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Boulevard de Clichy, Paul Signac, 1886

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rickw
rickw
September 1, 2022 5:37 pm

being a part of a whole group of female leaders being asked to make mining a great place for women to work.

Company rooted.

Zipster
Zipster
September 1, 2022 5:42 pm

Hi, just had my first 4 days of Rio Tinto training and am waiting for my plane home (Brisbane). Wow, mining is changing and I’m proud to say your Mum is going to play a part in that change, being a part of a whole group of female leaders being asked to make mining a great place for women to work. We have a big job ahead, I’m nervous but also excited.

excited huh, pity about the declining birth rate

Roger
Roger
September 1, 2022 5:44 pm

He makes no bones about the fact that all governments in the last 20 years in this country have disgracefully left us exposed to a successful attack by China.

How many of our exleaders have ended up with sinecures directly or indirectly funded by Chicom interests?

MatrixTransform
September 1, 2022 5:45 pm

Kneel, are you Ethan Hunt?

i reckon he’s the love-child of Jason Bourne and DB Cooper … about the right age too

rickw
rickw
September 1, 2022 5:45 pm

How many of our exleaders have ended up with sinecures directly or indirectly funded by Chicom interests?

Can we do this the easy way? Name those that haven’t?

Roger
Roger
September 1, 2022 5:48 pm

if only… the church though is dying a slow death in the face of liberalism and scientism

That only applies to the church in the West, and even then it’s not wholly applicable.

Frank
Frank
September 1, 2022 5:49 pm

Man. She used to be one of the most gorgeous women on the planet.

Anno domini. Time is a cruel mistress, even the lovely Ms Belluci is starting to slow down.

Tom
Tom
September 1, 2022 5:49 pm

Man. She used to be one of the most gorgeous women on the planet.

Catherine Deneuve was stunning until she hit 50. Now pushing 80, she looks like a dog.

Nature is very cruel to the most beautiful women in old age. There’s a message in that which they won’t hear.

It’s hard to stay beautiful on the outside if your head is full of shit.

Roger
Roger
September 1, 2022 5:52 pm

Can we do this the easy way? Name those that haven’t?

I’d suggest only Abbott (out of principle) and Gillard (because she’s next to useless anyway).

Makka
Makka
September 1, 2022 5:52 pm

Zipstersays:
September 1, 2022 at 5:42 pm

Sounds like it was written by some HR drone to pump up the ESG.

Top Ender
Top Ender
September 1, 2022 5:53 pm

Wouldn’t have that trouble if we didn’t have two separate flags for around 3% of the population:

Anthony Albanese’s jobs summit has been marred by an embarrassing faux pas when the Aboriginal flag was hung upside down for half the first day.

The Indigenous flag was displayed alongside the Australian and Torres Strait Islander insignias at the meeting on Thursday at the meeting of 140 government and business leaders.

Despite being in the background as the prime minister addressed the summit, the issue was not rectified and continued to hang wrongly for hours.

The black half of the flag, which represents the Aboriginal people, is supposed to be at the top when it is flown, and instead the red half was hung at the top.

bespoke
bespoke
September 1, 2022 5:54 pm

No women worked underground until I left. I was told they are good truck drivers by a bloke still working there.

Thought it a bit of un fare criticism.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
September 1, 2022 5:55 pm

The Self-Castration Of The US Military

The pussification of the US Armed Forces continues, thanks to its woke senior leadership

What in the actual hell?!:

A division of the U.S. Pacific Air Forces (PACAF), the branch tasked with confronting China, has ordered its senior leaders and commanders to stop using gender pronouns in written formats, saying the shift to more neutral language will help improve the fighting force’s “lethality.”

“In accordance with the Diverse PACAF priority, ‘We must embrace, promote and unleash the potential of diversity and inclusion,” states a May email sent to senior leaders and commanders at the Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, which operates under the Pacific Air Forces, according to a partial copy of the order obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

Leaders at the base are instructed, “Do not use pronouns, age, race, etc.” when writing performance reviews or other materials, such as recommendations for awards. “Competition against near-peer adversaries requires a united focus from the command, the joint team, and our international partners. Welcoming and employing varied perspectives from a foundation of mutual respect will improve our interoperability, efficiency, creativity, and lethality.”

The WFB has a screenshot of the actual order. Go see it for yourself. A spokesman for the military said, presumably with a straight (ahem) face:

Unleashing the potential of diversity and inclusion at all levels is a Pacific Air Forces’ priority and something we strive for at Andersen,” the spokesman said. “Diversity and inclusion are force multipliers and warfighting imperatives that enable our competitive advantage against near-peer adversaries.”

This is what these lunatics, in every institution, tell themselves: that whatever crackpot diversity thing they support, it makes us STRONGER. It’s just an empty assertion, nothing more. That’s it! I bet you more than half the people in authority who repeat this garbage don’t believe it. They say it because they want to get ahead. This is what you call “ketman”. From my book Live Not By Lies:

It is difficult for people raised in the free world to grasp the breadth and the depth of lying required simply to exist under communism. All the lies, and lies about lies, that formed the communist order were built on the basis of this foundational lie:

the communist state is the sole source of truth. Orwell expressed this truth in Nineteen Eighty-Four: “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

Under the dictatorship of Big Brother, the Party understands that by changing language—Newspeak is the Party’s word for the jargon it imposes on society—it controls the categories in which people think. “Freedom” is slavery, “truth” is falsehood, and so forth. Doublethink—“holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them”—is how people learn to submit their minds to the Party’s ideology. If the Party says 2 + 2 = 5, then 2 + 2 = 5. The goal is to convince the person that all truth exists within the mind, and the rightly ordered mind believes whatever the Party says is true.

Orwell writes:

It was as though some huge force were pressing down upon you—something that penetrated inside your skull, battering against your brain, frightening you out of your beliefs, persuading you, almost, to deny the evidence of your senses. In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience but the very existence of external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 1, 2022 5:58 pm

Price calls out upside down Aboriginal flag at summit
Tricia Rivera
TRICIA RIVERA

Country Liberal Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has called out the government for displaying the Aboriginal flag upside down at the Jobs and Skills Summit.

Senator Price posted a photo to her Facebook of Treasurer Jim Chalmers standing in front of the incorrectly hung flag.

“With all the virtuous expression of respect for Aboriginal Australians or as Labor call us ‘First Nations’ and all the carry on with strategically placing the flag prominently to express this deep virtue you’d think that this Albanese government could actually hang it the right way up?” Senator Price wrote on social media.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 1, 2022 5:59 pm

Yerhonner
I put him in a blender and flushed him down the toilet over the course of 15 flushes.
Can I go now?

No.
That will be 15 counts of “Interfering with a corpse” and 15 breaches of the Environment Protection Act S 74 for illegal discharge through a sewer connection.
Shall I continue?

rickw
rickw
September 1, 2022 6:00 pm

The black half of the flag, which represents the Aboriginal people, is supposed to be at the top when it is flown, and instead the red half was hung at the top.

Competence is not their strong suit.

Anchor What
Anchor What
September 1, 2022 6:02 pm

Alf Garnett: Summit! I’d give ’em summit to talk about.

Perth Trader
Perth Trader
September 1, 2022 6:03 pm

re investing money…”Buy low , sell high”.. ya cant help but make money.

Top Ender
Top Ender
September 1, 2022 6:03 pm

Nice deflection…avoids blaming loonie green schemes while getting new power grid going:

Boris ‘goes nuclear’ as he prepares to sign off on first of EIGHT new atomic reactors: PM to announce part-takeover of £20bn Sizewell C and plan to build one power station EVERY year until 2030 to solve energy crisis sparked by Putin’s Ukraine invasion

Albo? Anyone seen the Aussie PM?

Daily Mail

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
September 1, 2022 6:03 pm

22,000 Colorado Households Lose Control of Their Home Thermostats During Heat Wave as Power Company Locks Out Air Conditioning Use

September 1, 2022 – Sundance

Indoor temperatures began climbing, and when formerly free-range residents attempted to adjust their air conditioning, they discovered they were locked out from control in their own home as the power company took over.

Comrade Citizens, it is important that we support the needs of the energy collective. All good thinking citizens put the needs of the state ahead of their selfish desires.

As the national energy emergency now begins to unfold, the officials in charge of energy resource equity remind everyone how critical it is to remain compliant with all ministerial energy objectives. Compliance is expected from all correct thinking citizens.

As long as you remain compliant, there is no reason for concern. Do not attempt to adjust your household allocation of energy. Energy advisors will be made available for enhanced personal education to explain the benefits of our Green New Deal. Your cooperation is appreciated

Frank
Frank
September 1, 2022 6:04 pm

Long lunch hey?

Roger
Roger
September 1, 2022 6:04 pm

The black half of the flag, which represents the Aboriginal people, is supposed to be at the top when it is flown, and instead the red half was hung at the top.

Competence is not their strong suit.

The photo of Elbow giving Shaq the Rabbitohs jersey showed the price tag still attached.

JC
JC
September 1, 2022 6:06 pm

Perth Trader says:
September 1, 2022 at 6:03 pm

re investing money…”Buy low , sell high”.. ya cant help but make money.

Sure, but what about selling high and then buying low? 🙂

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 1, 2022 6:07 pm

Competence is not their strong suit.

Albo’s pretty good at fighting Tories…

Dot
Dot
September 1, 2022 6:07 pm

Thought it a bit of un fare criticism.

Why though?

Perth Trader
Perth Trader
September 1, 2022 6:08 pm

JCsays:
September 1, 2022 at 6:06 pm…..that will work too.

Razey
Razey
September 1, 2022 6:08 pm

rickwsays:
September 1, 2022 at 4:42 pm
Modern crony capitalism however way you vote.

“Crony capitalism”, AKA fascism.

It’s fascism.

I have no doubt that many big businesses told Dickhead Dan that they could deliver on employee vaccination.

They wouldn’t have so merrily violated laws on coercion if they weren’t in full cooperation.

And the only reason they really get away with their mandates is because of the mega debt load most people are carrying. Much easier to tell the fascists to pound sand if there is no mortgage hanging over your head.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 1, 2022 6:09 pm

Rogersays:

September 1, 2022 at 12:51 pm

In the case of murder, the bar for a return to society should be set high, both for the protection of society and the satisfaction of justice – in laymen’s terms the punishment must fit the crime.

Anything less cheapens human life.

Agree Roger.
When the death sentence was scrapped, advocates of abolition campaigned with assurances that murderers could be given whole-of-life sentences.
The ink was barely dry on abolition when we started hearing how full life sentences were crushing and unfair.
The default setting should be whole-of-life for murder with parole being a rare exeption. One of the conditions of release on parole would be disclosure of location of remains.
If you can’t produce that for whatever reason, I guess you can file that under “B” for Bad Luck.

Dot
Dot
September 1, 2022 6:09 pm

Hi, just had my first 4 days of Rio Tinto training and am waiting for my plane home (Brisbane). Wow, mining is changing and I’m proud to say your Mum is going to play a part in that change, being a part of a whole group of female leaders being asked to make mining a great place for women to work. We have a big job ahead, I’m nervous but also excited.

Trades or STEM?

No?

You ain’t doing jackshit, love.

The Beer whisperer
The Beer whisperer
September 1, 2022 6:10 pm

Clennell today asked Perrottet when he was going to do something about the train strikes!

As far as I can tell, both train drivers and nurses are after more than they’ve ever had. It’s not like the Gliberals have taken anything away.

There’s an election coming, and Labor lackeys are doing their boss’s bidding.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
September 1, 2022 6:12 pm

The Anger Games, Tucker Carlson Outlines the Hatred of Biden Toward a Nation He Divides

Tucker Carlson delivered a hard-hitting monologue last night, hitting the agenda of the installed occupant of the White House directly on target. Within the outline, Carlson notes the background of an angry, bitter and disconnected divider-in-chief and the hate-filled agenda he espouses. {Direct Rumble Link}

It is a remarkable moment captured and broadcast by Mr. Carlson, less than 24-hours before Joe Biden is scheduled to lay out his divisive national agenda of hate during a primetime speech on Thursday evening. WATCH:

Full Transcript – Here

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 1, 2022 6:18 pm

You ain’t doing jackshit, love.

Oh. You know her, then.

Roger
Roger
September 1, 2022 6:19 pm

If you can’t produce that for whatever reason, I guess you can file that under “B” for Bad Luck.

Returning murderers to society is a highly conditioned privilege, never a right.

I’m not saying it should never happen, but it should be the exception rather than the rule.

The sentiment that prevails in general society on this matter is sound, in contrast to the sentiments of the activists you mention, Sancho

cohenite
September 1, 2022 6:23 pm

Gold is stupid.

Its not a fucking IQ test. I’ve got a little explorer/imminent producer: a million 0z plus a lot of base metals, JORC expanding fast, brownfields location, lots of infrastructure and suitable for open cut; 1/2 billion shares issued; a tight focused admin. Fluctuating between 7c-9c. Undervalued or what.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 1, 2022 6:26 pm

When the death sentence was scrapped, advocates of abolition campaigned with assurances that murderers could be given whole-of-life sentences.

I remember that debate “Life would mean life – murderers would die behind bars.”

I also remember a case in Western Australia – a convicted murderer was sentenced to hang. He was reprieved, sentenced to life imprisonment. He was released on parole, and went on to commit another murder…..

cohenite
September 1, 2022 6:27 pm

OldOzziesays:
September 1, 2022 at 6:12 pm
The Anger Games, Tucker Carlson Outlines the Hatred of Biden Toward a Nation He Divides

Seriously, this diseased old pervert and his minders should be executed. The mid terms are fucked. Something big is going to happen. This disgusting old, lying creep will concoct a crisis and they will be abandoned.

m0nty
September 1, 2022 6:34 pm

Dover, out of the twitter accounts you cite with respect to the war and Wall Street Journal, which would you tend to believe has more cred?

The Russian bots tend to confirm his strong priors.

Mater
September 1, 2022 6:36 pm

Except this time it was Top Secret humint documents.

Monty, the way you add and emphasis the ‘humint’ word makes you look more like a fucking ignorant idiot than your already substantial reputation.

The ‘humint’ part doesn’t make it super-dooper-extra-special Top Secret.

Humint is just another Intelligence Gathering Discipline, and just lets people know how they came about the information, allowing them to better judge it’s bonafides and credibility. It DOESN’T factor into the rating system. Top Secret is Top Secret whether it’s HUMINT, SIGINT, GEOINT, etc.

HUMINT can come from something as simple as a Customs Officer interviewing a Kansas farmer returning from a site seeing trip to China, and it can be rather nebulous information. Most of it is. A NOC list is NOT HUMINT…unless its the other sides NOC list gathered by interviewing an enemy agent.

Do stop trying to over egg the custard by using terms you clearly have no idea about. You look foolish, and degrade this site.

Trust me, I know what I’m talking about. It’s clear you don’t.

cohenite
September 1, 2022 6:37 pm

The Russian bots tend to confirm his strong priors.

As does your dicklessness.

The Beer whisperer
The Beer whisperer
September 1, 2022 6:37 pm

I’ve got a little explorer/imminent producer: a million 0z plus a lot of base metals, JORC expanding fast, brownfields location, lots of infrastructure and suitable for open cut; 1/2 billion shares issued; a tight focused admin. Fluctuating between 7c-9c. Undervalued or what.

C’mon, Cohenite. Don’t leave us hanging. Who are they? Inquiring minds want to know.

Indolent
Indolent
September 1, 2022 6:40 pm
cohenite
September 1, 2022 6:45 pm

C’mon, Cohenite. Don’t leave us hanging. Who are they? Inquiring minds want to know.

I’ll divulge if head prefect promises not to short.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Which is the more serious;
Top Secret Humint
Nuclear Secrets

& which was it that was laying scattered across the floor of Trump’s changeroom?

custard
custard
September 1, 2022 6:48 pm

So it was all about the Iran Nuclear Deal…

https://bioclandestine.substack.com/p/its-about-iran-the-iran-deal

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 1, 2022 6:48 pm

Monty, the way you add and emphasis the ‘humint’ word makes you look more like a fucking ignorant idiot than your already substantial reputation.

Ek roll ap die vloer and lag my gat auf……..

Johnny Rotten
September 1, 2022 6:50 pm

cohenitesays:
September 1, 2022 at 6:23 pm
Gold is stupid.

Its not a fucking IQ test. I’ve got a little explorer/imminent producer: a million 0z plus a lot of base metals, JORC expanding fast, brownfields location, lots of infrastructure and suitable for open cut; 1/2 billion shares issued; a tight focused admin. Fluctuating between 7c-9c. Undervalued or what.

“Undervalued or what”………….Not enough information to make an informed decision IMHO. You are not Spruiking by any chance?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 1, 2022 6:51 pm

Mater, 6.36:

Snork and sneer.

I may just – whenever I bother addressing the fat ranga with a Masters in Failure – which type of intel he’s on about.

Every time a plonker like this goes too far out of his lane, there’s a SME that pops up with a flame thrower.

That really was most enjoyable.

Frank
Frank
September 1, 2022 6:58 pm

“The Russian bots tend to confirm his strong priors.”

Munter brings it with the Bayesian analysis.

chrisl
chrisl
September 1, 2022 6:59 pm

Yesterday I reported on my electrician charging me $525 for putting in one (1) power point on the back of the house . For two hours work.
Today the bloke installing the heat pump tells me it is the wrong powere point ! It needs to be hard wired!
I call the electrician back and he is coming back tomorrow
I hope it’s not another $500

The Beer whisperer
The Beer whisperer
September 1, 2022 6:59 pm

I’ll divulge if head prefect promises not to short.

But we can both flaunt gains while JC coughs up another steak for a bad bet that seems impossible considering it involves The Cat’s most renowned wrongologist.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
September 1, 2022 7:01 pm

America is now suffering from a shortage of carbon dioxide

Your government at work

By Editorial Board – The Washington Times – Wednesday, August 31, 2022
OPINION:

For years crusaders like former Vice President Al Gore have claimed carbon emissions are a great threat to mankind’s continued existence. People laughed when he started. Now, thanks to unmeasurable amounts of infotainment, they take those claims seriously, embracing them with a kind of religious fervor and believing their activism is the only thing preventing the destruction of mankind.

In the just-enacted Inflation Reduction Act, for example, there are programs, tax hikes, subsidies, and grants projected to cost the economy something over $500 billion over the next ten years to bring the average global mean temperature down a fraction of a degree.

If the Chinese don’t stop building coal-fired plants to produce electricity, whatever very expensive reductions in carbon emissions the U.S. will achieve for all that money will be wiped out and then some.

This is why you should not be surprised to learn America is now suffering from a shortage of CO2, shock of shocks. CO2 has legitimate, even important industrial applications in, for example, the food and beverage industry. Reports are starting to appear that major companies food producers and giants in the over-the-counter beverage industry are at wit’s end because there isn’t enough of it to keep the fizz in your drink and your food items properly chilled as they’re moved from the factory to the frozen food aisle of your local grocery for too much longer.

Call it your government at work. Taking on problems, real and imagined, one by one, without considering how decisions made in one place or about one product might impact the entire marketplace.

Given current policy, that makes no sense whatsoever. But, to paraphrase President Ronald Reagan, the secular patron saint of the limited government movement, when did anything the federal government does make sense?

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
September 1, 2022 7:13 pm

custardsays:
September 1, 2022 at 6:48 pm
So it was all about the Iran Nuclear Deal…

It’s About The Iran Deal!

Alright, it’s time for in depth breakdown on the escalation of the Mar-a-Lago raid.

For those who didn’t see it, someone (purportedly the FBI), leaked this photo, from the FBI raid. The docs are laid out in the floor in Mar-a-Lago. While everyone is arguing about who put them there, the juice is in the photo.

I posted when I saw these dates that the big news on these days were: 1

May 9th, 2018- Trump backs out of Obama’s Iran Nuclear Deal2

August 26th, 2018- News breaks of John McCain’s death. The next day, President of Kenya meets with Trump at White House3

So why would the Biden Admin be after Trump’s documents about Obama’s Nuclear deal with Iran? Why are they so afraid of Trump having them?

I’m still unsure why these are of interest or if they are correlated, but a few hours after I posted about the Iran Deal, Trump confirmed it with a Truth quoting Paul Sperry about the docs pertaining to the Iran Deal.4

Remember the crates of cash dropped off to Iran? Plus the tens of billions of US dollars sent to Iran for them to not build nuclear weapons. Just for them to use the money Obama gave them, to build the weapons we paid them not to make…

I don’t know for sure, but it appears very much like Biden Admin weaponized the FBI to illegally retrieve these documents due to fear of Trump releasing them. Covering for their Deep State overlords.

But then we see this oddly placed TIME magazine cover, precariously snuck into the photo. And it’s clearly not there by accident. Why the hell would the FBI include it, and why does Trump have it framed and waiting for them?

Zipster
Zipster
September 1, 2022 7:13 pm

I just mentioned them as examples, the MSM coverage of Ukraine across the West is essentially the same.

in the same paragraph that they tell us the Russians occupy the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station they tell us the Russian continue to shell it and risk a nuclear accident. huh? Are the talking points written by monkeys unleashed on typewriters?? Don;t answer that.

Indolent
Indolent
September 1, 2022 7:15 pm
Zipster
Zipster
September 1, 2022 7:16 pm

I don’t know for sure, but it appears very much like Biden Admin weaponized the FBI to illegally retrieve these documents due to fear of Trump releasing them. Covering for their Deep State overlords.

The bidens are a criminal family, whose only ideology is self enrichment. Any ideological underpinning comes from the Obama clan.

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 1, 2022 7:18 pm

I wonder what people who support The Voice think it will actually do.

The Aboriginal Industry has put the goalposts on Walkabout so often good luck finding out.

custard
custard
September 1, 2022 7:19 pm

Time for Cats to read Patel Patriot substack and certainly Q posts to understand the Mar-a-Lago raid.

The Time magazine cover was in a Q post!

No conspiracy theories, no coincidences.

Tom
Tom
September 1, 2022 7:21 pm

Bloody hell. The AFL is a circus for political radicals: blackfella reparations followed by a white self-hatred ceremony. We’re being laughed at scammers.

custard
custard
September 1, 2022 7:24 pm

Q posts represent the greatest military intelligence operation of our time.

There are almost 5,000 of them.

So far I’ve read 2237 of them and I just keep reading them.

Fascinating

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 1, 2022 7:29 pm

The Aboriginal Industry has put the goalposts on Walkabout so often good luck finding out.

That’s why I regard “Reconciliation” as a farce and a sham.

custard
custard
September 1, 2022 7:29 pm

I don’t pretend to know what all of the posts mean

miltonf
miltonf
September 1, 2022 7:31 pm

“If you voted for Trump you’re a threat to democracy.”
That can be the inscription on the tombstone of the USA.
The left is too big to fail now.

In other words if you exercise your democratic right you’re a threat to democracy.

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 1, 2022 7:35 pm

That’s why I regard “Reconciliation” as a farce and a sham.

It’s a Rorschach test. You say you are in favour of it and go on to explain what it means.

custard
custard
September 1, 2022 7:37 pm

You can look at them all here (I hope this link works)

https://qposts.online/

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 1, 2022 7:39 pm

blackfella reparations

The reparations they pay for lifting them out of the Stone Age?

cohenite
September 1, 2022 7:40 pm

You are not Spruiking by any chance?

Only if you’re buying

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
September 1, 2022 7:45 pm

DOJ Is Likely to Wait Past Midterms to Reveal Any Trump Charges

Bloomberg) — Federal prosecutors are likely to wait until after the November election to announce any charges against Donald Trump, if they determine he broke laws, according to people familiar.

Under long-standing department policy, prosecutors are barred from taking investigative steps or filing charges for the purpose of affecting an election or helping a candidate or party, traditionally 60 days before an election. This year, that would be by Sept. 10, which makes it unlikely anything would be announced until after Nov. 8, said people who asked to remain anonymous speaking about potential Justice Department actions.

Under long-standing department policy, prosecutors are barred from taking investigative steps or filing charges for the purpose of affecting an election or helping a candidate or party, traditionally 60 days before an election. This year, that would be by Sept. 10, which makes it unlikely anything would be announced until after Nov. 8, said people who asked to remain anonymous speaking about potential Justice Department actions.

It’s not clear if any of the investigations into Trump will have reached the point by November that a decision on charging him could be made, according to two of the people who asked to remain anonymous.

Announcing charges against Trump prior to the election likely would be seen as a political ploy by his supporters to damage him and his endorsed candidates, and could fuel unrest in the country.

South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, for example, recently warned during an interview on Fox News “there literally will be riots in the street” if Trump is indicted for mishandling classified information. Trump immediately posted the clip to his social-media site.

custard
custard
September 1, 2022 7:50 pm
H B Bear
H B Bear
September 1, 2022 7:56 pm

Good luck selectively piping gas across Europe.

Dot
Dot
September 1, 2022 7:59 pm

Fresh reports warn the US illegal ocupation forces is stealing more than 80% of #Syria’s daily oil production.

It’s all about the oil, huh?

Makka
Makka
September 1, 2022 8:00 pm

Good luck selectively piping gas across Europe.

Hungary will get their gas via Serbia.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
September 1, 2022 8:04 pm

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OldOzzie
OldOzzie
September 1, 2022 8:07 pm
Winston Smith
September 1, 2022 8:09 pm

Old Ozzie:

And who is facilitating all of this? In virtually every case, a woman. Ninety-two percent of kindergarten teachers are women, 75% of all teachers are women and 85% of librarians are women.

As a generalisation, the sexes look at problems differently – for men it’s about the outcome, and for women it’s the process.

Indolent
Indolent
September 1, 2022 8:19 pm
Frank
Frank
September 1, 2022 8:20 pm

Women talk about their feelings, men complain about how badly organised everything is.

Dot
Dot
September 1, 2022 8:23 pm

Ukraine has created the worst salient I’ve seen in any war and are about to be flanked, surrounded and kotel’d.

Ukraine has been apparently failing and having its arse kicked for six months straight.

Why hasn’t Russia won yet?

Indolent
Indolent
September 1, 2022 8:24 pm

Energy is becoming the real choke point in the world.

Not by accident.

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 1, 2022 8:25 pm

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupiditysays:
September 1, 2022 at 6:46 pm
Which is the more serious;
Top Secret Humint
Nuclear Secrets

& which was it that was laying scattered across the floor of Trump’s changeroom?

Minor correction. Which was it that the FBI carefully laid out on the floor for a photo that was promptly leaked to their allies in the media?

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
September 1, 2022 8:27 pm

Ooh but they’re full of themselves.
AMA President Steve Robson on Neil Mitchell 3AW responding to the reduction in isolation time. Big medicine don’t like uppity politicians making decisions on the economy, that’s a doctor’s job.

“You can’t have a healthy economy without healthy population and a healthy workforce.”

At no stage in human history is this statement true. Go away Doctor.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
September 1, 2022 8:28 pm

FBI Blasted for ‘Staged’ Photo of Documents Seized in Mar-a-Lago Raid

“I love staged photo ops,” Trump’s attorney Alina Habba told Charlie Kirk on Wednesday. “I mean, it’s amazing how they specifically placed in response.” She added:

But they’re arguing that everything is too sensitive, so we can’t have a special master. It was top secret, but they can put exhibit F, which is the picture of all the top secret documents laid out strategically on the floor and that’s not a problem. It’s a typical ‘we are trying to backup our story because we don’t have one image’ is my perspective of that.

“And all I see is this raid continuing to backfire because it’s not being run by law Enforcement, it’s being run by government gangsters, like [FBI Director] Chris Wray, and [Attorney General] Merrick Garland,” Patel said.

He also said the government officials involved in the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago are connected to the officials who were involved in the Russia collusion hoax.

“Now these guys know they were on the precipice of releasing the other Russia gate documents that Devin and I could not release that Donald Trump declassified and what do they do?” Patel said. “They go raid Mar Lago and say ,’Uh! Can’t see anything anymore. We have an open investigation.’”

Richard Grenell pointed out the photographed document were declassified by Trump and noted the comparison between Trump’s handling of documents and failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

“It was all declassified papers (not accessible digitally) and kept in a former President’s office – guarded by the United States Secret Service,” Grenell tweeted. “Hillary was never President, her documents were never declassified and were all available digitally ONLINE for hackers.”

Former Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), who chaired the House Oversight Committee, called the FBI’s photograph “a public relations effort.”

“Well, the impression I got is that it was a public relations effort. This is not needed in a court document to make the case to the sitting judge,” Chaffetz said during an appearance on Fox News. “This was put out there knowing that they were gonna go out there to the media.”

Eyrie
Eyrie
September 1, 2022 8:29 pm

Invite the UN in to draw the demarcation line (which is readily available in the county-by-county voting record, there are even maps easily found). Then establish a UN force to “police” the border, no illegal traffic in food, fuel or energy across the demarcation line.

As soon as UN forces are policing the US or what it becomes once it splits, it will be open season on blue helmets, no bag limit. Americans likely will be reluctant to fire on their own military but blue helmets will be fair game.

Dot
Dot
September 1, 2022 8:32 pm

Hmmm yeah a healthy population has vaccines (for the same virus) every three months, wears masks everywhere, doesn’t go outside for more than 1 hour a day; and has junk food delivered every night – also, no sport, running , walking, swimming or surfing or gyms, dance classes or martial arts. Also no service industries, just to sure we stay safe and flatten the curve, guys.

Healthiest, most productive society and economy, EVER!

Dot
Dot
September 1, 2022 8:33 pm

As soon as UN forces are policing the US

Name a date or year this happens and under what circumstances.

Winston Smith
September 1, 2022 8:34 pm

Bespoke:

So what happened Winston?
Toxic shock from drinking 4x?

I tripped over a carton of Stella Artois that some malicious bastard left on my back step.
Not that I’m blaming you, O Great Taste Bud Free Imbiber of Dodgy Belgian Beers.

bespoke
bespoke
September 1, 2022 8:36 pm

Boom!

Zipster
Zipster
September 1, 2022 8:36 pm

Today, the FDA approved “Bivalent Ba.5 Booster” because of an unspecified “emergency”.
The booster was tested on, drumroll, 8 mice. That’s it.
It will be given to millions of people next week.

you are worth less than mice

bespoke
bespoke
September 1, 2022 8:39 pm

Waited till I least expected.

Sneaky old fart.

Dot
Dot
September 1, 2022 8:40 pm

Today, the FDA approved “Bivalent Ba.5 Booster” because of an unspecified “emergency”.
The booster was tested on, drumroll, 8 mice. That’s it.
It will be given to millions of people next week.

This “science” is horribly bad, it’s even worse than the infamous Wakefield paper on autism and MMR vaccines.

Indolent
Indolent
September 1, 2022 8:51 pm

Time for Cats to read Patel Patriot substack

Do you have a link?

cohenite
September 1, 2022 8:59 pm

And this’ll just about do me tonight. A nice Doris Day movie may restore some equilibrium:

Antifa Armed with AR-15s Guard ‘Kid Friendly’ Drag Show in Texas

Zipster
Zipster
September 1, 2022 9:04 pm

Life expectancy in the US dropped for the second consecutive year in 2021, according to a report Wednesday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The fall is the largest two-year drop in nearly 100 years and brings US life expectancy to 76.1 years, down from 77.3 in 2020. Deaths from COVID-19 (50%) and drug overdoses/unintentional injuries (15.9%) primarily contributed to the decrease.

Zipster
Zipster
September 1, 2022 9:05 pm

The UN Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner released a long-awaited report Wednesday detailing the Chinese government’s “serious human rights violations” in Xinjiang, which the U.S. has deemed a genocide against Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities.

Driving the news: The report, which was released minutes before UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet’s tenure ended, states that the Chinese government’s actions “may constitute international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity.”

Indolent
Indolent
September 1, 2022 9:06 pm

I posted this without comment this morning and am reposting it in case it was missed because I think it’s very worthwhile in understanding how the current, totally one sided, political situation in America evolved. Quite long.

Why is Washington DC So Intensely Focused on Targeting Donald Trump and Labeling His Supporters as Threats to Democracy?

custard
custard
September 1, 2022 9:07 pm
Razey
Razey
September 1, 2022 9:13 pm

rosiesays:
September 1, 2022 at 8:53 pm
“Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Authorizes Moderna, Pfizer-BioNTech Bivalent COVID-19 Vaccines for Use as a Booster Dose”
You’d think people would be pleased the new booster targets omicron.

What’s even more funny is that the new clot shots are only available for the Sheep(TM) that have already been genetically modified with the original mRNA.

LOL

Crossie
Crossie
September 1, 2022 9:14 pm

Hungary’s energy supply is safe.

But only as long as Vlad doesn’t get pissed off about something.

rosie
rosie
September 1, 2022 9:17 pm

Sheep who’ll be dead in 7 to 37 months anyhow!

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 1, 2022 9:43 pm

Hungary getting an extra 5.
All pipeline volume currently 140m/d.
Weirdest war ever.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 1, 2022 9:44 pm

Believe this if you want.

https://www.politico.eu/article/kremlin-espionage-reportedly-suspected-german-economy-ministry/

Nothing would surprise me.
Who knows what to believe.

Top Ender
Top Ender
September 1, 2022 9:53 pm

So who’s to blame, apart from the perps themselves:

Justice Kelly noted that in the past 22 years, two Aboriginal men had been shot by police. In the same period, some 65 Aboriginal women were killed by their partners. The police shootings received massive media coverage, but the deaths of those women were barely noted.

Indolent
Indolent
September 1, 2022 9:55 pm

Sheep who’ll be dead in 7 to 37 months anyhow!

Nobody here wants anyone to die. However, it’s now indisputable that these injectables come with certain risks. The behaviour of the authorities is absolutely inexcusable, not to mention criminal. They are not only shutting their eyes to the danger but actually punishing anyone who dares speak out. In my view this is proof of the risk because there would be no reason to censor people if there were valid arguments to the contrary. This is science by force majeure.

But, of course, the excess deaths are being caused by climate change.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 1, 2022 10:02 pm

Old Ozzie at 8.04, and apropos of aether:

Anyone had experience in its use?

Just Bird, I believe.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 1, 2022 10:06 pm

Cassie’s link at 7.45 a.m.:

Nine has admitted the central claim of a television news report about a federal MP – which earned the network a Walkley Award – is untrue, leaving the media company potentially liable for a massive damages payout.

8th Dan, where art thou?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 1, 2022 10:07 pm

Jesus wept.

Brisbane and Richmond both doing their absolute best to lost this elimination final.

4 points the diff, 90 seconds left.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 1, 2022 10:08 pm

*to lose*

60 seconds.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 1, 2022 10:11 pm

Aaaaand it’s Brisbane. Flogs.

Richmond might as well have finished ninth. Again.

rosie
rosie
September 1, 2022 10:11 pm

Who won?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 1, 2022 10:11 pm

So who’s to blame, apart from the perps themselves:

For shame, Top Ender – have you never heard of the effects of European colonization, or inter-generational trauma?

rosie
rosie
September 1, 2022 10:12 pm

Oh. One of my children flew up to watch the game. Disappointing.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
September 1, 2022 10:17 pm

Aaaaand it’s Brisbane. Flogs.

Won grand finals with more juice in them than a music festival crowd.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
September 1, 2022 10:24 pm

Indolent.

That map looks incredibly bad. I’m assuming there was a 2nd failed hook meant that catch a pocket of Russians?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 1, 2022 10:26 pm

Comment, from the Oz.

Three Wise Men
1 hour ago
The old Alice Springs Jail ..converted for tourism had the following grafitti message..” More Aboriginal Women have died outside these prison walls than Aboriginal Men inside these walls”

Zipster
Zipster
September 1, 2022 10:29 pm

What President Obama and AG Eric Holder did was take the preexisting system and retool it, so the weapons of government conducting surveillance only targeted one side of the political continuum. Domestic terrorists were now defined through the prism of political opposition.

if you are doing nothing wrong you have nothing to fear… wrong as in wrongthink that is

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
September 1, 2022 10:32 pm

Tigers choked in the last minute. Don’t know how to come from behind in close finish.

Now with Caaarrton.

Carna Pies.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
September 1, 2022 10:37 pm

To lose?

No time to lose!

Zipster
Zipster
September 1, 2022 10:57 pm

from above link

After the Patriot Act was triggered, not coincidentally only six weeks after 9/11, a slow and dangerous fuse was lit that ends with the intelligence apparatus being granted a massive amount of power. Simultaneously the mission of the intelligence community now encompassed monitoring domestic threats as defined by the people who operate the surveillance system.

The problem with assembled power is always what happens when a Machiavellian network takes control over that power and begins the process to weaponize the tools for their own malicious benefit. That is exactly what the network of President Barack Obama did.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 1, 2022 10:58 pm

Gez, on Brithbane:

Won grand finals with more juice in them than a music festival crowd

My word they did. The BearLions in the early 2000s made the 1990s West Coast Eagles look like a bunch of nuns at a temperance rally.

rickw
rickw
September 1, 2022 11:01 pm

Flying these days is a freaking nightmare….

Zipster
Zipster
September 1, 2022 11:01 pm

The problem with assembled power is always what happens when a Machiavellian network takes control over that power and begins the process to weaponize the tools for their own malicious benefit. That is exactly what the network of President Barack Obama did.

and continues to do

rickw
rickw
September 1, 2022 11:05 pm

Aussie knife and fork user up front!

m0nty
September 1, 2022 11:13 pm

Time for Cats to read Patel Patriot substack and certainly Q posts to understand the Mar-a-Lago raid.

Unsurprising that custard would fall into the Q rabbit hole. Never was the sharpest tool in the shed.

Zipster
Zipster
September 1, 2022 11:18 pm

That is exactly what the network of President Barack Obama did.

So basically this obummer cunt has setup an american stasi that answers to no one.

Biden is basically the fall guy.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 1, 2022 11:18 pm

mUnter.

The ‘Q rabbit hole’.

What sort of ‘int’ is that?

Hint: It’s not ‘disappointmint’.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 1, 2022 11:31 pm

Indolentsays:

September 1, 2022 at 9:55 pm

Sheep who’ll be dead in 7 to 37 months anyhow!

Nobody here wants anyone to die.

Really?
I don’t think you’ve been paying attention.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 1, 2022 11:50 pm

Knuckle Draggersays:

September 1, 2022 at 10:11 pm

Aaaaand it’s Brisbane. Flogs.

Richmond might as well have finished ninth. Again.

Bewdiful!
Ninthmond robbed by a video review overturn of an on field call of a goal.
A fairly simple close in shot.
Tight angle but 10 metres out.
Leans back, sprays it high and wide instead of kicking through it and getting decent spin on the banana.
But the best thing of all?
It was the allegedly ever reliable, very expensive transfer, uber-flog Tom Lynch.

Johnny Rotten
September 2, 2022 2:32 am

cohenitesays:
September 1, 2022 at 7:40 pm
You are not Spruiking by any chance?

Only if you’re buying

As I said before –
Not enough information to make an informed decision IMHO.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 2, 2022 3:08 am

Sure blame Obama for executive over reach.
But Boehner got the GOP onside twice to ensure the Patriot act and whatever it was re-branded to passed.

Whole tranches of the origin Patriot act have expired but the surveillance state continues.
Maybe people should have listened to Assange & Snowden a little bit more.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 2, 2022 3:50 am

Four US tech billionaires discuss the Zuck admissions & the Mar a Lago raid.
David Sachs is part of the Peter Thiel ecosystem.
You can tell how disingenuous the others are as they go from what was the Hunter Biden laptop all about to being all over the content.

https://youtu.be/Wc-Leuq0G7o?t=2415

From the 40min mark.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 2, 2022 4:02 am

A lot of talk that the Roosters & Bunnies are going to rest a bunch of players tonight as regardless of who wins, they’ll be playing each other next weekend in a sudden death finals game.
The only difference for next week is will they play at Moore Park or Homebush.

Tom
Tom
September 2, 2022 4:02 am

Haha. I love Johannes Leak’s Elbow.

Tom
Tom
September 2, 2022 4:04 am
Tom
Tom
September 2, 2022 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
September 2, 2022 4:06 am
Tom
Tom
September 2, 2022 4:08 am

Bob Moran. Brilliant.

Tom
Tom
September 2, 2022 4:09 am
Tom
Tom
September 2, 2022 4:10 am
Tom
Tom
September 2, 2022 4:11 am
Tom
Tom
September 2, 2022 4:12 am
Tom
Tom
September 2, 2022 4:13 am
Tom
Tom
September 2, 2022 4:15 am
Tom
Tom
September 2, 2022 4:16 am
Tom
Tom
September 2, 2022 4:17 am
Tom
Tom
September 2, 2022 4:18 am
Tom
Tom
September 2, 2022 4:19 am
Tom
Tom
September 2, 2022 4:20 am

Oh dear. Lisa Benson has TDS.

Tom
Tom
September 2, 2022 4:22 am
Fair Shake
Fair Shake
September 2, 2022 4:29 am

Thank you Tom.

Win
Win
September 2, 2022 4:47 am

Thanks Tom. When ever I see an Elbow I see a bad tempered squashed prune with glasses.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 2, 2022 5:00 am

Thanks Tom for your daily work.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 2, 2022 5:01 am

Jimmy Dore rubbing Fauci’s nose in his own lies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj8qrDGmlZQ

rosie
rosie
September 2, 2022 5:12 am

More from the auditor General.
Still vicplod did a great job scowling their way around Melbourne’s parks and beaches with their soldier companions making sure normal law abiding citizens felt like hardened criminals.
Not to mention recruiting five foot two girls might indeed not have any impact on the crime rate
Victoria Police unable to justify thousands of new recruits
Victoria Police has been unable to prove if thousands of new recruits had any impact on crime rates, a scathing report has revealed.

rosie
rosie
September 2, 2022 5:24 am

Heard exactly the same comment from a young GP in western NSW.
Doctor shortage ‘will worsen’ as young doctors walk away from general practice

Mater
September 2, 2022 5:25 am

mUnter.
The ‘Q rabbit hole’.
What sort of ‘int’ is that?
Hint: It’s not ‘disappointmint’.

Monty’s speciality, MISINT

Mistaken (Always)
Misinformation
Misdirection
Misleading
Misandry
Misattribution
Misinterpret
Misrepresent
Mischievous, and
Miscreant

Dot
Dot
September 2, 2022 5:38 am

Q rabbit hole.

Also, Muellerween.

Dot
Dot
September 2, 2022 5:40 am

The white knighting knows no bounds. Or crafty defence lawyer PR?

Sure there a lot of crazies in gaol, but death threats against Chris Dawson?

I mean, really. Gee thanks convicted rapers and other convicted murderers. We really appreciate you looking out for a chick who was very likely moidad over 40 years ago.

Seems like crazy BS to me.

rickw
rickw
September 2, 2022 6:03 am
rosie
rosie
September 2, 2022 6:18 am

Not everyone in prison is a convicted murderer or rapist dot.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 2, 2022 6:29 am

dot, you’re posting some out there stuff this week.
I prescribe a DMT top up & a Warhammer 40k binge to get you grounded again.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 2, 2022 6:31 am

For Only Gamblors, have a few bucks on the Tigers as the Raiders might rest half their team depending on what happens with the Broncos game.
I got on at $3.30.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 2, 2022 6:41 am

Speaking of Carter Page, he had his case against Comey tossed.
The real question is why did he bring before a DC judge where the likelihood of that happening was almost 100%?
Surely there were other jurisdictions that would have been friendlier.

Dot
Dot
September 2, 2022 6:44 am

rosie says:
September 2, 2022 at 6:18 am
Not everyone in prison is a convicted murderer or rapist dot.

Oh noes!

I’ve offended all of the fraudsters who ripped off pensioners and standover men, who wished they had street cred.

Seriously?

Let’s not feed this insanity. Also I suspect defence lawyer shenanigans.

min
min
September 2, 2022 6:51 am

Thanks Tom always wondered what wakes you up in the early motning to do the the cartoon , First thing I look at in the morning . Good to start day with a laugh .

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
September 2, 2022 6:58 am

I only listen to the radio for the music, 2CA. Hearing the what passes for news but in fact opinion most of the time was this wondrous titbit of information. Some over educated idjit has completed a study of dogs and discovered they are happy when they see us, who knew. In other news, dog wags tail. As an exercise for primary school kids to complete a methodical study, yes. Some University Professor trying to justify their existence, no.

Anchor What
Anchor What
September 2, 2022 7:02 am

Media thrilled that Sarah Palin didn’t win in a special election in Alaska.
These are the same people cheering on the destruction of our formerly affordable and reliable power system. The same people who are giving Albo and Co. the daily tongue baths instead of “keeping the bastards honest”.
The Republicans were asleep at the wheel in 2020 when election reform bills went through the state legislature. Traditionally a very red state, Alaska may be lost for good, and the result in that “special” election is probably the forerunner of more disappointing results.
Just like here, where the Labor vote of 30% was enough to get them across the line into the government benches.
Compulsory preferential voting, seen by some as a fair way to go, can be a poison pill.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 2, 2022 7:05 am

The Republicans were asleep at the wheel in 2020 when election reform bills went through the state legislature. Traditionally a very red state, Alaska may be lost for good, and the result in that “special” election is probably the forerunner of more disappointing results.

The GOP in Alaska pushed for the voting “reforms”.
This is 100% on GOP.

Dot
Dot
September 2, 2022 7:06 am

I prescribe a DMT top up & a Warhammer 40k binge to get you grounded again.

Challenged accepted, Xenos scum.

Mater
September 2, 2022 7:07 am

Compulsory preferential voting, seen by some as a fair way to go, can be a poison pill.

“Voting is the ultimate expression of Freedom”

Yes, nothing expresses freedom like being forced to vote, under threat of punishment.

rosie
rosie
September 2, 2022 7:09 am

There is nothing novel in people getting convicted of notorious crimes getting threatened in prison dot.

Cassie of Sydney
September 2, 2022 7:10 am

“Also I suspect defence lawyer shenanigans.”

I think Dawson is doing what he does best and what he’s done for decades, trying to manipulate the situation for his own benefit. That’s how he operates, he doesn’t know how to behave any differently. He’s a sociopath.

Cassie of Sydney
September 2, 2022 7:13 am

“The GOP in Alaska pushed for the voting “reforms”.
This is 100% on GOP.”

Yep, no different to the stupid fucking Liberals in this country. Supposedly rightist parties always, always dig their own graves. No wonder the left can’t stop laughing.

2dogs
2dogs
September 2, 2022 7:19 am

The real question is why did he bring before a DC judge where the likelihood of that happening was almost 100%?

Because that court had jurisdiction. What is needed is a court for offences by federal employees that is truly national.

Anchor What
Anchor What
September 2, 2022 7:20 am

John Hinderaker at Powerline blog laments that no modern western nation should be experiencing power shortages, since we have plenty of fuels, but that’s exactly what’s happening. How has the western world become convinced to cut its own throat on energy, family values, manufacturing and financial steadiness? Fifty years of unchecked agitprop has done this.
Even France, which has sensibly based its power on 50 nuclear power stations and has sold power to other European nations, currently has half of them down for routine maintenance or “corrosion checks”. Now they too are being told that the age of plenty is over.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
September 2, 2022 7:27 am

Russian oil firm chief Maganov dies after hospital window fall

Ravil Maganov, chairman of Russia’s second-largest oil producer Lukoil, has died after falling from a hospital window in Moscow, becoming the latest in a series of sudden unexplained deaths of businessmen.

As can happen. Obviously.

Lukoil was one of the few major Russian companies to call for the end of fighting in Ukraine after Moscow sent its troops there in February.

In a statement at the time, the Lukoil board called for an “immediate” end to the invasion, expressing its sympathy for those affected by the “tragedy”.

Arguably unwise.
The first senior Lukoil manager died of mysterious circumstances a few weeks later.

Asked by Reuters if they were investigating the death as suspicious, Moscow police referred the question to the state’s Investigative Committee. The committee did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

However, Lukoil appears to have received the message at 5:5.

Lukoil said in a statement that Maganov had “passed away following a serious illness”.

The FSB playing catchup with the FBI.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 2, 2022 7:28 am

Yep, no different to the stupid fucking Liberals in this country. Supposedly rightist parties always, always dig their own graves. No wonder the left can’t stop laughing.

Alaska is an example of the problems the base of the GOP is up against.
Arizona & Pennsylvania had GOP state houses but their actions handed the DNC the electoral votes in 2020.
It looks like the RINO’s will be cleaned out in Arizona in November but then resources have to spent in Alaska to clean them out there.
Unlike the DNC which just has villain rotation, the GOP base has to fight the DNC & the RINO’s non stop.

Cassie of Sydney
September 2, 2022 7:38 am

I waver about compulsory voting, once upon a time I was totally against it but now I’m not so sure. I do understand that compulsory voting is fundamentally anti-democratic but compulsory voting might save Australia and might certainly save right of centre parties in this country. The reason why is when you have voluntary voting, voter turnout is often tied to demographics, so those in more traditional working class regions/electorates don’t turn out to vote on the same scale that voters in more affluent areas do. I’m aware of the generalisation of this comment but I do think there is some merit in my argument. Compulsory voting forces people to vote and this might save the right in this country. Whilst the Liberals lose electorates like Wentworth and Kooyong, they need to pick up seats in less affluent, more lower/middle class areas and the shift in voter sentiment combined with compelled voting might enable the Liberals to do so. Otherwise the Liberals are toast. You know, there are many people in countries like the US and UK who’ve never voted in their lives. I find that quite shocking. Okay, there are the occasional times when people in countries where voting is voluntary, such as the US and UK, will make the effort to get out and vote IF (and only IF) there’s an issue that impacts them. We saw this clearly in the US in November 2020 and in the UK in 2016. Brexit saw many Britons turn out to vote that day in 2016 who’d never voted in their lives.

If we have voluntary voting in this country, where the only people who bother to turn out on election day to vote are those in the inner-city Green electorates and affluent suburbs like Wentworth, North Sydney, Goldstein, Warringah, Kooyong, Curtin, Mackellar…we’re stuffed. So, I’m somewhat comforted by the fact that on election day here in Oz, it isn’t just the well heeled scum in the aforementioned electorates who are voting, it’s also the residents of Campbelltown, Penrith, Fairfield and Blacktown who are forced to vote.

And once the blackouts begin, it won’t be the wealthy, renewable grifting scum living in Teal electorates who will save Australia, it’ll be the tradies living in Campbelltown, Fairfield, Penrith and Blacktown who may well save this country.

Interested in people’s thoughts. Happy to be rebutted!

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 2, 2022 7:41 am

m0ntysays:
September 1, 2022 at 11:13 pm
Time for Cats to read Patel Patriot substack and certainly Q posts to understand the Mar-a-Lago raid.

Unsurprising that custard would fall into the Q rabbit hole. Never was the sharpest tool in the shed.

Sez the gullible idiot who fell hook, line and sinker for the FBI’s posed photo of classified documents on the floor.

Then claimed the next day that it was just a standard photo taken during enforcement of a search warrant.

  1. Meaningless numbers Monty. Especially since the come from lefty Politico. No one believes such rubbish.

  2. NEW (GOP) @Senate_Fund Senate/President Battleground internals.Texas: Cruz +1 (48-47), Trump +5 (50-45)Michigan: Slotkin +8 (46-38), Harris +3 (45-42)Wisconsin: Baldwin +1…

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