Notice too how Anal is employing classic marxist dirty tricks and is attempting to cause division and suspicion in society.…
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AS H B Bear said- ‘how can we help you PM?’
Great analysis Cassie- love your work. My dislike of the legacy meja has intensified even more after seeing how they…
Cassie of Sydney: You used the word “scum” three times. Nowhere near enough. Do Better. 🙂
Thanks JC!
Brains shift in adolescence to tune out parents’ voices
Obvious to Parents and Kids
“So, if it seems like your teenager is tuning you out, that may well be the case. But, Abrams said, “it’s not personal. This is a natural part of development.” – “But at a certain point, he said, kids need to expand their social world, getting ready for independence and eventually starting their own family in many cases.”
With Mother’s Day coming up, Remember
To Abrams, the study also underscores the broader importance of voice to human beings. Just think about any time you’ve become emotional from hearing the voice of a loved one you haven’t spoken to in a while, he said.
It’s different from a text message, Abrams pointed out.
“Voices are among the most important social signals we have,” he said. “They connect us, and help us feel we’re part of a community. And I would argue that hearing a loved one’s voice is one of the most rewarding experiences we have in our daily lives.”
Hmmm, this one could be interesting.
Birx: With Pence Approval I Went to Local Media to Contradict Trump on COVID (29 Apr)
Does Pence deny saying this, thereby accusing the second most important health czar of being a liar? Or does he say nothing and therefore confirm he was undermining Trump from day one of his Presidency?
Either way I doubt Pence is going to survive this in the eyes of Republican voters.
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
May 1, 2022 at 8:52 am
Another day, another Albanese brainfart. If you want to own your own home, don’t live in Sydney or Melbourne, move somewhere where housing is affordable. I did.
Zulu Kilo,
trying to get this point across to our youngest – buy where you can afford and rent for future
My wife was unhappy with Bank return and purchased 2 Bedrm 2 storey Townhouse in Mackay last year for $275,000 – 121 sqm internal space, 194 sq total area – rented at $385 pw for 1 year, 5 days after purchased
When we got to see it really happy, well built, excellent location near centre Mackay – not in flood zone, short walk to major shopping centre and beach
Was impressed with Mackay, lots of young people and businesses, 2 Hospitals, loads schools and as wife said, as relations live there, good place to retire in future
Putin bears the bulk of the blame for anything awful in Ukraine.
Near the end of TE’s link:
Though this country is not actually at war with Russia, and has no defence treaty with Ukraine, politicians and other supporters of this conflict often refer to ‘we’ when discussing it.
The clearest evidence yet that we are governed by idiots and traitors.
Putin bears the bulk of the blame for anything awful in Ukraine.
The French Diplomat who’s analysis was posted here a few weeks ago doesn’t share that view. It’s an EU / Putin built train wreck, both equally to blame.
Funny that a French diplomat would say that given the French and German double dealing in this conflict.
WHO has contracted German-based Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Systems to develop a global vaccine passport system.
Time to
get a new batteryinitiate theiPhone4 Lifetime Extension Programme.
Maybe we should rename ourselves as Ukraine II and watch as completed military projects are delivered on time and under budget?
If it comes to WHO mandates here with a vaccine mandate for a virus no one cares about anymore, I am skipping sovereign citizenship and moving straight to declaring myself as ruler of my own micronation.
The UN can’t deliver aid without molesting children and starving people, so I don’t feel worried about an effective one world government.
Oh, lookie here……but because it’s Albanese and not someone on the right, all will be forgiven…
Anthony Albanese ‘regrets Nazi reference’ from 2001
Anthony Albanese says he regrets a historical Nazi reference he once used to attack the Coalition over asylum-seekers as Jewish leaders call for an end to the use of such offensive remarks in political debate.
It comes only a day after Mr Albanese was forced to condemn a Labor branch Facebook page that depicted Josh Frydenberg, Australia’s first Jewish treasurer, in a Nazi-SS uniform.
The Labor leader was forced to withdraw the use of a Nazi slogan “Sieg Heil” when accusing the Howard government of racist policy over the Tampa affair in 2001.
He had shouted the slogan across the chamber of parliament – a remark he was forced to withdraw by the Speaker. It went largely unreported at the time.
But the Coalition has used the historical insult by Mr Albanese to accuse Labor of hypocrisy after Mr Albanese earlier this year denounced the use of Holocaust parallels for political purposes.
Mr Albanese told The Weekend Australian: “I regretted the comment of more than 20 years ago, which is why I withdrew it at the time. Holocaust parallels should never be used, which is why I never have.”
With an increasing use of Holocaust references in Australian politics, Jewish leaders have said “enough is enough” and suggested politicians may need to be educated about the Nazi genocide.
Colin Rubenstein, executive director of the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council, said while Mr Albanese had withdrawn the remark, such references could never be justified.
“It was important and proper that Anthony Albanese withdrew the remark at the time it was made, because inappropriate Nazi references are never justified as they risk trivialising the uniquely evil nature of that regime,” he said.
The issue came to prominence during the election campaign when Katherine Deves, the Liberal candidate for the Sydney seat of Warringah, was forced to apologise for previous remarks in which she compared her “activism” on transgender athletes to those who stood up against the Nazis.
Ms Deves was attacked by Labor MPs for her use of Holocaust parallels.
The independent candidate for Kooyong, Monique Ryan, who is running against Mr Frydenberg, has also been forced to apologise for a Nazi meme she published in 2017 that sought to compare Donald Trump with Hitler.
Head of the Australian Jewish Association David Adler said that it was disappointing that politicians still used Holocaust references in political debate and that it was time for it to stop.
“We have seen inappropriate leveraging of the Holocaust for a whole range of political purposes,” he said.
“Our position is that it is just wrong for the Holocaust to be leveraged for political purposes.
“The Holocaust was an industrial-scale attempt to murder an entire people. Nothing in Australian politics resembles that.
“It demonstrates a lack of education or knowledge.”
Umm, so Albanese shouted this across the parliamentary chamber. He obviously likes shouting crude analogies and threats across the chamber. Only a few years ago he shouted across the chamber “smash her, smash her” when a female Liberal MP was talking…something else the MSM have chosen to ignore, just imagine if Peter Dutton had done similar to a female Labor MP.
I suspect Albanese’s pent-up aggression is because of his desire to “fight Tories” and yet he can’t find any in this country so he must be bursting at the seams with toxic male aggression. Here’s a thought, Albanese should migrate to the UK because there he’ll find lots of real Tories and his best buddy, the Jew hating Jeremy Corbyn, can put him up.
Yeah, right. Have a look at the numbers – they simply don’t add up.
Old Ozzie. My tip spend a bit longer there, there are some downsides to the place. Mackay is a typical mining service town with inflated costs of living. We used to call it the “mining tax.” Also the place is getting but still need more works on roads, unfortunately in the older suburbs the roads can’t be expanded resulting in gridlock at peak times. Drivers are shocking as well, again miners in Dodge Rams or Ford Rangers using might is right principle.
That said I do echo your about the bustle and trade going on, Qantas is running B737 services 2 a day again. Coal prices are at a high atm. At it’s quieter moments on Sundays the place has a very laid back feeling. Plus it has everything it’s bigger northern neighbours up the coast have despite them being much larger in size.
I’m presuming Albo will be divesting himself of his housing portfolio, at rockbottom prices, to enable others to get started in housing?
Oh dear. I see my devoted fan boi antics for Mr Robertson have created some confusion. The point is now moot. All hail King KRuddy, the pinnacle of absurdity. Or whatever it was. I am still disappointed his genius was not realised on a global scale at the UN. Thanks Waffleworth.
Don’t tell me KRuddy could not have kicked off WWIII by himself.
That worked a treat at Stalingrad. No ill-feeling between Chermans and Romanians and Hungarians and Italians. The smaller countries’ forces weren’t left on the flanks in the snow with almost zero armour and anti-armour at all to face the inevitable belting from seven Soviet armies on two fronts.
Oh well. Maybe they ‘didn’t do it right’ that time.
For the past year we have been told the vaccination rate federally and statewide. It has almost become the most important statistic rating “success” politically. Huge budget deficits don’t rate as important.
However the double dose stats as time goes by are becoming more misleading. They changed the definition of vaccinated to be up to 6 months after 2nd dose. So I am now considered “unvaccinated” although I count as double dosed.
As time goes by and more double dosed don’t take the booster shouldn’t there be stats to show people have become less “protected” ? They do show how many not boosted but we need a statistic to show how many where no longer considered vaccinated.
Just kidding. Health Departments are hardly going to become honest with the stats now. They have difficulty highlighting the average age of Covid deaths is over 80 with multiple comorbidities. Qld Health stats are particularly bad in this regard. It is almost like they don’t want us to know the real situation.
Mackay.
Was in a wedding party there once in the early 90s. Best wedding ever.
Mackay bridesmaids are the best bridesmaids in the whole world. They hunt in packs and share the kill.
Hooo boy.
calli at 8.37:
Go 500km further north. Turn the tap on, and gravel comes out.
all that scheme would do is jack up prices by a significant amount.
Sydney prices are driven by how much people can borrow, and little else other than lack/cost of new land.
Get them to turn on the desal plant. Works for Perf.
No joke, try bathing to do so and use Epsom salts (magnesium sulfate) – needed it to brew beer when town water had too much calcium carbonate and chlorides in it.
If your hair turns blue, some boffin can explain ligands and spin states to us. 🙂
I was wondering why no mention of Albos interest in the Victorian ICook scandal. So to refresh my memory I conducted a quick search on google. It could be my poor search skills but as a story it has almost vanished from the internet. There is reference to 7th January story but Victorian Police clearing everyone involved. We know how clean the Vikpol command is so I kept searching. Gone. Well it is Victoria and Stalin would be proud.
No taxes or development levies? Currently at 46% roughly for NSW metro for new houses.
Factcheck, true.
I need a moment.
Though I’m worried that Psych may be like Kim on a date.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM6eNQhmLHs
If you mean Jacques Baud, he is a former colonel of the General Staff, ex-member of the Swiss strategic intelligence, specialist on Eastern countries. He was trained in the American and British intelligence services.
I am really disgusted with Skynews for cutting away from Outsiders to televise ScoMo spouting off about something without context. Couldn’t that have been raised in news later on?
I am convinced that ScoMo’s people schedule these announcements just to cut into the Outsiders’ time.
Shouldn’t a man of faith be in church on a Sunday morning?
More of the Albanese brainfart…
Though this country is not actually at war with Russia, and has no defence treaty with Ukraine, politicians and other supporters of this conflict often refer to ‘we’ when discussing it.
Deep down, it’s a Roman Catholic vs Orthodox Christianity battle.
Catholics number 26% here, Orthodox not many and they’re all in the cities.
Noticed the Sunday after the Invasion, Scotty attended one Sydney Uke Catholic service, fucknuckle attended another one.
Any deviation from the script by the Liberals, Plibersek will be onto it like a blowie on fresh shit.
I’m more concerned at the fat chick in rainbow colours, including what appears to a multicoloured Mickey Mouse hat in the front row of that courtroom.
There’s a red flag with the muffinologist though. Says she’s regularly late, and consequently sends hubby down to the bakery to get her daily muffins.
Hubby’s setting the bar too low by doing that all the time. A failure to prepare on her part does not constitute an emergency on my part.
On that sort of wicket, you reckon they could get the muffins delivered.
Wow, bust mufffin I’ve seen in a court case. Just wow!
He argued that Labor had been constructive in opposition in passing the government’s pandemic legislation and stimulus package, saying that he did not allow the “perfect to be the enemy of the good.”
Albanese has got a poor memory.
He did oppose JobSeeker and JobKeeper, the Minor Parties drove it thru the Senate.
Mr. Ed. Has there ever been something you’ve been right about?
Why was Ukraine never sanctioned by UNSC? The Minsk agreements were covered by UNSC IIRC.
Dot
I get it. Muffin was counselling Amber Turd, yet she’s appearing on Depp’s side? How does that figure?
The celebrity psychologist wicket. An absolute road. Runs all day long.
You never see ads for them in the paper. It must be like being a wharfie – you need a father or uncle already in the game to get a look in.
She probably married some beige suit to shore up the cash, and gets rogered by tradies in the office dunnies in the afternoon for fun.
“We also need to help people into home ownership who aspire to that,” Mr Albanese told Sky News.
And in five years time when this Ponzi scheme collapses because the new home owners can’t service the debt, then what?
Labor will then lose the election but go on their way rejoicing, having bought something new and valuable – eg: free university, Medibank, NDIS, leccie cars – into Australia’s awareness, and now some other party can fix up the mess.
Oh, I get it she was hired by Depp. But why would Turd subject herself to that?
Of course the numbers don’t add up, Rabz. It’s a Labor policy. During one of the last two QLD elections, Labor policy spent Energex money not twice, not thrice, but four times over. These four separate claimed uses for the money were recounted in at least two ABC radio interviews I heard, during what is supposedly the high quality current affairs hour(separate days). Not a word; not a question; one lot of money spent four times.
(Something like: “we get money from Energex, so let’s keep using it where we do right now [1], take the money we get from Energex and reduce the cost of services [2], increase the number of jobs offered by Energex by reinvesting the money we get from Energex [3], improve renewable services by investing the money we get from Energex[4]”.
And that’s ignoring that some of those claimed uses are directly contradictory. Worse, the amount of money they claimed they’d get from keeping Energex was the same as selling it.)
Re Maiden coup:
Apparently, the snipers were trained in Poland as a favour to Washington. What a tangled web.
Letterkenny is a good show.
Stupid but in a great way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9-s7UgOUTA
Dover
I don’t understand what you’re trying to do here. Are you attempting to persuade people that Uke is a deformed democracy? We know that and I don’t think most people here need any persuasion on that score.
If this is your objective you should also look at the other side of the ledger. The “Kriminlan” poisons and jails its detractors.
Yes, JC.
The Vatican pushes the fiction that Eastern Europe was originally founded by the Romans and since it’s the heir to the Romans, the lands of the Serbs oughta be Catholic [and their property].
See: Romania, founded in the 19th C. by Jesuits, in reality it was part of Serbia.
Outsiders mentioned PML (Put the Majors Last) http://www.majorslast.com
Site must be being throttled ATM running very slow. Tablet devices couldn’t connect. Desktop connects but too slow.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, let me make your choice simple.
If the muffins were often baked
the defendant’s harm was faked.
Today, incidentally, is a seminal day in the history of this nation, and in fact the world.
There are now 11 to 41 months to go before you-know-what.
There are now 11 to 41 months to go before you-know-what.
Let me guess?
Is that when a whole heap of people start dying in droves from some mystery cause which absolutely isn’t y the CovidVax?
custardsays:
May 1, 2022 at 10:44 am
Yes, I just had a go and couldn’t connect.
I did my own HTV cards a couple of weeks ago and checked the PML link when it was first put up here. Did the HoR and bloody hell – it was an almost exact replica of my own. I haven’t checked the Senate yet – but when PML cools down, I will and I bet the result will be very close to my own below-the-line ticket.
Joke, Joyce.
Sheesh. Lighten up, Francis.
Also – On This Day:
FMD, the NT police are in BIG trouble. Read this statement from a 25 year officer.
https://ntindependent.com.au/unless-someone-speaks-up-there-will-be-no-change-veteran-nt-police-sergeant-calls-out-leadership-failures/
And:
Don’t you SEE?
Dan Brown, step forward.
I’m simply pointing out events that led up to the present. That comment is only tangentially about Ukrainian ‘democracy’. It is more about Western meddling.
JMH
Same as you for me too! Just managed to connect. HOR was almost identical to my own but their senate recommendation was wierd when I specified LibDems as my first choice but it then recommended PHON as my first pick.
I hope these sites are influential at this election.
custardsays:
May 1, 2022 at 11:03 am
I agree. The fact that PML went dark for a time bodes well. Also Topher’s Marbles has had a lot of hits.
As I will be placing Lib Dems 1, 2 and 3, I will report back when I run my Senate ticket through PML to see if it matches your experience.
Looks like Kiev has given up on Kherson.
“We also need to help people into home ownership who aspire to that,” Mr Albanese told Sky News.
Poor AnAl! .. where are his six figure, 20 something, advisors .. “aspire” is not the word to influence upward & onward thoughts via the media
How #PML works? PUT MAJOR LAST!
439 views Apr 20, 2022
Less than 500 views in 10 days.
I see Angelina Jolie was in Lviv for a photo-op.
Big_Nambassays:
May 1, 2022 at 10:55 am
FMD, the NT police are in BIG trouble. Read this statement from a 25 year officer.
https://ntindependent.com.au/unless-someone-speaks-up-there-will-be-no-change-veteran-nt-police-sergeant-calls-out-leadership-failures/
NT Police officer suspended without pay for criticising Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker
by Christopher Walsh | May 1, 2022 | Cops, News | 0 comments
https://ntindependent.com.au/nt-police-officer-suspended-without-pay-for-criticising-police-commissioner-jamie-chalker/
The NT Police top brass has stripped a respected officer and father of two of his livelihood for speaking out against Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker in an opinion piece in the NT Independent, in which he called for the police force to restore its core values and hold a vote of no confidence against Mr Chalker in the wake of the Zach Rolfe matter.
Sergeant Mark Casey, a 25-year veteran of the NT Police, was yesterday suspended without pay after his opinion piece garnered thousands of reads and hundreds of social media shares in support.
Sgt Casey wrote that Mr Chalker had breached the values of the NT Police force through his handling of the Constable Rolfe matter, that investigators’ notes show he was involved in, in the days leading up to the officer’s murder charge in the shooting death of Yuendumu man Kumanjayi Walker despite telling the public he was not involved.
Sgt Casey was also critical of the “authoritarian” approach Mr Chalker and the executive were taking to managing the force.
“I have concerns about the actions of executive officers of the NT Police, in particular the Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker,” he wrote.
“This concern relates to the authoritarian management as a whole, and specifically in relation to the charging of Constable Zach Rolfe.
“I have observed the events since the day of the shooting and have held my judgement until now, as I feel that unless someone speaks up there will be no change.
“It is time for someone to stand up and allow the discourse to happen, rather than sitting in fear, waiting for someone else to take action.”
The article ran in the NT Independent yesterday morning and by 5:40pm, an internal memo was circulated to all police informing them that Sgt Casey had been suspended without pay for “allegedly committing a number of serious breaches of discipline”.
The email was from the ironically titled “assistant commissioner, people and cultural reform”, who is currently Bruce Porter.
The internal broadcast said Sgt Casey, who was not named, was suspended for his “public views that do not align with the oath taken by the officer as a member of the Northern Territory Police Force and not in accordance with the Code of Conduct and Ethics”.
The memo said the matter had been referred to the police’s internal Professional Standards Command and again, ironically, the Independent Commissioner Against Corruption and the NT Ombudsman.
The ICAC is currently investigating the four days between the Yuendumu shooting and the police’s rush to charge Constable Rolfe in which Mr Chalker and Chief Minister Michael Gunner are expected to be called as witnesses.
Why the fuck would we send any money at all to the UN??
Covid vaccine inequity due to racism rooted in ‘slavery and colonialism’
Racism rooted in slavery, colonialism and apartheid is responsible for higher Covid death rates among people of African and Asian descent, as well as Roma and Indigenous peoples, a UN body has said.
That the vast majority of Covid-19 vaccines were administered in high and upper-middle-income countries replicated “slavery and colonial-era racial hierarchies”, according to the committee on the elimination of racial discrimination (Cerd).
/Mos Esley cantina music intensifies.
Australia accused of double standards
Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare of the Solomon Islands called Australia’s protests over its security pact with China “hysterical”
Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has accused Australia of being hypocritical in its opposition to the Pacific country’s recent security pact with China. He argued that Canberra had not consulted with its other partners last year when it unveiled a security deal with the US and Britain, known as AUKUS, which paves the way for Australia to acquire nuclear-powered submarines.
“I learned of the AUKUS treaty in the media. One would expect that as a member of the Pacific family, Solomon Islands and members of the Pacific should have been consulted to ensure this AUKUS treaty is transparent,” Sogavare told his country’s parliament on Friday.
He added: “I realize that Australia is a sovereign country, which can enter into any treaty it wants to, transparently or not, which is exactly what they did with AUKUS.”
The best people reform in the NT would be a near 100% exchange with anywhere (OK maybe not the Middle East, Africa or Central America).
On dreadful government:
China Covid outbreak: Beijing residents must test negative to enter public spaces
Not sure how this can end.
Omigod is firmly in community circulation in China – and there, as everywhere else, vaccines don’t do much to prevent infection or stop transmission.
All Team Xi can do is play expensive and indefinite Whack-a-Mole with a virus they invented and let loose.
Canutes.
(There will be a wise Confucian saying to cover the irony in all this.)
AKA Parliament Dining Room. Been there several times, everyone checks to see who is talking to who and the eating habits are like Kindy on someone’s birthday.
The MSM and in fact almost ALL media spew giga tonnes of anti-Russian propaganda daily. It’s attempting mind control through saturation. Not unlike the covid period. Maybe it’s only sensible to be fully informed and understand the other side in greater detail ,seeing as the media are totally and deliberately silent on that aspect?
Ukraine says Russian strike knocked out Odesa airport; Mariupol pleads for rescue
A Russian missile strike at the airport in the southwestern port of Odesa – a city that has so far been relatively unscathed in the war – has damaged the runway and it can no longer be used, the Ukrainian military said on Saturday.
Russia has sporadically targetted Odesa, a Black Sea port, and a week ago, Ukraine said at least eight people were killed in a strike on the city.
Shitshow. Absolute shitshow.
I hope Casey ran his numbers before he went to press. A heretofore-unheard-of state of affairs.
Hitchens again, this time on e-scooters, which are getting green lights in the UK:
I wonder how many will think this when there are hundreds of thousands of them, often in the hands of drunken or drugged people, careering along pavements, unrestrained by absent police, smashing into children and old people, terrifying the blind, and providing perfect getaway vehicles.
Link Two blokes riding them on a Hobart pavement the other day rang their little bells to tell us to get out of the way. Of course, I turned and hurled one of the scooters into the Derwent. (May contain traces of falsehood)
The Democrats have become the party of miserable, whiny grumps
When Elon Musk tweeted on Friday, “The far left hates everyone, themselves included!” the only thing he got wrong was his use of the word “far.”
The hatred, anger and resentment of liberals is not exclusive to the extreme Democrat. It’s now the entire party.
When was the last time anyone encountered a happy Democrat? They don’t exist. They’re perpetually miserable, annoyed that normal people have moved on from COVID, offended that anyone objects to public schools teaching 7-year-olds about sexual identity, and frustrated that their fetish with “critical race theory” (also known as “how to properly hate whites!”) isn’t as widely shared as they thought.
Meddling is part of being human. Every single ethnic or national entity has and will continue to meddle when they believe it’s in their interest.
Nothing new about that.
Now Putin trains his sights on a cyber war: Russian president is set to unleash his ‘troll farms’ as part of a fake news assault on the West and could ‘deploy saboteurs’ to the UK – as propagandists simulate NUKING Europe with huge missiles
FMD.
NUKING with HUGE missiles, no less. British Isles no more.
Hard to see how Putinistic terror propaganda could ever take root in the UK’s news media.
US weapons supply to Ukraine prepped in January
A scheme to send US weapons to Ukraine, using the “lend-lease” formula pioneered during WWII to skirt neutrality laws, was officially approved by Congress this week. However, it was put together all the way back in January – more than a month before Moscow recognized the Donbass republics as independent and sent troops into Ukraine.
Republican Senator John Cornyn introduced the Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act, also known as S.3522, on January 19, 2022. This is according to the official Congress.gov page for the bill. On the same date, it was co-sponsored by senators Benjamin Cardin, Jeanne Shaheen and Roger Wicker.
Senators Richard Blumenthal and Lindsey Graham endorsed it the very next day, January 20. Other endorsements trickled in over the following weeks, with a total of 14 senators on board by February 9, again according to Congress.gov.
Russia did not recognize the independence of Donetsk and Lugansk until February 21. The “special military operation” to demilitarize Ukraine began on what was already February 24 in Washington.
Oddly enough, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee only took up Cornyn’s proposal on April 6. It was approved unanimously, proposed on the floor by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and adopted by voice vote – whereupon it sat in limbo for weeks while the Democrat-dominated House was on vacation. On Thursday, after an hour of pro-forma debate, the House approved it in a 417-10 vote. Every single Democrat voted in favor, while all 10 dissenters were Republicans.
Cornyn’s bill, by contrast, suspends two existing US laws to make it easier for the White House to ship all sorts of weapons to Ukraine. It eliminates the five-year limitation on the program duration, suggesting the US hopes the conflict goes on for a long time – but also conditions the aid on Ukraine eventually repaying the “lease” or returning the gear if in working condition.
From the Comments
– What a joke. Obviously the USA/CIA were planning the “war” well before the Russian incursion. The corrupt Congress is on board with escalating the conflict.
US weapons supply to Ukraine prepped in January
The ordinary folk of Transcarpathia seem unhappy with the UKR authorities sending conscripts from the region to the Donbass.
TE, they are a menace. Local pundit asked the City Council round here on the insurance costs to rate payers for them after a spate of self inflicted and near miss incidents. No answer yet. Also like shopping trolleys, quite a few at the bottom of Ross creek.
Now Putin trains his sights on a cyber war: Russian president is set to unleash his ‘troll farms’ as part of a fake news assault on the West
Ed’s a spook.
Meddling has consequences.
They are a fvcking nuisance in this part of the world – the latest gesture of defiance is to ride on the wrong side of the road, loudly demanding that cars make way for you..
Bwaaaahahahahahahahahahaha! Absolutely not going to backfire….
Correct.
Given all the remarkably one-sided fuss about ‘Western Meddling’ of late, we perhaps shouldn’t mention that Russian meddling in Ukrainian affairs saw the (forunately relatively bloodless) coup de main perpetrated on the Crimean Peninsula in 2014 by Russian-speaking ‘Little Green Men of Indeterminate Origin Please Ignore the Spetsnaz Undershirts and current Russian Army-Issue Equipment, Please.’
And the 8 year long Proxy War against Ukraine that kicked off the same year in the Donbass (which only widened to encompass the rest of Ukraine in February), in which the Russian government didn’t even bother with the actual proxies very much, and just sent entire Combat Brigades in. Once again, politely asking everyone to ignore the uniquely Russian variants of the weapons and equipment said Line Units employed, and that their Russian Army insignias and rank detail was really all that wasn’t worn…
Is it too late to nominate Yasmin Absolute Maggot? Or is she ineligible due to migration?
The Stupidity of Australian Elections
Has Anthony Albanese repeated a well known political blunder? The picture Labor leader could live to regret
Anthony Albanese’s political minders may be on edge after a photo emerged of the Labor Leader on Saturday awkwardly eating a sausage sandwich in Perth.
Daily Mail — “Southern Cross” battle flag….
Clear evidence that the whole thing was a CIA/WEF plot from the outset.
At that time all Uncle Poot was doing was organising concert parties, the 34th Armoured Face Painting Regiment, and aid distribution.
I despise bicycle bell ticklers.
Pedestrians are not obliged to get out of your way on a shared footpath.
Dismount and walk around, you entitled wankers.
Given the brutal arrogance and LIES of the covid totalitarian vax-mandating western Govts of the last 2 years, it’s only reasonable that thinking people are highly suspicious and in fact rebelling against the “meddling” (a truly mild descriptor) of western govts.
By swallowing wholesale someone else’s propaganda and justifications because it says things against those people in charge of us that you don’t like?
Matter of time.
From a few conversations with those who know, the top three NT jacks have run the joint as described in that piece. Like North Korea. Demanding unconditional servitude, regardless of what they say or do. Attrition’s at world record levels. Blokes are running left right and centre to QPOL or the Feds, and the NT people are frantically taking anyone that applies in an attempt to shore up numbers.
Obviously, this will lead to further catastrophes further down the track, like cops shooting someone that – unlike the Rolfe gig – will be completely unjustified.
You can’t just throw hundreds of years of experience out the door*. There are pumpkinheads in every line of work, and you can afford to lose them. But I’m told there are quality, experienced people looking over the fence at greener pastures – and that’s when you know you have problems.
The current boss appears to jusy keep doubling down. He’ll probably blame the rank and file for not supporting him when the Chief Minister, Gunner, throws him under the bus to try and save himself.
Here it’s invariably children on bikes. I’d much prefer them on the pavement rather than in traffic on the roads.
*Applies to any industry on Earth. I am reminded of rickw’s earlier situation.
Remembering that if it were Stars and Stripes on the shoulders of the troops invading Ukraine at present instead of a White-Blue-Red horizontal tricolour, most folks here who are amenable to them and even cheering them on would be utterly apoplectic…
Well , it looks like the covid terror has run it’s course so the UK population need to be scared of something else now. Like with covid , the Govt will wrap their caring arms around the fearful and console them – “don’t worry we’ll take care of you.” And a thankful population will be grateful.
Maybe the terror propaganda has a UK purpose after all.
No. By not mindlessly following the lemmings.
Trying to understand BOTH sides isn’t silly, unlike the lemmings.
Confucius say, “Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”
Civil rights activists march on Georgia’s Stone Mountain to protest the return of the annual celebration of the Confederacy: Reenactors wear the Southern Cross battle flag and set off cannons
What a bunch of wankers! .. Stone Mountain’s claim to fame, employment opportunities thru tourism all comes from the Confederate scupture but a collection of leftie f***wits ain’t happy! .. why am I not surprised .. FFS!
And having been there as well as Gettysburg, Appomattox & several other Civil War sites I can assure you Stone Mountain is magnificent and if your ever in Georgia not to be missed …!
https://ibb.co/XbGKn4v
The Russian response was so reticent in 2014 they ignored cities like Mariupol and Slavyansk even though they would have been welcomed by the local population. You also had loads of UKR troops mutiny, along with available equipment, and join the DPR or LPR armies that were forming around homegrown leadership. I have 85 Days in Slavyansk on order. Will be interesting to read a first hand account of events.
Civil rights activists march on Georgia’s Stone Mountain to protest the return of the annual celebration of the Confederacy: Reenactors wear the Southern Cross battle flag and set off cannons
Should have also mentioned you ain’t lived the Civil War experience until you’ve seen a re-enactment .. saw several on my trip and they are ……. WOW!
Context matters.
Election 2022, Catherine Englebrecht Outlines Devastating Evidence of Corruption by Georgia Governor Brian Kemp
Catherine Englebrecht appeared on The War Room with Steve Bannon {Direct Rumble Link} to outline the evidence of election fraud that took place in 2020 through the use of ballot harvesting and ballot mules. The receipts Englebrecht and True The Vote have gathered are the primary evidence in an explosive documentary that is going to be released shortly called “2000 Mules.”
The 2020 vote in key county precincts was manipulated by illegal and fraudulent ballot harvesting. Wayne county, Michigan; Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania; Maricopa county, Arizona; Clark county, Nevada; Dane county, Wisconsin; and Fulton county, Georgia. True the Vote has the documentary evidence, and video from the drop boxes, outlining how the ballot harvesting took place. However, corrupt local and state officials have refused to investigate the evidence because the political scandal is extreme in consequence.
Importantly, during the interview with Steve Bannon, Catherine Englebrecht notes the systemic corruption by Georgia Republican Governor Brian Kemp, and his entire administration, as one concrete example of the willful fraud that cuts across party lines. WATCH:
I hope you will invest 20 minutes of your time watching the discussion to get a more fulsome perspective on the scale of political corruption that Ms. Englebrecht and her group have been fighting for more than a year. The discussion about the GOPe corruption in Georgia is sickening.
Summed up in the Comments with One Poster
Dismount and walk around, you entitled wankers.
Sooooo, the word shared doesn’t ring any bells in your vocabulary I take it .. LOL!
As a biker who rides on shared paths every, bloody, day I’m a bit baffled .. why are bikes a problem? ..
if your walking on your LEFT (same as roads) the biker goes around you .. it’s when you get furglewitted pedestrians that walk wherever and hog both sides of the path that the problems occur ……!
then again using the term wankers demonstrates you ain’t into sharing ….. LOL!
Neil Oliver, in the Pandemic Aftermath Government Chooses Bread and Circuses
For his weekly monologue today, GBNews host Neil Oliver notes how government officials are now globally focused on stupid personality issues as a distraction from the complete mess they created.
Ironically, I just watched a Canadian parliamentary session yesterday where the most urgent policy for their assembly was ‘menstrual equity.’ Yes, you read that correctly./strong> It left me with that same bread and circuses thought as outlined by Oliver today.<
This country – this world, in fact – is a damned mess now … teetering on the brink of chaos. Here at home our elected representatives have pushed us with the cattle prods of their emergency laws into a swamp of financial ruin. Two years ago they locked us down, deliberately and knowingly bringing the juggernaut of the economy to a stuttering, juddering halt. They sprayed trillions of pounds of fake money, money they didn’t and never will have, in every direction – including straight into the pockets of chums and also right down the drain. Desperate voices cried out that lockdown was madness – guaranteed to cause every kind of harm. But those voices were silenced and our leaders carried right on, ignoring their own rules while force marching the population along a trail of tears to where we are now.
But if they think after two years that I will just call it quits, and meekly watch the rubble swept under the carpet, they can think again. For as long as I live I will not forget, far less forgive, this disaster of our leaders’ making.
The world is in flux as never before in our lifetimes. Pestilence, War, Famine and Death. The gang’s all here and back in Westminster it’s cake and skirts and Internet porn. Someone’s fiddling, right enough, and coming from somewhere not far away, there’s a smell of smoke.”
While I have no doubt there were plenty of Ukrainians caught up in the moment and wanting to defend themselves and their homes and families from all comers, they were the VC/Vietminh (For want of an applicable historical analogue) and celebrated as such.
Against the well-known (and much lamented by international film makers and journalists) disparity of their capabilities, overall numbers and resources and territory controlled versus the rest of Ukrane and its Armed Forces, their efforts should have sputtered out long before we got to February 24, 2022.
What has kept the ball of their ongoing insurgency rolling militarily for the last 8 years has been the Russian Army acting as their NVA. This was well established within the first 12-18 months:
https://euromaidanpress.com/2016/11/23/the-75-russian-military-units-at-war-in-ukraine/
Ukraine has been at war with Russia for over 8 years. With the apparent disinterest in settlement and peaceful resolution and de facto consent to continue of the US, the EU, Russia and all Ukraine’s neighbours alike.
On e-scooters.
Hitchens is right.
They are introduced by stealth as a trial to dampen opposition.
Any criticism will be deflected with, “We value your input but let’s wait for the end of the trial”.
This is exactly what Commish Patton said on Thursday*.
He also said they are collecting stats manually, rather than via the Big Computer.
Why?
Because they are easier to “modulate”.
At some point the trial will be announced as successful and proceeding to amended road laws.
When will this be?
Put your money on Federal election day, Grand Final weekend or Cup Day.
….
* This was immediately after being asked about red-shirts. Neil Mitchell asked, “If I employed someone to be paid by 3AW, and told them the salary was just a sling and they could sit at home just collecting the money, is that theft?”
Patton’s response? “Well, it depends on the context.”
FMD.
I don’t think you can safely rule out your link isn’t reporting on propaganda favorable to elements of NATO’s well known desires to expand and Ukraine’s manipulations to join. Kind of like the Trump/Wussia Dossier commissioned by Killary?
Nolte: Biden’s Dominatrix of Disinformation Is Freaking Me Out
The point I’m about to make is important. This means I need you to focus. So…
For just a moment, let’s forget about the terrifying notion of the federal government, especially a government run by extremist Democrats and a corrupt Deep State, creating a “Disinformation Governance Board.”
For just a moment, let’s forget that the very same people behind the “Disinformation Governance Board” are the very same people behind the Russia Collusion Hoax, the Global Warming Hoax, the fairy tale about how men can magically transform into women, and that chemically castrating nine-year-olds is a good thing.
Let’s remove from our minds how these same people handled a very real and very damning laptop owned by Hunter Biden.
Let’s erase from our memory being told inflation is transitory—no, inflation’s not real!–no, inflation’s a good thing!—no, it’s Putiiiinnnn!
Let’s agree to forget being told the president of Russia controls America’s gas prices, that we’re winning the war in Afghanistan, that the border is secure, the Lab Leak Theory is racist, and viruses don’t spread at Black Lives Matter riots.
Let’s delete all that for a moment because I want to focus on one thing… One question…
What is it about Democrats wanting to have sex with little kids?
What is going on?
Did Putin put something in the water that gave Democrats a sudden and uncontrollable desire to rape children? Because that’s what it is. It’s rape. Kids can’t consent. So it’s rape.
Did Democrats always want to rape little kids but are only now pushing to normalize the idea so they can rape all the kids they want, including kids in the classroom?
Listen, I get that this Nina Jankowicz chick is a freak who finds herself absolutely adorable and runs around with a face that screams first wife. I think we all know that few people are more obnoxious than the marginally talented certain they’re on the verge of discovery and worldwide fame. So certain of being discovered are these brittle neurotics that they’re always on … always, always, always on.
And that’s why I call her a dominatrix… Every time she performs, she spreads pain.
This is what I don’t get.
This right here.
America’s Dominatrix of Disinformation fantasizes about having sex with a child.
If you have some kind of fetish about ghost sex or whatever, it’s a free country. Be a weirdo. Knock yourself out.
But here, right here, we have the Dominatrix of Disinformation openly fantasizing about having sex with a child, with Harry Potter.
Who does that?
Had hoped to see a couple of re- enactments, and a paddle wheel cruise down the Mississippi….on the bucket list..
And I suppose several thousand Russian-language social media accounts and posts by serving members of the Russian Army serving there were perfectly faked?
Or is any form of open-source research and intel-gathering only acceptable when it matches the right Cause?
After all, as dover said:
What makes you think they want to actually provide aid, as opposed to rorting and exploiting? One world government is something they really want and, so far, they seem pretty efficient about implementing it.
After all Makka, I am attempting to understand both sides of the story here.
Not just the ‘both sides’ where Russia was wronged by NATO repeatedly, and Ukraine was manipulated by Westerners and ultranationalist and Neo-nazis into being ‘hostile.’
Apparently, if it suits your right cause.
Don’t fret, soon you will have a new omnipotent US Disinformation Czar bolstering your pro-NATO/EU/US cause. Because the MSM propaganda deluge currently just isn’t enough.
Sure you are Rex.
Hitchens again, this time on e-scooters, which are getting green lights in the UK
Darwinian devices:
L.A.’s injury rate from e-scooters may exceed national rate for motorcycles (6 Apr)
Big rise in injuries from e-scooters, hoverboards (5 Oct)
ER visits for e-scooter injuries nearly double in one year (Aug 2020)
Head and neck injuries make up nearly 28% of all electric scooter accident injuries (Oct 2020)
Emergency rooms the destination for many electric scooter users (Jan 2019)
Those are the first five hits on a search of MedicalXpress.com just now. They should improve genetics of the human race markedly if they get rolled out widely. Plus they have a tendency to burn down your house if you charge them inside, which might make green Keynesians quite happy.
JCsays:
May 1, 2022 at 10:26 am
Deep down, it’s a Roman Catholic vs Orthodox Christianity battle.
Mr. Ed. Has there ever been something you’ve been right about?
No, never.
rosie.. as a cyclist on a shared path, what would you like them do?
Mostly, a bell is a gentle ‘here I come’ reminder from behind, so you don’t get horse fright and jump into their path.
You abuse them if they ring their bell, and I’ll bet you’re the sort that abuses them if they don’t.
As usual, on the Oz website, the usual suspects are ranting about “billions of dollars, in the great franking credits giveaway…” If you point out that franking credits are a concept, patently obvious to the meanest of intelligence’s” you are rejected…
Like I said earlier the US is not Ike and the Gipper any more. It’s Marx and Marcuse.
By swallowing wholesale someone else’s propaganda and justifications because it says things against those people in charge of us that you don’t like?
After 2 years of covid bullshit please excuse me if i dont jump at the chance to to boo and hiss at the governments newest Emmanuel Goldstein.
Putin is a warmongering shit.
My “duty” to dislike him is swamped by my intense disgust at our own scum and grifters.
If the ‘west’ wants support then it can focus a little on being worth supporting
And:
‘Mr. Scruby. Mr. Harold Scruby. Please come to the white telephone in the lobby.’
Bandt and Albo are certainly doing a mating dance. Albo’s new home buyer scheme voodoo and the great Green future are perfectly complimenting one another in the Gen X and Y demographics.
rosiesays:
May 1, 2022 at 12:14 pm
I despise bicycle bell ticklers.
Pedestrians are not obliged to get out of your way on a shared footpath.
Dismount and walk around, you entitled wankers.
I don’t mind the actual bell tinklers, but the ones who speed past with no warning really p1ss me off. The words “Ding, ding” have sometimes been heard following them along.
Without US/ NATO support, the UAF would have collapsed in 2014/5. It was a shambles.
The general rule is:
If you wear lycra and ride at anything over 20kph on pathways shared with people and prams etc, you are a fuckstick and deserve a broomstick through your spokes, and then over the back of the head.
Anything else is about manners.
Thanks for confirming the scarf-flapping, Makka.
Just remember that Russia is not fighting against the globalists and fascists in charge of the West.
That is something we have to do for ourselves.
Russia is taking another country’s territory and people off them. For its own reasons and purposes.
Strictly speaking, it has now forcibly taken the Donbass Republics off the Donbassians themselves, and is now forcing its population to fight Russia’s war of conquest against Ukraine.
Yes Putin is the meja’s new Trump. All vomiting up the same lies
Come to think of it didn’t the us and its allies do something similar in Iraq
Iraq and Syria and Libya are some distance from Washington unlike Ukraine and Russia
The Ukraine war is analogous to Yemen.
In Yemen the Iranians helped the Shi’a to stage a coup and depose the Sunni government. Then Saudi came in to de-Shi’a-fy the place, regarding the Houthi regime as a foot in the door for
NATOIran. That invasion commenced 7 years ago and they’re still all fighting like qat-addled hyenas. The US is sending arms to Saudi and the Iranians are doing likewise for the Houthis. The place is a starving mess and millions have died.Which side would you regard as the good guys in the Yemen war?
Another POV: Territory that Ukraine has been bombing and Ukraine people who the Ukraine Govt has been killing for 8 years. Because of their ethnicity. They became so fed up they voted to leave their aggressor.
They were fighting the Ukraine Govt well before the Feb 24.
A real newspaper lead line…
Biased against the Left or Right? The social media onslaught targeting the ABC
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.smh.com.au%2Fculture%2Ftv-and-radio%2Fbiased-against-the-left-or-right-the-social-media-onslaught-targeting-the-abc-20220429-p5ah5k.html
“Yve” responded to an interview ABC journalist Fauziah Ibrahim had conducted with Labor frontbencher Jason Clare on the broadcaster’sWeekend Breakfast news program.
She accused the newsreader of “trying for her ‘gotcha’ moment” by returning to the Albanese gaffe that had dominated the first week of the election campaign. “How about Labor’s plans, Fauziah? No?”
Six minutes later Yve tweeted that Ibrahim “is not interested in their [the ALP’s] plans for the future, when this is what the election is actually about”.
By 9.47am, Yve noticed she had been added to a list on Ibrahim’s Twitter page headed “Labor Trolls/Thugs”. Naturally, she tweeted about it, thereby setting in train a series of events that would lead to the news presenter – who had been accused on Twitter of pro-Coalition bias since at least December 2021, following a contentious interview with Anthony Albanese – “taking a break” while ABC management reviewed her social media activity for possible breaches of the broadcaster’s guidelines – an offence that could, potentially, result in dismissal.
Cant have someone possibly from anything other than the green left eh?
A man with the ability to lie under wet cement…
Attacks on the ABC from the Right, however, are nothing new. According to Josh Bornstein, national head of employment law at Maurice Blackburn and briefly a contender for an ALP Senate seat in this election, undermining the public broadcaster has been “a joint venture of the Murdoch press and the conservative parties for decades”.
“They have repeatedly stacked the board, you have some extreme hostility raining down on the ABC, and it can’t have anything but a profound effect,” he said.
Bornstein sees the transformation playing out not in terms of an abandonment of the notion of impartiality that is so crucial to the ABC’s performance, but rather in a shift of the understanding of what that impartiality looks like.
“The dial has been shifted,” he says. “They’re required to report impartially, but it’s this form of neutrality that has shifted significantly to the right.”
The whole article is basically a strawman presenting lefty twitter mongs as “real impartial people”…
My comment is directed at folks unquestioningly declaring for Russia with a seeming absence of the same sort of scrutiny to Russia’s claims and justifications for its actions they would normally apply to Western media.
Solely because they don’t like what has been done to them by Australia’s governments for the last 2 years.
It’s got nothing to do with any apparent “duty” to dislike anything or anyone.
I consider that one can agree that Australia’s ruling types are panic-mongering arseholes who need to be accountable and their overreaches rolled back, and that the Poots is an arsehole who felt a need to invade someone because he could.
And to be able to do these things without turning it all into an absolutist “If you are pro-freedom, you must support Russia and you must disbelieve your own governments unconditionally. Because reasons. No questions!”
We need to leave that sort of tribalist shit to the Left.
Americans need to put this at the front of their daily thought: John Mills on battling CCP threat
In this special episode, we sat down with John Mills—retired colonel, former director of cybersecurity at the Defense Department, senior fellow with the Center for Security Policy, and part of the Spectrum Consulting Group. We also hear from Casey Fleming, CEO of BlackOps Partners. They talk about the growing importance of the cyber realm in modern warfare, what China might be learning from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and what this means for Taiwan and the United States going forward.
The worst are overweight barristers and doctors in lycra who approach a pedestrian crossing in a “peloton” (group) and call “rolling!” (as in, “get outta the way”.
A group of them killed an old bloke on Beach Rd a few years ago.
This is exactly the kind puerile simplistic bullshit argument that delivered us – the west – the horrid last 2 years and our shit future.
Valid reasons. We have reason aplenty not to believe the MSM lies and propaganda we have been subjected to for years.
Always question. That is how the Russia Hoax was exposed, like the Dossier, like covid, Biden and his son’s laptop, the stolen US elections.
So I’m not disbelieving my Govt unconditionally which you are desperately implying. It’s actually the exact opposite. I disbelieve them because they are proven lying oppressive c***s.
Which 8 years, Makka? Up to 2014?
Because the choice of pro-Russian elements to break away and ultimately initiate the civil war in the Donbass occurred in April 2014, shortly after the Crimea was taken by Russia that March.
There were no bombings or killings of ethnic Russian Ukrainians in Eastern Ukraine by the Ukrainian Government prior to the Dobass uprising and separation.
The vote to ‘leave’ the aggressor was conducted that May.
Before all your alleged bombings and killings of ethnic Russians by the debbil-debbil Ukrainians started. Limited self-rule to the Donbass regions was also granted that September, though the fighting has continued. None of this was helped by the very active Russian Army involvement from Day One of the whole Donbass debacle. Involvement which has continued right up to today.
But the Trusted Bloggers clearly know best about what has happened, and what is really going on…
I don’t draw that conclusion from things I’ve come to understand.
From an earlier retweet:
The elephant in the room
Bloody shameful when both sexes can have babies now.
Lol, sure you are looking at both sides Rex. It’s crystal.
just a nice colourful picture
project Varitas
And based on your posts about the Ukranian separatists leavimg after being bombed and killed by the Ule government, you are unconditionally believing non-Western and non-Western government sources.
My post of 2.26pm took 5-10 minutes to research.
I do not trust either side, Makka.
How can you make fun of Trusted Bloggers while also often relying on OSINT? And as for Bellingcat and NPR (US version of our ABC), colour me sceptical.
They’re getting away!
I wonder what the difference could be?!
Are we going to learn from those the left have the highest priority of killing first?
Up , Up, and …er
Sure you don’t Rex. I can see by your posts. Alleged (Ukrainian) bombings, debbil-debbil Ukrainians. Very open minded, lol.
He was right way back at the very start…what are his credentials? this was a year ago.
The US wanted a war and they’re making no attempt to cool it. The opposite in fact
I merely replied to you in your own language.
Ditto Dover.
Since we all now want to try and play rhetorical games about whose sources are ‘legitimate’ vs. having a look at doing some research for ourselves, I am done with this subject.
Just remember, that saying the Russians haven’t had their fingers in the pie and tanks in the Donetsk and Luhansk since April 2014, and Rexy is a Western Spy shill for pointing it out, doesn’t mean they were not, and are not still there.
Struthsays:
May 1, 2022 at 2:37 pm
They’re getting away!
Forget it Jake
God, you can’t be that ignorant……look at the little gang of sneerers.
They are either mentally sick or are trolling for somebody.
To sneer at this being a globalist coup after two years of evidence is not only insane.
It’s complete bullshit.
Ask yourself, seriously, after all the western world is now about to bring in digital ID’s and cashless societies (social credit system, and all introducing everything as they have done so far, at the same time) and the WEF leaders hated by majorities but re elected as ours will be……There are people that will tell you that because we aren’t yet being exterminated in camps that nothing is happening.
There are four or five fuckwits here who are holding the rest of you back from being pro active, as the forces of evil require you to always be way behind the agenda.
You know who they are.
Then you have the jabbed who desperately want to believe the “nothing to see here” line, and throw themselves into the theatre of distraction which is a war, that’s been going on for years, that the rising costs and supply chain breakdown can be blamed on, even though it’s laughable.
Feeling a bit left out, Struth?
No shatterzzz
I’m talking about the high speed adult cyclists who don’t think they should slow down, ever.
And I’m always on the correct side when I use the pathway and no I’m not going to step off onto the grass.
The expectations are unreasonable.
I was looking at records (expensive) and record players at JB this afternoon, have some LPs I bought back from the states I wouldn’t mind being able to play.
Now I am suddenly reminded of the old days when the needle used to stuck.
Danger that way lies, Rosie.
Next thing you know, you’ll be vociferously declaring your love of tube amplifiers because the sound quality is so much fatter, man!
Just don’t start wearing a fedora. Please? 🙁
Have you considered the possibility that anyone who pursues power successfully enough to run a country is, of necessity, a shit? Discriminating fine shades of shittiness may not be the best use of your time.
The thing I note is that Putin has offered a credible (but not necessarily convincing) rationale for his invasion. The US and UK seem to want the war to continue and have no such rationale. Just anti-Putin hate. I can quite understand hating Putin. I can understand loathing BoJo and Biden too. But I haven’t declared war on any of them.
I haven’t even declared war against our very own political class, although I’m thinking of it.
Ah. The aspiring dictator.
There are also people that will tell you there are camps built for extermination, and who will (and actually did) then say ‘well what would you have concluded’ when the brightest, shiniest example of the death camps was loudly and publicly deemed unnecessary by the government he voted in.
Oh. An expert then. Here’s another example of ‘expert’ opinions on the Internet (from AEI):
Uh huh. Harvard. Unimpeachable then.
I’m talking about the high speed adult cyclists who don’t think they should slow down, ever.
fair enuf! .. those lycra clad speedsters, generally, give me a fright as well when they swoosh past my sedate OAP rambling without warning ……..!
Not my language sport. That’s you getting found out attempting to cover your blind following of western propaganda. You link it often enough on this subject.
I’ve stated it before- I think this adventure will see the end of the Putin era. Russia will successfully annex Donbas (arguably already) and the land bridge across to Crimea. Possibly to include Odessa but that foray may be a warning for the negotiating table to come. But, the sanctions will ultimately be debilitating for Russians and sow the seeds for Putin’s demise. It’s what becomes of Russia after that I think is an enormous issue. IMO the “west” ultimately wants to see Russia broken up into much smaller republics which won’t be a pretty affair. A structured transformation to some kind of liberal democracy looks remote to me. In other words- potential major chaos across 11 time zones and an enormous land mass as territory and resources are (violently) divvied up. Thanks to the efforts of “the west”- which of course includes NATO.
None of the above encourages me to change my opinions concerning the propaganda of the lying western MSM and our awful Govts. They are not worthy of any trust I’m able to muster.
More expert opinion:
So here we go….
Saturday 23 April I tested positive to Coronavirus.
I missed ANZAC Day as a result, but I can live with that.
I am supposedly in the ‘most endangered’ demographic, being over 70 and unvaccinated.
Today I have come out of isolation to tell the story of the journey…
The things of note that I have taken from the experience.
1. I am now effectively vaccinated…. Naturally.
2. I now have at least the equivalent to, but arguably better (depending on what science you care to follow) the immunity of those who have used artificial vaccination.
3. My maximum temperature since last Saturday (taken twice daily) was 36.8C (At no stage did I have a fever)
4. The worst symptoms I experienced were – sporadic mild headaches, intermittent cough and head congestion. Nothing more.
5. Maybe I was lucky or maybe the reading I did and the steps I took to strengthen my natural immunity paid off.
6. 12 months ago I read and understood the benefits of strengthening my natural immunity by supplementing my daily food intake. To do that I took these supplements, all obtained from my local pharmacy (I have not missed a day):
– zinc
– magnesium
– Vitamin B
– Vitamin C
and
– Vitamin D
7. I also take fish or krill oil capsules daily but that is for another reason.
8. I have not been sick at all during the past week and can honestly say that I am pleased with all my decisions since the start of the pandemic.
9. Being locked in my bedroom with a computer and no television has been beneficial in a number of ways. I have finished drafting and proof reading (again) my book and have completed my last years tax documentation. The greatest benefit was being totally isolated from a brain numbing federal election campaign… at least briefly.
I am going to write a psychological thriller about an ex model and bakery owner who becomes an L.A. psychiatrist to the stars. It will require a director like Kubrick and a supporting actor like R Lee Ermey.
Full Muffin Coquette.
Don’t worry, the Greens ads are ubiquitous, you’ll feel comfortably numb in no time!
Well Done Digger !
Persevere and ye shall succeed .. LOL! .. mentioned the other day I couldn’t get into FLASH NEWS streamer cos it’s Foxtel & I’m piggy-backing one of the kids KAYO accounts and it came up and said update details rather than allowing a new sign-up ….
Anyway, realised on one of my laptops I wasn’t using KAYO so tried again .. this time able to sign up as new customer under my own name .. not quite what I thought but 2 weeks free before I need to decide..
Tho as it’s only $8 a month I’ll probably stay ..
plus with my own log-in I am now able to access it on all my devices separate to the KAYO log-in ..
The war has been quietly happening since the Crimea was annexed March 2014, and the Donetskand Luhansk oblasts seceded from Ukraine that April. No side really chose to say a word (mutual agreement?) until it went fully kinetic in February. Why would you justify an ongoing fight unless you need or want an excuse to expand it?
Ukraine had chosen a pro-Western trajectory at that time, and in response Russian combat units started doing their thing in what had hitherto been their territory, on top of the tumultuous internal ructions that were simultaneously occurring within its own polity.
Having had Ukraine politically hitch their wagon to the rest of Europe for the time being, NATO and the EU set about doing their thing. Aid, trade and politics from the EU, retraining and professionalising the UAF to fight Russian troops and Russian-equipped Donbassian proxies by NATO.
This war has just waxed and waned in the background between the Obama and Trump presidencies, and between Poroshenko and Zelensky. And only became very apparent to most of us quite recently, once Biden’s doddery Administration (aside from the man himself) had had 4 or 5 months of consistent policy failures and inertia to signal an escalation might be an achievable gamble.
In that regard, the earlier-linked articles from January about the US Lend-Lease bill for Ukraine and Russian military massing and sabre-rattling rhetoric in February make sense. Both sides sensed a potentially dangerous change in the strategic environment and acted accordingly.
One might well have argued that the Lend-Lease bill would never have seen the light of day under a second Trump term, let alone a Desantis or Gabbard Presidency. It is quite possible it might have occurred under Hillary, albeit for different reasons and probably for a different client…
Diggersays:
May 1, 2022 at 3:19 pm
So here we go….
Saturday 23 April I tested positive to Coronavirus.
Why the test? .. could have just labelled it cold, cough or flu and got on with life …
Hi Cats! Unbelievable! I’m at a camp at Kings Creek Station in the middle of nowhere and the internet (4G hub) is better than the NBN shyte at home!
We are glamping – the Beloved upgraded us to a king bed e/s tent with a fridge. Similar to what we did in Wadi Rhum but much more comfy and modern. Very secluded and the surrounding bushland is alive with birds. And tiny, persistent flies. So my two-in-a-tent experience is a bit more up market but my bones aren’t complaining.
Did a short walk up at the Canyon this morning, looking forward to a longer one tomorrow. And hopefully sitting around the fire pit yarning with fellow travellers.
Spotted at KC campground- a massive 4WD with “Climate Action Now!” on the tail. Zero self awareness.
Trevor Noah at WHCA Dinner–Under Joe Biden Everything Is Looking Up: Gas, Food, and Rent
Noah also joked about Biden’s controversial comment endorsing removing Russian President Vladimir Putin from power.
“It was very very upsetting to Russia until someone explained to them that none of the stuff Biden wants actually gets done,” Noah joked.
On Carbon-steel bodywork.
The ultimate iron-y… 😀
#Punderdome
#BanThatManBeforeHeDoesItAgain!
too busy exporting inflation
2 dogs:
Unwatchable due to the audience and Bill pandering to them for larffs. He has a very important message and it didn’t get out.
NSW government ministers have slammed a ‘woke’ inclusion training seminar after they were told they should not refer to each other as ‘mate’.
The NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet conducted a series of ‘diversity and inclusion’ consultations this week.
The program listed a number of workplace changes including bans on drinking alcohol in the office, yelling at colleagues and gossiping about staff.
The seminars are estimated to have cost taxpayers $202,000.
Some ministers have criticised the ‘Respect at Work’ consultations and labelled them as ‘PC insanity’, ‘straight out of 1984’ and ‘mumbo jumbo’.
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Doc Beaugan:
Currently thinking of buying some cigars as EOTWAWKI trading stock.
Quality rating high, but not so high that the brand is unknown.
Confucius Says:
A wise woman once told me this-
“Take off and nuke the entire site from orbit.
“It’s the only way way to be sure…”
The worst are overweight barristers and doctors in lycra who approach a pedestrian crossing in a “peloton” (group) and call “rolling!” (as in, “get outta the way”.
A group of them killed an old bloke on Beach Rd a few years ago.
I have groups of them shoot past me on cyclepaths often. Matching Lycra, no bells, the best I get from them is “right side!” just before they descend upon me en mass.
As an increasingly aged and sadly overweight plonker who rides to work most days I use my bell all the time. The path is wide enough for even the the most scrubiesque walker to keep left and let a slow rider like me pass.
I do have some pedestrians overtake me up hills, though.
US Defence secretary Lloyd Austin stated the rationale in Kiev last week:
To so weaken Russia’s military capability that it cannot conduct offensive operations outside its borders (in Europe at least) anytime soon.
Good old omicron.
For most people, no biggie.
Depends which definition of inflation you you use. The west has been busily inflating the money supply (the classic definition of inflation) since 2008. The stock and property markets have been soaking up that money. https://economics21.org/html/classical-theory-inflation-and-its-uses-today-90.html#:~:text=The%20classical%20theory%20of%20inflation%20attributes%20sustained%20price,theory%20of%20inflation%2C%20not%20a%20theory%20of%20money.
Now that we have supply chain shortages (which China has to a large extent us now causing , helped along by senile Joe) we are seeing prices rise (the new definition of inflation). https://www.rba.gov.au/education/resources/explainers/inflation-and-its-measurement.html
Why the test? .. could have just labelled it cold, cough or flu and got on with life
Pretty simple actually… How do you know what the TRUE effects of COVID are if you don’t know you have it? I now don’t have to rely on what others tell me about it and I don’t have to guess whether I have had it or not…
I now know I have natural immunity.
If you do, you need to state that you are doing it solely to liberate the Australian Elite’s cigar supply for the People.
Just make sure you only release and redistribute the confiscated cigarettes, pouch tobacco and the really cheap and nasty cubano knockoffs to The People. 😉
Stolen.
I bet people who survived smallpox said
Awesome, I’m now naturally ‘vaccinated’ against smallpox.
spare me
ZK2A:
All this does is prove to the IS members they are doing the right thing.
You cannot have a conscience and simultaneously saw a mans head off.
The best way to treat these scum is by their own standards. Sew them into a pigskin and bury them alive.
The real fanatics will stop because – according to their beliefs – the Islamic Fighter won’t be seen by Allah.
FFS deal with them effectively instead of putting them in prison to await the next hostage swap.
Which again sounds weird and conspiratorial and even warmongery until you put it in the 2014-to-today context.
Vlad Bae’s ‘demilitarisation’ rhetoric from February/March also makes sense in that light, albeit because of the fight the UAF had put up to date.
Yeah, that made me a Scrubieista too
Perhaps, but it’s an escalation from simply protecting the sovereignty of Ukraine and not without significant risk.
The Democrats already did.
We got Joe instead.
just what we need a russia that thinks it’s in existential crises. Lloyd “dumbass” austin is an ugly clown
I carpool with 3 others to get to work. Last night got a call to say one is COVID pos. Today calls from other 2 asking if I had been tested, they had and both negative. They seemed a bit miffed when I said I wouldn’t bother unless I get symptoms … No test, no COVID, no problem.
Oh..
Oh dear…
Someone isnt to be invited on a BBC program ever again.
https://order-order.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Nailed-it.-https___t.co_RvI2RKDSud.mp4
Great question from a younger bloke, shame they didnt show the answer.