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?

One hundred per cent. Plus, the dissection unfairly resting at the base of the previous page.

Everyone do what St. SuperCouch wants, or you’re not Australian/a real Australian/a man/part of The People. Reeks of totalitarianism.

It’s not working out the way he wants. Being a noisy lightweight, it’s someone else’s fault – even though ‘self-reliance is strong in my breed.’

Quadrant had a few good articles on Aleksandr Dugin about a month or more back, when the Russians first invaded Ukraine.

By the way, where’s KD?

Whys is this your business?

“She was out of isolation for two days and she had to go back into it from a different friend catching COVID,” Mx Swain said.

It meant their daughter had to miss a Scout camp, which Mx Swain still helped out at.

Now close contacts themselves, they spent the next week sleeping in a tent in the family’s backyard to isolate from everyone else.

Look at this pronoun fuckery. Is the journo saying this weirdo slept out in the tent by ‘themselves’ or with ‘their’ daughter? It’s not clear because this daft narcissistic tool has decided to screw about with the language so everyone has to think about whatever shitty pronouns and titles she’s chosen for herself and make a special effort just for her. Or him. Can’t tell by looking at the photo.

‘Robot scientist’ Eve finds that less than one-third of scientific results are reproducible

The result is not surprising. Twenty years ago Ioannidis pointed out the problem. It is why I redefined peer review for my purposes and am reluctant to rely on a single study unless it is substantiated by supporting evidence. Most people think publication is peer review and one study is enough. The best cure for that confidence is read a few thousand biomed papers.

Tucker is calling AOC, Sandy.

Please, please make this so:

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin: ‘I Would Beg AOC to Debate Me’ (Newsmax, 5 Apr)

If televised such a debate would rate its socks off. I do hope Palin can get into the House, she would stir things up most satisfactorily.

Fortunately Xi hasn’t been in long enough to stack the CCP and PLA with yes men. There’ve been signs of internal opposition to the Great Man lately because of a series of disasters

The resolutions from the Sixth Plenum would say otherwise.

lol. The entire point is that it wasn’t “during a break in her marriage to Smith”. If it was just “during a break in her marriage to Smith”, no one would have said a damn thing about it.

there’s no such thing as a “break in a marriage”

AOC wouldn’t dare if it was no ears piece or mobile allowed.

Fortunately Xi hasn’t been in long enough to stack the CCP and PLA with yes men.

After Xi castrated Bo pre getting the top job, no one has stepped out of line.
Not even Putin can boast that.

I haven’t watched a full Tucker episode in a long time.
It’s pretty entertaining.

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.

Oddly enough, that would happen if there were to be a mass outbreak of something like Anthrax, or Marburg Fever.
Or even Wuhan Zombie Virus – Variant X.

worked with Hong Kong

NYT spins very tall tale. Finland inches closer to NATO. France in trouble in Mariupol.
Alex Christoforou

HBBear:

New Ozite power tool needed.

Getting close. Will there be virgins?

It won’t be that kind of tool, will it Bespoke?

Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
April 6, 2022 at 10:04 am
China has a lot of men, does it have the will to kill a huge number of them in wearing down the enemy.

Nine hundred thousand or so killed or wounded in Korea.

Long before 30 years of the One Child Policy. There are a lot of one child (and one grandchild) families in China, mostly among the urban middle class. Good luck to any leader who causes mass casualties among the Little Emperors.

So let me get this straight. I can go out for a night on the tiles, pick up some floozy, then drag my sorry butt in the door at lunch time the next day stinking of the floozy’s cheap perfume and tell the Mrs that no no I didn’t cheat – it happened during a break in our marriage, which I started yesterday (sorry, forgot to tell you) and ends now.

I’m pretty sure if I tried something like that, there’d be another break in my marriage that would last a fair bit longer. Probably a few other things would be broken, too hehe

“there’s no such thing as a “break in a marriage”

I stand corrected. I should have said “aside from a very small number of fundamentalist religious nut-jobs who think words can only have one meaning, no one would have said anything”

No, human rights is wholly a western construct.

I think its been repeatedly demonstrated over the last 2 years that the only rights that “exist” are those that can be defended by force if need be.

I gave you an uptick for that one. Still won’t stop the inevitable, Winston.

The resolutions from the Sixth Plenum would say otherwise.

Of course. Like a military parade compared to actual combat, the Plenum is pretty but not reflective of what is going on in the real fighting.

President Xi Jinping is facing widespread opposition within his Communist Party and leading China into ‘disaster’, insider claims (Aug 2020)

A retired Chinese professor of the country’s top political school has revealed that President Xi Jinping is facing widespread opposition within his own party.

Cai Xia, who had taught democratic politics at the Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party, also accused President Xi of ‘killing a country’ and leading China into ‘disaster’ in an interview with the Guardian.

Xi Jinping’s chances of securing third term looks bleak over economic downturn (22 Mar)

Beijing [China], March 22 (ANI): Doubts have started emerging over Xi Jinping securing a third term in the autumn of 2022 over loud voices of dissension within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) due to economic downturn, country’s foreign policy regarding Russia and breaking the established system of leadership succession.

According to CCP sources, some of the retired senior leaders – “formers” of the Communist Party has recently expressed opposition to Xi’s desire to break the established system of leadership succession.

They also allege Xi’s extreme left-hand turn in the country’s economy has slowed down at a “shocking rate”. The faction opposed to his leadership has also questioned Xi’s “state-to-people retreat” and economic policies centred on State-owned enterprises led to the economic downturn in China.

As I said, under the surface gloss things are a tad messier.

The Battle of Ukraine – A Campaign Evaluation

Long, one hour, an Aussie. You might think about cranking up the playback speed, I often go to 1.5. Surprised that 50% of precision guided munitions failed.

Bruce of Newcastlesays:
April 6, 2022 at 11:32 am

As I said, under the surface gloss things are a tad messier.

Thanks Bruce, that’s a very important perspective.

From moles link

Bookish Brookeish
Bookish Brookeish
23 hours ago
I just feel awful for him

I don’t.

We used old engine oil on our renewed fence 18 months ago, looks great. Cheap and easy to get hold of more when (if) it needs re-doing.

Where do you get old engine oil?

Therein lies the problem.

The traditional practice of topping up, but rarely changing your engine oil used to give you a rich, black sump oil – full of super-toxic pyrolysis products and heavy metals. Ideal for treating timber, or killing tree stumps.

All gone with modern servicing cycles. Except for the happy few DIY-ers.

Almost looks like the days of Wran’s navy.

😀

Doing BNE-NCL in a Dash 8 one day. I was sitting next to a US defense guy who said he was a retired USN captain (I suspect a bit higher than that since he was headed to Canberra with two underlings). We got to talking, he said he’d never visited Newcastle before.

So says I “have you seen our navy?” He was confused by this: “navy??” I say “yes, our navy…look out the window on the other side of the plane”. It was a perfect sunny day and there were seventy coal ships all over the ocean. He was most impressed.

Zoë Daniel.
In tears on Trump Election night.

I’ve said it many times before – Trump broke her. Possibly moreso than any other journalist, and that’s saying something. You could see her decline into madness as her articles became increasingly deranged* over the Trump years until she was finally yeeted out of DC by the highers-up in Ultimo. Did she actually have a breakdown? Wouldn’t surprise me. She seemed like she was on that steep downwards path, and then she dropped off the map for a while.

*I guess she would have described them as satire but they were just sarcastic, bitter, angry tirades about Orange Man Bad

Haha!

From Tom:

Tucker Carlson Tonight reports on Biden’s unceremonious dumping by the media toadies whose censorship got him elected 16 months ago.

I find the Dems and Biden repulsive creatures, but I have to say that Carlson clip of Biden being ignored is once of the saddest things I have seen in a while. Biden is mentally ill and I can’t begin to understand the confusion he must be experiencing. The quicker he is put out of his misery, the better.

Still can’t do it, can you KD.
Pathetic.
And took you so long to think up.
“he was only speaking bullshit because you were”

Righto, this is fantasy Island, and you’re Tattoo……..
The mini me to Sancho Smollett.

Cohenite:

She left out smug bitch with the brains of a cat’s arse.

Lol.

“For piy’s sake”.

Remember the Gibson Bakery/Oberlin College story?

A record$31 million award to a mom and pop bakery that accused a liberal Ohio college of ruining its business with false accusations of racism has been upheld by a state appeals court.

Gibson’s Bakery, a 135-year-old family business near the campus of Oberlin College, was initially awarded more than $40 million in punitive and compensatory damages in the aftermath of a 2016 incident in which the owner’s son confronted three black Oberlin students who were stealing wine from the store. Although the suspects were arrested and later admitted they were shoplifting, the episode touched off school-sanctioned protests and accusations of racism that crippled the store’s business

Still can’t do it, can you KD.

I can do this.

I can remember your concession of repeatedly posting deliberate untruths over a period of eighteen months to ‘shock people into action’ (your exact words).

You’re not exactly arguing from the high ground here.

REPORT THIS AD.

Anyone got any clue as to why the Rooshians decided to invade at a time of the year when the countryside is an impassable quagmire?

Seen a couple of theories on that.*

1: Most of their tanks/APCs are narrow tracked, so therefore their doctrine is either hard ground or “straight up the guts on the highway” operations.
Given the obvious underestimation of the effectiveness of the Javelins and other AT gear it appears they may have been trying the guts approach but ran into reality.
2: If anyone else was considering jumping in and assisting they would be constrained by the same bottlenecks. But Vlad possibly thought having 2/3rds of Ukraine surrounded by places he could supply from vs 1/3 for anyone else would be a winner.

From a “perfect world” point of view it would have looked great.

Airdrop and take out major airport in Kiev, fly in oodles of transports of other troops and gear. Combined with a armored strike right up the guts to isolate the main troop concentrations from the capital.

Due to the abject failure of the airdrop everything since then has been cobbled together on the run.

*Speculations, of the wildest sort.

Thanks, Zyconoclast, for the Oberlin College story. Wonder if that will change their attitude.

Defeating fascism by becoming fascist defeats the purpose. It just leaves you as the supporters of tyranny, rather than opposing it.

My God you’re an imbecile.

Do you know what the term “act in self-defence” means?

It means that whoever instigates an act of violence deserves – both legally and morally – a response in-kind.

Forced vaccines are an extreme act of violence and those who instigate it deserve an in-kind response.

My comment shouldn’t be remotely controversial. You only argue against me because I’ve made you look so astonishingly stupid on so many occasions.

Bespoke:

From moles link

Bookish Brookeish
Bookish Brookeish
23 hours ago
I just feel awful for him

I don’t.

On one level I can feel sympathy for a senile old man – but he put himself there.
At another, I can feel contempt for a piece of shit who gets everything he deserves.
On another, the whole episode is a picture of arrogance, a den of some of the most vile characters alive today.
There was an article on the Old Cat where some bloke said “most of this country is fixable – all you need to do is take these 100 people out the back and shoot them.” and I’ve forgotten where I saved it.

Winston.

Just found this bit from earlier in the same day, with Obama ‘jokingly” calling the Resident Hiden “Vice president”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2022/apr/05/obama-calls-biden-vice-president-on-return-to-the-white-house-video

Its pretty plain Hiden sold his soul to get the big chair.

My comment shouldn’t be remotely controversial. You only argue against me because I’ve made you look so astonishingly stupid on so many occasions.

Nah. You throw out magical thinking that tends towards violent fascism and retribution on everyone and everything you dislike.

And I explode it.

KD, too scared of Pancho Smollett to call him out on his self confessed lies.

Kneel take note.
KB had a little wet dream about me telling lies for eighteen months.
It never happened, but if you want to be in with what should be more correctly termed the “gang of suction” never let the truth stop you.
You definitely getting the hang of it, but look at a professional for inspiration.

By the way.
I went to lead the convoy up to the top drive on Parliament hill, where the cops ad the road blocked off and guns pointing at us.
That’s also the truth.

Everything I have ever said, is.

To easy.

To easy.

Who’s easy?

Do you know what the term “act in self-defence” means?

It means that whoever instigates an act of violence deserves – both legally and morally – a response in-kind.

Wrong.

Self-Defence means that you have a reasonable fear for your life or another’s, and take proportionate action (up to and including lethal force) to save your life or that of the person you are intervening on behalf of.

Your conception of ‘self-defence’ is just semantic weaselry to justify committing acts of unprovoked ideological cruelty to all those you deem beneath you.

We’re already watching the consequences of such behaviour in the Ukraine, and how a great many ‘nominal’ Vlad Bae-lievers have unmasked themselves in their zeal to see innocent Slavs in Blue/Yellow and White/Blue/Red die to sate their hatred of criminal WeStErN OlIgArChS. Who are utterly unaware of them and will never feel their wrath.

Never attempt to justify such self-righteous bastardry to me ever again.

the cops ad the road blocked off and guns pointing at us.
That’s also the truth.

No, it’s not.

You’re a dishonest lightweight whose quest for adulation amongst the public at large is dwindling, as evidenced by increasingly screechy epistles.

You have tried to walk back some of the more grandiose assertions over time, and ignored questions about others (‘what happened to the death camps?’) but have failed in all attempts to do so. Your own words are now, as described earlier on this august journal of record, both coming home to roost and someone else’s fault.

Apple, Tesla productions stalled by China lockdowns; Biden ‘confident’ son didn’t break law
01:04 Biden ‘confident’ son didn’t break law
03:32 What #HunterBiden is accused of in China & Ukraine
05:38 Apple, Tesla productions stalled by China lockdowns
07:21 China, Ukraine foreign ministers on Russian war
08:37 China unifies narrative on the Russia-Ukraine war
09:46 China supports investigation in Bucha, Ukraine
10:26 Australia, India sign trade deal to reduce tariffs

Hey guys! Look what I found:

https://wentworthreport.com/2022/01/30/australian-truck-drivers-join-the-convoy-for-freedom/

Here’s a quote from their 2011 summary- When the convoy got to Canberra, the convoy organizers cooperated with the police. But the police tricked them into taking a route through and around Canberra that disrupted no one and was seen by no one. Like it never happened.

And if you look at all Joanne Nova’s archived posts from the matter in 2011, like this one:

https://joannenova.com.au/2011/08/giant-pr-machine-swings-into-gear-against-the-convoy/

Not a single mention of heroic breakaway factions and armed standoffs with Fedpol goons anywhere. You can’t hush that kind of thing up amongst the protesters and independent reporters…

Struth, why am I hearing multiple Narrative tyres going [BANG!]?

Others have recovered, but still remember what they were forced to do. We need to tap that, to make sure no-one ever tries that shit on, ever again

Oh my wordy lordy yes indeed.

You really are giving kneel a great lesson in making things up and then accusing me of backing down against things I never said.
Look at you girls working yourselves up and piling a little more shit on each other’s pile of shit, and then telling yourselves that you’ve repeated these things to yourselves often enough so they must be the thruth.
I am not backing down on anything I said at all.
Not one word and I never have.
If you want lies, Sancho admits he makes up entire stories.

And look, doesn’t it own you wallies.

Poor bastards are having a melt down.
It was bound to happen.
Your lack of confidence is really ruining this blog as you hide behind each other’s skirts and poke your tongues out.

Your lack of confidence is really ruining this blog as you hide behind each other’s skirts and poke your tongues out.

Lolwut?

Maybe Rex – dumb cunt – Anger can sort them out.

I’m not a biologist.

But you are still a Glowie…

The Australian Department of Health doesnt know what a woman is.

It’s spelled ‘geisha’.

This tedious and self-righteous lightweightery is all you talk about, though. You’ve nailed your colours to the wrong mast, big guy.

Numbers Struth.

For whom everything is about Vietnam Vaccination…

I find the Dems and Biden repulsive creatures, but I have to say that Carlson clip of Biden being ignored is once of the saddest things I have seen in a while. Biden is mentally ill and I can’t begin to understand the confusion he must be experiencing. The quicker he is put out of his misery, the better.

Yes, it totally is, it’s just cruel. I’ve no general sympathy for Biden as he and his horrible wife pushing him around into it all in many ways are just getting what they both asked for. Nevertheless, to see a lonely and confused old man, clearly suffering early dementia that is progressing quite quickly, looking so lost and being so completely sidelined, ignored, that is just such a telling piece about how inhumane these political types are, chatting on (just look at Barrack and Kamala) while the pathetic little scrap of a man called the President of the United States is left to his final legacy, needing a nurse and no helping hand put out at all to him.

Further to this, friend of mine retired to a country town. Opened a tobacconist shop. Sold smokes obviously, plus the usual snacks, nick-nacks and so on. Hardly Elon Musk scale, but it paid the bills and he was happy. Then he got shut down – because he was not “essential”. Poof! Just like that, income gone, bills piling up, 200k + in stock sitting there and he can’t sell it. Creditors up his arse like nobodies business. Cost him the lot. Nothing he could do about it. Whole retirement savings, entire business – gone in a flash. While he’s still trying to support his grandkids because of a very sad situation that you don’t need to know the details of.

Or my neighbour you castigated – hair dresser. Not just lost her job, but her entire industry for months. Refused to rely on GovCo (good on her, I say!) But she was evil in your books, because she did what she had to to keep her little boy fed and sheltered, after the kids father walked away pre COVID (didn’t know that part, did you?). Hated it, but did it anyway. Not doing it any more – she doesn’t need to any more, she can go back to what she loves doing instead, making people look good. She’s doing well by the way – much happier, back to her old bubbly self. Lovely lady, great neighbour, couldn’t ask for a better one.

The point is, not everyone has the options you say you did, but they did what they needed to do under the circumstances. Some got royally screwed, unrecoverably. Others have recovered, but still remember what they were forced to do. We need to tap that, to make sure no-one ever tries that shit on, ever again. Let it go Struth – with that goal, with the goal of preventing it again, of making those that did it feel the full force of your ire about it. I’m happy to do that – I want to do that.

Once again, your choice – your answer will say much about you, not just as a man, but as a human being, so think carefully.

Boo fucking hoo.

No one suffered here?
Fuck off.
My options were to give away my jobs.
I had two when this happened.
Tour driver in the dry season, and pub solo act in the wet.
The tour driving was for a top tour company and paid extremely well.

I gave the tour driving away because it involved a lot of flying and I refused to wear a mask, even before mandates, and the pubs closed down completely and then you needed mandates.
I went back interstate trucking for a short time, but that was going to require tests and jabs to get across borders into into delivery and pick up sites.

Etc.
And sharing the controls of a road train with a computer is not a safe thing to do, hence the children and their “bing bong” crap.

See Kneel, here’s the point.
If no one had submitted, none of it would have happened.
I didn’t submit, so while you complain about all these things that happened, blame those that submitted, not me….AND REMEMBER, ALSO MILLIONS OF OTHER AUSTRALIANS who didn’t submit, many in your area.
Say what you want fucker, but we weren’t to blame for any of it.

You want to be excused because everyone else did it, so you had to.
I’m nobody. I’m not here to excuse you or praise you.
I’m saying quite clearly that this isn’t over .
Submitting to tyranny hurts you and other people, and your nation.
And it does.
From what I can see, you want a special pass because you are special.
Probably in debt up to your arse and telling someone to shove their job is not an option.
After all, you’re a specialist.
people are relying on you.
Indeed taking the jab was heroic, so you say.

Whatever your take on your issues are, it is still is not a lie to say that submitting to tyranny hurts others.
See Kneel, you’re going to have to have a booster to continue to pay for the boat and the SAAB, bloke.
Your choice to get it thinking it will all be over and go back to normal hasn’t worked.
A gamble that you thought you’d taken.
But wait, there’s more….as they say.
Whatever you think of me, you’ll be weighing the booster a lot more than the first jabs this time, so it’s resist or die….or at least have to live with knowing it’s lights out at any second, because of your own doing.
And what about family?
Letting them get boosted?
If not, what the fuck did you get the first ones for?
If enough people get boosted, that will force others to get jabbed.
Which will harm and kill many of them.
Tough world for those who were brought up properly.
I’ve sold my boat, a few other bits and pieces like PA systems and amps, to help get through.

I know that nobody suffered because of me.
It’s worth selling ten boats for.
And I loved my 16ft Hartley.
No money, no job is worth living with what taking the jab makes you live with.