Open Thread – Tues 15 March 2022


Caesar Crossing the Rubicon, Adolphe Yvon, 1875

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Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 16, 2022 2:45 pm

Mother Lodesays:

March 16, 2022 at 2:37 pm

Can we hold off on the Irish pub talk until Friday?

I was talking to a bloke about Ukraine and Russia in an Irish Pub…

I can see what you are trying to do.
Stop it.
And none of this, “Oh, I am going to the footy (approved LNP diversion) tonight. Can anyone suggest an Irish Pub (not an approved LNP diversion) for a few Russian vodkas beforehand?”.
I can see what you are up to.

calli
calli
March 16, 2022 2:46 pm

*sashays in, with extra swagger*

I’ve been to Irish pubs in Dublin and Belfast.

The one in Belfast had little booths with stained glass dividers. Very nice. I looked for bullet holes, but none were to be seen.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 16, 2022 2:47 pm

Topper!

Struth
March 16, 2022 2:48 pm
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 16, 2022 2:49 pm

Mother Lodesays:

March 16, 2022 at 2:38 pm

How Russia and Ukraine both fit into an Irish pub I will never know.

Russia is in the Ladies Lounge.
Ukraine is in the front bar.

calli
calli
March 16, 2022 2:49 pm

You bet! I been everywhere, man. Well, almost.

Best pub experience…Bird of Paradise, Goroka. Tenth wedding anniversary. Now that was a swanky pub. Complete with barred doors and security armed with baseball bats.

The Beloved sure knows how to impress a gal! 😀

Struth
March 16, 2022 2:50 pm
rosie
rosie
March 16, 2022 2:50 pm

Excellent advice Mr Mole.
Exactly the sort of thing the cat is famous for.

Speedbox
March 16, 2022 2:51 pm

Kneel says:
March 16, 2022 at 2:06 pm
Russia offered that, pre-war – including free gas!……

Indeed, but think what he could have got. Russia’s opening position was ‘ok’, but proper negotiations could have opened the proverbial treasure box. Interest free loans, grants for infrastructure, preferential trade, new factories, new/refurbished waterside facilities, airports plus new hospitals, research centres and universities all permanently funded by Russia…… plus of course free gas AND oil until, say, the year 2300.

He would have had to swallow the loss of the Crimea (which is effectively gone anyway) but everything else could be negotiated. (Russia would be thrilled for global maps to reflect Crimea as Russian, again).

“You want us to change our constitution to be a declared neutral country? Formally hand back Crimea? Sure, but that all comes at a price. Pony up .”

Russia would have eventually baulked at the extent of the demands but that’s how the game is played. Even so, a huge opportunity lost because much could have been extracted.

rosie
rosie
March 16, 2022 2:54 pm

A proper visit to Ireland is on my to do list.
Which will require a visit in months other than January and February.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
March 16, 2022 2:54 pm

There are numerous documented witnesses saying she was under severe stress in past months. Now perhaps if Struth could let us know when her last vaccine was we can draw our own conclusions as to which factors resulted in the heart attack.

Struth must know after all. I mean he was also the medical expert for Warnies death.

“note no one here is disagreeing with the theory put forward that she died because that chap Wong was nasty to her,…….but the emotions surely start (above) when”

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 16, 2022 2:58 pm

What evidence exactly are the cops going to tender at the trial?

Based on my (successful) defence in the whippersnipper assault case in the Perth Magistrates Court [unreported] I would expect the forensic focus to be on whether any participant was not so pissed to be able to offer credible evidence of the night at all.

rosie
rosie
March 16, 2022 2:58 pm

You can have the PNG laurels Calli.
I’ll skip that exotic experience.

Bluey
Bluey
March 16, 2022 3:00 pm

Speedbox, that a big part of why the whole Ukraine mess annoys me. So many off ramps, so many chances for a mutually beneficial diplomatic solution, but the USA is so hell bent on poking the bear through proxy.
From what I’ve had to do with Russian people they would have loved a cordial relationship with America, but it was never really on the table for whatever reasons.
Such a tragic farce.

Winston Smith
March 16, 2022 3:00 pm

Bruce;

One of the issues with their poor logistics (only 200 trucks per division in prewar TO&E)

I believe that transport is a Corps level asset in the old Soviet forces – transport is directed to support units on a contingency basis, and not part of the TO&E. I doubt there has been an adequate funding of transport since then.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 16, 2022 3:01 pm

Bourne1879says:

March 16, 2022 at 1:24 pm

What is insane is idiots like Struth attributing her death to the vaccine without any evidence.

I am definitely anti Vax mandates but the idea that heart attacks should be put into the vaccine death column is a bit of a stretch without actual evidence. Does Struth or anybody even know when her last shot was?

Or any other contributory factors.
I see the Jason Recliner experts citing that she had “lost a lot of weight” as if that is an instant heart health mitigation.
We wouldn’t say of someone who was diagnosed with lung cancer, “How can this be? He gave up the smokes at Christmas.”
The fact that she was overweight for twenty years can’t have helped and sometimes sudden weight loss can cause short term stress.
Did she, for example, take medication to increase metabolism and lose weight?
Those arteries don’t magically unclog on day one of the new diet.
In any case, I have no idea what her predisposition to cardiovascular disease was, via genetics or lifestyle.
I am happy to leave it to the coroner.

Struth
March 16, 2022 3:01 pm

There are numerous documented witnesses saying she was under severe stress in past months.

Of course there are.
Methinks they protest too much.

None so blind.
When she first died it was reported she was triple jabbed. Those reports get disappeared real quick so turnips like you can delude yourselves.

Nah mate, it was the salmon mousse.

Zatara
Zatara
March 16, 2022 3:03 pm

serious concerns about his safety behind bars

Yeah, because he’s special.

rosie
rosie
March 16, 2022 3:04 pm

The Markson article attributed the weight loss to stress, apparently information supplied by someone who knew her well.

Struth
March 16, 2022 3:08 pm

The term “Build back Better” is not Biden’s slogan, it’s the WEF’s.
It’s Klaus’s slogan.

So this…

but the USA is so hell bent on poking the bear through proxy.

is correct when you understand Biden is controlled by the WEF globalists.

Is as obvious as death by vax death, but people don’t WANT to believe.

This war is Soros, Klaus and Guterres (Davos Globalist filth), versus Putin, who is a nationalist.
It’s not rocket science.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
March 16, 2022 3:08 pm

Can we hold off on the Irish pub talk until Friday?

St Pat’s is Thursday.
Friday will be a day of quiet reflection.

#greenroséspritzer

Cassie of Sydney
March 16, 2022 3:09 pm

Get a load of this drivel from Dave Sharma…who isn’t a Liberal, he’s a Green…….from the Daily Telegraph.

“Federal Election 2022: Incumbent Wentworth member Dave Sharma warns fellow Liberals: ‘We could become the Republican Party’

Dave Sharma, the sitting Liberal MP most under pressure from a progressive independent, says the outcome of the federal election will define the Party’s identity for generations.

Dave Sharma, the migrant kid whose real name is Devanand, was only 12 when his world crumbled.

“I knew Mum was unwell. I knew she had breast cancer, but I think I just had this expectation of, you know, she’s sick but she’s going to hospital and so the doctors will fix it,” Sharma says.

“So it was a real shock to me when she died – I just couldn’t believe it. I remember coming home from school one afternoon and it was just devastating.”

So when the NSW government suspended breast screening during the height of the pandemic, the father of three was deeply worried.

“It (Mum’s death) forced me to grow up quickly and forced my dad to figure out how to become a hands-on parent, which men of his generation didn’t really do,” Sharma says.

“The stuff I did, like learning how to go and use the laundromat because when we moved we didn’t have a machine … I remember vacuuming the house, I used to pay the bills and do the banking when I was 12 or 13.

“There were no universal breast screenings back then for Mum. It’s something I got quite concerned about during the pandemic and I raised a few times with NSW Health.

“The NSW clinics basically closed their doors for a while so a lot of women were missing their screening and mammograms. It wasn’t just for breast cancer, it was all sorts of things, and I’m still worried now that we’re going to see a post-pandemic bump because people who would have been diagnosed earlier didn’t get to those appointments.”

Sharma, 46, says the plan for leading Wentworth out of the pandemic is one of the issues constituents have quizzed him on the most.

The contest for Wentworth has been under way for months, since independent Allegra Spender threw her hat in the ring in November.

Between the Coalition being 10 points behind Labor on a two-party-preferred basis, according to the last Newspoll in late February, and Spender’s well-resourced campaign – she has spent more than $62,000 on social media ads alone in the past three months – Sharma has reason to worry.

After all, he was unseated by fellow socially progressive, economically conservative independent Professor Kerryn Phelps in the 2018 by-election.

Spender’s army of volunteers and war chest only continue to grow as the east races towards the polls.

Sharma argues independents like Phelps and Zali Steggall relied on Greens and Labor preferences to get them across the line and voted with them about 90 per cent of the time.

“They say they’re independent but they’re only standing against Coalition candidates,” he says.

“They’re, generally speaking, standing against the most diverse of the Liberal candidates.

“I mean, I’m the only Indian Australian in the parliament, Josh Frydenberg is a Jewish Australian, Trent Zimmerman is a gay man in the LNP, as is Tim Wilson, so I sort of think their actions belie their statements.

“If this movement succeeds in a broad sense, and it may, you’ll end up, I think, with a Liberal Party that’s less progressive and less moderate because those people will all be gone and it looks more like the Republican Party in the United States.

“Do people really want that? Or do they want progressive, thoughtful, economically conservative, socially liberal members of the Liberal Party in parliament? That’s what people really have to grapple with here.”

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the potential impact on Australia’s national security has also been a hot topic discussed with the former diplomat on the campaign trail.

Canadian-born Sharma immigrated to Australia at age four to be closer to his Aussie mum Diana’s family in Sydney.

The son of barrister Bholan Sharma, a man of Indian heritage who grew up in Trinidad and Tobago, spent the majority of his formative years in Australia before studying at Cambridge in the UK and joining the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade soon after.

“Even though I’m very Australianised, I think I still have the perspective of a migrant because I wasn’t born here, because my dad was ‘different’ growing up, because I’ve got a strange first name: Devanand. I never felt like a kind of ‘insider’ Australian when I was growing up,” Sharma says.

“So even though I speak with an Australian accent and I get the jokes and the idioms and sport and everything else, I still have a lot of, I think, the migrant sensibility within me. I do identify as a diverse Australian or, if you like, a person of colour.”

It was at DFAT the then adviser to Alexander Downer met his wife Rachel Lord, a lawyer by training who was advising Philip Ruddock, and the pair maintained their relationship long distance despite a lengthy assignment to Papua New Guinea for Sharma.

Together with his three girls Diana, 15, Estella, 13, and Daphne, 8, the family travelled the world with postings including Washington DC and Israel.

They lived through the 2015 Gaza war between Israel and Hamas, which involved regular dashes to the bomb shelter.

“It was exciting, it was a privilege to go and represent your country overseas and deal with the highest levels of other governments,” Sharma says of his time with DFAT. “I met both the US presidents when I was there, Bush and Obama, did meetings in the Oval Office, dealt with the Israel prime minister and president, dealt with the PNG prime minister when I was there, and dealt with lots of Australian prime ministers from Howard onwards. It was a great insight into senior decision-making and foreign policy at the highest level.”

“I still take a keen interest in these issues and I’m still very involved in the decision-making, for example, with what’s going on in Ukraine right now with the Russian invasion. I’m heavily involved in the discussion because I’ve still got the networks overseas and I’ve got a lot of experience operating at that level.”

Spender and Sharma’s other rivals, including recently announced Labor candidate Tim Murray, have criticised him for running a campaign hinged on climate action while representing a party they say is moving too slowly.

Sharma points out that neither Labor nor the Liberal Party went to the 2019 election with their current net-zero commitments while acknowledging he would like to see the goalposts moved.

“I think we can move quicker toward net zero than 2050 and I’d like to see us invest more in the technology that would allow us to do it,” Sharma says.

“But I don’t understate the extent of that achievement because the climate wars in Australian politics, for want of a better term, are finished now because the conservative or centre right side of politics is basically no longer having an argument about the destination.

“There will always be arguments about what’s the best policy lever to get there. Do you use taxation or regulation or government purchasing power?

“I think we’ll have to end up having a more accelerated timetable than we’ve currently got and I’m certainly making the case for that. I accept, though, there are technological and commercial limitations on how fast you can make that transition, but I’m still keen to make sure we’re moving toward there as quickly as possible.”

The Sharma family recently put down more roots in the east, buying a house in Centennial Park about a year ago which is currently undergoing significant renovations.

The girls and their parents arrive home carefully navigating the building site in the monsoonal downpour and discussing a broken laptop and what on earth they’re going to make for dinner.

While her parents examine the contents of the fridge, Estella talks about how much she loved their life as a diplomatic family but is fully behind her dad’s change of pace to politics.

Sharma has been in contact with eastern suburbs sexual consent champion Chanel Contos and recently posted a selfie of the pair at Parliament House to social media, which greatly impressed Estella and her mates.

“I think it’s really great. She is someone a lot of people look up to at my school,” Estella says.

Lord is another of Sharma’s ­biggest fans, her own policy ­background informing her support for the platforms on which he stands.

However, she did point out the sacrifices the families of politicians make.

“It does come at a cost for the rest of the family,” Lord says.

“At school people do know the kids and they know me. Sometimes people come up and will say things and I think, ‘hang on, I’m not ScoMo’.”

Fortunately for Lord, the recent feedback has been of the overwhelmingly positive variety with regards to Sharma’s stance on the Religious Discrimination Bill.

“So many people have come up to me and said, ‘please tell Dave thank you so much for crossing the floor – it really means a lot’,” Lord says.

Whatever the future holds for Sharma, he is driven by the lesson taught to him by his beloved late mother.

“It’s not that I was ever someone who was going to coast along, but it (her death) gave me a sense of there’s a bit of an impermanence to life and it’s what you make of it. It’s in my hands.”

Message to Dave Sharma, I don’t want a progressive local member, I don’t want a socially liberal local member.

Dave Sharma can fuck off.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 16, 2022 3:09 pm

If making a fish based mousse I would recommend a smoked trout mousse using any number of internet recipes. I was forced to resort to making my own due to the pricing policies of the Tasmanian producer and their Perth retailer.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 16, 2022 3:13 pm

Cassie for the sake of your own health it might be best to avoid any electoral coverage for the next couple of months. Or have a bucket nearby.

Struth
March 16, 2022 3:14 pm

The Markson article attributed the weight loss to stress, apparently information supplied by someone who knew her well.

Not directly, but evil in intent as I see it, is this statement.
Go and get yourself jabbed and boosted, there’s nothing to worry about, says the always completely arse about since the start…Rosie Notaclue-Smollett.

Lunatics like myself are not gloating about vax deaths, we just realise boosters are next and it will be never ending until you are dead.
I and others present overwhelming evidence not because we want to shove it in your face, but we realise the jabbing is not over.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
March 16, 2022 3:15 pm

A proper visit to Ireland is on my to do list.
Which will require a visit in months other than January and February.

Aim for June/July to avoid the worst of the rain.

rosie
rosie
March 16, 2022 3:17 pm

Thank you Dr F shall do.

rosie
rosie
March 16, 2022 3:18 pm

Getting a little bit tired of the vaccine hot gospelling.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 16, 2022 3:18 pm

Bourne1879says:

March 16, 2022 at 2:54 pm

There are numerous documented witnesses saying she was under severe stress in past months. Now perhaps if Struth could let us know when her last vaccine was we can draw our own conclusions as to which factors resulted in the heart attack.

And some of those factors we may never know.
And rightfully so if they are common-or-garden risk factors for 45-60 year olds involved.
Classic confirmation bias.
‘I am a hammer – everything is a nail’.
I am reminded of the ‘cancer cluster’ at their ABC building in Brisbane.
For about five years solid this story about the high rate of breast cancer at the Toowong building was on high rotation on their ABC.
Even their sciency show Catalyst jumped on. One new case every year or two proved the point and revived the story.
Mass hysteria gripped the place.
What didn’t make the 7:00 pm bulletin years later was when it was studied in detail was that the numbers, whilst a bit above the norm, were not statistically significant.
Factors at play:-
.1 Breast cancer is by no means rare;
.2 The newsroom had a very large turnover over a twenty year period of women in the ‘sweet spot’ age group for breast cancer (40 – 60).
.3 When the catch-all ‘breast cancer’ was broken down into the different sub-types there was no discernible pattern. If it was caused environmentally, they would likely be all similar cancer types.
But the hysteria continued on.
Evidence-free confirmation bias.
It does it every time.

Vicki
Vicki
March 16, 2022 3:19 pm

I am happy to leave it to the coroner.

Is the medical examination by a coroner as thorough as a complete autopsy? The latter would require permission by the family, I believe. Obviously, the majority of families would probably be more comfortable with a conclusion by accepted normal procedure. Therefore, it is doubtful that a thorough autopsy, which would be needed to determine unusual blood clotting, or the “ropelike” congestion observed in the heart in vaccination adverse events, would be carried out.

Indeed, I would imagine this would be likewise for most heart failures – unless those occurring in very very unusual demographics.

If, God forbid, one of the vaccinated in my healthy immediate family has a similar tragic consequence, I will be calling for an autopsy. But I strongly suspect it would be very difficult to obtain.

Now, why would I think that?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 16, 2022 3:22 pm

H B Bearsays:

March 16, 2022 at 3:09 pm

If making a fish based mousse I would recommend a smoked trout mousse using any number of internet recipes.

I swear to God, what a rabble.
Read the running sheet.
We aren’t using salmon mousse recipes as a diversion until Sunday.

rosie
rosie
March 16, 2022 3:25 pm

What exactly is the ‘evil’ in quoting from a article written by Shari Markson?
Those interested in facts can read the whole thing at C.L.s.
There tends to be health related alarm bells when anyone, not on a diet, starts losing a lot of weight.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 16, 2022 3:25 pm

Is the medical examination by a coroner as thorough as a complete autopsy? The latter would require permission by the family, I believe.

I don’t know about different jurisdictions but I had a relative die of a heart attack at a slightly younger age last year.
Because of his age and also I think because there was no witness to the initial onset, it was the full whack autopsy.
It came back as a heart attack, pure and simple, with nothing attributable to vaccines.

John H.
John H.
March 16, 2022 3:27 pm

rosiesays:
March 16, 2022 at 3:18 pm
Getting a little bit tired of the vaccine hot gospelling.

That will never end. The die has been set. Don’t worry about it because in 2 years nearly everyone will be dead from the vax. Huge benefits. No supply chain issues, unemployment zero, no traffic jams, we’ll be able to walk into supermarkets and take what we want. It will be magical.

Always look on the bright side.

mizaris
mizaris
March 16, 2022 3:28 pm

Try the Australian Pub in Amiens. Fosters on tap. Truly unpretentious dump run by very swarthy gent who sports aviator style sunglasses inside, at 11pm. Lots of equally swarthy, sunglassed, clientele. Much handshaking across the bar, much pocketing of small plastic bags and folded notes.

https://erasmusu.com/en/erasmus-amiens/cafe-cocktail-beer/australian-bar-5586

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 16, 2022 3:29 pm

Vicki.
I am not an authority on autopsies in this circumstance.
What I do know is the funeral was delayed considerably waiting for a “thorough and conclusive autopsy”.
As you might imagine, I didn’t interrogate his family in detail at the time.
My only interest, as a blood relative, was in any heriditary factors.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 16, 2022 3:30 pm

Montys owner in the daily Fail!

Good lord, i wouldnt root it with a rented dick.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 16, 2022 3:31 pm

That will never end. The die has been set. Don’t worry about it because in 2 years nearly everyone will be dead from the vax

Please.
Don’t frighten the horses.
Some will be gone in 13 months time, it is true.
But others of us have a full three and a half years to run.

John H.
John H.
March 16, 2022 3:32 pm

Vickisays:
March 16, 2022 at 3:19 pm
I am happy to leave it to the coroner.

Is the medical examination by a coroner as thorough as a complete autopsy? The latter would require permission by the family, I believe. Obviously, the majority of families would probably be more comfortable with a conclusion by accepted normal procedure. Therefore, it is doubtful that a thorough autopsy, which would be needed to determine unusual blood clotting, or the “ropelike” congestion observed in the heart in vaccination adverse events, would be carried out.

Indeed, I would imagine this would be likewise for most heart failures – unless those occurring in very very unusual demographics.

If, God forbid, one of the vaccinated in my healthy immediate family has a similar tragic consequence, I will be calling for an autopsy. But I strongly suspect it would be very difficult to obtain.

Now, why would I think that?

Pray tell why?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 16, 2022 3:32 pm

If, God forbid, one of the vaccinated in my healthy immediate family has a similar tragic consequence, I will be calling for an autopsy. But I strongly suspect it would be very difficult to obtain.

It isn’t.

Struth
March 16, 2022 3:37 pm

If you aren’t thinking, by now, that a booster will most likely put you closer to death than not having one, honestly, you can’t be helped. You’re lost.

To admit these are deadly is now the only sane conclusion.
It seems to depend on dosage given, so why would you get yourself boosted.

The problem here is, you tallywhackers think I’m talking about the vax as if it’s “too late now for those that took it”
I can now see that is your emotional response.
I’m trying to prove you shouldn’t be taking anymore, FFS.
I’m up against denialism used as a coping method.
You all know underneath, you’d be FUCKING INSANE to get a booster.

srr
srr
March 16, 2022 3:38 pm

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jupes
jupes
March 16, 2022 3:39 pm

Good lord, i wouldnt root it with a rented dick.

Surely the Hippocratic oath applies for this moron. Doctors should tell her no.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 16, 2022 3:40 pm

Seriously, Vicki, it is not “difficult to obtain” a full autopsy.
In fact, in cases of sudden, unexpected death, it is mandated.
If, on the other hand, by “difficult to obtain a full autopsy” you mean the coroner won’t revisit physical examination and pathology ad nauseum because the family don’t accept the findings, well you are right.

rosie
rosie
March 16, 2022 3:42 pm

Now feeling very disappointed I didn’t go to Amiens.
Funny how some places you can be quietly minding your own business, and realise, just a short distance away, a whole lot of dealing is going on.
Happened upon such a situation in Angoulême.

Struth
March 16, 2022 3:42 pm

An Autopsy means….too late.

shatterzzz
March 16, 2022 3:42 pm

How Russia and Ukraine both fit into an Irish pub I will never know.
The Tardis Craic House ……

Lysander
Lysander
March 16, 2022 3:43 pm

Hah! https://twitter.com/rove40/status/1503672548654915584?s=20&t=DfykTUNFX9YfuNo-SyMI0Q

Albo on Howard: “You can trim the eyebrows, get your teeth capped, get a new haircut, new glasses and wear different clothes, same stuff – different bucket” 😛

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 16, 2022 3:45 pm

What’s the difference between an autopsy & a full autopsy?

Helen
Helen
March 16, 2022 3:47 pm

Premier Perrottet could end this with one simple memo to Departmental heads: announcing a new productivity measure of saving hours every day by abolishing the woke politics

And failure to do will be cause for instant dismissal. Only have to sack one or two, then the rest fall into line.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 16, 2022 3:49 pm

Struthsays:

March 16, 2022 at 3:42 pm

An Autopsy means….too late.

It actually means collecting facts and data upon which a rational conclusion as to cause of death can be drawn by a qualified pathologist.
These facts and data may confirm (or more likely refute) some of the more wild-arsed theories being spouted from the Jason recliner by the unqualified and ignorant.
So they are useful for those left behind.

Speedbox
March 16, 2022 3:52 pm

Bluey says:
March 16, 2022 at 3:00 pm
So many off ramps…

For sure, but Ukraine was/are in the hands of those who will never deal with Russia. There are many factors at play here since well before 2014 and unfortunately for the Ukrainians they have missed out on many opportunities. Basically, in wishing for one thing, they forgot to consider the unintended consequences. Maybe, just maybe, Zelenskiy might come to realise that he has been played although he is probably more a ‘useful idiot’ than a ‘statesman’.

…….but the USA is so hell bent on poking the bear through proxy.

Yep.

……Russian people they would have loved a cordial relationship with America, but it was never really on the table for whatever reasons.

At an individual level, Russians don’t particularly care about America insomuch as they just want to get on with their lives, nurture their families, create personal prosperity and live in peace. (the average Russian is not fundamentally different in that respect to any other person on the planet). They don’t spend their days wishing America liked them.

As a group, they are thoroughly annoyed at the continuous American condescension. They are deeply proud of their heritage and any Russian will tell you they won WW2 in Europe. Russians are well aware that their country is not perfect but they despise being lectured by, what they see, as a hypocritical, flawed and moral vacuum country like the USA. They see the deliberate attempts to isolate them as direct provocation and any Russian will tell you that the USA has been prodding the bear almost continuously since the 1950s.

Struth
March 16, 2022 3:52 pm

Not so useful to the ignorant bastard lying cold on the slab.

What’s better, […], avoiding the accident or working out someone died from one?

Delta A
Delta A
March 16, 2022 3:54 pm

no one here is disagreeing with the theory put forward that she died because that chap Wong was nasty to her

Considering the soft ride the media has given Keneally and Wong since for-evah, I’m amazed that suddenly there’s criticism of the precious girls.

I have no opinion on the cause of K. Kitching’s death, but there sure are a lot of distraction squirrels being chucked around.

Struth
March 16, 2022 3:55 pm

You’ve had 2 or three jabs, [Struth, no], why don’t you get a few more boosters and we can get an autopsy done on you.
If it comes back that the jab killed you….don’t have any more.

Struth
March 16, 2022 3:56 pm

I have no opinion on the cause of K. Kitching’s death, but there sure are a lot of distraction squirrels being chucked around.

Another one still sane……….

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 16, 2022 3:56 pm

feelthebernsays:

March 16, 2022 at 3:45 pm

What’s the difference between an autopsy & a full autopsy?

Nothing.
The coroner normally conducts two procedures.
.1 A preliminary examination. Samples of blood, skin, saliva, hair, mucus taken and a general lookover.
.2 An autopsy. The full buzz-saw job with organs removed, examined and sampled.
I think the term “full autopsy” might be used to distinguish between it and the preliminary exam.
There is no such thing as an “autopsy-lite” (if you exclude uniformed rantings from 3,000 kms away).
The autopsy will go until they conclusively establish cause of death or exhaust all testing or examination options.
Even in what appears an obvious open and shut case, the seemingly unrelated tests will still be done.

rosie
rosie
March 16, 2022 3:57 pm

Someone I knew died in difficult circumstances, body wasn’t discovered for six days in December.
Was taken to coroner’s office for autopsy, if they can determine cause of death without getting out the cutting equipment, they do.
In that case it was death by overdose so it would have been pathology tests only.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 16, 2022 3:59 pm

‘Watch the life drain out’: Ben Roberts-Smith said he wanted to choke a man to death, says soldier
Michaela Whitbourn
By Michaela Whitbourn
March 16, 2022 — 12.11pm

War veteran Ben Roberts-Smith violently assaulted an unarmed and scared Afghan man who was lying in the foetal position, and boasted on a separate occasion that he was going to choke a man to death with his bare hands, an elite soldier has told the Federal Court.

Person 7, a senior Special Air Service soldier whose identity cannot be revealed for national security reasons, told Mr Roberts-Smith’s defamation case on Wednesday that the decorated former soldier’s actions in 2010 in assaulting the man, who posed no threat, were “completely and utterly unnecessary”.

Person 7 said Mr Roberts-Smith approached him on a separate occasion in 2012 as he was sorting equipment and said: “I’m going to talk the talk, I want you to make sure I walk the walk. Before this trip’s over I’m going to choke a man to death with my bare hands, I’m going to look him in the eye, and I’m going to watch the life drain out of his eyes.”

Person 7 said he told Mr Roberts-Smith he was busy and ended the conversation. Mr Roberts-Smith has previously denied making the comment, dismissing the allegation as “ridiculous” and saying Person 7 “has a flair for the dramatic”.

The court heard Person 7 was a patrol commander in 2010 and 2012, and served alongside Mr Roberts-Smith in 2010 during a mission in Afghanistan targeting a “medium value” Taliban leader in the village of Deh Rafshan.

Person 7 said he and another soldier, Person 8, discovered an unarmed man sitting with his legs crossed in the corner of a room in a compound in Afghanistan. The man rolled onto his side as the soldiers approached him to detain him for questioning, Person 7 said, and “started to make a whimpering-type sound”.

The man was extremely scared and in the foetal position, and his body was so tense that it made it difficult for Person 7 to lift him, he told the court. He said he turned to his comrade and said words to the effect of: “Jeez, this bloke is shitting himself, we’ll give him a moment.”

Mr Roberts-Smith entered the room without speaking to his comrades, Person 7 said, before kneeling and delivering “three to four quick fire punches into the side of the Afghan’s head”, and kneeing him in the chest and stomach area.

Person 7 said he yelled, “Woah, woah, woah, what are you doing? We’re looking after this, get out of here,” and Mr Roberts-Smith turned and left without a word. The Afghan man was left with significant swelling to his face and nose, he said.

Person 7 said he subsequently witnessed Mr Roberts-Smith in 2012 punching a second Afghan prisoner near a little girl, who was crying. He said Mr Roberts-Smith told him the man was a “f—ing bad c—” and he believed it was suspicious that the man hesitated when asked for the name of his daughter.

He said he also witnessed Mr Roberts-Smith during a training exercise in 2012 telling another soldier, Person 10, to “f—ing kill” a soldier who was posing as a prisoner. Person 10 looked confused, he said, and Mr Roberts-Smith repeated, “kill him”.

Person 10 said “bang” to indicate the prisoner had been shot, Person 7 said. He said Mr Roberts-Smith then said: “Are you good with that? Because that’s how it’s going to be when we get over there.”

Person 7 said he told Mr Roberts-Smith to “pull your head in, grow up and wake up to yourself”, and Mr Roberts-Smith muttered something that included the phrase “f—ing war”.

Mr Roberts-Smith is suing The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Canberra Times for defamation over a series of articles in 2018 that he says portray him as a war criminal.

The media outlets are seeking to rely on a defence of truth and allege Mr Roberts-Smith committed or was involved in six murders of Afghans under the control of Australian troops, when they cannot be killed under the rules of engagement. Mr Roberts-Smith denies all wrongdoing and has said any killings were carried out lawfully in the heat of battle.

A former SAS soldier dubbed Person 4 has told the court he witnessed Mr Roberts-Smith kick an unarmed Afghan man off a cliff in Darwan, Afghanistan, in 2012, before the man was shot dead. Mr Roberts-Smith has denied the allegation and said the man was first discovered in a field and was showing hostile intent before both he and another soldier fired shots.

Person 7 said on Wednesday that Person 4 told him he witnessed the alleged incident and felt “a wave of panic come across his body” as he saw the Afghan man’s head hit a rock and a tooth fly out of his mouth.

He told Person 4 the allegation “just can’t be left here”, Person 7 said, and he met with a number of other sergeants to tell them about the allegation. He said he met with the then-regimental sergeant major (RSM) of the unit, Person 100, with three other sergeants, and raised the “war crime” allegation.

He said the RSM asked him: “What are you hoping to get out of this?”

“I said, ‘It’s not what I want to get out of this. It’s what needs to be done,’” Person 7 said.

The trial continues

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 16, 2022 4:00 pm

Struthsays:

March 16, 2022 at 3:52 pm

Not so useful to the ignorant bastard lying cold on the slab.

It seems to have exercised your 18 slot Roadrager cash-box for quite a few days now.
You are the one advancing the “Antidotal” evidence of cause of death.
Are you fearful that the coroner may not concur with your learned opinion?

calli
calli
March 16, 2022 4:00 pm

same stuff – different bucket

Correct, Albo.

Hasn’t improved with age, when anything would have been an improvement.

I’d forgotten what a nasty, whiny little scrote he was.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 16, 2022 4:02 pm

Ooooh.
We seem to be descending into “get a clot and die. You deserve it” territory.
Which is a sure sign the argument is being lost.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 16, 2022 4:04 pm

Breaking:

The good Senator was wearing underwear at the time of her death. Additionally, she was seen buying undies three months prior.

Isn’t it OBVIOUS you SHEEPLE? How many MORE eXample!s do you need?

None so blind, you goddamn deniers. You shallow, shallow jock-wearers.

I will not submit. Hold the line.

Indolent
Indolent
March 16, 2022 4:09 pm

Overwhelming Anecdotal evidence much of which I and many others have posted here regularly.

Sadly, I have another one to add. A friend of a friend recently died of a heart attack shortly after his booster shot. He was 52, which is starting to look like quite a dangerous age.

shatterzzz
March 16, 2022 4:11 pm

“The stuff I did, like learning how to go and use the laundromat because when we moved we didn’t have a machine … I remember vacuuming the house, I used to pay the bills and do the banking when I was 12 or 13.

Do these folk proof read what they write? .. Sharma sez he’s 46 now so he was born in 1974 .. I raised 4 kids as a single dad and my eldest is now 42 and I find it hard to believe that any family (especially one that has migrated here) wouldn’t have a washing machine but a vacuum cleaner (priorities .. it’s easier to use a broom than hand-wash/laundromat .. LOL!) in 1986 even tho they lived somewhere before mum died ..
We wuz livin’ on a single parent’s pension way back in the 1990s but we did have a washing machine & a vacuum (upper class poor , we must have been .. LOL!) tho no bank account(s) as there wasn’t anything to put in one (CentreLink used cheques back then & the PO cashed them) ..
Really bloody annoys when politicians claim tuff times and have no idea what it entails .. personally, if I was Dave, I’d of thrown in living in the car for a coupla months, Rudd style .. lotz more impact than the laundromat .. LOL!

Kneel
Kneel
March 16, 2022 4:15 pm

“Russia would have eventually baulked at the extent of the demands but that’s how the game is played. Even so, a huge opportunity lost because much could have been extracted.”

I think the “west” (OK, the US) encouraged him to threaten with NATO/EU membership, and perhaps under some pressure from local for EU membership. He took their advise I think, and that was his mistake if you ask me – when someone is already offering concessions and says “but you can’t do this”, threatening with that very thing is probably a bad idea. As you say, “It’s gonna cost ya!” would have eventually yielded a pretty good deal. The question is: a better deal for him personally than what Biden 7 Co were offering? Maybe not… For the country, sure – but for him?

Real Deal
Real Deal
March 16, 2022 4:16 pm

Mass hysteria gripped the place.
What didn’t make the 7:00 pm bulletin years later was when it was studied in detail was that the numbers, whilst a bit above the norm, were not statistically significant.
Factors at play:-
.1 Breast cancer is by no means rare;
.2 The newsroom had a very large turnover over a twenty year period of women in the ‘sweet spot’ age group for breast cancer (40 – 60).

And if I remember rightly, arising out of all that they had to demolish the place and build a completely new studio.
Many people with asbestos in old homes don’t get the luxury of a free rebuild.

The ABC staff always get the best.

Vicki
Vicki
March 16, 2022 4:18 pm

He was 52, which is starting to look like quite a dangerous age.

Son-in-law & daughter both that age. Both double vaxxed & had “booster”. Daughter contracted COVID last week. Quite sick. Don’t know if contracting CV protects or exacerbates potential problems from vaccine. Suspect the latter. In God’s hands.

JC
JC
March 16, 2022 4:18 pm

You gotta love these commodity markets. Up to late last week we were heading to the moon. Omni takes hold in China and we’re now heading to the core.
At one stage, the Aussie was looking like it was on its way to 80 cents.
Funny as.

rosie
rosie
March 16, 2022 4:18 pm

Sharma mentioned that they had moved and didn’t have a machine.
I’m assuming that was a temporary situation.

rosie
rosie
March 16, 2022 4:20 pm

And I imagine losing your mum at age 12 would be pretty tough.

Vicki
Vicki
March 16, 2022 4:32 pm

I don’t know about different jurisdictions but I had a relative die of a heart attack at a slightly younger age last year.
Because of his age and also I think because there was no witness to the initial onset, it was the full whack autopsy.

Thank you for that advice. Fortunately, I have not had reason in my lifetime to request an autopsy for a loved one. I understand the scepticism re vaccines relating to the heart failures of well known people of late. Nonetheless, the incidence of myocarditis and periocarditis in relation to these vaccines is well known and acknowledged by medical authorities – & indeed listed by Pfizer as an adverse reaction in the released data. It is only the extent of the problem that is debated.

rosie
rosie
March 16, 2022 4:36 pm

Don’t even know whether Warne or Kitchings had pfizer.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
March 16, 2022 4:39 pm

rosiesays:
March 16, 2022 at 4:36 pm
Don’t even know whether Warne or Kitchings had pfizer.

Ken Worth will know.

rosie
rosie
March 16, 2022 4:39 pm

Nope Warne had Pfizer in presumably July 2021 just before getting his first dose of covid.

sfw
sfw
March 16, 2022 4:41 pm

Just had a chat with someone still in vicpol, seems that ‘African Murder Weekend’ formerly known as Moomba is over. He tells of several murders, multiple stabbings, affrays and just a lot of of robberies with violence and fights and assaults.

Ahh, the joys of diversity.

rugbyskier
rugbyskier
March 16, 2022 4:43 pm

No NATO “east of the Elbe”, they said in the 2 plus 4 talks back in the early 90s.

There’s a (sic) next to “Elbe” in the transcript. I suspect that it should have been “east of the Oder”, as the Elbe flows through central Germany and the Oder forms part of the eastern border of Germany set in 1945. The Oder-Neisse line was a contentious point in the 2+4 treaty negotiations, with the former German provinces of Pomerania and Silesia east of the rivers now part of Poland, and West and East Germany had to guarantee that the Oder-Neisse line was the permanent border for the 4 powers to allow their unification.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
March 16, 2022 4:44 pm

ArthurBsays:
March 16, 2022 at 4:12 pm
I bet none of you has heard about this book:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08VFV4ZGK/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=john+helmer%2C+hitler+didn%27t+die&qid=1612213757&s=books&sr=1-1

Looks like Graeme is making a return bout.

Bluey
Bluey
March 16, 2022 4:45 pm

Thanks for the reply there speedbox, as a rule the Russians I’ve dealt with are of an age where they were children in the SU, but became adults in the 90’s. Think there’s a little bit of rose tinted glasses about the ideal of America, not the reality.

I have found the attitude about American condescension pretty much universal, bar a couple who are full on board the LGBTI+ progressive style politics.

The impression I have got in how they view Ukrainians is similar to how Aussies view Kiwi’s. Unfortunately history and the recent US meddling will drive quite a wedge. It’s tragic when it didn’t need to be.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 16, 2022 4:45 pm

There is probably good money to be made writing these puff pieces around election time. Time to get onto ASIC and get Kangaroo Knitting Pty Ltd up and running.

Speedbox
March 16, 2022 4:46 pm

Kneel says:
March 16, 2022 at 4:15 pm

…..encouraged him to threaten with NATO/EU membership, and perhaps under some pressure from local for EU membership. He took their advise I think, and that was his mistake….. The question is: a better deal for him personally than what Biden & Co were offering? Maybe not… For the country, sure – but for him?

As I said to Bluey, Zelensky is probably just a useful idiot who swallowed the US/EU line. But even an idiot should be able to leverage some cream for himself.

I wonder – is it possible to be a member of BRICS and the EU simultaneously? If so, in the spirit of utter neutrality, maybe Zelensky could have extracted largesse from both sides.

But again, it wasn’t quite that simple – Zelelnsky might be the President of the Ukraine but I don’t see him as the boss. He and the Ukraine more generally, are a pawn in a much larger game.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 16, 2022 4:46 pm

This war is Soros, Klaus and Guterres (Davos Globalist filth), versus Putin, who is a nationalist also a (Davos Globalist Filth) WEF Young Leader, remember?

Just a more popular one amongst some folks at present…

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 16, 2022 4:47 pm

“Turds polished. No questions asked.”

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
March 16, 2022 4:47 pm

I used to pay the bills and do the banking when I was 12 or 13.

My mother used to catch the tram into town to pickup sewing thread for Nana when she was 4.

srr
srr
March 16, 2022 4:48 pm

thefrollickingmole says:
March 16, 2022 at 3:30 pm

Montys owner in the daily Fail!

Good lord, i wouldnt root it with a rented dick.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10617125/Surgery-addicted-social-media-star-wants-second-vaginal-procedure.html

The same Medical Industry/Controlling Bodies that allow this, also allow “transitioning” kids, full term “abortion”, “euthanasia” of children & sad people.

Speak against Jabs & use ivermectin to save lives, now that’s something that have those same Medical Industry/Controlling Bodies give you hell for.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 16, 2022 4:50 pm

Real Deal at 4:16.
Wow!
I knew they moved out to a new building, but I didn’t know they knocked over the old one.
Still, after the ABC wymminses going into hysterics for five years using their national TV platform, what tenant would move in there, knowing they are in for a world of pain with compo claims?
The landlord probably couldn’t get any recompense because there was no valid scientific reason to demolish it.
The power of ill-informed and hysterical ‘antidotal’ EVIDENCES, eh?
The most telling thing was that, when the final report came out politely entitled “We Call Bullshit”, it sank without trace.
The best the ABC and Fewfacts could do was “inconclusive” (ie “not the answer we want”).

Struth
March 16, 2022 4:52 pm

Breaking:

The good Senator was wearing underwear at the time of her death. Additionally, she was seen buying undies three months prior.

Isn’t it OBVIOUS you SHEEPLE? How many MORE eXample!s do you need?

None so blind, you goddamn deniers. You shallow, shallow jock-wearers.

I will not submit. Hold the line.

I presume some can see the mental sickness here?
Well I know you can, but it’s so much better just watching from the sidelines.

Nope Warne had Pfizer in presumably July 2021 just before getting his first dose of covid.

He took his vaccine for covid and immediately got covid.
Was this before or after he sneered and had a go at Novax Jockitch?
Who happens to be still alive, unjabbed after surviving covid, which is up there with suffering someone assuming your pronouns.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 16, 2022 4:53 pm

sfwsays:

March 16, 2022 at 4:41 pm

Just had a chat with someone still in vicpol, seems that ‘African Murder Weekend’ formerly known as Moomba is over.

The fact that arrests had not been made but there seemed to be little interest in publishing descriptions of the assailants told me all I needed to know.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 16, 2022 4:54 pm

I presume some can see the mental sickness here?

Why, yes.
Yes we can.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 16, 2022 4:54 pm

Little known fact: Dave Sharma was the 4th Yorkshireman.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
March 16, 2022 4:54 pm

I find it hard to believe that any family (especially one that has migrated here) wouldn’t have a washing machine but a vacuum cleaner

It were ‘arder even.

‘E ‘ad to walk six miles uphill to get to school, and six miles uphill to get home. On weekends ‘im and his siblings joined the family business going to beachside where they would drop pants and crouch with butt in the air, renting their arses for bike stands. Mum used to go creep along power line looking for frazzled possum wha’ to feed her brood. They couldna afford solvol for bath, so they ‘ad to use cheese-grater. And at night they slept wi’ blindfold in ditch ‘cos only rich folk with Kathmandu could afford to sleep under stars.

Yet you tell voters this today…and they just don’t believe you.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 16, 2022 4:55 pm

As I said to Bluey, Zelensky is probably just a useful idiot who swallowed the US/EU line. But even an idiot should be able to leverage some cream for himself.

And in turn, what if every other populist leader is not a Donald Trump, Nigel Farage or Bolsonaro, able to read the political winds with greater aplomb than the careerists?

How many more Clives and Jacquies and Borises do We The People get relative to them? Unfortunately, it seems the ratio is much more heavily skewed to the latter.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
March 16, 2022 4:57 pm

thefrollickingmolesays:
March 16, 2022 at 3:30 pm
Montys owner in the daily Fail!

Good lord, i wouldnt root it with a rented dick.

Is that even real?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 16, 2022 4:58 pm

He took his vaccine for covid and immediately got covid.

And?

Are you still subscribing to the notion that the vaccine was meant to do something other than calm a bureaucrat’s panic?

Because that statement, in light of all the subsequent information and your own act for the last 2 years to date, makes no sense unless you are still trying to antagonise and Nuff about Shane Warne’s death.

calli
calli
March 16, 2022 5:00 pm

Little known fact: Dave Sharma was the 4th Yorkshireman.

Tanya missed out on account of her dodgy pronouns.

calli
calli
March 16, 2022 5:03 pm

Is that even real?

It was once, poor lass. The “doctors” who have created this monstrosity bear a level of blame.

srr
srr
March 16, 2022 5:03 pm

American who went to fight for Ukraine warning others against it.

They’re just sending woefully under resourced people to die so they can lie & say the Russians did it.
They trap the fighters there & shoot them if they try to escape.

https://t.me/Murad_Gazdiev/363

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 16, 2022 5:03 pm

Thank you for that advice. Fortunately, I have not had reason in my lifetime to request an autopsy for a loved one.

I am not full bottle on this but there seems to be default settings for having and not having an autopsy.
If someone is a palliative care with terminal cancer that would probably be a default “no” but the family could request it.
If a 25 year old drops dead in the street with no apparent cause the default would be “yes” but the family can object. As I understand it, the objection is a Supreme Court matter if the coroner thinks it is warranted, for obvious reasons.
In the case Rosie mentioned, observations would be provided “known drug addict” and a fairly simple non-invasive toxicology test would tell them all they need to know to reach a conclusion.
I would think Kitching’s death (aged 52, no obvious illness, was alone when the incident happened and not in a hospital) would mean an autopsy would be mandatory unless her husband (Andrew Landeryou) objected.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 16, 2022 5:05 pm

‘E ‘ad to walk six miles uphill to get to school, and six miles uphill to get home.

What?
No snow?
Pooftah Pansy.

srr
srr
March 16, 2022 5:08 pm

TV presenter calls for killing children, quotes Nazi war criminal
Ukrainian TV host uses Adolf Eichmann quote to advocate genocide of Russians and killing their children

TV presenter calls for killing children, quotes Nazi war criminal
Channel 24 presenter Fakhrudin Sharafmal cites Nazi official Eichmann, March 14, 2022 © Twitter/screenshot [at link below]

Quoting Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, Ukrainian TV presenter Fahruddin Sharafmal called for his countrymen to destroy the Russian nation by killing their children, and urged Ukrainians to “kill at least one Moskal” – a derogatory term for Russian – each.

Video of Sharafmal’s appearance on a Channel 24 morning show went viral on Tuesday, though it was captioned “day 17 of Russo-Ukrainian war,” which would have dated it on on Sunday. Saying he was getting emotional because a good friend of his had been killed, Sharafmal launched into a call for genocide by quoting the notorious SS officer.

“I allow myself to quote Adolf Eichmann, who said that in order to destroy a nation, you must destroy, first of all, its children. Because if you kill their parents, the children will grow up and take revenge. By killing children – they will never grow up and the nation will disappear,” he said, while a photo of Eichmann appeared on the screen.

Eichmann was a senior SS officer who played a key role in setting up the Nazi death camps during WWII. Despite fleeing to Latin America, he was caught and tried in Israel in 1960 and sentenced to death for his war crimes.

While the Geneva Convention prohibited Ukrainian soldiers from killing children, Sharafmal continued, he is not bound by it. “And when I get the chance to take out the Russians, I will definitely do it. Since you call me a Nazi, I adhere to the doctrine of Adolf Eichmann, and I will do everything in my power to ensure that you and your children never live on this earth,” he added.

[image of tweet plus video at link below]

“You have to understand that it’s about the victory of the Ukrainian people, not about peace. We need victory. And if we have to slaughter all your families – I’ll be one of the first to do it,” Sharafmal said. “And hope that there will never be such a nation as Russia and the Russians on this earth again.”

“If the Ukrainians have the opportunity, which they are basically doing right now, to destroy, to slaughter, to kill, to strangle the Moskals, I hope that everyone contributes and kills at least one Moskal,” he concluded.

The background behind Sharafmal showed the phrase “Russian warship, f*** off,” in Ukrainian – the words allegedly said by the troops on Snake Island that Kiev claimed had died heroically, before they all turned up alive, having surrendered to the Russian navy.

Channel 24 is based in Kiev, but it’s owned by the TRK Lux media conglomerate, reportedly controlled by Kateryna Kit-Sadova and her husband Andrey, the mayor of Lvov in western Ukraine.

https://www.rt.com/russia/552019-ukraine-presenter-nazi-genocide/

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 16, 2022 5:09 pm

Zalensky will do whatever the oligarch(s) tell him to do.
Once they have extracted the maximum benefit for themselves they will drop him.

Zipster
Zipster
March 16, 2022 5:10 pm

You gotta love these commodity markets. Up to late last week we were heading to the moon. Omni takes hold in China and we’re now heading to the core.

what do you make of this JC?
Are You Prepared For The 2020’s Commodities Super Cycle?

srr
srr
March 16, 2022 5:11 pm

Russia to be Consecrated by Pope to The Immaculate Heart of Mary, Pell & more –

Catholic — Headlines — March 16, 2022

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

Mar 16, 2022
Church Militant
283K subscribers

Bluey
Bluey
March 16, 2022 5:14 pm

How long until some of the other Ukrainian minorities ask to rejoin the respective homelands? I could see that becoming a negotiation point to drag Hungary, Romania and perhaps Poland into things and further complicate things.

Delta A
Delta A
March 16, 2022 5:16 pm

thefrollickingmolesays:
March 16, 2022 at 3:30 pm
Montys owner in the daily Fail!

I feel sorry for that poor girl. Obviously, she has serious mental health health issues.But those who have exploited her have far worse problems.

What sort of sick doctor could mutilate a woman this way? Or those paying her to be ‘an influencer’? Even her fans: outwardly encouraging her while privately laughing at her, encouraging even more outrageous and dangerous surgery.

What’s she going to look like in 30 years time?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 16, 2022 5:18 pm

I am not full bottle on this but there seems to be default settings for having and not having an autopsy.

I think any death under suspicious circumstances warrants it as well.

Frank
Frank
March 16, 2022 5:18 pm

Andrew Landeryou used to have a blog in the oughts but haven’t run across him since then. It was scurrilous. He gave a good impression of being someone that knew where the APL buried the bodies.

rosie
rosie
March 16, 2022 5:19 pm

Pope Francis is consecrating Russia and the Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on the 25th of March
story here

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 16, 2022 5:20 pm

Bolsonaro

Is his first name Jair or Javier?

I forgot at the point of typing.

Gab
Gab
March 16, 2022 5:21 pm

srrsays:
March 16, 2022 at 5:11 pm
Russia to be Consecrated by Pope to The Immaculate Heart of Mary

Good news. Hope he gets it right this time as he’s already done one.

Frank
Frank
March 16, 2022 5:21 pm

Montys owner in the daily Fail!

She might be making a packet online.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 16, 2022 5:24 pm

At the risk of offering some anecdotal evidence my mother died suddenly overnight with no apparent illness aged 76. The following day the police attended (as they are required to do for all sudden deaths) and we were offered the option of an autopsy. There did not appear to be any real reason for one and her GP provided a cause of death for the death certificate.

Dot
Dot
March 16, 2022 5:27 pm

He wanted to go play war and got one handed to him.

Really?

Struth
March 16, 2022 5:28 pm

He should be the pope.
We need to get the commo pope out.He’s been right about it all from the start.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 16, 2022 5:29 pm

He gave a good impression of being someone that knew where the APL buried the bodies.

You don’t fill a casual Senate vacancy for the Liars without fulfilling that criterion.

Dot
Dot
March 16, 2022 5:29 pm

Putin Flunked the WEF course

Cope

SNEED, even.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 16, 2022 5:34 pm

Putin Flunked the WEF course…..he’s still a nationalist.

A quite entertaining deflection from the fact that Vlad Bae’s membership of the WEF Cool Kids’ Club still rather spoils your latest “Those WEF Communist-Nazi-Globalist-Pooftah-Pansies are fomenting WW3 against Russia to take over the world and murdergenocide us all and rule over our enslaved precious bodily fluids narrative…”

rickw
rickw
March 16, 2022 5:35 pm

I allow myself to quote Adolf Eichmann, who said that in order to destroy a nation, you must destroy, first of all, its children

Takes a special kind of person to be able to quote Eichmann from memory.

Zipster
Zipster
March 16, 2022 5:36 pm
Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 16, 2022 5:36 pm

So Struth darling,

Have you any other articles for us today?

You’ve linked the same one at least 4 times in 3 successive posts.

Even SRR has a higher rotation cycle…

Dot
Dot
March 16, 2022 5:38 pm

I am waiting at a pharmacy, and I have to suffer an insane, woke fat chick and her kidlet….

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/04/20/polite-notice-please-keep-down-your-loud-parenting_n_7379900.html

srr
srr
March 16, 2022 5:41 pm

Gab says:
March 16, 2022 at 5:21 pm
srr says:
March 16, 2022 at 5:11 pm
Russia to be Consecrated by Pope to The Immaculate Heart of Mary

Good news. Hope he gets it right this time as he’s already done one.

Also, Cardinal Pell demanding faithless Bishops be rebuked was another better bit of news than we’ve been used to hearing about The Church.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbuNAhAYUSo

It sure beats being rebuked by anonymous online Catholics for also asking for what Cardinal Pell is demanding.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 16, 2022 5:43 pm

Franksays:

March 16, 2022 at 5:18 pm

Andrew Landeryou used to have a blog in the oughts but haven’t run across him since then

VexNews.

rosie
rosie
March 16, 2022 5:43 pm

“The report covers the initial stages of the rollout up until 6 March, in which around 35,500 doses of the protein-based vaccine had been administered, with the TGA receiving 78 reports of suspected adverse events.

There have been no safety signals identified ‘based on the limited number of reports’ received so far, the TGA states.

Reactions logged in the TGA database include paraesthesia, headache, chest pain, fatigue and dizziness.”

first safety data on novavax released

lotocoti
lotocoti
March 16, 2022 5:48 pm

The ABC staff always get the best.

Their you-beaut-no-tax-payer-dollars-spared-planet-saving-palace came with computer controlled shutters on all the exterior windows, interior lighting and a/c.
All timed for normal public service hours.
A grim, airless tomb for Operations. Until the uprising.

Delta A
Delta A
March 16, 2022 5:49 pm

I’m trying to prove you shouldn’t be taking anymore, FFS.
I’m up against denialism used as a coping method.

For goodness sake, Struth, give it a rest now!

You have warned us, made suggestions, ordered us, threatened us, castigated and abused us* in terms most foul, again and again and again. NOTHING you say from now on will have the slightest influence on Cats’ beliefs or behaviour.

You used to be a valued poster; informative, engaging and delightfully cheeky, especially re women’s place in the kitchen. I enjoyed your posts. Now I skim them at best – usually scroll – because they remind me of the fire and brimstone parson of my youth. All bluster, little substance.

You are the one who has succumbed to covid hysteria. Take a break. Smell the roses, smell the coffee – smell your farts, if that calms you. Just stop preaching!

*Your response to calli yesterday was disgusting! Decent women like her are not accustomed to being told to f*** of. Neither should they be. An apology is in order.

rosie
rosie
March 16, 2022 5:50 pm

“Cardinal George Pell has called upon the Vatican to issue a public correction to leading European prelates because of their “wholesale and explicit rejection” of Church teaching on sexuality.

The Australian cardinal referred to Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich of Luxembourg, and to Bishop Georg Bätzing, the president of the German bishops’ conference. Both have recently made public statements calling for change in the Church’s teaching regarding homosexuality.

“This must not become a normal and tolerated situation,” Cardinal Pell said. He urged the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to address the problem, saying that “Catholic unity around Christ and his teaching requires unity on the major elements in the hierarchy of truths.””
As far as I can see no-one here has ever rebuked anyone in relation to these two Germans.

Cardinal Pell story

Roger
Roger
March 16, 2022 5:51 pm

How long until some of the other Ukrainian minorities ask to rejoin the respective homelands?

I think that’s already happening.

Hungary is intending to integrate all refugees who wish to stay, many of whom will be ethnic Hungarians.

Frank
Frank
March 16, 2022 5:53 pm

A grim, airless tomb for Operations. Until the uprising.

Seal the doors and turn it into an oven you say?

Zipster
Zipster
March 16, 2022 5:54 pm
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 16, 2022 5:56 pm

Delta at 5:49.
A well-deserved and beautifully delivered clip around the ears to the young upstart, madam.
Well done you.
And yes, that outburst yesterday was totally uncalled for.
Calli was simply saying she wasn’t convinced either way on the evidence surrounding a certain matter, and she copped that.

Tom
Tom
March 16, 2022 5:58 pm

“If this movement succeeds in a broad sense, and it may, you’ll end up, I think, with a Liberal Party that’s less progressive and less moderate because those people will all be gone and it looks more like the Republican Party in the United States.

As Cassie says, Dave Sharma hates the Liberal Party base and is trying to turn it into the Greens.

Small-l liberal dregs like him are why the LNP will struggle to be re-elected as the faithful have deserted the party to vote for splinter groups on the right.

Sharma is the same cancer that almost cost the LNP government in the last election. But, unlike Scott Morrison, who believes in nothing, Sharma is a zealot who hates Australia and wants to change it forever, like the Marxist radicals now running America.

Like Turnbull, Sharma should go and campaign for the party he is loyal to, not the LNP.

Cassie, I hope you are successful in getting this white-ant and his cancerous doctors wives thrown-out . Good luck!

Top Ender
Top Ender
March 16, 2022 5:58 pm

NT Police have ended a 30-year association with the Rotary Club of Darwin’s Police Officer of the Year Award after Constable Zach Rolfe was put forward as a possible recipient.

Zipster
Zipster
March 16, 2022 6:03 pm

“The report covers the initial stages of the rollout up until 6 March, in which around 35,500 doses of the protein-based vaccine had been administered, with the TGA receiving 78 reports of suspected adverse events.

I have no idea why anyone needs a vaccine with omicron around. how long is this insanity going to continue.

Frank
Frank
March 16, 2022 6:05 pm

Probably already posted.
Dr Rachel Levine is one of USA TODAY’s Women of the Year.
At this point they are just trolling us.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 16, 2022 6:06 pm

because they remind me of the fire and brimstone parson of my youth. All bluster, little substance.

That brings back memories.
Rosie or when of the other non-lapsed Catholics might be able to fill in the details but, as a kid in the 1970’s I remember these things called “Missions”.
A particular travelling troupe of tub-thumping priests would come to town and run these services every night of the week.
I remember quaking in the front row while some balding, swivel-eyed, spittle-flecked, whiskey-nosed Irish priest would assure me that, if I screwed up without fessing up, I “… would be lost forever in the eternal fiiiiirrees of hell!”
I was tempted to tell him that I thought “forever” and “eternal” in the same sentence was a tautology but thought better of it.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 16, 2022 6:07 pm

What’s she going to look like in 30 years time?

Fresh from the future.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKzfyuBas54

or alternately

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 16, 2022 6:07 pm

He gave a good impression of being someone that knew where the APL buried the bodies

As Ms Kitching was in the process of finding out this may get your arse on the red leather. It is certainly no guarantee of it staying there.

I was somewhat surprised at the amount of goodwill expressed towards Ms Kitching. Perhaps people are more generous than me. Her pre-parliamentary history was certainly Victoriastan Liar swamp central, which has vomited up such luminaries as Stephen Conroy, kd wrong and Kim Il Carr who have inflicted billions of dollars of economic damage to this country.

rosie
rosie
March 16, 2022 6:08 pm

I imagine people are getting novavax because they want to travel overseas, have committed to doing so for employment or because care facilities mandate it.
Not exactly big numbers.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 16, 2022 6:08 pm

I have no idea why anyone needs a vaccine with omicron around. how long is this insanity going to continue.

I agree.
If I am getting any shot this year it will be regular flu, and maybe pneumonia if I am due (it’s only every 3-4 years).
Pending St Ruth’s approval, obviously.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
March 16, 2022 6:10 pm

Oh dear you’ve done it now Delta. Have to watch your back for Ken Worth crashing his box. Lucky for you he’s jammed in the fold up couch waiting for someone to help him out. Never going to happen of course, burnt all his bridges so can’t get over it. Saw on the Dash Cat your place is coming along nicely. Hope you enjoy.

rosie
rosie
March 16, 2022 6:11 pm

Not I. I’ve read about missions but have never had the experience, either that or I daydreamed through them.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 16, 2022 6:13 pm

Dr Rachel Levine is one of USA TODAY’s Women of the Year.

You have to wonder when will women start to notice that men are now displacing them on the cover of Vogue and Sports Illustrated, have been winning women’s swimming, running and weight lifting medals, and now are Woman of the Year.

Bluey
Bluey
March 16, 2022 6:16 pm

rosiesays:
March 16, 2022 at 6:08 pm
I imagine people are getting novavax because they want to travel overseas, have committed to doing so for employment or because care facilities mandate it.
Not exactly big numbers.

That was the one I was going to take if I was forced to, simply because it uses techniques that’ve been around for a long time. Taking the first off cutting edge of anything is rarely something that pays off. However I was fired for non-compliance to dear leader’s mandates before it because available.

So now I’m officially unemployed, unemployable, and jab free. And really bloody pissed off at LNP, Labor, etc. they will never get my vote again, and I’ll be struggling to constraint my temper at the people handing out how to vote cards.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 16, 2022 6:17 pm

TE – more details on that little double-down nugget:

NT POLICE have ended a 30-year association with the Rotary Club of Darwin’s Police Officer of the Year Award after Constable Zach Rolfe was put forward as a possible recipient.

Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker wrote to the club earlier this year to inform it police would no longer be supporting the award.

Rotary Club of Darwin president Paul Simon said it was disappointing police had decided to withdraw support for the award, which has been running since 1991.

“There was no consultation which is probably the most disappointing part,” he said. The award sees members of the public submit nominations before three possible recipients are sent to the Police Commissioner for vetting.

Mr Simon said Constable Rolfe was one of three officers put forward last year — while still facing a murder charge — after receiving “literally hundreds of nominations” from the public.

Snork. I wonder if the hundreds of nominations for Rolfe prompted this, or could it be something really beige and normal?

NT Police did not directly respond to a question about whether Constable Rolfe’s nomination had prompted its decision to withdraw its support.

“The Northern Territory Police, Fire and Emergency Services are reviewing the honours and awards structure,” a spokesman said in a statement.

Ah. That must be the real reason.

You’d think Chalker would realise how on the nose he is.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 16, 2022 6:17 pm

NT Police have ended a 30-year association with the Rotary Club of Darwin’s Police Officer of the Year Award after Constable Zach Rolfe was put forward as a possible recipient

Great stuff! I expect various ‘Pols will find their position in the broader community being questioned. And not without good reason.

Bluey
Bluey
March 16, 2022 6:20 pm

Bruce of Newcastlesays:
March 16, 2022 at 6:13 pm
Dr Rachel Levine is one of USA TODAY’s Women of the Year.

You have to wonder when will women start to notice that men are now displacing them on the cover of Vogue and Sports Illustrated, have been winning women’s swimming, running and weight lifting medals, and now are Woman of the Year.

What? Men being better women than women!?!!
We’ll have to push more equity and diversity! Harder! And tell men they’re sexist! That’ll fix it!

Frank
Frank
March 16, 2022 6:21 pm

In other cosmetic surgery themed news, Carrie Bickmore of the Project is stepping aside for a few months to go overseas with the family. Swiss clinics can be lovely this time of year.

Makka
Makka
March 16, 2022 6:23 pm

Not seeing this in the MSM.. Ukraine tv encouraging killing of children.

https://twitter.com/dancohen3000/status/1503829062556520448

Ukraine 24 presenter goes full Nazi, endorses Adolf Eichmann to call for genocide of Russians.

“By killing children, they will never grow up and the nation will disappear… and I hope that everyone will contribute and kill at least one Muscovite.”

rosie
rosie
March 16, 2022 6:24 pm

That’s a very difficult situation to be in Bluey.
No options in the self employment space?
On line businesses run by sole traders seem to have fallen outside the mandate lines.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 16, 2022 6:24 pm

Going to war with the Rotary Club is like punching on with the CWA at the Easter Show.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 16, 2022 6:27 pm

United States will deploy THOUSANDS of troops in the Northern Territory after Australia admitted war with China IS possible

US Army servicemen will be deployed in the Northern Territory for the first time
They will join a rotational force of more than 200 US Marines by September
Comes after Australia signed historic AUKUS pact with America and Britain
Beijing has fumed at the new alliance, with state media warning of nukes

Hope they’ve been warned about the dreaded drop bears.

Zipster
Zipster
March 16, 2022 6:29 pm

Japanese troops, US marines hold joint exercises; Indo-Pacific nations import most arms globally
01:04 Japanese troops, U.S. marines hold joint exercises
02:38 Nuclear submarines in Indo-Pacific region compared
04:12 Indo-Pacific nations import most arms globally
06:32 U.S. company drops #ChineseDroneMaker
08:33 Taiwan: CCP steals talents, trade secrets

Tom
Tom
March 16, 2022 6:30 pm

You’d think Chalker would realise how on the nose he is.

Highly paid public service white trash used to the perks of office tend not notice what ordinary people see. Gunner is worse — he can’t see what’s sticking out like dog’s balls because, like the rest of the ALP’s human garbage, he considers himself born to rule and the plebs are just vote fodder he has to pretend to care about every three o four years.

Bluey
Bluey
March 16, 2022 6:31 pm

rosiesays:
March 16, 2022 at 6:24 pm
That’s a very difficult situation to be in Bluey.
No options in the self employment space?
On line businesses run by sole traders seem to have fallen outside the mandate lines.

I am in a fortunate situation where I can keep my expenses very low, and have fairly good savings. The concept of keeping a FU fund was one I got quite enamored with early in my working life, just didn’t think I’d be needing it like this.
Always thought it’d be a mid life crisis where I backpack around Asia or something equally stereotypical.

Although I could move to NSW, it’d be a challenge to leave. Too much of a sense of duty toward parents that are getting on in life. End of the day I can always get stabbed if I need to, but I can’t undo it once it’s done. At that point though, it’s probably best people don’t admit to having known me.

Roger
Roger
March 16, 2022 6:32 pm

“This must not become a normal and tolerated situation,” Cardinal Pell said.

Neuhaus’s Law: ‘Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed.’

Although I think he borrowed it from a 19th C. theologian.

Roger
Roger
March 16, 2022 6:36 pm

Beijing has fumed at the new alliance, with state media warning of nukes

Funny how Josh hasn’t said he “strongly expects” Australian investors to pull out of China.

Delta A
Delta A
March 16, 2022 6:43 pm

GreyRangasays:
March 16, 2022 at 6:10 pm

House is coming along well. Thanks, Ranga.

dopey
dopey
March 16, 2022 6:51 pm

Someone mentioned Calli in a disgusting way. That person should not be allowed here, no ifs or buts.

JC
JC
March 16, 2022 6:53 pm

Sancho Panzer says:
March 16, 2022 at 6:08 pm

I have no idea why anyone needs a vaccine with omicron around. how long is this insanity going to continue.

I agree.
If I am getting any shot this year it will be regular flu, and maybe pneumonia if I am due (it’s only every 3-4 years).
Pending St Ruth’s approval, obviously.

That reminds me.

Hey Struth, any chance I get your approval for the flu shot as it’s coming on time? Please hurry as I need the written approval in order for the doc to admin the shot.

Also, any lightening blots today?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 16, 2022 6:54 pm

Bear:

I expect various ‘Pols will find their position in the broader community being questioned. And not without good reason.

I would expect the top rung of those ‘Pols to find themselves in that position. From the NT perspective, not so much with the regular ones. As I alluded just upthread, the NT brass either have zero idea they are so despised, or don’t care.

If Rolfe walked down the street up here at the minute he would be chaired from pub to pub with a queue of solid 9.5s on hand to provide polishes on demand.

John H.
John H.
March 16, 2022 6:55 pm

US Army servicemen will be deployed in the Northern Territory for the first time
They will join a rotational force of more than 200 US Marines by September
Comes after Australia signed historic AUKUS pact with America and Britain
Beijing has fumed at the new alliance, with state media warning of nukes

Social experiment: house them in a remote community.

Roger
Roger
March 16, 2022 6:56 pm

We’ve our own version of Ukraine v. Russia in QLD:

Palaszcuk v. Stepanov (Nikola, Integrity Commissioner who has been a thorn in the side of the government).

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk won’t say if her staffers have backgrounded journalists and a prospective employer against outgoing Integrity Commissioner Nikola Stepanov.

he premier has faced ongoing questions about Dr Stepanov, who will finish in her role as the state’s lobbyist watchdog in July.

It has now been reported that a job offer for Stepanov to join Labor-linked law firm Holding Redlich had been withdrawn.

LNP frontbencher David Janetzki told parliament an offer of employment by Holding Redlich to Dr Stepanov, to take effect after her government role finished, had been rescinded.

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The Crime and Corruption Commission (CCC) is investigating a series of complaints made by Dr Stepanov about senior public servants.

Her most serious claim is that Public Service Commission (PSC) staff seized a laptop from her office and wiped it in March 2021 without her knowledge or permission.

Dr Stepanov has also accused PSC chief executive Rob Setter of bullying and calling her “a bitch on a witch hunt” during a phone call. Mr Setter has denied the allegations.

Premier Palaszczuk refused to confirm or deny allegations that her own staffers had backgrounded journalists against Dr Stepanov.

“There are matters currently before the CCC and they know that the CCC can do their job and release their report,” she said.

However, the premier bristled when asked if her staff helped Mr Setter prepare for his media conference on Monday where he denied bullying Dr Stepanov.

In Queensland, 16.03.2022.

rickw
rickw
March 16, 2022 6:56 pm

Taking the first off cutting edge of anything is rarely something that pays off. However I was fired for non-compliance to dear leader’s mandates before it because available.

Never forget what these fucking arseholes did, and neither should anyone else.

Cassie of Sydney
March 16, 2022 6:58 pm

“Delta Asays:
March 16, 2022 at 5:49 pm”

Amen DA.

rickw
rickw
March 16, 2022 6:58 pm

It has now been reported that a job offer for Stepanov to join Labor-linked law firm Holding Redlich had been withdrawn.

Corruption level: CCP + 5

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 16, 2022 7:02 pm

Dr Rachel Levine is one of USA TODAY’s Women of the Year.

Women are so shit elderly drag queens are better than them.

Lift your game girls.
https://people.com/human-interest/trans-people-who-made-history-in-2021/

Helen
Helen
March 16, 2022 7:06 pm

Re Duck Duck ducking

Is there an Exit from search Hell

Probably not, for the time being.

However he recommends encyclosearch as excellent

Roger
Roger
March 16, 2022 7:07 pm

Corruption level: CCP + 5

It gets worse.

What Rob Hulls did to the Victorian judiciary is being repeated by Palaszczuk, D’Ath & new AG Fentiman.

Makka
Makka
March 16, 2022 7:08 pm

I wonder if Bolt will mention it? He would probably say, Look what you made them do!

Yes, you see from this video clip how desperate the Ukraines were to keep the peace and were only reluctantly drawn in to the fight. This what the west are full on supporting;

https://twitter.com/RealAlexRubi/status/1497747535783411714

Zipster
Zipster
March 16, 2022 7:10 pm

Mr Bill Gates is sad
Dr. John Campbell

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 16, 2022 7:11 pm

On Mean Girls.
The worst of the lot is Linda Reynolds in my opinion.
Kitching gave her a heads-up that the ALP were looking to stitch Reynolds up over Britnah.
Reynolds mentions a few weeks later in a Senate hearing that she knew of their plan two weeks in advance.
k.d. wong cracks the shits and demands to know what Reynolds is talking about.
During a break in play, Reynolds drops Kitching right in it by showing k.d. wong the texts from Kitching.
So, not only does she do something which is politically and tactically stupid but, much worse, she breaches a confidence.
FMD!
Why not just say, “Fuck off k.d. My sources are rock solid. If you want to push it harder I will let the line run out until a time of my choosing and then drop the bucket on you. Let’s just say, when it all comes out, Albo will be wanting someone’s head on a plate”.
Bluff a little.
Keep her guessing.
Put her off balance.
Depressing to think that this woman, totally bereft of tactical and strategic skills as she is, rose to the rank of Brigadier and became Defence Minister.

quiet lately.
quiet lately.
March 16, 2022 7:12 pm

Lift your game girls.

Chelsea Manning has been very quiet lately.

Frank
Frank
March 16, 2022 7:12 pm

Chelsea Manning has been very quiet lately.

Oops.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 16, 2022 7:13 pm

Men are to blame for everything (the Hun):

Former AFL WAG Nadia Bartel has blamed her marriage breakdown with Jimmy Bartel for being caught behind the wheel while suspended, as she was slapped with an $1100 fine for her licence oversight.

Bartel, 36, was stopped in her black Range Rover by Prahran Highway Patrol officers while driving along Dandenong Rd near her Windsor home about 12.30pm on August 25 last year.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
March 16, 2022 7:15 pm

I imagine people are getting novavax because they want to travel overseas, have committed to doing so for employment or because care facilities mandate it.
Not exactly big numbers.

As I understand it, you’re allowed to use Novovax for primary shots or for boosters but not for both.
So what’s the point? Even those who care about the slight absolute risk improvement said to come from the vaccine might baulk at risking any potential side effects including possible long term damage of pumping spike proteins into yourself, when they’re not going to be able to keep the “protection” for more than a few months.
And for anyone else, why bother? Two or three months after you’ve had your primary shots Maximum Leader will introduce booster mandates and you’ll be back to square one. Perhaps you might get an O/S trip in, and you’ll have a few months of pubs, restaurants etc., but why risk it?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 16, 2022 7:16 pm

rosiesays:

March 16, 2022 at 6:11 pm

Not I. I’ve read about missions but have never had the experience, either that or I daydreamed through them.

No way anyone day-dreamed through those tub-thumping SHOUTY diatribes.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 16, 2022 7:17 pm

The Lieborals are amateur hour compared to the Liars when it comes to factional politics.

lotocoti
lotocoti
March 16, 2022 7:17 pm

Did somebody ask for a fire and brimstone sermon?

Cassie of Sydney
March 16, 2022 7:20 pm

“During a break in play, Reynolds drops Kitching right in it by showing k.d. wong the texts from Kitching.
So, not only does she do something which is politically and tactically stupid but, much worse, she breaches a confidence.”

Yes. Reynolds is a low life.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 16, 2022 7:21 pm

Former AFL WAG Nadia Bartel has blamed her marriage breakdown with Jimmy Bartel for being caught behind the wheel while suspended …

Wut?
This must be a while ago, because …

Bartel, 36, was stopped in her black Range Rover by Prahran Highway Patrol officers while driving along Dandenong Rd near her Windsor home about 12.30pm on August 25 last year.

Oh, right.
Two years after the bust-up.
BTW, she still carries the Bartel name. Surely, with him being such a cad, she would have changed it back to Nadia Nobody by now.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 16, 2022 7:23 pm

Following the Ben Roberts Smith action – who nominated him for the V.C?

rosie
rosie
March 16, 2022 7:24 pm

I have day dreaming super powers.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 16, 2022 7:26 pm

The rock guys know how to deal with groupies. 4am – kick them all off the bus and hit the road.

srr
srr
March 16, 2022 7:28 pm

I’m not surprised this was not added* to the ‘approved’ source reposting of the news headlines below –

The International Day of the Unborn Child is an annual commemoration of unborn fetuses, observed as a day of opposition to abortion, on March 25.

It was established by Pope John Paul II to coincide with the Feast of the Annunciation. John Paul II viewed the day as “a positive option in favour of life and the spread of a culture for life to guarantee respect for human dignity in every situation”.

Catholic — Headlines — March 16, 2022

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

Mar 16, 2022
Church Militant

The health industry doesn’t need full term babies butchered alive for their parts, but the Anti-Christ Industry has convinced people that they need biotech’s to ‘evolve’ to their ‘full human potential’ and that rather than ‘waste’ all those ‘unwanted’ babies they can play their part in making ‘eternal life’ possible.

Sadly, the devotees of the Transhumanist (= Anti-Christ), Religion aren’t only nerdy sci-fi kids but mega rich & powerful totalitarian monsters and they are not about to give up their ‘normalisation’ of commodifying humans per part, age & condition.

* those some smarter ones may have covered this ‘tell’ by the time I actually get to finish & post this.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 16, 2022 7:28 pm

H B Bearsays:

March 16, 2022 at 6:24 pm

Going to war with the Rotary Club is like punching on with the CWA at the Easter Show.

No contest.
I bags the bout with Rotary all day long.
Not taking on the CWA.

rosie
rosie
March 16, 2022 7:29 pm

Tim I was quoting actual novavax reasons provided here.
Anyone currently getting novavax for the first time wouldn’t be in need of a booster for the foreseeable future would they?
I don’t really understand the spike protein argument, if you get covid you get extra plus spike protein don’t you?
And hasn’t Andrews abandoned generalised booster requirements?

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