Spooner’s good. This made me LOL. Love the identity politics being thrown out of the window. Defenestrated.
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The Slovenian Hag – made famous by Tinta.
I use comm bank ATM to withdraw cash from my building society free of charge. Their propaganda suggests they don’t…
Speaking of which, we now have the US, China & India placing their national interest ahead of cutting emissions and…
In a bookshop recently, can’t remember which one, Australian section, 95% female authors, I’d never heard of most. Jane Harper…
Nobel laureate
It’s not often that you are told that you are going to be robbed in broad daylight, and exactly where and when, and you still have no way to avoid it.
2000 Mules Documentary Provides Compelling Evidence That 2020 Election Was Stolen
Group E – The Greens
Group E – The Greens
P, I want the pleasure of explaining to themhow I intend to use their HTV instructions. And why. Basically that they are at best gullible, stupid and ignorant.
Hi Cats! Survived Tennant Creek and Daly Waters.
The latter is fun, but don’t expect to get much sleep. Now at Katherine. Tomorrow we’ll sample the hot springs and off to a gorge cruise for Mother’s Day dinner.
From the little I’ve seen of it, Katherine is a very nice place. With the most enormous cop shop I’ve ever seen outside Belfast.
Dickless
Labor is awash with funds that are spent on AstroTurf outfits.
That’s where… very likely the Teal Independents get their funding from.
Errr, have you heard of Holmes a Court? And several million dollars to the “Climate 200” group of “independents”?
Quite so.
The trouble is, the Footers and Shitters Party might seem at first glance to be hairy-chested flanno shirt wearing, no bullshit, outdoorsy types.
But, once you put them under the microscope, they look suspiciously like an ALP astroturfing outfit.
WA Green HTV
As I understood it, BoN was saying that the virus itself may cause liver damage to very young children. Which is horrible if true.
Out of the Spectator.
Needless to say, like so much of Putin’s rhetoric, the land corridor is merely a pretext. He cares little for Crimea and even less for Transnistria. The critical object is to neutralize major seaports like Mariupol and Odesa, rendering Ukraine landlocked. The end-game is to destroy Ukraine’s economy by preventing the export of its grain and other agricultural produce to the world. That this may lead to starvation in the world’s poorest countries is, for Putin, frankly neither here nor there.
Boris & Ivan can ruminate on this opinion.
I’m more inclined to think the Hep A outbreak is just that – the mongrel is highly infectious and children aren’t the most careful with clean hands. Also, being separated for such a lengthy time due to lockdowns may have done enough suppression of immunity to cause a slightly lowered threshold. You’d really have to have a lot more data to make sense of it.
Bwah ha ha.
That is a classic Adam Bandt line in the midst of a nuclear holocaust:-
“Yes, but the cans are going to landfill”.
The end-game is to destroy Ukraine’s economy by preventing the export of its grain and other agricultural produce to the world
Sounds plausible.
That this may lead to starvation in the world’s poorest countries is…
an indication that the rest of the story is bullshit.
Ukraine is the breadbasket of the Middle East, but the world’s poorest countries are all in Africa
So what Figment?
The UK has stated categorically that none of the infected children were vaccinated
And if you want to speculate that the children (median age 2) in the US were go right ahead, your baseless claim will remain a baseless claim.
PS
This isn’t the first time BoN has speculated vaccines are responsible for the hepatitis outbreak.
And note one hepatitis cluster is in Alabama which has the lowest vaccination rate in the US.
and you are correct calli, the operative word in this outbreak is ‘infectious’.
Good to hear you are having a happy holiday Calli.
“But, once you put them under the microscope, they look suspiciously like an ALP astroturfing outfit.”
Yes, no different to the Teal “Independents” who are also an ALP astroturfing outfit, actually, the Teal independents are a Greens astroturfing outfit.
Fester in his own words. Calli, stop covering up for the clown.
I don’t care about speculation – everyone does it and it’s healthy. You can have a bit of a think and a search around and either discard the idea or modify it.
I don’t like being cry bullied into believing speculative stuff. And I won’t. Very few here do it, mercifully.
Dunder Ed. If there is a worldwide food shortage, the price of food will go up.
Who’s going to be able to afford it? Who will win the bidding war for scarcer food resources? The Middle East or the Africans?
calli, I hope you kept driving right on through Tennant Creek.
Re: Hepatitis outbreak
The best fit hypothesis at the moment from the UK Health Publication is “Lack of prior exposure during the pandemic … rendering normal adenovirus infections more severe”
The curiously unstated root cause is therefore the hysteria of the expertocracy and the teachers unions that led to lockdowns of children in schools – meaning that they missed out on the benefit of normal circulation of adenovirus through the pre-school population.
If you look at the cases of adenovirus over the past two years (p18 of the document at the link), this seems entirely plausible.
Those responsible should be hung by their gonads, especially as these adverse outcomes were widely predicted at the time.
Why are they called Teals?
This stupid Karen was carrying a bag with the image of that dishonest turd zoeeeeee Daniel.
For those who haven’t figured it out yet, the ABC is a political party to the left of the Greens.
Inflation hits the poorest the hardest.
Besides, food is a weapon of war. It always has been.
Eyrie says:
May 7, 2022 at 5:09 pm
calli, I hope you kept driving right on through Tennant Creek.
What’s wrong with Tennant Creek? Much nicer than Honiara, at least the locals spoke to me, said things like “F$%k off white C&*t” and “hey whitey get out of our town”.
Thanks Barry. Here’s another speculation – we’re going to see a whole lot more of this suppressed immunity due to lack of exposure over a range of infectious diseases, particularly in the young.
DocDuk will have a better handle on this, but I know from experience that exposure at a young age for my own kids in PNG meant that the stuff that laid children low back home simply shot over them and didn’t stick. They just didn’t get sick. One of them never had a day off until her appendix went bugger up at 15.
Now we have a huge number of children who have been underexposed for two years.
We did the breakfast cruise several years ago. Excellent guide, yummy food and a truly spectacular gorge.
(After touring the long route from Perth to Katherine, we were pretty much gorged out, but Katherine Gorge was quite special.)
Have a great day.
Calli:
Very well said, that woman.
Or man.
Or Adult Human Female.
Oh hell – what would I know? I’m no biologist.
I reckon that’s closer to the truth. Let your children eat dirt instead of wrapping them in bubble wrap. The same applies intellectually.
Who’s going to be able to afford it? Who will win the bidding war for scarcer food resources? The Middle East or the Africans?
NewsFlash, Cletus!
Those African Countries aren’t bidding the price of food up.
Western Taxpayers are feeding them, have been for 60 years.
As I said [correctly], Ukraine is the breadbasket of the Middle East, always has been.
Tennant Creek was interesting in that we didn’t see a single white face as we drove in. All the shops had mesh on doors and windows. The motel was barricaded off in the evening so we simply had a picnic dinner in our room.
We asked about security the next morning and got the following answer – there was no “trouble” at the motel because it was owned by the locals, ie. indigenous. Sounded like a protection racket to me.
Now we have a huge number of children who have been underexposed for two years.
If exposing children to infectious diseases is DoublePlusGood, as you appear to be saying, what’s the point of Vaccinations, then?
“Why are they called Teals?”
They ALL wear the same teal colour, be it in Wentworth, Kooyong, North Sydney or Goldstein. It’s a cult run by Svengali Simon who dishes out lots of dollars to his very white, privileged, middle age female candidates, candidates who are all feigning “independence” when the reality is that they are no such thing. When I was walking towards Eastgate Shopping Centre today to do some grocery shopping, I was confronted by a swathe of teal.
Craig Kelly:
On 7 May 1945, 460 Squadron performed their final food drop off as part of Operation Manna: a special mission to provide food to the starving civilians in German occupied Netherlands. ??http://ow.ly/FciM50IWGkZ
? A trolley load of food for Operation Manna. P00813.001
https://twitter.com/CraigKellyMP/status/1522754416297668608?cxt=HHwWgMCj-dvE9KEqAAAA
“For those who haven’t figured it out yet, the ABC is a political party to the left of the Greens.”
Yep, to which successive Coalition governments have been more than happy to throw our money at.
Besides, food is a weapon of war. It always has been.
Putin is responsible for [potentially] starving Africans?
Gimme a break?
No. No way.
The Handmaid’s Teal.
We stopped in Tennant Creek to get supplies on a trip a few years back.
It was social security day. All the locals were in town and buying up the supermarket. They had cards which only allowed them to purchase approved items such as normal groceries and fresh foods. No junk food, chips , soft drinks, alcohol. Which seemed to work according to the shop manager.
When we went to buy a carton of VB we were refused as it was to social security day. We had a robust discussion with the bottle shop manager and he relented and got us to sign a stat dec saying who we were and they we would not on sell to the local mob. At that time in the rest of Aus a carton was $36. He charged us $86.
If it was left to the commercial broadcasters, the Coalition wouldn’t even get a mention, it would be wall to wall Greens and Labor.
Is Tractor Kelly still at the ABC? ( Ive always said, she looks like the front end of a Massey Ferguson tractor).
Also, the TV was stuck on ABC24. I had never watched the thing.
It is wall to wall leftie politics, as bad as CNN. Everything is politicised, every story regardless of content. There is an odious woman doing a business segment – smirkingly interviewing the NAB CEO. He was very clear in his answers re inflation and interest rates, but she constantly tried to verbal him. Fortunately she was an idiot and he ran rings around her.
This is the best our taxes can pay for? It was embarrassing.
err, JC – you want to know this, why?
Radio has always been her preferred medium, for very good reasons.
Ed, the West hasn’t been feeding them. From the UN….
The major problem for Africa is Western Governments subsidising their own farmers.
an indication that the rest of the story is bullshit.
Ukraine is the breadbasket of the Middle East, but the world’s poorest countries are all in Africa
It is beyond the comprehension of Dickless that the (relatively) wealthy Middle East could out bid the poor African countries for the grain available from places other than Ukraine, if the Ukrainian grain is cut off.
Dickless is not a deep thinker, which also shows in his political “analysis”.
Ahem:
Shut It Down
Fire Them All
Salt the Earth
Nuke From Orbit
There was a report by Channel 7 that Tim Wilson looks like losing to Zoeeeee Daniel. I then looked at the betting odds on Sportsbet and it has Zoeeeee winning?
This seat has always been libs as far as I recall. Unreal.
Armadillo
Snap!
Sorry.
Regardless of subject.
But he may be a “deep drinker”, which might explain some of his “factual excesses”. 😕
#trytoseesomegood
Rabz
Just curious as I ocassionly read Henderson in the Oz and I vaguely recall he mentioned Tractor was retiring…. I think but not sure.
Yes, it was good she was on the radio.
occasionally
JC – if Joshi Frydchickenberger is vanquished in Kooyong then he’s among some notable precedents:
Li’l Johnny HoWARd – Bennebong 2007
The Yabbott – Warringah 2019
If it was left to the commercial broadcasters, the Coalition wouldn’t even get a mention, it would be wall to wall Greens and Labor.
Dickless hasn’t noticed that every mention of the Coalition on Their ABC is completely negative.
Perhaps Dickless believes that any publicity is good publicity? Mug!
Dickless claims to be a “liberal” supporter, but acts like a raving lefty so-called “progressive”.
Okay, I’ll take your word on that.
There’s your problem.
They’re not eating their Agricultural Exports, even you can figure that out.
They’re exporting the products of their labour, and Western Taxpayers are feeding them.
An English translation should be available. He says that UKR burn through a weeks donated supplies in a day. And that Spetsnaz now successful counter UAF Special forces operations. RTWT.
Met a person this arvo who claims to have been working in Vikpol in the legal team for the Kommish. A number of the lockdown measures were illegal and the Kommondant was briefed as such. Brief was ignored and changed and measures were implemented.
This was fed to Liberal opposition and they fkn sat on it.
‘The need cold steel Mr Mannering, they don’t like it up em sir!’
JCsays:
May 7, 2022 at 5:38 pm
Is Tractor Kelly still at the ABC? ( Ive always said, she looks like the front end of a Massey Ferguson tractor).
Your eyes must be better than mine, I thought it was the back end.
JC – anyone who willingly listens to ALPBC radio deserves all they get.
Err, except for dinobores who tune into to chiple jay for at least 30 hours a week … 😕
Frydenburg won’t lose.
The Game is to starve funding for other Winnable Seats in Victoria by ensuring the Lions Share goes to Kooyong.
/Labor Politics 101:
Whatever it fucking takes
Rabz
I don’t really know those electorates in NSW, so I can’t comment. Goldstein would like a mix of Mosman, Neutral Bay, layered with a touch of Vaucluse.
It’s Caulfield, Brighton etc. I grew up in Caulfield /close to Brighton and it was always liberal.
Wiki
Sweet Lad takes after his Sniffer Father
Hunter Biden’s Laptop Password Was “AnalF*ck69”
Nonsense, B John. Take a look and tell me the front/side end doesn’t look like Tractor Kelly.
https://www.alamy.com/rusty-old-massey-ferguson-tractor-on-display-image261979782.html
There’s your problem.
They’re not eating their Agricultural Exports, even you can figure that out.
They’re exporting the products of their labour, and Western Taxpayers are feeding them.
Here’s a thought for you Dickless.
Perhaps their exports are the surplus after they feed themselves? Unless you can produce evidence that African food exports exactly equal African food production.
I’m not overly concerned about children.
Most of them get everything going at day care before they start school.
Australian day care never really closed and every virus and infectious disease known to humanity cycled through as per usual.
This I know.
JCsays:
May 7, 2022 at 5:58 pm
Nonsense, B John. Take a look and tell me the front/side end doesn’t look like Tractor Kelly.
I concede that there is some resemblance, but the tractor’s front end is far too slim and svelte to match her.
Sweet Lad takes after his Sniffer Father
Hunter Biden’s Laptop Password Was “AnalF*ck69”
From the Comments
– Does anyone doubt the Steele dossier and the golden shower russian prostitute stories were nothing more than Hunter’s biography with Trump’s name replacing Hunters?
– Good point…
Highly probable !
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You’d be moving among them like a local, JC.
I’m of Sydney’s Inner West and it’s a locality that I still can’t shake. What’s the saying? “Most people will end up living within a 10km radius of where they were born and grew up, whether they realise it or not”.
Living for the past five years six kms from where I was born. Lived within the radius for about 80% of my life.
We tend to be parochial creatures of habit.
lol
Ed claims that “Ukraine is the breadbasket of the Middle East”.
Someone should “fact check” that…..
https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/Country/MEA/Year/LTST/TradeFlow/Import/Partner/by-country/Product/16-24_FoodProd
In 2019, the top partner countries from which Middle East & North Africa Imports Food Products include United States, Brazil, France, Turkey and Netherlands.
Ukraine are somewhere on the list, but I got tired of scrolling.
Yes. Same situation at Fitzroy Crossing.
We still need to learn the right lessons from America’s disastrous COVID response
More than a century ago, Mark Twain identified two fundamental problems that would prove relevant to the COVID pandemic. “How easy it is to make people believe a lie,” he wrote, “and how hard it is to undo that work again!”
No convincing evidence existed at the pandemic’s start that lockdowns, school closures and mask mandates would protect people against the virus, but it was remarkably easy to make the public believe these policies were “the science.”
Undoing this deception is essential to avoid further hardship and future fiascos, but it will be exceptionally hard to do. The problem is that so many people want to keep believing the falsehood.
Adults meekly surrendered their most basic liberties, cheered on leaders who devastated the economy and imposed two years of cruel and unnecessary deprivations on their children. They don’t want to admit these sacrifices were in vain.
An English translation should be available
Dover, Google translate works amazingly well.
Sportsbet has :
Zoeeee Daniel $1.60
Tim Wilson $2.20
I wonder how much it takes to move the odds/ manipulate the odds. Individual seat wise, I bet the kitty wouldn’t be a huge amount and the marginal sum to move odds around wouldn’t take a lot of money.
Armadillo may know though.
Dover
You also have to hold the place. Trying to hold Iraq cost the US an arm and a leg. Russia has a couple of fingers to spare. The non -Russian part doesn’t want a bar of Russia.
Hey, maybe the Russian could starve the fuckers. It’s not like that trick was tried before on them by the same guys.
Australian day care never really closed
In Victoriastan it close unless both parents were authorised workers an neither could work from home. Or child only had one parent.
The book never lies, but in this case I’d suggest it would be a reasonable amount.
Your head is probably telling you Tim will win, but you really don’t know what the bastard punters know that you don’t. I’d be a bit wary and keep the book margin tight until it got closer to election day.
Unless of course I knew something they didn’t know. Then I would milk it for all it’s worth.
That extra restriction re essential workers in Victoria was for about six weeks in 2020, and again briefly in late 2021 so in effect made no difference.
Dillo!
I don’t mind them doing that, (Well actually I do) but giving grain to African governments just undercuts the efforts of their farmers to supply to their own people and build an agricultural economy. It just turns them into dependents and the jobs go to maaates.
I still maintain that Trump won the 2020 election. People “in the know” were aware it was rigged. I’d love to be able to “follow the money” on that particular market.
Any Putinist Fanboys want to comment?
Stealing people’s property at a whim is truly disgusting.
But just out of curiosity, The Pute earns about 140K a year and has been in the big seat for about 20 years. You’d agree that, The Pute must be the best investor in history to be able to turn part of $140K a year in enough money to own a $750 million dollar boat and a $1 billion dollar house. Right? Right?
Let’s say he saved 50% of the $140k a year and turned into say $2 billion. What’s the compound factor over 20 years?
I don’t have a calc handy but it must be around 30% a year compound. The dude is an investing AI.
To be tiresomely pedantic (and fair), wasn’t it the communists that starved them, not the Russians?
A lot of Russians died in the Holomodor too I believe.
Let’s call it a $700,000 investment for 10 years. This averages the $1.4 million over 20 years.
In order to achieve $2 billion after 10 years, The Pute was compounding at very close to 50% a year for 10 years. Incredible!
I don’t think they’ll go for the non-Russian parts but who knows. I did see a short vid this morning of a young Russian-speaking UKR couple returning to Kharkov from the West UKR because of the attitude they were getting. They preferred sheltering in the basement, they said.
Yes, we had similar in (can’t remember exactly, but I think) Kununurra. Then, that pattern followed us all around the top end. A tad frustraing in Katherine, where we had to show driver’s licence and face an inquisition before we could buy anything. “Even my mother doesn’t give me this much trouble about enjoying my favourite tipple,” I (politely) protested.
“Yeah, sorry,” was the wry reply.
Sadly, the NT and WA governments ‘manage’ the problem of extreme and dangerous drinking by aboriginal people by banning alcohol sales to everyone. It’s been a wonderful policy, highly effective and…
Do really need the sarc tag?
So we don’t actually know who owns the yacht but we are seizing it on the say-so of Navalny supporters. OK.
Sportsbet says Josh will win against the mongrel.
Josh Frydenberg (Liberal) 1.80
Monique Ryan (Independent) 1.92
More like a close race.
Julia Banks winning Chisholm outta the blue was a big wake up call for Labor.
The combination of a very presentable Candidate plus $200 grand from Head Office did the trick.
In 2019, Labor targeted Kooyong and forced the Liberals to plough money in
to save it, while they lost 2 seats and gained none from Labor.
Putin got his wealth by borrowing a few billion from his local Credit Union and plunging “all in” on a Biden win. Picked all the state races as well. Nothing to see here.
#russianinterference
Dover , a few weeks ago you were telling us Zelensky was a billionaire. If your question assertion applied to Zelensky then why not Putin? 🙂
It’s Putin’s. Of course it is.
Dillo!
I went down about $32K on that one. Bit of a bugger.
Lots of wonderful odds.
If every surface has gold, then it’s Russian and anything that size has to be Putin’s.
I wonder how much it takes to move the odds/ manipulate the odds. Individual seat wise, I bet the kitty wouldn’t be a huge amount and the marginal sum to move odds around wouldn’t take a lot of money.
Exactly right.
This scam was played at the last Election, the Betting Agencies alleged they paid out Million$$$ before Election Day because Labor was a certainty.
JC:
He doesn’t really own the Kremlin, you know?
Yes, we had similar in (can’t remember exactly, but I think) Kununurra.
Mate and his missus were on the post-retirement ’round-Australia pilgrimage when they thought they bet stock up on Demon Rum before heading into the northwest’s desolation of bottle shops.
“That was when I realised we were alcoholics,” mate said.
“How so”
“We were the only white faces waiting outside for the bottle shop to open.”
He and she remain nightly immersed in Satan’s Elixir, which will get a proper belting tonight as they both barrack for the Bombers and will feel immense pain by half time.
Tim Wilson did fuck all for his electorate. He spent his time swanning around NSW announcing taxpayer funded solar panel grants to yacht clubs.
Fuck him.
The boat was run by FSA dudes except the English Captain.
I’m pretty sure I’d be threatening nuclear weapons if some dickheads with a warrant and fancy police uniforms tried to steal my super yacht.
It wouldn’t even cross by mind it might be a slight “over reaction”. Fuck ‘em.
I think we can safely assume that the dinghy belongs to Putin.
Yep fuck him and come on Zoeeee… because she’s such a higher caliber.
Sadly, the NT and WA governments ‘manage’ the problem of extreme and dangerous drinking by aboriginal people by banning alcohol sales to everyone. It’s been a wonderful policy, highly effective and…
Hungry White people exploiting Aboriginal people has always been a problem in these areas.
Shooting a few of the problem White people might work, but that’s not allowed.
Instead, you’ve gotta show ID on Pension Day and pay thru the nose.
Lachrymate me a large waterway.
She couldn’t possibly do less for the electorate.
Even the local Liberal party members have given up. A couple of old biddies out for about 30 minutes in Glenhuntly Rd. ZD’s crowd were out all day.
You can’t win if you don’t appear to give the faintest fuck about your electorate.
Sigh.
OK.
It’s soundproof partitions all the way, then.
Oi – get over to the radio thread, peoples – you know you want to …
Fair Shake says: May 7, 2022 at 5:37 pm
I know what you meant, however the price of VB would hardly have been a static & homogenous $36 everywhere else in Oz.
What an interesting comment, Driller. Only the other day you were telling us (incorrectly of course) that insurance is pricey in Alice or unavailable. You’ve also advocated support for Pauline’s zero interest rate lending to rural Australia. However, the price of beer? Can’t expect uniform pricing. No fucking way!
I wasn’t questioning whether he was a billionaire only whether it was his ship. Zelensky hasn’t been around for more than 3 years politically. And how do we know everyone bar the captain is FSB?
calli at 4.17, apropos of the Katherine cop shop:
I think it’s a combo fire station/cop shop thingy, which explains the frontage. Also, it’s big because it has 100 cops for 6000 people. Most of those cops are fully involved 24/7 in street sweeping, ie locking up pisswrecks all day, every day.
Fair Shake at 5.37:
In Tennant Creek this was known as Thirsty Thursday. All the drive-throughs and bottle shops were closed for the day, as it was Centrelink day and even more of a bloodhouse than normal. Fridays were Radio Rental and off the charts though.
Delta at 6.42:
that pattern followed us all around the top end. A tad frustraing in Katherine, where we had to show driver’s licence and face an inquisition before we could buy anything.
This glorious initiative in the NT is known as the Banned Drinker’s Register. Commit enough offences whilst pissed, and you’re on it and can’t buy grog. Smack yer missus? You’re on it. Anywhere you buy grog, except actually inside pubs and such, you get to have your ID scanned to make sure you’re not on it. Phenomenal penalties (I’m told) apply to publicans/bottlo owners who do it anyway.
Ed October at 7.02:
As demonstrated, and again, you are wrong.
What did you expect from him, Barry. At least, from the perspective of the electorate as you suggest?
Dot at 10.08 this morning:
A perfect description of marriage.
Been back on Twatter for about a month following being banned for 2 years (FMD it took some doing). just got hit with the 12 hour banhammer for calling beto o’rouke a retard.
But until then having fun with roe v wade mongs
It’s not unusual for a Russian billionaire to have a boat.
Katherine , in the mid 1980’s had a policy by which you couldn’t buy takeaway alcohol before 12A.M. or after 6.00 P.M. I don’t know how successful it was.
There is one helluva penalty in maintaining the register. It costs publicans a lot of money & effort. I don’t know how some of them cope with it. ($86 for an item that is otherwise $36 may be a clue as to what it costs to comply with the register)
It probably works better than any other initiative I’ve seen.
Col. Richard Black [ret.] on the Syrian War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcp0TYx_eUI
From the 20 – 23 minute mark, he speaks on how the CIA organised ISIS and AlQaida were full of pedophiles who raped Syrian women and children after murdering their fathers.
The Syrian Parliament had to change the Citizenship Laws so that these children [hundreds of thousands] weren’t returned to the Countries of their fathers.
Very interesting thread. The Devil’s Chessboard sounds like a good read.
Billionaires the world over, I’m sure.
15 million excess deaths
Dr. John Campbell on officially reported deaths from the WHO.
I don’t think as much as Russian oligarchs in proportion. They love their boats and who could blame the fuckers seeing they never see the ocean unless they travel to the warm coast lines in their private jets.
Can’t comment on Katherine 40 yrs ago.
However that sort of policy, especially if it is law, can work quite well. (Results may vary between locales)
Such policies/laws make life a lot easier for liquor staff.
For example:
Taking a stand against DespotDan’s lockdowns – not a peep
Speaking and campaigning against Net Zero – nope, all good by him
Achieving reductions in small business red tape in exporting high value added medical devices.
Organizing resistance against the inflationary effect of the 600 billion spent to alleviate COVID
All these, if in any way successful, would benefit his electorate.
But he did precisely zip for the last 3 years.
Hear, hear!
Barry, you’re now moving the goalposts. You said, specifically that he didn’t do anything for his electorate (in the narrow sense). You never raised issues that impacted nationally. So again, explain what he didn’t do for his electorate. What were you expecting?
STFU Driller. Stop plussing comments that have nothing to do with you. Fuck off.
You drunken troll. You wreck every conversation you get involved in and when making comments on your own, they are just stupid.
Well, Wilson did propose to his partner in Parliament.
As you do.
That’s all I remember about him.
He may have done other, worthwhile things.
That’s the problem with stunts. They’re all anyone ever remembers.
And you think the electorate veering towards Zoeeee Daniels was so mortally wounded by that act, they are well – voting for Zoeeee Daniels.
Achieving reductions in small business red tape in exporting high value added medical devices.
Can you be more specific?
What’s this all about.
I don’t think that at all JC!
Daniels is loathsome – she’s the halfwit who spruiked her children’s opinion on Trump for the ABC. Because so weighty and considered.
Between the two, I’d pick Wilson. He has a brain at least.
I wonder how often this happens? I read a long time ago that there’s a disturbing number of unearthed coffins from olden days with scratch marks on the lid. FMD.
Any of the cooks here have a recipe for blackberry jam? Most of the the ones are US and use different measures etc.
Do I have to use castor sugar or can I use raw sugar or even treacle?
Secondly, how do you get the stems off them without having to individually pull them out.
My blackberry bush/tree/hedge is starting to produce fruit so a couple of weeks should be good.
I was going to ask Arky for his apricot jam recipe but I doubt that is a safe subject ATM.
Then what do these comments have to do with his chances now?
“Remember” what exactly then?
Winston, the ratio is 1:1 fruit to sugar for jam. Depends on the sweetness of the fruit.
You will have to remove the stems individually. Consider it a Zen mindfulness exercise. You may need pectin for it to set. Cheat with Jamsetta. I do.
Just get a load of this lunatic Karen. This administration is evil.
https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1521914723230490626
Delta
Funny you should mention drinking bans.
Mum is waiting for a knock on the door because she fibbed about her address so she could get her favourite château cardboard
So you can go and get a dozen bottles of whatever but the goon bags are restricted.
Feraldton of course.
I don’t understand the question.
Are you asking me what I remember about Wilson? The proposal.
Daniels? The children and Trump.
I believe Tim Wilson did some good work around superannuation.
Also colouring books.
To be honest though I don’t expect my local federal member to ‘do’ stuff specifically for his electorate.
What do people have in mind when they say that?
Federal funding for this or that?
Mr Wilson has drawn the ire of the superannuation industry for suggesting banning super funds from investing in housing if Australians don’t get the right to use their nest egg to get a mortgage.
Yes.
I seem to remember Gladys getting into trouble for enthusiastically helping her boyfriend “do stuff for his electorate”.
I’m just making an observation and therefore not meant to suggest anything. I reckon if the Scotus rules out Roe or Wade there could be very strong tendencies to breakup the US. Personally, I don’t think it would be a bad idea over the longterm. I agree with the writer that abortion/Row or Wade is like one of the shibboleth under-girding the American left. Everything springs from that.
Another good thread.
Whoops
Should read: I agree with the writer that abortion/Row or Wade is the shibboleth under-girding the American left. Everything springs from that.
That didn’t take long
Just got banned from twatter again
Carpe
Don’t abuse them. Just mock them. It works and you don’t get banned.
Or Trump’s.
just got hit with the 12 hour banhammer for calling beto o’rouke a retard
Serves you right for praising the brain dead idiot. If you get back on call him a fucktard; see what happens; can you curse on twatter.
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.
Everyone who owns a gun should join this mob:
https://nationalshooting.org.au/shootings-commonwealth-games-snub/
What got me booted was a comment i made to some bint bleating that if roe v wade was overturned abortion would be banned.
I said if roe v wade is overturned it devolves to the jurisdiction (my highlight) OF THE INDIVIDUAL FUCKING STATES, so in some states you can abort a child 24 hours before it can be born, and still feel ” stunning and brave” there was a bit more after that in a second tweet (not abusive) just sarcastic.
And copped the ban hammer – again
Wow. They’re that bad then.
LOl. True.
Winston, I’ve never made blackberry jam.
For your reading pleasure, here is a Blackberry & Apple jam recipe (in nice understandable Imperial or French measurements).
This is where I stumbled upon a better than average Orange Marmalade recipe, perhaps the Blackberry & Apple is likewise worth putting into the big book of favourites.
oh look Crikey doesn’t like Tim Wilson either
I use lemon juice and grated peel to set jam and it improves the taste.
She left the g out ‘mon4Kooyong’
The inadequate climate targets of the Liberal and Labor parties will see a warming of 3?C & 2?C respectively.
This would kill the Great Barrier Reef.
If you want real climate action, make your vote count on May 21.
I used to make a lot of jam. I for 1 regular sugar as calli said.
Only strawberry needed a little helper.
Test a teaspoonful on a saucer, ‘the crinkle test’ to make sure it has set.
The apple will add the pectin. You can also soak lemon pips to extract it too. If you’re using pure berries you need to use a “helper”.
The alchemy of jam. Something for everyone here.
Call me Shallow Hal, but I wonder what’s happened to the price of decent Caviar now?
Speaking of tucker, we feasted on wild barra and threadfin salmon tonight at the golf club.
Mmmmmmmm.
Probably not much change, if any.
Shallow Hal.
Hold on, isn’t an politician who solely looks after his/her own electorate in order to shore up votes guilty of pork barrelling? Aren’t we supposed to decry that? Isn’t that wrong?
As for Tim Wilson, I suspect that Wilson, for all his faults, has been a much more worthy local member than Zoo Daniel will ever be, if she manages to defeat him. She’s not interested in the voters of Goldstein, all she’ll do is pork barrel for Svengali Simon, and you can be assured of one thing if she wins and that is that Svengali Simon, like the devil himself, will expect his debt payed back……and the last thing he and she will care about are the concerns of the voters of Goldstein.
Yes Cronkite
Sour cherry jam made out of morello cherry, yum.
oops
Procurement: Combination Of The Two RFIs
May 7, 2022: Since February the United States has pledged or spent nearly $50 billion for aid to Ukraine. The situation was unique in that the Ukrainians needed weapons and equipment immediately, or within 90 days or less. The U.S. has exhausted stockpiles of the most popular weapons Ukrainians want, like Javelin and Stinger missiles, as well as some high-tech equipment in general. To overcome this problem the Americans issued an RFI (Request For Information) for all firms producing weapons and military equipment. Each RFI must describe the proposed item in a hundred words or less and whether the item can be delivered within 30, 90, 180 days or longer. The RFIs had to be submitted by May 6th, 15 days after this acquisition effort was announced. RFIs will be accepted if they match another type of RFI, the REF (Rapid Equipping Force) effort. The combined RFI-REF has been around since 2002 as a mechanism for quickly getting what the troops needed as soon as possible. REF proved a lot more successful and popular than expected. The Internet made REF and RFI possible, for the troops grew up with cell phones and the Internet and know how to quickly connect with each other, sort out what they all had experienced, and determine what was needed to operate more effectively. In 2015, when most of the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan was over, there was budget pressure to eliminate both of these programs. The troops and their commanders agreed that would be a big mistake. REF and RFI remained and continued to develop new equipment and techniques based not just on actual combat situations, but ones most American troops had not confronted yet.
In Iraq and Afghanistan, the military, especially the army, was quick to take advice from the troops actually doing the fighting. That was recognized even before Iraq and contributed to the acceptance of RFI, which recognized that the American army did not always have the best weapons and equipment available and that the troops and low-level commanders had a better idea of what was needed than the senior generals and politicians. RFI was intended to do something about that and do it quickly.
Since 2002 the army approved the purchase of over 500 items immediately, which is what RFI was all about. In 2011 the army began deciding which of these RFI items to make standard equipment (about a quarter of them) and which to discard. The discards were often obsolete and improved replacements were being sought. The marines went through the same process and found that most of their RFI items were worth keeping. This is due to the marines having a tradition of doing more with less, since they have much less money to spend per person than the army.
Not everyone was a fan of RFI. Traditional (government and contractor) weapons and equipment developers did not like RFI. Procurement bureaucrats like to take their time, even when there’s a war going on. This is mainly to cover everyone’s ass and try to placate all the big shots and constituencies demanding certain features. In wartime, this process is sped up somewhat but it is always slower than it has to be.
Cassie, we have reached the sad state of affairs where electorates not only expect pork barrelling…they demand it.
Long gone are the days when representatives simply represent. That’s hard work. Look at what happened to Tony Abbott. A dopey, one policy bint rolled him.
The word “shallow” appeared up thread. A good description of both the electorate and the politicians it has spawned.
I reckon the teals are left of the greens when it comes to climate fanaticism.
Do they honestly think straya is going to trip up the third world in their rightful quest for cheap reliable energy?
The truth is they are just a bunch of little gods worshipping themselves.
Russia and China: The Worst Moment in History Coming Soon
. Russia has a nuclear doctrine known as “escalate to deescalate” or, more accurately, “escalate to win,” which contemplates threatening or using nuclear weapons early in a conventional conflict.
. It cannot be a good sign that Russia, China, and North Korea at the same time are threatening to launch the world’s most destructive weaponry.
. Because the Western democracies have largely stood down and are clearly not fighting in Ukraine, Beijing and Pyongyang want similar successes.
. “Like Vladimir Putin, the Communist Party of China has lost its fear of American power… China’s nuclear threats expose… perceived American weakness, expose the risk of the lack of a U.S. regional nuclear deterrent, and expose the inadequacy of U.S. leadership.” — Richard Fisher of the Virginia-based International Assessment and Strategy Center, to the author, March 2022.
. Whatever the reason for the threats, Putin and Xi have told everyone what they intend to do. Unfortunately, Western leaders are determined not to believe them.
. In response to Russian threats, President Joe Biden on February 28 said the American people should not worry about nuclear war. On the contrary, there is every reason to worry.
On May 1, on Russian TV, the media executive often called “Putin’s mouthpiece” urged the Russian president to launch a Poseidon underwater drone with a “warhead of up to 100 megatons.” The detonation, said Dmitry Kiselyov, would create a 1,640-foot tidal wave that would “plunge Britain to the depths of the ocean.” The wave would reach halfway up England’s tallest peak, Scafell Pike.
“This tidal wave is also a carrier of extremely high doses of radiation,” Kiselyov pointed out. “Surging over Britain, it will turn whatever is left of them into radioactive desert, unusable for anything. How do you like this prospect?”
“A single launch, Boris, and there is no England anymore,” said Kiselyov, addressing the British prime minister.
Russia has a nuclear doctrine known as “escalate to deescalate” or, more accurately, “escalate to win,” which contemplates threatening or using nuclear weapons early in a conventional conflict.
China, which on February 4 issued a joint statement with Russia about their no-limits partnership, has this century been periodically making unprovoked threats to destroy the cities of states that have somehow offended it. In July of last year, for instance, the Chinese regime threatened to nuke Japan over its support for Taiwan. In September, China issued a similar threat against Australia because it had joined with the U.S. and U.K. in the AUKUS pact, an arrangement to maintain stability in the region. This March, China’s Ministry of Defense promised the “worst consequences” for countries helping Taiwan defend itself. The threat appeared especially directed against Australia.
. The world, therefore, looks like it is fast approaching the worst moment in history.
If the locals thought the Russians were losing, that might’ve happened.
See also France, 1940/44.
THE WEEK IN PICTURES: PROTEST EVERYTHING EDITION
I’ve got a great new business opportunity for someone: reversible protest signs. One side reads, “Down with Elon Musk!” The other side reads, “Down with the Supreme Court!” Call the enterprise “Sustainable Protest Supplies,” but make sure you use recycled paperboard. Incidentally, one of Stan Evans’s old Monday Club jokes ran: “Bob Dole has come out for reversing Roe v. Wade. He wants it to be Wade v. Roe.” A more biting quip of his that comes back to mind this week: “It’s a good thing Capitol Hill Republicans are pro-life, since they spend so much time in the fetal position.”
Just watched the abortion scene in Alfie again. Brute of a scene. Folks who abort for a living and aren’t affected by it are lizard people
The United States Has Committed Numerous Acts of War Against Russia
The United States has committed numerous Acts of War against Russia this year. This is not a value judgment. I make no claim here about whether the United States has acted wisely, or has acted with justification. I simply note it. And the world may now be tumbling into an interlocking cycle of escalation beyond control and foreseeable consequences, just as it did in 1914.
That the United States has committed Acts of War in no way justifies Russia’s actions; neither is it to say therefore that World War III and nuclear war have become inevitable, though Russian state media are openly speculating about the real risk of these. Countries often commit Acts of War against other countries, and no war breaks out when the offended party chooses for whatever reason not to respond. But they can respond, and that is the point here.
The American Acts of War against Russia come in two flavors: 1) economic sanctions, and 2) transfer of weapons and intelligence to a belligerent with whom Russia is at war.
The history of the lead-up to World War II shows both of these at work.
Economic Acts of War
Japan attacked the United States in 1941 despite the fact that America had never fired a shot at Japan, had never invaded any Japanese-held territory, and had never armed anybody Japan was fighting.
Japan attacked the United States purely for economic reasons. It attacked in response to American economic sanctions against Japan, which in turn were in response to Japan’s ongoing war in China. America had embargoed exports of oil, steel, and rubber to Japan, all vital war materials. To assure its continued access to these things, Japan felt it was forced to attack Southeast Asia and various islands in the Indo-Pacific Oceans. Knowing that this would draw the United States into war, Japan decided on pre-emptive attacks on Pearl Harbor and the Philippine Islands, and so began America’s participation in World War II.
Japan regard economic sanctions as Acts of War, and acted accordingly.
In the current war, it is well-known that the United States and NATO have furnished Ukraine with billions of dollars’ worth of lethal weapons. In addition there are credible reports like this one which state that US intelligence has been able to track Russian generals who’ve been forced to travel to the front lines to direct the sagging fortunes of their units, and has given this intelligence to Ukrainian forces, which have killed them. And the May 6 edition of The New York Post reports that US intelligence enabled Ukraine to sink the Russian Black Sea flagship Moskva.
In the law, someone who assists an assassin is regarded as guilty as the assassin himself. Were Russia to choose to do so, it could definitely regard these and many other acts as so many Acts of War, and issue a formal Declaration of War.
Just remind me – who was it, who went on to become Prime Minister, who, persuaded his then fiance, to have an abortion, so he could apply for a Rhodes Scholarship – then, only open to single men? At a time when that procedure was illegal?
proper pronouning
them/they never fail to provide a perfect heuristic
Ah, blackberry conserve, when the beautiful little blackberry appears to be something other than the pest that it is is.
In the meantime:
Some weeks ago, Easter time, and before in Lent, picked a few kilos of the berries, with wounds for evidence.
Yes, lemon rind and lemon juice make for a fine conserve. Less sweet.
Yet the plan is to destroy the plant which is so misplaced and such a pest. I could be wrong.
Trump: GOP is ‘Party of Common Sense,’ ‘Party of the American Dream’
Just remind me – who was it, who went on to become Prime Minister, who, persuaded his then fiance, to have an abortion, so he could apply for a Rhodes Scholarship – then, only open to single men? At a time when that procedure was illegal?
Hawke, Abbott or turdball.
I don’t have a reference, but I’ve read two accounts of Pacific strategy, that point out that the Dutch had discovered oil in what was then the Netherlands East Indies in the late 1890’s, and that Nippon had been casting covetous eyes in the direction of those oilfields since the early 1920’s…
Hawke – his fiance was the then Hazel Masterton.
Old Ozzie
I think the Russian fuckhead hankering for a tidal bomb is dreaming. There’s just not enough energy to create a tidal wave that would drown the entire UK. In response The Kremlin would also be gonsky.
JC.
You can bring 144 cans of caviar to the bunker.
I checked the checked the price, Sanchez. It’s gone up about 25% since March. I don’t suspect the sanctions had much of an impact because wild cav is basically banned in the US and Western Europe (just read about it) as most of the stuff is now farmed.
I had wild Caspian cav in the 90s. Oh man it was good.
That’s the one.
Let’s see.
Six weeks = 42 days.
Three tins a day is … yeah, make it 144 tins of Casperian caviar.
With regards to the war in the Ukraine : it would betide us to speak less in terms of cliche -less, eg., in terms of cliche such as those slighting the Kremlin or with those valorising they Ukraine – than with terms as to how matters such as peace might best be served. Not much money in so doing, though.
I had caviar, taste like jam with hard little bubbles through it and hardly any flavour. Which was not at all how I’d expected salted fish guts to taste.
Dude:
Forget it, I’m staying at ground level and taking my chances.
Driller
Caviar is NOT salted fish guts. Caviar is unfertilized fish eggs. In a crude sort of way, the fish are aborted seeing abortion is a hot topic at the moment. Obviously, the junk you ate was cheap Chinese crap.
No point knocking on the door day two if your fish roe has been flash fried in the tins.
I refuse to eat well done Belvga.
Why the hell are people talking about caviar? I don’t get it as it doesn’t sound like a caviar crowd here.
Winston’s hankering for Blackberry jam puts him sorta on the same page as Albo.
Or, once again Albo pays for something any capable bloke gets for free.
I don’t know if it’s still around, but there was a cav restaurant in NYC in the early 90s and the brokers would take us there.
Petrossian . I recall devouring the cav and the main courses had cav on them. Fun days.
This is the internet, you never really know who you’re talking to.
There may be more than one caviar farmer on here.
Wifey’s ma made great apricot jam.
Apricot jam is the only one. Nothing else compares.
It is a blessing to be born with a hankering for Marmalade.