Arky why don’t you fuck off to Kiev seeing you feel so strongly about it.

Milton, I suspect Arky feels trongly about this war because, iirc, his wife is from Taiwan and they have family there. Needless to say, the Chinese, like their new besties the Russians, have their own axe to grind in regard to that territory.

If I’m wrong on this, no doubt he’ll correct me in his usual gentlemanly manner.

Thank the US deep state and its Cold War-era irrational hatred for this optimal outcome.

I think I said here at the time that when Biden brought Blinken and Nuland back from wherever these people go when they’re not in power, that it bode ill for peace in eastern Europe. Even Henry Kissinger is exasperated by their approach.

Critics have described the company’s policy as “speech-policing” and “creepy”. “Housewife” and even a computer “motherboard” have been flagged as not being inclusive by the new system.

It is strange, although hardly unintentional, at how ‘offence’ has been redefined.

It is now at the point where the occurrence of a word in one context which could be offensive in another context now makes makes all contexts ‘offensive’. Somehow ‘Mother’ is offensive – can’t see how. It is a fine word. To say otherwise is a Lode of bollocks!

But anyway, they have determined ‘mother’ is offensive, probably because it hints at a difference between men and women. Whatever is offensive about that distinction they think makes the word ‘motherboard’ a restatement of the original offence.

‘Blacklist’ is racist because it has ‘black’. Or because it has a negative connotation so when you say it you are asserting that black people are bad.

No one has to feel offence, all you need do is play ‘six degrees of separation’ with words.

Oddly enough, white people do not loosen their sphincters and stand in a puddle of their own making when they hear ‘whitewash’, ‘white dwarf’ (although dwarves may be offended), or ‘white out’.

It is awful to see my old friend degenerate into a blubbery pool. One of the things I liked about him was that he had a robust approach to issues.

Vaccines are a problem because you also have to throw out your belief in government as basically a force for good and the general reliability of the MSM. I don’t have a problem doing either but have swapped texts with 2 good mates who are not ready to join me.

Johanna. I think it was Channel 7 blokes did the car stuff. They would brag about it at Epping pub.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUqN1xsZymc

Has Twiggy stuck his hand in his own pocket for any of this renewable stuff? Fortescue Future Industries technology risk seems to be being bourne by public shareholders (read Mums and Dads via Mosman based Superannuation Investment Managers) and the government (read mug taxpayers).

Sorry if I seem repetetive, but I lost friends over Glowbull warmeneing, and now over Getting Multiple Jabs.

Interestingly my sister,who for 30 years was politically disinterested/uninterested and regarded me as a right wing nut job, is possibly more anti vaccine than me.

Strange days indeed.

Shatterzzz.
Talk to JC about run-flat tyres.

Winston – I am thinking of changing my name to Caligula and running for the Senate in a horse costume. Need another 499 signatures for party status.

My bad, oaf.

It was groundbreaking stuff.

I had no idea which channel it was either, I just quoted dopey at 1:05 pm.

I did remember it was Tony Williamson’s Celica at least. Bits of my memory still work

ABC Engineering Department, oddly enough.
The only blokes in the corporation to ever turn a profit

Life as a technical/innovative area in a large corporate can often be difficult. The company I ended up at comprised bits of SECV and Leighton. We ended up getting bought by a gigantic multinational which just re-created the problem. Oh well.

Higher Antioxidant Levels Linked to Lower Dementia Risk

With all the anti-oxidant vitamins/greens out of vege garden etc etc I consume – I wouldn’t expect to stumble over people’s names like I do regularly – to my great frustration. A consequence of growing old, I hear……

LOL

Former President Trump proposed launching missiles into Mexico to destroy drug labs run by cartels, according to an upcoming memoir from Mark Esper, his former secretary of Defense.

The New York Times first reported the news, gaining an advance copy of Esper’s memoir, “A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times,” which is slated for a release on Tuesday.

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/3479050-esper-says-trump-proposed-launching-missiles-into-mexico-to-destroy-drug-labs/amp/

Trader’s blog… musings.

But have the west actually said they helped sink the Russian ship? Really?

Yep, they have.

BREAKING: U.S. intelligence helped Ukraine sink the Russian cruiser Moskva – NBC News

Russian would have surmised this anyway because it’s pretty obvious the Ukes couldn’t do it alone. I cannot believe Western intel is bragging about this. By all means, help the ukes down the ship, but don’t fucking brag about it, you morons.

MAY 9TH LOOMS: US BOASTS OF HELPING TO SINK RUSSIA’S FLAGSHIP WAR VESSEL

On May 9th, 1945, Russia defeated the Nazi regime. It’s called “Victory Day” in Russia and considered a very important, sacred even, holiday.

This coincides with tensions ratcheting up between NATO and Russia, as the Ukrainian war draws in regional and global forces to fend off the Russian invasion. It’s rumored that Russia will order a full mobilization of its armed forces and officially declare war against Ukraine. It’s hard to imagine Russia NOT mobilizing, since all of NATO is actively targeting Russian leadership and servicemen.

While no one really knows what Russia will do, we do know the United States is goading Russia with comments designed to cause Putin to choose violence, giving NATO the pretext to launch attacks against Russia. Tonight they boasted about helping to sink the Moskva.

Last week Pelosi, Schiff and other US politicians were in Kiev talking about defeating Russia and said nothing about de escalation. And lastly Belarusian forces are teeming on the border with Lithuania, as well as nuclear readiness exercises underway by the Russians in Kaliningrad.

In total, the mood of the west is one of invincibility — as people view Russia’s struggles in the Ukraine and deduce they’re weak. The fact is, Ukraine is strong, assisted by western intelligence, logistics, and weapons. If the war expanded into other areas of Europe, forget about GDP growth and start to worry about submarines in the Atlantic targeting LNG tankers to a gas starved Europe.

One can make a strong argument that the Ukrainian army is the strongest and most battle ready forces in all of Europe. How other European forces will stack up against a fully mobilized Russia is anyone’s guess.

All being said, none of this is bullish for stocks.

Rand Paul is just so good.

https://videos.whatfinger.com/2022/05/05/rand-paul-single-handedly-shuts-down-bidens-ministry-of-truth-with-savage-takedown-that-left-sec-mayorkas-speechless/

A remarkable Jewish renaissance is under way in Florida. Jewish schools and synagogues are rapidly expanding. Jews from the Northeast and Midwest, as well as Latin America and Israel, are migrating to the Sunshine State in significant numbers, making the Jewish communities there lively and varied. Florida’s booming and low-tax economy is no doubt one of the attractions to young Jews seeking to build a prosperous future for themselves and their families. So is Florida’s educational system, which provides tax credits that assist many parents in sending their children to Jewish day schools.

A few years ago, we helped launch the Jewish Leadership Conference, an annual gathering to consider the challenges facing the Jewish people and Israel. It is hosted by Tikvah, a 20-year old Jewish educational and cultural institution whose main activity in America is teaching young Jews about Jewish history and civilization. We thought it would be interesting to invite Gov. Ron DeSantis to discuss how the “Florida model” has contributed to the growth and vitality of Jewish life in his state. The event was to be held at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City. Until, as the saying goes, we got canceled.

Over the years, Tikvah has hosted numerous conferences at the museum, always including prominent Jewish, Israeli and American thinkers and leaders of various political and religious points of view. We were working closely with the museum on the details for the June 12 event—until, out of the blue, we were told by the museum staff that Mr. DeSantis didn’t “align with the museum’s values and its message of inclusivity.” Either we disinvite the governor, they said, or our event was unwelcome.

Throughout the modern age, Jews have suffered the consequences of this kind of intolerance. We see it all the time on college campuses, where anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism have become a tolerated (and even celebrated) form of discrimination. We see it in the boycott, divest and sanctions movement, which advocates treating Israel as a pariah. We see it in the U.N., with its odious anti-Israel Human Rights Council and with Amnesty International’s “apartheid state” calumny.

But we know things are bad when a Jewish institution—in this case, a museum whose purpose is to keep Jewish heritage alive by remembering the Holocaust—turns on its own and tries to make a virtue of its own intolerance.

What happened? Read on.

What drives our elite institutions—museums, universities, large corporations, the media—to shut down speakers and ideas that question progressive orthodoxy? In many cases, the explanation is sheer cowardice. A lot of people dislike Mr. DeSantis, and the museum staff must have asked: What if there are protests? What if our progressive donors complain? In the current environment, protecting free speech requires moral and political courage. Many administrators, corporate CEOs and college presidents have weak spines. Preserving a free society requires at least some ability to respect other viewpoints and other people. The new czars of cancel culture seem to have little such moral imagination or civic tolerance.

The new thought police don’t see themselves as acting solely or primarily out of fear. They believe they are defending the good: inclusion against hate, equality against discrimination, victimized minorities against white privilege. Yet the pseudo-gospel of inclusion breaks down quickly. In the name of inclusivity, a Jewish museum sent us a clear message: Some people are to be excluded. In the name of fighting hate, the museum decided that the millions of Floridians who support Gov. DeSantis—including many Jews—are so hateful that they don’t even merit a voice in the great American conversation. A museum of tolerance has become intolerant.

When pressed for a further explanation of why our event was canceled, the museum’s CEO adopted a common form of doublespeak: We don’t do politics, he told us, whether left or right. Not surprisingly, this was false. In August 2018, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, then a Democratic candidate for Congress, was a featured speaker at an event at the museum, sponsored by the Immigrant Arts Coalition. Her speech was widely covered in the news—both before and after the event—including public criticism of the museum for giving such a vociferous critic of Israel a prominent platform at a Jewish institution. Yet the event went on as planned.

The museum has hosted other politicians, including then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo and then-Mayor Bill de Blasio. In April the museum hosted a conversation with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, who recently described America as a society plagued by white supremacy and lauded America’s re-entry into the anti-Israel Human Rights Commission.

When we launched the Jewish Leadership Conference a few years ago, we gave our inaugural Herzl Prize for Jewish Leadership to the great freedom fighter Natan Sharansky, who endured nearly a decade in a Soviet prison in his fight to rejoin his people in Israel. In his memoir, “Fear No Evil,” he tells how the Soviet thought police suffocated liberty “not by tanks and missiles, or even camps and prisons,” but by turning free citizens into frightened supplicants, afraid to speak their minds.

The preservation of Jewish heritage depends not only on remembering the lost Jews of the past. It depends also on channeling those sacred memories toward a vibrant Jewish future—the kind of Jewish renaissance we are seeing today in Florida.

The Jewish Leadership Conference won’t be canceled, and the governor of the state with America’s third-largest Jewish population will speak. We will hold our event as planned, at a different, secular venue. But it is sad to see that the misguided leadership of a Jewish museum won’t allow alternative ideas a seat at the Jewish table.

Mr. Abrams is chairman and Mr. Cohen is CEO of Tikvah. They are co-chairmen of the Jewish Leadership Conference.

You go Ron!

Once you start looking for (and finding) implied rights there is no telling where you might end up. Discussing metaphysics in the High Court?

Here we have the “implied nationhood power” which is conveniently used to justify the Federal Government spending money on the arts and sport. Nowhere in S51 is there any mention of the arts and sport as areas where the government can legislate.

I call it the Clayton’s power – the power you invoke when you don’t have a power.

Bear, I hate them. They’re expensive and useless because if you get a puncture you can’t have the tire repaired, it has to be replaced. If it’s on the worn side you have to replace both tires. Again, I hate them.

Okay. But I did hear the numbers correctly so they may have got it wrong and I wouldn’t know a brigade from Brigadoon. I did hear the 200,000 men comprised of 5 brigades.

He he. Just as I expected. I think Minis also have them. Could never live with a Mini interior, in addition to being an automotive cheapskate.

Knuckle Draggersays:

May 6, 2022 at 4:30 pm

Australia One.

Still not a registered party.

I assume the “Donate” button is gone, then?
You know, the “Donate to help us register as a political party” button.

Completely missed the point with a useless tangential comment

Mutton induced cretinism.

Interestingly my sister,who for 30 years was politically disinterested/uninterested and regarded me as a right wing nut job, is possibly more anti vaccine than me.

Exactly the same with Daughter. She even persuaded her Best Man to drive the 1,1oo + kms to march in the Canberra protest. Furthermore, she has taken a keen interest in the current political climate, fully aware of whom to support and whom to shunt.

I hope that the last two years of tyranny has resulted in many more previously apathetic voters demanding restitution for the injustices that we all have endured.

Tom, any thoughts on the Saudi Golf league? Sounds like Garcia is off. Who else?
https://nypost.com/2022/05/05/sergio-garcia-hints-at-saudi-golf-league-in-lost-ball-meltdown/

Albo likes the soft soap. Apparently.

Albanese confirms backflip on live exports
Rachel Baxendale
RACHEL BAXENDALE

Anthony Albanese has confirmed Labor has changed its live sheep export policy overnight, following pressure from West Australian Premier Mark McGowan.

Only yesterday, an opposition spokesperson confirmed in a statement to the ABC that an Albanese government would shut down the $250 million industry.

The confirmation followed months of agriculture spokeswoman Julie Collins refusing to say whether Labor was sticking with the policy of banning the live sheep trade which it took to the last federal election

It prompted a revolt from Mr McGowan, who declared that measures enforced under his industry crackdown were “effective and appropriate” to enable the trade to continue.

Asked at his press conference on Friday why Labor had committed to ending live sheep exports and whether he could put a timeline on the policy, he responded: “No, we won’t (end live sheep exports), and we haven’t in our policy.”

“Our policy has changed,” he said.

“The amount of live exports has halved in recent times, and we’ll continue the summer ban, but we’ll consult with state governments, in particular the West Australian state government, but we’ll also consult with the agricultural sector about the issues around live sheep export.”

Flip flop, flip flop…….

Oz headline:

About bloody time!

I’ll believe it when I see it. If they expel turdball they should shove little johnnie too; after all he convinced the putrid prick to hang around.

Dot, I wasn’t having a shot at you.
Your formation structure seemed more like Israel’s than ours.
(Eg: 5 company, Thousand man battalion, commanded by a Major)

That aside:
200,000 men is more like an Army (i.e. several Corps)

Dover

NY was an abbrev for New Year, not New York. Lol

More grist for the mill.

https://joannenova.com.au/2022/05/pfizergate-new-documents-confirm-vaccine-goes-to-liver-spleen-and-ovaries-in-animal-studies/

And just like that, the dreams of hundreds, or even thousands, of dedicated amateurs are thrown away. I trust javelin, archery, fencing, any martial arts, will be similarly dismissed and barred.

The 2026 Commonwealth Games will be held in Victoria, just 20 years after doing the same in 2006.

However unlike 2006, shooting has not been included.

In this article, we look at why this has happened and what can be done to put pressure on it’s re-inclusion.

There will be 16 sports, with the usual range that we are used to seeing, such as athletics and swimming

We know that shooting wasn’t included in this year’s Birmingham Commonwealth Games, but it is now apparent that shooting isn’t among the sports announced for the 2026 games either.

Shooting was included in the 2006 games, with the Melbourne Gun club, Melbourne International Shooting Club and Wellsford Range all hosting events.

The inclusion of shooting was even announced by the then Labor Minister for sport, Justin Madden at one of those venues.

Justin Madden MP announcing shooting for the 2006 Comm Games at Melbourne Gun Club

So what’s changed that would cause one Labor Government to include shooting, and another Labor Government to leave it out?

The difference is that the state’s premier is Daniel Andrews.

Andrews is hard core socialist and known for his disregard for the shooting sports alongside his police minister, Lisa Neville.

We wrote to Andrews and also to Commonwealth Games Australia, asking why shooting was dropped.

While Andrews hasn’t yet responded, Commonwealth Games Australia advised us that:

• A number of other sports, including shooting, are listed as “core sports” which may be included later on;
• The Victorian Government gets a say in what sports are and are not included;
• There will be further sports added to the program by the end of Phase 2 – which delays the announcement until after this year’s Victorian state election; and
• We should speak with Shooting Australia, which organises the shooting events for the Commonwealth Games and is a member of Commonwealth Games Australia.

However the response also said that discussions on ‘phase 2’ are “strictly confidential”, which means Shooting Australia will not be able to tell us, even if they knew.

WHY THIS MATTERS
With the announcement of what other sports may or may not be included being held off until after the election, we cannot afford to let the government exclude shooting.

Live sheep. Albo’s greyhounds?

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity says:
May 6, 2022 at 7:03 pm

Dot, please gimme a minute, I’ve gotta nick around the corner to the shops. I’ve run out of Elderflower flavour tonic-water & cannot possibly drink Gin with (ugh) Schweppes tonic water – (so… common) ?

That’s why the moron sounds all uppity and shit at 10.00. By midnight the gin takes him on a downer making him depressed and miserable. Hence the after 12 pm aggro stoush trolling and the fake manliness bullshit. It’s the gin.

He’s just poison.

Former Victorian Liberal premier Jeff Kennett has called on Malcolm Turnbull to resign from the party, accusing him of “endlessly” undermining the people who provided him with his opportunity.

Mr Kennett ratcheted up calls for Mr Turnbull to be removed from the Liberal Party, after he called on Australians to vote for “teal” independents at the upcoming federal election.

“Although Malcolm Turnbull is a wealthy man, he is the poorest in human spirit,” Mr Kennett tweeted on Friday night.

“Alone without friends in Australia, except the ABC, he lives abroad and endlessly undermines the people who gave him the opportunity to serve as PM.

He should resign from the Liberal Party he attacks.”