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Top Ender
Top Ender
October 11, 2022 4:02 pm

Dot, re:

“The US should have waited and built up a bigger coalition and committed more forces.”

The Multi-National Force – Iraq was an enormous force, and consisted of many nations – varying over time. I reckon it was more than sufficient.

The problem was not winning the victory, but keeping the peace. Once the bad guys worked out the coalition, when engaged in constabulary duties as opposed to warfighting, were a bunch of pussies then they started up with their campaign of asynchronous warfare.

Cassie of Sydney
October 11, 2022 4:04 pm

“Joining Ms Gillard on stage is host Indira Naidoo and an inspiring line up of special guests including photojournalist Mike Bowers, who captured the speech in Parliament; lawyer and campaigner for human and refugee rights Nyadol Nyuon; Director of the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership, Professor Michelle Ryan; actor, writer and trans activist Georgie Stone; youth activist and founder of Raise Our Voice Australia, Ashleigh Streeter-Jones; media commentator and ambassador Shelley Ware; poet and writer Joella Warkill, and musical guest Kate Miller-Heidke.

Experience an unforgettable evening of passion and progress from your own home with Ms Gillard, host, broadcaster and author Indira Naidoo, and their many special guests as they reflect on Ms Gillard’s speech, the past ten years, and a gender equal future.”

A progressive freak show.

rickw
rickw
October 11, 2022 4:11 pm

Flight Athens to Thessaloniki, massive mask wearing! 🙁

JC
JC
October 11, 2022 4:12 pm

If it hits 50 I’m borrowing $10 million US bucks.

Why? If you don’t need to borrow, just sell A$20 million against the US (US$10 million), which has the same impact and less burdensome than borrowing the US to buy an Aussie dollar amount. Dude seriously. if we hit 50 cents it possibly means the world in completely rooted for the next generation. 🙂

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
October 11, 2022 4:23 pm

A progressive freak show.
Directors, professors, a few Hyphen-Surnames and a trans activist.
All in calling for power to be handed to them. If they weren’t in an invites-only echo chamber, I’d be worried.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 11, 2022 4:26 pm

California makes it illegal for doctors to disagree with politicians

By Dr. Joel Zinberg

Conformity of thought is now required whether it is online, on college campuses, or, if you are in California, in a physician-patient relationship.

PayPal recently introduced a $2,500 fine for anyone involved in “the sending, posting, or publication of any messages, content, or materials” that — in “PayPal’s sole discretion” — “promote misinformation.”

After a firestorm of criticism, PayPal withdrew the policy, claiming the whole thing was a misunderstanding and was not official policy— hardly a convincing explanation from a site with a history of banning those it considers politically incorrect.

But California physicians have had no such relief.

Gov. Gavin Newsom recently signed California Assembly Bill 2098, making it the first state to attempt to censor what physicians can say about COVID-19 to their patients. This is a dangerous, and likely unconstitutional, effort that other states must resist.

The statute instructs that, “It shall constitute unprofessional conduct for a physician and surgeon to disseminate misinformation or disinformation related to COVID-19, including false or misleading information regarding the nature and risks of the virus, its prevention and treatment; and the development, safety, and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines.”

California law requires the Medical Board of California to take action — up to and including license revocation — against any licensed physician charged with unprofessional conduct. But under the First Amendment, content-based speech regulation by government entities is presumptively unconstitutional and may be justified only if the government proves that it is narrowly tailored to serve compelling state interests.

Physicians who inform their young, healthy patients that the virus poses a minuscule risk of serious illness and death to them is providing truthful information, even though other practitioners or the government might claim that doing so is contrary to the standard of care.

I, for one, think my physician is a better judge of medical information than Silicon Valley elites and liberal legislators.

bespoke
bespoke
October 11, 2022 4:30 pm
thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
October 11, 2022 4:31 pm

If your reply runs five paragraphs to a simple point, you don’t have anything coherent or succinct.

Ok a smooth brain version..

Ships are dual purpose.
Nominally civilian once you transport war materials they become a legitimate target.
Disguising or being ‘tricky” means the other party becomes even less likely to treat what was once civilian with the protections it is supposed to have.

Its certain to me the bridge/rail was a legitimate target, not terrorism, it had gone from being 99% civvie to 99% supplying army.

Unfortunately massive amounts of what should be off limits (power generation/water treatment etc) can gradually (or suddenly) be come a target once things not specifically military are hit.

Its a shit spiral, and I stand by my predicted outcome, another Israel/Palestine never ending festering sinkhole of Russia “winning” and then the Ukes turning round and using the ‘little green men” tactics to make the place a squalid hellhole rather than admit defeat.

Id like to be wrong and everyone withdraw to their pre war borders, shake hands and then spend the next 30 years trying to quietly assassinate each other while leaving the civilians alone.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 11, 2022 4:36 pm

WW1 – no real winners, we would have been better off not being involved, we didn’t really have a choice.

The archives of Imperial Germany have been open to researchers since the mid 1960’s. In the event of a German victory in WW1, Britain would have been stripped of her colonies and, along with France, saddled with reparations designed to prevent either of those countries ever posing any threat to Imperial Germany again. Australia would have suffered the consequences of such victory.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 11, 2022 4:36 pm

Has a Quisling GOP Enabled a Desperate October Surprise?

Who benefits from the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage? The answer is obvious. A regime facing devastating electoral losses in just over a month.

The panic is palpable. With the midterms just a month away, even carefully curated polling data is showing momentum building towards a Republican blowout, and the reckless cabal in charge of the Biden Administration has clearly run out of political ammo.

On top of these disasters, are others. COVID vaccine uptake has collapsed, as more people realize the mandates and shutdowns have inflicted enormous damage on the country—all for an ineffective, dangerous, and novel gene-therapy treatment with massive adverse effects. Orchestrating an invasion of illegal immigrants on the southern border for permanent electoral advantage has backfired as U.S. citizens grasp the insanity of bringing in unprecedented numbers of workers during an economic downturn, and recent immigrants themselves grasp that their future prosperity and safety is not with a party that is tanking the economy and spiking violent crime. Even Biden’s initial promise of national reconciliation has been revealed to be a sick joke, as the Delaware Democrat has engaged in unprecedented polarization, demonization, and targeting of his political opponents.

Two weeks ago, it is possible the administration made a calculated decision that it was worth risking nuclear conflict with Russia through an unprecedented act of energy terrorism and environmental depredation in order to shore up political support and suppress dissent at home.

One has to ignore the fact that both Biden and longtime neocon warmonger Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland explicitly threatened Nord Stream operations in early 2022 should Russia invade Ukraine. One must further ignore the fact that Defense Department Spokesperson John Kirby bragged that the destruction of Nord Stream presented a “tremendous opportunity for years to come” to reduce dependence on Russian gas and oil, while disavowing U.S. responsibility for creating such good fortune.

Many Americans have trouble believing a United States president would intentionally provoke a high stakes nuclear showdown with Russia over the territorial integrity of the Russian-speaking eastern part of Ukraine (one of the most corrupt governments on the planet) where we have no vital national interest. But the Biden Administration’s lack of interest in reducing hostilities became crystal clear with the recent revelation that in April the United States scuttled a tentative deal to end the war—even though both Russia and Ukraine were ready to agree—in which Russia would withdraw to its position on February 23 and Ukraine would promise not to seek NATO membership.

The big question now is not whether the Biden regime is prepared to risk everything to prevent devastating electoral losses and congressional investigations.

The real question is why have Republicans been complicit in, nay enthusiastic supporters of, this disastrous proxy war that has already resulted in the energy and food supply disruptions roiling Europe and about to roil the United States?

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
October 11, 2022 4:37 pm

What rhymes with “Nazi Pass”?

‘Traitorous shallow cock smoker.’

Only works if the second ‘l’ in ‘shallow’ is silent.

Otherwise, a perfect rhyme.

I truly hate those la-di-da’s
Who strut and swill in nasty bars
Which only greet the Nazi pass
That bears the stain of it’s traitorous shallow cock smoker

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 11, 2022 4:40 pm

Meanwhile – NATO member takes stock of its bomb shelters

Poland has reportedly begun taking an inventory of the country’s bomb shelters to ensure that they’re ready for public use in the event of an emergency. The initiative comes amid increased targeting of civilian infrastructure in the nearby Russia-Ukraine conflict.

The inspections of an estimated 62,000 “places of refuge” are being carried out by district fire departments, Polstat News reported on Monday, citing comments by Maciej Wasik, Poland’s deputy minister of interior and administration. The review will assess whether each shelter is properly equipped and fit for use. “If not, we will take steps to adapt them,” Wasik said.

Although the initiative comes at a time when the conflict in neighboring Ukraine is escalating, the public official stressed that Poles aren’t in danger. “We are in NATO, we are part of the European Union,” Wasik said. “We are not participants in this war, although we strongly support Ukraine, but Poland is a safe country.”

bespoke
bespoke
October 11, 2022 4:44 pm

Gab is not available in Australia.

Search continues.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 11, 2022 4:44 pm

US doesn’t owe Zelensky ‘a damn thing’ – congressman

Paul Gosar believes Washington is not acting in its self interest during the ongoing Russia-Ukraine crisis

US Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) has called on Washington to cut foreign aid to Ukraine, which he argued is being used to fund a conflict that the US should have “no involvement in.” On Capitol Hill, a number of Republican lawmakers have condemned President Joe Biden’s open checkbook for Kiev.

“NO MORE Foreign Aid, especially not to fund a war that we should have NO involvement in,” Gosar tweeted on Monday. “Biden and his crime family may owe Zelensky, but America doesn’t owe him a damn thing,” the lawmaker added.

A staunch anti-interventionist and a member of the Republican Party’s unofficial ‘America First’ caucus, Gosar has emerged as one of the loudest critics of the Biden administration’s Ukraine policy. The Arizona congressman voted against a $40 billion military and economic aid package for Kiev in May, and against a spending bill offering Kiev another $12 billion last month.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 11, 2022 4:53 pm

Conservatives and moderates need to build a parallel economy in the US

With the left’s control creeping over multiple American institutions, conservatives need to shake their dependence on them

American conservatives are in the midst of political and cultural warfare with the left’s ideology. The only way to avoid having to play by the left’s rules is to get creative, make a few sacrifices and put our money where our mouth is.

Conservatives and moderates have been sounding the alarm for some time now over the left’s “long march through our institutions,” referring to the attempted Marxist takeover of American culture and life. The march has indeed been long and spans decades, and while most can’t agree on where or when exactly it all started, many Americans are waking up to where it’s going. As conservatives, we are grappling with radical gender and race ideologies, ‘woke’ corporations and cancel culture, mob mentality, attacks on the nuclear family, and assaults on our Constitution and the framework of our society. It feels at times like normal America is on a hijacked plane and all the passengers want off, but the pilot and crew are suicidal. Quick thinking is of the essence.

I don’t mean to sound cynical, and I pray daily that America won’t come crashing down, but in many ways, much of what our founding fathers built has already been destroyed. And realistically, it would take generations to rebuild every aspect of American civil society after the left’s plundering.

So when half the country is being silenced, we have a major problem. It took a sitting president of the United States being banned from the largest social networks for Americans to truly wake up to the encroaching threat to free speech. As a result, multiple alternate social media platforms have since popped up. The rise of Rumble, Truth Social, Gettr, Gab, and Parler are hopeful signs of parallel infrastructure. Conservative-friendly internet servers, web hosting companies, and job boards have also emerged.

All of this is really just the tip of the iceberg. We are going to need payment processing systems, financial institutions, and other businesses that won’t cave to extremist demands. This became obvious when PayPal, Venmo, and Go Fund Me decided that if you share a view that doesn’t align with leftism, you can’t conduct business or even receive donations using their platforms.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
October 11, 2022 4:57 pm

Our neighbour asked us to cut a paddock of vetch for him before the rain. It’s wet enough as you know.
We get there this morning and ask what he calls the paddock so we could record the hectares for the invoice.
The Swamp Paddock.
Not bogged yet but low on confidence.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 11, 2022 5:00 pm

You Knew the FBI Was Corrupt, But Did You Know It Was THIS Bad?

The full story of how far it has fallen.

October 11, 2022 by Robert Spencer

We know that the FBI was all in on the Russian Collusion hoax, that it faked a kidnapping plot against far-Left Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, and that it raided Donald Trump’s home in yet another transparently political attempt to frame the former president for a crime and render it impossible for him to run for president again in 2024. A majority of Americans now believe that the astoundingly corrupt Merrick Garland has turned the FBI into “Biden’s Gestapo.” And it’s true: the FBI is all of that and more. But the full story of how far it has fallen is even worse than that.

The Rev. James Harden is CEO of CompassCare Pregnancy Services in Buffalo, N.Y., which last June was firebombed by pro-abortion terrorists. They painted “Jane Was Here” on the side of the building as they broke windows and lit fires. Jane’s Revenge is a pro-abortion group that has issued open threats to pro-lifers: “We will hunt you down and make your lives a living hell,” the group has said. This is, it says, a “war” against pro-lifers.

Harden and CompassCare duly turned over surveillance footage of the attack to the FBI. Yet to this day, no arrests have been made.

Tucker Carlson asked Harden, “Were you really told that you could not have your own surveillance tapes back, because those tapes of a firebombing of your property might inspire Right-wing terrorism?”

Harden answered simply, “Yes,” and explained that CompassCare is now suing to try to get the tapes back.

This is in line with the FBI’s obsession with the “Right-wing terrorism” that Biden administration officials and Old Joe himself have insisted is the biggest terror threat the nation faces today. This dubious claim has been a recurring preoccupation of this administration.

There’s just one thing missing from their scenario: actual Right-wing terrorists in large numbers. And so they have to be invented. Whistleblowers have revealed that Biden’s FBI was pressuring agents to classify cases as “domestic violent extremism” (DVE) when they weren’t, and rewarding them when they did so.

Meanwhile, the actual Left-wing terrorists who committed the act of terrorism at Harden’s pro-life center remain uncaught, unpunished, and unchallenged.

Harden even suggested during his appearance on Tucker Carlson’s show that maybe the FBI itself is behind the firebombing of pro-life centers. Surely the feds wouldn’t stoop so low, would they? Would they?

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
October 11, 2022 5:01 pm

PS
We should have known when we saw his big tractor parked in the corner with a drag chain.

Makka
Makka
October 11, 2022 5:07 pm

Mid to low 50’s is now a possibility I reckon.

I told you that a month ago at .67 ish.

Unless the Fed does something about treasury market – stops QT and maybe some QE. It’s getting pretty ugly without regular bids. The may have to do a BoE jobbie.

The thing of it is, I expect crude to be well north of $100 by Christmas. So FMD , we’ll be getting up to $2.50-2.75 a ltr!

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
October 11, 2022 5:07 pm

Would the FBI firebomb a pro-life centre?
It’s either them or the Rockefellers.
Hat tip.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 11, 2022 5:10 pm

DemoCraps at Work being Racist

Secret Recording Shows Racial Truths Behind LA Woke Politics

“I see a lot of little short dark people.”

These are not low-level politicians, they’re the local woke establishment. And in private, they say what they think.

In the recording, Council President Nury Martinez says of Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón, “F___ that guy, he’s with the Blacks.”

The revealing parts aren’t the racial slurs in Spanish, but the matter-of-fact racial realpolitik.

Cedillo: Yeah, that’s called K-Town. Yeah.

Martinez: I see a lot of little short dark people. Oxacan, Korean. Not even like Kevin, little ones. I was like, I don’t know what village they came from, how they got here, but

Herrera: I get what we have to do, right? Just message to create distincts that benefit you all. And the future too…

Martinez: If he resigns, hold on, if he resigns, and the African-Americans look at this as a hostile takeover because he’s gone. We’ll have to figure that S— out because politically they’re gonna come after us.

De Leon: Yeah, but can i say something right now. And this is what I call the coso se llama is the movie, the uh Wizard of Oz effect, and what I mean by the Wizard of Oz effect: you’re at the side of the curtain, is like this big voice, like thousands, but then you actually pull the curtain is that you see the little wizard

You know what? It’s the same thing.

Herrera: All right, it’s real simple. You got 100 people, right, 52 of them are Mexicano, I feel pretty good about it, about my chances of beating your ass

Cedillo: Twenty-five or so are black and the 25 blacks are shouting

De Leon: But they shout like they’re 250, when there’s 100 of us

There’s the unapologetic colorism. And the naked truths about the racial dynamics of political power behind all that wokeness.

Lysander
Lysander
October 11, 2022 5:11 pm

2.75 a fucking litre!!!!?

How low will we go before we abandon green dreams?

Makka
Makka
October 11, 2022 5:12 pm

President Trump calls out the
#FakeNews
for not showing the HUGE crowd size in Arizona. That’s why we’re here, to show you the truth!- 32 Secs

That senile old deviant in the WH wants his Ukraine War escalated to eleventy to keep the headlines from reporting Trump’s race and Hunter’s pending charges.

Lysander
Lysander
October 11, 2022 5:13 pm

Is it going to be a Red October in UKR or a Red November in US?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 11, 2022 5:15 pm

Lode at 4:37.

I truly hate those la-di-da’s
Who strut and swill in nasty bars
Which only greet the Nazi pass
That bears the stain of it’s traitorous shallow cock smoker

As limericks go, that is a Johnny Rotten level stinker.

Lysander
Lysander
October 11, 2022 5:17 pm

Actually Makka I’m not sure if you’re that far off the truth on 2.75 per litre…

It was up over 2.20 (above more in some spots) before the excise relief and that’s when OPEC were chugging along at full speed.. I know there are other variables at play but not looking good as will impact the price of everything else.

A fella I know in Kalgoorlie filled his Pajero (“wanker”) last week and cost him $230. Imagine a truck. Is that why trains are better? 😛 Don’t start!!!…

Bluey
Bluey
October 11, 2022 5:18 pm

Makkasays:
October 11, 2022 at 5:07 pm
Mid to low 50’s is now a possibility I reckon.

I told you that a month ago at .67 ish.

Unless the Fed does something about treasury market – stops QT and maybe some QE. It’s getting pretty ugly without regular bids. The may have to do a BoE jobbie.

The thing of it is, I expect crude to be well north of $100 by Christmas. So FMD , we’ll be getting up to $2.50-2.75 a ltr!

At the risk of summoning someone, I’ve a good mate who reckons most of the independent truckies he knows will park up at $3/L for diesel, maybe less. Once trucks stop moving….

bespoke
bespoke
October 11, 2022 5:19 pm

It reached $2.60 down my way.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 11, 2022 5:19 pm

The Swamp Paddock.
Not bogged yet but low on confidence.

Do not stop.
Do not slow down.
Do not lose momentum.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 11, 2022 5:19 pm

To the Whingers having a Big Cry about being told to wear a Mask on the Aeroplane:
Covid Vaccinated persons are giving off Spike Proteins like they’re Typhoid Mary.
So, if you’ve been vaccinated, stop being a cockhead and put the mask on when you’re in a public place.
If you haven’t been vaccinated yet, avoid crowds.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
October 11, 2022 5:19 pm

$2.75 litre.
How will that effect the price of a box of Cadbury Roses?
Asking for a friend.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
October 11, 2022 5:20 pm

You have to turn Sancho.
It’s not a highway.

Makka
Makka
October 11, 2022 5:21 pm

Actually Makka I’m not sure if you’re that far off the truth on 2.75 per litre…

IF the AUD hits mid 50’s with oil north of $120 for a length of time, $3.00 a ltr is quite possible.. So yeah, it’s serious.

JC
JC
October 11, 2022 5:22 pm

I was doing a quiz and answered this question incorrectly.

I recall, a some while ago, Pakistan’s population was then around 100 million.

I answered this question :

As at January 2022, what was the approximate population of Pakistan?

… with one of the choices, which was 151 million. 50% over some period sounded reasonable.

FMD, I was wrong. The correct answer is 230 million! The place is so bog population wise? Just wow.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 11, 2022 5:23 pm

Farmer Gezsays:

October 11, 2022 at 5:20 pm

You have to turn Sancho.
It’s not a highway

Do it in big loops.
Fuck the corners.
I will help you with the pi r squared maths to work out the invoice.
Better than leaving the JD there up to it’s axles until Cup Day.

JC
JC
October 11, 2022 5:24 pm

Lysander says:
October 11, 2022 at 5:11 pm

2.75 a fucking litre!!!!?

How low will we go before we abandon green dreams?

You mean how high? 🙂

Lysander
Lysander
October 11, 2022 5:25 pm

Where do you find the crude price Maks?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 11, 2022 5:25 pm

Like this huge radial irrigation farms you see in the midwest of the US.
Monster circles in a square paddock.
They don’t give a rats about the corners.
Now that is a crop circle.

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 11, 2022 5:26 pm

The new Russian head of the Ukraine operation has a long history of war crimes. He is just doing what Putin wants him to do. That is all he knows.
Other sites say he’s no Yermolov and the change is more Putin spin and window dressing.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
October 11, 2022 5:27 pm

Did you mention a John Deere?
It’s a 210 Case Puma.
We’re usually in the red and can’t break the habit.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
October 11, 2022 5:29 pm

Is it going to be a Red October in UKR or a Red November in US?

Red October?

Perhaps they are going to parachute in regiments of Alec Baldwins with prop guns. The bloodshed will beggar the budget of a Quentin Tarantino movie.

I believe they are now training up teams of Alec Baldwins on prop thermonuclear weapons.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 11, 2022 5:29 pm

Meghan Markle said to be ‘tiring’ of ‘needy’ Prince Harry

They’re often seen loved up and can’t seem to keep their hands off each other, but Meghan and Harry’s marriage has been called into question.

Speaking of the Sussexes’ California life, Brown told the crowd: “It’s not very pleasant to be a D-list celebrity who, for them, doesn’t have enough money. It’s a wholly different game to be with those super-rich people.

“In Montecito, where they live, their $14 million mansion is a humble cottage compared to what these other people have.”

The Diana Chronicles and Palace Papers author then went on to joke, “Yes, and at some point, it might be more than a new house she’s looking for,” before adding, “Elon Musk is still single; that’s all I have to say.”

(Let’s just pause here for a moment to enjoy the truly bonkers image of Meghan and Musk, the erratic billionaire father-of-10, as a couple and her trying wrangle him into her Frank Gehry-designed meditation yurt to realign his energy centres in between him working on colonising Mars.)

In another report from the same publication, Bower also said: “I think the funeral awakened some misery in him that he was so cut off from his family and friends and was an outsider. And I think that puts great pressure on their relationship.”

(In that same piece Bower said that the Duke “clings” to wife “like a needy man, like a life raft” and that Harry had been left “damaged” and “very disturbed” by the disintegration of his parents’ marriage and mother’s death.)

Makka
Makka
October 11, 2022 5:30 pm

Lysander,
You can find prices and charts here..

https://www.tradingview.com/

Lysander
Lysander
October 11, 2022 5:30 pm

Don’t worry Makka found it (there’s this handy thing called Duck Duck Go)

Lysander
Lysander
October 11, 2022 5:31 pm

LOL Makka!!! SNAP!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 11, 2022 5:31 pm

Those paddocks (circle in a square) give up 21.5% of the area.
I wonder if they graze the corners?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 11, 2022 5:33 pm

Farmer Gezsays:

October 11, 2022 at 5:27 pm

Did you mention a John Deere?
It’s a 210 Case Puma.
We’re usually in the red and can’t break the habit.

You buy on colour?
How many cup-holders?
Is the sound system Bose?

Lysander
Lysander
October 11, 2022 5:33 pm

So when do land values start going down then?

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
October 11, 2022 5:34 pm

As limericks go, that is a Johnny Rotten level stinker.

How dare you, Sir!

Must I challenge you to contest satisfaction on the thread of honour on the morrow?

Hang on. I am washing my hair tomorrow. And getting my nails done.

Count yourself lucky!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 11, 2022 5:35 pm

Serious question Gez.
How much weight do you put on breakdown service when buying gear?
What percentage premium would you pay for same-day response during harvest?
I mean, not what the sales guy promises, but what you know they actually do?

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 11, 2022 5:35 pm

JCsays:
October 11, 2022 at 5:22 pm
I was doing a quiz and answered this question incorrectly.

I recall, a some while ago, Pakistan’s population was then around 100 million.

I answered this question :

As at January 2022, what was the approximate population of Pakistan?

FMD, I was wrong. The correct answer is 230 million! The place is so bog population wise? Just wow.

Pakistan faces a high risk of genetic disorders caused by inbreeding due to cousin marriages: Report

Health experts in Pakistan have tried to convince clerics to spread awareness about genetic disorders and health issues linked to cousin marriages, but the clerics have refused

70% Of Pakistan, Half Of Arab World Plagued By Shocking Inbreeding Affliction

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 11, 2022 5:37 pm

Must I challenge you to contest satisfaction on the thread of honour on the morrow?

Hang on. I am washing my hair tomorrow. And getting my nails done.

I am not available either.
Just gone through three boxes of Cadbury soft-centres and a carton of Vodka Cruisers.
Not 100%.

JC
JC
October 11, 2022 5:38 pm

They already have, Lysander. Land prices have fallen in both nominal and relative terms

Draw a circle around the Aussie at say 74 cents. In currency terms, we’re down 15% in land values when expressed in the US Dollar ( the reserve currency). In nominal and currency terms we could even be down 30%.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 11, 2022 5:39 pm

bespokesays:
October 11, 2022 at 5:32 pm
Alleged anti-American Russian propaganda video is actually pretty funny

I saw it on the weekend and though really funny, but frighteningly true.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
October 11, 2022 5:41 pm

I’ll get back. On the move

chrisl
chrisl
October 11, 2022 5:42 pm

Farmer Gez What is vetch ? And why

Lysander
Lysander
October 11, 2022 5:42 pm

But JC – that’s house price/land value comparative to US, no???

In WA, you can’t even rent a 1×1 shit box for less than $350p/w or buy a dilapidated unit in the shittiest possible suburb for less than $300K… unless regional of course…

Lysander
Lysander
October 11, 2022 5:43 pm

(But am sure some smart ass Cat will find an “appealing” shitbox in Perth for circa $250K lol!!!)

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 11, 2022 5:44 pm

70% Of Pakistan, Half Of Arab World Plagued By Shocking Inbreeding Affliction

Bring ’em over as Skilled Migrants and put ’em on the NDIS!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 11, 2022 5:45 pm

No worries.
The Case guys in North Western Victoria (O’Connors?) advertise their service response really heavily on local TeeVee.
Almost like it is their main selling point.

Makka
Makka
October 11, 2022 5:46 pm

Fed’s Brainard Oct10 ;

And we are also very aware that the cross-border effects of unexpected movements in interest rates and exchange rates, as well as worsening external imbalances, in some cases could interact with financial vulnerabilities. In this environment, a sharp decrease in risk sentiment or other risk event that may be difficult to anticipate could be amplified, especially given fragile liquidity in core financial markets. In some countries, the realization of these risks could pose challenging tradeoffs for policy.

Deciphered; Even though some pussy CB’s (Japan/UK) have had to recently intervene in their disorderly treasury markets to create bids for their aggressively offered shitty treasuries, we’ve got this. Don’t fkg panic! Ok?

This… may stop the Dollar if the Fed caves.

JC
JC
October 11, 2022 5:46 pm

Lysander

No-0ne lives in Perth. 🙂

I think I read Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne are down about 15%.

bespoke
bespoke
October 11, 2022 5:49 pm

Enyone that can’t service there own tractors shouldn’t be in the business.

Lysander
Lysander
October 11, 2022 5:50 pm

LOL! There are a FEW Cats who, unfortunately, chose to do so!!! The PDR-WA.

cohenite
October 11, 2022 5:51 pm

Petition against what nelson is doing to the war memorial:

Hands off the Australian War Memorial

calli
calli
October 11, 2022 5:51 pm

Worked out what I’ll do about the masks. Big Concrete and Big Steel have bought me a bed up the front of a 777 LHR to Haneda. It leaves at 7pm.

I’ll simply drink champagne and sleep! 😀

The Dreamliner is the SYD sector. Not so salubrious but better air circulation. I’ll survive…just. The Beloved, a chronic asthmatic, may fare worse.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 11, 2022 5:55 pm

I like the WSJ markets page myself. More info quickly.

calli
calli
October 11, 2022 5:59 pm

Chuckle. Just scrolled back. What rhymes with “Nazi Pass”?

Why, First Class Nazi Pass, of course! *ducks*

And there’s nothing stopping anyone travelling anywhere half decent*, so don’t pretend you can’t.

* you don’t want to be going to places that are still closed anyway.

Makka
Makka
October 11, 2022 6:02 pm

bought me a bed up the front of a 777 LHR to Haneda.

Do you have to give back the pyjamas?

bons
bons
October 11, 2022 6:02 pm

Interesting discussion with a real-estate agent just now.
I commented on the huge and on-going number of mansions (by most peoples’ reckoning) that are being bought, flattened and replaced around here.
Expressing wonder at the source of all this money, he asked me where I thought the Covid billions went. You are seeing it here, he claimed.
All the pop-up testers, jabbers, spies, certificate providers, and endless grifters are here building mansions.
He sneered at my doubt. Giggled at my claim that most Covid money went to helping displaced workers.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 11, 2022 6:04 pm

Petition against what nelson is doing to the war memorial:

Apparently, at one stage, the woke were suggesting that there be a “Tomb of the unknown warrior” next to the tomb of the unknown soldier……. Words fail me, they honestly fvcking do.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 11, 2022 6:07 pm

Peter O’Brien, “The Spectator” 11th October.

What happens next if these activists get their ‘Colonial Wars’ gallery? Will they want a tomb of the unknown Aboriginal warrior placed next to the existing tomb in the main Hall of Remembrance? Don’t be ridiculous, I hear you say. That’s just hyperbole – it will never happen. Well, here’s what activist historian Henry Reynolds, one of the main architects of this obscene proposal, said in last weekend’s Canberra Times:

The most significant symbolic act would be placing a tomb for the unknown warrior next to the grave of the unknown soldier. Those who fought for empire would be at rest with those who fought against the empire.

If they get their special gallery, can the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior be far behind?

Especially if they also get heir third chamber of Parliament.

calli
calli
October 11, 2022 6:08 pm

The second leg of our Emirates flight a few weeks ago – SYD-Dubai was fine. We were all at “half mask”. Second leg to Amsterdam had Emirates Karen running the show – Ve vill wear zee masks, or else! So the Beloved put a blanket over his head and slept, maskless. If you’re a bit light on top you don’t worry about bed hair.

The perils of travel and First World Problems.

Today is the last day – going to catch the Docklands Light Rail up to the Bank of England and visit St Paul’s, Millennium Bridge and then all the delights of the south bank which I have never seen. Ferry back to Greenwich.

Lysander
Lysander
October 11, 2022 6:10 pm

Bons, during ChinaFlu in WA, if you knew how to game the system, you could easily* find yourself ~$60-$70K in grants (Other Peoples Money) from combined State/Fed packages.

*investing/buying apartments not yet built at the time.

calli
calli
October 11, 2022 6:11 pm

Makka, if they’re little Japanese pyjamas they won’t fit my ample derrière and they’ll look like pedal pushers on the Beloved. We got a gratis set of BA ones years ago. Never used again.

calli
calli
October 11, 2022 6:12 pm

where I thought the Covid billions went.

Pathology labs. My old neighbour will have made another fortune.

Indolent
Indolent
October 11, 2022 6:13 pm
Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Sancho Panzer says: October 11, 2022 at 5:31 pm
Those paddocks (circle in a square) give up 21.5% of the area.
I wonder if they graze the corners?

Usually they’re cultivated & grow a cereal crop or somesuch.
You’re meaning the headlands that square the circle around a centre-pivot?

Indolent
Indolent
October 11, 2022 6:15 pm
Makka
Makka
October 11, 2022 6:16 pm

Yeah calli, the BA ones were good. The earlier BA toiletries were excellent too in FC.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

OldOzzie says: October 11, 2022 at 5:00 pm
… Harden and CompassCare duly turned over surveillance footage of the attack to the FBI. Yet to this day, no arrests have been made.
Tucker Carlson asked Harden, “Were you really told that you could not have your own surveillance tapes back…?”

Huh? Some total greenhorn, completely wet behind the ears, provided CCTV footage to the cops/feds without keeping a couple of copies for themselves?

Lysander
Lysander
October 11, 2022 6:27 pm

Look at all you elitists talking about your first class travels lol!!!!

Well.. right back at ya, I used to catch this lovely lady at least once a week for work!:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learjet_45

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 11, 2022 6:30 pm

Look at all you elitists talking about your first class travels lol!!!!

First Class is the only way for a gentleman to travel – Economy is for the great unwashed and their revolting brats!

Makka
Makka
October 11, 2022 6:31 pm

How serious is the treasury market collapse?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FetEXPnX0AAQLQZ?format=jpg&name=900×900

And what is going to halt it?

bespoke
bespoke
October 11, 2022 6:32 pm

Look at all you elitists talking about your first class travels lol!!!!

calli only pays half price.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 11, 2022 6:35 pm

bespokesays:

October 11, 2022 at 5:49 pm

Enyone that can’t service there own tractors shouldn’t be in the business.

Pretty expensive to carry a full inventory of parts, particularly for specialist equipment like headers.
I did say “breakdown response” not “grease and oil”.

Lysander
Lysander
October 11, 2022 6:36 pm

Well, in my case, it was you paid, not me. 🙂

Lysander
Lysander
October 11, 2022 6:39 pm

Getting pretty darn quiet round these parts. I can see that there tumble weed blowing through the Cat which means it must be knock off time!!!

I presume that daylight saving is having a deleterious impact on posting here (given WA Cats Vs Eastern towners…). Oh well, at least its not just the curtains. 🙂

Have a good night Cats, behave yourselves and see you on the morrow should the sun rise for us again.

calli
calli
October 11, 2022 6:44 pm

I don’t pay…it’s the cards. Sometimes a FFP seat comes up and it’s nabbed.

Happy to go EC because, as bespoke so charmingly infers, I can fit into small spaces. Vertically. Horizontally not so much.

I can relate to this.

bespoke
bespoke
October 11, 2022 6:50 pm

Why did the teddy bear say no to dessert?
Because she was stuffed.

flyingduk
flyingduk
October 11, 2022 6:52 pm

I, for one, think my physician is a better judge of medical information than Silicon Valley elites and liberal legislators.

Sadly, your physician largely works for big pharma now, and get his info from their adverts in the medical press

cohenite
October 11, 2022 6:56 pm

Every one is up in arms about Alinta’s prediction of an at least 35% increase in power prices. Now they’re starting to realise it’s not the cost but no power at all. And then its food and transport. John Anderson being very tut tut on Credlin. Just once one of these conservatives should come out and state the obvious: alarmists are lunatics, commies and scum and should be fed to pigs and used as fertilizer. And then there’s Jennifer Oriel who is just so fucking measured as she calmly outlines the Armageddon the liars and the filth and that hirsute shit, cannon-brookes, have planned for us.

Upsetting so here’s a cute owl.

bespoke
bespoke
October 11, 2022 7:09 pm

Enyone that can’t service there own tractors shouldn’t be in the business.

Pretty expensive to carry a full inventory of parts, particularly for specialist equipment like headers.

Chuckle!

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
October 11, 2022 7:11 pm

Right.
O’Connors are big Case agents. The Mallee Mafia they’re jokingly called. They have lots of gear, new and second hand plus a big inventory of parts.
Service and parts play a big role in purchase decisions. JD have a good rep too but aren’t as close to us as Case.
Vetch is a legume usually for forage but some folk eat the seed. It needs soaking to get toxins out before use.
There’s lots of wild vetch around. It has tendrils like peas with a purple flower and small narrow leaves. It had a long seed pod with seed like a small dark pea.

rosie
rosie
October 11, 2022 7:15 pm

Okay Duncanm
Perhaps I shouldn’t have linked the article to avoid misunderstandings. My point was even if a bike path is provided, there is no obligation for cyclists to use it, some will continue to use the road.
As I observed driving home this evening.

calli
calli
October 11, 2022 7:17 pm

Why is it that government “health” ministers are all so gargantuan?

Just saw Thérèse* Coffee yapping on about something or other and was reminded of Jabba the Hutt in spectacles.

They should practice what they preach.

* couldn’t resist the accents

FPV
FPV
October 11, 2022 7:21 pm

All this talk of overseas trips is going to send sometime pub singers across the nation into conniptions.

And why shouldn’t it? Posters flaunting their clotshot passports on holidays to USA, Japan, Fiji (all still requiring the nazi pass), NZ and Cook Islands (only recently lifted). I’m with Struth. You have betrayed those that resisted and continue to resist the covid regime. All for an effing holiday.

calli
calli
October 11, 2022 7:24 pm

I DO NOT require a vaxx “passport” to enter Japan. I am in transit.

I am not “flaunting” anything.

calli
calli
October 11, 2022 7:26 pm

Nothing is stopping you getting a ticket to the UK, FPV.

It’s a beautiful day in London.

bespoke
bespoke
October 11, 2022 7:28 pm

Happy to report my boy is leaving California for Arizona. The wife is missing him something shocking.

Razey
Razey
October 11, 2022 7:33 pm

FPVsays:
October 11, 2022 at 7:21 pm
All this talk of overseas trips is going to send sometime pub singers across the nation into conniptions.

And why shouldn’t it? Posters flaunting their clotshot passports on holidays to USA, Japan, Fiji (all still requiring the nazi pass), NZ and Cook Islands (only recently lifted). I’m with Struth. You have betrayed those that resisted and continue to resist the covid regime. All for an effing holiday.

You dont need a vax to enter Japan. They will accept a PCR test.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 11, 2022 7:36 pm

Finally.

Earlier:

All this talk of overseas trips is going to send sometime pub singers across the nation into conniptions.

Then:

clotshot passports
nazi pass
I’m with Struth. You have betrayed those that resisted

You know nothing of other people’s circumstances. Nothing. All you have is empty buzzwords.

Razey
Razey
October 11, 2022 7:37 pm

Full list of where the pure bloods can travel:

Countries:
114 – fully open
61 – test & travel
14 – test and quarantine
38 – closed (includes the land of the ‘free’ and ‘home of the brave’ – LOL!)

https://www.kayak.com.au/travel-restrictions?

calli
calli
October 11, 2022 7:37 pm

And another thing before I head off to the Great Metropolis…

I don’t understand the anger. You’re safe from death-by-vaxx and I’m doomed to die horribly. You know…tick, tick, tick. An overseas holiday is small beer in exchange for a life.

But the thing is…you don’t really believe it, do you? It’s just a stick to cane those who did something you don’t approve of.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 11, 2022 7:38 pm

Hello again Mrs St. Ruth.

There’s two people who pointed out you’re wrong already.

No NAZI! PASS! to enter Japan.

Seems like a common fault amongst some.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

All this travel. How times change.

When I was a nipper nobody knew anybody who’d been overseas (1914-1918 & 1939-1945 trips with the army excepted)
Then the town shopkeeper, who’d worked all his life, went on a “world trip” (several weeks in Europe)
When he returned he pinned two postcards on the front door of his shop, one from England & one from France.
Over the next several weeks, the whole district came & spent a few minutes each, just looking at those postcards.
Everybody looked at them so much they’d have been able to draw them from memory.

bespoke
bespoke
October 11, 2022 7:40 pm

Don’t them spoil for you, calli.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
October 11, 2022 7:41 pm

Ok so the WA mongement has just canned a planned dam which was to be used for agriculture in WAs Southwest (the damp bit of WA)

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-11/southern-forest-irrigation-scheme-shelved-wa-farmers/101522720

A multimillion-dollar irrigation scheme that was set to secure water for farmers in the WA’ South West has been scrapped after new modelling indicated predicted rainfall figures would not support its current incarnation.

The Southern Forests Irrigation scheme was first mooted in 2014 with the broad goal of harnessing water from the Donnelly River for horticultural and agricultural production in the shire of Manjimup.

The report on the website didnt bell the cat as much as the radio version i heard.

The ‘new modelling” was based on CSIRO modelling of rainfall after the effects of climate change.
So in effect observable historical data has been shitcanned for the computer models.

A question.
If these models turned out to be incorrect could farmers affected sue for loss of earnings?
who? CSIRO?/government?

Or this mysterious mob..
However, opponents of the project raised doubts in the mind of the state government, who sought updated modelling from the CSIRO before withdrawing support for the scheme as it stood.

Heres one of those x-spurts..
Kim Taylor, a former director-general of the Department of Water who also ran the Office of the Environmental Protection Authority, said the case for the Southern Forests Irrigation Scheme was “critically flawed”.

So a deep green swamp creature with an inside run to the governments ear helped scupper the project.

bespoke
bespoke
October 11, 2022 7:41 pm

It

Razey
Razey
October 11, 2022 7:42 pm

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupiditysays:
October 11, 2022 at 7:39 pm
All this travel. How times change.

When I was a nipper nobody knew anybody who’d been overseas (1914-1918 & 1939-1945 trips with the army excepted)

Growing up on a farm near Hamilton, we’d be lucky to get a trip to pea soup once year. How times have changed indeed.

Top Ender
Top Ender
October 11, 2022 7:42 pm

Anyone know what the RSL’s policy on the AWM’s new galleries?

calli
calli
October 11, 2022 7:44 pm

I’m not, bespoke. The whole argument is just dumb, except for those of an authoritarian bent.

I reiterate – Europe is lovely in Autumn. Buy a ticket. Refuse patronage to places that exclude you. Middle finger them. And enjoy your life…it isn’t a dress rehearsal.

Razey
Razey
October 11, 2022 7:45 pm

callisays:
October 11, 2022 at 7:37 pm
And another thing before I head off to the Great Metropolis…

Tokyo is something else. Hopefully you have enough time to do what you want to do.
Unfortunately Japanese like their masks. Latest research is around 40% want to take them off, but wont, due to social conformity, even though the gov has clearly said that wearing outside is not really necessary.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 11, 2022 7:46 pm

Anyone know what the RSL’s policy on the AWM’s new galleries?

Haven’t seen any statement so far.

Roger
Roger
October 11, 2022 7:47 pm

Full list of where the pure bloods can travel:

Countries:
114 – fully open

Novak Djokovic excepted…in Australia at least.

Because politicians need to save face.

Razey
Razey
October 11, 2022 7:48 pm

Rogersays:
October 11, 2022 at 7:47 pm
Full list of where the pure bloods can travel:

Countries:
114 – fully open

Novak Djokovic excepted…in Australia at least.

Huh? Joker is free to come surely. Aus is fully open now isnt it?

Dot
Dot
October 11, 2022 7:49 pm

Indolentsays:
October 11, 2022 at 6:09 pm
Amazon is sued for ‘selling suicide kits to teenagers’: Parents of Ohio girl, 16, and West Virginia boy, 17, accuse online retail giant of assisting in their deaths by selling sodium nitrate – a fatal food preservative that ‘is as deadly as cyanide’

A food preservative that is deadly as cyanide?

This is just rank stupidity.

(From wikipedia)

Lethal dose or concentration (LD, LC):
LD50 (median dose) 3236 mg/kg

You’d have to eat 21 grams of NaNO3 salt to die.

Which is roughly the same as NaCl, common table salt! (estimated to be 3000 – 10,000 mg/kg).

Note well:

The parents who are suing, are just grifters.

The kids could have just as easily taken their life in many others, I’m not going to suggest any.

Razey
Razey
October 11, 2022 7:50 pm

You can die if you drink too much water.

calli
calli
October 11, 2022 7:51 pm

“Great Metropolis” is London. Dickens referred to it as such in an essay.

I am not visiting Tokyo, but transiting.

Dot
Dot
October 11, 2022 7:53 pm

IF the AUD hits mid 50’s with oil north of $120 for a length of time, $3.00 a ltr is quite possible.. So yeah, it’s serious.

So glad I bought WDS recently.

calli
calli
October 11, 2022 7:55 pm

Because politicians need to save face.

Closed countries indicate this deadly feature. Take note now because it will all be memory holed. The US is a classic example of rank hypocrisy.

miltonf
miltonf
October 11, 2022 7:55 pm

The evil old Biden cunt really seems to be pushing for WWWIII. Did I hear something about our miserable pollimuppets sending Australian personnel over there?

Razey
Razey
October 11, 2022 7:55 pm

callisays:
October 11, 2022 at 7:51 pm
“Great Metropolis” is London. Dickens referred to it as such in an essay.

I am not visiting Tokyo, but transiting.

I see. Only been to London once, back in 2019 just before all the nonsense, also went to Paris during the same trip.

IMHO – London >>>>> Paris by far!

Dot
Dot
October 11, 2022 7:55 pm

Lethal dose or concentration (LD, LC):
LD50 (median dose) 3236 mg/kg

You’d have to eat 21 grams of NaNO3 salt to die.

Hold up. Piss poor mathematics.

225+ grams of sodium nitrate, in a relatively brief setting.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
October 11, 2022 7:56 pm

The twisted dictator is on the news services with his serious gargoyle face because Melbourne might end up getting a lot of rain.
Country VIC has been saturated for months but now it’s serious, votes are in danger.

bespoke
bespoke
October 11, 2022 7:56 pm

“Great Metropolis” is London

If you see a guy trying to imitate Trump. That’s my little brother.

custard
custard
October 11, 2022 7:57 pm

https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani/status/1316368409236516872
FBI possession since late 2019?
No FBI interview(s) _J/H Biden due to optics re: attack political opponent?
Lesson of the Day: If you run for POTUS all your past crimes magically disappear?
Sometimes it takes transparency to force action.
“Let’s see what happens.”
In this case, does having early stage dementia help you re: previous deniability? [harmful politically]
DRAIN THE SWAMP.
Q

4851 from 15/10/20

JC
JC
October 11, 2022 7:58 pm

What’s WDS, Dot?

I reckon we have to either fall into the abyss – nuclear weapons used or so , so close. This war is only going to end when in one of those two scenarios I think.

Dot
Dot
October 11, 2022 8:00 pm

Poking the hornets nest.

I have started to defend small cap mining CEOs on HotCopper.

Razey
Razey
October 11, 2022 8:01 pm

Farmer Gezsays:
October 11, 2022 at 7:56 pm
The twisted dictator is on the news services with his serious gargoyle face because Melbourne might end up getting a lot of rain.
Country VIC has been saturated for months but now it’s serious, votes are in danger.

Couple of inches isn’t too bad. But your right given the ground is saturated, the stream flow will be great.

Dot
Dot
October 11, 2022 8:01 pm

Woodside. Their code changed recently (WDL formerly?).

Roger
Roger
October 11, 2022 8:01 pm

Huh? Joker is free to come surely.

No. Given his three year exclusion sentence imposed by the Morrison government he’ll need a ministerial decision in his favour if he’s to play in the 2023 Australian Open. Not much support from either side of politics thus far.

custard
custard
October 11, 2022 8:04 pm
Razey
Razey
October 11, 2022 8:04 pm

Rogersays:
October 11, 2022 at 8:01 pm
Huh? Joker is free to come surely.

No. Given his three year exclusion sentence imposed by the Morrison government he’ll need a ministerial decision in his favour if he’s to play in the 2023 Australian Open. Not much support from either side of politics thus far.

When the Hunchback loses its seat, might change things up a bit.

Dot
Dot
October 11, 2022 8:07 pm

Super portfolio

Cash 1.70%
Aurelia Metals Limited 6.51%
Beach Energy Limited 16.05%
Fortescue Metals Group Ltd 15.99%
Juno Minerals Limited 0.09%
Jupiter Mines Limited 5.07%
Karoon Energy Limited 31.26%
Santos Limited 19.82%
Woodside Energy Group Ltd 3.51%

LOL

cohenite
October 11, 2022 8:07 pm

Kim Taylor, a former director-general of the Department of Water who also ran the Office of the Environmental Protection Authority, said the case for the Southern Forests Irrigation Scheme was “critically flawed”.

Kimmie personifies the bureaucratic swamp.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Razey; there’s been a lot of public comment that past day or two from (former) Ministers who were in the Morrison government.
Dan Tehan & Karen Andrews
Their view is the Joker should be kept in purgatory for several years for being chucked out, despite his entering the country on a valid visa & meeting all requirements.

We most definitely did the right thing voting out Slomo & his mob of cud-chewing underperformers.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 11, 2022 8:08 pm

Thanks Gez at 7:11.
O’Connors.
With a name like that surely they are more Sinn Fein than Mafia!
It strikes me that they rarely advertise a specific piece of kit, but always emphasise their back-up maintenance in their adverts.
A tried and true business model along the lines of “selling shovels to miners”.
Most seasons you still have to drive their kit around in square circles and wear it out, whether you barely break-even or not.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 11, 2022 8:13 pm

Mrs St Ruth at 7:21:-

And why shouldn’t it? Posters flaunting their clotshot passports on holidays to USA, Japan, Fiji (all still requiring the nazi pass), NZ and Cook Islands (only recently lifted). I’m with Struth. You have betrayed those that resisted and continue to resist the covid regime. All for an effing holiday.

I am struggling to find the words to tell you how little I care for your bleating.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
October 11, 2022 8:16 pm

Headers need a yearly overhaul.
They literally shake themselves to bits. Good mechanics with prompt access to a wide range of parts is a high priority in choosing a dealer or a machine.

Roger
Roger
October 11, 2022 8:17 pm

I don’t give a flying fig about professional tennis, mind you.

But Djokovic was wronged.

And if they can do it to him they’ll certainly do it to you.

Winston Smith
October 11, 2022 8:19 pm

From the Olde Fredde:
ZK2A:

Aboriginal culture prevents any action being taken because once you admit there is a problem, then it’s your job to fix it.

Point taken, Winston, but what’s the answer to the security on the nursing and support staff in those Third World shitholes?

They supply their own.
Yes, I know it won’t work to the point that old people will be left to die, but isn’t that what happened previously to the arrival of Western concepts of law & order, and medicine?
We keep telling the aboriginals they have a problem, so according to their way of thinking, having identified the problem and communicating it to them it’s OUR job to fix it.
So they sit there, waiting, not helping, because that’s THEIR custom.
The current situation is like a father telling the Social Services that he will feed his wife and kids if they double his credit card limit so he can drink and gamble more. It’s emotional blackmail and it’s working to the tune of $34 Billion per year.
“When you pay the Danegeld, the Dane will never go away.” And that’s why the Humanitarian disaster that is the camps, will never be solved.

rosie
rosie
October 11, 2022 8:19 pm

Mid morning east to west took me over two and a half hours today, accident on the Eastern but getting off the freeway was no better, was choked through Balwyn back to Hoddle as well.
Just a shade over an hour return trip around six pm.
What we really need in Melbourne is more bike lanes.

Eyrie
Eyrie
October 11, 2022 8:20 pm

Farmers maintaining their own gear? Oil and filter changes, mechanical parts replacement (hydraulic leak fixes – burst hoses etc) OK, but have you seen the computers and electronics involved?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 11, 2022 8:22 pm

callisays:

October 11, 2022 at 7:44 pm

I’m not, bespoke. The whole argument is just dumb, except for those of an authoritarian bent.

Calli.
Try to dismiss the JAL mask thing as a Japanese quirk, and enjoy the rest of it.
We are thinking of Japan about this time next year. We are hoping it will be first of several trips so happy to go “shoulder season” as far as autumn colour goes.
Looking forward to reports from the front line.

rosie
rosie
October 11, 2022 8:23 pm

Was under the impression Melbourne has already had a lot of rain.

bons
bons
October 11, 2022 8:25 pm

True enough Jezz,
Our family outfit (son – cattle, daughter grain) actually contracted a strategist.
Her first demand was that my daughter end her policy of hiring the guy down the road to service and upgrade the capital equipment, but stick with the vendors.
If i was not so terrified of my daughter, I would have cheered.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 11, 2022 8:26 pm

“When you pay the Danegeld, the Dane will never go away.” And that’s why the Humanitarian disaster that is the camps, will never be solved.

Interesting post, Winston, thank you.

Dot
Dot
October 11, 2022 8:26 pm

Horrific trial in the UK. It’s another country, I presume she’s guilty.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11298691/Trial-Lucy-Letby-32-start-today.html

No doubt the evil cow was a mask and jab jab booster Karen.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 11, 2022 8:26 pm

Terror on the Crimea Bridge forces Russia to unleash Shock’n Awe

MI6 does have some well-placed moles in Moscow, relatively speaking. The Brits had warned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the General Staff that the Russians would be launching a “warning strike” this Monday.

What happened was no “warning strike,” but a massive offensive of over 100 cruise missiles launched “from the air, sea and land,” as Putin noted, against Ukrainian “energy, military command and communications facilities.”

MI6 also noted “the next step” will be the complete destruction of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure.

That’s not a “next step:” it’s already happening. Power supply is completely gone in five regions, including Lviv and Kharkov, and there are serious interruptions in other five, including Kiev.

Over 60 percent of Ukrainian power grids are already knocked out. Over 75 percent of internet traffic is gone. Elon Musk’s Starlink netcentric warfare has been “disconnected” by the Ministry of Defense.

Shock’n Awe will likely progress in three stages.

First: Overload of the Ukrainian air defense system (already on).

Second: Plunging Ukraine into the Dark Ages (already in progress).

Third: Destruction of all major military installations (the next wave).

Ukraine is about to embrace nearly total darkness in the next few days. Politically, that opens a completely new ball game. Considering Moscow’s trademark “strategic ambiguity,” this could be a sort of Desert Storm remixed (massive air strikes preparing a ground offensive); or, more likely, an ‘incentive’ to force NATO to negotiate; or just a relentless, systematic missile offensive mixed with Electronic Warfare (EW) to shatter for good Kiev’s capacity to wage war.

Or it could be all of the above.

How a humiliated western Empire can possibly raise the stakes now, short of going nuclear, remains a key question. Moscow has shown admirable restraint for too long. No one should ever forget that in the real Great Game – how to coordinate the emergence of the multipolar world – Ukraine is just a mere sideshow. But now the sideshow runners better run for cover, because General Armageddon is on the loose.

Interesting Review

Reminder from Previous Thread Post

Has a Quisling GOP Enabled a Desperate October Surprise?

On October 6, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zenenskyy called on NATO to launch “preemptive strikes” into Russia to “make it impossible for Russia to use nuclear weapons.” On the same day as Zelenskyy’s call for a preemptive strike, Joe Biden said that the threat of nuclear “Armageddon” is at its highest level since the Cuban missile crisis, and that the United States is trying to find an “off-ramp” for Russia before they begin the use of tactical nuclear weapons. Finally, there was the Ukrainian bombing of the the only bridge connecting annexed Crimea to the Russian mainland—a momentous move that most likely could not have been taken without U.S. military support, and which has already led to a massive escalation of Russia’s attack on Ukrainian cities and the credible threat of using tactical nuclear weapons in response.

The big question now is not whether the Biden regime is prepared to risk everything to prevent devastating electoral losses and congressional investigations. The real question is why have Republicans been complicit in, nay enthusiastic supporters of, this disastrous proxy war that has already resulted in the energy and food supply disruptions roiling Europe and about to roil the United States?

Normal American voters, who regard it as madness to pour billions of taxpayer dollars into a war defending the ostensibly sacred borders of Ukraine while allowing an illegal invasion of millions over our own nation’s porous southern border, can be forgiven for wondering who in Washington is sticking up for their interests.

Who benefits from the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage? The answer is obvious. A regime facing devastating electoral losses in just over a month.

rosie
rosie
October 11, 2022 8:27 pm

I’m planning to sully Japan with my presence before you Sancho.
Strewth!, I’ve been polishing up my nazi pass for Japan for months, I’d have gone in August this year if the borders were open.

Dot
Dot
October 11, 2022 8:27 pm

If you can’t programme your own Google Nest, you don’t deserve to own a home.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 11, 2022 8:29 pm

does having early stage dementia help you re: previous deniability?

Plausible.

Plausible deniability. Previous deniability is when you said you didn’t do it the last time.

flyingduk
flyingduk
October 11, 2022 8:31 pm

he’ll need a ministerial decision in his favour if he’s to play in the 2023 Australian Open. Not much support from either side of politics thus far.

Would that be the same minister who kicked him out? No, but it won’t do any good, uniparty n all that.

Razey
Razey
October 11, 2022 8:33 pm

Dotsays:
October 11, 2022 at 8:26 pm
Horrific trial in the UK. It’s another country, I presume she’s guilty.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11298691/Trial-Lucy-Letby-32-start-today.html

No doubt the evil cow was a mask and jab jab booster Karen.

The Woke Left believe there are too many people, some of which would be more than happy to step up and ‘trim’ the population. Not starting with themselves of course.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
October 11, 2022 8:33 pm

Melbourne’s rainfall measured at Olympic Park for winter and spring is 50mm less than my place which is meant to be in the dry north.
We’re wet but not flooded by any means but there are areas not far away that have copped half as much again as we’ve had.

Razey
Razey
October 11, 2022 8:34 pm

rosiesays:
October 11, 2022 at 8:27 pm
I’m planning to sully Japan with my presence before you Sancho.
Strewth!, I’ve been polishing up my nazi pass for Japan for months, I’d have gone in August this year if the borders were open.

We are going in Dec. No Nazi pass required thankfully.

Old bloke
Old bloke
October 11, 2022 8:34 pm

Makka says:
October 11, 2022 at 5:07 pm

The thing of it is, I expect crude to be well north of $100 by Christmas. So FMD , we’ll be getting up to $2.50-2.75 a ltr!

The Saudis are cutting production by 20% and charging “western countries” $0.20 more (per gallon / barrel?). I suppose “western countries” includes us.

OPEC+ cuts production, Biden White House screams Saudi Arabia – Russia collusion

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 11, 2022 8:37 pm

Australia made Instapundit

GOVERNMENTS AT WAR WITH THEIR PEOPLES, UNDER COVER OF IMAGINARY HYSTERIA: AFR: Australia’s Renewable Transition to Drive Up Prices 35% Next Year.

Via WattsUp

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
October 11, 2022 8:40 pm

Britain Faces Possible Winter Blackouts as European Energy Crisis Worsens

The Guardian: “Households could experience a series of three-hour power cuts this winter if Vladimir Putin shuts off gas supplies from Russia and Britain experiences a cold snap.”

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 11, 2022 8:41 pm

Farmer Gezsays:
October 11, 2022 at 7:56 pm
The twisted dictator is on the news services with his serious gargoyle face because Melbourne might end up getting a lot of rain.
Country VIC has been saturated for months but now it’s serious, votes are in danger.

I haven’t been back through the rainfall records, but I can’t remember it being so boggy in spring since I was a kid (way back last century).
And, whilst we aren’t exactly on fast-draining sandbelt golf course territory, it is hardly heavy clay country either.
I think we have had just the right amount of rain to keep it at saturation point, without huge run-off.

Zipster
Zipster
October 11, 2022 8:44 pm
Razey
Razey
October 11, 2022 8:44 pm

I don’t really trust Martin Armstrong, but sometimes he makes sense:

Denmark and Estonia are rejecting any Russians and canceling their visas. The scary part is that China, North Korea, Iran, and Syria, just to name a few, know that Russia cannot be allowed to fall, for they will be next. There seems to be nobody even contemplating a world if Russia was to be defeated or if the world divides. All of this for a strip of land occupied by Russians for centuries? No. It is about a long-seething hatred that has existed for more than a century, and Ukraine is the excuse. There is no resolution until the death count rises substantially. This will NEVER end; even if Putin withdrew, the West would move in for the kill.

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/the-ukraine-war-is-really-the-start-of-world-war-iii/

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
October 11, 2022 8:45 pm

Dan could send his flak jacket goons in their street tanks to rescue people trapped in floods.
Armed of course because misgendering could be widespread and some of the unvaccinated may want to be helped too.

rosie
rosie
October 11, 2022 8:48 pm

Dot she was arrested in 2018 or 2019 so missed out on being a covid Karen.
Sounds plain or garden variety evil.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
October 11, 2022 8:49 pm

I don’t give a flying fig about professional tennis, mind you.

But Djokovic was wronged.

And if they can do it to him they’ll certainly do it to you.

You are a wise owl.

flyingduk
flyingduk
October 11, 2022 8:49 pm

Anyone know what the RSL’s policy on the AWM’s new galleries?

Who cares? They ceased to be of interest to me when they ‘transitioned’ from the ‘Returned Servicemens League’ to the ‘Returned and Services League’.

Their original remit was to care for military members returning from WW1 (ie Veterans with war service). Their current remit is diluted simply to any serving/ex serving members. IMHO, there is a big difference here. With only a few exceptions, simply serving in the military at home is not worthy of the same recognition.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 11, 2022 8:49 pm

If you can’t programme your own Google Nest, you don’t deserve to own a home.

I own my home and have many nests. Goolag can get knotted, I don’t want my house spying for the enemy.

A couple days ago I went to the front gate and saw a wood duck’s head sticking out of the salubrious Cafe penthouse. He was checking out the digs. Be nice to have a bunch of ducklings do the high dive onto my lawn.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 11, 2022 8:51 pm

Dotsays:

October 11, 2022 at 7:53 pm

IF the AUD hits mid 50’s with oil north of $120 for a length of time, $3.00 a ltr is quite possible.. So yeah, it’s serious.

So glad I bought WDS recently.

Bwah ha ha ha.
My accidental shareholding.
I hadn’t been paying attention and suddenly, up pops WDS in my portfolio.
1006 units out of thin air it seems.
Some divestment of BHP oil and gas assets that I hadn’t been aware of.
Paid a very tasty dividend shortly after.
Thinking about loading up on some more.

Boambee John
Boambee John
October 11, 2022 8:52 pm

My conclusion is that the right is being consistent in supporting the bully, while the left consistently supports the less powerful. Thus in the Bush era the right was all in for both Gulf Wars,

A question for m0nty-fa.

Now that he has convinced himself that the reason the left now supports US wars is that the left consistently supports the” less powerful”, why was the left so against the First Gulf War (1990-91). In that War, the US was supporting the vastly weaker Kuwait against the much stronger Iraq.

That is the Iraq that started a war with Iran in the early 1980s, and used both mustard gas and nerve gas in that war, used both mustard and nerve gas against his own citizens, and specifically against the less powerful Kurds, then invaded the much less powerful Kuwait.

The use of mustard and nerve gases was a clear war crime, yet the left opposed the operation to free Kuwait. Pliss essplain, m0nty-fa.

flyingduk
flyingduk
October 11, 2022 8:52 pm

Melbourne’s rainfall measured at Olympic Park for winter and spring is 50mm less than my place which is meant to be in the dry north.

My gauge in Western Vic up to now: 480mm, annual average, 480mm.

custard
custard
October 11, 2022 8:53 pm

Watch Ray Dalio

flyingduk
flyingduk
October 11, 2022 8:58 pm

Australia made Instapundit GOVERNMENTS AT WAR WITH THEIR PEOPLES, UNDER COVER OF IMAGINARY HYSTERIA: AFR: Australia’s Renewable Transition to Drive Up Prices 35% Next Year.

Indeed:

Censorship
Propaganda
Military/Militarised police in the streets
Criminalisation of dissent/protest
War emergency control of the economy
Movement restrictions/border closures/travel passes
Identity documents/compliance checks

I also predicted, a while back, that COVID was merely a ‘target of opportunity’, and the ‘klimate emergency’ would be the real ‘cassus belli’ in the continuation war.

Furthermore, the real targets in war are

The power system
The transport system
The petroleum system
The food supply.

You will note that ALL 4 of these key targetsets are now being attacked by the green movement.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 11, 2022 8:58 pm

So they sit there, waiting, not helping, because that’s THEIR custom.

I’ve heard it said that that’s why the houses and communities generally are such a mess – in supplying an Aborigine with anything like that, you are accepting responsibility for the maintenance and upkeep. They sit and wait for someone to come along and repair the damage.

JC
JC
October 11, 2022 8:59 pm

You’re the second greatest investor at the Cat, Sanchez. 🙂

flyingduk
flyingduk
October 11, 2022 9:02 pm

You’re the second greatest investor at the Cat, Sanchez. ?

My BTC AT $800 AUD is looking pretty good too….

Ed Case
Ed Case
October 11, 2022 9:04 pm

I don’t give a flying fig about professional tennis, mind you.
Whew, that’s a relief.

But Djokovic was wronged.
Is he an Australian?
Then, who cares?

And if they can do it to him they’ll certainly do it to you.
Do what?
Deport you to Serbia?
Djoker is a very wealthy smartarse who played Politics in Australia and got booted.
As the duck says, Bad Luck.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 11, 2022 9:09 pm

duk, apropos of the Rissole:

IMHO, there is a big difference here. With only a few exceptions, simply serving in the military at home is not worthy of the same recognition.

100%. Undeniable.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 11, 2022 9:13 pm

My gauge in Western Vic up to now: 480mm, annual average, 480mm.

OK.
Ahead of average, true.
Our numbers are probably similar, but I suspect it is the distribution over time which has kept it boggy into spring.
Example. Previous years might have had 100mm in a week in winter, of which most goes down the gurgler.
I don’t think we have had that here.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 11, 2022 9:15 pm

Real people! Real balance of power! It’s Happening!

The Hun:

Self declared “national living treasure” Clive Palmer will visit Melbourne on Wednesday to launch his party’s Victorian election campaign.

Palmer will announce the Victorian leader of the United Australia Party which is vying to hold the balance of power in the upper house following the November 26 poll.

There’s about 600 words in the piece, including quite a few quotes from Plus Size Clive. Nothing on stolen freedom votes in Quenthland, disappointingly.

I was promised there’d be video.

flyingduk
flyingduk
October 11, 2022 9:18 pm

I suspect it is the distribution over time which has kept it boggy into spring.

I am new to the place – wondering if the current ‘lethal quicksand’ soil keeping my tractor out of the paddocks will ‘transition’ (snork) into ‘hard as iron and no good for fenceholes’ in an afternoon.

Bluey
Bluey
October 11, 2022 9:18 pm

flyingduksays:
October 11, 2022 at 8:49 pm
Anyone know what the RSL’s policy on the AWM’s new galleries?

Who cares? They ceased to be of interest to me when they ‘transitioned’ from the ‘Returned Servicemens League’ to the ‘Returned and Services League’.

Their original remit was to care for military members returning from WW1 (ie Veterans with war service). Their current remit is diluted simply to any serving/ex serving members. IMHO, there is a big difference here. With only a few exceptions, simply serving in the military at home is not worthy of the same recognition.

I can’t say I disagree, despite knowing some reservists who’ve got fantastic support from them for domestic deployments like the 2008/2009 fires. Having said that, the treatment of Vietnam vets still echos in how they’re viewed. It’s a strong reason why the remit was extended.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 11, 2022 9:21 pm

flyingduksays:

October 11, 2022 at 9:02 pm

You’re the second greatest investor at the Cat, Sanchez. ?

Not even top twenty I wouldn’t think.
The story really is how I used to monitor it all daily but now I am more hands off.
Suddenly, I look up my year end portfolio statement and … WDS? Where the fuck did they come from?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 11, 2022 9:25 pm

Duk.
There is a soil type map of Victoria.
Forget the name of the site.
It won’t be down to individual property level, but it will give you an idea if you are living on Quikset Concrete.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 11, 2022 9:30 pm

This is what we’re dealing with.

This is the element that throws righteous protest movements out the door because they apparently have to cope with two inches of Insanity Mayonnaise over the top. From teh webs – a serious question:

I’ve recently been having a funny feeling in my gut. I’ve been informed that the meat section in woolies has recently started putting tracking products in their product to know where most of it is consumed so they know where to advertise. Wondering if anyone had any cleansing diets that could get the trackers out of my gut.

This is why the protest movements of last year got serious traction in the end, but nowhere near enough. Fringe nuffies like this.

The ongoing problem is that this stuff’s now a full-blown industry. People (who may or may not distribute content of the same ilk) are making money out of it.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 11, 2022 9:33 pm

War crimes probe loads up with top guns
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Former Victorian Supreme Court judge Paul Coghlan – who locked-up notorious gang bosses, serial killers and paedophiles in a 53-year legal career – has joined the Office of the Special Investigator, which is “progressing a significant number of investigations” into ­alleged war crimes committed by Australian soldiers in ­Afghanistan.

The OSI, which launched operations in January last year under former Victorian Supreme Court judge Mark Weinberg, has assembled a crack team of legal experts reviewing the findings of Paul Brereton’s Australian Defence Force Afghanistan inquiry and other suspected war crimes.

Mr Coghlan, who began practising law in 1969 and rose to become one of Victoria’s most prominent directors of public prosecutions and Supreme Court judges working alongside Mr Weinberg, was a key figure in the state’s notorious gangland wars.

He played central roles in locking up gangster Carl Williams, ­serial killer Peter Dupas, pedophile priest Gerald Ridsdale and Arthur Freeman, who threw his four-year-old daughter off the West Gate Bridge.

The OSI on Tuesday confirmed “multiple teams are progressing a significant number of investigations”, including alle­gations raised in the Brereton report and other war crimes not pursued by the Inspector-General of the ADF.

Dozens of top lawyers, investigators and intelligence analysts – drawn from the Australian Federal Police, state police services, Australian Government Solicitor and legal circles – are investigating crimes allegedly perpetrated by ADF personnel during the 20-year conflict in Afghanistan against the Taliban, including ­the unlawful killings of innocent ­civilians.

Mr Weinberg, who was appointed Special Investigator by former home affairs minister Peter Dutton in December 2020, has also recruited prominent Victorian barristers Raelene Sharp and Patrick Doyle.

In a statement, the OSI said it was taking precautions to ensure the integrity of its criminal investigations and potential prosecutions, noting the high-level immunity offered to those who provided evidence to the Brereton inquiry.

“The operation of those legal protections means witness evidence provided to the IGADF ­Afghanistan inquiry – and other evidence derived from it – will be inadmissable in criminal proceedings against the individual who provided it,” it said.

“The (OSI) investigations are benefiting significantly from the advice and guidance of the Special Investigator and our Special Counsel, within the Australian Government Solicitor, to ensure information is managed in a legally safe way.”

Mr Weinberg, a former Victorian Supreme Court of Appeal and Federal Court judge, is preparing briefs of evidence, supported by the AFP, Attorney-General’s Department and Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions, into alleged war crimes committed by ADF personnel in Afghanistan between 2005 and 2016.

OSI contract documents for 2021-22 show that Mr Weinberg, Ms Sharp, Mr Doyle and Mr Coghlan have been engaged on contracts due to end on June 30 next year. Mr Coghlan’s $269,500 legal services contract began on May 16.

The OSI said Mr Coghlan was providing expert advice to Mr Weinberg on a part-time basis and working with a broader team of legal specialists to develop briefs of evidence where appropriate.

Ms Sharp is an experienced barrister with an extensive background in criminal, investigative and administrative law. The Melbourne-based lawyer has worked for the Australian Crime Commission and UN in Lebanon. Mr Doyle is a prominent Victorian criminal barrister.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
October 11, 2022 9:36 pm

Palmer will announce the Victorian leader of the United Australia Party which is vying to hold the balance of power in the upper house following the November 26 poll.

Smallish problem, Shirley:

United Australia party was registered on 12 December 2018 and deregistered on 8 September 2022

Cloive Palmer. An ornament on the Australian body politic.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 11, 2022 9:38 pm

Dr Faustus.
Spoiling parties since 2017.
🙂

Winston Smith
October 11, 2022 9:39 pm

Bespoke:

Having scitsafrinia isn’t an excuse to be a jerk to others.

It’s fun deconstructing precisely what message it’s putting out:
Firstly, that she won’t do anything to help herself – it wants someone else to organise it for her.
Secondly, it is saying that because it is having a “scitsafrinia attack” then it is a ‘victim’ and not responsible for it’s behavior.
Thirdly, crying like a 5 year old who is being made to go to bed will change the outcome of its dilemma.

This was worth the effort of getting out of bed this morning.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 11, 2022 9:42 pm

Aha. The Boobs Channel (SBS):

Mining magnate Clive Palmer has voluntarily deregistered the United Australia Party in a surprise move that leaves his only senator without a registered party.

A notice published by the Australian Electoral Commission confirmed the UAP had been deregistered on 8 September.

Despite the move, election and opinion poll expert Kevin Bonham said it may be possible for UAP’s only elected member, Victorian senator Ralph Babet, to continue to sit in parliament as a representative of the UAP.

“As I understand it, what the Senate recognises as a party and what the party registration system recognises as a party are two separate things,” he told SBS News.

“So if the Senate choses to keep calling him a United Australia Party senator, then they can.”

So, sort of a political party but not really. Hardly at all similar to the UAP’s entire existence.

Dot
Dot
October 11, 2022 9:44 pm

Soon the special investigation into the special forces will be as half as old as our involvement there was.

If you can’t lay charges or make an indictment after six years of investigation, what is the point?

Nailing people for process crimes isn’t in the public interest.

Old bloke
Old bloke
October 11, 2022 9:46 pm

OldOzzie says:
October 11, 2022 at 8:40 pm

Britain Faces Possible Winter Blackouts as European Energy Crisis Worsens

The Guardian: “Households could experience a series of three-hour power cuts this winter if Vladimir Putin shuts off gas supplies from Russia and Britain experiences a cold snap.”

I think Chutzpah is the right word, claiming that power cuts will result from Putin shutting off gas supplies. These people are allied to someone who blew up their gas supply lines, and the only one left can’t be used because of EU/NATO sanctions.

And then they blame the Russians, go figure.

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