Albo’s not descended from a waiter, can you imagine him carrying a tray fulla drinks.
It’s either someone from the labor Party or someone from the Liberal Party.
I’d rule out Labor, since it would be easier for a Liberal to use his Labor connections to give his dopey kid a leg up, than it would a Labor bloke to take the risk of being outed as Father to a bastard.

Grigort’s carry-on about The Man Who Would Be PM (If the ABC and SBS Had Something To Say About It) today, reminds me of the funny raspberry noises and erratic flight pattern a rubber balloon adopts when you let go of the neck…

Anyone who thinks political corruption in Australia is going to end is an absolute moron.
This country of political parties is as bent as fk.
Even the Indonesian government pointed that out.
Simples
Cue a train signal….choo choo!!!

I guess we can’t rule out Menzies *insert Vitrioli crazy gesture*.

What about Harold Holt?

He was evacuated to safety by whiiiiite suuuub when Albo was 3, after all…

#LeaveNoTrace

I am pro-peace, for both the Ukrainian and the Russian speaking citizens of Ukraine. I am on the side of the ordinary people who have died and are dying through no fault of their own but because of decisions made by people in far-off cities who will never bear the pain, loss or destruction their decisions have wrought and who are pursuing agendas completely divorced from what is right or best for the people of that country.

OK, but the problem with your “pro-peace” position is that no one wants it. Ukrainians will not stop fighting until Russian troops have been driven back to their pre-February positions, and Putin is not going to stop Ukraine, even and especially if he signs an armistice.

This way he gets to have his tiramisu and eat it too!

Boom boom – love it

I guess we can’t rule out Menzies *
Menzies is ruled out because:
[a] Intelligence is inherited, and
[b] Albo hasn’t got any.
Try again.
Some clown suggested Harold Holt.
Holt was active in Melbourne, as was Menzies.
This is a Sydney Story.

Bruce of N

But I was talking about Bougainville and Rabaul since Borneo wasn’t in our mandate area.

Strangely, that great anti-imperialist, Bert Evatt, was working through Colonel Alf Conlon and the Army Directorate of Research and Civil Affairs in an attempt to have Australia take over British North Borneo after the war. Perhaps fortunately, the project failed.

Scooby-Doo reference.

Avoided up to then.

‘Rrragggy?’

‘Rraaaanwich?’

‘Rrrrought ra rindow…..’

Plibbers knows the cash rate and the price of heroin.

Many here seem to support the new world odour, enjoy.

Australia take over British North Borneo after the war

Would’ve been nice! All that oil the Sultan of Brunei wastes on fleets of Rollers we could’ve wasted instead. 😀

It seems to’ve been good stuff. The oilfield at Seria just southwest of Brunei town had been set on fire. The oil was “clear as petrol”:

At Seria the oil wells were ablaze . From the broken pipes that formed the head of each well the burning oil was hosing as from huge, hissing Bunsen burners. The pressure was so strong that the oil, clear as petrol, did not begin to burn until the jet was a few inches from the pipe.
…
The Japanese had set fire to 37 wells, burnt buildings and bridges, and attempted to render vehicles, pumps and other gear useless by removing essential parts and dumping them in the rivers or burying them. Thus the Australian [9th Div] engineers had to tackle the job of extinguishing the fires with the help only of their own equipment plus such abandoned gear as they could put into working order

I’d never heard of clear crude oil before reading this account. Oil wells would’ve been very shallow back then, so I guess there wasn’t so much heat and pressure to carbonize the hydrocarbons.

Ed Casesays:
April 16, 2022 at 3:16 pm
Those obsessing about Albanese’s parentage have swallowed the distraction squirrel, whole.
No one’s obsessing about it, old girl.
Albanese has something to hide.
His story originally was that his dad died in a traffic accident years ago, then it became the Italian Waiters Job, then he left his Parliamentary declaration blank, so he’s lying and dissembling.
What’s the truth?

You seem to have the spook connections, you tell us.

Bruce of Newcastlesays:
April 16, 2022 at 3:29 pm
Australia take over British North Borneo after the war

At Seria the oil wells were ablaze . From the broken pipes that formed the head of each well the burning oil was hosing as from huge, hissing Bunsen burners. The pressure was so strong that the oil, clear as petrol, did not begin to burn until the jet was a few inches from the pipe.

The IJN fed it straight into the fuel bunkers of their warships.

This led to some regrettable uncontrollable fires after damage was suffered.

Fuck me Head Prefect, I thought you had gone to that place of peaceful city life in NYC.
If not hurry up and fuck off & please take Beyonce with you.

Who doesn’t do foursomes in masks?

We back to the degenerate grey nomads and their key parties again….?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THBe0DoHLUQ

Sermon from St Ruth…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKvcqK-b5YY

I was mentioning to Dover upthread about ammunition being a big issue for Ukraine. Chanced just now on a US veteran/military analyst who had a thread about this a day ago:

https://twitter.com/RealCynicalFox/status/1514584956797956099

The West is still trapped in its low-scale COIN/War on terror mindset. The UAF is in a conventional, sustain campaign against a peer adversary. It is consuming munitions at a rate unseen in recent memory. Unless the West is talking in terms of hundreds of millions of rounds of small arms ammunition, and tens (or hundreds) of thousands of artillery shells per month – it still isn’t serious about supporting the UAF

The numbers are really huge. If Ukraine runs out that’s the ball game. I suspect Russia’s arms factories are going flat chat right now, although they may’ve had a heads up warning during the planning phase for this campaign.

The numbers are really huge. If Ukraine runs out that’s the ball game

The Ukes have been pumping concrete in Donbass for 8 years.
They’ve built the Ammo and weapons Storages and filled them up.

MOD is saying all 500 Sailors aboard Moskva were saved before it went under the waves.

Of course!

Ed Casesays:
April 16, 2022 at 4:15 pm
The numbers are really huge. If Ukraine runs out that’s the ball game

The Ukes have been pumping concrete in Donbass for 8 years.
They’ve built the Ammo and weapons Storages and filled them up.

Got this from your spook contacts? Ask them about Albanese’s father.

Top Ender article on the Moskva sinking:

https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/04/the-moskva-sinking-is-significant/

And in ANI:

https://navalinstitute.com.au/the-significance-of-the-moskva-sinking/

Let me know if you can’t get past a paywall and want a copy pasted up

MOD is saying all 500 Sailors aboard Moskva were saved before it went under the waves.

It’s reported that Moskva’s captain didn’t make it. The report comes from a UKR government source so is questionable, but they’d be quite embarrassed if he turns up on TV tomorrow so it may be correct.

Rumours are floating around that Moskva had been carrying two nuclear warheads, which might represent a problem if the cores were breached and burned in the fire.

Toija. Thats where Troy is.

I’m sure Lizzie will be interested, Bird. She uses exactly the same methods.

(I posted the before lunch at end of olde fredde in reponse to this piece of nonsense from Dr. BG. I’ve been out, just noticed the Easter thread so am reposting here. Bird, as usual, has been spouting some collected garbage with creative lunacy last night. Comparing what I do to that is tres insulting, so I reply at some length to redress Dr. BG’s lack of perspicacity there. ) 🙂
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Don’t be ridiculous, Dr. BG. I am interested in generic folkloric origins but I am not by any means a cultural ‘diffusionist’ postulating a dominant culture of origin, which is what Birdie was doing. The ‘Scandinavian diffusion’ hypothesis (i.e. the postulate that everything in Europe originated in Sweden) was popular in Scandinavian cultural identity in the C17th. Such views followed the now completely discredited work of a polymath at Uppsala University. In contemporary anthropology, raw diffusionist theories have gone the way of the similarly mistaken C19th ‘matriarchist’ or ‘mother right’ theorists (for example, Bachofen). I see raw diffusionism of ideas from one cultural source as unsophisticated nineteenth century thinking. A far more sophisticated approach is taken by folklorists Linda Malcor and C. Scott Littleton in their work on the northshift in astronomy caused by polar precession, which produced variants of an ancient Steppes myth concerning the ‘bear’ constellation in the night sky.

Father gods, particularly the warlike Odin, featured in pan-European mythology. The historian Graham Anderson won the Pulitzer Prize for his work on the similarities between Arthurian legends in early Anatolia and those in Britain and Europe. These legends all show traces of a common Indo-European spread of language and thought, but they have accreted many elements from each other as IE cultures have mixed (e.g. the IE Arthurian goddess Nimue/Vivienne is thought to be dereived from the Roman IE huntress goddess Diana).

These sorts of origin issues are nevertheless fairly tangential to my main concerns: my concern is to trace how the All Father god (in various iterations and names) of tribal Europe became displaced by the Levantine Hebraic god of Christian Rome in the British context during the fifth century after the departure of the Roman legions in a time of lost Romanitas and resurgent heathenism. I do this by examination of the written texts on which the legends of Arthur are based, backed up with place name and other linguistic alignments of a named All-Father god Eiddyn (the Brythonic alfthdur/eiddyn over whom battles were fought as late as 575AD in Britain’s Brythonic north). Under later Norse and Danish influence this god of those northern peoples who had long been in cultural interaction was still recalled but soon subject to Christian persecution. In this way a god long extant in Britain morphed into Arthur, turned into a culture hero no longer a god.

The concept of Arthur and the remnant legends of an older cosmology that surround it would not have survived the Christianisation of Britain without the singular date-contested early post-Roman work of a Christian British writer called Gildas. I write to show exactly how Gildas was misinterpeted by later ages and used to develop the warrior myth of Arthur. In piecemea,l I analyse Gildas’ long treatise and sermon (De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae) to show via his own writings (which I re-date) that his concern was with heresy and a heathen father god whom he actually nominates as ‘the devil Father’ and that the ‘famed Battle of Badon’ was a religious struggle just as was the 575AD Battle of Arthuret (a highly traceable contraction of All Father Eiddyn- arfthdureiddyn). Ergo, Arthur was the old All Father. Plenty of evidence of various types can be mustered for that proposition, which provides a comprehensive explanation for a previously unexplained phenomenon and set of disparate legends transferred from Britain to France in the monastic era, including those of the Holy Grail.

My 2018 piece on this in Quadrant offers an exploratory outline of my main ideas, which have been well received by some people knowledgeable in this area. The ideas I present are the antithesis of what historian Dunville has called the ‘Arthur lived in my postcode’ sort of unreliable claims which are similar to Birdie’s belief that the Homeric legends had to originate in Nordic lands. A common substrate may exist in such legends, but there are, as Rex Anger noted, distinct differences too.

Discussions about leaving pockets of enemy fighters in place while the war progresses elsewhere brings to mind the situation in Normandy. The Germans had large defensive positions in parts of Normandy which remained in German control till May 1945, I think the largest was at Dunkirk.

The last German position to surrender, which was several days after the general surrender, was the German garrison on the Channel Islands. They were heavily defended so the Allies just left them alone, if you control the air and the sea they can’t be resupplied nor reinforced.

Flagship of the Russian Baltic Fleet, Heavy Cruiser Moskva, sunk by Uke AntiShip Missiles on Thursday.
Crickets in the “pro Uke” media.

everyone in the msm is shytting themselves in case it turns out to be a seppo missile what done it

consequences

calli:

Ahahaha! A foursome at the 18th pin, all in masks!

Sancho:

Could be bandits.

Handicappers of 9 playing off 22.

Pricks.

everyone in the msm is shytting themselves in case it turns out to be a seppo missile what done it

Reports already emerging of UK involvement with with Command/Control flights over eastern Romania at the time of the attack.

I’m expecting some changes to emerge in Putin’s FSB hierarchy, at the very top.

You rang?

Putin blames FSB for Ukraine war fiasco, purges 150 agents (Israel National News, 12 Apr)

With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine turning into a fiasco, President Vladimir Putin turned the blame on his former colleagues at the Federal Security Bureau (FSB) – the main successor agency of the KGB – purging around 150 agents.

Putin also ordered the head of the FSB department responsible for Ukraine to be put in prison, Fox News reported.

According to the Times, the fired agents were from the Fifth Service, a division that Putin created in 1998 when he was director of the FSB. The division is responsible for operations in former Soviet Union nations, including Ukraine, with the goal of keeping the countries in Russia’s sphere of influence.

In March it was reported that Sergei Beseda, the ex-head of the Fifth Service, was under house arrest. He was later transferred to Moscow’s Lefortovo prison, which is run by the FSB.

That was before Moskva sank too.

That was before Moskva sank too.

Naryshkin of the SVR will also be on borrowed time, as well as Bortnikov. Strategically, they may have sunk more than a flagship.

Mole, love the League of Gentlemen, but if it involves Gray Nomads having fun, I reckon it would be more like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q6SOK-Jgn8

Fisky – This guy got a synthetic aperture satellite radar image before she sank, so the ship didn’t go down immediately.

Satellite Image Pinpoints Russian Cruiser Moskva As She Burned (15 Apr)

Analysis of radar satellite imagery of the northern Black Sea on April 13, appears to pinpoint the stricken ship. Other vessels are seen in attendance. The location of the event can now, for the first time, be given coordinates.

A ship matching Moskva’s size and situation is seen at 45°10’43.39?N, 30°55’30.54?E. This position is east of Snake Island, 80 nautical miles from Odesa and 50 nautical miles from the Ukrainian coast. The satellite passed at 6.52pm local time. Based on analysis by multiple people, we are confident that this shows Moskva’s final hours.
…
Because of the nature of the low-resolution radar satellite imagery we cannot be certain of the identification. But it matches and, following second opinions, we now have confidence that this is it.
The location is also very close to where the ship was sighted on April 12 in satellite imagery.

I hope most of the sailors did manage to get off. I recall the picks of some of the RN frigates off Stanley – a cruise missile can do a great deal of damage, and Moskva was apparently the classic Russian design approach, like their tanks: with as much offensive armaments as could be squeezed in but not big on defensive capability. USS Mason for example was shot at by five Silkworms simultaneously and got them all easily.

Grey Ranga:

DDG has already turned into a useless search engine. The more specific I have been recently the worse it got and that was just for auto parts. The google search engine works much better even though I don’t like google.

I’ve been having my doubts about DDG for the last 6 months.
Had a look at Webcrawler recently…
Any suggestions?

Tom:

That’s insane, Top Ender. The Qantas domestic system is in free fall with customers screaming for service and the airline’s chief customer officer is on holidays!

A bit like the idiot in charge of the US transport system – it’s bogged down utterly and it’s at home on paternity leave with it’s friend pretending it has just had a baby!

Either shit or get off the pot!

My 23 year old son arrived this morning, still battling the flu* he has had all week, looking to escape a whinging housemate and to be fed and coddled by his mum.

After a good brunch, I asked if he’d like to watch a movie. After much hummimg and hawing, he chose a Russian cartoon that he frequently watched in his childhood – Kot Leopold.

This was the same cartoon that had its characters depicted in a mural in a school shown in one of the documentaries about Donbas that was linked to at this site. It looked very familiar except, of course, for the damage from shelling that the mural had sustained.

*My son, unvaxxed and not looking to be so, did not take a PCR test. As he said, he refuses to play the game. And his (also unvaxxed) employer gave him Ivermectin to take.

As revenge for the sinking, the Russian military launched a series of cruise missile strikes on Ukraine overnight Thursday – including several rockets which it said struck and destroyed a factory near Kyiv that made the weapons used against Moskva.

From the Daily Mail link
Bottom Line:
this is “supposed” to be a war.
Yet Russia waited 49 days to destroy an AntiShip Missile Factory?
Until they lost their Black Sea Flagship.

Unlike you, rabz, I found his Finnish homer mildly interesting.

lucy in the sky with diamonds

If that makes me a bad personage, then so be it.

No. Nothing wrong with an appeal to someone’s better nature. You did your best.

Nothing wrong with an appeal to someone’s better nature. 

With limits.

Hopefully no one has forgotten but Australia’s like really racist and stuff:

African migrants struggle to find work without white referees, research suggests

For Adelaide woman Ma-Musu Nyande, stories like that of Mr Nijenahagera are all too familiar — and she has the personal experience to prove it.

Despite attending school in Adelaide from 2004 and then studying at Flinders University, she was often overlooked when applying for jobs, she said.

The experience impacted her mental health.

“I was exposed to microaggressions, gaslighting and subtle racism,” she said.

As an experiment, Ms Nyande resorted to applying for five jobs using a “westernised name”, and then compared the results to five cases where she used her own name.

“‘Vanessa Wood’ got three phone calls, where Ma-Musu Nyande didn’t get any phone calls,” she said.

“It was quite evident why I wasn’t getting calls back.”

Even on those occasions in which she got a foot in the door, her prospects did not improve, she said.

“An over-the-phone interview went well – but when I got there in person the receptionist was really shocked to see I’m a visibly African woman,” she said.

“She said to me, ‘Oh, I didn’t know you were black’.”

How dumb would you have to be to believe this woman’s ridiculous story? “Oh, I didn’t know you were black” – WHO WOULD SAY THAT!? 50 years ago, maybe. Today…black people aren’t that uncommon, Vanessa Wood. Speaking of…

Her “experiment” as Vanessa Wood – she ripped that off of some grievance study research conducted in the US. And how’s she going to manage that phone call? Allo diz iz Vanezzah Woohd callink about de job I shood tell you now I am upsohlootlee white I woz bohn in diz kontree not from Uffreekah o no. I am Ohzee az uhpu-pie so trroh anada shrimp on zee bahbee meyt.

Seriously, she might have absolutely perfect English but unless she grew up here from a young age, she’s going to have an easily recognisable accent when she speaks.

As for all of the racist crimes she’s subjected to – subtle racism and microaggressions are the same thing. Nevertheless, it’s still bullshit that perpetual victims fall back on when they can’t actually name any specific instances of discrimination against them that a third party would be able to notice. However – gaslighting? Does she actually know what this means, or has she just read a Buzzfeed listicle about 28 Terrible Things White People Do and regurgitated the grievance vocabulary she discovered?

Now, what do the three people that appeared in this article have in common?

There’s the researcher, Melanie Baak. She’s “a social researcher focusing on migrants and refugees”, and some guy with his degree in social work and project management (don’t stop sending out your CV, mate – there’s a definitely a community that needs organising somewhere!), and just look what Ozzie Vanessa does for a quid:

Ms Nyande is now a cultural facilitator at the Australian Refugee Association, helping refugees during their own job application processes.

Yup, they either work in, or aspire to work in, the professional grievance industries where it’s totally not in their interest to pretend everyone’s so racist in order for them to justify the existence of their employment.

Can’t make this shit up. On second thoughts, yes they can.

For Adelaide woman Ma-Musu Nyande, stories like that of Mr Nijenahagera are all too familiar — and she has the personal experience to prove it.

Despite attending school in Adelaide from 2004 and then studying at Flinders University, she was often

No one cares.

Those bimbecile’s should work on picking crew for few weeks. To see how much woke survives. It’s easy to preach tolerance from the sidelines.

Barrel-stuffers rejoice:

The Crows are over the line against Wih-mon (as the locals who run noodle shops there call it).

A white Kenyan of my acquaintance was constantly denied employment when he moved to the UK in the 90s. Upon seeing that hey was from Africa they fell about the place to get him in for an interview but when it became apparent he was not black they weren’t interested. Even said so on occasion.

Putin is playing 5-D Chess.
Even though it looks like he’s chucking Russian Conscripts into the ne4at grinder, this guy has it ion the bag.
Sure, he lost his Black Sea flagship the other day along with 450 Sailors, sure Mariupol still hasn’t been taken, yeah, he withdrew from Kiev and left all the Russians there for dead, same as he’s likely to do in Mariupol …

The SA Greens pollie tied the knot on Saturday morning to Ben Oquist, the executive director of Canberra think tank The Australia Institute.

Do you get a free lifetime supply of Ponds face creme if you marry the boss of the Ponds Institute?

I hope Elon’s stand inspires others to grow a backbone.

Article as published today in several outlets:

The significance of the Moskva sinking

Top Ender is a military historian. He was a former intelligence analyst in the Royal Australian Navy. His recent book Teddy Sheean VC has just been awarded the Commodore Sam Bateman national book prize by the Australian Naval Institute.

Eyrie:

Let’s see what the FAA environmental assessment says at the end of this month but Starship/Super Heavy isn’t ready to launch yet.

I realise it’s a long shot, but I wonder if he’d like to come to Cape York Australia with his SpacePort?