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Tina Norton is spot on.
Unfortunately there are 40million Ukrainians who are the victims.
Not Biden’s ego.

FBI – laptop? We aren’t sure where it is at present.
Media – no mention of Hunter Biden in 37 weeks.
Jan 6 Committee – insurrectionist Trump and friends cannot stand for office.
Fox News – don’t mention the voter fraud in 2020.
Democrats – building a better why via new social media networks.
Judge appointed by Clinton – Trump probably guilty of something.
Disney organisation – going with the woke flow.

What is going to change the course of the USA, currently well down the slippery slope to disintegration and failed state status?

Only some black lives matter.
Headline at Fox News site: AOC backs Dems calling for Clarence Thomas to resign over his wife’s texts.

Credit Suisse faces $500 million plus bill after ex-Georgian PM wins court case

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/29/credit-suisse-faces-500-million-bill-after-ex-georgian-pm-wins-case.html

The financial media is piling on Credit Suisse.
The bigger question is how the former PM of a shit hole country had that much in the first place.

Bespoke:

XXXX Bitter Cans
I was unaware that Gods Nectar was being rationed

I was ready start a new day and read this atrocity.
Don’t make me to declare war Winston.

Too late, you heathen defiler of Gods greatest creation – a recipe passed down from Heaven to lighten our daily lives.
“On the seventh day, God kicked back and scoffed multiple tinnies of XXXX Bitter.”
It says so in His Book.
Isaiah 24:9
“No longer do they drink wine with a song; the beer is bitter to its drinkers.”
An obvious reference to XXXX Bitter.

Bruce of Newcastle says:
March 30, 2022 at 7:07 am

Gabor – The NLAW only arms itself after 65m in direct attack mode or 20m for over the top mode, the tank was too close. The only thing which went bang was the remaining rocket fuel, the warhead didn’t go off.

I’m not sure of the 65m direct fire arming distance, I saw that once, but the 20m distance is well known.

You could be right, I also think that aiming at the turret was wrong?
Others with more knowledge can explain.

Chip Bok #2. I too was thinking Moe Howard could offer some tips on slapping for the cameras.

All the cartoons draw themselves these days. Hard to tell real people from caricatures.

I didn’t watch the budget speech either. The stir fry pork loin for dinner was enough for me. Fresh, not from a barrel.

Shot in the foot?

You could be right, I also think that aiming at the turret was wrong?

Gabor – I think he was aiming for the top of the turret which has less armour than the sides. Or maybe the top of the tank just behind the turret. That’s why both the NLAW and Javelin ideally fly over the top and shoot downwards. In this case he was already above, which is why I mentioned direct fire mode.

The guy looked more like he was firing a RPG, he probably was doing what was instinctive. They wouldn’t have had much training on NLAWs so it’d be hard in such pressured circumstances to do the correct set up, and wait until the tank was far enough away for the warhead to arm itself.

In some ways he was lucky. If the warhead had penetrated it’d’ve blown the ammunition carosel, which is under the gunner’s seat. There would’ve been a rather large kaboom. That’s why the Turret Throwing Olympics is a thing. He could’ve had a tank turret come through the window.

Numberwang was a multi-cultural booster but only on his terms when his status was unchallenged. That’s why I thing he hated Melbourne so much.

Iv worked with all sorts of mixed groups competing for work with some personality clashes and cultural differences that get shrugged of at the end of the day it’s been no big deal.

That said the last crew was almost made up of one ethnic group, it did spook me with submissive silence no smiles no jokes no gentle ribbing at each other.
Rocking up with new or near new cars also added to my concerns.

Bottom line if they haven’t worked in a close, mixed, stressful competitive environment I do not take boosters multi-culturalism or lectures on racism seriously.

The difference today is these groups are incentivised not to mix with others. This is the problem.

I’ve been trying to get up a stubbies v cans stoush with the vicious intensity of trucks v trains, but no-one has bitten. Surely we can get some mindless abuse hurled over this?

.. long-necks are the king of the personal beer container.

XXXX Bitter Cans
I was unaware that Gods Nectar was being rationed

Unacceptable. Society has no right to judge.

I for one fully support people’s human right to drink what they want, in the way they want, in the privacy of their own home.
Love is love.

Dover, can you make Joe Aston’s comment above a liberty quote?
Or am I being too forward?

Feel that Winston, it’s my stink eye reaching out.

And thats only the begining.

Israel is rightfully Iranian, the claim is supported by Christian and Jewish scripture. Tehran to begin intensive denazification.

Dilbert

More from that Joe Aston article in the AFR:

To date, Fitzy has had nothing at all to say about Franklin’s achievement, nor the astonishing spectacle that accompanied it. This is uncharacteristic circumspection, for Fitzy has a line on everything, a compulsion to share it and an unshakable conviction in its high value. He even tweets his daily Wordle result, a whole new realm of banality.

Liberal senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells has described Prime Minister Scott Morrison as an autocrat and a bully with no “moral compass”.

Not sure about the autocratic bully.. but she’s on the money with the lack of a compass.

Too long for the cut n paste.

I do not understand the aversion (and small minded complaints) to posting long paywalled articles. I certainly cannot subscribe to all the media, nor want to, and if it interests some it may interest all.

Better than reading the inane bikering which often dominated discourse here.

Morrison ‘not fit to be PM’: Fierravanti-Wells

Yes…well. Is anyone in politics “fit to be PM”? What would you prefer, plebs? The dagger or the poisoned chalice?

All turning on their own, biting each other, settling old scores.

None of them can govern themselves, not one.

Bespoke:

Feel that Winston, it’s my stink eye reaching out.
And thats only the begining.

Ha!
Your stink eye missed.
I fart in your general direction.
Your mother was a hamster and your father smells of elderberries.
So there!

Not sure about the autocratic bully.. but she’s on the money with the lack of a compass.

He started looking good when he taunted the opposition with a lump of coal, and now we have “Net Zero”.

Peter FitzSimons’ Buddy Franklin howler

Lance “Buddy” Franklin kicking his 1000th goal at the Sydney Cricket Ground in the final quarter of Friday night’s clash between the Swans and Geelong was unambiguously the sporting moment of the year, if not the decade.

Buddy was a bargain and a coup almost beyond compare. Fitzy’s ghostwriters should put that in his next column.

For those considering an electric car, dealers in the US are finding that the cost of installing chargers for EV’s is way more expensive than they thought it would be. Remember that dealerships are in the main, if not exclusively in commercial properties which usually have higher capacity mains than domestic buildings. Most Australian homes have 60 amp single phase mains supply. It can be increased fairly easily to a few homes but if a lot want increased current then the street mains, transformers and the transmission network will need upgrading, this is very very expensive and the cost would be spread evenly over the consumers, even those who neither want nor need increased current for ev chargers. I guess those who want ev’s will gloss over this and not care about others subsidising their network supply infrastructure.

https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2022/03/dealers-annoyed-with-price-of-ev-charger-installs/

The footage of the chicken shit pali is all over twitter, for now.
He opens fire on unsuspecting motorists & pedestrians.
Real role model stuff.

I guess those who want ev’s will gloss over this and not care about others subsidising their network supply infrastructure.

no – those that want ev’s do not understand these limitations.

They do not understand the topology and temporal aspects of power generation, delivery and consumption one iota.

I would venture to say most do not understand anything practical beyond feeding themselves from the supermarket.

Indigenous campaign seeks a ban on all-white juries in some trials

JILL ROWBOTHAM
LEGAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT

Oz – allowing comments if you can leap the paywall

Belay the Hot Water Emergency of 2022.

The Beloved turned the selector on the shower the wrong way. Hair all soaped up and ready to go. Brrrrrr. I told him he’s getting senile. And blamed the Booster.

No, not that one. The other one. 😀

I thought Bunter’s laptop had already been cloned by the tech guy in Deleware – the one they viciously cancelled.

Regardless of the hardware, the contents still exist. I bet Trump has a copy.

As well as being utterly corrupt, the FBI is as dumb as a bag of hammers.

sfw

I guess those who want ev’s will gloss over this and not care about others subsidising their network supply infrastructure.

Being subsidised by non-Greens is the whole basis of the Slime identity.

See also, solar and wind “power”.

From the Oz.

We must steel ourselves to protect an Australian way of life
The damage done to the American psyche through unrelenting attacks on its core values and the destructive rewriting of its history is very real. For Australia, it is a cautionary tale.

By LACHLAN MURDOCH

PHOTO. We should be wary of those who would deny this freedom and call for less debate, less openness, and less diversity of opinion. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gary Ramage

From InquirerMarch 29, 2022

15 MINUTE READ
Our way of life has faced some serious challenges over the past year. For a long time, for many of us, it changed. And so this discussion is as pertinent as it is important.

I suppose you must start with some basic questions. Is there a unique Australian way of life? If so, what is it? And ultimately, why is it essential? Is it worth investing in?

Well, the first question is easy. Yes. Anyone of us; all of us lucky to have spent time living or travelling overseas know that Australia does have its own identity, its own unique culture and a specific way of life.

Let me start with identity, which is a bit easier, and move on to way of life later on.

If we just take the two countries we are seen as culturally closest to, America and the United Kingdom, we can see clear differences.

Having grown up and lived in the US, in the UK and in Australia, I appreciate our historical bonds and the similarities of our character. But I also know and appreciate what makes Australia different.

Our Constitution, for instance, is a melding of the Westminster system and the American federation, the best of the old world and of the new.

All three nations value freedom, democracy, aspiration and endeavour – qualities we have fought hard to protect. And while we differ in national character, there are similarities there too.

The ironic Australian sense of humour can be traced to Britain and Ireland, while our nation was forged with a frontier attitude, reminiscent of the US drive westwards, with strong veins of optimism and self-reliance.

But as America expanded west, their explorers and pioneers found rich plains, vast rivers and mountains; we found a far harsher and more difficult environment. Perhaps this added to our sense of irony; it certainly added to our enduring resilience.

When my father delivered his first Boyer lecture nearly 13 years ago, he referenced a favourite Russell Drysdale painting that to him represents the beauty, character and resilience of the Australian landscape and its people.

The painting, The Stockman and His Family, depicts an Aboriginal family, clearly burdened by the hardships of the past, weathered by the harshness of their environment, but with eyes cast hopefully to the future.

Without ignoring issues of Indigenous disadvantage, my father was focusing on the shared characteristics and experiences of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians – isolated from the rest of the world, tested by the vicissitudes of our climate, and together carving out a future on our continent. Drawing inspiration from the strength in that image, my father said, “Our national character should never lose that steeliness.”

PHOTO. The streets of Lismore, in northern NSW, inundated with floodwater. Picture: Nathan Edwards

Steeliness: it is a good word, isn’t it? It’s a better quality, one that Australians have displayed handily throughout the past.

That my father warned, or implored us not to lose that quality, tacitly acknowledges that we could. It is understood that national identity and culture is, rightly, a constantly evolving, always living thing. It is always a work in progress.

Identity is like a long rope, made up of hundreds of woven strands of shorter individual fibres. In totality the woven strands provide strength and purpose, and a kind of collective unity. But as one strand ends, others are woven in. That’s what gives a rope its strength. But the strands at the beginning of the rope are entirely different from the strands at the end.

We are not who we were 100 years ago, or who we might become 100 years from now. Culture and identity are not, and cannot be, frozen in time. It is this fluid aspect of identity that makes the Centre for the Australian Way of Life such an inspired idea.

Understanding first what characteristics make us unique and what shared values unite us is essential before we can celebrate the good, reject the bad and, yes, embrace the new.

This endeavour works only if you believe, as I do, that together we are incredibly lucky to be Australian. That our country, while not perfect, represents invaluable freedoms and characteristics that are worth celebrating, nourishing and defending.

I am always saddened when elements of our citizenry, often the elites who have benefited most from our country, display not a love of our values but a disdain for them.

This is why some of what sets Australia apart is under threat. Our core values, our successes and even our history are under constant attack.

Nourishing and defending those core values are extremely important. Not to do so has real world, real bad outcomes.

This past month we have all been both horrified by the brutality of Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine and inspired by its leaders and its people in their courageous defence of their country. The people of Ukraine were living in an emerging democracy, embracing their post-Soviet sovereignty, working hard to achieve their economic and political aspirations, when Russia decided to snatch that future away from them.

Ukrainians also know that their country is not perfect, and yet tonight they continue to fight and to die for their sovereignty, their identity and their most basic of freedoms.

It is heart-wrenching to watch, and we must continue to help them defend themselves. Most of us agree on this basic point.

PHOTO. People walk in front of a church as smoke rises after an air strike in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on March 26. Picture: AFP

And so I was shocked when a respected poll in the United States last week revealed that barely a majority of Americans would defend their country if invaded in a similar way. Could it really be that the America that fought not just a bloody war of independence from a foreign empire but also an even bloodier and more nationally defining civil war of emancipation not long after; could it be that this exceptional country is now so politically divided that barely half of its citizens care deeply enough for its values that they would fight for them?

The damage done to the American psyche through unrelenting attacks on its core values and via the destructive rewriting of its history is very real.

It has been widely reported that Russia’s attempts to influence recent American elections were designed to sow anger and discord on all sides. There were, and presumably remain, efforts to divide the country and undermine its faith in its core values and institutions.

The Russians found fertile ground. In 2019 The New York Times published the first of a series of essays called the 1619 Project, which recast American exceptionalism as racist from inception.

You couldn’t have picked a more polarising and dividing thesis. The essays, criticised by many historians, are what they profess to be in their title: a project to recast American history and long accepted values through a radical and radically divisive lens.

Its author, Nikole Hannah-Jones, has said that “all journalism is activism”. That’s wrong. And it has done great damage. America is a great country, populated by an amazing and also resilient people. It will overcome these challenges.

But here, in Australia, let’s learn from this cautionary tale.

Let me go back to one of my original questions. Why is our identity and our culture so important? Why is it worth investing so much in?

By definition an Australian identity must apply to all of us. It is something that is not political, or economic, not drawn by class or education, not based in race or sex, or whether you are a new immigrant or a member of our oldest peoples. An Australian identity unites all of us.

Together we are strong. Divided we are weak.

PHOTO. Supporters of US President Donald Trump protest outside the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.

But our national identity and culture are weathering constant attempts to recast Australia as something it isn’t.

To listen to our national broadcaster or much of the media elite is to hear about a uniquely racist, selfish, slavish and monochromatic country.

The reality could not be more different – we are one of the most tolerant, generous, independent and multicultural countries in human history. Not without fault, but without peer.

How can we expect people to defend the values, interests and sovereignty of this nation if we teach our children only our faults and none of our virtues?

We must arm our young people with the facts and not undermine them with false ideological narratives.

Australians have an innate concept of fairness.

We have a visceral sense of what we call a “fair go”. This is our own idea, an antipodean concept, a deeply rooted understanding that whatever our circumstances, we deserve the same opportun­ities, the same respect, the same fair go.

It is why we welcome immigrants, embrace aspiration and scoff at class-based deference.

Former Labor prime minister Bob Hawke wrote of a national character that “adapted a class-ridden tradition to produce in this vast continent a people with a cocky insouciance, a society where mateship and the concept of a ‘fair go’ were more than myths”.

Similarly, at Gallipoli on Anzac Day in 2000, then Liberal prime minister John Howard spoke of sacrifices to defend a country where “prosperity and opportunity are derived not by birth but by endeavour”.

There is a rugged optimism about us, too, an attitude embodied in the phrase “She’ll be right”.

This is not a line of resignation, or near enough being good enough; it is a unique Australian combination of optimism and stoicism. “Stoic optimism.” Steeliness.

PHOTO. Then-prime minister John Howard with Australian Gallipoli survivor Alec Campbell outside Tomb of Unknown Soldier in 2000.

In a fraught world we need to draw on our characteristic strengths to protect ourselves and our future. What is confronting, though, is when our way of life is challenged from the most trusted and even benign of sources.

One year ago, who would have believed that in Australia a pregnant mother would be arrested for questioning a government lockdown?

Who would have thought daily press conferences where citizens were scolded and told to dob in their neighbours would become must-watch viewing?

Surrendering personal liberties, accepting government interventions and absorbing record financial hardships were literally unquestionable burdens, at risk of fines or imprisonment.

All done in the blink of an eye, with few checks and balances, and we are still counting the costs.

Alcoholism, domestic abuse, suicide – all saw record spikes during the pandemic. Why did we accept this? It must never happen again. Australia did well to turn the tyranny of distance into a temporary pandemic advantage, using maritime borders and hotel quarantine as a moat against the virus, until vaccines were developed.

The federal JobKeeper scheme provided a financial lifeline that kept employees linked to their workplaces.

Our spirit of mateship shone through at street level, with people checking on the welfare of neighbours and supporting local businesses, and it was reflected in the innovation of an informal national cabinet.

Yet we became a victim of our own success, with state leaders thinking they could out-do each other with lockdowns and remain Covid-free forever.

The popularity of these approaches no doubt was fuelled by the alarmist language and fearmongering of politicians and much of the media.

But it is the media’s job to question these policies. To examine their consequences. And to ultimately hold our elected officials to account.

That’s our job.

Lockdowns and border closures kept families apart, children were denied face-to-face education, businesses were crushed, non-Covid health issues such as cancer screenings were delayed, and mental wellbeing was jeopardised.

Tweed Heads and Coolangatta were divided like Cold War Berlin; Australian citizens were stranded overseas, banned from coming home; and those at home were not allowed to leave.

But much of the media bought into this. News Limited titles nationally campaigned for our readers to get vaccinated. It was extraordinarily and importantly impactful. But when any columnist questioned the efficacy or fairness of vaccine mandates, they were labelled anti-vaxxers. Decades ago, George Orwell pointed out how language is not only shaped by politics but is used to fabricate new realities. Debates around virus treatments, mask effectiveness, the human and economic costs of lockdowns, and vaccine mandates were treated as taboo by many elements of politics and the media.

PHOTO. Police make arrests at Victoria Market during anti-lockdown protests in Melbourne. Picture: David Crosling

Debate is essential to democracy. Important issues need to be aired, examined and judged. It can be uncomfortable, but it is the media’s key role in our system. Hoeing to one orthodoxy does not allow this; and is not the media’s role.

We must always be wary of the suppression of information. The contemporary thrill to “cancel” someone whose opinion you do not share is just the latest insidious form of censorship.

Infamously, YouTube banned Sky News Australia based on YouTube’s own judgments and changing standards about a handful of pandemic-related videos. Initially, YouTube justified this censorship by stating “YouTube does not allow for content that denies the existence of Covid-19”.

OK. But when challenged they could not find a single instance of Sky ever denying the existence of Covid-19, so they had to pivot quickly and shift their justifications. The PR executives took over and they said this: “YouTube does not allow medical disinformation about Covid-19 that poses a serious health risk or harm, or that is in contradiction with local and global health authorities guidelines.”

Apart from being an obvious and blunt cudgel to Australian’s freedom of speech, this standard was impossible to adhere to.

Which health guidelines do you use? YouTube says local and global guidelines.

YouTube used the World Health Organisation as its fact-checking guide; a body that was late to declare the pandemic, quick to admonish Australia for closing its international border, changeable in its medical rulings and reluctant to pursue the origins of the virus.

And our local guidelines were not much better. Every state had different rules, apparently different “science”, and they changed them constantly.

In America today states with strong mask mandates have just lifted them, claiming “the science has changed”. Well, no, it’s an election year and the politics have changed. What YouTube and the other members of the tech censor class are doing, at least when dealing with the media, is not protecting viewers from dangerous views or opinions but rather ensuring that only the current orthodox view is allowed.

Unfortunately for them, these orthodox views often turn out to be wrong.

Last year, quite early in the pandemic, Facebook banned any posts suggesting Covid-19 might have emerged from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

In September HarperCollins published What Really Happened in Wuhan by The Australian’s Sharri Markson, pulling together all the threads of this story, which she had reported in The Australian and on Sky News, in a brave and open quest for the truth.

PHOTO. Members of the World Health Organisation (WHO) team investigating the origins of Covid-19 arrive at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in China’s central Hubei province.

This has been another great Australian characteristic: impertinence in the face of convention or authority. This nation has been at the forefront of demanding to know the truth about the pandemic’s origins.

Had Sharri not written such a compelling and well-sourced book, would the tech companies and media elites eventually have come around and published the facts themselves? Presumably only when they could no longer justify hiding obvious truths. But that is not brave. That is not journalism.

Leading into the US presidential election, the tech companies, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and practically all the media suppressed the discovery of Hunter Biden’s laptop. While much of the contents of the laptop was salacious, many emails and other documents raised pertinent and serious questions about the Biden family’s foreign ties and lobbying.

Had the laptop belonged to another candidate’s son, it would certainly have been the only story you would have heard in the final weeks of the election.

But lies were concocted: “The laptop was hacked or stolen”; it was not. Or: “It was Russian disinformation”; it was not. And the story was completely suppressed. It was censored by everyone.

Fast forward to last week. The election is over. And The New York Times, quietly, in paragraph 24 of a story about Hunter Biden’s taxes, admits that it has now “authenticated” the laptop and its contents.

All the New York Post’s reporting was true. All was factual. But it was suppressed and lied about for as long as it suited the political orthodoxy. This, from purely a journalistic point of view, is shameful. It should not happen. And we should never let it happen here.

PHOTO. Hunter Biden with unnamed woman at Chateau Marmont.

Finding truth is often hard. It very often comes with great personal costs. But it is essential to our nation and to our future. Telling the truth is part of our national character.

In Australia we should reject every effort, and there are many, to limit points of view, to obstruct a diversity of opinions and to enforce a singular world view. Those efforts are fundamentally anti-Australian.

The flip side of this is that we should celebrate debate, unite behind a wide diversity of opinion, and vigorously protect the basic freedoms that as Australians we have enjoyed for generations.

Which brings me back to our way of life. An Australian way of life is something that by definition must allow us to be Australian. It can’t be that our way of life would disallow any of the traits that make up our unique Australian identity.

Rather, the unifying characteristics that make us Australian must be allowed to flourish under our way of life. That is why freedom is not only a core value of our way of life, it is essential to it.

As Australians we are free to practise our “rugged optimism”; we are free to be “authentic”, free to be “egalitarian” and free to aspire to a “fair go”.

We are free to practise our religions, and be Christian, or Muslim, or Hindu. We are free to be gay, or straight, or trans. We are free to make our own health choices about our own bodies. We are free to travel and to explore.

As Australians we are free to have our own opinions. Free to be Labor or Liberal. We are free to be left and we are free to be right. We are free to disagree. We are free to choose what we read and what we watch. We are free to make our own minds up about things.

These freedoms are unifying. And such freedom is at the core of who we are. If you need more proof, look no further than our updated national anthem. It’s right there in the second line: “For we are one and free”.

But we cannot take our unity or our freedoms for granted. We cannot be complacent. We must defend our Australian freedoms from erosion.

The Covid-19 lockdowns and “emergency health orders” took many of these freedoms away. As the pandemic becomes endemic let’s learn from the past two years. Did we give too much freedom up? Was it worth it? And let’s make sure we get all the rights back we thought we had.

Essential to this is our freedom of speech. Our freedom to question authority and to hold our leaders to account.

We should be wary of those who would deny this freedom and call for less debate, less openness, and less diversity of opinion. Instead, we should together celebrate, indulge and defend all the Aussie freedoms we cherish.

Lachlan Murdoch is co-chairman of News Corporation. This is a speech given to launch the Centre for the Australian Way of Life at the Institute of Public Affairs on Tuesday.

Our FBI is the most corrupt agency in the world. They’re rotten and criminal to the core.

America’s own NKVD

the mantra in mining and oil & gas for years has been “modularise construction offshore and minimise onshore work”.
For example, a lot of CSG well-heads arrive pre-manufactured in container sized units with the local work being to do up the four wingnuts and plug it in.

Aside from very basic inputs, the mining and oil and gas industry uses very little manufactured in Australia.

In mining, explosives would be the biggest locally made item – and even then, there is pressure to import ammonium nitrate.

In oil and gas, essentially all machine systems and tech are imported. All offshore kit is made somewhere else.

Outside of cement and a few simple chemicals, 97.3% of critical consumables (wellheads, casing, tubulars, downhole kit) are imported.

Australia has a large scale CSG industry, but it’s supporting API certified tube-mills in China and India (and other countries you might not associate with manufacturing – the Philippines, Argentina, Canadia).

We must steel ourselves to protect an Australian way of life

By LACHLAN MURDOCH

LOL. He’s undermining it himself by forcing News Ltd outlets to spout lies and green propaganda.

The Laptop is in good company.

For those considering an electric car,

we wont be given any choice or say in the matter

No Kneel.
Your last statement is an illogical melt down.

The facts are.
You claimed to be furious at what the government “made you do”
A sane response.
Instead od the denialism around here, it was closer to sanity than many others, like JC, who is indeed suffering badly.
Then you accuse me, for some fucked up reason of not caring for anything other than the transport industry.
Totally emotional, illogical, and with the convoy of no confidence back in 2011, totally proving the opposite, you continue on.
When Sancho comes in, and jumps in as as fast as he can to lie and attempt to stick the boot in, you should consider you’ve fucked up, and fucked up badly.
Now go and look at your last incoherent emotional outburst and see if it makes sense to you.
If it does, seek help.

“But still, she’s a great case for sortition, she won’t be missed, she was bloody useless and entitled – as well as conceited.”

Shock horror, yet another woman that goes into politics to find…. political power plays.

Shoulda stuck with the sunday night campfire kumbaya sing along.

We must steel ourselves to protect an Australian way of life. Resurrect would be more appropriate.

Just went to the bank to deposit cash in the low four figures, the proceeds from the sale of four spare wheels and tyres, plus some other stuff, belonging to a vehicle I no longer own.

I was required to provide ID and sign — then told to sign again because the bank johnny didn’t think my signature looked like the one on the back of my card.

Australia, where the sensible but supine must do as instructed by nannies and ninnies.

By LACHLAN MURDOCH

Talks a good game.
Has he ever not fucked things up? Think One.Tel and Channel 10.

Lachlan Murdoch is being a Wormtongue. He has an agenda, but needs to keep the horses unfrightened for a bit longer.

Those papers won’t sell themselves.

Or a Person of Interest.

Being banking and all.

a Highly Suspicious Character

It was racism, Calli. Somehow the intelligence agents of Big Bank must know about the over-exposed snapshot of my grandma chopping wood in the backyard, circa 1961 — proof enough these days of indigeneity.

No answer. Just trolling.

Because all roads lead to the current obsession.

areffsays:
March 30, 2022 at 11:03 am
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Just went to the bank to deposit cash in the low four figures, the proceeds from the sale of four spare wheels and tyres, plus some other stuff, belonging to a vehicle I no longer own.

I was required to provide ID and sign — then told to sign again because the bank johnny didn’t think my signature looked like the one on the back of my card.

Australia, where the sensible but supine must do as instructed by nannies and ninnies.

Has any of the MSM covered the shooting of Russian POWs? Meanwhile this morning they found a woman who claims to have been raped by a Russian soldier.

Sorry – accidentally sent before responding to areff ….It’s your own fault. Why didn’t you use the cash sensibly, like for buying chop chop?

“In December 2011, at the very beginning of the Syrian war, I was arrested and assaulted by extremists who accused me of being a spy. Yesterday, feeling that the situation in Ukraine tends to get worse, knowing that this process of demonizing journalists is unlikely to change, I decided — albeit with great sadness — to leave Ukraine.

Since the beginning of the war on 24th February, one journalist has been killed on average per week in Ukraine. Responsibility for these deaths was blamed on Russian troops, but we know that the chance that these professionals were killed by Ukrainians, not Russians, is very high.”

These are the words of freelance Brazilian photo-journalist André Liohn who fled Ukraine in fear of his life just five weeks into his assignment for Brazilian media outlets UOL and Folha de S.Paulo. Now safely in Poland he attests that journalists who attempt to provide balanced reporting are treated as spies and subjected to beatings, intimidation and detention by Ukrainian forces.

From The Catholic Information Hub.

callisays:
March 30, 2022 at 11:10 am
As an aside, I find it increasing sad that I have to put some sort of rider before every time I question the prevailing narrative here.

Easy just stop.

Speaking of forged qualifications, I had dealings with a bloke who managed to get into an NT Government department recently based on forged docs. When life became too hot there for various reasons he did a sting at a certain NT private organisation.

Eventually things caught up with him, and now the wheels of justice are turning slowly with him in the middle of it all.

Is Gonzalo Lira:-
.1 a Fearless Freedom Fighter? Or
.2 a Flaky Fruitcake Fraudster?

My money’s on the latter.

I don’t trust Gonzalo Lira. Not one bit. I suspect he isn’t even in Ukraine anymore – notice how he no longer appears on camera. Now, he claims this is because he was threatened by Ukrainian thugs when he was in Kiev (a Russian news channel did a dodgy edit of an interview he gave and broadcast it on Russian TV, making him appear ridiculously pro-Russian and anti-Ukrainian). He says he was kicked out of Kiev, had to return to Kharkov and relocate to an undisclosed location ‘in central Kharkov’, and that’s why he won’t appear on camera, in case his background gives away his location.

But that doesn’t make a lot of sense. It isn’t difficult to set your background up so that your location can’t be identified (hell, just blurring the background would do the trick). And since then he’s turned HARD against the Zelensky regime and criticises it stridently. If the Ukrainians were pissed off about what he said before, they’re going to be apoplectic about his present stance. I don’t care how ‘undisclosed’ his location is in central Kharkov – if Ukrainian goons wanted to find him, it might take them all of half an hour to find him. Maybe less.

I believe him when he says he was threatened by Ukrainian agents after his inadvertent appearance on Russian TV, but I think it much more likely that he got the hell out of Ukraine (or was kicked out) rather than return to a place where he could be easily found. But he doesn’t want to give up his sudden relevance as ‘the man on the ground’ in the middle of a war zone, telling it like it is. So he doesn’t appear on camera – probably because he had to leave his setup in Ukraine in the process of getting the hell outta Dodge – and plays audio of air raid sirens ringing out now and again during interviews, giving him a chance to drop an ‘oh sorry that’s just another air raid alert, you get used to it when you’re in the middle of a hot war zone. By the way, did I mention I’m in central Kharkov in an undisclosed location, and I’m bravely delivering you all the truth about the Ukrainian government at considerable risk to my well-being? Only for the 50th time? Silly me, I thought it was only the 40th time. But it’s important you know.’

And that’s how you go from ‘Coach Red Pill’; low-rent, deplatformed, dirtbag manosphere hack*, to Gonzalo Lira, fearless war correspondent and geostrategic expert. Quite the reinvention. But I don’t buy it.

*I listened to a couple of his anti-woman ramblings way back when, and his takes were uniformly awful. Some of the manosphere commentators are fine – their content isn’t of interest to me but I can see it would be for others- however, Coach Red Pill sounds genuinely misogynistic and his content was primarily ‘why you shouldn’t date [insert chosen adjective here, eg English/tall/autistic/rich/ pet-owning/skinny/fat/educated /Asian/well travelled/older/redheaded/professional/etc] women’.

Yep, on the few occasions that a counter vax article sneaks into the literature, the cleanup crews go to work and get it pulled quick smart!

So, a counter vax article with a high impact working title:

“Mrna COVID Vaccines Dramatically Increase Endothelial Inflammatory Markers and ACS Risk as Measured by the PULS Cardiac Test: a Warning”

…is submitted to a high impact journal.

And then on peer review it turns out that there is no reasonable statistical basis for the dramatic warning.

And then the author concurs there is a problem and resubmits.

Yes indeedy.
I sense the invisible hand of Schwab somewhere near all this.

Hopefully Dr Gundry has now been reunited with his children (and they have all their fingers and ears).