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Chucky, Chucky, Chucky. Give him ideas!
I haven’t seen it or many of the others.
It’s not often that you hear someone from a “bleeding ‘eart” organization telling the truth! .. LOL!
“I guess the pandemic kind of opened Pandora’s box. And now we can’t close it because the need is just everywhere.”
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/lockdowns-may-have-lifted-long-ago-but-covid-era-food-relief-services-are-busier-than-ever/ar-AA11i7eI?li=AAgfLCP
Early morning here in Amsterdam. One coffee down, another to go and I’ll be fit to face the world.
Chatting to some Northern Beaches Aussies in one of those little alleyway bars, enormous glass tankards (pints?) of beer for all but me – a generously free-poured G&T in one of those balloon glasses. Ambrosia for the flight-toxxed.
Snapshot of conversation – no Masks…anywhere! Shocked. Me – isn’t it wonderful! She (doubtful) – but is it safe? Me – these smart buggers are over it, I wish Australia could follow suit. Some small talk about the efficacy of “vaccines” followed, she all on board because they “stopped it being worserer”. My only reply was – it’s curious that the whole thing stopped being so lethal when the virus mutated, right at the time the “vaxx” became widely available and adopted by most. Just a little food for reflection.
The concierge asked the usual question – have you been to Amsterdam before? In 2009 was the reply. You will find it much changed, I think, said he.
Yes, two strong visual changes, but there may be more subtle ones. My initial impression was “slightly down at heel”, like it is just recovering from a major shock. Signs in the windows seeking employees, a lot pop-ups here and there. The other – many…many Africans. Some appear to be almost vagrant, others students. They seem to almost outnumber the native Dutch, but that may have been the time of day, just as school closed.
And something chuckle worthy – my head hit the pillow with a resounding crash and it seemed that time stood suspended…until out of the depths I heard a persistent tapping and a voice…calli…calli…calli*. Tap, tap, tap. Lumbering to the source of the noise, I discovered that the Beloved, disoriented, had mistaken the hotel door for the bathroom – there he was, standing in the hotel hallway in t-shirt and undies! Poor man.
Now we know what happened to Malcolm Fraser.
* not my real name 😀
Anchor What earlier-
Bank Australia is in the news for its policy of no longer loaning money for the purchase of internal combustion powered vehicles.
Which bank? This mob, formed by amalgamation of a large number of credit unions, look like green activists running a bank, possibly into the ground.
Learnt that they handle about $5b, which is actually bugger all… but I also noticed that they’re advertising heavily on YouTube and Poverty Pack Spotify, which is cheap young eyeballs. Lotsa “your bank might be funding slavery/animal abuse/deforestation/fracking/hate speech”. Of course, they’re now being advertized for free by Their ABC.
Beautifully written, Lizzie.
One such scenario is where it is inevitable that the fetus will die, but doctors are prevented from saving the mother until she develops sepsis or some other life-threatening condition… after which the mother may die needlessly.
But hey, the tree of liberty must from time to time be nourished by the blood of women dying from preventable conditions, am I right?
Sorry, m0nty. You have a case of mistaken identity. Or was that deliberate?
Who exactly is going to call their lawyer while the human being is still a fetus? And on how could a mother be sued for actions she undertook before she knew she was pregnant. You can’t be negligent or reckless if you had no reasonable way of knowing you were pregnant. Be serious. Let me be charitable, however, and assume that what you mean here is that at some future time, the child, now an adult, maybe on the advice of someone they trust, decide to sue his/her mother for drinking, often heavily, through the pregnancy and leaving him/ her with fetal alcohol syndrome. Is the possibility of such an action really silly? Not at all.
Doctors in such situations owe a duty of care to both the mother and the child in utero. Extending the protection of the law to the latter doesn’t mean that the former can be neglected. There are any manner of medical treatments that can potentially harm or kill the child in utero but a mother is perfectly entitled to avail herself of those treatments if the condition is serious and the medical treatment has a reasonable prospect of success. In fact, a pattern of preferencing one or the other would be grounds for a medical negligence case.
Sorry, too early in the morning for malice.
Enjoy your day Cats and I will enjoy mine.
Comprehensive thread on the new DOJ filing in the Trump documents case.
Yes. 😉
Close to 14% of the NEM’s capacity, you say?
Perhaps on a good renewables day, with the Sun shining brightly and a stiff breeze.
When the next five power stations close – Liddell, Eraring, Bayswater, Yallourn, and Loy Yang – they will take 14,500MW of dispatchable power out of the NEM. That’s about 45% of the average NEM demand.
Not immediately clear what’s supposed to happen at night, or on windless days – presumably 100,000’s of MWh of batteries.
But cheer up.
Shitweasel Bowen, Origin, AGL, and Energy Australia are onto it.
And it will be too cheap to meter.
Or something like that.
“Ye want to be careful wid dat covfefe there, Callie” says Beloved, as he shrugs off his nighttime t for canal-coursing chinos. “If you’re too friendly to dem, dey put an edible on the spoon, and the next ting you know, you’re back in de land o nod.”
Yes, yes, I say. I’m itching to take a punt at my theory that Pim Fortyun’s head lies sunken under a brick arch bridge crossroad, he can do whatever Edam well likes.
The ability to see clearly once you buy into any part of the propaganda is completely destroyed.
The Davos mob, of which most western traitors and Putin are a part, are giving you theatre to keep you dumb bastards thinking a fucking little war can destroy the west.
Who knew Russia could have all the gas and food for the world.
Yet Australia can produce enough to feed itself 3 times over and has enough energy resources to be a super power.
And yet because of what amounts to an ongoing border skirmish in Eastern Europe the west is going to be powerless and starve
You’d have to be one brainwashed turnip to do anything other than laugh at the suggestion.
As if.
Traitors in Western governments are at war with the west and have been for years.
They are at war with you.
They think they are smarty pants and can make youbelieve any old bullshit …..
But seriously. ….not able to secure power other than from Russia tells us all that the war is a WEF..U N…Davos piece of bullshit theatre and Putin killing his own means nothing to him or his Ukrainian collaborator.
However. ..we will still win.
Comprehensive thread on the new DOJ filing in the Trump documents case.
Is that it?
The Seinfeld library cop gets his man.
“One tough cookie.”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D9tP9fI2zbE
The picture of Trump’s floor covered in classified documents spilled everywhere is quite something.
complete bullshit for NPCs
For those who sleep au naturel this would be quite a hazard.
that’s ok, you have no idea what a woman is either
It’s inevitable the child in utero will die where, in the womb or once delivered? Why would she develop sepsis before the child dies? IIRC, you’re harkening back to this Louisiana story about a child in utero suffering of acrania. That case appears to have been again in the media, her reasons had nothing to do with any threat to her health or life, but:
Is this really any different from saying I don’t want the trauma of a Downs child? But I agree the language of the law is wooly, ‘medically futile’ pregnancy? A procedure can be medically futile but not a pregnancy. The legislators and their drafters of legislation need to lift their game.
The picture of Trump’s floor covered in classified documents spilled everywhere is quite something.
Oooh.
Bad man got paper.
It is hilarious that you lot spent years baying for blood over a server in Hillary’s basement filled with risotto recipes, but now you have to defend Trump leaving Top Secret documents lying around on the floor of his walk-in robe.
As at 1530, m0nty-fa has not responded to the points below from one of my earlier posts..
You have not condemned the chorus of pro-abortion “activists” who expanded the “time of viability” criterion set out in R v W to include abortion up to the point of birth, sex selective abortion, “genetic” abortion and “lifestyle” abortion in the years since 1973.
Therefore, by your own words above, you have joined in their campaign for unlimited abortion rights. And don’t forget that some of those “activists” are already pushing for “post-birth abortion”. At what point will your stomach revolt at what you implicitly support?
It seems that m0nty-fa at the very least does not reject the gradual expansion of abortion from the “time of viability” to essentially open slather up to the time of birth. Neither does he seem to reject the appalling concept of “post-birth abortion”.
These judgements are based on m0nty-fa’s claim that Dover, by not rejecting all arguments against abortion, supports them all.
m0ntysays:
August 31, 2022 at 3:05 pm
[Why is recognizing the child in the womb as a natural person a ‘bullshit concept’?]
I don’t know what “natural person” means exactly, there seem to be a lot of phrases that seem interchangeable but are subtly different in operation. I am suspiciously wary.
FFS m0nty, you were carrying on in “The End Is Nigh” sandwich board wearer style about a Georgia law amending its definition of “natural person” and now you say you don’t even know what the phrase means?
Seriously, you’ve nuked your credibility into ashes so fine that any further attempts at credibility self-immolation will be futile. Just give up.
Which bank? This mob, formed by amalgamation of a large number of credit unions, look like green activists running a bank, possibly into the ground.
I had to ‘google” Australia Bank never heard of it before formed from the CSIRO Credit Union according to the website .. soooo definite Greenie with industry super additions .. I’ll give it a miss .. LOL!
m0ntysays:
August 31, 2022 at 3:56 pm
The picture of Trump’s floor covered in classified documents spilled everywhere is quite something.
Now prove that it was not artfully posed by the FBI.
Monty still going on about exterminating innocent human beings and Trump possessing declassified documents? Seems a bit obsessive.
..but, m0nty, before giving up, answer the question you’ve been evading all day.
m0nty-fa
a server in Hillary’s basement filled with risotto recipes,
Given that the server was acknowledged to have been used for classified State Department traffic, do you seriously believe this, or is it just a weaker than usual attempt at trolling?
m0nty says: August 31, 2022 at 3:56 pm
You’ve never been present when a search warrant is being executed.
Get some life experience, then come back & comment.
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
August 31, 2022 at 4:14 pm
Monty still going on about exterminating innocent human beings and Trump possessing declassified documents? Seems a bit obsessive.
Waddya mean “a bit”? This is the worst case of OCD that I have seen over many years of life.
The picture of Trump’s floor covered in classified documents spilled everywhere is quite something.
Yeah, well. If you haven’t made impulsive love to your third wife on a million dollar pile of paper, then you just wouldn’t understand.
I’m innocent. I wasn’t even in Australia in the 90s.
Did any other Victorians here just get an email from “Matt” Guy with a “Powerful Message” about our health system asking for ideas?……my response was:
Dear Matt,
You say you are going to invest more imagined millions into health care. Well you are going to have to just so the hospitals can pay the power bills your ludicrous green policies are going to foist on us all.
It is hard to imagine an opposition leader losing to such an egregious power hungry bully such as Dan Andrews, but I am afraid you are likely to be that man. If you do not want to be that man, drop the inner-city/wealthy vanity policies and start standing up for working class values and advocate policies that improve the lives of the majority.
your current course just makes you look like a pillock.
Kapow. Devastating.
Fatboy, Crooked wasn’t president and had no power to declassify any fucking thing. Trump was president, you oversized lardball, and he can declassify by simply making it so. Go and eat the last donut, you big fat idiot.
Testy
over a server in Hillary’s basement filled with risotto recipes,
Proof, if any was needed, that monty is a rolled gold ocean class fuckwit of the first water.
Plus the chap Monty is quoting is a rock ribbed republican…
https://www.theatlantic.com/author/bradley-p-moss/
5/5 anti Trump articles…
How dare you! Talk fests have solved many problems look at how peaceful and prosperous Africa is know.
Seriously though it will take a multi generational effort to de-institutionalise.
Mmmyes, when you think about it, it’s really the Republicans who care about classified documents.
LOL!
Matt Guy, eh.
As someone here (rickw?) quipped…Dan Andrews is going to walk all over him.
If you didn’t pick it up by looking at it, the DOJ whited out the contents of the actual Top Secret documents, so you can just see the cover sheets. Notably, at least one cover sheet states that the contents are about human intelligence (i.e. spies).
Crikey this is bullshit!
It is possible that somewhere there is a woman who has a multitude of risotto recipes & little else stored on a server.
A server, ffs.
Possible. But unlikely.
Every day he mistakes his own identity with someone clever.
Hillary don’t cook.
Non sequitur.
mUnty, you should really see somebody about those spectacles
Once the parroting of the change of narrative dies down, the real question is why the DoJ is trying to stop a special master being appointed?
What do they have to hide?
What scrutiny are they trying to stop?
The special master thing is just Trump trying to stall to give his incompetent lawyers more time to think up elaborate lies.
over a server in Hillary’s basement filled with risotto recipes,
Arkansas Fried Risotto, with the eleven secret herbs and spices that are so secret Hillary had to hire a specialist computer company to obliterate all traces of the recipe after getting the subpoena for the server.
It’s what happens when robots attempt humour
Working today and what do I find when I check the thread: dickless has been throwing crap everywhere. He’s really in touch with his simian past; but at least apes have dicks.
One of my rugby team mates has the nickname ‘One Sock’ from a similar incident at a carnival in Hawaii. Made the same mistake after a big night on the beers only he was less dressed, wearing one sock. He had to do the walk of shame to the hotel reception with the sock providing the only modesty.
Shouldn’t we have an agent or two in the Solomons, dispensing a little sly cash and whipping up the anti-Chinese locals
Thought same areff. Even if we don’t have the expertise in this field the Americans do. Malaitan independence is another avenue to cause bother.
Seems everyone has given up or deposited to the too hard basket. Which is what China expects.
m0nty says:
August 31, 2022 at 4:43 pm
If you didn’t pick it up by looking at it, the DOJ whited out the contents of the actual Top Secret documents, so you can just see the cover sheets. Notably, at least one cover sheet states that the contents are about human intelligence (i.e. spies).
It’s as if the digital age never occurred. Hard copies relating to spies? Not encrypted devices or laptops full of naughty pictures.
The FBI goes full Hollywood props. Pathetic.
Timothy Neilson says:
August 31, 2022 at 5:07 pm
over a server in Hillary’s basement filled with risotto recipes,
And Bill’s special sauce recipe found under a desk.
I expect there’ll be some “interesting” developments in the near future.
Sogavare has played his hand well, but he’s running out of cards.
m0ntysays:
August 31, 2022 at 4:43 pm
If you didn’t pick it up by looking at it, the DOJ whited out the contents of the actual Top Secret documents, so you can just see the cover sheets.
So the DoJ altered the evidence they presumably hope later to presrnt to a court.
Top … men, top …men!
m0ntysays:
August 31, 2022 at 5:03 pm
The special master thing is just Trump trying to stall to give his incompetent lawyers more time to think up elaborate lies.
Our covert “sauce” reporting from inside the DoJ has the good oil. ROFLMAO.
Farmer Gezsays:
August 31, 2022 at 5:22 pm
Timothy Neilson says:
August 31, 2022 at 5:07 pm
over a server in Hillary’s basement filled with risotto recipes,
And Bill’s special sauce recipe found under a desk.
Spilled on a blue dress.
Waiting for the albino monk to make an appearance in the Mar a Lago raid.
Australia’s FINALLY cuts ridiculous Covid isolation rules from seven days to five – and removes mandatory masks on planes
. Australia to axe mandatory masks Covid isolation rules from seven days to five
. Isolation periods will be cut for those who have no symptoms from September 9
Still no response from m0nty-fa on which of the expansions of R v W beyond time of viability he opposes.
Was it abortion up to the point of birth, sex selective abortion, “genetic” abortion and “lifestyle” abortion in the years since 1973? And does he oppose the push for “post-birth abortion”?
From the lack of a response, after he demanded a response from Dover on the issue of different attitudes in the anti-abortion group, strongly suggests that m0nty-fa is fully on board with all of the above. Appalling!
Sundance at the treehouse has a piece on the latest DOJ play.
DOJ Files response to Trump Special Master request
It is sad this blog has just become mindless and endless trolling.
The DOJ has filed a response to the motion by President Trump for the court to appoint a special master to review the seized material from the DOJ/FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago. [Court pdf Here] Additionally, the outside government Lawfare group has filed an amicus brief supporting the DOJ-NSD position [Amici court pdf Here]
Essentially the position of the DOJ boils down to… They have already reviewed the material. Yes, there was attorney-client privilege material seized; but they swear the internal team segregated the legally confidential material and the DOJ investigators & prosecutors didn’t see it – double pinkie swear, yer honor.
To compliment the created DOJ narrative for media consumption; and to assist the media effort for direct distribution of the DOJ position; Main Justice released a picture as an example of the documents seized. The DOJ literally staged and created this photo for media to use, then released it in the court filing. Slick lawfare:
The cover sheets are essentially non sequitur as they do not necessarily describe or affirm the nature of the documented material underneath. “HCS-P/SI/TK” looks all officially looming; however, it doesn’t necessarily mean any of the information is classified as HCS (HUMINT Control System, or human intelligence), SI (special intelligence), or TK (talent keyhole), or SCI (Sensitive Compartmented Information), aka the silos.
One word or paragraph could be considered ‘special intelligence’. Example “FISA” or “FISC”. You might remember our prior discussions that every document that contains the designation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, FISA or FISC, literally those words or abbreviations, is considered classified special intelligence.
Example (as above): Someone might write “the Carter Page FISA application” on a government document. That document is now considered ‘special intelligence‘. That’s how each silo inside the agencies of government keep a cloud over information.
It was not that long ago when the classification rules stated you could not ever publicly use the words “FISA Court,” without running afoul of the rules governing classified special intelligence. Yes, that’s correct, until about three years ago it was a violation of law to even discuss what took place in the FISA court process.
As a result, take the cover letter designations with a grain of salt. The covers are essentially useless for the purpose of understanding what material might be underneath. However, for the purpose of creating an optic, which helps drive a narrative, the oh-so super special cover values are priceless.
Moving beyond the filings, the DOJ narrative engineering is particularly noteworthy. By framing the material seized in such a manner as most people will never understand what the designations mean, Main Justice lays the foundation for the media to obfuscate, portray and define the potential of the evidence.
Last point. As to the actual nature of the material in the photograph staged by the DOJ for media use, many of the documents you see in the picture are transcripts from the 2018 House Intelligence Committee (HPSCI) investigation and witness testimony.
Again, the cover sheets are a moot point. You might remember Representative Doug Collins releasing the witness transcripts (Bruce Ohr, etc) to the public.
Even though those House Intel and House Judiciary transcripts were released to the public, the cover sheets designate how the agencies view the testimony therein. Something can be a public record and still labeled “special intelligence,” that’s just the nature of this ridiculous classification system – or what I call the silo value.
Leon Lsays:
August 31, 2022 at 5:43 pm
Sundance at the treehouse has a piece on the latest DOJ play.
Snap
Convicted murderer Chris Dawson has been forced into the Special Management and Protection Program inside prison, as correctional officers say there are real concerns he would be “dead by Friday”.
Prison officers performed a medical assessment, and also highlighted possible threats from other inmates due to the high-profile nature of the case, and Dawson’s relationship with a schoolgirl.
Dawson, 74, was handcuffed and taken to police cells on Tuesday after being handed a guilty verdict for the murder of his wife, Lynette Dawson, 40 years ago.
The high-profile inmate was held in police cells on Tuesday night, before being transferred to the Metropolitan Remand and Reception Centre at Silverwater Correctional Complex on Wednesday morning where he underwent a comprehensive screening and health assessment.
Multiple Corrective Services sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told The Daily Telegraph Dawson was considered a “suicide risk” following Wednesday’s assessment.
“There were repeated and specific suicide threats during the assessment process,” the source said.“There was also concern that he would be the target of other inmates due to the high-profile nature of the case and his well-documented relationship with a schoolgirl”.
Officers said Dawson was seen with his “head in his hands” in a single cell inside the Special Management section of the remand centre, after being stripped of his clothes and issued a kit of prison greens.
Dawson will remain at the MRRC while he awaits the outcome of a bail application, as he plans his appeal of the murder conviction.
The Special Management and Protection program will see Dawson housed in a single-bed cell in an area designed to restrict movements and interactions.
“Dawson will be housed in a one-out cell by himself, due to the nature of his case,” another source said. “Management intervened to enforce special protections to be imposed.
Daily Tele
What are the odds Dictator Dan will put mandates back on after the election? Asking for a friend.
St Ruth earlier.
Good for you, champ.
But it does sound a tiny bit like you are trying to convince yourself.
Mary McCord looks like an alien with a bad wig, Leon.
What are you worried about?
He can’t lock down Kyoto.
I’m back!
What’s happened the last couple of weeks?
Killary’s risotto recipe on her phone.
.1 Fry onion and garlic over a medium heat to soften;
.2 Lower heat and add one cup of arborio rice.
.3 Bring stock to simmer in separate pan.
.4 Tenderise this electronic device with a #8 aluminium meat mallet.
Winston!
not food, anway.
I’m pretty sure she was good at cooking books.
Holy Rainbow Serpents….if I had sold mah abode in 2006, invested all the dosh in FMG and lived on the streets till now I’d have enough left over to buy a house next door to Andrew Forrest. Life is sooooo unfair.
WB Winston.
The bloke has had 40 years on the lamb.. he deserves to spend the rest of his time in gaol.
Classic response from a bully who has lost control over his sad little world.
Footy groupies aren’t a recent phenomenon. Surprising more of them haven’t been done (the footballers that is. LOL)
JC,
You joked you are innocent as we’re not even in Australia in the 90’s.
You forget where you are. VICPOL’s detectives are so good they convicted a Cardinal of offences based on overwhelming evidence that proved his innocence. They were successful because they believed and pushed one account over that of a Cardinal and multiple witnesses on his side.
with threats of ‘I’ll spill the beans on your schoolgirl harem and out JC threesome’, no doubt.
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
·
He is publicly admitting what people were smeared as “Russian disinformation agents” have been saying for over a year.
So what happened Winston?
Toxic shock from drinking 4x?
Happens all the time, or so it is said. Usually, it’s an attempt to get onto the ‘good pills’, or best case – if they can scam it – go straight to a prison ward in one of the bigger hospitals because mental ‘elf.
What these muppets almost never fail to appreciate is that all this gets them is 23 hours a day looking at the same wall, and the other hour looking at a different wall.
Someone upthread today mentioned smartypantses who turned out to be not so smart. Throw this bloke on the pile.
We’re all focussed on the CO2-fallacy driven death of reliable power, but the growing shitstorm over nitrogen limits on farmers seems to me to be pointing to an inevitable food shortage.
It was the unspoken question during Chris Dawson’s trial that could not be openly discussed before his murder conviction: Did the ex-football star drug his wife’s drink on the night he murdered her?
Evidence heard at the trial included that Dawson repeatedly mixed drinks at the family home which made Lynette pass out, allowing him to then have sex with the schoolgirl babysitter JC.
So effective were the drinks to render her unconscious that Lynette – a social drinker in her early 30s – was sometimes so stupefied that she drifted off while still in her lounge chair.
The idea that the drinks made by Chris Dawson – a lifelong teetotaller, along with his identical twin brother Paul – could have also contained a sedative was never mentioned during the ten week trial.
What was mentioned was Lynette Dawson’s eerie last conversation with her mother Helena Simms, which was in fact the last time the then 33-year-old devoted mother-of-two ever spoke with anyone other than her violent, unfaithful husband.
Helena thought that in the conversation, Lyn sounded ‘sozzled’ and she told her mother that Chris ‘has just made me a lovely drink’.
Whether she was drugged or not, and whether Dawson then smothered his wife or killed her another way before contemplating how he could dispose of her body, Lyn’s last words have taken on a sinister significance.
Daily Mail
Yeah.
Footy players rooting 19 year olds is what it is.
Footy players who are also teachers rooting* 16 year old students is something else altogether.
….
* or raping as it is technically known in legal circles.
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
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From Mississippi.
This is what collapsing empire looks like.
dunno – I was away. FNQ out of touch with the media was absolute bliss.
Hillary don’t cook
Hillary don’t root either.
But as a dutiful spouse she lined up the intern lasses to have their frocks sprayed.
I sure hope he is guilty.
They weren’t footy groupies at that point – they were teacher groupies. A far different proposition*
* phrasing!
Should be a sobering experience to realise crims have higher moral standards than him.
Perhaps it’ll spur him to tell where the remains are and give the family some peace.
A full length rugby sock or an anklet sock?
Some memes.
Rome is often compared to modern America. History rhymes. We examine a pair of decaying superpowers, perhaps doomed to collapse.
Just finished a meeting with our German and Russian office colleagues. Russian office offering to do some of our admin work as they are unable to sell any product.
I must say old bean those Ruskis really are a dreary lot. Working with them for a long period would suck the life force out of anyone. They should bottle whatever it is and lob that across the border to Ukraine. Then watch the magic as Ukes go suicidal.
Fuck I need a whiskey or two to shake off their demeanour.
Happy Wednesday everyone!
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@RitaleRoux11
Three athletes dead at the Comrades marathon in South Africa two days ago. All were jabbed.
Wolfman Oz:
For those who are prepared, the next four years will be unforgettable… especially the heads on pikes bit.
Variety
@Variety
Charlbi Dean, a young, up-and-coming actor who most recently starred in this year’s Palme d’Or winner “Triangle of Sadness,” died Monday from an unexpected illness. She was 32.
Speaking to family members i haven’t seen since forever today.
Much amusement to hear they could live with a Labor win in Victoria if Andrews got rissoled.
Think the Liberal party should have rejected the green dream in its entirety, gone to the polls with a commitment to provide Victorians with cheap reliable power, allow mining etc and if the people reject, so be it.
Was very nice to hear well informed rejection of all that climate crap irl.
Tucker great today about the green madness: renewables, EVs, based on califucked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIcwgiCi4WE
Highlight: californication achieved total renewable power: at a time of least demand, without including LA, with massive imported gas backup; for 4 seconds.
And don’t forget everything these idiots are doing rub and tug and turtle are going to do here.
Bern earlier:
Correct.
The hoodlums at the FBI, DOJ, DNC and the White House just admitted the Mar-a-Lago raid was a fishing expedition to pin something — anything! — on their main political opponent in 2024.
Mexico would be embarrassed by the Third World gangsterism going down in Washington DC.
“Convicted murderer Chris Dawson has been forced into the Special Management and Protection Program inside prison, as correctional officers say there are real concerns he would be “dead by Friday”.
….
“There were repeated and specific suicide threats during the assessment process,” the source said.”
Nah, Dawson would never kill himself. He’s a classic narcissist who’s used to manipulating and deceiving people. No doubt he’s in shock from the verdict, I suspect his brothers and others had assured him that he’d be found not guilty. After all, he’s gotten away with murder for decades.
“Entropysays:
August 31, 2022 at 6:19 pm
I sure hope he is guilty.”
Chris Dawson is guilty.
Kate
@KateTalksTruth
WATCH: Dimitrov is forced to retire in his opening match at the Winston Salem Open, U.S. Open series, after experiencing dizziness and shortness of breath in the second set.
Lynn Dawson did not kill herself.
Kate
@KateTalksTruth
Alex Berenson tells @JoeRogan how he won his case + got his account reinstated—and the pressure coming directly from the White House to silence him for “misinformation”
Yet Australia can produce enough to feed itself 3 times over and has enough energy resources to be a super power.
Struth, the 3 times over bit is if we import enough diesel and fertiliser. Wonder what it is if we don’t and rely on what we make here. Tighten belts.
I’m starting to think a new dark age is about to be upon us. Blow up hydro dams, blow up coal fired power. Wonder where the energy to build solar cells and windmills will come from?
Unlikely.
Not many come back from that.
Not recognisably, anyway.
Anybody still in Victoriastan at this point will have no problem with a Chairman win.
I probably shouldn’t be so hard on ‘trusted bloggers’.
After all, here’s one from somewhere favoured by St. Ruth and the Campists:
If you take out the last bit, because 1984 was actually upon us 38 years ago, it’s not soooo bad. People here have argued this exact point. But in the very same piece – it’s not a separate ad:
Gold. Just gold. Kryptonite and shedding children.
By the way, I looked. It’s not a satire piece.
“Fair Shakesays:
August 31, 2022 at 6:39 pm
Lynn Dawson did not kill herself.”
Yep, and Lyn Dawson did not run off and join a cult.
KD earlier.
That was me.
It was an observation that, in my experience, schoolteachers – particularly male schoolteachers – have an almost unshakable faith in their own abilities, and believe they are far superior to mere mortals in most facets of life.
Dawson was probably at the pinnacle of this delusional heap.
He didn’t get away with it for forty years because he was smart. He avoided detection because the detectives chose to not do any detecting.
Far from being smart, he left a trail like m0nty trudging through powdery snow.
FMD, if he had come up against the likes of Ron Iddles or Charlie Bezzina, he would have been hauled in for several successive fireside chats, culminating in him fessing up within weeks.
Eyriesays:
August 31, 2022 at 6:42 pm
I’m starting to think a new dark age is about to be upon us. Blow up hydro dams, blow up coal fired power. Wonder where the energy to build solar cells and windmills will come from?
Chynerr, using coal exported by Australia.
the 4 horseman always come as a team
Certainly.
Instead, he came up against some blokes who knew full well that if they asked the wrong (right) questions, they’d be throwing away 20+ years’ worth of free schnitties and schooners at a particular Leagues club.
Not widely known that Australian techies from UNSW basically set up Chinese solar panel manufacturing.
When globalisation seemed like a good thing.
imagine, you get an IP address for life
Bezzina.
Iddles.
Rowland Legg.
Jeff Maher.
Sol Solomon.
Allan Birch.
Any of those blokes could freeze a bloke’s brain and loosen his tongue within 15 minutes, all through (verbal) communication skills. And their very presence.
Matrix slow down some are still confused about ddns.
Damn straight.
Even if they were maaates, they could have easily got themselves off the investigation due perceived bias.
But no.
They inserted themselves in it, sat on their hands and destroyed the files of information gathered by those coppers having a fair dinkum crack at it.
He’s a classic narcissist who’s used to manipulating and deceiving people.
Yep.
“How can we be caught – we’re too clever”.
Perth coppers of the 1970’s had their own private room, at one notorious strip club…..
Perth coppers of the 1970’s had their own private room, at one notorious strip club…..
Was that the one run by one “Stormy Summers”?
Knowing a chap who knows a couple of those chaps, he assures me that, after a couple of softening up discussions, these blokes could make a stone cry.
No use of phone books or rubber hoses.
Just persistent quiet and methodical questioning.
Half the crooks are left thinking they have zero options left and, amazingly, the interrogator is their new bestie.
yup – where’s the investigation into the hand-sitting and ‘lost’ files ?
“The House of a Hundred Beers” on William Street’”
A bit more polite than what I replied with:
“If i wanted to have Green policies I’d vote Green not the f**king useless excuse of an opposition that is the Liberal Party. Go f**k yourself !”
“The House of a Hundred Beers” on William Street’”
Ok the one I was thinking of was in North Perth.
We’re all focussed on the CO2-fallacy driven death of reliable power, but the growing shitstorm over nitrogen limits on farmers seems to me to be pointing to an inevitable food shortage.
How isn’t this a controlled demolition?
LOL! New talking point just dropped.
They are getting dumber.
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““If i wanted to have Green policies I’d vote Green not the f**king useless excuse of an opposition that is the Liberal Party. Go f**k yourself !””
That’s a more polite version of an email I sent to Dave Sharma back in February.
The case in Western Australia – “We don’t need to lay a finger on the crooks. A skilled interrogator starts them tripping themselves up, then they cough.”
Go f**k yourself !”
Matt emails me often, pretty much every reply ends with this.
So fucking dumb they can’t beat the corrupt and hated Bat Eared Mong.
m0ntysays:
August 31, 2022 at 7:34 pm
As to the actual nature of the material in the photograph staged by the DOJ for media use, many of the documents you see in the picture are transcripts from the 2018 House Intelligence Committee (HPSCI) investigation and witness testimony.
LOL! New talking point just dropped.
They are getting dumber.
Still a long way to sink before they reach your level m0nty-fa.
PS, still no response on the reverse version of the answers you demanded form Dover earlier? Too shy to admit how much abortion policy you support?
Dickless is back with shit oozing out of each orifice. Sorry about that image, which probably understates the situation but I’ve just spent the last 3 days arguing at the Spec against 2 self appointed alarmists representing the esteemed scientific and educational community who are suffering at the hands of the deplorable denier ferrals. One of these cankers actually said deniers were worse than gender diversity opponents. He/she/it had a real tizzy when I identified as both.
Americans one crisis away from starvation – The odds of this many food supply chain issues happening at once are so astronomical as to be impossible… Unless by design
m0ntysays:
August 31, 2022 at 7:34 pm
[As to the actual nature of the material in the photograph staged by the DOJ for media use, many of the documents you see in the picture are transcripts from the 2018 House Intelligence Committee (HPSCI) investigation and witness testimony.]
LOL! New talking point just dropped.
They are getting dumber.
OK m0nty, here’s your chance to destroy that talking point.
Explain why Trump should be charged over the way he keeps documents that are already on the public record.
(And while you’re at it, tell me that you support my “protected species, not full legal personality” campaign to solve your Dobbs-related woes.)
If this is true , its actually funny zerohedge.com/markets/china-aggressively-reselling-russian-gas-europe
Outrageous, yes. Surprising, no.
Outrageous! Person chosen to lead 87,000 new IRS agents will make your blood boil
‘We will be moving quickly with our work’
On homicide investigators.
My mate (who had more of a Robbers Squad sort of CV) used to whinge that homicide had it easy because they weren’t dealing with career crooks.
Which is only partially a joke.
Although the TeeVee crime shows focus heavily on serial killers and gangland hits, a large proportion of murders are committed by people with a very minor conviction record, or a totally clean sheet.
It was Nikita Khrushchev who signed away those Russian territories to the Ukraine, he was the First Secretary of the Soviet Union and therefore had the authority to reassign the borders between the various Soviet Socialist Republics. Nikita Khrushchev was a Ukrainian.
One morning in the 1960’s the Russians living in Kherson (for example) woke up and were told that they were now living in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic rather than the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic; it probably mattered not to them at all, they still had to go to their dreary job at the Number 43 Tractor Factory where “they pretended to work and the Party pretended to pay them.”
Then the Soviet Union collapsed and the member states became independent countries within the borders allocated by Mr. Khrushchev, none of his successors troubled themselves to return to the historical arrangements.
The Russians living in the current borders initially had no problems living in the Ukraine, then their government was targetted by one of Mr. Obama’s “colour revolutions” and their lives changed for the worse. A shadowy foreign power now controls the Ukraine and those people want a war with Russia so persecutions of various sorts against the ethnic Russians began. This was to force Russia into a war which would drain its treasury and wear them down so as to replace the leadership in that country.
My personal view is that Russia would probably be better off with a new leader, I’m of the opinion that no nation benefits from having the same leader for years and years, just look at the backward state of Spain under Franco, and Ireland under that Spanish/American usurper Eamon de Valera, both of them hung around way past their use-by dates. Nevertheless, I’m against globalist takeovers, let the Russians decide their own future.
This is not a battle between the West and Russia, it’s a battle between some shadowy force which controls all of us, billionaires who want to inject you with heavens knows what, people who want you to eat bugs and give up your freedoms, this is not what any of us want and I’m not going to cheer them on in their efforts to take down Russia.
That no good nagging woman, I just saw red.
Exactly so.
PML and Kroger are gutless shitheads; they only disagree with the pace of fazing in of renewables not renewables or climate change themselves.
Was Wokeism seeded by foreign entities? (Peter Boghossian & Bret Weinstein)
DarkHorse Podcast Clips
Bret Speaks with Peter Boghossian on a multitude of subjects surrounding wokeism, Covid, and the endpoint of our present course.
Katie Hopkins.
Heat banks? Re-educating people to give up independent life. Dependency is beguilingly easy
Ok people ! Take your kids out of uni and put them into electrician school…
Install one 15 amp power point at rear wall of house….( and check that it is safe) …$573
Glad I didn’t want the house rewired !
Yes.
That sort of thing makes up a good proportion of the clientele of homicide.
When I said TeeVee crime shows focus on serial killers and gangster hits, there is another genre.
That is, the dumb and dumber first (and only) timers.
One of the most celebrated was the Wales-King murders twenty years ago.
Beta son kills domineering mother and stepfather, possibly egged on by his bride.
Gives them a sedative mixed with soup, but undercooks the dose.
Clubs them to death. With an object from the house.
Wraps them in a doona. Yes, yes, from the house.
Hires a trailer for carting the bodies. With his credit card.
Whilst cruising around the hills looking for a burial site, he bought petrol and a map. With his credit card.
And so on.
I believe a couple of coppers initially thought it was so inept it had to be an overcooked frame-up attempt.
how long did it take?
“the west is tearing apart every functional structure and replacing it with a fairy tale”
enemy action or voluntary suicide? seems both are in play. Either way a dark age is coming.
TFM:
I’d like to see the Irish Farmers tell the government to get knotted, and see if they’re game enough to send the police to these farms to shoot the cattle the government deems to be excessive.
Remember the story of the French Secret Service team that sank the “Rainbow Warrior?”
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Old bloke @ 8:14 pm
Very good comment IMO.
Back in ’50/’51 in my primary school years here in Sydney we had a very popular skipping game we’d play – Vote, vote, vote for de Valera.
I don’t think any of us knew who he was.
Talking to people in those circumstances is both an art and a science. None of those blokes mentioned had form for arresting pregnant Ballarat chicks in their PJs during an ill-conceived search warrant.
Associates of mine used to refer to that office as ‘The Library’, again as a partial joke because it was so quiet compared to the mosh pit-style offices they were from. On the occasions they had to go in there they would tip toe around and shoosh people.
The excruciating part of TV detective dramas is twofold: Almost none of the crooks use a lawyer, & they all shoot their mouth off ninety-to-the-dozen.
Were they to STFU, fold their arms, & not say a bluddee thing without a lawyer, most of them would never go to jail – the scriptwriting is so bad there’s almost nothing you could pin on most of them, if only they’d STFU.
Matrix Transformation
How long did it take ?
Two hours
Fark!
Err, the ‘check safety’ isn’t an extra.
I had a couple of sparkies in today.
Hanging a large light fitting (supplied by us) and installing a power point.
A bit of dicking around, but not more than two hours go-to-whoa.
I dunno what it will cost.
But I am expecting $40/hr x 2 for the apprentice, $60/hr x 2 for the tradie, and no more than $20 for materials (a length of conduit, couple of metres of cable, clips, GPO, etc).
$220 – $250 I think.
But I might get a shock – he he.
wokeism is a form of extreme fascism that will use technology to monitor and control every single aspect of your life. you can kiss liberal democracy goodbye
cable has doubled in 12 months. For 2.5 twin you’re looking at nearly $2 per meter
conduit is like $5 per 4m length
GPOs are pretty cheap … $10-ish
dont forget travel and whether or not it ruins a whole day
$60 per h is low
more like $80 to 85
chrisl might have got robbed but only a little bit
The French team stayed at a motel owned by then PM David Longey.
we got a plumber to move a toilet inlet half a meter
and bed the pan
existing pan collar stayed but with new rubber insert.
$500.
we supplied the dunny
and I fixed the plaster myself
Curses, meant to say, I will only say zis once.
Sporty Beamer news (the Hun):
And:
And:
I’m going to say it.
Bing-Bong! Approaching cheating husband. Bing-Bong!
Yeah.
$80 for the tradie and $50 for the apprentice will get me to $300.
It’s barely 15 minutes from town so travel isn’t a killer.
I usually try to make it easy for them to keep the time down.
Example. Don’t pay tradie rate for moving furniture and shit out of the way or vacuuming afterwards.
“wokeism is a form of extreme fascism that will use technology to monitor and control every single aspect of your life. you can kiss liberal democracy goodbye”
Wokeism is cultural socialism, an ideology embraced by the young. Democracy is now dead.
You want to know what’s really sad? Apart from the four years of Donald Trump, who was a fighter and who did fight, and a few others in the US, notably Governor Ron De Santis in Florida, nobody else on the right, across the west, be it here in Oz, New Zealand, UK, Canada, has attempted to fight back against this cultural socialism. I don’t see much hope here in Oz, there might be hope in the US if De Santis nominates and wins. Personally, Top Gov is my guy for 2024.
Ms Kennedy has admitted to assaulting Ms Noring after the incident by punching her multiple times in the back of the head, but her defence counsel contends she never had an intention to hit or disable the pair.
Sounds totally believable to me.
I mean who hasn’t totally accidentally caused potential serious injury to someone and then immediately punched the shit out of them?
Putin is “ex KGB” and hates the West and freedom.
Putin isn’t “standing up” to Biden and Obama, they’re his allies.
His “defences” of normality and Christendom are more to do with Russia facing massive population/demographic issues, his love of the church is just as cynical as Stalin’s temporary rehabilitation of the Orthodox Church in WWII. As roger has pointed out. Kiril is an “ex” KGB asset.
He is allied to China and North Korea.
I suggest you actually read Chinese propaganda, or modern military doctrine.
They used to believe in just taking back Taiwan. They’ve moved onto actual global domination.
If they win, they will not be pleasant overlords, as we joke about as an alternative the fascist shitheads we already have in charge.
Install one 15 amp power point at rear wall of house….( and check that it is safe) …$573
Install one inside power point, and one outside?
2.5 hours of work by one bloke: $600
time’s the killer
get somebody you trust
don’t ask for a quote
probs do OK
I bet the dashcam footage went straight in the bin.
As for COIVD:
No, it wasn’t created in a lab.
There is evidence it has been in the west for at least 10 months longer than we realised. It may have just been natural evolution. Maybe there was a prior leak?
All of the nefarious stuff, likely funded or influenced by the CCP, was merely opportunistic; wargamed and strategised over and over again in different scenarios.
If you think disloyal, envious and unwise people are allied to evil foreign powers with a destructive ideology, if they are capable of enslaving you, assuming they’re stupid (as opposed to unwise) is quite a heroic assumption.
re: Areff’s
Spy Chief: Well, Agent Perkins-Smythe, we sent you into the Solomons on the fear the garage-Nazi threat was growing there. What is the situation?
Agent: Sir, I’ve assessed the situation, and the Solomons… is on the brink.
Spy Chief: The brink!? The brink of a garage-Nazi takeover??
Agent: No, on the brink of being able to build garages, sir.
wokeism has evolved out of cultural socialism, it is now a self perpetuating ideology of total destruction of everything critical for a functioning society. impartial law enforcement is dead. food production will be decimated. energy production is already being eradicated . private property is not far behind. total tracking and control is the aim of this ideology. wokeism is evolving into a form of techno fascism that is unique in world history.
“Putin is “ex KGB” and hates the West and freedom.”
Just like every progressive in the West.
According to Nein news, though, she recovered her faculties quite promptly and the fainting couch was not required:-
Reading above about TV detective shows, one of the better ones is Foxtel’s “The First 48”.
Real life US homicide detectives on the job, and although highly edited, it is instructive how many murderers are so easily caught either by informants, aka “snitches” and clues from their mobile phones. Phones are tracked and place the killer at the scene of the crime or the idiots text their mates about the crime they just committed.
Also, when caught, very few “lawyer up” and then talk themselves into prison.
As you would expect from a US crime series, most are girlfriend or drug related and most of the victims and killers are black or Hispanic.
we dont do light and power and dont do domestic
dont even ask what what we actually do … seriously youse have no clue we even exist
depending on the client, materials always go in the quote at 50% margin (35% if you’re a known quantity)
and labour is a guess
on paper every quote looks like looks like a 35%-er
in reality everything’s a 16%-er
sometimes you win, sometimes you lose
Crikey, what’s got into the tradesmen in Sancho-land?
They’re working for scab-labour prices.
Average price here; Tradesman $100 hr, apprentice $60 hr.
Fee for attending job: $30 – $100 ($90 = a good average “attendance charge”)
They charge in quarter hour blocks, like solicitors.
So if they’re One hour & 3 minutes, you pay $125 for the tradesman.
Note: These prices are all GST-exclusive, add 11% for what will be printed on the invoice.
This is the “in-town” rate. Heaven only knows what anyone outside the streetlights & 60kph zone would pay.
“Her voice was low and gentle – always excellent in a woman.”
the dna of wokeism is pure communism. its mantra of diversity, inclusion and equity is pure schizophrenia. the woke are not allied to any nation, they may be funded by enemies and the ideas were no doubt seeded by the ccp and the soviets. but the woke are globalists.
I reckon I had it in May 2019
same symptoms, rapid onset, was crook more or less until November
…the day it came on was the same day I had ‘free’ flu shot while working at Richmond Health
There is evidence it has been in the west for at least 10 months longer than we realised.
I reckon I caught it on a flight to Dublin 4Q 2019.
The way to get anything done around here is-
1- court a FIFO with drinks, food, cash and flexible time window
2 -get your own materials -name yer contractor mate if they give you any static at the electric depot, dredge the salvage yard for anything tidy
and be the TA/gopher yourself
this is even worst an idea than digital currency. given how fascist the woke have become, it would be a tyranny of unimaginable consequences.
Light reading
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-spain-science-idUSKBN23X2HQ
(It’s okay guys, Snopes debunked it so we know it is actually correct).
no more than $20 for materials (a length of conduit, couple of metres of cable, clips, GPO, etc).
I just got a $6k bill for setting up the metering station on the farm. Lucky I did most of the work myself!!!
No-one charges call-outs down here.
Almost everyone charges fairly, except one sparky, who will be fine until the inevitable downturn comes.
As for my dodgy combi boiler, I had to eventually shove money at the plumber because he felt guilty installing what turned out to be a lemon (manufacturers fault, not his).
Yes, really.
Here’s another tip.
Treat them like people, not servants.
The same plumber told me he wasn’t coming back to that heater because the previous owner of the house was a complete bitch.
This might involve paying for ten minutes of small talk.
and then imagine yr last email is,
“due to constraints on the number of available individual IP allocations, we regret to inform you that yours has been re-allocated. Thanks for understanding’
Microdots can be fairly cheaply produced now, the best way to not be debanked is crypto currency and not a stupid one like government coin, Fed coin or Doge.
Physical cash can probably be tracked fairly easily now.
Snopes debunked it so we know it is actually correct
Speaking of Snopes, where’s Munty? Gone for a lie down after the shit blizzard he produced today?
In my wildest dreams I could never wire up a power point back to the metre box and test it. Or supply a safety certificate. And the tools required would cost more than the job is worth. But as a tradie myself I would think that $50-60 per hour is a fair rate of pay
Mr Snopes is such an astonishingly tawdry individual. Befitting really.