Open Thread – Weekend 30 July 2022


A Wet Road by Moonlight Wharfedale, John Atkinson Grimshaw, late 1800s

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Barking Toad
Barking Toad
July 30, 2022 9:00 pm

Dash-Cat works for me – may have been off air for a while though

Nelson_Kidd-Players
July 30, 2022 9:01 pm

Actually, my comment at the top was a link to this. Hope it’s not all my fault… 🙁

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 30, 2022 9:03 pm

Zulu has read up on Truscott by the sound of it, but I think it was over water and low height – horizon is very difficult to judge.

I’m going from memory – I had a biography of Truscott – he was carrying out a practice attack on a US Navy Catalina, when, as you say, he misjudged his height, and crashed.

Nelson_Kidd-Players
July 30, 2022 9:04 pm

Perhaps Adam’s just changing to a new registrar.

Indolent
Indolent
July 30, 2022 9:08 pm
Indolent
Indolent
July 30, 2022 9:11 pm

Freedom of speech is dead. It’s whatever is allowed by our “betters”.

WATCH: Army Veteran Arrested by ‘Politicised Police’ for Posting LGBT Pride Flag Meme on Facebook

eric hinton
eric hinton
July 30, 2022 9:12 pm

Kate Fitzpatrick

Wow. I would have sworn that was 1978. Although I don’t remember seeing Mr and Mrs Dusty. Anyway it was the year Jo Jo Zep and The Falcons played “The girl across the street has turned has turned eighteen” to a fairly hearty reception, and Mr Camilleri quipped they couldn’t play that song in Melbourne anymore.

Winston Smith
July 30, 2022 9:13 pm

Perplexed:

I wonder if it is worth getting some Soryu’s as well as a stop-gap for attack boats?

I doubt the Japanese would allow us anywhere near their boats after the debacle last time. In short, the Australian Defence officials invited a senior Chinese PLAN officer to examine the Japanese Soryu boat, despite being warned specifically not to do so and lying to the Japanese government when it blew up in their faces. (Some details may be inaccurate, but the general thrust is correct. Top Ender will have the real story.)

Wally Dali
Wally Dali
July 30, 2022 9:14 pm

Righto brains trust- i’m searching for a word
I need to describe the phenomenon of people rising to the top of a dynamic meritocracy and then denouncing said meritocracy as capitalist, racist, sexist and homophobic- simultaneously claiming their success as being all the more stupendous as it’s over the forces of darkness in hell on earth, and demanding the rule of this babylon be overturned to ensconse special power for their chosen splinter group… forever.
A combination of deserved praise turning into mortal pride and then the will of Sauron.
Any thoughts?

Dot
Dot
July 30, 2022 9:14 pm

Something hilarious to look up is how lefties – vegans, the Sierra Club etc have all “deboonked” holistic management/grazing.

I can’t tell if they hate it because it doesn’t require big government, it could be highly profitable or it actually empowers people at the most local level possible.

They’re against holistic management and they’re also against conventional farming (per recent insanity banning various nitrogen fertilisers).

The problem is too many of them work in government and don’t know how anything at all of value is produced.

They don’t want high productivity but in recent years commodities have had “sustainability declarations” on them declaring no more land was cleared.

Also: no nukes to desalinate water, environmental flows and the GAB must be capped.

It is just an insane mindset.

Iron Cove
Iron Cove
July 30, 2022 9:19 pm

Rabz, in late ‘79 the gov. Introduced a law whereby we had to be fed if the establishment wanted to stay open after ten pm.
Imagine the joy of stopping a show and being force fed rice gruel under the watchful gaze of the nsw police before the show could continue!
True. They would send maybe 10 nsw coppers into the Civic to force the punters to eat mid a Mentals show. Insane.

Indolent
Indolent
July 30, 2022 9:20 pm

Righto brains trust- i’m searching for a word

Ingratitude?

Rabz
July 30, 2022 9:28 pm

The Anderson and the Butler – play the latter* loud Cats …

*Being the better audio version – not to mention that the magnifique dusky chick in the video version is the spitting image of my favourite ex work confrere, as finally caught up with last night. 🙂

#whoneedsbarmaids

cohenite
July 30, 2022 9:31 pm

Dash-Cat:

This domain was recently registered at Namecheap.com. Please check back later!

Iron Cove
Iron Cove
July 30, 2022 9:42 pm

Eric H, definitely 79. I only made Syd in 79.
Yer Jo Jo was great, the Swap and at Floyd’s. The right amount of energy.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 30, 2022 9:44 pm

#ImissEdCase.

Iron Cove
Iron Cove
July 30, 2022 9:44 pm

Wally, try “middle class”.

miltonf
miltonf
July 30, 2022 9:44 pm

Kevin Borich Express was big in them days

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 30, 2022 9:55 pm

cohenitesays:

July 30, 2022 at 9:31 pm

Dash-Cat:

This domain was recently registered at Namecheap.com. Please check back later!

I wonder if Bird has pinched the domain name rego?

Rabz
July 30, 2022 9:56 pm

Geradeaus … 🙂

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 30, 2022 9:59 pm

Iron Cove earlier.
Similar law in Victoria back then.
Had to provide food.
Some would make an attempt with party pies or whatever, but one establishment used to brew up a revolting thin gruel and serve it on paper plates with plastic forks.
Mind you, I was pretty happy they held back on the steel cutlery.

Rabz
July 30, 2022 10:06 pm

Coves – the scenario you’ve detailed above sounds like it really sucks, Squire.

McPigs were a constant pain in the yaartz when we were trying to enjoy some R ‘n’ R in the eighties.

They still are, but in different more bizarre and arbitrary ways …

Rabz
July 30, 2022 10:17 pm
Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
July 30, 2022 10:23 pm

Iron Cove earlier.
Similar law in Victoria back then.
Had to provide food.
Some would make an attempt with party pies or whatever, but one establishment used to brew up a revolting thin gruel and serve it on paper plates with plastic forks.
Mind you, I was pretty happy they held back on the steel cutlery.

At the Royal Oak in Nicholson St it was a couple of tiny spring rolls. Utterly farcical.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 30, 2022 10:25 pm

Iron Cove earlier.
Similar law in Victoria back then.
Had to provide food.</blockquote

One establishment in the West Australian Wheatbelt was rumored to be serving kangaroo…

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 30, 2022 10:28 pm

Criminals in WA prisons given pay rise higher than guards
Josh Zimmerman
The West Australian
Sat, 30 July 2022 8:00PM
Comments

WA’s convicted criminals have received a 7.6 per cent hike to the payments they receive for engaging in work or study while in prison – nearly three times the McGowan Government’s wages offer to the guards imprisoning them.

The increase to inmate “gratuities” – signed off by Corrective Services Commissioner Mike Reynolds – is in line with inflation in Perth for the year to March.

WA Prison Officers Union boss Andy Smith said granting prisoners a pay bump that matched inflation while guards were being asked to go backwards in real terms was a kick in the teeth.

“We don’t begrudge the prisoners getting a 7.6 per cent increase because costs are clearly rising but you can’t do that for prisoners and not do it for the people looking after them,” Mr Smith said.

“It is the biggest insult you could possibly come up with, especially when running the jails so incredibly short staffed every day.

“This clearly puts prison officers in a lower class than prisoners in the eyes of the government.”

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
July 30, 2022 10:37 pm

My god, you’re all a bunch of old farts.
I should log in to Tik Tok to find out what’s been happening this century
(*scuttles off in Millennial)

Rabz
July 30, 2022 10:43 pm

Still one of the most beautiful songs of all time.

I’ve found a place

Rabz
July 30, 2022 10:58 pm
JC
JC
July 30, 2022 11:10 pm

Winston Smith says:
July 30, 2022 at 8:49 pm

JC:
I’m so glad I didn’t put in a qualifier like:

Would an incoming W.A. Government think of telling the rest of Australia to piss off and install multiple 1 – 5 GW Nukes, and not treating them as cash cows for governments milking the excess?

Try comprehending the words that you read before you put your mouth in gear.

WA is part of the commonwealth. The Federal government decides if and when nukes are allowed, you dimwit. There was no qualifier as you’re now pretending there is, you lowrent imbecile

There’s no “qualifier” for this either you complete imbecile.

Yes it will.
Australia will become the New South Africa

You fucking moron.

Franx
Franx
July 30, 2022 11:16 pm

Walli Dali
Don’t know, but Brutus and his friends felt the same about Julius Caesar.

Indolent
Indolent
July 30, 2022 11:17 pm

Dash Cat is back up.

Indolent
Indolent
July 30, 2022 11:20 pm
Rabz
July 30, 2022 11:24 pm

Miss Maggie Dodgers:

I want you

Indolent
Indolent
July 30, 2022 11:26 pm
Winston Smith
July 31, 2022 2:36 am

JC:

Would an incoming W.A. Government think of telling the rest of Australia to piss off…

It looks like the English comprehension class has let another failure out onto the streets.
Do you feel the above sentence may just cover WA NOT being part of the Commonwealth?
You really need to work on reading what people write, not on what your imagination says they write.

Winston Smith
July 31, 2022 2:44 am

JC:
Perhaps you’d like to brush up on your projections for the future in the US.
Inflation 9.2%
Now in recession.
You had the same information I did, and yet you couldn’t see this coming, you genius?

Jorge
Jorge
July 31, 2022 3:07 am

Patrick Kelly is right. No govt or political party would be able to resist or oppose the ‘recommendations’ of the voice and it will all be cloaked as ‘showing respect’.

Zyco thanks for your link to Rodney Rivers’ explanation of the occult nature of smoking ceremonies. The acknowledgement which has been grafted on to the beginning of mass in my local parish is wrong on so many levels. Not the least is because of the smug complacency about our goodness it implies just before we call to mind our personal sinfulness. It’s absolutely bizarre and out of place.

Winston Smith
July 31, 2022 3:19 am

Woman Seeking Revenge on Ex-Boyfriend Sets Fire to Wrong Home

Meth.
It’s a Hell of a drug.

Tom
Tom
July 31, 2022 4:01 am
DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
July 31, 2022 4:32 am

Thanks Tom. The new bloke is pathetic.

calli
calli
July 31, 2022 7:02 am

New meanings for old. The genie is now out.

Recipe for hearing loss. And that’s the least that could go wrong.

Thanks Tom!

Helen
Helen
July 31, 2022 7:28 am

RAAF Spitfires awaiting disposal in Oakey, QLD in 1946

Captain’s Dad who flew fighters in the day got hold of a generator off a spitfire from Oakey to run his lighting plant on the dairy farm. It cost him a carton of cigarettes.

miltonf
miltonf
July 31, 2022 7:31 am

Re redefining recession- Every day the US gets a bit more like the USSR.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
July 31, 2022 7:41 am

The Beer whisperersays:
July 30, 2022 at 7:30 pm

Know a few veterans that politely wrote to the shrine and RSL stating their disgust at the political message engaged in and the no confidence in the trustees/exec’s. The ones I know of all signed with real name and snapshot of honours/awards. I’m tipping if this was countrywide it may have been in substantial numbers. Apparently been circulating on facebook and other social media for a while now.

Cassie of Sydney
July 31, 2022 7:42 am

The stupid fucking Liberals…

“Voice proposal a ‘step in the right direction’

Federal Coalition frontbencher Julian Leeser says the Labor government has taken a step on the right direction with Anthony Albanese’s speech on an Indigenous voice proposal on Saturday, and the next step is awaited.

Mr Leeser, the Coalition spokesman on Indigenous affairs and a supporter of an enshrined voice, says the government should offer more detail about its composition and structure ahead of the constitutional referendum.

“I don’t want to see this fail because the government has not provided the detail or answered necessary questions,” Mr Leeser, the Liberal MP for the Sydney seat of Berowra, said.

“It’s important that the government answers people’s reasonable questions about the voice,” he said.

“We as a Coalition have an open mind about the issue of the voice that the government is putting forward, and we are awaiting the details. This is a step today on that road … the next step has to be to explain to Australians how the voice will work, who will serve on it, how they will be chosen, what will it do and how it will address the issues that concern Indigenous Australians.””

Au contraire Mr Leeser, the Voice proposal a “step in the WRONG direction”.

As I wrote yesterday, watch the Liberals cave and capitulate to this. Nobody will come forward to say NO for fear of being smeared waaaaaaaacccccciiiiiiiist. What a joke the Liberals are.

calli
calli
July 31, 2022 7:48 am

Yesterday someone here pointed out that there are 11 indigenous representatives in parliament already.

Are they completely useless?

lotocoti
lotocoti
July 31, 2022 7:52 am

Their ABC will be scrambling to top their BBC.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 31, 2022 7:57 am

Their ABC will be scrambling to top their BBC.

Looks like the cast for every new BBC drama show this decade.

Eyrie
Eyrie
July 31, 2022 8:01 am

Yesterday someone here pointed out that there are 11 indigenous representatives in parliament already.
Are they completely useless?

No more so than the rest of the reps.

Tom
Tom
July 31, 2022 8:13 am

Yesterday someone here pointed out that there are 11 indigenous representatives in parliament already.
Are they completely useless?

Calli, no card-carrying member of the Blackfella Industrial Complex (including all blackfellah MPs excluding Jacinta Price) will ever speak out against the rivers of gold delivered by taxpayers via the Blackfella Industrial Complex.

Big Chief Whitefella Elbow wants to enlarge the scam so there are even more rivers of gold (and white guilt) – helped along by the Stupid Fucking Liberals, who are enjoying being held hostage by Identity Politics 101 as it removes the need for a) courage; b) thought; c) integrity.

Mater
July 31, 2022 8:13 am

Yesterday someone here pointed out that there are 11 indigenous representatives in parliament already.

Are they completely useless?

They weren’t placed there based only on race, so they are not ‘official’ First Nations representatives.

Yes, this where we are. So much for Australian egalitarianism.

Mater
July 31, 2022 8:17 am

Captain’s Dad who flew fighters in the day got hold of a generator off a spitfire from Oakey to run his lighting plant on the dairy farm. It cost him a carton of cigarettes.

I was told by my elders that after the War, there were many Merlin Engines sold as surplus (being far more difficult (and worthless) to melt into ingots).

Mythology says that they ended up in all sorts of applications, including drag cars.

Can’t vouch for the truth of it. Too young to have seen it.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
July 31, 2022 8:19 am

“I don’t want to see this fail because the government has not provided the detail or answered necessary questions,” Mr Leeser, the Liberal MP for the Sydney seat of Berowra, said.

A Professor explains:

The University of Melbourne emeritus professor Marcia Langton was scathing on calls for “detail” when she spoke to ABC radio on Friday.

Prof Langton, who co-chaired the Indigenous voice co-design group, said there was ample detail already available.

“When people say they want more detail, all that tells me is that they refuse to read our report, because all the detail is there,” she said. “There’s over 500 pages of detail, and I see this demand for more detail as just a mystery of making and sowing confusion. I do wonder if some of them can read and write.”

Translation: Read the fucking instructions.

Way to win hearts and minds.

(The choking bureaucratic complexity of the Final Report guarantees the creation of a Aboriginal Druid class to explain gubba business to the proposed hierarchy of Local and Regional Voices.)

Zipster
Zipster
July 31, 2022 8:22 am

Morning rugrats

Bachata!

Cassie of Sydney
July 31, 2022 8:28 am

“Calli, no card-carrying member of the Blackfella Industrial Complex (including all blackfellah MPs excluding Jacinta Price) will ever speak out against the rivers of gold delivered by taxpayers via the Blackfella Industrial Complex.”

Agree…although I think you can put Senator Kerrynne Liddle, the new Liberal senator from SA, with Senator Jacinta Price.

Cassie of Sydney
July 31, 2022 8:37 am

Speaking of the “Voice”, I was looking at clothes at the Country Road website this morning and even a fashion website is spruiking the “Voice”.

I reiterate, we will see a similar campaign to SSM, but this one will be on steroids, so that anyone who critiques it will be smeared. We will see more and more large corporates and businesses spruiking the Voice, just like they did with SSM and people will be suffocated and/or strangled into saying “yes”….”yes”…..”yes”.. Why? Because people will think, like they foolishly did with SSM, that if they say “yes”, it’ll all go away and then they’ll have a quiet life, but the consequences from writing “yes” to this “Voice” will destroy this country and it will be the enshrinement of constitutional apartheid in Australia.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 31, 2022 8:40 am

I was told by my elders that after the War, there were many Merlin Engines sold as surplus (being far more difficult (and worthless) to melt into ingots).

I was told by my elders that ten thousand .303 rifles had the breech slashed open with an oxy torch, and were dumped into the sea off the West Australian coast..

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 31, 2022 8:43 am

McFaceplant.

Bad News for Al Gore’s Quest to Be the First Fake Meat Billionaire: Beyond Meat stock falls after conclusion of McDonald’s McPlant test (30 Jul)

Shares of Beyond Meat fell 6% in morning trading after J.P. Morgan said McDonald’s ended its U.S. test of the McPlant burger, which uses Beyond’s meatless patties.

The fast-food giant confirmed to CNBC Thursday that the McPlant test concluded as planned. Neither McDonald’s nor Beyond Meat has announced any plans for additional testing or a nationwide launch.

Beyond’s stock has fallen 53% this year, dragging its market value down to $2.06 billion. Wall Street has become skeptical over the company’s long-term growth opportunities as grocery sales lag. Moreover, buzzy partnerships with restaurant giants like Pizza Hut owner Yum Brands and McDonald’s haven’t progressed to many permanent nationwide menu offerings yet.

People don’t want to eat fake meat, insects and salads to save the world from something which isn’t happening. Hopefully Maccas will have worked this out by now. Especially since their ‘healthy menu’ has died the death of customer disinterest a couple of years ago.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 31, 2022 8:45 am

and it will be the enshrinement of constitutional apartheid in Australia.

Wasn’t Australia one of the countries who pointed the big finger at South Africa over the system of apartheid?

Mater
July 31, 2022 8:48 am

I reiterate, we will see a similar campaign to SSM, but this one will be on steroids, so that anyone who critiques it will be smeared.

I agree, Cassie, this is where it will go.
The obvious counter to this is adopting their tactics.

Label them as ‘racists’.
That’s what they are, and it will cut through in mainstream Australia.

Any system which give privileged treatment to a group, based purely on race, is unquestionably racist.

Ask Australia if that’s how they wish to be seen in the eyes of the world. Malaysia has a bad wrap, and not without reason.

We are going to have to get down in the gutter for this fight. Sad, but necessary.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
July 31, 2022 8:48 am

The new bloke is pathetic

But he did find the “new Toy Yoda” joke.
I also like “Lies – not lays” teacher joke.

Mater
July 31, 2022 8:50 am

I also like “Lies – not lays” teacher joke.

I loved the drug dog.
Spontaneous laughter.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 31, 2022 8:53 am

They weren’t placed there based only on race, so they are not ‘official’ First Nations representatives.

That’s the argument I’ve heard – they were elected to serve all their constituents, so they aren’t “official” “First Nations” (fvck, I hate those words…) representatives.

Indolent
Indolent
July 31, 2022 8:56 am

This really does speak for itself. There have always been occasional sudden deaths of athletes but nothing like the last couple of years.

Athlete Deaths are 1700% higher than expected since COVID Vaccine roll-out

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 31, 2022 8:58 am

This is the mentality we have to deal with…..

Nick k
53 minutes ago
A voice is a good step. The High court of Australia confirmed sovereignty of indigenous peoples from Mabo (2) 1992 and Love v Cth (2020). Terra nullius is a legal fiction, these people got invaded, colonised, murdered and displaced for hundreds of years now. Since Cth never signed a treaty with indigenous people, then the indigenous people never ceded sovereignty to Cth or the queen, a fact confirmed at the High Court. Referendum is a required formality to give our existence international recognition as settlors vs invaders.

Zipster
Zipster
July 31, 2022 8:59 am
Zipster
Zipster
July 31, 2022 9:00 am

the indigenous people never ceded sovereignty to Cth or the queen,

they never had sovereignty to cede

Mater
July 31, 2022 9:00 am

That’s what they are, and it will cut through in mainstream Australia.

I say this because MSM posts on FB are undoubtedly heavily (very heavily) weighted against this stuff in the comments. Some comments are hilarious, but nearly all are on target.

People are not as stupid as AnAl thinks. The Australian public has pandered massively to these dickheads, and sadly let a lot go through to the keeper. They have also fallen for the scare tactics over the last couple of years, but they see through this rubbish and they know what it means for them and their kids…second class citizen status.

He shouldn’t assume that his own intelligence is the benchmark for the rest of Australia.

P.S. Ironically, I think that government over egging the custard with Covid has made a lot of people more suspicious of Government motives and methods. I’ve lost count of the number of people who got Covid, brushed it off and are now questioning the extent of the scare campaign.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 31, 2022 9:02 am

they never had sovereignty to cede

An inconvenient truth.

flyingduk
flyingduk
July 31, 2022 9:04 am

Joe Biden has tested positive for Covid-19 for a second time and is returning to isolation, his White House doctor says.

wow, its almost like the vaxxines AND Paxlovid dont work!

Cassie of Sydney
July 31, 2022 9:05 am

“We are going to have to get down in the gutter for this fight. Sad, but necessary.”

Correct…and historically the problem with the right is that we never want to get our hands dirty however it is high time that we swapped our gardening gloves for boxing gloves. I’ve already got mine.

The only person in federal parliament who bravely calls out this racism (and racism it is) is Pauline Hanson and that’ s why I like her. And I’ll give Senator Jacinta Price some more kudos. Senator Price, a true indigenous woman, born of a full blood mother, refused to join in the lynching of Pauline Hanson the other day, instead she bravely said that she understood why Hanson walked out of the ludicrous “welcome to country”. As Hanson said, it’s her country too and as I say, it’s my country too.
I’m not going to be “welcomed” to my own country. They can fuck off.

flyingduk
flyingduk
July 31, 2022 9:06 am

Yesterday someone here pointed out that there are 11 indigenous representatives in parliament already. Are they completely useless?

After the last 2 years, we can only hope that ALL parliamentary reps are useless…

flyingduk
flyingduk
July 31, 2022 9:08 am

This really does speak for itself. There have always been occasional sudden deaths of athletes but nothing like the last couple of years. Athlete Deaths are 1700% higher than expected since COVID Vaccine roll-out

I’m sure its nothing….

Zipster
Zipster
July 31, 2022 9:11 am
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 31, 2022 9:13 am

From the Hun.

International Criminal Court shelves investigation into alleged war crimes by Australian troops

Taliban and Islamic State leaders have unknowingly given Australian Special Forces an indefinite break from the International Criminal Court’s investigation into alleged war crimes.
Charles Miranda
Charles Miranda
2 min read
July 31, 2022 – 5:00AM
News Corp Australia Network

Australian Special Forces troops accused of Afghanistan war crimes have been handed a reprieve with the International Criminal Court (ICC) indefinitely shelving an investigation into their alleged atrocities.

As venerated former soldier Ben Roberts-Smith awaits the Federal Court in his defamation proceedings to decide whether there was truth in Nine’s allegations he was involved in unlawful killings, the International Criminal Court has confirmed there was no prospect of a “genuine and effective” investigation into broader claims against Aussie troops.

The decision follows last year’s Taliban Afghanistan takeover with the ICC declaring with its limited resources its attention was instead now focused on investigating alleged crimes committed by the Taliban and the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP).

Allegations against other parties had now been formally “de-prioritised” but with no statute of limitations could be revived if and when circumstances allowed.

According to the ICC the gravity of allegations against the Taliban and the ISKP were severe and included “indiscriminate attacks on civilians, targeted extrajudicial executions, persecution of women and girls, crimes against children and other crimes affecting the civilian population at large”.

The ICC would not go into detail on where it had got to probing claims against Australians.

“Confidentiality is a crucial aspect of our activities therefore the Office of the Prosecutor does not publicly discuss specifics related to its activities,” a spokesman told News Corp Australia.

The Inspector General of the ADF’s Brereton inquiry into allegations of war crimes by Australian Special Forces, mostly from the SAS, uncovered evidence of 39 murders against civilians and prisoners by up to 19 Australian troops.

The Office of the Special Investigator gathering evidence to a level to potentially bring matters to Australian courts has also struggled with its probe post the former enemy during the decades-long Afghanistan war now running the country. It has also discovered one key “witness” to alleged war crimes was confirmed to have since been killed, ironically as an enemy combatant and suspected al-Qaida affiliate.

But the fallout from the 2020 Brereton findings have been wide ranging, not just to those implicated, but to broader ADF operations.

Boambee John
Boambee John
July 31, 2022 9:15 am

Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
July 31, 2022 at 8:45 am
and it will be the enshrinement of constitutional apartheid in Australia.

Wasn’t Australia one of the countries who pointed the big finger at South Africa over the system of apartheid?

Indeed it was.

Also, after one of the Fiji coups (IIRC, the second, by Barnacle Bill the Sailor Man), the Fijians proposed an amendment to their Constitution, to entrench indigenous Fijian predominance over non-indigenous (mostly Indian) citizens. With Gareth Gareth Evans leading the charge, Australia vigorously rejected the very thought of such a waaaaayyycissssst apartheid policy.

Yet, here we are, about to introduce such a change.

flyingduk
flyingduk
July 31, 2022 9:15 am

“We are going to have to get down in the gutter for this fight. Sad, but necessary.”

1) there are no rules in war
2) ‘show me a good loser and I will show you a loser’ ? source

lotocoti
lotocoti
July 31, 2022 9:16 am

wow, its almost like the vaxxines AND Paxlovid dont work!

Come Monday, the Whitehouse will have a new definition for effective.

Zipster
Zipster
July 31, 2022 9:16 am

‘It was worse than I was expecting… it was hyper-woke.’

Brendan O’Neill criticises the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony, saying it was ‘like being hit over the head by The Guardian’.

Cassie of Sydney
July 31, 2022 9:18 am

The bullshit that is “What is, was, always will be Aboriginal land” means you don’t own your own land. How long before an indigenous land tax is included in home sales and rental leases?

Tell them to fuck off.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 31, 2022 9:18 am

‘show me a good loser and I will show you a loser’ ? source

Richard Nixon?

Cassie of Sydney
July 31, 2022 9:19 am

This morning on Outsiders, Rita Panahi is saying what we’re saying here.

Not Uh oh
Not Uh oh
July 31, 2022 9:19 am

Rowan Dean missing from Outsiders for the third week in a row. Anyone know what’s happened to him? The panel haven’t commented.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
July 31, 2022 9:20 am

I reiterate, we will see a similar campaign to SSM, but this one will be on steroids, so that anyone who critiques it will be smeared.

+1000 Cassie

Cassie of Sydney
July 31, 2022 9:20 am

As Rita says, it is enshrining toxic race politics into the constitution.

Cassie of Sydney
July 31, 2022 9:21 am

“Not Uh ohsays:
July 31, 2022 at 9:19 am
Rowan Dean missing from Outsiders for the third week in a row. Anyone know what’s happened to him? The panel haven’t commented”

I know where Rowan is, there’s nothing sinister. He’s holidaying in the UK.

Top Ender
Top Ender
July 31, 2022 9:24 am

Knew a bloke – died recently – in Darwin, who post-war decided to get into surplus materials being sold off by government.

He went to an auction and bid 10 pounds for a jeep, and got it. Wasn’t going so he spent a few days trying to organise a trailer. When he turned up the depot bloke thought it a bit funny. He’d actually bid on a line of jeeps, and had actually bought 20 for 10 pounds.

Tom
Tom
July 31, 2022 9:24 am

From memory, Rowan Dean used to live in Paris and the UK, where it’s high summer — the best time to go. Good luck to him.

Boambee John
Boambee John
July 31, 2022 9:25 am

Putting together the campaign for a “Voice” and Speedbox’s post on EV, I had a wicked thought.

When the “leaders” of the indigenous industry realise that it will not be nearly as easy to re-charge their new EVs using intermittent power generators as it was to fill up their Land Cruisers with diesel, will they rebel against the destruction of reliable generation, at least where they live?

And given where most of those “leaders live, in major southern cities, will the rest of us then gain some benefit?

Zipster
Zipster
July 31, 2022 9:26 am
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 31, 2022 9:26 am

A very well written letter from an old digger

Sometimes a letter campaign can have good results, so don’t believe the claim that letter-writing is useless. It’s sometimes a matter of picking your target issues and hitting the right people. Numbers can count, as when submissions are called for, although at the right moment just one persistent voice can produce desired effects. I’ve had some good success recently with a couple of well-fired missives.

Re getting the right people, one of mine was to someone whom Hairy’s barrister friend called ‘a jobsworth’ (I really love that very British term), i.e. a smooth bureaucrat trying to pull the wool in their response to you. Pouring scorn on the deficiencies of their answer with cc’s to the press can make them wriggle and change tack. Keep it polite though, as always.

Not Uh oh
Not Uh oh
July 31, 2022 9:28 am

Cassie of Sydneysays:
July 31, 2022 at 9:21 am
I know where Rowan is…

Thanks Cassie, I was beginning to think he may have got the tap on the shoulder.

m0nty
m0nty
July 31, 2022 9:32 am

My kids have both joined me in COVID iso. I was due to get out on Tuesday, but I will be minding them all week. No symptoms from either of them, I’m fine as well.

Tom
Tom
July 31, 2022 9:33 am

Good luck, Monty.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 31, 2022 9:35 am

I think it is good that New Catallaxy is up on Twitter. It will bring more clicks to this site.
And of itself, Twitter can be a forum for disseminating good discussions, not just the usual dross.
I stilll can’t bring myself to join it though. 🙂

Thanks to those who provide the Twitter links, especally those links that work without joining.

Roger
Roger
July 31, 2022 9:35 am

With Gareth Gareth Evans leading the charge, Australia vigorously rejected the very thought of such a waaaaayyycissssst apartheid policy.

There’s more context to this.

The Indo-Fijians are the support base of the Fijian Labour Party, which was aligned internationally with the ALP.

One wonders if Evans would have been as strident if Fijian Indians were not politically aligned with the ALP via the Socialist International?*

*Which the ALP has since left for the Progessive Alliance.

Comrades.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 31, 2022 9:35 am

1) there are no rules in war
2) ‘show me a good loser and I will show you a loser’

‘If you’re in a fair fight, you’re doing it wrong’
– local drycleaner

Cassie of Sydney
July 31, 2022 9:36 am

Again, Rita and Outsiders. Rita talking about the Shrine, “I want to see some evidence of these threats. I want to see what complaints were made to police to follow up these threats because if there were threats they should be followed up by the police”.

Indeed, but in other words, Rita, you, me and others, are calling bullshit on any “threats”.

Cassie of Sydney
July 31, 2022 9:37 am

“I’m fine as well.”

More attention seeking. No one cares.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 31, 2022 9:38 am

Outsiders highlighting Seinfeld’s The Ribbon episode.

Brilliant, and topical.

Rabz
July 31, 2022 9:38 am

The clips of Kramer not “wearing the ribbon” never get old.

LOL.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 31, 2022 9:39 am

Good luck, Monty.

M0nts, we can’t catch it from you over the internet, so if you aren’t here you are either too busy with childcare – I appreciate that – or you are starting to agree with commentary here. Good-o.

m0nty
m0nty
July 31, 2022 9:39 am

Don’t be a sourpuss, Cassie.

flyingduk
flyingduk
July 31, 2022 9:39 am

Come Monday, the Whitehouse will have a new definition for effective.

How about ‘2 quarters of negative efficacy’?

Dot
Dot
July 31, 2022 9:40 am

Send us thine asteroid…is a lot like I will be eaten first by the elder gods.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 31, 2022 9:40 am

Enjoy the day Jab-Zombies.
Tomorrow you are down to single figures (possibly).
Nine months to thirty-nine months left.

Helen
Helen
July 31, 2022 9:40 am

Regarding the constitutional change in the wind of the latè set – if someone will set up the info where we can email, telephone, generally make our displeasure felt, I’m in for it. I wish we had a warroom type show here in Oz, where we the “Posse” can apply pressure to the required areas. If we stay silent, it will be done. It might be done anyhow if we dont stay silent, but let them feel the heat and wriggle a bit.

flyingduk
flyingduk
July 31, 2022 9:42 am

No symptoms from either of them, I’m fine as well.

puts on best Kathy Newman voice – so what you’re saying is none of you have covid…

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
July 31, 2022 9:42 am

Jab jab booster………………………………die,

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) recently issued their latest “Provisional Mortality Statistics” for January to April 2022, which seem to substantiate the data points observed by TrialSite: that the first three months of 2022 included an unprecedented number of COVID-19 deaths despite near universal COVID-19 vaccination. This media platform has repeatedly reported that twice the number of Australians died from COVID-19 in the first twelve weeks of 2022 than in all of 2020 and 2021 combined.

https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/australian-government-statistics-validate-deaths-down-under-due-to-covid-19are-vaccines-failing-2211b2f9

Cassie of Sydney
July 31, 2022 9:43 am

“Don’t be a sourpuss, Cassie.”

Don’t be an attention seeker, Monty.

Boambee John
Boambee John
July 31, 2022 9:43 am

m0ntysays:
July 31, 2022 at 9:32 am
My kids have both joined me in COVID iso. I was due to get out on Tuesday, but I will be minding them all week. No symptoms from either of them, I’m fine as well.

After hiding in the basement for three years, shivering with terror, screeching abuse at anyone who didn’t lock themselves up at home, get stabbed multiple times, and wear masks everywhere, m0nty-fa and his kids get Kung Flu, and find that it is a fizzer.

Have a good look in the mirror, m0nty-fa. Was your screeching for more fascism something of which you can be proud? How many lives were ruined in the cause of not saving you from nothing in particular?

Dot
Dot
July 31, 2022 9:43 am

It’s “real”.

https://youtu.be/hkTgYiMDRHY

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 31, 2022 9:43 am

Meantime, Hairy and I are heading up to the Sunshine Coast for some warmth and sunshine, and next weekend will hit Brisbane to stay with our daughter and her husband and our three lovely grandies.

Taking the new sporty beamer for a run up there. Bloody thing doesn’t have a CD player like the Q5 did, too old style, you are supposed to hitch in your iphone and play music from that. Radio days only 4 us.

New technology is beginning to overtake our comfortable old ways.

lotocoti
lotocoti
July 31, 2022 9:47 am

He’d actually bid on a line of jeeps, and had actually bought 20 for 10 pounds.

Once upon a time, Grandpa lotocoti paid ten quid for the 99 year lease of Rattlesnake Island.
Then the Japanese climbed Mount Niitaka.
I don’t believe he got his money back.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 31, 2022 9:47 am

I’m fine as well.

So the morbid obesity has cleared up, has it?

Mater
July 31, 2022 9:47 am

“I’m fine as well.”

More attention seeking. No one cares.

Au contraire, Cassie. I care.
It further validates that Covid was a nothing burger.
If it didn’t kill the fat, sickly communist, it’s obviously not fit for purpose, and certainly not what it was sold as.

It barely kept Monty from his food for day. Instead of drowning in his own mucus, Monty’s biggest danger came from a lump of Krispy Kreme glaze going down the wrong hole.

10% chance of dying my hairy arse.

Like Bob, Covid merely served a useful political purpose in Monty’s ideological battle.

Rabz
July 31, 2022 9:48 am

it is high time that we swapped our gardening gloves for boxing gloves

And donned a pair of these

Dot
Dot
July 31, 2022 9:49 am

“Bind all our lives together,
smite us and save us all”

– G.K. Chesterton, O God of Earth and Altar.

Could have been co-written by Lovecraft.

Roger
Roger
July 31, 2022 9:49 am

Outsiders highlighting Seinfeld’s The Ribbon episode.

Brilliant, and topical.

And referenced here this week.

Just a coincidence, I’m sure 😀

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 31, 2022 9:50 am

And donned a pair of these …

Lesbian boots?
Why are we wearing Lesbian boots?

Helen
Helen
July 31, 2022 9:51 am

If there was such a site (The Facts About the Voiceless in the Voice) would Alan Jones lead it for us?

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
July 31, 2022 9:51 am

So meanwhile Jacinta Price is not a fan of the Voice but the Sydney based MP/Lawyer is.

The Coaltion are too dumb to realise that if it gets through it is going to cause more problems for any Coslition Government than it would for Labor.
Labor know this.

“Federal Coalition frontbencher Julian Leeser says the Labor government has taken a step on the right direction with Anthony Albanese’s speech on an Indigenous voice proposal on Saturday, and the next step is awaited”

Rabz
July 31, 2022 9:53 am

They’re nothing of the sort, Pancho.

Lezzos wear multi coloured ones.

Funnily enough, I did note on Friday night that Docs are back in fashion (again). Was standing next to a black chick at one point who was wearing a white pair.

Roger
Roger
July 31, 2022 9:53 am

“Federal Coalition frontbencher Julian Leeser says the Labor government has taken a step on the right direction with Anthony Albanese’s speech on an Indigenous voice proposal on Saturday, and the next step is awaited”

Q. What’s the difference between the Liberal Party & the Labor Party?

A. About three years (and rapidly shrinking).

Cassie of Sydney
July 31, 2022 9:53 am

“Matersays:
July 31, 2022 at 9:47 am”

Correct on all fronts.

rosie
rosie
July 31, 2022 9:54 am

” This media platform has repeatedly reported that twice the number of Australians died from COVID-19 in the first twelve weeks of 2022 than in all of 2020 and 2021 combined”

Has everyone forgotten why? Closed international borders and a series of hard lockdowns, which meant very little covid was circulating.
As for Monty, being triple vaccinated and only getting significantly milder omicron no doubt significantly reduced his chances of carking from covid.

m0nty
m0nty
July 31, 2022 9:55 am

It further validates that Covid was a nothing burger.

Well no, that’s just stupid. Just because it didn’t kill me doesn’t prove anything.

COVID is the leading cause of death in Australia today.

Rabz
July 31, 2022 9:57 am

Brilliant – Alexei ruminating on Jezza Corbyn and the left.

The first 30 seconds should give youse a laugh.

rosie
rosie
July 31, 2022 9:57 am

Good to see you’re over your most recent covid panic Monty.
‘I’m the dad’

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
July 31, 2022 9:58 am
hzhousewife
hzhousewife
July 31, 2022 9:58 am

re Country Road clothing. Go to Spotlight and look a the fabrics. Plenty of aboriginal designs which I couldn’t/wouldn’t possibly culturally appropriate. All part of developing the Industry.

Cassie of Sydney
July 31, 2022 9:58 am

“Outsiders highlighting Seinfeld’s The Ribbon episode.

Brilliant, and topical.”

Indeed. Larry David, who is a genius, was one of the first to highlight the totalitarian characters of some gays, the characters “Cedric and Bob” appeared in more than one episode of Seinfeld to scare and intimidate Kramer, they were in an earlier episode where Kramer is minding, for Elaine, an “armoire” on the street, and Bob and Cedric turn up and decide they want the armoire and they bully and intimidate Kramer into giving them the armoire.

David was prescient, very prescient.

Rabz
July 31, 2022 9:59 am

Just because it didn’t kill me doesn’t prove anything

You’re not quite as indestructible as cockroaches, you pompous clueless clown.

2dogs
July 31, 2022 9:59 am

the indigenous people never ceded sovereignty

Windradyne did, on 18 December 1824.

Rabz
July 31, 2022 10:01 am

the characters “Cedric and Bob”

Would never be caught dead in a pair of white adidas boxing boots, sweetie.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 31, 2022 10:03 am

I don’t want to see this fail because the government has not provided the detail or answered necessary questions,” Mr Leeser, the Liberal MP for the Sydney seat of Berowra, said.

No. There are some fundamental reasons why it should be rejected. As a member of the modern Lieboral party I haven’t got a clue what they are and will just agree with the Liars because they have called for bipartisanship now they are in government.

Boambee John
Boambee John
July 31, 2022 10:03 am

m0nty-fa

COVID is the leading cause of death in Australia today

Perhaps you could provide a link to the data?.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 31, 2022 10:04 am

“Always was Aboriginal land, always will be”

You couldn’t defend that land..

Roger
Roger
July 31, 2022 10:05 am

the indigenous people never ceded sovereignty

Why did Eddie Mabo ask the High Court of Australia to determine his case then?

Is that not a recognition of the Crown’s sovereignty?

Rabz
July 31, 2022 10:06 am

COVID is the leading cause of death in Australia today

FFS, you’d have to be a gullible cretin to believe that.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 31, 2022 10:09 am

Nine months to thirty-nine months left

8 – 38 from tomorrow I reckon. I’ve kept careful count of the time left, as constantly recited by somebody.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 31, 2022 10:11 am

“Always was Aboriginal land, always will be”

You gave it away for whitefellas beef, flour, tea, tobacco and sugar, then came the motorcars, MacDonald’s the supermarkets and “sitdown money..”

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 31, 2022 10:11 am

COVID is the leading cause of death in Australia today

No, lack of cerebral function is the leading cause of death in Australia today.

As it has been every day.

Boambee John
Boambee John
July 31, 2022 10:11 am

Rogersays:
July 31, 2022 at 10:05 am
the indigenous people never ceded sovereignty

Why did Eddie Mabo ask the High Court of Australia to determine his case then?

Is that not a recognition of the Crown’s sovereignty?

And the Court found that Australia was settled, not invaded.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
July 31, 2022 10:13 am

The below, whilst true, needs to be put into context.

Simple comparison. By the end of 2021 Qld had only had 2,000 cases and 7 deaths. Once the border was opened and Omicron spread the number of cases exploded. Can’t remember the date but Courier Mail reported in February that the CHO Qld had said he thought 1/3 of Queenslanders had already had Covid but most were not aware. I remember upon reading that noting the official number was 450,000 cases (ie. 200,000 X pre 2022). A 1/3 of Qld wouid be about 1.7m people. CHO Qld did a random street sample on the Gold Coast and found 20 with the virus. However only 2 realised they had symptoms.

CHO VIC only the other day said he thought only half cases were being reported. Daily Mail about 10 days ago said official case numbers were 9 million but experts believed more likely 16 million.

What this means is the hospitalisations, ICU and death rate is much less than the official numbers they use in the scare campaign.

Plus it must be mentioned repeatedly that the average of those dying is about 84 and with comorbidities. A fact the media always forgets to mention.

I use a simple analogy. If 9m or 16 million people in Oz from a normal cross section of the population all wore red T shirts for 3 months how many would be admitted to hospital or die anyway ?

Meanwhile people are still be coerced to choose between their job or taking 3rd or 4th jab. If they can coerce you to take 3 or 4 then you can be sure they will want to go for no 5 which is not far away.

“This media platform has repeatedly reported that twice the number of Australians died from COVID-19 in the first twelve weeks of 2022 than in all of 2020 and 2021 combined”

m0nty
m0nty
July 31, 2022 10:13 am

No, lack of cerebral function is the leading cause of death in Australia today.

And yet you live, KD.

Franx
Franx
July 31, 2022 10:15 am

A man got triple jabbed and got sick – seems with covid. The good thing is is that the jab protected him from, well, imagine how sick he would have been be without the jab. Still, the jabbed data is that more people than ever are dying of covid. And this, too, must then be good thing because, well, imagine how sick they would have been without the jab. Weak argument, I know.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 31, 2022 10:18 am

People are not as stupid as AnAl

There it is for all to see. Thanks Mater.

Roger
Roger
July 31, 2022 10:18 am

Meanwhile people are still be coerced to choose between their job or taking 3rd or 4th jab. If they can coerce you to take 3 or 4 then you can be sure they will want to go for no 5 which is not far away.

A recent German in vitro study found vaccine stimulated antibodies were barely present after 90 days.

I would suggest we are headed for a “voluntary” booster prior to every winter.

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
July 31, 2022 10:19 am

Dirty, evil, world ending, cause of all severe weather events, gerbil warming, death of the planet………………………………………………………………………

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/IEA-Global-Coal-Demand-On-Track-To-Match-Record.html

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
July 31, 2022 10:21 am

Talking to a young dent student yesterday who’s had covid recently and has no interest in more injections. Smart girl.

Roger
Roger
July 31, 2022 10:22 am

And the Court found that Australia was settled, not invaded.

Yes, but that’s not to say that that finding couldn’t be revisited by a more radical HC bench if a case came befor them that they found sufficiently “compelling”.

Mater
July 31, 2022 10:23 am

COVID is the leading cause of death in Australia today

Ok, let’s fact check that using the latest published Data – deaths Jan-Apr 22, which includes the Jan-Feb peak.

Cancer – 16,314
Dementia – 5,230
Ischaemic heart disease – 4,509
Respiratory diseases – 3,914
Chronic lower respiratory diseases – 2,185
Influenza and pneumonia – 648
Pneumonia – 647
Cerebrovascular diseases – 2,855
COVID-19 – 3,593
Diabetes – 1,669

Even with their dubious classification system in respect to Covid deaths, you’re not even within cooee.

As usual, you’re full of lies and bullshit.

I deal with facts, Monty. You deal in, and make a living out of, fantasy.

Boambee John
Boambee John
July 31, 2022 10:25 am

m0ntysays:
July 31, 2022 at 10:13 am
No, lack of cerebral function is the leading cause of death in Australia today.

And yet you live, KD.

Is that the best response you can come up with? You seem to be lacking in cerebral function.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 31, 2022 10:28 am

Yes, but that’s not to say that that finding couldn’t be revisited by a more radical HC bench if a case came befor them that they found sufficiently “compelling”.

A radical HC bench revisited the finding, declared Australia “invaded” and “native title” and “land rights” should not have existed?

cohenite
July 31, 2022 10:28 am

Indolentsays:
July 30, 2022 at 11:26 pm
A shocking video shows how racialized America has become

Just more proof of the race war and indeed the war against Western White men. And ironically leading the charge are leftie whites. Noone watching comes to the white guy’s assistance: no one. But when he pulls a gun and the black guys run off there are cries of outrage that he has a gun.

Roger
Roger
July 31, 2022 10:29 am

By my reckoning those 16 314 cancer deaths are notably higher than what was predicted, c. 12 000 per quarter in 2022.

Mater
July 31, 2022 10:30 am

As for Monty, being triple vaccinated and only getting significantly milder omicron no doubt significantly reduced his chances of carking from covid.

“no doubt” = “in my opinion”

JC
JC
July 31, 2022 10:30 am

It looks like the English comprehension class has let another failure out onto the streets.
Do you feel the above sentence may just cover WA NOT being part of the Commonwealth?
You really need to work on reading what people write, not on what your imagination says they write.

You’re a hyperbolic moron, Turtlehead. WA is in the Commonwealth and the Federal government decides. You clown.

In the next “scenario”, you’re attempting to suggest Australia could suffer the same fate and South Africa – ignoring comparable population mixes. You complete buffoon.

JC:
Perhaps you’d like to brush up on your projections for the future in the US.
Inflation 9.2%
Now in recession.
You had the same information I did, and yet you couldn’t see this coming, you genius?

Okay Turtlehead, post the link to the claim and the counterclaim as we’ve have forgotten what you asserted and what was said in reply. You realize, you moron, you bed panning idiot, the headline rate doesn’t actually mean inflation in the past year has been 9%. It means something different. It means extrapolation.
You, Long Time Lurker

Roger
Roger
July 31, 2022 10:30 am

A radical HC bench revisited the finding, declared Australia “invaded” and “native title” and “land rights” should not have existed?

I doubt they’d go that far, but they could establish a legal basis for reparations, for example.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 31, 2022 10:31 am

And yet you live, KD.

I do indeed. I live.

Outside, in natural warmth and fresh air. Interacting with other normal people. I’m not a pasty, porky shut-in terrified of life and its travails, and dealing in imagination for pin money while the family’s real support comes from elsewhere.

I haven’t rammed cheap dodgy Chinese RAT tests into my offspring on a daily basis, inculcating into them an unjustified manic bureaucratic obedience, while at the same time using them to garner attention for yourself from internet people who don’t know them.

Here’s the thing about kids. You can’t make them grow up to be like you. They might, but only if they like what they see. Those little sponges will one day not only see you for what you are, but what you were.

I suspect you’ll have some apologising to do.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
July 31, 2022 10:32 am

COVID-19 – 3,593

That would be average age 84 with comorbidities as well.

What is the average age of people dying with cancer? Suspect younger than Covid.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 31, 2022 10:38 am

Sancho Panzersays:
July 31, 2022 at 9:50 am
And donned a pair of these …

Lesbian boots?
Why are we wearing Lesbian boots?

Lesbians like pussy, I like pussy, therefore I must be a lesbian, Hence the reason I wear the boots.

Mater
July 31, 2022 10:38 am

Influenza and pneumonia – 648
Pneumonia – 647

Do notice how this leaves one (1) person dying of influenza, whilst 3k died of Covid.

A mystery for the ages.

Bar Beach Swimmer
July 31, 2022 10:44 am

Monty:
Just because it didn’t kill me doesn’t prove anything.

Some other statements that also make sense…

Biden’s cognitive abilities are top notch.
Eating bugs will save the planet.
Monty understands da science.

JC
JC
July 31, 2022 10:50 am

cohenite says:
July 31, 2022 at 10:28 am

Indolentsays:
July 30, 2022 at 11:26 pm
A shocking video shows how racialized America has become

Just more proof of the race war and indeed the war against Western White men. And ironically leading the charge are leftie whites. Noone watching comes to the white guy’s assistance: no one. But when he pulls a gun and the black guys run off there are cries of outrage that he has a gun.

Cronkite. I believe pretty much everything said in the piece about how the D’rats have been agitating for a race war over the past 15 years. What I don’t believe though is that the change in tempo in the vid – calmness vs OMG -like shrieks after the old white dude pulls a gun is race related in some way. Fists vs a gun pointed at someone with the person looking like he’s about to fire has a different psychological impact on people.

Also, we just don’t know the context.

Mater
July 31, 2022 10:50 am

I’m looking forward to monty’s attempt to wriggle out of this error.

He’ll just disappear for a while, and leave Rosie here to defend the vaccines on her own.

JC
JC
July 31, 2022 10:51 am

dover0beach says:
July 31, 2022 at 10:45 am

I’m looking forward to monty’s attempt to wriggle out of this error.

Wriggle? He’s obese! Fatboy can’t wriggle.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 31, 2022 10:51 am

Spam spam spam spam.

SPAM goes on lockdown due to inflation in NYC (30 Jul)

It’s the nation’s crises in a can. Inflation and crime have gotten so bad in Gotham that even cheap meat like Spam has to be locked up. At Duane Reade’s store in the Port Authority bus depot, the shelf-stable product—only $3.99 a can—is now being stocked in plastic, anti-theft cases. “I’ve never seen that before!” one cashier laughed while using a magnet to remove a can of Spam from its cage.

So popular that people now try to steal it.

JC
JC
July 31, 2022 10:57 am

Mater says:
July 31, 2022 at 10:38 am

Influenza and pneumonia – 648
Pneumonia – 647

Do notice how this leaves one (1) person dying of influenza, whilst 3k died of Covid.

A mystery for the ages.

Mater

last year, a doc told me that the system doesn’t really count flu deaths. Flu mortality was always done as an estimate for the most part as extra deaths over the flu season.

I actually had personal experience. My dad caught a flu/cold, which then turned into pneumonia. He died from this and the death certificate said something like pneumonia/heart failure complications. It started with the flu though, but it wasn’t mentioned.

Cause a death I think is a very difficult thing to figure. For instance, one doesn’t die from a brain tumor itself. A person dies from a stroke caused by the tumor.

JC
JC
July 31, 2022 11:00 am

Bruce of Newcastle says:
July 31, 2022 at 10:51 am

Spam spam spam spam.

SPAM goes on lockdown due to inflation in NYC (30 Jul)

It’s the nation’s crises in a can. Inflation and crime have gotten so bad in Gotham that even cheap meat like Spam has to be locked up. At Duane Reade’s store in the Port Authority bus depot, the shelf-stable product—only $3.99 a can—is now being stocked in plastic, anti-theft cases. “I’ve never seen that before!” one cashier laughed while using a magnet to remove a can of Spam from its cage.

So popular that people now try to steal it.

Fester,

The drug stores on the Upper East Side have all their shelves locked up – even for stuff which I would imagine is cheaper than Spam.

The Port Authority? LOL. Even the buses should be locked up there.

Stop thinking too hard.

Tom
Tom
July 31, 2022 11:02 am

Thank God! Even though his stand-in Caleb Bond was very good today, Rowan Dean will be back next week on Sky Outsiders after his European summer vacation.

JC
JC
July 31, 2022 11:03 am

What this means is the hospitalisations, ICU and death rate is much less than the official numbers they use in the scare campaign.

Accepting the raw numbers and there’s no cheating the stats, why would they be less the official numbers. At least what evidence can you provide?

Struth
July 31, 2022 11:05 am

My kids have both joined me in COVID iso. I was due to get out on Tuesday, but I will be minding them all week. No symptoms from either of them, I’m fine as well.

Child abuse from their own mentally deranged father.

And I hope Tom was being funny.

And then this insanity…..from your local fright bat of gulliblity.

Has everyone forgotten why? Closed international borders and a series of hard lockdowns, which meant very little covid was circulating.
As for Monty, being triple vaccinated and only getting significantly milder omicron no doubt significantly reduced his chances of carking from covid..

FMD.

And still there are many of you who deny the mental sickness here on this blog.

Dribbling cretins for the most part.
Dribbling cretins.

Dot
Dot
July 31, 2022 11:05 am

Even with their dubious classification system in respect to Covid deaths, you’re not even within cooee.

As usual, you’re full of lies and bullshit.

I deal with facts, Monty. You deal in, and make a living out of, fantasy.

Never stop live blogging your failures, fatso.

When are Shirley and Frank coming back to clean up your mess?

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
July 31, 2022 11:10 am

Section 128 of the Constitution provides that any proposed amendment to the Constitution must be passed by an absolute majority in both Houses of the Commonwealth Parliament.

At the referendum the proposed alteration must be approved by a ‘double majority’. That is:

a national majority of voters in the states and territories
a majority of voters in a majority of the states (i.e. at least four out of six states).

The votes of people living in the ACT, the NT and any of Australia’s external territories count towards the national majority only.

Early prediction but on the above can’t see the voice passing. If the unlikely event only 3 states pass it I can see it falling at the national majority. Yes I am confined to NQ with a conservative leaning population but I’d say rural areas in the larger states will be the hurdle where this fails.

A lot of people have had enough of the welcome to the country crap. Polling for years has shown the voice as a non starter. Even with the coming propaganda campaign that Mao would be proud of and vicious character assassination/censorship the likes of the SSM debacle people will keep their feelings to themselves and unlike the SSM sham be compelled to vote either way.

Wait and see I suppose…

Struth
July 31, 2022 11:11 am

It’s a fact.
It’s indisputable.
Covid hasn’t killed any more than the yearly flu does because it is the yearly flu, with the same symptoms.
WITH THE SAME SYMPTOMS.
It’s killed no one in third world countries where you would presume they’d be dying in their millions.

Covid is , and has been all along fear propaganda.

The messages delivered and the propaganda never added up and never made sense.
The lack of questioning regarding the bleeding obvious (cases compared to actual sickness) should have given the game away to all and sundry but it didn’t.
To those who didn’t lose their shit through fear, the messaging of the propaganda was laughable in it’s inconsistency and lunacy.

But it worked on a great many people.

And so they got jabbed.

They took jabs from people who want them dead.
From the enemies of the West.
And now they are dying……as many were told would happen, but they didn’t listen.
They could not comprehend who has been actually running the world for decades now…….
Why our politicians were doing exactly the reverse of what the people wanted.
FOR DECADES.
So the messengers were laughed at.
Called conspiracy theorists.

Overall death rates of the working age are through the roof, and directly correlating to jabbed precincts and juristicions.
The more jabs the more deaths.
Indisputable.
And meanwhile the African continent bar Israel, continue on as if nothing has happened, unjabbed.
Israel, the country hated by the left, by the international communists of the UN, became the most jabbed nation on earth.
And still nobody thought that weird.

Some on this blog did.
RIGHT FROM THE START.
So now the proof is out there, in reports from insurance companies and undertakers and from studies that are not funded by those at war with us.
THE JABBED ARE DYING.
Biggly.
And our enemies all of a sudden stop publishing data regards deaths.
They would wouldn’t they.
The first battle, so easily won, knocked out so many (yet the jabbed, in their denialism, seem to think if they have survived this far they are going to be fine) SO FAR and of course that will ratchet up soon.
But voices SCREAMING about what is going on will be silenced……..but worse, and here’s the catch, it seems even if the message gets through, the jabbed, in all their modern weakness of mind, in all their self insulation, will not believe it for a second.

It’s the Salmon Mousse!
Mean words.
Or booking a trip to Thailand.
Pathetic….and a complete disregard for children in doing so.
Allowing children to be jabbed because you don’t want to admit the jab is deadly, to soothe your own mind, is a disgusting cop out.

Those doctors , on realising their own culpability in killing thousands of people each, are already absolutely unable to diagnose causes of death these days!!!!
Funny that.

Or about as unfunny as it gets.

JC
JC
July 31, 2022 11:14 am

It’s a fact.
It’s indisputable.
Covid hasn’t killed any more than the yearly flu does because it is the yearly flu, with the same symptoms.
WITH THE SAME SYMPTOMS.
It’s killed no one in third world countries where you would presume they’d be dying in their millions.

Covid is , and has been all along fear propaganda.

Someone told you this at the furniture store or did you personally think this through while doing the rounds for Baker’s Delight?

Struth
July 31, 2022 11:19 am

Someone told you this at the furniture store or did you personally think this through while doing the rounds for Baker’s Delight?

Hey two dicks……JC……….seeing you’ve been so wrong on everything from the jab to Bill Gates being a nice bloke…..he from the “it doesn’t matter who we trade with as long as it’s the cheapest” fame, it might be time you took your own advice, stop making a fool of yourself and STFU.

LB
LB
July 31, 2022 11:20 am

they could establish a legal basis for reparations, for example

… of course any such reparations would be payable by the country which precipitated the actual invading …

m0nty
m0nty
July 31, 2022 11:20 am

COVID is the leading cause of death in Australia today

Madam Deputy Acting Speaker, I withdraw the comment. What I had been reading was COVID is a leading cause, not the leading cause, and I got it jumbled up. My bad. In the words of Tony Kornheiser: I will try to do better the next time.

Dot
Dot
July 31, 2022 11:21 am

struth

Coronavirus is a cold, it’s not even influenza.

It is literally just a cold.

cohenite
July 31, 2022 11:22 am

Also, we just don’t know the context.

The context was 2 young black punks beating up on an old white guy. This could have been you head prefect coming out of Little Italy with a belly full of Melanzane Alla Parmigiana and a smile on your gob.

Why does there have to be a context other then he’s white. Listen to the conversation in the restaurant as the black boys are beating the crap out of the guy; completely normal, no concern at all; then when the dude pulls out his colt the shrieks of fear and outrage come fast and furious. Makes me fucking sick.

Incidentally you can’t find this video on google or Twatter.

Mater
July 31, 2022 11:22 am

last year, a doc told me that the system doesn’t really count flu deaths. Flu mortality was always done as an estimate for the most part as extra deaths over the flu season.

JC,
Every fortnight (during the flu season) they produce a comprehensive report, and have done since at least 2009.

They take all you points into consideration, or at least they did.

Don’t let them pull the wool over your eye about why the flu deaths instantaneously stop around Apr 2020.

Here:

Australian Influenza Surveillance Report and Activity Updates

RacerX
RacerX
July 31, 2022 11:23 am

Watching these interviews on the ABC from the current gravy train event reinforces that before any referendum takes place we need a definition of aboriginal/indigenous/first nations people or whatever the current term is.

Dot
Dot
July 31, 2022 11:24 am

It’s killed no one in third world countries where you would presume they’d be dying in their millions.

Don’t over egg the pudding.

Surely some people died of complications from the common cold.

The fact the homeless didn’t get wiped out is a bigger contrary indicator to me.

JC
JC
July 31, 2022 11:24 am

I find it funny that a van driver is telling us something is indisputable.

Hey two dicks……JC……….seeing you’ve been so wrong on everything from the jab to Bill Gates being a nice bloke

I’ve never said anything about Gates being a nice or nasty dude. In some ares such as nuclear power he’s doing great work unlike a van driver going to some other blog and repetitiously abusing people because they consider him a wanker.

…..he from the “it doesn’t matter who we trade with as long as it’s the cheapest” fame,

Have you purified the house and the van against any Chinese products yet? Hypocrite!

it might be time you took your own advice, stop making a fool of yourself and STFU.

LOl. Fuck off.

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