The Census at Bethlehem, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1566
An interesting observation of Jordan Peterson today on the sharing of a meal at the table. This has meaning for…
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Glorious tale of woe! High mileage electric car usage is working out almost twice as expensive as petrol (25 Nov)…
All it would take to end this low rent political theatre would be for one mainstream media outlet to always…
https://x.com/search?q=Swans%20&src=typed_query Yep. Swans the food of Kings and migrants.
For media types. Live by the sword, die by the sword. Fuck ‘em.
Green gruel news.
Want to eat healthy and save the planet? Replace beef with Spirulina algae, say researchers (12 Dec)
Algae pills, yum. I’m excited already!
I blame a politicised police command for the bad behaviour during covid.
Politicised police command and “following orders” doesn’t get you a free pass. The good cops quit, went on long service leave, or refused to follow illegal orders during COVID. The rest revelled in it.
Maybe it stopped to do that golf across the Nullarbor thing.
Nailed it rickw.
After Nuremberg, “following orders” is no defence.
Doc Faustus:
Yet another stuff up by a government that consists of a series of financial holes crocheted together and will only enrich maaates.
The Concept of Belief Changes Related to Psychedelic Experiences
Very weird. Also weird, in this time and civilization, is the belief experiences should shape our beliefs.
When did group guilt and group punishment become popular amongst you rugged individualists?
When do we start picking off redheads?
I don’t think he’s excusing him. He’s saying that Smith doesn’t need scores of people telling him so when he’s already been fired.
What a shame that a man who made a living by booting people when they were down should suffer the same fate.
On that topic, up until the middle of 1944, the British Army Manual of Military Law allowed “Following orders” as a defence….
m0nty=fa
Any more defences of Roth from you today?
The thread details this dickhead’s cooker credentials.
What a shemozzle this is going to be. Sovcit cookerism has always been a joke, but now it’s turned serious.
Zipster:
Legal?
Schmegal?
Ha ha! You a funny guy, Zipster!
When did group guilt and group punishment become popular amongst you rugged individualists?
It’s not popular at all.
It’s about maintaining perspective.
The disgusting murder of police does not get a police force nor its members a free pass for their brutality and inhumanity.
Specifically, QLD police is such a vile organisation that right now they’re having to cancel intake training courses. No one wants to join.
A number of ex QLD cops on YouTube are revelling in this fact. A kick in the guts for a corrupt and partisan organisation, and a big thumbs up for the decency of Queenslanders.
Australian police forces should be left to wither on the vine.
Aboriginal cookers? Monty, you are on very dangerous ground with this.
Just saying.
Yes monty, I get what you’re saying Catboi; “Cancel joggers”.
…and that’s all we need from you.
Calli:
From the report above, the creep actually started the blue by using intimidatory stares at the youngster who asked what the problem was.
He knew what he was doing.
Is it weird? Imagine you’ve never experienced fire but only the concept. You’d expect the ‘fire believers’ to be greatest among those that have had a ‘fire experience’ compared to those only familiar with the concept. As to the latter, I would think the reception of those ‘belief experiences’ will very much depend on the prior beliefs that are to be shaped.
A question seriously delivered.
If Smith had been ABC and had played his touch therapy games at the ABC end of year New Marxism celebrations, would we know about it?
Been enjoying the stories about counting coins.
The old man owned jukeboxes and pinball machines for a while. We all helped to count the coins in the evenings, in those white linen bank bags.
The trick was to shake them out onto a smooth (but not slippery) surface, and take them four at a time – for some reason this was optimal for 10c and 20c coins.
We all learned to roll them up tightly in the bank-supplied paper wrappers. Not a very useful skill down the track, except that it may have aided my later reputation for rolling finely crafted joints. 🙂
Oh, and I kept an eye out for unusual coins. I still have some of the commemorative 1954 florins (for the Royal visit) from those days.
Talking to number 3 son. I said previously he had left his employment after the employer reneged on an agreement to pay him more for the responsibility he had taken over. Well he recently spoke to the previous employer and they are going bankrupt. Losing the business and family home for being greedy over $20k. Which his new employers are more than happy to pay. The previous business was making 25% more profit than industry standard. All gone, nobody will put up with the owner. Staff last 2 weeks at most.
If Smith had been ABC
He’d have been affirming his sexuality by groping handsome young lads, and everyone at Southbank and Ultimo would cheer.
Kneel:
Things like:
93.1% of them will be cat videos.
Too late, Kneel – the government will forbid private ownership of any such machinery.
Time for some Good News – ‘Miniboat’ built by Rhode Island students makes it to England
Dec. 9 (UPI) — A “miniboat” made by students at three Rhode Island schools was placed in the Atlantic Ocean and washed up on a British beach 10 months later.
The boat, dubbed Inspiration, was made by students at Central Falls High School, Veterans Memorial Elementary and Raices Dual Language Academy, all schools located in Central Falls.
The boat was made seaworthy by the elementary students and instruments including GPS trackers were installed by the high school students. The project was organized by the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography to help teach kids about the ocean.
“This boat was almost a message in a bottle. It had lots of information about Central Falls and about the schools and the children that helped build it,” Andrea Gingris, assistant director of public engagement at URI-GSO, told WPRI-TV.
The miniboat was placed into the Atlantic Ocean in March 100 miles off the Rhode Island coast by the R/V Endeavor, the University of Rhode Island’s research vessel.
The small vessel’s sails carried it across the ocean in 10 months, and in November it was found on a beach in Christchurch, England.
Instructions included aboard the boat instructed the finders to bring it to a nearby school, which turned out to be Tiptoe Primary School in Lymington.
The students who built the boat were able to video chat with a Tiptoe class Thursday morning to talk about the project.
Hope it’s true.
US scientists achieve ‘holy grail’ net gain nuclear fusion reaction: report
Nuclear fusion could be key tool to stave off climate crisis
This will not be allowed to happen.
Imagine being a green cultist and all your scarcity stories are taken away from you?
Same reason they dont want asteroid/ extraplanetary exploitation, it takes away their religion
On the dead plod.
Its, I think, quite possible to have great sympathy for the dead individuals (on the same level as the poor neighbor shot) while despising aspects of the institution who will seek to exploit the deaths to win back some of their esteem lost during the covid debacle.
It is weird in an age when subjective experience is massively discounted if not outright disregarded as a source of reliable knowledge. Fire is not a subjective experience, it is out there and obvious to all and sundry. Psychedelic experiences are internal and transient. Others can see the same fire but each person has an internal psychedelic experience that is variable intra and extra individually.
The beliefs derived often do not have to depend on prior beliefs. They can be transformative beliefs, shifting the person’s orientation toward life. The therapeutic benefits of psychedelic therapies may be contingent on having the mystical experience.
Cassie of Sydney:
Any firm that holds functions of that nature, Cassie, are mugs.
Instead just give a Christmas bonus and save a lot of grief. Or a Liquor Barn voucher, or a Coleworths voucher.
Anything but stick your head into a hornets nest of drunken giggling woke men and women congregating under the firms name.
Time for some Good News – ‘Miniboat’ built by Rhode Island students makes it to England
A class full of engineers and sailors spawned!
Gareth seems full on bonkers.
Jesuits and Masons controlling the world.
Did Klaus Schwab get a discount for joining both?
The omnibus terrorist.
They’ll have to settle on gun control as the rest just indicates a disturbed mind.
I don’t see any racial element to Gareth’s cookerism, Bruce.
Every day all of us complain (stick the boot in) to some poor politician or elite for what they’ve done, why should Smith be any different. And calli, redheads deserve it for being better than everyone else except the houso ranga. GreyRanga is an exception to the rule.
He’d have been affirming his sexuality by groping handsome young lads, and everyone at Southbank and Ultimo would cheer.
He’d get a “coming out” exclusive interview.
Monty, you obviously can’t use a search engine. Comes up in about 30 seconds if you look.
There’s also been a very long history between a certain Dubbo demographic and plod. I know you are Victorian, so you might not have seen those stories, but it’s chronic and ongoing.
My expectation is this story will vanish from the MSM quite soon, once they realize the full nature of it.
Yes.
Just as well I didn’t disclose that I have a young family member in Qld plod. And spent last night wondering if was him and anticipating a distraught phone call this morning.
Do you read what you post Monty?
Gareth was attacking the rally organisers as Jesuit false flag operatives.
Keep paddling fella or you’ll drown in your own bullshit.
… and that has to do with his race?
Just because he thought Bosi and Guru weren’t hardcore enough doesn’t mean he wasn’t a cooker. That whole scene is rife with factionalism and feuds, if you’re not blueing with at least one of them then you’re not really in it. The rest of his manifesto is pure cookerism.
They’ll have to settle on gun control as the rest just indicates a disturbed mind.
Or they might reflect on how two years of government jack booted insanity helped build a disturbed mind.
The suicide rates certainly indicate that government did an excellent job of building disturbed minds over this period.
Monty, do try to engage your brain son. The aboriginal community in Dubbo are extremely hostile towards government and its various organs. Been so for twenty or thirty years at least. Regular riots. So they are strongly predisposed to distrust our great daddy in Macquarie Street and his uniformed acolytes. Generational chips on both shoulders. Probably only rivaled by The Block in Redfern.
I disagree. Apart from anything else, it puts Dutton in a tough spot as he has been railing against left-wing terrorism and trying to ignore the threat from the right… and now a bunch of armed cookers have set an ambush for four of his former Qld colleagues, from which only two escaped.
Do you have any evidence at all that this racial generalisation applied to the Train brothers in particular?
Meanwhile, there is already reams of online evidence of their radicalisation in the sovcit movement, none of which plays on their race.
LOL, these guys are more aligned with the Left than the Right. Antifa types, in a local inner western NSW sort of way. That’s why the story will vanish.
Actually I should have said BLM, not Antifa.
Suicide rates in 2021 were the lowest since 2016(ABS data).
Cops and the volunteer groups (the good ones) counsell this, not always followed though.
So is wearing the Hijab full hair covering for Muslims…
No, Lizzie, the hijab is not an article of faith for Muslims.
It’s an expression of modesty, the requirement for which which Muslim scholars apply differently.
The hijab, burqa etc are uniforms. They denote rank.
You are a ridiculous fool about this, M0nty. The man has a drinking problem which he hasn’t so far handled and a bipolar disorder is also not out of the equation – my bipolar diagnosed middle-aged son drinks heavily when any upswing is followed by a crushing downer (he went through ten thousand dollars in a weekend once when like this, gambling up drinking more at every hopeful bet that failed, and had little memory of doing so). Smith has in many ways been a good man of conservative leanings, apparently a good enough husband and father so far. He has achieved a lot and now stands to lose it all, including his recently purchased house upgrade.
I have personally lived in far worse penury than you will ever know, M0nty, and I’d happily live in a caravan today if I had to, nor would I look down on others sharing the caravan park with me, they would be my friends (some still are). You can live anywhere and be happy, this I know. I hope that Michael Smith knows it too. Too many men suicide when they think they’ve hit rock bottom, and the slamming down on him of all those who revel in his plight disgust me. I hope he comes out of this whole and happy, sober and reunited with his kids.
So what’s the “rank”?
Suicide rates in 2021 were the lowest since 2016(ABS data).
The person I talk to who is involved in data collection indicated that there had been a noticeable upward trend.
I believe them, but maybe I am biased just because of what I saw going on around me.
Ray Hadley now?
Chris Smith is SACKED by 2GB after Ray Hadley’s furious takedown of the disgraced TV and radio host.
Hadley, of course, is famous for his professional behaviour with colleagues.
Took me less than 30 seconds on a search engine, following up a suggestion upthread.
Yep.
You want me to put up stories about the unrest in Dubbo over the years or would you like to exert yourself?
Using the term “cooker” over and over again makes you sound like a little boy Monty. Are you sticking out your tongue at the same time?
President Joe Biden’s non-binary nuclear waste official has left the administration.
Sam Brinton, 35, who uses ‘they/their’ pronouns, no longer has their Department of Energy job after they were accused of stealing luggage in two separate incidents.
A Department of Energy spokesperson said on Monday evening: ‘Sam Brinton is no longer a DOE employee. By law, the Department of Energy cannot comment further on personnel matters.’
Daily Mail. Must admit cannot get my head around this “they” stuff. It reads as if there were a group of people being discussed rather than one person. Ridiculous.
4 Minutes Of Undiluted Truth On Mainstream TV
The last thing you’d ever expect to hear on a mainstream news channel, is the truth.
But – strange as it might seem – that’s exactly what happened on Wednesday night on the Tucker Carlson Show. Carlson interviewed veteran journalist Glenn Greenwald in a 4-minute segment that provided the best ‘easy-to-understand’ summary of the Ukraine War you’ll hear anywhere.
And what was so shocking about the interview, was how casually both men veered onto topics that are essential to grasping “How we got to where we are today” but which are entirely banned on all the other cable news channels.
That’s what makes the segment with Greenwald such a stunner, because it’s 4 glorious minutes of pure, unvarnished truth delivered from a platform that typically only produces, lies, disinformation and propaganda.
That’s why I transcribed the entire interview. Any mistakes are mine. Here it is:
Tucker Carlson– What bothers me is not so much what Zelensky is doing– there’s a lot of tyranny abound the world (and) I don’t brood on it. But the fact that (a) we are paying for it, and (b) our leaders are defending it. I think every American should be upset about that.
Glenn Greenwald– “I think in general, Americans should be very skeptical when the government says ‘We’re going to fight wars on the other side of the world and spend tens of billions of dollars in military aid to spread democracy.’ The US government doesn’t actually care about spreading democracy. Many of its closest allies in the world have always been some of the world’s most despotic regimes like Saudi Arabia and Egypt. All the US government cares about is whether these regimes serve US interests. …If you want to believe the fairy tale that the US government goes to war to spread democracy, then Ukraine is not the place for you. You mentioned the argument that ‘Zelensky is in war, he has to curb liberty’, but go back to 2021, a year before Russia invaded and you’ll find articles where he shut down opposition television stations and shut down opposition political parties (which is) the hallmark of what every tyrant or despot does….and that was true even before Russia invaded.”
Tucker Carlson– I wonder how Republicans can continue to defend this (because) I think you are right; I think our foreign policy is almost always about defending our interests…. But I don’t see our critical interests at stake here, so, what is this about?
Glenn Greenwald– If the US government was honest… they would get rid of this script that we have to go and defend democracy. That is a fairy tale that tries to get Americans to feel better about the fact that we are involved in many, many countries all over the world. That is not the real reason. The only reason to do it is for ‘vital US interests’. The line in Washington for decades was the US has no vital interests in Ukraine. That was Obama’s view, that was the bipartisan view. Why did that change? The only reason is because we saw an opportunity to trap Russia inside Ukraine all based on the view that Russia is our enemy (which is) something only Democrats should believe because they think Russia is to blame for the 2016 election and Hillary’s defeat. But why would Republicans want confrontation with Russia? What American benefits from that except arms manufacturers? …
Tucker Carlson– That’s a really good question, and I haven’t unraveled it. (But) It seems pretty clear that the Biden administration baited Russia into this invasion. You had the Vice President (Kamala Harris) in western Europe days before telling Zelensky to join NATO which, of course, they knew was a red line (for Russia) They wanted this invasion, I think that’s very obvious. Do you think this was all about ‘preparing for war with Russia’?
Glenn Greenwald– If you think Russia is a grave enemy of the United States, then it makes sense to try to lure them into a war that they can’t win, like we got lured into Afghanistan for 20 years or like we lured the Soviet Union into Afghanistan back in the ’70s because it does deplete your enemy. The question is: Why should Russia be seen as our enemy? Both Obama and Trump said there’s no reason to see Russia that way. It has one-fifteenth the size of our military budget. It’s not threatening American borders. Why are we so obsessed with spending tens of billions of dollars to weaken Russia which we could be using here at home to benefit the lives of American citizens when Russia is not doing anything to the United States unless you are a crazy ‘resistance’ person who believes they’re the reason Donald Trump won. But if you don’t believe that, what is the rational for this? There is none.”
Tucker Carlson– “I know, and as always, they have hijacked the best instincts of the American people, their compassion, and turned it against them. Glenn Greenwald, great to see you tonight”.
Were the shooters 3rd nations?
Callers to 2SM now talking about police shooting 3rd nations, deaths in custody etc and one comment was they got a bit of their own back.
It wasn’t a bunch of ‘armed cookers’ it was two brothers and the wife of one, who’s distrust and hatred of government and the police etc appears to have long pre-dated covid mania.
The question utmost in my mind is knowing Gareth Train publically stated views on the police why anyone went there without significant precautions in the first place.
Don’t know about the fourth but a young girl with nine weeks experience, two others still wet behind the ears (one of whom was also a slip of a girl) dropping in on Mr Train for a friendly chat?
Bad bad decision by whomever sent them there.
Oh, and I kept an eye out for unusual coins.
A habit I’ve had for years and can’t shake .. 3 old bank money boxes .. 1 full of $1 coins with assorted pix on the back, 2nd full of the 50 cent coins commemorating something-or-other issues and 3rd with those coloured $2 coins ……
Both $1 & 50 cents I’ve the full collections in there.. not sure about the $2 but over 40 different ones amongst them
Yes Cohenite, Aboriginal people.
so what you say about his brother who was a well-respected teacher in the Walgett community?
For a Bit of Fun
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What’s cooker creds mean?
LOL.
Some in the Aboriginal industry are very big into their ‘SovCit’ stuff.
‘The Voice’ might be considered the ultimate expression of it.
It’s cool, hip and with-it talk.
I thought it might have been that weirdo “spirit cooking” stuff from a few years ago. Or maybe crystal meth labs. Anyone’s guess.
Chris Smith is not a victim here, Lizzie.
“Always was, always will be!”
Functional alcoholics and undiagnosed psychiatric disorders are not that uncommon. More likely the type 2 bipolar. Perhaps he is like me because when I used to drink I could keep up with the mob but at a certain point I would take off, pouring the drinks down my throat and wanting more. At that point I might get a little crazy.
You are right about the potential suicide risk because as a journalist his public image is very much front and centre of his identity. Now he is unemployed that is worse because in males the unemployment rate parallels the suicide rate. I like Bukowski’s comment about suicide: “When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my age there was very little left to kill.”
ie stuff that doesn’t align with the narrative
Calli – the Urban Dictionary is your fiend in these matters. I might’ve made a typo, grr.
From NSW Police the other day:
Appeal to locate missing man from Dubbo
Thursday, 08 December 2022 09:13:13 AM
Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a missing man from the state’s west.
Nathaniel Train, aged 46, was last seen in Dubbo on Thursday 16 December 2021; however, he remained in contact with his family until Sunday 9 October 2022.
When he could not be contacted by family or friends, he was reported missing to officers from Central North Police District on Sunday (4 December 2022), who immediately commenced inquiries into his whereabouts.
Police and family hold serious concerns for Nathaniel’s welfare.
Nathaniel is described as being of Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander appearance, about 183cm tall, of thin build, and has a long grey beard.
He was last seen wearing a white shirt and jeans and is known to always wear brown boots.
Anyone with information into Nathaniel’s whereabouts is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
If you’re a cooker with any history of gun possession and/or violence, you’re probably not going to have a good time in the next few months. Dawn raids by dozens of tooled up rozzers are in your future.
“You are on stolen land!”
Is that the sort of “Sovcit cookerism” you’re referring to, Monty?
If we’d had “The Voice™” already, those poor oppressed abos would never have turned into cookers.
Many people expected the suicide rates to rise but I didn’t. Suicide is often very much about being alienated from society at large, about being ashamed of one’s identity or position in life. The lockdowns were universal, everyone was afflicted so if anything provided a sense of belonging, a commonality of suffering.
Plod tends not to do so with BLM peoples.
And the MSM rapidly lose interest in such stories.
Suicide rates in 2021 were the lowest since 2016(ABS data).
Any data from the Australian bureaucracy needs to be treated with caution. Just look at the BOM data monkeying and the clear problems with the birth data.
m0ntysays:
December 13, 2022 at 1:03 pm
Just because he thought Bosi and Guru weren’t hardcore enough doesn’t mean he wasn’t a cooker. That whole scene is rife with factionalism and feuds, if you’re not blueing with at least one of them then you’re not really in it.
Pretty much a standard leftard group, then?
Farmer Gezsays:
December 13, 2022 at 8:00 am
Steve Ticklers comments on the last blog were entirely unacceptable.
I blame a politicised police command for the bad behaviour during covid.
The poor buggers in Queensland didn’t in any way deserve their fate.
I was a bit over the top.
Corrupt cops are scum of the planet. Those “following orders” firing rubber bullets into crowds, throwing old ladies to the ground and then pepper spraying them…driving a knee into
the back of peoples heads. Body slamming people into the ground…giving people a move on notice and then attacking them after they obeyed with punches to the head and more pepper spray.
They should all be in cell for a very long time.
Did those cops deserve that fate? NO. My cousin is on the force in QLD and it could have been him. I know one thing, he’s not a thug like a lot of the tattooed wankers in the force are around the country. Brain dead retards on a power trip. And still employed as I type…
I walk back my comments and apologize.
There is no reason for them to cook that data and using those style of arguments is just another example of people committing the source fallacy to maintain their prior beliefs. Sorry rickw but those arguments don’t wash with me because there is a distinct lack of a political motive in that dataset which makes doubting that data as just pulling reasons out of thin air.
Bruce of N
You want me to put up stories about the unrest in Dubbo over the years or would you like to exert yourself?
m0nty=fa doesn’t look for data that might challenge the fascist leftard “narrative”.
wtf is sov cit? some new form of russian interference?
Steve Hilton: The FBI must be held accountable for this social media censorship scandal
I also thought there was some connection with the Soviet Union., It doesn’t. I looked it up and it means Sovereign Citizen Movement. I still dunno what cookerism means.
They got that part wrong.
From the Urban Dictionary
a cooker is a spoon or bottle cap used to cook drugs such as heroin,coke,meth to make it more pure and for junkies to get more hi it is soposed to cook the junk out of junk and bring out the pure quilities
What has m0nty=fa got against druggies? Aren’t they one of the left’s core constituencies?
Good work. The number of times I’ve written a missive only to delete it is Legion.
The phrase ‘serious concern for welfare’ used in conjunction with ‘missing person’ is code for ‘all indications are he’s going to neck himself’ and ‘Radio Rental’ (mental).
That would have explained four cops – almost all vastly inexperienced – going to an otherwise shit job. Apparently happens all the time. Except when it goes a bit pear-shaped, like yesterday.
Every rural property has guns because every rural property should. It doesn’t necessarily mean the jacks should lay siege to it whenever there’s a reason to go there.
Absolutely no surprise that it was a SovCit nuffer ensemble, which was of course one of the failed causes the volume-up alleged Truckee glued himself to.
This makes sense John. I expected a rise.
johanna says:
December 13, 2022 at 12:42 pm
Been enjoying the stories about counting coins. The old man owned jukeboxes and pinball machines for a while. We all helped to count the coins in the evenings, in those white linen bank bags.
The trick was to shake them out onto a smooth (but not slippery) surface and take them four at a time – for some reason this was optimal for 10c and 20c coins. We all learned to roll them up tightly in the bank-supplied paper wrappers.
We are near kindred spirits Johanna! You probably recall how black the tips of your fingers were after handling all the coins. In volume, coins are filthy things. I didn’t use the paper wrappers – plastic coin bags instead – but your father’s business was probably a much earlier era to my own.
I have no doubt that a well placed pinball or jukebox machines could make a ton of money. But strangely, some people didn’t seem to think those things were a ‘business’ but rather just a ‘hobby’ to make a few extra bucks. That was true of course for a few operators but with volume machines, all cash and profit margins most businesses can only dream about, it was opportunity knocking. 🙂
FMD. a must watch. the deep state is embedded deep into all the social media platforms
Sam Bankman-Fried Charged in New York & Arrested in the Bahamas
From Armstrong Economics –
“Sam Bankman-Fried of cryptocurrency giant FTX and trading firm Alameda Research, has been arrested in the Bahamas on criminal charges, the Bahamas Attorney General’s Office announced Monday. The arrest “followed receipt of formal notification from the United States that it has filed criminal charges against SBF and is likely to request his extradition,” the office said.
In a statement, U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said: “Earlier this evening, Bahamian authorities arrested Samuel Bankman-Fried at the request of the U.S. government, based on a sealed indictment filed by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. We expect to move to unseal the indictment in the morning and will have more to say at that time.”
He will be held at MCC, the same dungeon in which Jeffrey Epstein supposedly committed suicide. WIth his connections with all the Democrats, this is going to be interesting to see if he too suddenly commits suicide.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/rule-of-law/sam-bankman-fried-charged-in-new-york-arrested-in-the-bahamas/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Perth airport.
Bloke and chick covered in face tattoos and calling each other ‘xunts’ at volume walking out of the terminal together with their bags.
Which is one thing, but they had a bunch of small kiddies nearby confused because they were both dressed in full Santa suits, complete with hats.
Yesterday afternoon while stopped at the lights a random skinny druggie was walking up and down the median strip banging on windscreens demanding cash. Before he got to where we were, some bloke in a ute got out and chased him off.
There are more derros and beggars and beggarderros here than in the Melbourne CBD. A bold statement, but true nonetheless.
Lol, Monty is declaring a pair of hard-core aboriginal land rights, black power, BLM types to be …….. Right wingers.
The only thing “cooked” around here is Monty’s mentality.
Has anyone seen what polls are showing for the Voice Referendum?
Another most useful comment from Labor Royalty.
I just turned on the heating.
This, in a place where the days are usually into the thirties at this time of the year. It hasn’t been above 20C for days. It’s just crept up to 17.3, with wind chill bringing it down to 9.9C
As usual, the BOM and others are either ignoring it or making bizarre claims that warming causes cooling.
Those lyin’ eyes once again.
Sov cit, cooker, dickless upticks, flamer…
The list goes on.
One truly can’t blame this blog for smallening one’s vocabulary.
It’s true there are many ‘tattooed wankers’ in the force, but people can be callous in dismissing the fate of the two young officers.
The comparison made with the meter reader? Perhaps he met his fate, believing himself to be capable of handling all canine breeds.
Lizzie, I would have kept the hat too
From the Oz – I’ve posted the whole article.
Lol!
Interpretations differ, yes.
Islam has six articles of faith (some would say seven), none of which specifically mention hijab.
OldOzziesays:
December 13, 2022 at 1:24 pm
4 Minutes Of Undiluted Truth On Mainstream TV
The last thing you’d ever expect to hear on a mainstream news channel, is the truth.
But – strange as it might seem – that’s exactly what happened on Wednesday night on the Tucker Carlson Show. Carlson interviewed veteran journalist Glenn Greenwald in a 4-minute segment that provided the best ‘easy-to-understand’ summary of the Ukraine War you’ll hear anywhere.
And what was so shocking about the interview, was how casually both men veered onto topics that are essential to grasping “How we got to where we are today” but which are entirely banned on all the other cable news channels.
That’s what makes the segment with Greenwald such a stunner, because it’s 4 glorious minutes of pure, unvarnished truth delivered from a platform that typically only produces, lies, disinformation and propaganda.
And see Dover’s Post on ‘The War in Ukraine’ with those 3 Youtube videos. Top Stuff Dover and well done for posting that.
There’s something a bit odd about this Wieambilla story, why didn’t they just call to if they were worried about Train’s whereabouts, why send 4 cops
I have nearly finished reading “When money dies” about the Weimar inflation, seeing more and more parallels. The big question, will we go the full Weimar experience, or will we take the Austrian experience… Neither are particularly attractive
That’s the part where you know that visit was not the same as other visits.
Zipstersays:
December 13, 2022 at 2:25 pm
There’s something a bit odd about this Wieambilla story…
What I don’t understand is why all four police officers were walking up to the house. Surely it would be standard procedure for one to stay with the car; or have I got this all wrong?
It seems the understanding of “personal responsibility” and “individualism” is lost on people. ..especially women…who we note again go off virtue signalling again this morning
So let’s put it in point form to make it clear.
No one here is or has said they support the killing of cops.
Individuals have made individual choices to join and enforce unconstitutional criminal decrees by tyrants….the Nuremberg excuse does not fly.
The actions of Australian police forces have shocked the world with their enthusiastic brutality and tyrannical behavior.
So I proclaim I shed no tears for them.
Not before I shed them for the 500 a week now dying due to their behavior.
If you cry crocodile tears about the two cops while ignoring the five hundred deaths a week in Australia due to tyrannical mandates they willingly enforced as the armed thugs of criminals…..expect someone like me to point out your pathetic cowardly hypocrisy and typical female trait of not holding a firm grip on right and wrong and personal responsibility once emotion grabs you.
Tucker Carlson: Pete Buttigieg learned some roads are too racist to fix
Daily Insight:
13 Dec 2022
I was in the Police for a short time, and being a police officer can be a thankless job. However, police also have the job of keeping the public onside. You don’t want the people you’re sworn to protect hating you. It makes your job very difficult. In this video, I’ll show you some public comments related to a recent event where police officers in Queensland lost their lives.
On the 12 December 2022, four police officers went to a rural property in Queensland’s Western Downs about three hours west of Brisbane to investigate reports of a missing person and were met with a hail of gunfire. Sources likened the scene to an ambush. Police returned fire, but two officers were critically injured and died at the scene. They were Constable Matthew Arnold, aged 29, and Constable Rachel McCrow, aged 26. The slain officers were shot at close range by armed men wearing camouflage who subsequently took the officers’ pistols. Neighbour Alan Dare was also shot down and killed by the armed offenders. Two officers managed to escape. The male officer suffered a gunshot wound and was taking to Chinchilla Hospital. The female officer managed to escape after the offenders reportedly started a bushfire in a bid to find her. Specialist police officers responded shooting dead two men and a female. The two men killed in the firefight were brothers Nathaniel and Gareth Train. Nathaniel, 46, was a former Queensland school principal.
Queensland Police Union President Ian Leavers stated, “As they lay injured, this ruthless, murderous trio, have gone and executed the two police officers on the ground in cold blood. This was a pure execution… they had no chance. This murderous trio lit a fire to try and coax [the female officer] out. If she stood up, she would be shot. She thought she would either be shot, or she would be burnt alive. This is absolutely horrendous. Our thoughts are also with police who bravely contained and managed the subsequent operation that has now resulted in the deaths of all the offenders. We have never seen anything like this. It is an absolute tragedy.”
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese responded on Twitter, “Terrible scenes and a heartbreaking day for the families and friends of the Queensland Police officers who have lost their lives in the line of duty. My condolences to all who are grieving tonight – Australia mourns with you”. Of course, there were some mournful comments as expected: “Very sad day for Police in QLD in fact worldwide. They deserve to come home after work”, “It is unforgivable that our beautiful, innocent young men go to work and do not come home. What happened to Australia’s GUN LAWS that John Howard introduced?”. However, many of the comments, perhaps the majority of them, were quite negative (noting that this is not me endorsing these comments): “Nobody would care if it were Victorian police. They are the most hated thugs and the line is getting thinner. They chose to stand under a [clears throat] and broke their oath”, “I don’t see you put out a tweet for people like Danny Lim Who receive police brutality which happens nearly every week somewhere in Australia”, noting that 78-year-old activist Danny Lim had failed to comply with a move-on order in NSW a few weeks ago, and was brutally arrested which left him in hospital with bleeding on the brain and now requires two canes to walk. “Yes terrible scenes. Sadly with governments and police treating society with total disrespect over the last 3 years creating the biggest mental health crisis ever seen, situations like these are to be expected and now you have cut funding which will make matters worse”, “Ask Defence lawyers and victims of police brutality how many bad police there are who do the wrong things first before you shred a tear for these lot”.
Most news agencies don’t allow comments on their channels, but Sky News do, noting that anybody from around the world, not just Australians, can leave a comment: “Why are they only mentioning the police that were killed? Doesn’t the innocent civilian deserve condolences too?”, “Hollow words from our two-faced leaders. Never have these hypocrites ever considered the Police. Where was Anastasia’s care (the Premier of Queensland) when forcing these brave people to undertake an inoculation to keep their jobs? It is sad what has happened, but the police are far too heavy handed these days”, “What happened to the fun days of beating up peaceful lockdown protesters? Oh well. You get what you bring”.
Anyway, you get the idea. They’re just some of the comments that are filling up our comments sections regarding police in Australia. I’m definitely not saying I condone any of it (I know people in the Police Service). This tragic loss of life is completely horrible and unnecessary. However, police have seriously got to ask the question – Have Australians turned on the Police?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDvWmaWkTE0
Curious.
The only thing “cooked” around here is Monty’s mentality.
The only ‘ity’ that MontyPox Virus into is hilarity. His/Her/Its/Whatever comments are so twitty. Plenty to make any sensible person larf’ and larf’ and larf’ and………………..larf’ a lot more.
Monty is a Jabbasexual.
Its why he supports grinder broadening out its clientele base.
Probably true, there are fake homeless all over Perth begging, there are also real homeless begging.
I went to a ATM in Malaga one Sunday to get some cash and sitting on the ground close to the ATM was what appeared to be a street sleeper with a sign asking for money. I made my transaction and was sitting in my car sorting it out when the bum got up and walked over to and drove away in a current model SUV. Why was I not surprised?
St. Ruth, the failed SovCit on the horse and mentioning personal responsibility and collective responsibility in the same (mercifully brief) post.
The two dead cops had been in that line of work since 2021. The two surviving ones only got out of training a few weeks back.
Mandates enforced on anybody – zero.
Boarding time. Reading screechy recidivist failure missives is good for a giggle, but may have to wait.
I miss numberwang.
That said, the majority of police work stopped being police work when it started being about enforcement of policy rather than legislation, albeit hiding behind legislation with a completely different intent than what it was used for, and created by unelected mid-ranking bureaucrats.
Watch this. It’s the 10 year bond yield. Even though the inflation rate is around 7% in the US at the moment the 10 year is yielding 3.6%. In a hyper-inflationary environment the yield should be multiples higher but it’s not. Moreover , the yield curve (short vs long) is showing an economic slowdown as the shape of the curve is pitched higher in the short term while lower in the long end. This is cleed an inverted yield curve. This doesn’t speak to hyperinflation. Commodity prices have also been dropping.
Watch this , it’s the Goldman Sachs commodity Index.
Inflation is trickling lower and the Fed maybe too snug now.
I’ve had an “ex – digger” ask me for money – he “couldn’t remember” his service number.
So it’s a bit like the ding-ding between the Communists and National Socialists?
Only curious if you don’t understand where he’ll be locked up. I hear they have intermittent video.
When you put on an Australian police uniform from any of the states or Territories, you put on a stasi uniform.
A Nazi or NKVD uniform.
I’m sure they had nice people in them, but they still ALL lacked the personal responsibility each one of them to do the right thing and go nowhere near these outfits.
Struphid
Do you know the guys who shot the cops. Just asking out in interest.
They claim one of them was a serial poster at numerous conspiracy sites. Do you know if he posted over at the furniture store?
I admit I’m in December mode and tuning out of the news but what the hell is a ‘cooker’?
Dot repellent…
An article on MY internet giving good relationship advice!
https://www.suzannevenker.com/lean-out/is-she-marriage-material/
This one looms out of my past…
Lastly, be wary of the woman whose relationship with her father has been impaired in some way. If she does not talk well of him, this is where her inability to trust men emanates and it will show up in your marriage in a thousand ways.
how many officers at chinchilla station? must have sent out half the force there
There are more derros and beggars and beggarderros here [in Perth] than in the Melbourne CBD. A bold statement, but true nonetheless.
Told ya.
I think once the humbuggers penetrate and populate the swankier high street strips to the south of the river- and start threatening the people who run the Cathedral- there’ll be a hue and cry which won’t be able to be ignored.
Had an incredulous bloke in the shearing shed telling me how a White Walker took a swing at him in broad daylight in East Vic Park. East Victoria Park! Nah it’s just come full circle and returned to its roots.
I must say, there’s a few unanswered q’s regarding the QLD horror.
(caveat – none of this detracts from my sympathies for the gunned-down police.)
– why were they jumping someone’s fence for a routine check on a missing person? I understand they do not have that right unless they suspect a crime has been committed.
– why were the perps tooled up and in camo gear – so ready that they shot (at) the victims almost immediately ?
It would not surprise me if Smith exits stage left by his own hand.
I see they use the word “slain” twice for the dispatch of one of the cold blooded killers.
This person was in charge of a school full of children.
Trying to spin the story. I loathe the press.
KD….you are a dumb shit who can’t work out right from wrong.
As stated above…they have had to cancel recruit intake courses because good people that may have joined now will not.
Stay with me for the next part.
It’s called having principles and standing by them.
In someways joining now once they have seen what the cops have been doing makes it even worse, you great fuckhead.
McCulloch and Malone are back on Titter
A cooker is someone who believes that the government is fundamentally illegitimate, with a strong cross over to sovereign citizenry. This may be because they believe the government is actually a corporation, or that it is run by a secret cabal of religious operatives, or that the globalist New World Order is already in charge. Or all of the above.
They tend to be seen at protests carrying red naval flags. There is a bunch of them who skulk outside the Governor-General’s house in Canberra every day. Many of them are YouTube streamers and live on donations from viewers.
They are worth more than Cats, as a rule, because they get off their arses and do something about it, as opposed to those of you who sit at home and whine into a Web site comment thread all day. The “something” that they do amounts to shouting into a loudhailer and is also ultimately useless, but it’s more constructive than what you lazybums do.
Duncanm, I suppose they were warned about a police visit. It was the brother of the missing man, after all.
calli – to be fair – it sounds like the bloke was decent, and recently had a life-changing experience that for some reason or other has sent him right off the rails with his weirdo nut brother.
What we also don’t know, but is being assumed at the moment, is how involved he actually was in this deadly fracas (other than ending up dead).
Given the action of police and politicians over the past 20 odd years won’t the three deaths have to be treated as deaths in custody? Full on inquire and 900 page report.
Also will the Australian cricket team take the knee in Brisbane to show solidarity with Aboriginal victims.
Just in case there are some dumb canuts reading this SARC
TE- Must admit cannot get my head around this “they” stuff. It reads as if there were a group of people being discussed rather than one person. Ridiculous.
Solzhenytsin nailed when he said nuspeak is not designed to inform or clarify, it is designed to corrupt. Even the Twatter introductory greeting “I use they/them pronouns”- is sneaky synechdoche. They’re not using they/them for anyone other than their annointed fellow rainbow people, they’re not replacing the all-important pronoun “I”. What they’re saying is, “I insist that YOU use these false and ridiculous abuses of the English language when you talk about me in the third person.”
I eagerly await the first person to try that sh*t on to me in person. Not because of any Peterson-esque crusade against compelled speech, more that I’m going to have so much fun with it.
Strange question from JC.
Everything posted at the furniture store by me has come true
We’re just 2 plus years ahead of you….nearly 3 now as you wallow in your denialist induced ignorance.
A cooker is someone who believes that the government is fundamentally illegitimate
My understanding is that a Cooker is one of those pieces of equipment/devices that you use to cook food with when in the kitchen cooking food. Posh people call them Ovens.
Yea, but you didn’t answer. I’m just curious if you know them and if one or more posted comments at your site.
Ho ho. Memories of Christmas bun fights.
We had a subbie outfit doing engineering development work for us. They occupied four buildings in an industrial estate south of Sydney.
They had performed well, but because of a few relatively minor niggles during the year our boss decided to turn on an end of year P Sup for them at their site.
All went swimmingly until they discovered that the mob down the lane had a couple of strippers at their show.
Our subbies grabbed the eskies and the food and buggered off down the lane to join the other party.
‘Volcanic’ does not do justice to our boss’s response, but I can’t think of a more accurate adjective. Giggles on our part would have been terminal.
I thought the tent embassy was on the lawn in front of old Parliament House.
My impression is that none of hijab, niqab, burka etc. are mandated in Islamic doctrine but that they have merely become established in culture as a means of doing what is mandated in doctrine. I suppose if you live in such inward-turned societies that distinction becomes a bit blurred and the clothing cannot be separated from the stricture demanding chastity of the most soul-crushing and dehumanising sort.
It is interesting to compare it to the what full body covering represented in the West – it being a basis of fashion for a long time. Those artists used the colours, the folds and the drape, and the shape of the fabrics to emphasise femininity and the female form. In Islam, whatever it might have been at time or in places, the end result has been a suffocating blanket that, strangely enough, reduces women to sexual objects (vessels of carnal temptation and evil) conspicuous by the extent to which they must be covered while in Western art it was used to lift women up out of our mundane existence and make them worthy of even a degree of adoration.
As Johnny Rotten says, “Cooker” is another word for “Stove”
I bought a new stove last week, just a domestic model, like you see in the kitchen in someone’s house.
The whitegoods shop insisted on calling it a “Cooker”, heck even the invoice read “Cooker”
To top it off, the user’s manual called it a “Cooker”
When a government puts itself above the constitution. ..the rule of law…is it still legitimate Monty?
Are all governments always legitimate no matter what they do?
When do you see a government as illegitimate?
In other words anyone who ever said “Trump is an illegitimate President, he was elected only because of Russian interference in the US electoral process”
Monty’s cowardice and need to be in the sheeple flock stands out as a typical leftist he hisses at those with a spine.
It would not surprise me if Smith exits stage left by his own hand.
I certainly hope he is okay. The pile on from Hadley will not be helping. Hadley should attend to the beam in his own eye.
He’s the guy cooking the spaghettis and meatballs in prison for the made guys.
President Joe Biden’s non-binary nuclear waste official has left the administration.
More time for puppy play.
That’s completely normal. Our government is a long chain of reasoning and nepotism back to Horst and Henga being the best murderers, better than Caligua or Caesar were…or Boudicca & Harold Godwinson.
There is very little rational about the way we are governed bar a thin veneer of late 19th century liberalism. Australia has had multiple rebellions and mutinies (even in the 20th century) and even an Aboriginal warlord (Windradyne) and even a British (Irish) self made (elected by his comrades against British rule and short lived) Emperor of the Kingdom of Australia, ruling over New Ireland [Castle Hill] (Philip Cunningham). They had more legitimacy than the colonial governors until we had elected colonial Parliaments.
Although this is complete nonsense*, it doesn’t matter who is in charge.
The only legitimate decisions where there is coercion involved can be consensus based, not majoritarian.
Virtually all government action is morally invalid. Government should absolutely devolve to the smallest possible jurisdiction.
*After Australia “as a dominion signed the Versailles Treaty as a sovereign power”, our constitutional position was not defined properly until the Australia Acts. 65 years of absolute piffle. It still hasn’t ended. King Charles can disallow State legislation in person in Australia (and that State) and PM Dutton effectively could veto Commonwealth legislation under 1 year old (presumably, Commonwealth regulation existing for < 12 months as well). No one (?) willingly voted for this ridiculous nonsense, however it is there plainly stated in the constitution.
Unlike you grifting off other people’s IP and children. Anyway, some of them also carry Aboriginal flags and “never ceded sovereignty”.
You mean the Red Ensign?
It was the citizenry’s flag before Menzies chose the Blue Ensign in 1953 (until then, the state’s flag) because red was too commie. Menzies had no authorisation from voters to do this.
I dare say this is the reason for its popularity amongst normal people who hate government.
Monty,
Self establishment of an ‘embassy’ (tent or otherwise) really, truly indicates believe in a separate ‘sovereign’ nation.
Are the residents of the tent embassy cookers, or has that esteemed title got a racial element attached?
You leftists are fucking stupid.
You see tyranny requires support from people like Monty.
But leftist religion is government and bureaucrats their priests.
You’d be very hard up to find an unjabbed leftist.
Most of that 500 a week dying now would be leftists boosted and boosted again.
Oops….how does that look in the long run?
See Monty. ..history repeats.
And it’s always the useful idiots tyrants kill first.
Always.
Good man.
Tom, Dick and Harry were in the pub, a week before Christmas, enjoying a few quiet drinks, when they decided to get in on the Xmas raffle. They bought five $1 tickets each, seeing it was for charity. The following week, when the raffle was drawn, they each won a prize.
Tom won the first prize – a whole year’s supply of gourmet spaghetti sauce.
Dick was the winner of the second prize, six month’s supply of extra-long gourmet spaghetti.
And Harry won the sixth prize – a toilet brush.
When they met in the pub a week later, Harry asked the others how they were enjoying their prizes.
“Great,” said Tom. “I love spaghetti.”
“So do I,” said Dick. “And how’s the toilet brush, Harry?”
“Not so good,” Harry said, “I reckon I’ll go back to paper…”
A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.
– Yogi Berra
I’m alienated from society at large, and I love it. Having to put up with it constantly might well make me suicidal, although murderous is more likely.
My 2c on young Mr stabby. Sikhs aren’t usually short of coin, go after the family by civil means now there is a conviction. They sound like they are half the problem.
2nd too go thru the magistrates record. Guaranteed to be more of these howlers. Start a campaign to have her put under scrutiny of not upholding community expectations like OShane was. Too many infest the bench like her and not held to account unlike those who are hand out harsh sentences. Also the prosecutor on why this isn’t being appealed.
Where there is smoke, there is fire! The big question nobody is asking is who appointed one of these deranged psychopaths as a principal of a kids school? Has that person/those people still have a job? If so, why? How many other unstable lunatics are in charge of kids at school? Why no concentrated demand for a public inquiry (think Royal Commission into child abuse?) inflicted by education bureaucrats promoting sociopaths into kids schools?
The occupants of the house wouldn’t have required any advance warning.
The four cops would not have snuck up like Ninjas.
It would have been near impossible to not notice their impending arrival, then to slip out of the house & plant in the timber to ambush them.
The block is a hundred acres, fully timbered, in the middle of thousands of acres of similar country.
The following clues would have been unmissable:
Noise of police car arriving.
Extra points if the car drove on crushed gravel.
“Thunk” noise of car door closing.
Actually, make that Four “thunks”
Noise of girls clambering over fence/gate, four times.
Extra points if conversation between coppers, say “The gate seems to be closed, let’s climb the fence”
Extra points if footsteps on gravel.
That’s the audio, there was also visual:
White police car standing out like against bush background.
Extra points if more than one police car.
Four people walking up the road toward the house.
They’d have had to be blind & deaf to miss the arrival.
Extra points if the three occupants are paranoid whack jobs who think the government may be trying to “get” them.
I’ve got a family of cooka’s outside my bedroom that have a great old time every morning before dawn.
Knuckle Draggersays:
December 13, 2022 at 2:47 pm
That said, the majority of police work stopped being police work when it started being about enforcement of policy rather than legislation, albeit hiding behind legislation with a completely different intent than what it was used for, and created by unelected mid-ranking bureaucrats.
There is a line in one of the Tom Clancy books, where the CIA paramilitary John Clark says that he “enforce[s] policy, not the law”. That is a distinction that should always be maintained by the enforcers of each, just as the difference between the roles of the ADF (To kill the enemy) and the Police (To arrest the miscreant) should also be maintained.
I take you point, duncanm. The answer will be in who exactly pulled the trigger. From the report, all three were involved, but that might change as statements are taken.
duncanm says:
December 13, 2022 at 2:55 pm
– why were the perps tooled up and in camo gear – so ready that they shot (at) the victims almost immediately ?
I wondered that. It seems that the police were walking towards the house and were a short(ish) distance from it when the gunfire started.
Therefore, we can presume that one of the offenders saw the police coming and said “righto, get the guns and we’ll finish them” (or similar). My point is, that critical decision-making moment to shoot first rather than simply go outside, unarmed, and see what the police wanted.
Beyond that, I wonder at the follow-up thoughts of the offenders. They must have known that their actions guarantees a huge (and probably lethal) police response. Did they envisage a long siege and shoot out with the police? Live posting to the internet for their valiant cause (whatever that may have been)? Or, was this (almost) suicide by cop?
Weird. Same mindset as Jonestown or Wacol perhaps.
C.L.says:
December 13, 2022 at 2:51 pm
I admit I’m in December mode and tuning out of the news but what the hell is a ‘cooker’?
Like “grok”, it’s m0nty=fa trying to project a “hip” image.
FFS, he’s an overweight middle-aged man with a family. If he talks like that at home, his kids must wonder why their old man thinks he can talk and act like a speed-affected teenager. Here, it just makes him look like more of an idiot than he might be.
This is a hard sell when we are told that the category sex by nothing less than Cambridge Dictionary is something that we can simply a matter of choice as opposed to nature. In fact, the pecularity of our age is its slavish devotion to ‘subjective experience’.
It isn’t that clear-cut and the ambiguities might themselves reside in the categories and the metaphysic behind them. We can claim to see the same fire but given that our experiences are dependent on our senses there is an irreducible ‘subjectivity’ to them. Similarly, psychedelic experiences do not emerge without cause, they are typically the result of some drug or some privation that causes the brain to hallucinate.
Aargh….
Working off an unfamilar device. Maybe this time.
https://twitter.com/MarkMcGowanMP/status/1481526659602055170?s=20&t=QV5ldeDE6rdzaQVVeE2t5A
The “something” that they do amounts to shouting into a loudhailer and is also ultimately useless, but it’s more constructive than what you lazybums do.
m0nty=fa, who calls for “Nazis” to be beaten up in the streets, but hides in his basement at home shouting onto a computer screen because “poor health” tells others that if they don’t get out and demonstrate they are “lazybums”.
Not much self-awareness there!
Shorter Gareth Train: Riccardo Bosi is a nutjob.
Monty, do you believe Riccardo Bosi is a nutjob?
Indeed.
smutley fully supports the state programming his kids to be climate fearing bleeding hearts
And away rolls msm on the tragic police shooting in Qld. Far right conspiracy preppers.
So am I. My interests are very much different from most people and I can’t stand small talk. The vast majority of people though respond very negatively to be alienated from their culture.
Given that Aborigines claimed that they were guardians of the land, they were the caretakers of the land, but they didn’t own the land, can you claim sovereignty over land you denied owning?
Quite so. It’s all about the feelz. Which is concerned with what goes on in that part of the universe inside your skin, and ignores the rather larger part outside.
“I certainly hope he is okay. The pile on from Hadley will not be helping. Hadley should attend to the beam in his own eye.”
Agree. Hadley is a despicable bully and lowlife.
Iv watched just about all the vids of cops overreaching (many reposted over and over) the last being of the child being taken away. This is not proof of a systemic problim within eny of the states police force. More data is needed.
Let me get this straight, two police officers and a neighbor were shot and killed by two men in an ambush. The latter were killed, along with a women yet to be named, by police officers responding to the ambush. So, all in all, there are six deaths. Is this correct?
Different groups, who sometimes come into conflict.
Matersays:
December 13, 2022 at 3:19 pm
A cooker is someone who believes that the government is fundamentally illegitimate, with a strong cross over to sovereign citizenry.
Monty,
Self establishment of an ‘embassy’ (tent or otherwise) really, truly indicates believe in a separate ‘sovereign’ nation.
Are the residents of the tent embassy cookers, or has that esteemed title got a racial element attached?
And have maintained said “embassy” for around 50 years.
So, all in all, there are six deaths. Is this correct?
Dover – that is what we gleaned eventually from very garbled reporting on all TV stations this morning. Honestly, the standard of the reporting of the “news” is at an all time low on breakfast TV.
There are also certain stories that reporters jettison all attempts at neutral reporting.
That’s the casualty list so far – two police officers, a neighbor who went to investigate the fire, the two brothers, and the wife of one of them.
Correct. Two brothers and the wife of one of them, plus two cops and a neighbouring farmer.
Dover – yes. It seems the woman was an accomplice of the offenders but it isn’t yet clear what role she played (ie. active shooter or otherwise).
My maternal grandfather with the Danish surname, who came from the Scottish borders (hence my added Scottish aka Pictish and Danish ancestry), went to South Wales, became a coalminer, and married a Welshwoman who obviously by her looks had Nordic ancestry, although her father was of ancient Welsh tribal stock and looked and sounded it – small, dark and wheedling. Many Welsh and Irish people had Norse ancestry as the Norse were very active in those Western coastal forays. I am also a little bit bog Irish on the Welsh side. My father’s people were early Flemish Huguenots who married the East Anglian descendants of the Iceni and Trinovantes tribes, with traces of extra Roman and later Germanic Saxon (also found in the Flemish majorly expressed in me) thrown in.
I like to think of myself as a tribute to the strength of very hybrid genes.
All of my ancestors had a fight on their hands for survival. 🙂
You little Catanna, my nana used to chide at my wilfulness.
That was a blast from a distant past, a folk term now long gone.
In old Brythonic Wales, Cat=battle and Ana= valkyrie-styled goddess, hence Catanna.
Joyce used Ana in reference to the goddess of Dublin’s Livy – Latinised to Anna Livia Plurabelle.
Two symmetrical hills in Ireland are anciently known as the Breasts of Anu, a very early female deity.
Quickly turned into St. Anne on England’s western coastline post-Christianisation.
Notably, Ana was also said to be the mother of the folkloric King Arthur of the Welsh.
Dover
From upthread:
Arnold and McCrow, police officers and Dare, a neighbour were murdered earlier by the trio and another officer was wounded in the leg but managed to escape by car. The fourth, a female, was trapped by the killers in burning scrub which they hoped would flush her out so they could kill her too.
We can argue that people are slavish towards subjective experience but in this age more than any other we demand standards of evidence that go beyond personal experience. We don’t rely feeling cold to tell us the temperature, we use a device, as we do in so many areas of life. Doctors don’t rely on how a patient feels, they rely on a variety of lab tests. In search of certainty we look to standards of proof that are not contingent on a specific individual experience, rather on that which accords with the experience of many thousands if not millions.
You can ask a million people about their experience of fire and they will tell you it is hot, it destroys things, it it hurts. Psychedelic experiences are personal and highly variant. The fire analogy doesn’t hold because fire has demonstrable physical effects in the world completely independent of our subject experience of fire. Psychedelics have no equivalent effect.
The variance of experience is the critical factor here. For example, despite some around me hallucinating on the same drug I never have hallucinated nor had a mystical experience. I used to say to them, “it is just the drug”, but so many people undergo a radical change in spite of that brute fact.
There is no satisfactory explanation for the variation in individual experience of using psychedelics but anyone who puts their hand in the fire knows it burns. What I’m interested in is the transformative nature of the experience. It is like near death experiences or conversion experiences described in some religious texts both Eastern and Western. Fire doesn’t cause people to choose a new way of living unless of course it leaves them very physically damaged.
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
December 13, 2022 at 3:45 pm
Anyway, some of them also carry Aboriginal flags and “never ceded sovereignty”.
Given that Aborigines claimed that they were guardians of the land, they were the caretakers of the land, but they didn’t own the land, can you claim sovereignty over land you denied owning?
That was when they were after native title. Now they want more.
It’s getting easier to imagine the depths of hate, paranoia, fear and cruelty that human beings can descend to in order to commit the crimes detailed above. And entitlement – an entitlement to kill people who meant you no harm, even your neighbour.
All you have to do is read comments on social media. What a sewer.
Vicki says:
December 13, 2022 at 4:00 pm
Speaking of the media, on last night’s Ch 9 news this ‘evolving situation’ was the lead item. Not much detail but the Ch 9 reporter was saying how communications were difficult in the area and that three police were not responding to police radio calls. Trying to show how smart he was, he went on to say that this was known as a “dead zone”.
It was quite obvious that something very serious had happened and I remarked to Mrs Speedbox that the reporter should probably cease using the terminology “dead zone”.
m0ntysays:
December 13, 2022 at 3:56 pm
I thought the tent embassy was on the lawn in front of old Parliament House.
Different groups, who sometimes come into conflict.
Now the tap dancing starts, as m0nty=fa condemns one group while supporting another remarkably similar group.
It’s confusing being a loyal leftard, unless you are brain dead.
A Russian couple was walking down the street in St. Petersburg the other night, when the man felt a drop hit his nose. “I think it’s raining” he said to his wife.
“No, that felt more like snow to me,” she replied. “No, I’m sure it was just rain, he said”. Well, as these things go, they were about to have a major argument about whether it was raining or snowing.
Just then they saw a minor communist party official walking toward them. “Let’s not fight about it,” the man said, “let’s ask Comrade Rudolph whether it’s officially raining or snowing.”
As the official approached, the man said, “Tell us, Comrade Rudolph, is it officially raining or snowing?”
“It’s raining, of course” he answered and walked on. But the woman insisted “I know that felt like snow!” To which the man quietly replied “Rudolph the Red knows rain, dear!”
You can observe a lot by just watching.
– Yogi Berra
Dr B/G at 3.25 pm:
I endorse this comment. Categorically!
Calli
And entitlement – an entitlement to kill people who meant you no harm, even your neighbour.
A neighbour who apparently came to investigate the fire, presumably to help bring it under control.
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But both fit your definition of ‘cookers’, no?