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Suicide of Saul, Pieter Bruegel, 1562


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feelthebern
feelthebern
November 9, 2022 7:34 am

Breaking news: Dot is actually Michael Malice.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 9, 2022 7:40 am

Dotsays:

November 9, 2022 at 7:26 am

Custard.

You have until 10 AM today NSW time to accept the wager from me.

Where is the resident wowser with the “gamble responsibly” tag?

calli
calli
November 9, 2022 7:45 am

Just further to my comment re excess deaths:

To date Israel’s vaxx rate is 65.7% and Canada’s is 82.8%.

Israel’s rate is lower but more “excess deaths”, while Canada’s is higher.

Seems to me that the lockdowns and the medical/social fallout is the culprit here.

I’d love some of our resident number crunchers to have a go at this. I find figures other that P&L and trig start to swirl around in my brain. 😀

shatterzzz
November 9, 2022 7:49 am

Good to see that Football Oz won’t be needing the “begging bowl” outside Gina’s door any time soon! We’re sending a team of 25 players to Qatar when the FIFA minimum is 21 so 4 blokes, not needed, get the 2 week’s holiday whilst we make up the 3 games only-there-for-the-numbers groups section …..

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 9, 2022 7:51 am

One of the best things after these mid-terms wrap up will be muting a range of accounts on twitter for six months or so.
Just like I mute a lot of league accounts in the off-season, it’s good to have a break from the content providers until it’s time to tune in again.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 9, 2022 7:52 am

calli you are most likely right about Shorten as the brothers wouldn’t have put up with Labor shutting the country down. They didn’t care when the SFL did it coz of political suicide. It is still a choice of drowning or suffocation. We are so poorly served by politicians but this is our own fault.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 9, 2022 7:53 am

This is undoubtedly timed to ‘drop’ ahead of the election in Victoria. However, it would appear that another of the Andrews Debacles is raising its ugly red head again (the Hun):

Daniel Andrews faces the prospect of becoming ­embroiled in a fifth anti-corruption inquiry with a fresh probe being considered into the government’s red shirts election rort of 2014.

Normally this would be a ‘totes whatevs’ moment. But it would appear that someone, at least, has had a gutful and is pumping the whistle hard:

In an explosive 29-page statement lodged with IBAC in June, the whistleblower claimed police were ­actively blocked from doing their jobs to help Mr Andrews win the 2018 election.

Among the fresh lines of ­inquiry is any involvement by police command.

Other matters of interest are understood to include the decision to appoint a senior police officer to liaise with Labor MPs suspected of ­impropriety.

Now that, even for this government, is unheard of.

The police whistleblower, a veteran of 33 years, said they were directly involved in the 2018 investigation, arrest of suspects and interviews.

In a formal statement of complaint he told the IBAC police were ordered to ignore normal police procedures while investigating the rort. He has suggested the IBAC examine Victoria Police work diaries, emails, investigation logs and operation orders he believes would point to key ­decisions.

“There needs to be an investigation into how the red shirts investigation was conducted by Victoria Police command,” they wrote.

“The actions of the suspect Labor MPs in the red shirts rort have never been properly investigated due to the interference and obstruction of the fraud and extortion squad ­investigators by senior police in police command.

“I believe that the interference and obstruction of the police investigation was likely done for political reasons and for personal reward, such as promotions.”

Promotions. Shane Patten, prior to his further elevation to Cheefa Po-Po signed off on the ‘nothing to see here’ final red shirts report.

His card would be stamped ‘reliable’, unlike that of the 33-year detective at the end of his career, and therefore without the carrot dangling in front of him.

If the Libs aren’t screaming the house down about this and the king-size buffet of things to sink Andrews with, they’re kidding themselves.

Johnny Rotten
November 9, 2022 7:56 am

After retiring, a former Gunnery Sergeant in the Marine Corps took a new job a s a high school teacher. Just before the school year started, he injured his back.

He was required to wear a light plaster cast around the upper part of his body. Fortunately, the cast fit under his shirt and wasn’t noticeable when he wore his suit coat.

On the first day of class, he found himself assigned to the toughest students in the school. The smart-aleck punks, having already heard the new teacher was a former Marine, were leery of him and he knew they would be testing his discipline in the classroom.

Walking confidently into the rowdy classroom, the new teacher opened the window wide and sat down at his desk.

When a strong breeze made his tie flap, he picked up a stapler and stapled the tie to his chest.

Dead silence. The rest of the year went smoothly.

shatterzzz
November 9, 2022 7:57 am

Anyone else noticing the trend creeping into in the media these dayz to inflate headline with superfluous clickbait? .. two that come to mid this week being the .. “muslim” family taking United Airlines to court after being booted from a flight .. nothing to do with being “muslim” .. just obnoxious to staff ..
and the Bobby Brown getz arrested over some “greenie” protest (usual stuff ..won’t-someone-think-of-the-birds waffle) but the headline(s) more concerned with him bumping into the “druggie’s moll’ in a restaurant dayz earlier .. nuttin’ at all to do wiv the “protest”

Johnny Rotten
November 9, 2022 7:57 am

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

– Albert Einstein

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 9, 2022 8:00 am

You have until 10 AM today NSW time to accept the wager from me.

This will be a marker.

Why is silver lighter than gold?
Who benefits from this?
What is the connection to Ukraine?
Think.

Winter is coming.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
November 9, 2022 8:02 am

Just wondering if others on catallaxy have/are trying to get a myGovID which must be done before 30 November,2022. You cannot get the ID form on your laptop or computer it has to be on your mobile phone: If the question is asked if you can set up the myGovID on your laptop or computer – this is the answer given: No, a desktop version or browser-based version of myGovID will not be supported. To use myGovID, you will need your own compatible smart device. myGovID has been developed to: meet modern security standards (for example, multi-factor authentication)17 June 2021

Razey
Razey
November 9, 2022 8:02 am

If the Libs aren’t screaming the house down about this and the king-size buffet of things to sink Andrews with, they’re kidding themselves.

Hunchback could murder people on the street and the Sheep Juicers would still vote for it.

Mater
November 9, 2022 8:02 am

Promotions. Shane Patten, prior to his further elevation to Cheefa Po-Po signed off on the ‘nothing to see here’ final red shirts report.

Yeah, and Labor (through the kindness of their cold, communist hearts) paid back $388,000 despite ‘nothing to see here’.

Aren’t we all so willing to depart with money for no good reason?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 9, 2022 8:03 am

Where is the resident wowser with the “gamble responsibly” tag?

What?

If you don’t gamble, you fade.

will
will
November 9, 2022 8:08 am

The Victorian Liberal Party is ­investigating preferencing the Greens over Labor in crucial seats amid debate about how to use the minor party to undermine Daniel Andrews’ hold on power.

window licking morons; that will not get rid of Dan, the Greens will then be in a coalition with Labour

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 9, 2022 8:17 am

Energy profit tax firms to deliver power bill relief. The head of Treasury has backed direct intervention to push down coal and gas prices and redistribute the super profits earned by ­energy companies to poorer households.

Right out of the socialist playbook: price controls and increased taxation to ‘fix’ a sector already hurting from prior government meddling (no, its not Putin’s fault).

Still – perhaps it will be ‘different this time’?

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 9, 2022 8:21 am

To date Israel’s vaxx rate is 65.7% and Canada’s is 82.8%.

Both numbers sound a bit low – are they classifying vaxxed as ‘having had at least one shot’ as they should, or ‘having had every jab demanded – hence 4 or 5 now’?

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
November 9, 2022 8:24 am

Tinta-
yes, I’m trying to find a way through that briar patch now, I’ll let you know what works.
I’ve got absolutely no doubt that the MyGov ID and compulsory director registration are all of a part to wedge us into Trusted Digital Identity, and from there to microchipping.

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 9, 2022 8:25 am

The smart-aleck punks, having already heard the new teacher was a former Marine….

Small point of order, I was once told by a Marine Gunny that there was no such thing as a former marine….

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
November 9, 2022 8:32 am

France Sliding toward Barbarity and Chaos
by Guy Millière

November 8, 2022 at 5:00 am

. Approximately 48% of all crimes committed in Paris in 2021, he notes, were committed by illegal immigrants. Murders almost as gruesome as Lola’s — most of which are committed by illegal immigrants — are committed nearly every day. No one even mentions them. The victims often have their throats slit.

. Maurice Berger, a psychiatrist, speaks of “gratuitous violence”: violence for no other reason than the pleasure of committing it. He reports that in France, gratuitous violence resulting in injury or death happens, on average, every two minutes. France reports more than two hundred rapes a day.

. In L’archipel français (“The French Archipelago”)… sociologist Jérome Fourquet writes of a French “collective nervous breakdown” and the “crumbling” of French society. He notes that the religious and historical moorings of the French people are disappearing: churches are empty, important moments in the country’s history are no longer taught in schools… France’s Muslim population, on the other hand, maintains its culture, customs and traditions, assimilates into French society less and less, and appears more and more filled with contempt and hatred for France…

. Speaking about a “great replacement” of the population in France is taboo. Anyone who does it is immediately demonized and described as a follower of conspiracy theories. But the numbers are clear… In addition to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants already in France, approximately 400,000 more immigrants from Africa and the Arab world enter France each year. At the same time, hundreds of thousands of French people emigrate from France annually. In 2018, the most recent year for which figures are available, 270,000 French people left. Over the past 20 years, the number of French people living abroad has increased by 52%.

. Illegal immigrants in France are the perpetrators of nearly half of crimes committed in the country, according to the recently published L’ordre nécessaire (“The Necessary Order”), by Didier Lallement, former chief of the Paris Police. Approximately 48% of all crimes committed in Paris in 2021, he notes, were committed by illegal immigrants. Murders almost as gruesome as Lola’s — most of which are committed by illegal immigrants — are committed nearly every day. No one even mentions them. The victims often have their throats slit. When the mainstream media report on the murders, they do not talk about slit throats. They say the victim was “stabbed in the neck.”

Essayist Céline Pina writes that the murder of little Lola, the reactions of the murderer after the crime and the government’s attempt to impose silence about the event, mark another step in France’s slide towards collapse, barbarity and chaos:

Dr. Guy Millière, a professor at the University of Paris, is the author of 27 books on France and Europe.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
November 9, 2022 8:33 am

Who was the VicPlodder that decided Lord and Lady MacAndrews were beyond reproach?
Did this person rise without trace to greater things?
Great Birnam wood may come to high Dunsinane yet.

Indolent
Indolent
November 9, 2022 8:33 am
Razey
Razey
November 9, 2022 8:37 am

Vote for the true Supreme Leader.

https://www.supremeleader.me/

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 9, 2022 8:39 am

We’re sending a team of 25 players to Qatar

I wonder if the ABC will ask them about this story?

Officials Stop Interview as Qatar World Cup ‘Ambassador’ Likens Homosexuality to Brain Damage (8 Nov)

Qatar World Cup ambassador Khalid Salman got his own interview shut down Tuesday after saying homosexuality is “damage in the mind,” warning a German broadcaster gay soccer fans have to “accept our rules” if traveling to the repressive Middle East monarchy.

No hankypanky Socceroo and Matilda peoples, you could get something worse than a red card.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 9, 2022 8:41 am

Who was the VicPlodder that decided Lord and Lady MacAndrews were beyond reproach?

It would appear his surname rhymes with….. Patten.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 9, 2022 8:47 am

Great Birnam wood may come to high Dunsinane yet.

The Scottish Play, Act V Scene VIII:

SIWARD He’s worth no more
They say he parted well, and paid his score:
And so, God be with him! Here comes newer comfort.
[Re-enter MACDUFF, with MACBETH’s head]
MACDUFF Hail, king! for so thou art: behold, where stands
The usurper’s cursed head: the time is free:
I see thee compass’d with thy kingdom’s pearl,
That speak my salutation in their minds;
Whose voices I desire aloud with mine:
Hail, King of Scotland!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 9, 2022 8:49 am

Farmer Gezsays:

November 9, 2022 at 8:33 am

Who was the VicPlodder that decided Lord and Lady MacAndrews were beyond reproach?

I wondered about that.
Was there a series of hasty phone calls and interference from on high?
Or, worse, did the coppers on the scene just know what needed to be done.
Or not done as the case may be.

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
November 9, 2022 8:54 am

Test

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 9, 2022 8:55 am

Today is leg day.
Never forget leg day.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
November 9, 2022 8:58 am

The medical data breach as I understand it.

Another organization(s) that treats client data with a level of security that sees the data acquired by other parties.
If security was adequate, there would be no problem.
Blaming the thieves is like blaming the cleaner when you leave a pile of cash on the table and $50 goes missing. Who is the criminal here?

Dot
Dot
November 9, 2022 8:58 am
Fair Shake
Fair Shake
November 9, 2022 9:02 am

Dan is going long and hard in his electorate of Mongrave. Letterbox has a flyer every second day. Yesterday he gave free rego to apprentices, wants to state-alise the power stations, blames privatisation for higher power costs. He is going full marxist retard.
Libs now want ti preference Greens. Thats how shit our leadership is.

calli
calli
November 9, 2022 9:07 am

To date Israel’s vaxx rate is 65.7% and Canada’s is 82.8%.
Both numbers sound a bit low

Duk, as far as I could see it’s two shots.

Thanks for at least having a go at my comments on Sweden and excess deaths. I know many…many commenters are heavily invested in the vaxx = death scenario and I understand why.

It may be a whole lot more complicated than that.

Razey
Razey
November 9, 2022 9:08 am

blames privatisation for higher power costs.

Errr, did this scumbag close down our power stations?

calli
calli
November 9, 2022 9:09 am

Tinta, I haven’t received anything from the government. If anything, SmartPhones will be more prone to hacking than your home computer depending on what protections you have installed.

Sounds bogus to me. Or stupid. Take your pick.

Winston Smith
November 9, 2022 9:09 am

Doc Beaugan:

Thanks Tom. I’m looking forward to a red tsunami.

Noy going to happen.
The same shit that went down last time is going down this time. Broken machines that tested OK a day ago, people turning up to vote on Voting day to be told they have already voted. Then given an alternate vote that won’t be counted.
No. The system is broken.

Razey
Razey
November 9, 2022 9:10 am

vaxx = death scenario

There is no long term safety data.

Anchor What
Anchor What
November 9, 2022 9:12 am

Amazing!
Laura Jayes discerns from talking to people in the USA (Texas actually) that “people are not happy with Joe Biden”.
More insights from Daytime Sky to come as the day progesses.

Anchor What
Anchor What
November 9, 2022 9:14 am

The same shit that went down last time is going down this time.
There is evidence of scamming already.

maman
maman
November 9, 2022 9:15 am

Tintarella, Wally, Zulu,

Thank you for all the info/research re the my gov id.

Why do we have to be bullied, at every turn, into using a smart phone.

For people with ‘cognitive challenges’ this is a bewildering, scary and alienating scenario

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
November 9, 2022 9:15 am

There is evidence that Pfizer and Pfizer’s CEO Albert Bourla have corrupted government leaders worldwide. That this corruption is deep and wide.

The people have been lied to. It was a gigantic lie. And on this lie, everything that governments, especially in the Western democracies did to infringe on people’s rights, to take away their freedom, to lock them in their homes, imposing curfews, all of this was based on that gigantic lie.

Ursula von der Leyen, EU Commission president is now under a lot of pressure, and rightly so. The people have a right to know what went on in these contracts with her exchange of SMS with CEO Pfizer, Bourla. The people need to know who they can hold responsible and accountable for whatever may have gone on behind the scenes. Things are changing now, their house of cards is tumbling down, and it is doing so rightfully.

And you know what? One more thing though, I am sick and tired of being called a COV-idiot. And I’d much rather be a COV-idiot than being a GOV-idiot, because that’s what all these people that blindly trusted their governments turned out to be. And I will say it again, it was never, never, ever about public health, it was never about breaking any waves, it was always about breaking people. But, and that’s the good news, they failed. It didn’t work. And that I am very proud of, and I’m proud of the people that I am so honored to be allowed to represent. And I will continue to do just that. Thank you very much

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/pfizer-appears-to-have-corrupted?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=583200&post_id=83305108&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

calli
calli
November 9, 2022 9:16 am

Here’s some long term safety data.

Life = death

Everyone dies sooner or later. Rather than one line gotchas to support your decision (which we have all taken in good faith as being true), how about something analytical about sfw’s link and what it means?

I have skin in the game too, and that probably skews my perception and conclusions.

custard
custard
November 9, 2022 9:16 am

An anonymous blogger wants to wager me $10k

Lol

Dot
Dot
November 9, 2022 9:18 am

Without affirmative consent, I will take that as a rejection of my offer.

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
November 9, 2022 9:22 am

Qatar World Cup ambassador Khalid Salman got his own interview shut down Tuesday after saying homosexuality is “damage in the mind,” warning a German broadcaster gay soccer fans have to “accept our rules” if traveling to the repressive Middle East monarchy.

Just another case of a truth teller being shut down by the woke. (not sarc)

calli
calli
November 9, 2022 9:22 am

Just checked with the Beloved. He does all his transactions with MyGov via his laptop.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
November 9, 2022 9:23 am

There’s a Patton developing.

He is a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police and has recently participated in the FBI National Executive Institute leadership program.

Nelson_Kidd-Players
November 9, 2022 9:24 am

Great crop of ‘toons today, Tom. Thanks for your tireless work!

maman
maman
November 9, 2022 9:24 am

What a joke.

The mygov feedback page is blank page.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 9, 2022 9:30 am

Why do we have to be bullied, at every turn, into using a smart phone.

I just used an ordinary bog standard, cordless phone – all they asked was my permission to validate my passport and medicare numbers, and to agree to a long declaration. To be honest, I was pleasantly surprised at how simple it was after some of the horror stories I had heard.

Beertruk
November 9, 2022 9:31 am

I’m imagining your pommy copper, from a Somerset village, posted somewhere like Hall’s Creek or Fitzroy Crossing…

or Kununurra

Top Ender
Top Ender
November 9, 2022 9:32 am

Check out:

…red-haired, freckle-faced Linda Augusto (left). Her great-grandmother was a half-caste Aboriginal woman who lived in the Dubbo/Wellington area. Her grandmother, who lived in Yagoona and with whom she was very close, apparently hid her aboriginality. It was ‘safe for her’ to do so, since she had white skin. It was a dark secret within the family. Linda got quite emotional about the trauma of people questioning her aboriginality because of her complexion.

Article at Quadrant on such imposters. (Always follow the money)

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
November 9, 2022 9:33 am

Shirley the government wouldn’t lie to you.

According to Sirkka Goebeler, the chief specialist of the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), up to 40% of the fatalities attributed to Covid were not actually a result of the disease.

Goebeler, a leading specialist in forensic medicine, and her unit examined all death certificates before they were sent to the state statistics bureau. The total number of deaths attributed to Covid by the THL was over 6400. But the THL and Statistics Finland calculated the deaths differently.

According to Goebeler, out of almost 4000 deaths, Covid is listed as the primary cause. In 1600 cases Covid is listed as a contributing factor. However, in about 900 cases, even though the death was listed as Covid related, the actual death certificate didn’t list any indication of coronavirus infection.

https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/finland-exaggerated-covid-death-toll-by-40-535178ac

shatterzzz
November 9, 2022 9:36 am

Or, worse, did the coppers on the scene just know what needed to be done.

Unlikely! .. the lad wasn’t pepper-sprayed .. normal Vic plod procedure when dealing with someone unable to retaliate ……….!

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 9, 2022 9:39 am

The same shit that went down last time is going down this time. Broken machines that tested OK a day ago, people turning up to vote on Voting day to be told they have already voted. Then given an alternate vote that won’t be counted.
No. The system is broken.

Soap box – ballot box – witness box – ammo box

I believe that is the order of usage of the tools for rectifying problems with government…

Mater
November 9, 2022 9:39 am

There’s a Patton developing.

I’ve posted it before, but here’s a hint from 2015:

Police Association to rejoin Trades Hall ahead of EBA

Like the military, police should be prohibited from having a union, for the very same reasons.

maman
maman
November 9, 2022 9:42 am

Reading through the pages at mygov and it’s ‘compliance’, ‘compliance’, insidious demands for ‘compliance’.

Triggering – government ‘compliance’, comply with the Melbourne lockdowns, comply with the curfews, comply with the ring of steel and if you don’t !#!!*!!!#!! and public ostracism.

Are we really still individual human beings?

Boambee John
Boambee John
November 9, 2022 9:44 am

Top Ender at 0932.

Her great grandmother was a half-caste, so she only one of 16 great great grandparents was Aboriginal.

Given her hair colour and skin complexion, the only discrimination she is ever likely to have suffered would have been anti-ranga, or caused by her being aggressively “Aboriginal”, and thus annoying her friends.

mem
mem
November 9, 2022 9:44 am

Here is a link to Adem Somyurek’s interview yesterday with Steve Price on 3AW. Apols if it has already been posted. https://www.3aw.com.au/adem-somyurek-tells-daniel-andrews-to-pull-his-head-in/

Hugh
Hugh
November 9, 2022 9:46 am

The missus and I got our director IDs this morning.
Called at 08:00 and got through straight away. Took about forty minutes to get us both registered.
The bird on the phone confirmed that it is an international thing, but could not tell me which organisation is responsible for its implementation and management at the international level.

Hugh
Hugh
November 9, 2022 9:47 am

Best of luck with your trial next week Duk.

maman
maman
November 9, 2022 9:48 am

Zulu, thank you! Phew!

Awaiting the return phone call with optimism.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
November 9, 2022 9:49 am

Vis a vis myGovID for director ID I tried to do it by phone but my marriage certificate number is so faded on my rather frayed certificate to be almost illegible so they are sending iut a form I objected to having the app on my phone or ipad because if hacking/security concern so I am gaving the forms sent out I don’t know if you can just ring up and get the forms

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 9, 2022 9:49 am

Are we really still individual human beings?

In this case of this little black duk, always and forever….

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
November 9, 2022 9:50 am

Good luck fkyingduk with tge ciurt matter

Winston Smith
November 9, 2022 9:53 am

TABULATORS IN TEXAS ALSO NOT WORKING! It’s Not Just Arizona!
The polls opened in Maricopa County at 6 am, and already voters are being told that the tabulators are not working.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/breaking-tabulators-texas-also-not-working-not-just-arizona/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=2022-11-08

Katie Hobbs is the current Secretary of State in charge of elections. She is failing – again!

John Brumble
John Brumble
November 9, 2022 9:55 am

“To use myGovID, you will need your own compatible smart device. myGovID has been developed to: meet modern security standards (for example, multi-factor authentication)17 June 2021”

wtf?

Requiring someone to use their phone to perform the interaction, rather than just receive a text or other confirmation is the exact opposite of multifactor authentication.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 9, 2022 9:56 am

Fair Shakesays:

November 9, 2022 at 9:02 am

Dan is going long and hard in his electorate of Mongrave. Letterbox has a flyer every second day. Yesterday he gave free rego to apprentices

I don’t know who writes his adverts, but the social media adverts showed a numberplate “FR33” with the caption “Free rego for apprentices. That’s 371 pies for smoko.”
FMD.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 9, 2022 9:57 am

rickw this may interest youWood gasifier appeared in one of my feeds.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
November 9, 2022 9:59 am

I’ve been busy this morning I called Senator Sarah Henderson’s office to thank her for putting the heat on ABfnC CEO but said that she should ask the question put by a Cat this morning vis a vis if ABC has no control over ABfnC employees’ socila media posts why have the hardwirking taxpayers picked up the tab for costs that Louse Milligan incurred in the defamation action brought against her bt Andrew Laming? seeing as her post was a personal matter?and has that set a precedent where taxpayers will foot the bill fir tge defamatory posts on the personal social media by ALL AbFnC employees? thanks to the Cat who put that up am on my mobile so can’t find the Cat to give credit though I told Senator’s office it was someone else who posed it

Dot
Dot
November 9, 2022 10:00 am

No more bets.

Eyrie
Eyrie
November 9, 2022 10:01 am

Small point of order, I was once told by a Marine Gunny that there was no such thing as a former marine….
They just change duty stations. Eventually either guarding Heaven’s streets or battling demons in hell.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
November 9, 2022 10:02 am

Number 4528946, are you compliant?

Dot
Dot
November 9, 2022 10:02 am

The bird on the phone confirmed that it is an international thing, but could not tell me which organisation is responsible for its implementation and management at the international level.

WTF?

Remember the meme “it’s to stop dodgy builders!!1”

???

Zipster
Zipster
November 9, 2022 10:03 am

TABULATORS IN TEXAS ALSO NOT WORKING! It’s Not Just Arizona!

the greatest voter fraud organisation in US political history is still in operation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA8a2g6tTp0

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 9, 2022 10:03 am

Best of luck with your trial next week Duk.

taaa… luckily I still have ‘full faith and credit’ in the system … or was that the US Dollar?

h/t Nixon, 1971

https://youtu.be/iRzr1QU6K1o

also

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 9, 2022 10:07 am

Daily Mail.

EXCLUSIVE: Anthony Mundine claims Aboriginal Australians are MUSLIM and share identical beliefs – as boxer admits he turned to Islam because Christianity was too confusing for him

Anthony Mundine says traditional Aboriginal beliefs are identical to Islam
The former rugby league star claims Indigenous people are all Muslim
He makes the shock claims in a video interview with Islamic Museum of Australia
He says he converted to Islam because he found Christianity too confusing

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 9, 2022 10:08 am

“Free rego for apprentices. That’s 371 pies for smoko.”

1) last time I looked, pies were $7.50 in Stawel. So that means they are raising rego to $2800 for the rest of us.

2) Having said that, if they have really invented the technology to make and distribute pies for free, thats marvellous, lets roll it out for all products and all consumers!

maman
maman
November 9, 2022 10:09 am

Well, ‘mygov’ were taken aback that I wouldn’t be able to download the app. So they checked with ‘Support’ and, nope, it was download the app or you couldn’t get an id.

Thank you, catallaxians, for sharing your ‘mygov’ experience, very much appreciated. Am now ’emboldened’ to contact the local federal member Carina Garland. Fingers crossed.

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 9, 2022 10:10 am

boxer admits he turned to Islam because Christianity was too confusing for him

fair point ! Christianity’s ‘core beliefs’ do seem rather ‘fluid’ these days…

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 9, 2022 10:12 am

Am now ’emboldened’ to contact the local federal member Carina Garland. Fingers crossed.

Do you really want a home visit from the Storm Troopers?

Roger
Roger
November 9, 2022 10:15 am

Western Sydney mayors publicly taking Albanese to task for failing to consult over IS resettlements.

The anger in their communities must be palpable.

They’re demanding a meeting.

This is a lose-lose situation for the PM, since the repatriation decision has aready been taken and the mayors and their constituencies won’t be placated by platitudes about security measures (is anybody?).

Roger
Roger
November 9, 2022 10:17 am

Do I really have to say it? “Violence” is not necessarily war…

If there were “Frontier Wars”, why were no campaign medals or awards for bravery issued?

Roger
Roger
November 9, 2022 10:20 am

Anthony Mundine says traditional Aboriginal beliefs are identical to Islam

Ii wonder what the Ayatollah’s totem is?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 9, 2022 10:21 am

The former rugby league star claims Indigenous people are all Muslim

Is he saying Mo went back in time to convert them all 60,000 years ago?
Surely that would be an interesting chapter for Bruce Pascoe’s next book.

Winston Smith
November 9, 2022 10:21 am

Same shit, different election:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/tgp-readers-report-election-officials-handing-sharpies-polling-stations-across-country-know/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=the-gateway-pundit&ff_campaign=dailypm&ff_content=2022-11-08
The Gateway Pundit reported 2 days after the election that Arizona ballot instructions read, “Do NOT use a sharpie type pen as it will bleed through.”
And then we learned why this was happening.
Fast forward to today.
The Gateway Pundit is receiving numerous emails today from across the country that election officials are handing our Sharpie pens to election day voters.

Cassie of Sydney
November 9, 2022 10:29 am

“Anthony Mundine says traditional Aboriginal beliefs are identical to Islam”

I guess there are similarities, one being shocking violence against women.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
November 9, 2022 10:33 am

Extract from yet another vax pushing article in todays Courier Mail :

Queensland has lowest booster and child vaccination rates for Covid-19 in the country amid fears of new wave

The Sunshine State has some of the lowest vaccination rates in the country leaving experts concerned about the impact it will have when the next wave hits.
Queensland has the lowest rate of eligible people boosted and children vaccinated against Covid-19 in the whole country as experts warn it will lead to a greater impact when the next wave hits.

Just 65.2 per cent of eligible Queenslanders have received their booster shot as of November 2, which is the lowest rate in Australia, according to recent vaccination data from the Australian Government.

This is compared to 83.5 per cent of those in Western Australia who’ve received their third dose of the vaccine, as well as 80.7 per cent of those in the Australian Capital Territory.

Queensland also has the lowest vaccination rate of those aged five to 15 years out of all the states and territories with just 52.8 per cent of children having one dose and 44.7 per cent having two doses.

Infectious diseases expert Dr Paul Griffin said relaxed messaging on how the state was dealing with the pandemic may have led to “complacency” from Queenslanders in regards to getting the jab.

“Having the lowest rates in the country does leave us susceptible to greater impacts than we should necessarily see when we have that virus in our population, just like we do at the moment,” he said.

Last week to November 2, Queensland recorded 105 people in hospital with Covid-19, including three in the ICU.

Meanwhile, 14 people had died from the virus over the course of the week.

Dr Griffin said he believes Queensland is already seeing a rise in cases in line with NSW and Victoria, however the lack of surveillance and reporting makes it difficult to tell what’s really happening.

“We’ve certainly started to see hospitalisations climb. We’re seeing patients in my practice more than we did a few weeks ago,” he said.

“It’s clear the numbers are increasing. It’s just that we have an under appreciation of that point because of the changes in testing particularly.”

Marty
Marty
November 9, 2022 10:37 am

If there were “Frontier Wars”, which regiments list these wars as battle honours?

Zipster
Zipster
November 9, 2022 10:37 am

Pretty funny seeing people babble on about fake news and quoting Q Anon as a serious source.

Q Anon is literally hardcore leftist Democrat activist disinformation against inconvenient voters.

while we don’t know for sure, this is the most likely possibility

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
November 9, 2022 10:48 am

Anthony Mundine says traditional Aboriginal beliefs are identical to Islam
Stratified group compliance to a male gentocracy, heresy enforced by violent retribution, taqqiya from any amount of people masquerading as western scholars and parliamentarians, jizya levied from the dhimmis.
Yep, it’s a good match in many… many ways.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
November 9, 2022 10:50 am

calli says:
November 9, 2022 at 9:09 am. I am with optus so I don’t trust phones for security at all

Hugh
Hugh
November 9, 2022 10:52 am

Dot:

WTF?

Remember the meme “it’s to stop dodgy builders!!1”

???

Indeed.

Given that most government IDs are eight digits (allowing 100 million unique numbers), I thought it reasonable to ask why this one needed to be fifteen digits. That is when she said it is to be “internationally compliant”, despite not knowing with what it is complying.

Razey
Razey
November 9, 2022 10:54 am

Hunchback looks like a A typical wife beater. She cant keep that nervous smirk of her face.

https://twitter.com/MTerecca/status/1590107199845851136?cxt=HHwWgIDTmdqEmZEsAAAA

Zipster
Zipster
November 9, 2022 10:56 am
Zipster
Zipster
November 9, 2022 10:58 am

WHO, YouTube and funding

Dr. John Campbell

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 9, 2022 11:00 am

If there were “Frontier Wars”, why were no campaign medals or awards for bravery issued?

If there were “Frontier Wars”, where’s the archaeological evidence?

mem
mem
November 9, 2022 11:01 am
shatterzzz
November 9, 2022 11:03 am

Manchester United fans only .. LOL!
https://ibb.co/HrZ3LkF

Roger
Roger
November 9, 2022 11:04 am

The 99th Regiment of Foot, which was deployed to these parts from Moreton Bay to protect settlers who had come under attack from the local aboriginals armed with spears and rocks, lists the First Maori War (1846), The Second Opium War (Peking 1860) & the Anglo-Zulu War (1879) as battle honours, but not the action hereabouts. The so-called “Black War” in Tasmania 1824-31 was perhaps the most violent & organised confrontation on the Australian frontier, but the 40th Regiment of Foot, a highly decorated regiment which was involved, does not list the engagement among its many battle honours. A plausible conclusion is that these were regarded at the time as “police actions” to maintain order for which a declaration of war was not required.

Zipster
Zipster
November 9, 2022 11:04 am
shatterzzz
November 9, 2022 11:18 am

Western Sydney mayors publicly taking Albanese to task for failing to consult over IS resettlements.

What should have happened was a public statement from dum parrot-head along the lines that none of the headloppers or apprentices would receive any “favourite” treatment in regard to NSW services … bit of get-in-the-queue-like-everyone-else deal .. didn’t happen ! .. so dum parrot-head was in collusion wiv Luigi on re-settlement with “benefits” …..!

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

I’m imagining your pommy copper, from a Somerset village, posted somewhere like Hall’s Creek or Fitzroy Crossing…

That is what the bastards deserve.
Should be mandatory.
Anyone who has brushed up against a pommy-accented cop who does not feel this way?

Top Ender
Top Ender
November 9, 2022 11:25 am

No free speech for you sir!

Homosexuality is a damage in the mind, says World Cup envoy

By OLIVER MOODY

An official ambassador for the football World Cup in Qatar has described homosexuality as a form of “damage in the mind” during a German television interview, before he was swiftly cut off by a media adviser.

The Arab state, where homosexuality is punishable by up to three years in prison, has struggled to fend off criticism of its record on LGBT rights.

It has signalled that foreigners will be able to display symbols such as the rainbow flag during the tournament, but visiting fans have been warned against publicly violating its sexual mores.

Khalid Salman, a retired Qatari football star who is one of the ambassadors for the World Cup, underscored this tension with his remarks on gay rights.

In an interview with ZDF, a German public broadcaster, Salman, 60, acknowledged that “many things will come into this country” in the course of the tournament. “Let us talk about gay people, for example,” he said. “The most important thing is that everyone accepts they are coming here — and they would have to accept our rules.”

He added that he was worried Qatari children might see gay men and learn “something that is not good”. Asked why homosexuality was banned in his country, Salman said it was haram — an Arabic term meaning forbidden in Islamic law — and “a damage in the mind”.

His comments are likely to add to unease in the build-up to the World Cup, which begins on November 20. Critics including Sepp Blatter, the former FIFA president who oversaw the decision to award the tournament to Qatar, have raised concerns ranging from bribery of senior FIFA officials to the exploitation of migrants in building the stadiums.

Roger
Roger
November 9, 2022 11:27 am

.. so dum parrot-head was in collusion wiv Luigi on re-settlement with “benefits” …..!

Perrottet is the Liberals’ Caspar Milquetoast.

Speaks softly and gets hit with a big stick by the Left.

shatterzzz
November 9, 2022 11:29 am

…red-haired, freckle-faced Linda Augusto
Back in the 90s I had a family of you-can-take-the-abo-out-of-Redfern-but-you-can’t-take-Redfern-out-of-the-abo family living a coupla doors away .. they had 4 kids, 2 of them were twins, 3 of the kids were out & out abo appearance but one of the twins was red headed, freckle-faced and very pale skinned .. so it happens .. LOL!

rickw
rickw
November 9, 2022 11:29 am

The missus and I got our director IDs this morning.
Called at 08:00 and got through straight away. Took about forty minutes to get us both registered.

Why are people complying?

Haven’t we lost enough already through compliance?

Roger
Roger
November 9, 2022 11:31 am

including Sepp Blatter, the former FIFA president who oversaw the decision to award the tournament to Qatar

LOL. Blatter retired comfortably on the “commission” he received for that decision.

Anyway, I’m sure the Socceroos will now pull out in protest.

Zipster
Zipster
November 9, 2022 11:32 am

Why are people complying?

severe fines might have something to do with it

wife is going to resign as director. I dont have a choice

shatterzzz
November 9, 2022 11:33 am

His comments are likely to add to unease in the build-up to the World Cup, which begins on November 20.

Gonna be quite a, crocodile teary, “unease” considering 98% of match tix have been sold, Qatar hospitality is booked out, airline tix paid for .. sooooo much”unease” .. it’s a worry! .. LOL!

shatterzzz
November 9, 2022 11:36 am

Anyway, I’m sure the Socceroos will now pull out in protest.

definitely! .. it’s not as if any of the players, management & assorted hangers-on really want a three week paid holiday with country attendance bonus(s) do they? .. LOL!

Zipster
Zipster
November 9, 2022 11:36 am

The Homebuilder Blow-Out Fiasco!

18% increase in building materials.

everything is up about 20% in coles/woolies

the idea we only have 8% inflation is bullshit.

historically the cash rate has had to go above the rate of inflation to put a stop to it. does anyone the theory behind this?

MatrixTransform
November 9, 2022 11:40 am

Just wondering if others on catallaxy have/are trying to get a myGovID

well … half my documents say my name is
Matrix R Transform
and the other half say its
Matrix Reginald Transform

consequently because they dont match what MyGovId thinks my name is, I cant get properly validated

just got off the phone with them after about 2 hours.

they explained to me that the problem wasn’t really a problem because your middle name or initial doesn’t make any difference

riiiight … yet I cant move forward… and they cannot change how it works

the problem of course, is that there’s no problem

thankfully with “Standard” validation, the next step to attaining the DirectorsID only involved hunting down docco that allowed ATO to cross validate

The nice lady on the other end of the phone offered to change the name on the ATO record to match MyGovId.

I suggested Tuttle or Buttle might be appropriate choices

… she didn’t get the joke.

Jorge
Jorge
November 9, 2022 11:43 am

The Arab state, where homosexuality is punishable by up to three years in prison,

and

“Anthony Mundine says traditional Aboriginal beliefs are identical to Islam”

Any comment from Mr Mundine ?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 9, 2022 11:45 am

Recycling is hilarious.

Supermarket recycling program suspended (Sky, 9 Nov)

REDcycle has suspended its operations to collect soft plastics from around 2,000 supermarkets due to “untenable pressure” of its business model.

Soft plastics have been collected over the past few months and stored and stockpiled in warehouses.

A statement by Woolworths read, “REDcycle has advised that it will no longer be able to collect the soft plastic returned by customers from our stores, effective immediately”.

So they were getting this stuff for free but it’s filled up all their warehouses? I suppose that means it’s actually worth less than zero. Ah well, just think of it as a tithing sacrifice to Gaia.

On the other hand they could burn all that plastic and get good money for the electricity produced. I wonder if they’ve thought of doing that instead?

Top Ender
Top Ender
November 9, 2022 11:48 am

In the Alice last night:

Police issued a public warning overnight urging people to avoid the Alice Springs CBD due to stolen vehicles driving “extremely dangerously”.

The situation also left officers with no choice but to pull out their resources and regroup after targeted ramming attempts on marked police cars.

It marked the first police evacuation of the town centre in memory, Southern Watch Commander Allan Millner said.

Commander Millner said the vehicle, a white Toyota Prado, was stolen from the ABC Radio building on Gap Road on Tuesday night.

“At 10.40pm there was a report of an intruder on premises,” Commander Millner said.

“Two units attended straight away but the intruder had taken off.

“We know they were youth due to CCTV.

“We believe they entered through an unsecured or unlocked door, but we’re not sure if that was unlocked by the youth.

“An unknown quantity of electrical items was also stolen, we think phones.”

Commander Millner said the Prado then went straight into the CBD.

“It was driving dangerously, and I mean really dangerously – driving on footpaths, showing off in front of mates,” Commander Millner said.

“It also attempted to ram a number of police vehicles which only narrowly missed our members and vehicles.

“We had to pull out all of our resources and regroup back at the station.

“We’ve never done that before.

”Because they were aiming solely at us and there were spectators around, it was an extremely dangerous situation.”

Commander Millner said sometime before 3.30am, two Toyota Hiluxs were also stolen in a commercial break-in on Kennett Court, Ciccone.

Those vehicles then linked up with the Prado in the CBD, resulting in further mayhem.

Police returned to set up road spikes, which were successful in slowing the Prado.

“It takes a while for those tyre deflations to work and they ended up driving the Prado around on its rims,” Commander Millner said.

When the vehicle came to a stop police were able to arrest five youths, all aged between 11 and 15.

The two Hilux utes were abandoned and the alleged offenders involved with those remain outstanding.

Better for “youths” to be not punished harshly, due to “raciiisssm” – much better for some pedestrian minding their own business to be killed.

Nelson_Kidd-Players
November 9, 2022 11:52 am

Todd Woodbridge had a scam attack, possibly related to the recent Medicare breach.

He had an operation recently and, despite being sure all the bills were paid, he got a rapid succession of calls demanding payment for unpaid bills. They knew the details of his operation including type and hospital, presumably based on the leaked data.

The interview (3:46) is at https://www.3aw.com.au/todd-woodbridge-targeted-by-hackers-after-medibank-breach/ along with a further segment of background by Geoff Quattromani.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 9, 2022 11:56 am

When the vehicle came to a stop police were able to arrest five youths, all aged between 11 and 15.

Three of the five were taken ‘home’.

Roger
Roger
November 9, 2022 12:05 pm

Any comment from Mr Mundine ?

Mundine’s views on homosexuality are on the record.

I’m suprised he hasn’t been cancelled.

It seems being part indigenous & (a Muslim?) gets him a pass.

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 9, 2022 12:09 pm

If there were “Frontier Wars”, why were no campaign medals or awards for bravery issued?

If it was war, since when do the losers get compensation?

Roger
Roger
November 9, 2022 12:09 pm

Could it be something as simple and basic as this – right wing (read conservative) parties really don’t have clear goals to work to. It all seems rather hazy, with ‘traditional values’ and ‘minimal intervention’ and ‘lower taxes’…

It’s a long time since I heard those phrases from a Liberal politician.

Maybe that has something to do with it?

It’s the Uniparty crushing opposition from their right (not sure I’d term either the LDP or PHON “conservative” though).

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 9, 2022 12:10 pm

Tinta at 9:59.

and has that set a precedent where taxpayers will foot the bill fir tge defamatory posts on the personal social media by ALL AbFnC employees? thanks to the Cat who put that up am on my mobile so can’t find the Cat to give credit though I told Senator’s office it was someone else who posed it

That were Rabz and me simultaneously.
But the question has been raised here before.

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 9, 2022 12:14 pm

leaving experts concerned about the impact it will have when the next wave hits.
Queensland has the lowest rate of eligible people boosted and children vaccinated against Covid-19 in the whole country as experts warn it will lead to a greater impact when the next wave hits.

*theres* your problem!

ALWAYS.CHECK.THE.WORK.OF.EXPERTS!

Razey
Razey
November 9, 2022 12:16 pm

right wing (read conservative) parties really don’t have clear goals to work to

That’s easy. No Homo’s. Ban faggot ‘marriage’.

rickw
rickw
November 9, 2022 12:16 pm
H B Bear
H B Bear
November 9, 2022 12:19 pm

Anthony Mundine says traditional Aboriginal beliefs are identical to Islam

Mundine wasn’t even worth listening to before he started getting punched in the head. At least he united the Nation when that started happening.

Zipster
Zipster
November 9, 2022 12:20 pm
rickw
rickw
November 9, 2022 12:21 pm

severe fines might have something to do with it

wife is going to resign as director. I dont have a choice

Government has learned that they can fine people into compliance with anything. Thus it will continue.

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 9, 2022 12:22 pm

historically the cash rate has had to go above the rate of inflation to put a stop to it. does anyone (know) the theory behind this?

Leaving aside the point that an increase in the money supply, not an increase in prices, is the real definition of inflation, from first principles (I have NO economic training), the interest rate equates to the rental price of money.

When you lend* someone your money, you are exposed to the risk of loss from several areas; (default, loss of purchasing power when returned etc) as well as the loss of the use of it yourself for the period of the loan. Thus, you need to be paid a certain premium to compensate you for those risks. If inflation takes, say 10% of your purchasing power away during the duration of the loan, you must get more than a 10% return on the loan to make a profit. Ergo, the cash rate MUST be higher than the inflation rate, or it incentivised the borrower to keep borrowing. More borrowing multiplies the money supply, which creates inflation.

* which of course, is not what banks do – they RENT you the money, and y ou have to pay for that – LENDING money is only the correct term when you give it to a mate or your kids.

Razey
Razey
November 9, 2022 12:24 pm

“If you got infected with Omicron at any time, a third vaccine dose actually doubles your risk of reinfection compared to 2 doses only,” Dr. Daniele Focosi, who specializes in hematology and works at Pisa University Hospital in Italy, wrote on Twitter in response to the findings. “Amazing immune imprinting at work.”

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article268224827.html

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 9, 2022 12:25 pm

REDcycle has suspended its operations to collect soft plastics from around 2,000 supermarkets due to “untenable pressure” of its business model.

If recycling made economic sense, private firms would be paying us to mine our garbage.

Perplexed of Brisbane
Perplexed of Brisbane
November 9, 2022 12:31 pm

H B Bearsays:
November 9, 2022 at 12:19 pm
Anthony Mundine says traditional Aboriginal beliefs are identical to Islam

Ah, now I understand. Beating the crap out of your wife and kids and still having an ‘I’m better than you’ attitude towards others is where they intersect.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 9, 2022 12:32 pm

I thought the best use of used plastic was to burn it at high temperature for energy? The economics of most recycling is generally a precarious balance of high volume, low value materials.

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 9, 2022 12:33 pm

Police issued a public warning overnight urging people to avoid the Alice Springs CBD due to stolen vehicles driving “extremely dangerously”.

The car went in……

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 9, 2022 12:36 pm

“Amazing immune imprinting at work.”

aka ‘Original antigenic sin’ … if only someone had warned us about that earlier….

On a related topic – a good friend of mine (surgeon) says he has just seen his 6th ‘turbo cancer’ for the year (aggressive, highly spread at diagnosis), whereas the normal rate would be about one. Ryan Cole might have been right.

Real Deal
Real Deal
November 9, 2022 12:38 pm

This was in the Oz this morning, not sure if anyone has posted it already. To say Sinodinos is an idiot is an understatement.

But Mr Sinodinos also lavished praise on Mr Biden, saying he was an incredibly hardworking leader who remained intellectually sharp.

Recalling Mr Biden’s performance at the recent Pacific Island Summit in Washington, Mr Sinodinos said the US President was on “top of his game” — fully engaged on all the relevant issues, charismatic and energetic.

“Just from my observations of him, on the number of times I’ve seen him, this bloke knows what he’s doing,” Mr Sinodinos said of Mr Biden.

“I don’t think he’s a dodderer. It’s a great narrative for some of the Republicans to run but I don’t think it’s a fair narrative.”

This man exemplifies everything that is wrong with the Liberals.

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 9, 2022 12:40 pm

But Mr Sinodinos also lavished praise on Mr Biden, saying he was an incredibly hardworking leader who remained intellectually sharp.

That HAS to be a pisstake!

(The Whitehouse was unavailable for comment – they called a lid at 0930 on election day)

Top Ender
Top Ender
November 9, 2022 12:42 pm

Daily Mail:

Sydney residents say they’ve become the ‘dumping ground’ for the prime minister after the first group of ISIS brides and their children were rescued from a Syrian refugee camp and resettled in the west of the city.

Fairfield Mayor Frank Carbone, Liverpool Mayor Ned Mannoun, and Campbelltown Mayor George Greiss, all regions that recently welcomed the former Islamic State families, hit back at the federal government’s decision to put them in their electorates.

Solution: move them into federal government ministers’ electorates

rickw
rickw
November 9, 2022 12:43 pm

But Mr Sinodinos also lavished praise on Mr Biden, saying he was an incredibly hardworking leader who remained intellectually sharp.

What the hell is wrong with these people?

Kneel
Kneel
November 9, 2022 12:44 pm

“If security was adequate, there would be no problem.”

Making a computer system secure is very difficult – unless it’s not in any way connected to the internet.
The biggest problem is that OS’s and servers normally come fully “open” and it’s YOUR job to “screw the lid down” appropriately. This is because most people want it to work “out of the box”.

If you are serious about security, and have to be connected to the internet, then you need several layers to protect yourself – a firewall with selective port forwarding, a DMZ, servers fully screwed down and then opened up barely enough to do what they have to and no more, chrooted server processes (containers are useful too), remote logs, “flood attack” (DoS and DDoS) mitigation etc etc. It’s a LOT of work to get right, and you will face a lot of resistance from (l)users, who always want some sort of exception to make their life easier, or because they absolutely “need” some service or another that they didn’t need yesterday, or “need” some content allowed despite the fact that it compromises the entire companies network security. It’s a never ending battle to be a “white hat” and keep the “black hats” out.

shatterzzz
November 9, 2022 12:44 pm

But Mr Sinodinos also lavished praise on Mr Biden, saying he was an incredibly hardworking leader who remained intellectually sharp.
That HAS to be a pisstake!

“Eddie’s boy, Arfur” still toeing the company line .. LOL!
‘course, understandably, Sleepy Joe is considered “sharp” in comparison to “Arfur” ……..!

rickw
rickw
November 9, 2022 12:45 pm

Solution: move them into federal government ministers’ electorates

I think Canberra is a better choice.

shatterzzz
November 9, 2022 12:50 pm

Solution: move them into federal government ministers’ electorates

Fairfield is in a Fed electorate .. “turtle” kingdom …… but don’t expect any “noise” on residents behalf from Bowen .. he hasn’t cared aqbout the local vote-herd since he inherited the seat soo too late to expect “care” now .. Fairfield runs on Fed hand-outs not vote-herd concerns .. FFS!

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Jorge says: November 9, 2022 at 11:43 am

The Arab state, where homosexuality is punishable by up to three years in prison,

and

“Anthony Mundine says traditional Aboriginal beliefs are identical to Islam”

Any comment from Mr Mundine ?

Mr. Mundine would admonish the Arab state in question for their ‘soft’ attitude, for he believes homosexuality deserves capital punishment.

Shy Ted
Shy Ted
November 9, 2022 1:01 pm

I’m imagining your pommy copper, from a Somerset village, posted somewhere like Hall’s Creek or Fitzroy Crossing…

Might be busy if “puckin whart cant” is considered hate speech.

rickw
rickw
November 9, 2022 1:02 pm

Just watched the “Daphne” depart, on her way to Oman to pick up another load of fuel so she can mix it with bilge water and rust!

shatterzzz
November 9, 2022 1:02 pm

Just got an email from NAB telling me my credit card interest rate has been capped at 3.99% instead of, it’s norm, 19.40% until November 2023 …

Kneel
Kneel
November 9, 2022 1:05 pm

“…telling me my credit card interest rate has been capped at 3.99%…”

Perhaps there was an asterisk, noting that this was the MONTHLY interest rate. 🙂

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 9, 2022 1:13 pm

Mr Sinodinos

Howard era deadwood and Senate seatwarmer who got off his deathbed to give us Waffleworth. I wouldn’t piss on him if he was on fire.

Roger
Roger
November 9, 2022 1:21 pm

Solution: move them into federal government ministers’ electorates

Bowen, Husic, Rowland…all in western Sydney.

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
November 9, 2022 1:23 pm

I take it from the vague reference to ‘a school’ (nfd) that it was a state school:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-09/bevan-charles-wilson-sentenced-over-sexual-abuse/101632902

If that’s so, the journo will get a rap over the knuckles from the ABC politburo for reporting it at all.

Roger
Roger
November 9, 2022 1:23 pm

“Just from my observations of him, on the number of times I’ve seen him, this bloke knows what he’s doing,” Mr Sinodinos said of Mr Biden.

Uh huh…shutting down oil & coal.

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
November 9, 2022 1:25 pm

HRH Princess Allegra would, I am sure, be happy to have the ISIS ladies in Wentworth.

Zipster
Zipster
November 9, 2022 1:36 pm
flyingduk
flyingduk
November 9, 2022 1:47 pm

Sydney residents say they’ve become the ‘dumping ground’ for the prime minister after the first group of ISIS brides and their children were rescued from a Syrian refugee camp and resettled in the west of the city.

So join every other citizen of this country – we are being replaced with ‘cheap imported citizens’ – easier to buy I guess. Our current immigration policy specifically prioritises low performance citizens from dysfunctional countries and cultures that hate us. This is no accident, the US and Europe do so also, Hanlon’s razor goes only so far.

shatterzzz
November 9, 2022 1:57 pm

Perhaps there was an asterisk, noting that this was the MONTHLY interest rate. ?

No .. for the year thru to Nov 2023 .. any unpaid balance after 28 Oct 2023 reverts to normal rate .. doesn’t matter to me as I always pay it off before monthly due date .. only use it for the odd Ebay/online or groceries shop ……!

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
November 9, 2022 2:03 pm

Anyway, I’m sure the Socceroos will now pull out in protest.

As soon as their hard hitting protest video makes enormous waves.
Anytime soon…….

calli
calli
November 9, 2022 2:07 pm

Note: This is Min responding to Cassie.

Thanks Dover. It was me, not Min.

Not earth shattering stuff, but interesting re the formatting into paragraphs. It seems the algorithm either doesn’t like too many paras…or, like me, doesn’t like sentences beginning with “So”. 😀

Glad you sorted it out.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
November 9, 2022 2:09 pm

So what’s wrong with sentences beginning with ‘so’?

calli
calli
November 9, 2022 2:11 pm

😀

Winston Smith
November 9, 2022 2:16 pm

Matrix Transform:

the problem of course, is that there’s no problem
thankfully with “Standard” validation, the next step to attaining the DirectorsID only involved hunting down docco that allowed ATO to cross validate

And here’s where a universal biometric card would work.
Except for two things:
.1 Why would you trust the bastards with it,
.2 It would have to be done on the unique genetic identity of the individual, and why would you trust the bastards with it,
.3 You would have to have access to the contents of your own file, and why would you trust the bastards with it?
.4 Why would I give up my data – just to make a group of people who have shown they have no intention of honouring any promise they make – make their job easier?
.5 And what frigging business is it of theirs anyway? Just because they’ve made a law making it compulsory to give this information, doesn’t make it a necessary law.

calli
calli
November 9, 2022 2:17 pm

I’m afraid I can’t get too excited about the US election. I used up all my emotional capital in 2020-21.

Nothing…nothing will surprise me on this subject ever again.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 9, 2022 2:19 pm

Old Leftysays:

November 9, 2022 at 1:23 pm

I take it from the vague reference to ‘a school’ (nfd) that it was a state school:

You can take that to the bank.
Another no-go area becomes apparent.
The gender of the victim is not mentioned, but Bevan/Bevin is described in another report as “flamboyant”.
Who put the ‘boy’ in ‘flamboyant’?

Speedbox
November 9, 2022 2:20 pm

shatterzzz says:
November 9, 2022 at 1:57 pm
Perhaps there was an asterisk, noting that this was the MONTHLY interest rate. ?
No .. for the year thru to Nov 2023 .. any unpaid balance after 28 Oct 2023 reverts to normal rate .. doesn’t matter to me as I always pay it off before monthly due date

Which is probably why. They want you to carry a balance so they earn ‘something’ rather than nothing. Over time, they hope your carried forward balance increases.

Winston Smith
November 9, 2022 2:28 pm

rickw:

What the hell is wrong with these people?

They live in a self reflective bubble that refuses the entry of reality.
IOW, they are practicing Doublethink in its classic 1984 form. They believe what they are saying while also taking into account it is a lie.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
November 9, 2022 2:44 pm

This morning we had breakfast at another Ante-Bellum mansion turned into a B&B. They have some arrangement with our place to provide brekkie. As we sat in the cutsey courtyard eating our fried eggs easy over which turned out to be scrambled (severe miscommunication with large black waitress not paying attention), a rather odd-looking white man hove into view from inside, wearing a worn out backpack and followed by a rather old dog. He wore cheap red sneakers, brown chinos and a hoodie top and had the appearance of some sort of drifter. He stopped to tell us to keep an eye on his backpack while he got his car. We nodded ok and he soon returned, went inside again to this pricey guesthouse, came out again with an assortment of small boxes and bags, and got chatty.

He was, he said, travelling with his wife and two daughters (of whom there was no sign whatsoever) and added, incidentally, that he had three houses in France. He was a French chef, he told us, and invited us to dinner tonight to sample the cooking of another Michigan starred chef in Vicsberg (our next stop), he’d give us the telephone number in a minute. He had another house in the US. He then rambled on about how he was in Natchez now to buy them a house but mentioned that he’d been in a coma for three months. I will be buying a house here today, he said, and went off again to get his car.

I think, I murmur to Hairy, that he may not be quite what he says he is. A little brain-damaged perhaps? A bit of a worry. I think we should quietly leave.

Yes, says Hairy. Especially as he is carrying heat. Did you notice his gun?

A big colt in a holster on his hip. It caught my eye as he returned, and we were on our way out.

Only in America.

Makka
Makka
November 9, 2022 3:10 pm

Oz -1% to Fetterman with 73% counted.

Davey Boy
Davey Boy
November 9, 2022 3:11 pm

When you see a gentleman bee
Round a lady bee buzzin’
Just count to ten then count again
There’s sure to be an even dozen.

Fortification
That’s the name of the game
And each generation
They play the same.

h/t Mr Darin

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
November 9, 2022 3:14 pm

Oh Lizzie, what fun. You and Hairy should write a novel ( lock in film rights early!). Love your travelogues btw.

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 9, 2022 3:23 pm

Which is probably why. They want you to carry a balance so they earn ‘something’ rather than nothing. Over time, they hope your carried forward balance increases.

One thing that puzzled me for a time was *how* can a bank make money lending (renting) out their capital as *less* than the inflation rate. The answer is ‘fractional reserve banking’ – they lend out more than they have. In the old days this meant they could lend out 5 or 10x the funds they had on deposit. These days, the ‘reserve ratio; is ZERO! They literally lend out money that doesnt exist – it is ‘borrowed into existence’ (out of thin air) at the time the loan is created.

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 9, 2022 3:32 pm

These days, the ‘reserve ratio; is ZERO!

Good luck running a bank with 0% equity. Don’t give up your day job.

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 9, 2022 3:36 pm

Good luck running a bank with 0% equity. Don’t give up your day job.

All 3 of my jobs were ‘cancelled’ for going against the approved COVIDAX narrative, giving me ever more time to read and keep up with the world.

As announced on March 15, 2020, the Board reduced reserve requirement ratios to zero percent effective March 26, 2020. This action eliminated reserve requirements for all depository institutions.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm

Your move Bear 🙂

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 9, 2022 3:40 pm

The Reserve deposit is only one element of a bank’s balance sheet. It is virtually irrelevant to their ability to make loans.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 9, 2022 3:45 pm

South Australian Voice to be introduced before national referendum
David Penberthy
SOUTH AUSTRALIA CORRESPONDENT
@penbo
11:10AM November 9, 2022
7 Comments

Indigenous South Australians will have their own election every four years to elect delegates to the State First Nations Voice to advise state parliament on laws affecting Aboriginal people.

The State First Nations Voice will also have a legally-enshrined right to meet with state cabinet twice a year.

The timeline for its introduction is 2024, meaning voters across the country will get a sense of how a Voice to parliament operates before it goes to a national vote at the referendum expected in 2025.

SA Attorney-General Kyam Maher told The Australian the Voice model unveiled in SA on Wednesday was “in no way” a threat to the authority or primacy of parliament.

He also said the proposal had been discussed ahead of its release on several occasions with federal Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney who is watching how South Australia manages the process.

“We do hope that our Voice does a couple of things to help the national debate,” Mr Maher said.

“The first is to show that there is nothing to be afraid of, that it’s not taking power from anyone else, and that the main thing it will achieve is that better legislation and outcomes will come from it.

“The second is that for the first time anywhere in the nation we will have a fully-elected body with the guaranteed ability to talk to the parliament.”

Under the SA model, the State First Nations Voice will have the power only to make presentations to parliament, but not to create, amend or veto bills.

According to the background documents, delegates will be allowed to address the parliament on “particular bills of interest to First Nations people” and make an annual address to parliament.

They will also be allowed to provide reports to the parliament on matters of interest and speak with Ministers and chief executives about the operations, budgets and priorities of their departments in what is known as an “annual engagement hearing”.

A full transcript of those hearings will be made publicly available through a First Nations Voice website.

Strict criteria will be in place for the election of delegates, with candidates having to prove their heritage through a Certificate of Aboriginality or a statutory declaration to that effect.

People with criminal convictions within the past 10 years will be prevented from nominating.

Delegates will not be paid a salary for their work, but are expected to receive a modest fee in line with other government boards and will also be able to recoup expenses from the Voice’s secretariat.

The delegates will be elected in a two-tiered model, with a series of Local First Nations Voices each having two presiding officers, one male and one female, who will then make up the State First Nations Voice.

The bill states that the Local First Nations Voices must meet at least four times and no more than six times per year.

The exact geographic division of the Local First Nations Voices has not yet been determined, but it is expected to be based around existing indigenous boundaries such as Kaurna for the Adelaide Plains and Fleurieu, Ngarrindjeri for the Coorong and Murraylands, Pitjantjatjara for the northern desert country, and so forth.

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
November 9, 2022 3:52 pm

I wonder if any of the people aching to get involved with the “Voice” would do it for no pay. I suspect the $120,000 a year pay packet ( I’m guessing dollar numbers here) puts a fire under their seat.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
November 9, 2022 3:53 pm

Revolver News has link, They found WHAT in the vaccine, to article in Spectator Oz by Rebecca Weisser. It refers to research by Dr David Nixon who examined Vax under high powered microscope and sped up and magnified hundreds of times.

I mentioned this last week as Dr Nixon was on an episode of Club Grubbery with Graham Hood. No idea what it is but won’t be taking any more of it.

Dot
Dot
November 9, 2022 4:02 pm

Which vaccines and what material?

H B Bear
H B Bear
November 9, 2022 4:08 pm

Onya dover. Onward and upward!

JC
JC
November 9, 2022 4:11 pm

Rooster, that a story no plot and no conclusion. What’s the point of posting it, you nincompoop?

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
November 9, 2022 4:17 pm

Dot,
Watch the interview with Dr Nixon on Club Grubbery. Nearly an hour of footage of various stages of close examination of the vaccine. Weird to say the least.

This is why these vaccines should not be mandated in any form. However for anybody following the news in past few days it is obvious they are going to try to bring in No 5 under the excuse that it will save us over Christmas holidays. Also look towards more emphasise on getting more jabs in kids by time of school return in late January.

Say no, otherwise they will keep going.

JC
JC
November 9, 2022 4:25 pm

Dover

Post the blog names of the top 50 posters and demand a donation. Don’t be shy. Be a mini-Musk and act demanding.

Zipster
Zipster
November 9, 2022 4:27 pm

They live in a self reflective bubble that refuses the entry of reality.

social media

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
November 9, 2022 4:27 pm

JC,
Not sure why my post has to have a plot and a conclusion. All I am doing is pointing towards something interesting about the vaccine. No need to look if you don’t want to.

Shall we just add that to ” your moth to a flame” count as you have no interest in my post other than to make a sarcastic comment.

“Rooster, that a story no plot and no conclusion. What’s the point of posting it, you nincompoop?”

JC
JC
November 9, 2022 4:27 pm

Rooster, Driller, Turtlehead, The assorted Karens. Have you donated yet?

Silence or telling me it’s none of my business will automatically mean you haven’t.

Dot
Dot
November 9, 2022 4:30 pm

What materials are in the vaccines that should alarm me?

*Watch an hour video*

No.

JC
JC
November 9, 2022 4:33 pm

Rooster

It’s not being sarcastic in the least. There’s no freaking story line to that post unless people have read previous posts of yours and there are more details there. You provide no fucking link to the Revolver story and nothing on the Dr Nixon. There’s zero background.

Stop acting like a Nancy and next time fill in the gaps. Also, learn to freaking link and quotes, you dill. I have been telling you during all your years of whining and still haven’t learned.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
November 9, 2022 4:41 pm

Dot,
Pick almost any 5 minutes from the interview and that should be enough to raise your interest about what is going on.

I would be interested to see a similar examination of other vaccines, including Novovax, to see if get the same things happening.

I think Graham Hood said he is planning to have Dr Nixon on with Phillip Altman to discuss further.

I see JC is demanding things again. Nothing new. Makes you wonder if somebody donates enough they get treated differently despite their obnoxious behaviour.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
November 9, 2022 4:50 pm

JC,
Anybody with half a brain can find the article and clip I referred to. Since you read every post I make in great detail you will have seen by first post on this over a week ago. I can’t be blamed for the fact anything I post triggers you. You are such a sensitive pettle or perhaps you just like stalking various peoples comments with a view to picking some minor aspect to get upset about.

Your concern is however noted. Where would we be without our own version of Snopes.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
November 9, 2022 4:54 pm

I missed this one.
Of course this will also reveal the top posters who are paying. I think JC is now telling us why he is treated differently to others on this blog.

I guess some posters are more special than others. Explains a lot.

“Dover

Post the blog names of the top 50 posters and demand a donation. Don’t be shy. Be a mini-Musk and act demanding.”

Gabor
Gabor
November 9, 2022 4:55 pm

It’s all very well for people, who are either retired or in jobs where they can afford to spend hours watching videos.
Not everyone can do that, so if you watched it, just pick the important bits out and post it.

I’m certain not the whole hour is filled with important stuff, they get credits for punters spending time watching it.

JC
JC
November 9, 2022 5:00 pm

Rooster, anyone with a halfway functioning brain stem can learn to link and quote. Is this beyond you?

There was no context to the post, you idiot.

Have you made a donation?

Do so now!

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
November 9, 2022 5:00 pm

Who put the ‘boy’ in ‘flamboyant’?

In Ed speak ‘flamer boy’.

JC
JC
November 9, 2022 5:02 pm

Rooster

I’m not treated differently, but if I were then if you made a donation, you would be treated equally.

So make a fucking donation you cheap limey bastard. Hurry up!

calli
calli
November 9, 2022 5:08 pm

Dot, this is the article you seek.

What Nixon found, and filmed, is bizarre to say the least. Inside a droplet of vaccine are strange mechanical structures. They seem motionless at first but when Nixon used time-lapse photography to condense 48 hours of footage into two minutes, it showed what appear to be mechanical arms assembling and disassembling glowing rectangular structures that look like circuitry and micro chips.

There’s more.

Make up your own mind.

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