Open Thread – Weekend 23 April 2022


An Evening in Arcadia, Thomas Cole, 1843

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Winston Smith
April 24, 2022 5:33 pm

Knuckle Dragger:

Bubble wrap

Wrappist!

Winston Smith
April 24, 2022 5:37 pm

“The culture wars have also stopped us reaching a settlement on the greatest issue of Australian virtue: a just reconciliation with First Nations people.”
The very first agreement on the 3rd Nations people is the start of the next round of negotiations.

slackster
slackster
April 24, 2022 5:53 pm

Talk that McClown will ease restrictions next week – just in time for the Federal Election- I mean because of health advice:
https://thewest.com.au/news/coronavirus/covid-19-in-wa-premier-mark-mcgowan-set-to-announce-major-easing-of-restrictions-c-6551780

“WA’s indoor mask rules could be gone in days, with Premier Mark McGowan set to announce a major further easing of COVID restrictions for the State.
The Sunday Times understands the State Government is finalising plans to relax several of the remaining public health measures, with an announcement as early as this week.
It’s understood that the current rule, making mask wearing compulsory in all indoor settings will go, replaced by new rules which will only require people to wear masks in specific settings, including hospitals.
Other Level 1 restrictions like the two square metre rule, the 75 per cent capacity limit at major stadiums and entertainment venues, proof of vaccination and isolation requirements for close contacts of a positive case are also likely to go.
It’s understood any decision will centre on advice from the Chief Health Officer that Western Australia is past its Omicron peak and has a triple dose vaccination rate of nearly 80 per cent.
Western Australia is the most vaccinated of all the Australian States, with the latest figures released on Friday indicating 78.6 per cent of the population aged 16 and above have had their third dose.
“The State Government is constantly reviewing all public health measures,” Mr McGowan said on Saturday.
“Together with our world-leading vaccination rate, they are the reason we have done so well with our Omicron wave and that is why we are now within reach of the soft landing WA has been working towards.
“I have always said restrictions will not be in place any longer than they are required.
“We won’t be taking any unnecessary risks, so when it is safe to further relax measures, we will, based on the latest health advice.
COVID restrictions in WA were most recently eased on April 14.
Hospitalisations, Intensive Care Unit admissions and deaths linked with COVID are all well down on what was originally modelled.
Western Australia recorded 7758 new cases on Saturday.
The total number of active cases was 44,683. At the peak of the Omicron wave, WA recorded 54,064 total active cases on April 1.
The highest number of daily cases was 9754 on March 29.
It is believed a recent rise in daily case numbers has been linked to the Easter holiday weekend, with a backlog of positive cases being recorded after family gatherings.
“Our extraordinarily high vaccination rates puts us in the best position to achieve a soft landing that would be the envy of the world,” Mr McGowan said.
“WA’s pandemic response has always been about savings lives, saving jobs and minimising the disruption in our community and our economy.”

Top Ender
Top Ender
April 24, 2022 5:54 pm

Unusual hobby:

Cynthia Albritton, also known as the legendary Cynthia Plaster Caster — the alias that sprung from her plaster casts of famous musician and artists’ body parts, mainly erect penises and women’s breasts — died on Thursday from cerebral vascular disease and added complications with neuropathy, her power of attorney for healthcare and longtime friend, Chris Kellner, confirmed to Rolling Stone. She was 74.

What began as a college art project that fulfilled her “groupie” love for music became a decades-long work. Albritton’s first famous cast was Jimi Hendrix. She went on to document a range of musicians from different genres and eras, including Dennis Thompson and Wayne Kramer of MC5, Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks, Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys, as well the breasts of Laetitia Sadier of Stereolab, Peaches, and Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Her work spanned artists in other realms, including film.

Rolling Stone

Wally Dali
Wally Dali
April 24, 2022 5:57 pm

News from SWWA-
Schoolmums are now actively bug-chasing, mixing kids and dogs and sleepovers and everything which could possibly be a virus vector, to deliberately catch batflu.
I’m serious, it’s happening, and it’s not in the closet. These are WIFOs with not much to lose and everything to gain- a few days off work for themselves maybe and trying to dosge the horror of iso in the donger for hubby, gambled against no more disruption to kids school, if they even get it.
But, the major factor is, working girls are coming to the crunchof their 3rd jab due, and saying that they will either get a stay after a positive dose… or lay off work over the winter, believing that fascism will go away in September.
Positions vacant signs everywhere as is.

Winston Smith
April 24, 2022 5:58 pm

Dot:

“My reaction? Good riddance!” said Allan Greene, president of Sane Aviation For Everyone (SAFE), a coalition of concerned groups and individuals in the New York metropolitan area. “The Concorde was like a daily insult to anybody living near the airport.

These are the sort of people who move into a secluded area and demand no one else is allowed there whilst demanding they be feted as conservationists.

Old bloke
Old bloke
April 24, 2022 6:00 pm

calli says:
April 24, 2022 at 5:14 pm

Calli, you can get some good views of the lay of the land from the top of Horrock’s Pass.

Bruce in WA
April 24, 2022 6:00 pm

What is it with the NT police?? RTWT.

PLAIN CLOTHED AND UNIFORMED POLICE in the NT have raided the house of Ron Sterry, who recently beat police against gun charges after he went to his neighbour’s aid.

The raid was carried out with the support of the drug squad when he was interstate.

They even tried to open Ron’s safe by drilling it because the keys were not in the house – until they were stopped by his lawyer.

The police walked away without any guns. Instead they took his chilli oil and vinegar.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
April 24, 2022 6:10 pm

They have been taking over Africa for near 20 years and still Africa isn’t paying them nearly the dividends they want or need to support their massive economy. I think people here who claim to know something about commodities haven’t a fkg clue about volume, supply or quality.

You probably underestimate how long of a long game China plays. China was providing ‘strategic aid’ investment into Africa 40+ years ago – at a time when it was itself struggling in the third world.

Over the past 25 years China has patiently cultivated oil E&P in African shitholes at eye watering cost. Its dividend took a while, but CNOOC, Sinopec etc are now ubiquitous players across the continent – and China imports 1.25mmbbls/day from various terminals that wouldn’t be there without Chinese $billions.

They certainly have fucked up along the way – I guess your waxed-up pipeline example is Kingfisher. But in the end the big market, big dollar, big bribe, win-win-win gets the job done in places where western companies won’t go because political risk kills share price.

It’s not my industry, but Simandou shows all the signs of following East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline as an impossible project that somehow happened.

rickw
rickw
April 24, 2022 6:11 pm

What is it with the NT police?? RTWT.

It’s Australian Police. A criminal cartel.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
April 24, 2022 6:13 pm

For the love of…

Apparently there is a new series about Anne Boleyn. The actress is black.

I wonder if it would be considered a great achievement if a new version of Roots was made, where some of the slaves were white, and some of the slave owners black.

Winston Smith
April 24, 2022 6:15 pm

Zipster:

‘If we lose those satellites, there’s no putting Humpty Dumpty back together’: Brandon Weichert
China in Focus – NTD

Nothing annoys me more than an interviewee who starts talking and refuses to shut up – virtually hogging as much air time as possible.
My fuse is getting shorter and shorter these days.
I turned off at the midpoint when Weichert decided he’d continue hogging the interview.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 24, 2022 6:20 pm

Instead they took his chilli oil and vinegar.

Chilli oil is chemical weapon and vinegar is a corrosive substance.
They’ll charge him with unauthorized possession of dangerous chemicals.
Good thing they didn’t find any hydroxylic acid or he’d be in for life.

Top Ender
Top Ender
April 24, 2022 6:24 pm

….new series about Anne Boleyn. The actress is black

This is only fair. A new movie about Nelson Mandela should be made. He should be played by a white lady.

rickw
rickw
April 24, 2022 6:26 pm

Burning off done, BBQ in progress!

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
April 24, 2022 6:28 pm

It’s not my industry, but Simandou shows all the signs of following East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline as an impossible project that somehow happened.

You dear people have clearly never heard of the Kenya-Uganda Railway.

Dubbed the Lunatic Express by the Victorian Era’s equivalent of latter-day Cats, it muddled on through. And parts of it is still in commercial service today. Only recently being edged out by the Chinese-built Standard Gauge from Mombasa-Nairobi-Kisumu.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
April 24, 2022 6:28 pm

“WA’s pandemic response has always been about savings lives, saving jobs and minimising the disruption in our community and our economy.”

He said nervously clutching his emergency powers act like a wino clutches his last bottle of metho.
https://www.wa.gov.au/system/files/2022-04/Signed_Extension_of_Declaration_No_3_of_Public_Health_State_of_Emergency.pdf

Just an awful shitbag.
The worst.

rickw
rickw
April 24, 2022 6:29 pm

“Our extraordinarily high vaccination rates puts us in the best position to achieve a soft landing that would be the envy of the world,” Mr McGowan said.

A clown that doesn’t know when the show is over.

Indolent
Indolent
April 24, 2022 6:32 pm

Gonzalo Lira SPEAKS OUT About His Arrest in Ukraine

Extended interview with Richard Medhurst. It sounds as though he’s on parole. He can’t talk about the period he was under arrest and so far he hasn’t said what he’s been charged with.

Anchor What
Anchor What
April 24, 2022 6:32 pm

Politics has been hijacked by the chattering classes and Big Media.
What the majority of Australians want is irrelevant.

Rabz
April 24, 2022 6:33 pm

Once in the air, Concorde would reach its top speed of twice the speed of sound – Mach 2 (1,350 mph) – usually somewhere over the Atlantic, to prevent its controversial sonic boom from disrupting life on earth 11 miles below. At full speed, the supersonic craft would fly five miles higher and 800 mph faster than the standard, subsonic Boeing 747s that steadily made their way across the Atlantic

Which is why Edie and Patsy were the two biggest Concorde fans on the planet. Three hours between LDN and NY.

That mighty bird should never have been pensioned off.

Winston Smith
April 24, 2022 6:33 pm

Doc Faustus:

As dot says above; not only do we spend too much, we spend too much hopelessly badly.

Looks like it would be an excellent Barracks for when we do the national callup.
Hellooo Numbers!

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
April 24, 2022 6:33 pm

Mark’s comments translated:

“WA’s pandemic response has always been about savings lives,

Mine

saving jobs

Also Mine

and minimising the disruption in our community and our economy.”

Not sure that these are mine, so I’n not really worried…

rickw
rickw
April 24, 2022 6:34 pm

Just an awful shitbag.
The worst.

Sadly he’s one of a matched set currently in possession of Australia.

Makka
Makka
April 24, 2022 6:35 pm

You probably underestimate how long of a long game China plays.

No, I’ve seen China’s “smart plays” on the ground for what they are. Regular clusterfks. There seems to be some here who endow the CCP with some kind of mystical wisdom. Of all Govts, somehow this particular Gov is smart, agile and great at executing plans. In fact they are a Govt of commos dedicated to central planning and as history has shown these regimes commonly fk everything they touch. Moreso outside their borders. The main reason they are trying to be big in Africa is because it’s a jurisdiction that really isn’t that favorable. The best ones are long taken.

But in the end the big market, big dollar, big bribe, win-win-win gets the job done in places where western companies won’t go because political risk kills share price.

It only gets the job done while your man is in power. Then it’s back to square one. And a project is only as good as it’s timing of delivery. Delays cost big big bucks.

The Chinese will try to diversify their supply of commodities but the timing is often horrible and the input costs enormous. That’s why they need the likes of us. Because Africa isn’t the answer to their needs in order for them to remain competitive or remain reliable supplier.

Rabz
April 24, 2022 6:36 pm

said Allan Greene, president of Sane Aviation For Everyone (SAFE), a coalition of concerned groups and individuals in the New York metropolitan area. “The Concorde was like a daily insult to anybody living near the airport”

New York’s very own Harold Scruby.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
April 24, 2022 6:37 pm

Friends of ours who are very keen covid avoiders and jab enthusiasts just got the coof and they’re not happy.
Far sicker than the average according to the message my wife received.
I laughed and laughed.

rickw
rickw
April 24, 2022 6:38 pm

In fact they are a Govt of commos dedicated to central planning and as history has shown these regimes commonly fk everything they touch.

A squad of Dickhead Dan’s completely unrestrained from following their own stupidity.

Winston Smith
April 24, 2022 6:40 pm

Kev:

I’m of the opinion that being slaughtered by Australian’s on Union forced high wages makes the meat too expensive for poorer countries.
Would that be right Zulu Kilo Two Alpha and other sheep breeders?

I understand that was the reason we started losing the Asian contracts along with the refrigeration issue.
Plus we kept the pretty ones, so the Indo’s complained.

miltonf
miltonf
April 24, 2022 6:40 pm

Politics has been hijacked by the chattering classes and Big Media.
What the majority of Australians want is irrelevant.

Correct- 1974 is my crossover year. The year they introduced multiculturalism- apart from being divisive and dangerous, it was also highly insulting.

Rabz
April 24, 2022 6:41 pm

Friends of ours who are very keen covid avoiders and jab enthusiasts just got the coof and they’re not happy. Far sicker than the average according to the message my wife received.

Woo-Hoo! 🙂

Sucked. In. Dick. Heads.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 24, 2022 6:42 pm

Ron Sterry is a champion who, after he saw his neighbour being stabbed on said neighbour’s front lawn, and also saw the neighbour’s assailant coming in to finish him off, grabbed a rifle and scared the assailant off. Brilliant stuff.

The NT jacks then tried to get him on firearms-related charges over that specific incident, which he beat. A righteous result, and fair enough.

As a result of a conversation with a bloke in Alice here during the week who actually knows what this is about, I can add the following from a bit closer to home than the author of that piece:

PLAIN CLOTHED AND UNIFORMED POLICE in the NT have raided the house of Ron Sterry, who recently beat police against gun charges after he went to his neighbour’s aid.

Yep.

The raid was carried out with the support of the drug squad when he was interstate.

The ‘support’ bit would have consisted of them turning up later, after the original cops called them in. There is footage on the site purporting to be four NT cops wandering down the driveway of the house, cheerily on the way to the front door. That is not how the Drug Squad anywhere execute search warrants.

They even tried to open Ron’s safe by drilling it because the keys were not in the house – until they were stopped by his lawyer.

The warrant will say ‘search the premises or place’. That means anything – removing floorboards and walls. I am told – apparently – that the lawyer told the jacks his firearms would be surrendered by appointment to prevent damage to the safe.

The police walked away without any guns. Instead they took his chilli oil and vinegar

Ron says it’s ‘chilli oil and vinegar’. The jacks are allegedly saying it’s methampethamine precursor drugs, and lots of it*. Ron is said to be a minor associate of people that make a lot of things usign chemistry as a mechanism.

Look. Everyone should have guns, or have the ability to have them. No question. Also, Ron did a brave and righteous thing saving his neighbour. Also no question.

But it doesn’t make him a hero in all things forever, and this substandard lionising by whoever wrote that does not do the proposition that everyone who owns guns is a king within his castle any favours at all.

*A variant of ‘nah, they’re me tomato plants’.

custard
custard
April 24, 2022 6:42 pm

I quite liked this today on the interwebs

So the Hilary Campaign lawyers are attempting to utilize an insane defense strategy. They committed treason, and are claiming that they should not be prosecuted for their crimes because the case is “incoherent and too complicated for a jury to understand”.

This is why these high level crime organizations use so many proxies. To convolute and distort their network to make it difficult to discover and prosecute if they were to get caught. As well as obviously insulate the people at the top.

The Clinton legal team stooping to this level indicates they are running out of options. And the response from Durham was the legal equivalent of saying “That bullshit isn’t going to work, we caught you.”

He cited the Maxwell case as a legal precedent that there does not need to be a defined pact in writing to prove a “conspiracy”. Going on to cite the proof of the greater conspiracy network.

Pause. Clinton campaign lawyers have been indicted and are implicated in a literal “conspiracy” as per the US DOJ… The corrupt left-wing media simply refuse to acknowledge this reality. Therefore their sheep don’t know anything about this case and their sense of reality manipulated by the omission of fact.

Citing the Maxwell case was a not so subtle jab to the Clinton camp. It was a message. A not so friendly reminder that we are prosecuting their pedo friends in a highly complex federal conspiracy case as we speak. We are coming for all of them.

Everyone should feel incredibly motivated by the posture of the Durham team and their no-nonsense approach to this case. Don’t get discouraged just because you don’t see headlines on MSM. The Revolution will not be televised.

feelthebern
feelthebern
April 24, 2022 6:44 pm

The betrayal by SCOTUS was unforgivable and a repudiation of the rule of law.

Where do people read this crap.
Alito said the Pennsylvania case had zero standing as the GOP controlled Pennsylvania state house made absentee votes legal.

Blame the GOP statehouses for Pennsylvania & Arizona.
Blame Zuckerberg, Hoffman & Omidyar for Wisconsin, Michigan & Minnesota.
Georgia was straight out fraud.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 24, 2022 6:47 pm

A new movie about Nelson Mandela should be made. He should be played by a white lady.

Sounds reasonable to me.

Actor Laurence Fox Comes Out as ‘Trans-Racial Actress’, Asks to Play Winnie Mandela (24 Mar)

JC
JC
April 24, 2022 6:48 pm

Dover

If you’re so concerned about Uke Nazis, do you think South Korea should attack the Stalinist’s of NK? I mean, there’s not much space between Nazis and Stalinist’s, right?

rickw
rickw
April 24, 2022 6:49 pm

But it doesn’t make him a hero in all things forever, and this substandard lionising by whoever wrote that does not do the proposition that everyone who owns guns is a king within his castle any favours at all.

The cops have got a long and storied history of being complete arseholes. No one gives a fuck about nuance anymore as a result.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 24, 2022 7:00 pm

The cops have got a long and storied history of being complete arseholes.

Absolutely correct.

I expect you told them to go fuck themselves when they got your own guns back and charged the two punters for the dozen-odd burglaries you were taking about a while ago.

Don’t get me wrong. The jacks in recent years have deserved everything they got – in particular Victorian jacks – every single thing. If anything, it’s probably been milder than deserved.

But whoever wrote that shit in a very partisan (and semi-literate) shooters’ website does their interest group no favours by clearly and loudly pretending Ron and his ‘chilli oil’ are being targeted unfairly because he had a public win once.

Ed Case
Ed Case
April 24, 2022 7:01 pm

Kev:

I’m of the opinion that being slaughtered by Australian’s on Union forced high wages makes the meat too expensive for poorer countries.
Would that be right Zulu Kilo Two Alpha and other sheep breeders?

I understand that was the reason we started losing the Asian contracts along with the refrigeration issue

.

Gimme a break.
We never had any contracts to supply Asia with Sheepmeat.
From 1941 to 1966 everything went to Great Britain under a 25 year Deal Menzies had made with the British Government.
’66 to ’73 was the transition period away from the British Market and we exported to Japan, Korea, the United States and some non EU Countries.

I’m of the opinion that being slaughtered by Australian’s on Union forced high wages
That’s great.
I worked in the Industry at that time, Wages accounted for 7% of the running costs of a large Meatworks.
7%.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Vicki, if you’ve seen viable reports of horrid conditions on livex ships, why would it be that the animal activists & the anti-livex crazies have never got their hands on these viable reports?

Coz if they ever did, they’d be ramming them down our necks, instead of the dodgied-up propaganda they’ve been using.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
April 24, 2022 7:04 pm

The Chinese will try to diversify their supply of commodities but the timing is often horrible and the input costs enormous.

This is absolutely correct.

That’s why they need the likes of us.

This is why they have over invested in Australia over the past 20 years. China is uncomfortably aware of their exposure in iron ore, coal, and gas – hence the near hysteria in Sino-Australian relations as the US has become less accommodating in the post-Obama era.

Because Africa isn’t the answer to their needs in order for them to remain competitive or remain reliable supplier.

Might well be true, but that’s not their opinion. China has spent 40 years fine tuning their shithole skills and dark arts – and (at least in the oil patch) they reckon them as a strategic advantage.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 24, 2022 7:05 pm

if you’ve seen viable reports of horrid conditions on livex ships, why would it be that the animal activists & the anti-livex crazies have never got their hands on these viable reports?

Excellent question.

Rabz
April 24, 2022 7:06 pm

Looks like the Abronayzee basement strategy has worked a treat.

Snow cones all round.

Ed Case
Ed Case
April 24, 2022 7:08 pm

But whoever wrote that shit in a very partisan (and semi-literate) shooters’ website does their interest group no favours by clearly and loudly pretending Ron and his ‘chilli oil’ are being targeted unfairly because he had a public win once.
Forget that shit.
You know, and I know, that this bloke is being “Hunted” for having a win over the cops.
We’ve already got a Sheriff’s Service, so whadda we need the cops for?

miltonf
miltonf
April 24, 2022 7:09 pm

The betrayal by SCOTUS was unforgivable and a repudiation of the rule of law.

Where do people read this crap.

Here-

All three of President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court appointees — Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett — joined Chief Justice John Roberts and the three liberal justices in declining to hear Texas v. Pennsylvania.

In a short order issued Friday, the Court declared that Texas lacked standing to bring its case against Pennsylvania and three other states whose election rules were changed outside their respective state legislatures, as the Constitution requires.
Throughout Barrett’s confirmation process this past fall, Democrats suggested that Trump had appointed her in exchange for favorable judgements during the election. Barrett denied that the president had ever raised the election with her at all.

The three new Trump appointees voted with their liberal colleagues, whose votes were never in doubt. Roberts has lately moved toward the liberal camp, and voted accordingly. Ironically, only Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, both appointed by Trump’s Republican predecessors (George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, respectively), voted to hear the case. Four justices out of the nine would have had to agree to hear the case for it to have proceeded at the Supreme Court.

Conservative radio host Mark Levin, commenting on the Court’s decision, remarked that it may have “slit its own throat,” because the same rules being challenged in Georgia would apply to the Senate runoffs in January, and Democrats have discussed packing the Court with new liberal justices if they win both Senate seats and take control of the upper chamber.

Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). His newest e-book is Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. His recent book, RED NOVEMBER, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.

Ed Case
Ed Case
April 24, 2022 7:11 pm

Animal Activists are part of the Labor Party Push.
They don’t add any value to the discussion, so why keep bringing them up?

Rabz
April 24, 2022 7:14 pm

why would it be that the animal activists & the anti-livex crazies have never got their hands on these viable reports?

Because they’re waaacists. They only ever whinge about the (allegedly) terrible conditions the poor animals face when they end up in an islamic paradise and are then (allegedly) less than humanely slaughtered.

BTW, all this shit first came to prominence in the seventies, because I remember my brother remarking on it at the time, “They expect some abattoir* worker to pray to Allah while facing east and slitting the beast’s throat?”

*The nearest at the time being the one in Homebush.

Old bloke
Old bloke
April 24, 2022 7:14 pm

Rex Anger says:
April 24, 2022 at 6:28 pm

You dear people have clearly never heard of the Kenya-Uganda Railway.

Dubbed the Lunatic Express by the Victorian Era’s equivalent of latter-day Cats, it muddled on through.

Chris Tarrant looked at its history in an episode of Extreme Railway Journeys. It was incredible how they got the railway line over the Great Rift Valley.

rickw
rickw
April 24, 2022 7:16 pm

I expect you told them to go fuck themselves when they got your own guns back and charged the two punters for the dozen-odd burglaries you were taking about a while ago.

If it wasn’t for the stupid rules that they so love, and love to fuck people over, the guns would never have been in the safe. Oh, and they threatened to charge me on multiple occasions. Oh, and if I had of been there and produced a firearm on the three fucks who were breaking in, they would have charged me regardless of circumstances. Oh, and the fucks who did me over had been operating at full steam for two years and the cops had no fucking idea of an operation that was so big that they had a warehouse in Geelong and were inventorying items for future theft to order on an IPad.

So no, they don’t get a free pass for accidentally part solving a crime…

Ed Case
Ed Case
April 24, 2022 7:19 pm

Coz if they ever did, they’d be ramming them down our necks, instead of the dodgied-up propaganda they’ve been using.

No, they wouldn’t.
These people’s role is to muddy the waters of any important issue, then discredit the opposition.
They’re quite competent at what they do.

dopey
dopey
April 24, 2022 7:20 pm

I remember watching Concorde taking off from Heathrow many years ago. Starts out low then hurls itself almost vertical, like one of Bruce’s currawongs.

Rabz
April 24, 2022 7:23 pm

I remember watching Concorde landing at Heathrow while playing cricket at a ground in suburban London.

Mighty Beasts.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
April 24, 2022 7:25 pm

Dubbed the Lunatic Express by the Victorian Era’s equivalent of latter-day Cats, it muddled on through. And parts of it is still in commercial service today. Only recently being edged out by the Chinese-built Standard Gauge from Mombasa-Nairobi-Kisumu.

It was a great ride from Nairobi to Mombasa in 1984. An overnight train with a wood panelled white linen-silver service dining car.

Winston Smith
April 24, 2022 7:28 pm

Project Orion:
Here.

feelthebern
feelthebern
April 24, 2022 7:28 pm

Different case Milton.
The key case was the Alito summary ruling.
It killed the Pennsylvania case that was about absentee (postal) votes.
All cases about absentee (postal) voting being unconstitutional died on the spot.

feelthebern
feelthebern
April 24, 2022 7:31 pm

The only real stinker ruling from SCOTUS over the past 2 years was when ACB summarily ruled that the Indiana students from state colleges had no standing when it came to disputing vaccine mandates.

feelthebern
feelthebern
April 24, 2022 7:35 pm

The biggest issues surrounding the Supreme Court are when single justices rule on standing before letting serious cases in front of the full court.
The Pennsylvania case (absentee votes) was progressed because they thought Alito would rule favourably.
The Indiana case (state vaccine mandates) was progressed because they thought ACB would rule favourably.
How wrong they were.

Rabz
April 24, 2022 7:41 pm

For all those Mighty Reds supporters across this planet …

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 24, 2022 7:44 pm

It was a great ride from Nairobi to Mombasa in 1984. An overnight train with a wood panelled white linen-silver service dining car.

There is something vaguely reminiscent of the colonial era, traveling by luxury train through Africa…

Top Ender
Top Ender
April 24, 2022 7:53 pm

A Florida sheriff says:

‘If someone’s breaking into your house, you’re more than welcome to shoot them in Santa Rosa County. We prefer that you do, actually.’

Great style!

Frank
Frank
April 24, 2022 8:03 pm

A new movie about Nelson Mandela should be made. He should be played by a white lady.

Possibly a lilly-white twink?

Winston Smith
April 24, 2022 8:03 pm

Cohenite:

SCOTUS has already declined a majority state based suite about the electoral fraud. So, who or what is going to do anything?

The continuum of results in the future will depend on too many factors to be predictable.
However the Constitutional crisis from SCOTUS doing jack shit will be the deciding factor about a separation of the Northern & Southern US.
But I’d say the stories by Kurt Schlicter would be a rough outcome.

rickw
rickw
April 24, 2022 8:06 pm

Very cool steam powered sawmill:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7KRXZoyj0A

Winston Smith
April 24, 2022 8:06 pm

HBBear:

People have been breaking their pick in Africa for a while. No doubt the Chinese approach will be a bit different to the Euros. Who knows whether it will work. History suggests not.

I’d suggest the Chinese will do what is necessary to win, even if it comes down to a little bug warfare.
They will, of course, deny any wrongdoing and ask “What are you going to do about it?”

bespoke
bespoke
April 24, 2022 8:06 pm

shatterzzzsays:
April 24, 2022 at 9:55 am

I might be one of the few folk around who luvs Brussell sprouts .. LOL!

No unfortunately but you are one of the few who rides a bike.
If you were cool like that Granny pirate chick it wouldn’t be a problem.

Two strikes.

Frank
Frank
April 24, 2022 8:11 pm

It was a great ride from Nairobi to Mombasa in 1984. An overnight train with a wood panelled white linen-silver service dining car.

My father was once on an expedition in the bush there during his time in the police in the 50s or 60s. At dinner time his companion had a couple of underlings appear with a camp table to eat off complete with white table cloth, silverware and napkins. Dad was mildly shocked and queried him about it, the reply being “any damn fool can be uncomfortable”. Different time I guess.

Thefrollickingmole
Thefrollickingmole
April 24, 2022 8:17 pm

Mandela craned his head around to view Heinrich, his lovers face as it screwed up in ecstasy as he ravaged Mandellas front hole one last time.
Was the freedom of his people from apartheid worth it? Sacrificing the only true love of his life?

Scene from brokeback Roben Island….

The script might need a little more work, but I think casting Mandela as a M to F tranny might be enough for an Oscar nod.

P
P
April 24, 2022 8:19 pm

Rabz says:
April 24, 2022 at 7:41 pm

I think you mentioned in the last thread a coming feature of music 1962 – 1971.
Gerry and the Pacemakers ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ was 1963.
For me Dusty Springfield’s ‘Silver Threads & Golden Needles’ was one of the best of the pops of 1962.
As a trainee nurse during those years these tunes kept us going at times as every day we listened to Bob Rogers, 300 of us living in the nurses home only allowed to go home on our two days off a week. Those from the country areas were stuck there.

Bazinga
Bazinga
April 24, 2022 8:21 pm

Still the fascist (and dangerous) mandatory vaccinations exist in too many areas, preventing people doing their normal jobs, contributing to inflation, unemployment and supply chain issues. Just like they planned it.

Frank
Frank
April 24, 2022 8:24 pm

The script might need a little more work, but I think casting Mandela as a M to F tranny might be enough for an Oscar nod.

I’ve always wondered what Morgan Freeman would look like in a skimpy French maid’s outfit.

Winston Smith
April 24, 2022 8:31 pm

Knuckle Dragger:

*A variant of ‘nah, they’re me tomato plants’.

The silly bugger didn’t bother tying in some plastic tomatoes or do a staggered planting?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 24, 2022 8:36 pm

From “The Age.” A Greens Senator…

‘Shouty, uninformed, ineffective’: How Senator Lidia Thorpe annoys the establishment

“I used to punch the boys and the girls out, but now I’ve learnt to use my mouth,” says the Greens senator who has made enemies inside and out of parliament, and even in the Aboriginal community.

By Jack Latimore
April 24, 2022

In a moment earlier this month that passed largely unnoticed, Australian Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe vehemently denounced in parliament a gas project in Victoria for allegedly using hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking”, on Gunnai Country in the state’s far east.

The exchange during a debate in the Senate between Thorpe and her upper house colleague, Nationals Party’s Senator Bridget McKenzie, was a classic Thorpe spectacle, her critics say: shouty, largely uninformed and ultimately ineffective.

But Thorpe’s conduct also displayed the very attributes that appeal strongly to her constituents. Here was an outspoken Blak woman, a distinctly unorthodox politician, standing in the very (white) symbol of Aboriginal dispossession in the form of Australia’s federal parliament, staunchly holding big industry to account on matters of environmental and Indigenous justice.

Her party, the Greens, are fond of this political persona. An image of Thorpe’s admission to the upper house chamber in 2020 sits prominently on her Greens profile page. It’s a representation charged with radical, militant political activism, heavily reminiscent of the Black Power movement that emerged in the 1960s and ’70s.

There are nods to traditional Aboriginal culture too: a message stick symbolises Aboriginal deaths in custody, white ochre is daubed on Thorpe’s cheeks. There’s a possum-skin cloak around her shoulders. But it’s the fist – raised in salute to, and in solidarity with, Blak resistance and refusal – that really announces the arrival of the first Aboriginal Senator from Victoria.

But a quick check of the facts finds that Thorpe’s activism is sometimes more about noise than substance. Her remonstration in early April with McKenzie on the Golden Beach gas project ignored the fact that there is no fracking in Victoria. Hydraulic fracturing for natural gas deposits is banned in the state, and the Greens party actually boasts of its contribution to the nation-first legislation passed by the state’s parliament in 2017.

It’s clear that Thorpe has a number of detractors within and outside federal parliament, to which she is seeking to return at this year’s election. But some in the Aboriginal community in Victoria also raise objections to her growing influence on progressive politics. These detractors, most of whom will not be named, question Thorpe’s cultural authority. They look askance at the theatre of Thorpe’s admission to the Senate: the message stick she carried was not genuine, they say, and the possum-skin cloak, gifted to her by the Loddon Campaspe Indigenous Family Violence Action Group affords her no traditional cultural or community authority.

So who, really, is Lidia Thorpe?

In her maiden speech in the federal parliament, 48-year-old Thorpe situated herself in a long line of radical Koori activists and strong Blak women. The Thorpe family’s history is closely tied, as are so many Aboriginal families’ in Victoria, to the once hard-scrabble inner-city suburbs of Fitzroy and Collingwood.

Thorpe’s great-grandmother, Edna Brown, became a community organiser after she was forced off the Framlingham Aboriginal reserve, aged 15, in 1932. Edna set up an Aboriginal Funeral Fund from her new home in Fitzroy after observing too many Aboriginal men dying in the parks around that suburb and being buried “as paupers in unmarked graves”. Edna eventually married Alister Thorpe, a Gunnai man who had also arrived in Fitzroy from the Lake Tyres-Bung Yarnda Aboriginal settlement in Victoria’s Gippsland region, east of Melbourne.

Thorpe’s grandmother is Alma Thorpe, a renowned community organiser who played a role in the Aboriginal Tent Embassy protest in 1972 and soon after founded the first Aboriginal Health Service in Victoria in 1973 – the year Lidia was born. Thorpe’s mother is Marjorie Thorpe, a preselected Greens federal candidate for Gippsland. In the ’90s, Marjorie was a co-commissioner for the Bringing Them Home Stolen Generations inquiry, and later a member of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation. Most recently, Marjorie was involved in the effort to stop the destruction of culturally contested trees on Djab Wurrung Country in Victoria’s western district.

Thorpe’s uncle is Robbie Thorpe, who is also linked closely to the earliest decades of the Black Power movement’s struggle for Aboriginal self-determination, and is synonymous with the Pay The Rent campaign, and the Black GST (Genocide, Sovereignty, Treaty) Collective that protested at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. Thorpe’s sister, Meriki Onus, is a founding member of the Warriors of Aboriginal Resistance (WAR) activist collective that rose to prominence as an integral driver of the anti-colonial and Aboriginal Sovereignty movement. The WAR collective has organised the mass street demonstrations in Melbourne on January 26 for a decade.

“I had no choice in being influenced by black activists and the black struggle of my people,” Thorpe tells The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. “I was born into it and I don’t know anything else.”

Rabz
April 24, 2022 8:39 pm

Bosi is a joke. He positions himself as the man of the ‘Australian people’, when he’s not even Australian at all, but a foreign ring-in whose parents were brought to our shores as the advance wave to edge out the Anglos.

Adam Piggott, quoted above. For emphasis:

he’s not even Australian at all, but a foreign ring-in whose parents were brought to our shores as the advance wave to edge out the Anglos

This is poor, Dover. Very poor. Think what you may about the Bosi, but, “edging out the Anglos”?

As an ‘alf Anglo with an Italian surname, whose ol’ man risked his life for this country in WW2, this is offensive idiocy on stilts.

Way past time he was bumped off your blogroll.

Rabz
April 24, 2022 8:51 pm

Thorpe’s uncle is Robbie Thorpe, who is also linked closely to the Black Power movement’s stroogle for aboriginal self-determination and the Pay The Rent campaign, and the Black GST (Genocide, Sovereignty, Treaty) Collective. Thorpe’s sister, Meriki Anus, is a founding member of the Warriors of Aboriginal Resistance (WAR) activist collective

And they’re all as pale as ghosts.

Collectivist deadshits – their resurrection of “race” as a fulcrum of grievance has been allowed to gather momentum for too long.

Way past time various thick empty skulls were acquainted with some lustily swung Louisville Sluggers.

calli
calli
April 24, 2022 8:52 pm

Heh. We’re all “foreign ring-ins”.

Even the sixth generation ones.

cohenite
April 24, 2022 8:53 pm

Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
April 24, 2022 at 8:36 pm
From “The Age.” A Greens Senator…

‘Shouty, uninformed, ineffective’: How Senator Lidia Thorpe annoys the establishment

This trivialises the pernicious effect this kunt and her shithead family have had on politics and aboriginal prosperity. Activism of this hypocritical sort really undermines aboriginality. In effect the bitch is a communist and hater of Western democracy. She should be tarred and feathered and run out of parliament.

Winston Smith
April 24, 2022 8:54 pm

Top Ender:

‘If someone’s breaking into your house, you’re more than welcome to shoot them in Santa Rosa County. We prefer that you do, actually.’

Great style!

Problem…
Very few Australians own pistols and I’d be a bit wary of shooting at some idiot who broke into my house while armed. .308 rounds go a fair way in a neighbourhood and specially if you are firing fairly horizontally.
A miscreants body doesn’t slow ’em down that much.
Probably better off with a 9mm pistol.
Just sayin’.

cohenite
April 24, 2022 8:55 pm

Expect a fleet of Sri Lankan refugees soon:

Sri Lanka’s descent into chaos

Rabz
April 24, 2022 8:57 pm

Time for some Primal Scream – Joolz 1997.

Movin’ on up … 🙂

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

cohenite says: April 24, 2022 at 8:55 pm

Expect a fleet of Sri Lankan refugees soon:
Sri Lanka’s descent into chaos

Any Sri Lankan sponsoreds I’ve got are desperate for me to continue the sponsorship.
Some who returned to the homeland with their nose in the air disdaining me (but keeping the money) have been in touch asking about returning “to help me through the covid aftermath” coz they “feel attached to the business”

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 24, 2022 9:05 pm

Back from the pub. Had hoped a favourite bar chick was there. No joy.

So no, they don’t get a free pass for accidentally part solving a crime…

And nor should they.

Again. This is not about whether the jacks are doing the righty or not. In all likelihood, especially from looking at the vision on that site it was broadcast on, the jacks were probably heading down to take his shooters.

I am questioning the judgment of whoever is writing that shit in choosing a largish-scale meth dealer as a modern-day hero, because there are plenty of other people in the same situation who are not the holders of meth precursors to choose from.

Ed Case
Ed Case
April 24, 2022 9:09 pm

After evaluating over 7,000 patients, Dr. Chetty observed early on that the patients who suffered the greatest during each of the four waves encountered in South Africa were ethnic specific with the first wave targeting only blacks, the second only Indians and the third Caucasians and Arabs. Dr Pekova recognized that each wave involved the disappearance of mutations contained in earlier versions of the pathogen which is a scientifically impossible occurrence while also noting that each wave in various nations resulted in allergic reactions targeting different bodily functions (lungs, gastrointestinal, nervous system etc).

Comment on Unz Review.
Any idea who Dr. Chetty is?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 24, 2022 9:13 pm

And they’re all as pale as ghosts.

From memory, and I don’t have a reference, Lidia Thorpe’s claim to Aboriginal status is based on the fact that one of her grandparents or great grandparents was indigenous.

Dot
Dot
April 24, 2022 9:14 pm

Alito said the Pennsylvania case had zero standing as the GOP controlled Pennsylvania state house made absentee votes legal.

That’s actually pretty based. Alito called them out as cucks.

miltonf
miltonf
April 24, 2022 9:15 pm

ok I stand corrected

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
April 24, 2022 9:21 pm

Dusty’s version of the Carole King & Gerry Goffin song Going Back is my favourite. Made Carole cry when she heard it.

Winston Smith
April 24, 2022 9:31 pm

Dover Beach:

If RUS wins if won’t be embarrassing to them in the slightest. And, if you take nukes off every table, RUS is still top three.

Well they’ve certainly buggered up Ukrainian and Belorussian access to the sea. It looks like Odessa is the only major port the Ukrainians have going for them.
And were I in charge of Belorussia I’d be looking at my Eastern and Southern flanks as well.

John H.
John H.
April 24, 2022 9:32 pm

Knuckle Draggersays:
April 24, 2022 at 6:42 pm
Ron Sterry is a champion who, after he saw his neighbour being stabbed on said neighbour’s front lawn, and also saw the neighbour’s assailant coming in to finish him off, grabbed a rifle and scared the assailant off. Brilliant stuff.

The NT jacks then tried to get him on firearms-related charges over that specific incident, which he beat. A righteous result, and fair enough.

FFS there was a time when the cops would have patted him on the back for saving someone’s life and suggested he might want to get the firearm issue addressed and told him how to do that.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 24, 2022 9:36 pm

FFS there was a time when the cops would have patted him on the back for saving someone’s life and suggested he might want to get the firearm issue addressed and told him how to do that.

Not that long ago, either.

John H.
John H.
April 24, 2022 9:40 pm

After evaluating over 7,000 patients, Dr. Chetty observed early on that the patients who suffered the greatest during each of the four waves encountered in South Africa were ethnic specific with the first wave targeting only blacks, the second only Indians and the third Caucasians and Arabs. Dr Pekova recognized that each wave involved the disappearance of mutations contained in earlier versions of the pathogen which is a scientifically impossible occurrence while also noting that each wave in various nations resulted in allergic reactions targeting different bodily functions (lungs, gastrointestinal, nervous system etc).

Nuts.

Winston Smith
April 24, 2022 9:48 pm

Exxon Bans BLM And Pride Flags From Being Flown Outside Of Their Offices
Is the tide turning?
Perhaps it is.
The example of Disney being destroyed by perverts who think because they are employed by a company, they get to decide policy for the company.

Makka
Makka
April 24, 2022 9:49 pm

The movie : Ambulance…. not bad at all.

Winston Smith
April 24, 2022 9:51 pm

On Thursday, Barack Obama called for more government oversight aimed at censoring free speech online.
As if it isn’t bad enough already with just Big Tech trampling on America’s first amendment rights, Obama wants to take things to a whole new level and unleash the corrupt deep state to silence dissent.

King Obama….

rosie
rosie
April 24, 2022 9:59 pm

Family member had a vehicular altercation with one of these.
oh dear

Winston Smith
April 24, 2022 10:06 pm

https://youtu.be/Fr1JdUXLWUo
Tucker and the Disney Corporation.
Another company bites the dust because it surrendered control to the Left.
I will not be surprised to see an humungous amount of sackings happening.
Then bankruptcy – because there is no way the public isn’t going to grab this and run with it.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 24, 2022 10:23 pm

Anyway, Sliante to all you mob.

Oh God Thirty start, tomorrow, for the dawn service….

MatrixTransform
April 24, 2022 10:25 pm

found a hidden cache today.

was digging around the kitchen trying to establish how the tiles were laid to try and work out how to rip them all up and lay the lower level in hardwood from end to end.

worked out that the tile was directly on the shit-wood floor but not enough info so I went in under the island bench in the kitchen for a recce.

turns out that the previous owners had stashed a mixed-dozen of central Victorian wines under there !!

no cork.
all screw cap

a 2004 Pinot Noir opened well and could have done with filtering but it was generally clear and showed broad smooth tannins and musky fruit at first taste. 20 minutes later the mousiness was obvious and the rest went down the sink.

there’s a few no-name rose, and semillon that I don’t hold much hope for but, there’s also a couple of late harvest Rieslings that I’m especially interested in and two Tahbilk Cab-Rose that may make it over the line.

time will tell.

under the other cupboards I found cake-tins
like mage cake-tins for tiered wedding cakes
and a collection of nanna’s silver plate

the old man had even squirreled away his own old man’s engraved silver-plated 1924 best and fairest award.

unreal … what a hoot.

Makka
Makka
April 24, 2022 10:36 pm

Tony
@Cyberspec1
????
Americans fighting in UKR are asking for donations …if what they write is true, not looking terribly good

https://mobile.twitter.com/Cyberspec1/status/1518196801685561344

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 24, 2022 10:41 pm

Taxpayers paid for part of Richard Marles’ 2019 Beijing trip

EXCLUSIVE
Sharri Markson
Investigations Editor
2 hours ago April 24, 2022
24 Comments

Taxpayers paid for Labor deputy leader Richard Marles to conduct meetings in Beijing organised by the Chinese government and to give a pro-China speech he cleared with the Chinese embassy before he left Australia.

Mr Marles has also breached parliamentary rules by failing to disclose the sponsored section of his trip to Beijing.

While Mr Marles did not disclose the trip, he did charge Australian taxpayers nearly $6200 for the first part of the overseas visit when he had meetings with a senior CCP official and gave the speech that called for closer military ties between Beijing and Australia.

The Australian has confirmed the Chinese embassy in Canberra organised both the meeting and the speech.

Mr Marles’s accommodation and return flight home from China was paid for by controversial think tank China Matters, which has since been stripped of its Australian government funding over concerns about its agenda.

The three-day study tour, from September 23-26, 2019, included meetings with PRC government officials and was “endorsed” by the Chinese ambassador to Australia at the time, Cheng Jingye.

According to the think tank’s website: “China Matters covered the travel expenses of the participating parliamentarians.”

Mr Marles is understood to have informed the think tank that he would be paying his own way to China, but The Australian has confirmed he in fact charged the taxpayer for the first part of his trip. Parliamentary records show Mr Marles claimed $6191 for the visit to China in the week of September 20-25, 2019.

Mr Marles said this travel “was in an official capacity in accordance with the parliamentary business resources framework”.

Writing a reference for the study tour, he said: “For my part, I came away, after three days, with new perspectives and a much deeper understanding of a country which is central to Australia’s future.”

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Richard Marles: Submits draft of speech to China for pre-approval.
ALP gets all het up & stirry when Scomo says “ALP is on China’s side

Crossie
Crossie
April 24, 2022 10:51 pm

I’m really glad Rabz decided on the 60s for his next radio show. I wasn’t sure even what electronica is which was a previous leader. I thought any music created on a synthesiser would be electronic music which isn’t a genre but a method. But what do I know.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

ALP cannot answer: Is China a threat or an opportunity?
Coz they do not understand ambiguity of the question. If you’re ALP, it is very straightforward, China is the boss.

MatrixTransform
April 24, 2022 10:53 pm

just in case anybody cares
reckon the kitchen went in round 2004
tiles are thrown on top of the original floor and laid on plastic film with an expanded metal mesh as the substrate
should be able to rip it up ok
though, I’ll bet that section which looks like fake bamboo float is glued onto the original shit-wood

the kitchen itself is quality.
solid American oak
almost a crime, but I think we’ll paint it
Omid, the Afghani painter is willing to take off the doors and use all the best most volatile shit you can.
should come up like a vinyl wrap

Chelsea swank

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 24, 2022 10:54 pm

ALP gets all het up & stirry when Scomo says “ALP is on China’s side“

Australian Labor Party does get all sweaty in the crutch and puffy in the jowls when any such allegation is made, indeed.

Crossie
Crossie
April 24, 2022 10:57 pm

France and Germany supplying weapons to Russia could well be a cause of EU dissolution. East European countries will feel betrayed particularly when they are bearing the major burden of Ukrainian refugees.

Doesn’t this also illustrate French and German contempt for Biden?

Dot
Dot
April 24, 2022 11:05 pm

Dr Pekova recognized that each wave involved the disappearance of mutations contained in earlier versions of the pathogen which is a scientifically impossible occurrence while also noting that each wave in various nations resulted in allergic reactions targeting different bodily functions (lungs, gastrointestinal, nervous system etc).

COVID-B plays the brown note. 446 Hz.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Crossie says: April 24, 2022 at 10:57 pm

France and Germany supplying weapons to Russia could well be a cause of EU dissolution
Doesn’t this also illustrate French and German contempt for Biden?

Crossie, Apparently the Frogs & the Jerries have been supplying civilian use only (snork snork) weaponry to Ivan for the past 8 years, in direct breach of sanctions imposed in 2014 coz of Ivan’s Crimean nastyness.

Not sure if they’ve been supplying since the Russkis slipped into the Ukes.

I’m now waiting for the outrage from the lefty flogs who were so vocal about “oil for food” and set about ruining the career of Wheat Board execs who managed to feed some starving Iraqis.

Winston Smith
April 24, 2022 11:31 pm

Someone mentioned the blue colour in the swarf was evidence of good machining technique.
Anyone care to comment?

Arky
April 24, 2022 11:37 pm

Someone mentioned the blue colour in the swarf was evidence of good machining technique.

..
No.
It’s evidence that there isn’t any cooling fluid being used.

Crossie
Crossie
April 25, 2022 12:51 am

I can’t imagine that the Baltic republics or the Scandinavians are feeling anymore secure knowing the French and Germans are arming the Russians. What a strange and dangerous world the greens have wrought.

DaFisk
DaFisk
April 25, 2022 12:59 am

After evaluating over 7,000 patients, Dr. Chetty observed early on that the patients who suffered the greatest during each of the four waves encountered in South Africa were ethnic specific with the first wave targeting only blacks, the second only Indians and the third Caucasians and Arabs. Dr Pekova recognized that each wave involved the disappearance of mutations contained in earlier versions of the pathogen which is a scientifically impossible occurrence while also noting that each wave in various nations resulted in allergic reactions targeting different bodily functions (lungs, gastrointestinal, nervous system etc).

A race-based bioweapon!

DaFisk
DaFisk
April 25, 2022 1:02 am

Oh no! It looks like sabotage was at least partly to blame for Putin’s failure to take Kyiv –

https://twitter.com/franakviacorka/status/1518234673926877186

Franak Via?orka
@franakviacorka
We believe that the Russians gave up on taking Kyiv because of our work. They didn’t feel as safe in Belarus as they had expected. Thousands of Russian troops didn’t receive the food, didn’t receive fuel, and didn’t receive equipment on time.

This can’t stand. Russia MUST regroup by moving at least 10 brigades all the way around the north again and try to take Kyiv once more!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 25, 2022 1:08 am

I am going down to the Cenotaph and no-one is going to stop me!
#stunningandbrave

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
April 25, 2022 1:32 am

The idea that freedom is merely the ability to act upon one’s whims is surely very thin and hardly begins to capture the complexities of human existence; a man whose appetite is his law strikes us not as liberated but enslaved.
— Theodore Dalrymple

Freedom, for me, is not being obliged to obey rules generated by those who are more ignorant and stupid than I am. So there has been a considerable diminution of my freedom in the last two years.

I do not take kindly to it.

Top Ender
Top Ender
April 25, 2022 2:08 am

Andrew Bolt: Bob Katter playing identity politics

Bob Katter sure knows how to play identity politics with an ABC audience and panel, not one of whom dared call him out when he identified himself as Aboriginal.

A judge once said I’d broken the law by suggesting some people with fair skin made a choice to identify as Aboriginal.

Clearly he hadn’t met Bob Katter, let alone Professor Bruce Pascoe.

Katter (below) is the maverick federal politician who on the ABC’s Q&A last week decided to call himself Aboriginal.

Katter might talk like his gearbox fell out, but he sure knows how to play identity politics with an ABC audience and panel, not one of whom dared call him out.

Turning to Morrison government minister Keith Pitt, Katter stormed: “You won’t give my mob the right to own a piece of land … why would you refuse a person, because he’s black living in a black community, the right to own a piece of land?”

Later, he again posed as a victim of racism: “Everyone on Earth has a beer, if we have a beer, we blackfellas, we get a criminal charge.”

Katter even messed with host David Speers, who seemed too scared to tell Katter he was posing as Aboriginal for bullying rights: “We were almost annihilated as a race of people, we Australians …

“David, I come from Cloncurry and I’m dark … and we made a hell of a bad mistake 250 years ago, letting you whitefellas in.”

In fact, Katter’s great-grandfather on his father’s side signed a statutory declaration in 1905 saying he was born in Bcharre, now in modern Lebanon, though Katter exploded at a journalist who four years ago called his grandfather Lebanese.

“No, he’s not,” he shouted. “He’s an Australian and I resent strongly you describing him as Lebanese. That is a racist comment.”

Of course, this isn’t the first time Katter has chosen to be Aboriginal for a left-wing crowd. Five years ago, again on the ABC, he said: “I identify as a blackfella on occasion and I’ll identify this time as a blackfella – we are the most land-rich people on Earth, we blackfellas in Australia, and we are not allowed to use it.”

But a decade ago, he admitted: “I’m not too sure where my racial background has come from, but I am not going to argue if someone calls me a blackfella.”

When you can win arguments on the ABC by being Aboriginal, who can blame Katter for running with it? Question is, how many others do the same?

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
April 25, 2022 3:40 am

Thank you to the ANZACS may the sacrifice and suffering not be in vain –

the price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

and the cost of looking the other way is born by the nation whose ‘leaders’ are blinded by narrow self-interest. God bless Australia may she prevail

Tom
Tom
April 25, 2022 4:00 am
Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 25, 2022 4:01 am

I am going down to the Cenotaph and no-one is going to stop me!

Likewise.

But I will note with interest any protest activity at any of the Dawn Services, because in my very firm view today is not the day for that.

It is my fervent hope that anyone using ANZAC Day Dawn Services as a protest mechanism – for anything – gets, from the crowd, the same treatment that monumental fuckstick did at Friday’s NRL game when he decided to look for attention during the minute’s silence.

Tom
Tom
April 25, 2022 4:01 am
Tom
Tom
April 25, 2022 4:02 am
Tom
Tom
April 25, 2022 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
April 25, 2022 4:06 am
Tom
Tom
April 25, 2022 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
April 25, 2022 4:08 am
Tom
Tom
April 25, 2022 4:09 am
Tom
Tom
April 25, 2022 4:10 am
Tom
Tom
April 25, 2022 4:11 am
Tom
Tom
April 25, 2022 4:12 am
Tom
Tom
April 25, 2022 4:13 am
Tom
Tom
April 25, 2022 4:14 am
Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
April 25, 2022 4:29 am

Sorry Dover I reported the Patrick Cross #2 in error meant to like it — I blame lack of sleep

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
April 25, 2022 4:29 am

Thanks, Tom. David Rowe has a foul mind.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
April 25, 2022 4:30 am

Thanks, Tom. David Rowe has a foul mind.

100% agree

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
April 25, 2022 4:52 am

Seems St Jacinda in NZ has decreed no normal ANZAC day activities in NZ.

rickw
rickw
April 25, 2022 4:59 am

But I will note with interest any protest activity at any of the Dawn Services, because in my very firm view today is not the day for that.

The only legitimate protest would have been turning up when attendance was banned.

rickw
rickw
April 25, 2022 5:22 am

Exxon Bans BLM And Pride Flags From Being Flown Outside Of Their Offices
Is the tide turning?

This is after LBGTQ shit being on the home page for three years straight? And the Australian Country manager sending out the most grossly ill informed piece of idiocy supporting BLM?

They’re fucking Woke Oil, my guess is that one of the main reasons I got fired was because I dared to dissent from the narrative of the day. They’d just spent 18 months beating the workforce into vaccine submission.

They’d decided the easiest route out of the COVID hysteria was to comply their way out via pressuring their workforce. Rather than pointing out the obvious insanity of shutting down a country for two years.

rickw
rickw
April 25, 2022 5:30 am

Any idea who Dr. Chetty is?

South African Doctor who successfully treated huge numbers of COVID patients. IIRC by being ready for the allergic reaction on the 7th or 8th day that typically finished people off.

rosie
rosie
April 25, 2022 6:06 am

“The claim is “unintelligible nonsense,” said Dr. Mark Schleiss, a pediatrics professor and faculty member in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the University of Minnesota.”
Are we supposed to believe Chetty was really able to ‘monitor’ patients who developed regular pneumonia and covid 19 pneumonia? He’s a GP; did none of his pneumonia patients get admitted to hospital?
And how come none of the other trusted internet covid doctors make the same claims?

doctors dispute claim

rosie
rosie
April 25, 2022 6:10 am

And I thought covid was just the sniffles .

132andBush
132andBush
April 25, 2022 6:28 am

The presence of politicians at ANZAC Day commemorations is galling, now more than ever.

A more spineless, self serving group of malignant personalities cannot be imagined.
They disgust me beyond words.

Dot
Dot
April 25, 2022 6:35 am

And I thought covid was just the sniffles .

Always was.

132andBush
132andBush
April 25, 2022 6:44 am

Probably going to miss the service today, too much happening re getting crops in the ground ahead of this rain. I’m sure they won’t mind.

Various family will be there.
Hope everyone has a good day.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 25, 2022 7:01 am

Morrison’s turned up for the Darwin dawn service.

No ukelele tunes as yet.

Bluey
Bluey
April 25, 2022 7:04 am

132andBushsays:
April 25, 2022 at 6:28 am
The presence of politicians at ANZAC Day commemorations is galling, now more than ever.

A more spineless, self serving group of malignant personalities cannot be imagined.
They disgust me beyond words

This x1000.

2dogs
April 25, 2022 7:09 am

Bob Moran simultaneously horrifying and hopeful.

Possibly not a great time to live in a large city.

Anchor What
Anchor What
April 25, 2022 7:29 am

The media managed to convince the French voters that Macron is at the centre and that Le Pen is “extreme right”, when she’s only a sensible bit to the right of Macro Man.
He did the usual “govern for everybody” speech, which later transforms into “you lost so we do everything our way”.

miltonf
miltonf
April 25, 2022 7:34 am

Wow- Macaroon got back in? How fucked can you get.

Anchor What
Anchor What
April 25, 2022 7:42 am

The Australian has a piece headed “Piers Morgan standing up for free speech”.
This is the same guy who just yesterday on Outsiders said he’d seen no evidence of voter fraud in the 2020 election.
2000 Mules, which has all the evidence anyone could need, comes out in early May. There has been plenty of statistical analysis already, but this doco has hard data on what the ballot mules actually did, where they went, how many drop boxes they serviced.

miltonf
miltonf
April 25, 2022 7:45 am

Murdoch and his media empire has always been globalist with a big dollop of contempt for everyman. Any hint that they were not was just game playing.

miltonf
miltonf
April 25, 2022 7:47 am

The Australian was noted for its ‘posh radicalism’ when it first started.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 25, 2022 7:50 am

Localized global warming.

A climate activist who lit himself on fire on Earth Day outside the United States Supreme Court Building has died, according to reports.

Wynn Bruce, 50, of Boulder, Colorado, died Saturday, a day after he set himself ablaze in Washington, D.C., the Metropolitan Police Department told Fox News. The incident happened around 6:30 p.m. on the plaza in front of the court building. He was airlifted to a local hospital, where he died.

Seems an apt celebration of Lenin’s birthday.

2dogs
April 25, 2022 7:56 am

Macron is:

– fiscally conservative
– pro-nuclear

I think the centre label is appropriate. Where do our pro-nuke pollies lie?

miltonf
miltonf
April 25, 2022 8:02 am

Macaroon was complicit in the police assaults on the yellow vests along with jacing up the cost of fuel for ordinary workers. Macaroon is open borders.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 25, 2022 8:08 am

Macron is:

– fiscally conservative
– pro-nuclear

No he’s not.

France to close 14 nuclear reactors by 2035: Macron (2018)

He’s a nutter like the rest of the Left. Recall that he was a member of the Socialist Party and was the Economy Minister in the socialist Hollande government. If you believe either of those two points I have a bridge to sell you.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 25, 2022 8:11 am

Weekday Reading #20:

My War by Fussell. Well worth going back and having a look, if you haven’t already.

Dickless uptick.

Crossie
Crossie
April 25, 2022 8:14 am

A socialist wins election in France. What a surprise? I would have been gobsmacked if it didn’t turn out this way.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
April 25, 2022 8:17 am

LEST WE FORGET
Lt Granddad Thomas, ME, Balkans, Somme, Stretcher Bearer: AFC Recce Pilot France.
Granddad John, Somme.
Granddad David, RN, Engineer on submarine Mediterranean.
Lt Uncle Bob, RAF, Pilot, Battle of Britain, England.
Uncle Noel, RAF, Ground Crew, Biggin Hill.
Uncle Alec, El-Alamein, Monte Casino.
Uncle Sam, Pacific Islands.
These are the close relations of my wife and mine who served. We must be a only a few of the families that didn’t lose anyone. Growing up it seemed all the kids I knew had missing granddads and uncles. What lives gone defending their loved ones and the waste of Nancy Boys that pass for Leaders these days. All those rellies never talked about the war. My Granddad only said he couldn’t stand the smell of shit coz he’d had enough in the Somme. All those men were far better than I will ever be. It was an honour to know them all.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
April 25, 2022 8:29 am

A socialist wins election in France. What a surprise? I would have been gobsmacked if it didn’t turn out this way.

Violent riots break out in Paris as police charge protesters raging at Macron election

I would have been gobsmacked if it didn’t turn out this way.

calli
calli
April 25, 2022 8:31 am

It’s a sobering roll call, Ranga. Mine is similar.

Somme and Flanders, Middle East for the first event, back again to the ME and PNG for the second act. Everyone who was of age went. One didn’t return and those who did were forever changed.

I watched 1917 last night. Mesmerising.

Crossie
Crossie
April 25, 2022 8:35 am

Touché, Dr Faustus.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
April 25, 2022 8:38 am

Set the flag at the local memorial and made sure it’s neat and tidy. There’s no service but people come out from town later in the day to pay respect.

ABC radio running their marginal seat reports. Once again, no one votes LNP and they’re all primarily concerned about climate change. What are the odds?

Zipster
Zipster
April 25, 2022 8:53 am

Beijing Prepares to Decouple/In the Wake of Multiple Concerns, CNOOC exiting from US, Canada and UK

less than 10 years after entering the Canadian, U.S., and U.K. markets, CNOOC is now preparing to withdraw completely. While exiting some Western markets, CNOOC has planned to list on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
This shows that Beijing does fear secondary sanctions from countries like the US. Nonetheless, it’s also possible that the pro-Russian faction within the divided Communist Party has had to concede in order to appease the internal opposition.
It appears the U.S. government has realized that under the current international environment, as well as the internal environment in China, if the U.S. and China really decouple financially, it will be the CCP that can’t afford it, not the U.S.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
April 25, 2022 8:54 am

Record turnout at our local memorial for the Dawn Service.

JC
JC
April 25, 2022 8:55 am

The media managed to convince the French voters that Macron is at the centre and that Le Pen is “extreme right”, when she’s only a sensible bit to the right of Macro Man.

She plagiarised the economic policies of the socialist party, ffs.

Zipster
Zipster
April 25, 2022 8:56 am

France to close 14 nuclear reactors by 2035: Macron (2018)

that worked out so well for germany

the dark age wasn’t supposed to be here till end of the century, seems the devil is impatient

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
April 25, 2022 8:59 am

ABC radio interviewing an ex endangered species commissioner.
34 mammal species extinct since colonisation. His take, we must stop land clearing and vote for the climate independents.
What are the odds?

JC
JC
April 25, 2022 8:59 am

Ignore Uncle Fester. He’s a bullshit artist. Macron is not anti-nuke

At the center of French President Emmanuel Macron’s re-election platform is his plan to construct as many as 14 new-generation reactors and a fleet of smaller nuclear plants, supposedly to bolster the country’s climate protection strategy.

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 25, 2022 9:03 am

Bruce of N

Good thing they didn’t find any hydroxylic acid or he’d be in for life.

Is that the same as that noxious substance di-hydrogen monoxide?

Ed Case
Ed Case
April 25, 2022 9:04 am

In fact, Katter’s great-grandfather on his father’s side signed a statutory declaration in 1905 saying he was born in Bcharre, now in modern Lebanon, though Katter exploded at a journalist who four years ago called his grandfather Lebanese.

“No, he’s not,” he shouted. “He’s an Australian and I resent strongly you describing him as Lebanese. That is a racist comment.”

I read elsewhere that Katter’s G-granPappy embarked from Niniveh, which is in Iraq.
They were merchants, that’s not disputed, though perhaps not Lebanese?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 25, 2022 9:06 am

ABC radio interviewing an ex endangered species commissioner.
34 mammal species extinct since colonisation.

Any mention of this?

New Study: Wind, Solar Energy Now Killing 48% Of Priority Bird Species With ‘Population-Level Effects’ (24 Apr)

Rhetorical question, of course the ABC would never run such a story.

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 25, 2022 9:08 am

miltonfsays:
April 24, 2022 at 6:40 pm
Politics has been hijacked by the chattering classes and Big Media.
What the majority of Australians want is irrelevant.

Correct- 1974 is my crossover year. The year they introduced multiculturalism- apart from being divisive and dangerous, it was also highly insulting.

Thanks to Flash Al Grassby, the r-sole of multiculturalism.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 25, 2022 9:10 am

It appears the U.S. government has realized that under the current international environment, as well as the internal environment in China, if the U.S. and China really decouple financially, it will be the CCP that can’t afford it, not the U.S.

Was there really any doubt? Apart from the usual suspects working against the interests of the West, the Magic Negro et al.

calli
calli
April 25, 2022 9:12 am

In 2018 Macron was going to close down nuclear, but in 2022 he is now committed to building new plants.

What has changed?

Helen
Helen
April 25, 2022 9:13 am

Captain thought Katter’s ancestor was Afghan – possible one of them turned up in Lebanon.

Roger
Roger
April 25, 2022 9:22 am

… if the U.S. and China really decouple financially, it will be the CCP that can’t afford it, not the U.S.

Ah…but they’ll always have Russia.

miltonf
miltonf
April 25, 2022 9:22 am

Remember too that Grasby was made ‘commissioner for community relations’ by twitlam and Fraser allowed this to continue.

Eyrie
Eyrie
April 25, 2022 9:25 am

Good guest post by John Ringo on Sarah Hoyt’s blog. Via Instapundit.
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2022/04/23/principles-are-a-grand-thing-a-guest-post-by-john-ringo/

Roger
Roger
April 25, 2022 9:31 am

In 2018 Macron was going to close down nuclear, but in 2022 he is now committed to building new plants.

What has changed?

Not much; the 14 new plants he’s promised will replace the 14 he shut down, albeit with newer technology.

Like the nuclear powered turbine, it’s all about spin.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 25, 2022 9:34 am

The only legitimate protest would have been turning up when attendance was banned.

As long as you didn’t claim the attributes of those whose names are chipped into the granite as your own.
Or declare those who didn’t choose precisely that form of protest as lacking in patriotism.

Boambee John
Boambee John
April 25, 2022 9:39 am

Winston

However the Constitutional crisis from SCOTUS doing jack shit will be the deciding factor about a separation of the Northern & Southern US.
But I’d say the stories by Kurt Schlicter would be a rough outcome.

If it happens, it won’t be a separation of the north and south, but the north-east and west from the rest. Possibly with parts of the NE and west splitting from their current states to join the bulk of the nation.

Frank
Frank
April 25, 2022 9:48 am

Correct- 1974 is my crossover year. The year they introduced multiculturalism

That is a long time for the advocacy people to come up with a benefit of multiculturalism; you know, apart from the restaurants.

Roger
Roger
April 25, 2022 9:49 am

Macron is also despoiling the French countryside with wind farms – 40GW by 2050 – a high price to pay for a largely symbolic input in the greater scheme of things (although it would power c. 33 time travelling DeLoreans), but it placates the greens.

He’s the consummate pragmatic politician, a.k.a. a “centrist”.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 25, 2022 9:50 am

All those men were far better than I will ever be. It was an honour to know them all.

100%.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 25, 2022 9:50 am

Interestingly the Russians have moved very quickly to salvage something or other from the sunken Moskva.

H I Sutton, a naval expert quoted in Forbes, said a flotilla of eight ships have been sent out on a salvage mission. This, he added, includes the world’s oldest active warship, the Russian auxiliary Kommuna.

The main function of this vessel is to raise objects out of the water, raising suspicions over what Moscow is attempting to recover. A senior US defence official earlier this week told reporters there is no indication attempts are being made to “recover” the whole ship.

I wonder what they’re after and if there might be two of them?

Zipster
Zipster
April 25, 2022 9:54 am
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