Open Thread – Tues 20 Sept 2022


The Tapestry Weavers, Diego Velazquez, c. 1655-1660

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Tom
Tom
September 23, 2022 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
September 23, 2022 4:08 am
Tom
Tom
September 23, 2022 4:09 am
Tom
Tom
September 23, 2022 4:10 am
Tom
Tom
September 23, 2022 4:11 am
Tom
Tom
September 23, 2022 4:12 am
2dogs
September 23, 2022 4:13 am
Tom
Tom
September 23, 2022 4:13 am
Tom
Tom
September 23, 2022 4:15 am
Tom
Tom
September 23, 2022 4:16 am
Tom
Tom
September 23, 2022 4:17 am
Tom
Tom
September 23, 2022 4:18 am
Tom
Tom
September 23, 2022 4:19 am
Tom
Tom
September 23, 2022 4:20 am
Tom
Tom
September 23, 2022 4:22 am
Tom
Tom
September 23, 2022 4:23 am
Tom
Tom
September 23, 2022 4:24 am
Ed Case
Ed Case
September 23, 2022 4:53 am

A man who believed the Queen was still alive has appeared in court, arrested after trying to grab the flag from Her Majesty’s coffin, according to reports.

Good on him.
The timeline is way off.
Queen swears Warren Truss in [in London], looks okay for a 105 year old, 3 hours later she’s dead in a remote part of Scotland surrounded by “her loving family”.
Finding it hard to believe.

min
min
September 23, 2022 5:04 am

All the cartoons are on the grim side this morning Tom but then again that is where the world is . Nothing to laugh about. On the edge .who will make he first move?

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 23, 2022 5:08 am

rickw, can you say what region you’re working in?
I know someone who worked in Gabon & ROC a million years ago & still makes us laugh retelling stories like that.
Dealing with Chinese workers & the lengths the locals would go to steal diesel was worthy of it’s own tv show.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 23, 2022 5:09 am

A downtick to 2dogs for interrupting Tom’s stream.
Many, many upticks to Tom for his daily work.

Ed Case
Ed Case
September 23, 2022 5:33 am

Bob Moran’s take was interesting.
The Bear breaks outta it’s cage and heads for the forest.
Ol’ Vlad reckons Bear should be heading straight into Ukraine’s
[read NATO’s] artillery.
Plenty more fresh meat left, eh, Vlado?

Dot
Dot
September 23, 2022 5:46 am

Is Putin really that keen on nukes?

I’m not.

https://youtu.be/HsM_VmN6ytk

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 23, 2022 6:22 am

In the future children won’t even know what coal is.
Or maybe not.

Coal miner New Hope’s profits jump more than 1,000 per cent (22 Sep)

Which even more amazing when you consider they’re mainly in Qld where Ponygirl has put up royalties to the highest in the world.

bespoke
bespoke
September 23, 2022 6:30 am

OldOzziesays:
September 22, 2022 at 8:19 pm

Cheers

I hope it a start.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 23, 2022 6:32 am

Been going on for decades, which means the Labour MP is either clueless or lying.

MP’s look of disbelief as Jacob Rees-Mogg claims ‘Putin funds anti-fracking campaigns’ (22 Sep)

Shocked Labour MP Cat Smith appeared stunned as Jacob Rees-Mogg told her some anti-fracking campaigns may have been funded by Vladimir Putin. The exchange came as Mr Rees-Mogg, who was recently appointed as Liz Truss’ Business Secretary, defended the decision to allow fracking to go ahead on the grounds of energy security.

Mr Rees-Mogg had been hauled before the Commons with two urgent questions from Labour to explain the Government’s new policies on reducing energy bills for businesses and issuing 100 new shale gas licences in places like Lancashire, Somerset and Sussex.

Nice that Moggy has actually said it. It was disappointing that he didn’t go for the PM pozzie, but maybe he thinks he can do better by gently steering Truss in the right direction. As for anti-fracking protesters and green groups being funded by overseas interests yes both China and Russia have been doing so for a long time, they’re not stupid and know that Western governments are. It’s a cheap investment with big returns.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 23, 2022 6:37 am

rickw, overnight:

Hire Western Expertise because it’s a Client requirement.
Ignore Western Expertise because it’s only a Client requirement.
Be really fucking surprised when it fucks up exactly the way your Western Expertise said it would.

There are goat rodeos all over the place that make anything this country does look like a well-oiled model of competence.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 23, 2022 6:48 am

Waiting to see if Ali’s on the money. From a link put up yesterday evening:

On Friday, September 23, 2022 at 05:07 UT a powerful Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) will strike Earth –a Carrington-like event– that will ring in the end of the world as we know it.

This is according to scientist Ali Al-Rubaidi in a paper published last month on ResearchGate that is “based on Science and The Quran”

That’s 10.07 p.m. ACST. When it hits, be sure to record the event and your reactions for your Instagram story.

rosie
rosie
September 23, 2022 6:54 am

Irrespective Rees-Mogg doing good work.
Trust Labor to throw the man with a van off the climate emergency cliff.

bespoke
bespoke
September 23, 2022 6:57 am

Razeysays:

September 22, 2022 at 8:46 pm

Admire the Unvaccinated. They withstood the greatest pressure from all fronts. People who were capable of such personality, courage and critical ability are the best of humanity

It’s likely for most it didn’t involve a lot of lifestyle change. I’m not trying to diminish the significance but seriously get some perspective. It is nothing like being a in the French resistance or storming the Normandy breaches. All we did was not take the vax.
The small splinter group that requires constant affirmation sound ridiculous.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 23, 2022 7:01 am

Waiting to see if Ali’s on the money.

Not much big happening that I can see. NOAA is predicting a G1 storm for 23 Sep.
G1 is the lowest of five levels.

https://www.spaceweather.com/

rosie
rosie
September 23, 2022 7:02 am
Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 23, 2022 7:05 am

get some perspective. It is nothing like being a in the French resistance or storming the Normandy breaches

Shots fired!

rosie
rosie
September 23, 2022 7:08 am
Dot
Dot
September 23, 2022 7:14 am

Shocked Labour MP Cat Smith appeared stunned as Jacob Rees-Mogg told her some anti-fracking campaigns may have been funded by Vladimir Putin.

Putin is an evil guy.

Don’t forget it.

bespoke
bespoke
September 23, 2022 7:17 am
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 23, 2022 7:17 am

Sky and the Australian find ‘no evidence’ of a climate emergency – they weren’t looking hard enough

Maybe the Greens hid it under a rock somewhere so as not to scare people.
/s

Mater
September 23, 2022 7:19 am

It’s likely for most it didn’t involve a lot of lifestyle change.

At the very least, the sacrifices involved were incredibly diverse.
For a working age individual with young kids, the pressure was nigh on impossible.
For a retired, financially comfortable individual…meh!

Vaccinated or unvaccinated is not the defining factor. Pro-mandate v anti-mandate is we’re the rubber meets the road.

BTW, the fight isn’t over. Governments might be rolling back the health orders, but public service departments and corporations are still busily developing and implementing stringent Covid vaccine employment policies, which are not designed to be temporary. The fight continues. Admire those who are still punching on, unvaccinated or otherwise.

Cassie of Sydney
September 23, 2022 7:19 am

Test.

custard
custard
September 23, 2022 7:26 am

A very good morning to everyone except Grigory (does he frequent this place?) and Montifa.

custard
custard
September 23, 2022 7:26 am

*still frequent

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 23, 2022 7:27 am

get some perspective. It is nothing like being a in the French resistance or storming the Normandy breaches

No.
It’s bigger than that.
At least the people landing on Normandy still had their boats.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 23, 2022 7:30 am

It’s likely for most it didn’t involve a lot of lifestyle change.

Who said that?

Cassie of Sydney
September 23, 2022 7:30 am

Biden is an evil guy.

Never forget it.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 23, 2022 7:30 am

Custard.
If the meteor/sunspot/whatever cataclysm doesn’t happen on schedule tonight, will you undertake to run a critical eye over some of the other stuff you have been reading on the web?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 23, 2022 7:31 am

feelthebernsays:

September 23, 2022 at 7:30 am

It’s likely for most it didn’t involve a lot of lifestyle change.

Who said that?

My money is on Sun Tzu.

custard
custard
September 23, 2022 7:32 am

Sancho

No.

custard
custard
September 23, 2022 7:32 am

Predictions are difficult especially about the future.

Zipster
Zipster
September 23, 2022 7:33 am
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 23, 2022 7:34 am

Haha, after interfering in the 2020 election with big money Facechook is now getting worried.

With ‘Great Caution,’ Facebook Considers Lifting Trump Ban (22 Sep)

Facebook’s parent company Meta is currently weighing whether it will lift its platform ban on former President Donald Trump, and says it’s proceeding with “great caution” in its deliberations, an interview confirmed.

Nick Clegg, the current Meta president for global affairs, told Semafor on Thursday that he will ultimately be the one to decide, first talking to experts and weighing real-world effects before making a final decision.

Sounds like they think the 2022 election might be a trifle harder for the Left to steal this time. Being forced to give endless evidence before Congressional investigation committees would be quite irritating for uberelite world-saving heroes like Zuck and Clegg.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 23, 2022 7:35 am

custardsays:

September 23, 2022 at 7:32 am

Sancho

No.

OK.
I respect your right to read silly stuff.

Zipster
Zipster
September 23, 2022 7:36 am
Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
September 23, 2022 7:39 am

JCsays:
September 23, 2022 at 12:04 am

Some time ago you sent me an unsolicited email. I’m not suggesting anything untoward, but it was “unsolicited”, which is relevant to this issue. Obviously that disclosed your email address to me.
You could at any time during that correspondence have asked me not to use the email address in future. But you didn’t.

You posted a derogatory comment about me on this thread, saying it was something you’d “read on another site”.
When I asked for details of the site, you then said it was from a “confidential source”.
Taking you at your word, I emailed you requesting that if you couldn’t disclose the details publicly on this site you disclose them privately.

Given your assiduously cultivated swaggering New York tough guy persona on this site, it never occurred to me that you’d have a meltdown because I emailed you at an address that you’d, totally unasked, freely and voluntarily disclosed to me without any conditions being imposed as to future correspondence.
I regret that the meltdown occurred, but there’s no reason for me to apologise for having emailed. The moment you asked me to agree not to email you any more I agreed and have complied with that agreement.
I do apologise for not having intuited the vast gulf between your onsite anonymous persona and the reality.

PS: from this moment on, whenever you try your swaggering New York tough guy antics on this site, readers will be able to contrast those antics with your performance in this matter. You reap what you sow.

caveman
caveman
September 23, 2022 7:40 am

Media making out that Putin will just use Nuclear weapons at at given moment. He had the decency to give his speech after the Queens funeral.
Here’s the part mentioning nuclear. He will just deliver like for like.

“Nuclear blackmail was also launched. We are talking not only about the shelling of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, which is encouraged by the West, which threatens a nuclear catastrophe, but also about the statements of some high-ranking representatives of the leading NATO states about the possibility and admissibility of using weapons of mass destruction against Russia – nuclear weapons.

To those who allow themselves to make such statements about Russia, I would like to remind you that our country also has various means of destruction, and for some components more modern than those of the NATO countries. And if the territorial integrity of our country is threatened, we will certainly use all the means at our disposal to protect Russia and our people. It’s not a bluff.”
Full text here.

https://consortiumnews.com/2022/09/21/text-of-putins-speech-on-ukraine/

P
P
September 23, 2022 7:40 am

Memorial of Saint Pius of Pietrelcina (Padre Pio) – 23/09/22

Padre Pio Review: Movie on mystic misses the mark

Beloved by millions of Catholics around the world for his great faith and devotion, Pio of Pietrelcina’s life of miracles and humble ministry has been the source of many conversions.

Hollywood Actor Shia LaBeouf recently opened up about his own conversion to Catholicism and how his movie role as Pio led him towards God.

custard
custard
September 23, 2022 7:42 am

Or is this the scare event?

https://bioclandestine.substack.com/

duncanm
duncanm
September 23, 2022 7:42 am

miltonfsays:
September 22, 2022 at 6:23 pm
get a load of this prick from Unilever- big business is not your friend BIRM

Dilbert has a couple of nice ESG strips.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 23, 2022 7:43 am

Pro-mandate v anti-mandate is we’re the rubber meets the road.

This is something quite a few appear to have forgotten over the journey.

Those without significant debt caused by merely having a home, or presuming to school multiple children could perhaps afford to bark at literally millions of people who, if they didn’t finally get it, would lose homes, businesses and their own families in some cases.

Those people (the ‘sneerers’, let’s call them) could afford to say things like ‘purebloods’, ‘Nazi pass’ and even ‘new Jews’, and put themselves on pedestals because it didn’t affect them to the same degree.

The anti-mandate cohort are the silent majority. Back it in.

custard
custard
September 23, 2022 7:45 am

Sancho is off the pace. And possibly a moron.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 23, 2022 7:47 am

Or is this the scare event?

No.

Zipster
Zipster
September 23, 2022 7:48 am
Dot
Dot
September 23, 2022 7:52 am

custard

You might balk at a younger man saying this, but this blog is a machine of the gods.

Whom they’d destroy, they first turn mad.

I have seen this blog literally drive people nuts.

Bird
Annie
Alice

When people with different beliefs all think you are going nuts and you refuse to accept when a hypothesis might be falsified; please step back from the brink.

You have been woken up and become open minded (that’s great), but we are worried your mind has become so open your brain is falling out.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 23, 2022 7:54 am

custardsays:

September 23, 2022 at 7:45 am

Sancho is off the pace. And possibly a moron.

I’ll take that as a comment.
– Sun Tzu.

custard
custard
September 23, 2022 7:54 am

I’m fine, thanks Dot.

Call me , other Cats have

0409447497

Dot
Dot
September 23, 2022 7:54 am

It was fun being a pure blood, but as a Novavax inflictee, I am more of a Half Blood Prince.

Surely if you can claim to be Anne Frank, well why can’t I be Harry Potter?

Dot
Dot
September 23, 2022 7:55 am

I’m fine, thanks Dot.

Please check in every two weeks.

R U OK?

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
September 23, 2022 7:55 am

Bespoke don’t forget one of us had to sell their 16ft Hartley. Oh the humanity, how will we cope. I couldn’t go to my beach house, woe is me. On the other hand the place was rented out for 4 months at top rates coz the people renting it couldn’t return to Victoria. Thanks dan. I’m not concerned about myself but the millions of people forced, coerced through manipulation and straight out lying to get jabbed.

Dot
Dot
September 23, 2022 7:57 am

The anti-mandate cohort are the silent majority. Back it in.

Fuck off Hitler! You owe me a riparian (((conveyance))).

Gabor
Gabor
September 23, 2022 7:58 am

custard says:
September 23, 2022 at 7:42 am

Or is this the scare event?
https://bioclandestine.substack.com/

Thanks, interesting site, not going to subscribe, but.
Nothing wrong with reading widely, provided you keep an open mind and don’t treat everything as gospel, lots of cats read the Guardian, the Age and SMH.
Keeps you informed of what the enemy is up to.

Dot
Dot
September 23, 2022 7:58 am

Call me , other Cats have

Please don’t be a millennial girl on Facebook.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 23, 2022 7:58 am

I have identified the Big Scare Event. Take heed, people:

There shall in that time be rumors of things going astray, erm, and there shall be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia-work base, that has an attachment. At that time, a friend shall lose his friend’s hammer, and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before, about eight o’clock.

– Monty Python, Life of Brian

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 23, 2022 8:00 am

Here’s another sign.
When a particular website feels the need to abbreviate End Of The World to an acronym – EOTW – it means they use the term frequently.
Which means they are frequently wrong about it.
Another tip.
If they are saying EOTW is at 10:07 pm tonight (earlier in Perth), but are also saying “only five more days to save the Daily Cataclysm”, they might not be serious.

Gabor
Gabor
September 23, 2022 8:01 am

custard says:
September 23, 2022 at 7:54 am

I’m fine, thanks Dot.

Call me , other Cats have
0409447497

Now I got it!
You just want to flog more vans.

custard
custard
September 23, 2022 8:01 am

Dot a quick question.

Did Trump sign the insurrection act whilst he was President?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 23, 2022 8:02 am

Fuck off Hitler!

Listen here, Franco. You just keep your riparians off my ovaries, and we’ll all get along just fine.

rosie
rosie
September 23, 2022 8:02 am

I remember reading a biography about Hungarian twins, whose parents had converted to Catholicism in the early part of the 20th Century so their father could get a public service position. The mother’s conversion was sincere, anyhow very complicated and fascinating story but the brother that ultimately became a priest was sent to Padre Pio’s monastery to convalescence from a very serious illness,when things got very sticky Padre Pio urged him to remain with him in Italy, where he survived.
I wish I could remember the name of the book, written by the son of the other twin, the brothers having ended up in the US.
And bother, I’ve been to Foggia and didn’t realise how close I was to San Giovanni Rotondo.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
September 23, 2022 8:02 am

Those Dilbert toons are real aren’t they?

Dot
Dot
September 23, 2022 8:06 am

Did Trump sign the insurrection act whilst he was President?

What is the significance if he signed it or not?

I thought it already was pointed out the Act predated his term in public office.

He may have assented to a minor change in the Act under the US Code. Did he actually sign an executive order relating to the Act?

I don’t know.

Please explain the above to me.

No stupid quips, fuck off with that nonsense.

Zipster
Zipster
September 23, 2022 8:08 am

The Jimmy Dore Show
New York has declared a state of emergency over an outbreak of polio that many fear is going to get much worse in the near future. That’s right, polio. And the reason, if you can believe it, has to do with the fact that there are two different types of polio vaccines, one that employs a dead strain of the virus and another that employs a weakened version. The latter vaccine is delivered orally, and is widely distributed in poorer, third world countries. But somehow a “vaccine-derived” form of the disease has made its way to New York and, well, all bets are off about where it goes next.

mc
mc
September 23, 2022 8:09 am

BTW, the fight isn’t over. Governments might be rolling back the health orders, but public service departments and corporations are still busily developing and implementing stringent Covid vaccine employment policies, which are not designed to be temporary. The fight continues. Admire those who are still punching on, unvaccinated or otherwise.

I understand Vic legislation was changed to allow employers to discriminate on vax status. I don’t know don’t know if the changes could be used to extend that discrimination further but it would not surprise me.

The anti-mandate cohort are the silent majority. Back it in.

Just hope they don’t stay too silent. Not seen too much back lash at my work where new policy requires ongoing vaccination to keep working

Dot
Dot
September 23, 2022 8:09 am

Trump was preparing a proclamation in light of the George Floyd protests.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/charlestiefer/2021/06/25/an-insurrection-act-proclamation-was-prepare-for-trump-by-his-aides-during-dc-protests/

Okay?

What has this got to do with “Q”?

Dot
Dot
September 23, 2022 8:13 am

Zip

Nice work on the hydroxychloroquine link.

Like Ivermectin, it was a trusted medical drug until Trump mentioned it.

Which funnily enough the left said about vaccines (the orange “bigot” implemented operation light speed after all) until they wanted to suck off AZ and Pfizer.

Crossie
Crossie
September 23, 2022 8:13 am

Dilbert has a couple of nice ESG strips.

And that’s why Scott Adams has been dropped by 70 newspapers. Evil cannot stand to be mocked.

custard
custard
September 23, 2022 8:14 am

The only way, I believe that you can explain what has been happening since the 2020 election (a coup d’état) is that Trump declared an insurrection.

And apparently you don’t have to make a proclamation about it.

Zipster
Zipster
September 23, 2022 8:14 am
Zipster
Zipster
September 23, 2022 8:15 am

Will Civilization Collapse?
Academy of Ideas

Indolent
Indolent
September 23, 2022 8:17 am
132andBush
132andBush
September 23, 2022 8:18 am

This EOTW thingy,

I hope it involves chemtrails.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 23, 2022 8:18 am

rosiesays:

September 23, 2022 at 8:02 am

I remember reading a biography about Hungarian twins …

The Gabors?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 23, 2022 8:19 am

132andBushsays:

September 23, 2022 at 8:18 am

This EOTW thingy,

I hope it involves chemtrails.

Obviously.
And 5G.

Miltonf
Miltonf
September 23, 2022 8:20 am

You are correct Cassie. Biden is evil. He may be gaga but that evil is still there as it has been throughout his entire rotten life. A cheat, a bully, a compulsive liar. A pay to play corruptocrat.

Top Ender
Top Ender
September 23, 2022 8:21 am

Re Big Scare Event:

this is a tad annoying, as I still have about 30 bottles of wine in the rack, and there’s no way I can drink them all by that time.

JC
JC
September 23, 2022 8:22 am

Some time ago you sent me an unsolicited email. I’m not suggesting anything untoward, but it was “unsolicited”, which is relevant to this issue. Obviously that disclosed your email address to me.
You could at any time during that correspondence have asked me not to use the email address in future. But you didn’t.

Tim , that’s some of the most laughable nonsense I’ve read from you in a while. The email would be like lots of business dealings – they’re unsolicited. I have to look back, but I’m reasonably sure the introduction came through this blog owner as I requested he ask if you would be kind enough to exchange emails – not that it matters. I was investigating service on a tax related matter. You’ve publicly state you’re a tax attorney and thought there could be a match. I appear to have dodged a bullet.

You posted a derogatory comment about me on this thread, saying it was something you’d “read on another site”.

I posted an unambiguous comment which you misread and contorted, but out of the goodness of my heart I made a correction- even after the abusive email.

When I asked for details of the site, you then said it was from a “confidential source”.

Yep. I respected confidentiality. You don’t appear to, judging by your unethical conduct with the email.

Given your assiduously cultivated swaggering New York tough guy persona on this site, it never occurred to me that you’d have a meltdown because I emailed you at an address that you’d, totally unasked, freely and voluntarily disclosed to me without any conditions being imposed as to future correspondence.

There’s no meltdown. I thought about it and I’ve decided I want an apology from you posted here now. Do I really sound like a tough guy? Wow, okay. I guess it’s better sounding than a Melbourne mentally distressed guy trying to intimidate 80 year old women and generally polite lefties like Monty. I still can’t get over the reams of crap you’ve written against those two. You would be a billionaire if you were charging $1,200 bucks an hour like some tax attorney do. Not you though.

I regret that the meltdown occurred, but there’s no reason for me to apologise for having emailed. The moment you asked me to agree not to email you any more I agreed and have complied with that agreement.

It’s been one day, so I’m only hopeful.

I do apologise for not having intuited the vast gulf between your onsite anonymous persona and the reality.

No problem, perhaps you should never have crossed a boundary of sending out abusive email.

PS: from this moment on, whenever you try your swaggering New York tough guy antics on this site, readers will be able to contrast those antics with your performance in this matter. You reap what you sow.

Sure, people can make up there own minds. Your email was unethical.

Cassie of Sydney
September 23, 2022 8:22 am

“I have seen this blog literally drive people nuts.

Bird
Annie
Alice”

Umm, you’re missing a few names from the list.

Custard, please STOP posting your telephone number. I think many of us are rightly concerned about your mental state, step away from the keyboard and go for a walk with your wife.

Custard, I’m going to write something that you many not like but here it is….

DONALD J TRUMP IS NOT THE MESSIAH.

Top Ender
Top Ender
September 23, 2022 8:24 am

Who is this entitled idiot?

We’re hearing a lot of travellers were unhappy that Victorian Governor Linda Dessau somehow got lost between the Qantas chairman’s lounge and the boarding gate at Melbourne Airport on Wednesday, delaying the flight by almost 30 minutes.

About 200-odd passengers were left smouldering by the inconvenience and watched on, aghast, as Dessau shouldered her way to the front of the queue for the flight to Canberra, having been granted a request to board first by Qantas management.

Why this was even necessary completely evades us. Business class passengers are already given priority boarding.

As to the aggravating factor of Dessau’s late arrival, the notion that she was led astray en route to the gate – as suggested to Margin Call on Wednesday – sounds a little dubious, although we concede it’s amusing.

Consider that she was accompanied by two staff members and an airport worker who’d somehow been co-opted to carry her garment bag. Were they all bamboozled by the uncomplicated signage? It’s absurd.

We’ve been to Melbourne airport on a number of occasions. It’s not an engineering marvel. It’s not even close to Heathrow or the labyrinthine Charles de Gaulle with its network of train shuttles and sub-designations.

The choices are to turn left or to turn right, a task comparable in complexity to the single-track drudgery of Ikea shopping; to become lost, in either setting, is an achievement.

Excruciating as it might have been to witness, Dessau, unperturbed by the fuss, still boarded the flight ahead of everyone else. Exactly why Qantas management didn’t just let everyone onto the plane is stupid enough; their own staff were visibly appalled by the fiasco.

The airline couldn’t tell us why all of this pageantry was necessary but the Governor’s office disputed the claim there had been some tarrying in the chairman’s lounge.

In one of the most curiously worded statements we have ever been provided, a spokesman said: “Neither the Governor or her staff requested or expected any passengers to be delayed from boarding the flight. There was no delay in the Governor and her party leaving the lounge when requested to make their way to the gate.”

In any case, the resulting intermezzo saw hundreds of passengers file past seat 2D knowing that its bejewelled occupant was the cause of their disruption.

Fortunately for Dessau, many of them believed she was a federal politician, owing to scuttlebutt disseminated earlier at the gate lounge. “And then no one recognised who it was,” one told Margin Call.

Oz

Miltonf
Miltonf
September 23, 2022 8:25 am

No he’s not. An amazing guy but not the Messiah.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 23, 2022 8:25 am

Top Endersays:

September 23, 2022 at 8:21 am

Re Big Scare Event:

this is a tad annoying, as I still have about 30 bottles of wine in the rack, and there’s no way I can drink them all by that time.

You’ve got 14 hours.
Give it a crack.
And who cares if your licence gets scrubbed for 12 months for .05?
No-one will need a licence after 10:07 tonight (earlier Central Time).

Cassie of Sydney
September 23, 2022 8:25 am

“generally polite lefties like Monty”

No such thing as a polite lefty.

rosie
rosie
September 23, 2022 8:25 am

Sorry second read hit paywall.

Miltonf
Miltonf
September 23, 2022 8:26 am

What Trump has done is expose the mendacity of the western political establishment. Exhibit A- little Johnny hoWARd

JC
JC
September 23, 2022 8:28 am

Oh Tim, one last thing. If you think I would be intimidated in some way by your reply on this site, just get it out of your head right now. Nothing really intimidates me. Certainly not an over the hill tax attorney abusing 80 year women and running her off a blog,.

Miltonf
Miltonf
September 23, 2022 8:31 am

In many cases Trump just made them expose themselves

Johnny Rotten
September 23, 2022 8:31 am

A guy takes his wife out for the night and they end up at a disco where there’s a guy on the dance floor giving it large – break dancing, moonwalking, back flips, every dance move going. The wife turns to her husband and says “See that guy on the dance floor? 25 years ago he proposed to me and I turned him down”. The husband replies “Looks like he’s still celebrating!”

custard
custard
September 23, 2022 8:31 am

I’m fine thanks Cassie.

My wife can’t walk with me at the moment after recovering from a medical procedure.

I’m doing everything.

And I agree with you, Donald Trump is not God, but possibly a gift from God.

Indolent
Indolent
September 23, 2022 8:32 am

This Bloomberg article is paywalled. However, the headline says it all. They’re road testing the (planned) future again.

Floods, Riots in Mock 2026 Food Crisis Test Government Response

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 23, 2022 8:32 am

Custard, please STOP posting your telephone number. I think many of us are rightly concerned about your mental state, step away from the keyboard and go for a walk with your wife.

All jokes aside, custard, this is good advice.
If Big Things are, in fact, unfolding as we speak, they will happen whether you are watching 24/7 or not.
It will all still be there Monday if you take a break (depending on the meteor track, of course).

rosie
rosie
September 23, 2022 8:33 am

Interesting article, ” Both the oral and the inactivated vaccine prevent paralysis. But they are not particularly good at preventing this kind (ingested particles) of transmission. The inactivated jab is especially bad at this. The oral vaccine’s protection against transmission is strong at first (so good for outbreaks) but is relatively short lived. America and Europe stopped using it about twenty years ago.

JC
JC
September 23, 2022 8:34 am

Custard

If you like to be respected – even though you’re claims are a real stretch, it would be a good idea to say your good mornings without those silly qualifications.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 23, 2022 8:37 am

DONALD J TRUMP IS NOT THE MESSIAH.

I think he is perhaps the only person that can save the US. De Santis would not be in a position to do the type of cleanout that Trump could do and needs to do. Think of him as De Santis’s battering ram: get in, go full on, then give De Santis two terms to tidy up afterwards and put the ship back on course.

John Hinderaker has this one today, which shows just how bad things are.

Democrats Move to Criminalize Opposition | Power Line (22 Sep)

A hallmark of banana republics is that those who lose power are apt to wind up in prison, or on the wrong end of a firing squad. Even more advanced countries, like Israel, sometimes have a regrettable tendency to prosecute former political leaders.

It is hard to think of anything more destructive to a democracy, and yet the Democrats are going down that path.

Given the thorough corruption of the Department of Justice under Merrick Garland, there is a reasonable possibility that the Democrats will move to imprison both Donald Trump and other prominent Republicans. I suppose they think they are secure, because Republicans would never follow such a third-world precedent. I don’t know about that. In any event, there is a more fundamental question: are the Democrats trying to trigger a civil war, as they did in 1861? Judging from their actions, I think the question must be taken seriously.

The current path is to either a Soviet one party state or a civil war. Only shock treatment can avoid both of those outcomes, and I’m not sure it’s even possible to avoid both. But the only remotely feasible way of doing so is for Trump to do a Samson-in-the-temple job. De Santis could not do that.

Zipster
Zipster
September 23, 2022 8:39 am

About 200-odd passengers were left smouldering by the inconvenience and watched on, aghast, as Dessau shouldered her way to the front of the queue for the flight to Canberra, having been granted a request to board first by Qantas management.

elites uber alles

2dogs
September 23, 2022 8:39 am

The tragic Cayler Ellingson killing should not be seen as a political issue.

Brandt had a blood alcohol of 0.08 and was well above the limit. This is a straight forward case of drink drive manslaughter.

All of the politicisation of it is coming from Brandt. He knows he is screwed, and is making out this is a political issue to become a Hero Of The Left™.

Given the corporate media will, no doubt, champion him, the strategy will probably work.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 23, 2022 8:46 am

An serious conflict of interest –

On one hand, I will declare myself a staunch monarchist.

On the other, the day of mourning for her Majesty means the dividends for my holdings of BHP shares will be a day late, going into my bank account…

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 23, 2022 8:50 am

Voice to have ‘enormous’ impact on public policy: Dodson
Jess Malcolm
JESS MALCOLM

Special Envoy for Reconciliation Pat Dodson says a First Nations voice to parliament will have an “enormous” impact on the way public domestic and international policies work in Australia.

Senator Dodson also said the Queen’s passing would not strengthen the resolve to legislate an indigenous voice, arguing the two issues needed to be dealt with separately.

Speaking from New York where he has chaired a roundtable in Indigenous approaches to foreign policy, Senator Dodson said the nation had a great opportunity for reconciliation between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians.

“We will work towards the first step of this process (which) is the successful referendum to create a set of words that requires the government of the day to set up a voice to parliament and once that voice is placed it will have an enormous impact on the way public policy works and certainly the way international policies will work,” Senator Dodson said.

He said the Queen’s passing was a sad event, but unrelated to the government’s pursuit of a First Nations voice.

“I think it’s a very sad thing, personally the loss is a very sad thing, but it does not relieve the British crown or the Australian crown of having to deal with the legacies of colonisation, displacement and all the other policies that have affected First Nations people. It doesn’t make it any more relevant for us as a nation for dealing with a voice to parliament. That’s a priority.”

Senator Dodson labelled a number of Aboriginal MPs vocally opposed to the voice as “not very helpful” and asked whether they had any better alternatives to reconciling the nation.

Senator Dodson, allow me to point out that you still have to get your voice passed at referendum?

bespoke
bespoke
September 23, 2022 8:51 am

The US will not survive another chaotic presidency like Trumps and Bidens. Trump has served his use.

Shy Ted
Shy Ted
September 23, 2022 8:51 am

bespoke September 23, 2022 at 6:57 am
It’s likely for most it didn’t involve a lot of lifestyle change. I’m not trying to diminish the significance but seriously get some perspective. It is nothing like being a in the French resistance or storming the Normandy breaches. All we did was not take the vax.

Every now and again there’s a comment of such breathtaking stupidity it defies belief. Talk about false equivalence. Anyway, what do you think about the next step?

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
September 23, 2022 8:53 am

Zipstersays:
September 23, 2022 at 8:27 am
Mike Pompeo: The Chinese Communist Party has declared economic war on America

A bit late for the B’Obvious for decades

I wonder if Mike Pompeo realises the Pope is Catholic?

( But with Pope Francis that is debatable!)

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
September 23, 2022 8:54 am

Caught 5 minutes of John Wick on FTA last night. Unwatchable at its best. The timing so slow that editing would have resulted in a much shortened scene. When Bruce Lee started in TV the scenes were slowed by 1/2 and still viewers had trouble seeing the action.

Miltonf
Miltonf
September 23, 2022 8:54 am

Trump didn’t chaotic. People determined to stop him from doing what he was elected to do made it chaotic. I was in Detroit during the Trump era and the place purred.

Real Deal
Real Deal
September 23, 2022 8:54 am

KD at 7.58

There shall in that time be rumors of things going astray, erm, and there shall be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia-work base, that has an attachment. At that time, a friend shall lose his friend’s hammer, and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before, about eight o’clock.

And also:-

“and the bezan shall be huge and black, and the eyes thereof red with the blood of living creatures, and the whore of Babylon shall ride forth on a three-headed serpent, and throughout the lands, there will be a great rubbing of parts. Yeeah…”

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 23, 2022 8:54 am

In any case, the resulting intermezzo saw hundreds of passengers file past seat 2D knowing that its bejewelled occupant was the cause of their disruption.

Brilliant. Just brilliant.

bespoke
bespoke
September 23, 2022 8:58 am

What’s the connection Shy Ted?

Razey
Razey
September 23, 2022 8:59 am

The Gates Foundation is Researching How to Manipulate You Into Taking ‘Future’ COVID Vaccines.

https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/09/22/gates-foundation-tries-to-curb-valid-vaccine-hesitancy/

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 23, 2022 9:00 am

Apropos of the DJT resurrection:

For years after Steve Bracks tipped him out, there were substantial calls made via furious Letters to the Editor and similar mechanism to bring back Jeff Kennett as Premier of Victoria.

The current contretemps has the same familiarity about it.

Trump will not and cannot come back to that office. Sure – he can be a kingmaker, but he can never again be King.

shatterzzz
September 23, 2022 9:00 am

Admire the Unvaccinated. They withstood the greatest pressure from all fronts. People who were capable of such personality, courage and critical ability are the best of humanity

Only some! .. I remain unvaxxed but as an OAP I had nothing to lose! .. those that put their jobs on the line are the ones who deserve the praise .. for me it was easy .. I remembered Thalidomide was tested, maybe not properly but .. tested .. the BAT FLU rubbish and the 36 boosters weren’t … !

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 23, 2022 9:00 am

Fortunately for Dessau, many of them believed she was a federal politician, owing to scuttlebutt disseminated earlier at the gate lounge. “And then no one recognised who it was,” one told Margin Call.

Dot
Dot
September 23, 2022 9:01 am

All of the politicisation of it is coming from Brandt. He knows he is screwed, and is making out this is a political issue to become a Hero Of The Left™

Does he realise he goes from manslaughter to a hate crime murder?

A non death penalty state, that is like Australia, up to 25 years with usual early parole, to life with no possibility of parole?

Dumb fella.

Upgrading maybe 8 years in the can to possibly 50+ years until almost certainly death (unless paroled for terminal illness).

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 23, 2022 9:02 am

Bespoke – Then it won’t survive, because without a cleanout of the alphabet agency bugmen the Dems will continue to steal future elections, since they dare not now stop.

Ed Snowden: America’s Open Wound – The CIA Is Not Your Friend (22 Sep)

Nor the DoJ, DHS, NSA, IRS, FBI, EPA, DEA or the ATF. They’re all solidly captured by the Left and are being used increasingly as Stazi against anyone who objects to totalitarian control by the Democrat Party.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
September 23, 2022 9:10 am

Shy Ted,

I thought the mention of the Normandy beaches and the French underground obviously facetious.

Brought a smile to my face.

Is this the false equivalence you are referring to? Or are you dismissing the point that people in different situations might be exposed to the mandates in different ways?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 23, 2022 9:11 am

Nor the DoJ, DHS, NSA, IRS, FBI, EPA, DEA or the ATF

Don’t forget EOTW.

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
September 23, 2022 9:11 am

German domestic intelligence is running hundreds of fake right-wing extremist social media accounts

The operation involving fake right-wing accounts has become so big that information sharing is necessary so authorities do not target each other

Hundreds of the radical Nazis and right-wing extremists online are actually German domestic intelligence agents, and many of them may be responsible for “inciting hatred” and even violence. These agents, who once needed to drink and directly socialize with members of the extreme right to gain information on their targets, are now running right-wing extremist accounts online in Germany.

Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) argues that these accounts are needed to effectively monitor the extreme right, but critics say that they may also be promoting and actively encouraging radicalism, according to a report from German newspaper Süddeutsche

However, the activities of the BfV running hundreds of right-wing extremist accounts have come to light at the same time that Germany’s left-wing government has labeled right-wing extremism the biggest threat to the country, despite data showing that left-wing extremists and radical Islam pose bigger threats.

Zatara
Zatara
September 23, 2022 9:14 am

I was in Detroit during the Trump era and the place purred.

Mostly true, other than Detroit electing racist socialist Rashida Tlaib to the Congress in 2018.

Razey
Razey
September 23, 2022 9:15 am

I’d rather live under tyrannical islam than tyrannical left-wing extremists.

bespoke
bespoke
September 23, 2022 9:15 am

I’m not the one making the false equivalence, Shy Ted.

P
P
September 23, 2022 9:16 am

rosie says:
September 23, 2022 at 8:02 am

I remember reading a biography about Hungarian twins

Possibly In My Brother’s Image: Twin Brothers Separated by Faith After the Holocaust

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
September 23, 2022 9:16 am

“We Have Not Yet Started Anything Serious…”

Reminiscence of the Future… : They Wanted War.

They surely got one now:

Okay, so take that Russian MOD of Russian military KIAs in Ukraine with however much salt you’d like, although why would you if you’ve been swallowing the Ukrainian estimates of such casualties without demur? If that seems low, remember that I have discussed several times how the Russians have waged this war: Most of the front line troops have come the the Donbass republican militias, and “professional” (hired) forces from within Russia – the Chechen batallions, the Wagner Group, and other contract (mercenary) forces. Much of the regular Russian military was withdrawn back into Russia beginning in April. The regulars who remained manned the devastating Russian artillery units, the airborne formations, and other positions not so directly in harm’s way as the frontline troops, which bore the brunt of the casualties among the Russian Allies.

Since all of this seems to be going faster than anybody had predicted – if they predicted it all all – I will hazard a guess that the Ukrainians and their NATO mercenary units will be facing the regular Russian military sooner, rather than later, because once those referenda’s are passed, (and they will be – overwhelmingly so), and formally accepted by the Russian Duma, their borders will become Russia’s borders, and will be defended by the Russian regular army.

Since Ukraine’s Zelensky seems to regard their current attempts to advance on the battle front as imperative to keep the gravy train flowing into Zelensky’s and other Ukrainian oligarchs’ pockets, look for some crushing defeats to be inflicted on them as they advance.

Yeah, yeah. Be sure to lay in a lot of firewood for the winter, Euros. If you can find any. Because you’re about to get a lot colder.

The US neocons apparently intend to fight Russia not just to the last Ukranian, but to the last European as well.

Prediction: I expect the Russians to try to inflict some major, impossible to cover up or ignore defeat on the Ukrainian military prior to our November elections. They understand 5G warfare probably better than our military muppets do.

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/putin-is-at-war-with-the-west-not-ukraine/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS

caveman says:
September 23, 2022 at 7:40 am

Media making out that Putin will just use Nuclear weapons at at given moment. He had the decency to give his speech after the Queens funeral.

Here’s the part mentioning nuclear. He will just deliver like for like.

“Nuclear blackmail was also launched. We are talking not only about the shelling of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, which is encouraged by the West, which threatens a nuclear catastrophe, but also about the statements of some high-ranking representatives of the leading NATO states about the possibility and admissibility of using weapons of mass destruction against Russia – nuclear weapons.

To those who allow themselves to make such statements about Russia, I would like to remind you that our country also has various means of destruction, and for some components more modern than those of the NATO countries. And if the territorial integrity of our country is threatened, we will certainly use all the means at our disposal to protect Russia and our people. It’s not a bluff.”

Full text here.

https://consortiumnews.com/2022/09/21/text-of-putins-speech-on-ukraine/

Razey
Razey
September 23, 2022 9:18 am

You will use the pronouns we tell you to use, or we turn off your credit cards and you lose your job.

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
September 23, 2022 9:19 am

Mother of Eliza Fletcher’s accused r@pist and killer Cleotha Abston says she is standing by her son

‘I talked to him and he said he didn’t do it,’ she recalled of their conversation. ‘He said [to me]: “They’re trying to put me in some stuff, mom”.’

‘I believe him,’ she continued. ‘I don’t believe he did it. If it comes out of his mouth, that’s what I believe.’

‘He’s just a good person, kind, lovable,’ she added, disputing depictions of her son as a monster.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 23, 2022 9:19 am

You should ask them about that, Sancho, since they’re the climate people. As I’ve been long saying there’s nothing much happening global warming wise, but these people seem to believe they have to take absolute control to save the planet. That’s the biggest recent change that appears to underpin this new totalitarian push – the Left has added climate religion to the old save-the-proles-from-capitalism Marxism religion.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 23, 2022 9:21 am

Simon
58 minutes ago
The Governor certainly has a history of champagne tastes, as demonstrated by her November 2015 trip to London to visit the Queen. On 18 August 2016 the Herald Sun reported:

A LAVISH champagne lunch has turned into a humiliating fizzer for Governor Linda Dessau after she was forced to repay $1100 for food and alcohol charged to the public purse.
Government House was plunged into crisis by Herald Sun revelations that Victorian taxpayers picked up the tab for the governor, her husband and two staff to sip $55-a-glass Bollinger and exotic wines while in London to visit the Queen.
Staff from the Office of the ­Governor spent hours crafting a statement revealing the governor had been unaware taxpayers were slugged $813 for the November 2015 lunch at Gordon Ramsay restaurant Petrus.
The governor also said she didn’t know, until the Herald Sun made inquiries, that two senior staff travelling with her had spent $300 of taxpayers’ money on oysters, shrimp cocktails and wine at Harrods.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 23, 2022 9:22 am

I thought the mention of the Normandy beaches and the French underground obviously facetious.

Anyone who sees it as anything else is probably a stolen valour, “stand or fall if necessary” wannabe military fantasist who rubs up against the Cenotaph every Anzac Day.
No names.

Mater
September 23, 2022 9:23 am

Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) argues that these accounts are needed to effectively monitor the extreme right, but critics say that they may also be promoting and actively encouraging radicalism, according to a report from German newspaper Süddeutsche

Bullshit.
It’s a False Flag stunt to create straw man adversaries, the only countermeasure to which is obviously the implementation of increased ‘social control’.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 23, 2022 9:24 am

I’d rather live under tyrannical islam than tyrannical left-wing extremists.

Speaking of such things…

Iran: Regime Militia Thugs Killed as Hijab Protesters Torch Police Stations (22 Sep)

Protests in Iran over the killing of a young Kurdish woman for not wearing her headscarf properly continued to spread on Thursday, despite an increasingly brutal crackdown from the theocratic regime.

The demonstrators are reportedly fighting back with determination rarely seen in Iran since the 1979 Islamist revolution, with reports of police stations and vehicles burned, police officers injured and killed, and even members of the regime’s thuggish Basij militia dying in scuffles with demonstrators.

Sounds messy.

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
September 23, 2022 9:25 am

The United States Air Force Academy is training its cadets to “use inclusive language” that bars them from calling people “terrorists” or using male and female identifiers

A diverse and inclusive force is a warfighting imperative!” according to the presentation. “Our USAF/USSF faces a complex environment and tackles ‘wicked,’ complex problems.”

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
September 23, 2022 9:25 am

Jeff Kennett knackered himself by being an arsehole to the bush community.
People who volunteer for everything and ran their communities on the smell of an oily rag didn’t like being told they were irrelevant and needed big city management to have a future.
Kennett’s council amalgamations only produced unaccountable bureaucracies that were prime for exploitation by the socialist regime that followed.
Jeff is a tool.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 23, 2022 9:27 am

Razeysays:
September 23, 2022 at 9:18 am
You will use the pronouns we tell you to use, or we turn off your credit cards and you lose your job.

Things not going well in Japan?

bespoke
bespoke
September 23, 2022 9:28 am

I thought the mention of the Normandy beaches and the French underground obviously facetious

Only partly MT. My post was motivated by a link to a certificate posted earlier.
It’s a bit sad when you have to print your own participation award.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 23, 2022 9:32 am

Speaking of Japan.
Indolent, regarding your Kiwi conspiracy theorist banging on about Shinzo Abe being murdered by the WEF for refusing vaxxes.
Might be a good idea to check some basics.
Like the dates Shinzo Abe was PM, for example.
And to perhaps consider why the WEF, with all their resources, would use a long-time known nutjob and a home-made shotty for the hit.
No upticks for you.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
September 23, 2022 9:35 am

The Saddest, Most Senescent Joe Biden Video Yet

Biden is a shameless liar, braggart, and fabulist, who — much to our national shame — was never laughed into richly-deserved obscurity.

Longtime Sharp VodkaPundit Readers™ have joined me in the more recent fun of watching Biden try to shake hands with people who aren’t there, do the Old Man Shuffle to or from the Marine One helicopter, or get ignored — as POTUS! — at a White House reception because Smiling Barack Obama showed up to dazzle the crowd.

But this next video is just sad because it shows just how diminished the supposed Most Powerful Man in the world has become.

Here he is, after wrapping up his prepared remarks to The Global Fund earlier this week.

If it weren’t for the damage Biden and his handlers have done to this country, it would be one of the saddest things I’ve ever seen.

Zipster
Zipster
September 23, 2022 9:40 am

Lawmakers Call to Decouple From China; Two Chinese Telecom Companies Deemed a Threat
01:01 Two Chinese Telecom Companies Deemed a Threat
01:58 Lawmakers Call to Decouple from China
04:11 China Ties: Climate Officer of U.S. Bank Regulator
05:42 25% of iPhone Production to Move to India by 2025
06:57 China Warns U.S., Canada After Taiwan Strait Passage
07:41 China to Make Utmost Effort to Take Taiwan
09:04 Hong Kong Man Arrested After Paying Tribute to Queen
09:54 U.S., UK Join Pacific Allies in Fiji Military Drill
11:20 UK, Japan to Work on Countering China

Zipster
Zipster
September 23, 2022 9:41 am

01:58 Lawmakers Call to Decouple from China

decoupling from china is now a life or death matter

Jorge
Jorge
September 23, 2022 9:43 am

Not EOTW but there are a number of Catholic seers who have been warning of ‘three days of darkness’ coming.

Perhaps this is it.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 23, 2022 9:45 am

To be specific, Shinzo Abe ended his term as Japanese PM on 20th September, 2020.
The only vaxes touted as being available before then were the Chinese one being used for their military, and the Wussian Sputnik V vax.
The mainstream vaxxes (Pfizer, AZ) were approved in November-December 2020, and widespread release was in the first quarter of 2021 – nearly six months after Shinzo Abe left office.
So how did he refuse acceptance of supply of the vaccines as Japanese PM nearly six months before they were released?
By all means, Indolent, argue against vaxxes.
But enough with the bullshit.

rosie
rosie
September 23, 2022 9:50 am

Virgie Abston, putting the lie to ‘black don’t crack’.
On my mind because of a lot of excitement on twitter about a photo of the royal Princes and their wives, and how Meghan despite being the oldest, looked the youngest.

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
September 23, 2022 9:50 am

elites uber alles

Why slum it with the proles?

A private charter jet should be the minimum.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
September 23, 2022 9:50 am

FBI hero paying the price for exposing unjust ‘persecution’ of conservative Americans

By Miranda Devine

Bombshell allegations by FBI Special Agent Steve Friend contained in a whistleblower complaint filed late Wednesday with the Department of Justice inspector general reveal a politicized Washington, DC, FBI field office cooking the books to exaggerate the threat of domestic terrorism, and ­using an “overzealous” January 6 ­investigation to harass conservative Americans and violate their constitutional rights.

Friend, 37, a respected 12-year veteran of the FBI and a SWAT team member, was suspended Monday, stripped of his gun and badge, and escorted out of the FBI field office in Daytona Beach, Fla., after complaining to his supervisors about the violations.

He was declared absent without leave last month for refusing to participate in SWAT raids that he believed violated FBI policy and were a use of excessive force against Jan. 6 ­subjects accused of misdemeanor ­offenses.

This American hero, the father of two small children, has blown up his “dream career” because he could not live with his conscience if he continued to be part of what he sees as the unjust persecution of conservative Americans.

“I have an oath to uphold the Constitution,” he told supervisors when he asserted his conscientious objection to joining an Aug. 24 raid on a J6 subject in the Jacksonville, Fla., area. “I have a moral objection and want to be considered a conscientious objector.”

Friend, who did not vote for Donald Trump in the 2020 election, said he told his immediate boss twice that he believed the raid, and the investigative process leading up to it, violated FBI policy and the subject’s right under the Sixth Amendment to a fair trial and Eighth Amendment right against cruel and unusual punishment.

Among Friend’s allegations:

. The Washington, DC, field office is “manipulating” FBI case management protocol and farming out J6 cases to field offices across the country to create the false impression that right-wing domestic violence is a widespread national problem that goes far beyond the “black swan” event of Jan. 6, 2021.

. As a result, he was listed as lead agent in cases he had not investigated and which his supervisor had not signed off on, in violation of FBI policy.

. ?FBI domestic terrorism cases are being opened on innocent American citizens who were nowhere near the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, based on anonymous tips to an FBI hotline or from Facebook spying on their messages. These tips are turned into investigative tools called “guardians,” after the FBI software that collates them.

. ?The FBI has post-facto designated a grassy area outside the Capitol as a restricted zone, when it was not restricted on Jan. 6, 2021, in order to widen the net of prosecutions.

. ?The FBI intends to prosecute everyone even peripherally associated with J6 and another wave of J6 subjects are about to be referred to the FBI’s Daytona Beach resident agency “for investigation and arrest.”

. ?The Jacksonville area was “inundated” with “guardian” notifications and FBI agents were dispatched to conduct surveillance and knock on people’s doors, including people who had not been in Washington, DC, on Jan. 6, 2021, or who had been to the Trump rally that day but did not go ­inside the Capitol.

Friend says he was punished after complaining to his bosses about being dragged into J6 investigations that were “violating citizens’ Sixth Amendment rights due to overzealous charging by the DOJ and biased jury pools in Washington, DC.”

Mater
September 23, 2022 9:51 am

Not EOTW but there are a number of Catholic seers who have been warning of ‘three days of darkness’ coming.

I’m predicting days of darkness ahead, but more of a slow burn than a sudden flash.
Sadly, I don’t think it’s going to be limited to three days.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 23, 2022 9:52 am

Well it is an improvement from bugs and nothing but bugs.

Bill Gates wants to force everyone to live off of his patent pending synthetic corn (23 Sep, via Climate Depot)

Microsoft founder pivots from COVID Mania to Climate Change.

Given that COVID Mania is becoming increasingly unpopular with the public at large, the global ruling class has decided to rebrand their relentless campaign for technocratic tyranny. Bill Gates, for his part, is transitioning from a gene juice vaccine (mRNA) salesman to a monopolistic synthetic corn salesman. And once again, he is using the continent of Africa as the patient zero for his latest maniacal experiment.

At Goalkeepers, Gates touted his GMO corn as a critical solution to climate change in Africa. If this confuses you, he means that he doesn’t want African farmers to invest in and consume nutrient rich livestock, which would actually improve their lives, because Gates believes the cows, chickens, and such are contributing to “climate change.” Therefore, Bill Gates has decided that Africans must subscribe to a lifetime of You Will Eat Corn And You Will Be Happy.

If there were three people you might wish could be exiled to a desert island then Gates, Schwab and Soros would be high on the list. They could then eat each other to reduce their collected carbon footprint.

Dot
Dot
September 23, 2022 9:52 am

Jorge says:
September 23, 2022 at 9:43 am
Not EOTW but there are a number of Catholic seers who have been warning of ‘three days of darkness’ coming.

Perhaps this is it.

WTF is this shit?

Glowie posting?

Get back to the 1800s where you belong with this inflammatory nonsense.

Cassie of Sydney
September 23, 2022 9:53 am

“I’d rather live under tyrannical islam than tyrannical left-wing extremists.”

What an utterly stupid thing to write. The fact is, you would not. Both ideologies are as bad and as tyrannical as each other, nasty, controlling, brutal, insidious ideologies.

Oh and you’d be happy to live in a society where alcohol is banned?

rosie
rosie
September 23, 2022 9:53 am
Makka
Makka
September 23, 2022 9:55 am

decoupling from china is now a life or death matter

It may be but it would particularly ugly. In fact almost impossible I’d say, unless it came down to all out hot war. The trillions invested in China by US industry and finance will ensure the US power elites aggressively resist any and all attempts to de-couple. Additionally there is no stomach on the left to pull the plug on their China gravy train.

However, I do think there will be a significant effort to lower China “risk” by moving portions of manufacturing back on shore. And future inward investments in China will reduce. Not helpful to inflation reduction efforts and a significant departure from the preceding 40 years of capital flows.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 23, 2022 9:57 am

Jorgesays:

September 23, 2022 at 9:43 am

Not EOTW but there are a number of Catholic seers who have been warning of ‘three days of darkness’ coming.

What never ceases to amaze about EOTW predictionators is that, every time one of their “fer sure and certain” deadlines passes, they have an entirely plausible explanation for why The Plan changed.
And here is the revised date.

rosie
rosie
September 23, 2022 9:57 am

I’m going to predict a massive rejection of dying of cold for the sake of a ‘climate emergency’ by people living in western Europe, starting in a couple of months.

Dot
Dot
September 23, 2022 9:58 am

Yep.

1800 and 1900 is roughly when the two most famous mystics made their predictions.

Which confirms what Q said about a solar storm in 2022.

FMS, are you people serious?

I don’t think you are. Either you are incredibly naive or taking the piss and trying to discredit everyone else here.

We had a solar storm a few years back, I lost valuable files.

No EOTW though. Enough was donated to a trooper to hold it off for 8 years.

Shy Ted
Shy Ted
September 23, 2022 9:59 am

Some articles about the French Resistance and Normandy for you, bespoke
And while we’re on the subject, can you see any similarities between what the Na zis did across Europe, you know, entering people’ homes with guns and taking their possessions and worse, and the powers the police have in WA (which was brought to you by the Cat, not the MSM)?
All these things are coordinated at the National Cabinet. WA has just gone first this time. Who’ll do it next? And are you going to fight them on the beaches? Or your lawn? Or front doorstep? Or will you just let WAPOL

that would bestow his officers with the right to “take control of or make use of any place, vehicle or thing”.

The only thing being “vaxxed” got you was the right to another “vax”. And another.

Dot
Dot
September 23, 2022 9:59 am

rosie says:
September 23, 2022 at 9:57 am
I’m going to predict a massive rejection of dying of cold for the sake of a ‘climate emergency’ by people living in western Europe, starting in a couple of months.

Australia will power on until 2050, punching ourselves in the balls, telling ourselves it will make us Chads.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 23, 2022 9:59 am

Speaking of Schwab…

World Economic Forum touts ‘personal carbon allowance programs’ – ‘COVID-19 was the test of social responsibility’ – ‘Huge number of unimaginable restrictions for public health were adopted by billions of citizens’ (22 Sep)

This is Climate Depot reporting on an official WEF document from 14 Sep, which is both linked and included in the post. It’s long and very creepy, especially the carbon allowance graphics on phones.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
September 23, 2022 10:01 am

JCsays:
September 23, 2022 at 8:28 am

Just a couple of very minor things for the record.
Your first email was unsolicited. It wasn’t arranged through dover. You looked up my work contact details online, and in your first email asked me to confirm that I was the Cat commenter of my name.
Then in your response to my email of which you’re complaining you alleged that I might be faking my connection with the very firm at which you’d contacted me. No meltdown at all.

Dot
Dot
September 23, 2022 10:01 am

I’m astounded why Schwab even has any voice to power let alone credibility.

He’s just some crank with a lot of money.

Makka
Makka
September 23, 2022 10:04 am

He’s just some crank with a lot of money.

And hopefully his cred has taken as huge a hit as Fink’s after losing $1.7T of his clients dough. Talk about get work go broke”!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 23, 2022 10:07 am

Oh and you’d be happy to live in a society where alcohol is banned?

What?!?
Which one is this?

MatrixTransform
September 23, 2022 10:07 am

Only partly MT SP

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
September 23, 2022 10:08 am

Shellenberger: Battery Deaths Put Nuclear Safety In Context

Lithium batteries kill many more people than nuclear plants. Why, then, aren’t we scared of them?

For decades, critics of nuclear power plants have pointed to their unique danger. When there is a loss of water coolant for the reactor cores, plant operators can lose control, leaving them to melt, and potentially spew toxic particulate matter into the environment. Nuclear accidents are unique in requiring people to “shelter-in-place,” and close windows and vents, to avoid breathing radiant particulate matter. And nuclear accidents can unfold in unpredictable and mysterious ways, such as by creating hydrogen gas explosions, like the kinds that occurred during the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011.

And yet nuclear plants remain the safest way to make electricity and one of the most benign of all human activities. Nobody has ever died of nuclear power in the United States, nobody will die from the radiation from the Fukushima accident in 2011, and only roughly 200 people will have their lives shortened by the fire and radiation from the Chernobyl fire. And because nuclear plants prevent the burning of fossil fuels, the climate scientist James Hansen calculates that they have saved nearly 2 million lives to date.

And now a series of deadly accidents reveal that even lithium batteries are more deadly than nuclear power. Last Saturday, a fire started by a lithium battery in an electric scooter killed an 8-year-old girl in New York City. In New York City alone, lithium battery fires in 2021 killed 3 and injured 57, while in the first half of 2022, they killed 5 people and injured 73.

Meanwhile, a fire Tuesday morning at a Tesla battery facility in Moss Landing in Monterey County, California emitted so much toxic smoke that the Fire and Sheriff Departments issued a shelter-in-place order, asking people to close windows and vents, and closed several roads. Contrary to widespread perception, shelter-in-place orders are not unique to nuclear accidents but are also used to protect the public from chemical fires and other accidents. It was the third fire since the facility opened two years ago.

Lithium battery fires have, like nuclear accidents, been unpredictable, mysterious, and difficult to manage. The battery fires that grounded the first Boeing 787 Dreamliners in 2013 were difficult to control, and mysterious, A Tesla that had been in a Sacramento junkyard for three weeks spontaneously, repeatedly, and mysteriously caught fire. “The batteries would keep reigniting the fire,” said firefighters, who only were able to stop them by flipping the Tesla onto its side.

As such, lithium batteries are as dangerous and more deadly than nuclear power plants.

All of which begs a question: if lithium batteries are deadlier than nuclear, why is nuclear so much more feared?

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
September 23, 2022 10:11 am

TE I’ll help you out with that mouldy old d’Yquem, Lafitte, Latour and Mouton if you like and leave you with the new McWilliams so it doesn’t go off like the others. Its the least I can do for your most excellent work and service.

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 23, 2022 10:16 am

Bird would now be seen as a voice of reason around here. For half an hour or so.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
September 23, 2022 10:16 am

3 Mile Island and Chernobyl. The left used stupidity of operators of old generation sites to instill fear, which is all the left ever have.

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 23, 2022 10:17 am

3 days of darkness v nano wrigglers? Toss of the coin.

Roger
Roger
September 23, 2022 10:21 am

I’m astounded why Schwab even has any voice to power let alone credibility.

He’s just some crank with a lot of money.

Eugyppius has published some good take downs of Schwab recently (blog link in sidebar).

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 23, 2022 10:26 am

Gez at 9.25:

Jeff Kennett knackered himself by being an arsehole to the bush community.
People who volunteer for everything and ran their communities on the smell of an oily rag didn’t like being told they were irrelevant and needed big city management to have a future.

Yep. He also released hundreds if not thousands of nuffies out of psych wards and onto to the streets in regional centres and the city that later became MongYang. He got many, many hand-patter upticks for that one.

Still, it didn’t stop the clamouring for his return by sections of the community. For quite some time, he was going to be the next Messiah.

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
September 23, 2022 10:28 am

Must have got the tip off from the FBI

Icelandic police arrest four people over alleged terror attack plans

Several semi-automatic weapons, including 3D-printed ones, were seized at nine locations, as well as “thousands” of rounds of ammunition, by a large police operation involving 50 officers

Local media reported that officers were exploring potential links to Nordic far-right groups and that the police were the central target.

Indolent
Indolent
September 23, 2022 10:33 am
Johnny Rotten
September 23, 2022 10:34 am

Every now and again there’s a comment of such breathtaking stupidity it defies belief. Talk about false equivalence. Anyway, what do you think about the next step?

The Magna Carta is now being well and truly ignored. Us serfs have nearly had it and the Robber Barons are now trying to do their serf (surf) riding over us. Big Time.

It is now time for a bit of ‘Push Back’………………………..

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
September 23, 2022 10:37 am

As much as I fear for the common man, I hope for our sake the lights go out in Europe. The rural population will fare far better than the Urban dwellers, which is where the lefties mainly live. The sight of the elite being strung up may, and only may encourage our pathetic bunch mend their ways but probably not. No spine and no balls is the ruin of this once fine country.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 23, 2022 10:40 am

Still, it didn’t stop the clamouring for his return by sections of the community. For quite some time, he was going to be the next Messiah.

Still is in some quarters.

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