Rocks and Ferns in a Wood at Crossmount, John Ruskin, 1847
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John Fund, a US columnist, being interviewed by Sharri is sporting a black eye. I wonder who socked him.
Fap, fap, fap. Cap’n, I canna give her anymore! If I do, she’ll BLOW!
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I suspect young harry has lived a coddled life with women throwing themselves at his feet and that he never had to fend off a skilful manipulative gold digger with his family and staff doing all that work for him. The gold digger was smart enough to drive a wedge between harry and his protective circle and lumber him with a sprog asap.
Timeline is correct … Conspiracy to confirmed = 6 to 12 months
Financial Stress Epidemic Plagues Biden’s America
The financial stress level in 2022 is at a 14-year high.
TIPPINSIGHTS EDITORIAL BOARD
December 19, 2022
As 2022 winds down, Bidenflation has increased Americans’ financial stress to the highest level since 2008, the year of the financial meltdown.
The financial stress index in 2022 averaged 67.6 compared to the 2008 high of 68.4. The chart presented below shows the average stress index for each year.
President Biden deserves blame for skyrocketing food and energy prices in 2022 and raising Americans’ financial stress to a 14-year high.
The IBD/TIPP Financial Stress Index is a one-of-a-kind financial stress metric. In December 2007, we began using it to track financial stress. The index accurately indicates Americans’ financial concerns about paying bills and making ends meet. Consumer spending drives two-thirds of the economy. When people are stressed, they are hesitant to spend money.
Note: The Chart for Financial Stress was the Lowest under the 4 years of President Donald Trump reaching a low 51.0
The mainstream news media, especially the Australian MSM, is as useless as tits on a bull.
It’s been at least 15 years since any of the Australian MSM was an advocate for the public interest — especially on public health matters.
The Murdoch papers haven’t yet run the story of the vaccine injury to Dr Kerryn Phelps’ “wife”. It’s been run only by Murdoch’s website for low-info people, news.com.au, which today labels vaccine injuries a “taboo subject”.
The story hasn’t yet featured on the website of the country’s only remaining national broadsheet, The Australian, which is run by news.com.au’s parent company.
Tits on a bull.
however MPs were left with the impression they were to focus on core government business.
What a shocking standard to expect from ministers of the Crown! Actually to do their job. Parrottop seems to be some kind of fascist.
Not one that it is possible to laugh at. Or even raise a wry smile.
It’s diplomatic perversion. The best thing about former PM Rimmer is his ability to fuck up everything he is in the vicinity of.
Best of luck Washington.
The krudd appointment is just another example of the establishment thumbing its nose at the demos. They think they’ve seen off the populist revolt. Time will tell
Here is the smoking gun in that Phelps piece.
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Prosecutions need to happen alright, just not the prosecutions these horrid little brown nosers and stooges envisaged.
…and Struth will appear in 3, 2, 1….
Could always be trusted to come through – by both parties. The UniParty in action.
the decline is undeniable
personally I don’t buy the projections for africa. either by religion or pop growth. As Africa modernises it will secularise as well and pop growth sill slow dramatically.
Putting aside the known character defects … Bwahahahahaaaa … where’s my head?…oh, here it is … KRuddy’s appointment is no less cynical than Turnbull stooge Sinodinos.
Bruce of Newcastle says:
December 20, 2022 at 10:52 am
It’s sad to see good music die of old age. The current stuff is utter rubbish
+100
The greatest rock band ever, how I love the Glimmer Twins!
she most certainly was. where is rosie to tell us long covid is just a psychological phenomena?
vaccine injury is a much more severe version of long covid.
there is a growing sense of urgency about the need to push through 44 gigawatts of clean energy to replace the exit of older, ageing coal-fired power stations.
Atb what point will we start to hear about “older, ageing, wind and solar generators”?
Prominent doctor accuses NSW Premier of ‘SURRENDERING to Covid’ with ‘appalling’ decision to drop masks and QR codes days before Christmas – but another says 25,000 cases a day is a ‘gross overestimation’ – 16 Dec 21
. Former independent MP has blasted NSW Government over its Covid handling
. Dr Kerryn Phelps said axing restrictions as case numbers soar was unfathomable
. She branded politicians as ‘clueless, reckless or negligent’ in their response
. And she warned virus will rip families apart: ‘This is not freedom. This is denial.’
And
Covid ‘frightbat’ Kerryn Phelps urges Australians to wear masks – 17 Mar 22
Dr Kerryn Phelps tells Australians they CAN’T move back to ‘normal times’ and demands the return of TWO hated Covid restrictions High profile GP and ex-AMA boss says Australia’s Covid pandemic far from over
. Dr Kerryn Phelps encouraged everyone to wear masks amid rise in cases
. Urged people to avoid crowds to protect themselves and medically vulnerable
. Her comments on 2GB on Thursday sparked a furious response from listener
Or
‘It’s a difficult one’: Sylvia Jeffreys shares vaccine concerns as doubt swirls around pregnant women – 2 years ago
Former Federal MP Dr Kerryn Phelps told Today that pregnant women should be cautious about getting vaccinated.
“The point is vaccines haven’t been tested on pregnant women at this stage. If somebody is not with contraceptive cover, likely to get pregnant, they would need to be careful at this stage,” she said.
Dr Phelps advises anyone having doubts to seek the advice of their GP.
“Speak to your GP, get the reassurances you need, find out the facts from reliable sources,” she said.
“One of the worst things you can do is go to one of the conspiracy theory Facebook pages and be scared away from being vaccinated based on misinformation.
I actually don’t think the numbers matter. And i know it sounds like a cliché but the quality matters more.
Due to a confluence of unfortunate events at the weekend which required a trip in an ambulance but minus lights and sirens I find myself currently enclosed behind the high red walls and virtual barbed wire of
Stalag 13the covid ward of my local hospital.I have no* symptoms and am feeling perfectly well but failed the RAT test before being transported, the first time I’ve encountered failure as a requirement to be admitted to any public institution.
I am happy to report from the front line if anyone has any questions about the experience.
I have to say my first two days here have brought back a flood of memories of my Reserve camps at Puckapunyal – slightly better showers but much thinner towels. Something I would not have thought possible. And a truckload of hurry up and wait.
Not forgetting long time troughers Bomber Beazley and Joe Hockey.
In front of sell out crowds paying very high ticket prices.
US strip clubs revise gloomy future.
*as in none, zilch, zero, nowt, zip, nothing, not a brass razoo.
Yes cohenite, we can tell.
We’re talking here about the Liberal Party. Merit doesn’t apply.
Increasingly I think they do it for other reasons (although there is an industry of hangers-on no doubt keen to see them continue). I remember seeing a photo spread of Bowie’s Bahamas island spread in Architecture America. It was mind blowing. He sold his back catalogue for $300m or something via some innovative bonds issue. Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason has a Ferrari 250 GTO in a barn at his house. None of them are doing it for money at one level. The only celebrity I’ve heard that said about is John Cleese, which corresponds with what was written in the Palin diaries and what he himself has said at times.
How about throwing some $ to the families of the deceased – including the neighbour, who seems to keep getting forgotten in the orgy of predictable public grief-signalling.
To a very large degree the lower classes don’t matter to the woke, they have no political or economic clout and are viewed as surplus.
This is the current philosophy of Labor, formerly the party of the rural and urban working classes. This leaves a large demographic open to any party which will take up its cause.
Zipster says:
December 20, 2022 at 11:32 am
I suspect young harry has lived a coddled life with women throwing themselves at his feet and that he never had to fend off a skilful manipulative gold digger with his family and staff doing all that work for him. The gold digger was smart enough to drive a wedge between harry and his protective circle and lumber him with a sprog asap.
I suspect that’s pretty close to the mark. Other than more senior Royals, everybody else would have been deferential to Harry – especially those women who might have thought they would be in with a chance to bag a genuine Prince. Yes, the staff would have guarded against the worst or most obvious gold-digging offenders but that sparkle woman is in a different category. The word ‘manipulative’ just doesn’t seem adequate.
And almost exactly a year after marriage, the first child was born remembering that sparkle was very near to 38 years old at the time.
But he’s stuck with her now. Any attempt to split with be met with ferocious demands for cash settlement and ongoing support, children residing in the USA, murderous howls slamming his white privilege by leftist women……
Then as the year progressed the rules changed over and over and not being locked down, employed as a certain occupation, became contingent on vaccination.
No grand conspiracy. Just stage managing the timing to deflect attention.
Back to the Krudd days. But one journo has a long memory:
Former prime minister Kevin Rudd will become Australia’s new ambassador to the US.
Anthony Albanese made the announcement on Tuesday morning, saying his predecessor would bring “unmatched experience to the role”.
He will begin his posting in early 2023.
That’s despite the Prime Minister rubbishing suggestions in the lead-up to the May election that Dr Rudd would be the next ambassador in Washington.
Talking about the rumours in April, Mr Albanese said it was “complete nonsense” and part of a media obsession.
In making his announcement on Tuesday, Mr Albanese said Dr Rudd was an “outstanding appointment” – despite a journalist putting to him that his Labor colleagues had described the former prime minister as a “psychopath, a micromanager and a control freak”.
The golden rule of statistics.. If people quote numbers, look at percentages. If they quote percentages look at absolute numbers.
Black Ballsays:
December 20, 2022 at 11:10 am
Correct me if I am wrong kind reader, but wasn’t Phelps all hot and horny for mandated jabs and mask wearing, and isolation and whatever other society destroying measures were in play during the shamdemic?
If so, this makes her heresy even more compelling. And it will be difficult for the government/establishment to attack her (though not impossible, hypocrisy is one of their favourite tools).
OldOzzie
December 20, 2022 at 11:50 am
A fine round up in the, er, inconsistencies in Phelps’messaging.
Before that inevitability, I want it on record that I abhor and condemn Struth’s vile accusations and abuse directed in recent days towards calli. I know that other Kittehs have been victims of his vitriol – I condemn that, too – but the tirade against calli was especially brutal.
Calli prefers to fight her own battles, as do I, but it’s important to me that she and the Cat collective know where I stand on this issue.
“not even with regards to certain professions…”
Yes, KRuddy could struggle with the psychological testing.
Good news in the family, niece who has or had endometriosis was having IVF when covid struck and missed out on completing the course. Few months later got preggers naturally. Is now preggers again naturally.
“…colleagues had described the former prime minister [Rudd] as a “psychopath, a micromanager and a control freak”.”
Ah – so no different than any other politician that is able to get to the “top” then?
Can anyone name a prime minister that was NOT a psychopathic, micro-managing control freak?
<crickets>
Anyone?
<crickets>
Keef made it to 79?
Legend.
I love all those memes along the lines of one dinosaur saying to another (picture of Keef featured) – ‘I dunno, he was here when I got here.’
He certainly has the right genes for the rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle.
So the turdy bird’s a doctor now like dr Jill
Dr Rudd. FMD
It’s fun to imagine what would happen with Rudd if Trump wins in 2024.
Much throwing of toys out of prams I suspect.
Unfortunately no Republican can win in 2024, so the idea is moot. Fun but.
she didn’t chose california just for the weather. it has the most mysandrist divorce laws in the world. after 10 years marriage he is hooked to preserve her financial lifestyle for life.
This Kerryn Phelps news is actually huge.
I absolutely loathe and despise Canbra and foreign affairies is the worst of the worst.
The Queensland Police Union wants to buy the property where two police officers were killed in the state’s Western Downs last week.
An ex army mate has a bunch of Rwanda vet mates, some at Kibeo. Most of these guys live like blockies and just want to be left alone. I’d imagine that most of the Tara blockies are the same. The ones that are a threat yes by all means keep tabs on and finding out about one of the Trains crossing Qld border with a car full of firearms as well as their rantings in nutter websites like Cairns News. I can’t believe these guys weren’t already on the radar of Police Intelligence. I used to work with an ex NSW Pol guy and had a cousin who was plain clothes in Qld. Both said the info they get is very good and usually from the community around said shitbags. Remember there would be some who wouldn’t want to draw the crabs especially if you are involved in small scale crime, thr Trains would have been cramping that.
Be interesting if anything comes out in the inquest. That said Levers needs to take a step backwards and take a breath. Not as if the police will be welcomed out there, so why needle?
I love the one where God admits to Adam and Eve that the old wizened guy in the garden of Eden “was there when I got here”.
John Howard and Bob Hawke, who mostly left it to their Ministers. They only weighed in when there was a problem.
Settle.
Sending Kevni to the US seems like a tophole strategy to undermine the alliance.
At least Kim could be counted on to behave at social occasions and be friendly to one and all. It’s a low bar, but that is what we are reduced to.
Not unlike the SFL buying Cough Witless home and turning it into a shrine. FMD.
Another ranga!
Come off it Stones fans. They’re just another version of Harry Markle now.
Ask them to play Brown Sugar or Under My Thumb.
This none member of the ‘Cat collective’ agrees, Delta.
Haven’t they suffered enough?
OH F@CK OFF: Op-Ed Argues ‘Put Down the Burger’ to Protect Earth’s Biodiversity.
“Earth is in the midst of the worst mass extinction since an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago — and this time, the asteroid is us.” So says Michael Grunwald, an environmentalist, in an opinion piece for the New York Times.
But his larger point is that “biodiversity loss is not that complicated a mystery.” The amount of area on planet earth devoted ot agriculture is now more than twice the size of North America.
We’re destroying and degrading the habitats of other species to grow food for our own. This means the fate of the world’s bugs, bunnies and other creatures and critters — and what’s left of the forests, wetlands and other habitats they call home — depends more than anything else on what we put in our mouths and how it gets made….
Humanity needs to start shrinking our agricultural footprint and expanding our natural footprint, after thousands of years of doing the reverse. This will be an extraordinary challenge, because we’ll also need to produce more than 7.4 quadrillion additional calories every year to feed our growing population, in an era when climate-fueled droughts, heat waves, floods and blights could make it harder to grow food…. If we are serious about cleaning up the mess we’re making for less influential species, there are four things individuals as well as nations and corporations can do. The first is to eat less meat, which would be a lot easier if meat weren’t so beloved and delicious….
But the inconvenient truth is that when we eat cows, chickens and other livestock, we might as well be eating macaws, jaguars and other endangered species. That’s because livestock chew up far more land per calorie than crops. Producing beef is 100 times as land-intensive as cultivating potatoes and 55 times as land-intensive as peas or nuts. Livestock now use nearly 80 percent of agricultural land while producing less than 20 percent of calories. Cattle are the leading driver of deforestation in the Amazon, followed by soybeans, another commodity, which get fed to pigs and chickens…. If Americans continue to average three burgers a week while the developing world starts to follow our path, it’s hard to see how the Amazon survives.
But it’s at least possible that we could shrink agricultural footprints by shifting our diets toward meat made without livestock, like the plant-based substitutes offered by companies such as Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat or maybe someday cultured meat grown from animal cells.
Grunwald also recommends wasting less food. “About a third of the food grown on Earth is lost or tossed before it reaches our mouths, which means a third of the land (as well as the water, fertilizer and other resources) used to grow that food is also wasted.”
The third way to ease the global land squeeze “would be to stop using productive farmland for biofuels like ethanol and biodiesel — and to stop burning trees for power.” And finally, “farmers will have to supersize their yields enough to make a lot more food with a lot less land.
To sum up the news.
We’ll be at war with the US soon and Kerryn Phelps won’t be able to buy land at Wieambilla QLD.
Late Jagger:
God made Eve and said to Adam, I have made this woman for you to be your wife. Adam was very pleased but he asked God who is that over there?
God said thats Keef he was here when I arrived.
Former federal MP Dr Kerryn Phelps has revealed she and her wife both suffered serious and ongoing injures from Covid vaccines, while suggesting the true rate of adverse events is far higher than acknowledged due to underreporting and “threats” from medical regulators.
Someone please urgently call Queensland Police so they can go and kick the door in and correct this Wrongthink!
Big Brother would never hurt you!
Being want to left alone is fine. Driving around town unlicensed in an unregistered car with unregistered guns (?) less so. Want to carry on like that – move to Somalia, even parts of it won’t wear it now I’ve found out.
I presume you’re talking about Sparklearkle and the Stupid Fucking Ranga ( aren’t they all). He will have very little money of his own. Daddy will make sure she gets SFA in the case of a divorce. The title can be removed by daddy and with it the money that goes with it. I for one couldn’t care less.
Out and about in Melbourne:
Smells like vomit.
Looks like communism.
What a fucking shithole. Socialism fucks everything it touches.
Earning your keep is passé according to the woke
The problem isn’t AI, it’s requiring us to work to live
Kevin 07
The US ambassador gig just dropped in his lap. Speaking of laps, will Kevin’s VIP pass at Scores Nightclub still be valid?
California law doesn’t care where the money comes from or even if it stops coming. If she has become accustomed to a particular lifestyle, he must by whatever means continue to provide it.
Driving around town unlicensed in an unregistered car with unregistered guns (?) less so.
Let’s just remember that Qld Pol has claimed transportation of unregistered firearms across a state border, and thus far NSW Pol has specifically declined to comment.
The firearms claims are easily clarified, yet they’re deliberately choosing to leave the water muddy. Clarifying registered firearms does not serve the national firearms registry narrative.
Keef and Mick as ragers ? Here’s a bloke whose pecker is still up. Van.
H B Bear says:
December 20, 2022 at 12:04 pm
Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason has a Ferrari 250 GTO …….
Only ever seen one in my life and that was in Australia! The car was brought here as a showpiece and to compete in a touring rally. To the best of my knowledge, was the only time a 250GTO has ever graced our shores*. Want one? Sure, they come up for sale occasionally with the last sale at around $US70m.
* I don’t think a 250GTO is resident in this country (inc Lindsay Fox’s collection) – happy to be corrected.
^ the key take away from the above link. this post-capitalist world is a recurrent theme in millennial and woke articles.
Zipster
similar numbers exist throughout the west, christianity is loosing it’s grip by very roughly 1%/year in the west. Christianity will be close to extinct by the end of the century
Only in the west, Christianity is thriving in Africa, parts of Asia and Latin America.
I expect the UK divorce courts would be a bit more sympathetic than they usually are when American women come a call in’.
I have no* symptoms and am feeling perfectly well
Sympathy! .. I know how you feel .. several years ago whilst undergoing chemo for Cancer I used to get a once-a-week adverse reaction to the drug(s) so would take myself off to Fairfield Hospital (top of my street) and they’d, usually, give me the, necessary, injection and off home again ..
one night I got a ‘student” quack .. idiot admitted me for observation despite protests and they kept me in a single room for 5 days to do ‘tests” ..
I was never unwell but no one listened …
The most annoying factor was being able to see “home” from the hospital window and being stuck there!
There’s a small community of vets, here, like that. They just want to be left alone.
Islamic charities are growing in popularity in south Africa evan among Christians.
Victory is mine! After barely 36 hours in Covid ward I am being tossed out for looking perfectly healthy.
My Christmas plans resume after unneeded and unnecessary pestilence hiatus. Yay!
The States commentators on the “Train Wreck” are so unhinged it’s pretty clear that the trains didn’t have a monopoly on crazy.
Looks to me like two groups of idiots spoiling for a death match, which they got, at the expense of the lives of two young police officers and a neighbour.
Based on The States commentators views about what is acceptable thought and speech, the entirety of The Cat’s commentators should be in prison, with the exception of Munty.
Somewhat surprised the UK courts touched the Charles and Diana divorce. I suppose they had to or he might have had to cut off her head or run her into the wall of a tunnel or something.
m0ntysays:
December 20, 2022 at 12:04 pm
What a joke.
What happened to merit?
We’re talking here about the Liberal Party. Merit doesn’t apply.
So, just like the KRudd appointment?
In Victoriastan is fucked (but you already knew that) news, Herald Sun:
New Opposition leader John Pesutto, who takes over from Matthew Guy, vowed to work constructively with the government.
“We know that democracies flourish when people’s confidence in people who occupy public office is improved and enhanced,” he said.
“We will be able to do the people watching us proud and show that parliament can apply proper scrutiny.”
From a longer article in which Pauline Hanson took aim at the Liberals south of the Murray. Please stifle your smirks and giggles!
I hope the AFP and ASIO have Kerryn Phelps and wife on a watch list. Recent events tell us where this will end up.
I’m in Melbourneistan at the moment, had a look in the CBD, it’s filthy, smelly, homeless people all over the place & very downmarket.
The Mornington Peninsula is still nice, had a look at the old house at Flinders and a terrific lunch at the pub there.
My yellow card report
Dr. John Campbell
HB hope I didn’t come across making excuses for them. If I wasn’t my intention.
Didn’t know about the unreg car & firearms though. Only substance I know is what has been discussed here. I am overseas atm and apart from a pic of the opera house lit blue on closing credits to the Thai news the other day reporting here was breif.
This Kerryn Phelps news is actually huge.
Absolutely, Dot.
Waiting to see what MSM will do with it.
Let’s hope his comments were made lucidly about covering up child abuse aren’t true. That would be a terrible look.
The third way to ease the global land squeeze “would be to stop using productive farmland for biofuels like ethanol and biodiesel
This has always been a criminal act. Finally, the so-called “environentalists” have realised their culpability?
— and to stop burning trees for power.”
Then there needs to be a reliable, affordable, continuous source of power to replace the trees. I wonder what history suggests would do the job.
And finally, “farmers will have to supersize their yields enough to make a lot more food with a lot less land.
Perhaps banning or restricting the use of artificial fertilisers might not have been the smartest decision?
If wiki is right that he is “a moderate Liberal,” then the SFLs may as well shoot themselves.
Is the sex so good that whatever brains you have dribble out your arse?
Ten speed vibrating box…
Delusional Harry & Meghan want Palace APOLOGY Before Coronation Invitation is Accepted
I am becoming weary of hearing people of no especial knowledge telling us what is and is not ‘Australian’.
Is this union leader someone with such vast experience of Australians in all their moods and habits?
For most people their interaction with the police a tiny fraction of their lives – police-y matters. Most of their lives being engaged in other areas. For the police, on the other hand, interaction with the public is largely a profusion of those police-y experiences and to the exclusion of the rest of citizens lives.
Add to this a union leader would be in bed with those self-absorbed cupidinous, power obsessed freaks in the union and the government.
I will bet this union leader did not rankle at all the additional powers granted police by the cretinous hams playing in the Covid theatre.
But here is what is perhaps most telling – for all of his imposture in pretending to be defending ‘Australianism’, he seems to have overlooked what the traditional Australian attitude toward police, indeed all authority, is.
We don’t trust you.
Well gotta go. Today’s adventure is to some local markets then a long lunch Thai style. Back to lurking till tonight but I hear some Thai BBQ, laab & beers with close family planned.
“… the traditional Australian attitude toward police, indeed all authority, is.
We don’t trust you.”
That’s a very diplomatic way to put it.
What happened to ‘the world’s most liveable city.’
I used to go to Melbourne every year or two to refresh by work wardrobe. It was the fashion capital, especially for those living in cold climates. When I lived and worked in Canberra, it was ideal for making sure that when you went into a meeting, the clothes were unique. And, for getting a decent overcoat.
I got a beautiful Aquascutum trenchcoat for half price at a sale. Still a treasure.
Dunno what the COVID disaster has done to the Melbourne fashion industry. But, I’m pretty sure that those little shops I use to browse are no more.
Well done, Dan!
Saw this on facebook and yep, they put a climate change tag on it.
-“The schedule has been released for next year’s Bledisloe Cup
At 6pm players will enter the field and line up either side of halfway.There will be a Welcome to Country and a smoking ceremony. They will then take a knee for 1 minute.
After that there will be a minute’s silence for everybody who has died.
They will then sing the National Anthems .
They will then go to the middle of the ground where the All Blacks will perform the haka. After that players will go into their religious groups to sing and pay homage to their friends in the sky.
Atheists will go into their own group to talk about what they have done to combat climate change.
Both teams will then come together in the middle of the field and hold hands while putting rainbow tape on each others’ arms.
The Wallabies will be wearing their new strip designed by Lisa Wilkinson. It will have aboriginal artwork along with black , blue , white , red , pink and brown ribbons printed on the front of the jumper. The jumper will have a large Z on the front for the team’s new sponsor, clean energy billionaire Zali Steggall.
The Wallabies will be captained by Bill Smith as Joe Bloggs is still serving a 10 game suspension after it was discovered his great uncle made a feminist remark to a barmaid in 1965.
The game will also have 2 minute time-outs after a try is scored so mental coaches can enter the field and talk to the players who have just been scored against, to discuss their emotions.
Purple cards will also be used in the match for players to be sent from the field for 15 minutes if they say anything mean. The game should finish around 11.45pm.
As the stadium is powered by 2 windmills and rooftop solar panels if there is no wind or sun in the 2 days prior to the game, it will be moved to an afternoon game starting at 12.30pm”
Being pro gun is unAustralian?
Bob Katter is what, pro Indonesian?
Demented utter nonsense from Plod Union HQ.
They may as well join the Labor Party, they’re indistinguishable now.
Wasn’t one of the shooters a pro black arm band left wing education department school principle trying to become a union official?
So plod union official, who is actually dangerous?
Seems to me we should ban union leaders from the internet at the very least …
Is the sex so good that whatever brains you have dribble out your arse?
Must be! .. when Luigi was rationed to once -a-fortnight visits to the Marrickville “rub ‘n tug” he came across as a, probable, benign version of Bill Shitten for PM now he’s getting more regular “rub ‘n tugs” at home from his, tax payer funded, squeeze he appears to have gone the full Bill ……….
This is why Ukraine will amp up next year. Can’t have this on the front page:
The leftards banned it long ago because diversity, inclusion and equal pay.
Mr. Ian Leaver sees himself as being more Australian than blockies?
Try again Mr. Leavers.
Proportionally there’s nowhere near as many Australian born Qld police as there are Australian born blockies.
I’ve never been with a woman
Yes cohenite, we can tell.
You got me there dickless; well pounced; like all eunuchs you’re on the ball; compensatory I guess.
Poms?
The 2022 prize for drawing a long bow may well have been won by Greg Sheridan in The Australian last week. (December 16th)
An article on the Tara ambush Sheridan managed to slip in mention of Donald Trump. (plus a photo of Trump) Sheridan mentioned Trump eight times, just in case anybody thinks the mention was peripheral.
Cohenite, neither has munty. Still sits down to pee. How else do you get to be a fat lesbian.
Bespoke, QPlod seems to be chockers with Kiwis. There’s also poms, Irish (or could just be poms with an incomprehensible accent) the odd Taffy or Scot, plus a mild fruit salad of other tribes.
what these fuckwits don’t realise is that if we raised the world’s wealth – in particular the third world – population growth would become a non-issue.
too right it is. The ex president of the AMA belling the cat on vaccine injuries, AND the silencing of doctors, through her very own first-hand evidence.
I’m waiting for the inevitable pile-on. Surely she’s a foil-hatter from way back? What’s the term, cooker?
Where’s m0nty when you need him?
Without immigration there is no population explosion in the west.
There is the reverse….before the jab!
Libs begging for lab squandermonkies to splurge on their pet projects.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/dec/20/sydney-melbourne-rail-upgrades-could-be-transformative-coalition-says
Following decades of inaction that has plagued Australia’s interstate rail lines, Anthony Albanese has talked up his ambitions for high-speed rail. Ahead of the May federal election, he pledged $500m for early stage works on the Sydney-Newcastle corridor, and in November, the government passed legislation towards establishing its promised high-speed rail authority.
However, McKenzie believes upgrading existing lines can bring more immediate benefits.
“While very fast trains has great appeal, the reality is that it is decades away from being built – even if governments were to get serious about it. In the meantime, there is so much we can be doing to improve existing lines that could decrease journey times significantly,” she said.
“An ambition for high-speed rail in Australia should not come at the cost of our continued investment strategy into existing rail networks, including the Melbourne to Sydney route.
…
“The Australian government is committed to supporting economic growth and social opportunity through faster rail connections between major capital cities and growing regional centres,” the spokesperson said.
The faster service proposed by Laird would only make a handful of stops at regional centres such as Albury and Wagga Wagga, as opposed to the more than 10 stops currently. Laird touts the emissions and environmental benefits of taking more travellers and, crucially, freight operations off the roads and out of the air and into faster trains.
Laird has estimated his plan would only cost “in the billions of dollars, not tens of billions” required for high-speed rail projects, and could be running within four years, even with current construction constraints and costs. However, governments would need to quickly embrace the plan.
Latest out from Qld Police. ..
Donald Trump was actually reloading for the shooters.
Hmmm a theme with Democrats?
https://www.townsvillebulletin.com.au/lifestyle/harvey-weinstein-found-guilty-of-rape-in-los-angeles-trial/video/4a8b47811708f7b9dd4d3634f167a4fa
prolly at his weekly prostate massage, should be here bit later full of beans
It doesn’t matter what Elon’s CEO poll looks like as there was a big ballot drop in favour of him at Twitter HQ at about 3am this morning.
Indeed. This is another piece of evidence that we have been gaslit over the last three years.
Would this be the same Kerryn Phelps who for the past 3 years has been 200% sneering & derogatory about “anti-vaccine” & “medical misinformation”?
That Kerryn Phelps?
“Still sits down to pee.”
Sure – doctor told me not to lift heavy weights, what else should I do?
🙂
The Lake election contest is going to trial.
I’m sure people have spoken about it. If there’s one person who would be able to destroy the US/Australia alliance it will be Rudd.
These morons chose the biggest lunatic, one of the most preposterous individuals on the planet to be our ambassador in Washington. God help that city as I’m not sure it’s going to make it with that lunatic in residence.
I know we’re not meant to plagiarise, particularly from Fork Orners but when I read the Phelps article (thanks BB, take the rest of the day off) I said “and me with no champagne”. Let’s hope it causes great anxiety in that little bubble of wokesters.
No you didn’t. You’re a disgrace to the medical profession.
Thanks DB… weird that she’s managed to get a court to hear her case and yet this is the headline:
Election Denier Kari Lake, 53, was the Republican nominee for governor in Arizona and has launched legal action to have her defeat overturned
UK citizens stockpiling supplies due to shortage fear
Good read on Ukraine and the 120,000 dead Ukrainians:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/is-this-winning/
blessed are the preppers for they shall inherit the earth
will Kevin’s VIP pass at Scores Nightclub still be valid?
That location shut down not long after Rudd attended.
He has that effect on many things.
The Dr Karyn Phelps Vax injury article at News com au is definitely the most significant Vax injury article in past 2 years. Over 650 comments so far.
Courier Mail has the article up but looks like suppressing comments as only one when I looked. Herald Sun and Daily Telegraph not got the article up yet.
Spread it far and wide as I am doing.
The Lake election contest is going to trial.
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Runbeck.
Dominion.
SOS Offices.
Investigators.
Researchers.
Whistleblowers.
Patriots in trusted positions.
Trust yourself.
You have seen the truth.
Time to show the world.
Focus.
FOCUS.
Ascension.
Q
yes indeedy.. that one who was pushing vaccines on children.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/kerryn-phelps-nsw-school-return-plan-exposes-children-to-heightened-covid-risk,15980
I am sceptical.
He was thrown under the bus in a pathetic attempt to Get! Trump!
NYCPD detectives in the other trial told complainants to delete evidence off their phones. He should have been let off, cops and complainants go to gaol. No, only he went to gaol.
Evidence and witness tampering by the cops. My god civilised countries don’t allow this.
From that trial, what was he guilty of? The low IQ press sees “sex offences” and assumes (Whoopi Goldbergeqsue rape-rape) rape. He was found guilty of at least “sex trafficking” or a similar offence. If there was no coercion, why were the gals not guilty of solicitation?
The LA trial was in part secret. You can call people out on social media, but you can’t be named during a trial?
Ridiculous.
What’s R saying, Custard?
Only in the west, Christianity is thriving in Africa, parts of Asia and Latin America.
Christianity may have started in the ME but it is a European religion.
If Africa, parts of Asia and Latin America come to dominate it will become something else.
Thanks Dot – wasn’t aware of most of that!!!….
The top rated comment at Phelps story on news.com:
Custard, just received R’s comments.
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Humpback
Microsoft
NYPD head office
Detectives
Apricot jam on toast.
Guys riding bikes in weekends
Prime Time
Austin Healey
Fish&Chips
Pasta.
Watch the boiling water.
Suspense
Pita Bread
Pita Bread.
R
Good read on Ukraine and the 120,000 dead Ukrainians:
It’s a tragic read.
The damage done to Ukraine will be at least as bad as what the holodomor did. They will never recover.
<a href="https://www.europarl.euGood to see the EU just finding out about it 5 days ago.
Holodomor: Parliament recognises Soviet starvation of Ukrainians as genocide
This is old news but something on the wireless twigged my interest.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-02/christchurch-massacre-manifesto-found-in-loxton-home/101291944
It is incredibly offensive the government decides what an adult can and cannot watch or read.
I can understand but not accept the argument for the massacre video being prohibited. Most people would simply lose any sympathy for the cause. Society is better for it to be legal. There are so many videoes on the net of people dying in war zones if they really want to consume this material they can.
As for banning literature, this is not only wrong but it is a fallacious argument as well.
If you really want to combat extremism, people have to be able to understand it.
What we have now is a privileged class of educated people who can read Mein Kampf* for example whilst the rest of us cannot.
(*Not banned as far as I know).
Like Jefferson said, I prefer dangerous freedom to safe authoritarianism.
For any Cats that got triggered over Channel 10, it’s important to remember….
Yeah sorry Zyno – it is a tragic read about Ukraine and a shame we don’t hear the facts in Lamestream media…
Now Made it to the Daily Mail today
Top doctor reveals both she AND her wife suffered ‘devastating’ Covid vaccine injuries – and slams ‘censorship of public discussion’ about adverse jab effects
. Dr Kerryn Phelps says she and her wife suffered ‘devastating’ vaccine injuries
. She claims medical authorities failed to follow up and have censored discussion
. Former premier Campbell Newman called the testimony a ‘watershed moment’
. A DJ previously claimed doctors were scared to go public over vaccine injuries
Dr Phelps has previously been an advocate of the vaccines.
‘There is definitely a highly significant reduction in death rates and severe acute disease if you have had three or four vaccines,’ she wrote in July.
She has also been outspoken throughout the pandemic about the importance of avoiding the virus.
In August, she wrote an article titled ‘dropping COVID safeguards is just a bad idea’ and has consistently warned about long Covid as a result of ‘even mild’ infections.
Dr Phelps became very high-profile president of the Australian Medical Association in 2000 making headlines by frequently clashing with then Howard Liberal government.
In 2018 she succeeded the retiring Liberal prime minister Malcolm Turnbull by winning a by-election to become the member for Wentworth, the electorate covering Sydney’s wealthy eastern suburbs, which she lost in the 2019 federal poll.
In July award-winning DJ Tyson Illingworth claimed five doctors told him ‘privately’ that he was suffering serious health problems caused by an adverse reaction to two doses of Moderna – but they couldn’t say so publicly or they would be deregistered.
The DJ, who goes by the name tyDi, went through a lengthy rehab after waking up partially paralysed just weeks after he was administered his first Moderna shot on October 1 last year.
Illingworth claimed five doctors suggested a correlation between his Moderna vaccinations and his paralysis but refused to go on the record out of fear of backlash or deregistration from the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (Ahpra).
‘I went from doctor to doctor to have them tell to me in private I would like to tell you what is happening to you, but I would be deregistered,’ Tyson told Daily Mail Australia.
In March 2021, doctors were advised by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (Ahpra) and national medical boards to not ‘undermine’ the national vaccine rollout.
Tells you everything you need to know about the MSM.
As much as I despise Andrews, he can’t take all the blame for Melbourne. The rot began when Howard started ramping up migration and every government since has loved it and bought more in. That along with ever greener councillors and mayors and bike paths and speed cameras everywhere for the 40k limits.
Melbourne was once relatively uncrowded, safe and had many beautiful buildings. It was easy to get around with the wonderful wide streets that Hoddle left us. Best of all it had its own distinctive Aussie culture. No more, all gone, depending on where you are, you could be in Beijing or Mumbai and sometimes Somalia. There are idiots everywhere on E scooters and pushbikes screaming through the streets. The wuflu madness just capped it all off. It is a shithole, I cannot see any reason why one would enter the city proper.
Posted two fairly reasonable comments on Rudd’s appointment in the Oz. No language, a little cynical and both rejected.
So much for courts in the US helping fix election integrity
North Carolina’s Supreme Court rejected a state voter ID requirement, citing that it was unconstitutional and carried an intentionally racially discriminatory motive.
The state’s high court made a 4-3 decision on Friday to side with a lower court ruling that voided the photo ID law due to the violation of an equal protection clause of the North Carolina Constitution.
Bravo!
Re the Lake case, the judge is allowing two items through, whether the printer/ tabulations probs on election day where intentional, and whether proper chain of custody was maintained. Nothing really hinges on the probs being intentional, all they need to be is of sufficient impact to call the win into doubt, so I’m not sure why that was added but its certainly a ground for future appeal. On the chain of custody, there will be in the issue of the 25K votes that appeared on Nov 10, and the issue of the 300K mail-in votes as well. The judge washed his hands on the signature match question using the towel marked ‘laches’, of course.
Deon Jenkins told the first meeting of the Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans that money given to black people in the California should be in-line with the average price of a home in the state, around $800,000.
Following that appearance at the public hearing in Oakland’s City Hall on Wednesday, Jenkins, who refers to himself as a ‘hip hop organizer’ said in an interview: ‘Either they’re going to comply or it’s going to be a serious backlash.’
Anti-vaxx Nasti gun nutters got nothing on the Pikachu brigades…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vlDpF7jKGPA
#Auf der Heide blüht ein kleines Blümelein
#BoomBoomBoom
#Und das heißt:
#BoomBoomBoom
#Erika.
#BoomBoomBoom
😀
Anti-vaxx nuts got nothing on
Bingo!
Mother Lodesays:
December 20, 2022 at 1:31 pm
Add to this a union leader would be in bed with those self-absorbed cupidinous, power obsessed freaks in the union and the government.
The QPU sold out their members over the vax. I was told that all unions in QLD were called to a meeting with the Premier and when they came out, they all supported vax mandates. When my workplace avoided being mandated, our union secretary was venomous in an interview towards his members that were against the vax.
A pox on them all.
Looks like Ukraine repelled the invasion at first:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/vladimir-putins-mad-dash-for-kyiv-shown-in-leaked-ukraine-battle-plan-m3z8tgm29
There is little current news, so it must be bad for Ukraine now.
There are few maps being reported on with up to date commentary relevant to battle movements and actions.
From the generation that has never owned slaves to the generation that has never been slaves…….shouldn’t the cost of fighting the Civil War be deducted from any reparations?
(Oh, for an edit button to remove one’s accidental duplications…)
#Ignominy
Russia also. Casualties are more or less similar as far as I can tell, which is to be expected when you’re pretty much fighting WW1 all over again. Trench warfare. Russia though has another problem: they’re running out of everything.
Russia’s Wartime Economy (19 Dec)
“When the heaviest sanctions were introduced in March, some economists predicted a rapid collapse in the Russian economy, perhaps by as much as 30 per cent. But that did not happen: oil and gas revenues continued to flow in and the currency soon recovered.
Instead, what is emerging is something different — not a dramatic decline, but a steady degradation of its productive capacity which economists in both Russia and the west argue is pushing the country back decades. Russia is trying to operate a modern economy without the ability to import many of the components, raw materials and technologies on which it depends.
The impact is being felt across the economy — from the banks that need servers to process payments to the country’s poultry industry, which had relied on the Netherlands as a supplier of the chicks from which broiler hens are grown for the mass production of eggs.
Agricultural firms are struggling to source tractor tyres, while airline companies are unable to secure foreign components to repair their planes.”
At least Russia has a lot of industrial capacity that can be used to make stuff. We by contrast have nothing much by way of industry, and what we do have is rapidly dying under the attack by green woke. Can you imagine what isolation due to a war would do to us?
Say, what?
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/dec/20/queensland-police-union-wants-to-buy-wieambilla-shootings-property-
As much as I despise Andrews, he can’t take all the blame for Melbourne. The rot began when Howard started ramping up migration and every government since has loved it and bought more in.
Howard profoundly changed the direction of Australia in two ways. Immigration and Gun Laws. Very difficult to course correct on either of these issues.
Possibly Australia’s worst prime minister ever in terms of damage that lasts for perpetuity.
Ummm … Gough Whitlam.
Zyconoclastsays:
December 20, 2022 at 3:37 pm
So much for courts in the US helping fix election integrity
North Carolina’s Supreme Court rejected a state voter ID requirement, citing that it was unconstitutional and carried an intentionally racially discriminatory motive.
The state’s high court made a 4-3 decision on Friday to side with a lower court ruling that voided the photo ID law due to the violation of an equal protection clause of the North Carolina Constitution.
Could not wait to start of next month
Two Republican justices will replace Hudson and Associate Justice Sam Ervin IV on the court early next month, giving the GOP a 5-2 seat advantage. Hudson is retiring and Ervin lost his reelection bid last month. Since the three Republican justices who dissented last winter wrote that the constitution doesn’t expressly bar or limit partisan advantage in mapmaking, it’s more likely for a majority going forward to reject last February’s 4-3 decision that defined illegal partisan gerrymandering.
Ummm … Gough Whitlam.
What did Gough do that is still impacting Australia today?
Serious question! He was a skid mark that came out in the next wash!
The ground hasn’t yet frozen enough for any side to make major moves simce the end of October, and all the large scale media focus is now on one single town and its outlying settlements where Vlad Bae, his annexed and press-ganged-to-near-extinction Ukrainian auxiliaries and his Wagner mercenary penal legions have been unsuccessfully flinging bodies at since March.
This reminds me of all the extremely confident predictions here of the ‘cauldron’ that was going to snap shut on the Donbas at any time between April and August, trapping and utterly destroying Ukraine’s army.
(And we’ll all agree to ignore the last month or so of incremental Ukrainian gains in the Svatove and Kreminna directions, and the multiple desperate attempts by the Russians to counterattack these and at Bilohorivka…)
Say, what?
Just incase you didn’t already trust them, working on establishing their credentials as complete lunatics.
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
December 20, 2022 at 3:49 pm
that money given to black people in the California should be in-line with the average price of a home in the state, around $800,000.
From the generation that has never owned slaves to the generation that has never been slaves…….shouldn’t the cost of fighting the Civil War be deducted from any reparations?
No – The Black African Nations should be paying reparations for rounding up their own Citizens to be sold for Slavery to the World
British royals expert Hilary Fordwich stunned CNN anchor Don Lemon into silence with her argument that African slave owners owe “reparations” rather than the British Empire, in a viral clip from CNN’s coverage of the death of the queen.
Conservatives on Twitter found the clip hilarious, as it depicted Lemon getting swift pushback for trying to promote the narrative that the British crown owes reparations for slavery.
Observers noted Lemon meekly switching topics without protest after Fordwich’s unexpected response
CNN’s “Don Lemon Tonight” around a week ago, began with the host telling Fordwich that “you have those who are asking for reparations for colonialism, and they’re wondering, you know, ‘$100 billion, $24 billion here and there, $500 million there.’”
“Some people want to be paid back and members of the public are wondering, ‘Why are we suffering when you are, you have all this vast wealth?’ Those are legitimate concerns,” Lemon stated.
Fordwich agreed that the desire for reparations is alive and well, though those who want it can look to African slavers.
“Well I think you’re right about reparations in terms of – if people want it though, what they need to do is, you always need to go back to the beginning of the supply chain. Where was the beginning of the supply chain?” she asked.
“That was in Africa,” she continued. “Across the entire world, when slavery was taking place, which was the first nation in the world that abolished slavery?” It was “the British,” Fordwich declared, adding, “In Great Britain they abolished slavery. 2,000 naval men died on the high seas trying to stop slavery.
Why? Because the African kings were rounding up their own people. They had them [in] cages, waiting in the beaches.”
She concluded, “I think you’re totally right. If reparations need to be paid, we need to go right back to the beginning of that supply chain and say, ‘Who was rounding up their own people and having them handcuffed in cages. Absolutely, that’s where they should start.”
Tara blockies must be thrilled to learn they’re going to have a bunch of cops moving into the middle of them.
Not cops as neighbours mind you, but cops with jangled nerves & unpredictable PTSD “issues”
Just what a blocky would bludee-well-need.
Tayler Hansen on Tucker Carlson: No Dads Were at the Christmas Drag Show – “Mostly Single Mothers Who Happen to Be Obese” (VIDEO)
Tayler, who has taken a lot of heat over his reporting, told Tucker, “If Dragphobia means that I am against full-grown men dressed as women sexually dancing and committing lewd acts in front of minors intentionally, then you can consider me ‘dragphobic’ to say the least.”
And Tayler also pointed out to Tucker Carlson that he did not see many fathers there, “I’m glad you mentioned the dads, Tucker. There actually is a common reoccurrence is there are no dads there 99% of the time. A lot of the people who bring these kids to the show are single mothers who happen to be obese. I don’t know if there is a pattern there, or what?”
That ought to ignite the crazy left tonight!
I learn a new word every day!
Took a nation of “Lifters” and turned them into “leaners.” Introduced the culture of “welfare dependency” that has lasted to the resent day.
Putin is in Belarus again today trying to get Luka to commit. Doesn’t seem likely as the Belarussian Army is quite hostile to the idea. It’s been interesting watching Luka thread the needle – balancing Russian demands and domestic troubles, which aren’t helped by the recent election he rigged.
“Like Jefferson said, I prefer dangerous freedom to safe authoritarianism.”
Despite the outcries, I don’t think it’s about “safety” at all – more like unwillingness to find out the facts and make your own choice (which may be laziness, or may be because “time poor”) and the desire to follow the mob.
After all, even a cursory glance at history shows that authoritarian regimes are rarely “safe”, and even when they start that way, they rarely stay that way.
And confronting outre ideas and ideologies is uncomfortable – to refute them requires research and critical thinking, and most of all time.
It’s hard work to research both sides while suppressing your own biases, then poke and prod at the various “solutions” to find flaws, omissions and so on. And there are so many things that require your attention, even aside from day to day living! So people tend to listen to others who have done that work for them. And if they listen to the MSM “experts” then they will be part of the majority when they form their opinions. So they out-source the decisions to an “expert” on the MSM and viola! They “know” what is good and right to do after just a few minutes of paying attention to a talking head on TV or a few minutes reading a “trusted” newspaper.
Which worked fine when media ownership was diverse, and when those writing the articles had come up through the ranks and learned their trade in the school of hard knocks, and when people spent the time to hear or read multiple sources on the same “event”. But is now failing them, when just a few owners exist, when journalists are edumacated at left-leaning universities and want to “make a difference” and “tell a story” to “engage the audience” rather than just report the facts and what others have said about those facts without fear or favour, and when people only have the time for a quick synopsis from a single source.
And that state of affairs is easily exploited and then enforced by the unscrupulous.
And it has been, and is being so exploited.
I don’t know how to fix it – hell, I’m not sure it can be fixed any time soon.
And that’s going to be a problem some time soon.
I hope it’s not a “fatal” problem for my family, my country or my planet.
Two of my favourite scotch whiskys are in short supply at the usual outlets.
Things are getting serious!
Would it help if we invaded the UK?
VAERS Shows a 4070% Increase in Miscarriages and Stillbirths Since mRNA Roll-out
The vaccine is “safe and effective” according to our very own CDC, FDA and Federal government.
Nothing to see here. Pay no attention to the 4,070% increase in miscarriages and stillbirths, as reported by the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS). The VAERS system is the federal government’s method of monitoring vaccine injuries through real-time reporting. As reported through OpenVAERS.com:
Pfizer, the maker of one of the notorious mRNA “vaccines”, has recently come out and acknowledged that the vaccine may cause blood clots. As reported on by The Gateway Pundit yesterday, Pfizer’s President of International Developed Markets Janine Small admitted that the vaccine had never been tested on whether or not it prevented transmission of the disease before it entered the market.
The known effects of myocarditis and other cardiac injuries has not only been well documented in the public, it is now being acknowledged by the vaccine manufacturer and the FDA themselves. And now that Twitter allows “free speech” (kind of), the message is beginning to disseminate throughout the mainstream.
So they’re going to turn it into a shrine?
Police PTSD sufferers going to the scene of a double police murder, for a break. FMD!
Just the Isle of Islay.
JC – prease exprain…
If the California Reparations became law then I can see it being petitioned to be put to a vote at the next general election. I can’t see it getting a large ‘Yes’ vote from the whites and latinos.
Has anyone here visited the Caspian Sea?
Fucking hilarious; and by hilarious I mean every one of the corrupt, sleazy pieces of shit should be taken out and horse-whipped, how the Jan 6 shitheads have indicted Trump for doing exactly what they did to his election: dispute it: as Mark Rice explains:
https://choiceclips.whatfinger.com/2022/12/19/trump-crimlnal-referral-to-department-of-justice-what-happens-next-details/
Oh well, I’ m a bit late on this but what the hell, There may have been previous comments on this that I haven’t seen. Kevin Rudd as Ambassador.
My Facebook post:
Zyconoclast says:
December 20, 2022 at 3:26 pm
Good read on Ukraine…… It’s a tragic read. The damage done to Ukraine will be at least as bad as what the holodomor did. They will never recover.
No, they won’t. Almost a quarter of the population has left the country and I imagine a fair percentage of them will not return. Inflation is 30% and GPD has collapsed by 36%. Unemployment is also around 30%. Russia currently controls around 20% of the Ukraine’s arable land. Conservative estimates suggest a damage bill of $US700Bl+ to date and rising as more infrastructure is destroyed/damaged. By the time this is over, who knows – a trillion dollars? More?
Meanwhile, even Zelensky admitted (in June) that up to 100 Ukrainian soldiers are being killed each day and 500 wounded. Every day! That’s north of 200,000 killed or wounded per annum. Then of course, there are the civilian losses numbering in the many thousands and rising.
And today, we read that Putin, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov and Defence Minister Shoigu are all in Minsk having a chat with Lukashenko. Apparently, they are discussing closer economic and industrial alignment and……the excitement of Sunday’s World Cup soccer final in Qatar. Despite the ‘nothing to see here’ stance, can we expect a reinvigorated Russian push in the New Year?
Ukraine is an incredible place with large tracts of beautiful scenery, exceptional architecture and a fascinating history. The Beatles were correct in their assertions about Ukraine girls. But it’s also one of the most manipulative and corrupt places on the planet in terms of government and officialdom. No matter what happens in this conflict with Russia, I think Ukraine is finished as a functioning independent country.
Russia also.…
Not entirely, the Politburo consisted of
7 Russians
1 Ukrainian
1 Polish
2 Georgian including Stalin
1 Latvian
No, they won’t. Almost a quarter of the population has left the country and I imagine a fair percentage of them will not return.
I did not mean a literal starvation/death.
Between those that have left and won’t return and the fact more that 100k of the baby making men are dead and many more injured, the long term prospects for Ukrainian demographics are bleak.
The birth rate before the war was terrible, afterwards it cannot recover.
Yes. It was amusing that when Russia sent a division into Belarus recently for exercises the Belarussian Army took off to the Polish border to defend against those dastardly NATO-loving Poles.
Russia’s rhetoric hyping NATO as a dire threat has given Lukashenko a convenient excuse. He’s no fool, he needs his army in Belarus, not in Ukraine, to safeguard himself in power.
For those who haven’t read the WA Public Health Act (in light of Phelps’ admission):
Zyconoclast says:
December 20, 2022 at 4:49 pm
Agreed.
Lysander
It’s a tightening move by the BOJ. It also has major global implications because:
1. The BOJ holds 50% of the outstanding Japanese debt.
2. Yen is used around the world as a funding currency because of its previous medium term weakness
3. The Japs are the largest holders of US bonds.
They had to tighten policy because they can’t allow the Yen to weaken much more as it impacts their inflation rate.
This means “risk off” and will adversely impact all asset classes around the world at least in the short term.
Ah ok thanks JC… got it!
Albanese Government gives America a smack in the mouth – Ambassador Rudd
Tuesday, 20 December 2022
What did the US do to deserve this?
I thought we were allies.
Well, they only got to Bakhmut in June-July, once Popasana and Severdonestsk-Lysichansk fell to RUS. Whether or not this ‘one single town’ has little strategic significance on the UKR defense line is largely answered by the significant number of troops they’ve devoted to its defense.
Yes, I was wrong. I underestimated how many troops UKR had in the field south and how well-defended that part of the line was, and how few RUS forces there were to go on the offensive in the middle of the year.
Why isn’t the Western MSM promoting these gains?
But enough about the anti-vaxx protestors.
That’s no way to speak about Kerryn Phelps.
But enough about the anti-vaxx protestors.
Dickless humour.
Ukraine is an incredible place with large tracts of beautiful scenery, exceptional architecture and a fascinating history. The Beatles were correct in their assertions about Ukraine girls. But it’s also one of the most manipulative and corrupt places on the planet in terms of government and officialdom. No matter what happens in this conflict with Russia, I think Ukraine is finished as a functioning independent country.
I visited Ukraine in the 1980s. They hated the Russians then, as they do now. But this conflict was always going to destroy Ukraine. There was an opportunity to surrender their claim over the Russian speaking areas, where conflict had killed so many – but which most of the population in the West seems still unaware of. What a shame there was not a diplomatic solution at the begging of this current debacle. So many lives lost.
VAERS Shows a 4070% Increase in Miscarriages and Stillbirths Since mRNA Roll-out
Such a tragedy. The first grandchild of a friend was aborted in the third trimester due to the unsurvivable damage to the foetus, which I cannot describe since it was so bad. Yes – this does occur from time to time. But my friend – a ex nurse – would not hear of the possibility of vaccine damage.
Thank the Lord, a subsequent baby reached full term and was delivered. A lovely baby, fully formed.
Dover – You know the MSM is just a mouthpiece of the Left. They put out the talking points and nothing else. No actual reporting or investigation.
The last 6 or 7 months the MSM has been hyping the glorious victories of the heroic Ukrainians against the nasty slope-headed Russians because that got buy-in for the money that the Left sent to Ukraine. From which they got their cut (see Bursima, FTX).
Recently, oh about 6 weeks ago, there was a change in tone. There were noises coming from the left about the cost of supporting the Ukrainians. That lasted maybe two or three weeks. Then everything went quiet.
What I think is happening is that the Left has decided they want to keep the flood to Ukraine going (see US defense spending bill) but now think that it should be done below the radar. That way they get their baksheesh but don’t stir up their base too much. Hence the MSM has cut right back on reporting the war. At least that’s what it looks like to me.
Brandis thrilled with Rudd appointment.
m0ntysays:
December 20, 2022 at 5:19 pm
in Melbourneistan at the moment, had a look in the CBD, it’s filthy, smelly, homeless people all over the place & very downmarket.
But enough about the anti-vaxx protestors.
HOW DARE you criticise Dr Phelps and her wife. What are you, some kind of homophobe?
Wow.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/vaers-showing-4070-increase-miscarriages-stillbirths-since-mrna-roll/
The compulsory mRNA vaccination programme ought to be disavowed and those who don’t, “cancelled”.
When the MSM go quiet on Ukraine’s wins, you know there are no wins.
Sun Tzu.
McClowns grand solid gold cubic zircona encrusted codpiece with the hourly gush of money to the east has started to smoke and whine in the terrible, terrible heat…
Its thermogeddon in the West.
Western Australia’s first big battery will now cost an extra $19 million and not be available until after summer, adding further pressure to the state’s electricity grid.
More than two years in the making, the Kwinana battery project was announced in October 2020 as a way to strengthen WA’s power system, and will be capable of powering 160,000 homes for two hours.
The battery soaks up power from generators or sources like rooftop solar when demand is low but supply is high – like during the middle of the day – and distributes it when the opposite is true.
Celebrating the installation of the first battery units of the project in August, Premier Mark McGowan described it as a “pretty simple and neat solution to the problem we face”.
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A spokesperson for the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), which is responsible for operating the grid that powers more than a million customers from Geraldton to Albany and out to Kalgoorlie, said the delays had been accounted for.
They said combined with coal supply shortages and other issues, AEMO had activated a process not used in WA since 2008, which provides “reserve capacity” on standby, either to generate more power or to cut back demand.
“These reserves will add further resilience to the grid during the challenging summer period when the power system is under increased stress,” AEMO’s executive general manager for WA, Kate Ryan, said.
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“Battery suppliers originally advised that industry standards meant a passive fire design would be adequate for the project,” the spokesperson said.
“However, at the beginning of this year Synergy made the decision to install an impermeable firewater containment system to meet emerging understandings of the technology in other jurisdictions.”
Biden and Co. are in the middle of putting a spending bill for Ukraine through Congress. There is every reason to promote these gains to bolster the necessity of the bill. If they’re prepared to downplay the significance of Bakhmut, it would make no sense to not exaggerate the significance of these gains let alone ignore.
Bruce of Newcastle says:
December 20, 2022 at 3:52 pm
Russia though has another problem: they’re running out of everything.
Instead, what is emerging is something different — not a dramatic decline, but a steady degradation of its productive capacity …… Russia (doesn’t now have) the ability to import many of the components, raw materials and technologies on which it depends.
No so. Russia isn’t like most (all) western countries that are a spaghetti of inter-reliance or reliance on Chinese supply. Russia has been largely self-sufficient for most things as a consequence of 70 years of the the cold war and their capacity to produce is undoubted. The last 30 years has allowed Russia to gain access to some newer methodology and, as necessary, China is filling any holes. (China, who by the way, produce large quantities of components for the West and for whom copying is an artform.)
The impact is being felt across the economy — from the banks that need servers to process payments to the country’s poultry industry, which had relied on the Netherlands as a supplier of the chicks from which broiler hens are grown for the mass production of eggs.
Nonsense. Servers are ’10 a penny’ and I doubt the Russian economy will fall because of a lack of eggs.
Agricultural firms are struggling to source tractor tyres, while airline companies are unable to secure foreign components to repair their planes.
Russia has been producing tyres since (at least) the 1930s. Most international tyre companies set up operations in Russia in the 1990s and yes, those foreign factories have ceased production in the past few months. But, the majority of those tyres were exported for sale and Russian owned factories produce around 75-80% of domestic tyre requirements. To be fair, the local versions may not meet Euro standards but again, hardly a crisis.
As for the aircraft parts – some parts for foreign manufactured aircraft are near impossible to obtain. But, Russia have been manufacturing aircraft, and parts, for years. I know for certain that some hard to obtain foreign parts are now being manufactured (copied) in Russia.
Remember that Mrs Speedbox was in Russia just a few weeks ago and she didn’t report any shortages. Westerners always seem to overlook Russian inventiveness and capacity to overcome. Most westerners would shrivel up at the idea of ‘something’ not being available at a moment’s notice but Russians aren’t like that – they simply shrug and move on to the next thing. Or manufacture what is required. It’s a totally different mindset – think of Australia 50+ years ago when we just got on with the job using a different tool or method.
That’s true. But Russia isn’t having any wins either. Trench warfare.
What the MSM does though has nothing to do with Ukraine or Russia and everything to do with what the Lefty deep state wants reported. Or not reported.
There’s a bit of a threat that the Hunter laptop stuff about Bursima will come out. Been some stories about this week. I think that’s another reason why the MSM is running dead on the war…to protect Biden, and by extension the others like the Pelosis who have fingers in the yummy Ukrainian honey jar. Not to mention the massive FTX money laundering operation which went through Ukraine and back to fund the Dems’ mid terms steal.