aftermath which is NOT safe for work & you don’t want to look at either.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 9, 2022 2:30 pm

And scene !

johanna
johanna
March 9, 2022 2:32 pm

Bruce of Newcastle says:
March 9, 2022 at 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.

Six! Cripes, assuming they were indoor cats (you’d be crazy to let them out – apart from anything else, they cost a fortune) she must have had a big house to fit the cats, their food and their litter trays plus supplies of both.

It would be like living in the African jungle with six of those monsters prowling around.

Fortunately, by all acounts they are pretty placid. An angry one would be terrifying.

Struth
March 9, 2022 2:32 pm

Bloody hell, I live in your head Comrade Rex…….continue……

Bluey
Bluey
March 9, 2022 2:35 pm

feelthebernsays:
March 9, 2022 at 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?

What I posted I initially saw on an aggregator of posts on 4chan that’s kind of conspiracy theory from a particular poster, then on a forum I visit that, similar to here, has a very wide swathe of life experience, the next was war reporting on twitter and telegram.
Russian MOD published some allegations about a week after the forum was speculating. There was someone who found documents referencing biolabs in Ukraine on US government website who got banned from twitter pretty early on too. Those documents have now done a vanishing act.

The conspiracy theory one reckons there’s some seriously nasty stuff been developed in those labs and there’s vials of it being chased by secret squirrel types in the middle east.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 9, 2022 2:36 pm

what does one do other than skewer the shoutier ones and wait for the situation to continue to develop?

Reality does out in the end.

And having just seen the video you referred to, bern, I think I will do just that.

There’s already enough confusion and doublespeak out there about who wants to bioweapon whom, and what might be there or not and so forth…

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 9, 2022 2:39 pm

Bloody hell, I live in your head Comrade Rex…….continue……

Oh dear.

What was the Kenworth King saying before?

Consider that when I don’t respond from now on, it’s because I feel that I can let it go

Hmmm…

#SnappitySnappySnap

#SnapAtTheRexBait

#SnappitySnapGoesTheKenworthKing

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 9, 2022 2:45 pm

Thanks Bluey.
Chalk it up to another conspiracy theory that has turned out being true.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 9, 2022 2:46 pm

Just to be clear, the footage in this tweet is savage, but safe for work.

It seems the escorts for fighting patrols and convoys alike are hyper-vigilant to the threat of VBIEDs or ambush parties using civvy cars to move about. That BMP-2 must have had eyes on the car well before the intersection, as it was engaging pretty much once the car had passed the building.

Shame the vehicles don’t quite get close enough to see the identification markings…

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 9, 2022 2:47 pm

Obviously Nuland admitting it so freely means she has an ulterior motive.

Roger
Roger
March 9, 2022 2:48 pm

Fortunately, by all acounts they are pretty placid. An angry one would be terrifying.

We – or rather my wife; I’m not really an animal person – have a Maine Coon.

It’s the most timid cat I’ve ever known.

We also have a Bombay, which is exactly the opposite.

Kneel
Kneel
March 9, 2022 2:49 pm

“With reference to the Ukrainian couple who got blown apart by the Russian military that is doing the rounds on social media”

Twitter thread says “unprovoked attack”.
The video clearly shows the CAR firing first, then getting smashed – go have a look, it’s just after the car stops, you can see what looks like some sort of shot from car that goes through the trees and hits the APC.
Propaganda, IMO.

Tom
Tom
March 9, 2022 2:50 pm

I agree with you, Top Ender. Somewhere off WA and the 70 million square kilometres of the Indian Ocean beats the hell out of Jervis Bay as a base for Australia’s new nuclear-powered submarines.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 9, 2022 2:50 pm

Obviously Nuland admitting it so freely means she has an ulterior motive.

Sufficient signal:noise from all the nuffies and Qanon types out there that a confession can be freely made with minimal fear of consequence?

Seems a reasonable idea for weaselly behaviour, as any proper deep-dives into the truth of the matter just get stymied by ever-more fantasy while the reality gets quietly shelved.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
March 9, 2022 2:51 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

Someone with a hospitality background might comment on the efficiency of spending $13 million on employees to turn over $27 million of food.

But maybe that’s not what’s happening. They claim to have delivered about 36 million meals. Unless a meal costs only about 75 cents that suggests that the financials are leaving a lot of things out – presumably value of donated food received and distributed. Without that info it’s hard to get any idea of what the scale of the operation really is, i.e. the financials are largely worthless.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 9, 2022 2:55 pm

Always beware of the selective outrage & exposes of NFPs.
The competition for the government & corporate dollar is intense.
Any excuse a competing organisation or a activist media type can use is often for the benefit of another.

Bluey
Bluey
March 9, 2022 2:57 pm

feelthebernsays:
March 9, 2022 at 2:45 pm
Thanks Bluey.
Chalk it up to another conspiracy theory that has turned out being true.

Well, I hope this particular poster is someone larping. It’s far to close to tying into the Orthodox prophecies about a world war and a great battle in Constantinople before a restoration of Christian faith across the world.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 9, 2022 2:57 pm

Also keep in mind most large NFPs run a dual operating holding company model.
Meaning that you have to have both sets of accounts side by side to get the real picture.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 9, 2022 2:57 pm

The video clearly shows the CAR firing first, then getting smashed – go have a look, it’s just after the car stops, you can see what looks like some sort of shot from car that goes through the trees and hits the APC

I did wonder what the first smoke puffs were- I had thought the BMP-2 started with coax, then went to 23mm cannon as it got closer. But there were only one or two glass spatters before the big explosion from the cannon hit.

It looks like a few small arms shots first, then possibly rifle grenades or an RPG shot that went wide. That latter round was launched just before the car exploded- You can see the tree it knocked down in the background fall over as the car detonates from the BMP’s main gun.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
March 9, 2022 2:58 pm

Another grain price squeeze potential from the Ukraine conflict.
The Spring planting window for barley sowing is soon and the unlucky farmers in the Ukraine may not have the fuel, supplies or safety to plant.
That’s six million tonne of barley off the export scene. I reckon the punt on this outcome is worth keeping my unsold stock sitting for a month or two.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 9, 2022 2:59 pm

Bluey, it’s not often something makes the jump from a conspiracy to a key administration official (Nuland) confirming it at a Senate hearing within a few weeks.

Top Ender
Top Ender
March 9, 2022 3:02 pm

NT News reporting:

Police fired six shots and taser at 19-year-old in Palmerston.
Police shot six times and deployed taser at 19-year-old Aboriginal man in Palmerston.

Someone will instantly draw the connection – very loudly and publicly – between this bloke being 19; the same age as that other chap at the centre of the Rolfe case.

Wonder how many of the shots hit, and what happened to the ones that missed? And a taser – a rather determined spearman!

Winston Smith
March 9, 2022 3:02 pm

Boambee John:
OK. I was assuming there would be a new base, with all the docks/wharves/boat thingies having to be built.
Mind you, it would be an excellent time to set up a new Naval Port and Maintenance facility, with unions banned from the site.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 9, 2022 3:03 pm

They claim to have delivered about 36 million meals. Unless a meal costs only about 75 cents that suggests that the financials are leaving a lot of things out – presumably value of donated food received and distributed.

The feraldton food bank had a pretty simple system.

A lot of stuff was “sold” at $1.00 per kg or a similar extremely low price.
The donors (I donated some stuff a few times) get an invoice showing they “sold” it at 1:00 per kg as well, even though no cash changes hands. Im assuming for big businesses this lets them claim a minor tax deduction?

I thought the joint was pretty rorty until i got a bit of a look at how they run it. Power costs for refig and frozen hit them fairly hard as well.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 9, 2022 3:04 pm

I have no idea what to make of the engagement that the footage captured.

What makes me suspicious is that how everything had to line up for it to be captured in the first place.
Then the Russian vehicle makes a speedy exit after the vehicle had been neutralised, keeping its distance from the camera.

I’m not looking for a fake news whatever, but it just seems statistically improbable.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 9, 2022 3:06 pm

MONORAIL!!!

Ahem, I mean Okagee!!!

OK. I was assuming there would be a new base, with all the docks/wharves/boat thingies having to be built.
Mind you, it would be an excellent time to set up a new Naval Port and Maintenance facility, with unions banned from the site.

The port that never was.
https://www.opandr.com/

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 9, 2022 3:07 pm

I agree with you, Top Ender. Somewhere off WA and the 70 million square kilometres of the Indian Ocean beats the hell out of Jervis Bay as a base for Australia’s new nuclear-powered submarines.

A small flotilla of sub tenders that can be rotated out of the existing fleet bases could do the job.

A depot ship and its charges are harder to find and take out than a fixed base, and probability favours them being out of range of most strike weapons at any given point in time. Short of dedicating an entire ICBM, carrier group’s or submarine flotilla’s efforts into sinking just one.

Roger
Roger
March 9, 2022 3:07 pm

Bluey, it’s not often something makes the jump from a conspiracy to a key administration official (Nuland) confirming it at a Senate hearing within a few weeks.

Did Nuland say biolabs or confirm biological weapons labs?

Every country has biolabs. My neice works in one. Doesn’t mean they’re producing bioweapons.

The way China has jumped at this to embarrass the US makes me suspicious.

Remember the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction?

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 9, 2022 3:11 pm

Great living in a one newspaper state.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-09/texts-between-mark-mcgowan-kerry-stokes-clive-palmer-trial/100890974
The WA Premier sent a text message to the owner of the state’s only daily metro newspaper, Kerry Stokes, thanking him for his support following the introduction of legislation that prevented businessman Clive Palmer from claiming damages in relation to a mining project, the Federal Court has heard.

Mr Stokes responded three days later on the evening of August 14, shortly after the legislation had passed.

It also followed three days of front page articles in The West Australian, which depicted Mr Palmer variously as a cockroach and a cane toad.

Kerry Stokes: “Mark, well done. I think no-one else could have achieved the legislation in the speed you did. Reckon the insect heads should make a telethon sales item. People are with you! Kerry.”

Mr McGowan: “Thanks Kerry I was asked about those marvellous front pages today, and I said, ‘I think The West has gone a bit soft’ . I appreciate the support enormously.
All the mealy-mouthed tutt-tutting by some people about Palmer’s ‘rights’ makes me sick.


And it looks like McClown isnt adverse to lying his ass off in court either.

Earlier today, Mr Gray questioned why Mr McGowan had told the court on Monday he believed Mr Palmer’s comments about him had inflamed people into action that included a person driving a car into a power pole near his Rockingham home.

On Monday, Mr McGowan told the court Mr Palmer’s comments created a “band of angry people in the community who believe this kind of stuff, and they do crazy things in relation to me and my family.”
He said these also included threatening to kill his children, driving a fake armoured vehicle past his electorate office, sending a package of powder to his wife, threatening to “sniper attack” his family and to “hunt them down after I am out of office”.

Mr Gray read a news report from the time, which quoted police saying the power pole incident was a driver under the influence and was not targeted at Mr McGowan specifically, which the Premier rejected.

Mr McGowan told the court when his children went outside to assist the driver, she yelled anti-vaccination sentiments at them before running off.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 9, 2022 3:17 pm

What makes me suspicious is that how everything had to line up for it to be captured in the first place.
Then the Russian vehicle makes a speedy exit after the vehicle had been neutralised, keeping its distance from the camera.

Based on the geo-tagging, I’d take a punt that crossroads was identified as a critical point for Russian resupply or combat movement efforts.

It also looks like a fairly natural ambush point to me- The enemy has to slow and change its direction to move through here, presenting vulnerable flanks and its van and rearguard unable to mass in response to the main body of a convoy being ambushed.

Plenty of usable hard cover and concealment, firing positions in depth (e.g. where the camera is) and presumably plenty of usable rat-runs to exfiltrate through.

In Iraq, an action like this might have commenced with a car attack or IED strike to get the escorts and draw attention, then dismounted fighters seek to cripple vehicles and engage any disoriented dismounts. Makes for lots of sexy fireballs, tracers and infidels getting smashed for the cameras. And everybody shoots off a magazine or three and some RPGs, then melts away before the gunships and the QRF show up.

In this case, it does not look like there was really much of a plan beyond a bunch of mad lads rolling up in a car and shooting up the Russians. They could well have got the BMP, but the 14.5mm KSVT machine gun in the BTR-70 following it would have turned them into hamburger.

Kneel
Kneel
March 9, 2022 3:17 pm

“I did wonder what the first smoke puffs were…”

I think it was a “setup” – they placed the car where the camera was, then fired on the Russians, then got smashed. If they had “killed” the Russians, it would have been “brave civilian freedom fighters trash Russia’s military”, but because it didn’t work it was an “unprovoked attack”.

Either that, or if that first shot was from BMP to car, they were where they knew they shouldn’t have been (some sort of exclusion zone, eg) and got pounced on.

Given the other propaganda that’s been coming out and then refuted hours or days later, I just don’t believe this was Granny & Pop on a peaceful mission to get food for the kids. Maybe, but I’d want a bit more evidence.

Tom
Tom
March 9, 2022 3:19 pm

Shane Warne’s red-hot, odds-on favourite, Sacred Oath, threw off its rider Ryan Moloney 100 metres after the start of the second at Ipswich today.

PT
PT
March 9, 2022 3:24 pm

Today -Discord emailed message of Disabled account
This was the Discordant Cats site run by Nilk.
Not sure why my account was cancelled

Hello,
Discord is focused on maintaining a safe and secure environment for our community. We’ve found your account to be in violation of our Terms of Service or Community Guidelines. As a result, we’ve disabled your account for the following reason:
Your account posted misleading or harmful misinformation, or was involved in servers dedicated to this content.
Sincerely,
Discord Trust & Safety

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 9, 2022 3:28 pm

Your account posted misleading or harmful misinformation, or was involved in servers dedicated to this content.

Algorithm probably busted you for posting what it was told was ‘wrongthink.’

Discord, being a forum for mostly young and ‘righteous’ people, is full of digital Commissars.

twostix
twostix
March 9, 2022 3:32 pm

Kerry Stokes: “Mark, well done. I think no-one else could have achieved the legislation in the speed you did. Reckon the insect heads should make a telethon sales item. People are with you! Kerry.”

Mr McGowan: “Thanks Kerry I was asked about those marvellous front pages today, and I said, ‘I think The West has gone a bit soft’ . I appreciate the support enormously.
“All the mealy-mouthed tutt-tutting by some people about Palmer’s ‘rights’ makes me sick.“

This is how politics is done in this country.

By premiers SMSing their maaaaaates that own the media and various large corporations and vice versa.

The ruling class is about 300 people and they all know each other.

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
March 9, 2022 3:35 pm

The sanction I want to see is Harvard declining to “educate” the sons and daughters of the Russian elite. But they’d miss the money too much, wont happen.

Zipster
Zipster
March 9, 2022 3:37 pm

Sincerely,
Discord Trust & Safety

ie FAGGOTS AND FASCISTS

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 9, 2022 3:42 pm

Winston

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

That was the proposal from the early 1990s, which went nowhere (at considerable expense). They might (just) get away with piers and relatively minor supporting infrastructure, but going for full industrial development would be a loser.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 9, 2022 3:42 pm

Without that info it’s hard to get any idea of what the scale of the operation really is, i.e. the financials are largely worthless.

Not having had a look at the financials, I think the first place to start would be the accounting policies, in particular the treatment of donations. As observed, they are largely worthless for the purposes of any real analysis. The cashflow would give you a sense of where the money comes from/goes but not much else.

Frank
Frank
March 9, 2022 3:44 pm

The ruling class is about 300 people and they all know each other.

Know in the biblical sense if the Canberra press/polly thing is any indication. On the bright side, 300 is a small number to round up.

P
P
March 9, 2022 3:45 pm

Tanya Tay Posobiec@realTanyaTay
· 51m
Have you heard the latest news?

China just announced that Gucci, Armani, DG, Louis Vuitton, and Michael Kors are not leaving Russian markets
h/t Poso

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 9, 2022 3:46 pm

Top Ender

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

Doesn’t that apply to all of the options so far mentioned (and also HMAS STIRLING)?

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 9, 2022 3:52 pm

Did Nuland say biolabs or confirm biological weapons labs?

“Biological research facilities” is what Nuland said.
Ukraine can’t rub two cents together & they’re running bio-labs?
The real question is, who is funding them.

Bluey
Bluey
March 9, 2022 3:56 pm

feelthebernsays:
March 9, 2022 at 3:52 pm
Did Nuland say biolabs or confirm biological weapons labs?

“Biological research facilities” is what Nuland said.
Ukraine can’t rub two cents together & they’re running bio-labs?
The real question is, who is funding them.

A why was she so nervous when she admitted it? It’s not like Russia don’t have smallpox, anthrax etc. already.

Pedro the Loafer
Pedro the Loafer
March 9, 2022 3:57 pm

The spot price of gold just cracked $A2800 per oz, up $A140 since Monday.

Nickel has taken off through the stratosphere, reminding me of the bitter disappointment of an exploration rig crew back in 2017 when a core sample came back as 8% nickel, and < .5 gpt gold.

Nickel was around $A8000 a tonne, so the boys packed up the rig and moved on.

Nickel today is around $65000 a tonne.

cohenite
March 9, 2022 4:00 pm

thefrollickingmolesays:
March 9, 2022 at 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

3rd nations activism is like the gender bullshit with men competing against women who have played a role in this mutant development. In the case of 3rd nations activism has led to the situation where people, scoundrels and grifters with as much 3rd nations in their blood as a canary has successfully claiming 3rd nations status and all the benefits. It’s a giant scam with real issues for social stability.

Helen
Helen
March 9, 2022 4:02 pm

Well the end of more than 30 years association approaches. I am part of an advisory group who advises the Minister on matters pertaining to my industry a sort of consultant – unpaid – in fact paid by MLA so far as meeting fees go, and now I am told to provide my vaccination status if I wish to be reappointed. I have served in this role at both ends of the Territory, as ordinary member and as chairman.

I have enjoyed it very much, contributing to the industry going forward and find the science of things cows and plants interesting, and the development of knowledge fascinating.

I have told them I will not be providing this information, as it is a private matter, and asked why it was an issue, why it still is an issue, when it will no longer be an issue (will it still be a requirement in 10 years?) and reserving my right to take legal action for discrimination in the event I am not reappointed.

I doubt it will make an impact, but I am not going to roll over and hope I annoy him and give him pause to think for just for a bit on my way out the door.

Rabz
March 9, 2022 4:03 pm

Fat Cloive’s comments about McClown had inflamed people into action that included a person driving a car into a power pole near his Rockingham home.
a news report from the time … quoted police saying the power pole incident was a driver under the influence and was not targeted at McClown specifically, which he rejected.
McClown told the court when his children went outside to assist the driver, she yelled anti-vaccination sentiments at them before running off.

Heard a recounting of this (alleged) incident on the news this morning and funnily enough immediately thought “what a load of bullshit”.

Envision if you must, the logic. Unidentified woman: “I’m really pissed off with McClown, so I’m going to imbibe a whole lot of alcohol, drive into a telegraph pole near his house and when his kiddies offer to render assistance, I’ll shout at them about bat flu clot shuts while running away”.

Another one for the ever burgeoning “things that never happened” files.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 9, 2022 4:03 pm

Nickel has taken off through the stratosphere, reminding me of the bitter disappointment of an exploration rig crew back in 2017 when a core sample came back as 8% nickel, and < .5 gpt gold.

Nickel was around $A8000 a tonne, so the boys packed up the rig and moved on.

Nickel today is around $65000 a tonne.

They did mark the location and record it anyway, right Pedro?

Somebody will be along to extract that, before long. 🙂

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
March 9, 2022 4:04 pm

FAGGOTS AND FASCISTS

The Pink Swastika Confirmed.

Helen
Helen
March 9, 2022 4:07 pm

A why was she so nervous when she admitted it?

Two questions

What has Fauchi got to do with this – and where is he?

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Helen says: March 9, 2022 at 4:02 pm

Helen; re the vaccination demand, is your attendance in person or via telephone/internet?

Zipster
Zipster
March 9, 2022 4:10 pm
feelthebern
feelthebern
March 9, 2022 4:12 pm

I think “Putin’s Price Hike” will only last amongst the Blue Ticks.

Helen
Helen
March 9, 2022 4:12 pm

Helen; re the vaccination demand, is your attendance in person or via telephone/internet?

Both

cohenite
March 9, 2022 4:13 pm

Latest energy realities for eurotrash and the grub biden:

https://mailchi.mp/ba0eedc670b4/europes-coal-comeback-187630?e=170323d89f

Zipster
Zipster
March 9, 2022 4:13 pm

“Biological research facilities” is what Nuland said.

she’s a professional moron from the HRC school of death and destruction

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 9, 2022 4:14 pm

cohenitesays:
March 9, 2022 at 4:00 pm
thefrollickingmolesays:
March 9, 2022 at 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

3rd nations activism is like the gender bullshit with men competing against women who have played a role in this mutant development. In the case of 3rd nations activism has led to the situation where people, scoundrels and grifters with as much 3rd nations in their blood as a canary has successfully claiming 3rd nations status and all the benefits. It’s a giant scam with real issues for social stability.

I suspect that a deep dive into the genealogy of anyone whose ancestors lived outside a major city (of which there were few) in the 19th Century would find some aboriginal ancestry. Time for such people to claim their heritage, in such numbers as to make the process even more obviously ludicrous than it already is.

I have a vague recollection that American Indians can only claim heritage until the third generation from full blood. Such a rule here would clean out a lot of scammers.

Kneel
Kneel
March 9, 2022 4:14 pm

“Well the end of more than 30 years association approaches. “

They got what they wanted Helen – they found someone who values their privacy, who doesn’t automatically bow to the authority of the political appointees, and who may ask “inappropriate” questions. And they got rid of you. Mission accomplished.

Mayhap you can leverage their prejudices against them, since (I assume) you are an XX. “It’s the patriarchy trying to shove me out!” Worth it as a “going away” present even if just for the laugh.

Helen
Helen
March 9, 2022 4:16 pm

Zipster says:
March 9, 2022 at 3:31 pm

COVID-19 can cause the brain to shrink and damage areas linked to memory and smell, says a new study by Oxford University that was published in the Nature journal.

Zippy, I could not see anywhere that there was any comparison of vaccinated vs vaccinated in this study – did you find anything?

Winston Smith
March 9, 2022 4:20 pm

Just to be clear, the footage in this tweet is savage, but safe for work.
However in the feed is footage of the aftermath which is NOT safe for work & you don’t want to look at either.

At the 5 second mark, there is a puff of smoke from the car. Too much to be a rifle, but enough for a RPG?
It looks like the (r) hand side window is up, but 4 door car – is the rear window down? (You wouldn’t fire an RPG from inside a vehicle…
Any one notice the cat running for its life along the footpath?

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 9, 2022 4:24 pm

Anyone familiar with Rockingham would not even slow down for a car v pole car crash. Particularly on a Friday or Saturday night.

Roger
Roger
March 9, 2022 4:25 pm

“Biological research facilities” is what Nuland said.

OK…thanks.

Look, I’m not saying the claim doesn’t have a degree of plausibility. Propaganda has to have a degree of plausibility to be effective.

But to my mind, if the Russians have evidence of bio-weapons being produced in these labs, they’d release it for independent verification. If it could be proven it would be very damaging to the US & Ukraine. And if US government funding was involved, you’d have to ask, WTF were they thinking?

Struth
March 9, 2022 4:45 pm

I’m surprised at so many people from so many different walks of life talking about cloud seeding.
One just got off the phone from South Australia who mentioned it to Mrs Struth.
Farming guy ….well vineyards, not a nutter, nice bloke, quite surprised he brought it up.

People are saying this isn’t right now.
Weeks of non stop rain and so I looked up seeding and what Turnbull funded and the results never posted.
If you could make it rain, you can control everything.
It seems strange to me that cloud seeding still continues after decades of trials with never published results, just….well , “we didn’t know how much it would have rained anyway”
.
I AM NOT CLAIMING IT IS HAPPENING, but plenty are, and it just seems odd to me I can neither find data to say it doesn’t work, or that it does.
Just many countries are doing it.
If a government found out it worked they would never admit it…….
So if it doesn’t work, why do they keep doing it?

I don’t trust our governments as far as I can spit.
There has not been one protest on the east coast and the rain keeps falling.
Funny about that.
But nah, I don’t buy it…..do I?
It’s a war we are in . A war with our own government.
Sound waves into crowds, shooting at unarmed protestors.
I’m never going to rule anything out these days.

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
March 9, 2022 4:50 pm

I don’t trust our governments as far as I can spit.

That’s a lot further than I trust them.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 9, 2022 4:51 pm

Cloud seeding is definitely a thing.
It’s how chem-trails are produced.

Winston Smith
March 9, 2022 4:51 pm

Wodger:

But to my mind, if the Russians have evidence of bio-weapons being produced in these labs, they’d release it for independent verification. If it could be proven it would be very damaging to the US & Ukraine. And if US government funding was involved, you’d have to ask, WTF were they thinking?

The idiots would be thinking “Even if they do catch us out, who cares? What can they do?”
The problem being that these people don’t ever think of their plans failing.
Their arrogance will see them over reach, in true Ceausescu fashion.
“This can’t be happening…”
Ready!
“Why are there so many holes in this wall?”
Aim!

Runnybum
Runnybum
March 9, 2022 4:52 pm

Hey choo choo man, do you watch Mark Dice at all? if so here is a recent upload to utube from him…..enjoy.

https://youtu.be/YMovtx-sRxo

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 9, 2022 4:55 pm

At the 5 second mark, there is a puff of smoke from the car. Too much to be a rifle, but enough for a RPG?
It looks like the (r) hand side window is up, but 4 door car – is the rear window down? (You wouldn’t fire an RPG from inside a vehicle…

That’s why I was thinking rifle grenades- The Russians do produce a 40mm underslung grenade launcher.

Some of these rounds can penetrate a thinly-armoured APC, and are certainly capable against soft-skin vehicles.

local oaf
March 9, 2022 4:58 pm

Big ad on Fakebook from the Electoral Commision of South Australia …..

“Make sure you’re informed. Is the info reliable, when was it published, is it a scam?
Check the source.
Stop and consider:
Is the source reliable?
When was it published?
Could it be a scam?
Make sure you’re informed this state election.”

They forgot – Is it something said by Andrew Bogut?

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 9, 2022 5:01 pm

Is it another Mediscare?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 9, 2022 5:02 pm

Hey choo choo man, do you watch Mark Dice at all?

Does it matter if I do, Struth?

And what do you care anyway?

I thought you said it was the WEF who was going to murdergenocide us all. Are you so desperate to have someone murdergenocide you and put you in a DeAtH CaMp, that you don’t much care if it was Jessica Mauboy, the perfidious J.. CENTRAL BANKERS or the Tunnel-Lizards?

And why no love for my mates in the Goblin Mafia, Struth? They’ve been paying the Underpants Gnomes to steal folks’ smalls for millennia, and they’re just about ready to rule the entire Under-empire in perpetuity. But nobody cares.

Read up on the Goblin Mafia, Struth. Then I might deign to talk to you about who’s really in charge…

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 9, 2022 5:02 pm

Is it Wane Goosesteen’s daughter?

Runnybum
Runnybum
March 9, 2022 5:04 pm

Choo choo man, that post was from me ya old mate runnybum.
Now go & watch it.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 9, 2022 5:05 pm

They forgot – Is it something said by Andrew Bogut?

Oof…

#Burned

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 9, 2022 5:06 pm

Choo choo man, that post was from me ya old mate runnybum.
Now go & watch it.

Struth or Struth-sock. Don’t care.

Now go away and sulk.

srr
srr
March 9, 2022 5:08 pm

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

Way to be an idiot, stalking, arsehole, Rex Anger.

You could clearly see & knew damn well that that post was a whole quote of Shy Ted’s (from where I like to read without idiot stalking arseholes cluttering up the threads), which is why you deliberately left out all those identifying details so that you could slag off at me (being too gutless to go after Shy Ted), and so that you could spriuk for yet another Leftist’s Personal Featherbedding ‘charity’.

But please, do stick around here so everyone can get used to instantly recognising the whole of, Team Bullshitting Arseholes, especially the benched socks that only get called out when the rest of the players are getting are pounding.

Struth
March 9, 2022 5:08 pm

I live in his head Runnybum.
Everyone’s me, it seems.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Winston: I may need to consult an optician, for I’m unable to see a cat.
If I had to stake my life on it, I’d say there’s no fire coming from the civilian burgundy coloured car.
The asset that hits the car, then does the wide turn & loops back into the convoy, seems to have a mark in it that may well be a “Z”.

srr
srr
March 9, 2022 5:12 pm

feelthebern says:
March 9, 2022 at 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?

I don’t know who the first was, but I posted a fair bit of detail about them a while ago, which all the gaslighting propagandists here instantly shit all over like terrified 4 year olds who refuse to be toilet trained.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 9, 2022 5:14 pm

I live in his head Runnybum.
Everyone’s me, it seems.

And lo, the Kenworth King appears on summoning.

Not your brightest move, especially when your favourite (and only) line of attack is the accusation that I’m here 24/7.

Just who is it that lives inside whose head, Kenworth King?

And why are you permitting yourself any distractions from the WEF and its DeAtH CaMps by looking at rich folks conspiring with rich folks to make themselves richer? I thought you were trying to save lives, Kenworth King?

You’ll be ranting Protocols at me before too much longer. Just like Bird. 🙂

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 9, 2022 5:18 pm

I don’t know who the first was, but I posted a fair bit of detail about them a while ago,

In which you were claiming that nefarious nasties were researching genetically tailored viruses to work on the white man.

At which John H. effectively called you a clueless individual no understanding of how viruses and genome sequences actually work.

And you went quiet, ran away and found somethingnelse to Nuff about instead.

So much for all those smug claims of victory over all the gaslighting propagandists here you said would instantly shit all over like terrified 4 year olds who refuse to be toilet trained…

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 9, 2022 5:21 pm

Way to be an idiot, stalking, arsehole, Rex Anger.

You could clearly see & knew damn well that that post was a whole quote of Shy Ted’s (from where I like to read without idiot stalking arseholes cluttering up the threads), which is why you deliberately left out all those identifying details so that you could slag off at me (being too gutless to go after Shy Ted), and so that you could spriuk for yet another Leftist’s Personal Featherbedding ‘charity’.

Yep, right over the target.

You missed the point (if you understood what Shy Ted may have been trying to determine in the first place), pretty much everything you copy-paste over here is edited to be disingenuous and you scream and rant and rave when your ambits get challenged.

You are an embarrassment to all Nuffies.

srr
srr
March 9, 2022 5:22 pm

feelthebern says:
March 9, 2022 at 2:47 pm
Obviously Nuland admitting it so freely means she has an ulterior motive.

Yep, “Blame Russia! … when we release the next bioweapon.”

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 9, 2022 5:25 pm

and so that you could spriuk for yet another Leftist’s Personal Featherbedding ‘charity’.

And who, pray tell, would the Leftist I would be spruiking for, Faulty 2.0?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 9, 2022 5:29 pm

Another grain price squeeze potential from the Ukraine conflict.

Gez – In case you missed this one from a couple days ago.

China agriculture minister says winter wheat condition could be worst in history (Reuters, 7 Mar)

We live in interesting times, as they say. I just hope some of the stupidly vast amounts of US maize used for vehicle ethanol will be diverted to food markets.

Runnybum
Runnybum
March 9, 2022 5:31 pm

Struth, Choo choo man spends his whole day on gaggle & here, he gets paid for doing bugger all.
I try & educate the dumb bastard but he won’t listen.
The idiot actually thinks the USA government owns the federal reserve bank.
Thick as mince.

Winston Smith
March 9, 2022 5:36 pm

Micro Reactors anyone?
Dot?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 9, 2022 5:38 pm

Struth, Choo choo man spends his whole day on gaggle & here, he gets paid for doing bugger all.

Oh look, the Kenworth King thinks it is being clever.

Thick as mince.

If only the Kenworth King had found a source that did not mention ‘Rockefeller,’ it might have had my attention for for than 17 seconds.

I do hope Mrs Struth doesn’t mind your using up all her tinfoil for your hat collection…

srr
srr
March 9, 2022 5:38 pm

Bluey says:
March 9, 2022 at 2:57 pm

feelthebern says:
March 9, 2022 at 2:45 pm
Thanks Bluey.
Chalk it up to another conspiracy theory that has turned out being true.

Well, I hope this particular poster is someone larping. It’s far to close to tying into the Orthodox prophecies about a world war and a great battle in Constantinople before a restoration of Christian faith across the world.

When you consider how much trouble the (literally Anti-Christ), Rulers of this world have gone to to unleash & spread –
Plague
and
Pestilence
and
Hunger
and
War
and
Death …

… now …

… at this time when human endeavour has made those weapons against death; healthcare, parasite control, food & energy supply, plentiful & affordable …

… BUT …

… suddenly withdrawn, even from those who paid a lot for it all, in advance …

… one has reasonable cause to wonder …

Top Ender
Top Ender
March 9, 2022 5:39 pm

Elite boys-only school allows trans student

One of Australia’s oldest and most exclusive boys-only colleges will let a male student who has transitioned to female remain at the school, even though it is still not co-ed and does not accept female students.

In a sensitive and complicated case, Adelaide’s prestigious Prince Alfred College has decided that the Year 12 student, known only as Alice, can become PAC’s first transgender female student as she completes her final year of studies this year.

The Australian understands the decision to stand by Alice has largely been student-led – the boys at the school have been overwhelmingly supportive of their fellow pupil’s decision to transition and remain at the $28,200-a-year college.

Principal Bradley Fenner wrote to PAC families on Tuesday night explaining the background to Alice’s story and the school’s decision to break with 152 years of tradition by letting her become its first transgender female student.

Aside from during World War II when a small number of girls were allowed to study at Princes, the school has only ever been open to boys.

Mr Fenner’s letter followed what one parent at the school described as a “moving” discussion on Tuesday between Alice and her Year 12 classmates where she confirmed her new status as a woman.

Mr Fenner confirmed that discussion in his letter and commended the students for their maturity and sensitivity in their response.

“This morning, a student who has been at Prince Alfred College since the Early Learning Centre has told her peers that she is transgender, identifies as a woman and henceforth will be known as Alice,” Mr Fenner wrote.

You can see the logic. This way “Alice” gets a bathroom all to “herself”. Wonder if any of the blokes will take Alice to the Year 12 formal?

Diogenes
Diogenes
March 9, 2022 5:44 pm

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

Which would have to rule out Brisbane (channel) and Newcastle (bar) . I saw something this morning, not sure where , where the writer was saying it’s to boost recruitment into the uboat service and raised the fact that anything built in Newcastle would have to be downstream of the Stockton Bridge. It were dropped by enemy action it would lock the subs in if the new facility were to built upstream of it. The same consideration would have to be made for Brisbane and the Gateway Bridges. The article also referred to previous studies (2011ish?) which made Sydney the preferred site by a country mile, except no space(could you imagine the squeals from the harbourside dwellers), and the 3 current contenders were not even in the top 10.

Why not resurrect old river ports, believe it or not, both Grafton and Lismore are closer to open navigable waters than Brisbane – roughly 60 and 23 km respectively vs 80 -90 from Brisbane to Mooloolaba, the Rivers are not used for any other shipping so you avoid the blocked entrance problem.

JC
JC
March 9, 2022 5:44 pm

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity says:
March 9, 2022 at 5:09 pm

Winston: I may need to consult an optician, for I’m unable to see a cat.
If I had to stake my life on it, I’d say there’s no fire coming from the civilian burgundy coloured car.
The asset that hits the car, then does the wide turn & loops back into the convoy, seems to have a mark in it that may well be a “Z”.

Drillsie, are you now randomly choosing to slap sentences together? How’s this?

The red line moved across the page. With each millimeter it advanced forward, something changed in the room. The actual change taking place was difficult to perceive, but the change was real. The red line continued relentlessly across the page and the room would never be the same.

Winston Smith
March 9, 2022 5:44 pm

Salvatore:

Winston: I may need to consult an optician, for I’m unable to see a cat.

It starts running along the footpath just to the our left of the stop sign, runs behind the car and across the driveway at the 8 second mark.
It’s white and it might be a small white poodle, but it lopes like a cat.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
March 9, 2022 5:49 pm

The presence of US-sponsored biolabs in Ukraine is hardly a deeply kept secret. The Pentagon’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency publishes an annual budget, and Russia cooperated with the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program until 2012.

Helpfully, the Russian Defence Ministry gives us a bit more detail about what might have been going on:

Research proceeds along three main tracks.

“Firstly, the biological situation is monitored in areas where, the Pentagon says, the deployment of NATO’s military contingents is likely. Secondly, there is the collection and transportation to the United States of samples of highly pathogenic microorganisms. And thirdly, research into likely agents of biological weapons, specific for the given region, which have natural froci and can be transmitted to humans,” Kirillov said.

He said that since 2021 the Pentagon had been working on a $11.8-million project for the diagnosis, surveillance and prevention of zoonotic diseases in the Ukrainian army.

Now, I’ve only read the first Jason Bourne novel, so I’m not fully up to speed on this stuff. But to me it sounds more like a sentinel program to defend against Russian biowarfare than a ‘Treadstone’ initiative to build a Ukrainian bio-weapons capability.

If not, presumably Russia will now righteously pull the US’s pants down by invoking Article VI of the UN Biological Warfare Convention.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 9, 2022 5:51 pm

Diogenes

Why not resurrect old river ports, believe it or not, both Grafton and Lismore are closer to open navigable waters than Brisbane

And is Lismore is chosen, the navigable waters come to town about once a decade?

srr
srr
March 9, 2022 5:53 pm

twostix says:
March 9, 2022 at 3:32 pm

Kerry Stokes: “Mark, well done. I think no-one else could have achieved the legislation in the speed you did. Reckon the insect heads should make a telethon sales item. People are with you! Kerry.”

Mr McGowan: “Thanks Kerry I was asked about those marvellous front pages today, and I said, ‘I think The West has gone a bit soft’ . I appreciate the support enormously.
“All the mealy-mouthed tutt-tutting by some people about Palmer’s ‘rights’ makes me sick.“

This is how politics is done in this country.

By premiers SMSing their maaaaaates that own the media and various large corporations and vice versa.

The ruling class is about 300 people and they all know each other.

And never, not for one second, think that they don’t have their big ears, lyin’ eyes & filthy fingers all over Australia’s ‘Social’ Media to keep nudging people along into Pro-Govt, Jackbooted, ‘Right Think’.

Especially all the scattered versions of what was internationally hailed as Australia’s ‘Most Influential Political & Economics Blog’.

Old bloke
Old bloke
March 9, 2022 6:02 pm

Bluey says:
March 9, 2022 at 2:35 pm

There was someone who found documents referencing biolabs in Ukraine on US government website who got banned from twitter pretty early on too. Those documents have now done a vanishing act.

Yes, I saw that video, some guy who looked into US State Department published costs for the biolabs and found eight separate US labs in Ukraine. He was waving some documents around, I can’t find that video now. I’ve got no idea what they were developing there, but given that they offshored SARS-Cov-2 development to Wuhan, it probably wasn’t something pleasant.

Struth
March 9, 2022 6:02 pm

Struth, Choo choo man spends his whole day on gaggle & here, he gets paid for doing bugger all.
I try & educate the dumb bastard but he won’t listen.
The idiot actually thinks the USA government owns the federal reserve bank.
Thick as mince.

Yet as Napoleon said, never interrupt them………

rickw
rickw
March 9, 2022 6:04 pm

In a sensitive and complicated case

i.e. everyone involved is fucking bonkers.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
March 9, 2022 6:06 pm

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

Which would have to rule out Brisbane (channel)…

The passage out of the Brisbane River, through Moreton Bay, to deep water is complex and crowded. Leaving aside the Entrance Channel, it could be obstructed at multiple points.

Diogenes
Diogenes
March 9, 2022 6:09 pm

And is Lismore is chosen, the navigable waters come to town about once a decade?

There used to be a surprising lot of shipping into Northern River towns. Places like Lismore and Grafton had a daily service to Sydney.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Coast_Steam_Navigation_Company
This is a poor wiki article, there is a lot more information about the services and ships in Byways of Steam 18, The Tweed Railway.

Admittedly the subs draw more water and I don’t know if the rivers are deep enough but they may be wide enough ( thinks Woodburn and Deepwater). Cheaper land acquisition costs vs dredging, don’t know where the balance would be.

rickw
rickw
March 9, 2022 6:15 pm

Check the source.
Stop and consider:
Is the source reliable?
When was it published?
Could it be a scam?

Could it be Australian Government / WEF / Deep State propaganda?

Top Ender
Top Ender
March 9, 2022 6:15 pm

The port and mining selection debate is interesting.

Basically you can argue that any port anywhere can be mined.

Then again you can counter that by saying we would get some advance warning of it, and counter that attempt, and therefore put the port anywhere. So sink their submarines before they get to it and lay mines; shoot down their aircraft trying to drop them, and so on.

Mines are not that reliable anyway. The Japanese laid over 100 outside Darwin in January 1942, and not one sunk anything, nor did they tie up the port as was hoped. Modern mines are a lot smarter but even so…

There hasn’t really been much of an opportunity to test mining in modern warfare though. And as was the case in the Falklands, what can go wrong does, and simple things often are the best, and so on.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 9, 2022 6:17 pm

I’m amused. Lockheed aren’t allowed to go to full rate F-35 production because the computer game isn’t ready yet.

Full rate production for F-35 is at least another year away (8 Mar, via Trent Telenko)

At the heart of the issue is the Joint Simulation Environment — a virtual testbed that allows the F-35 to go up against the most high-end Russian and Chinese threats. Only after the Lockheed Martin-made F-35 conducts 64 test runs in the JSE will it be allowed to proceed from operational tests to a “Milestone C” decision, where the Pentagon’s top acquisition authority declares the jet ready for full rate production.

After multiple delays due to technical problems and the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pentagon is finally conducting component validation of the JSE, which should wrap up this May, F-35 program executive officer Lt. Gen. Eric Fick told reporters at a roundtable. System verification tests are slated to occur through this fall, allowing the F-35 to finally conduct its 64 JSE tests in the summer of 2023.

Maybe they should get in some indie games developers to help.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 9, 2022 6:17 pm

Diogenes

Admittedly the subs draw more water and I don’t know if the rivers are deep enough but they may be wide enough ( thinks Woodburn and Deepwater).

Drop Woodburn bridge in the channel, end of exercise. And Harwood bridge?

Runnybum
Runnybum
March 9, 2022 6:20 pm

Choo choo man, here is the video from Mark Dice again, this time watch it, try to educate yourself a little…..difficult I know.

https://youtu.be/YMovtx-sRxo

Diogenes
Diogenes
March 9, 2022 6:20 pm

Drop Woodburn bridge in the channel, end of exercise. And Harwood bridge?

Forgot about them. But still a new port on a river mouth…

Basically you can argue that any port anywhere can be mined.

Maybe not mined, but a ship turned side on and scuttled across a channel..

srr
srr
March 9, 2022 6:21 pm

🙂

“local oaf says:
March 9, 2022 at 4:58 pm
Big ad on Fakebook from the Electoral Commision of South Australia …..

“Make sure you’re informed. Is the info reliable, when was it published, is it a scam?
Check the source.
Stop and consider:
Is the source reliable?
When was it published?
Could it be a scam?
Make sure you’re informed this state election.”

They forgot – Is it something said by Andrew Bogut?
***
😉

Thefrollickingmole
Thefrollickingmole
March 9, 2022 6:21 pm

Top Ender.

I’d imagine the big tides up there would wreck most minelaying efforts.

local oaf
March 9, 2022 6:22 pm

Could it be Australian Government / WEF / Deep State propaganda?

Did you see it on TV or read it in a newspaper?

Razey
Razey
March 9, 2022 6:25 pm

Runnybumsays:
March 9, 2022 at 6:20 pm
Choo choo man, here is the video from Mark Dice again, this time watch it, try to educate yourself a little…..difficult I know.

https://youtu.be/YMovtx-sRxo

Dumb kunt is incapable of learning. Obvious from its inane babbling that no-one reads anyway. It’s actually pretty easy to skip its posts, I recommend it.

Runnybum
Runnybum
March 9, 2022 6:26 pm

Probably been posted but that dimbulb Walensky from the CDC said she got all her info for the poison jabs from CNN.
We are under the control of complete morons.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 9, 2022 6:36 pm

But to my mind, if the Russians have evidence of bio-weapons being produced in these labs, they’d release it for independent verification.

Give us an example of your “Independent Verification”?
Have you been asleep during the last 2 years of the CovidHoax?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 9, 2022 6:36 pm

Dumb kunt is incapable of learning. Obvious from its inane babbling that no-one reads anyway. It’s actually pretty easy to skip its posts, I recommend it.

The Glowie betrays its lack of life experience.

A middle-aged water engineer in Victoria with a Japanese wife and kids he does not want getting clot shots tends not to conduct itself like a 17 year-old on 4chan.

Trash-talk me in the Queen’s English, Glowie. Or hand over the keyboard to someone in the Premier’s Office who can…

cohenite
March 9, 2022 6:40 pm

Shane Fitzsimmons, the woke former bushfire whisperer, asked by Chris Smith what in his new position as resilience commissioner, he did to prepare for the Lismore flood: amidst 5 minutes of verbal diarrhea, excuses, not enough time, etc, the answer, fuck all. The budget this double chinned POS has to play with is $1.4 billion.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 9, 2022 6:40 pm

Choo choo man, here is the video from Mark Dice again, this time watch it, try to educate yourself a little

Sorry Kenworth King, but try to be a bit more original woth your perfidious…CENTRAL BANKERS! gags.

I told you before, you might have held my attention for more than 17 seconds, if you hadn’t included something that mentioned ‘Rockefeller.’

Now pack up your Protocols and go to bed.

Runnybum
Runnybum
March 9, 2022 6:41 pm

Choo choo man did you watch the video yet?

JC
JC
March 9, 2022 6:42 pm

Who owns the Fed, I wonder?

Ted, do you know who owns the Federal Reserve?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 9, 2022 6:43 pm

Amazing what you can see about the Ukraine War. This one seems to be from Kiev, and I hazard a guess it’s the result of a call for firearms. Anything that shoots! Getting hit by a ball from a 12mm flintlock pistol would be no joke. You’d have to be unlucky though.

https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1501364017100738560

JC
JC
March 9, 2022 6:45 pm

Who’s on first?

The Fed’s on first.

Runnybum
Runnybum
March 9, 2022 6:46 pm

HP, nobody knows directly of names, but it sure as shit ain’t the government of the USA.
Did you watch the video I posted? Unlike choo choo man Mark Dice is no dummy.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 9, 2022 6:47 pm

Ted, do you know who owns the Federal Reserve?

I think he’s still trying to claim its the perfidious…….CENTRAL BANKERS! Bird-style.

Which is ironic, given that the OG Struth bans Bird from his online space on a regular basis. 🙂

JC
JC
March 9, 2022 6:47 pm

Who owns the fucking Fed, Ted? Don’t you skirt away from this important question pretending you forgot to load a stack of bananas. We all want to know who owns the Fed.

JC
JC
March 9, 2022 6:48 pm

Which is ironic, given that the OG Struth bans Bird from his online space on a regular basis. ?

Ironic. It should be the other way around.

Indolent
Indolent
March 9, 2022 6:49 pm
Makka
Makka
March 9, 2022 6:49 pm

Map of Russian activity in Ukraine 8 March;

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I can see at least 3 significant pincer movements in progress. I’d be leaving Odessa quick if I was a resident. I watch this map daily and as dover stated, not a day goes past without steady planned Russian advances. People seem to forget that Ukraine is the size of Germany and some of France. In a week or so it’s conceivable Russia may control everything east of the Dnieper. Everything that matters at least.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 9, 2022 6:51 pm

Say what you like, the Ukrainians are winning the propaganda war hands down…..

Women redefine their role in Ukraine’s war

By Alice Thomson
The Times
6 minutes ago March 9, 2022
6 Comments

“We have already taken our children to safety. The genetic fund of our nation is reliably protected.”

So says the warrior, dressed in a balaclava and staring at the camera while holding a Kalashnikov.

“We join the men and the Ukrainian army. We will destroy the enemy on every inch of Ukrainian land and in every city, village, forest and field. For every child, woman, old man, ruined house, street, even barn, we will shoot you like rabid dogs.”

These are the women of the Ukrainian resistance. Two weeks ago, they were a teacher, a waitress, an economist and a graphic designer. Now, after dropping off their children and elderly relatives at the border, they have returned in army fatigues to redefine what women can achieve in war.

It is easy to see women as passive victims and casualties of conflict. Witness the harrowing photographs of fathers hugging distraught wives and babies at railway stations before going off to fight. There are reports of pregnant women giving birth in flooded, freezing underground Kyiv car parks to the sound of artillery fire. But there is also the midwife who turned back from the Polish border having handed over her three-year-old to a distant cousin, telling German TV: “I am needed back home.”

Every day produces yet more astonishing accounts of female defiance and bravery. There’s the old lady who hit a drone, not as was first assumed with a pickle jar but with a can of tomatoes, according to the MP Lesia Vasylenko, who is chronicling the war.

There’s the cookery writer Olia Hercules’s elderly mother, who has taken up her frying pan to help her husband defend their farm.

And there is Valentyna Kostyantynovska who has learnt to fire a Kalashnikov at 79, saying: “It’s my dream to fight for my country.”

Kristina, a former wedding singer, is the only woman in her mountain combat unit. “We are not afraid of death, we are afraid to be slaves,” she says on Instagram.

Yevheniia Chekh, a beautician, a “weekend warrior” in the territorial army, posted that she is now fighting full time as a mother for the motherland.

Meanwhile, civilian women have stood in front of tanks, confronting Russian soldiers.

Their figurehead is Olena Zelenska, an acclaimed screenwriter who never wanted her comedian husband to become President, saying she was “aggressively opposed”. Now she has refused to leave the capital with her two children. In a fortnight, her Instagram account, which has a following of 2.3 million, has gone from Duchess of Cambridge-style images of her doing potato prints and campaigning for healthier school food to a plea to NATO states: “Save our children so that yours won’t die tomorrow.”

She is documenting the devastation and death toll and has launched a Telegram channel with advice to women on how to evacuate or stay and help the war effort.

“My children are looking at me,” she says. “I will not have panic or tears.”

Recently she was on the cover of Ukrainian Vogue discussing equal pay. Now women’s magazines provide online tips on how to chop off acrylic nails and load a weapon.

There are nearly two million more women than men in Ukraine. Even before the war they were showing their mettle. They already made up 23 per cent of Ukraine’s armed forces with 57,000 female recruits.

Since Russia’s annexation of Crimea, they have had equal rights to serve in combat roles. In Russia, the figure is 4 per cent and President Vladimir Putin has been busy crushing women’s rights, preventing them from entering many careers. In Kyiv, there are 87 female MPs, just over 20 per cent, and the vast majority have stayed to join the resistance.

According to the global gap index, Ukraine has closed 72 per cent of the gender gap in the last few years, increasing women’s opportunities in education, the workplace, and politics.

Now, it’s happening in war. Some have volunteered to organise logistics, armed with coloured pens and lists. Kira Rudyk, an MP, is leading the terrifying exile from Irpin to Kyiv.

Many young couples have decided to stay and defend their country together.

“I believe in equal rights but also responsibilities,” one young female fighter said.

Anastasiia Yalanskaya was killed this week delivering supplies to a dog shelter outside Kyiv that had been without food for three days. The 26-year-old volunteer had spent the day before helping a nursery where 40 children were stranded without food.

“We are not scared. We are united like never before,” she wrote in a final post.

Ukraine is one of the few countries that now has a day’s holiday for International Women’s Day. Usually, they celebrate by giving each other flowers and the men spoil them. On Tuesday they posted pictures of themselves carrying weapons.

There were female fighters in the last century. Svetlana Alexievich’s book The Unwomanly Face of War recounts how the Soviet women who became pilots, snipers and gunners in World War II would curl their hair with pine cones, and of their ruthlessness but also compassion in a “sickening, insane war”.

The difference now is in the numbers and the fact that these women can also get their message of defiance across on social media.

Women in war can be more vulnerable. The former British foreign secretary William Hague has fought hard with the actress Angelina Jolie to ensure that rape is treated as a war crime. But these women have weighed up the risks, they know their skills could tip the balance in this war.

As Rudyk said: “Ukrainian women are incredible. Because of them we will win. Putin only counted the Ukrainian men, we’ve ruined his maths.”

calli
calli
March 9, 2022 6:53 pm

raised the fact that anything built in Newcastle would have to be downstream of the Stockton Bridge.

The old BHP site on the south arm? They could share the channel with the coal loader on the other side. And there’s rail access.

Won’t happen.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 9, 2022 6:54 pm

Ironic. It should be the other way around.

Actually, Bird banning Struth would be hilarious. 🙂

Makka
Makka
March 9, 2022 6:54 pm

Say what you like, the Ukrainians are winning the propaganda war hands down…..

Primarily because the weasels in the west are making it so by censoring any dissenting opinions from the approved narrative.

calli
calli
March 9, 2022 6:57 pm

Can’t resist.

Warning – dentally challenged but nice and raw

Makka
Makka
March 9, 2022 6:59 pm

Europe doesn’t get a say in its energy sourcing any more;

Breaking News | FinancialJuice
@Financialjuice1
US UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS NULAND: THE NORD STREAM 2 PIPELINE WILL NEVER BE REVIVED.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 9, 2022 7:00 pm

Fighting Nazis from the Azov battalion armed with flintlocks would be very like Wolfenstein.
Dot would appreciate this comment, no one else though.

Bluey
Bluey
March 9, 2022 7:01 pm

Makkasays:
March 9, 2022 at 6:49 pm
Map of Russian activity in Ukraine 8 March;

comment image

I can see at least 3 significant pincer movements in progress. I’d be leaving Odessa quick if I was a resident. I watch this map daily and as dover stated, not a day goes past without steady planned Russian advances. People seem to forget that Ukraine is the size of Germany and some of France. In a week or so it’s conceivable Russia may control everything east of the Dnieper. Everything that matters at least.

There’s a blogger who pointed out the Russian advance is faster than the USA in Iraq, without having bombed the shit out over everything first. He also points out:

Ukraine reports Russia’s losses, but not its own.

12,000 Russian troops have now died fighting in Ukraine, while 300 tanks have been destroyed along with more than 1,000 armoured vehicles, 48 planes, 80 helicopters and three boats.

That’s after 12 days of combat. Let’s compare the enemy-reported losses to the self-reported losses from some famous historical battles:

Normandy: 87 days. 20,668 US KIA. 2,000 tanks destroyed.
Tarawa: 3 days. 1,009 US KIA.
Iwo Jima: 35 days. 6,862 US KIA. 137 tanks destroyed.
Battle of the Bulge: 40 days. 19,246 US KIA. 733 tanks destroyed.
So, if the Ukrainians are to be believed, they are killing 3.45x more Russian soldiers per day, in an invasion that is advancing faster than Desert Storm, the Six-Days War, or Operation Barbarossa, than the US military lost in four of its bloodiest battles of World War II.

My estimate of Russian losses after 12 days is 2,850 KIA, 9,250 wounded, and 220 tanks lost.

srr
srr
March 9, 2022 7:04 pm

??DR. BRYAN ARDIS: “[REMDESIVIR] ACTUALLY CAUSES DEATH OF HEART CELLS AND IS CARDIOTOXIC

https://www.bitchute.com/video/ysOi3eh5TfiY/

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 9, 2022 7:09 pm

Europe doesn’t get a say in its energy sourcing any more

Sounds great. Kindergarten kiddies shouldn’t be trusted with energy policy.

More seriously: the good thing about this energy crisis is it has got the pollies to surface from their green troughing and consider what is required to (a) keep the lights on and (b) avoid being hung from blacked-out lampposts. So the EU is suddenly doing unthinkable stuff like keeping coal plants from closing and extending the life of nuke plants. A finer negation of the religious climate rubbish I’ve not seen this century so far. Amazing what happens when politicians have their balls gripped in a vise.

Roger
Roger
March 9, 2022 7:10 pm

Shane Fitzsimmons, the woke former bushfire whisperer, asked by Chris Smith what in his new position as resilience commissioner…

Resilience commissioner?

Resilience arises from within communities due to strong families, local communities & a functioning civil society.

It doesn’t come from another government department.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
March 9, 2022 7:15 pm

BioPrepWatch.com
Biolab Opens In Ukraine
by Tina Redlup
June 17.2010

U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar applauded the opening of the Interim Central Reference Laboratory in Odessa, Ukraine, this week, announcing that it will be instrumental in researching dangerous pathogens used by bioterrorists.

The level-3 bio-safety lab, which is the first built under the expanded authority of the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program, will be used to study anthrax, tularemia and Q fever as well as other dangerous
pathogens.

Up on a publicly available US Defence Department media website since 2010.

And here we are, 12 years later, all atwitter because the Russians have dramatically uncovered dastardly US -funded research into anthrax, tularaemia and other dangerous pathogens.

Emperor Xi he say, ‘conspiracy theory to reality in days…’

local oaf
March 9, 2022 7:16 pm

Primarily because the weasels in the west are making it so by censoring any dissenting opinions from the approved narrative.

Precisely, there is no propaganda war! You need at least two parties for a war.

The West’s oligarchs own all western governments, MSM and “social” media.

In what space could a propaganda war even be fought?

Roger
Roger
March 9, 2022 7:16 pm

More seriously: the good thing about this energy crisis is it has got the pollies to surface from their green troughing…

Morrison didn’t get the memo.

In Lismore today it was all “climate crisis”, “zero by 2050” & “we have to help poorer countries reach their targets”.

Eyrie
Eyrie
March 9, 2022 7:18 pm

DR. BRYAN ARDIS: “[REMDESIVIR] ACTUALLY CAUSES DEATH OF HEART CELLS AND IS CARDIOTOXIC
That’s after it kills your kidneys and damages your liver. It isn’t called Rundeathisnear for nothing

JC
JC
March 9, 2022 7:21 pm

A finer negation of the religious climate rubbish I’ve not seen this century so far. Amazing what happens when politicians have their balls gripped in a vise.

You so cognitively dissonant you’re mentally impaired, Brucie. The US just banned Russian oil&gas and there is ZERO interest for increasing domestic supplies. The Europeans aren’t much different. The Green left loves these high energy prices. It’s what they’ve lived for. Stop talking.

rosie
rosie
March 9, 2022 7:23 pm
JC
JC
March 9, 2022 7:23 pm

That’s after it kills your kidneys and damages your liver.

Bullshit.

cohenite
March 9, 2022 7:28 pm

I’ve said before that I still expect the midterms to be cancelled in the US by the vile biden on some emergency pretext, God knows there are no shortage of them, most caused by biden and his swamp. But in the off chance they go ahead the fix is already on:

Supreme Court Allows Democrat-Gerrymandered Election Maps in North Carolina and Pennsylvania to Stand

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
March 9, 2022 7:28 pm

From The Oz. McGowan v Palmer case. WTF!?

“The court also heard how, just one minute before Mr Quigley began speaking in parliament about the legislation to kill off Mr Palmer’s legal claim, Mr McGowan sent a text message directly to Mr Stokes to explain some of the background to the legislation.

“The risk is too great. He [Mr Palmer] won’t be happy,” Mr McGowan wrote.

“Will call you to discuss.”

Days later, after Mr Stokes’ The West Australian had run a series of prominent front pages variously depicting Mr Palmer as movie character Dr Evil, a cockroach and a cane toad, Mr Stokes sent a message to Mr McGowan congratulating him on getting the legislation passed through parliament.

“Mark, well done. I don’t think anyone else could have achieved that legislation in the speed you did. Reckon the insect heads should make a telethon sales item. People are with you!,” Mr Stokes wrote.

The premier responded with a message of his own:

“Thanks Kerry. I was asked about those marvellous front pages today. I said I think The West has gone a bit soft,” Mr McGowan wrote.

“I appreciate the support enormously. All the mealy mouthed tut-tutting about Palmer’s ‘rights’ makes me sick.”

rosie
rosie
March 9, 2022 7:31 pm

Reading up thread about Oz harvest, I think I read about this and similar companies a while ago, afaik the food is distributed for free, both to individuals and charities, on condition that the charity did not charge for food either.
here is their statement

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
March 9, 2022 7:33 pm

The Green left loves these high energy prices. It’s what they’ve lived for.

All over Texas and Oklahoma pump trucks and workover rigs will be operating 24/7, bringing back to life thousands of depleted/damaged oil wells, left shut in because of low oil prices.

Runnybum
Runnybum
March 9, 2022 7:34 pm

HP, you are the financial guru on this site show me who owns it & no referring to the train drivers handbook.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 9, 2022 7:34 pm

Diogenessays:
March 9, 2022 at 6:20 pm
Drop Woodburn bridge in the channel, end of exercise. And Harwood bridge?

Forgot about them. But still a new port on a river mouth…

Far from any significant industrial base, lacking the shore amenities and opportunities for spouse employment found in a major centre? Crew retention might become a problem.

rosie
rosie
March 9, 2022 7:34 pm

Then they’ll demand higher welfare payments for the energy poor.

Cassie of Sydney
March 9, 2022 7:36 pm

“rosiesays:
March 9, 2022 at 7:31 pm
Reading up thread about Oz harvest, I think I read about this and similar companies a while ago, afaik the food is distributed for free, both to individuals and charities, on condition that the charity did not charge for food either.
here is their statement”

That’s my understanding too. I’ve met Ronni Kahn numerous times and I’m not a fan (she’s a rabid far-left Green) but Oz Harvest and other similar organisations do great work. The amount of food waste in this country (and other western countries) is scandalous.

rosie
rosie
March 9, 2022 7:40 pm

I think so too Cassie, it seems to be very worthwhile distribution of excess food from the major chains that would otherwise be dumped.
Places that offer cooked meals to homeless people also rely on these companies.

Pedro the Loafer
Pedro the Loafer
March 9, 2022 7:46 pm

Gawdalmighty.
Are there no dentists in Ireland?
Shane McGowan (Pogue singer, not the WA dictator).

Diogenes
Diogenes
March 9, 2022 7:46 pm

Far from any significant industrial base, lacking the shore amenities and opportunities for spouse employment found in a major centre? Crew retention might become a problem.

Northern Rivers is a tourist destination, 3ish hours up the road to Brisbane, shortages of para professionals ( teachers, nurses etc) lots of hospitality jobs.

But seriously the very best place is Sydney. Everything you mention, nice wide harbour mouth, get out of the Heads, dive and it becomes “where did she go”. Finding space will be a problem.

Realistically , will never happen unless the govt decides the harbourside suburbs and inner west are lost to it forever, and therefore able to ignore the screams from the greens that will be louder than Krakatoa.

rosie
rosie
March 9, 2022 7:47 pm

As well as dropping vaccine passports from the 14th, France is also dropping all indoor mask mandates, except on public transport.
It was pleasant going to the supermarket today and not have to wear a mask, though of course a few people obviously still prefer to do so.

JC
JC
March 9, 2022 7:48 pm

Cronkite

I believe that it’s a constitutional requirement to hold these elections. If demented tries to cancel elections, it will go to the SCOTUS and in a heartbeat the court will overturn the demented piece of shit. The Demons are currently peddling the lie that because of recent legalization passed in various states. the 22 and 24 elections will be illegitimate. No one is buying that bullshit though.

In the poll that came out over the last few days, 74% of the American punters want photo ID to be shown when voting.

Old bloke
Old bloke
March 9, 2022 7:49 pm

Dr Faustus says:
March 9, 2022 at 7:33 pm

All over Texas and Oklahoma pump trucks and workover rigs will be operating 24/7, bringing back to life thousands of depleted/damaged oil wells, left shut in because of low oil prices.

That same impetus should get us going on the Arckaringa Basin.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 9, 2022 7:49 pm

Runnybumsays:

March 9, 2022 at 6:20 pm

Choo choo man, here is the video from Mark Dice again, this time watch it,

Leave off issuing directions to others when you haven’t got the balls to front up for a face-to-face meeting.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 9, 2022 7:49 pm

Apropos of the javelin bronze medallist who retired hurt in Darwin yesterday:

19. Not dead, so much so his fambalam came to the Royal Darwin Hospital and visited him last night, before being thrown out.

Shot three times. Ran 200 metres afterwards.

cohenite
March 9, 2022 7:50 pm

Georgina Harrisson@GeorgeHarrisson·Mar 8Education is key to improving outcomes for girls, and all students. Today we’re celebrating #IWD2022 across the NSW Department of Education and highlighting the incredible work happening in our schools to prepare the next generation of climate change leaders. #STEM

This skank is in charge of NSW education.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 9, 2022 7:50 pm

Who’s Mark Dice?

Is he a relative of Andrew Dice Clay?

JC
JC
March 9, 2022 7:51 pm

Chuck Berry and the E-Street Band – 1995.

Nice noise.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 9, 2022 7:51 pm

rsrsrrs:

??DR. BRYAN ARDIS

Were the question marks deliberately put in the wrong spot?

Big if true.

johanna
johanna
March 9, 2022 7:54 pm

Roger says:
March 9, 2022 at 7:10 pm

Shane Fitzsimmons, the woke former bushfire whisperer, asked by Chris Smith what in his new position as resilience commissioner…

Resilience commissioner?

Resilience arises from within communities due to strong families, local communities & a functioning civil society.

It doesn’t come from another government department.

There was a story at TheirABC this morning bemoaning the fact that locals and volunteers did a lot of the hard yards in the recent northern NSW floods. Apparently, it is terrible that communities actually do stuff for themselves and their local region. This is entirely the responsibility of the gummint, according to TheirABC and a few whingers they quoted.

The idea that individuals and communities should do things to help themselves instead of passively waiting for ‘the authorities’ to show up is repugnant to these statist deadshits.

A pox on them.

rosie
rosie
March 9, 2022 7:57 pm

Covid vaccines not linked to deaths, major US study finds BBC article

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 9, 2022 7:58 pm

Rex Angersays:

March 9, 2022 at 6:36 pm

Dumb kunt is incapable of learning. Obvious from its inane babbling that no-one reads anyway. It’s actually pretty easy to skip its posts, I recommend it.

The Glowie betrays its lack of life experience.

A middle-aged water engineer in Victoria with a Japanese wife 

WTF!?!
Razey’s a water engineer?
The low man on the engineering totem pole?
Ged outta here!
Razey, say it ain’t so, man!

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 9, 2022 7:58 pm

Shot three times. Ran 200 metres afterwards.

We should get him into the biathlon next Winter Olympics.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
March 9, 2022 7:59 pm

Man dies in Victoria of Japanese Encephalitis and the ABC gets on some Pommie Perfesser who reckons it’s all down to climate change and the floods in NSW & Queensland, which are by the way nowhere near Victoria.
All roads lead to Rome at their ABC Soviet.

rosie
rosie
March 9, 2022 8:00 pm
Rabz
March 9, 2022 8:01 pm

Shane Fitzsimmons, the woke former bushfire whisperer, asked by Chris Smith what in his new position as resilience commissioner…

The imbecile then commenced ranting so incoherently I had to turn it off.

Roger
Roger
March 9, 2022 8:02 pm

Apparently, it is terrible that communities actually do stuff for themselves and their local region. This is entirely the responsibility of the gummint, according to TheirABC and a few whingers they quoted.

Pretty much a repeat of an ABC report from yesterday or the day before.

In contrast, a story about Mullumbimby today was all about the efforts of the local community.

cohenite
March 9, 2022 8:04 pm

I believe that it’s a constitutional requirement to hold these elections.

Do you really believe the old pedo cares about the constitution. The POTUS has precedent in respect of emergency powers to regulate elections; see the Civil War. Alternatively the congress, in which the demorats have majorities, definitely has power to regulate elections.

JC
JC
March 9, 2022 8:04 pm

Hahahahahaha

McGowan is a complete douchebag, but this is funny.

Clive Palmer ‘the worst Australian not in jail’: McGowan message

John of Mel
John of Mel
March 9, 2022 8:05 pm

The conspiracy theory one reckons there’s some seriously nasty stuff been developed in those labs and there’s vials of it being chased by secret squirrel types in the middle east.

The theory is they are working on something using local DNA. Targeted bio-weapons. Hopefully not, but with a “conspiracy theory” – “reality” turnaround down to 14 days now, I wouldn’t exclude the possibility.

There is one lab like this in Kazakhstan too.

And here is a web-archive link to one of the StateDep docs that were nuked from their web-site about one of the 15 labs in Ukraine, funded by DoD.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 9, 2022 8:06 pm

Everyone’s favourite game show host’s latest appearance (the Hun):

Andrew O’Keefe: Former TV star’s brush with bikies behind bars

Troubled ex-television star Andrew O’Keefe could spend up to 12 months remanded in custody after his latest bid for bail was rejected, the NSW Supreme Court has heard.

Justice Robertson Wright denied O’Keefe’s latest attempt to be released to a mental health rehabilitation facility on Tuesday, despite the court being told the former Channel 7 game show host was bullied by jail guards and placed in a cell surrounded by rival bikie gang members.

Righto then.

Since O’Keefe was remanded in custody, Mr Chabbra said he had been “surrounded” by warring bikie gang members, denied medication and bullied by Corrective Services officers.

‘Denied medication’ does not mean getting rocks from the screws on demand.

O’Keefe had also suffered “reduced vision due to an altercation with Corrective Officers,” Mr Chabbra told the court.

‘Reduced vision’ in that environment is predominantly cause by having your face jammed into a pillow.

I suspect that when Mr O’Keeffe farts in future, nobody will hear it.

shatterzzz
March 9, 2022 8:07 pm

ABC gets on some Pommie Perfesser who reckons it’s all down to climate change and the floods in NSW & Queensland, which are by the way nowhere near Victoria.
fair assumption .. after all, the A League cancelled a “fitba” match in Victoria last weekend because of Brisbane floods ……. LOL!

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 9, 2022 8:07 pm

*caused by*

Apologies. Was giggling.

Roger
Roger
March 9, 2022 8:08 pm

Clive Palmer ‘the worst Australian not in jail’

They’re working on that.

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