ACT government went bad from the instant it was created – after a referendum rejected the idea. It has progressed from bad to worse.

They kept running the referendums and getting “No” votes until they gave up and did it (“self-government”) anyway.

Nothing a public servant hates more than another public servant on a higher salary bracket.

feelthebern says:
March 10, 2022 at 5:27 am
Maybe Moriah College should have been concentrating on who they employed, not the vax status of the extended family of students.

Quite.

Though I’m struggling to work out how they could have known about his…interests. These creeps fly well below the radar.

Dilbert 2

Steve trickler says:
March 9, 2022 at 12:19 pm
I might have (probably ) got it wrong folks. Post went into moderation and then vanished…apologies to Dover for jumping the shark.

Peace.

Good for Steve but not stopping others picking scabs.

Bespoke, Steve’s comment highlighted what goes on behind the scenes with WordPress and other platforms – how do you tweek the filters to eliminate SPAM and allow through comments with links? Adam has had a go, but it seems it’s all in or all out.

I noticed a few of mine disappearing before twigging it was the link rather than the comment per se. TinyURL usually does the trick.

That section of 40kph on Northbourne Ave pings 9000 losing punters a month. Every month. Used to be 1000 a month when it was 60kph.

I noticed a few of mine disappearing before twigging it was the link rather than the comment per se. TinyURL usually does the trick.

Same, My guess is Dove is dover has other priorities then setting up a private server so the next best thing is just alert him when sites are blocked rather then jumping to conclusions, calli.

The “flawed” prosecution case against Zachary Rolfe consists only of “armchair experts” assembled by police bosses in a disgraceful bid to justify their unjustifiable charges, according to defence ­lawyers in the constable’s murder trial.

“In truth, this prosecution is, you might think, all about the executive of the Northern Territory Police Force attempting to justify what was the unjustifiable.”

Oz

Looks like judge summing up today, and the jury will retire.

That’s it, time to get the weights & measurements of all the cat women.

JC, like Cassie, thinks it’s how to weigh & measure a woman’s intelligence.

Me, I’m a size 10, but then I’ve never been a fan of chocolates, soft drinks or snacking.
I was always too busy teaching my kids to eat well by making good food taste great.
In fact there’s not a fatty in my family, but all foodies.

Funny, I did notice JC didn’t make a bet on this, this time.
Poor JC.
A loser even when he isn’t gambling.

Anyone know why Morgan C Jonas quit the UAP and is standing as an independent?

Amid endless demands for the government to “do something”, pause to reflect on this for a moment.
When billions are needed for fire damage, flood damage, or drought relief, they should be readily available – but what about the billions spent in various governments over-reacting to COVID?
We now have such a big deficit that it won’t be paid down in our lifetime, or our chidlrens’ lifetimes.
That’s before we get to the damage caused to businesses and individuals by the lockdowns and tyrannical movement restrictions.
Please prove me wrong – we are governed by incompetents, and the mainstream media infantilizes the population.

Carbs? What’s a carb? Like the Madagascar lion who dreams of steaks, I hallucinate big, delicious slices of sourdough and brimming glasses of red wine. And potato chips.

But it’s worth it. Lock down and all the other stresses had its effect on my hips, not my brain. Already dropped a dress size…but I want more. The Beloved is down 15kg. He disgusts me.

Vicki, the “Old and Busted/New Hotness” thing is real – that’s why it resonates so well.

Like Meme of the Day #20, the scope has been refocused and we are expected to fall in line. And people do without realising. The “I’m so over it”, will become fashionable soon. Won’t change the attitude to the “dirty unvaxxed”, but they don’t matter any more now they’re on the scrapheap.

I find Stitch n’ Bitch a fascinating window into it all – virtually nothing said about Covid this week. It was all Ukraine good Russia bad. Until the two in masks arrived and were basically ignored. Bet they don’t wear them next week.

rosie

I have a low attention span when it comes to long monologs so I tried to skip to and failed to find the reson.

Can you explain please.

Anti-vaxxer Morgan Jonas flags next move after quitting United Australia Party
A prominent anti-vaxxer and alt-right blogger has signalled a major change in his political plans ahead of the federal election.

Anchor What

Please prove me wrong – we are governed by incompetents, and the mainstream media infantilizes the population.

The MSM is infantile, so what else could it do?

Pedro the Loafersays:
March 10, 2022 at 12:08 am
I know a bloke who is a water diviner. He waves around two bronze welding rods to detect underground water sources, about 80% success rate.

I am a cynical bugger, but you can’t deny what you have seen with your own eyes.

I have never been able to find any credible scientific proof of divining, but there it is.

Many strange mysteries out there.

what’s the hit rate of someone who knows a bit of geology and digs random holes?

My bet is its 80%.

Indolentsays:
March 10, 2022 at 9:00 am
URGENT: Covid infections in Britain are rising again, and 90 percent of the dead are vaccinated. Have mRNA jabs ruined our chance at herd immunity?
Alex Berenson

its been covered here by others.. but this is more of the “OAS” evidence.

The vaccines have triggered a very specific response, which may well have initiated the explosion in the archaic Omicron variant and leaves our immune system open to variants that don’t look exactly like delta.

Here’s a good explanation.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/homogenizing-herd-level-antigenic?s=r

Johanne @Johanne31785773
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Italy is seriously fucked up.

Mario Draghi: “All Ukrainian refugees who arrive in Italy either agree to get a swab every 48 hours or agree to get vaccinated.”

Stranger thing being, Italians do not have the swab option, either they get vaccinated or are suspended from work without a salary.

Again I thought this was illegal. Only when it is. The western establishment is at war with Russia as it is at war with their citizens.

Marksman known as ‘Wali’, 40, leaves behind a wife and baby son to join the war

A bit conflicted. I admire people who step up for what they believe on the other hand are they worthy of his family’s sacrifice. Is he aware that neither side has the high ground.

Good Moaning.
Bing Bong, Frank can’t read a speed sign. If he had to drive 5 to 6ooo k’s a week, he’s be outa work faster than a flash from a speed camera.

I could have fun with this, of course, and talk about how he’s just a dinosaur and not used to the new world etc, but, I couldn’t be arsed, as he really is such an irrelevence.

What do you call people who cheer on the globalist shit that have gone to war against them, that have held them hostage, taking away their freedom and bodily autonomy, when those people start a fight with another criminal?

Insane doesn’t cut it.

The Ukraine war is a war against the west.

This bloke gets it.

So ask yourself who has put this environmentalist assault on the west together and who funds it, etc, and if the acronyms WEF/UN don’t fall from your lips, take it from me…..seek help.
You’re a dribbling propaganda victim.It’s not about fighting Russia, it’s about destroying the west. Always has been. Look at how it’s been played out.

Biggles, I see you beat me up again last night, take some of that 124k you bragged about & fly to Brisbane, then we can have some fun you festering wimp.

You’d almost suspect Putin being in on it, looking at the way he’s not really putting a 100% effort in.
This is meant to drag on for some time, and oil and energy are the weapons used to destroy us.
Their traitors in our governments made sure the west was dependent on foreign energy sources so the price could skyrocket etc. Russia is also a large grain exporter. No wonder they fought like dogs to rid the world of Trump who had the US exporting energy!

It’s all so simple to see.
If only we didn’t have simpletons for fellow citizens.
There, I said it.

Seriously, it’s like the bloody stalking Stasi –

“Cassie of Sydney says:
March 10, 2022 at 7:13 am

Hey Eyrie, I still read Dash Cat everyday (there’s never much to read) and I note that yesterday you wrote that there’s “a number of people who should be banned from Dover’s Cat. Steve Trickler isn’t one of them. Neither is srr or Struth. “

Care to name names?”

**************

Names! Papers! FFS!

Also, there is a LOT to read at AdamD’s Cat.

People post interesting information that isn’t instantly buried under narrative controllers bitching bullshit.

But you wouldn’t know that if you’re just scanning for someone you don’t like to say something you don’t like.

Not before he’s sorted whatever needed to be done though, calli.

“Student of history”

Lol!

Yes guys. Just a little signal if he’s lurking – thinking about him and wishing him well whatever his circumstances.

It’s like here we go again.
The government says look here and do this, and think this.
And people did exactly that.
They did it two years ago, destroyed minds everywhere, and so I got angry at the weak of mind …or character, take your pick, dribbling shit and literally helping them win the propaganda war.
Case in point, Notafan……….but so many others.
Now they pull this shit with Russia AND EXACTLY THE SAME THING IS HAPPENING.
I see it as worse now, because although people now know a great crime has been committed against them, they cheer on the fuckers that did it to them!
Because the government and the MSM told them to.

A man who will buy from commo countries but will not allow his own country to produce is a) stupid?
or b) a traitor?

WARNING UPDATE: RUSSIA MAY CONDUCT A CHEMICAL OR RADIOLOGICAL FALSE-FLAG ATTACK AS A PRETEXT FOR GREATER AGGRESSION AGAINST UKRAINE

myeeess, amazing how obscure blogs have access to supposed top secret information at the highest level of the kremlin. anyone might be forgiven for thinking this is on the same level as the endless russia narrative we got during the entire trump administration.

A fascinating article via Instapundit. I’ll link the Instapundit post because they like that.

LAUGHING WOLF: The Puzzles In Play, And The Missing Pieces. (9 Mar)

Aside from mores (see discussion here), one of the most common mistakes in analysis comes from thinking that the events taking place are a single jigsaw puzzle. That if we can just find all the pieces and get them in place, the picture will be complete and allow complete understanding of who, what, why, when, etc.

Real life, however, is never that neat. No matter how hard anyone, analyst or politician, tries to pound things flat into and into that ideal picture, the 3-D mess just keeps popping back up.
…
In this case, the “main” jigsaw puzzle is the Russian invasion of the Ukraine. Far too many are presenting it as a nice, simple, 2-d event. What’s worse, some of those so doing are setting policy, and 2-d policy rarely works in what truly is almost an [infinity]-1 environment. As for others, well, social media is full of them.

Within this puzzle reside quite a few others. In fact, the actual number of puzzles/dimensions is a bit staggering, so I’m going to try to simplify it without over-simplifying it.

In any respects, the prime intersecting puzzle is Vladimir Putin himself. …

Very long but fascinating. And quite scary. Don’t miss the article on how things work in Russia, which he links. I would say it also describes exactly how things work in Ukraine too.

I really don’t know how this is going to turn out, but sheepstations are on the betting table and these articles are fine explainers of what a sheepstation is and what makes it work (metaphorically of course).

Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
March 10, 2022 at 11:04 am
Could be a connection there. Regardless, his first responsibility is to his family.

It’s not as though every Russkie sniper in the area would have this guys face on a card somewhere – after that sort of publicity, imagine the propaganda value if he did turn up, dead.

“The weak and decadent West underestimates the power of Mother Russia and her valiant sons…”

Despite the liking they have for their own snipers, the Russians have a long history of the answer being pound it flat with artillery, then make the rubble bounce. I don’t think many of the volunteers have taken into account it’s not like Iraq, or Afghanistan where the west had air & arty superiority.

And yet, Russian tractor ??? 4135F isn’t Russian. It’s a Czech tractor Zetor Forterra 135. I wanna clarify, it is not a copy of a Czech tractor. It literally *is* a Czech tractor. Russian plant buys tractor kits in Czech Republic, assembles them and pretends they’re home produced

Looks like a Case.

Is phrasing no longer a thing?

No shorter. Much shorter.

Sydney Morning Herald!
Maybe your many keyboard climate warrior contributers would like to reflect on how many dams, levees and other flood mitigation strategies could have been in place if the billions of taxpayer money spent subsidising windmills and solar farms (sic) had been otherwise directed to disaster mitigation.
Phil Atkins, Newcastle East.

I see. ML as well as running un-patched widows ME he also forgot to take the cup off.

Global Governments Begin Warning of Critical Food Shortages
March 9, 2022 | Sundance | 331 Comments

First things first, there is no need for panic, and it is important to remember the United States is a net food exporter. The U.S. is blessed with a food production and capacity industry that leads the world. We have fertile land, abundant harvests and the strong advantage of food independence.

That said, the influence of multinational corporations in our agriculture industry over the past three decades has ramifications, and we have outlined exhaustively, on these pages, what the real-world consequences are. As we head into a chapter of global food crisis, the food production capacity of the United States can be viewed as an asset, but only insofar as we are willing to secure a national food supply for our own America-First interests.

What we have talked about prudently on these pages is now coming into greater focus, as global leaders are beginning to prepare their own citizens for the long-term consequences of their disruption to the food supply chain.

The meteor of government intervention hit the ocean back in the spring of 2020, when government intervened in the food supply process, the tsunami -the ripple effect from that intervention- is now within sight of shore.

I’m not going to repeat the history here. CTH readers already know the details {Go Deep} – for everyone else, use the site search function. As a result of intervention, global COVID intervention, food stocks were depleted. Combined with increased energy costs, driven by the ideological chase for climate change under the guise of ‘Build Back Better,’ we end up with higher fertilizer costs for this year.

The ripple effect becomes a tsunami, and the next round of global food harvests becomes more critically important and simultaneously more expensive. For the past three months, the sound of the alarms have grown louder. Now, people are really starting to pay attention.
(more…)
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/03/09/global-governments-begin-warning-of-critical-food-shortages/

91kg of lean muscle, well I used to be

Still 150cm short?

ML – Sounds like water in the mushroom or telecoms pit nearest you. It used to be good because Telstra had to address requests from Optus (who I use) or TPG within 2 days. So I tended to get a response quicker than unfortunate Telstra customers did. But now that NBN Co owns all the infrastructure we’re screwed. Government does nothing fast.

rosie says:
March 10, 2022 at 9:36 am
more on uk case spike

Oh gosh! It’s way back on the 21st Feb that we saw such a death toll.
Confected crisis for a flu. It’s only the supposed cure that should cause alarm.

I mentioned International Brigades here almost a fortnight ago

The IBs were fighting for the communists against the fascists. Lots of romantic stuff that hit a reality shaped wall. I don’t know what psychology is causing this version of the International Brigades, although nearly a century of Russophobia may contribute to it. Yes there’s a reasonable historical basis for a lot of Russophobia/Sovietophobia but the current response is oddly hyperbolic.

Snap, Frank.

Following on from Bruce of Newcastle’s link about latter-day Russian economics, and at the expense of once again upsetting the Nuffy and pro-Vlad Bae zeitgeists on this blog, another counter-perspective:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1500301348780199937.html

From a translation of an apparently frustrated FSB analyst.

(Their propagandising is just as bad and blatant as ours, Cats!)

What is it with people wanting to go to a foreign country to fight, assist, give aid in whatever form, when there’s always plenty to do in one’s own country? Some sort of narcissistic bent of being able to say later on “look at me, look what I did”.

I even closed the cup holder on the computer tower.

“Have you inserted the CD/Disk?”
“Yes”
“What’s happening?”
“Nothing”
“Have you closed the door?”
“[Sound of foot steps] Yes we are alone now. Can we talk?”

Well, this is interesting:

Stefanovic says he has had ENOUGH of vaccines after Covid shots

Ex-deputy chief medical officer Dr Nick Coatsworth on Thursday morning urged Australians to get their annual influenza booster ahead of the flu season this winter.

‘It’s hard to predict if it will be a good or a bad season,’ he told the Today show.

‘The best thing to do, if your immune memory is not so good, is to give it a boost with a vaccine from the age of six months of age and older.’

But the breakfast host admitted to feeling fatigued about vaccinations after repeatedly rolling his sleeve up to get immunised against Covid-19.

‘I’m making this revelation on national TV – you can say whatever you want but I’ve had my fill of vaccines. I know it’s irresponsible and I shouldn’t be saying it but I don’t want it anymore,’ Stefanovic said.

This kind of thing is important, as it gives the many who have been nervously keeping their opinions about the vaxx regime to themselves the spine to start speaking their minds. And when that starts happening, it makes those people realise there are a lot more like-minded people out there than the government propaganda had deceived them into believing. This kind of snowball effect is a mortal threat to institutional narratives.

If a no-fly zone over Ukraine is a Good Thing why doesn’t NATO ask Putin to enforce one?

It’s already happening, just not publicized.

The west is flooding Ukraine with Stingers and other manpads, with a lot of success. Russia has the famous convoy solidly protected with AA missile batteries, which is why the Ukrainians haven’t been going near it, except with those Turkish night camera stealth drones. And when they do they have been hitting AA batteries like that unfortunate Buk yesterday.

This is based on the 2014 campaign. Russia sent in a lot of guys on their holidays and allowed them to take their Buks with them. Sort of like a company vehicle policy. That neutralized the Ukrainian air force really effectively. And of course led to the MH-17 disaster in a case of mistaken identity.

What we are seeing is a technology-forced doctrine change. Air power is going the way of cavalry in face of the machine gun. When every soldier on the ground could be carrying a manpad that can take out a $200 million aircraft suddenly conventional air power is no longer dominant.

I was interested in this article.

Ukrainian military using ‘game-changing’ stealth drones in battle for the skies (3 Mar)

The “Punisher” drones are able to hit targets up to 30 miles behind enemy lines. Ukrainian engineer Eugene Bulatsev, who works for warfare technology company UA-Dynamics, described the drones as “game-changing” for the Ukrainian military. He said the devices have so far completed up to 60 “successful” missions since fighting began a week ago.
…
While the number and location of drones deployed in the Ukrainian military is classified, Mr Bulatsev confirmed they are in use in a number of different units in the Ukrainian military, including the elite Special Operations forces.

They are primarily used to hit stationary targets, including fuel and ammunition storage, electronic and counter-electronic warfare stations and expensive anti-air systems.

The devices have a 7.5ft wingspan and can remain in the air for hours, up to 1,300 ft above ground.

They are typically paired with a smaller drone, called a Spectre, used for reconnaissance.

The Spectre drone flies alongside the Punisher to identify targets, before the larger drone attacks the target.

The two-drone package costs $196,000, including a ground station and a trainer.

It’s a bit like the spotter/sniper model. And a whole team costs as much as a Javelin AT missile, which gets used exactly once. For taking out logistics vehicles it is a seriously good investment, since a single lorry costs more than that amount. And if some Russian jet or AA launcher pots it with a missile it actually costs more for the Russians to do that than it does for the Ukrainian drone manufacturer to build another one.

Ted Cruz: ‘The White House’s Talking Points Are Written By An 18 Year Old Intern’