Zelensky firing dozens of people for treason and releasing convicted nazis of the old Tornado Battalion to join the war. (Amongst many other things, they were convicted of sodomy torture and forced ‘suicide’ during their reign of terror against Russian ex-pats).

War’s going well, obviously.

An Extremely Long and Thorough Explanation of the American Deep State

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/07/17/the-j6-motive-why-donald-trump-must-be-removed-the-political-surveillance-of-american-citizens/comment-page-1/

Zelensky firing dozens of people for treason and releasing convicted nazis of the old Tornado Battalion to join the war.

Shades of the Austria Hungarians during WW1 where their chief of espionage sold their plans to the Russians.
https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/redl_alfred

Elbow having to slither over to the greens for a grovel and fundament clean.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jul/17/greens-open-to-backing-labors-43-emissions-target-but-demand-ban-on-new-coal-projects
The Greens leader, Adam Bandt, has signalled his party is open to backing the government’s 43% emissions reduction target, but says there are “problems” with the bill as he digs in on his demand that new coal and gas projects be banned.

“We’re up for talking. We’re up for moving. We’re up for shifting,” Bandt told the ABC’s Insiders program on Sunday.
…
The government would need the support of either the Coalition or the Greens to pass the emissions legislation in the Senate. The Greens want far higher reductions, up to 75%, citing climate scientists who said Labor’s 43% target was not compatible with keeping global heating below 1.5C. Albanese has said his target is not up for debate.
…
Albanese in May flatly rejected any prospect of negotiating the emissions target with the Greens, and has since challenged the Greens to support the plan or oppose it, but last week said the government would consider “sensible amendments” that may be proposed.
…

Only six Roger, I’m having a panic attack.

Farmer Gez said

The Ukraine war is a damning reflection of modern journalism.

It a war of self serving anecdotes that never gives you a full picture of the state of play.

I like to try read both sides – rt.com, sott.net, http://www.strategypage.com etc – especially given Biden,

Joe Biden boasted that as vice president he threatened to withhold $1 billion in foreign aid from Ukraine unless they fired the prosecutor looking into a lucrative contract held by his son, Hunter Biden.

and

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A conversation between a State Department official and the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine that was posted on YouTube

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-ukraine-tape-idUKBREA151VA20140207

revealed an embarrassing exchange on U.S. strategy for a political transition in that country, including a crude American swipe at the European Union.

especially given Julia Nuland’s Involvement in President Trump’s impeachment on Ukraine Call

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957

Ukraine crisis: Transcript of leaked Nuland-Pyatt call

But Given America is Baiting the Russian Bear using Ukraine Bodies on NATO and US Behalf with WW III and Nuclear War possible

Yes Prime Minister was well ahead of its time – prescient in current situation described in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o861Ka9TtT4

“When Will You Press the Button”

and in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7YR6WICIAI

The Red Hot Nuclear Button Yes, Prime Minister Comedy Greats

Adds Dijon mustard to shopping list.

This is serious. Dijon has already been removed from Woolworths’ discount list so periodic discounts to around $3.30 per jar are no longer available. Now it’s $5 or see ya later.

Well, it’ll take more than that to put off your serious French mustard head. Dijon or death!

bed

I’m not too fussed about mustard but have you seen the price of honey lately?

turns out it was Ukrainian and carrying ammo from Ukraine enroute to Mogadishu

I read it was going from Serbia to Bangladesh carrying mines. Which went kaboom when it crashed. Maybe the Bangladesh thing was cover though, since it’s probably illegal to sell mines to Somalia.

Get ready for awful hot takes surrounding the Indiana mall shooting.

Any weapons heading out of Ukraine are obviously lining the pockets of politicians. If they’re not using them in battle they deserve everything they get from the Russians. Remember the proles voted them in unless Dominion was counting the votes as a tryout for the US.

OCO the rat tests will fit up McClown’s fundament. Removal from the box not necessary.

I’ve read a lot of commentary since Friday.

I think this is the quote of the weekend:

Life has about it a seemly, inevitable flow, a progression from birth to childhood to youth to adulthood to middle age to old age, and finally to death, with rules and roles appropriate to each stage. It is good to be old. It is good to be young. It is right to be a child and right, when the time comes, to be a mother or father, and right, further down the road, to be a grandfather and, by and by, a corpse. To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven. Let’s leave it at that.

Morrow’s column here is unfortunately behind the Journal’s paywall. He implicitly advises Biden to pack it in, but Biden should never have packed in the first place.

Oh Come Ons link is an article had been waiting to see. Surprise it is on ABC site.

Good info on Vax usage compared to how many ordered.

Novovax only 0.3% of 51 million used by end of June. Others about 1/4.

We are talking billions wasted although the article avoids mentioning the cost.

Gruinaid beating the drums for a continent wide war.
With a nuclear armed opponent.

What complete retards.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/17/putin-is-already-at-war-with-europe-there-is-only-one-way-to-stop-him
Russia’s destabilisation operations, social media manipulation, cyber-attacks, diplomatic double-talk, nuclear blackmail, plus its unrelenting slaughter of civilians in Ukraine, will only intensify Europe’s state of siege in the months ahead. The west’s fanciful belief it could avoid continent-wide escalation is evaporating fast.*
…
Freezing pensioners, hungry children, empty supermarket shelves, unaffordable cost of living increases, devalued wages, strikes and street protests point to Sri Lanka-style meltdowns**
…
As if the mounting misery of millions were not daunting enough, then consider, too, the war’s knock-on impact on efforts to combat the climate and biodiversity crises. In the UK and elsewhere, net zero targets appear at increasing risk of being abandoned.***
…
Fortunately, there is an alternative: using Nato’s overwhelming power to decisively turn the military tide.

As previously argued here, direct, targeted, forceful western action to repulse Russia’s repulsive horde is not a vote for a third world war. It’s the only feasible way to bring this escalating horror to a swift conclusion while ensuring Putin, and those who might emulate him, do not profit from lawless butchery.****

* Or as they are called, “the same things “our” side are doing”
** Yessss, nothing to do with the spacktarded dream of renew-balls virtuousness underpinned by gas baseload from Russia ramping up energy costs then? Nothing to do with 50+ years on anti-nuclear power flogbaggery combined with pinning your hopes on some of the most oleaginous spivs and chancers promising wind/solar will provide you with eternal salvation.
*** Gods of the copybook headings, do you read it motherlover!
With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch,
They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch;
They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings;
So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things.

When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “Stick to the Devil you know.”
**** Or you could lose a battle, then prepare a useful response for the next one, because youve fucked up big time here.
The initial supplying of armaments was a great tactic, but tactics are short term.

Yeah, I dunno about just posting Russian state government propaganda from RT. It’s pretty weak stuff, very reminiscent of Comical Ali.

I dunno about just posting Russian state government propaganda from RT.

So you’re saying that government owned broadcasters aren’t believable, eh Monty?

Given age and prostates, I don’t expect him to repeat that at the reunion.

Whoops-a-daisy, areff. Sancho will be on your tail for any more of these elder reminiscences which clog the speeding wheels of Catallaxy these days if his whiskery Grandpa Simpson-at-the-cricket take on my little reminiscence yesterday is anything to go by. lol.

That said, excess reminiscence can be a failing, albeit one we must treat with some sympathy as most of us will be there soon enough. At the birthday lunch yesterday a very dear old friend of ours, a retired businessman of eighty summers, did go on a bit about hard times during his arrival in Australia as a ten pound Pom some fifty years ago. I listened patiently while others of the twelve at table chattered across him, because I care about him and the tale was slow but still of interest. Hairy, celebrating his 70th against my 80th, sat there at our long-term friends’ well-set table, replete with all manner of excellent foods and wines, including some special Penfolds ‘Grandfather’ port (passed around in the proper way), and laid on comment that he never thought he would hear some of us discussing ‘nursing homes’. ‘Retirement villages’ came back the sharp reply from the few who were in that discussion.

We’re staying put, Hairy declared. And so we are, for some parts of each year, I contribute.

How many of the 376 law enforcement officers at Uvalde school were on the city/county payroll?
Some would have come from San Antonio but how many copes does a city of less than 20,000 need.

Yeah, I dunno about just posting Russian state government propaganda from RT. It’s pretty weak stuff, very reminiscent of Comical Ali.

What if they’re not lying though?

m0ntysays:
July 18, 2022 at 12:22 pm
Yeah, I dunno about just posting Russian state government propaganda from RT. It’s pretty weak stuff, very reminiscent of Comical Ali.

m0nty-fa didn’t check the name of the author!

Best wishes to Steve Kates, one of Catallaxy’s own, who we now hear has had a stroke.

Too early, too young, but there is never a right time for this.
Hope recovery is swift and without any damage. We miss you, Steve.

Went to an ACT government office this morning, which is still practising Deep Covid.

Amongst the measures taken:
1. some poor masked woman was parked outside the closed electric doors in a corridor about 2 degrees above outside temp of 9. Her job was to ask you what you wanted, and to tell you to wait there.
2. Another worker came over to signal OK to open doors. I was allowed in and asked what I wanted.
3. Given a numbered ticket and directed to spaced out chairs.
4. Number came up – there were about 5 customers present so little waiting
5. Talk to lady – masked like all of them – behind plexiglass shield
6. Go and stand on purple dot in a line
7. Have photo taken by masked man in booth
8. Exit

Most of them looked fairly miserable, but hey – follow the science.

Postmodernism Is A Transformation Of Marxism
Jordan B Peterson

Indolent:

failing to learn from history
and letting the same charlatans force you to repeat it

Had the Law come down on these people at this moment in time, we may not have had the fraud which is the WZV. It’s remarkable how badly corrupt science undermines itself.

thefrollickingmolesays:
July 18, 2022 at 12:14 pm

If I didn’t know that The Gods of the Copybook headings was by Kipling, I’d have sworn that it had been written this year.

the incentive they are talking about is a per km toll

“Incentive”.

Reminds me of an old Patrick Cook line: “A very big stick and a photograph of a carrot”.

Complete article below from Daily Mail because it says what the other papers do not. Contrast with Bernard Crabb (head of Burnet Institute and head of AMA in the Oz article today. Is it because DM is HQ’d offshore and would have less Government influence on it that local papers ? Any reporters or TV / radio hosts should be using this info to question the politicians or experts. The experts need to be challenged as some of the interviews I have heard have been fawning and pathetic.

I note article says NSW Premier was on 2GB when he said flu more of an issue than Covid. Wonder if he was on Chris Smith / Fordham or Hadley show. Hadley would be very upset that info does not fit his scare campaign narrative. Meanwhile Smith is apparently consulting lawyers after Hadley implied his comments about the cruise ship might be affected by some sort of sponsorship.

The astonishing Covid-19 stats that EVERY Australian needs to see proving we DON’T need more rules – as a busy city centre hospital’s ICU ward lies almost EMPTY of Omicron patients
Median age of Covid deaths is 83, same as Australia’s average life expectancy
Most cases are among under 50s but only 1 in 10,000 of them died from Covid
Even 95 per cent of elderly frail residents in aged care units survived infection
St Vincent’s Hospital ICU ward currently only has a couple of Covid patients
NSW Premier Dom Perrottet admitted on Monday that flu was worse than Covid

The median age of those dying from Covid in Australia is now 83 years old – the same age as the nation’s average life expectancy, new government data has revealed.

The federal health department’s latest quarterly Covid report has blown the lid off the myths pushing Australia to return to punishing lockdowns and mask mandates.

The data came after it was revealed the ICU at Sydney’s St Vincent’s Hospital now has just one or two Covid patients as medics admit the current wave is less severe. ‘We certainly don’t have many,’ confirmed a hospital spokesman on Monday. ‘It’s not presenting so much on the very acute side where patients need ventilation.’

The vast majority of those who have caught Covid are under 50, with 3,121,953 cases so far…but just 293 of that age have died of the virus since the pandemic began. The stats reveal that since Australia’s mass vaccination rollout began, those under 50 faces a less than one in 10,000 chance of dying from Covid.

‘The median age of all those infected is 31… [but] the median age of those who died is 83,’ federal government stats revealed on Monday. The average life expectancy in Australia is 82.9 years of age.

Most killed by Covid were men over 70 and women over 80, accounting for 7,585 deaths out of the nation’s total virus death toll of 10,582, up to 3pm last Friday. And even if Covid breaks out among elderly frail residents in aged care centres, more than 95 per cent of those infected will survive.. Of the 63,875 who caught Covid in Australian aged care centres, 60,771 recovered, with less than 1 in 20 of infected residents dying, for a tragic toll of 3,104.

NSW Premier Dom Perrottet admitted on Monday that the current flu wave was now a bigger threat than Covid. ‘At the moment, the current strand of influenza is more severe than the current strands of COVID,’ he told 2GB. ‘As we move through the next phase of the pandemic, we need to balance up the competing health issues.’

The official figures come as pressure grows for a return to compulsory masks ahead of a feared new outbreak of the virulent new Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5. Doomsday modelling by the Burnet Institute for the NSW government last year said the state’s health system could cope with up to 947 Covid patients in ICU. But NSW currently has just 64 Covid cases in ICU across the state with only 13 on ventilators.

The stats have also destroyed claims that Omicron is super-infectious, with infection rates staying constant all year long. Australia’s Omicron BA.1 and BA.2 outbreak, which started in January, coincided with the end of most mask mandates and lockdown restrictions. Omicron BA.2’s R0 – the number of people one person can infect without restrictions – is said to be around 13.3. But the Re – the effective rate of infection – has stayed around 1 or less since the middle of January, after a brief spike to 2.0 for a couple of days after New Year.

The government’s mass double-jab vaccination program, taken up by 95 per cent of the population, has played a huge part in controlling the spread of the virus. But the subsequent third booster shot program has been less successful , with just a 71 per cent take up, as work now starts on encouraging a fourth jab.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has urged students and children to mask up in schools, while NSW education minister Sarah Mitchell also flagged the return of masks in class. NSW schools have suffered a 30 per cent rise in staff shortages through sickness as a result of Covid and flu this year, she said. ‘We are absolutely feeling the pressure…there’s no question of that,’ Ms Mitchell admitted.

NSW and Victorian health ministers have both so far resisted the growing calls for a return to mask mandates, but critics say the looming state elections in October and November are the main reason behind any delay in bringing them back. Victoria chief health officer Ben Cowie told the state government to bring back masks, but the advice was rejected by state health minister Mary-Anne Thomas. ‘I made a decision based on the advice that I had received that further mandating masks was not the most effective way to get the message out about the importance of mask wearing,’ she said.

South Australia would need to declare another state emergency, after allowing the last announcement to expire, before they could issue any new mask mandate. Federal health minister Mark Butler also says it is ‘unlikely’ the government will enforce compulsory masks, but urged people to wear them in public and work from home where possible.

But Deakin University’s Professor Catherine Bennett insists compulsory masks will ease the coming Covid wave and also play a major psychological role. ‘When you put a mask on, it’s a reminder that things aren’t quite normal. It reinforces behaviours like taking a step back from other people,’ she told Seven West media. ‘The mask could be the thing that also helps us stay mindful of those other things … and stay that bit safer.’

The stats also revealed NSW has had the most Covid cases in Australia with 2,971,525 and 3,798 deaths. Victoria has had the most deaths with 4,148 from 2,245,301 cases. Northern Territory has had the least number of cases and deaths with 53 deaths from 83,684 infections, ahead of even ACT which has had 84 deaths from 175,923 cases.

The nation has also just passed the 75million milestone for the number of Covid test results since the pandemic began, almost three each for every single person”.

shatterzzzsays:
July 18, 2022 at 1:23 pm
did go on a bit about hard times during his arrival in Australia as a ten pound Pom some fifty years ago.

“Hard times .. LOL! .. I landed at Mascot at 5.15am on a Sunday morning in 1967 .. 19 years old .. knew no one in Oz and had $A39 to my name .. taxi driver dropped me off at a boarding house in Neutral Bay and I was working for the Water Board by Tuesday

Did you go to the Water Boardworks Depot corner of Mowbray Road and Pacific Highway under TV Tower?

Italian Mate and I the day after we finished Leaving Certificate exams mid November 1961, lined up at the Water Board Works Depot corner of Mowbray Road and Pacific Highway under TV Tower at 0700 and were assigned to a Gang jackhammering and deepening Sewage Tunnel under (from memory) North Shore Temple Emanuel Chatswood- moved from there to jackhammering new Sewage for Killarney Heights – nicer in the open rather than standing in effluent in a tunnel jackhammering

Qantas rearranges some London Heathrow departures amid passenger caps

Mon, 18 July 2022

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Qantas Airways Ltd has rearranged its flight schedule from London’s Heathrow Airport amid the hub’s move to cap passenger capacity and limit disruption, a spokesperson for the Australian carrier said on Monday.

Emirates said on Thursday it had rejected demands by Heathrow to cut capacity, despite being threatened with legal action, and intended to continue operating its six daily flights to the airport.

A day later, the Dubai-based airline reached an agreement with the airport to cap further sales on flights out of Heathrow through mid-August, according to a joint statement https://www.emirates.com/media-centre/heathrow-airport-and-emirates-joint-statement from Emirates and Heathrow.

m0nty-fa

you’d bet Old Blighty would be able to start manufacturing ammo in sufficient quantities.

What odds are you offering? JC or Winston (even Salvatore) might be up for a bet.

Note that m0nty-fa has not responded to the question on the 10-year old and her alleged rapist, nor about the use of “rockspider” in relation to that case, though he used it in relation to Ritter, who was convicted of flashing his dick on the web at a copper claiming to be a 15 or 16-year old girl, much older, and no personal contact.

McClown won’t comply with ABC mask mandate demands, ABC most affected:
WA government resists calls to extend mask mandate amid ANF claims patients treated in corridors

The WA government is standing firm on its refusal to reintroduce the mask mandate, despite reports patients are being treated in corridors as the number of people in hospital exceeds 400 for the first time.

Ooooh 400 people in hospital…that’s less than 10% of beds in public hospitals (probably another 1500-2000 in private hospitals) with a bunch of elective surgeries postponed. How many are in ICU? That’s where resources really get gobbled up and are generally tight at the best of times. Govt won’t say.

BTW, we’ve reached a “grim milestone” (will the media ever stop using this exhausted cliche?):

The state has reached a grim milestone, recording more than one million COVID cases since the pandemic began

Big deal. Covid is a fairly mild illness for the vast majority of those one million cases. Of course, the AMA is screeching for a return to mask mandates, and so is the nurses’ union (both can be reliably called upon by the ABC to back whatever demented Covid measure it seeks to have implemented).

So McClown is refusing to go along with it. Three cheers for him? Two? How about one? Hmm no. I think not. I don’t attribute his (in)action to him reaching down, checking left and right, realising he has a pair after all and telling the Covid hysterics to rack off. No, I suspect it’s because he’s been advised by his spin doctors that too large a proportion of the public will simply ignore a new mask mandate and that there will be significant political fallout for him if he tries to enforce one. Most of us have moved on.

he used it in relation to Ritter, who was convicted of flashing his dick on the web at a copper claiming to be a 15 or 16-year old girl, much older, and no personal contact.

For me, there’s now a big question mark hanging over Ritter’s convictions. We’ve seen the lengths the Feds are willing to go to in order to silence and discredit dissident voices.

Kind of funny. I bet Ritter was a hero of m0nty’s back in the Bush era. Wonder what m0nts was saying about his convictions then?

Levin: Biden and the Democrats are waging a war on capitalism

“United Avrab Ememirates.”

Marshall Mathers checks into the middle-east.

you’d bet Old Blighty would be able to start manufacturing ammo in sufficient quantities.

Um no it wouldn’t. The deindustrialisation of the West means there isn’t nearly enough suitable industrial plant capable of being requisitioned and repurposed to supply the needs of a war economy. Our existing weapons manufacturing industries are very slow and expensive. The UK is no exception.

It’s Weekend at Biden’s now that Dementia Joe is back in the USA after what will likely be one of his last visits to anywhere other than his second assisted-living facility on the Delaware Shore.

biden may be an incompetent sock puppet, but the shadowy figures behind the scene know exactly what they are doing, systematically dismantling the USA and we are road kill

Um no it wouldn’t. The deindustrialisation of the West means there isn’t nearly enough suitable industrial plant capable of being requisitioned and repurposed to supply the needs of a war economy. Our existing weapons manufacturing industries are very slow and expensive. The UK is no exception.

the only way we can defend against china is full nuclear war

Trans inmate impregnates two other prisoners | Headliners react to the Telegraph’s article

Could China Or Russia Really Sink A US Navy Aircraft Carrier?

The Navy conducted “shock trials” on its newest carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, in summer 2021, detonating 40,000-pound explosive charges in the water around it.

The risks of long-range missiles are forcing planners to reconsider combat operations to keep carriers and other ships out of range of those missiles until US bombers, submarines, and long-range missiles can knock them out. The US Navy is also pursuing longer-range aircraft and weaponry to continue operating in such a scenario. The MQ-25 carrier-based refueling drone, which will extend the range of carrier aircraft, was recently tested aboard a carrier for the first time.

Hitting US carriers also requires Chinese forces to find and track them.

Cassie of Sydney says:
July 18, 2022 at 7:34 am

It’s the Middle East. I don’t and have never “lionised” the Assad family. The Assads are very nasty people but given the choice between Assad’s Syria and a Syria run by IS, well, there isn’t much choice is there? Syria under the Assads is strongly secular Syria and Christians and other minorities are protected and women have a lot more freedom than they do in most other Muslim societies.

It’s the Middle East.

This is the point nearly every western politician overlooks or simply does not understand.

Re-acting a battle on the Confederate side will get you de-banked.

Which new MacBook should you buy?

Have you ever wanted a computer that you could flog all day long, and well into the night, without it ever whining once?

Look no further than Apple’s almost completely redesigned MacBook Air, an ultraportable laptop that we’ve been flogging the hell out of here in the Digital Life Labs, and from which we’re yet to hear a single whisper of complaint.

The Air, you see, doesn’t have an internal cooling fan, which means three things: it allows it to be thinner and lighter than the MacBook Pro; it means it never makes a whining noise, even when it’s being flogged to death; and it means it will start to slow down pretty soon after you start flogging it with a heavy workload, to prevent the M2 processor from actually dying due to overheating.

What does all that mean?

It means that, for most computer users, there is absolutely no reason to get the new MacBook Pro, if that’s the thing you’re hesitating about when you’re considering buying the new MacBook Air.

Losing 20 per cent performance only after you’ve flogged the thing to death for half an hour is a small price to pay in order to get a computer that’s thinner, lighter, has better charging options (the Air has a MagSafe charging port as well as USB-C charging), a slightly larger screen (13.6- versus 13.3-inch) and is cheaper than the MacBook Pro.

To us, the choice is an easy one. It’s the fanless, whine-free MacBook Air over the MacBook Pro every time.

If only you could still run Windows on Apple Silicon MacBooks the way you could run it on Intel MacBooks, Apple would be killing it.

Why Ordinary People Have Less and Less Power with Joel Kotkin

… did you beat Boon’s record?

Nobody, but nobody, beats Boonie’s record.

Greatest Tasmanian since “Electric” Eric Reece wanted to keep building dams.

Oh, and Ricky Ponting and John Greening (Collingwood).

Not much to talk about with Biden, old man. He is doing most of what he can with the Senate that he has, which is not much.

I see several Senate races in red states are competitive because the Repubs have put up clown candidates. The mid-terms might not be as bad for the President’s party as usual. Would be nice to see Manchin and Sinema removed from the balance of power.