ZK2A:

To please the Greens.

I wonder if we could recycle Greens through some system, maybe wood alcohol?
You wouldn’t drink it but. It’s send you mad.

Dillo!:

There are only two reasons to stop in Wilcannia.
Your car has broken down or you need to stop for fuel.

*snif*
I liked Wilcannia – stayed there for 2 – 3 years.
Ambulance call was a hoot.
*snif*

Silstone:

Isn’t Wilcannia NSWs largest open prison?

Close.
But White Cliffs to the north of it is the biggest Free Range Psych Unit.
Lovely place, it is. Many fond memories.

ZK2A:

It was explained to me that Wilcannia’s problems were due to the policy of ignorant Government officials, using the town as a dumping ground, for Aborigines of different tribes, who didn’t get along…

Pretty right there – It wasn’t helped by media pricks – one of whom took a film crew out there, put a thousand on the bar when a beer was about $1, then filmed the mayhem.
Town quieted down around 2010? when the dole office closed and went to Brukken ‘ill.
Oh and the Drug Squad boys got sick of their dogs going berserk of the smell of bong water on the cars tyres.

rickw:

Yay Ukraine! Why does that look like a swastika?!?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Battalion
Odd.
It’s two SS runes joined in the middle, and I know I’ve seen that particular symbol somewhere else.

ZK2A:

It was explained to me that Wilcannia’s problems were due to the policy of ignorant Government officials, using the town as a dumping ground, for Aborigines of different tribes, who didn’t get along…

Next time they complain about deaths in custody mention how many times indigenous people are killing each other:
1989-2000
Indigenous offender on Indigenous victim (n=440)

Despite Indigenous persons accounting for only about 29 per cent of the total population4 in the Northern Territory, 63.6 per cent of homicides occurred between Indigenous persons in the Northern Territory. In Western Australia and Queensland, Indigenous persons accounted for just over three per
cent of the total population, however they accounted for much higher proportions of homicide involvement. For example, 23 per cent of homicides in Western Australia and 15 per cent in Queensland involved Indigenous persons. These data suggest that Indigenous persons in the
Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland all have higher rates of involvement
in homicide

Mark Knight.

Peter Broelman.

Peter Brookes.

A.F. Branco.

Matt Margolis.

Steve Kelley.

Cum Rosie in Hibernia UAP erat . Apologies to Caesars wars .

Er Maj, cheating the Reaper for another year (the NT News):

Queen Elizabeth II turned 96 on Thursday, local time, receiving a rousing “Happy Birthday” from a military band and ceremonial gun salutes, after a troubled year hit by health concerns.

The Band of the Coldstream Guards, in red tunics and bearskin hats, played the tribute to crowds of onlookers outside her Windsor Castle home west of London.

Of course there are ‘health concerns’. She’s 96.

Royal tradition since the 18th century has also seen the monarch have a second, official birthday, typically celebrated in warmer weather in June.

Note to Ed – this does not mean the Queen is 48.

This year’s official birthday will coincide with four days of public events from June 2 to 5 to mark her record-breaking 70th year on the throne.

US toy manufacturer Mattel has even released a new Barbie doll of the queen to commemorate the Platinum Jubilee.

You haven’t made it until you’re Barbie-ised.

The ADL would do itself a favour of it didn’t insist there were no white countries. I am sure they have a logical reason to do so, but you know, some people want you to have a certain image
…Oof.

A lesson apparently unheeded by Albanese et al.

This is the tail end of a nothing piece in The Hun on the lengths of various governments in this wide brown land:

But the record for the shortest stint for any Australian prime minister or premier is held by Queensland’s Anderson Dawson.

Inspired by Marxist ideology, he formed a ministry after the resignation of James Dickson’s government in 1899. It became the first democratic socialist or labour party government in the world, a feat that was written up in newspapers abroad.

It was also the shortest government Australia has ever seen, lasting just six days.

The BBC and other media seem happy to present Le Pen as “extreme right” then use examples of her saying she wants France to get its “grandeur” back and have a national interest approach to foreign policy.

Morgan’s, arrogant zero accomplishment deadshit parasite, deception would make him even more prestigious in the sick, twisted world that is the meja

Always fun to read tea leaves. As CNN+ faceplants finally & fatally in the most deliciousest way, this news comes out the same day:

Barack and Michelle Obama Are Abandoning Spotify (21 Apr)

Engadget reports that Barack and Michelle Obama will be parting ways with Spotify after their partnership ends in October. The couple signed an exclusive podcast deal with Spotify in 2019 that is sent to come to an end later this year, and there are no plans for a new contract.
…
The couple’s deal with Spotify was rumored to be worth $25 million and resulted in the production of two podcasts including Renegades: Born in the USA with Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen, as well as The Michelle Obama Podcast.

Higher Ground has yet to issue an official statement but a report from Vanity Fair in February at the height of the controversy surrounding Joe Rogan on Spotify appears to provide some insight into the relationship between Spotify and the production studio. Higher Ground reportedly complained that Spotify often made it hard to get new shows off the ground and grew increasingly frustrated.

That last sentence makes me think Spotify found they were stuck with two turkeys who certainly didn’t attract viewers like Joe Rogan does. No mention is made in the story about the size of the audiences for those amazing and unmissable Obama shows.

Well I’m not surprised that Spotify isn’t begging The One to re-up. Lefties love free stuff, and are disinclined to rudely pay for any service, which likely is why CNN+ now feeds the fishes.

I see Peter Garrett is up on his hind legs criticising government climate policies.

How many kids did you electrocute last week Pink Batt Pete?

Off to the Barossa today.

Tough gig but someone has to do it.

Dot says:
April 22, 2022 at 6:58 am
The Black Sun, Winston.
Also, surprisingly level headed.

Interesting piece.

It certainly seems that, for some, Putin has been invested with an invincible armour of virtues.

Mainly because of the things he is apparently not, rather than what he very apparently is.

Well, well, well. It isn’t just Chairman Dan in the Chinese Communist Party’s pocket. It turns out that, despite its bluster, federal Labor is too. Excellent digging by Shari Markson:

Anthony Albanese’s deputy leader – Labor’s proclaimed Pacific guru Richard Marles – only months ago argued that island nations should be free to hook up in any way they liked with Beijing and dismissed fears about China setting up military bases in places such as the Solomons.
In a declaration that undermines Anthony Albanese’s attack on the Morrison government over its failure to stop the Solomon ¬Islands signing a secret security deal with China, Mr Marles said: “The idea the Pacific nations would adhere to a call from ¬Australia to not engage with China is silly.”
Since 2019, when he took a trip to Beijing funded by controversial think-tank China Matters, which has now been stripped of its Australian government funding over concerns about its agenda, Mr Marles has argued Australia should encourage China’s ¬involvement in the Pacific, according to several documents unearthed by The Australian.
Mr Marles, in the speech at Beijing Foreign Studies University, said he had been “very cognisant” since 2012 of the growing role that China was playing in providing development assistance in the Pacific. “Let me be crystal clear: that was and has been a good thing. The Pacific needs help and Australia needs to welcome any country willing to provide it. Certainly the Pacific Island countries themselves do,” he said.
In a mini-book, Tides That Bind: Australia in the Pacific, published last August, Mr Marles warned that “basing our actions in the Pacific on an attempt to strategically deny China would be a historic mistake’’.
“Not only would this be detrimental to our regional relationships, it would be a failed course of action,” he said. “Australia has no right to expect a set of exclusive relationships with the Pacific nations. They are perfectly free to engage on whatever terms they choose with China or, for that matter, any other country. Disputing this would be resented, as the recent past has shown.”
Richard Marles argues Australia should encourage China’s ¬involvement in the Pacific, according to several documents unearthed by The Australian.
Labor has branded the Coalition the most “incompetent government on national security since World War II” in the wake of the Solomons’ security deal with China. Campaigning on the NSW south coast on Thursday, ¬Anthony Albanese said the Prime Minister has “gone missing’’ in trying to keep China at bay in the South Pacific, attacking him for not sending senior ministers to the Solomons to convince them not to sign the China deal. “The security agreement between China and the Solomons is a massive failure of our foreign policy,’’ Mr Albanese said.
“Why was the government so complacent and kept saying it was all under control,’’ the Opposition Leader said. “We have to recognise what’s happening in the region. We have to recognise that China is more forward-leaning, that they’re seeking to increase their influence in the region. And we need to respond to that.”
In his book Mr Marles, tipped to be defence minister in an Albanese government, repeatedly dismissed concerns about China setting up military bases in the Pacific – a development Labor now says the government should have been alive to.
“Rather than worrying about the prospect of foreign military bases in the region, our real call to arms must be the Pacific’s performance against MDGs (Millennium Development Goals), and the associated and real risk that it will become entrenched as the least developed part of the world,” Mr Marles wrote.
In his book Mr Marles wrote: “In early 2018, the Coalition government’s interest in the Pacific spiked, largely inspired, it seemed, by a series of reports in the Fairfax media about the prospect of a Chinese military base being built in Vanuatu. These reports were denied by the governments of both China and Vanuatu.”
Mr Marles wrote that there was “something deeply misguided about this sudden interest in the Pacific because of the purported actions of another country there”.
He has repeatedly argued that Australia’s Pacific Step Up policy, which Mr Morrison designed to counter China’s influence, should not exclude China.
Mr Marles said Australia’s motivation in the Pacific “must not be centred on denying China” which he said would be “a failed course of action”. If Australia’s renewed interest in the Pacific was interpreted as an attempt to keep China at bay “then it will be seen in a very cynical light’’.
While Labor has now argued that the Morrison government should have invested more in the region, Mr Marles wrote that Australia would never win a bidding war with China and the idea was “laughable”.
“An attempt to engage in a calculated denial of China will only create a geo-strategic contest that Pacific Island countries will register with bewilderment, if not mirth,” he wrote. “Besides, the idea that Australia would win a bidding war with China is laughable.”
He said calls from Australia not to engage with China “would be damaging to our relations with all countries concerned”. “How China relates to the Pacific is the Pacific’s business,” he said.
In remarks Mr Marles gave during his September 2019 trip to China – which is missing from his website – Mr Marles said it was “extremely important” for China and Australia to work together in the Pacific. “We need to change the trajectory of development in the Pacific, one that is acutely alert to the impact of development assistance and financing on local communities and local priorities. And any country, including China, which shares this awareness and is willing to help in this endeavour should enjoy Australia’s support.”
Mr Albanese on Wednesday touted his deputy’s role in shaping the nation’s Pacific policy while he was attacking the government’s handling of the Solomon Islands-China pact.
“The problem is that those relationships aren’t ones that can be done just when there’s a crisis,” Mr Albanese said. “When Richard Marles was our person in the Pacific, he had deep engagement, indeed, won a civil honour in the Solomons.
“What’s clear is that we’ve dropped the ball here. What’s clear is that when the warning was given in August, the government didn’t act soon enough.”
Mr Marles was a parliamentary secretary for Pacific island affairs during the Gillard government and was Labor’s defence spokesman until January 2021.
In 2013, he was awarded the Cross of the Solomon Islands, the highest civilian award. It was presented by Solomon Islands Governor-General Frank Kabui who told Mr Marles the “government and the people of Solomon Island recognise your service to our nation by devotion to duty marked by exceptional ability, merit and exemplary conduct”.
Liberal senator James Paterson, chairman of the joint parliamentary committee on intelligence and security, said Mr Marles’s “dangerous naïveté about the threat posed by China in the Pacific just shows what a risk a weak Labor government would be in this dangerous strategic environment”.
“This is someone who fancies themselves as a future defence minister and yet he’s welcomed the presence of China in the region which he and his colleagues now blame the government for,” Senator Paterson said.
Australian Strategic Policy Institute executive director, Peter Jennings said “had Mr Marles spoken to Defence he would have known there was genuine substance about concerns China was seeking a military base in Vanuatu”.
Mr Marles said last night: “The Morrison government has shown itself to be the most incompetent government on national security since WWII. A critical part of managing a more aggressive China is shoring up our other regional relationships and helping our neighbours avoid coercion.
“But in his failures to retain Australia’s position as the Pacific’s partner of choice, Scott Morrison has left a vacuum and China is filling it. It’s that simple.
“The signing of this agreement is clearly a watershed moment in the prospects of China’s military presence in the region … The record demonstrates that when Labor was in power, we were the natural partner of choice for the countries of the Pacific.”

How come so many of these Marxist firebrands like Marles and Garrett went to snotty nosed private skools?

Breaking in the US: CNN has pulled the plug on its struggling, woke streaming offshoot CNN+.

Jason Clare getting a really easy run from the journos – sky is covering it.

China’s state media endorses Albanese “in comparison to Morrison, he positively shines”

Whoever said you can’t polish a turd!

rickwsays:
April 22, 2022 at 10:08 am
China’s state media endorses Albanese “in comparison to Morrison, he positively shines”

Whoever said you can’t polish a turd!

Chuckle

It can border on self-deception. But it also gets people through the night. And the most underrated component of success is continuing to show up.

A great summary.

In design / operations / engineering the way to succeed is what I call Incremental Problem Solving. You keep solving the problems one piece at a time, what you can solve on that day, until one day there is nothing left of the problem. But you definitely need to keep turning up and having at it!

Multiple Food Plants Erupt in Flames
Chris Martenson

“One less traitor”: Zelensky Oversees Campaign of Assassination, Kidnapping And Torture of Political Opposition

or

Zelensky says he didn’t receive peace proposal Russia sent, Kremlin wonders why negotiators didn’t inform him

and

TGIF: Shades of Gray in the Russia-Ukraine War

plus

American Zelensky critic Gonzalo Lira goes missing in Ukraine

two sides to every story

Time for a booster in common sense.

This guy, is one of the guys KD, an expert in writing out traffic fines, dismisses as nuff nuffs.

He’s been right from the start.
Many of you are so far gone, I implore you to watch this.

China’s state media endorses Albanese “in comparison to Morrison, he positively shines”

Damning with faint praise?

At Budget Estimates the head of NSW Public Service Michael Coutts-Trotter confirming that female gender is self-identifying in all his agencies.A biological man can be a woman just by saying so.

I have a new term for cationary.

Schrodingers Bell end:
The penis is neither here nor there until you look for the box.
If the box is there its female
If the box is missing its male
If you look in the box for the penis then prepare to be arrested.

Someone in the Democrat party needs to tap Biden on the shoulder.
Enough is enough.

The point of the current US “presidency” isn’t just its incompetence and the fact that it’s totally out of touch with mainstream America. It is to keep rubbing America’s nose in the absurdity of its existence.

In keeping the Biden White House charade going, unelected activists are demonstrating they can run the US government without the consent of the governed. Fuck you, America , and there’s nothing you can do about it.

<blockquoteLizzie, it’s Wilcannia, the tourist dollar doesn’t routinely stop there!

Sorry, so it’s a NSW ‘aboriginal’ population township, like Brewarrina or Walgett? I’m not too good on the geography out West. We passed through Brewarrina on our way to Lightning Ridge, two ‘chalk and cheese’ towns, the local ‘white’ (read Serbian and other no-nonsense groups) mining population did rough justice at The Ridge and kept things until control there, whereas life in Bre seemed dismal beyond belief, rather as life in aboriginal Jabiru in the NT Kakadu area seemed also. We were glad we eschewed staying at the hotel there (built to attract tourists) and went on to the refurbished 70’s cabin apartments at Cooinda Lodge, at Yellow Water, which were great.

Mr White Noise returns for the day.

He’s been right from the start.

Given that the clip is titled ‘A Final Warning to Humanity’, I have some questions:

1. Is it professionally produced and edited?;
2. Given that this fellow claims to be (because there’s nothing other than his say so) the former chief scientitian for Pfizer, why hasn’t he been found and strung up by The People?

I’m sorry St. Ruth, but given your admitted predilections for posting untruths ‘to shock people into action’, I’m not paying too much attention to your latest offering.

You ruined any credibility you had much earlier on. Doesn’t matter what you post or screech about now. It’s done.

Re familial disabilities – when you have children and grandchildren you are only one accident or illness amongst any of them from having a disabled person in your family. Don’t ever count your chickens, hatched or not. Of course Morrison wasn’t doing anything but counting his current blessings, not saying anything denigratory about families caring for disabled members.

Someone in the Democrat party needs to tap Biden on the shoulder.

Biden is a decent man.
He hasnt caught the person shitting in his pants yet is all.

Biden is a decent man.
Hes even nice to jigaboos.

Biden is a decent man.
He even gave a moving eulogy for Robert Byrd, the ex KKK leader.

Biden is a decent man.
He boosted Russia and the Middle East oil ticks by cancelling and banning the Keystone pipeline and “unconventional” oil/gas in America.

Biden is a decent man.
Hes going to eliminate student debt by inflating the value of the loans away.

At Budget Estimates the head of NSW Public Service Michael Coutts-Trotter confirming that female gender is self-identifying in all his agencies.A biological man can be a woman just by saying so.

So says the uber-woke husband of Tanya Plibersek, she who is well in line to take over from Albo and his ‘long Covid’ as long as her hubby atones for his dubious past by being woker-than-woke about the current Labor shibboleth.

Biden is a decent man.

So decent, that he hid himself away from his adoring voters for fear they might catch his decency…

Never trust Labor.

Or the Libs to kill off any labour policy ever and then make it worse.

VIA CNN) – “Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday that Ukraine needs $7 billion per month in financial assistance to make up for the economic losses from the war.

Super yachts and Florida estates don’t just pay for themselves.

I have mentioned this before but there is actually a good museum of things aboriginal next to Cooinda Lodge at Kakadu (and the Yellow Water is fabulous in the early morning mist bird-watching from a small boat). Less than ten years ago this museum wasn’t over-run with ‘fake’ aboriginal stuff, in those pre-Pascoe days, just some reasonable interpretations of the real thing, including the complex ‘section kinship system’ as I understood it from years of study in anthropology.

I expect it is now rather different. These tribal people can no longer stand for themselves and their long history of survival in isolation from the rest of humanity (except for a few Makassans); they have to be reinvented in some way as parallel Europeans. Yetch.

The United States alone has provided 10 anti-armor systems for every one Russian tank that’s in Ukraine — a 10 to 1 ratio.

Guided Missiles still miss and fail to penetrate, no matter how advanced and capable they are in the hands of a competent operator.

Ditto small arms rounds and all explosive natures.

Modern warfare is incredibly resource intensive of small things. Screw thinking just about burning tanks and dead soldiers. There are Rifle, pistol and MG buffer springs, firing pins, nuts, bolts, sprockets, motors and geartrains, fuel, painkillers, ration packs, buckles, belts and pouches, and more.

And then there’s water, diesel, kerosene, grease, lubricating oil of all grades for different applications, machine tool parts, welding kit, oxy-acetylene mixes, medical O2, N2, halon gas mixes for fire extinguishers and so on…

Barack Obama Calls for More Censorship: First Amendment ‘Does Not Apply to Facebook and Twitter’

Former President Barack Obama in a major speech on Thursday called for more regulation of social media content, in order to diminish “disinformation.”

“While content moderation can limit the distribution of clearly dangerous content, it doesn’t go far enough,” Obama added.

Mr White Noise returns for the day.

He’s been right from the start.

Given that the clip is titled ‘A Final Warning to Humanity’, I have some questions:

1. Is it professionally produced and edited?;
2. Given that this fellow claims to be (because there’s nothing other than his say so) the former chief scientitian for Pfizer, why hasn’t he been found and strung up by The People?

I’m sorry St. Ruth, but given your admitted predilections for posting untruths ‘to shock people into action’, I’m not paying too much attention to your latest offering.

You ruined any credibility you had much earlier on. Doesn’t matter what you post or screech about now. It’s done.

Pathetic.
I could pull this stubborn ignorance apart, but I think I’d be insulting those with more than half a brain.
They’ve already done it.
Especially if they listened to when he quit Pfizer, and what date the video was posted.
If it hasn’t been professionally produced KD? What like by the ABC?
You’re embarrassing yourself.

Ok, I think I can see what the problem is. Training the AI using the verbal sewer known as Twitter would appear to be a mistake…

It’s a little bit more complicated than that, as the Internet Historian demonstrates:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HsLup7yy-6I

A bunch of cheeky shitposters and other assorted internet users thought it would be hilarious to explode the digital arrogance of their fellow men (who, being from Silicon Valley, felt themselves innately intellectually superior)…