Who believes it was the plan to feign losing control of a major airfield and the capital was just part of a diversion for a sweep through the east and south?

the changes to command and arrests tells you things didn’t go to plan. all parties are spewing propaganda at historically unprecedented rates.

Anyone who think this will in any way shape or form deter china from taking taiwan needs to take a stiff drink, the playbook is now out in the open

A friend received this email from Avi. Viktoriastan is totally stuffed.

It cost me $268K to take Dan Andrews to court.

Hey ******, I’m in trouble.

And I think I need your help to get out of it.

Let me explain.

As you know, I’m in the Supreme Court, fighting against Dan Andrews’ political censorship.

It started last year when I went to a press conference at the Parliament in Melbourne. I identified myself to the police guards, showed them my ID, and was let in just like any other reporter. But then Andrews’ political assistant saw me, and he ordered me off the property — like he was some king, commanding a peasant to get out of his sight!

But we live in a democracy, not a dictatorship. A free press is essential to keeping a close watch on our politicians. Especially politicians as abusive as Dan Andrews.

So I applied for a formal press pass to the Legislature. And that’s where things got really serious. Here, watch this video where I tell you what happened next:

It won’t surprise you hear that I was denied press credentials, without any explanation at all.

And to this day, the government is keeping it a secret who actually made the decision.

This isn’t just about me, of course. Because if they can keep me out they can keep anyone out, for any or no reason.

That’s not how it should work in a democracy. I reported from the streets of Hong Kong, and even the Chinese Communist Party didn’t censor me like that.

So I took the Victoria government to court. I hired the best media lawyer in Australia, Justin Quill. After all, a win would set a precedent for all Australian journalists — strengthening press freedom.

And a loss would set a precedent too — one where politicians get to pick and choose which reporters get to cover them, and which are banned.

Justin is expensive. But he’s worth it. He’s the best media lawyer in the country. Over his 24 years as a lawyer, he’s represented everyone from The Age to the Herald Sun and even the ABC.

He gave me an estimate for the cost of this legal battle. He said it would be between $80,000 and $100,000.

That’s a lot of money, but this was a big battle. So we signed up.

But that’s when something shocking happened. And here’s why I need your help so badly.

Dan Andrews declared war against us. He not only deployed government lawyers, but he also hired private law firms too. He put together an entire legal army to stop little old me. It was bizarre — he surely spent a million dollars of taxpayer money just trying to keep me out. He was obsessed with it.

Andrews’ lawyers fought over everything. It was like trench warfare.

They came up with obscure arguments, including a legal argument dating back nearly 200 years. It’s obvious their goal was to overwhelm our little legal team. They fought over everything, even when it didn’t make sense.

We met them blow for blow. We hired a top-ranked QC, Will Houghton, too. We built a great legal team. We matched Dan Andrews government lawyers.

I think we’ve got a good chance to win it.

But when I received our legal bill, it was bigger than the estimate — a lot bigger.

Dan Andrews had made fighting me in court his top government priority. And that tripled the amount of work my lawyers had to do. Not just Justin Quill, but our QC and a whole legal team.

The final bill: a jaw-dropping $268,000.

That’s Dan Andrews’ way of saying “don’t ever challenge me again.”

It’s his way of trying to wear me out, trying to exhaust me. Dan Andrews has the unlimited resources of the state. But Rebel News and I rely 100% on viewer donations.

This is the biggest legal bill we’ve ever had. But it’s 100% legitimate. Our team did a year’s worth of work for this battle, in a compressed period of time.

We had to — because freedom of the press is on the line.

Please help me pay this legal bill. Please help me roll back Dan Andrews’ punitive censorship. Do it for me, so I can keep reporting the truth to you. But do it for Australia — we so dearly need to set a legal precedent for freedom. And this expensive lawsuit is the best way how.

Please click here and give what you can — thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Thank you.

Yours truly,

Avi Yemini

Chief Australia Correspondent

P.S. Justin Quill took me through the bill in detail — it’s legit. That’s the price you pay for challenging Dan Andrews’ government: he’ll throw the book at you. There’s no way I could fight this battle on my own. Please click here to help me if you can.

P.P.S. Dan Andrews knows that if he can stop me, he can stop anyone. Because who else could afford to challenge him? This is our last, best hope. I know the legal bill is huge, but that’s the point — Dan Andrews did everything he could to stop us. We can’t let him win. Please click here to help.

P.P.P.S. Please watch Justin’s explanation of the bill by clicking here. Like me, you’ll feel grateful that such a strong advocate is on our side, fighting for freedom. (Thanks.)

https://www.rebelnews.com/it_cost_avi_yemini_268k_to_take_dan_andrews_to_court?utm_campaign=ay_pressfreedom2_042722&utm_medium=email&utm_source=therebel

I need attention Choo choo?!

That wordwall certainly proves it.

Now don’t you have to go get crabs from your trawlermen mates or something?

The arrest of the witness in BRS case is interesting to say the least. Although not charged, yet, with anything to do with whatever purpose of warrant was.

To execute a search warrant in his room just after he has given evidence suggests they knew might find something. If the case was before a jury it would surely affect the credibility of witness in eyes of the jury. Even the sole judge is going to be thinking WTF. I am guessing looking for evidence of collusion. If so it gives a strong signal to other potential witnesses for BRS.

As we know the team assigned to investigate the cases arising from Brereton Inquiry is loaded with investigative and legal talent and if I recall correctly about 80 strong. I would surmise they are adopting a whatever it takes approach. Anybody appearing in the defamation case, particularly on BRS side, is hopefully mindful that everything they are saying and their contacts etc are no doubt being monitored.

Either way, f..k the senior officers who got leadership medals and promotions and no repercussions. My support is with the guys on the ground. The operating rules were rigged against them as they knew the majority of prisoners taken would be released within a few days as there was no legal way to deal with them. I do however say that on the basis that the guys “taken out” we’re actually bad guys and not total innocents. Even then it would be tough for a new guy on his first patrol on first tour to end up in that environment where the old hands are going to know what happens if a Taliban is handed over to Intelligence or Afghan Army for processing.

I note they mention Kerry Stokes paying for legal fees. It was my understanding that more than one billionaire from WA was funding the SAS guys legal fees when it was known they had been hung out to dry without support.

Vlad Bae

I’m in the dark where this moniker comes from, I gather it refers to Putin but why Vlad Bae?
Maybe I should get out more?

All Points Bulletin:
Due to the hot weather, the inner roof fabric lining has started to peel away in the mighty 380. I’m not surprised, but whilst the car has been garaged and the paint is as new, it still gets hot enough to cause heat damage.
I’m after something that won’t stain or ruin the fabric.
Anyone got any suggestions?

Indolent:
per your post
“Officials have ruled out the Covid vaccine as a possible cause, with none of the 11 US cases being jabbed, and they say it’s unlikely Covid itself is playing a role.”
As if they’d tell us the kids were jabbed.

Elbow has declared there’ll be no carbon tax under a government he leads.

Yes, like he supports boat turn backs. But he’ll tinker with both and give them new fancy names that will result in a) a tax on carbon and b) boat people arrivals.

I chipped in $25 to Avi, not much but even a little helps I guess. He doesn’t say anything about when the case is decided or what stage it’s at though.

I just managed to report Rex while scrolling. Sorry.

I probably deserved it.

I dunno what I deserved it for, but I probably did…

Either way, f..k the senior officers who got leadership medals and promotions and no repercussions. My support is with the guys on the ground.

mine too- seems like the people in allegedly charge suffer no consequence for stuff ups. Sickening.

Johnny Depp is divorced?
Who knew?

See, that level of ignorance is what happens if you don’t stay current with New Idea and Women’s Weekly.

Fraser at least started his political life as a conservative and I’m also pretty sure he never crossed the floor when in politics.
Fraser was a Liberal and a likely Fabian Socialist.
He undermined Menzies and Holt, betrayed Gorton, undermined McMahon, undermined Snedden and was one of the worst Prime Ministers in Australian history.
I think he publicly criticised Andrew Peacock during an Election campaign.
One thing for sure, he didn’t wait 20 years, he was publicly criticising the Liberal Party from the time he left politics.

A man has been killed after being speared in the head, health clinic staff have been seriously injured, police officers have been told not to leave the station compound, and 36 houses have been set on fire during ongoing violence largely not made public by NT Police, and the Gunner Government, sources have told the NT Independent.

Link

Situation in Donbass is deteriorating.

a mere flesh wound….

Putin needs an off-ramp!

Where’s his off-ramp, dammit??

Can we force him to take it?

Please, President Putin, we invite you to take this off-ramp. Oh, not this one?

Recalculating route…

He undermined Menzies and Holt, betrayed Gorton, undermined McMahon, undermined Snedden and was one of the worst Prime Ministers in Australian history.

Not very successfully it would seem.
What exactly did he do that “undermined” Menzies?

Winston-
I’ve rescued two collapsing ceilings made of Swedish arctic rabbit vellum with colour-matched upholstery tacks- dab a bit of araldite onto the spike, and make a nice diagonally offset Chesterfield pattern as you go.

News of violence (at least one death) and 36 burning houses in Wadeye. Clinic staff injured. Houses provided by the taxpayer, of course. All cleanup and medical services provided by the taxpayer, of course. The Quadrant article by Patrick McCauley dated 8 December 2008 and titled Wadeye: Failed State as Cultural Triumph is well worth reading and shows that nothing changes. Sorry – I don’t know how to link it.

Lewis Hamilton speaks out on being lapped by Red Bull’s Max Verstappen in Imola

LEWIS HAMILTON suffered another disappointing finish on Sunday.

Lewis Hamilton gave a damning response to being lapped by Max Verstappen at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix on Sunday, insisting it proves ‘how wrong’ Mercedes have approached the start of the 2022 season. The seven-time world champion went head-to-head with Verstappen last year but is already unlikely to win a record eighth title this season.

From the Comments

So much for the greatest of all time. The cars the star.

Here’s the article Wadeye: Failed State as Cultural Triumph.. It;s written by a teacher, and the language is somewhat florid at the start, but it’s worth pursuing to get to the guts of it; for example:

The school where I am working attempts to teach children to read and write, but exaggerates its attendance figures. It needs to be constantly employing new teachers, as they often only last a matter of days or weeks before they are overwhelmed by the extent of the problem, the complete lack of discipline and the primitive circumstances under which they must work and live. There is no need to play up the extent of the massive social and educational “disadvantage” or more specifically, the mayhem, anger or passive revolution here—it is obvious.

Each day at school is a guess as to what new program might be introduced. There is an unstated assumption that all teachers be apologists—that they accept the black-armband orthodoxy. The teachers hoard and hide supplies of teaching materials in secret places. Too many women and not enough men does not produce a healthy school community, and this is particularly so within a patriarchal semi-tribal isolated Aboriginal community. These Aboriginal people do not like having to deal with whitefellas anyway, and when they do—at the school, Centrelink, the health centre, the store—the whitefellas are overwhelmingly women.

Notably, it was written in 2008, but nothing’s changed.

Another export from the US- anti white racism.

As such, he has been very effective.

Masterful. He poked, prodded and encouraged his big and heavily armed neighbor to jump the fence and destroy large swathes of his country. What a champ!

A pretty gross simplification

So is This war is Ukraine’s fault because they are all Nazis and Maidan and they’re all just in the pocket of Big Oligarch and they’re all Nazis and Zelensky is just a puppet and Ukraine isn’t real and they are all Nazis and it deserves to be broken up and impoverished because Russians are scared and they are all Nazis and…

No nation playing Great Games, whatever the size, is without sin.

Man runs a country, and sees it in his favour at present to try and crush his near neighbour as an example that all others should treat him with fealty. Or at least terror. Like they all allegedly

Rex
I suspect there are some very anxious people in Poland at the moment, not to mention the Baltic States.
Being within missile range tends to clarify cloudy thinking when it comes to Vlad.

I’ve been reading arms shipments for Ukraine of Javelins, stingers, all sort of small arms are already showing up in bazaars in the middle east. Apparently arms dealers are swarming Ukraine and buying everything for less than half the nominal value western nations paid. Before it’s even landed there it’s earmarked to be moved back outside the country, to whoever’s paid the best price.

He was handed a mandatory death sentence for his crime, sparking outrage

Supporters’ argued he didn’t have the capacity to make rational decisions

That is seriously messed up.

He was retarded. Bloodthirsty aurhoritarians. They probably masturbate to this, weird freaks.

Or is that to emphasize the only nasty males like gambling and porn?

In trying to find a silver lining in this, at least there was no mention of gay porn.

BJ: I would have agreed with you once upon a time. But these days (and especially throughout the coof) the public service has been highly politicised. It’s simply amazing (sarc) that the modelling for whatever govt policy on offer always serves more of a purpose than it was designed for. Example: Snowy 2.0 – it’s a dud but it’s spruiked as the be-all-and-end-all for power generation in this country.

BBS

I might not have been sufficiently blunt in my comment.

It is not the job of the bureaucracy to “govern” the nation. That is the task of the elected politicians (who have been derelict in their duties for a couple of decades). It is the job of the bureaucracy to support the elected government. Perpetually touting models that have never produced anything approaching a valid result is not doing that job.

Yes, the bureaucracy is now highly politicised. One of the tasks of the elected government is to recognise that, and fix it. For the same couple of decades, they have failed in that task, but their failure does not let the bureaucracy off the hook for its malicious incompetence.

the difficulty in obtaining basic food supplies and the insufficient, caged and very basic accommodation (which often requires them to be moved around at a moment’s notice), the lack of being able to go for a decent walk out of the township, and lack of sleep due to the all-night noise.
Let me translate that into English:
I couldn’t find Smashed Avo on Sourdough Toast anywhere, International Roast isn’t FairTrade, there’s no Room Service, no Golf Club and I hate the sound of people enjoying themselves because I’m a misery guts chalkie who’s massively overpaid.

He was charged with two alleged offences – obstructing, hindering, intimidating or resisting a Commonwealth official; and causing harm to a Commonwealth law officer.

AFP went to intimidate Person 5 and got their arse handed to them?

There’s been no US owned airliner fatal rash for 20 years.
TWA Flight 800?
9/11? There were 3 that day.

As an experiment, just walked from one end of Terminal 3 in Melbourne Airport to the other, and back, mask free all the way.

Even going back through security no-one challenged me, or even looked twice.

This is a glorious day for freedom!

9/11? There were 3 that day.

September 11, 2001 was 21 years and 8 months ago, Grigory.

Reread the question.

it’s just a little chimpout

Zippy!

You told me you weren’t a white supremacist, that you had stopped reading Anglin and listening to Fuentes.

So why are the Ukrainian Nayzees bad guys in your eyes?

The problem I’m highlighting is that negotiations are based on territory gained.

Sign a deal now and they won’t get their southern corridor or deprive Ukraine of a Black Sea port.

The sad part, Roger, is that the Ukes didn’t have to lose any territory at all, apart from Crimea. The Russians asked for Ukrainian recognition of Russian sovereignty of Crimea, and to stay out of NATO. In return, Russia would recognise Ukrainian sovereignty over the disputed eastern regions and would supply Ukraine with free gas for five years.

This was a reasonable offer, this is what Zelensky promised at his election, perhaps even better given the free gas bonus, and there would have been no war. Ukrainian and Russians are now dying in a futile exercise as it suits the US State Department to keep it going.

Long queues seen last Friday and today outside Fairfield Centrelink (Barbara St), reaching all the way around the corner to Harris St.
Not sure why, maybe it’s collection day.

I spent much of the Trump years saying I support him in part because he started no new wars.

You were hardly a lone voice in noticing this.

I’m happy to admit I was absolutely wrong about a bunch of wars embarked upon or instigated by the US MIC and its satrapies since…hell, since I was cognizant of such matters. I don’t need to lie and say I was totally against the NATO campaigns in the Balkans, the invasion of Iraq, the 20 year campaign in Afghanistan etc. I simply wasn’t very well-informed, I believed disreputable people and sources, and didn’t make legitimate attempts to view these conflicts from other perspectives.

Admitting you’ve been wrong in the past isn’t some great source of shame. Not learning the lessons of your past mistakes is, though.

As an experiment- this time last year- i flew from Perth to Christmas Island without a mask. It was fine, bar one catty he-steward.
Then the AFP came gunning for me on the return leg. Not so good, but it did disemburse me of the illusion that our country is in any way live-and-let-live larrikin.

How is that reasonable?

Putin doesn’t think Ukraine exists beyond being a legal fiction.

We normies do not speak diplomacy nor politician very well.

We are almost as hard to teach diplomacy as it is to teach Kryten from Red Dwarf how to lie…

JC,

This might be the flight, as close as I could find to anything that can be considered a US Airliner crash. Regardless of whether or not you count this one, the record is incredible given the frenetic pace of US flight operations.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgan_Air_Flight_3407

Talk about a country being white anted from within.

Not surprising when you consider the periodic table, but surprising when you see it in action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5U63IGmy6Q

rickwsays:
April 27, 2022 at 6:53 pm
Had a call today from one of the recent resignations from previous job. First time we’d spoken since I was terminated. Invite to farewell dinner.

“I wasn’t looking for another job, but an opportunity came up and then I thought about the terrible way they treated you and how chaotic things have been since you left, so I took it”

Sounds like they’re smarter than average, or at least a little less blind.

You told me you weren’t a white supremacist, that you had stopped reading Anglin and listening to Fuentes.

never read or listen to either, apparently if you reflect reality it makes you a supremacist or racist. if one trolls the spud eating irish does it make one also a supremacist.

these terms have been abducted just to mean not a good communist.

So why are the Ukrainian Nayzees bad guys in your eyes?

obvious isnt it? however superior a group may or may not be on the averages to another isn’t grounds to put the other group in ovens.

all this racism, supremacy garbage just shows how much the left have hijacked basic human observation and twisted it against us.

all this racism, supremacy garbage just shows how much the left have hijacked basic human observation and twisted it against us.

its all through the implied lens of equity, oh so you think you are superior to some other group of people. well duh… of course I am. there’s always some group inferior and some group superior (pbuh musk excluded). the horror! make this intolerable injustice go away! lowest common denominator now!

the woke can go fuck themselves