Open Thread – Weekend 25 June 2022


The request of the child (the old chest), Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, 1860

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H B Bear
H B Bear
June 27, 2022 9:14 am

I imagine there will be some interesting meetings Stateside with whoever suggested buying the flea ridden dog that is Channel 10. Safe to assume it will soon resume its usual status with a “For Sale” sign out the front.

miltonf
miltonf
June 27, 2022 9:17 am

The Lancet?

It was probably very good once, very much a skin suit now with the skin wearing very thin.

miltonf
miltonf
June 27, 2022 9:20 am

Worth re posting because it explains so much-

1. Identify a respected institution.
2. kill it.
3. gut it.
4. wear its carcass as a skin suit, while demanding respect.

johanna
johanna
June 27, 2022 9:28 am

Hear ye! Hear ye! There’s a new Uncle Roger video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8f15a5IpBk

“Uncle Roger make pho.”

lotocoti
lotocoti
June 27, 2022 9:29 am
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
June 27, 2022 9:31 am

Wow. I had no idea that was going to be so long.

lol. When you try to talk political sense to recalcitrant family members by going the round-about way and also hearing them out, then it is going to be long.

After some very tense moments, we mostly have agreements to disagree with older family members.

The younger ones though I still think are worse pursuing with solid loving argumentation.
There is hope for them yet.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
June 27, 2022 9:32 am

worth persuing nor worse persuing

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 27, 2022 9:35 am

I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine…

‘Marijuana hub’ – Thailand fully legalizes recreational cannabis (26 Jun)

The southeast Asian tourist hub has made a 180 degree turnaround from imposing harsh prison sentences on weed users to supporting its use.

Rabz will get the reference!

John Sheldrick
June 27, 2022 9:35 am

I don’t know, but I’ve been told, TEN’s enterprise agreements contain some
fine fine print about individuals retaining intellectual property rights.

I’d like to know what possible intellectual property sad Lisa may have (if any). The mind boggles.

Tom
Tom
June 27, 2022 9:37 am

Humphrey at 9.14am, my theory is that CBS’s accountants bought the 10 Network as a tax write-off that isn’t expected to turn a profit anytime in the next century. For example, the first sign a TV network is serious is that it has a program director. Ten doesn’t have one. And it’s pursuing the financially disastrous millenial demographic, who hate spending money on anything. All the lucrative 25-54 demo are watching 7 and 9.

miltonf
miltonf
June 27, 2022 9:37 am

I’d like to know what possible intellectual property sad Lisa may have (if any). The mind boggles.

self promotion, loud mouth, spite, malice

Winston Smith
June 27, 2022 9:37 am

Cohenite:

Who can send this to rub and tug, the dickless NSW premier and big Pete:

I don’t know the logistics of it, but could Australia supply Europe with coal in an emergency situation as appears to be happening now?
Are there enough ships to transport? How about loading and unloading facilities? Can it be moved through the Suez/Panama canals quickly enough to matter?
Can China get enough coal and LPG from Russia to enable us to divert to Europe the supplies currently going to them?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 27, 2022 9:39 am

No, it’s monumentally funny.

LOL, yes! I don’t suppose they’d like Bill Leak’s awesome Waffen SSM cartoon either.

miltonf
miltonf
June 27, 2022 9:49 am

Green Day front man Billie Joe Armstrong says he is lost to the U.S. forever. On Friday night he declared “f**k America” before adding he was “renouncing his citizenship” in the aftermath of the SCOTUS abortion ruling. Breitbart

I thought they were all saying that in 2016. They are (‘celebrities’) incredibly stupid but they make up for it with their nastiness.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 27, 2022 9:51 am

Mother Lodesays:

June 27, 2022 at 9:11 am

The Lancet?

Didn’t they author a report on the number of civilian deaths in Iraq and come up with some astronomical number because of their comically flawed method?

Man at number 25 is injured and taken to hospital, and later dies.
His neighbour at number 23 reports it … 1 death.
Also his neigbour at number 27 … 2.
And Mrs Busybody over the road … 3.
And his wife … 4.
And his three sons … 7.
And four people in Casualty … 11 deaths and counting.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 27, 2022 9:52 am

Another reason not to live in apartment buildings, especially ones that Greens inhabit.

Shepherd’s Bush fire: Apartment blaze near Grenfell Tower sparked by e-bike (26 Jun)

An e-bike sparked a fire on the 12th floor of a West London tower block, less than a mile away from Grenfell Tower, where 72 people died following a blaze in 2017.

Firefighters and paramedics were called to the scene of a blaze at a high-rise block on Queensdale Crescent in Shepherd’s Bush, Tuesday morning.

A resident of the block of flats said the fire began when his friend was charging an e-bike in his home.

Fortunately the building didn’t have the flammable cladding the Grenfell Tower had, because the photo pretty clearly suggests such cladding would’ve caught alight.

Meanwhile:

NSW cladding remediation remains stagnant (21 Jun)

The NSW Government’s Project Remediate, which sees eligible buildings with flammable cladding able to have the materials replaced, is still in a holding pattern, with not one of the 166 buildings registered for the scheme yet to be rectified.

No wonder people are moving out to the suburbs like mine.

miltonf
miltonf
June 27, 2022 9:56 am

Looking at filth like ‘Pink’

Pop Star Pink reacted to the U.S. Supreme Court overruling Roe v. Wade on Friday in an all-caps Twitter tirade, demanding that anyone who is against women killing their unborn child “never fucking listen to my music again,” and “fuck right off.”

They really are the embodiment of cultural marxism- spiteful, ugly (physically or morally), profane. Dirty people and the meja loves them.

Eyrie
Eyrie
June 27, 2022 9:59 am

I don’t know the logistics of it, but could Australia supply Europe with coal in an emergency situation as appears to be happening now?
As far as I am concerned the EU can freeze in the dark next winter although Vlad could supply a little warmth here and there.

Roger
Roger
June 27, 2022 9:59 am

The NSW Government’s Project Remediate, which sees eligible buildings with flammable cladding able to have the materials replaced, is still in a holding pattern, with not one of the 166 buildings registered for the scheme yet to be rectified.

The Premier is occupied with flagpoles atm.

Roger
Roger
June 27, 2022 10:00 am

As far as I am concerned the EU can freeze in the dark next winter although Vlad could supply a little warmth here and there.

One Russian MP has said London will be first to be nuked.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
June 27, 2022 10:01 am

I note the Courier Mail article about vax saving billions of lives does not allow comments.

Professor Paul Griffin gets another run to push the vax. To the best of my knowledge no expert that might have a contrary opinion regarding vax has been featured in CM. Vax injuries dont exist either if you read CM.

He is now talking about 5th shot and you can guarantee he will be there pushing for regular shots.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
June 27, 2022 10:05 am

When some people drunk bleach because Trump had said there was research going into the use of antiseptic* and (laser?) light to fight Covid, that became Trump telling a lie.

Didn’t the woman who claimed that she and her husband had done that, and her husband had died as a result, later get charged with murder?
Wasn’t the allegation that she’d fed him a lethal dose, then drank a very small amount herself to get sick as a cover story?
Wasn’t their social media feed full of anti-Trump hysteria, thus casting some doubt on the notion that they’d followed Trump’s supposed comments?

Roger
Roger
June 27, 2022 10:08 am

He is now talking about 5th shot and you can guarantee he will be there pushing for regular shots.

On the weekend it was reported that the Omicron sub-variant set to become dominant in Australia is vaccine resistant. Is the expert professor unaware of this?

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
June 27, 2022 10:10 am

A Very Dangerous Time Inside Ukraine as U.S. Officials Admit CIA and Pentagon Conducting Proxy War Effort from Kyiv

June 26, 2022 | Sundance

We must always keep focus on the context for information that comes from the U.S. State Dept and the Central Intelligence Agency to the media. Yesterday, as Joe Biden was en route to the G7 summit in the Bavarian Alps, the New York Times published an article saying the CIA and Pentagon special forces are organizing and conducting the NATO war effort from a secret operation center in Kyiv.

Some viewed the article as the NYT violating operational security for the U.S. led effort. However, that perspective belies the nature of how the media is used in war by Dept of State and intelligence officials. The details of the Times article are attributed to “three U.S. officials,” and should be looked upon as purposeful.

In addition to the timing of Biden headed to the G7, the admission of CIA officials conducting the war effort from inside Ukraine, comes as NATO partner country Lithuania informs Russia that prior transit treaties to the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad will not be honored. NATO is poking and provoking a response from Russia, the Times article is part of this effort.

Roger
Roger
June 27, 2022 10:11 am

He trusts the ABC and Fauxfacts with every ounce of his being…

He’s outsourced his opinions to the likes of Mrs. Snowcone & Murpharoo.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
June 27, 2022 10:12 am

Inequities between rich and poor countries perhaps because big pharma charged huge amounts for their drugs. Plenty of poor countries used the Noble prize winning “horse dewormer”.

You wont see any articles looking into how many vax and pills were purchased and for how much. Plus grants for research etc. I saw one article that mentioned $5m for research into combining Remdesivir with another drug. Remdesivir was being given out in hospitals earlier in the year. Now it is Pfizerrs Paxlovid pills and only a few days ago saw expert saying only 50,000 treatments been given out when we have about 1.3m.

The cost of all of the treatments is very significant tens of billions. Lucky we have a very big blank cheque.

” inequities in vaccination rates – and death rates – between low and high-income countries”.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
June 27, 2022 10:12 am
Bourne1879
Bourne1879
June 27, 2022 10:15 am

Roger,
The problem is that news outlets just report whatever Dr Griffin has to say. They have never questioned anything he has said. In view of the fact he works for the Nucleus Network that does trials for big pharma he is not exactly unbiased.

“On the weekend it was reported that the Omicron sub-variant set to become dominant in Australia is vaccine resistant. Is the expert professor unaware of this?”

Roger
Roger
June 27, 2022 10:21 am

The problem is that news outlets just report whatever Dr Griffin has to say. They have never questioned anything he has said.

I remember in the early days when he was working on the local vaccine he’d appear on ABC Brisbane radio every week and listeners could call in and ask questions. Needless to say listeners asked better questions than journalists. I think they stopped that after the local vaccine was canned due to false HIV positives.

cohenite
June 27, 2022 10:22 am

Pelosi Elbows, Shoves Young Daughter of Mayra Flores at Swearing In Ceremony (Video)

This grotesque old kunt should be in jail along with her DUI hubbie.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
June 27, 2022 10:23 am

Their ABC News helps China with the propaganda – make benefit for glorious nation.

Monday, 27 June 2022

Ambassador Xiao said that ABC is an Australian media organization with important international and regional influence, and it is also a witness and recorder of the exchanges and cooperation between the people of China and Australia. It is hoped that ABC will give full play to its unique advantages in information dissemination, introduce and report China-Australia relations more rationally and objectively, and make positive contributions to enhancing mutual understanding and friendship between the two peoples.

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 27, 2022 10:25 am

Australian coppers need to embrace the US perp walk. Imagine the lesson for j’ismists watching the 7pm News and seeing Mrs Pirate Pete bundled into a patrol car and driven to the Mosman cop shop to be bailed with all the Cranbrook inside traders. Having to forfeit her passport and tearfully phone the Pirate to say there will be no Wimbledon or Positano house swap this year.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 27, 2022 10:26 am

Cassie raised the issue last night of abortion ‘bracket creep’ from first trimester to near full term.
Remember Kermit “that one could have walked to the bus-stop” Gosnell?
There has also been a shift from regarding it as a “necessary evil” and a “last resort” to a badge of honour or almost a rite of passage.
Women bragging about having had three or four “and loving it”.
I classify anyone dumb enough to have three abortions along with someone having three weight reduction surgeries. Slow learners.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
June 27, 2022 10:30 am

MASCULINITY IS ALIVE AND WELL….MOSTLY!

“Masculinity is ending. Burn everything!”

So tweeted Christian Wilkins, son of TV pop music reporter, Richard Wilkins, when ridiculed for wearing a dress at the logies.

From what I see around me, outside the entertainment, media and twitter bubble, masculinity is not ending, but quite the opposite, it’s alive and well – and thriving.

– ‘Masculinity’ is quietly volunteering to help your community.

– ‘Masculinity’ is fighting fires to save towns under threat.

– ‘Masculinity’ is helping others clean up after devastating floods, even when your own home has been destroyed beyond repair.

– ‘Masculinity’ is taking your kid(s) to Saturday sports to teach them about teamwork, co-operation, competition, victory and disappointment.

– ‘Masculinity’ is getting up early, daily, to go to a real job to feed your family and keep a roof over their head.

– ‘Masculinity’ is giving more to your family than you expect in return.

What ‘Masculinity’ is not:

‘Masculinity’ is not being an attention seeking ‘socialite’ in a dress at public events, wanting the world to “LOOK A’ MOI!!! LOOK A’ MOI!!! LOOK A’ MOI!!!

That’s ‘Femininity’ of the worst, most self-absorbed kind.

In the real world, outside the entertainment, media and Twitter bubble, even this toxic version of femininity hardly exists.

Sorry to disappoint Ms Wilkins, but Masculinity is not ending. It’s healthy in every community around Australia, and the world.

Being an attention seeking freak show?

Not so much.

Roger
Roger
June 27, 2022 10:31 am

It is hoped that ABC will give full play to its unique advantages in information dissemination, introduce and report China-Australia relations more rationally and objectively, and make positive contributions to enhancing mutual understanding and friendship between the two peoples.

Today from ABC:

Prof Hugh White says Australia needs to rethink its US alliance.

“China cannot be pushed back in the box.”

Eyrie
Eyrie
June 27, 2022 10:35 am

Australian coppers need to embrace the US perp walk. Imagine the lesson for j’ismists watching the 7pm News and seeing Mrs Pirate Pete bundled into a patrol car and driven to the Mosman cop shop to be bailed with all the Cranbrook inside traders.

You forgot the handcuffs.

miltonf
miltonf
June 27, 2022 10:35 am

This grotesque old kunt should be in jail along with her DUI hubbie.

Yes there is an FBI file on Thomas Ludwig John D’Alesandro Jr.

Mafia princess. Remember when the dirty old woman ripped up Trump’s speech. Just filthy trash. Garbage people.

m0nty
m0nty
June 27, 2022 10:40 am

Women bragging about having had three or four “and loving it”.

That never happened.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 27, 2022 10:41 am

Further to Mother Lode’s experience.

‘I Lost Friends’: Former Rolling Stone Journalist Talks Reaction To Him Reviewing ‘What Is A Woman’ (26 Jun, via Instapundit)

“The response was unbelievable, just for reviewing the movie — forget about what I said about it,” Taibbi told Shapiro about his review. “I lost friends over that. There were people who I’ve known for decades who basically said I’m a transphobe and I’m … out of their loop.”

Taibbi explained that he first noticed an unwillingness from the Left even to discuss the transgender issue before he chose to review The Daily Wire documentary.

“With the trans issue, there would be some people who would talk to me, and then there would be some people who were furious that you even called, would refuse to have any kind of discussion, would call you a transphobe for even asking certain kinds of questions — and this is before you even have a point of view on the subject,” he said, recalling a time he tried to gather quotes for a story. “I thought that was odd.”

“[T]he movie shows academic after academic and activist after activist seething at the mere implication that they should have to explain themselves,” he wrote. “Their attitude is positively medieval

A recent poll found that nearly three quarters of Democrats wouldn’t go out on a date with a Republican, and 37% would never be friends with one. Much smaller numbers the other way around. More and more the Left is turning into an insular cult which brooks no thought outside its own weird doctrine.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
June 27, 2022 10:41 am

ANOTHER CLOSURE: One of the Largest Chicken Producers in the U.S. Announces Tennessee Plant Shutdown

Joe Biden’s ‘Build Back Better’ is not working as planned… Or is it?

One of the top ten largest vertically integrated chicken producers in the US, supplying a broad range of quality poultry products, announced that it will be shutting down one of its plants in Campbell County, Tennessee.

Below is the updated list of 100 U.S. plants that have been destroyed, damaged or impacted by “accidental fires,” disease, or other causes.

From the Comments

Their doing this on purpose ! They literally want us eating bugs ? !

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
June 27, 2022 10:41 am

You forgot the handcuffs.

Nah, they’re only for five feet nothing pregnant women in their pyjamas who’ve criticised Maximum Leader.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
June 27, 2022 10:44 am

Masculinity is ending.

Not in Ukraine. Men at the border fleeing are sent back to fight.
Even trannies. Don’t come the femininity with me, they are told.
Masculine is what you are and what you will be.

Can’t really disagree with that.

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 27, 2022 10:47 am

It is now almost 3.5 years since then and despite a massive infection rate AND mandatory vaccinations, we still are living under mandates, compulsory vaccines and states of emergency, even followed up by absurd bonuses for “overworked” public ‘elves.

Government responses to COVID19 are the biggest nail in the coffin of liberal democracies.
Not just western ones.
Emerging ones too.

Winston Smith
June 27, 2022 10:50 am

Re Jo Novas’ latest:
https://joannenova.com.au/2022/06/climate-pledges-vanish-in-europe/
The only way for Government to solve this problem is to wake up to the fact that Government caused this problem.
Walk away and remove all the laws and rules you have made and it will fix itself.
Except Government – without which we would all be freezing in the dark – can’t do that. It would mean admitting they weren’t the smartest people in the room.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
June 27, 2022 10:50 am

m0ntysays:
June 27, 2022 at 10:40 am
Women bragging about having had three or four “and loving it”.

That never happened.

Well, in a very literal sense the following doesn’t refute you, m0nty. But maybe there are other examples out there that would. And I think these might actually be interpreted as going close to verifying the comment.

Clementine Ford ????
@clementine_ford
Abortions are bloody amazing. I’m so grateful for the two I had.

Clementine Ford
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·
***Everyone Knows I Had An Abortion***
Hurrah Queensland! Finally making abortion legal! I’ve had two abortions in my life. I make no apology or explanation for either, and my life has been immeasurably better because of the normal health care I was able to access.

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 27, 2022 10:50 am

Via Jimmy Dore & Aaron Mate twitter.
Warsaw Pride parade yesterday (yes they have one), Azov battalion symbols were plentiful.
Who would have thunk it.

m0nty
m0nty
June 27, 2022 10:52 am

Abortions are extremely unpleasant. It’s not like dancing while eating fried chicken.

m0nty
m0nty
June 27, 2022 10:56 am

Although I don’t think dancing while eating fried chicken would be all that enjoyable either, the sort of thing that only happens in stupid advertisements.

John Sheldrick
June 27, 2022 11:00 am

Their doing this on purpose ! They literally want us eating bugs ? !

Maybe I’ll take up cannibalism instead. These ‘Pollies’ bug me so I think a nice Curried ‘Pollie’ will do rather than those bugs.

Roger
Roger
June 27, 2022 11:05 am

There is one upside to the young gentleman’s repudiation of masculinity; he’ll not be procreating.

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 27, 2022 11:05 am

They literally want us eating bugs ? !

People need to dial down the hysteria.
Humans have been eating bugs, slugs, vermin & offal for a lot longer than they have viewed it as unsavoury.
Sure, no one wants to sit down to a bowl of cockroaches.
But the history of what humans ate before approx 1900 is all that long ago.

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 27, 2022 11:07 am

is not all that long ago.

miltonf
miltonf
June 27, 2022 11:07 am

I remember Deveny telling Tony Abbott on Q&A that she’d had an abortion. Stopped watching the ABC after had. Had enough.

Dot
Dot
June 27, 2022 11:09 am

“never fucking listen to my music again,” and “fuck right off.”

I’ll try and okay.

miltonf
miltonf
June 27, 2022 11:13 am

I’ll try

yes I know it’s not always possible as this poison is piped in to so many public spaces.

John Sheldrick
June 27, 2022 11:16 am

I don’t know the logistics of it, but could Australia supply Europe with coal in an emergency situation as appears to be happening now?
As far as I am concerned the EU can freeze in the dark next winter although Vlad could supply a little warmth here and there.

Parts of Europe and especially the UK have loads of coal. And at these World prices, that coal would now likely be economical to dig up even with underground mining costs.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
June 27, 2022 11:17 am

“never fucking listen to my music again,” and “fuck right off.”

I’ll try and okay.

She is quite an astute businesswoman.

I don’t have any of her music so I can’t stop listening to it.

I will have to buy her DVD and then not listen to it.

miltonf
miltonf
June 27, 2022 11:18 am

There has also been a shift from regarding it as a “necessary evil” and a “last resort” to a badge of honour or almost a rite of passage.

Yes. It has religious significance for the left. Not sure how having a D&C probably by a male abortionist is actually controlling your body either. Found out recently Dr Moss Cass was an abortionist- never knew that.

Nelson_Kidd-Players
June 27, 2022 11:20 am

Cassie of Sydney says:
June 27, 2022 at 6:28 am

I should add that I’m glad Scumbag Morrison is no longer PM, he would already weighed in saying ‘leave Lisa alone”.

The Wran example in JA’s article suggests ScoMo should also be charged.

Dot
Dot
June 27, 2022 11:23 am

https://theconversation.com/was-coronavirus-really-in-europe-in-march-2019-141582

Much arse covering, but have a look.

The novel coronavirus – SARS-CoV-2 – may have been in Europe for longer than previously thought. Recent studies have suggested that it was circulating in Italy as early as December 2019. More surprisingly, researchers at the University of Barcelona found traces of the virus when testing untreated wastewater samples dated March 12, 2019.

As a result, many countries, including Spain, are now monitoring wastewater for traces of coronavirus. In this particular study, wastewater epidemiologists were examining frozen samples of influent between January 2018 and December 2019 to see when the virus made its debut in the city.

All retention samples as back far as we should go should be tested.

If it is suspected that the novel virus was globally endemic as far back as 2018 then what a cheap tent show that was, annihilating liberal democracy.

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 27, 2022 11:24 am

I am surprised that Kavanaugh voted the way he did.
He wants to be liked.
In my opinion, the alleged rape allegations made him cry not because they were false but because it meant he wouldn’t be invited to DC dinner parties.
Keep in mind if GWB didn’t hit the phones his confirmation would not have gotten up.
Voting the way he did will mean those invites will dry up even further.

I think there is genuine criticism of Gorsuch.
Of the 9, Gorsuch did make a song & dance regarding stare decisis at his confirmation hearings.
(Admitted so did Roberts but he binned that pretty quickly after be made the big cheese).
If he was going to stick to his self declared stare decisis stance he would have raised this with the rest of the justices when this was being discussed/debated.

Moving forward, how is Gorsuch ever going to use stare decisis as any form of reasoning?
In my view, stare decisis & states rights while winding back unconstitutional federal over reach is a pretty good ecosystem.
The balkanisation that inevitably leads to is a good thing.

Roger
Roger
June 27, 2022 11:25 am

Yes. It has religious significance for the left.

When you peel off all the layers of rights talk etc., it’s an act of rebellion against God the Creator.

miltonf
miltonf
June 27, 2022 11:26 am

If it is suspected that the novel virus was globally endemic as far back as 2018 then what a cheap tent show that was, annihilating liberal democracy.

Brexit and Trump- something had to be done. It’s more apparent everyday that Blojob’s brief is to make Brexit as meaningless as possible. The Royals seem pretty cool with that too.

rickw
rickw
June 27, 2022 11:26 am

University of Barcelona found traces of the virus when testing untreated wastewater samples dated March 12, 2019

I reckon I had it in Ireland in December 2019. Basically felt like I had the flu on a business trip, lasted 5 days.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
June 27, 2022 11:27 am

Quick Cat Cwestion-
What’s a cheap and effective way to secure a “.com.au” domain name?

Top Ender
Top Ender
June 27, 2022 11:27 am

Blockade Australia protesters have caused an unprecedented 45 minutes of chaos on Sydney CBD streets, with the group’s guerilla tactics causing havoc for drivers on Monday morning.

A band of at least 100 protesters marched through the CBD from 8am, hurling signs, fencing, traffic cones and any other roadside equipment they could find onto streets, in a bid to slow following police and traffic.

At least four protesters were detained and searched by police as the protest neared its end at the corners of Grosvenor and George Sts.

Lanes on the Sydney Harbour Tunnel were closed as a precaution, but a thick police presence including vehicles and officers on foot prevented protesters from blocking the thoroughfare.

They instead turned down Bridge Street, part of a zigzagging, haphazard march through roads starting at Hyde Park.

In a chaotic, running battle police worked to shepherd protesters off peak-hour Sydney streets, before the group told members in an encrypted messaging app to disperse at 8.45am.

It’s the first day of a promised week of action by the extreme protest group.

Those taking part were told in an encrypted messaging app on Sunday night it wouldn’t be a traditional rally, with the group scurrying shortly after the message was given to disperse.

At least one TV cameraman fell heavily after toppling backwards over a milk crate hurled into his path.

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A white car, believed to be a part of the protest, was blocking southbound lanes of the Harbour Tunnel, which have since reopened.

The woman, who called herself Marli, was inside the locked car with a bike lock attached to her neck and the wheel, and was live-streaming before being removed by police.

“I cannot be silent anymore. I’ve seen a world of devastation happen. I’ve felt … complete and total heartbreak this year as a direct result of climate change,” she said.

“I don’t want to have to be here, it’s for all of us. It’s quite overwhelming.”

One motorist exited his car and unleashed a verbal tirade at the woman calling her a “f**king selfish c***” to which the woman replied “I stand with you”.

Police flanked the protest, clearing debris as quickly as protesters could dump it on the road, while running alongside those marching in a bid to block streets ahead of the march.

Protesters grabbed obstacles from the sides of the streets to place on the road. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Jeremy Piper
Protesters grabbed obstacles from the sides of the streets to place on the road. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Jeremy Piper
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet told 2GB’s Ben Fordham that the activists “bloody idiots” will face the “full force of the law”.

The game plan for the first day of the promised week-long “mass disruption” was sent out on Sunday evening over a messaging app and included legal advice as well as instructions on how to cause traffic chaos.

Group members were also encouraged to “run or disperse” through the city on Monday morning.

“This won’t be like a regular rally with speeches and a lot of time standing around – we will be meeting at 8am sharp and then moving quickly from there,” the memo states.

“Depending on police tactics you may be required to run or disperse depending on your abilities. Be prepared to walk on roads and stop cars from passing.”

It comes after the group we spotted brazenly using the hipster-filled Marrickville Markets as a training ground the day before kicking off their long-promised “mass disruption”.

The extreme environmentalist group Blockade Australia, which has previously crippled freight and transport networks in a series of rolling actions blocking roads and rails at Port Botany and the Hunter, have promised for months to hold a week-long protest from June 27.

The Daily Telegraph on Sunday witnessed a group of more than 15 Blockade Australia members undertaking training at the Addison Street Community Centre, alongside the hipster-stronghold Marrickville Markets, in apparent preparation for their actions this week.

Daily Tele

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 27, 2022 11:28 am

I don’t know the logistics of it, but could Australia supply Europe with coal in an emergency situation as appears to be happening now?

Michael West has been writing about this.
His view is the cargo doesn’t exist & was pure theatre from ScoMo.
There’s some meat on the bones on theory available via his website.

rickw
rickw
June 27, 2022 11:30 am

Parts of Europe and especially the UK have loads of coal. And at these World prices, that coal would now likely be economical to dig up even with underground mining costs.

Turning it all back on quickly could be difficult, especially as the health and safety bureaucrats will want to crawl up its arse. No doubt much of the associated machinery will have been sold or scrapped.

rickw
rickw
June 27, 2022 11:32 am

Quick Cat Cwestion-
What’s a cheap and effective way to secure a “.com.au” domain name?

Go Daddy used to be pretty quick and cheap.

Dot
Dot
June 27, 2022 11:37 am

Go Daddy are pricks, but they’re easy to use.

rickw
rickw
June 27, 2022 11:38 am

Women bragging about having had three or four “and loving it”.
That never happened.

Wrongoloy smacked down 7 posts later.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
June 27, 2022 11:39 am

Thanks Wrick-

rickw
rickw
June 27, 2022 11:40 am

Anyone else think that zelensky’s Glastonbury appearance had a nice 1984 feel to it?

Dot
Dot
June 27, 2022 11:41 am

“I cannot be silent anymore. I’ve seen a world of devastation happen. I’ve felt … complete and total heartbreak this year as a direct result of climate change,” she said.

No you haven’t and didn’t & that never happened.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
June 27, 2022 11:42 am

Moving forward, how is Gorsuch ever going to use stare decisis as any form of reasoning?

I think the majority decision explained pretty well why Roe v Wade wasn’t a proper subject for stare decisis.
The baby-killers could hardly claim that there were women out there exclaiming “I only had an abortion because I thought it was a Constitutional right – I would have let my baby live if I’d known it was subject to democratic legislative authority”.
So their stare decisis argument was that there were women out there hooked up with horny no-hopers, and the women were letting the horny scrotes fuck their arse off in the belief that if their contraception failed they could get the foetus hoovered, so overturning Roe v Wade was changing the basis on which the women had gone into those relationships.
But that’s not a compelling argument for applying stare decisis, for the following reasons:
(a) the Court wasn’t banning abortion, so the Court wasn’t itself changing anything – i.e. this is quite different to a situation where a Court is asked to change a mandatory rule from “X” to “not X” and may refuse on stare decisis grounds;
(b) yes, the Court was restoring the legislatures’ constitutional power to change things, but it would be up to a legislature to decide whether to do so or not;
(c ) there was no actual evidence before the Court about whether there even are such supposed women being rooted by horny scrotes – it was mere assertion;
(d) even if there are such women, there was no evidence before the Court about whether their problem couldn’t be solved by, as was suggested on this august site a while back, rolling over and telling the scrote that if he wants a root he’s got to bowl round the wicket;
(e ) a legislature is inherently better placed than a Court to gather evidence on considerations of that type as part of its deliberative process, which is why the Constitution, properly interpreted, leaves decisions of that sort to legislatures rather than Courts.

Roger
Roger
June 27, 2022 11:42 am

NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet told 2GB’s Ben Fordham that the activists “bloody idiots” will face the “full force of the law”.

Separation of powers be damned, I say!

(My poll numbers are low & there’s an election less than a year way.)

lotocoti
lotocoti
June 27, 2022 11:43 am

That never happened.

Part II.

miltonf
miltonf
June 27, 2022 11:43 am

That creep turned up at Glastonbury? You’re kidding surely.
To me Glastonbury was always the thorn tree not some shitty wanna be woodstock.

rickw
rickw
June 27, 2022 11:44 am

So tweeted Christian Wilkins, son of TV pop music reporter, Richard Wilkins, when ridiculed for wearing a dress at the logies.

What a freak show, once again it doesn’t seem possible to lie down with dogs and not catch fleas.

Franx
Franx
June 27, 2022 11:46 am

Cohenite 10.22
The poses by the little girls next to Pelosi were as grotesque as was Pelosi’s elbowing.

rickw
rickw
June 27, 2022 11:46 am

That creep turned up at Glastonbury? You’re kidding surely.

Simultaneously on three massive screens. Sadly attendees forgot to wear their blue overalls, would have made quite a spectacle.

Roger
Roger
June 27, 2022 11:47 am

That creep turned up at Glastonbury? You’re kidding surely.

Via pre-recorded video.

miltonf
miltonf
June 27, 2022 11:48 am

The ‘democrats’ and their Hollywood pals really want a war.

Delta A
Delta A
June 27, 2022 11:48 am

Thanks again, Tom, for the daily toons and WiPs. It is a big commitment on your part and greatly appreciated by the Cat Community.

Please excuse the rude, attention-seeking wannabe Cat who has taken to disrupting your posts. Sadly for him, that’s the only time that he can grab the limelight, even fleetingly.

Purile behaviour.

m0nty
m0nty
June 27, 2022 11:50 am

These women are not “bragging” about their abortions.

They are not saying “I’m loving it”.

That never happened.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
June 27, 2022 11:50 am

One Russian MP has said London will be first to be nuked.

Russia has been making with the veiled nuclear threats for months.

The UK presumably has briefed its submarine commanders on what best to do if London suddenly vanished. One might reasonably assume that Putin wouldn’t lightly invite the destruction of much of Russia’s economy and military facilities.

An immediate concern is that this is a process of ‘socialising’ tactical nukes – so that a controlled, modest kt, destruction of a Ukrainian military target would elicit fear and surrender, but avoid strategic reprisal because ‘at least it wasn’t London/Paris/Berlin…’

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
June 27, 2022 11:52 am

The Modern Democrat Voter

June 26, 2022 | Sundance

Rarely does an image encapsulate a moment in U.S. political history so succinctly. This is a brilliant, absolutely brilliant, representation of a modern leftist who votes politically in favor of democrats. This artwork is one of the best encapsulations I have seen in years.

The image is particularly poignant because modern leftists must pretend not to know things in order to advance their political ideology. The suburban female voter, perfectly showcased as a “Karen” type figure (and the gender shaded imagery) is a representation of a wealthy, white, female, suburban liberal who drives the overall policy direction of the toxic political left.

The artwork perfectly encapsulates the G7 policy announcement made by Joe Biden earlier today:

(1) To increase dependency and control the third-world population the G7 will finance a vaccine manufacturing facility in Senegal. The breeding of the brown people must be controlled – climate change policy demands it.

(2) To control the optics of the third-world complaining about it, the G7 will mobilize $335 million in private capital to control the communication systems in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The brown people must not discover the nature of their exploitation; and the citizens within the G7 nations must not find out their government is exploiting the brown people. Wouldn’t look good.

(3) The United States will spend $50 million over five years to support gender equity in the developing world increasing the friction between brown women and brown men, while ignoring cultural differences and forcing the social ideology of the West upon them. And finally….

(4) The G7, fearing third-world instability and anger from the brown people that could disrupt their supply chains, the U.S. and Western nations will now seek to increase their control of mining for mineral deposits needed for G7 batteries – and will fund more railroads and ports to export the critical material to the West more quickly.

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 27, 2022 11:52 am

There is no list of what precedents full under the vibe of stare decisis.
But Roe v Wade (as shitty as its reasoning is/was) would be viewed as being on the list.

To be clear, my comments are more regarding the justices than the ruling even though the last paragraph regarding the balkanisation of the US.
I should have put that in a seperate post.

rickw
rickw
June 27, 2022 11:54 am

These women are not “bragging” about their abortions.

They are not saying “I’m loving it”.

That never happened.

Aneurism check in aisle 3 please!

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
June 27, 2022 11:56 am

Abortions are extremely unpleasant. It’s not like dancing while eating fried chicken.
[…]
Although I don’t think dancing while eating fried chicken would be all that enjoyable either, the sort of thing that only happens in stupid advertisements.

Fat Man, you would do your cause much favour by staying silent some days.

And fucking off the Freudian Slips…

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
June 27, 2022 11:56 am

Anyone else think that zelensky’s Glastonbury appearance had a nice 1984 feel to it?
Glad I never went.
I hate carve-out “festivals” as is, the few I attended decades ago tipped me off that they would become culture-gobbling virtue parades for the millennials and gen XYZTQPAI+.
Radio news also tells me that “Putin was mocked” by world leaders at a G7 dinner. Looks like it was all sotto voce set-up with candid cameras and mics, Boris Johnson et al mocking his short stature and horseriding hunky staged shots… as if Macron doesn’t wear booster heels, and Boris doesn’t check that his hair isn’t accidently shevelled before he waves at the cameras.
Made me think, OMG, our Lizard People overlords are actually tik tokker adolescents.
Then I thought, it’s a fucking dangerous game, they obviously have no intention to sue for peace.
Then I thought, they’d wanna be careful- Obama “burned” Trump in a set-up ham roast, when Trump was naught but a ticket-purchasing bystander, and look what happened to the cool kids after that.

Top Ender
Top Ender
June 27, 2022 11:56 am

Hypocrites!

Social media has lit up with thousands of unprintable threats and racist abuse towards the judge since Friday’s verdict.

“Twitter allowing straight up racist attacks on Clarence Thomas to trend,” said Andrew Surabian, a political strategist, pointing out that “Uncle Clarence” was trending on Twitter.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
June 27, 2022 11:57 am

Uncle Roger makes Pho This is great stuff and pulling the piss on everyone including himself.

Bluey
Bluey
June 27, 2022 11:59 am

Dotsays:
June 27, 2022 at 11:41 am
“I cannot be silent anymore. I’ve seen a world of devastation happen. I’ve felt … complete and total heartbreak this year as a direct result of climate change,” she said.

No you haven’t and didn’t & that never happened.

AKA as “LOOOOKKKK AAAATTT MEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!’

Roger
Roger
June 27, 2022 12:00 pm

One Russian MP has said London will be first to be nuked.

Russia has been making with the veiled nuclear threats for months.

Only this fellow is not a TV commentator; he’s a Putin ally on the Russian parliamentary defence committee. He has expressed a particular contempt for Anglo-Saxons.

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 27, 2022 12:00 pm

Regarding Lisa Wilkinson.
One could gamble on the outcome of the Logies.
If she knew she had won prior to the event, what does that tell you regarding the integrity of betting markets.
If that was the Brownlow or Dally M, betting would have be suspended & some fake investigation held by some plod who knew what outcome was desired.

rickw
rickw
June 27, 2022 12:01 pm

Then I thought, it’s a fucking dangerous game, they obviously have no intention to sue for peace.

Absolutely, we should stay the hell out of this shit show.

At least if there’s a nuclear exchange during Elbow’s visit, his teeth will aid in the identification of his carcass.

rickw
rickw
June 27, 2022 12:03 pm

Uncle Roger makes Pho This is great stuff and pulling the piss on everyone including himself

IMHO Uncle Roger never recovered from sucking CCP arse.

Aunty Helen was right!

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 27, 2022 12:04 pm

My WhatsApp group tells me Lindsay Graham has been on Fox saying he expects to be chair of the Senate judiciary committee when it sits in January 2023.
I reckon it would be worth having a punt that he’s not the chair.

MatrixTransform
June 27, 2022 12:05 pm

– ‘Masculinity’ is re-fitting new door hardware to every door in the house while you go shopping all Saturday and then go out for brunch and more shopping all Sunday.

– ‘Masculinity’ is also telling you to F-off when you act like the Kwality Kontrol Kommisar because a strike-plate is crooked

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
June 27, 2022 12:07 pm

Women Call for Sex Strike Against Men in Retaliation for the Overturning of Roe v. Wade

From the Comments

– Actually cannot stop laughing. The one with all the hardware can stay on strike…

– She looks like a roll of barbwire

Guess they won’t be needing those abortions if they go on sex strike!

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
June 27, 2022 12:07 pm

Parts of Europe and especially the UK have loads of coal. And at these World prices, that coal would now likely be economical to dig up even with underground mining costs.

Turning it all back on quickly could be difficult, especially as the health and safety bureaucrats will want to crawl up its arse. No doubt much of the associated machinery will have been sold or scrapped.

Loads of hard coal.
But essentially Poland is the last European country with a functioning black coal industry.

The restart issue is that almost all European hard coal is only accessible by underground mining. Re-entering fairly deep, abandoned underground coal mines is generally not a practical proposition for a bunch of technical reasons.

So, the problem is not so much machinery as developing new deep mines in the face of political opposition, lawfare, and uncertainty.

Europe has deliberately positioned itself for the energy shock it now faces.

Roger
Roger
June 27, 2022 12:09 pm

Absolutely, we should stay the hell out of this shit show.

Elbow’s already off to the NATO summit after a special invitation.

miltonf
miltonf
June 27, 2022 12:11 pm

Radio news also tells me that “Putin was mocked” by world leaders at a G7 dinner.

So Putin is the new Trump. I bet Anal’s miffed that he score an invite

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 27, 2022 12:11 pm

I wouldn’t be surprised if the US used some emergency act to turn production in the Powder River Basin up to eleventy.
PS, Uncle Warren is all over the Powder River Basin.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
June 27, 2022 12:12 pm

A mass exodus from the Democrats’ America

As the Washington Examiner reported this week, the end of the COVID-19 pandemic has done nothing to arrest the trend of people fleeing large cities in liberal coastal states for more pleasant and orderly locales, particularly in the Mountain West and the Sun Belt.

A mixture of unreasonable pandemic restrictions, rising crime, lawlessness, and hostility toward employers has forced this continued urban exodus.

A Census Bureau report released late last month shows which cities and towns have gained population and which have lost it. The data demonstrate that the states and cities that imposed the most draconian COVID-19 restrictions were very likely to lose population. But the fact is that the data are quite similar for the period between 2018 and 2019, when COVID-19 was not a consideration. What towns and cities gaining population generally have in common both before and during COVID-19 is that they generally live under laws made by Republicans. What towns and cities losing population have in common is that they generally live under Democratic rule.

It is hardly a coincidence that all 15 of the 15 fastest-growing cities and towns between July 2020 and July 2021 are in states that Republicans govern: Arizona, Texas, Florida, Tennessee, and Idaho. And 14 out of the 15 fastest-declining cities during the same period were in states that Democrats governed at the time.

What towns and cities gaining population generally have in common both before and during COVID-19 is that they live under laws made by Republicans. What towns and cities losing population have in common is that they live under laws made by Democrats.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
June 27, 2022 12:12 pm

Elbow’s already off to the NATO summit after a special invitation.

A sleepover with the cool kids.

MatrixTransform
June 27, 2022 12:14 pm

.com.au domain name

years we used a company whose name I cant remember.
they got bought out a few years ago by a Singapore company called Vodien.

so far they’ve been pretty good and very helpful

Eyrie
Eyrie
June 27, 2022 12:15 pm

so that a controlled, modest kt, destruction of a Ukrainian military target would elicit fear and surrender
Anyone know if the Russians have ERW’s aka neutron bombs?
I don’t blame any Ukrainian bloke for bugging out across the border. When your “leader” keeps provoking a large neighbour for years and then wants you to fight them and get snuffed, I’d bug out too.

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 27, 2022 12:17 pm

If Putin does start throwing nukes, I reckon he’ll lob a few at Brisbane.
That’s where he was humiliated at the APEC summit hosted by Abbott.
Anti social chaps like Putin don’t take kindly to that.

PS I don’t think Putin will start throwing nukes.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
June 27, 2022 12:18 pm

Russia has been making with the veiled nuclear threats for months.

Only this fellow is not a TV commentator; he’s a Putin ally on the Russian parliamentary defence committee.

As is Lavrov.

As is Putin himself.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
June 27, 2022 12:18 pm

Rick I don’t mix food with politics otherwise I’d never eat anything.

Top Ender
Top Ender
June 27, 2022 12:19 pm
John Sheldrick
June 27, 2022 12:20 pm

OldOzziesays:
June 27, 2022 at 12:07 pm
Women Call for Sex Strike Against Men in Retaliation for the Overturning of Roe v. Wade

From the Comments

– Actually cannot stop laughing. The one with all the hardware can stay on strike…

– She looks like a roll of barbwire

– Guess they won’t be needing those abortions if they go on sex strike!

That must mean plenty of increased business for all of those legal ‘knocking shops’. Plenty in Nevada I hear……………lol

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 27, 2022 12:20 pm

m0ntysays:
June 27, 2022 at 10:40 am
Women bragging about having had three or four “and loving it”.

That never happened.

Which never happened? The bragging or the “and loving it”?

m0nty
m0nty
June 27, 2022 12:21 pm

‘Shout Your abortion’ isn’t bragging.

No it isn’t. The point of that woman’s “movement” is to break down the social stigma around it. Not bragging, but removing shame.

I guess it’s hard for you to understand that women don’t want to be shamed about having an abortion.

Cassie of Sydney
June 27, 2022 12:23 pm

“m0ntysays:
June 27, 2022 at 11:50 am
These women are not “bragging” about their abortions.

They are not saying “I’m loving it”.

That never happened.”

Actually, you’re wrong….but that isn’t anything new or surprising.

I’ve known several women who’ve had abortions. One in particular, a woman I knew well in the early 2000s, bragged about an abortion to me and who, when later pregnant and complaining about feeling sick all the time, told me and two other women that she wanted to abort it, I remember her words very clearly “I just want to get rid of it”. I was horrified. I severed the friendship.

Please go away, this subject is sensitive and doesn’t warrant your pathetic, cretinous and adolescent commentary. You’re just trolling and offering nothing of substance.

Now fuck off.

Top Ender
Top Ender
June 27, 2022 12:24 pm

While Australian families suffer through Covid-induced poverty or are left jobless due to state-Labor vaccine mandates, Foreign Minister Penny Wong has decided to gift $1 million in taxpayer dollars to terrorist-run Afghanistan.

Afghanistan was shaken by a 5.9 magnitude earthquake last week – a common occurrence in the geologically unstable region. The moderate quake caused mud houses to collapse on villagers, creating a humanitarian crisis for the Taliban.

The Taliban – who have spent their time organising the slaughter of Westerners and massacre of the Afghani people including beheadings, suicide bombers, and knife-attacks – want people they ‘hate’ to give them money.

Penny Wong’s million-dollar gift to a regime that caused so much bloodshed against innocent civilians, including Australians, comes on top of the $140 million that was handed over in 2021.

‘The earthquake has caused extensive loss of life, homes, and livelihoods, with the full effects still to be determined. This tragedy comes at a time when the humanitarian needs in Afghanistan are greater than ever.

‘Our support will be delivered through UN agencies already operating in the affected area, and will go towards providing shelter, food, and medical support for those in need.

‘The Australian Government extend its deepest condolences to the people of Afghanistan, and the Afghan-Australian community,’ said Penny Wong.

Founded during the early 1990s, the Taliban are one of the most ruthless, backward, and abusive regimes on earth squabbling for power against the Islamic State. They form one of the primary branches of the world’s barbaric Islamic terror organisations.

The group, who murdered tens of thousands of Afghanistan locals during insurgencies, have the begging bowl out to the world because they are suddenly concerned about civilian deaths. Considering they previously denied food supplies sent as aid through UN channels – what assurances does Penny Wong have that this million-dollar gift is going to the people and not the coffers of a violent regime?

It was only last year that Australia was scrambling to find refugee places for people fleeing the Taliban regime after they were informed that they would be raped, tortured, and murdered by the new government. Given this, the Labor Party are awfully chummy with a regime so dangerous our ministers (particularly female LGBT ministers like Wong) could not set foot in their country. As a Taliban spokesperson told Bild, ‘For homosexuals, there can be only two punishments: either stoning, or he must stand behind a wall that will fall down on him.’

Perhaps the Taliban could put the $7 billion worth of American military equipment they are in possession of up on Ebay if they are strapped for cash?

Giving a terror organisation a million dollars, for any reason, would be considered a serious crime if it were done by an Australian citizen. When a government does it, apparently that’s ‘okay’.

Spectator

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 27, 2022 12:31 pm

In a social experiment, Arizona has passed legislation linking state funding to each school aged child.
Parents are then free to send their child to the school of their choosing.
The state funding follows the child.
If this legislation stands and the model is adhered to over a cycle it will show what the most productive education delivery system is.
Who knows if it will work but experiments like this are possible when you have 50 states who are allowed to do their own thing for the most part.

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 27, 2022 12:34 pm

Dover, if Trump was successful in banning TikTok, think about how much shit like that wouldn’t be available.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
June 27, 2022 12:35 pm

Our Russia strategy has backfired

Biden is more likely to be toppled

Whatever the origins of the Ukraine war, the West and Russia are now engaged in a broader confrontation that is not confined to the military struggle: the war has become a competition in pain-tolerance.

This is, as Thomas Schelling wrote, “a conscious process of dirty bargaining”, whereby each side tries to inflict pain and suffering on the other side until one or both yield. Put simply, the West and Russia are playing a violent version of the schoolyard game Mercy. The centrepiece of the West’s effort to inflict pain on Russia is what the historian Nicholas Mulder has called “the economic weapon”, which has been deployed at unprecedented scale. The centrepiece of Russia’s effort to inflict pain on the West is the commodities weapon. In this competition in pain-tolerance, it is not immediate whether the West or Russia has the upper hand.

The West unleashed the economic weapon with considerable fanfare. Russia, with a GDP smaller than South Korea, was treated not as a great power adversary but as a rogue stake akin to Iran — a nuisance that could be rather effortlessly strangled through the unrestrained use of Western sanctions. Great hope was placed on the idea that these sanctions would inflict such catastrophic pain on Russia as to undermine the Putin regime.

These hopes and expectations were based on wishful thinking. Non-Western powers — China, India, Brazil, Mexico and South Africa — simply refused to play along with the West. They appeared more worried by the West’s weaponisation of the dollar system than by Russian aggression against Ukraine. Even more importantly, Western leaders were gravely mistaken in their idea that Russia was a second-rate power that could be simply crushed with the economic weapon.

Russian GDP may be small, but Russia is, together with the United States, one of the only two states in the international system that can survive relatively unscathed in complete autarchy. Indeed, Russia is not dependent on the world for hard-to-replace stuff — the world is dependent on Russia. It supplies a significant fraction of the world’s energy, metals, fertilisers, and food.

The contrast with the West couldn’t be starker. The Biden administration and the Democrats look set to crash and burn on the shoals of inflation. The president’s approval rating has sunk below 40%. Democrats will almost surely lose control of Congress come November. Of course, other issues condition Democrat fortunes. But it can hardly be denied that the greatest threat to the Democrats is inflation. And inflation is at least partly under Putin’s control — he can turn the knob up and down to maximise the delivery of pain to the West.

Again, we must be clear-eyed: the source of the problem is Western misperception of Russian weakness. American Russia policy is based on the assumption that Russia is weak and the West strong. But, as we’ve seen, this assumption is unwarranted. In terms of what we can dish out to him and what he can dish out to us, it is Putin who has the upper hand.

m0nty
m0nty
June 27, 2022 12:39 pm

Those women are not expressing pride in their abortion, db. They are expressing pride in themselves for being strong during a traumatic episode in their lives. Evidently you can’t tell the difference.

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 27, 2022 12:41 pm

mUnty clearly in touch with his feminine side today. You go grrrl.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
June 27, 2022 12:41 pm

Interesting.
Tik Tok is wholly owned and hosted by the CCP- I reckon it was a canny goldrush move to commit the bucks and bytes in order to claim the territory and become a household byword for kids’ vids, with the following information harvesting the big payoff.
Would the format have emerged somewhere else? Maybe, but maybe not for years either, and certainly not “free” and easy like the TT wave in 2020. Funny how it co-incided with the lockdowns.

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 27, 2022 12:42 pm

Tik Tok is wholly owned and hosted by the CCP

This is false.

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 27, 2022 12:44 pm

TikTok is fully owned by ByteDance.
The ByteDance cap table now has a gazillion parties on it, most of whom are well known VC’s.

Cassie of Sydney
June 27, 2022 12:46 pm

“Those women are not expressing pride in their abortion, db. They are expressing pride in themselves for being strong during a traumatic episode in their lives. Evidently you can’t tell the difference.”

Firstly, you’re mansplaining….pure misogyny. The troll speaks for all women. He knows how women think. Creepy.

Secondly, you don’t know this woman, I did, very well as a matter of fact.

Now, as I wrote above, fuck off.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
June 27, 2022 12:46 pm
H B Bear
H B Bear
June 27, 2022 12:47 pm

Anyone else think that zelensky’s Glastonbury appearance had a nice 1984 feel to it

Has appearing at Glastonbury ever been so uncool? Fuck geriatric rock. Fuck Boomers.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 27, 2022 12:49 pm

Social media has lit up with thousands of unprintable threats and racist abuse towards the judge since Friday’s verdict.

Instapundit has a series of tweets from a lefty which even Twitter couldn’t stomach. They suspended him.

Quite amazing.

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 27, 2022 12:55 pm

I’ve seen Green Day four times (5 when you include festivals).
The last one I went to I knew they were phoning it in.
Green Day do this thing where mid gig they get people out of the crowd to play drums, bass & guitar.
The first time I saw it they did the whole circus in 15mins.
A bit of fun & gave the boys a break.
The last time I saw them they fluffed around with it for over half an hour to the extent people wait for it to start so they can have a piss & get another lite beer.

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 27, 2022 1:01 pm

ByteDance cap table.
https://kando.tech/cap-table/583936

It’s not up to date.
But it’s the only once I can link to that isn’t paywalled.

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 27, 2022 1:02 pm

only one.
not once.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
June 27, 2022 1:02 pm

This General is “impressive”. From Daily Mail.

Beast in the East! Panicking Putin ‘calls up OBESE 20st retired general to lead forces in
Putin has called an obese general out of retirement to take command of forces in Ukraine after yet another round of purges of top commanders has left him ‘scraping the barrel’. The 20 stone General Pavel, 67, has been summoned from his comfortable retirement in the Moscow suburbs and told to don his specially-made army fatigues and go to the front lines of eastern Ukraine. He will now take charge of Russian special forces operating in the region after the unit’s former commander was seriously injured in an artillery strike. A veteran of the Soviet Union’s ill-fated invasion of Afghanistan in the 1980s, he was a 40 year veteran of Russia’s special forces, but has let himself go considerably since retirement five years ago. He is understood to eat five meals a day and polish it all off with a litre of vodka. Since coming back to the service, he has had to have his uniform specially made and he needs to wear two sets of body armour to ensure his torso is protected. A senior intelligence source last night told the Daily Star Sunday : ‘Putin is now scraping the barrel. Most of his best and battle-hardened senior commanders have been killed or injured fighting in Ukraine so he is resorting to sending second rate officers to the front who don’t last very long.’ Putin has lost at least 11 generals killed in action in Ukraine.

m0nty
m0nty
June 27, 2022 1:04 pm

LOL. What does ‘being strong’ mean here, Monty, if not being able to visit an abortionist, asking them to kill their baby, and then the pride to tell people they could do that?

How about you listen to women who have had an abortion. We don’t know, we’re men. Have some respect.

And don’t hang your hat on the trauma part here, either, if you look at the pro-abort literature they will tell you how remarkably easy it is and that the converse claims are a lie of the anti-abortion movement.

D&Cs are physically traumatic, and the whole process is emotionally traumatic. Shame is a big part of that trauma. I don’t blame women for wanting to minimise the shame element by vocalising their feelings.

C.L.
C.L.
June 27, 2022 1:04 pm

They are expressing pride in themselves for being strong during a traumatic episode in their lives.

” . . . to have seen this through and—with the exception of human weakness—to have remained decent…”

– Heinrich Himmler, “Extermination” Speech, Posen, October 4, 1943

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
June 27, 2022 1:08 pm

Those women are not expressing pride in their abortion, db. They are expressing pride in themselves for being strong during a traumatic episode in their lives.

That’s a remarkably ‘compassionate’ take from you, Fat Man.

It’s just a terrible shame all your Fellow Travellers have never shared that conviction…

(The lady’s name is Michelle Wolf. She once had a TV show. Because vagina. And all correct political orthodoxy boxes ticked. And cOmEdY. 2018 was a helluva drug if you were a Leftwit…)

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
June 27, 2022 1:10 pm

Have some respect.

Yes, Benito M0ntylini.

Have some respect for our intelligence, and stop trying to rEaSoN with us like a 16 year-old with a script…

Winston Smith
June 27, 2022 1:19 pm

Dot:

All retention samples as back far as we should go should be tested.
If it is suspected that the novel virus was globally endemic as far back as 2018 then what a cheap tent show that was, annihilating liberal democracy.

That’s the reason the samples won’t be tested.
Our governments are out of control and need a jolly good purge.

areff
areff
June 27, 2022 1:21 pm

They are expressing pride in themselves for being strong during a traumatic episode in their lives.

If it’s just a nob of cells, as the abortionists tirelessly insist, why the trauma? Do they go into paroxysms of anguish and need their girlfriends’ support them every time they pop a zit?

That ‘trauma’ arises from either one of two things:

1/ Look at me, indulging in emotion-a-rama with all my girlfriends paying attention.

or

2/ They know they are snuffing out a potential human and can’t quite get the cognitive dissonance to sit right.

Beyond and before that, what’s so hard about making the bloke wear a frenchy?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
June 27, 2022 1:24 pm

A notorious former bikie has been badly bashed amid rising underworld tensions.

Jason Addison, the former Bandidos outlaw motorcycle gang national president who was among several high-profile bikies booted from the Mongols in recent months, was seriously assaulted at a motorbike show in Knowsley near Heathcote two weekends ago.

Dramatic photos have emerged of a battered and bloodied Addison after the attack at the Knowsley-Barnadown Rd raceway.

The attack, which police say was targeted, came a week before ex-Mongols bikie Sam “The Punisher” Abdulrahim was shot at a funeral in a daylight ambush.

Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
June 27, 2022 1:25 pm

Clementine Ford ????
@clementine_ford
Abortions are bloody amazing. I’m so grateful for the two I had.

….

These women are not “bragging” about their abortions.

They are not saying “I’m loving it”.

That never happened.


So much wrongology,

Lot of haunted vaginas wailing and gnashing their teeth at the moment.

Time to really rub it it with a few memes from hell

1 Brother
2 Sister
3 GF

Its good to tell them yes, they are bad people and they should feel bad for having recreational pregnancies in a world of wall to wall contraception.

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 27, 2022 1:27 pm

m0ntysays:
June 27, 2022 at 11:50 am
These women are not “bragging” about their abortions.

They are not saying “I’m loving it”.

That never happened.

m0nty-fa closes his eyes and blocks his ears, babbling “Nya, nya, nya, I can’t hear you, I can’t see you”.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
June 27, 2022 1:34 pm

From mole’s ‘sister’ link:

I want to have an important job like mommy one day

Fuckin’ BAM, you selfish moles. Denying someone an entire existence, with every single thing that that entails because you want everything at once, and to yourself.

‘Recreational pregnancies’ is also bang on the money – regarded by said moles as an occupational hazard, like bruising your knee falling off a bike, and also waved away by using the dishonest term ‘healthcare’.

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 27, 2022 1:36 pm

m0ntysays:
June 27, 2022 at 12:21 pm
‘Shout Your abortion’ isn’t bragging.

No it isn’t. The point of that woman’s “movement” is to break down the social stigma around it. Not bragging, but removing shame.

I guess it’s hard for you to understand that women don’t want to be shamed about having an abortion.

m0nty-fa uses “angels dancing on the head of a pin” level parsing to “prove” that black is white.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
June 27, 2022 1:40 pm

English translation of m0nty’s abortion comments upthread:

Those women don’t mean what they say – if they did, that would mean that I’m spouting a lot of risible contemptible nonsense, and that can’t be right.

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 27, 2022 1:43 pm

How about you listen to women who have had an abortion. We don’t know, we’re men.

m0nty-fa says men don’t know about abortion, after commenting multiple times on how women feel about abortion.

Roger
Roger
June 27, 2022 1:49 pm

I guess it’s hard for you to understand that women don’t want to be shamed about having an abortion.

Shame is an internal emotional reaction to an external stimulus; if someone is felling ashamed it’s because the judgment of others has touched a nerve within, namely the conscience. If the conscience is properly formed, and the act being judged is objectively morally wrong, then being ashamed is actually a good thing, not a bad thing, and can lead to a positive change in thought and action.

The drive to suppress this process is evil.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
June 27, 2022 1:50 pm

What’s even funnier is the Fat Man screaming his tits off at dover on Twitter about the whole thing.

And a whole dogpile of about 2 people getting stuck into him as well.

I’ve seen bigger storms in smaller teacups…

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
June 27, 2022 1:51 pm

I’ve seen bigger storms in smaller teacups…

And being a steam loco driver in my spare time, I know just how turbulent the contents of a hot cuppa can be.

#Ouch

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
June 27, 2022 1:53 pm

m0nty-fa says men don’t know about abortion, after commenting multiple times on how women feel about abortion.

I believe that being a leftist, and particularly a feminist, gives one an insight into the female psyche that we troglodyte conservatives (women included) can never possibly hope to understand or emulate.

At least, that’s how it’s written on the brochures…

#WhatWomenWant

#CosWeTellThemWhatTheyWant

#Leftists

dopey
dopey
June 27, 2022 1:56 pm

Green lunatic in a car blocking Harbour Tunnel. Probably thinks that’s why they built the tunnel – rising sea levels.

Dot
Dot
June 27, 2022 1:57 pm

monty has binders of women we can respect.

Dot
Dot
June 27, 2022 1:59 pm

Green lunatic in a car blocking Harbour Tunnel. Probably thinks that’s why they built the tunnel – rising sea levels.

Tow them out to Tibooburra. Let common sense sink in.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
June 27, 2022 2:01 pm

monty has binders of women we can respect.

There’s an Expended Ordnance joke I’m going to have to leave begging here, out of respect to all my fellow Cats…

#Eurrgh

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
June 27, 2022 2:02 pm

being a leftist, and particularly a feminist

Hand in glove.

I am not the owner/operator of equipment likely to get me pregnant. However, I am prepared to assert that people’s stances on this topic (and particularly the pro-life components) are driven – in part, at least – by faith.

Socialists demand loyalty to The State above all else, and tiresome concepts like faith and family have no part in that.

Old bloke
Old bloke
June 27, 2022 2:05 pm

rickw says:
June 27, 2022 at 11:40 am

Anyone else think that zelensky’s Glastonbury appearance had a nice 1984 feel to it?


African presidents shun Zelensky’s address to the African Union.

areff
areff
June 27, 2022 2:05 pm

I went to a book talk by a female author shouting her abortion on the Upper West Side

Wasn’t Anne Summers, was it? She’s an Upper West gal with toy boy in tow when the grants are flowing, and I sorta recall she’s boasted of having had three abortions.

As The Age runs whatever derivative drek she writes, someone should ask her for a piece on her very, most absolute favourite D&C.

Suspect it would be along the lines of

‘Dear Diary, was running late to grab the last of the lox at Zabar’s, so grateful to Dr I. Scrape-Em for getting the termination done before the deli doors closed. Why, there was even time to get some of thsee dinosaur-shaped chicken nuggets that Chip just loves so much with his chocolate milk.’

Filbert
Filbert
June 27, 2022 2:11 pm

Test

MatrixTransform
June 27, 2022 2:13 pm

m0nty-fa says men don’t know about abortion, after commenting multiple times on how women feel about abortion.

because mUnty is a fool

Filbert
Filbert
June 27, 2022 2:14 pm

Your disgusting, amoral pin up grrrl M0nsta
You have much in common.
Though you’re fatter.

Vicki
Vicki
June 27, 2022 2:16 pm

Bruce of Newcastle @ 5.02pn yesterday-

Sorry to take so long to get back to you – no farm work being done here as we are both tearing our hair out trying to solve this email problem. It’s getting ugly. We have rung Optus countless times & also Active8 & they all pretend “they know nothin….” Both deny any blocks on Port 25.

However, your information was priceless. Our problems actually date back to around June1 when you said Gmail & other providers started to get “antsy” about authentication. We think we have fallen victim to this range war even though no one will concede this is what is happening. What is it with this era of secret campaigns to deprive us mugs of our rights & freedoms??? Our regional guru hinted at a problem of territory between Optus & Active8 but was coy about it & not helpful in how to protect our service (I loathe calling it that!!!)

But you are right BofN about the need for alternate service providers. It looks like we will have to give up the email addresses we have had for 30 years or so & find a reliable service. I also resent the amount of time we have had to devote to this problem & the angst it has given us. My brain is not configured to master numbers, symbols & codes & I have found this exhausting & infuriating.

But thank you Bruce for that info which explains a lot. Like everything today – the data is proliferating more quickly than society can handle. It just irks me that the providers can turn a switch & deprive us of the data we need. Sign of the times ahead, people!

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
June 27, 2022 2:19 pm

Dem plotting the overthrow of the court…

Im sure they can shoehorn that into the Jan 6 hearings.

‘They set a torch to it’: Warren says court lost legitimacy with Roe reversal
Top Democrats again call for appointing additional justices to blunt conservative super-majority which made ruling possible

Leading Democrats on Sunday continued calling the supreme court’s legitimacy into question after it took away the nationwide right to abortion last week, and some again lobbied for appointing additional justices to the panel so as to blunt the conservative super-majority which made the controversial ruling possible.

The Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren suggested to ABC’s This Week that there was urgency to do that because supreme court justice Clarence Thomas indicated within Friday’s decision to overturn the landmark Roe v Wade ruling that he’s open to reconsidering precedents guaranteeing contraception, same-sex marriage rights and consensual gay sex.

“They have burned whatever legitimacy they may still have had,” Warren said of the supreme court. “They just took the last of it and set a torch to it.”
Warren joined Georgia gubernatorial candidate and Democratic organizer Stacey Abrams in again lobbying to expand the supreme court in a way that balances the current makeup of six conservatives and three liberals.


Appearing on NBC’s Meet the Press, the New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocascio-Cortez argued that drastic measures were justified.

“I believe that the president and the Democratic party needs to come to terms with is that this is not just a crisis of Roe – this is a crisis of our democracy,” Ocascio-Cortez said.

The congresswoman also said the supreme court was undergoing “a crisis of legitimacy”, making it a point to allude to how Thomas’s wife, Ginni, emailed 29 Republican lawmakers in Arizona as she tried to help overturn Biden’s victory over Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election.

The supreme court has dramatically overreached its authority,*” Ocascio-Cortez said. “This is a crisis of legitimacy.”

* So the Supremes didnt overreach when they found a hidden right to a practice on par with witchcraft cunningly inserted by the founding fathers.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
June 27, 2022 2:22 pm

Wasn’t Anne Summers, was it?

*shudders*

Anne Summers.

She always looked to me like a wax doll that had been sat too close to the fireplace. He face seemed to be sagging and unevenly sliding off her head.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
June 27, 2022 2:23 pm

ftb
Byte Dance is new to me, and I’ll admit to being out of my depth.
More research needed

cohenite
June 27, 2022 2:39 pm

Franxsays:
June 27, 2022 at 11:46 am
Cohenite 10.22
The poses by the little girls next to Pelosi were as grotesque as was Pelosi’s elbowing.

Could you elaborate.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 27, 2022 2:41 pm

Beast in the East! Panicking Putin ‘calls up OBESE 20st retired general

Bourne – I’ve just been looking at that story. And I mean really looking at it. Hard.

Tried everything. There is no General Pavel (first or last name) in any search I can find that is this guy. There’s no other images of him I can see. On at least two message boards other people have tried to find out who he actually is, and nothing. Reverse photo search apparently doesn’t find any images of him. One guy did identify the cap and uniform as actually Russian, but that’s about it.

He doesn’t seem to exist…except in that photo. And absolutely all the stories you see in the MSM all go back to the original Daily Star story. Nothing, nil, zip corroboration at all.

I had a lot of fun trying to dig out his actual identity and bio, but failed completely. Fake news, sorry, although I’d rather like Putin to call up General Fat Bastard to win the Z War. It’d be worthy of a Mike Myers movie.

So there’s your challenge Cats. Find out who this guy is.

Vicki
Vicki
June 27, 2022 2:42 pm

Re African leaders shunning Zelensky’s address:

Seems to me that these guys are wise to the false flags in the West. They sank the plans of the elites at the WHO to impose an agreed creed for future global vaccination programs.

It is interesting how the world is rearranging alliances.

Tom
Tom
June 27, 2022 2:44 pm

Michael West has been writing about this.

Ah, yes. The Marxist ex-Fairfax anti-business business writer. A legend in his own basement.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
June 27, 2022 2:46 pm

Their ABCcess had a person on to explain how awful the abortion ban was in the USA.

A Texas owner of an abortion clinic.

I look forward to their investigation of nazi atrocities starring an interview with a certain mr H Himmler and their expose on free helicopter rides , Mr A Pinochet.

Zipster
Zipster
June 27, 2022 2:46 pm

@clementine_ford
Abortions are bloody amazing. I’m so grateful for the two I had.

why stop at two, consider a very late self-abortion

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
June 27, 2022 2:46 pm

Seems to me that these guys are wise to the false flags in the West. They sank the plans of the elites at the WHO to impose an agreed creed for future global vaccination programs.

It is interesting how the world is rearranging alliances.

Many of them are also heavily dependent on Vlad’s other backer, China.

John Sheldrick
June 27, 2022 2:47 pm

A Pink Insurrection

Abortionists stormed the Wisconsin state capitol building. They interrupted an ongoing special session and demanded that lawmakers overturn their rulings, interrupting a democratic process with screams and chants. There will be no news of this in the mainstream media. There will not be a January 6 manhunt for anyone who “stormed” the capitol.

Anyone who entered or even attended the January 6 protest has been tracked down and arrested. They claimed that the protestors on January 6 were violent, which could not be farther from the truth. This group backed by Planned Parenthood has a violent past. One supporter already tried to kill a Supreme Court justice, while others have burned down churches and businesses that do not support their beliefs. Will the lawmakers at the capitol cry on television like AOC and Pelosi and claim they feared for their lives? No. Did anyone care when a man with zip ties, a knife, and a gun attempted to enter the home of Justice Kavanaugh? No.

The left is permitted to commit crimes and terrorize the country with zero repercussions.

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/a-pink-insurrection/

Vicki
Vicki
June 27, 2022 2:49 pm

Re the UK story on “General Pavel”- as in all wars, the facts are not really known or understood till many years after the last shot is fired. The propaganda dished out in this conflict is EPIC.

areff
areff
June 27, 2022 3:03 pm

it was Carol Sanger

She’d have to be related to the appalling Margaret. Some things run in the blood.

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 27, 2022 3:07 pm

Michael West has been writing about this.
Ah, yes. The Marxist ex-Fairfax anti-business business writer. A legend in his own basement.

Yes, the Fauxfacts is strong in this one. Now freelance (aka unemployed) I believe.

John Sheldrick
June 27, 2022 3:07 pm

There are Couples who are trying to have a Child through IVF and there are Women aborting their pregnancy as if they were having a Procedure.

What a strange World.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 27, 2022 3:08 pm

Vicki – Here’s what the Optus email I got last week said:

Hi [Bruce],
On 27th June, we’re introducing multi-factor authentication. That means when you contact us, or we contact you, we’ll be taking extra steps to confirm you’re you.

Not only will we ask you to validate who you are with personal information saved on your Optus account, but we’ve also now introduced a one-time code that will be sent to your registered email address or mobile number whenever you talk to us, log in to My Account or My Optus app.

What do you need to do?
We think some of your personal information needs to be checked and updated to ensure you can easily contact us or even pay your Optus bill through My Account. Don’t worry, we’ve listed what may need to be updated and how you can do this below.

Can you please check your personal information below, in My Optus app as soon as possible? Or head into your local Optus store with 100 points of ID and speak to a team member. We’ve also listed steps on how to update your details here.

Contact email address
If you update your email, you may also need to verify your email. We’ve included more info on this in our frequently asked questions below.

Contact phone number
To receive your one-time code, this needs to be a valid mobile number that you have access to.

Date of birth
To update your date of birth, get in touch with our team on 133 937 or visit your nearest Optus store.

We’re here to help
To find out more about this change visit optus.com.au/mfa. We’ve also listed a few frequently asked questions below.

Lastly, we understand there are quite a few scams going around and you may not feel comfortable updating your details online. We’re here to help. If you’d like to chat about this change, get in touch with our team via 133 937.

I read this to say they aren’t applying it to email access yet, whereas Google flagged doing exactly that several months ago then finally did it on June 1.

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 27, 2022 3:08 pm

Dover

They now lie in the midst of its ruins.

Which meaning of the word “lie” did you intend? That they are prostrate among the ruins, or that they are bearing false witness to the origins of the ruins?

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
June 27, 2022 3:12 pm

If it’s OK to abort a clump of cells because it has not yet attained full humanity, does that include m0nty?

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 27, 2022 3:13 pm

John Sheldrick

Anyone who entered or even attended the January 6 protest has been tracked down and arrested.

Except the mysterious bloke (name slips my mind) who was seen on camera, encouraging people to enter the building, and who the DemonRats assure us (“Honest ‘injun”) was not an FBI agent or paid informer.

areff
areff
June 27, 2022 3:28 pm

Intriguing that, while abortion is legal in all Australian states, the reconciling of killing potential humans at will with incidents where this happens against the wishes of the mother — ie., pregnant mum loses baby when his by drunk driver — is a minefield for pro-death supporters:

…. Zoe’s Law has been introduced to the NSW parliament a number of times. It was passed by the Legislative Assembly in 2013 but lapsed before debate in the Legislative Council. It was reintroduced as a Private Member’s Bill in March 2017, with debate being adjourned in October 2017.

A key reason for supporting foetal homicide laws is a belief that the law should recognise the loss of an unborn child in these circumstances as a separate and distinct loss, and more than just an injury suffered by a pregnant woman.

The key concern raised by opponents is that foetal homicide laws recognise an unborn child as having a separate legal identity to its mother, with potential implications for abortion laws and the legal rights of pregnant women.

These are important considerations, but the issues are not inevitably interlinked. For example, an argument that Queensland foetal homicide laws gave rise to an expanded concept of legal personhood (with implications for laws concerning abortion) was described as ‘without foundation’ by the Queensland courts in 2010…..

More on Zoe’s Law, since passed, here.

MatrixTransform
June 27, 2022 3:39 pm

Both deny any blocks on Port 25

port 25 is SMTP and many mail providers are shifting away even Gmail

try 465, 587

  1. Oh I meant to mention.. that latter form of Unattural acts were never entirely lacking in consent … No most…

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