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Being doxxed has wider implications. It doesn’t matter for an individual, but there are always others to consider.
We live in an extremely nasty, vindictive world, full of back bottoms.
Er…where did that come from?
Looking for holes in the wall to wall Russia-is-losing-and-here’s-why
punditry is just that.
No colours are nailed to masts.
Just comment, Arky. No need to engage at all.
If others challenge you, ignore it.
I read about your tool collecting and how you have found plenty of non-Chinese products. My (old) business is actively doing the same, though we were never as exposed as some. It’s amazing what you can find at slightly higher prices but streets away in quality.
I hope the house repairs are coming along, Arks.
Yes. Buried 24 paragraphs into their single piece on the matter, appearing recently, with no mention of the election-swinging cover up in which they and most of the media had been complicit.
Yet still claiming to be ‘investigators’ on this. Hypocrites, as ever.
Politicians all want to be Churchill.
Journalists, Woodward & Bernstein.
“Ukraine had already agreed in 2014 to recognise the Donbass Republics and not to seek NATO membership.
Ukraine never honoured that agreement.
The purpose of the invasion is to secure the independence of the Republics,
to destroy NATO installations in Ukraine
and to force Ukraine to be a responsible neighbour.”
Just so.
Further, I believe Putin held back during the Trump years for two reasons:
1) ambiguity: Trump used his nearly trademark ambiguity – learned in the cesspit of NY real estate – to keep all and sundry guessing at what he really wanted and what he would do. But I think Putin saw that Trump truly was a patriot, that he was prepared to negotiate, and that when he made a deal he would stick to it – and if the partner didn’t also stick to the deal, they would regret it. Trump was someone he could deal with and trust the deal would be solid.
2) Trump really was trying to drain the swamp, and it was the swamp that had antagonised Putin all those years while lining their own pockets and increasing their power. Trump was threatening the swamp in all of that – which was a significant part of Trump’s downfall and loss in 2020 – and had Trump succeeded, Putin would have gotten what he wanted in terms of Ukraine and surrounds, at zero risk to himself.
As soon as Trump was ousted and the swamp regained their power, things took a turn for the worse and so Putin had to act. The Trump “delay” allowed him some time to look to strategic contingencies and planning, and he certainly took advantage of that.
Timothy N
Fucking hell. The way they’re portraying themselves you’d think that the NYT had been the Woodward and Bernstein on this.
Within a month, the NYT will be boasting about its critical role in exposing the Laptop from Hell and the misdeeds of Hunter Bunter.
The Grey Lady has dementia.
Which is fitting, given the gerontocracy she helped install.
On the Russian economy: I suspect there’s no real doubt that it’s going to be in lasting trouble – if for no other reason than the cost of fighting the war and the arms race likely to follow.
On China; that’s just my opinion as someone who watches China Inc working on resources projects, both as an observer and from the inside. In my experience, the win-win concept delivers very limited wins to the resource owner.
I could well be wrong. Perhaps it might be different as between Xi and Putin, but below the surface I’d expect the CCP will be fully focussed on maximising value for China from Russia’s new economy.
On sanctions: Undoubtedly sanctions are not global and some will leak off pretty quickly after the shooting stops. However, when you tot up the seriously concerned – the US, EU, UK, Japan, S.Korea – there’s a big chunk of the global political economy right there, all with a serious commitment to doing Putin down.
Add to that the general temperature of the UN General Assembly (yes, I know) – with only 5 pro-Russia supporters – and you get the sense that non-military sanctions aren’t just a minority Western enthusiasm.
Again, how long they last is moot.
A primer on how Washington helped trigger the Ukrainian war.
Unless the topic is hot, I want to place limits on myself here too Arky.
The reason is that I have a lot of other stuff to get done. If I can just drop in for a small piece of writing practice or a vent, both of which can improve my day, and keep away from getting into fights, then that’s success in my husband’s book.
I hope he doesn’t keep a running tab on me though. That would be beyond the spirit of ‘obey’.
Boambee Johnsays:
March 26, 2022 at 11:35 am
…
Within a month, the NYT will be boasting about its critical role in exposing the Laptop from Hell and the misdeeds of Hunter Bunter.
Surely it’s worth a Pulitzer Prize.
The big beneficiaries will be China and India- getting all those Russian commodities at discounted prices. Not great news for us that’s for sure.
Francis Fukuyama: Can Putin’s war rescue liberalism?
00:36 – 02:27 – Is the Ukraine invasion further proof of the demise of the liberal world order?
02:27 – 04:08 – Does Francis Fukuyama think Putin will lose?
04:08 – 06:32 – Could potential defeat for Putin turn this war nuclear?
06:32 – 10:56 – Could we see a revitalised Western liberal section, post-war?
10:56 – 20:50 – Will the West lean towards a more Chinese-style society?
20:50 – 25:08 – Are ‘neutral systems’ becoming weaponised and damaging democracy?
25:08 – 32:54 – Fukuyama’s observation of the previous decade compared to End of History’
32:54 – 35:17 – Should we push back against some of the excesses of liberalism?
35:17 – 37:47 – Are we losing confidence in Western countries?
37:47 – 41:03 – Is the period of ‘the End of History’ over? If so, what does it look like now?
41:03 – 42:05 – Concluding thoughts
Thanks for that Roger.
US arrogance.
Woodward was/is a DeepState Spook from Naval Intelligence and never a journalist.
Bernstein is just a shill.
The bottom line on Watergate was that the DeepState couldn’t be seen offing another President so soon after JFK so they used these guys.
Nixon realised that he was powerless to stop it [after a while] and he basically gave up.
On Hunter Biden:
Joe has been making noises that indicate a wider war isn’t on his mind.
Revisiting Hunter’s laptop is a hint that Joe needs to get with the program in a hurry.
Indeed.
Sogovare clearly speaks fluent Chinese.
It will be interesting to see how long the China enthusiasm lasts. If he’s smart he’ll have his cut in an offshore account before the Malaitans come calling.
Not to mention the DIY toe surgery.
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1. Russia had a limited set of war aims that it is mostly in the process of achieving.
2. The West is in some way culpable in provoking this war.
3. It is somehow in our interests that Russia succeed.
There is no consensus.
.1 No reasonable poster has said this.
.2 This war didn’t start in 2022. The invasion did, but the war didn’t.
3. No reasonable poster has said this.
To frame the argument that there is a consensus & here it is, is either disingenuous or retarded.
Neither of which are worth wasting much time over.
Yikes! I missed that one.
It’s as if the cargo cult never ended.
In a perfect world Putin & Zelensky would meet one on one in a field somewhere and let the ball lightning decide.
To frame the argument that there is a consensus & here it is, is either disingenuous or retarded.
Neither of which are worth wasting much time over.
too damn right
An Onlyfans account for the toe surgery could’ve paid for the house repairs.
Gucci handbags at 12 paces.
The Solomon Islands is a sovereign nation.
They can engage with whoever they want.
If someone they just so happen to engage with builds the biggest naval & submarine base in the southern hemisphere, that is their right.
Timothy N
Surely it’s worth a Pulitzer Prize.
Well, they got (and still hang onto) one for essentially fictional “reports” about the wonders of Soviet life in the 1930s, when the Holodomor, mass deportations to the Gulags, and purges were under way.
“This is why I don’t engage here.
I thanked Crossie for putting a view that hasn’t got much run here.”
Perhaps I am wrong Arky, but it seems that all that crap here is like to two brothers arguing and fighting – they may seem implacably opposed, but if at any point you attempt to come between them and stop it, they will join forces until the common enemy is gone, then go back to bickering.
I would hope it is like that here – we are bickering over trivial details, but will band together to stop the hard-left idiots trying to ruin the system that has given us all such good health (generally), long life and material comfort.
I think the majority here would certainly want to see the continuation of the system that for the last century or two has pulled more people out of grinding poverty and given them the freedom of self determination such as has never before been seen in all our known history. If we cannot fight for that, we are truly lost and deserve our fate. Alas many may need to lose some of that material comfort before they awaken to what is at stake, but I have faith that they will awaken to it, and think it is our duty as those already awake to it to metaphorically nudge the still dozy ones in the ribs a bit.
Sounds like the Australian Senate.
These are sorts of people nobody can trust.
They can agree on an issue with someone but still need to fling shit at them if they are classed as being on ‘the wrong side’.
The trouble is that the need to fling shit overcomes agreeing to fix an issue.
Yes, they will cut off Your nose to spite Some Else’s face, because their ‘side’ pays them to –
My “one anecdote”, included at least seven others waiting for hours on trollies in the hall.
At least seven others not getting the immediate doctor’s care they needed, only what the overworked ambos were providing.
That was basically pain relief, which also meant that most patients weren’t in a fit state to communicate effectively with the doctors when they did finally get to see them.
My ambo was looking after 3 of us while his partner went with others for more pick ups.
But again, lets not let rosie The Jab Pusher distract you from what my post was about; the serious understaffing of hospitals since the Covid Mandates.
She mentions excellent, speedy care in a Melbourne Hospital in 2019!
Before The Covid Mandates decimated staff levels!
Why?
Why is rosie The Jab Pusher trying to pretend that Victorian Hospitals are as efficient now as they were Pre-Covid Mandates … rhetorical.
Ed Casesays:
March 26, 2022 at 11:51 am
Journalists, Woodward & Bernstein.
Woodward was/is a DeepState Spook from Naval Intelligence and never a journalist.
Bernstein is just a shill.
The bottom line on Watergate was that the DeepState couldn’t be seen offing another President so soon after JFK so they used these guys.
Nixon realised that he was powerless to stop it [after a while] and he basically gave up.
On Hunter Biden:
Joe has been making noises that indicate a wider war isn’t on his mind.
Revisiting Hunter’s laptop is a hint that Joe needs to get with the program in a hurry.
The only possible conclusion from reading Dick Ed’s many posts here is that he is, in fact, a Deep State Spook.
When were you last briefed at Langley HQs, Dick? Or do you get briefed at Foggy Bottom?
Especially as the Malaitans are backed by the US & Taiwan.
And we have a security treaty with the central government.
DFAT always seems to be 5 years behind reality.
Fukuyama is certainly doing the rounds spruiking his new book. I caught him mid-week on Spectator doing an interview. He first gave liberalism a definition so anodyne that Aquinas would be considered a liberal. But as the interview progressed the individualism that characterises liberalism increasingly broke through. Funny that.
I think my war aims of making Xi go “Holy shit, I don’t want any part of something like that” have already been fulfilled.
Of course it’s sickening to see how the whole CNN, UN, EU, Democrat machinery slips smoothly into the narratives of war. And to realise “Oh, this is what they are practiced in, it’s what they are built for”.
It’s a filthy stupid mistake to make, to get enmeshed in the propaganda from either side.
China seeing Russia struggle a bit with their land and sea operations should have bums twitching in Beijing over the possibility of a worse outcome if they try it on with Taiwan.
However if they are smart it may instead be a little like the outcome of the Fins vs Soviets.
Where, without the lessons learned in the “victory” over the Finns (poor equipment, shit leaders, abysmal tactics) they almost certainly would have lost against the Krauts later on.
China should be watching and learning, as should the “west’ as well.
Eg: Landing craft.
How would they go if there were 1000 javelin equipped chaps waiting at the shoreline to poke holes in them 2 km out to sea?
The FGM-148 Javelin (AAWS M) is an American-made portable anti-tank missile. They are are one of the world’s most effective anti-tank weapons, and have a long range of 2.5km (1.5 miles), which makes them effective in a combat situation.
Our Cuba ~’63
Further to Tim’s post on the NYT & Hunter Biden.
https://thefederalist.com/2022/03/25/4-big-takeaways-from-nyts-attempt-to-control-the-hunter-biden-narrative/
This is the key part you can see from a mile off.
They know what’s coming.
4. Downplay the Charges, Build the Narrative, and Beta-Test the Defenses
If only we had nukes.
Zelensky could tell bad jokes and Putin dies laughing.
China doing what it’s doing in the Solomon Islands is similar to what they’ve done in Djibouti.
Valuable real estate that once you’ve built your bases, pretty hard to get rid of.
I suspect the average sentient American would be as dismayed by this risky international adventurism as we are.
I had no idea this was Ozzy Osbourne.
I’ve heard this only about a million times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_KGKF7l5lg
A great spot from which to snooker our east coast and future sub fleet.
I suspect the average sentient American would be as dismayed by this risky international adventurism as we are.
It would be great if all those so keen for war had skin in the game.
Real skin, like their own family in harms way.
Not the monetary kind, which they are all long the Washington War Machine.
Sadly, they are not all “Neo” Nazis.
They are old roots Nazis who never gave up.
And harrass tankers ferrying our strategic oil reserves across the Pacific from their suddenly not so strategic location in the southern US.
What was John Button’s expression?
“We are deep in fuckwittery.”
The SFLs are no gift from God, but, dear me, Albanese is an idiot. To keep China out of the Solomons (a bit late for that), he reckons combatting climate change is key. Just moved on AAP wire:
Labor leader Anthony Albanese says increasing foreign aid and addressing climate change are crucial to maintaining stability in the Pacific after Solomon Islands signed a security pact with China.
The deal has triggered geopolitical anxieties for Australia and the US, both wary of China’s expansionist footprint in the Pacific.
Mr Albanese says if given the opportunity to lead a government he would maintain Australia’s critical foreign aid to Pacific nations.
“We wouldn’t have cut funding to aid,” he told reporters in Sydney on Saturday.
“The other thing is creating stability in the region by acting on the most important issue for our Pacific neighbours, which is climate change,” the Opposition leader said….
The evil of two lessers. We really are fuddledyucked.
feelthebernsays:
March 26, 2022 at 12:27 pm
I had no idea this was Ozzy Osbourne.
Ozzy is an example of a sex change gone tragically right.
At least in that clip.
The Solomons is in bed with their new paramour and we’re going to continue to pay maintenance.
Of course.
you are joking right?
In order to be safe in Perth we have to measure out 1.4142135623730950488016887242097 m x 1.4142135623730950488016887242097 m square to stand in. Science
The War in Ukraine and the Glaring Omissions in Discourse about It
Glenn Greenwald
tankers ferrying our strategic oil reserves across the Pacific
This was sold over the last month according to Angus Taylor.
Eyrie:
Interesting novel.
The social pressures that weren’t very well explored in it are probably a necessity if we are to develop Generation Ships.
The attempt in the US didn’t – as far as I am aware – have the necessary population density or numbers to do a proper trial.
Again, IIRC, the trial there was more about construction methods. And the funny part of that was the diminishing levels of CO2 when the curing concrete started to suck it out of the air supply and the crops were failing. You’d think the fact of lower CO2 and dying crops would have been remembered with the gerbil wormening crowd, but no, inconvenient facts are ignored.
I see Putin as more in the Louis XIV mould “l’etat, c’est moi”.
“Think of it as evolution in action”
If I remember rightly a quotation from the book Oath of Fealty by Niven and Pournelle.
Is their Legacy of Heorot the greatest SF novel ever written?
Climate Change is just code for graft payments, to the Leaders, which then gets kicked back to Labor Mates.
Australia generally employs divide and rule tactics, such as led to the overthrow of the Fiji Government in 1987, a “triumph” for Hawke and Evans.
Sheesh there must be some cost cutting at the red roo. At TSV and just found out nearly a 2hr delay to flight, am going to Mackay. Aircraft in Cairns apparently with “engineering issue”. DSH8’s are nearly bullet proof so I’d say someone booked off crook for the day and there was no replacement crew.
Upside, Q club bar opens in 10 min & I aint driving at the other end. Also menu is getting back to pre COVID standards, be interesting to see how the inflight service has improved or not. Mind you the DSH8 service is always basic.
We released some as part of an international effort to stabilise world prices.
That will be topped back up.
Roger, that oil is never coming to Australia.
Ever.
Reports there is a mini revolt at Google.
They are removing the bidets at their main campus.
Apparently people are spending too long in the bathrooms.
First world problems.
Unsurprising. That’s a lot of sh*t to be flushed.
Ive got a soft spot for this old harridan.
Shes a hairy legged penis dodger of the old school, but is entertaining when shes grumpy.
https://thecritic.co.uk/the-spectre-of-the-new-male-feminist/
After all, he understands these women, most of them have a penis like him, and the vocal ones, also hate feminists. In fact, as his new friends point out, banging on about male violence and single sex spaces is merely a dog whistle for transphobia!
Nigel is pleasantly surprised that more women than men seem to believe that trans women are women but knows deep down that this is due to being terrified of facing the same treatment as those mouthy feminists. They seem to be learning their lessons, with women in universities all over choosing to be on the side of women with penises as opposed to their own tribe. These are women Nigel can get along with, because they too turn up to demonstrate against those ugly man haters.
How dare I mention a different experience state of Victorian emergency services to the resident shrieking harridan.
An experience I commented about here, contemporaneously, though, on reflection it was probably eleven months ago.
About time we cracked on with having F35s operate from our two helicopter carriers….it can be done.
Yes.
An example…
There’s a video – I can’t find it now – of Putin going to meet the board members of a closed factory, including one of Russia’s richest oligarchs, and telling them if they don’t restart production he’ll take the factory from them.
They all sign an agreement to restart production.
As the commentator says, it’s testimony to Putin’s power, but also to the dysfunctional state of Russia, where the President has to attend to such matters.
That’s my suspicion, bern.
feelthebernsays:
March 26, 2022 at 12:23 pm
China doing what it’s doing in the Solomon Islands is similar to what they’ve done in Djibouti.
Valuable real estate that once you’ve built your bases, pretty hard to get rid of.
The Soviets had big bases in Berbera and Da Nang in the 1970s/1980s.
Just sayin’.
FTB, I did a job in Sollys years back. Spent vast majority time on Guadalcanal but managed a trip to Gizo & Malaita. Tribally very distinct. Without throwing in the blow ins from Bougainville or Polynesia. One thing united them though, jealousy & distrust of Chinese.
Their politicians are playing with fire. Be interesting to see if Adern obeys Beijing hanging Aus out to dry and stays out of any intervention to any resulting inevitable violence.
Jeremy’s Razors doesn’t ship to Australia!
Bugger.
Australia generally employs divide and rule tactics, such as led to the overthrow of the Fiji Government in 1987, a “triumph” for Hawke and Evans.
Confirmed, Dick Ed is a Deep State Spook.
One thing united them though, jealousy & distrust of Chinese.
Their politicians are playing with fire.
Same thing has been about African for the last decade.
But now Ethiopia has a brand new dam which has just pumped out its first electricity.
Apologies Roger.
I’ve been binge watching Deadwood and picked up the sweary bits.
All I wanted to do was thank Crossie for putting another point of view, not to berate others for their views.
We’re in the middle of a propaganda war. Every little detail is contested over how it will feed into the views the ordinary person.
The best way out of that is the same as the way out of the Covid propaganda, i.e. find concrete evidence for numerical data, apply reason and logic, assign probabilities instead of making absolute claims, and avoid buying into claims to know the motivations or future intentions of the parties involved or believe narratives about the rights or wrongs of it.
Trying to avoid being the Paul Erhlich of geopolitics.
I’ve been binge watching Deadwood and picked up the sweary bits.
What sweary bits?
He does exhibit all the characteristics.
bern
But now Ethiopia has a brand new dam which has just pumped out its first electricity.
Which the Chinese cannot just pick up and take home should there be (when there is) a breakdown in relations.
“Further to Tim’s post on the NYT & Hunter Biden.”
Somewhat tangential to this, but may intersect to some degree:
https://www.theblaze.com/news/exclusive-trump-calls-for-recusal-of-clinton-appointed-judge-reviewing-his-lawsuit
“Trump’s attorneys filed the lawsuit this week, naming nearly 50 defendants and charging them with a smattering of accusations including, but not limited to, a RICO conspiracy, injurious falsehood, conspiracy to commit injurious falsehood, malicious prosecution, Computer Fraud and Abuse Act violations, and theft of trade secrets.”
The undisputed King of the Trolls:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvq-zasOBw4&t=485s
Background and full transcript here.
“In 2015 Bernie Sanders woke me up,” he said. “My openly gay 6-year-old transgender nephew wanted something different than most kids for his birthday. He wanted the COVID-19 vaccine for the greater good of humanity because unlike the racist Republicans he wanted to protect our democracy and take on his social responsibility to do his part for the greater good,” he said. “He’s now gone from this world. He recently had a heart attack. But the doctors say they don’t know what caused it,” he continued. “But I know what caused it. It was the stress from the Donald Trump supporters and the science deniers, RACIST BIGOTED HOMOPHOBES,” he screamed at an earsplitting decibel……”
(apologies if already posted)
Accepted! Forget about it.
People tell me there’s all these shows I should be watching and that’s one of them.
Which the Chinese cannot just pick up and take home should there be (when there is) a breakdown in relations.
Which is why they have a military city in Djibouti.
Today I learned that the North were buying cotton from the South during the civil war.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM2g3YLVvCw
Southern property owners were exempt from the draft if they had enough slaves.
Some of which were sending cotton north.
While the poor were drafted.
The US really don’t know their own history.
Hooray! WAs mud-spattered No.1 jockey Willie Pike – exiled by the Marxist McClown regime because he refused to get the experimental Kung Flu jab – wins the Group 3 Neville Sellwood Stakes (2000m) on Mount Popa ($3.80 – T: Hawkes) at Sydney’s Rosehill on Tancred Stakes day.
“Is their Legacy of Heorot the greatest SF novel ever written?”
Playing with evolution and the biology of ecosystems can be dangerous – beware grendels!
Yes, very good.
The sequel not so much, unless you are really into the first book.
Rabz:
Not so much a matter of tuning out, Rabz, more a matter of being prepared for the coming storm.
Information is still vital even if it’s unbalanced.
I continue to build necessary stocks for survival, not much else one can do. Rebuild those community contacts – they’re your best defence.
Breaking news for racing tragics like me: the remainder of today’s Tancred Stakes day at Rosehill has been postponed because of Sydney’s continuing, insane deluge from the skies.
They need to relocate Sydney to Broken Hill. I’m sure the green-voting North Shore won’t mind.
Rabz:
It’s self defeating, Rabz, what the ABC is doing.
People cannot maintain a rage without reinforcement. Unfortunately what the ABC is doing isn’t reinforcement – it’s crying ‘wolf’.
And we all know how that ended up.
Yeah, because someone hadda feed the troops.
Australian farmers were exempted in WW2, whether they liked it or not.
Along with Coal Miners and anyone else considered essential to the War Effort.
I’ve been to Deadwood.
And I’ve been to Hollywood.
Already had my heart of gold. He sent me anniversary flowers today.
It’s okay, the Chinese have already written off the cost of the dam.
Meanwhile, if there’s a breakdown in relations [caused by US/UK] then they can step up to the plate and sort out who gets the water and who gets the drought.
Johanna:
Surely that funding should be in his register of whatever shit he owns or controls?
Hastie has recently disclosed it.
Surely that funding should be in his register of whatever shit he owns or controls?
But how long has he been compromised for?
Two years?
Four years?
LOL baggage handlers. Got to love ’em. Just watched a bag tumble from a trailer on to the apron near miss with tyres driver completely oblivious. Couple mins later the guy who emptied the sewer tanks comes by tosses into the cabin & off he goes. B738 in from BNE.
My aircraft just left Cairns.
To cheer everyone up.
A link to a nuclear weapon simulator.
Just enter your city of choice, or drag the ground-zero marker to whichever suburb annoys you most, dial up your kilotonnage, air burst height etc – and press Detonate.
I don’t know how good the physics is, but it’s interesting to speculate on the circles of blast damage.
No, really, don’t thank me.
Seems to be standard Chinese MO in shitholes.
A PRC colleague in Brisbane, fresh from a project in Libya, told me of his pleasure in not having to live in a compound secured by the PLA.
All this tells me is that the tribe has decided that Sleepy Joe has to go.
May I recommend a ‘Tsar Bomba’ for Canberra?
Make it a groundburst, and as a side benefit the fallout goes right over Melbourne.
The Russell Brand video from earlier today was outstanding.
A keeper.
My ongoing gripe with blood collections isn’t poor people selling their blood.
Or rich people doing weirdo treatments (I think I am the biggest Thiel fanboy in Australia).
My problem is:
1) CSL saying they are all ESG but set up collection agencies on the Mexican border to exploit poor people (the exact definition of modern day slavery);
2) CSL collecting Australian blood for free & but sending blood product to China for similar cosmetic treatments.
Make it a groundburst, and as a side benefit the fallout goes right over Melbourne.
No. Some people actually work in Melbourne
If CSL paid for blood, they can send the lot to China for profit for all I care.
But you can’t collect it for free & then profit from selling the highest margin products overseas.
…conservatives are either unaware of or ignore that Russia has the highest abortion rate in the world and the third highest divorce rate…
neither putin nor Russia are based
Sulks – what happened to ‘the greater gooooood’?
If the blood collection businesses had to keep blood product in the country of its sourcing a lot of business models collapse.
Why as you knock a huge amount of outlying area? Think smaller and more efficient.
I take it Tsar Bomba is now defunct? Do the Russians have something similar now? All horribly fascinating.
Porcelain wagie cages.
Sulks – what happened to ‘the greater gooooood’?
ha ha- I’ve thought the same thing myself about canbra
Oh, yes, you certainly may.
So, 50,000kt at 2,000’…
And then they whinge about declining donations.
Appealing to altruism is soooo C20. That horse has bolted.
All this tells me is that the tribe has decided that Sleepy Joe has to go.
Yep. No other way to read it. The Cackler isn’t much to work with, but they no doubt believe she can be re-packaged to hold the fort until 2024.
Personally, I’d love to see her do and Agnew and be forced out for #3 in line, Nancy ‘Pissed Again’ Pelosi.
You want to steal elections? OK, cop the consequences good and hard
Johanna:
If you can’t get to a hospital or similar, Hydrogen Peroxide is great stuff.
Get yourself a 10 ml syringe.
Some fine tubing that fits over the locking end of the syringe.
Fill the syringe with Hydrogen Peroxide.
Insert the end of the tubing into the wound.
Slowly irrigate the wound.
Watch it foam up and push dead cells/pus/foreign objects etc out of the wound.
Great stuff!
I get all my stuff online because pharmacists charge like a wounded bull for equipment that they buy at 10% of the price.
The usual disclaimers – not a docs advice, just common nursing practise.
An excellent book for mundane stuff is
Available as a PDF.
Or the QHealth Primary Clinical Care Manual also available as a PDF
Someone remind me, what is the NewsCorp position on Russo-Ukraine conflict?
the fallout goes right over Melbourne.
Overkill.
The joint is rooted already
I suspect this is what the scumbags are up to. They know Hiden isn’t going to run again and neither is giggling imbecile. I suspect they’re laying down a sort of marker for “renewal” as they can say it’s now out with the old and we need a clean sweep of new Demons (of course).
One thing is for certain in my mind though. Computergate isn’t going away and if the GOP wins the mid terms, the demented corrupt piece of shit is going to be impeached.
Interesting that Trump is suing Crooked and several others over the Russiagate fraud. He can’t win because of the high hurdle in the US to prove defamation etc by a public figure. I read Trump may be using the lawsuit for discovery
Ok, you go first David Llewellyn-Smith.
Name sounds very Adelaide.
Love airports even backwaters like Townsville. Planes seem to come from everywhere. A RAAF Hercules just arrived from Port Vila.
A while ago I was friendly with the young Navy fella who was DA for the South Pacific based in Honiara.
He was perfect for the job. He liked and was empathetic towards the cannibals, and had a sense of humour that allowed him to shrug off the daily absurdities of SP life.
But he was glum about the future for the Solomons. He recognised that the cargo cult would always rule and that those benefiting from foreign largess would inevitably become targets for those missing out. In those days, it was the Malaitans who were on the warpath.
Malaysian timber gangs were the corruptors du jour at the time, but he said that the Sollies were packed with Chinese agents doing no good even then.
Australia calmed things down when they went crazy. China will be disasterous for the poor buggers.
I hope they can get out of this mess, they are basically nice innocent folks, just nieve.
One way to avoid the Blood Bank is to get a scrip for Phlebotomy.
The blood gets drawn, then disposed of as waste.
Someone could show up at the primaries who we don’t know and win ( think Bill Clinton). Given that, I reckon there could be two possibilities for 2024 on the Demonrat side.
I know a lot of people here think I can’t be serious, but I’m still going with my hunch Gavin Newsom will likely be the Demon contender. Also, there is an outside chance of a tech billionaire showing up and match up against either Trump or DeSantis. Don’t totally ignore Mark Cuban who the Demons could argue is their Trump.
Ed-Mong backs out a new Ed-fact from its extensive files of Ed-story
Australian farmers were exempted in WW2, whether they liked it or not.
https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/journal/j29/civils
Agricultural etc 12,263: 13.1% of enlisted
The length and breadth of its Ed-ucation is truely amazing.
I know a lot of people here think I can’t be serious, but I’m still going with my hunch Gavin Newsom will likely be the Demon contender.
A few weeks back Baris had a throwaway line about Newsom buying fb adds targeting NY & other blue states.
It would not surprise me.
Also, mole, pretty sure Australian farmer weren’t sending the food they grew to the Japs or Krauts.
Grigs comparing that to Southern cotton farmers selling their goods to the North during the civil war is idiotic.
Dover I reckon an invasion won’t be necessary. The place will decend into violence IMO and our boys willbe there anyway to “protect” AFP…
Dick Ed
Yeah, because someone hadda feed the troops.
Let them eat cotton!
thefrollickingmolesays:
March 26, 2022 at 11:07 am
Lol! as if would trust a mole.
Strange day though. I recon the average age was about at least 55. They got paid by the hour not bucket and showed in the lack of enthusiasm. Very quiet for lack of no French and German backpackers fighting over turf. But a little disconcerting since mask or no mask you couldn’t see the faces. The one is his twenties gave up withing an hour and spent the rest of the day following looking bemused. Oh! Some of the lady’s looked 😯 and just about to cark it.
One dude was in a suit! Made my day.
Crossie:
I’d say that Japan and Taiwan would be considered a necessary security resource for China if it wanted to dominate the Pacific – especially if there was an ‘accidental or otherwise’ plague that devastated the two nations. I think China would consider it appropriate to render humanitarian assistance to the inhabitants if that was to happen.
Australia is more a materials resource to be exploited.
Heh! They’re actually the Walter Duranty of Laptop-gate.
Taylor Hawkins is dead.
Foo Fighters drummer.
A Japanese invasion starting from Narita Airport. I can see it clearly now. It will be a multi pronged airport invasion across the north and south Pacific using Dreamliners and 767s.
rosie:
It’s reasonable to assert the German economy will use the price mechanism to ration gas. Only the poor will suffer and obviously they don’t matter.
Another vigorous life tragically taken by the covid vax.
And I’ll add to this –
“At least seven others not getting the immediate doctor’s care they needed, only what the overworked ambos were providing.
That was basically pain relief, which also meant that most patients weren’t in a fit state to communicate effectively with the doctors when they did finally get to see them.”
– that Pre-Covid Mandates all of us waiting would have been able to have at least one family member or friend with us, to help clarify details that we exhausted, doped up & suffering people weren’t up to.
Again, as we know, it has NOTHING to do ‘not spreading Covid‘, but works bloody well at robbing ill treated patients of supporting witnesses in any claims against hospitals.
The sworn enemy of anybody who has ever put a surfboard on an aircraft.
MiltonF:
Exactly.
It’s so damn obvious that it shouldn’t have to be repeated.
In this scenario, we ARE the baddies.
80
Wheat futures for May delivery hit a high of US$1,355 on 7th March. Closed last night ~$US1,100. We could have seen the highs now.
Him leaving parliament is a fair dinkum loss to the nation.
Ed is both right and wrong.
Obviously, early on, farmers and squattters could join up, especially the AIF.
But with the arrival of massive US forces, farmers were locked into very significant production demands.
They were not drafted and, as I understand it, joining up was strongly resisted.
On a number of occasions, Curtin requested the ‘American Caesar’ to curb US food demands to relieve pressure on the ag sector and provide a little more for the Australian population.
Of course, the great man ignored him.
As a humorous side story, the ever arrogant CAS, Jones, had the bright idea that it would be good for morale and the nation if exhausted aircrew were sent fruit picking as rest activity. It took seconds for the orchardists demanded their removal.
Visitors (old friends) coming over for my birthday dinner tonight, with their 13 yo daughter.
Mother rings with 3 hours to go to say daughter wants to celebrate Earth Hour tonight. Should she bring candles…
What to do?
Speaking of untimely deaths.
Poor bugger at work told me his sister found her daughter dead on the floor at home, only 17.
Not sick, no drugs (as far as they know) and fine an hour or 2 before.
No autopsy yet so no idea if it was a stroke/heart attack, allergic reaction, or something out of left field.
Labor leader Anthony Albanese says increasing foreign aid and addressing climate change are crucial to maintaining stability in the Pacific after Solomon Islands signed a security pact with China.
The deal has triggered geopolitical anxieties for Australia and the US, both wary of China’s expansionist footprint in the Pacific.
Mr Albanese says if given the opportunity to lead a government he would maintain Australia’s critical foreign aid to Pacific nations.
“We wouldn’t have cut funding to aid,” he told reporters in Sydney on Saturday.
“The other thing is creating stability in the region by acting on the most important issue for our Pacific neighbours, which is climate change,” the Opposition leader said….
Albo is a greenie eunuch; facts don’t matter but here they are:
Soloman islands sea temperature:
IDO70061WTI.pdf (bom.gov.au)
Soloman Islands sea level:
IDO70061SLI.pdf (bom.gov.au)
Barry.
Send her with some packets of these.
JC, this schtick is getting less plausible by the death.
He was 50 (though no doubt with a life of debauchery and whatnot, plus the fact that he was a drummer). But unexplained sudden death at 50 is probably not exactly normal.
Anecdotes aren’t data, and I agree that the tiresome linking of every death to the jabs can wear somewhat, but these deaths are definitely a “dig here” signal. Pretending they aren’t is silly.
A WA based (no-name) Air baggage handler once managed to smash my padded Penguin case full of delicate test instruments, clearly marked “FRAGILE” in huge red letters on all sides.
When it came off the plane it looked like it had been run over, and Penguin cases are nearly bulletproof.
I got compensated $6K, about $3K short of replacement value.
Went in the overheads from then on.
Oh yea, so the Solomon’s are sniffing around Chinese because they CCP is so wonderful combating gerbiling.
and building more.
Albanese is a complete retard, but then we’re told here both parties are the same.
Really!? I didn’t realise.
I shall have to remember to turn on the lights before heading off to my Lib Dems meeting, then.
Anthony Albanese cops backlash after saying men can’t have babies
That’ll teach him what happens when you tell the truth.
He won’t do that again.
Shane Bazzi: $35,000 lighter for calling Peter Dutton “a rape apologist”.
Regarding wound care.
Someone (Helen?) mentioned my go-to, which is Betadine.
Even use it (highly diluted) as a mouth wash.
And that nice deep red colour is reminiscent of that cure-all from childhood, Mercurochrome.
What ever happened to that?
Did the name evoke images of metallic poisoning (mercury + chromium)?
Poor old Albo. Gotta keep eyes on the main prize but has to win Graynder first. Bandt must figure he can’t lose.
Has anyone picked up any inside info on the LibDem woman who sent out the neurotic accusations letter to the membership?
Will sexual assault allegations follow?
Who would want to be an employer these days?
Possibly the only cartoonist in the world depicting Resident Biden as decisive against Putin.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2022/mar/25/nicola-jennings-on-the-po-ferries-fiasco-cartoon
Never mind the existing pipeline still running,,,,
I have often wondered whether baggage handlers come from a foreign land where “fragile” means “drop from a great height” and “handle with care” means “kick the shit out of this”.
Mark
In the West, the risk of dying at 50 is about 14%. It’s low, but not outlandish.
In 1970, people had a 28% chance of dying before they turned 50. By 2010, that risk had been cut in half.
And the risk of dying at around 50 would obviously be higher.
Baz, tell her you respect her religious beliefs and that, as she is visiting your home, you hope she respects yours: turning up the coal-fired electricity to eleventy ro ward off evil spirits.
This freak thinks Mardi Gras is a religious experience, like a LGBTQI Lourdes.
Really, you’re going to try this, ‘I did say what I said or meant to say, but everyone else said what I say they said & meant!’, pathetic attempt at re-taking control of the BS Pro-Jab Mandates Narrative you’ve peddled from the get go?
Because this –
– isn’t close to any sort of an honest or even reasonable come back against what was really said & meant by both parties.
srr says:
March 26, 2022 at 12:08 pm
[full quotes & context here] https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/03/26/open-thread-weekend-26-mar-2022/comment-page-1/#comment-188757
These are sorts of people nobody can trust.
[…] –
My “one anecdote”, included at least seven others waiting for hours on trollies in the hall.
[…]
But again, lets not let rosie The Jab Pusher distract you from what my post was about; the serious understaffing of hospitals since the Covid Mandates.
She mentions excellent, speedy care in a Melbourne Hospital in 2019!
Before The Covid Mandates decimated staff levels!
Why?
Why is rosie The Jab Pusher trying to pretend that Victorian Hospitals are as efficient now as they were Pre-Covid Mandates … rhetorical.
OK,
I’ve decided to leave the oven on “accidentally”. That will easily outweigh any turned off lights.
Win-Win
like a LGBTQI Lourdes.
I like that line.
But Im pretty sure Lourdes has at l3eadst the distinction of its attendees leaving with less infectious diseases than they started with.
Thought for something different I’d see what today’s propaganda is served up by those people based on Mountain street, Ultimo. What do I find(?) Ukraine is forcing Russia into peace negotiations and normalisation of jab related brain injury in children. Perhaps not for this young lady‘s injury of 2019 though I imagine the majority of others that occurred from the beginning of child jabbing in 2021 are/ will be a direct result of the gene therapy.
Aside: I don’t call cracking your head on something and having a brain bleed that gets worse over days a “stroke”. My understanding is this is called a traumatic head injury.
Gee, living on the edge Barry.
Busted……
This candle thing for ‘earth hour’ (concocted by advertising pricks) just shows how fucking ignorant some of these cretins are- candles emit CO2. So fucking stupid.
Then there is this:-
Leaving the car running outside.
Just shows it’s an ersatz religion.
I’ve sent a lot of the “Dog in the burning house” memes lately.
The one saying “It’s not Trump, so this is fine”.
Some dickheads are getting it once a week, just to reinforce the point. 🙂
Yes Rodger, Deadwood still sits on the top of my list of, ‘must binge watch, repeatedly’, shows.
It covers so many layers & depths of human existence, with such honesty, that it needs many views to get the full value of it, and yet, from the very beginning to the end it takes you and holds in terrible, awe striking wonder.
The local government of the area around Paris CDG Airport (Roissy) came up with the brilliant idea of insisting that CDG employ the local layabout mussies and gypsies.
Govt supported them, and CDG (perhaps being clever) employed large numbers as baggage handlers.
The rate of theft from luggage was so great a number of airlines led by BA announced that they were moving operations to Orly.
The boys returned to the far more useful activities of muggings, break and enter, and drug running.
“Hundreds of thousands of dollars”
Ummm… yeah….
Not saying Josh Zimmerman is plucking that number out of the air.
Be interesting to see the source he’s using for that claim.
Yeah, WW2, Korea, etc. had an effect on life expectancy of people born
c. 1920.
Bluey:
I’ve a feeling the end of the ‘rasputista’ the muddy/boggy season will see the offensive roll on at full steam.
April will see the roads and fields open up for movement.
Are candles not made most often from paraffin wax, a by- product of the petroleum industry? Have fun with the 13 yr old !
No
11 months ago was April 2021, severe burn to hand. At that time hospitals were allowing one person to accompany the patient.
I’m sure some will remember me mentioning it.
Prior incident in 2019 requiring ambulance was a seizure, again mentioned here in reference to the large number of elderly people being ramped, I think I counted eleven plus one person accompanied by both police and ambulance officers. They were there before we got there and still there when we left three hours later. That of course didn’t include all the walk ins sitting in the waiting area and all the other occupied cubicles none of whom I surveyed.
Again mentioned here at the time because I heard the clerk complaining there were no beds.
I’m not selling a narrative, just presenting factual information.
Hollyweird seeing if they can drive the Oscars viewing figures into double digits this year.
Three new hosts – Amy Schumer, Wanda Sykes (literally who?) and Regina Hall (most famous role in the Scary Movie films, 2000-20006) – are set to oversee proceedings, marking the first time in four years the Academy Awards will have an overall MC. Earlier this week, Schumer expressed eagerness for the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, to put in an appearance by video link. He is said to have declined.
Im looking into my crystal balls, lots of gold and blue in the decorations and ritual intoning about how war is bad ‘MMMMkayyyy.
Missing: Any mention of biden green lighting a limited invasion…
Biden told reporters Wednesday that “my guess is he will move in. He has to do something,” as he revealed tensions within the U.S.-European alliance about how to handle various scenarios involving Ukraine. “It’s one thing if it’s a minor incursion and then we end up having a fight about what to do and not do,” he said, adding “there are differences in NATO as to what countries are willing to do depending on what happens.”
Brisbane Airport ground crew is all Arab, from my observation.
They’re quite efficient.
Boambee John:
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
Here.
She can do it in the garden shed with the spiders.
Standard fee for ” the mate of a mate” was a bottle of good single malt…
Barry. Easy. Have the candles and extol the wonderfulness of a simple life while eating your delicious meal.
After dinner, ask her to do the washing up. All of it. In the sink. Plus drying with a teatowel.
For da planet.
Indeed mole.
I visited Lourdes just a few weeks ago and it was entirely decorous with many people getting water from the grotto to take home.
You could buy 20 litre containers at the holy shops but as I didn’t have that much room in my suitcase I settled for a few 10ml bottles.
Bloke who was a child during that War [his dad was a Brisbane wharfie] told me the next war [which didn’t seem that far away in 1978] he was gonna be in the Black Market.
Earth hour.
Does that mean one hour with no lights, no cooking, no TV, no electronic gadgets, just sitting in candle light talking?
I think you should.
Daily Mail
HBBear:
I don’t know, HBB. There’s a lot of votes and larfs in watching them get hysterical when their stupidity and viciousness gets shown up.
Nothing to be proud of – the American Army found that working parties of soldiers could move cargo at twice the rate of Australian wharfies, without stealing everything that wasn’t nailed down.
No doubt Olena was cheering her Ukraine militias while they shelled and slaughtered innocents for 8 years.
The fake news propaganda coming from the pro-Ukraine crew is vomitus.
More from the Daily Mail
Roger:
(I will no longer be mispelling your name as ‘Wodger’ because bad.)
If that’s the case, then we should be advertising the ‘bribes’ and ‘considerations’ given over the last twenty years to the Solomon Islanders, and letting them deal with it.
I didn’t say it was, though this bloke woulda held you out to piss with.
Tucker: We may not have enough food soon
Breaking: Today’s abandoned races at Rosehill will be run at Newcastle on Monday.
Yes, JC, I agree. I didn’t say it was some obvious “red light”. I merely said that it was a “dig here”. And it absolutely is. If digging turns up nothing, so be it – and all to the good. But waving it off is, as I said above, a schtick that has outlived its usefulness, for mine.
The only thing worse than letters in support of gun licences is have them actually turn up at the property. One bunch from Port Hedland shot out the rear 1/4 window of their Landcruiser stopped at one of the gates. Oops.