Open Thread – Weekend 2 April 2022


The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan, Eugène Delacroix, 1826

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Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
April 4, 2022 1:08 pm

Met Police Taskforce
@MetTaskforce

Something we hadn’t expected was that some of the Horses are getting Spooked by the bright colours of the Colourful Crossings project and other road markings in Central London.
To enable us to ride and patrol safely we had training versions installed.

The video of the smartest horses in the UK

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
April 4, 2022 1:12 pm

Lizzie try the federal government website. According to that site, which you can book through, Rose Bay North pharmacy, Gaslight pharmacy, Bondi doctors, Bondi pharmacy and Double Bay doctors are all offering novavax boosters.

Thanks, Rosie. NSW Health site lists the pharmacies but gives no info as to whether Novavax boosers are available, and says to consult your doctor if you want Novavax. We’ve given it away anyway, because our usual health clinic (not one listed aabove) has now contacted us and offered us Novavax, so we’ll probably get it next week. Another storm in a teacup.

Hope we don’t get any adverse reaction to it. I know Dot had a week of feeling off colour. Areff OK.
Anyone have any news on adverse reactions, data etc?

shatterzzz
April 4, 2022 1:14 pm

Something we hadn’t expected was that some of the Horses are getting Spooked by the bright colours of the Colourful Crossings project and other road markings in Central London.

That was an issue here when Clover re-painted one of the Oxford Street crossings for last year’s (2021) poofter parade ……

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 4, 2022 1:14 pm

From memory it used to have to be pretty damp underfoot to attract the bin chickens.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 4, 2022 1:16 pm

We’ve given it away anyway, because our usual health clinic (not one listed aabove) has now contacted us and offered us Novavax …

How transparent was ScoMo?
“Novavax will only be dose #1 and #2 for those who were reluctant to take other vaxes. It will nevah, evah, evah be a booster.”

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
April 4, 2022 1:17 pm

And I wish to wish a most felicitous Monday to all Cats.

With a side order of Baby Metal. One of the most polished and skilful metal outfits currently going.

Also very upbeat and boppy…

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zTEYUFgLveY

sfw
sfw
April 4, 2022 1:24 pm
Tom
Tom
April 4, 2022 1:25 pm

Going back to something I wrote last week, it seems the FSB did report to Putin that Ukrainians were unhappy with their leadership and this led Putin, in a gross miscalculation, to believe Russian troops would be welcomed.

It seems to me Putin is much like the Silicon Valley billionaire HTML coders who now control the West’s social media monopolies: a sociopathic loner cut off from his peers with zero human empathy who likely hates the human race and considers himself superior.

As king of the Russian castle, of course he surrounds himself with yes-men who, because of his track record of intimidatory autocracy, never tell him about what is really going on for fear of the consequences — a recipe for self-delusion.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
April 4, 2022 1:28 pm

Any preppers here? Just curious, seems to be a thing in the US.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/doomsday-preppers-warn-hard-times-ahead-preparedness-goes-mainstream

Next thing you know, they’ll be complaining about how their culture has been ruined by the influx of normies and infiltrating activist shitwits trying to exert control… 😛

#FandomsGonnaFan

Speedbox
April 4, 2022 1:30 pm

Bruce of Newcastle says:
April 4, 2022 at 12:07 pm
– one wouldn’t want to be in his shoes trying to enforce a settlement on his own side.
That’s why he’s been saying any peace deal must pass a referendum. Because he knows no peace deal will pass, at least none that Russia would agree with.

I think that’s correct. It appears that the Russian side of the deal includes carving off the Donbas into a Federation and the permanent re-assignment of the Crimea back to Russia.

Neutrality and not joining NATO might, and that’s a big ‘might’, get up but the others are almost certain to be unpopular and a very hard sell to convince the populace.

Of course, any provisional peace deal will require Russian forces to withdraw to their own borders before any referendum can take place and that has other obvious implications. Ukrainians will claim they are voting with a gun to their head.

Imagine: Ukraine agrees to a provisional cease-fire on negotiated terms and the mutual killing stops. Russians withdraw to the Donbas and also back into Russia and Belarus. Assorted accusations of war crimes and media is filled with scenes of dead civilians which further enrages the surviving population. The corpses of many thousands of Ukrainian ‘brave defender’ soldiers are returned to their families and this also strikes a very deep chord. A couple of months pass and the permanent peace deal is put to the citizens who say “fvck no, we’re not giving up our land”. Then what? Russia has had time to re-arm, replenish and re-access the order of battle whilst the west has been flooding Ukraine with vast amounts of fresh ammunition, missiles, anti-tank etc.

All bets are off this time and Kyiv, Lviv are hammered by long-range Russian missiles with the intent to beat Ukraine into submission. Odesa is flattened by Russian naval assets in the Black Sea. Ukraine fights back in a ‘total war’ scenario with the west feeding ever more powerful weapons in this proxy west vs Russia confrontation. Russia responds with its own more powerful weapons to initially limit its personnel losses but Russian soldiers have to go back into the cities and towns leading to an even greater bloodbath on both sides. Multiple ‘Stalingrad’ type scenarios across the country.

Ukraine is merely the battleground and it will be a smoking ruin whilst millions more are displaced not to mention the tens of thousands newly killed. What we are seeing now could appear as a mere taste, a prelude, to the main event.

Sorry for the pessimistic scenario but I have yet to imagine a positive outcome. I hope to God I’m wrong.

Judge Dredd
Judge Dredd
April 4, 2022 1:33 pm

The “Bucha massacre” is certainly an expected and usual false flag event.
It is foolish to immediately think that the Russians have massacred Ukrainian civilians after very carefully not bombing any of their infrastructure, or razing cities to the ground (like US and allies do). Especially after video evidence of Ukro-nazis murdering POWs and other Ukrainian civilians with swaztsikas painted on them in their own blood.

Further we can see a great history of false flags over the years to ensure a context for war. Just to name a few:
-Babies in incubators – Gulf War
-Weapons of mass destruction – Iraq War
-Syrian chemical weapons attacks – Syrian War

Even with the Ukraine war, look at the following false flags the Ukro-nazis have already tried:
-Mariupol maternity hospital bombing – blamed on RU, was proven as not RU (most likely Ukie).
-Shopping Mall bombing – blaming RU for destroying an “innocent” shopping mall, then video is shown with Ukie forces hiding Grads and other MLRS in the mall.
-Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant fire – blaming RU for near-nuclear catastrophe, then it was found Ukie forces deliberately set fire to the buildings and it was the Russians ushering the the firefighters to put out the fire.

Winston Smith
April 4, 2022 1:38 pm

Arky:

And yet the often stated position on here was that private individuals should be able to own whatever weapons they wanted.
One of a few libertarian arguments I have warmed to over the years.

In the main, those individuals were to be in an Irregular Militia with training as a necessity.
The demands for Theatre Level nukes were, perhaps, a little overboard. 🙂

Winston Smith
April 4, 2022 1:41 pm

Zipster:

the videos are on southfront, sorry but looks completely fake.

I’m singularly unimpressed with the Indian TV presentation – plenty of hyper bowl, but no real evidence.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
April 4, 2022 1:42 pm

Its not about the science or medical efficiency. It is all about acheiving the next vaccination target. Nothing else matters even if it involves BS.

One of my favourite examples of BS recently was Dr Professor Lt Gen Frewen saying the vaccinations and boosters prevented long Covid. The original trials were done so quickly they did not know would wane after a few months. So how could prevent long Covid ?!

Naturally our press failed to call him out because they are also fully on board the vax train.

How transparent was ScoMo?
“Novavax will only be dose #1 and #2 for those who were reluctant to take other vaxes. It will nevah, evah, evah be a booster.”

Struth
April 4, 2022 1:52 pm
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 4, 2022 1:54 pm

Princess Mary is visiting Australia?
How did that slip under the radar JC?
Are they sure it wasn’t just another Brahton stick figure?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
April 4, 2022 1:54 pm

Read upthread about Magdeburg Man, Struth. 90 on the trot before he was arrested.

Now there’s a level of Resistance even a mighty DeAtH CaMp-dodger like yourself can aspire to… 🙂

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 4, 2022 1:56 pm

How is the number of boosters I might choose to have in any way relevant to anyone else?
Apart from giving them a flimsy excuse to remain couch-bound.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 4, 2022 1:58 pm

Rex Angersays:

April 4, 2022 at 1:54 pm

Read upthread about Magdeburg Man, Struth. 90 on the trot before he was arrested.

OK.
According to my calculations … let’s see … deduct the 18 … add back the 48 … allow for the six months elapsed …
He should have died in 1994 according to the formula.

Struth
April 4, 2022 1:59 pm

Testing

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 4, 2022 2:01 pm

Failing

Struth
April 4, 2022 2:03 pm

The vax only been out just over a year.
That’s two a week in the same spot.

See how denialism makes you WANT to believe.
That bloke had been working in S Africa and was dribbling shit.

If you left Ukraine, the side show for the mentally ill, you might be able to clear your heads.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 4, 2022 2:04 pm

Actually Rex, any update on the influx of people into the Death Camps?
I assume the numbers are so yuuuuge they are using rail transport (trucks couldn’t handle the volume).
Heard anything on the rail jungle drums?

Winston Smith
April 4, 2022 2:13 pm

Diogenes:

Shades of the 4 Kotluban offensives, which were costly to the Russians, but they did a great job pinning down German troops on the Don who could have been sent to reinforce Stalingrad.

Certainly you are correct, but the bigger issue was the 14th Pz Korps with 16th Pz, 3rd & 60th Motorised Div were mobile units who could have been pulled back to repair and recuperate and replaced by three infantry Divisions. Add 24th Pz who had over 100 tanks/ AFVs waiting on spare parts to be repaired and moved them back to Kalatch, this force could have been pivotal.
The failure of Germany to rest and refit their mobile formations was a common problem throughout the war and the refusal to appropriately employ new recruits/surplus Luftwaffe/Naval personnel endemic.

Winston Smith
April 4, 2022 2:19 pm

Cohenite:

Thank heavens I’m over 60 and don’t have to worry about getting knocked up.

Me too!

Zipster
Zipster
April 4, 2022 2:19 pm

Any preppers here? Just curious, seems to be a thing in the US.

does 6 months of toilet paper and 3 months of emergency rations count?

do have full CBRN gear, better to be a few years early than a day late.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
April 4, 2022 2:26 pm

If a male self identified as the mother of triplets what benefits could they claim,? Would it help if they were also First Nation ?

Asking for a friend.

“Thank heavens I’m over 60 and don’t have to worry about getting knocked up”

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
April 4, 2022 2:27 pm

That bloke had been working in S Africa and was dribbling shit.

How do you know?

Is that what YOU want to believe?

What if YOU are the one now engaging in the DeNiAlIsM? Cos deep down you really, really want everyone you don’t like to die from the killshotz?

Dot
Dot
April 4, 2022 2:28 pm

Even with the Ukraine war, look at the following false flags the Ukro-nazis have already tried:
-Mariupol maternity hospital bombing – blamed on RU, was proven as not RU (most likely Ukie).

How was this disproved?

Dot
Dot
April 4, 2022 2:31 pm

Hope we don’t get any adverse reaction to it. I know Dot had a week of feeling off colour. Areff OK.

I wasn’t sick per se, weird, off sensation more accurately describes it. Loss of/altered taste too like the actual virus.

#2, injection site was sore for longer. Not much else.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
April 4, 2022 2:33 pm

Actually Rex, any update on the influx of people into the Death Camps?
I assume the numbers are so yuuuuge they are using rail transport (trucks couldn’t handle the volume).

Delayed by flooding, and the privatised ex-gummint operator being dicks…

Pedro the Loafer
Pedro the Loafer
April 4, 2022 2:37 pm

Back home in WA at long last. Well played, Sandgropers.

The Sheffield Shield.

Winston Smith
April 4, 2022 2:47 pm

John H:

If Putin knew then what everyone knows now this conflict would not have happened. It’s an embarrassment for Russia, the exact opposite of what he desired. One of Russia’s fundamental problems is trying to maintain a massive military with such a pitiful GDP.

He’s been staffed by basic economics – you can have efficient government, a productive industrial sector, or an effective military.
But you can only pick two.
I’ve not seen any figures, but the cost of corruption in Russia looks like destroying it. Imagine if the superyachts, private aircraft, luxury dachas, all that money had gone to a permanent professional military…
It looks like Putin is going to have to do a clean out of the stables and drag his mates into the Lubyanka building where he learnt his trade, before the military do it to him.

Zipster
Zipster
April 4, 2022 2:54 pm

Loss of/altered taste too like the actual virus.

thats not supposed to happen. suggests S1 spike subunit went walkabouts.

bespoke
bespoke
April 4, 2022 2:55 pm

Who looked after the harem, Pedro?

Zipster
Zipster
April 4, 2022 2:55 pm

He’s been staffed by basic economics – you can have efficient government, a productive industrial sector, or an effective military.
But you can only pick two.

russia has none of these. it does have a large nuclear deterrence force.

Judge Dredd
Judge Dredd
April 4, 2022 3:01 pm

How was this disproved?

I’ll take that as a legitimate question.
The pregnant woman who was the showpiece of the Ukro-story of Russia bombing the maternity hospital released her own video to set the record straight on what happened.
It is fairly common for armed forces to use their own tragedies, or their own people, as fuel for propaganda and war.
In this case it looks like an artillery strike (or a bomb) on the hospital.

Judge Dredd
Judge Dredd
April 4, 2022 3:01 pm

Link to the woman’s interview: https://www.bitchute.com/video/D5g7WI814mk/

Zipster
Zipster
April 4, 2022 3:02 pm

Is there a bigger fucking nanny state on the planet than australia?????

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 4, 2022 3:04 pm

I’ve not seen any figures, but the cost of corruption in Russia looks like destroying it.

In the military too. There’ve been some reports of ghost soldiers, which is a problem when you have corrupt officers. Also signs of shortages of support stuff, like radios, the sort of thing that can be sold on the black market.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 4, 2022 3:04 pm

From memory it used to have to be pretty damp underfoot to attract the bin chickens.

Tomato Lake has a colony of bin chickens. The trees are white with them. Lowers the tone of the whole neighbourhood (even further).

rickw
rickw
April 4, 2022 3:05 pm

Is there a bigger fucking nanny state on the planet than australia?????

No.

A completely gay shithole.

Eyrie
Eyrie
April 4, 2022 3:06 pm

In the military too. There’ve been some reports of ghost soldiers, which is a problem when you have corrupt officers. Also signs of shortages of support stuff, like radios, the sort of thing that can be sold on the black market.
Why would it be any different in Ukraine?

bespoke
bespoke
April 4, 2022 3:08 pm

Is there a bigger fucking nanny state on the planet than australia?

UK

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 4, 2022 3:10 pm

Is there a bigger fucking nanny state on the planet than australia????

It is certainly right up there. Most people are completely OK with it.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 4, 2022 3:13 pm

Why would it be any different in Ukraine?

Eyrie – The signs, such as all those preparations for demolitions, are that Ukraine has expected an invasion since 2014, and have been preparing all that time. Normally I would say that the Ukrainian military would have such a problem too, but when your neck is in a noose it does tend to focus one’s mind on the important stuff.

Having said that I said right at the start that ammo was going to be the big question. It is very hard to stockpile sufficient ammo, because the amount even a single soldier can get through is amazing. I do see signs of ammo issues in Ukraine. Which is being made up somewhat from NATO. Russia too seems to have ammo issues as well though.

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
April 4, 2022 3:14 pm

Zipster says:
April 4, 2022 at 3:02 pm

Is there a bigger fucking nanny state on the planet than australia?????

Yes there is! Australia is second by a big margin to CANADA.

Cassie of Sydney
April 4, 2022 3:14 pm

“It seems to me Putin is much like the Silicon Valley billionaire HTML coders who now control the West’s social media monopolies: a sociopathic loner cut off from his peers with zero human empathy who likely hates the human race and considers himself superior.”

Good comment Tom and great analogy. Last night I watched a documentary on Stalin and I thought of Putin. Now whilst Putin and Stalin are no where near in the same league, the fact is that Russian history is replete with sociopathic rulers, as far back as Ivan the Terrible. These men have all been sociopaths, loners, with zero empathy for others, including those in their own family. Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great and Stalin all had members of their own families murdered. No one was ever able to cross or contradict them, because if they did they’d be murdered. When Stalin lay dying in his room, not one of his attendants or guards dared enter because they were in fear of losing their lives.

pete of perth
pete of perth
April 4, 2022 3:22 pm
twostix
twostix
April 4, 2022 3:22 pm

How is the number of boosters I might choose to have in any way relevant to anyone else?

LOL.

You really are a covid karen. Only took two years for you to stop pretending you aren’t.

calli
calli
April 4, 2022 3:22 pm

Reflecting on the atrocities committed at the close of WWII and following on from comments about Stalin and others…the population had been starved and brutalised for almost 20 years under Communism, and before that the revolution and the Tsars.

Brutalised soldiers make for brutal occupiers and victors.

twostix
twostix
April 4, 2022 3:23 pm

“How is how many boosters I’ve had relevant to anyone else???”.

(Goes around and shows every shopkeeper and waiter in Melbourne the app proving how many boosters he’s had.)

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 4, 2022 3:24 pm

Michael Smith News

ABC 4 Corners trying to find the “dark stain” Australian diggers left in East Timor

Eyrie
Eyrie
April 4, 2022 3:26 pm

Ukraine has expected an invasion since 2014
Yes but why would the corruption and theft in the armed forces be any different what what is alleged about Russia?
I suspect the Russians were preparing for an invasion since 2014 also.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 4, 2022 3:28 pm

From “The Age.”

SAS soldier told Ben Roberts-Smith to ‘pull his head in’ over alleged mock execution, court hears
Michaela Whitbourn
By Michaela Whitbourn
April 4, 2022 — 1.04pm

A former elite soldier has told the Federal Court that he warned war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith to “pull his head in” after he heard the decorated soldier had ordered the mock execution of a comrade posing as a prisoner.

The former soldier known as Person 31 said he was told in 2012 that Mr Roberts-Smith had directed another soldier, Person 10, to pretend to execute a fake Afghan prisoner during a training exercise.

He recalled seeing Persons 9, 10 and Mr Roberts-Smith from a distance in a mock Afghan compound during the exercise, he told the court.

After the training session, Person 31 said, a soldier dubbed Person 7 said words to the effect of: “Oh, for f—’s sake, Mr Roberts-Smith has had Person 10 do a scenario of executing a PUC,” meaning a person under the control of Australian troops. He said he was told the soldier posing as the prisoner was Person 9.

Person 10 gave evidence last week that Mr Roberts-Smith ordered him to carry out the mock execution, and he responded with “bang, bang” to indicate he had shot Person 9.

Person 31, a former Special Air Service soldier whose identity cannot be revealed for national security reasons, said the alleged incident was “spoken of” and was “somewhat concerning”.

“I recall walking past Mr Roberts-Smith outside the mess accommodation and … we had a quick chat,” he said.

Person 31 said he had told Mr Roberts-Smith words to the effect of: “F—, you know, pull your head in, you can’t be doing that shit.” He said it was “a very quick conversation” and Mr Roberts-Smith looked down, grunted, nodded, and walked off.

Mr Roberts-Smith is suing The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Canberra Times for defamation over a series of articles in 2018 that he says portray him as a bully and a war criminal who was involved in the unlawful killing of Afghan detainees. Prisoners cannot be killed under the rules of engagement.

The newspapers are seeking to rely on a defence of truth. Mr Roberts-Smith denies all wrongdoing and told the court earlier this year that the mock execution did not happen. He says he did not bully soldiers and any killings in Afghanistan occurred lawfully in the heat of battle.

Eyrie
Eyrie
April 4, 2022 3:28 pm

the population had been starved and brutalised for almost 20 years under Communism
Even when not starved and brutalised communism damages people mentally. Economic growth is so slow that the only way to get ahead is to push someone else down.

Judge Dredd
Judge Dredd
April 4, 2022 3:28 pm

Last night I watched a documentary on Stalin and I thought of Putin. Now whilst Putin and Stalin are no where near in the same league, the fact is that Russian history is replete with sociopathic rulers, as far back as Ivan the Terrible

I would much rather be ruled by Putin, or even Xi, than the current satanic globohomo leaders we have in the West. Naturally a true Christian state would be the ultimate, but that’s not coming down the pipe until we get over the great tribulations.

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
April 4, 2022 3:33 pm

I see McGowan has appointed his lapdog of a police commissioner as the next governor.

Will the Hunchback appoint Fatty or Wonderland in Yarragrad? Or from his illustrious bench, Ferguson or Maxwell of 7-0 fame?

JMH
JMH
April 4, 2022 3:34 pm

Good to hear there’s still some earning their keep on the farm, JMH!

Sorry to hear your capsicums are doing poorly, Roger. Mine are in tip-top condition but not due to an Ibis! (insert smiley thingie…)

Re. the bin chickens. I have Straw-necked Ibis here. Watching a flock cutting large donuts in the sky before landing is a treat. My last decent invasion was on 26/1/2020. Total rainfall for the month of January was 27.5 mm.

calli
calli
April 4, 2022 3:34 pm

I would much rather be ruled by Putin, or even Xi, than the current satanic globohomo leaders we have in the West.

I wouldn’t.

Cassie of Sydney
April 4, 2022 3:37 pm

“Michael Smith News

ABC 4 Corners trying to find the “dark stain” Australian diggers left in East Timor”

Just remember these two things…..

1. This far-left, Australia loathing, Marxist, Green filth collective is paid for by our hard-earned taxes; and

2. That only two months ago, this ineffectual, useless, supine, Labor lite Morrison government threw more money at this far-left, Australia loathing, Marxist, Green filth collective so that they can continue to merrily smear, ridicule and defame our armed forces, ordinary Australians, Catholic clerics and anyone who dares to profess views they don’t like.

twostix
twostix
April 4, 2022 3:37 pm

Back in reality Russia’s goal since 2014 is to free the eastern regions and bring Ukraine to heel and out from under the thumb of the US democrat / neocon stronghold over it.

Who came up with the dumb idea that they were ever going to occupy the entire country? Oh yes, the democrat neocon mass media did, then declared Victory! when what was never going to happen, didn’t happen.

Also “he invaded and expected flowers and to treated as a liberator HAHAHA HE SO DUMB” was done to death in the media re Iraq and George Bush. It was completely made up then about that invasion, and is completely made up now about this one. Does nobody remember this stuff? Hello, McFly?

Zipster
Zipster
April 4, 2022 3:38 pm

Yes there is! Australia is second by a big margin to CANADA.

I find that difficult to believe

rosie
rosie
April 4, 2022 3:38 pm

Me neither.

rickw
rickw
April 4, 2022 3:40 pm

ABC 4 Corners trying to find the “dark stain” Australian diggers left in East Timor

Investigating the “dark stain” the ABC has left on Australia may be more fruitful.

JC
JC
April 4, 2022 3:41 pm

Sancho Panzer says:
April 4, 2022 at 1:54 pm
Princess Mary is visiting Australia?
How did that slip under the radar JC?
Are they sure it wasn’t just another Brahton stick figure?

Sanchez, I believe General Bob Katter invited her over. I think that’s what the msm is reporting.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 4, 2022 3:42 pm

Last night I watched a documentary on Stalin and I thought of Putin.

Tom’s comment reminds me of something the military commentators like Ryan have been saying for some weeks now: there’s no sign that there is one overall commanding general on the Russian side.

Instead the Kiev pincer, the Kharkov advance, the Donbas advance and the Kherson one in the south all seem unconnected and individual thrusts each under their own general. That makes sense in light of yours and Toms comment, because an Eisenhower in overall control would immediately represent a danger in Putin’s mind. Much safer to have four separate armies so that if one general revolts the other three can stop him and his guys.

There’s an old boardgame called Junta! which is a lot of fun. In it you have a similar corruptocracy with the players playing the elite families of the banana republic. The aim is to get as much money into the family Swiss bank account, and the sectors of state are parcelled out – the Interior Ministry, and three Armies are some of the playing pieces. There are endless coups and assassinations which makes for a fun Friday night. I think there is an element of truth in all the paranoia and the double dealing in the game – seems not unlike the Ukraine, China and Russia governments and all the subterranean stuff that goes on beneath the surface.

rickw
rickw
April 4, 2022 3:44 pm

Yes there is! Australia is second by a big margin to CANADA.

Canadian’s have retained their ability to shoot their way out of the mess, Australian’s, not so much…..

Winston Smith
April 4, 2022 3:45 pm

Bruce of Newcastle:

Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese has foreshadowed what a federal Labor government would look like, pointing to Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk as his “template”.

They just don’t get it, do they?

Dot
Dot
April 4, 2022 3:45 pm

suggests S1 spike subunit went walkabouts.

Is that actually in Novavax?

Nothing else can do that? It is a fairly common symptom of any cold (keep in mind COVID is a cold anyway).

Cassie of Sydney
April 4, 2022 3:45 pm

“I would much rather be ruled by Putin, or even Xi, than the current satanic globohomo leaders we have in the West.

I wouldn’t.”

I agree Calli but the problem is that weak and ineffectual leadership in the West had created this quagmire. Whilst no one can be sure if Putin would have done this under Trump’s watch as POTUS, one thing is clear, which is that Putin probably had some respect for Trump whereas he has nothing but contempt for the corrupt Sniffer in Chief.

Re. our cretinous leaders, I believe that the current premier of Victoria is a sociopath. Last night when watching the programme on Stalin I also thought of Daniel Andrews.

Eyrie
Eyrie
April 4, 2022 3:46 pm

Russia does have a Parliament. It seems to be about as useful as ours.
Does Putin push the LGBTQI+ mental illness and its public displays? Let kindergarten kids be indoctrinated with it? Does he micromanage the average Russian’s private life the way ours does?
Let his military be run by the gender equality etc garbage?

Dot
Dot
April 4, 2022 3:48 pm

Zipstersays:
April 4, 2022 at 3:38 pm
Yes there is! Australia is second by a big margin to CANADA.

I find that difficult to believe

Trudy was seizing bank accounts and threatening to shoot people’s dogs.

For their own good.

Eyrie
Eyrie
April 4, 2022 3:48 pm

Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese has foreshadowed what a federal Labor government would look like, pointing to Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk as his “template”.

Should work a treat in Queensland, Albo.

rickw
rickw
April 4, 2022 3:48 pm

Most people are completely OK with it.

That’s the real issue, if the current state is a concern, then the trajectory is an even bigger one.

2 years of Government COVID clusterfuck and there are still plenty that think the problem was not enough government.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 4, 2022 3:49 pm

Sanchez, I believe General Bob Katter invited her over. I think that’s what the msm is reporting.

So it is a high level military attaché visit?
Wow!
That explains the secrecy.
I wonder if Queensssland is going to get Danish submarines.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
April 4, 2022 3:50 pm

Back in reality Russia’s goal since 2014 is to free the eastern regions and bring Ukraine to heel and out from under the thumb of the US democrat / neocon stronghold over it.

Of course holy Vlad Bae was doing it only for the sole and altruistic reason of freeing poor, noble brother (and sister!) Slavs from the octopus-like sniffy grips of those debbil-debbil foreigners, dear twostix.

Nothing to do with his own plans, desires and personal legacy at all.

The only difference between your carry-on and the useful idiots like Numbers who once shilled for the Vietnamese National Liberation Front as being poor mere farmers heroically resisting American ImPeRiAlIsM in the 1960s, is that they are old now. And you hate old people…

twostix
twostix
April 4, 2022 3:52 pm

I see Russia’s economy is fairly resilient bouncing back even though the hollow vessel “west” have tried to cuba it.

I guess it’s a problem that we don’t actually make anything anymore which we can take away from them except funny money, real estate ponzi schemes, bad software built by Indians and chain coffee shops, the sum total of “western” civilization in 2022. But enough about Sydney. China makes everything, because we gave all of our industry to them and now China likes Russia better than they like us, so….oops?

We on the other hand can’t keep toilet paper on the shelves if somebody sneezes, nobody under 30 can afford to even rent a house within 150km of a city, and we now pay $2 a litre for fuel.

Winning!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 4, 2022 3:54 pm

How is the number of boosters I might choose to have in any way relevant to anyone else?

Let me re-phrase so it is clear.
I really don’t give a fuck what St Ruth or anybody else thinks if I choose to have 2, 4, 6 or 90 vaccines.
Two years of screeching from the couch about his faux martyrdom hasn’t shifted the needle one millimetre on that one for me and, from the free advice others are offering him here, he isn’t swaying too many others either.
It might be different if he wins that Federal seat for Fat Cloive, though.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 4, 2022 3:56 pm

Yes but why would the corruption and theft in the armed forces be any different what what is alleged about Russia?
I suspect the Russians were preparing for an invasion since 2014 also.

Eyrie – The one under the death sentence is the one who takes things seriously. The approach taken by Putin hitherto had been creeping facts on the ground. That was working. The preparations for a conventional invasion were poor – for example the lack of trucks, forklifts & pallets, repair & recovery vehicles and bridging regiments. By contrast as I said the successful demolitions carried out by Ukraine and the flooding of the NNW sector of Kiev, both of which took place immediately on day 1, show there’d been significant preparation. Then there’re the defending regiments at the two airports which were waiting for the paras. Plus a rapid reaction battalion that arrived in a couple hours. Very fast response to get a whole battalion on the road and into combat with an elite Russia paratroop force that quickly.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 4, 2022 3:57 pm

Thinking about moving to Moscow Greta Thumbstix?

Winston Smith
April 4, 2022 3:59 pm

Sancho Panzer:

How transparent was ScoMo?
“Novavax will only be dose #1 and #2 for those who were reluctant to take other vaxes. It will nevah, evah, evah be a booster.”

The contempt I hold for any politician is only exceeded by the contempt they hold for me.

Indolent
Indolent
April 4, 2022 4:00 pm

They have to justify it somehow, don’t they? A great relief. How many governments are there left who actually work for their constituents? Certainly not ours, at any level.

Orban scores crushing victory as Ukraine war solidifies support

Dot
Dot
April 4, 2022 4:01 pm

suggests S1 spike subunit went walkabouts.

Is that actually in Novavax?

Web searches don’t help. I am not a biologist so this isn’t easy.

You either get govvy. shills or (genuine) antivax shills.

Struth
April 4, 2022 4:02 pm

I really don’t give a fuck what St Ruth or anybody else thinks if I choose to have 2, 4, 6 or 90 vaccines.

Of course you don’t.
Fuck everyone else as long as you get the tick.
Fuck submitting to tyranny.
Fuck the fact that it hursts others.
Fuck the fact that you are supposed to be a man and set an example.
Fuck the country, fuck western civilisation.

And then a complete self confessed liar on top of that.

What a top bloke.

And you wonder why you get treated with contempt.

calli
calli
April 4, 2022 4:04 pm

Re. our cretinous leaders, I believe that the current premier of Victoria is a sociopath.

Politics attracts them. To get to the top of that greasy pole, there has to be an element of ruthlessness and cunning.

Maybe they’re just more obvious these days. Perhaps running unchecked highlights it.

Struth
April 4, 2022 4:06 pm

Quick…..to the emails………………………gang…..man the emails.

Zipster
Zipster
April 4, 2022 4:09 pm

suggests S1 spike subunit went walkabouts.

Is that actually in Novavax?

modified spike protein is. seems the body is able to dismantle it into S1 and S2.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 4, 2022 4:09 pm

Of course you don’t.
Fuck everyone else as long as you get the tick.

No, no, you misunderstand.
It isn’t “fuck everyone else”.
It’s “fuck you.
Because, you know, when you wish someone would “get a clot and die”, you can’t really expect a whole lot in return.
Which was about the point I stopped caring about whiney couch potatoes.

Winston Smith
April 4, 2022 4:10 pm

sfw:
Any preppers here? Just curious, seems to be a thing in the US.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/doomsday-preppers-warn-hard-times-ahead-preparedness-goes-mainstream
Firstly, that sounds like an advertisement. The statement of farmers just not planting doesn’t ring true. Mind you, if it was, then it’d be a real danger signal.
I understand some are changing crops. Like wheat to soy – I’m sure the farmers here have a better grasp than I.
The big issue will be Africa and Indonesia unable to feed their people.
I wouldn’t call myself a prepper, but I like to keep a reasonable stock of tucker, fuel, and ammo – just in case.
The only thing I need to get now is a 30k rainwater tank.

rickw
rickw
April 4, 2022 4:11 pm

The original trials were done so quickly they did not know would wane after a few months. So how could prevent long Covid ?!

The next stage in COVID vax marketing is that they’ll be found to a miraculous cures for baldness and haemorrhoids.

Harlequin Decline
April 4, 2022 4:14 pm

FWIW I have heard of 3 short term adverse reactions to a Pfizer booster-

– Bloke from a small community of a couple of dozen houses north of Sydney had the jab. Waited the 20 minutes or so, got in his car, drove a few km past a school zone or two, slowed down for roadworks then blacked out and drove straight into a brick wall. 10 days in hospital. In his 60’s and a but fat but quite active.

-Another chap from the same community, quite fit, not fat, in his 50’s had his jab, waited the 20 minutes , walked out , no problems for a few minutes then passed out and faceplanted. Seemed to recover OK.

-And yet another chap from the same community unknown health, had his jab, waited the 20 minutes and drove off. Became confused,drove the wrong way up a one way street at which point his wife had to take over and drive the rest of the way home.

The above relayed to me by the first victim who visited us in his new car(the old one was a write off). He said the medicos weren’t interested in hearing about his vaccination. I’m not sure what to make of all that, maybe a crook batch of jungle juice or a crap vax nurse on duty.

Zipster
Zipster
April 4, 2022 4:15 pm

We on the other hand can’t keep toilet paper on the shelves if somebody sneezes, nobody under 30 can afford to even rent a house within 150km of a city, and we now pay $2 a litre for fuel.

Winning!

gdp fueled by an incompatible migration ponzi scheme to prop up perpetually increasing gov spending at every level, while debt explodes. we are in the twilight of western civilisation, barbarians and totalitarians will be the order of the rest of the century.

John H.
John H.
April 4, 2022 4:16 pm

Zipstersays:
April 4, 2022 at 4:09 pm
suggests S1 spike subunit went walkabouts.

Is that actually in Novavax?

modified spike protein is. seems the body is able to dismantle it into S1 and S2.

Dendritic cells.

bespoke
bespoke
April 4, 2022 4:18 pm

The contempt I hold for any politician is only exceeded by the contempt they hold for me.

I a comparatively benign Pahtak owner, Winston.

Just saying, for when you surrender.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
April 4, 2022 4:21 pm

BoN and others above………

Sleazy invoking Palachook as a role model.

Hahahaha – I laughed until I stopped.

Kneel
Kneel
April 4, 2022 4:21 pm

” Back in reality Russia’s goal since 2014 is to free the eastern regions and bring Ukraine to heel and out from under the thumb of the US democrat / neocon stronghold over it.

Of course holy Vlad Bae was doing it only for the sole and altruistic reason of freeing poor, noble brother (and sister!) Slavs from the octopus-like sniffy grips of those debbil-debbil foreigners, dear twostix.”

Well, I hardly think ol’ Vlad is the soul of kindness, but…
He DID complain about other countries interfering in Ukraine (Soros’ colour revolutions etc).
He DOES have a legitimate security interest in having access to the Black Sea.
There really WAS a fair bit of the old “ethnic cleansing” going on in eastern Ukraine.
US Greedy Evil Bastards WERE using bribery and corruption to strip-mine Ukraine of billions.
And the west (and the US in particular) have no business pooh-poohing his worries about NATO given their freak-out over Korea and Vietnam, or ignoring UN verified “ethnic cleansing” operations in Ukraine when they certainly didn’t even blink before bombing Yugoslavia, invading Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan and so on.
Hypocrisy, much?
Had they bothered to take his issues seriously in the first place (not give in, but not pooh-pooh them either) the entire affair could have been avoided – if Vlad was actually serious in his worries, then he would have been happy to have some help sorting it all out. But we’ll never know, because they just ignored him.

Struth
April 4, 2022 4:24 pm

I really don’t give a fuck what St Ruth or anybody else thinks

No, no, you misunderstand.
It isn’t “fuck everyone else”.
It’s “fuck you.

Oh dear……………….

Zipster
Zipster
April 4, 2022 4:24 pm

if Vlad was actually serious in his worries, then he would have been happy to have some help sorting it all out. But we’ll never know, because they just ignored him.

the corruptocrats didn’t just ignore him, they did everything to provoke him.

Franx
Franx
April 4, 2022 4:25 pm

Does not seem to be much of a difference between attitudes to the vax on this site and attitudes to the vax in society generally. Consensus rather than common sense rules.

John H.
John H.
April 4, 2022 4:26 pm

Franxsays:
April 4, 2022 at 4:25 pm
Does not seem to be much of a difference between attitudes to the vax on this site and attitudes to the vax in society generally. Consensus rather than common sense rules.

Common sense is for people too lazy to use their brains.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 4, 2022 4:27 pm

I would much rather be ruled by Putin, or even Xi, than the current satanic globohomo leaders we have in the West.

Who the hell said that?

johanna
johanna
April 4, 2022 4:28 pm

Saw a cheering sight in the main street today.

Three kids (male), two about 15 and one about 10.

15 year old on a bike, 15 year old in a wheelchair*, and 12 year old on foot, larking about. The bike boy was doing wheelies and jumps, and the 12 year old was helping the kid in the wheelchair to perform similar feats in his chair.

They were having a great time. No doubt it would have brought screeches of fury from the bubble parenting crowd, but it made my day. 🙂

*No sign of plaster or anything, looks like Wheelchair Boy has some kind of chronic condition.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
April 4, 2022 4:29 pm

Sleazy invoking Palachook as a role model.

Hahahaha – I laughed until I stopped.

Rightly so.
The horrid little fellow is campaigning in Queensland. Where the Palacechook Government is the only recognisable feature other than Pauline, men with big hats, and Fat Bastard.

We’re perokial here. So, obviously he’s not going to glorify Maximum Leader, or that clown fucker in WA.

Winston Smith
April 4, 2022 4:30 pm

Big Nambas:

Zipster says:
April 4, 2022 at 3:02 pm

Is there a bigger fucking nanny state on the planet than australia?????

Yes there is! Australia is second by a big margin to CANADA.

I’d call for the photo finish, but I think Big Nambas wins by a snot bubble on his ride.

bespoke
bespoke
April 4, 2022 4:30 pm

You are confusing not freaking out 24/7 with lack of concern, Franx.

Zipster
Zipster
April 4, 2022 4:32 pm

How long can this disconnect between what those “in the know” believe and what the public at large is told continue?

till the corruptocrats can find a new weapon of mass distraction

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
April 4, 2022 4:32 pm

Lizzie, I do hope you have considered what flyingduk & others have reported here in respect to Novavax. Some early bad reactions already being reported elsewhere in Oz.

Yes, thanks Vicki, have considered these (don’t forget my experience with my son’s bad reaction) but still think in my age range and with travel plans I am better off with a booster than not. Don’t want Pfizer or Moderna, would re-take the AZ at a pinch. So far Novavax looks better. I’ve had heaps of vaxxes over the many years, and all have borne some risk, which I accept. Also, some of my wanting a booster is about keeping well, but a lot of it too is about not fighting at borders with officious officials; prefer to wave the piece of paper and just go through. That’s the reason I took the Yellow Fever vaxx which has a death rate of one in a million too and with such bad reactions that you can get an exemption if you are over 70. I was over 75 when I decided to have it. All good there after the obligatory 15 minute sit-down and fuss and bother from the nurses.

I’ve had a look at Steve Kate’s Novavax thread here April 2, and am glad he suggests using caution with the material in the link he presents. While in some ways it is comprehensive it is also far too ‘naturopathically tinged’ for my liking (I distruct naturopathy deeply but don’t diss those who go for it; their choice, and I respect that it is yours too, Vicki). But re the linked paper, the amount of Polysorbate 80 used is miniscule and not oral; but that matters little to the naturopathically qualified (not medically qualified) author, who jumps on the ‘food additive’, hypersensitivity and blood/brain facilitation aspects, which is really stretching those molecules too far. You’d probably get more from some cosmetics. Quillaja Saponiria Saponens, though, as an adjuvant, is ok’d likely because of its origin in a tree bark. Very natural – as is cyanide, btw. Also, the ‘pooled safety’ results are poorly explained: prostate cancer, for instance, takes years to develop.

But on that thread, the least I say the better. Dot is in there fighting the good fight against some who believe they are competent immunologists when he and I suspect they are not. But again, to each their own belief systems here and I am defnitely no immunologist to pre-empt argument, just a humble but well-trained trained epidemiologist who signed the GBD and not one looking for a fight. Dot comes at it from a libertarian anti-mandate perspective and a scientific perspective and I applaud him for that.

calli
calli
April 4, 2022 4:33 pm

Who the hell said that?

Someone who may not have visited either Russia or China recently, even as a cosseted tourist.

Franx
Franx
April 4, 2022 4:35 pm

Common sense is a matter of examining the data. Nothing lazy at all about it, as a matter of fact.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 4, 2022 4:35 pm

He says everyone saw the Ukraine war coming, that “only those who know nothing about this matter can say it was a surprise”.

Sounds like righty Mr Juillet is doing a nice bit of opportunistic trolling! 😀

Macron’s lefty intel sector had their pants around their ankles.

French military intelligence chief leaves job over Ukraine war failures — report (1 Apr)

Reports say the head of France’s military intelligence will leave his post for failures related to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

General Eric Vidaud will immediately be removed as the head of the Directorate of Military Intelligence (DRM), according to a military source.

One report from the French Ministry of the Armed Forces said Vidaud was blamed for “insufficient briefings” and a “failure to master the issues.”

According to AFP sources, Vidaud had been in the sights of the army staff since the war in Ukraine began last month. Another report is that his departure is part of a structural reorganisation within the DRM.

Earlier this month, the chief of staff of the French army had admitted that the country had not predicted Russia’s invasion like officials in the United States.

“The Americans said that the Russians were going to attack, and they were right,” General Thierry Burkhard told Le Monde newspaper.

Winston Smith
April 4, 2022 4:37 pm

Judge Dredd:

Naturally a true Christian state would be the ultimate, but that’s not coming down the pipe until we get over the great tribulations.

No, that’d be a nightmare. Islam is unreformable because there is always someone who will join up to the enforcement arm just to get ahead and to exercise power over the flock.
Christianity would be the same.

johanna
johanna
April 4, 2022 4:41 pm

Rex, just looked at your BabyMetal clip. Good stuff – the Japs have a long standing fondness for metal.

It is very reminiscent of the first big metal album to chart there, Deep Purple Live in Japan, 1973 or thereabouts. Indeed, some of the guitar runs are straight copies of Ritchie Blackmore. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. I don’t think that he would mind.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 4, 2022 4:43 pm

St. SuperCouch has risen.

Rejoice, for the lack of attention hath returned him to us.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 4, 2022 4:47 pm

ABC 4 Corners trying to find the “dark stain” Australian diggers left in East Timor

Seeing what Sally Neighbour left in the can, as they say in the biz (no pun intended).

calli
calli
April 4, 2022 4:48 pm

Christianity would be the same.

This side of heaven wicked people will do wicked things.

A Christian state is impossible, because that is not what God wants for his people. He formed Israel to showcase his character among the nations, and look how that turned out. The foundation was set for a state run on two great principles of love, yet they failed.

The Church must fulfil its role – it is still the same as that set out to Israel and confirmed by Jesus – to love God wholeheartedly, and to love mankind unreservedly. It can’t do that and rule others. It can barely rule itself.

Zipster
Zipster
April 4, 2022 4:50 pm

Ukraine presidential advisor Oleksiy Arestovych said during a briefing on Sunday that the next “week or two” could determine the outcome of the Russia-Ukraine War, according to a report.

“But, the next week or two will be uneven. There will be reports that we are winning, counterattacking and repelling in some areas. We are liberating our lands from the enemy,” he added via Ukrinform. “However, there will also be information that in some parts of the front, particularly in the east, the situation is complicated. You need to be emotionally, organizationally and consciously ready for this.”

ie it’s a lost cause

calli
calli
April 4, 2022 4:52 pm

How does it work, Dover?

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 4, 2022 4:53 pm

It might be different if he wins that Federal seat for Fat Cloive, though.

A word salad delivered under parliamentary privilege. Wouldn’t want to be working the Hansard late shift that night.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
April 4, 2022 4:56 pm

Good news Johanna @ 4:28

At least some kids appear not to be brainwashed. Good on ’em.

sfw
sfw
April 4, 2022 4:57 pm

I’ve never been a ‘goldbug’. don’t own any gold at all, perhaps I should get some.
https://www.rt.com/business/553099-gold-backed-ruble-gamechanger-west/

Winston Smith
April 4, 2022 4:57 pm

Bespoke:

I a comparatively benign Pahtak owner, Winston.

I cannot decipher your statement, Peasant Who Drinks Hair Remover Poofta Stella Artois Beer.

Zipster
Zipster
April 4, 2022 4:59 pm

I can believe that the odds and sods from Chechnya,

the chechens have a reputation for being ruthless and brutal, sending into mariupol is a propaganda exercise that would not go unnoticed by eastern europeans.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
April 4, 2022 5:00 pm

Firstly, that sounds like an advertisement. The statement of farmers just not planting doesn’t ring true. Mind you, if it was, then it’d be a real danger signal.

You need to be able to obtain the inputs Winston. Planting is just one operation in growing a crop.
I’d say the lack of a reliable supply of fert, chemicals and fuel would have farmers wondering if the risk of planting was worth taking if they couldn’t find the supplies needed to manage the crops until harvest.

John H.
John H.
April 4, 2022 5:08 pm

Franxsays:
April 4, 2022 at 4:35 pm
Common sense is a matter of examining the data. Nothing lazy at all about it, as a matter of fact.

That’s not common sense. Most people think what they read on their favourite website is data when typically it is an interpretation of data. How many people are capable of delving into the statistical analyses or even know what SD stands for?

bespoke
bespoke
April 4, 2022 5:08 pm

Pahtak=Lowly Slave

I was going to appoint you as my scribe, Winston and give you your own room. But you’ll be sharing boot licking duties with JC.

calli
calli
April 4, 2022 5:08 pm

Very overt Christians ruled Victorian England. Yet there was grinding poverty, cruelty, endless wars and imperial skirmishes and seething evil within a stone’s throw of Big Ben.

It won’t bring the perfection that some might hope for.

The best we can do is encourage our leaders to follow Christian principles, which is another thing altogether.

slackster
slackster
April 4, 2022 5:09 pm

So McClown signalling he will never end the State of Emergency in WA:

“Mr McGowan said WA’s state of emergency laws, which grant the government special powers to enact public health measures such as mask-wearing and isolation rules, would remain in place until at least July.

“COVID is very unpredictable, things can come along that you didn’t expect and that’s why having the capacity and the powers to do those things is important because you don’t want to let it all go and find you don’t have the capacity or power to put in place measures that are needed,” he said.”

https://www.smh.com.au/national/western-australia/covid-19-cases-drop-in-wa-as-fourth-jab-introduced-for-those-aged-65-plus-20220404-p5aaoc.html

He is saying because covid he will keep the SoE and the powers it grants him rolling on forever.

Oh and don’t forget your 4th and 5th jabs soon to be mandated under those some powers.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
April 4, 2022 5:15 pm

Watching a flock cutting large donuts in the sky before landing is a treat.

I see we share a love of bird flight, JMH. I guess that’s something. The older I get the more birds fascinate me. Something that John Dawkins, aka Mr. Selfish Gene, also finds.

My favorite funny little birds are puffins, which don’t fly much, and my own Currawongs at home, who swoop across the gully, but for the big birds, give me soaring eagles. There is an island off the tip of Norway, Storrstappen, way up high on the top of the planet, where you can go out in a small boat and see more eagles and other seabirds nesting and flying around than anywhere else known. Even King Alfred, back in his day, had heard reference to this place from visiting Vikings.

bespoke
bespoke
April 4, 2022 5:16 pm

even know what SD stands for?

Secure Digital
Ha!

rickw
rickw
April 4, 2022 5:17 pm

How does it work, Dover?

The UK at its peak was probably as close to a Christian State as is humanly possible. A significant proportion of the population and politicians were Christians and simply acted accordingly within the established political and social framework that existed.

As a minimum, this helped ensure that they didn’t duplicate the horrific French Revolution.

johanna
johanna
April 4, 2022 5:20 pm

Is there a bigger fucking nanny state on the planet than australia?????

UK, by a country mile.

Speaking of which, here is an excellent exposition of the lie about tree planting in the UK and Saving da Planet. I wonder if our version is similar?

Councillor Sanderson didn’t mention the primary reason for the state promoting and paying for (through grants) the planting of new woodlands – their value as ‘carbon credits’.

Rich people and big business will be able to buy these from the owner of the trees to offset the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions caused by their activities.

However, trotting out that the trees are being planted to save the planet, or promote wildlife and ‘health and wellbeing’ and to ‘support a thriving local community’, is nonsense which doesn’t take much thought to see through.

Planting trees has become necessary to supply the rapidly expanding market in carbon credits. Each metric tonne of CO2 (tCO2e) absorbed by trees will be worth a ‘carbon credit’ which the Government promises to buy at a set price or, if the owner thinks it more advantageous, can be sold at auction into the private market.

Established woodland is excluded from the scheme. And only carbon sequestered by new planting is saleable, even though newly-planted trees emit more carbon in the first five years of their lives than they absorb. Don’t old trees absorb carbon? Or is the scheme limited to new trees because it’s aimed at getting trees planted on established farmland?

and

This whole carbon credit scheme arises from the 2005 Kyoto Protocol on climate change and the 2015 Paris Agreement, whereby Western governments made pledges to achieve ‘net zero’ CO2 emissions by certain dates.

Our government chose 2050 for the whole economy to go ‘net zero’. But ‘net zero’ doesn’t mean no CO2 emitted anywhere. By this ingenious system of ‘carbon credits’, those individuals and large companies whose activities emit carbon dioxide will be able to offset their emissions by buying from the owners of woodland the carbon that their trees are calculated to have absorbed over a period of time.

But if saving the planet from ‘greenhouse gas emissions’ is as vital as we are told by the eco-zealots and their acolytes, then surely we shouldn’t allow the global elite to criss-cross the world in their private jets, or big business to continue their CO2 emitting activities?

However, so long as they can persuade national governments to get landowners to plant trees, the elites and global businesses will be unaffected if they can afford to buy a share of the carbon stored in somebody else’s trees and pass the cost on to us.

It gets worse. Most of the carbon credit agreements are to last for 30 years. Which means that for the duration of the agreement the landowner will have given up the ownership of his woodland and be unable to do anything with it contrary to the terms of the agreement.

He will have ‘monetised’ the natural assets on his land so that one or more of the roughly 12,000 large companies in Britain (and others across the world) that are required to undertake ‘greenhouse gas monitoring’, will own the substance of the trees growing there, but similarly be unable to do anything with them. And if the owner sells the land, the obligation will pass to the buyer.

What a scam! Alan Bond, Peter Forster and the rest of them would be bowing down and kissing the ground the architects walk on.

As for the acutal land and the people who live there – meh.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
April 4, 2022 5:22 pm

Russian troops.
Drunken stupid arseholes randomly destroying a country and murdering whoever they please.
Prove me wrong.

calli
calli
April 4, 2022 5:28 pm

I’m not arguing that a Christian state brings perfection.

😀

You wouldn’t be that silly!

I suspect that what we both have in mind is pretty similar.

Winston Smith
April 4, 2022 5:29 pm

Dover0beach:

He adds that “the Das Reich nazi division that committed the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre [a famous massacre in France committed by the nazis during WW2], they were all Ukrainians, 95% of them were Ukrainians.”
He continues: “When they say today ‘there are no nazis in Ukraine’, I say ‘who are you kidding?’.”

The Wikipaedia entry on the massacre makes no mention of Ukrainians.
On 10 June 1944, the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in Haute-Vienne in Nazi-occupied France was destroyed when 642 civilians, including non-combatant women and children, were massacred by a German Waffen-SS company.
14th SS Waffen Grenadier Div Ukrainians from Galicia, General Government General
Pavlo Shandruk 1944–1945

It looks like someone is stretching the narrative here.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 4, 2022 5:30 pm

callisays:

April 4, 2022 at 4:33 pm

Who the hell said that?

Someone who may not have visited either Russia or China recently, even as a cosseted tourist.

A display of naivity in the extreme.
As I have said, most of the “Straya is a shithole” brigade here would last about two weeks in Russia.
The local Vlad the standover man would visit them on day one letting them know they needed to pay a little extra rental in cash (USD 200/month). This would be followed by three more Vlad the Extorters insisting it was their patch they were owed the $200.
Complaints to the cops would draw an offer to take care of it all for a bundled fee of five hundred.
Within two weeks they would be crying down the phone at the airport for a relative to send money for the fare home and arrange a replacement passport.
Why the wire transfer?
Well, all three credit cards have been skimmed and maxxed and the passport has been nicked and used to open five more cards, which will take 12 months to unravel.
Anyone who says that displays their utter ignorance of the wider world.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
April 4, 2022 5:31 pm

Aren’t our maps weird and historically formed? Antarctica has every right to be considered the top of the planet too. But we always go for north and south in our invented locational cognition. Someone once published an upside down map of the world and you couldn’t recognise anything.

In the 1940’s at primary school we had four or five maps on rollers in the classroom which the teacher would pull down during our regular geography lessons, proud of all the pink bits of the British Empire. We had one of NSW which showed the explorers. I saw a piece in this week’s Oz on Saturday that said we are now going to teach Australian history, but not until years 8 and 9, with year 7 devoted to Indigenous History. The latter won’t take a year, that’s for sure, unless Bruce Pascoe is involved. And what’s wrong with enthusing kids early on about Australia’s pioneering history, the explorers etc.?
That makes very good primary school fare which can be built on later with more in-depth topics.

Some teachers will have to retrain to teach anything but climate change and critical race theory.

Struth
April 4, 2022 5:32 pm

Bullshit.
UK is by far and away less of a Nanny state.
Pick up your wine from the service station, has higher speed limits and less policing, has no bike helmets, and none of those abusive signs by the road like Drink and drive Bloody idiot etc.

Much freer place and less Hi Viz.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 4, 2022 5:36 pm

As I have said, most of the “Straya is a shithole” brigade here would last about two weeks in Russia.

Or anywhere else, particularly most Asian countries.

Eyrie
Eyrie
April 4, 2022 5:36 pm

Dot, I told you you failed to read the linked article on Steve Kates’ Novavax post the other day:
In the case of the Novavax shot, the viral antigen is a modified version of the spike protein of the original Wuhan strain of SARS-CoV-2,
The spike proteins harvested from the moth cells are assembled onto synthetic lipid nanoparticles, each displaying up to 14 spike proteins.
RTWT here: https://robynchuter.substack.com/p/novavax-hope-or-hype?s=r

calli
calli
April 4, 2022 5:37 pm

Aren’t our maps weird and historically formed? Antarctica has every right to be considered the top of the planet too

Fun fact.

Turn the Americas on their side and they look like a duck.

Zipster
Zipster
April 4, 2022 5:39 pm

Afghanistan’s Taliban Ban Poppy Cultivation
The regime, seeking recognition as the country’s legitimate government, unveiled the official ban in a bid to curb the world’s heroin supply

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
April 4, 2022 5:41 pm

The Dutch SS division slips into the forgettery.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 4, 2022 5:42 pm

Daily Mail.

Greens promise to BAN petrol cars within 10 years and will offer huge subsidies for electric cars as part of an ambitious election agenda

The Greens are set to announce ambitious plans to take to May federal election
Their policies include making all education free and scrapping student debt
They will pay for their big spending with extra taxes on the rich and companies

bespoke
bespoke
April 4, 2022 5:44 pm

rickwsays:
April 4, 2022 at 5:17 pm

Significant 10-15%
What about the rest?

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 4, 2022 5:45 pm

Is there a bigger fucking nanny state on the planet than australia?????
UK, by a country mile.

Try walking outside a pub with a pint and get back to me.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
April 4, 2022 5:45 pm

Much freer place and less Hi Viz.

No guns. And all but impossible to obtain one legally outside of very limited rural areas.

Rampant knife and gang crime.

Thoroughly woke-infiltrated police and Services to a degree that would make our own envious. Including actual Thought Policing.

And actually facing serious consequences now for the last 30 years of green policy imposed on it.

But yeah, less Hiviz…

Zipster
Zipster
April 4, 2022 5:46 pm

Russian troops.
Drunken stupid arseholes randomly destroying a country and murdering whoever they please.
Prove me wrong.

no no you are wrong. there is nothing random about it.

calli
calli
April 4, 2022 5:48 pm

The Bobbies appear to be a benevolent lot too.

Safety first!

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 4, 2022 5:50 pm

Daily Mail.

Parental leave at $100,000 a year

The Greens want to shake up parental leave to give parents 26 weeks off.

Their plan involves giving each parent six weeks off on a ‘use it or lose it’ basis and another 14 weeks on top of that for a couple to share between them.

The leave would be paid by taxpayers at the carer’s wage up to $100,000 per year, instead of at minimum wage.

There would also be superannuation paid on all parental leave

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 4, 2022 5:52 pm

I wouldn’t pay to much attention to the UK fuzz. They are held in more contempt by the general population than even our own thin blue line.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 4, 2022 5:52 pm

Parental leave at $100,000 a year
The Greens want to shake up parental leave to give parents 26 weeks off.

Isn’t that a bit hypocritical? I thought they wanted people to stop having babies because they cause global warming.

Zipster
Zipster
April 4, 2022 5:53 pm

NASA scrubs Space Launch System test due to fan issue

meanwhile spaceX has relaunched 5 times.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
April 4, 2022 5:54 pm

He will have ‘monetised’ the natural assets on his land so that one or more of the roughly 12,000 large companies in Britain (and others across the world) that are required to undertake ‘greenhouse gas monitoring’, will own the substance of the trees growing there, but similarly be unable to do anything with them. And if the owner sells the land, the obligation will pass to the buyer.

Lots of Aussie farmers sequester their land for ‘carbon’ offsets too. The worst thing is when they are given no choice about it. And not paid much, but their ‘carbon’ product goes into a government pot.

This is a scam, just as the Nigerian offsets are a scam, and just as Germany’s getting its dirty oil and gas from Russia is a scam, and just as us not using our own oil and gas but sending it overseas to keep us in funds is a similar sort of scam, while we slowly go down the plughole of the accounting scam called ‘net zero’ ourselves. It is almost impossible to sensibly quantify emission of CO2 by individual countries, and pretty silly to try to do it in world terms too. It’s like trying to measure a ‘world’ temperature. Not worth the trouble.

Oh, and while I am at it, Chris Kenny had a very good piece in the Oz Saturday about the Covid scam and our pussy footed response that is still getting traction.

It’s all a hideous, intrusive, useless, interfering and rapacious scam. And the poor feel the worst of it.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 4, 2022 5:56 pm

Wipe student debt

The Greens want to wipe all student loan debts, meaning Aussies with student loan debt would not be required to pay it back.

‘Student debt should not be an added burden on people who are already struggling, especially after the impacts of the pandemic,’ said Education spokeswoman Mehreen Faruqi.

‘Many current MPs, including the Prime Minister, went to university when it was free, but now students are being saddled with tens of thousands of dollars in study debt that often takes decades to repay.’

In 2020-21, the average student debt in Australia was $23,685. The total value of HELP debt in 2020 was $66.6billion.

The Greens also want to make childcare, school, TAFE and university free.

University was free in Australia from 1974 but fees were re-introduced in the 1980s

Top Ender
Top Ender
April 4, 2022 5:56 pm

Tassie premier has resigned from his job and Parliament as well.

Maybe to mask up more?

Says of course to “spend more time with his family”…

calli
calli
April 4, 2022 5:58 pm

University was free in Australia from 1974 but fees were re-introduced in the 1980s

By Labor.

Frank
Frank
April 4, 2022 6:05 pm

Is there a bigger fucking nanny state on the planet than australia

NZ rates a mention too.

miltonf
miltonf
April 4, 2022 6:06 pm

Meanwhile, Putin’s popularity is at 78% according to independent polls that Western analysts think are accurate, the ruble has climbed back to just about where it traded before the invasion, and the Russian economy is doing “better than you think,” according to the London Economist. Biden bragged that the U.S. had reduced “the ruble to rubble.” He spoke too soon. He declared that Putin “can’t stay in power.” Looks like he can and he will. China’s sitting on the sidelines enjoying the show, and India, which refused to support sanctions against its longstanding ally Russia, will sell the Russians’ consumer goods.

U.S. officials can scream all they want about Russian “war crimes” (I don’t know the facts and take no position on whether war crimes were committed or not). I think that Putin is a bad guy and that the Russian invasion was a wicked enterprise. But Putin isn’t going anywhere, Russia isn’t collapsing, and the Russian Army is demolishing Ukraine.

Eyrie
Eyrie
April 4, 2022 6:06 pm

University was free in Australia from 1974 but fees were re-introduced in the 1980s

There was not a damn thing wrong with the Commonwealth Scholarship scheme.

bespoke
bespoke
April 4, 2022 6:07 pm

Just putting this out there.

A lot of Indian truck drivers in the UK.

miltonf
miltonf
April 4, 2022 6:08 pm
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 4, 2022 6:09 pm

Knuckle Draggersays:

April 4, 2022 at 5:36 pm

As I have said, most of the “Straya is a shithole” brigade here would last about two weeks in Russia.

Or anywhere else, particularly most Asian countries.

In fact, anywhere outside the comfort zone of “Parma and Pot at the Bowlie” country, really.

Franx
Franx
April 4, 2022 6:10 pm

Common sense is about interpreting sense data. Sense perception is valid reasoning and is common to all, a universal intelligence. Hence while something like a SD may not be able to be explained by everyone, ideas about probability are nevertheless readily intelligible to all. Science can and does account for common sense. But again, common sense is not consensus, about the vax or anything else.

Zipster
Zipster
April 4, 2022 6:10 pm

from above link

The Moderna, Pfizer/BioNTech, Janssen (Johnson and Johnson) and Novavax vaccines contain the modified spike protein sequence that stabilizes the spike protein into the pre-fusion conformation. Scientists think that keeping the spike protein in the pre-fusion conformation may lead to more neutralizing antibodies.

They have done zero tests to check if the spike protein stays in pre-fusion conformation. Evidence seems to indicate it doesn’t.

A small study on healthcare workers demonstrated the production and detection of S1 part of the spike protein and Spike proteins in the plasma of the individuals vaccinated with Moderna vaccine.
“After the first 100-µg dose, the mRNA-1273 vaccine produced detectable levels of S1 antigen in plasma in 11 participants, and spike antigen was detected in 3 of 13 participants. Nucleocapsid antigen was undetectable or at background levels in all participants after both injections, as expected.

the number of vaccine injuries certainly suggests S1 can separate from the spike protein and cause substantial damage.

Lysander
Lysander
April 4, 2022 6:10 pm

There are a lot of problems with Fitzs’ republic model:

https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2022/03/the-latest-republican-muddle/

But (I wonder aloud), does the ARM’s “Australian Choice” Republic Model (where State Parliaments nominate one candidate each to be put to a popular election) also mean that State Constitutions would need to be amended also? What Head of Power would be required for State Legislature to have both Houses convene and vote on the election of a candidate? (You need a Head of Power for this to occur)..

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
April 4, 2022 6:11 pm

In 2020-21, the average student debt in Australia was $23,685. The total value of HELP debt in 2020 was $66.6billion.

If you’re not willing to take on a $23,685 low interest easy repayment terms loan for a qualification you probably shouldn’t be doing it.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 4, 2022 6:11 pm

bespokesays:

April 4, 2022 at 6:07 pm

Just putting this out there.

A lot of Indian truck drivers in the UK.

Bing Bong!
Warning! # 2’s on the M1!
Bing Bong!

Delta A
Delta A
April 4, 2022 6:12 pm

And what’s wrong with enthusing kids early on about Australia’s pioneering history, the explorers etc.?

Exactly!

In primary school (Qld, 1950’s) the history curriculum dealt solely with Australian settlement and explorers. Captain Charles Napier Sturt, Blaxland and co, John McDouall Stuart, John Roper, Pawe? Strzelecki and intrepid plodder, Major Thomas Mitchell.

As a child, I loved hearing and reading about their adventures, and so it was an utter joy to find evidence of their travels (when we were ghastly grey nomads) and to follow in part – and in comfort – their tortuous journeys.

Children today are deprived of this knowledege and, down the track, the exhilaration of this rediscovery in our own land. Our age certainly was a golden time, particularly regarding education.

Frank
Frank
April 4, 2022 6:12 pm

A lot of Indian truck drivers in the UK.

That’s why they are so crap at the World Cup. Every time they get a corner they build a shop on it.

I’ll see myself out now.

Winston Smith
April 4, 2022 6:14 pm

Good Riddance: “Some” Florida Teachers Leave Profession Because they Can’t Teach Kindergarteners About Sex and Show Dirty Books
Several school boards and leftist teachers’ unions were outraged this past year when parents exposed the filth they were teaching their students and the porn books they were promoting in their school libraries.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 4, 2022 6:17 pm

If you’re not willing to take on a $23,685 low interest easy repayment terms loan for a qualification you probably shouldn’t be doing it.

The next generation of my family was offered a choice “You want to study medicine, engineering, commerce, veterinary science, agriculture, the clan will pay your HECS. You want to study underwater basket weaving, or lesbian liturgical dance, you’re on your own.”

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 4, 2022 6:18 pm

If you’re not willing to take on a $23,685 low interest easy repayment terms loan for a qualification you probably shouldn’t be doing it.

It should be a price signal to push people into courses which generate increased income to make the investment worthwhile.
Of course, the flaw is that many never reach the repayment threshold income levels.

Delta A
Delta A
April 4, 2022 6:21 pm

Pawe? Strzelecki

That should have been Pawel Strzelecki. But I guess you all knew that.

cohenite
April 4, 2022 6:21 pm

UK v Australia: nanny state.

Tommy Robinson v Avi.

John H.
John H.
April 4, 2022 6:22 pm

Zipstersays:
April 4, 2022 at 6:10 pm
from above link

The Moderna, Pfizer/BioNTech, Janssen (Johnson and Johnson) and Novavax vaccines contain the modified spike protein sequence that stabilizes the spike protein into the pre-fusion conformation. Scientists think that keeping the spike protein in the pre-fusion conformation may lead to more neutralizing antibodies.

They have done zero tests to check if the spike protein stays in pre-fusion conformation. Evidence seems to indicate it doesn’t.

A small study on healthcare workers demonstrated the production and detection of S1 part of the spike protein and Spike proteins in the plasma of the individuals vaccinated with Moderna vaccine.
“After the first 100-µg dose, the mRNA-1273 vaccine produced detectable levels of S1 antigen in plasma in 11 participants, and spike antigen was detected in 3 of 13 participants. Nucleocapsid antigen was undetectable or at background levels in all participants after both injections, as expected.

the number of vaccine injuries certainly suggests S1 can separate from the spike protein and cause substantial damage.

Do you know what dendritic cells do?

sfw
sfw
April 4, 2022 6:28 pm

Sancho, re Russia, I know nothing of the place, I suppose there’s standover men. I have been watching a youtube channel made by an Australian family that moved to Siberia, it’s not bad, worth occasional look. They seem to think it’s pretty good over there. I must admit the size and beauty of the city he lives in amazed me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nefBLrwJET0

Anchor What
Anchor What
April 4, 2022 6:28 pm

Gluhwein transitions to hooroo-wein!
Psaki returns to her roots.
Trump is back on the warpath.
His Michigan rally was a bout 25000 and introduced a black woman political fighter, Kristina Karamo, who will not just win but inspire others.
She’s standing for Secretary of State in Michigan.

Winston Smith
April 4, 2022 6:29 pm

Farmer Gez:

The Dutch SS division slips into the forgettery.

5th SS Wiking?
I doubt it.
Check out the list and main ethnic volunteers. Half of bloody Europe are in there.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 4, 2022 6:30 pm

Legalise weed

The Greens believe drug use should be treated as a health issue, not a criminal issue.

They would legalise, tax and regulate cannabis, fund pill testing at festivals and establish safe injecting facilities in each capital city.

The Greens want to set up a regulated cannabis market with an Australian Cannabis Agency to issue licences for production and sale and ensure quality.

The Greens believe drug use should be treated as a health issue, not a criminal issue

Aussies would be allowed to grow six plants at home for personal use but there would be big fines for selling without a licence.

Adverts for the drug would be banned.

‘The major parties in this countries are intent on pushing forward a policy that criminalises drug users, supports an unregulated and dangerous market and makes people fear seeking help when they need it,’ the Greens say on their website.

Zipster
Zipster
April 4, 2022 6:30 pm

Do you know what dendritic cells do?

and?

johanna
johanna
April 4, 2022 6:31 pm

In the UK, you can get a knock on your door by Plod if you have been accused of hateful speech online. The definition includes ‘speech’ which is only perceived as hateful by one complainer.

Verified or not, it is recorded forever under your name.

Old bloke
Old bloke
April 4, 2022 6:31 pm

Eyrie says:
April 4, 2022 at 2:32 pm

Move along, nothing to see here:
https://thelibertydaily.com/buried-bombshell-tennis-world-rocked-as-fifteen-fully-vaccinated-players-unable-to-finish-miami-open/

That’s a worry isn’t it. Remember when Novak Djokovic was mocked by Shane Warne and Rafael Nadal for being unjabbed, now Warney is gone and Rafael Nadal is in poor health.

Nothing to do with the vaxxs though, just pure coincidence.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
April 4, 2022 6:32 pm

Tasmanian Cats:
Gutwein hasn’t dumped the Liberals right in it, has he?
(Yes, I know, but at least in Tassie under the Libs an unvaxxed can go to a pub or restaurant.)
They had (up till he retired) 13 out of 25 Assembly seats.
Hopefully it’s a situation where the party can appoint a successor till the next full election, and not a by-election.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 4, 2022 6:32 pm

If you’re not willing to take on a $23,685 low interest easy repayment terms loan for a qualification you probably shouldn’t be doing it.

Long time family friend went and did a Dip Ed on the HECS never never because her daughter went back to uni. Never did a days work after that. Unencumbered house in the Western Suburbs. Hobby farm 3 hours from Perth. And still drew a part pension. Boomer lyf.

Winston Smith
April 4, 2022 6:34 pm
miltonf
miltonf
April 4, 2022 6:35 pm

Exactly!

In primary school (Qld, 1950’s) the history curriculum dealt solely with Australian settlement and explorers. Captain Charles Napier Sturt, Blaxland and co, John McDouall Stuart, John Roper, Pawe? Strzelecki and intrepid plodder, Major Thomas Mitchell.

As a child, I loved hearing and reading about their adventures, and so it was an utter joy to find evidence of their travels (when we were ghastly grey nomads) and to follow in part – and in comfort – their tortuous journeys.

even in the 70s when I was at Primary School the tales of Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth thrilled me and still do.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 4, 2022 6:35 pm

Would the last Lieboral out the door please turn off the lights.

rugbyskier
rugbyskier
April 4, 2022 6:36 pm

Hopefully it’s a situation where the party can appoint a successor till the next full election, and not a by-election.

My understanding is that under the Hare-Clark voting system there’s a count back of votes from the last election when there’s a vacancy and the next one on the list is elected. 99.9% of the time it’s the next candidate from the same party.

Zipster
Zipster
April 4, 2022 6:36 pm

“Some” Florida Teachers Leave Profession Because they Can’t Teach Kindergarteners About Sex and Show Dirty Books

I hear Disney has some openings.

johanna
johanna
April 4, 2022 6:36 pm

Sancho Panzer says:
April 4, 2022 at 6:18 pm

If you’re not willing to take on a $23,685 low interest easy repayment terms loan for a qualification you probably shouldn’t be doing it.

It should be a price signal to push people into courses which generate increased income to make the investment worthwhile.
Of course, the flaw is that many never reach the repayment threshold income levels.

Yes, it’s self-replicating.

All those parasites who ‘studied’ dance and drama (as if they needed it) and worst of all, psychology, are unemployable.

miltonf
miltonf
April 4, 2022 6:38 pm

Would love to get hold of a copy of ‘outback in focus’ by Jeff Carter- inspired me greatly when I was a kid. There was some mention of Robert O’Hara Burke iirc.

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