From the Before They Were Famous files. Canberra pot plants could breathe easy in those days.
Open Thread – Tues 8 March 2022
- The Radio Show May 2024 – The Fifties
- Open Thread – Weekend 4 May 2024
- Bumtree #5
- The beach which banned vanilla ice cream
- Bumtree #4
“Labor’s WA deradicalisation expert Anne Aly awarded security medal” She’s the muslim Labor nodding head you see behind Albosleazy in…
Comment, from the Oz. John 21 hours ago Whitlam was a disaster? What was life like before Gough? We had -…
Would you care if the poll was 80% the other way. I couldn’t care less. The only polls that matter…
I’m married.I understand the relationship between ‘submission’ and ‘peace’. Ya doing it wrong.
Yep, I watched that when it dropped last night. Before watching it, I would have described Dr John as purple-pilled, but that video looks like someone who’s just taken their first dose of ruby red tabs. Welcome in, doc. As you can see, the water’s warm.
And not because srr pissed in it, either. Well, as far as I’m aware. You didn’t, did you, srr?
nothing gets a BLM, AntiFa, Bolshie to put down the bong and start goose-stepping faster than the threat of their ideological comrades getting all cosy with corporate power.
Looney Tunes.
I read somewhere that ‘woke’ universities in the UK and the US are seriously considering banning Dostoeovsky, Tolstoy etc because Wussia.
These people are insane.
You have the dendritic density of aplysia and the neural complexity of c. elegans.
Tongue partly in cheek here, but I thought Boris Johnson’s rush to condemn the purported Russian bombing of a maternity hospital before we have any independent verification was a bit ungrateful.
I mean, it’s Putin who has ensured that Boris will now remain in office.
Likewise, Morrison will be hoping that $70M in armaments buys him more than a few votes at home.
Not to be outdone, Anthony Albanese has said he’d send more, while his uncritical praise of “plucky little Ukraine” seems about to burst out into labelling Russians “the beastly hun.”
Coming after covid it’s all very depressing.
What’s the next crisis they’ll whip up to keep the populace fearful and compliant?
And you’re full of shit.
Show me a report from a time prior to the vaccines coming out where myocarditis was mentioned as a symptom.
They mentioned flu like symptoms (because it was the flu) and ranging down to being completely healthy, which they termed “asymptomatic”
Oh it attacked the lungs.
Not one mention of Myocarditis until the jabs started coming out.
Now they are telling us that jab caused death and disease are actually covid.
All those triple jabbed morons dying of covid are not dying of covid, they are dying from jab caused conditions that were never present before the jabs came out.
Some people on this blog have memories that aren’t effected by propaganda.
You are either not one of them or wilfully dishonest.
What does Russia have to gain by shelling a hospital? Not much. What does Ukraine have to gain by shelling a hospital and blaming it on the Russians? Potentially, a whole lot.
Because people believe their government and their goverment told them a “covid19” was some magical super mutant never seen before lung AIDS thing that nobody in human history has ever seen before and it will kill everyone it touches and your immune system is obsolete, and acted like it for two years.
There’s a lot of people who will never accept anything else, ever, even after they’ve had it and it was just a mild cold.
I’d like to believe neither party is that cynical.
Photographs show a shell crater adjacent to the hospital, which suggests it was not deliberately targeted but wayward ordnance, like other instances of apartment buildings being hit thus far would appear to be. As to who fired we just don’t know. It’s literally a case of the propaganda getting around the world and back before the truth has put its shoes on.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7336683/
Study is from 2019.
Myocarditis is mentioned 49 times.
Now fuck off because you are too stupid to waste time with.
srr:
Note the non admission of fuels?
He’s been getting a few shocks recently.
Big dilemma with Solzhenitsyn. *
One the one hand, Russia bad (thumbs up)- but on the other hand, communism bad (thumbs down) = Lefty “brain” strain.
* Assuming he’s actually studied in western unis at all.
Unfortunately, I think the Ukrainians are at this stage. They’re desperate and this fits perfectly into the narrative of the Russians as cruel and barbaric invaders that they want to push. So perfectly. A little too perfectly, I’d submit.
Hadley is going to be very very angry.
“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.”
It’s to be hoped Texas & Louisiana don’t secede from the Union in some future red state rebellion.
They hold our strategic oil reserves and may not feel bound by prior agreements if we back the Union against them, which we almost inevitably would do.
The Rhodesians didn’t employ mercenaries – foreigners, even those with military experience, had to enlist in the Rhodesian armed forces, and peacekeepers were regular soldiers from Britain and Australia.
Never mind the various videos purporting to show Ukrainian troop having occupied the hospital in the days beforehand….
In other news, a good friend messaged me that a place he does some work at has had two middle aged men have heart attacks in the last two weeks. Transport and logistics industry. Mandated booster because they transport interstate. First was a unhealthy fat truckie, second was a a normal middle aged bloke. The story goes the ambos didn’t do anything other than drive in, load them up, hook them up and leave. Sort of suggests they’re getting lots of these jobs, although it could be the whole system is stuffed, despite dear leader’s claims to have fixed it all.
Plain spikkin’ English please, like in the Consty*.
*The Abridged Glovebox version.
Um, that’s basically a Fauci run and funded report.
You’d expect nothing less.
Except no one was getting it prior to the jabs, (Fauci’s jabs) coming out.
John, in quoting this as a source and appearing as you have, I must question what your intent here is.
“I do not trust this woman [Tulsi Gabbard]– she is being set up as the face of the ‘Peaceful Middle‘ to divide the Republican Right.”
She appears to be what the US calls a “liberal” – or centre-left. I believe she is fiscally conservative, but socially progressive, pro free speech, anti-war (she’s served in armed forces). Kinda a left leaning version of Trump without the bombast and somewhat less (but still somewhat) nationalist.
IMO, she would have been a much better President than the current corruptoctrat, and certainly more centrist/pragmatist. She might certainly cost the Republicans, but only because she would more closely align with the centre, rather than having appeal to the right. If the Dems have any chance of winning fairly in ’24, it’s with her, but they won’t do it because she’s a bit too much anti-establishment and anti-radical left for the movers and shakers. Pity – I think she’d do a reasonable job if allowed free reign. For a leftie, anyway.
With John, we have either come up against gullibility or culpibility.
Or both.
Good, and hopefully he talks about it. A lot. Spread Stefanovic’s vaxx heresy far and wide! Let everyone know, so they talk about it, too.
I don’t imagine the vaxx hysterics have any idea how many people agree with Stefanovic’s sentiments. Let them find out.
Australia – too stupid to survive.
All those “woke” unis banning Russian authors. How handy! Particularly as those very authors would be their ready-made ideological enemies, being the enemies of totalitarian states.
Now they have an excuse.
Stefanovic is off the Bandanaman guest list. The horror!
The Mocker gives two for the price of one:
Election-mode Albo waters down the ‘warrior of the left’
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Exactly 10 years and 14 days ago, an emotional Anthony Albanese — then a minister in the Gillard government — uttered what would become his trademark slogan. “I like fighting Tories,” said the so-called ‘Warrior of the Left’.
“That’s what I do,” he said. “That’s what I do.”
Now Opposition Leader and on the cusp of an election, he has (apparently) transformed, telling a Sydney audience yesterday “We must discover the spirit of consensus”. Not only that, he wants “to put the climate and culture wars behind us”.
And if he if were to win the election, he added, he would model himself on former prime ministers Bob Hawke and Paul Keating.
It is a brave move, especially given voters are wary of the social upheavalist who professes at the last moment to have conservative leanings. Many of us still wince at the memory of former prime minister Kevin Rudd, who as Opposition Leader claimed in 2007 to be a “fiscal conservative,” only to prove himself a feckless squanderer.
But yesterday Albanese went a step further in quoting with approval another party leader. “A former Liberal prime minister once said that in the race for economic reform you would never reach the finish line because it was always advancing,” he said. “I didn’t always agree with him,” he added, having an each-way bet.
Presumably in this half-hour address, time was an issue given Albanese did not utter the name “John Howard”. Nonetheless, Albanese wants to be identified with his legacy.
Now compare those sentiments with a parliamentary speech Albanese gave in April 1998, the Howard government having been in office for two years. “Here is a man who lived at home until he was 32,” Albanese sneered. “You have to go back to Billy McMahon to find a Prime Minister who even approaches this one for petulance, pettiness and sheer grinding inadequacy.”
Howard was, Albanese claimed, the “whingey kid in his sandpit”. His was but a “nervous, jerky, whiny apparition”. He even found fault with the prime minister’s physical features, saying his “chin and top lip” were “jutting out in full duck mode”.
“We hear the hatred and resentment in his voice,” Albanese said, oblivious to the irony.
“A man who is so instinctively petty and so bitterly obsessed,” who possessed “a smallness of mind, a meanness with breathtaking scope”.
He was “yesterday’s man, a weak man, a little man, a man without courage and a man without vision”. Australians, he claimed, “do not deserve the kind of leader that used to dob on them in the schoolyard”.
It was, even by parliamentary standards, a grubby outburst.
Now its author implies he is inspired by Howard. If asked, he would distance himself from his previous remarks by saying they were made 24 years ago.
The same cannot be said of his “I like fighting Tories” slogan. Nor is Albanese’s claim to eschew culture wars convincing. If anything, it reeks of political expediency.
You like telling stories, Albo. It’s what you do.
Julian Burnside’s first-world (Adelaide) problem
Autumn is a beautiful time of year in the City of Churches. For noted human rights advocate, barrister, author, and commentator Julian Burnside AO QC, the Adelaide Writers Week was supposed to be an opportunity to invigorate his soul and relax in the company of like-minded writers, poets, and philosophers. Sadly, it was not meant to be.
Having no doubt lamented with his fellow sophisticates that so many Australians do not share his sense of compassion and tolerance, Burnside last Sunday planned on dining at one of Adelaide’s finest restaurants. But then tragedy struck.
“We were booked for dinner tonight at Shobosho in Adelaide,” an outraged Burnside tweeted that afternoon, “and I just got a message canceling (sic) our reservation. I’ll never book there again”.
The enormity of this setback cannot be stressed enough. That’s not to downplay what is happening in Ukraine or the plight of residents in flood-ravaged New South Wales but we are talking about an establishment snubbing a National Living Treasure and former Greens candidate.
All the great man and owner of a $20m property portfolio wanted to do was enjoy Shobosho’s signature flame-cooked delights while he pondered what we plebs should be doing to reduce our CO2 emissions.
Even the mere contemplation of Burnside having to look for another up-market restaurant at short notice – or worse still being forced to eat at a local greasy spoon – was enough to make me burst into tears.
Disappointingly, many on social media instead lampooned him. Believing erroneously that this was a case of ‘Don’t you know who I am,’ they failed to realise in their ignorance there was a noble motive for this tweet. Burnside was simply empathising with the asylum-seekers he represents by letting them know he too has his tribulations.
As to why the restaurant cancelled his reservation, my first thought was that the online booking system had malfunctioned, possibly due to Burnside’s long list of post-nominals overloading the system. Whatever the case, it was a gross breach of etiquette to send a cancellation via text message.
No, for a man of his standing, it would warrant a delegation being sent to his hotel, or at the very least commissioning a skywriter to apologise on behalf of the restaurant and Greater Adelaide. Surely the wordsmiths converging on Adelaide could pen a moving piece on this calamity – ‘The Suffering of Julian’, perhaps?
But it turned out Shobosho had done nothing wrong.
As a spokesperson advised, the restaurant, like all in the hospitality industry, is trading at only 75 per cent capacity due to Covid restrictions, hence it values every booking it gets. “Unfortunately, there was a mechanical issue with our kitchen exhaust fan on Sunday afternoon,” she explained.
“As a restaurant that cooks over fire, this was a serious safety hazard. At 3.00pm, the decision was made that it would be unsafe to trade until this safety issue was resolved.”
What’s more, the restaurant manager had attempted to contact all patrons by phone to explain the reason for the cancellation, a process that took one and a half hours.
Those that could not be personally reached were sent a detailed text message, the last one being sent at 4.35pm on the day in question. “We would never want to endanger our staff or our guests,” the spokesperson said. “We stand by our process for responding to this safety issue”.
Precisely. Someone needs to explain to the eminent barrister the obligations that businesses have under workplace health and safety legislation.
And while they are it, they could also teach him about the tort of negligence, something which has immeasurably enriched members of the legal profession.
But being a prince of a man, Burnside has now deleted the tweet in question and acknowledged the reason for the cancellation, following “a very nice call” from the restaurant. Tellingly, he did not apologise for having used his platform, which has around 180K followers, to shame the business without cause.
If I were Shobosho’s manager, I too would have had a follow-up conversation with this disgruntled patron.
“Terribly sorry about that kerfuffle, Mr Burnside,” I would say. “We’d be honoured if your esteemed self dined at our establishment, and we’ll ensure you have the finest table. How does 7.00pm March 11, 2056 suit you? What’s that? No, you heard correctly, now hoo roo you pompous git.”
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The Mocker amuses himself by calling out poseurs, sneering social commentators, and po-faced officials. He is deeply suspicious of those who seek increased regulation of speech and behaviour.
Hardly ever. Years ago (2011-2013) he would dish out so much paranoid delusional nonsense that if any of it turned out to be true it could be by chance alone. If you want to start downloading his old podcasts, cataloguing and counting all the “news” and “globalist conspiracy” stories he said, and then checking with the luxury of hindsight whether they ever turned out to be true, go right ahead. It will take you months to do if you are actually a seeker of truth rather than just being an Alex Jones fanboy. Don’t just cherry pick a few stories that you can recall because they later were confirmed by other sources, make sure you count all of them. Get the real denominator before you produce his hit rate.
Oh really? When did he say that? Was it prior to Jan 6 while he was helping to fund and organise the protest and said “I don’t know how this is all going to end, but if they want to fight, they better believe they’ve got one”? Or did he only say that afterward, when he claimed the Secret Service had set him up? And on the topic of the Capitol Riot, here is what he said the day before:
In fact the stealers won, it was more like Waterloo for Jones, so this is a failed prediction and only one day in advance. How many more failed predictions will you find if you look for them? What’s the real denominator?
More to the point, who cares, why all the focus on the messenger? Isn’t the veracity of the message more important, no matter who says it?
And the more base & too common human nature being what it is, how much more is he hated by the proud who mocked him for being right about that which they were so wrong.
johanna
I read somewhere that ‘woke’ universities in the UK and the US are seriously considering banning Dostoeovsky, Tolstoy etc because Wussia.
Wagner also took a hit between 1933 and 1945 ( and probably for a while after).
Paul Keating? Great choice – possible the most detested Prime Minister this country has has since Gough Whitlam.
Albo wants
I refuse to put the Climate War I behind us until we have hunted out and destroyed every warmist organization. Trials, guilty verdicts, hangings would appease me.
Winston
Note the non admission of fuels?
Our problem is Greens, not fuels. We have ample solid fuel (coal), and gaseous fuel (coal seam and petroleum gas), and could both find and pump oil here, and refine it (after some time) and use coal to liquids if only someone would tell the Slime to FOAD.
Hang on a minute.
If I was his new missus, I would start to worry. A lot.
The Worst Australian news headline:
COVID in WA: New figures reveal shocking number of unvaccinated COVID-19 hospital cases
Then says:
So… 52% were vax’d? FMD.
Yet there’s still no shortage of Not-A-Doctor’s who will happily ‘diagnose’ such serious, sudden illnesses as ‘the bugs fault’, online, without knowing anything about the sufferers other than they got Jabs so it can’t be the Jabs’ fault.
Of course Covid is being desperately buried under the Ukraine now; a lot of people who’ve had healthy loved ones seriously maimed & killed by Jabs, aren’t going to accept that Justice can’t be done.
Not only that, he wants “to put the climate and culture wars behind us”.
To the left, putting the climate and culture wars behind them can be translated as “Shut up and surrender to our ineffable wisdom, or we will really get stuck into you, you rotten Tory”.
The Rolfe trial jury went out an hour ago.
No mention of the finding of Worsley’s Endurance?
It is in quite astounding condition.
https://twitter.com/thehistoryguy/status/1501461782296203265
Both Shackleton’s and Worsley’s accounts are astounding reads.
Heh.
True to form with the Kenworth King, if it detracts from or contradicts his Narrative, he won’t have a bar of it.
You’re too kind describing the Kenworth King as having the wit and sophistication of a single-celled organism, John H.
He’s as block-headed, dumb and dependent on guidance by others as the Prime Mover sitting dormant in his back yard…
She’s probably just some beard they roped in for the election.
Pretty much.
Albo wants
“to put the climate and culture wars behind us”.
How?
Exterminate anyone who won’t agree with the Labor/Greens’ position?
That would put those “wars” behind us.
Until we see some specific details on how Albo would be prepared to compromise [and “compromise” doesn’t mean telling inner city Greens one thing while telling regional coal workers the opposite], his comment is utterly meaningless.
Yet I’m not the jabbed one.
I live in your head.
And the reason I do is because you can’t reconcile yourself with your own actions.
Comrade.
One of today’s cartoonists was making the Endurance = Ukraine assertion.
Pfffft.
” Case in point: how often has Alex Jones been right?
Hardly ever. “
Fine, he’s pretty extreme, and I’m not saying he’s always or even mostly correct. Consider the things that he was actually banned for though. Mostly big-ticket stuff like lab leak, vaxes cause issues, Biden’s are corrupt, Russiagate was a hoax and so on. Oh, and Ukraine war in 2/22. And FYI he was at Jan 6 and is on video saying “Don’t go in – it’s what they want!”.
How about you rank his predictions based on the amount of pushback from the mainstream he got – on those terms he’s uncannily correct on the big stuff.
But perhaps more importantly, what he said, not was he has been said to have said. There’s a difference – often a big one. Like Trump, they take one thing out of context and when you see the context, it’s clear he’s saying the exact opposite. Or they take a general case instead of the specific case he makes. Details matter.
Tucker Carlson Outlines Biological Research Labs in Ukraine in Segment That Triggered State Department Response
March 9, 2022 | Sundance
Whilst watching this video clip with Tucker I thought how funny it is the the US has Victoria Nuland and Canada has Chrystia Freeland.
“I refuse to put the Climate War I behind us…”
Hey, if he’s willing to surrender and get rid of subsidies and CO2 certificates, net-zero etc, I’m OK with it – can’t happen too soon. Admit you were wrong and the issue is now dead and we can move on, no problem.
If instead he means “We [warmies] won”, then hell no.
Well said, add to that pizza gate etc.
Thanks KD – Territory cops on standby in the case of a “Not Guilty” Verdict?
Why are they unvaxxed? I’d bet the farm the vast majority of them are unvaxxed for the same reason that they require hospitalisation due to OMG (ie. not because they’re knuckle-dragging anti-vaxxers).
GreyRanga:
I don’t feel sad for them either, GR.
I still remember the looks and the snide comments I got when I refused masks. Now people don’t even notice when I wear my Bio Hazard Star T shirts – which I shall continue to do until the emergency legislation is repealed.
Rex he is so intense, so angry, so lacking in humour. Abusive, belligerent, condescending. Growing old is challenging enough without constantly shaking one’s fist at all and sundry. If the studies are to be believed most people become more content with age but if that is true of Struth he must have been an extremely angry young man. He should lighten up.
ZK2A:
Curses – foiled again!
Not that I’m saying it was the motivation behind the enrollment, but it’s just odd that it happened to be a school with a lot of financial backing and not just any old school.
100%. As we see below:
It is allegedly our collective fault for his experiences of the consequences of his actions in the last 2 years.
At the very least, he can make a positive start by not shitting in his hands and clapping… 🙂
Alex Jones is a conspiracy monger and an all-round lunatic. Whilst I regard Jones as rather entertaining I wouldn’t put much store in anything he says. Having said that, Jones’ erasure in August 2018 from ALL major social media platforms, within two days, was a very bad portent, a portent that many chose to ignore…including Trump. And remember, the GOP had control of both houses at the time….yet they did nothing. It was a clear case of major MSM figures (particularly from CNN) pressuring Twitter, Youtube and Facebook to erase Jones. At the time of Jones’ erasure, many laughed and shrugged their shoulders, it’s only Alex Jones but as we know that was just the start of the censoring and erasing and after what happened to President Trump and Parler in January 2021, nobody is laughing now.
John H.says:
March 10, 2022 at 3:51 pm
You are to kind.
Spoiled entitled brats only change when those around them stop pandering.
I see the NY Metropolitan Opera has sacked the Russian-born soprano, Anna Netrebko, apparently because she didn’t sufficiently denounce Putin or something. A magnificent opera singer, stunning voice, but sacked because of an accident of birth and not being able to satisfy the demands of the latest “struggle session”.
It’s madness. But the mob is going along with it. Differing from such a mob is something to be very concerned about.
What a fuckwit.
Some people just have a low tolerance for bullshit artists.
No one had suffered any myocarditis from covid. They suffered it from the jabs.
Then you quote the long since exposed corruption of the Fauci funded NIH affiliate.
Which when looked at dispassionately, is basically an admission of guilt on their part.
Basically admitting they knew what the jab was going to do.
Are you arguing with the Queensland CMO?
here.
You’re either gullible, or I’d take a guess by your pompous attitude that you have been educated way beyong your intelligence, giving you a very false sense of superiority that gets you into messes like this.
Yeah … nah.
I wouldn’t trust Wolfe as far as I could throw Clive.
Some years ago on WUWT her sloppy and dishonest ‘scholarship’ about CAGW was exposed. She lied, made stuff up, selectively quoted or misquoted people, and so on.
She is looking for something to put wind in her recently flaccid sails, and that’s all it is.
Food shortages – some very committed Christian friends have said for a year or more that this was prophecy and will happen, and that holding good quantity of non perishables was a necessity.
Knuckle Dragger the simp, simping for Cassie just as predicted.
Here’s the thing –
I don’t like Cassie but I don’t lie about why, her or any of her cohorts.
Cassie, et al hate me because I let their own words ‘hang’ them, on scaffolds of their full context, and their only retorts are ever more desperate repetition of, ‘You’re yucky!’, like a gang of schoolyard mean girl.
Oh look, and here’s another one –
– rushing to join the packs hate for hate’s sake because it’s so cool by the mean girls, that they do it almost every day, even when I’m not here, no matter what sort of absurdity they have to invent to ‘justify’ it, but God forbid I serve them back their own filth!
That’s not allowed!
That’s me being yucky!
Charmers.
How lucky we are that they sit here tag teaming 24/7 just to make sure everyone knows who they have declared, ‘Unpersoned’./sarc
A grade scoffing fodder around these parts.
Sooks!!
“I don’t like Cassie but I don’t lie about why, her or any of her cohorts.
Cassie, et al hate me because I let their own words ‘hang’ them, on scaffolds of their full context, and their only retorts are ever more desperate repetition of, ‘You’re yucky!’, like a gang of schoolyard mean girl.”
Not normal. Completely abnormal.
I see the BOM still hasn’t managed to get the 0001UTC (1000I/K Qld time) surface chart up yet. Still running the 1800UTC chart. So very very useful!
It’s currently only 5 hours and 18 minutes late….
The vibe of Howard and Abbot thrives in Vicdanistan:
Truly a triumph of the spirit of the law over the letter of the law.
I don’t have any time for Jones but this commercially driven censorship is as dangerous, perhaps more dangerous, than government censorship. It isn’t just high profile figures either. On FB and youtube people are being banned\demonetized over trivial issues. The COVID censorship has opened a Pandora’s box so that now we can be banned for stating something that wasn’t even listed as being subject to censorship. I don’t think the US government can do anything about it because of property rights. In other countries it might be possible to do something but politicians are loathe to take up arms against such powerful media entities.
N.Y. Times writer: Vaccines, masks, distancing didn’t affect COVID rate
Bushkid, go to http://www.windy.com
Charts at various levels, thunderstorms, rain, wind speed and direction at any point. Uses the same 3 computer models the BoM uses. I sprung for the premium version which updates every 6 hours and has one hour resolution. Cost $30 for 12 months. Very easy to use and interpret.
John H.says:
March 10, 2022 at 4:21 pm”
Yep.
Debelle & Forrest !
Dude. It was a joke. And you shouldn’t start from the presumption that I despise you or whatever else you concluded. If you were less neurotic, you would have realised that the joke is predicated on the fact that you’re in the red-pill pool too. Relax.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/mar/10/judge-urges-jurors-to-guard-against-emotion-when-considering-verdict-in-zachary-rolfe-trial
Fortunately the judge very well instructs the jury on the vital question of not if there was a threat to Rolfe’s partner but rather if there was the perception of a threat. Perhaps I’m reading too much into the judge’s instructions but if I were a juror hearing that I’d already be thinking of acquittal.
Wodger:
And that, of course, is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Destroy trust in the US political establishment.
Yes, but.
Never mind, scrub that, the cat isn’t the place to raise certain topics but I think if we ever did cross paths in the real world you’d enjoy contemplating some of the casual pool table conversations that have been had over the years. 🙂
BOM didn’t cover itself in glory last week either.
I spent the week clearing out and pressure washing complete strangers’ properties.
Not helped by Palacechook shitting herself at BOM’s predicted “very dangerous” storms that were going to “appear as if out of nowhere” – and warning everyone to go home from Thursday onwards to be close to people they love.
For once I almost felt sorry for her.
Almost.
Teacher ‘dazed’ and ‘unresponsive’ after 5-year-old pummels her
This could only happen from fear of recrimination for just restraining the kids.
Don’t imagine this will permeate white ribbon’s defence shields.
Woman’s death due to domestic violence.
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/woman-dies-children-rushed-to-hospital-after-house-fire-20220310-p5a3bq.html
Mother Lode:
Not necessarily just there – it seems like a system wide issue.
After multiple attempts to get TPG to fix my internet, I gave up trying to get through the Indian desk that interrupting me while I was describing the problem and shouting down my responses was good customer relation stuff.
I finally did my nana when the woman demanded I listen to her as she finished my sentences for me – and got it wrong.
Cancelled my account on the spot and connected to NBN with a Commonwealth Bank discount of 50% over two years.
I’ve mentioned this more than once as well. At 9 or 10 am in the morning, they are still showing the national pressure map from 6 pm the previous day. Slack and unacceptable in this day and age.
Biden’s Energy secretary.
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https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1501666216842256388?s=20&t=CnJxJF04uhsUfK8QPLSFjA
PS, she’s wrong.
Either an idiot or a liar.
Or both.
+100
If people can be panicked into hoarding toilet paper, they’ll strip the shelves of anything the media tells them.
I keep at least a month’s worth of non perishable food at all times. More for some types.
Doesn’t pay to underestimate the total immersion of most people in the media narratives.
Kneel
If instead he means “We [warmies] won”, then hell no.
That is exactly what he means, and the same for the multiple elements of the “culture” wars, on indigenous affairs, the “eeeevvvviiiillll” history of Australian settlement, nasty WW I, Korea, Vietnam and so many more (and WW II until 22 June 1941).
Bloody Hell no!
I’ve heard it helps to think of him as a performance artist.
Alex Jones : It’s turning the frogs gay.
Relax.
Chill.
We soon won’t have strategic oil reserves to fret about.
Australia will support collective action by the International Energy Agency (IEA) to release oil stocks to help stabilise global energy markets.
Angus Taylor explains:
Hopefully Australia won’t ever need physical.
When you let clowns speak for you don’t complain about the circus.
“I’ve heard it helps to think of him as a performance artist.”
A good description of him….he is entertaining.
How? He is and always will be a liability. Churning out crap for his core audience regardless of the consequences.
Victorian justice.
You can be arrested if your legal representative is also a police informer by a police officer who really isn’t a police officer.
Breaking news : TASS news agency is reporting that they have captured Dr Fauci whilst he was in process of shredding documents in a Ukrainian lab just captured by Russian troops. Peter Dazack was captured sitting in nearby car with the engine running.
Thanks to the complicit bad scientists doing bad science, the world was put under house arrest & worse, for two years.
The young & old died needlessly from isolation caused depression, cancelled medical treatments, hunger, cold & lack of clean water, oh and from the criminalisation of cheap, safe & effective treatments while expensive & deadly treatments were literally forced on people.
Oh but a super cool scientist says ignore all that and “lighten up”.
Dr Debelle and Dr Forrest
Custard:
Yes you can.
I had both Myocarditis and Pericarditis + a 1.1 Liter Pleural Effusion.
Essentially a big ball of pus in my chest.
Was a bit crook, I think.
Didn’t feel too bad apart from the hypoxia.
Contradiction in terms…
Excellent examples of leadership and scientific observation now appearing all over this wide brown (and rather wet in places) land.
And where is that “never loses suction” Flannery? Dysoning up muchos tax dollars no doubt.
For forecasting, I use Windy.com budget version. It’s very helpful gauging when to go for walks or himself’s golf. How the Bureau can claim storms out of nowhere is ridiculous.
As part of this package, Australia also took advantage of historically low oil prices and stored around 1.7 million barrels of oil in the United States Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
That’s it?
We started buying at 35-40 bucks from memory.
Say we averaged 50bucks a barrel.
We spent a measly 85 mill USD and call that a strategic reserve?
I wonder how much rent Australia was charged.
More big-noting from Australia.
Surprise surprise.
Juicy pork with nothing more than a sprinkling of pepper and some rice.
Life is good.
Here’s more of the story that Duncanm linked to.
It states the poor bloke has suffered burns to 90% of his body.
A guy did the same thing to his ex a couple of months ago. The poor woman passed away.
I don’t understand the rage that is as consuming as the fires they light. Strike that, I can understand that kind of rage if someone hurts your kids, then, nothing you can do to the perp is harsh enough, but, for a break up?
Timothy:
He wants us to stop and let him keep his plunder and the positions he’s stolen.
Piss off Albo.
Go find a Tory to fight.
Nuland is an evil fat gnome
But if they kill your kids with a jab, what’s allowed then?
Asking for a friend.
Soi is Stan Grant.
Bandanaman’s tolerance only extends to those who agree with him.
How boring.
Conspiracy theory?
What about this electromagnetic practice, BoN?
For Marianne.
Cardimona’s LtE’s
“Man has the right to act in conscience and in freedom so as personally to make moral decisions.”
Quoting the Vatican II document Dignitatis Humanae, it continues: “He must not be forced to act contrary to his conscience. Nor must he be prevented from acting according to his conscience, especially in religious matters.”
Except for when it comes to not taking the vax. Then all the guff about conscience gets thrown out the door.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pope-francis-abruptly-removes-faithful-bishop-who-opposed-covid-vaccine-mandates/
Cheers calli, wonderfull song.
No it’s not the Babylon Bee:
RBA Deputy Governor resigns to join Fortescue in a role he says will help address climate change
I’ve never heard of anyone getting a ‘broken foot’ from gardening.
Just sayin’.
Dude, a clever, well timed, rare joke, is a joke.
Spitting any bit of crass nonsense just to be seen aligned with the mean girls on a streak (and not for the first, second or more than a few times), is cowardly noise.
Anyway, lets ‘roll tape’ –
Well looky there.
Yet another bit of out of left field, nothing to do with anything being discussed, gratuitous pissing on the person that the mean girls hand out elephant stamps for pissing on.
While we’re on bodily waste – Don’t piss in my pocket and try to tell me it’s raining.
Thank You. 🙂
Can someone explain to me how repeatedly claiming someone is a plagiarist is not claiming they are a liar?
And where is the evidence for the alleged plagiarism?
And significantly increase his bank balance at the same time.
Win! Win!
The world thanks you, Guy.
Struth,
my rage towards those who would jab my child would be as all consuming as I stated above.
And acted upon.
Worlds Smallest Violin
I’ve never heard about such things Struth, but I’d be very cautious of any article where the C word is mentioned (in that case in one of the hyperlinks).
We know that wind farms alter the weather down wind, but they’re big and are extracting a lot of energy and well as converting some of the rest into heat. I doubt small amounts of energy from a radar would do anything to the huge amount of energy contained in normal weather (clouds, wind etc).
“Yes Cassie, constantly making sick shit up about people because they don’t buy your act, when you know everyone else can compare the facts of what was & wasn’t said, by whom, when, and so also see you are one giant phony, is not normal.”
Yes slag heap, constantly making sick shit up about people because they don’t buy your act, when you know everyone else is able to compare the facts of what was said and what wasn’t said, by whom, when and they also that you’re one obese, phony, crass, lying, fraudulent, abnormal, lunatic slag heap.
BTW slag heap, you never did tell us here what your daddy once did to you…is it because it’s too painful. Might help to talk to someone about it.
Marianne Faithfull – As Tears Go By (1965)
It was a different world in those days, a young lady with a nice voice could make a name for herself while fully clothed, and without “wardrobe malfunctions.”
“Read any good articles to tweak & sell as your own lately?
Your impotent spewing of random nonsensical accusations is getting boring.”
Stop talking about yourself slag heap. I don’t make up stuff. You do.
Now piss off. You’re a disgrace.
Stand down, troops. The war is won!
From the Oz:
Calli,
excellent tribute to Marianne.
I personally feel this song of Marianne’s a little more keenly.
By the way everyone, for the record, I’m not a plagiarist.
That line is a keeper 🙂
Snap Calli, but I prefer my video.
“The only viable path to energy independence for the American economy is to reduce the energy intensity of our economy overall and ultimately to reduce it to zero and get us in a position to where we are no longer reliant on fossil fuels,” Deese said.
So where are we going to get lubricants from?
I doubt they could be made in the bulk forms necessary to keep the worlds wheels turning without fossil fuels.
The madness continues.
Says something about this country, doesn’t it – two iconic Australian railway trains – the Indian Pacific, and the “Ghan” are owned by U.S. interests – the Hornblower Group, which paid a reported $600m for the Australian operations a few weeks ago. Journey Beyond has several assets here, including the Ghan train service.
What are they trying to achieve? Is this moral?
Judge’s instructions to the jury in the Rolfe case
ABC
rwmalonemd @rwmalonemd
· 3h
is this a punishment?
World Economic Forum Freezes ‘All Relations’ With Russia, Putin
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/world-economic-forum-freezes-all-relations-with-russia-putin_4327761.html
World Economic Forum Freezes ‘All Relations’ With Russia, Putin
The controversial World Economic Forum (WEF) announced it has frozen “all relations” with the Russian government and President …
link.theepochtimes.com
In the latest version of Go Woke, Go Broke:
In a gesture of solidarity with the Ukrainian people suffering from the invasion by Russia, the nation’s largest supermarket chain Woolworths has decided to drop the Russian spelling of Kiev for its famous Chicken Kiev meal to now be called Chicken “Kyiv”.
Woolworths will also make donations to the Australian Red Cross’ Ukraine Crisis Appeal for each pack of its private label Chicken Kyiv sold.
“Judge’s instructions to the jury in the Rolfe case”
We must pray that Rolfe is acquitted.
And then we must start praying that Bruce Lehmann will be acquitted.
No need to point out the hypocrisy in all this to you, Delta.
But I’ve noticed it has never been about anti-bigotry but the correct bigotry sanctioned by the ‘progressives’.
“The madness continues.”
Nothing surprises me anymore. The template for all of this inhumanity began two years ago with the advent of Covid.
TommyRobinson1 @TommyRobinson1
· 18m
President Trump:
Hold on I’m coming….
[four tears of joy]
[interview video]
https://gettr.com/post/pz7e6g241c
Are they treating the unvaxxed now or are they still on the black list too?
Germans do love to pick certain groups to persecute.
Seems to happen every 80 years or so.
The use of Nazi insignia in the UKR armed forces is quite incredible.
Hope the Commissioner’s golf game isn’t disturbed.
David Vance @DavidVance
· 35m
Stop and think.
The media showed you pictures of people dropping dead from a deadly virus in the streets of China.
The same media is showing you a bombed out hospital in Ukraine.
Anyone who still believes what they say is an idiot.
Dover – check your email from last night.
Now, if I were advising Putin I would have told him to get in first.
There’s some people it’s simply not worth being associated with.
If true, it’s unethical.
Russian gas is OK though.
How about we be properly pedantic and whine about it isn’t the Russian spelling because it’s not in Cyrillic? Makes about as much sense.
We should keep in mind that the case against Rolfe is one helluva lot stronger than was the case against Pell.
I wake up to news this morning that those terrible Russian ghouls had targeted a maternity hospital in Mariupol with children buried under the rubble. Now I find out that there appear to be only 17 injuries. As someone says above, something doesn’t smell right about this incident. It might have something to do with reports yesterday that it had been commandeered by UKR forces for military purposes.
Dr Debelle is a signatory to The Banking and Finance Oath.
Education University of Adelaide (BEc Hons 1987)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD 1994)
1988–1990 Australian Treasury
1994–95 Reserve Bank of Australia, Research Department
1995–97 International Monetary Fund
1997–98 Reserve Bank of Australia, Research Department
1998–2001 Deputy Head of Economic Analysis Department
2001–03 Head of Economic Analysis Department
2003 Visiting Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2004 Bank for International Settlements
2004–07 Head of International Department
2007–16 Assistant Governor (Financial Markets)
Jun 2013 – Jan 2017 Chair of the BIS Markets Committee
May 2015 – May 2017 Chair of the BIS Foreign Exchange Working Group
Dec 2013 – Dec 2017 Chair of the Australian Foreign Exchange Committee
May 2019 – Dec 2021 Chair of the Global Foreign Exchange Committee
True but Rolfe has the huge advantage of not having the national broadcaster against him.
I’ve had dealings with Woolworths in the past and they are not nice people
srr, while I completely agree with you regarding the need for total scepticism in respect to what the media feeds you, the case of the bodies in the street at Wuhan should not be dismissed so readily.
Dr. Malcolm Kendrick is a frontline COVID doctor in Scotland who runs a blog, and provides interesting first hand accounts of his experience. He reckons one of the most unusual features of the virulent early strain of COVID was the occasional occurrence of a patient dropping dead suddenly, virtually without warning. This was almost certainly due to the famous cytokine storm which occurs in some patients, and is mostly unpredictable, although seems to occur around the 7th/8th day after first COVID symptoms in some patients. He said he had never seen such a sudden shutdown, and it unnerved him sufficiently to have him carry an oxygen finger monitor for his own use at all times.
I suspect that it what happened to some Chinese patients in Wuhan when little was known about the virus. I recall that Dr. Shankara Chetty, who also treated thousands of COVID patients, often saw an abrupt deterioration in some patients on the 8th day. He thought the massive immunological inflammatory reaction was some sort of allergic response to the virus debris.
Russian spelling of Kiev
dumb as dogshit too
sorry, too many links, i’ll trim it to bare bones –
Donald Trump on WW3, Talking to Putin and Joe Rogan!
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Ms Faithfull being a proto edge-lord: Why D’ya Do It. Seems like a genuine sentiment.
Dr Debelle encapsulates everything that is wrong with the west- the elevation of theories over practical knowledge and real results
Blood clots. Heart, lungs, or brain.
Wagner group does too. I haven’t looked up Kadyrov’s Chechens but I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re also a bit fruity.
Fine by me if they fight it out with each other as to who is naziest. The last one alive can turn out the lights.
yeah, agree, it wasn’t the ‘some’, but he ‘very many’ once they saw what an impact the ‘some’ had.
Plus, it was from Gettr that doesn’t really lend itself to threads of complex discussions.
Main point, the same media we know lied over Covid we’re now swearing by over Ukraine.
That used to be a valid criticism of the East.
Now it applies to the West, while the East has adopted our science to their own advantage.
Marianne Faithfull, David Bowie – I Got You Babe.
The drugs must have been pretty spectacular.
Look at it this way: they may be Nazis but they’re our Nazis.
As in Syria, the US – and by extension its allies – has associated itself with some prettty dubious characters in recent years, starting with the Mujahideen.
Rambo III should have been seen for what it was.
A cry for help.
Journey Beyond (ex- Great Southern Railway Journeys) was Canadian-owned before that.
The IP and Ghan rolling stock is around 50 years old
Why does it matter who owns them, Rex. It’s not as though those train lines are going to be redirected the US.
I’ve just finished my book on Pell by Hendo. It’s great but I will hold that Windschuttle’s is better.
Hendo does a great job in “outing” all of those anti-Catholic bigots so if you ever need a definitive list, Hendo is your go-to man. Windschuttle is a little more detailed in following the Royal Commission and how this played into get-Pell mentality but, then again, Hendo does a great hatchet job on Victorian Police office on the stand whom he reports, verbatim, stupid answers like “um, dunno” or “didn’t think of it” and “we just decided” – it truly is pitiful.
So, while I contend Keith’s book is better, it’s not really. They’re just different perspectives.
Hendo does hit a home goal at the end of his book with an email he obtained (somehow?) from Victorian Police Media Unit (VPMU to Ashton)…
Truly. Fucking. Atrocious!
Oh forget it. It was you who said that. Rex.
That’s because it is. ISW was established by Victoria Nuland’s sister-in-law (her husband Robert Kagan’s sister).
Excuse me while I have a coughing fit.
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Small world, hey?
The footage I saw was not from a direct hit, rather collateral from a bombardment that landed in the square out front whch wrecked the building. Since the start the UAF have been positioning their armour and artie within civilian settings and inside residential built up areas.
Stupid western media only seeing what they are given and not delving into what really transpired.
Marianne Faithfull, David Bowie – I Got You Babe.
The drugs must have been pretty spectacular.
FMD, I’m really sick of weirdos, with or without talent.
Well, the tsunami of money begins. THIS is a very necessary benefit that must roll to keep the US parasites sucking on the Treasury teat in a manner to which they are accustomed. CIA the chief beneficiary among these corrupt grubs.
#metoo
“So, while I contend Keith’s book is better, it’s not really. They’re just different perspectives.”
Whilst I’ve read Hendo’s book, I haven’t read Keith’s book yet. I thought it focused more on the “evidence”…or the lack of evidence in the Pell case and that Keith was painstaking in assembling facts that it couldn’t not have happened.
I will read Keith’s book
Henderson’s book is more an in depth analysis of the vindictive machinations and culpability of various MSM scum and their role in the persecution of Pell.
Funnily enough, I saw Hendo today, sitting have a drink with a friend.
The pictures and video of the hospital reveal much less carnage than what one would expect. Indeed nothing more than could be achieved by a few make-up artists.
Note the expectant woman on the stretcher in this ABC piece. Black tights pulled down on one side, but not far enough to threaten her modesty, reveal an area of skin with no visible wounds while the other side, not exposed and apparently uninspected, shows what appears to be blood and gore on the outside of her tights in the region of her femoral artery.
Mmmm.
Very reminiscent of Palliwood/Syrian White Helmets productions.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-10/photos-ukraine-devastation-mariupol-russia-air-strike-hospital/100897562
Winston Smithsays:
March 10, 2022 at 6:30 pm
“The only viable path to energy independence for the American economy is to reduce the energy intensity of our economy overall and ultimately to reduce it to zero and get us in a position to where we are no longer reliant on fossil fuels,” Deese said.
So where are we going to get lubricants from?
I doubt they could be made in the bulk forms necessary to keep the worlds wheels turning without fossil fuels.
The problem for those who wish to run the lives of billions is that their knowledge of how the world operates is no greater than, and frequently less than, that of a tradie who actually builds/repairs/maintains those machines upon which the world depends. Lubricants? How is that a concern?
Ten percent for the big guy?
The controversial World Economic Forum (WEF) announced it has frozen “all relations” with the Russian government and President …
Quick! If we invade Un Zud, perhaps they will cut us off also?
Another interesting report via Trent Telenko.
Here’s his article:
SATCOM terminals under attack in Europe: a plausible analysis. (7 Mar)
Looks like the cyber guys in Russia found a 0day vulnerability and launched an exploit along with the ground game. I think it’s hilarious that in addition to knocking out Ukrainian sat coms they managed to render inoperable 5800 German wind turbines…
Hunter Biden with his wheelbarrow will no doubt be at the front of the queue.
Cassie, that is a very fair mini-synopsis:
Up to one-third of each page in Windschuttle’s book is devoted to listing the footnotes, making it impossible to refute anything he has written.
Henderson’s book is in my ‘to read’ rack. Can’t wait to get stuck into it.
Where is Mater? Is he ok?
Nice catch Baba. The wonkosphere seems really incestuous.
I’d like to freeze them in aspic to show future generations what NOT to do.
+1
Also I’d hate to try to putting together an NT jury, i.e. a dozen random people who are;
1. on the electoral roll
2. sans criminal record
3. ain’t been burgled, hassled, threatened by cheerful youths
4. don’t perceive a threat to the security/safety of their house/family from cheerful youths.
Can someone confirm.
I didn’t read comments yesterday but a little birdie told me someone here suggested that the World Economic Forum is running death camps. Who said this?
Marianne Faithfull, David Bowie – I Got You Babe.
Methinx, a few MARS BARS might have helped .. LOL!
miltonf says:
March 10, 2022 at 6:57 pm
The punters still won’t pronounce it correctly. Like the newsreaders – grindingly inaccurate pronunciation. I saw a report from journalist in Kharkiv the other day and even a person ‘on the ground’ couldn’t be bothered to get it right.
Kharkiv is not pronounced ‘kar-kiv’. Either ‘har-kov’ in Ukrainian or ‘hikuv’ in Russian. (activate your best Russian gangster voice and you’ll master it in no time!)
Brucie
Tell me, it wasn’t you who said the above about the World Economic Forum.
Say it ain’t so. Obviously you’re Titus 3.10ing me so respond in the passive aggressive way where you indirectly do so while pretending you aren’t.
If you suggested the WEF is running death camps you need to be strait jacketed and “encased” in a padded cell.
Wow Pence turned out to be a snake
Probably the Kenworth King?
Although between his rage at Jessica Mauboy Grace Tame and half of Australia’s politicians for allegedly being members, the existencd
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DeAtHWellcamp in Toowoomba, his worst-possible catastophising of the QLD Premier’s comments on its opening, and his frothing last week about WEF-aligned Dan Andrews announcing one in Victoria in 2019, who knows what his exact thoughts are on the matter anymore? He says we’re at war with the WEF after all…I’m sure he’ll appear to correctively wordwall me, in due course. 🙂
For all I know, in the process of me taking the piss out of his furious Nuffing this week about DeAtH CaMps and the WEF this last week, the two memes may well have conflated into what you’re describing, JC.
Lubricants? How is that a concern?
Will have to go back to rendering down whales!
One of Sancho’s menagerie of wacky characters?
Hi Ed.