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I wasn’t impressed. If they had spent less on the flash packaging and more on the whisky, then I would…
Sadly I missed it with my children, they were not interested but we had a jolly good time when I…
More of British. Love it or hate it. Yum. Pork pies.
Nostalgic Brits reminiscing. Picture, As we were not so long ago. some of the comments; “Powell tried to warn us,…
E38 or 49 …. pray its the E49, in burnt orange..
Giving him 100 votes was dreamtime.
Realistically he might struggle to pull twenty.
I’m disappointed, Grigory.
I thought you were going to say he was a Spook.
Who was poisoned.
Most likely…
Now there’s a payment that needs sanctions.
It’s a 265, 4 speed.
It’s actually an XL designation. I just decided to upgrade to the webers because I could.
Has black vinyl interior and silver paint (original colour) ?
No Eddles, they were as boring as f*ck. We finally agree for once.
Grohl trying to spin a post knackvana career after the untimely flamer and spook induced death of the Cobain. As for the latter’s widow, the less said the better. She was no HBOT.
The reason Government/BigPharma lied about the vax takeup becomes apparent.
When all the dead are triple and quadruple vaxxed it doesn’t stand out, since everyone is vaxxed, right?
But if they told the truth, then there’s no way every victim being dead and multiple vaxxed could be a random distribution.
Gonzalo Lire?
A joke name, surely.
Like Biggus Dickus.
Yep. One of them.
The dead drummer was a Flamer as well as being a CovidVax Stat?
What are the odds?
He gives retards a bad name. Now I’m disabled I can say that without any worries.
Eddles, the Watts was the ripe ol’ age of 80 when he shuffled off this mortal coil. If he was still indulging in various illicit pharmaceuticals by then, well, quite frankly, good on him.
Sheesh.
What do you think local record companies and promoters are for?
The more I heard of her, the more I understood why Kurt put the shotty under his chin and redecorated the lounge.
You coulda always said it, Bear.
Music to my ears.
I used to own an E55 VJ.
Factory power steer, ac, remote mirror, 770 trim etc etc.
Sold it because of getting married or something.
Idiot.
I had a VJ 4 dr, 318, 4 s
Grrrr… 318 4spd
Yeah, but he hadn’t been sick and was still wokkin’.
I’m tinkin’ the Vax hastened his demise considerably.
The US has already been invaded. From within.
The entire country is full of nutcases.
That’s most unfortunate 🙁
I bought mine as a second year apprentice.
Took a little longer than I had hoped, but it sounds amazing after all the hard work 🙂
The beauty of a good agent.
Roadies and hiding your powder in the freight probably go a long way as well.
Said the flamer shut-in.
The entire country is full of nutcases
Exactly like here, ‘dillo.
Gee, I’m eighty years old, time to hoover a whole bunch of illicit pharmaceuticals, I tells ya!
Said no superannuated rock ‘n’ roller evah*
*There may just happen to be very good reasons for this.
Sure, Armadillo.
Melbourne was the most locked down city in the world. The population accepted it like good little Germans, but Americans are nutcases?
Californian Democrats fleeing California for Texas and other Red States, then voting Democrat?
Stay in a posh hotel. The top level prostitutes and drug dealers will find you.
Where there is a market, there is a supplier. It’s always been this way. Since day dot.
Re American culture, I agree the miasma of cultural marxism (brought there from the Frankfurt school) hasn’t infected every American even though it drives Hollywood and their and our meja. It’s probably a sizably minority. The reason I say this is they still had to cheat big time to plant the old grub in the White House.
Plasmamortar deserves some type of special award for dedication to fossil fuel useage & restoration of planet-raping technology of the 1970s.
Well done that Cat.
It’s interesting and pleasing that in spite of every obstacle being thrown in his way, Trump was able to hugely improve the lives of ordinary people by cutting taxes and immigration. What he wasn’t able to do was drain the swamp.
good analysis
I do what I can 🙂
I also advocate for nuclear power!
Hell, I would love to see research into scaled down thorium reactors that could power cars/trucks.
Imagine never having to fill up your car because the reactor produced enough fuel for 50+ years?
Nuclear powered locomotive!
The Great Curve
The Belew‘s mighty guitar work on this track will never age.
Music to hoover many, many illicit pharmaceuticals to.
Hey, apostrophes – stop trying to be funny.
Or you’ll find yourselves saying “hello” to my li’l friend. Leading to events that will make your common or garden variety multi-personage Sunday night Cat stoush look like a toddlers’ tea party.
Sacré bleu – the impertinence.
Someone’s been watching his Supertrain again… 🙂
Bluddee hell – watching the latest UAP ad – it’s less than aurally and aesthetically pleasing, but I just can’t look away …
Finishing with the Kelly exhorting the crowd “Sack them all”.
To which they respond in kind, very loudly.
Great stuff.
Difficult to disagree with that broad sentiment.
Draining a swamp is a big job. It starts with flushing turds down the toilet. It’s begun. I suspect that drug addled Hunter might have misplaced more than just one laptop.
Hear Paul Simon Sing About Baseball Legend on ‘Cool Papa Bell’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ-pBq-AdG8
The track explores everything from the exact location of Heaven to the word ‘motherfucker’
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/hear-paul-simon-sing-about-baseball-legend-on-cool-papa-bell-32358/
This bloke is so funny!
He doesn’t believe it himself (of course).
Armstrong Economics
Putin puts Biden’s King in Check
Yes, but he did get a LOT of unknown swamp creatures to surface from the depths, get named & tagged … now it’s just the bagging 😉 🙂
Dr Sam White and Sally Cutler discuss Ivermectin and the dangers of using it
Neil Oliver
No, the issue is will the alphabet agencies create a false flag chemical attack to justify widening the war. That is certainly Gonzalo Lira’s fear, based on the endless propaganda about Russia’s failure in Ukraine, which he says is nonsense.
Gonzalo Lira does go on a bit, but he’s well worth watching. srr does put up some interesting stuff, whatever you think of her.
“They replaced Jesus with the EU Flag.”
#NCFHeresies
The Left’s Quest to Remove Whiteness & Undermine Our Culture
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Agree ssr- a lot of swamp creatures outed themselves including ones here eg Howard and Fraudenberg.
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This time on #SWYSI, we are joined by commentator and popular YouTuber Carl Benjamin for a wide-ranging discussion on politics, the culture wars, philosophy, ancient history, England, English history and the foundation of English identity as well as the “long march through the institutions” and the rise of Critical Race Theory.
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They’ve lost around 6% of their total tank fleet. And 6% of all their armour. Total fleet, not just out of the ones deployed.
In a month.
In every video of their soldiers, including the ones they themselves put out, they appear completely clueless about basic infantry tactics such as obs crossings or building entrances, vehicle debussing or muzzle awareness.
They seem to move on the battlefield with zero urgency or awareness and without the ability to relay information.
Over and over you see them doing dumb shit that would get an Australian soldier in training’s arse kicked and told “You’re fucking dead”.
What I’ve seen is leading me to scratch my balls and wonder if everything we were taught in training was bullshit and in real combat there are a whole different set of rules, so much so that I had to ask actual combat veterans what the fuck is this?
Maybe their real soldiers are doing the work without putting out vids.
Or maybe when they have to actually clear an urban area house by house they are going to get creamed.
That both halves of our current UniParty were heavily into funnelling massive amounts of OUR money to the Clinton’s also goes a long way to explaining why they are currently carrying us into The Ukraine War To Hide The Swamp Creatures’ Blood Money Laundry.
Thanks to Roger for suggesting UnherdThe Revolt of the Elites
Been having a look around UAP and One Nation to see what info on Covid they have up.
Not too much on UAP main web page. Craig Kelly Twitter feed has plenty of good links and Clive Palmer UAP page also. Found a guy called Nick Holt on Substack who has interesting articles on one of the Aussie signatories to Lancet letter, Aussie WHO team member to Wuhan and treatment of pregnant staff by Gold Coast Health (disgusting).
Best coverage is on Malcolm Roberts web page which has video coverage of a recent cross party hearing into Covid. Witnesses included Pierre Kory, Tess Lawrie, Peter McCullough, David Flint and others. Never heard of him before but Dr Phillip Altman’s evidence was very informative and a good summary.
Some of the witnesses are from the Covid Medical Network. Good quote from Dr Robert Brennan about sign on Canadian truck – “The Canadian truckers are doing what the Dr’s didnt”. He talks about Dr’s not speaking out. Dr Brennan has been outspoken in claiming that lockdowns are more harmful than helpful, and campaigned against mandating the COVID vaccine. As a consequence of this stance, he has since lost his registration to practice medicine and been deemed a “danger to public health and safety” by the regulator. Mentions the ship Diamond Princess in Yokohama. 3711 on board, mainly elderly. Deaths were 14 over next 10 weeks. Makes the point that many hospitals were almost empty when we were being told overworked. I know that to be true. Impressive and again never heard of him before. The kind of Dr we need.
Naturally you wont see any of those Dr’s mentioned in mainstream Australian media.
Yep.
Watching the Advance Guard of a Russkie armoured regiment get splattered on the entry into a Ukrainian village, then the following Squadron get boxed in, the head and tail vehicles knocked out and the rest somehow barely managing to retreat in utter disorder ruined it for me.
Plus random Chocko-equivalents with RPGs casually wandering out from between buildings in nominally Russian-controlled and occupied areas, potting individual trucks and AFVs. And doing it unnoticed, unchallenged and without feeling a single need to be tactical about their actions.
Hell, the Iraqis, Syrians, Chechens, Afghans and even the various flavours of rebel, bandit and brigand from the Philippines to West Africa know that to engage their own people (let alone any US/Russian/Chinese/Etc. advisors and support troops) they can only do it by infiltration and ambush. And being extremely careful at all levels in their organisation, communication and movement.
And yet, here is the most powerful single-nation terrestrial army in Europe shrugging its shoulders as its MSRs and logistics trains are shredded or fall apart of their own volition. Often at the hands of people who do not feel afraid to be seen pulling the trigger or absconding in open daylight with ‘Z’-marked trucks and heavy equipment.
Well within “acceptable losses” I would have thought.
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I believe you could both expand on your comments to the understanding of other readers betterment.
I’m perplexed by what I’m seeing.
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The Russians might actually be winning, despite what the media wish to betray….
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/de-militarization-ukraine-continues/
Counterpoint, from The Daily Beast and apropos of Mr Lira:
Highlights:
And:
On his up-to-a-month-ago job:
Of course you can date a woman in her thirties. That’s just silly.
On his Ukrainian commentary, I don’t know – and more to the point, nobody else does who isn’t actually there. There’s been so much mayonnaise and flat-out bullshit spread on the Net from both sides that it’s now impossible to make any dispassionate assessment.
I’m with you.
And so, apologies to every Cat who considers that the Russian Army truly is sweeping all before it because it is superior to everything arrayed against it in every way.
The footage and stills I’ve seen of what screams to me of incompetence, lack of training or indiscipline under fire leaves me wondering if the only advantage the Russians have had to this point has been sheer overwhelming numbers at the point of contact.
The tank ambush video I referred to is a case in point. The footage I will reference is the Sky one here.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dcYOjbyttvM
This is the same Ukrainian Defence Ministry footage everyone else has, but I think it shows the wider picture a little better.
The initial advance into Skybyn seems to be well spread out, and convoy discipline is OK. Every convoy packet appears able to swarm and support each other if contact is made. You can see various fires and smoke columns on the outskirts as the convoy passes, suggesting to me that Skybyn has been fairly aggressively defended against previous convoy elements.
When the footage moves to the village of Skybyn itself, I see stalled and at least one potentially M[obility]-killed T-72 or T-90 MBTs pulled off the road and making efforts to either pull back or attempt to ascertain what they are up against. The apparent indecision is a concern to me- In a mobile ambush, the very last thing you do is stop in the ambush area. The mounted drills I remember focussed on getting own your vehicle and fellow callsigns out of the line of fire ASAP. If you needed to speed up and drive straight out of there, you did. If you had to herringbone (even left/right split of the vehicles down either side of your route of the march to get you off your prior axis of advance and allow you to keep moving or counter-ambush) or even turn into the ambush, debus your dismounts and start fighting through, then that was what you did. Under no circumstances if you trip an ambush, do you stay there. You get out, take stock of damage, casualties and ammo and set about coordinating a response.
And yet, here is a troop of 3 tanks, parked up on the edge of the road and then trying to turn around to rejoin the approaching convoy.
When the decision to attack and try to clear out the ambush or change direction to bypass Skybyn is made, there is no infantry support present- just MBTs and a pair of BTR-90s.
These appear to be in use as command post vehicles, and there is no sign of friendly dismounted infantry anywhere. No Western military worth its salt would risk entering a suspect built up area with just infantry or armour by themselves. Certainly not when advancing to contact as the Russians are here And even old Soviet doctrine and tactical wisdom made a point of having infantry with the tanks. Even if it meant piling them onto the engine decks and riding into battle that way.
Now, the video gets it wrong at 00:38- That smoke is not from fire- It would be black and with flames. T-72s and their derivatives tend to flare quite spectacularly when destroyed (as this footage from Syrian demonstrates), and the nature of their ammo storage beneath the turret ring tends to pop the turrets off. The crews are actually creating localised smokescreens by spraying diesel fuel onto the motors’ exhaust manifolds
At 00:40, we have a Squadron plus of the previously advancing Russian Armour now parked up inside what was the suspected ambush area, with everyone packed in tightly together, no weapon systems out or crews keeping watch. If you were watching a NATO formation in the same situation, A) They would not still be in the same village as when contact was first reported, B) They would be fairly dispersed and/or in the nearest open ground where their ability to see and move is not impeded and canalised by buildings or other terrain, and C) you would see their turret weapons pointed in 360 degrees around the parked vehicles to provide security and observation to the troops at the halt.
The first missile strikes from infiltrating Ukranian anti-tank teams now strike the leading and trailing vehicles, and particular efforts are made to hit the BTRs, the ambushers assuming the Squadron OC and 2IC or other vital command staff will be using them. The TOS-1A thermobaric rocket launcher gets one round off in the general direction of something, and the tanks rabble away to the North in an apparent state of general confusion. Fortunately leaving only one burning BTR and T-90 in their wake. At least from the drone and ground camera footage shown.
That cloud of black smoke just after the vehicle at the bottom of the screen gets hit, is one of the tankies crapping himself and flooring his throttle. The T-72 family’s motor is pretty smokey when powered up.
Been listening to Tess Lawrie via the Malcolm Roberts page.
Makes an interesting point regarding adverse reactions to Covid and Tetanus jabs. One argument why Covid vax gets so many adverse effects is because such a high number in a short time. However Laurie mentions Tetanus been in use since 1968 and had 15,000 adverse reactions according to WHO. Covid vax over 3m so far.
Wot KD said.
I can only comment on what I’ve seen…
Former Prime Minister Julia Gillard has confirmed she split up with her longtime boyfriend Tim Mathieson a year ago.
Ms Gillard was Australia’s first, and still only, female prime minister, and though they were not married, Mr Mathieson became known as the ‘First Bloke’ – a play on the American tradition of calling a president’s wife the ‘First Lady’.
Mr Mathieson had not been seen with Ms Gillard in quite some time, and had not even lived in the same city for more than a year.
Daily Mail
Excerpt from WSJ piece.
200 people per day with heart complaints or strokes from a population of around 100,000.
200 people per day for a year would be 70,000 cases and note that we will probably get another 3 boosters by this Christmas so this daily rate will stay elevated.
There won’t be any kind of a nation by the end of 2023.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-17/albury-wodonga-health-call-internal-emergency-as-demand-rises/100917686
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Warren Brown.
David Rowe.
Bob Moran.
Peter Brookes.
Patrick Blower.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Bob Gorrell.
Michael Ramirez #2.
Tom Stiglich.
Gary Varvel.
Al Goodwyn.
Lisa Benson.
What is this blasphemy?
We shouldn’t trust the narrative of a random sitting somewhere in a basement long term make my bucks from clicks dude?
Could it be he’s only in it for the lira?
an abc story on the end of net fishing in Port Phillip Bay
for Pope Francis aficionados
classic abc click bait promoting something called ‘World Unity Day’ for the next big thing ‘spiritual tourism’ because no-one has ever gone on a pilgrimage.
File under ‘everyone but me is evil’
I’d forgotten about the twitter account ‘bothering conspiracy theorists’
Seems all roads lead to tunnels.
“Telegram channels were filled with discussions about how Clive Palmer’s red shoes and Craig Kelly’s hand gestures were signs that they were puppets of the new world order.”
Australia’s anti vaccine movement is collapsing, a hit piece by Crikey
some online news site callee the klaxon with a hit piece on A1
Dilbert
Hope that was a emocon not question mark at the end.
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The Dems have started rigging the 2022 Half Terms already.
In Alaska it will be all by mail-in with no checking.
Gateway Pundit
Bob Moran again this morning. Described how my mother lived until the day she died. Meant never having to make a real decision ever. Pathetic. Just as well I had my aunt and uncle as someone to look up to.
Watching the news last night… Russkie attacking Lviv, “it’s at the end of a humanitarian corridor”, then footage of blowing up oil storage and military base… Both legitimate targets.
Footage of senile Joe, “Putin is a butcher”, next grab is footage of crowds yelling at Russkies in a few APCs, which turn around and diddibop away… If Russkies were butchers they would have opened fire on the crowd.
Something is seriously not computing.
Diogenes says:
March 28, 2022 at 7:07 am
You can’t fight ideology.
Give it up.
Some people on this blog, I thought highly of before, proved to be other than they appeared before.
I would classify those constantly looking for and taking offence as a sub-set of Moran’s cartoon.
It’s one of the more profound ones amongst all the political ephemera.
Over at DashCat, Shy Ted has a very interesting comment about psychopathy. Worth a look.
Plasmamortar:
Foxtail?
Fluffy dice?
miltonf says:
March 27, 2022 at 11:20 pm
Thanks to Roger for suggesting Unherd The Revolt of the Elites
https://unherd.com/2020/07/the-book-that-predicted-2020/#:~:text=The%20Revolt%20of%20the%20Elites%20and%20the%20Betrayal,one%20that%20would%20lead%20to%20extremism%20and%20division.
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“[…]
Yet whereas conservatives at the time saw the market as the solution, Lasch often viewed it as a problem, capitalism being in symbiosis with radicalism. By encouraging instant gratification and the ephemeral, especially when it came to jobs, the market undermined the family, which he called “a haven in a heartless world”. The very things that radicals attacked — “the authoritarian family, repressive sexual morality, literary censorship, the work ethic, and other foundations of bourgeois order” — have already been “weakened or destroyed by advanced capitalism itself”.
[…]while not a practising Christian, understood the importance of religion, and that without it politics would inspire “the feeling of self-righteousness that is so commonly confused with religion”. It would bring all the negative hallmarks of faith, the fanaticism and intolerance, but none of the devotion, the selflessness, the agonising.
The trends that Lasch observed would only accelerate after 2001, following China’s entry into the World Trade Organisation, the further erosion of America’s manufacturing base, the collapse of its skilled working class, and the increasing radicalisation of elites who benefited from globalisation and came to identify with it. […]”
Gabor, the temptation to take a “side” is always there – it’s human nature. Some have excellent reasons for doing so.
I have found the commentary here from both angles, or no angle at all, very useful. I simply don’t know enough to be partisan, apart from first principles.
In “our dams will never fill again” news.
Wet weather set to return for parts of QLD and NSW (Sky, 28 Mar)
I know March is usually wet but this is getting ridiculous. I had a look at the BoM forecast for Ncl and it has serious rain listed for every day this week. Urgh. And the poor people up the coast may be about to get another dose of floods. If only the state government had built the Tillegra Dam which was all set to go in 2010.
Over at DashCat, Shy Ted has a very interesting comment about psychopathy. Worth a look.
Indeed, calli. Get over there and read it.
Personally I think pandering, cheering and enabling other people’s daemons to make themselves look more companionate is more of a scourge today then damaged souls they claim to “care” about.
I hope the big guy isn’t so gullible if so I’ll take my chances the other bloke.
A key point Gonzalo Lira makes is that those Globalist Powers (with all that corruption of the Ukraine to hide that they did to empower & enrich themselves), need the world to believe the lie that the Russians are losing in order to sell the lie that the Russians resorted to Biochemical or Nuclear Attack, when it would be a False Flag by those, our, Western Traitors Within.
Constantly (from before it even started), pushing the line that the Russians bit off more than they could chew, is what is keeping the unnecessary fighting, destruction & killing going, by making Ukrainians (& their fooled supporters from around the world), believe that throwing more fighters into the war will defeat the Russians rather than simply kill more Ukrainians, and give The Evil their cover for a False Flag of Mass Slaughter.
Question for Monday morning, what exactly was and is the Biden family’s relationship with Ukraine? Why isn’t the MSM asking questions? Can someone please tell me how and why someone like Hunter Biden, the kiddie porn aficionado and crack addict, was able to get a seat on the board of the Ukraine’s Burisma Corporation and then pocket about USD $40,000 a month, despite knowing nada, zilch, nothing about oil and gas? Geez, where can I find such a gig?
And who thinks, along with me, that if Don Trump Jnr or Eric Trump had been involved in some similar dodgy business dealings in Ukraine, then everyday we’d be reading hysterical stories about their business adventures? But instead, because it’s the Biden family, there’s silence from the MSM about Corn Pop and Hunter’s ties to the corrupt Ukrainian oligarchs.
My questions above are just some I have about US involvement in Ukraine, particularly over the last eight years. I ask because no where in the corrupt MSM are journalists asking these and other pertinent questions. The MSM have buried the second impeachment, an impeachment ignited by President Trump’s reasonable concern over the Biden family’s ties to Ukraine, because it clearly doesn’t suit the narrative. The more you read about US tinkering in Ukraine, the more you understand Russian frustration and anger. Does asking such questions make me a Putin shill? Does asking such questions mean that I and others here, who may think the situation in Ukraine is rather complex and nuanced, are “pro-Russian” or “pro-invasion”. No.
I don’t condone the invasion. However I find it extraordinary that many who are against the Russian invasion of its next door neighbour supported Bush’s wars in the Middle East* and the disaster in Libya in 2011. As Peter Hitchens writes, he’s always been consistent, he was against the invasion of Afghanistan in 2002, he was against the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and he was against the US, France and UK’s disastrous meddling in Libya in 2011.
For the record, back in 2003 I regrettably supported the invasion of Iraq, because at the time I believed our government and I believed the MSM. I no longer believe either. Everyday we are fed misinformation and lies.
Regarding what is coming out of Ukraine, bear in mind the Russians have used dezinformatsiya and maskirovka for a long time.
Well, bespoke, you can tell a nutcase they’re a nutcase, but they won’t believe you. All you get is more projection.
Speaking to a bloke I know who runs a trucking business.
They’re selling off their older trucks & trailers and buying new sets but a reduced number. He said they just can’t find the full time drivers for the work available and have to cut back customers.
They run grain, fert and general freight, including deliveries to supermarkets.
Paying over $70 an hour for casual drivers and nobody wants the job.
Interesting, that one it took, ‘one of you’, so long to dig up this glaring bit of Pro-War Mongering, Leftist FemiNazi, Globalist Propaganda – oh and no link to the source of your ‘highlights’ –
Yep, typical Lefty in the Right manger, no actual counter argument to what the man in the Ukraine with Ukrainian children has been reporting from the spot with the benefit of his life experience of having lived around the world under all manner of Govts.
Ah but do a Julia Gillard and scream, “Misogyny!”.
Pathetic.
Plasmamortar I’m jealous, keep looking over your shoulder.
Bloody things could hardly be kept on the road but boy could they spray some gravel on the way out of the drive in.
It’s the same story everywhere, Gez. Here, no one seems to want to work.*. One of the landscape maintenance firms can’t get workers for mowing and garden work. It isn’t about the pay. Same for cleaning and restocking of holiday lets.
* I wonder if all the new “caring” jerbs from government and quasi government agencies have soaked up available labour, particularly here, in God’s waiting room.
Ha, I hadn’t read this when I wrote my last reply –
– but she came to my mind because I could smell her, and all who inflicted her on us, coming out to throw more gullible innocents on the Ukrainian Fire they lit to destroy the evidences of their evils.
On Gillard and the bust up. Whatever happened to Reuben, the worried derg? I hope Timmeh got him.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/global-famine-horizon/
At what point does a farmer decide it isn’t worthwhile planting a crop?
If the fuel and fertiliser costs remove his profit margin, why would you bother?
Any farmers like to show us some workings of costs and prices?
Since the MSM has cast Ukraine as ‘the good guys’ there can be no bad story in having dealings with them.
Contrariwise, if they examined these dealings they might discover that Ukraine is not pure.
The Ukraine narrative and Biden’s mob stand together or fall together.
So, for what, a week or few they ignore & bury, bury & ignore, then all of a sudden, when everything he’s been describing keeps coming to be and just when The Criminal West are desperate for their False Flag to blame Russia for a gross atrocity and kick off WW3 proper, all the usual suspects, the Jab pushers & worse, suddenly come out with (desperate & feeble) attacks.
I really do hope readers have been studying the tactics of the propagandists here as it should help them recognise & so not fall for their BS in the future.
Salv, re that Landrover, we had five Landcruisers and that thing. Belonged to a bloke from Werribee who wanted to tag along. He carried an amazing amount of crap in and on it, it weighed around two tonne or more I think. Anyway he had put a P76 V8 in it, because with all the weight it was underpowered, then (all this was before the trip) he found it was revving too hard so he put Rover 90 diffs in it for a higher ratio, then he found he was breaking axles and put 90 tonne axles in it and then he came with us.
Somewhere not far north of the Archer River his rear diff went so he only had the front, that’s why he stopped at the Wenlock, he attached the winch cable to hi Landy and we winched him out, the problem was he somehow got the cable around one of his front brake lines and cut it so he blocked the line and had only three wheels braked. We left his lump of shit at the Wenlock and he and his mate squeezed in with the rest of us.
We collected his Landy on the way back and dragged him much of the way back to Cairns. There’s a lot of twisty downhill sections and with only two rear brakes and one front brake he had to go very slow down the hills, it was a long slow trip to Cairns. Never saw him again after that and don’t want to.
Well, on a train with Mrs TE going from Canberra to Sydney. First time for about 20 years on such a rural conveyance.
Lotsa sheep and cows out this way. No signal half the time. Quite a civilised way to travel but only doing about 80 kph – shinkansen it’s not.
Spending, or rather investing a decade or more in building trust so as to be able to ‘turn’ people when it matters, is basic Communist Infiltration for the purpose of demoralisation.
It’s basic because it works so well.
It works so well because it’s base human nature to defend to the death, those who fooled you into giving them your trust, rather than admit you were fooled.
Anchoe Wat:
The Democrats would rather a Civil War than lose the mid term elections.
And if they continue like this, they may just get it.
Too early Winston.
The price rises are still kicking in on all inputs.
Galvanised products are going up 400% for instance. Doubling and tripling of input prices is common.
The old stock will move and then the new pricing structure will kick in by the end of this year.
If I grow canola the fert, fuel and chemical inputs stand at about $500 per hectare. The price for canola is around $900 a tonne and farmers hope to grow about 2.5 tonne a hectare on a good season, so that equates to $2200 return. Cut that yield in half for an average to poor season and you can see the problem once you throw the other business costs on top – Insurance, freight, maintenance, repayments, rates etc.
A return if $300-400 a hectare on a farm would barely put you into profit.
calli says:
March 28, 2022 at 7:26 am
Quite so, I just can’t understand why people automatically assume that one country attacking another is doing it for no, or for frivolous reasons. Even despots have their checks, go too far, and you are finished is the go.
No dictator can rule without support, I shouldn’t even say this, and the support comes from people who assess the situation for themselves.
Think of Ceausescu,
Too much delving into the truth might lead back the the Big Guy*. Can’t have that. They are too heavily invested in getting him into the WH in the first place.
It’s the “secret” that cannot speak its name.
* and others. Many…many others.
WAYYYY Back before it even became a Western MSM blip (that was then quickly buried), I shared posts about the Biden/Ukraine thing from ZeroHedge.
They did quite a lot of detailed reporting of it.
All the usual suspects here jumped on me and demanded everyone ignore it all because everyone had to ignore both ZeroHedge & me.
Any other time I mentioned any of it, again the usual suspects would jump on me, insanely screaming, “Red Shoes! Tunnels!” (something btw way that TailGunner & Annie brought into the mix here that the usual suspects, the known & confirmed proud liars, gleefully then nailed to me), and again driving all further public commentary away from the topic for fear of also being, ‘tossed into a tunnel of red shoes’.
Doesn’t work. I keep picturing the face of Andrews.
Farmer Gez:
Were I 10 years younger with a truck licence I’d be in like Flynn.
Whatever happens in the world, it always ends up to be all about prescient me.
Careful you two.
You are straying onto the path which leads to outrage.
Dover uploaded this last week……
“Trolling, posting “inflammatory, insincere, digressive, extraneous, or off-topic messages…with the intent of provoking readers into displaying emotional responses, or manipulating others’ perception” will result in the deletion of relevant comment, while persistent trolling will incur a ban;”
I think it’s pretty clear.
Zelensky – Who is Pulling his Strings?
🙂 WINNER!
I remember reading ‘quartered safe out here’ the excellent biography of George MacDonald Fraser and he made the point that he could only see his little bit of the war and could not comment about the big picture.
No one here knows what is going on, how could we?
China pulls a $500 mill investment in gas in Russia. Could be a very significant turning point.
The people in Taiwan may be breathing a little easier. China getting the message about debilitating sanctions.
Calli and Bruce of Newk, all eyes on your town today as it’s bucketing down in Newcastle for the running of the seven Rosehill races abandoned on Saturday, including the Group 1 Tancred Stakes (2400m) and Vinery Stud Stakes (1850m).
Incidentally only about 6% of Russians are regular church goers, that’s even worse that France.
I’m not seeing any Holy Orthodox Empire in those numbers.
This is an article from 31st January, pre-invasion, on how the 2014 coup in Ukraine was carried out, and by whom.
Joe Biden and the 2014 Coup in Ukraine: 100 people massacred
The more you read about US tinkering in Ukraine, the more you understand Russian frustration and anger.
yes and it’s quite pathetic that some here want to kid themselves that the US and the ‘West’ are the good guys.
UK: Covid Becoming CHRONIC, like AIDS, and Will Take us Down
This is an important reminder of where we’re really at.
Remember when Covid Mandates got the whole world suddenly searching out & starting to see a “Big Picture” that the Mandate Pushers were painting that didn’t have have any room for most of ‘the little people’.
Suddenly the ‘little people’ of the world started to put aside all their differences and unite for the sake of humanity.
Then, BANG!
WW3!
Instead of people having to choose not to be bullied by their Pro-Jab family & loved ones they could all once again focus their anxieties on One Common, FAR AWAY, ‘Enemy’, ‘those Russians!’ … while once again being lined up to stand fully behind their own Enemies Within, who Are Out To Utterly Destroy Them.
As I said yesterday, I have no illusions about the USSR and what I find frightening is so many things we used to criticize it for eg meja in lockstep with the elite, no democratic accountability, violent suppression of dissent, losing your job for wrongthink- are prevalent in the west.
When I was there very briefly as a tourist, I was struck by the disdain cast on Christians by our tour guide. As in, “We allow them to keep their churches because it’s good for tourism.” This aimed at some old ladies on their knees praying in a side chapel to a magnificent cathedral (Church of the Saviour on Spilled Blood from memory).
I told him I was a Christian and I admired their faithfulness, and left it at that.
Similarly, in Estonia, our guide proudly told us that the country was atheist now because of the Soviets. Bewildering, because they hated the Soviets too.
All it confirmed to me is that there’s real power in Christianity, lasting transformative power. The opposition, even to the point of idiocy, just adds to the conviction.
Personal factcheck – TRUE … participating in this, and the next, liberation mission tore the blinkers off for me.
Soviet words like nomenklatura and apparatchik are so applicable in the west now.
You noticed it to.
I’ve only selected one of the countless examples here –
I had a Series 2A that was fond of breaking rear axles – obviously the designers knew it was a weak point, because you could stop, remove the axle without even taking the wheel off , put it in 4wd (ie FWD then) and keep driving, all in about 5 minutes.
PS .. a ‘FWD’ Landy is NOT a nice car, dynamically!
Biden Out to Destroy the US Financial Markets – Tomorrow
callisays:
March 28, 2022 at 7:14 am
I would classify those constantly looking for and taking offence as a sub-set of Moran’s cartoon.
It actually reminded me of an old two-panel Tandberg cartoon.
The first panel showed a man proudly and belligerently announcing “nobody’s going to tell me what to do!”
The second panel showed the same man shaking in fear and bewilderment saying “nobody’s going to tell me what to do!”
Im a fair way through RFKs book about Fauci atm, and he lays out the way the same ‘business model’ was used for AIDs and COVID: Use the media to create fear of a deadly disease – mass test for that disease in healthy people – label them sick on the basis of said fraudulent tests – put them on drugs that dont work and cause harm- capture the regulatory bodies and character assassinate ANYONE who questions the narrative…
All I want is to stay out of the war, for it to not escalate and end as soon as possible.
I’ve given up even trying to make sense of it or to attempt to find out the progress of it.
It’s all bullshit. RT, CNN, Lira, Pentagon briefings, I don’t believe ANY of it.
You won’t know the truth until it is over.
rosie says:
March 28, 2022 at 8:40 am
I remember reading ‘quartered safe out here’ the excellent biography of George MacDonald Fraser and he made the point that he could only see his little bit of the war and could not comment about the big picture.
No one here knows what is going on, how could we?
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Not exactly right.
War requires propaganda to even get off the ground.
Studying, understanding & learning to recognise propaganda is a good first step to understanding any war anywhere.
When you see Pro-War Propaganda all over Western MS & Social Media it pays to look deeper into who’s pushing, what they get from it and what it will cost you.
WHO Must Pack Up and Get Out of Vanuatu Now, says MP
After endless bent tanks and blood-soaked bear Ukraine cartoons, two of Tom’s Toons hit the spot today.
Gorrell. Documenting Biden’s pathetic, dementia-ridden ‘leadership’ and response to Putin’s adventurism.
Having invited the massed Russian army to rumble, the end result of this sequence of missteps is that nobody can be sure what the US means – and Biden and Putin are now unable to communicate at all.
Varvel.
Highlights the White House struggling to prop up a narrative constantly undermined by Biden’s impairment.
Way to go, Democrats.
Ukrainian Forces Want to Surrender and Azov Forces Started Shooting At Them – They Are At War With Each Other
‘ … manipulating others’ perceptions’, is also known as trying to persuade. Do we have here the camel’s nose.
Covid Injection Under the Microscope: A New Zealand Microbiologist Presents His Findings
Lol and there I was thinking I was making a factual statement about a nameless preening narcissist.
Remember: the enemy has only images and illusions behind which he hides his true motives. Destroy the image and you will break the enemy.
Gee, I wish the Beetrooter would keep his big stupid gob shut. Just heard him on the 9:00am news claiming that exorbitant local fuel prices are all the fault of “Putin, Putin, Putin” or put another way, “Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine”.
No they are not, you preposterous flea ridden dirtbag.
Dot, oil is heading to 150 bucks a barrel. That’s when it’s over. 🙂
Speaking of propaganda.
Here’s another, very Un-Christian ‘reason’ being thrown at you as to why, ‘you should not care for Russians’ –
Considering that Russians had well over 100 years of being brutally persecuted & slaughtered for their Christian faith, YET managed to keep it alive, it’s perfectly understandable why the faithful haven’t all gone flocking to the State supported ‘Club Buildings’ (as too bloody many treat their Churches), but simply keep practicing their Christian faith in spirit & deed amongst the human church as they have over all the time that it’s sustained them.
There are a lot of phonies out there and BJ is one of the bigger ones.
Fuel here has slipped back below $1.90 a litre for 91.
Still a long way to go.
Dot, oil is heading to 150 bucks a barrel. That’s when it’s over.
For some, that’s when it is just starting.
All around the world people are again paying attention to unconventional oil and gas projects. Despite the Green plague, demand hasn’t gone away.
FlyingDuk et al:
I supported the Iraq invasion and still do. Not the occupation. As soon as Sadam’s palaces were taken, they should have been destroyed and the Coalition withdrawn.
Why?
WMD. “A Bomb is a Germ is a Chemical” was a term (I don’t remember the exact wording and searching for it returns bugger all) that was used in retaliation terms during the Cold war and was commonly used in the discussion of a Warsaw Pact invasion of Western Europe.
The use of any WMD was grounds for retaliation by an enemy using their own WMD.
Saddam used WMD against an internal enemy.
Now if either side in the Ukraine war use WMD, we have quite obviously walked ourselves into a “Bomb is a Germ is a Chemical” war.
Or is the term no longer applicable because shutup?
These are dodgy days indeed.
Always good to have the option of running your car on 91- that’s one reason I stay away from Kraut cars.
Oil supply down, portfolio up!
I feel like one of the Junkers depicted in interwar German art.
You war profiteer, you!
Russia also has the highest abortion rate in the world, and a very high divorce rate, other good indicators that Christianity is not as strong as one would like.
It also seems contradictory to say that people support Putin, Putin’s path is righteous, Putin is active Orthodox but the people stay out of churches because of the State (Putin).
Seems to me just another unsuppored claim of secret knowledge especially considering so many Russians nominally claim to be Orthodox.
No rosie. The inference as I see it is that Russians generally are patriotic, which doesn’t automatically equate to blind support for Putin.
Fauci? You should never mention that name because when you do he emerges from his velvet lined coffin.
Anthony Fauci Praises China For Research Into Covid Despite Accusations Of A Lab Leak (28 Mar)
I’ve used this link because the Express, where I saw the story this morning, has cutely changed the headline to a sanitized version and scrolled it off their main page. Sounds like the lefty editor has had a word in the sub-ed’s shell-like.
It seems someone who claims to be a practising Catholic has forgotten that the sacraments including the Eucharist is essential to the practice of Orthodox Christianity and so Orthodox cannot practice Christianity without priests, and churches, as they are in Catholicism, are sacred spaces.
I’ve only been in an orthodox church once, in Helsinki and tourists were only allowed in the first section. They took sacred space very seriously.
Seriously?
neo-nazis recording their own war crimes
SHOCKING EVIDENCE OF UKRAINIAN REGIME’S ESSENCE (VIDEO 21+) (UPDATED)
Name them. There are just too many possibilities.
Around here, it is like saying dog with tail.
Has the video of Ukrainian soldiers harming and killing Russian POWs made the news here in Oz?
UKRAINIAN NAZIS TORTURED WOMAN IN MARIUPOL (PHOTOS, VIDEO 18 +)
CHILDREN FROM MARIUPOL ON WAR CRIMES OF AZOV MILITANTS (VIDEO)
I have been in a few in Russia, rosie. The Russians open them for tourists and allow the people to worship there. Kind of them. /sarc
I have been into small Greek Orthodox churches too – and very grateful to be allowed in to pray and meditate. Perhaps they recognised another of the faithful. 😀
ANOTHER CRIME OF UKRAINIAN LOCAL DEFENCE AGAINST CIVILIANS REVEALED IN ZAPORIZHIA (PHOTOS 18+)
The Yoorrook Justice Commission…
The Victorians can have as much of that as they want to pay for…
You’ll have one less, rambler. I’m off to stitch n’ bitch. I wonder if any will be in masks this week.
Whatever that may be Makka, if they are patriotic to the state then why would they be reluctant to worship in their own state churches?
It doesn’t make any sense, especially considering that Orthodoxy claimed to be the faith of 81% of Russians, is a sacramental faith, and Easter turn outs (the absolute highlight of the orthodox calender) are much higher than average weekly. Distrust of the state doesn’t appear to be a significant factor which also suggests that claimed secret practice is exaggerated, the question of unwelcome by the state protestant sects aside.
Farmer Gez, re the truckies. It isn’t easy to get an MC licence (unless you’re from the subcontinent) it takes several years and many thousands of dollars. This driver shortage has been developing for quite a long time probably over the last seven years or more. The Vietnam generation of drivers have mainly retired and wages and conditions remained stagnant for years. Many younger men could get better pay and conditions elsewhere. Now most larger companies have excessively intrusive monitoring of drivers and make sure they get every minute out of your 12 or 14 hour day. Finally all that’s caught up with the industry and they are now offering quite attractive wages, not so much conditions but good money, but there’s not many qualified and experienced drivers out there to attract.
All those “stories my Nanna told me..”
There was some talk of nuclear powered locomotives overnight:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/278279.Ares_Express#
Fusion powered trains and railways on Mars no less.
miltonfsays:
March 28, 2022 at 9:22 am
There are a lot of phonies out there and BJ is one of the bigger ones.
Oi! Please refer to him as Bananaby, to avoid confusion with my good self.
gotcha BJ:)
Horrible stuff Zipster. This won’t be seen in the MSM. Nothing must harm Ukraine and Zhelensky’s holier than thou image , which is so aggressively being rammed down our throats. Like Trump, covid, AGW, mandates etc.
Has the video of Ukrainian soldiers harming and killing Russian POWs made the news here in Oz?
Nothing penetrates the propaganda machine.
I’ve heard more than a few of the trucking companies are regretting shafting the old blokes and hiring subcontinentals who don’t care about the equipment. Attempts to get the old blokes back haven’t worked.
Makka
Read this carefully.
Russia invaded Ukraine.
(It’s not the other way around)
Rickw
We saw it here, so it’s not exactly a secret.
Good moaning to the few still sane here at
“The blog of the Denialists”.
How many Catholic churches did Jesus visit?
You are an eternal Fwit, Notafan.
And what the jab is now found to be doing is playing on your mind as it is with others.
You’re trying too hard to dismiss it all, and sneer away, looking more insane and frightened every day.
And claiming this blog has fiery debate as some people are claiming, …get your hand orf ut.
Anyone fires back or points out the bleeding obvious to complete nutjobs, and their comments are removed.
It’s now just a sheltered little infirmary for the deluded.
I’ll hopefully sneak this in before it’s taken down.
How pathetic.
Close the Australia Council down!
More than $10 million of taxpayer funds have been handed out in the latest round of government art grants – but questions have been raised about why “political activists masquerading as artists” are being handed so much cash.
The list of some of the eyebrow raising projects include a performance artist who ends up “getting naked and putting something up her butt” while “popping nangs” during performances and a filmmaker who includes splices of gay amateur pornography.
The cash splash of $10.7 million by the Australia Council for the Arts for both individual artists and groups was slammed by the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) think tank.
It argues the Morrison Government is now funding “divisive identity politics” and should take the process out of the hands of “ideologically driven bureaucrats”.
Some of the grants from December and November 2021 include $33,236 to NSW multidisciplinary artist Abdul Abdullah who uses his platform “to defend his Muslim heritage by shining a light on the nationalistic, sometimes fascist, behaviours of sectors of Australian community”.
Another $50,000 went to NSW performance artist Harriet Gillies, whose projects include a piece called The Power of the Holy Spirit, an experimental performance lecture which will “end with Harriet getting naked and putting something up her butt (but, like, in a really arty and compelling way)”.
“Expect a TED-talk on acid, a performative lecture on mushrooms, storytelling while popping nangs, ” she says.
And yet another $19,000 went to a video artist called EO Gill, whose work “interrogates gender, class-politics and intimacy using self-reflexive documentary style”.
Past works include a video where “two figures tenderly explore old injuries and revisit memories of surgery, performing a bizarre ritual by drawing surgical markings on each other; excerpts of physical exams, gay amateur pornography and Nascar race crashes are spliced into the work”.
Director of IPA’s Foundations of Western Civilisation Program Dr Bella d’Abrera said she found it “astounding” that the council kept spending tens of thousands of taxpayer’s dollars to “artists who are completely obsessed with identity politics”.
“Taxpayers should not be paying for what is essentially political activism masquerading as the arts,” she said.
“This kind of spending will not end until the decision making is taken out of the hands of ideologically driven bureaucrats and put back into the hands of the Arts Minister.”
“Scott Morrison recently condemned identity politics for pitting Australians against each other, well his government is funding this divisive identity politics, he needs to act.”
Another $10,000 went to Sumugan Sivanesan from Germany who projects include a performance-lecture The Anticolonials where he invokes “the tropes of cannibalism to discuss recent ideas about race, settler – colonialism and contemporary necropolitics … The Anticolonials traces a thread of anti-colonial anti-politics through history and into the present”.
Federal Arts Minister Paul Fletcher said he had expressed his concerns previously to the Australia Council about some of the grants.
“This kind of juvenile left-wing political activism is not how Australian taxpayers’ money should be spent when it comes to arts funding,” he said.
“I expressed my concerns in writing to the Australia Council last month, and received assurance from the Council that it will address these concerns. “I will be watching to see that it does so.
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“It is a well-established principle that arts funding decisions are made at arm’s length from ministers of the day.
“But the Australia Council needs to remember it is spending taxpayers’ money, and it needs to do that in a way that maintains community confidence in our system of arts funding.”
Expressed concerns- that’ll scare them
Hi Struth! Don’t let the door hit you in the arse on your way out again- You’ll overbalance and strike your haughtily upturned nose on the concrete floor
Your crybully antics certainly are…
Bing bong.
You all must realise that many an interstate truck driver, after the past two years of being jab up the nose every time they move, take big risks now crossing state borders as well, and many , due to a life of seeing what the government really is, which the industry leaves you in no doubt how criminal they are, are not jabbed.
Remember i told you all the reasons experienced guys have quit, but the insulated urban know nothings just decided to laugh about it.
Another load of wrongology and idiocy from the usual retards.
He’ll always be the Beetrooter to me.
Maaaaaaaaates sharing the good stuff with maaaaaaaaaates.