Week In Pictures.
Open Thread – Tues 5 April 2022
- TULIP versus ruinous Labor
- Open Thread – Weekend 18 May 2024
- Bumtree #15
- Bumtree #14
- Open Thread – Thurs 16 May 2024
Dover, Ive just sent you an email. And it’s half last one, so I’m off to bed.
Scroll on warning for those who prefer not to read a travellers ramblings. Given we had decided to opt for…
There is no negotiating with sub human, low IQ barbarians. Continue the offensive until there is no movement… no other…
I am not happy that you should post this at this time when I’m in the process of sorting out…
I’m waiting for the B3* variant. That’s the one where you turn yellow and drip green slime.
*Not to be confused with the HBB variant – where you just can’t find your trousers.
Vomit inducing editorial from Courier Mail. No comments allowed.
“It is not often we can say in this column that a government – of any political persuasion – has delivered a victory for commonsense. But the Palaszczuk government has delivered one with its removal of the ban on fun for the unvaccinated.
The Covid vaccine mandate was necessary when introduced late last year. It was necessary to protect people when out and about at pubs, restaurants, cinemas and the like.
But the key reason it was a success was as a motivator to boost our vaccination rates – by saying to the hesitant and lazy (mostly young adults) that they have to get their jab before they can have fun. We supported it strongly.
But times change. And with the state’s vaccination rates now over 95 per cent in most places, the time has come to lift the mandate so that those few misguided fools who have opted against getting the jab can join the rest of us in living life again.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said yesterday that “people need to get on with their lives’’. We agree.
The lifting of the ban on our unvaccinated from Thursday next week will also be great news for the state’s hospitality and tourism economy, battered after two years of darkness and pain. There is now a clear light at the end of the tunnel – and a very welcome assurance from chief health officer John Gerrard that “it is not our intention to go backwards on these mandates” unless a much more serious strain of Covid emerged.
Hopefully, that means that never again will it be necessary (as it was) for business to be subjected to such draconian operating conditions.
The vaccination requirements will still apply in vulnerable settings, including hospitals, aged-care facilities and at schools. As they should. But every Queenslander will now be able to again enjoy pubs, clubs, cafes, restaurants, theme parks, cinemas, weddings, showgrounds, libraries and stadiums. As they should.
And while the current surge in cases means we are back to all at the moment knowing at least someone with Covid, it was a day of generally good news on the pandemic front yesterday – with Dr Gerrard saying we had reached our peak again, and so hospitalisations and cases with the virus would start to decline from now until Easter.
The government has played the long game on Covid, and it has indeed kept Queenslanders mostly safe. But that success has come at a high cost, both to business and to those affected by the mental health challenges that the decisions and uncertainty of the past two years have brought on. It is important now that we forge ahead, despite the obvious risks of a virus that can still be very serious – and deadly.
We should not be complacent, especially when it comes to a continued focus on the importance of vaccinations. Those with children under the age of 16 in particular should not put off getting their kids protected through both doses.
Health Minister Yvette D’Ath rightly said we owe that to “every person who can’t get vaccinated for medical reasons … to get vaccinated to reduce the risk of spread”.
The pandemic has been a horror show for so many people, especially those who have lost loved ones. Today our thoughts are with them.
The pandemic has also been a lesson to us all. That we must never take things for granted. That we humans are a resilient bunch. That science is amazing. And with Easter just a week away, perhaps it is time to reflect on giving thanks that we can – hopefully – put it all behind us”.
Judging by comments on other column today many are not going to put it behind them and will remember next state election.
I interpreted Struths remark as meaning that ppl were applying pressure to get him jabbed but he hadn’t succumbed. I guess it depends on whether you believe coercion has to be successful to constitute coercion.
I am also serious thinking about buying a Tesla, because when the war starts we will have zero fuel for possibly years.
Spark ignition IC. Even the most incompetent have half a chance of making ethanol. Plus you could do wood gas, plus if you have actual gas it won’t go off even after a decade.
No interpretation.
The meaning is clear.
Unless, of course, you concede the possibility that the author of the comment is effectively illiterate.
Sancho Panzer says: April 5, 2022 at 8:28 pm
This would be supported by what has happened on the ground.
Several country pubs have totally closed, some in towns larger than I’d have expected.
(Closed, as in locked the doors & gone home until the mandates lift – they’ll have been closed Four months if they reopen again on Thursday week)
Sal.
Is this from Woomba-By-Sea?
The manager of the pub a couple of pubs down from me reports that they were consistently doing about 150 covers for dinner.
Come the 17th of December (Force-jab Friday) they dropped to Ten.
Since that date the greatest number he’s served has been Eighteen.
Some days they serve zero meals.
This is not consistent with the alleged vaccination rate of 90% – 95%
once the fuel runs out, food won’t be far behind.
Sancho Panzer says: April 5, 2022 at 11:22 pm
Total mystery why some say you’re a juvenile incapable of posting serious content.
aren’t you the same bloke that scoffed yesterday ?
something along the lines of … why should anybody care how many vaccines somebody else has taken?
now … let’s talk about all the other bullshit that you craft here daily
Zk2A:
I still say the Leopard 1’s we had could have been deturreted, up armoured and had a casement built as superstructure with a 120mm main gun. Give it to Infantry in the antitank role.
At least it would be better than what they have now – which is anti tank missiles of which we will run out of stocks in a day and a half.
I thought it was only really the Southeast Corner of Queensland that counted in all official stats? 😉
In which case, the numbers actually work.
Ditto for WA’s Stab Stats, if you assume that the numbers only count for the Perth-Bunbury-Busselton axis in the Southwest of the State. 🙂
Rex: Every other statistic associated with the rona has been so fudged or twisted as to be perverted (applies worldwide).
It’d be amazing if the jab-rate was accurately represented.
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I still say the Leopard 1’s we had could have been deturreted, up armoured and had a casement built as superstructure with a 120mm main gun.
Leave them as they are, just relegate them to infantry support. Lethal unless you come up against something that can kill it, chances of that being reduced if integrated into infantry.
Think Sherman, couldn’t go toe to toe with the equivalent MBT’s, but could kill everything else. Also consider that the 75mm was preferred over the 76mm tank killer because it had a better HE round which was pretty good at wrecking everyone’s day beside a MBT.
Aussie grunts have work enough being awesome (i.e. doing all the myriad jobs they have lumped on them now), without having to absorb an extra vehicle that requires far more expertise and technical training than a mere Bushmaster or M113 ticket and turret course to operate. The new IFVs Army is about to order are going to be headache enough, without dropping in a tank-killer/bunker-buster, too.
It has consistently proven difficult to convince the Australian Army that giving their Riflemen everything under the sun, but not specialising into having actual crewman subtrades for their mech and motorised Battalions, is deleterious in terms of skills development and maintenance, and training churn as diggers get promoted and posted out. But on the other hand, they would then be de facto Armoured Corps soldiers, and brains would start exploding in our small, Rifleman-centric Army…
Believe it or not, but the RAAC once held responsibility for all towed AT-guns, before they got into 106mm Recoilless Rifle-equipped gunbuggies in the late 50s and early 60s.
Assault guns like that would be best served by having a cell of Armoured troopers in each Battalion solely to operate and maintain its allocated pool of vehicles. Or keep them in an ACR for ease of barracks administration and maintenance, and have them permanently attached to each Battalion.
The former is the better option for all practical and unit cohesion purposes, but given that Brigades are effectively all stationed together these days, the latter option would work within the sillier peacetime constraints amd siloing Army operates under.
Musk to join the board of Twitter. Heh.
Awww, poor Matrix.
Reduced to inferred jibes about ‘Yooz all pull-string puppetz an’ robotz!
Ran out of ‘Yooz all Sheilaz!’ and ‘Yooz all gay!’ jibes?
Rex Anger:
Yes, I bang on a bit about it, but I don’t want my nephews drilling with broomsticks because there are NO bloody rifles.
Or doing the gun load drills for a 25 pounder with only a photo.
fmd … you are one strange unit, Rex
I’m flattered. 🙂
that’s nice Rex
so listen, why do you go on ranty name-calling word-wally streaks every night
and then next day post complaints about rants, name-calling and word-walls?
like wtf is that?
Perfectly reasonable.
Under Kevni and Julia, I spent several exercises running around the bush shouting “BANG!” Because the Defence budget was so pared-back that Reserve units struggled to even get a regular allocation of blank ammo to train with. And I was on one of the last ARES courses to get to qualify by shooting live Carl Gustav rounds in 2008, as more or less the entire Australian allocation of 84mm rounds between 2008 and 2012 was taken up by operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I trained Scouts and Grunts in 2010, who were only able to do their qualification shoots in a simulator, which is btter than nothing. But not the way to get someone used to a recoilless rifle’s noise and backblast.
You think more than 2 properly punctuated words in a sentence constitutes a wordwall.
Ditto anything that makes sense.
loving all your masculine posts tonite about grunts and artillery, Rex
do wonder why your’e oscillating between tough-guy and school-girl though
A key criticism of the Chinese fighter pilots is that they were too robotic in their responses and didn’t co-ordinate very well.
A friend with air force connections was talking to me when there were concerns about Australia helping to train the Indonesian air force. He said not to worry.
The Australian pilots explained to the Indons that in a dogfight they should bank at random. The Indons asked which way they should bank. The Aussies tried to explain that there were no set rules as to which way to bank, and that the whole point was that there not be rules because if there were rules the opposition would learn and anticipate. Apparently the Indons just couldn’t get it – they just kept asking, if there were no rules, how would they know which way they should bank.
so anyway
y’all prolly haven’t noticed but in nearly all my posts lately, I like to use words that are hyphenated
think of the hyphens as the places where rex and sancho’s balls used to be
just my way of having fun
a bit like calling my car sancho because of all the stupid noises and decisions it makes
g’night moles
That’s your opinion.
Much like how you think Mighty Struth insults people like a man.
When the best he can do when his bullshit gets questioned is Well, I is a Man, and yooz is not! So, ner!
If you have to explain yourself Matrix, you’re not very good at your job…
what do I do for a job ?
Carry water for your thought-leader Struth.
no seriously.
you’ve been very personal about what I do
been going now for weeks
…c’mon tell the readership
what do I do for a job?
Rex, your skating-to-the-edge skills are great
but your arse is too big for that tu-tu
The US military held Afghanistan with around 5000 troops and the place immediately fell apart when they left.
JC, there’s a lot more to Afghanistan to just Kabul.
Most of the 38mill punters wouldn’t have known/felt a US presence for years.
VicPol would be digitally/electronically all over Rita.
Fascists hate ridicule more than anything.
Fair point, Bern. It’s still way out of proportion though and the Russian military appears to be inept.
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Warren Brown.
Peter Broelman.
David Rowe.
Christian Adams.
Morten Morland.
Michael Ramirez.
Tom Stiglich.
Matt Margolis.
Robert Ariail.
Al Goodwyn.
Gary Varvel.
Henry Payne.
George Alexopoulos.
I’m in St Albans, UK. Always an overrated town in my view possibly explained by the fact that it is older than London and ruled by loony green councils that don’t believe that their responsibilities extend to trivia such as actual infrastructure maintenance.
It ‘s very best feature was always its pubs. The highest pub density in Europe which has got to put the place up there with less accommodation joints like Paris or Rome.
Many are ‘down the street’ family affairs that open at 5pm and often have their own brewery.
No longer. The place is now a perfect set for a post apocalypse movie. Shuttered pubs everywhere. The locals are furious. I would suggest that Boris and Carrie give the place a wide berth for a century or two.
Well beyond my skills. Been trying to Compile OpenWRT for the last few weeks with no success. Tried VM, WSL and my Linux partition is too small.
Cheers
Sussman has to be facing jail time.
He’s repeatedly lied in writing to the FBI.
In the court documents, these are now public.
Page, Flynn & Stone were all indicted post making genuine, minor errors with what they said to the FBI.
Without doubt it must be the smell of freedom.
Vaccinated freedom.
In Victoria a couple of weeks ago and I wasn’t “carded” once?
Maybe they’re all pro freedom lunatics in Mt Macedon?
Ah yes.
So he wouldn’t fit in the NSW Lieberol Pardee.
I can’t believe those adult children want to ban Nazi symbols now.
If our grandfather’s who fought in WWII were not triggered by Nayzees, surely pro Palestinian green leftists aren’t either?
In Victoria a couple of weeks ago and I wasn’t “carded” once?
Comic book shops don’t count, Dot.
Even my girl agrees.
Victoria must be torn asunder, into two or three smaller states, with Melbin split down the Yarra.
Call them Gippsland and the Grampians. Carve out the north to form a new state with sthn NSW (Riverina).
The new Victorian States need completely new judiciary and law enforcement.
Cleanskins only. No one who ever worked as a cop, defence lawyer, judge, prison warder or prosecutor may ever work in the new law enforcement system.
It is simply too corrupt and authoritarian to continue on. It is a dangerous, cancerous beast.
If they sell comic books at the Taphouse in Woodend, I will run naked uphill in Daylesford with crazy glue all over me.
Anyway. The last thing I got was Blade Devil, online. The legacy industry (Marvel, etc) needs to die rather unceremoniously.
Lol!
It happened in Syria.
Have you been asleep the last 11 years?
The US Army did not invade Syria.
And the Russians went in to back their long-term client, the al-Assad regime.
Replace “invade” with intervene.
The U.S. missile strike on Shayrat Airbase on 7 April 2017 was the first time the U.S. deliberately attacked Syrian government forces, and marked the start of a series of direct military actions by U.S. forces against the Syrian government and its allies that occurred during the periods of May–June 2017 and February.
A lot of ‘intervention’ followed.
Even my girl agrees
But what does her boyfriend think dot?
I miss the reddit & ape days.
Well in Victoria I wasn’t allowed to visit the rifle range on the weekend because I did not have a digital vaccination passport. I am double vaxed but that was not good enough. My papers were not in order
I can’t believe those adult children want to ban Nazi symbols now.
Have they let the Azov Battalion know?
Once more with feeling!
“Without a dramatic shift in policy, Guterres warned, “We are on a fast track to climate disaster: Major cities under water. Unprecedented heatwaves. Terrifying storms. Widespread water shortages. The extinction of a million species of plants and animals.”
Why doesn’t the media point out the failure of previous IPCC predictions?
American Thinker
I’ll do better. o7
Trump’s case against the Russiagate gang given to a Clinton appointed judge. So, there’s a motion for him to recuse or be replaced due to obvious impartiality issues.
Gateway Pundit
(note: this once again illustrates how bad things get when you have an accumulation of leftist appointees on the bench, leftist media, and leftists in key state offices.)
Corporate media shown to be lying about Russian war crimes.
Sea level is rising so amazingly fast that one man with a spoon could build a seawall around a city.
The only cities I know that are underwater are the Dutch ones, and they don’t seem to be very wet.
Sea level is still steadily rising between 1 and 3mm/yr, which means at most 9 inches by 2100.
Hey Bush.
Lost my nerve and sold all the canola at $950 yesterday.
With increments for oil that’s over a thousand and only a complete idiot would hold out for anything higher. I was doing a good impression of one for a while there.
It is the Last Holdout. More AKs than earthworms under the ground.
Same thing with Grapes, Gez.
As little as 10-30% from a few years ago. Not worth picking.
He should yes, but the chance of that is zero.
Remember the FBI guy who fraudulently altered the Carter Page document?
Iirc he got a sentence of about 7 days fully suspended.
And even if he was sentenced to serious time he’d be quietly pardoned by Joe.
Family and ‘kin’ are all-important, we are repeatedly told by urban fauxborigines with a pecuniary interest in keeping the noble savage myth alive.
Reality, as described by the NT News this morning:
If Beryl’s last name was Rioli or Namatjira, she and her income stream would have been reported missing 20 seconds after she walked out the door.
Sydney forecast for tomorrow is 70-100mm of rain. That Tongan volcano cloud seeding bunch of particles must be arriving overhead again!
They know that Dr B.
Especially in context with everything else I was saying.
They know I’m not jabbed.
Simply making the point that those sooking who said they were coerced into speak as if none of us were, just them.
Pathetic.
They must stay here bitching and name calling 24/7 to twist the truth and keep the unpleasantness going.
Ever wondered why Rex, Sancho and KD have never disagreed with each other once?
Even if they did disagree with each other, they never, ever, say anything.
Sancho admits he’s a liar, yet not a word from his little chums.
Actually admits he made a complete story up, and crickets from his little chums.
They’re certainly pleasant people with a great deal of integrity!!
The embarrassing emotional outbursts from Choo Choo as the truth smacks him in the face and he comes back with childish babble, … you know the others are squirming in their couches, hoping he’ll shut up,……they never say a word.
Real men.
Men you need in the fox hole with you.
Small men with zero integrity, self confessed liars and others who obviously have length of penis issues and sees anyone making a suggestion of action against tyranny as some sort of threat to their manhood.
Just pathetic people.
So I ask KD and choo choo to condemn Sancho’s lying.
To publicly state that his behaviour has been reprehensible and foul.
I ask Sancho, who before 2020 was highly abusive regarding unions and unionists to call out choo choo’s claim he had to get jabbed to keep his job while simultaneously claiming there are thousands of jobs for the unjabbed out there.
And he has no family to support.
He just wanted to keep his union rail bludge-fest going, something prior to 2020 would have been ridiculed on a right wing blog.
Silence……..
And those two to call out KD’s pathetic Vicplod attempts to arrest any perp, fuck the truth.
Just the ones that he finds a threat.
Like motorcycle cops and bikies.
I won’t hold my breath.
The little bum chums of Dover’s cat, the little Koalas who never can quite hear the truth because Dover keeps them safe from it.
Look at their carry on all night.
Reason #12 why the Fresh Prince is an angry man (the Hun):
From the morning wordwall:
As noted Quenthlander Liability Bob would remark of the term ‘foxholes’- ‘more Seppo bullshit’.
And:
Serious questions:
1. What are you talking about?; and
2. What’s a ‘perp’?
For all I know. St ruth is over compensating for giving in at the start. But I’m certain he is over compensating for many other deficiencies.
Rule #19 for young blokes
Do not fight over bogan chicks.
2. What’s a ‘perp’?
I know this one.
It’s a chippies term for perpendicular.
Are VicPlod builders?
Further to comments by Sal and others last night. Below is a comment made in Courier Mail this morning:
“Wow, if the Mackay region is more than 95% jabbed, then the town that I live in must contain everyone that didnt get the jab! Either that or someone is fudging the numbers, surely our government wouldnt do such a thing??”
This is actually a problem.
Unrestrained, it will fall through the hole I’m told I have to cut in the cabin floor.
Yet another use for hundred mile an hour tape. Don’t start me on girth.
If only there were a suitable forum for the ‘better people’ to escape to.
So choo choo man has no family inheritance and made a choice.
Bid deal intitled brat.
unrestrained, it will fall through the hole I’m told I have to cut in the cabin floor.
Another bloke who can’t wear shorts.
https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/durham-bombshell-fbi-text-message-shows-clinton-lawyer
Hi eyrie
You around. How do you think Stuth is travelling on the blog.
How about the Thought Leadership. The other day the Leadership was instructing the blog owner (again) on how to behave against what he believes are a number of miscreants. He offered this advice from his experience as a school marm. I wonder what’s the advice is about Stuth?
Nothing from both the above? Why?
So many choices.
Marc Andreessen
@pmarca
Billionaires who support the current thing are benefactors.
Billionaires who do not support the current thing are oligarchs.
then I saw this
Bakery gets $US25mill.
https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2022/april/truth-still-matters-appeals-court-orders-oberlin-college-to-pay-25m-to-local-bakery-it-labeled-racist
Re Chinas ability to win a war. I’m no expert however I’ve read much on WW2 especially the Russians. It seems to me that the only reason the Soviets stopped the Germans at Stalingrad and then went on to Berlin was Stalin just had so many more fighting men and women available. The constraint was getting them from the east to the warzones. he did finally let the generals run things but without the fighters it would’ve been game over for Russia.
It seems the same for China, they have so many people available to force into battle they would win by weight of numbers. A couple of differences though, much of Russia’s population was still on board with the ‘revolution’ and the terror helped. China has gone way beyond the fever of revolution and has a huge middle class that perhaps will be reluctant to die on the fronts. They may depose the current admin when the death tolls rise and Xi demands their children to die. Plus there’s the logistics of training and moving millions of men to the front.
Just my thoughts so tell me where I’m wrong.
Abbott says what we’ve been saying.
‘There are echoes of the 1930s in these times’: Tony Abbott (Sky News, 5 Apr)
History does tend to rhyme. This current mess looks a lot like Mussolini’s invasion of Greece, where helped by terrain the poorly armed Greeks gave him a lesson. Fair parallel with Ukraine too as the Greek government were quite fascist at the time, and were pro-Germany until they were attacked. Benny had to be bailed out by Adolf.
This war must be really exercising the Chinese upper echelons. Xi helping Vlad would further cement the alliance, and China has few other effective allies, but the cost to China would be extremely painful to do so.
SCORECARD–GOP who voted to impeach Trump:
Katko – resigned
Kinzinger – resigned
Gonzalez – resigned
Toomey – resigned
Upton – resigned [latest to bite the dust]
Newhouse – primaried
Cheney – primaried
Meijer – primaried
Rice – primaried
Valadao – primaried
Beutler – primaried
Murkowski – primaried
Rigged2020.com
Damn
They want $4.99 to watch it.
sfw
D
WW2 . Different times to now.
There are estimates the Chinese lost a million men fighting the Americans in Korea. They had the shit kicked out of them.
Obviously men count, but not as critically as they once did. It’s fire power.
It’s high tech firepower.
Morning all!
And having seen Struth’s Numbers-style deflection and general carryon this morning, all I can say is
Lolwut?
Haven’t seen that one before.
Cool.
Payable via Apple Pay. Fuck it I’m watching it now…
@ SFW-
Your assumptions are quite reasonable, but for China to strike in any direction other than due North (into Siberia), there are a great many natural bottlenecks and extremely long and perilous lines of communication to negotiate. And very pissed-off neighbours at the end of them. And all that absorbs and attrits manpower and equipment before you even start advancing to contact.
Taiwan is like the UK in 1940- You might be able to dominate the skies, but that long stretch of water is a dangerous obstacle to negotiate. Even with the step-up of having formed amphibious troops and supporting equipment.
To go at India or Pakistan or Nepal means negotiating the Himalayas, and then having angry folks on every ridgeline. And that effort already failed against India.
Staying overland where their projection power might be greatest, you have Vietnam. And the Vietnamese pushed the PLA’s shit in the last time they tried their luck in 1979.
Not easy propositions anywhere.
Truck vs train crash.
In Hungary. Right now. Stay tuned.
Indeed. How dare he…
Tinta, that was amazing! I love to watch artists and craftsmen do their thing.
Those dodgy sawhorses though. He was very, very lucky not to have that saw through his thigh.
The end result was breathtaking. I’m going to send it to Dad – he’ll love it.
Hey KD, do you condemn Panzy Smollett’s straight out lying?
Expect Alby Mangels-style.
Meh! do it in thongs and get to me. Thats living on the edge.
Knuckle Draggersays:
April 5, 2022 at 10:40 pm
A previous David vs Goliath event:
Burma kicked the shit out of China in 1769. They killed over 70,000 inscrutable dry cleaners, won permanent independence and the bat munchers never went near the joint again.
In 1979, the Vietnamese killed around 30,000 in a quite short war, mostly using reserve formations.
That was gorgeous, Tinta.
I wish I could give you more upticks, but alas I cannot. 🙁
I can, however, give you a coffee mug made out of (resin’d) coffee….. 😀
#Meta
Gez,
You’ve done well.
I’m still a holdout. It looks like there’s $10-15 to go for us if you go off the port pricing. Even with diesel as high as it is the freight isn’t that much.
Also,
It’s your shout!
Michael Smith. Apparently there is a truck, getting around Melbourne, with a placard, depicting the Chinese Premier/Prime Minister urging a Labor Vote….
How about thongs and an oxy torch for extra skill points? 🙂
Did the annual transition from shorts to trackydacks yesterday.
Life is good.
Had any good starting rains for this season out your way yet, Bush? Or are you still waiting?
WA is teasing us with bits here and there in the Wheatbelt plus a general cooling this week, but no decent falls yet.
I had a barefoot stone mason subbie who dressed sandstone with an angle grinder, as you do.
The stone was beautiful. His feet remained unscathed.
True craftsmanship.
Next transition.
Thongs to uggies.
@ Calli-
I note you didn’t mention how many toes your fellow had… 🙂
Never! I have class.
The Aztecs would have had some form of ceremony.
“Unscathed” can be interpreted in the usual, plain english way.
Unhurt. Entire. Completely toed.
Dot
If our grandfather’s who fought in WWII were not triggered by Nayzees, surely pro Palestinian green leftists aren’t either?
Particularly given the enthusiasm of many Moooslims for all things Nayzee, starting with Apolph’s best selling book (in the Middle East, at least).
75 MM in my neck of the woods – some are sowing canola, and my sharefarmer is making muttering noises about the programme for the year. H1 has fallen some $80 a tonne…
Rowan Williams is getting worse.
Becoming Transgender a ‘Sacred Journey’, Bishop Claims (5 Apr)
He must be reading a different Bible from the one I have, which says God made them man and woman, not gender fluid.
He’s done alright then. 🙂
I was thinking the fellow would have turned up with a few scars and maybe a missing metatarsal segment or two.
Dot
Victoria must be torn asunder, into two or three smaller states, with Melbin split down the Yarra.
Call them Gippsland and the Grampians. Carve out the north to form a new state with sthn NSW (Riverina).
How many extra Senate seats do you want to give to those raving fascists? (Because the raving fascists will soon tie up the top positions on the ticket in the new states).
Reform the Senate first, or reduce all states to the Constitutional minimum of six senators, and increase the number of states elsewhere (north east NSW, north and central Queensland, etc) until there are 12 states, each with six senators, rather that six states each with 12.
Lucky bastard. Greater Perth area is still bone dry. All of last week’s ex-cyclone rainfall ascribed a huge arc around Perth and parts of the Southwest, and out to sea.
Dot:
Too expensive.
Hows about we just hang the top three levels of each sector – after due process of course – promote the next lot with the promise of more of the same. Resigning after being caught out not an option.
Sort of like a purge – only quieter.
Bible? They read a Bible?
Palis still being palis. Amazing.
Two interesting Covid-19 reports. China has new poison for us and Wall Street Journal calls out Gov.
A new SARS-CoV-2 subvariant has emerged from China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Also, a new subvariant surfaced in the UK.
As reported in the government-owned Global Times, this new subvariant labeled BA.1.1 doesn’t look to match the existing variance sequenced in the world’s most populated nation and the second-largest economy as measured by gross domestic product, nor is the mutant identified in the global variant database.
https://trialsitenews.com/new-sars-cov-2-subvariants-in-china-uk/
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The footage of Biden being ignored & wandering around along this morning just ended his presidency.
around alone
sfw
It seems the same for China, they have so many people available to force into battle they would win by weight of numbers. A couple of differences though, much of Russia’s population was still on board with the ‘revolution’ and the terror helped. China has gone way beyond the fever of revolution and has a huge middle class that perhaps will be reluctant to die on the fronts. They may depose the current admin when the death tolls rise and Xi demands their children to die. Plus there’s the logistics of training and moving millions of men to the front.
In Russia, they can walk to the front. For China to send millions to Taiwan in a reasonable time, there are going to have to be a lot of good swimmers.
Quite decent falls – anywhere up to 100MM – through those parts of the Wheatbelt that were clobbered by the bushfires earlier in the year.
Seeing more rumors flying around about western intelligence stuck in Mariupol, including the capture of a 3 star US general.
Dubious about the general, but there does appear to be some desperate attempts to pull someone out.
I really cannot understand this virus.Over the last week , three people who I had close but limited contact i.e.sitting next to , albeit outside have come down with the virus.
I have done daily RAT tests but have no symptoms.
Am I the super spreader?LOL
Doubtful. Who else could Klain get for his agenda? Kamala has shown abundantly that she’s not at all malleable and she is really really annoying. She lost another senior staffer yesterday. Pelosi looks like a walking corpse. Who else is there? Any game playing to get Hillary in would make the mid terms even harder to steal, and Michelle doesn’t want the job (which suggests she has some wisdom under all that hair.)
Do you have a link to that Bern?
Keep your vegemite and your toast away from Morsie, Cats… 😀
Or just letting the opposition implode. So to walk in like the saviour.
“While being called a conspiracy theorist and laughed at for saying it would come with a passport.
See kneel, if you weren’t here back then, the abuse I copped for even daring to suggest we should disobey tyranny at ANZAC day 2020 saw me labelled a grifter, I was off with MV and all this bullshit was thrown, and that’s when I changed, from being the ever pleasant fun guy I used to be.”
No, you are a hypocrit and a liar.
You claim that you are part of a “fiercely independent breed” and that you are standing on “principles” – utter rubbish as I will now demonstrate.
Did you refuse to obey the social distancing mandates, the mask mandates, and the entirety of the lockdowns? No, you did not. You did not risk losing your job for these. You “succumbed”, you bowed to them, continuing to work because the personal cost for you was too high, even though you claim you saw where this was going from the start. Had you the principles that you claim to have, you would have not just protested, you would have refused to comply even at the cost of your livelihood, but you didn’t because the personal cost to you was too high.
Yet when you decided (as is your right) that some certain mandate was “bad” for you and yours in terms of risk/reward you declined and accepted the consequences – that is your choice, and I have no problem with that.
Where I have the problem is your insistence that others, who came to a different conclusion (again, is is their right) have somehow betrayed you and society as a whole, and that this is based on your principles.
Clearly that is incorrect – your principles, your saving of society from this madness, was not sufficient for you to risk your own betterment when it was social distancing and mask mandates, which you no doubt complied with, but only the vaccine mandate. All those mandates were wrong – every single one. Yet you complied with all bar the vaccine mandate because your own interests overrode your due to society to prevent what you claim you could see this was going from the start.
Yet when others come to different conclusions – as they must, having different circumstances, hopes, dreams, needs, wants, desires etc etc – it is only when they do not agree with your choice on these matters that they become a problem, only then that they are “destroying society”.
You total fucking hypocrit.
You have NO principles, and any claim that you might make that you are standing by such is a comforting lie that you tell yourself to justify your choices – nothing more. That you use such lies to denigrate those who have reached a different conclusion shows your own fear to confront who you truly are and why you make the choices you do.
I, on the other hand, have said and acted according to the same principles from the start – that I would make the arguments, that I would protest, but that ultimately I would obey the law, and that my choices were mine and mine alone, and that I would make such choices as I saw fit to do, based on my own circumstances and knowledge at the time. That I would extend these rights to all and sundry, regardless of whether or not they agreed with me. That I would band together with anyone who believed that these things were wrong in order to fight them, regardless of what their personal choices on any particular matter were, and that I would not presume to denigrate anyone else’s choices in such matters.
So by all means continue good sir to demonstrate to all and sundry who care to read your hypocritical, self serving rubbish how little regard you actually have for society, and how easily you would attempt to manipulate others and lie about their choices- it matters not to me that you make such a fool of yourself. Who am I to prevent you revealing your true nature? Why should I care that you denigrate me for ignoring the very same principles that you yourself ignore when it suits you?
Victory for Emperor Xi is having some form of Taiwanese Government call out for Big Brother’s assistance in securing peace and harmony on the island.
Flattening the place with ballistic missiles and naval artillery – before exposing 500,000 PLA to a long-advertised crossing of the Taiwan Straight, followed by Ukraine 2.0, followed by Bosnia 2.0, followed by either a brain drain, or Prison Island – would not be viewed in China as a glorious success.
Perhaps the opposite.
Despite appearances, the CCP cares about this sort of thing.
Is packing away the stubby coolers enough, Bear?
I guess we don’t know until they try, right?
I think we can do better. Something Woodstock or an Export block.
I disagree ‘bern.
If three major blunders on the international stage within a very short period of time won’t see him finished, nothing will.
Justine Castreau’s T4 programme continues apace.
Socialism attempt no. 665:
Inflation Protests Erupt Across Peru As President Imposes Curfew, Calls In Military (6 Apr)
That would be the same Marxist-Leninist Mr Castillo who was elected only 8 months ago to save Peru from dastardly knuckle-dragging Ms Fujimori.
Well I am due to cash in on my investment at the recyclers. New Ozite power tool needed.
Sacrificing Woodstock cans, Bear?
Could it be “Seppo bullshit”?
Indeed.
At this stage there seems to be no evidence that China is organising its own version of Operation Seelöwe to put PLA boots on the ground.
I guess once satellites show the bays around Putian are starting to fill up with barges and landing craft and army stuff someone will twig.
” 2. What’s a ‘perp’?
Could it be “Seppo bullshit”?”
Seppo, yes – bulshit, no.
“Perpetrator”.
Hence “perp walk” is parading an accused perpetrator of illegal action before the public and the media, in order that they are “exposed” for al to see. Not sure that is appropriate when it remains an accusation rather than a legally decided matter…
Yep.
And then watch every MLRS and tube artillery piece and cruise missile system on that island register on and start flying towards Putian harbour and its inlets…
I swear, Rowe could be surrounded by a world in flames, gangs of children chasing down old men to kill and eat, the dead risen from their graves roaming the streets instantly absorbing the life-force pf everything they touch like drops of water on a parched desert, buffeted by hurricane winds as an asteroid the size of a city begins to glow in the atmosphere, and the four horsemen of the apocalypse giving each other high-fives…and he would still be doing cartoons of Morrison spending too much money in the budget.
Because no other PM and no party other than the Liberals have done that.
It is not that he dislikes the Liberals that is the problem. It is that he does not dislike Labor and the Greens for precisely the same failings.
Boambee
New states don’t get a guaranteed 12 Senators. The Commonwealth tells them to go shit in their hand and clap.
“The cabinet has agreed to declare a ban on the mobility of citizens from 2 a.m. through 11:59 p.m. of Tuesday, April 5, to protect the fundamental rights of all people,” Peruvian President Pedro Castillo said in a live broadcast last night.
They don’t even try to make it believable any more, do they.
I know, I know.
The gravel rash is a killer.
sfw:
Stalingrad was a pivotal but not for the reason commonly touted.
Firstly, after the 1941 Vyazma catastrophe where the Russians lost over 500,000 men and four Armies, Stalin was forced to realise he had to let his Generals do their jobs. The Uranus Offensive was delayed several times to allow the buildup to happen. Stalin had allowed this especially after the bloodletting of the Kotluban offensives. He also reduced the Political Officers powers and allowed the Officer Corps more freedom especially at the Front level.
On the other hand, Hitler was cementing his control over his Generals and allowing them less freedom in operational matters. He was more likely to order ‘standfast’ and ‘no retreat’ even when it was logical to do so.
So the two leaders swapped hats, so to speak, and the rest is history.
The lesson is clear: Wars are fought by soldiers – to demand they be organised by politicians is folly.
The horror… 🙁
Gerald Ford’s presidency ended when he fell down the stairs, a year before the election.
Biden could be in office for the full two terms, but his presidency ended today.
YES.
Yes I did.
Which fucks up the rest of your word wall, Kneel.
Never had a test, and when they told me to get inside my house I went out even more.
You’re trying to deal with your decisions.
Don’t blame me for them.
Many things, of very great importance need to be considered when submitting to tyranny, and you kneel have a problem with me saying that when you do, it effects others.
Which it does.
It is the truth Kneel.
Why do you find the truth so offensive?
By the way, where’s KD?
Who knew it was so easy to get rid of him than by asking him to denounce Frank Smollett’s lies!
Agree Winston however my point is that the Soviets had almost run out of men in the west, they dragged in massive numbers from the east, if there was no east and men to draw on, it wouldn’t matter how good the generals were if they couldn’t get enough men. China has a lot of men, does it have the will to kill a huge number of them in wearing down the enemy.
look at the reverse, the yanks with the poms got half a million men into europe.
I’d probably start with a blockade of taiwan and rain death on them if they don’t surrender. Leave the actual invasion till last.
those were the days of low tech wars. it’s a different ball game now.
Nine hundred thousand or so killed or wounded in Korea.
Getting close. Will there be virgins?
Isn’t it remarkable that Struth can say this without a hint of self-awareness?
For the last 2 years, this phrase out of anyone else’s mouth would see Struth double down and rant and abuse them even harder.
But now, he uses it to defend himself.
What a hypocrite.
Yesterday I happened upon a video inteview with Alexander Dugin, said to be an éminence grise of Putin.
Surprisingly, for an avowed anti-Westerner, he speaks English.
He strikes me as an intellectual dilettante who over thirty years has dabbled in anti-Communism, neo-Bolshevism, National Socialism “with Russian characteristics” (my take) and now a somewhat nebulous “Fourth Way” beyond liberal democracy, Marxism and Fascism, but utilising whatever is useful from these systems.
He recognises that, with American decline, geo-politics is becoming multipolar and believes this provides Russia with the opportunity to grasp its destiny as the great Eurasian power. Ukraine should be absorbed into this entity as there is no Ukrainian national identity. Russian troops should occupy Kiev, the birthplace of Holy Rus’, as the first step to this. Likwise, Russia should occupy Georgia, etc.
He claims to be a religious traditionalist but also uses post-modernism to justify a “Russian truth” that is not true for western Europeans or Americans. One wonders if this extends to universal human rights, which he is sceptical of.
About the only thing on which I could agree with him is that Western woke culture is increasingly ubiquitous (totalitarian?) and hubristic and should be opposed.
Yes, and the Allies possessed both near-total air and naval supremacy before they kicked off.
And the bloody debacle of Dieppe in 1942 to draw on for the best way to conduct massed amphibious landings.
Knowing how hard Taiwan and the US will likely contest both spheres, even initiating a blockade and/or bombardment of the island will be a tall order.
No!
Dot has his uses.
On March 24th, a report released by the International Institute of Finance shows foreign capital has been leaving China on an unprecedented scale since the war in Ukraine.
The main reason is that overseas investors are concerned that U.S. and EU sanctions against Russia could somehow spill over to China.
At almost the same time, on March 23rd, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced that it has renewed tariff exemptions on more than three hundred types of Chinese product imports.
Why did the U.S. do this? It’s likely because the war between Russia and Ukraine is at a standstill, and the balance of power and tension between the U.S., China, and Russia has been broken. The US and China have now started to compromise to some extent due to the war. So, what do these changes mean for foreign investors?
“YES.
Yes I did.
Which fucks up the rest of your word wall, Kneel.
Never had a test, and when they told me to get inside my house I went out even more.”
Really? So you ignored sound health advice to minimise contact with others, just because they told you you had to? You even went the complete opposite, just to stick it to the man? You risked contracting and spreading what you were told was a dangerous disease just because the gov said you should? And that’s community responsibility? That’s care for society? To “go out even more”, ignoring the risk to others? Not saying you should have stayed inside forever, but you went out even more?
Did your location fine you for not obeying? Mine did.
Were the police out in force, issuing such fines? Mine were.
Did the police visit your workplace on multiple occasions to “check” that all were doing as they were told? They did mine.
It is easy to disobey when the police ignore you, as they did in some places.
It is even easier to ignore such directives when their is nothing in place that exposes you to a punishment.
Did you refuse to deliver to places that had a mask mandate? Did you refuse to wear a mask and get refused entry? Did you put your job on the line for that, on principle, because you knew where it would lead? Did you lose your job for such refusal, or only when it was a vax mandate and you refused that?
If it is your principles that matter, then you should have refused and lost your job for the mask mandates. Did you?
If being an individual, being independent, is what truly maters, who are you to demand that I act in any particular way? How is my refusal to obey your “orders” any different from your refusal to obey Gov orders?
If individual choice matters, and is sacrosanct, how dare you denigrate me – or anyone else – for exercising my right to choose for myself?
Looks like Michael Lewis has re-written his most recent book on the fly.
I’m on his publishers email list & tone of the promotions have changed over the past 6 months.
It’s gone from Trump is the devil to being the CDC needs to be overhauled.
Curious – I would have described Dieppe as the best way on how NOT to conduct said landings. Mountbatten earned his nickname “Master of Disaster” there…
Chinese culture is full of wise sayings. One popular one is; To know a man, know his friends.
A sentiment currently causing some official tap dancing:
China’s envoy to U.N. calls images of dead civilians from Bucha ‘very disturbing’
Not quite able to assist Xi’s new BFF, Russia, with a traditional, spittle-flecked denunciation of the Bucha killings as the work of Azov and its US Running Dog collaborators.
I wouldn’t expect an actual military invasion of Taiwan. Have a look around any major city in the west and what do you see?
My expectation is intermarriage and gradual reintegration into greater China, with an eventual “diplomatic solution” that recognises the fact. China takes a much longer view on the whole, but having said that, I’m quite ignorant of the culture and the importance taking back Taiwan may have.
Morsie:
Typhoid Morsie?
Flawed Randomized (?) Controlled (?) Trial on ivermectin (from Livestream #121)
DarkHorse Podcast Clips
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Fuck me, at this rate it’ll be 2050 and various parties on here will still be flinging accusations of hypocrisy at each other over the cov.
The last two years have been nuts. Our governments seriously shat themselves and neglected their obligations towards citizens as well as abandoning well thought out pandemic plans they had in the top drawers of their desks.
Bit of forgiveness for each other in the face of these facts might go a ways.
Nah. Russia is like the Byzantine Empire. Eaten alive by corruption. While Russia continues as a kleptocracy under a Caesar it will never allow a competent bureaucracy or military to arise, since they are threats to the Caesar. Which is why Belisarius went on trial and was imprisoned: he was too successful.
Until they can do something about the corruption it will remain a petrostate like the ramshackle Arab petrostates, suffering wickedly from the resource curse.
Just emailed me.
He’s at work.
Very important work, too.
Roger,
Only the the Anglosphere and the larger EU countries give a shit about “universal” human rights. If you look at the UN and those occupying the human rights committees they only pay lip service to HR and use them as a weapon against those countries which purport to believe in them. You have seen what happened in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan when we tried to impose them there.
The Lebedev Doctrine recognises this and says countries must be allowed to modify these universal rights according to its national character, historical development and religious beliefs , which is why surprisingly only 7 of the G20 have imposed sanctions. Starkey, who is no fan of Putin or supporter of the invasion, explains this better than I can in Russia is winning the war of ideas
Our governments seriously shat themselves and neglected their obligations towards citizens as well as abandoning well thought out pandemic plans they had in the top drawers of their desks.
100% aided and abetted by the scum media and university mongs as a culture group.
You see all the various ‘oooman rites” mobs (state and federal) clamoring for the removal of the emergency power?
Yeah, me neither.
Bespoke:
There’s hope for you yet, Bespoke.
Not that you could fall any further.
Oz, definitely the “lucky” country for some .. LOL!
Took a trip to Fairfield’s Wednesday “flea”market this morning as I am looking for some cheap fence paint (only bloke sellling paint asking more than Bunnings .. duuuh!) .. quite amazed at the several hundred “clientele” wandering around .. 85 % SE Asian & 10% Mid Eastern appearance .. and this is 9.30am on a work day for most folk .. very, very few appeared to be elderly or exibiting symptoms of being unfit for work .. seems qualifying for the “rorters” pension, at least around here, may have a lot more to do with ethnicity than, actual, disability .. and folk wonder why we are turning into a 3rd world “s**t-house .. a land where effort/work ethic is for the mugs rather than the norm ……!
I should have added in regard to Dugin that also takes confidence from the fact that Russia’s nuclear arsenal limits the options the US and NATO can take in regard to Russian expansionism.
He was also, reportedly, the architect of the annexation of Crimea.
Now, if Putin were to put Dugin’s ideas on Ukraine into practice, it would look exactly like what began to unfold in late February but which has since but which has since suffered a setback, at least in regard to taking Kiev. It seems the Western woke aren’t the only ones subject to hubris.
All the analyses I’ve looked at indicate it will be a mountainous order. China will never have air superiority because of Japan and the USA. Japan has military installations installed on an island that is very close to Taiwan(anti-ship and anti-air defenses) so China would be forced to take that out which mean war with Japan, the USA, and Australia(like we matter!). The other big problem for China is it will involve a serious depletion of their military capacity, something India might be interested in.
China might still have a go at it but I think it will be a disaster. It will be purely symbolic, there won’t be any substantive gain. The problem of course is that humans make mistakes and sometimes go to war not realising how difficult the task is, how many lives and hardware will be lost, and don’t anticipate the blowback from the invasion. That’s happening right now and might be giving Xi pause for thought.
Arky, you are spot on. I’m, inclining to the circumspect opinion of Eugyppius that sometimes the simplest explanation is the best. I’m not suggesting that Klaus and his acolytes don’t have all sorts of sinister plans for us drones, or that the half-wits of the medical technocracy have not been globally collaborating with biotechnology. But the unparalleled interconnectedness of governments & their underlings, together with technology, probably festered the worst of plans in dealing with the virus.
In any case, I think we should have the utmost sympathy for those amongst us who, despite misgivings, had to agree to vaccinations and the rest in order to maintain their families. My husband and I were able to refuse the vaxx, but could do nothing about the travel permits, denial of entry to everyday services, disdain from the larger community etc etc. No man is an island, as the saying goes, and there is much in life that we have to endure, in spite of our beliefs.
And, despite all of the above….. we are still preparing for perhaps worse still to come……
I’m streaming Tucker.
He’s all over the Biden footage from this morning.
ouch! just got hit by a soggy tissue.
Try harder Winston, or surrender.
“Xi Jinping says Taiwan ‘must and will be’ reunited with China
Published2 January 2019
“China-Taiwan tensions: Xi Jinping says ‘reunification’ must be fulfilled
Published9 October 2021
“When we used to think about early warning indicators for a Chinese attack, we knew that China would have to move significant forces to its coast opposite Taiwan before commencing an assault and believed that this offered us an opportunity to prepare. Now, China already has most of its military assets pre-positioned in the Eastern Theater Command, which sharply reduces our warning time. Thus, the current situation is perilous and will get worse on the trajectory we are on.