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It’s not commonly known, but Teslas use Righteous Electrickery (RE), so all is balanced with Gaia. Namaste.
I see scrolling down at his Cricinfo [age that Joe Burns made 108 not out for Italy vs. Romania. Forza…
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Absolutely.
Initially I thought it was a case of sour grapes and Bernardi “taking the bat and ball and going home”.
But who would hand across the keys and the mailing list to that moron?
And, if Bosi was running under the Australian Conservatives banner, Bernardi would be copping it for every batshit crazy thing which came out of Bosi’s motor-mouth gob.
Oh, and by the way, the AustraliaOneParty.com website says:-
“AUSTRALIAONE is the party for decent everyday Australians who want the best future for themselves, their families, their local communities and Australia.”
A party.
Which isn’t registered as a party.
With a donate button.
I wonder what the AEC would make of that?
Seems the bloke waving the stake was already out on bail…
Hilarious take on gas prices in US.
Nothing, registration is a hurdle and a barrier to entry. If you never have 1500 members, you can never register.
Ed Casesays:
March 17, 2022 at 8:31 pm
https://t.me/neoficialniybezsonov/8939:
Breaking news!
A militant of the Azov Nazi regiment has just fled and defected to our side. He requested anonymity and we guaranteed it for him, as his family is in the Ukrainian-controlled territory and he fears that other Ukrainian Nazis may slice them in pieces to settle accounts with him.
He has revealed to us a whole lot of exciting information of operational importance, including details of the atrocities committed by the Ukrainian Nazis in Mariupol. But the most important benefit is the location of the Ukrainian militants’ headquarters in the basement of the Mariupol Drama Theatre, while the theatre lobby is fully packed with civilians watched over by 12 Azov fighters preventing them from escaping.
t.me/neoficialniybezsonov
/8939
1.4Mviews
Mar 16 at 22:57
Both the alleged defector and the drafter of that statement are probably Spooks. I am astonished that your finely tuned “Spook Detector” did not alert you.
So he hasn’t garnered 1,500 members after all that?
They survived. It was all CIA/Azov bullshit.
The ABC:
Breaking news!
Yep, sounds totally legit, like a former KGB colleague of the Staasi would approve of.
..
Bastards. How dare they.
Ed Casesays:
March 17, 2022 at 8:35 pm
Just linked it, SpongeBob.
A question:
Is that link good enough for you?
Dickless
See my comment above.
Bing Bong!
It just occurred to me.
I think Bosi insists on a Working With Children Check before joining the party.
If you don’t already have one they are a total pain in the arse to get.
Yeeeessss!
The old Baby Milk Factory trick!
Probably designed to coincide with Zelensky’s address to Congress then.
now you sound like sancho.
Which is, of course, a very, very good thing.
Oh come on says:
March 17, 2022 at 5:12 pm
I’ve read it, and I think he is wrong, Russia may suffer badly in the process but can’t afford defeat.
like going out with the girls an a friday
and yr both wearing the same dress
don’t know who does these memes, bu they are right over the target
Zelensky is an actor, nothing more. He clearly does not make his own talking points.
Who was the last national leader or politician (outside of Orangutan Bard) do you know of who was any different?
#Speechwriters
Jussie Smollet released on appeal. White privilege cancelled, at least in Chicago.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/N48lK9Psync/
I am quite sick of hearing how amazing this prick is, he is just the mouthpiece for extremely well orchestrated propaganda.
Biden is going to defend us from China with 200 Marines?
Everything is so fake and gay now.
Hey Arky,
Welcome back.
the justice system in the US has ceased to exist in any meaningful sense
Ever heard of CD Jackson?
Me neither, but he was a powerful Spook for many years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Douglas_Jackson
it’s not just about who writes his lines it’s who is actually in charge. not dissimilar to the biden sock puppet, clear the old demented crook is not even remotely in charge.
Seems to be a bit of plagiarism here, but who copied who?
https://twitter.com/SallyMayweather/status/1504158429673398274
https://xkcd.com/2594/
I hope someone has made plans to defend the country without the USA. If the last couple of years have proved anything, it’s that we can’t rely on them showing up if we call for help.
We’re screwed aren’t we?
Trump was a national leader, but not a politician. Don’t insult him.
Zelenskyy is a dumb PoleSmoker.
Rex Franger reckons he’s up there with Churchill and Thatcher.
Believe it or not, I agree.
Comment, from the Oz, on the issue of Aborigines on a jury…
Rubbish. No one voted for lockdowns or vaccine passports and that’s what we got whichever government was in power. Do you think things will improve if Labor gets in federally?
Ed Casesays:
March 17, 2022 at 9:55 pm
Ever heard of CD Jackson?
Me neither, but he was a powerful Spook for many years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Douglas_Jackson
And your point is?
Good “spooks” tend to prefer to stay in the background. How many occupants of the position previously known as “C” before around 1990 would you know by name?
Bluey
We’re screwed aren’t we?
Not if we plan carefully, and start looking to defend the nation, not police the world. Short of a nuclear armed opponent (who is prepared to use them first) we could make a fair go at it.
A change in government and nothing changes, yet I can’t blame the voters?
How many registered political parties are there Federally? A lot more than two.
Ed Casesays:
March 17, 2022 at 9:59 pm
Zelenskyy is a dumb PoleSmoker.
Rex Franger reckons he’s up there with Churchill and Thatcher.
Believe it or not, I agree.
Have you re-tuned your Spook Detector, after its earlier massive failure?
Putin is amoral, but if I were in his shoes, I’d do exactly what he’s done.
If I were in zelensky’s shoes, I’d get plastic surgery and then get out quicksmart.
He’s certainly stepped into the role. Seems to be on the phone to leaders in other countries all day and all night and has been doing so without many stuff ups. A few. But far less than Biden for example, or Boris Johnston. Or even ScoMo. Not a bad effort.
Heinlein has a novel Double Star, where a B-list actor gets recruited to be Prez when the actual Prez gets shot. He steps into the role, playing the character so well that when the original guy dies he takes over and after many years can’t even remember ever being the seedy actor, so perfect is the role he is playing What is real and what is acting? And can acting become real?
It’s a fine story and won the Hugo and Nebula awards. Zelenskyy seems to be turning into that guy, it’s interesting to watch.
Maybe we have some people like that in defense, but I can’t see our governments actually committing to it. It might actually require some sacrifice and real principle.
No one voted for lockdowns or vaccine passports and that’s what we got whichever government was in power.
Seen the interview with Perotard where he talks about how he collaborated with The Bat Eared Mong to cover each other’s arse?
Bluey
Many of the people in Defence are part of the problem, because too many are focused on their careers, not the mission.
Off to bed, continue tomorrow.
the dumb fuck has done nothing but lead his country into death and destruction. the more the MSM tell us he is a hero, the more it must be he is a villain.
Putin and Zelenskyy are both tragic figures. Putin has worked forty years for his country only to stuff up worse than anyone since Mussolini tried to conquer Greece from Albania. Zelenskyy is a second rate comedian who has found himself in charge of a country being conquered. I don’t know who will eat them better but both have a smorgasbord of shit sandwiches in front of them right now.
Yeah, it is possible to have two dickheads in a fight.
Imagine, if you will, Matrix in a punch-up with St Ruth.
Uk moves towards chinese style fascism
Online Safety Bill ‘risks creating a massive honey pot of data’ says Matthew Lesh
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I’m not. I told yiz, your all on your own now.
I’m just killing time while I down some whiskeys in preparation to doing some amateur surgery on my ingrown toenail.
Whiskey- check.
Stanley knife- check.
Pliers- check.
You gotta slice the nail down to the root and then pull the slice out with the pliers.
You want to be well pissed before hand.
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Getting there.
* Not medical advice.
Arky can you video it?
Otherwise people – nasty types – might say it didn’t happen.
I have previously commented here at the Cat on my short but glorious career doing jury duty.
My first and most lasting impression was once herded into the jury waiting room, the vast majority were like sheep without a dog to chase them where they were supposed to be.
Separated from husband/wife/partner/significant other they wandered around looking for a place to sit, asking each other whether it was OK to get a cuppa from the sideboard, are we allowed to use a phone, what time do we get called up, moo moo baa baa. Truly astonishing to realise this was the justice system in action and some poor villain/accused was about to have his fate decided by this mob of “peers”.
The Court Sheriff finally appeared and prodded the herd into some semblance of order , instructions relayed, questions answered, doubts resolved and the selection process began. Justice, flawed though it may have been, was eventually served as the more obvious cretins and no-hopers were culled by the respective prosecution and defence lawyers.
If selection for jury duty is ever even considered to be based on racial, religious or ethnic grounds as is being spruiked by abo activists after the Rolfe trial then your guilt or innocence will be decided by which offender/victim gang you belong to.
If it ain’t broke, don’t tamper with it.
and sacho just turned into the girl that doesn’t care as long as the boys fight about her.
you stupid mole
Indeed. Dave Rubin, ‘his’ twins and twitter today was instructive.
Arky says:
March 17, 2022 at 10:30 pm
Firstly and most important, douse the toe in disinfectant.
My fav is methylated spirit. Done it a couple of times, but better and less painful to avoid it, by careful and meticulous trimming.
Top response.
Well done you.
🙂
and I must say … excellent goading by your good self
Told you you should have private health cover.
What are you even on about?
I asked you what you think is an appropriate response to Struth, since you think too many words and focussing on the bullshit he calls an ‘argument’ = effeminate weakness and ‘playing the victim.’
Or am I supposed to cringe and be silent every time Struth calls me CoMrAdE ChOo ChOo because he now calls the shots here and I’m up against the groupthink?
Now this really really really fucking shits me:
Tributes flow for Coogee car fire victims Abiyah and Aiden Selvan
What has happened here? 99% certainty that it’s a murder-suicide perpetrated by the mother. (Note how the headline only names two victims – the two children – when three people perished. That’s a bit of a give-away.) If so, this woman – this freaking evil, demonic woman – set her car on fire with her and her two young children inside. Look at how the media is covering it, however, and contrast when a man does the same kind of evil shit to him and his kids – they sure don’t hold back then. But look at this! Hell, the murderous witch even gets a nice shout-out in the article:
Like…what the fucketty fuck??? Screw “Selvi”. Hope she burns in hell.
Fuck off, Grigory.
Pedro.
I drew two jury summons in relatively quick succession (given some people never get one call up).
We were supposed to get a lifetime exemption after hearing one quite disgusting case, but we never got that in writing.
Spent six months last year in on-off jury mode before finally being shunted.
Mummy, I’m burning alive because you set the car on fire with me in it. Please nurse my hideous burns with all of your compassion, you lovely nurse from Fiona Stanley hospital, you great defender of my life!
WEF influencers influencing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MJAPAImg5U
Fuck the media, they’re such scum.
Well, yes.
But she’s already … never mind.
When you think they can’t get any worse, they never fail to prove you wrong.
God, I wish Infidel Tiger was here.
…
So I could give him shit about Richmond.
Sancho, I made it into the courtroom five times over a week of jury duty and got challenged every time by the defence lawyer.
Feeling seriously offended at being rejected for no apparent reason and later chatting with a court bailiff he told me me I probably got turfed by the defence because I was wearing a suit and tie, was clean shaven and had a fresh haircut therefore I was perceived by the accused’s lawyer to be a “conservative” and therefore likely to vote “guilty” on his client.
He was possibly correct in his assessment.
Mate of mine was a former criminologist – he said anyone wearing a suit and tie, clean shaven and s fresh haircut would be first out the door.
Pedro, they have a set of ‘rules of thumb’ for jury selection.
Perversely, one of the defence ‘rules’ is to pick the prim looking buttoned up ladies for a rape trial.
They are (supposedly) more likely to buy into the “little tart was asking for it” narrative.
I would wear rejection by defence lawyers as a badge of honour.
I got online on the Justice website last year and made a slight tweak to “Occupation” which I was told is more likely to draw a rejection.
Not a lie, just a different way of phrasing it.
Pedro.
Just be thankful they didn’t confuse you for defendant.
Ta, Zulu.
If I had known that I would have turned up in a T shirt and tracky daks (like a fair few of the other jury panel) and then voted the villain guilty.
He/she wouldn’t be in front of the beak if he/she wasn’t guilty would he/she?
All you lot shaddup about Pell and Rolfe.
Been summoned once for jury duty.
Received notice by registered post, took ages to reach me, coz working about fifteen hundred miles from home at the time.
Wrote back informing that I was fifteen hundred miles away & wouldn’t be back for several months.
Received haughty response, ordering me to present on designated date, & on that day when called to claim an exemption coz working fifteen hundred miles away.
Wrote back that I had “insufficient funds” to travel the coupla thousand miles (so there!)
Haughty response to the effect that this made no difference & if I did not present I’d be in big trouble.
Due date came & went.
Never heard anything again.
Just watched movie Man of the Year (2007) on Stan. Not seen it before.
Robin Williams plays a comedian TV host who runs for President but knows he has no chance. Luckily for him a computer company gets the gig for nationwide computer voting system. Laura Linney discovers a glitch but the computer company boss does not want to know as too close to election.
Due to the glitch he gets elected. Jeff Goldblum is the legal guy for the computer company and his reasoning for letting the election stand is classic. It would be bad for democracy if people can’t have faith in the system that elected the wrong person. Much like many people’s attitude to 2020.
Plenty of good lines. Last one was “politicians are like diapers and should be changed often and for the same reason”.
Christopher Walken is Williams manager. Tina Fey and Amy Pohler play themselves on Saturday Night Live.
Might be topic for a movie thread. Presidential movies ?
Oh, Jesus.
I have actually heard words not dissimilar to that spoken in a jury room during a break not far into day one.
Sad, really.
“Occupation – Public hangman ” will get you kicked off, every time.
The ABC could embarrass Pravda. No doubt they’d hide behind the deaths and accuse anyone questioning the narrative as “scoring political points” while the husband is in mourning.
But it is they who dishonour the dead by describing their killer as “compassionate”. They’ll excuse anything and deride anything according to political tribe. Socialism is an absolute ideology which requires absolute dogma and absolute politicisation of everything. The only principle is winning.
Zapruder’s short film is my favourite.
Funny you mentioned it Pedro. I received a letter to attend . I then I called explained I owned a business and was excluded.
I’ve posted this before -that’s why counsel for the defence doesn’t like ex – servicemen on the jury – they believe the accused must be guilty, or he wouldn’t have been arrested in the first place.
FWIW, a mate was called up to do jury duty in New South Wales. The defendant was a single mum, charged with welfare fraud. Just after the start of the trial, one of the jurors informed the jury room at large “I don’t care what you guys say. She’s a single mum, I’m a single mum, I feel sorry for her, and, as far as I’m concerned, there’s no way I’m finding her guilty.”
In the last job I ever held, one of the other blokes I worked with was arrested & charged with rape.
Our direct boss was one of the jurors.
Naturally, coz cops never lie.
Cops never make a false arrest.
Cops never commit perjury.
Cops never try to frame anybody.
The media were terribly quiet about this one as well until the trial kicked off.
Murdered her children in a fit of psychosis, but was not quite able to carry through on her suicide.
She was charged with murder and went to trial in 2021, and was acquitted due to being of unsound mind. But sentenced to be held indefinitely in custody until Mental Health Review Board and governor deem her stable enough to be released.
Sancho at 11.40pm.
I would bet those very words were spoken in the jury rooms at the trials of Lindy Chamberlain, the Mickelberg brothers, Mallard and Button, Keogh.
All unjustly convicted and later proven not guilty
leather strap between the teeth – check.
Yet you didn’t have the dick & balls to back your mouth.
It is you, not I, who backed down.
You chickenshit.
Game Over.
Yea, the war appears to be going swimmingly for Benito Putin. He appears to be winning bigtime.
Wall Street Journal
they dont want to win the battle
they wan to win the war
read my lips … it’s all about political power
and you are at war.
you are at war
like Ukraine
to the victor go the spoils
careful what you wish for
I once had a lot of faith in the jury system and trusted the various Australian police forces.
Cardinal Pell’s saga, the NT police witch hunt of Rolfe, the Lindt cafe debacle and VicPol’s slapping the cuffs on a tiny little pyjama clad pregnant girl have destroyed that trust.
I know there are many good and honest coppers out there (I know a couple) but they are rapidly becoming the minority.
Trust is hard to gain and easily lost.
In my very first job, the boss was arrested & charged with a serious crime, that involved a significant jail term.
Stealing & slaughtering a beast belonging to someone else.
Not only did he not do it, it never happened. (A Pell-style setup)
It was supposed to have happened in front of all of us, while walking a mob of cattle.
We knew it had not happened.
The prosecution actually called all the ringers as witnesses, for the prosecution.
It was a fiasco from start to finish. Prosecution witnesses (mostly police) gave totally different sworn (under oath) testimony from one hearing to the next.
The jury were winking at the public gallery, making funny faces to us & drawing cartoons of the court officials & barristers.
The Crown Prosecutor was hopelessly unprepared – mainly coz he knew nothing about cattle & had not been given even the faintest heads-up that the case was a pitiful fake.
There were actually crime scene photographs (meaning the police fitup was intentional) these photographs were of a location in the bush which was obviously not the location where the actual crime scene was purported to be.
After the inevitable acquittal & lambasting of cops by Hizzonna, Internal Affairs (or whatever they’re called) should have been waiting outside to take into custody every police officer involved in the case – the lying & faking was that blatant and that obvious.
Instead nothing happened, every cop involved retired as a respected Sergeant or Inspector.
They deserved jail time. These arseholes tried to ruin a man’s life – without even knowing him personally.
Wot, invaded by some arsehole with an agenda, but claiming he did it because he didn’t like the company he thought you kept?
And everyone on the sidelines is cheering his thrusts and jeering at you whenever you try to struggle free cos they say you deserve it for the same reason?
Hard Pass from me, guv…
The Lindt cafe debacle happened solely because New South Wales coppers didn’t want the backlash from Mooslim voters, caused by calling in Two Commando to use Man Moris for target practice.
Of course Zulu.
Political correctness, turf war with the Army, NSW police incompetence and innocent victims dead.
How these pricks sleep at night has me stumped.
I think you miss the point Rex
you’re still arguing like a sheila
who gives a flying fuck what feelings you have about it?
or what motivations you ascribe?
or who was an arsehole?
who wins, makes the rules
who do you want to make the rules?
subsumed by the narrative
you cannot think
ffs
Allegedly.
Much like the #I’llridewithyou confabulation from Kristina Keneally and co about the same time.
And this led, in turn, to MAJGEN Rick Burr asking them why they refused TAG-East’s help, and the bullshit excuse proffered that the police had heard SOCOMD troops were a pack of murderous cowboys ultimately led us to the Brereton debacle and the Roberts-Smith trial.
All because of the alleged fear of a bunch of angry folks in southern Sydney throwing a religiously-motivated tantrum.
12.06 a.m.
I just want to tell you good luck, and we’re all counting on you.
Story that reached my ears was that Two Commando had built a replica of the Lindt Cafe, and were working out their tactics, when the word came that they would not be needed.
“We did this stuff all the time in the Ghan. Chuck in a couple of whizzbangs, Noddy cops a double tap, and the biggest problem is getting back to base, and the pogoes have scoffed all the Coco Pops. ”
For what it’s worth, I’m assured that West Australian Tactical Response Group would never have perpetrated such a fiasco. They train at Campbell Barracks…
I am?
Why?
Would you prefer I just called you a clueless xunt just looking to piss me off for laughs?
That’s being a ‘man’ about it, right?
Says yet another little bitch who has become so angry and frightened and almost sexually obsessed by his apparent total loss of agency that anyone who isn’t acting as disenfranchised as him must be in on it, right?
I’m quite tired of you ‘tards being so desperate for a win, you’ve ended up as Borglike as the Lefties you say you’re fighting.
Look at you- Vlad Bae is right cos Western corruption.
Ukraine is bad cos Nazi Western corruption.
Everyone not raging that the jabs are gonna murdergenocide us all is bad cos not like us.
Mr Panzer, earlier:
I trained there for a few years. A very underrated stable for a backyard setup, in my humble rah rah blah. Some very, very good fighters, and also the occasional almost-but-not-quite that got used as sparring meat for the cruiser and heavyweight belt-wearers.
Crackers Keenan used to show up once a month or so, hit the bag and swear for a bit and then leave.
The rights of the hostages were subsidiary to the perceived “feelings” of western Sydney.
Baird & Scipione both failed in their duty-of-care to the girls held hostage in the shop, for this Baird and Scipione both should do jail time.
I’m quite tired of you ‘tards being so desperate for a win, you’ve ended up as Borglike as the Lefties you say you’re fighting.
The story is never simple.
I live my life, Matrix. I have two eyes, a brain and the ability to research as much or as little as I want about something.
And I am not at all inclined to defer to anyone telling me I’m a denialist, a sheep or SuBsUmEd By TeH NaRaTiVe because I don’t automatically agree with them.
Driller
Post copies of the four separate notices. Prove you’re not the blowhard we all think you are.
Getting late in the wheatbelt and I have found the elusive chocolate ice cream at last. (don’t ask).
Good OT discussion this evening Cats, not too much stoushing thankfully.
In closing, I for one appreciate your posts Lizzie, nice to see little insights in other peeps world.
‘Nite all.
Nope.
And never try to play defence for the Kenworth King ever again.
No matter how hard you get at his wordwalling rants, tinfoil hat-wearing bullshit and calling me a lazy unionist denier mental case every time he realises not a single one of his claims actually holds water.
He doesn’t need it.
We can bet on that too.
I’ve not yet received notification that you’ve posted the stake into escrow.
You’ve been called, now step up, or STFU you blowhard.
You’re not a man. Your word has no value.
Wowee… Was halfway through watching a Youtube in which a Canadian opposition MP was asking a member of the Trudeau govt what was apparently a cut-through question about the Emergencies Act (i.e. freezing bank accounts of Truck drivers)
… then… phfffffst… the entire account was deleted. In real time, in front of my eyes.
question asked why Kimberley Kitchings family wasn’t offered state funeral by Andrews. Wrong faction? Not that I think most of them should be ‘state funerals’ anyhow
only one very rational comment on this catholic school class action story. Guess my straw man is hardening up
Bourne1879, thanks for the recommendation of Man of the Year – checking out now…
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Warren Brown.
Warren Brown #2.
Peter Broelman.
David Rowe.
Christian Adams.
Peter Brookes.
Patrick Blower.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Chip Bok.
Matt Margolis.
Gary Varvel.
Tom Stiglich.
Robert Ariail.
Henry Payne.
Ben Garrison.
Bob Moran.
Thanks Tom.
Warren Brown’s blind Albo is pretty good.
Regardless of the rest of the Roberts-Smith shit show, the two original claims that the ABC aired way way back (before any media named him) are still total shit.
The shooting and kicking the old man off the cliff story has changed so many times it’s beyond ridiculous.
The taking three young Afghani men into a cave & single handedly beating them to death with a hammer story appears to now be in the forgettory.
Reflecting on how Walker was passed around and sometimes fought over various ‘family’ foster or otherwise, from infancy, all of whom apparently had substance abuse issues, you have to wonder if it was him they cared about or the centrelink benefits part of the package.
good point on the Kumanjayi Walker story by Murray Walters.
Going to buy some of this early next week.
Best carbonara I ever tasted was at Trattoria da Enzo Al 29 and they used it.
guanciale
Yes indeed, rosie, and there is a story doing the rounds about a young Aboriginal guy who suicided by climbing up a power pole and electrocuting himself along the same lines. His biological parents were out of there from the beginning, he was bounced around various extended family members, he was released into the ‘care’ of extended family after a stint in a mental health facility and then fell through the cracks and killed himself.
Of course, this is Whitey’s fault.
Not his deadbeat parents, or their immediate family, who according to the sacred lore we keep hearing about should have looked after him. And, nobody else could look after him because that would be Stolen Generations Mark II.
It’s appalling, it happens over and over again, and the MSM and their 1/1024th leeches feed on it.
Just popped outside for a smoke, and the Space Station is still up there, despite the magnificent trolling about taking it down.
I wonder how interpersonal relations in the tin can are going?
According to news in foreign lingo the Russians doing quite well.
Whom to believe?
also want to try making this. Had it in Corsica, very nice.
I kind of hope so Gabor, the sooner there are proper negotiations and a cease fire the less people will be dying.
I know it’s wrong but prolonging just means more death and destruction.
““People are coming out alive,” Ukrainian parliament member Sergiy Taruta wrote on Facebook, though he did not say how many.
It is not currently known if there were injuries or deaths among those inside”
abc on the Mariupol theatre theatre
#Droneon
if you missed it Latham on fakeelbow
The Cat class should know that three of the workers’ vehicles have already left, one guy is in the carpark loading up, and I can hear the guy next door having his morning shower.
It reminds me of this Steely Dan classic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDMGHiMXV4A
‘While the poor people sleeping in the shade of the night, while the poor people sleeping all the stars come out at night …’
time to buy a new one of these
Thanks Jo.
I liked Steely Dan sufficiently well to buy a couple of their albums when I was a teen.
That track didn’t do it though.
even the Sahara wants to go to Europe
ZZZZZZZZ
It happens.
Reading back about jury duty, I do wonder how it works.
I’ve never been called, despite decades of eligibility. OTOH, one of the Filipino housemaids here has been called twice, despite her English being adequate but hardly up to a trial. She never made it, quite rightly, but spent two days when she could have been working sitting around waiting.
It’s a mystery.
In the context of a Victorian population of around 6.5 million and NSW 8 million even 40,000 is well, not much
as suspected tales of everyone is moving to Queensland are just that, tales. Regional internal migration estimates Australia
The State gets the Jurors it wants, the Bjelke-Petersen Trial was proof of that.
If it’s random, what are the odds of getting picked twice, yet there are plenty who have actually served 3 or more times, of course they always vote for Guilt.
Well……all of us know Labor is a party full of grubby hypocrites.
Ex-MP Emma Husar slams Labor Party and leader Anthony Albanese
Ex-Labor MP Emma Husar has slammed her former party, saying it is ‘toxic and manipulative’ — and its leader Anthony Albanese is behaving like a ‘gaslighting narcissist’.
Former Labor MP Emma Husar says women are “treated with disdain” in a “boys club culture of cover up” and has accused her former ALP colleagues of adopting a “do nothing approach” to the political problem of sexual harassment in parliament.
Former Labor MP Emma Husar has accused Anthony Albanese of behaving like a “gaslighting narcissist” in the wake of the death of Senator Kimberley Kitching — and revealed the stress of being bullied by ALP powerbrokers during her time in parliament caused her to develop a heart condition that required the care of a cardiologist.
Ms Husar, who once represented the Western Sydney seat of Lindsay but left parliament in 2019 after Labor mounted an investigation into ultimately unproven charges of sexual harassment against her, said she herself had been the victim of the ALP’s “incredibly toxic” culture of misogynist bullying.
Ms Husar also said it was “disgraceful” that the ALP was not investigating the circumstances of Ms Kitching’s death from an apparent heart attack, potentially brought on by the stress of her treatment by the party.
Since Ms Kitching’s death, numerous reports have emerged that the Victorian senator had been “iced out” of power and had her preselection put under threat because of factional disputes.
Reports have also emerged that Ms Kitching said she was ostracised by a group of prominent fellow female Labor senators she called “the mean girls”, and that one of them told her “if you had children, you might understand why there is a climate emergency” during a discussion of school climate strikes.
It has also emerged that Ms Kitching had complained to a workplace trainer employed by parliament about being bullied by colleagues.
Despite this, the ALP has ruled out an investigation into reports that Ms Kitching had been bullied or ostracised.
Earlier this week, Mr Albanese also lashed out at a reporter who asked about Ms Kitching’s experience, calling the use of the term “mean girls” “disrespectful”.
“I find it astonishing that in 2022, I get a question using the term ‘mean girls’. I find that extraordinarily disrespectful to describe strong, articulate, principled women like Penny Wong, Katy Gallagher and Kristina Keneally,” Mr Albanese told the Today show’s Alison Langdon, referring to three of the senators Ms Kitching had complained about.
But Ms Husar said Mr Albanese’s faux outrage over the term was merely “gaslighting’’.
“A woman lost her life and there were circumstances that point to the Labor Party, but what Albo is doing here (by turning the phrase around) is absolute gaslighting,” Ms Husar said.
“This is the phrase Kimberley Kitching used to describe her (alleged) bullies. If this was on a different sort of work site where would the ALP, which says it is the party of workers, be then?”
“I developed a leaky mitral valve condition in my heart and had to see a cardiologist.
“We both had a right to be safe in our workplaces and we were not. It’s disgraceful.”
Ms Husar, who also launched, and ultimately settled, a defamation case against Buzzfeed over an article she said portrayed her as a “slut” and dishonest, said she had been horribly treated by Mr Albanese during her time in parliament.
“Albo was perfectly happy to pump up my tyres to get at (then leader) Bill Shorten”, she said. “But he never called to check on me.”
The Opposition Leader, she claimed, told her in a meeting that she deserved “nothing short of an apology”, but he later would not comment on the discussion except to describe it as a “private conversation.
Ms Husar, who was ultimately cleared of allegations of sexual harassment, was also deeply critical of the way the Labor Party held itself out as the champion of women while treating female parliamentarians so poorly.
“Labor gets away with this because the left-leaning sections of the media believe in progressive politics and think that just because it’s the ALP and they have more women in parliament they are better. But it is only because the poor treatment of women in the Coalition is so much more overt that we don’t see the coercive control that goes on in the ALP,” she said.
“Labor is far more toxic and far more manipulative than the Liberal Party.
“We need a progressive government and to move on from bungling Covid and ‘I don’t hold a hose’, but Labor isn’t credible at all because they deny they have any trouble on their side.”
Mr Albanese repeatedly denied there is a toxic culture for women within Labor.
“I’m very proud of the fact that I lead a team that has 50 per cent female and male contribution in my shadow cabinet.
“I’m proud of all of the people in the leadership team of the Labor Party,” he said earlier this week.
“We have an extraordinary group of talented women. They are all making a contribution.””
At the time the ALP introduced quotas for women Reps it sounded like Electoral Suicide.
Yet it forced the Liberal Party to do similar, with the result that there is a gaggle of hopeless female ministers that can’t be sacked, for purely political reasons.
Wong is the Beacon for all of them, she should be booted, but PeanutHead and Albanese don’t have the guts to do it.
This is important.
He is there, live, watching the war.
“The Russians Are Losing!”? Really? (Prelude to a False Flag)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AcFx5i7Ngs
Mar 18, 2022
Gonzalo Lira
His warning is seriously valid.
There have been enough smart people playing dumb so they can keep supporting the savage, bloodthirsty Nazis, and too few calling them out.
This is a FEATURE, not a bug, of the “Ukrainian” Govt/it’s Globalist Backers, who’ve been falsely branding every good guy around the world a “Nazi” while they’ve been building up the real thing –
Under the Wolfsangel: The uncomfortable truth about radical ideologies in Ukraine
The Nazi influence on modern-day Ukrainian politics is clear, tangible, and willfully ignored by its Western supporters
https://www.rt.com/russia/551975-nazi-influence-ukrainian-politics/
Russian Military expert Andrei Martyanov:
http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/03/i-post-it-here.html
This guys been on the ball and on the spot –
Gonzalo Lira
“The Russians Are Losing!”? Really? (Prelude to a False Flag)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AcFx5i7Ngs
Dilbert
Steam trains are racist.
‘Rooted In Colonialism and Racism’ – National Museum ‘Cancels’ Steam Trains (17 Mar)
Trucks are probably racist too, but it’s too early in the morning for me to think of a reason why.
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The comment –
Neither your past reactions re: that news [link above], nor your comment above make any coherent sense.
This is not uncommon with you, as with many people who don’t know which side of a fence their ‘authority’ expects them to jump to.
At this point all I know is that when I first posted the news you jeered & sneered at me (and by association at those who lost their jobs as Catholic School Teachers for refusing the Jabs), and now, well you still seem to be smarmily mocking.
They’re Coming For Me
After a few days of disparaging articles written about me, today we look at whether the stories are justified and how they fit into a larger media agenda.
Russell Brand
Russell Brand Hit Piece Backfires Into Self Own
The Jimmy Dore Show
Prick with ears Phil Coorey writes this one in the AFR today.
Mean girls and boys’ clubs plague all the parties
I can’t remember him writing that when a LNP chappy was in the poo.
This pox on both their houses is so juvenile.
It’ll be what the Insiders couch is all about this Sunday.
Hopefully Latho tees off on Coorey today.
Latho loves slamming him.
“They’re Coming For Me”
The MSM have now moved onto Brand, they’re going to “Rogan” him. If you dare question anything to do with the mainstream narrative, be it on Covid science, lockdowns, globul warming, Wussia, Trump etc….then you’ll be smeared as far-right, waaaacist, white supremacist, conspiracy monger, Nazi and you will be silenced.
Just remember, when one of the first to be disappeared from mainstream social media platforms, on the back of a ferocious activist and MSM campaign to silence and disappear him, Alex Jones, most laughed or just shrugged their shoulders. Nobody is laughing now. You will toe the line or else. Whilst there aren’t physical gulags in the West (yet), there are internet gulags, where you’ll be locked out of any mainstream social media platform, the MSM will routinely lie about you, you’ll be disgraced and forever termed a “far-right conspiracy monger”….all to silence you. And coming soon….you’ll be denied access to banking services and so on. Oh wait, that’s already happened in Canada.
You see, please forgive my rather tepid attitude to the West’s response to Putin’s invasion. We scream hollow words about freedom yet we’re living in a time where we’re experiencing the greatest assault on our freedoms in modern history. I condemn Putin’s invasion but don’t anyone dare pontificate to me about how we in the West are superior because of our freedoms.
Why are Young Athletic Women getting BLOOD CLOTS?
New York Times finally admits Hunter Biden laptop was authentic
Rival rips the outlet for leading push to squash Biden emails as ‘Russian disinfo,’ then later saying in passing that they were real
Mar 17, 2022 20:15
The New York Times is facing criticism from its oldest rival after quietly reversing its stance on the authenticity of emails found on Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop, mentioning only in passing that the messages were real and not the product of a Russian disinformation campaign.
“Forgive the profanity, but you have got to be sh*tting us,” the New York Post said in an editorial published on Thursday. “First, the New York Times decides more than a year later that Hunter Biden’s business woes are worthy of a story. Then, deep in the piece, in passing, it notes that Hunter’s laptop is legitimate.”
The editorial came in response to an article on Wednesday in which the Times reported about a criminal investigation into the tax filings of President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter. The newspaper said that emails between Hunter Biden and business associates about Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma and other overseas dealings had been “authenticated” by “people familiar” with the messages and the tax probe.
*READ MORE: Hunter Biden’s partner gets prison sentence
The Times also noted that investigators recovered the emails from “a laptop abandoned by Mr. Biden in a Delaware repair shop.” The article made no attempt to reconcile the admissions with past claims by the Times that the Post’s bombshell reporting on the laptop trove was “unsubstantiated” and that the Biden emails may have come from a hack of Burisma’s data.
After the Post broke the laptop story in October 2020, exposing alleged influence-peddling by the Biden family just weeks before the US presidential election, the Times helped spearhead efforts by legacy media outlets to dismiss the scoop. Many of those outlets cited a letter by more than 50 former US intelligence officials claiming that the purported scandal was the product of Russian disinformation. Discussion of the issue was censored on social media. The Post was temporarily banned on Twitter.
“Now we’re 16 months away from the 2020 election, Joe Biden’s safely in the White House, and the Times finally decides to report on the news rather than carry the Biden campaign’s water,” the Post said. “And they find that hey, Hunter Biden’s business interests benefited from Joe Biden’s political status to a suspicious degree. Perhaps this is a topic worthy of examination.”
The Post added that “there’s never any shame with these 180s.” It mocked the Times for “willful ignorance” of the laptop’s authenticity and casting doubt on a meeting between then-Vice President Joe Biden and a Burisma official – only to admit the reporting was true more than a year later.
*READ MORE: Politico, which joined MSM chorus dismissing Hunter Biden laptop scoop as ‘Russian disinfo,’ confirms authenticity of key emails
The Times wasn’t alone in quietly acknowledging the veracity of reports that were previously branded propaganda. A reporter at Politico, one of the many outlets that called the Post’s laptop scoop “Russian disinfo,” wrote last September that he had verified the authenticity of several of the key emails in question.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki branded the laptop emails as Russian disinformation both before and after the election, including at least as recently as last September.
Then candidate-Biden used the letter by former intelligence officials to bat down questions about the laptop, saying that the ex-spy chiefs had found the story to be a “Russian plant.”
Some of the emails that are now acknowledged by the Times as authentic were between Hunter Biden and a former business partner, Devon Archer, who was sentenced late last month to more than a year in prison on a federal fraud conviction.
* https://www.rt.com/news/552187-nyt-admits-hunter-biden-laptop-authentic/
Our freedoms and rights are an illusion, mere words fascist politicians sprinkle stirring speeches about democracy while they stomp the state boot onto our faces.
It’s an industry within an industry. Whoever gets the kid/s because Mum and Dad are pisswrecks or in jail gets the cash. Naturally, they don’t do the feeding and clothing stuff Centrelink (ie, you and I) are paying for, let alone any sort of actual parenting.
They are then ‘bounced around’ (to use the term in the papers, apropos of the electrical high-diver whose death is now before the NT Coroner) various other services, over-diagnosed by medical people who need those KPIs to retain their highly-paid sinecures and end up like Arnold (his actual name) Walker.
If they manage to survive a bit longer, they end up like the fellow south of Katherine, who escaped from an involuntary alcohol rehab joint and headed straight for where the nearest women were. On this occasion the woman, who happened to be breastfeeding at the time, made enough noise that her bloke turned up with a rifle.
Sadly, that bloke will go a row of shithouses because although he’s a good shot, he tagged the escapee from quite a bit of distance, and as that escapee was running away.
How is Albo going to cover this up?
Kitching had made a bullying complaint.
Like everything, the coverup is what blows you up.
Labor senator Kimberley Kitching sent a text saying Penny Wong never wanted to see her again the night before she lodged a bullying complaint with workplace safety consultants.
Senator Kitching complained twice about bullying in the second half of last year, first to Deputy Labor leader Richard Marles and then to external consultants brought in to address workplace safety.
The Australian can reveal that the night before lodging a bullying complaint with a PWC consultant, Senator Kitching sent a text message to a good friend to say Senator Wong never wanted to see her again.
Russia promises more disclosures on Ukraine biolabs
Human samples from a Kharkov lab were evacuated to the UK and other European countries, the military claims
Mar 17, 2022 09:27
The Russian Defense Ministry said on Thursday it will soon release additional documents pertaining to the operation of Pentagon-funded biolabs in Ukraine. Moscow believes they have been involved in bioweapons research.
Russian military specialists in weapons of mass destruction are analyzing documents obtained from staff members of the Ukrainian labs, ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said in a daily briefing. He claimed they detailed “implementation by the US in Ukraine of a secret project to study the ways humans can be infected from bats,” which was done in Kharkov.
The official said the same Institute of Experimental and Clinical Veterinary Medicine in the Ukrainian city worked for years to study under which conditions wild birds carrying flu could cause an epidemic in humans and to assess the damage that would result.
Konashenkov didn’t explain why such research should be considered military in nature, as assessed by the defense ministry.
The spokesman further said more Ukrainian documents will soon be released on the transfer of human samples from Ukraine to the UK and other European nations. The materials will be accompanied by Russian military assessments of the work they detail, he said.
The Pentagon sponsors dozens of labs around the world under the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). The work they do, the US government claims, is benign and is meant to monitor emergence of new dangerous infections. Countries like Russia and China believe they may be more sinister in nature.
* Read more Tulsi Gabbard responds to ‘Russian asset’ accusations
US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland said under oath that labs in Ukraine have been destroying research materials to prevent Russia from seizing them. It was not clear why Washington saw the scenario as dangerous. US officials claimed that the pathogens in question were remnants of Soviet bioweapons programs, which Moscow would presumably already have access to.
Some American public figures, such as Fox News host Tucker Carlson and former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, were attacked for asking questions about the Ukrainian labs, which supposedly amounts to repeating “Russian propaganda.”
Utah Senator Mitt Romney accused Gabbard of spreading “treasonous lies” with her concerns about the safety of pathogen samples in Ukraine. The hosts of The View television show suggested people asking such questions should be arrested and investigated as possible Russian agents.
* https://www.rt.com/russia/552128-ukraine-biolabs-documents-kharkov/
Of all the freaks in Canberra, I find the Marles chap to be the most off-putting.
In 10-15 years if some weird proclivity comes to light, you’d be “yep, of course, picked it”.
Seriously something wrong with him.
Posted in wrong fred! Let’s try again.
The Australian:
Over $14bn of new power transmission lines need to be built over the next decade as part of an urgent rewiring of the grid to handle a rapid influx of renewable energy and storage as coal generation exits the system.
We continue to be governed by idiots. Global cooling is coming, along with the human induced blackouts and food shortages.
Yep. Despite what Ramirez (thank you Tom) would have people believe, Zelensky is not Churchill.
Churchill was not put in at the head of a government fully backed and supported by a superpower very keen to keep and expand its natural resource options, and which placed its favourite sons (literally) in extremely lucrative commercial positions they had no expertise in*.
That government did not displace a democratically-elected government which favoured civil relations with its extremely large neighbour, which was ambivalent on the matter of disputed border regions with that neighbour, and which were full of people who spoke that neighbour’s language.
Churchill did not have previous stand-up comedy experience. Churchill did not spend years shelling those border regions, nor did he become enormously personally wealthy squeezing concessions out of every country (or group of countries around him) because of geographical and geological coincidences.
The only similarity is that Zelensky may get a state funeral, and it will be interesting to see who turns up. He is not Churchill or anything like it. There’s a bit of absolutism going on where any criticism of one team apparently means you are 100% on board with the other. This is a bit more complex.
*I will assert that Ukraine today looks and sounds more and more like Poland post WWII, but in reverse. Stalin was quite vocal on that subject, as he saw Poland as a buffer zone between the Soviets and Western Europe. He said at Yalta he wanted a ‘mighty, free and independent Poland’. What he meant was quite different.
It’s a “different kind” of bullying.
The Labor kind.
The saddest thing about that factual statement isn’t the countless ‘canaries in the coalmines’ people ignored for decades but that so many still actively mock their deaths and demand the world ignore the proven causes.
For example, our ‘Justice’ System; that many people experience a just outcome at the end of their dealings with it’s process is bad, not good, when those examples are held up to “disprove” that others experience nothing but corruption from go to woe when they seek just redress for evils The Corrupt have done.
That we have so many “proper channels” through which to seek redress for injustices is another evil joke as, for the most part, those channels exist to wear out & drown those who’ve had the misfortune of being victims of the very connected & very protected.
“Knuckle Draggersays:
March 18, 2022 at 8:20 am”
Great comment KD.
A break from the grhhh of life …
Thylacine sighting *New* 2/03/22, Ballarat Victoria.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlB_sqAmqW0
Mar 18, 2022
Thylacine Awareness Group of Australia Tas Inc.
13.5K subscribers
This is the 4th Thylacine sighting in Victoria this year we have had reported to us. The witness is a wild life photographer and is well versed in photographing Australian wildlife including foxes and dingo’s in Australia’s high country in Victoria.
On top of that, years earlier, her and 2 work colleagues at a winery saw a black Panther on the edge of the bush at the winery after work one day.
This lady is no fool and describes an extremely unusual animal right alongside her vehicle in the middle of the road only 2 weeks ago. You can tell from the sincerity in her voice this experience has had a profound effect on her and it is something she will never forget…
Geez she saw a black panther at a winery and now a Tassie Tiger, any chance she had been sampling the wineries fare at both times? Otherwise she is amazingly lucky to see such non existent animals when people who live and work in the bush all their lives never see them.
Dover, I thought you were trying to clean up your site from this sort of thing.
[Yes, but as johanna noted yesterday, I erred in allowing your initial comments because they did constitute scab picking, and even though I removed Struth’s over-the-top reaction, allowing your reopened wound on the thread to remain only invited further picking.]
A Tassie Tiger in Ballarat.
I saw one in my pyjamas this morning….
Lotus Eaters has an excellent expose of the emasculation of the Russian military by the ‘security services’ and the State managed mafia.
According to Lotus, the security services are terrified of the military and consequently remove any officer displaying a degree of competence. Security Service officers are placed in senior military positions.
The line soldiers hate the military and cannot be trusted, hence they are not being committed to murderously dangerous street fighting.
The only effective arm is the massive artillery Corps which is fine for flattening Syrian villages but not so useful bombarding Ukrainian cities with the world watching.
We are witnessing a rerun of 1936.
Worth a listen even if you disagree.
Good to see the other nudnick’s hackles raised.
Reignite democracy is targeting Catholic education and only Catholic education in a ‘class action’ over Victorian state government vaccine mandates.
Their over 1000 is represented by just three victims and the only comment on site was a revolting spray about the archbishop.
Thanks for the cut and paste exposing the calibre of Reignite Democracy supporters.
My prediction is this ‘class action’ will quietly crawl back into the bigot sewer it emerged from.
If Reignite Democracy chooses to unite with Andrews in targeting Catholics and by extension Christians my hope is the ‘party’ soon withers and dies.
Lying about my sympathy for those affected by mandates is just par for the ‘surgical slaughter of Ukrainian civilians is okay’ course
How is this any different to Mao’s cultural purges?
Why would he need to?
By next week he and the media will be blaming ScoMo.
And by the end of next week ScoMo will apologize for it.
It’s standard operating procedure for Greenfilth voters, for whom Phabulous Phil Coorey is a high priest and the ABC Sunday morning seance Insiders (which Phalulous Phil regularly preaches to) is the holy animist church.
And don’t forget the ABC 7pm TV “news”, which is a 30-minute Greenfilth press release designed for the property millionaires who live within walking distance of Balmain, Darlinghurst and Surry Hills and have never been to Penrith, Liverpool or Richmond.
After the 2019 election loss Albo sent Geelong Grammar old boy Marles to central Queensland to ask coal miners why they had abandoned Labor. Imagine what they made of him.
Show me a black Swan…
Don’t worry about food shortages in Australia Anchor What. The number of fatties around astounds me. I’m well built, not fat and could do with losing 5kg, but the number of young ones is worrying.
This kind of reinforces the point of view that sexual harassment and sexual abuse are about power, not unchecked libido.
Have you seen Labor women?
On the other hand, flies find rotting flesh as wholesome bees do nectar, or humans do barbecued steak*.
*I should think it goes without saying that vegans are not humans. Just little black holes that suck in attention and radiate misery.
Richard Marles.
Nothing says Labor royalty more than being educated at Geelong Grammar and Ormond College.
After the sad loss of Kimberley, there will be some satisfaction in seeing Wong, Keneally and Gallagher suffer politically. Richard Marles has also lost cred, and looks like weak male in the face of these harridans.
Seems to me that Putin is systematically re-developing the Russian sphere of influence that existed with the Soviets.
This was established with Crimea and now brutally reinforced with Ukraine.
Unfortunately for the western left elite the Ukraine is no Czechoslovakia in Spring.
It’s more akin to a Slavic Las Vegas of the Fifties, where every chancer rolls into town to get some action whilst the “house” is run by shady cartel bosses.
More coming out re the mean girls in the press, I see.
Labor figures commenting anonymously out of fear of retribution.
And Albo thinks he can sweep this under the red carpet in the senate chamber.
Labor manufactured a women’s issue in the liberal party, now they are exposed as having a real one.
These further revelations must have electoral consequences.
Maybe one day someone will spill the beans on Victoria’s dear leader.
like refusing to ever speak to Fiona Richardson
They’ve been hanging about on the lake for the past week. A pair but no cygnet (s).
When I see them, I feel that something quite magical has visited. Like the black cockies who fly low and call as they pass (I pretend they are calling to me and wishing me good morning).
This will make all the difference…….How about Australia Post sticks to delivering the blasted mail?
Meanwhile, the silence from the Coalition on Senator Kitching is absolutely deafening.
It’s the missing teeth. Get them fixed quick time.