BAM!

It’s a popularity contest!

Also dedicated to Gonzo Lira, and all the other dating coaches out there struggling to make ends meet.

Well , KD, when anyone who goes missing in the mists and fogs of war is not quite the same as crying wolf.

Johannes Leak.

Peter Broelman.

Bob Moran.

Andy Davey.

Chip Bok.

Matt Margolis.

Steve Kelley.

Robert Ariail.

Thanks Tom. I couldn’t understand the Margolis.

Been watching the 1969-71 Brit TV series Special Branch.

In the one I’m currently watching, an important Russian politician is about to visit the UK. USSR security guy and Brit Special Branch guy are chatting in front of Marx’s grave about security arrangements. UK guy points out that Marxism was born in Britain. Commie responds that more honour should be accorded, after all USSR issued a postage stamp to honour Robbie Burns, ‘an Englishman.’

On being mildly corrected on this point, USSR guy says ‘I understand. But then you call me a Russian and I am Ukrainian.’

It reminded me of a conversation with the Old Man about my then husband and wife lawn and garden team. ‘Her name is Olga.’ ‘Oh, she’s Russian, then.’

‘No, she’s Ukrainian.’

‘If her name is Olga, she’s Russian.’

I left it at that, but now it makes sense.

Reposted YouTube of Labor’s Agriculture Spokesman non answering questions.
Assuming that Labor actually have an Agriculture Policy 4 weeks out from an Election, the details must be terrifying.
https://twitter.com/916_stevo/status/1517359279363473408

Reading back on Ye Olde Fredde, I caught the trainwreck which was then hit by a nuclear bomb of the Shadow Minister for Agriculture at the Press Club. Talk about a deer in the headlights. Go to Salvatore at 10.52 pm for the link.

I didn’t catch the bimbo’s name, but Cats and Kittehs with agricultural connections should circulate this clip far and wide.

It wasn’t just that she had nothing new to announce. It was clear that she didn’t have a clue about her portfolio. When asked a softball question – what have you personally been working on in policy terms – she just froze and couldn’t give an even passable answer. Surely anybody who had immersed themselves in the subject matter could have come up with something. Most would come up with many things.

So far, this is the worst Labor Federal campaign I’ve seen in a lifetime of following politics.

Here’s The Australian Greens Ag Policy:
https://greens.org.au/policies/agriculture
This line stands out:

Urban and peri-urban agriculture are important components of sustainable and community food systems in Australia.

Sounds like The Great Leap Forward when every backyard in China had a Smelter?

So far, this is the worst Labor Federal campaign I’ve seen in a lifetime of following politics.

….and it is possible they will form a minority government.

The public don’t know what they’re thinking, nor do they…

I stand with Johnny Depp.

#mepoo !!!

….and it is possible they will form a minority government.

I’ve been dreading the teal climate “independents” will all get to give Rob Oakeshott speeches.

Let’s assume that Greens Ag Policy is also Labor Ag Policy:

2. The implementation of sustainable farming systems is essential for maintaining healthy, productive landscapes and addressing the grave threats of land, soil and water degradation, and climate change. Sustainable farming systems are those that apply ecological concepts to the management of agriculture – often called agro-ecology.

Not quite the Holodomor, but Labor will need Commissars and Enforcement Squads to ensure “implementation”.

Look out!

6. Remnant native vegetation on and around farms and pastoral and mining leases should be valued, protected and restored.

I am going to vote LDP, UAP and PHON below the line in the order they want, then randomly for most, then Green, Liberal and Labour randomly up the ballot until I exhaust my last three preferences just below the line.

Imagine if 100,000 or so people did this in NSW. It could really hurt the majors.

Bingoes and sorry, Miltonf, for the ‘d’ !

Dot, you’ve won me over. I’ll be voting LDP for the Senate in Victoria. The Fat Bastard is spending millions on ads down here, but his “policies” are illiterate, socialist nonsense. LDP is virtually alone as a small-government party.

As a psephology nerd, I can’t wait for this election to see how low the LNP and ALP primary votes sink to. We’re in record territory, according to Newspoll. As a politician who believes in nothing, Morrison will be remembered for his record low LNP primary vote and little else.

I’m getting very suspicious about the meeja and this election campaign. For example:

A Facebook page managed by the president of a local Labor branch in Queensland has been sharing incendiary posts, including claims that Liberal MP Gladys Liu is a Chinese spy, an ABC investigation has found.
Key points:

Facebook pages run by Labor Party branch members have been spreading conspiracies and misinformation
The ALP says the pages are not official and that it does not endorse the content
An expert says both the ALP and Facebook have a responsibility to act

The official Facebook page of the ALP branch in the Queensland electorate of Wright regularly shares pro-Labor and anti-government infographics, articles and memes.

They include a post fuelling the conspiracy theory that Ms Liu, the federal member for the Victorian seat of Chisholm, is a spy, and others implying Liberal members including Prime Minister Scott Morrison are part of a group who use the parliamentary prayer room for sexual acts.

The page, “Labor for Wright”, was created in 2013 and is co-run by the president of the ALP’s Boonah branch, Julie Jackson. She has also served as campaign manager for former federal Labor candidate Sharon Murakami.

The article then goes on to highlight other nasty Labor pages, none of which would even have been mentioned in the last Federal election campaign.

What is going on here? Have they already decided that Albo is pining for the fjords and therefore they should stop annoying the next government? What?

Bush at 5.58:

Garrison pulls no punches with his depiction of Harris.

I did notice that. Fantastic stuff. In that particular pose there wasn’t a requirement for kneepads.

lotocoti says:
April 23, 2022 at 7:35 am

The shallow minister for Ag. certainly led a varied life before entering politics.

Tasmania. That figures.

My boss and I went to Tasmania to discuss how to spend the millions that Brian Harradine had extorted for telecommunications infrastructure in exchange for the Telstra sale. We were there for five days.

In passing, I must say that it was one of the best work trips ever. Good food and digs, friendly people etc.

But.

We spent our time meeting with various committees and/or bureaucrats, and by the end of the second day we began to notice a few familiar faces. By the end of the third day, half of them were familiar faces.

You know the rest.

Tasmania is run by a few hundred people who all know each other.

Talent or grasp of the subject matter is not just secondary, it is invisible.

Greens policy points. Thanks Ed.

3. To assist farmers to minimise or eliminate the use of harmful pesticides and fertilisers.

4. To support farmers to reduce emissions, including through reducing usage of fossil fuels and nitrogen fertilisers, and supporting research and changing practices to reduce livestock emissions.

You’ll note, as previously posted, the disaster for agriculture in Sri Lanka caused by exactly these type of mindless mantras.

By the end of the third day, half of them were familiar faces.

You know the rest.

Inbreeding?

4. To support farmers to reduce emissions, including through reducing usage of fossil fuels and nitrogen fertilisers, and supporting research and changing practices to reduce livestock emissions.

can I suggest that greens wear a plastic bag over their heads to signal compliance to this cause…

harmful pesticides

What’s harmful?
Anything the inner city ignoranti think is uncool and yucky.

The Akubra hat’s not really working for Barnaby Joyce any more (the NT News):

Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce’s security detail was forced to jump in front of a car and stop a man from verbally attacking the Nationals leader in a menacing incident near Tamworth on Friday.

Mr Joyce and his staff were driving along the New Eng­land Highway to his electorate office from Armidale with three Australian Federal Police officers following in a separate car when he pulled over to take a phone call.

As Mr Joyce made the call, a man with a woman in the passenger seat were seen making a U-turn before the car ­approached Mr Joyce.

Sicario!

As it neared the Nationals leader, an AFP officer jumped in front of the vehicle. A source said the car stopped about “30 to 40 ­metres” from the leader’s car after the AFP officer walked in front of it.

Footage of the incident, which took place between 2.15 and 2.30pm on Friday, shows the man hurling insults at Mr Joyce, calling him “a f**king piece of shit”.

Entirely reasonable, I would have thought.

As the AFP officer moves to stand between Mr Joyce, who got back in his car, the man yells: “Get out of the f**kin’ way you dog. Get the f**k out of my face you maggot c**t.”

After failing to get past the officer, the man appears to climb back in his car while being urged to do so by a woman who is believed to be his daughter. However, the man has second thoughts and ­returns to the AFP officer ­before jumping up and down, and shaping up to him. The man can be heard saying: “C’mon on c’mon on ya c**t. You piss weak c**t.”

Again – no harm, no foul.

The matter was referred to NSW Police but no charges will be laid.

Nor should they. Barnaby, having cleaned the poo of the calfskin leather seat had this to say:

“This was a sad and unsavoury incident, which in no way reflects how the majority of Australians participate in our democracy,” he said.

“I thank my protective ­detail for their bravery in keeping myself and my staff safe. This will be dealt with through the appropriate ­processes.”

Bravery. Fuck off. The Fed probably wouldn’t have minded letting the bloke go to town onto the bloated, backstabbing self-interested little ferret. If Joyce thinks this dude’s the only bloke severely disaffected with the National Party he leads by misrepresentation, he needs to get out more.

As the AFP officer moves to stand between Mr Joyce, who got back in his car, the man yells: “Get out of the f**kin’ way you dog. Get the f**k out of my face you maggot c**t.”

Most reasonable thing I have read all week.

Thanks Tom – Garrison – perfect take on “Heels Up Harris”

Mr Han is a former Chinese diplomat who moved to Australia 20 years ago and is a well-known pro-Labor voice on WeChat.

The message was a clear attempt to diminish the voices of Labor supporters on WeChat during the election campaign, he said.

“I write a lot in English-language newspapers and my views are clearly pro-Labor [and] that’s made a lot of Chinese-speaking Liberal supporters very angry.

“They assumed that, because I support Labor and I oppose the conservative government, I must be a Chinese spy.”

Noooo, why would anyone think that?
Let’s recap:
1. Chinese diplomat
2. Moves to Australia
3. Immediately becomes vocal supporter of Labor Party
4. Members of Australia’s Chinese Community say
“CCCP spy”
Nup, not seeing the connection?

Ed Casesays:
April 23, 2022 at 6:16 am
Reposted YouTube of Labor’s Agriculture Spokesman non answering questions.
Assuming that Labor actually have an Agriculture Policy 4 weeks out from an Election, the details must be terrifying.

Labor does have an agriculture policy. It shares that policy with the Greens.

The policy is “There shall be no agriculture.”

Col Douglas Macgregor Delivers Truth Bombs Surrounding Ukraine Conflict and Status of $4.7 Billion Spent Sending U.S. Equipment and Aid

Colonel Douglas Macgregor appeared on Tucker Carlson to give a brutally honest assessment of the conflict in Ukraine. Regarding the transfer of heavy weapons and artillery, Macgregor notes something many have discussed.

The logistics of sending in those weapons from western Ukraine (Poland border) to the eastern Ukraine battle encompasses a thousand-mile trek. Russia can easily hit those convoys en route, negating the supply line. Additionally, the U.S. has sent $4.7 billion in military equipment and financial aid so far (see graphic below), and we have no idea who is in control of those weapons. WATCH:

It’s not as if Labor couldn’t find women with skills in agriculture to voice their policy.

Lucy Turnbull has an excellent grasp on all matters farming, from live sheep to climate change.
https://theconversation.com/israeli-pm-netanyahu-says-lucy-turnbull-has-given-promise-on-sheep-issue-95042

3. To assist farmers to minimise or eliminate the use of harmful pesticides and fertilisers.

4. To support farmers to reduce emissions, including through reducing usage of fossil fuels and nitrogen fertilisers, and supporting research and changing practices to reduce livestock emissions.

Hey, it was Earth Day yesterday! I totally forgot.

It’s Earth Day. Again. Contain Your Excitement | Power Line (22 Apr)

Peter Gunter, a North Texas State University professor, wrote in 1970, “Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China, and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions….By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.”

If at first you don’t succeed try and try again seems to be the Green motto.

The old Vedic principles in food and medicine still have a hold in Sub Continental society.

Sure.
But, the Sri Lankan Government imposed Organic Farming without any notice, preparation or planning.
That was bound to fail.
The only question is the Age Old One:
Was it intentional Government Malice or innocent well meaning Government fuck up.
I mean, any expert on Organic Farming is gonna tell you that it will take one farm 7 or 8 years to transition.
So, even if the Government was acting honestly, it would take the entire Sector maybe 15-20 years to transition?

Multiple large food processing & distribution plants in US have recently exploded or burned down

As food uncertainly lingers on the horizon thanks to US sanctions and government decimation of the economy during the past two years, there is another factor contributing to the problem. Since the beginning of the year, there have been several very large food processing facilities that have exploded or burned to the ground across the U.S.

That same week, in Salinas, California, a massive fire at the Taylor Farms Processing Facility led to the evacuation of residents as it burned for over 17 hours. Taylor Farms is a major agriculture company that processes and delivers many of the salad kits seen in grocery stores. The cause of this fire is currently under investigation.

It’s not only food production and distribution plants either. In Maricopa, Arizona, in March, a massive fire wiped out the Maricopa Food Pantry which distributes food to the less fortunate. More than 50,000 lbs of food was destroyed in the blaze that lasted for 24 hours. That fire is also under investigation.

The fact is that since last year, more than a dozen of these fires and explosions have taken place at food processing and distribution centers.

any expert on Organic Farm

They’re called Witchdoctors.

“Let’s Go Brandon!” Trump Supporters Troll Biden as He Arrives at Seattle College (VIDEO)

Joe Biden traveled more than 3,000 miles to the Pacific Northwest to lecture Americans on climate change.

The Trump supporters chanted, “Let’s go Brandon!” and gave Biden the middle finger as his motorcade drove by.

Joe Biden doesn’t even have supporters in deep blue Seattle. Let that sink in.

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To be clear, general warehouse fires are quite common. In fact, fire departments respond to more than 1,000 a year. However, the main cause of these fires is arson. What’s more, fires in food processing facilities are not that common and occur far less often.

To claim that all of these incidents are related would be pure speculation. But given the current supply chain situation and looming food shortages, the very idea of critical infrastructure burning to the ground, for any reason, is unsettling to say the least.

Comment: This is war on humanity.

From the link abovecc

Russian Fertilizer Key to India’s Plan to Replace Ukraine in Global Grain Market

According to the Economic Times, Russian export quotas for mineral fertilizers were “increased by almost 700,000 tons,” nitrogen fertilizers were “increased by 231,000 tons,” and complex fertilizers were “increased by 466,000 tons.”

India moved aggressively to lock down wheat contracts after “Russia’s invasion of Ukraine upended the global grains trade,” with Egypt a freshly-signed major client, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday.

One of the biggest remaining obstacles facing India is the often subpar quality of its grain. The new Egyptian contract includes requirements for strict inspections of Indian wheat before it is shipped. The administration of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised the Egyptians their wheat purchases would measure up to quality standards.

IT’S EARTH DAY. AGAIN. CONTAIN YOUR EXCITEMENT

Yup, it’s Earth Day today. (Also Lenin’s birthday, but I am sure it is just a coincidence.) I know you can’t contain your excitement. But try.

As always, today is a good day to check in with Mark Perry’s list of 18 predictions made on the first Earth Day in 1970 that have all proven spectacularly wrong. My favorite:

Earth Day – off to the Angaston Farmers’ Market right now.

I’ll check out the masses organic produce that could feed a nation. Or maybe a small town. Or maybe just a cashed up portion of town.

I don’t think the local Foodland has anything to fear. Not until the boutique gin distillery and brewery opens up anyway.

What Trump and Covid Revealed

An analysis of the current American political crisis.

Modern science was supposed to increase our understanding of the world. Instead, we seem to know less. Science has always introduced doubt regarding long-held verities. But now the authority of science, rather than the scientific method, is used to create confusion about things that had once been considered obvious and indisputable.

More than 2,000 years ago Aristotle wrote perceptively about what defines human beings as a species, on the basis of ordinary observations

– COVID and the Tyranny of Faucian Science
– The Collapse of the Establishment’s Legitimacy
– “Rational” Legitimacy versus Political Legitimacy
– The Rebellion
– What Trump Revealed
– The Real American Crisis

Rockefeller Foundation President Rajiv Shah told Bloomberg Television’s David Westin a “massive, immediate food crisis” is on the horizon.

no corn flour at local woolies but plenty of fake meats

Bob Collins, mentioned above, well known child molester, still has his portrait hanging in the NT Parliament building.

Rationale being that he was never convicted, even though he committed suicide to avoid being charged.

Is a trillion dollars of debt a problem?

Hollywood is preping us

How many Food Warehouse fires, meat packing plant fires have you gotta have before someone says
“This might not be random or a coincidence”
Whatever, we’re not there yet.

Footage of the man being punched and yelled at by crowd members quickly circulated on social media, while onlookers clapped and cheered.

That is glorious vision.

Sri Lanka’s P.M. introduces Organic Farming overnight, even though all advice woulda been the exact opposite.
Coincidence or intentional?

UAP reckons the 15% resource tax can pay the trillion back, I dunno if it can but it’s start…

What Cloive promises:

He said all the funds from his 15 per cent iron ore export licence would be hypothecated towards debt. It would eradicate 70 per cent of Australia’s $1.16 trillion debt in 15 years and wipe it out in 20 years.

Leaving tedious details about interest and inflation to one side, Fat Bastard plans to raise $58 bn each year for the next 20 years. Which implies a steady iron ore export revenue stream of $387 bn pa.

Australian iron ore exports in 2020/21 were approximately $150 bn. Based on record high iron ore pricing.

Cloive is taking the piss.

…nobody else seems to have any idea of how to go about it.

True.
They seem to be taking the piss too.

One of MacGowan’s kids hospitalized with batflu.
I know the family. No e of the kids have any underlying conditions.
The obvious explanation is myocarditis or pericarditis followi g jab.
Secondary, Munchausen by proxy.

The favoured plan appears to be to inflate our way out of debt.

Unspoken, but tragically true.

Biden Flew Across the Country to Talk About Climate Change

President Joe Biden made a special trip from Washington D.C. to Seattle on Friday to mark Earth Day and to tout his climate change agenda.

Air Force One emits 8.75 pounds of carbon per mile. The distance between D.C. and Seattle is approximately 2700 miles, clocking in a round trip at 23,625 pounds of carbon emissions.

Earlier this week Climate Czar John Kerry expressed the importance of not allowing fossil fuel use to grow. He did not mention his regular use of a private jet or dozens of trips across the ocean to discuss climate change with foreign leaders.

The favoured plan appears to be to inflate our way out of debt.

Their favoured plan is; there is no plan for the debt. But OUR plan is to kick the can down the road long enough in order to hoover up as much as we can from the proles while we have the trough and the fat pensions afterwards.

Again at Their ABC:

Where does national security rank among voter’s concerns? Emily Baker has analysed the nearly 600,000 responses that have come in so far for the ABC’s Vote Compass project, and it turns out that climate change is the runaway number one concern of respondents

Another beautiful example absolutely validating whichever genius coined this word.

(Obligatory “FIGJAM” 😀 )

CC Berka-
Maybe “Ultimoturfing”

I know we are supposed to trust Premiers but I find the fact Mark McGowans kid is in hospital with Covid a little bit odd. It is very rare for a healthy kid to be seriously ill with Covid.

Admitted for something else but with Covid ?

In unrelated news those boosters are working really well. Don’t stop you catching the virus or going to hospital because of it.

and it turns out that climate change is the runaway number one concern of respondents

Ah yes, climate change. That catch all “man made” calamity that covers up decades of deliberate man made clusterfks in such areas as ; urban planning and drainage, zero dam construction, incompetent water storage management, living on desert fringes or on known flood plains and river systems, living among forests of flammable gum trees etc etc. It’s a real concern alright that these clowns and subversive oxygen thieves walk among us.

Florida releases examples of rejected ‘woke math’ textbooks

Bar graphs tell students that seniors, conservatives have the most racial prejudice

Florida education officials have released four images of “woke math” in textbooks they rejected last week for use in K-12 public schools.

“Based on the volume of requests the department has received for examples of problematic elements of the recently reviewed instructional materials, the following are examples provided to the department by the public and presented no conflict in sharing them,” the disclaimer reads in part.