we’re at the street fighting stage now- like Germany in the 1920s
Try to stay on Planet Earth, Milton.
Aborigines make up 3% of the population, the vast majority are brain damaged children, drunken women, and old men.
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We’re such an unserious country we can’t even produce proper revolutionaries.
The lady is hardly Ioseph Stalin..
She has more gravity than Stalin.
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‘Outsized’ would mean its not proportionate.
Outsized means in context to the historical perspective.
See above, you can’t say its outsized and then believe that it is also proportionate to the goal or not care either way.
You’re now putting in my mouth. I haven’t made references to “proportionate”. Military spending takes away resources from private consumption.
The tweet pointed out the failure of sanctions.
The tweet talked about Russian GDP and how this magically infers the sanctions have no bite. The sanctions may or may not be working but I’d love to hear how imports directly contribute to GDP when imports are subtracted from the GDP equation.
Here:
GDP = private consumption + gross private investment + government investment + government spending + (exports – imports).
I do, but the state isn’t merely concerned with citizens as consumers. Every political question doesn’t reduce to improving or increasing consumption.
How about falling consumption.
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It’s a chilly 6c in Catania, might be the Etna influence.
I am in the square enjoying a cup of froth waiting to go to 10am mass before doing the cathedral and Achilles bath tours.
I have identified my safe place in the apartment, the bathroom has only a light timber roof with a skylight, and a large horizontal steel girder in the wall.
There are workers currently slapping new concrete on the front facade but I don’t think it will make much difference.
Gas here is bottled, I have one smallish blue bottle next to the gas stove and there is a giant blue bottle in the entrance to the building.
If I want to use the hair dryer I have to turn off the electric hot water heater.
Can’t see Italy going all electric any time soon.
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the vast majority are brain damaged children, drunken women, and old men.
Crotchless, the vast majority are white lefties with vegan fuelled hair tempers and astronomical sized cognitive dissonance about the havoc they sneeringly inflict.
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Decking on national television would have lead to an assault charge and the end of Abbott’s political career.
I’m starting to wonder how much worse off we’d have been.
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H B Bearsays:
February 7, 2023 at 12:43 pm
Lysander
Who is hoping for a .5% increase to rates today?
I described the situation as being like when Wile E Coyote runs off the cliff and keeps running in the air before plummeting into the gorge. That is where we are. It will be a miracle if Australia avoids a recession this time around. The Chinese won’t be any help.
The RBA was late to the party with rate rises on the way in and they are going to overcook it at the top.
Dumb as.
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This is just so beautiful
without the connivance of the African kings and tribal chiefs, not a single slave would ever have left Africa!
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Rosie
Are you heading to Taormina? We stayed in the hotel where they filmed the latest White Lotus 2, according to wifey. I believe it was a Four Seasons, but I can’t recall the name.
The RBA was late to the party with rate rises on the way in and they are going to overcook it at the top.
Safe pair of hands.
World’s best standard.
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It’s a chilly 6c in Catania
Sounds like you’re on your way to Syracuse, Rosie, which is an amazing place. They did for Athens in the Peloponnesian War.
Many really successful early city states were based near volcanoes, since the fertility of the soil could support a large population, both in total and of craftsmen. Athens is another, since the volcano of Methana is just to the southwest of the city. Of course Athens’ silver mines were stuff of legend too – they were ultimately volcanically* emplaced also.
(*Through hydrothermal transfer of the metals to the rock in which they’re hosted, although RockDoc may correct me.)
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6. If the Voice gets up, I will make sure I always tick boxes marked “Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander” on every government and medical form.
I’ve been doing this for years. On the one hand, I am proud that I added +1 to the number of ‘Aboriginal Medical Graduates’, on the other I regret adding +1 to the number of Aboriginals in Jail’. Overall, its a wash and at least I have been putting sand in those administrative gears for ages.
Who was it said ‘the best way to deal with a bad law is to enforce it *strictly*?
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“The lady is hardly Joseph Stalin..”
Stalin, Lenin, Trotsky, and Hitler all spent time in prison and/or exile. Many old school revolutionaries did come from impoverished backgrounds (Lenin excepted). Regardless of their putrid politics, they were brave and they took risks for their causes. They endured hardship. In the West today the revolution is being fomented by upper middle class scum, all from wealthy families, all grew up in the best suburbs, all went to tony private schools, all studying useless courses at our best universities, many are still living at home in their parent’s mansions.
Andy Ngo has investigated and unmasked a group of Antifa scum, currently running amok in Atlanta. They’re all children of privilege, bar one.
Back last September, I ran into two gormless effwits putting up posters on Oxford Street Paddington, calling for people to protest CPAC. I confronted the two shits and yes, I gave them a verbal smackdown to which their jaws suitably dropped to the floor. I then watched them scuttle back to the School of Fine Arts a few metres away. It’s isn’t the first time I’d seen far-left posters around the school but I’d noticed they only put them on a few poles near the school, they’re clearly all too effing lazy to even walk far. Revolutions require effort and hard work from their revolutionaries, alas they won’t find this among today’s young Mosman, Killara, and Rose Bay activists. Those two coddled creatures on Oxford Street weren’t interested in exerting too much physical work, no, which is why they quickly scuttled back to drink their oatmeal latte and eat their vegan muffin. These kids call themselves “activists” as long as they don’t have to expend too much activity.
These kids call themselves “activists” as long as they don’t have to expend too much activity.
Slactivists.
See Muddypuppy’s Catictionary. Wherever it now resides.
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Ukraine is a western country now.
Well they certainly took to the western-style corruption.
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But SBS is now just a Big Government bolt-on added by the Whitlam regime in 1975 when it seemed like a good idea to give migrants their own network – before it became a vehicle for political separatism
wrong socialist – it was Malcolm Fraser who set up SBS
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The Oz ran the full story on the Coogee home owner.
She was part of the Merivale group for a million years.
I’ve been doing this for years. On the one hand, I am proud that I added +1 to the number of ‘Aboriginal Medical Graduates’, on the other I regret adding +1 to the number of Aboriginals in Jail’. Overall, its a wash and at least I have been putting sand in those administrative gears for ages.
The idea of an eastern rite church in Ukraine changing the day it celebrates Christmas is bonkers.
Only about a thousand years of tradition down the tubes.
It’s the equivalent of the yanks trying to change the name of French fries to Freedom fries.
10 years after this Ukraine/Russian war is over they will be trading with each other like this never even happened.
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Only way to avoid a race war is to not get baited into identity politics.
it isn’t a race war … it’s a colour war
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The Australian wheeled out Indonesia hack Greg Sheridan to
give his opinions on The Voice.
According to Sheridan, Identity politics is the real risk in the Voice.
Here’s his sad argument:
Most Legislation affects all Australians, therefore the Voice will have a say
on Health, Education, defence Policy, etc.,
That’s undemocratic because all other Australians get to vote only once whereas those that can vote for the voice get 2 votes
It gets worserer from there, and he abuses the Liberal Party for not adopting the No position and getting reamed, but he touched on the real issue.
A successful Yes vote will give the Voice the powers that the Kings Of England once had.
Is Geoff Clark interested in International Diplomacy?
I has me doots, but if he gave advice to Parliament that Conscription needed to be reintroduced and 100,000 men sent to help Zelenskyy in Ukraine, the Parliament would be bound to do that.
Lift the Migration Intake to 3 million, all African Refugees?
Done deal.
Give Operation Sovereign Borders the bullet?
Yes sir.
Give the CFMEU Police Powers on all building Sites?
Why not?
Ukraine is a western country now.
Well they certainly took to the western-style corruption.
The former Soviet republics, Russia included, are much more corrupt than the West.
Everybody is in on it; it’s a behaviour dictated by the need to survive.
Just arrived back at Tulla to the regimes propaganda signage.
‘Stronger Together’
Haven’t cursed anything for three weeks in India but that shit annoyed me.
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Dotsays:
February 7, 2023 at 5:27 pm
Dutch gets the scale right many times
No he doesn’t. The Richter scale is set to log 10.
If you are out by 1.5 it means the quake is 31 times stronger and releases 178 times more energy than your prediction.
If the scale is in between 6 and 8, he has a fudge factor of 100 for size and 1000 for the amount of energy released.
Nailed it.
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it isn’t a race war … it’s a colour war
Fare enough.
The Reserve Bank can not undo 30 years of consolidation.
Some inflation is imported.
A lot is due to energy.
And a chunk is due to most of Australian industry now operating in cartel like structures.
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Outsized means in context to the historical perspective.
How can that be relevant? We don’t want to know if the investment is larger than it was in the last five years, we want to know if it is proportionate given the undertaking. If I renovate the house, comparing this to last five years is pointless, you want to know if what is spent is proportionate to what I’m getting.
You’re now putting in my mouth. I haven’t made references to “proportionate”.
You responded to my comment re proportionality by saying “I guess, so what?”. Given that, it’s perfectly fair to follow up as I did.
The tweet talked about Russian GDP and how this magically infers the sanctions have no bite. The sanctions may or may not be working but I’d love to hear how imports directly contribute to GDP when imports are subtracted from the GDP equation.
The tweet didn’t infer that sanctions had no bite. It simply stated they were failing to force any change in Russian policy.
How about falling consumption.
Aggregate, yes.
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Bruce of Newcastlesays:
February 7, 2023 at 7:23 pm
Don’t get me wrong: I think a new Tsarist Russia would work pretty well as a system of government. Better than what has been going on in a lot of places, including Oz, I have to say. One problem for Putin is I don’t think he has well established male heirs – which has always been a problem for kings and emperors. If he did have maybe he’d’ve gone that direction, since grooming a male heir seems to work reasonably well even in the 21st C. It’s something about human nature I suppose.
I’m not entirely convinced a king ruling is worse than what we have now. Hell, a benevolent king/dictator I’d take over the clownshow we have.
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Look at those glutes.
Jeezus, you could crack walnuts with those things.
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What’s the Chinese government’s position on flamers? Does anyone know?
Eddles?
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Ukraine is a western country now.
Well they certainly took to the western-style corruption.
The former Soviet republics, Russia included, are much more corrupt than the West.
I remember seeing a corruption index recently. Ukraine was far more corrupt than Russia, which would imply Russia is more ‘Western’.
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Ed Casesays:
February 7, 2023 at 7:15 pm
BTW, what is thorpe’s and WAR’s real agenda?
Terrorist attacks?
Random bashings of white people?
Gulags?
Compulsory confiscation of land and other assets?
Settle, petal.
She’s working for the Feds.
Probably only knows what she needs to know, which is:
Stick to the script and there’s a big payday ahead, go off script and you’ll be lucky to be hawking your fanny down Inkerman St.
Shorter Richard Cranium:
(Taps side of nose.) I know what’s going on, can’t say much right now, but there is a cunning plan being implemented.
Adelaide Pigs No Fixed Address.
Ah yes, I forgot about that – the ‘Canberra Pigs’ listed my address as ‘no fixed address’ at the time of my arrest – despite photographing my licence (with my address) and writing said address in the arresting officers notebook.
This they then used as one justification for my arrest – to quote them verbatim, from my phone vision…. ‘of no fixed address, so we can’t summons him, he might not attend’.
BASTARDS.BASTARDS.BASTARDS.BASTARDS.BASTARDS!
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Has anyone here done “EMS training”?
BTW, what is thorpe’s and WAR’s real agenda?
A soft serve cone each breakfast, lunch and tea for Dear Leader, Onus Williams.
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Ukrainian corruption. You pay someone a few bucks & a bottle of booze to avoid the draft.
Australian corruption. You’re out of pocket 90k to get your renovation plans through Waverley Council’s DA process.
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Salman Rushdie as he is today, blinded in one eye, after attack by Islamic throwback
Michael Smith News.
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The idea of an eastern rite church in Ukraine changing the day it celebrates Christmas is bonkers.
Only about a thousand years of tradition down the tubes.
It’s fun that the whole thing is because the rotation of the Earth, the revolution of the Moon around the Earth, and the revolution of the Earth around the Sun is a messy ratio of complex digits. Which after a couple thousand years meant Christmas is two weeks later in the Orthodox calendar.
On the other hand I don’t think Jesus our Lord was born on either 25 Dec nor 7 Jan. But then QE2’s birthday was in April not June, which is when we had the holiday. And Charles was a November baby, so June is even further away from November than April is. But such is what holidays are made of, and holidays are fun.
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Australian corruption.
The priority list for service with attendant fee. At least in Africa they have the decency to call it a bribe.
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I remember seeing a corruption index recently. Ukraine was far more corrupt than Russia, which would imply Russia is more ‘Western’.
Not sure my first reply got through…
I don’t think we’re getting reliable data out of Russia, so the point is moot.
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Flamers have a long history in Government in the Middle Kingdom, JC.
Mao was known to be surrounded by Flamers, euphemistically described as “advisers”.
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I don’t think we’re getting reliable data out of Russia, so the point is moot.
Why would you say that? They weren’t claiming it was scrupulous. It was simply not as corrupt as Ukraine.
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Ukrainian corruption. You pay someone a few bucks & a bottle of booze to avoid the draft.
I doubt that in the present situation.
But in normal times, you want a driver’s license within a reasonable amount of time? You pay a little extra. It starts with every day dealings with the bureaucracy and percolates upwards.
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Recently took the car in for a service & rego check.
There was a 75 buck environmental fee.
That’s the cost of the deposal of all the juices they drain/replace from the car.
75 bucks per car.
Do the math on a decent sized service centre.
FMD.
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It was simply not as corrupt as Ukraine.
I think the data from Ukraine is exactly as corrupt as the data from Russia.
I have seen nothing that makes me think otherwise during the whole of last year.
Anyway, why would anyone give anyone else free intelligence?
You missed the point Roger.
It was a reference to the systemised corruption in Australia.
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Why would you say that? They weren’t claiming it was scrupulous. It was simply not as corrupt as Ukraine.
The last corruption index I saw had Russia ahead of Ukraine.
But let’s not split hairs.
Both states are rotten to the core.
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Cassie of Sydney says:
February 7, 2023 at 8:43 pm
Has anyone here done “EMS training”?
Yes, it was called the snake because currencies wiggled within a band in the EMS (European Monetary System) prior to the introduction of the Euro. 🙂
You missed the point Roger.
It was a reference to the systemised corruption in Australia.
OK.
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I have no problem with the unbelievability of Russian of Ukrainian data. I know Russia and China long have regarded economic data as militarily important. Which is true, but also politically important since often the claims are more flamboyant than the actual. Why anyone would believe the official pronouncements from either side of a nasty war like this one mystifies me.
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Cassia, I have done Environmental Management System (EMS) training. I suspect that is not the answer you are looking for!
and the revolution of the Earth around the Sun is a messy ratio of complex digits
precession baby … its the dawn of the age of Aquarius
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My barber can’t throw hair in the bin.
It has to be collected by some special certified waste group.
Pure insanity.
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Perrottet is a piece of shit. Arguably worse than kean.
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Ed Case says:
February 7, 2023 at 7:22 pm
Liston quit in sensational circumstances……….“Hey, wait a minute, this stinks”
On the other hand Ed, there is plenty of evidence that Sonny Liston was unfit, undertrained, overweight, 40 years of age, went into the fight with bursitis of the shoulder, had logged little ring time in the past three years, couldn’t handle the unprecedented speed and movement of Cassius Clay, and tore a tendon in the crook shoulder during the fight.
Despite all those disadvantages, Liston gave Clay what the latter called his “toughest fight ever”.
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Salman Rushdie as he is today, blinded in one eye, after attack by Islamic throwback
Michael Smith News.
After the fatwa was declared, the Brits should have put out a rumour that Rushdie was holed up in a certain country estate. Then the Herefordshire Field and Gun Club could have got some useful training.
That and give him a pistol, a holster and intensive training in the use thereof and he could have seen what sort of score he could rack up.
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Ed Casesays:
February 7, 2023 at 8:51 pm
Flamers have a long history in Government in the Middle Kingdom, JC.
Mao was known to be surrounded by Flamers, euphemistically described as “advisers”.
He was also known to have a – deep – fondness for underage girls.
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The RBA was late to the party with rate rises on the way in and they are going to overcook it at the top.
So BAU then?
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The priority list for service with attendant fee. At least in Africa they have the decency to call it a bribe.
Here, we hide it as an ‘application fee’ or ‘processing fee’, or ’emergency services levy’ or ‘Catchment management fee’ etc etc etc
“The devils greatest trick was convincing people he did not exist….’
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“He was also known to have a – deep – fondness for underage girls.”
More than a “fondness”. Mao liked to rape underage virgins.
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Cassie
I was trying to be subtle, not my usual approach, I agree.
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Read the book by Mao’s doctor. Repulsive sex predator.
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Dillo!
None of this makes any sense at all.
One thing does – No one is in charge, and everyone is lying for the short term optics.
The West has never been in greater danger from a decapitation strike than it is at the moment.
The West has never been in greater danger from a decapitation strike than it is at the moment
With the quality and good decision making ability of current western leaders why would anyone want to run a decapitation strike? Never interrupt the enemy when he is making a mistake. Mistakes is all the current bunch do.
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St @ 6;27
Weather modifications via radar has been going on for a while. Is it a decision maker in the BOM? Not sure to be honest. The Harold E Holt base in Exmouth has been running amok for ages. I’ve witnessed their shenanigans on the BOM radar many times.
Speaking of which, on my bucket list ( now that Mach 1 at 100ft AGL is probably not going to happen) is this.
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Dutch gets the scale right many times
‘Many’. Oh, okay.
Does he get it right 40 times a day, given that there are 55 earthquakes per day on earth and working on an 80% strike rate?
No? Oh, he must be at best unreliable, and at worst a charlatan living on subscriptions paid for by the gullible.
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Speaking of cracking walnuts, I’ll make this my last cute owl. I defy any of you pansies to find fault with her.
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The choice was stark: deck the prick or slink away.
That worked so well at the Oscars for Will Smith.
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Further details:
Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann is suing Channel 10 and its star Lisa Wilkinson for defamation, accusing them of seeking to exploit allegations of sexual assault against him for personal and professional gain.
Mr Lehrmann, who has consistently denied raping former colleague Brittany Higgins, has launched defamation proceedings against Network Ten and News Life Ltd – an arm of News Corp Australia – in Federal Court.
Wilkinson, former co-host of The Project, and Samantha Maiden, political editor for news.com.au, are understood to be second respondents in proceedings.
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I defy any of you pansies to find fault with her
She’s a bit cross-eyed. The only way to make sure she’s okay is to toss a 50 cent piece at her and see if she catches it.
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Knuckle Draggersays:
February 7, 2023 at 10:11 pm
Dutch gets the scale right many times
‘Many’. Oh, okay.
Does he get it right 40 times a day, given that there are 55 earthquakes per day on earth and working on an 80% strike rate?
No? Oh, he must be at best unreliable, and at worst a charlatan living on subscriptions paid for by the gullible.
Your f*ckwit status is confirmed. If you had watched the forecasting clip I posted above, you wouldn’t have come out with such tosh. That means so didn’t or are to stupid follow. I did say a 7th grader could follow it….it does go for over an hour so your attention span would probably be challenged.
When I first heard how long the training was for Western weaponry, I surmised that all the operators would have to be former NATO troops working under the fiction of being military contractors.
Here, an Austrian officer confirms exactly what I thought.
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I defy any of you pansies to find fault with her
Not a fan of her manicurist’s work.
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Her eyelashes could do with a bit of work as well.
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Feeelthebern:
My barber can’t throw hair in the bin.
It has to be collected by some special certified waste group.
Pure insanity.
I cut my own hair and throw the bits into the back yard. The birds take it for their nest. I’ve raised about four generations of Willy Wagtails in my locks.
They keep coming back, so it’s not killing them.
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132andBushsays:
February 7, 2023 at 10:06 pm
St @ 6;27
Weather modifications via radar has been going on for a while. Is it a decision maker in the BOM? Not sure to be honest. The Harold E Holt base in Exmouth has been running amok for ages. I’ve witnessed their shenanigans on the BOM radar many times.
Oh deary deary me.
Oh deary what you ignorant clown?
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Which court will hear the.Lehrmann case? A real one, or an ersatz one?
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Your f*ckwit status is confirmed.
No worries. I am also unburdened by subscription to this Armstrong-esque thief’s Gullibility Channel.
If you had watched the forecasting clip
Is it professionally edited and produced?
I did say a 7th grader could follow it
Year Seven kids follow lots of things. I’m not following a bloke who thinks the government is ‘scrubbing’ his ability to tell the Real Truth to Teh PeoPle, that the same government (here and in the US) is using laser beams to control the weather from secret bases masquerading as BOM locations, that talks a lot about predictions coming true after events that occurred instead of before, and is also a deep-diving Q fanatic.
Michael Janitch is a weedy accountant-looking character living in the northern US, and making a shit tin of cash from idiots.
Given all this, I am unsure whose ‘f*ckwit’ status is confirmed.
P.S. 6PR is the best radio station in the Western world.
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I’ve witnessed their shenanigans on the BOM radar many times
You don’t actually realise how radar works, do you?
Britain is “under-delivering” on its NATO commitments, a source told Sky News
The UK does not have enough money to fulfill its military commitments after digging deep into its stockpiles to fund and equip the Ukrainian war effort, unnamed defense sources told Sky News on Monday.
Britain’s self-defense is in jeopardy because the government is giving away critical military assets to Kiev, including tanks and artillery, sources warned, explaining that “it is no good having a small number of high-end, exquisite platforms when you have not got capacity around it.”
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak recently promised Ukraine 14 Challenger 2 main battle tanks and 30 AS90 artillery guns – the remainder of the British army’s artillery stocks – leaving the home front vulnerable, according to the sources.
While Sunak inherited a “refresh” of defense policy formulated in 2021, prioritizing investment in high-tech submarines and the development of a new fighter jet, the sources who spoke to Sky argued this plan ignores the military’s immediate needs — a lack of ammunition, artillery, and missile defense systems.
The sources said they had already urged the Treasury to add £3 billion annually to the defense budget and ease restrictions on arms procurement, but Chancellor Jeremy Hunt was playing “hard ball.”
“[The Treasury] recognize[s] the threats. They recognize the pressure defense is under from inflation, the nuclear deterrent, stockpiles, and Ukraine. But despite recognizing the threats and the pressure, they say there is no more money,” one source told Sky.
Making matters worse, the government is actually cutting the size of the military from 82,000 to 73,000 troops. London will thus only be “credibly” able to supply a brigade, numbering between 5,000 and 10,000 soldiers plus supporting equipment, to a new NATO force that would normally expect three to six times that number from a major bloc power such as the UK.
Retired General Richard Barrons warned earlier this month in an op-ed that the country’s army had been so “hollowed out by spending cuts” that it could run out of ammunition “in a busy afternoon” and was by no means prepared to withstand a “surprise attack.”
Sky’s insiders at the Ministry of Defence confirmed the military would “already run out of ammunition within a few days if called upon to fight” and warned that putting together a “modern warfighting division of some 25,000 to 30,000 troops” would take “up to ten years.”
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Eyrie:
With the quality and good decision making ability of current western leaders why would anyone want to run a decapitation strike? Never interrupt the enemy when he is making a mistake. Mistakes is all the current bunch do.
Perhaps you misunderstand me – if Russia or China were to launch a decapitation strike at the US and immediately follow it up with a counterforce strike, the West would be unable to reply in time to the first. The second strike would remove any possibility of retaliation because no one would be able to order it in time to make effective.
A Russia China Coalition would then be in a position to force the stand down of the remaining Western Strategic Forces – Great Britain and France.
Game over.
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feelthebernsays:
February 7, 2023 at 8:22 pm
The Oz ran the full story on the Coogee home owner.
She was part of the Merivale group for a million years.
According to the Oz, the only one outside blood relatives recognised in the will of the family patriarch a few years ago.
Make of that what you will.
Weather modifications via radar has been going on for a while. Is it a decision maker in the BOM? Not sure to be honest. The Harold E Holt base in Exmouth has been running amok for ages. I’ve witnessed their shenanigans on the BOM radar many times.
Please explain the method and implementation.
Agree with KD.
6PR are fAb
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6. If the Voice gets up, I will make sure I always tick boxes marked “Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander” on every government and medical form.
If the InVoice gets up, it will be interesting what happens when the ‘unintended consequences’ kick in.
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6. If the Voice gets up, I will make sure I always tick boxes marked “Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander” on every government and medical form.
Is that because it is the northern islands where there are lotsa ladyboys? i.e. it is a part of the culture or something?
She’s a bit cross-eyed. The only way to make sure she’s okay is to toss a 50 cent piece at her and see if she catches it.
She’s not going to catch anything less than a 5 oz gold bar. Get the gold out of your choppers and melt a few heirlooms and get back to me.
Knuckle Draggersays:
February 7, 2023 at 10:47 pm
I’ve witnessed their shenanigans on the BOM radar many times
You don’t actually realise how radar works, do you?
On this subject your are clueless. You know what, I’ll leave the subject for a while and end it with this.
This goes for 1:27:51. Probably a bit long for you. You have no idea what they can do with radar and EMF pulses.
Go watch television.
********
Premiered on 30 Apr 2022
Lt. Col. Thomas Bearden has passed away, and his website has been deactivated, or taken down!
His company, energetic productions, sent this DVD to me directly, unsolicited, with a hand written note:
“Michael,
Wasn’t sure if you had seen THIS ONE of Tom’s—-
Tahri
Energetic Productions
1988 lecture about Russian Directed Energy weapons, given at the World Trade Center of all places.
This video includes clips added by Mr. Bearden himself at some point in 2010, long before he passed away.
This is a miracle and a half to get confirmation on pretty much everything I discovered ON MY OWN since 2011. He even has HAARP RINGS in the video but calls them “RADAR pulses”!
Listen to the parts about Ukraine and Russia, about nuclear reactors and earthquakes. About Scalar and Cancer. About the US Embassies being attacked with EMF radio wave devices, about Russia having cures to viruses using radio waves. Making ‘viruses’ also with the same technique.
This is a magnum opus of Lt. Col Bearden. The fact that it was just sent to me after he passed away , I feel obligated to carry the torch on this.
Tickler going off.
I blame the 5G.
Or the BoM radar.
Or possibly even the 6PR transmitter.
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132andBushsays:
February 7, 2023 at 10:53 pm
Watch the Bearden clip above. I doubt you will though….call it a hunch.
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Cohenite
Elbows are too pointy.
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Watching good episode of Club Grubbery – Athletes with Voices.
Interviewing : Pat Cash, Trevor Hendy, UK soccer player Matt le Tissier, US Basketball player John Stockton and former Green Bay Packers player Ken Ruettgers. Surfer Kelly Slater may pop in later. All explaining how their suspicions arose about Covid etc.
Matt a smart guy.
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Knuckle Draggersays:
February 7, 2023 at 10:47 pm
I’ve witnessed their shenanigans on the BOM radar many times
You don’t actually realise how radar works, do you?
It is the mechanism used by the BoM to let clouds know when and where to drop rain.
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Sancho Panzersays:
February 7, 2023 at 11:04 pm
Cool calm and collected.
Go watch the Bearden clip above. Have fun. I’ll drop the US .Gov speech on the matter- admitting to it at a later date. They learnt from the Soviets . I just know you don’t have a clue about that one.
Maybe they are lying? It is .Gov ( :
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Steve tricklersays:
February 7, 2023 at 11:07 pm
132andBushsays:
February 7, 2023 at 10:53 pm
Watch the Bearden clip above
Is it a slick production with good musical backing?
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Secret Super Weapons!
Weather! Cancer! EMF! Taylor Swift and Cute Owls! HAAAAARP beams!
It’s all connected! Don’t you SEE?
This blog is off the pace….
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‘everything I discovered ON MY OWN since 2011’
Ah. There you are, sir. You seem to have misplaced your pudding.
Here. Let me help you back to your room.
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If you had watched the forecasting clip I posted above, you wouldn’t have come out with such tosh. That means so didn’t or are to stupid follow. I did say a 7th grader could follow it….it does go for over an hour so your attention span would probably be challenged.
Old mate cannot forecast the next 10 earthquakes that cause over 100 casualties each to the nearest week, within +/- 0.5 on the Richter scale, to within +/- 1 km depth, to within a fifty mile radius of the epicentre and he will not get all the tectonic plates right.
I bet you $10,000 of Australian ram head sterling silver shillings (1938 -1946).
I defy any of you pansies to find fault with her.
Well, she looks nice and hydrated.
But the tattoos are a shame.
Tattoos = issues.
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It’s been good fun. A pile on from useless ignorant clowns.
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that cause over 100 casualties each
That’s a bit unfair… you’re asking the ouija board for casualties?
One earthquake might kill thousands in Haiti, and none in the Dominican Republic.
Likewise, a five on the richter might level Nepal, yet barely register in Japan.
Make a counter-offer, Trickler.
Let’s make this interesting, or do you lack breeding you simple beast?
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Indoctrination’ claim as schools take voice to classrooms
Leading advocates for the No campaign have accused teachers of ‘indoctrinating’ students to support the Yes case.
EXCLUSIVE
By Ellie Dudley
Reporter
@EllieDudley_
9:11PM February 7, 2023
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Victoria will back the Indigenous voice being promoted in schools as part of the state’s “journey to Treaty”, as schools across the nation instruct students to memorise the Uluru Statement from the Heart, welcome voice advocates to speak in assemblies and work the referendum into classroom lessons.
South Australia’s Education Department is also “supportive of the Uluru Statement, the Indigenous voice … and the referendum” being taught and discussed by teachers in schools, while the Queensland government has encouraged open discussion with students ahead of this year’s vote.
NSW teachers, by contrast, will be restricted to teaching within current programs. Most schools intend to educate children on the referendum and the Education Department of the biggest Labor state has declared it “important” to discuss in classrooms.
“Conversations about the proposed Indigenous voice to parliament at school are important for students understanding Victoria’s journey to Treaty and the important work of the Yoorrook Justice Commission,” a Victorian Education Department spokesperson said.
State Education Minister Natalie Hutchins said it was “normal and important” for students to talk about current affairs in class.
“Victoria supports the Uluru Statement and we’ve committed to supporting the voice to parliament, along with all other states and territories in Australia,” she said. “The voice referendum will be a defining moment in our nation’s history and classroom conversations around major current affairs are a normal and important part of students’ understanding and education.”
A South Australian Education Department spokesperson said teaching students about “important public issues, along with how society and government address these issues”, was a specific focus of humanities and social sciences within the curriculum.
“The voice to parliament is an opportunity for students to learn about how society engages with and resolves issues of national significance,” the spokesperson said.
However, while they were supportive of the voice being taught in schools, teachers must “ensure students are provided with unbiased and objective information to form their own critical analysis”.
Queensland will support open discussion of the voice in schools, and help “teachers to ensure students have the skills and knowledge to become active and informed citizens”.
“The Uluru Statement and proposed constitutional recognition of an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voice in the Australian parliament would be topical for students to explore as part of curriculum-based learning activities,” a Queensland Education Department spokesperson said. “The Queensland government, through a motion of parliament, has voiced support for the Uluru Statement and voice to parliament.”
The NSW Education Department has taken a more conservative approach, with teachers permitted “the flexibility to teach about current events within their teaching and learning programs”. “Critical thinking is embedded across the curriculum and students develop the skills to analyse arguments relating to current events,” a NSW Education Standards Authority spokesperson said.
Federal Education Minister Jason Clare said it was up to states and territories to implement their curriculum. “Separate to this, the government will provide public information … about referendum processes and constitutional change,” a spokesperson said.
Leading advocates for the No campaign have accused teachers of “indoctrinating” students to support the Yes case.
Students at Shearwater Mullumbimby Steiner School on the NSW north coast are able to recite the Uluru Statement by heart, having learnt it during year 5 history studies, principal James Goodlet said. “Yes, we are supportive of the voice and the Uluru Statement from the Heart,” he said. “Support for listening to First Nations people, truth-telling and truth-seeking regarding First Nations history, First Nations representation and constitutional recognition are important to us.”
Videos from ABC journalist Stan Grant have been used as educational tools for St Andrews Cathedral School students in Sydney, and teachers discussed the voice with their students when the Albanese government was elected.
“In all of our subjects, the issue was addressed through multiple perspectives, though the students in general came to our discussion in favour of the voice,” said SACS head of humanities Michael Neate.
The school also welcomed Thomas Mayor, voice advocate and author of Finding the Heart of the Nation, to speak with Indigenous students in years K-6. A spokeswoman told The Australian Indigenous voice to parliament design group co-chair Marcia Langton would be invited to speak this year.
St Mary’s Cathedral College also invited Mr Mayor to speak.
“Mayor’s insights were used to frame NAIDOC week activities,” principal Kerrie McDiarmid said. “Staff engaged students with an understanding of why the voice is important and the history that led us to this point. Significant to 2023 is the appointment of the college’s first Indigenous Student Leader, who will continue the conversation and awareness as a significant voice at the college.”
A leader of the No campaign, Warren Mundine, told The Australian he “didn’t believe” schools would facilitate fair discussion on the topic.
“It’s total propaganda. When I went to school, if you spoke about political issues and propaganda, you lost your job. These kids are only getting one side of the story and, frankly, it’s time for heads to roll.
“People have told me … their kids are coming home totally indoctrinated by it. If you’re going to teach students about the voice, you have to have representation from both sides. It’s that, or don’t talk about it.”
Catholic Schools NSW said teachers should aim to support students to develop their worldviews, not prescribe personal opinions.
“One of our goals in Catholic education is to support students to grow in
wisdom and the development of a worldview informed by their faith,” CEO Dallas McInerney said.
How about bussing the children to any regional town on “pension night” and asking what Earthly use any “Voice” will be?
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Have You Seen This Boy?
If you see Kim Jong Un, please tell him his generals and wait staff are very worried about him and the whole country would like to see him back in his lair tonight because he needs to rest before the big parade tomorrow. A spokesperson for the USA State Department labelled as unfounded rumours that Kim has been busy building an intercontinental nuclear balloon. Rumours that he has had another tantrum and shot some more generals are still being investigated.
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Apparently they especially liked Ethiopian ladies.
Thinking of Mekdes……
A pile on from useless ignorant clowns.
Am I too late? Just feeding the nano wrigglers.
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From News com au . They will never stop. This is going to cause serious problems as covers everybody over 18 who has not had a jab for 6 months. It also contradicts decision on 7 July when said n9t recommended for under 30s due to heart issues.
Australians will be able to get a fifth Covid vaccine within a fortnight.
The Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) has recommended that everyone over the age of 18 who has not been infected with Covid or received a vaccine within the last six months should get a fifth shot.
The fifth jab was previously only available for people who are severely immunocompromised.
ATAGI made it clear that those over the age of 65 remain at severe risk of death or becoming seriously unwell if they catch Covid.
The announcement means people aged between 18 and 29 will now be eligible for a fourth dose of the vaccine.
Children will not be offered another vaccine unless they have a health condition that puts them at risk.
At the start of the year, 72 per cent of eligible Australians had three doses, while 44 per cent had a fourth.
“From February 20, all adults who haven’t had a booster or an infection in the past six months can go out and get a booster shot, to give them additional protection against severe illness from Covid,” Health Minister Mark Butler said.
“If you’re 65 or over, or you’re an adult at risk of severe Covid illness, and it’s been six months since your last booster or infection, it’s now time for a booster.”
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Sailed past Taormina on way here.
I messina’d it.
Next time.
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Visited the Diocesan museum and the Roman baths which are under the piazza in front of the cathedral. Most of the decorations of the baths are missing but it’s in better shape than most others I’ve seen.
Then got my squid ink at a pretty cute restaurant run by three old fellas with an Indian chef.
You can’t get in without them pressing a button to release the front door.
The other diners were two young couples who were speaking what I thought might have been Russian but turned out to be Ukrainian unless they were Russian speaking Ukrainians as one of the owners asked them in the intersection language, English, where they were from, the spokesgirl said they were Ukrainian but living in Czech Republic where they were returning this afternoon.
Asked about war they were non committal as you might expect when both young men would be eligible for draught. Pretty adamant they were returning to Czech Republic not Ukraine.
Then walked up to visit the monastery of St Benedict which is now part of the university was the second biggest Benedictine monastery in the world. I have to wait til tomorrow for guided tour so visited the monastery Church instead. Bigger than the cathedral apparently to accommodate visitors for the feast day of St Nails.
Hard to read some of the translations but my impression was they moved from the slopes of Mount Etna after being surrounded by a lava flow in 1669. The front facade of the church was never finished and looks it.
The piazza in front of the church is a semi circle with baroque houses set around it.
It ought to look very nice but too many of the houses are run down and unoccupied, a common problem in central Catania.
No TE, like most monasteries and convents in Italy the Benedictines were booted by the government in 1866.
I don’t know if the Benedictines have any current presence in Sicily.
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I’m sure St Nails is an incorrect translation.
I look at the Italian tomorrow and see if I can figure it out.
Thank you Tom
Now a news update on toxic two-legged amphibians La Rospaccia is now in the cross-hairs:
Recklessly indifferent to truth’: Bruce Lehrmann sues Lisa Wilkinson for damages
Bruce Lehrmann has launched defamation proceedings against Network Ten and News Life Ltd – an arm of News Corp Australia – in Federal Court. Picture: Getty Images
Bruce Lehrmann has launched defamation proceedings against Network Ten and News Life Ltd – an arm of News Corp Australia – in Federal Court. Picture: Getty Images
By JANET ALBRECHTSEN
COLUMNIST
and REMY VARGA
NSW REPORTER
10:34PM FEBRUARY 7, 2023
Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann is suing Channel 10 and its star Lisa Wilkinson for defamation, accusing them of seeking to exploit allegations of sexual assault against him for personal and professional gain.
Mr Lehrmann, who has consistently denied raping former colleague Brittany Higgins, has launched defamation proceedings against Network Ten and News Life Ltd – an arm of News Corp Australia – in Federal Court.
Wilkinson, former co-host of The Project, and Samantha Maiden, political editor for news.com.au, are understood to be second respondents in proceedings.
Mr Lehrmann further claims Wilkinson and Network Ten were “recklessly indifferent to the truth or falsity” when they alleged he raped Ms Higgins on the couch in the ministerial office of then defence industry minister Linda Reynolds in the early hours of March 23, 2019.
The statement of claims references Ms Higgins’ evidence from the aborted trial against Mr Lehrmann before the ACT Supreme Court when the former staffer said Maiden and Wilkinson had fought for the exclusive publication of her alleged story.
The statements of claim said it could be inferred that Wilkinson “was seeking to exploit the false allegations of sexual assault as made by Ms Higgins for her own personal and professional gain”.
Mr Lehrmann is being represented by defamation specialists Mark O’Brien Legal. It is understood defamation expert Matthew Richardson SC and barrister Steven Whybrow SC, who represented Mr Lehrmann during the trial, have been retained to run matters together.
The Project and news.com.au published Ms Higgins’ allegations in broadcasts and online stories on February 15 in 2021. The original reports did not name Mr Lehrmann. The former staffer is claiming he was easily identified by a description as a senior staffer in Senator Reynold’s office.
“By reason of publication of the matters complained of, the applicant has been greatly injured in his personal and professional reputation and has been and will be brought into public disrepute, odium, ridicule and contempt.”
Ms Higgins alleged Mr Lehrmann raped her on a couch in Senator Reynolds’s office in the early hours of March 23, 2019, after a night out.
The high-profile trial was aborted in October 2022 due to juror misconduct.
Mr Lehrmann pleaded not guilty at his trial and has at all times denied the allegations.
The DPP has now withdrawn the charges, with ACT director of public prosecutions Shane Drumgold citing concern for Ms Higgins’s mental health.
The Australian approached Network Ten and Wilkinson for comment.
Good morning earlybirds. I am up early, still slightly jetlagged from arriving in on Monday arvo.
Attapuss has been so delighted to see us he’s been following us around like a little dog, and talking his head off, especially at Hairy. Our catsitter did a good job and also left our place spotless. We said to help yourself to the drinks trolley but her usage was moderate. All good news, there was some Bombay Sapphire left for me and some single malt there still for Hairy. We added some new Duty Free to the trolley.
Unpacking is now all done. A major job. A Kleenex up the sleeve of my very useful black Jag cardigan has wrecked my ‘dark’ winter wash. Some items seem too sad and dulled to try to rescue.
Sydney sticky February heat is a challenge after Korean and other winter climes. Aircon is on.
Hope Rosie stays safe in earthquake territory, I note she has checked out safe places such as bathrooms in her accommodations. On the 28th floor in a Korean high rise I had a mild panic about fire possibilities, memories of 9/11 videos, but at least hotels there have to provide a room torch and smoke masks. I didn’t enquire about cladding issues. Too freaky. We’d left there before earthquakes became front of mind, thank goodness.
Most of the Korean population live in high rise apartments; there are very few single houses.
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A rosy-pink dawn light is coming over the cliff from the ocean, a celestial dimmer being turned up by an unseen hand, an ageless certainty. The Aussie birds are hunched, sitting in developing outlines on rooftops and fences and in trees. The day begins in earnest now and I am going back to bed. I might get to sleep again now as their calls are a homecoming comfort. Even the Kookas.
Especially the Kookas.
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Sorry if this has been posted earlier: Paul Kelly has written a very good article on the pea-hearted ‘leaders’ of this country:
Pell funeral marks fracture of church and state relationsPAUL KELLY
12:00AM FEBRUARY 8, 2023
The Pontifical Mass for Cardinal George Pell – a religious event and a public event – was a funeral ritual, a celebration of Catholic resilience but testimony to the now deeply fractured relations between secular power and the Catholic Church.
The church’s celebration of Pell’s life was a magnificent event yet evidence of a diminished nation, its culture fragmented and its current secular leaders hiding in fear, unable to pay respects to the life of George Pell, who attained the most senior position in the Catholic hierarchy of any Australian.
In his homily, the Archbishop of Sydney, Anthony Fisher, said of Pell’s character, “some experienced him as demanding, pugilistic or polarising and others as faithful, hospitable and witty”. But the secular reaction to Pell’s death was driven by deeper forces – politicians terrified of offering respect despite Pell being the target of the greatest miscarriage of justice in Australia since World War II and adverse findings by a royal commission that he knew of sexual abuse crimes, findings relying on inference not evidence (there was none).
The hostility of victims and parents of child sexual abuse towards Pell is understandable given the crimes of the church and the desecration of the sacred. Pell should have displayed far more sensitivity towards the victims, but it is time to recognise his innocence of the charges laid against him.
Pell was the target of a preposterous campaign of vilification, charges and conviction. He was subject to a “Get Pell” investigation by Victoria Police, a prosecution that should never have been brought, and a failure by the highest court in Victoria, and received justice only when his case was removed from Victoria and went to the High Court, where a 7-0 judgment found in Pell’s favour.
Even then, the denialists were everywhere. Critics falsely claimed the High Court decision was based on a technicality. Victorian Premier Dan Andrews, having attacked Tony Abbott for visiting Pell in jail, defied the court, saying victims had to be believed – confirming he didn’t believe in justice and a fair trial in Victoria.
When Pell was sentenced, Chief Judge Peter Kidd felt compelled to address the “witch-hunt” or “lynch mob” mentality mobilised against Pell. He said Pell could not be made a scapegoat for failings of the church – yet this was, directly or indirectly, the popular and media assault launched against him.
In his book Gerard Henderson named more than 120 journalists and commentators who engaged over many years in the pile-on against Pell. For years the ABC led the charge in a campaign that was relentless, biased and prejudiced. Cause and effect can never be proved but it is hard to imagine how Pell’s conviction could have occurred without the campaign by the public broadcaster in breach of its statutory obligations.
At the start of the Pell trial, lawyer Father Frank Brennan (who had many theological differences with Pell) said: “This case will be a test of all individuals and all institutions involved.” After his forensic examination of the entire saga, Brennan concluded: “Having followed the Pell proceedings closely, I am convinced that the case did nothing to help bona fide complainants, victims and their supporters.”
Here is the sticking point. What was achieved? What did all the media assaults, the rage, the agony, the incarceration, the institutional failures of police, prosecutors and judges achieve? Pursuing Pell on shoddy evidence in politically and emotionally influenced proceedings has resulted in years of misery for most participants. The lesson is there can be no justice for sexual abuse victims by creating an injustice against Pell.
After his exoneration, Pell said: “My trial was not a referendum on the Catholic Church.”
This has been a double failure – a failure by the church in its handling of child sexual abuse and a failure by the institutions of the secular state in seeking to bring down Pell. The church has confronted its sins. Not so, the secular state. There is next to no public recognition whatsoever of the failings and abuse of power committed by the powerful within our society – police, law, media and politics. None. There is no moral or intellectual accounting, just deceptive leaders.
The Pell legacy will live with the church and our secular institutions for decades to come. In the eulogy to his brother, David Pell thanked the Barwon prison staff for treating George with “dignity and professionalism”, saying his family in Ballarat was not immune from the “evil curse” perpetrated on many children by priests whom he branded as “secretive, deviant and manipulative criminals”. It seems the prison staff extended more dignity to Pell than the secular leaders. The non-attendees at Pell’s funeral included Liberal Party Premier of NSW Dominic Perrottet, himself a Catholic, and Labor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who talks frequently about his Catholic upbringing, calling himself a “non-practising Catholic”. A spokesman for Perrottet said he had other business commitments.
Enough. These were decisions of silent disrespect and, in Perrottet’s case with an election looming, cowardice. The leaders did not just insult Pell. Their insult was to the Catholic Church and was understood by the congregation. Opposition Leader Peter Dutton attended, along with John Howard and Abbott, who delivered the finest speech of his life, saying Pell’s great triumph, surely, was to have kept his faith.
Pell was given a farewell for the ages. Apart from World Youth Day in 2008, this was the most magnificent event in the Australian Catholic experience for several decades. It was a statement of strength by the church. St Mary’s Cathedral, designed in Gothic style to match the great medieval cathedrals of Europe, was filled with several thousand mourners, hundreds of priests in attendance and Archbishop Fisher presiding in a service that extended beyond two hours and 30 minutes.
It was an assertion of Western civilisation and the church’s centrality in this history. The mass was sung, the music included Johann Sebastian Bach, Felix Mendelssohn and Edward Elgar, the hymns selected with an eye to Pell’s preferences, with Fisher’s homily invoking Pell’s legacy of four new Catholic tertiary institutions.
It was an assertion of Australian nationalism. Fisher said Pell remained “very much an Australian to the end”. David Pell told us that when George was announced in Rome in 2003 as the next candidate for cardinal the cry rang out: “Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Oi, Oi, Oi.” George lived a life that “played the ball, not the man” and spent 404 days in solitary confinement for an offence he never committed. Linking the modern fate of the church with its past, Fisher said: “Jesus told his disciples not to be surprised if the world hated them, as it had hated him first.” The church knows it is a target in a world that has lost the civic virtue necessary to hold societies together. But in this new phase of its existence the church has a long experience of oppression on which it can be sustained.
What is the moral of the Pell event? Best look to CS Lewis in The Abolition of Man, when Lewis said rejection of absolute truth would see the unravelling of society. Referring to the “tragic comedy” of our situation heavy with demands for more self-sacrifice and creativity, Lewis wrote: “We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We live in an age of phony virtue and fabricated honour.” Lewis was prophetic – leadership in our institutions, public and private, is administered by men without chests.
PAUL KELLY EDITOR-AT-LARGE
Paul Kelly is Editor-at-Large on The Australian.
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Welcome home Lizzie and Hairy. The weather has been very Sydney Summer of late this morning is a little dull but ’tis early yet. Thanks for the travelogue have been shivering all the way around the Northern Hemisphere with you, but not in the slightest bit envious. 😉
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My take way from the absence of political ‘leaders’ from George Cardinal Pell’s funeral, so many of whom were raised as Catholics is this:
The non-attendance to George Cardinal Pell’s funeral by our popinjay-hearted ‘leaders’ demonstrates their total and utter disrespect towards the High Court of Australia’s 7-0 judgment which restored to the Cardinal his state of innocence – meaning he was not guilty of the charges. Little wonder respect for the legal institutions of this country are in decline.
For the ignoranti out there, who say the High Court’s judgment was a technicality: no-one is ever asked ‘do you plead innocent or not innocent to the charge’? they’re asked: ‘how do you plead’? ‘guilty or not guilty’?
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Excellent article by Paul Kelly.
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What is the moral of the Pell event? Best look to CS Lewis in The Abolition of Man, when Lewis said rejection of absolute truth would see the unravelling of society. Referring to the “tragic comedy” of our situation heavy with demands for more self-sacrifice and creativity, Lewis wrote: “We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We live in an age of phony virtue and fabricated honour.” Lewis was prophetic – leadership in our institutions, public and private, is administered by men without chests.
A formidable analysis by Paul Kelly, whose ALP cheerleading I normally scroll by. For the first time since I subscribed to the Paywallian 20 years ago, the paper has surprised me.
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Test?
The Australian is leading the shilling for The Voice.
The best reason they can arrive at to oppose it is some garbage about Democracy and everyone getting one vote.
And Peter Dutton getting off the fence and announcing for No.
You can bet the house, if he does that, the screaming will be: How can you oppose The Voice when you don’t know the details?!?!!!!
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Tintarella di Luna says:
February 8, 2023 at 6:24 am
My take way from the absence of political ‘leaders’ from George Cardinal Pell’s funeral, so many of whom were raised as Catholics is this:
Well said Tintarella.
At least a funeral service should have been neutral ground, but NOO! gutless wonders.
Leaders???
No wonder we are where we are, in every sense, but there is nought we can do about it.
Change the system?
Can’t do it. Too many non thinking rusted ons for both sides.
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The non-attendance to George Cardinal Pell’s funeral by our popinjay-hearted ‘leaders’ demonstrates their total and utter disrespect towards the High Court of Australia’s 7-0 judgment which restored to the Cardinal his state of innocence –
There’s no Legal State Of Innocence.
Good pick up over the 7-0 judgement, though.
Clearly Parrothead and quite a few others weren’t buying it.
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As to holidaying in Europe in winter?
Blimey, it’s cold enough here in winter.
I love hot weather. Bring it on.
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Pell faced a Church Court over similar allegations dating back to a Youth Camp in 1961.
Judge Southwell found both Pell and the Complainant credible witnesses and made no finding.
Pell probably shoulda retired then.
It’s similar to when Dutton deported some Kiwis who had no Criminal Record but had beaten numerous Serious Charges and never had any visible means of support..
At some point you’ve just gotta admit the facts.
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“We live in an age of phony virtue and fabricated honour.” Lewis was prophetic – leadership in our institutions, public and private, is administered by men without chests.
We are living in a West that is now administered by men without chests.
Thank you Tinta for uploading Kelly’s piece.
Thank you to the Oz for publishing his piece. It confirms why I still subscribe to the Oz.
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Ed Case says:
February 8, 2023 at 7:05 am
Pell faced a Church Court over similar allegations dating back to a Youth Camp in 1961.
Judge Southwell found both Pell and the Complainant credible witnesses and made no finding.
Pell probably shoulda retired then.
I hope someone with more time on their hands will pick you up on that claim.
I have to go back to work.
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Just been told it’s 12c in Melbourne.
Southern Europe, occasional rain and wind chill off Etna notwithstanding is very pleasant to travel in in winter.
Former President Donald Trump has been excluded from the invite list for The Club for Growth’s annual donor retreat.
The prominent conservative fundraising group will hold its annual gathering next month, when potential 2024 Republican presidential candidates, minus Trump, will mingle with donors.
Stupid. Trump is so far ahead of anyone else in the primary polls that he will be the candidate, barring dirty tricks. Which means the RINOs will be wetting themselves and undermining him. Or they will play a dirty trick whereupon the 40 million or so core Trump voters will stay home in disgust. The Dems won’t even need to steal it at this rate.
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Pell should have displayed far more sensitivity towards the victims, but it is time to recognise his innocence of the charges laid against him.
Interesting assertion.
How?
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This goes back to Cardinal Pell not being emotional or something when meeting with victims.
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Last Thursday, on the steps outside St Marys, Tinta and I did see some men with chests. These men were a multicultural group, of Asian, Middle Eastern, European, Polynesian, African and Indigenous backgrounds, on their knees praying the rosary. When the degenerate scum were given license by the NSW police to walk directly past the doors of St Marys and mourners such myself, a deliberate act of intimidation, those men with chests walked up to confront the scum, and only then did the vile NSW police move on the scum.
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Lewis was writing within the wishy washy Anglophone framework, one that he observed daily. He would have been heartened about what you observed outside St Mary’s.
As one bastion collapses, another takes its place. The Almighty always provides a remnant. It’s a pity that the west looks like being left out but that is its cheap grace choice.
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The Stone Toss comic came out really fast in response to this.
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Remember a while back there was discussion on whether Brown snakes will live in Black snake territory? I was right. The largest snake wins, not the breed. The link has good pictures. It reminds me of the children’s song, “I’m being swallowed by a Boa Constrictor.”
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As for Cardinal Pell not showing enough emotion to victims, isn’t a practical remedy far more valuable than loud mouth wailing?
It’s the only part of Kelly’s piece I take issue with. He’s done it as a sop for the offenderati. In these degenerate times, it’s more about how something looks rather than what it is. Or what is said rather than what one does.
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Steve trickler says:
February 7, 2023 at 11:07 pm
132andBushsays:
February 7, 2023 at 10:53 pm
Watch the Bearden clip above. I doubt you will though….call it a hunch.
Already seen it.
*Backing slowly away*
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We live in an age of phony virtue and fabricated honour.
Outstanding.
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“As one bastion collapses, another takes its place. “
Yep. I’ve been thinking a lot about this lately. After watching the Sam Smith degeneracy, I am now convinced we are witnessing a collapse. And I know this statement will annoy some here, but the fundamental truth is that what happened on Thursday outside the cathedral is, as far as I’m concerned, the inevitable end result of “liberalism” in the West and this liberalism has led us to a steep cliff which the West has now happily driven off.
I’ll take my hat off to Peter Dutton for attending the funeral, but he has always struck me as a man with a chest. As for Perrottet, my seething contempt for him and his cronies in the Liberal party, state and federal, knows no bounds.
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I take my hat off to the crooks in the Solomon Islands.
Yesterday their PM sacked the biggest China critic from his role.
Get money from Australia/US. Say & do the right things at the time.
Get money from China. Say & do the right things at the time.
Rinse, repeat.
Also hats off to the ABC for giving it the coverage they did.
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“As for Cardinal Pell not showing enough emotion to victims, isn’t a practical remedy far more valuable than loud mouth wailing?”
And therein lies the rub, we live in a time where loud mouth wailing is lauded.
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we live in a time where loud mouth wailing is lauded.
Things I heard yesterday at a meeting that got really off track.
“how can Alice Springs get better if we don’t pass The Voice”.
A big problem is the people who frame big decisions have zero skin in the game.
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Because 16 year olds are so well educated in science!
On Wednesday, Ross Gittins wrote an apology to his grandkids for not fighting the war of our times. He questioned whether the politicians pushing the government’s flawed climate policy were quietly banking on not being around long enough to have to explain their actions to their grandkids.
…
It is clear that if we are to make real progress towards a sustainable future the time has come for us to pass the microphone to the younger generation.
Ah, the wonderful Mr Gittins, who appears to know even less science than a school kid.
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callisays:
February 8, 2023 at 7:31 am
As for Cardinal Pell not showing enough emotion to victims, isn’t a practical remedy far more valuable than loud mouth wailing?
My wife has learned it is nessasary to control her emotions when dealing with families otherwise she would be no use. Practical advise gives long term benefits and outsiders have no business sharing the grief.
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“how can Alice Springs get better if we don’t pass The Voice”.
You enforce the law without fear or favour and it slowly becomes a normal, small regional city.
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Ed Casesays:
February 8, 2023 at 6:56 am
The Australian is leading the shilling for The Voice.
The best reason they can arrive at to oppose it is some garbage about Democracy and everyone getting one vote.
And Peter Dutton getting off the fence and announcing for No.
You can bet the house, if he does that, the screaming will be:
How can you oppose The Voice when you don’t know the details?!?!!!!
Richard Cranium
You have been babbling on about the Voice referendum for yonks, but the one thing that you have never done is express a clear personal position.
Are you for or against? Please provide reasons for your preference.
On Wednesday, Ross Gittins wrote an apology to his grandkids for not fighting the war of our times. He questioned whether the politicians pushing the government’s flawed climate policy were quietly banking on not being around long enough to have to explain their actions to their grandkids.
He’s a fat unkempt oaf who loves free food at conferences and seminars. Truly his carbon footprint would exceed some poor labourer from Blacktown or Penrith. He’s a loathsome, offensive brute.
He’s not even an economist, he’s an auditor who got a journalism job.
“Responsibilitism” makes more sense when you see ideologues wanting to use democracy to give us authoritarianism.
1. Veterans vote for the executive.
2. Taxpayers vote for the house of reps.
3. The States or sortition appoints the Senate.
If 16 year olds get to vote, they might also be drafted, male and female too in this modern world. It is a raw deal they don’t know they buying into.
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Richard Cranium
There’s no Legal State Of Innocence.
Apart from gross stupidity, what are you not innocent of?
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Trump needs to win just to rub it in and punish the steal. What the Democrats did in 2020 was seditious.
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‘a loathsome, offensive brute’
And yet, I cannot look away.
Got it. Superb reference.
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“As for Cardinal Pell not showing enough emotion to victims, isn’t a practical remedy far more valuable than loud mouth wailing?”
Everything has become about personal feelings (the subjective). Not about the facts (the objective).
The post modernist doctrine.
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I might call my micro-state the Legal State of Innocence, as a (((Sovereign Citizen))).
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Australian adults will be able to get a fifth dose of the COVID-19 vaccine within a fortnight, after the federal government accepted advice from its expert vaccine advisory body.
“Key points:
From February 20, people 18 and over who have not had a COVID-19 vaccine or positive case in the last six months are eligible for another shot
Uptake of fourth vaccine doses has lagged behind previous doses, with just 44 per cent of the eligible population getting one
The announcement also opens fourth doses up to Australians aged 18-”
So does this lead to more mandates especially for the 28% who stopped at 2 doses. Even many of those who had 4 may be nearing 6 months since last one.
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“My wife has learned it is nessasary to control her emotions when dealing with families otherwise she would be no use. Practical advise gives long term benefits and outsiders have no business sharing the grief.”
A big problem is the people who frame big decisions have zero skin in the game.
If the politicians in Darwin and Canberra making decisions about Alice Springs could see what the Alice cops are dealing with daily, they’d know the solution is stopping black kids and blackfella drunks running amok.
For that, you need the rule of law, but there is no rule of law and black kids and drunks are running amok.
The problem with Alice is cowardice in Darwin and Canberra.
I have no problem with 16 year olds being given the vote, as long as they are also:
1. Subject to full tax rates;
2. Tried in adult courts and sent to adult prisons, where they can sit and walk next to, and sleep near 40 year old dismemberment enthusiasts;
3. Removed from any youth or student concessions of any type;
4. Compelled to pay full rate for firearms and other licence applications; and
5. Made to pay their own power bills.
There are more, but that will do for the moment. You can’t just nibble the good bits off a pizza. You take part of it, you own it.
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This may sound out there but if you listen to Schwab and his acolytes for five minutes this is how they actually talk. Whether it’s true or not, or whether it works or not, they’ll give it a good old fashioned try.
Ross Gittins wrote an apology to his grandkids for not fighting the war of our times
I hereby apologise to all Cats and Kittehs for not giving him a good shove when I had the opportunity to do so.
Death by Ruck and Maul (and deliciously via his own kid’s sprigs) would be too good for him.
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Australian adults will be able to get a fifth dose of the COVID-19 vaccine within a fortnight, after the federal government accepted advice from its expert vaccine advisory body.
Wowee. What a time to be alive.
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I’m glad Lehrmann is going the full hog – but he’s missed out one potential target. Morrison.
Are you resistant to COVID-19 tyranny? If so, by law, you could be classified as an “Enemy of the State”
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Tucker: This practice is illegal
Project 21 co-chairman Horace Cooper weighs in on the Biden administration’s history of race-based hiring on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.’ #foxnews #fox #tucker
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Once again. This “earthquake forecasting” nonsense has got to stop.
If you had watched the forecasting clip I posted above, you wouldn’t have come out with such tosh. That means so didn’t or are to stupid follow. I did say a 7th grader could follow it….it does go for over an hour so your attention span would probably be challenged.
Here is the wager:
Old mate cannot forecast the next 10 earthquakes that cause over 100 casualties each to the nearest week, within +/- 0.5 on the Richter scale, to within +/- 1 km depth, to within a fifty mile radius of the epicentre and he will not get all the tectonic plates right.
I bet you $10,000 of Australian ram head sterling silver shillings (1938 -1946).
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The suggestion has been made to Steve Trickler to make a counter offer, but it appears that he doesn’t want to make things interesting, the poor beast is lacking in good breeding and wouldn’t know entertainment or numeracy if it hit him over the head and kicked him up the bum. He’s a damp squib, ain’t he? I’ve ran across street urchins with more refinement and intelligence than this!
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Hasn’t been below 20 degrees in Sydney for a week & has been as humid AF.
I’m reminded of Tony Grieg checking the players comfort on Boonie on one of the 12th Man albums.
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Gittins wrote an apology to his grandkids for not fighting the war of our times
Yet another preposterous puffed up mediocrity handed an entirely undeserved megaphone by our beloved braindead lamestream meeja.
As for the lauding of Paul “is wrong (again)” Kelly above, give it a rest, people.
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Presumably Dali’s melted clocks were a harbinger of global warming.
Maybe it also explains why modern art is so awful.
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Hasn’t been below 20 degrees in Sydney for a week & has been as humid AF
February in Sydney is invariably my least favourite time of the year.
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A big problem is the people who frame big decisions have zero skin in the game.
This would also apply to the current ROBODEBT RC and all the subsequent costs .. a squillion dollar enquiry into a flawed/illegal clawback of around $10million from folk who couldn’t afford to pay it back even if they had, actually, owed it! .. no one will pay for the hardship & deaths (same as KRudd’s roof bats fiasco) maybe a coupla “naughty corner” moments but a week later out of the news cycle and back to norm for the rest ………..!
Yet, over the course of a normal year the “troughers” collective in Parliament would rort, legally & illegally, 2 or 3 times this amount, $30 billion poured into the 251 lake every year so ROBODEBT wouldn’t have even caused a ripple there .. yet no enquiry/RC into that “holy grail” ..!
“burka” & “turgid” alone rorted the tax payers of, probably, a quarter of the entire ROBODEBT total impressing their staff “girlfriends” whilst , supposedly, “working” but no consequences for either .. both still sitting in Parliament and drawing their obscene salaries ……
Seems Royal Commisions are more a revenge tactic on political enemies rather than a checks & balances issue ….
One thing is guaranteed from any RC tho! … only the mug taxpayer foots the final bill ….!
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KD
Thanks, I had forgotten about age related concessions for the yoof.
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Saw a clip on Twitter of a Davos interview with CEO of Moderna. Presumably one just held last month.
In it he says Moderna made $100,000 in 2019 but after Davos (not sure if referring to 2019 or 2020 but seems more likely 2019) says to his production guys going to make a billion dollars next year as going to be a pandemic.
Read in conjunction with one of the links put up earlier by Indolent.
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Wilkinson, former co-host of The Project, and Samantha Maiden, political editor for news.com.au, are understood to be second respondents in proceedings.
About bloody time.
Interesting that it is the Liberal staffer who shows more backbone than all those Liberal MPs and Cabinet Members who curled into a ball at the first whiff of an accusation, apologised reflexively and unthinkingly, and resigned from office in disgrace to spend more time polluting their communities with their cowardice.
In this whole affair there has been only one person who has treated it as the legal case it was meant to be. Only one person (who may or may not have wanted a trial) conducted themselves as if it was a proper trial.
Cassie’s Amphibian (pronounced ‘am fibbing’), and a fairly hefty whack of frightbats (and they generally are hefty – moderation not being a word they associate with food) have only indulged in a Bacchanalia drowning themselves in a heady concoction of lurid innuendo, promiscuous exchanges of each others’ smells within their camp such as ants do with pheromones to recognise their sisters, general misandry, undergraduate feminist pap, and self-pleasuring superciliousness.
All this without any restraint at all because they were convinced that the hangover would be felt by someone else – not in the form of a headache, but in Bruce in the form of a ruined life. And they would continue their drunken revelry scolding, denigrating and upbraiding all men forever from their narcotic stupor because, again, there would be no hangover for them.
Perhaps Lisa, perhaps Samantha, through bleary eyes are now beginning to discern the shape of barristers coming for them and feeling a little uncomfortable – partly because they might be in trouble but largely because it is as if the world is being tilted upside down. It will take the others in the sisterhood a bit long, and then they will have to come up with a campaign insisting any examination of them, their motives, and their actions means you think all women should be raped, but this time (very unsettling for them) some of their own egos and jobs (BIRM – their jobs are to flatter themselves) will be at stake.
After so long with a creeping conveyor belt of hapless spineless Liberals waiting morosely to have their heads lopped off, it is a lowly staffer who makes a stand.
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Australian adults will be able to get a fifth dose of the COVID-19 vaccine within a fortnight, after the federal government accepted advice from its expert vaccine advisory body.
And hysterical gullible hypochondriac imbeciles across the country did rejoice.
after the federal government accepted advice from its expert vaccine advisory body.
*top*men*
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Are you resistant to COVID-19 tyranny? If so, by law, you could be classified as an “Enemy of the State”
I told my kids in 2015, within my lifetime:
1) I will become an enemy of the state
2) Bitcoin will go to 1 million dollars
One down, one to go
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Don’t always admire Paul Kelly, but he is a keen observer of the decline and fall of Australian leadership.
The church has confronted its sins. Not so, the secular state. There is next to no public recognition whatsoever of the failings and abuse of power committed by the powerful within our society – police, law, media and politics. None. There is no moral or intellectual accounting, just deceptive leaders.
‘Doing the right thing’ is long gone as an Australian civic virtue.
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Thanks Tinta for the Paul Kelly post.
I agree with Calli.
A good article spoiled by missing the most important hurdle.
For those who still have faith in “The Science” and “mRNA vaccines”, time for some medical Alzheimers from the great Saint Anthony of Fauci.
Australian adults will be able to get a fifth dose of the COVID-19 vaccine within a fortnight,
Gosh, golly!, isn’t it exciting..! only two more doses and a “free” set of steak knives! .. LOL!
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Dotsays:
February 8, 2023 at 8:29 am
Australian adults will be able to get a fifth dose of the COVID-19 vaccine within a fortnight, after the federal government accepted advice from its expert vaccine advisory body.
Wowee. What a time to be alive.
who would have thought the “expert vaccine advisory body” was all in for vaccines?
Today host Karl Stefanovic has slammed the RBA and the big banks following the ninth consecutive rate hike.
King Karl.
The peoples champ.
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The claim that there were balloons in the Trump years has been comprehensively debunked by a number of people who’d know, including the former Director of National Intelligence. That these claims have been made, and the awful incident where 51 former CIA and FBI guys said the Hunter laptop was not genuine and probably Russian disinformation, tells you that the USA is in dire trouble – too many bad actors in too many positions.
Marjorie Taylor-Greene has come out swinging (I’d be happy to do a bit of swinging with her) and is taking the Pentagon to task for its ballooning stories
On Monday, Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene demanded an investigation into the claim made by the Biden administration that Chinese spy balloons infiltrated the United States during former President Donald Trump’s time in office.
Greene expressed skepticism that President Trump was unaware of such incidents and suggested that the Pentagon may have kept security information from him. She called for an investigation into the matter to determine the truth and to ensure that the President is always informed of any potential security threats.
She tweeted, “If it’s true the Pentagon purposely did NOT tell President Trump of Chinese Spy Balloons during his administration then we had a serious breach in command during the Trump admin. The POTUS is the Commander in Chief. We must investigate and hold accountable those who broke rank.”
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They ordered 14m of the new Vax so even at only $20 each that is $280m.
Then there is distribution costs and I believe a payment to Dr or pharmacy of $32 so the numbers start adding up to real money.
I am presuming this is the bivalent one TGA approved a couple of weeks ago. The same one that WSJ article in Oz 2 days later said was ineffective.
Today, we’re launching an all new, AI-powered Bing search engine and Edge browser, available in preview now at Bing.com, to deliver better search, more complete answers, a new chat experience and the ability to generate content. We think of these tools as an AI copilot for the web.
Based on ChatGPT’s performance, the Global IQ is in for a sharp dip.
Sweltering summer heat, angry protestors and a media scrum did little to deter around 4000 mourners from attending Cardinal George Pell’s funeral in Sydney.
Around 2000 people packed St Mary’s Cathedral and almost the same number gathered outside to watch the service on large screens.
People from all walks of life – the young and young at heart, mums with prams, the elderly and everything in between, stood in stifling conditions to pay their respects to the very public prelate.
About 150 people protesting the church’s conservative views on LGBT rights and its response to the child abuse crisis began chanting “Pell, go to hell”, which could be heard inside the cathedral where the Cardinal served for more than a decade as archbishop.
In the end it was the faithful who had the last word. As the hearse carrying the coffin made its way to the crypt of the cathedral, mourners drowned out the protesters by joining in song to the sound of Ave Maria.
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The Fairly F**kable Laura Jayes is interviewing (wait for it) Eric Swalwell!
“Mother Lodesays:
February 8, 2023 at 8:52 am”
100 upticks.
A reminder, Maiden was also involved in the Porter affair.
I wrote a thread of this back in late 2021, where I described these women and their involvement in the Lehmann/Porter affairs as a monstrous regimen of females, an evil coven comprising La Amphibian, Maiden, Crabb, Wong. Hanson-Dung, Gallagher, Dyer, Nilligan, and others.
I have zero sympathy for Maiden and the Amphibian. Zero.
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Lehrmann sues the gold toothed media rats.
Sometimes it takes a nobody to bring down a somebody.
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Wong should celebrate benefits of colonial history. Nick Cater
12:00AM February 8, 2023
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There is little doubt Penny Wong’s forebears lived lives more brutal, unjust and less equal than ours. Yet to insinuate that her Hakka Chinese ancestors lived under the yoke of colonial oppression in British North Borneo is a curious interpretation of history.
Wong’s speech at King’s College London last week did nothing to enhance her personal reputation or that of the country she represents. The raising of alleged historical grievances may be common diplomatic practice in less peaceful parts of the world, but if Wong wants to drag them in to our dialogue with Britain she needs to do more than rely on century-old family anecdotes.
Wong’s mother’s maternal ancestors arrived from Britain to settle in the young colony of South Australia in 1836. The other side of her family, however, “had a very different experience of British colonisation”. “Many from these clans laboured for the British North Borneo company in tin mines and plantations for tobacco and timber,” she said. “Many worked as domestic servants for British colonists, as did my own grandmother.”
Wong does a great disservice to the legacy of Sir William Hood Treacher, the first British governor of Borneo from 1881 to 1887. Treacher’s profound opposition of slavery was incorporated into the royal charter of the North Borneo Chartered Company to which our Foreign Minister referred. The charter ordained that “the company shall to the best of its power discourage and, as far as may be practicable, abolish by degrees, any system of domestic servitude existing among the tribes of the coast or interior of Borneo; and no foreigners whether European, Chinese or other, shall be allowed to own slaves of any kind in the company’s territories”.
It’s not for nothing North Borneo was declared a protectorate. The region had a brutal history of slavery, kidnapping, tribal headhunting and piracy. The establishment of the North Borneo Company in 1882 paved the way for the ultimate extinction of slavery and the end of piracy. It substituted a strong, liberal and just government for numerous weak, cruel and unjust ones. It introduced the rule of law and a justice system that made no distinction between races and creeds, rich and poor, or master and slave. It put a stop to headhunting and brought law and order to outlying districts opening the way for free trade. The new-found stability and security of property right attracted European and Chinese capital, heralding rapid economic development.
Hakka clans were not forced labourers. They were free settlers, most of whom arrived in North Borneo at the express invitation of the British, who recognised the desirability of attracting hardworking, entrepreneurial Chinese people. They were part of a larger Hakka diaspora that fled eastern China to escape the 20-year Hakka-Punti Clan wars. Estimates of the number of Hakkas who died in that conflict range from 100,000 to a million. Tens of thousands were captured by pirates or bandits and sold into slavery in South America, Southeast Asia or Cuba. The lucky ones made it to Borneo, Singapore, Australia or other parts of the anglosphere.
North Borneo in the late 19th century was a sanctuary from oppression and it is highly unlikely Wong’s ancestors were trapped under some harsh colonial yoke.
The civic order and rule of law brought by the British was a marked contrast to the tribal instability that preceded it or the tribal instability in China in the latter part of the Qing dynasty Wong’s ancestors probably fled. Hakka migrants would have “laboured” in plantations much as the Hakka people who immigrated to Australia at that time “laboured” building railways. They laboured in tin mines in North Borneo much as miners from Cornwall laboured in copper mines on Yorke Peninsula.
Wong’s ahistoricism doesn’t end there. She repeats the myth that Australia didn’t take Asia seriously until the election of Gough Whitlam. The history of her father’s connection with Australia paints a very different picture. Frances Wong was one of the 20,000 Asian scholars who studied at Australian universities between 1950 and the mid-’80s under the Menzies government’s Colombo Plan. Labor offered only equivocal support for the Colombo Plan, variously complaining about the cost, the danger of undermining the White Australia policy and gifting scholarships to our former Japanese enemies. Menzies’ cultural and trade diplomacy helped repair the damage in our relations with Asian countries caused by the arbitrary expulsion of Asian migrants under Labor between 1945 and 1949. That was the measure Labor immigration minister Arthur Calwell was trying to justify in parliament in December 1947 with these words: “There are a lot of Wongs among the Chinese community but, as I think Mr White, the member for Balaclava, will agree, ‘two Wongs don’t make a white’.” It would be unfair to make too much of the attitudes of long-dead Labor leaders. Calwell, Ben Chifley and Doc Evatt were products of their times. Yet if Wong is determined to judge present-day Britain by its past failings, real or imagined, why shouldn’t we judge her party that way? Should we call on the Prime Minister to take the knee in recognition of Labor’s historical racism? Or should we fight the modern trend of judging yesterday by the standards of today?
Far from making false accusations about Britain’s past, Wong should celebrate our great inheritance of the rule of law, democracy, and stable institutions. She should be embracing the common values of freedom, fairness and justice that make the bonds between Britain, the US and Australia some of the most natural and secure of any group of countries on earth.
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I wrote a thread of this back in late 2021, where I described these women and their involvement in the Lehmann/Porter affairs as a monstrous regimen of females, an evil coven comprising La Amphibian, Maiden, Crabb, Wong. Hanson-Dung, Gallagher, Dyer, Nilligan, and others.
On my command, unleash hell (the chat logs).
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All is not darkness, danger and doom! There is to be a sequel to Fawlty Towers!
The image of Our Lady was unharmed in the quake that brought down Annunciation Cathedral in the city of Alexandretta in the Turkish province of Hatay. The cathedral was the main church of the Apostolic Vicariate of Anatolia.
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Dot says:
February 8, 2023 at 8:04 am
Trump needs to win just to rub it in and punish the steal. What the Democrats did in 2020 was seditious.
What McConnell and his RINOs did is just as seditious. Republicans have no hope until he is gone.
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It is incredible how many gullible idiots willingly donate to that dutchsinse fool.
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In actual fact, I blame McConnell even more than the Democrats, they are doing what comes natural to them, what they have always done. McConnell, instead of providing leadership in opposition, is colluding with Democrats against Republican voters and representatives. The world will be a better place when the Good Lord decides to take him (politicians like him never retire, they die in office).
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And to think Dot the Queens were really quite civilised compared to this bunch of harpies. It says a lot when quotes from 450 years ago still pack a [punch.
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Knuckle Draggersays:
February 8, 2023 at 8:22 am
Boambee – exactomundo.
I have no problem with 16 year olds being given the vote, as long as they are also:
The Greens want to:-
(a) lower the voting age to 16; and
(b) raise the age for any criminal responsibility to 14.
So, in the space of two years, you go from having zero idea about right and wrong to being able to exercise sound political judgement.
Sure.
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Talk about chutzpah…
Self-described parliamentary infiltrator and denier of Australian sovereignty Lidia Thorpe has complained that she has not been invited to consult with Voice working groups on its design.
Why don’t they want Lidia’s beneficent presence at their meetings? It’s a mystery.
Interestingly, she also revealed that Peter Dutton has consulted with two such groups (how many are there?). Which would seem to confirm what I posted here yesterday – Dutton’s concern with the Voice is about the details; he doesn’t oppose it in principle.
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Speak of the devil…Mark Knight #2 is a corker.
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There is to be a sequel to Fawlty Towers!
Cleese once said that alimony was keeping him poor, so he had to keep working.
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I think the last State of the Union I watched was one of GWB’s horseshit outings.
The political class wants you to watch the theatre, not what they are actually doing.
Twitter will tell me what to be outraged about later.
Yawn.
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Travelling light for women involves taking a dozen changes of clothes instead of twenty.
Older men exchanging pained glances at each other as they test their backs pulling huge heavy cases off the baggage carousel. The women then marvelling at their frugality in packing – this conversation is one way traffic naturally.
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“I’ll just do my hair quickly”
When has this ever happened?
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Speak of the devil…Mark Knight #2 is a corker.
Roger is quite right.
Lidia on the hog, lol.
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I look forward to Wong acknowledging the bloke who pretty well founded the Aussie navy – William Rooke Creswell – and his fight against piracy. This was in 1873, when Creswell was posted to HMS Thalia, a corvette operating out of Singapore.
Temporarily transferred to Midge, a small sloop, barque-rigged but with twin screws, Creswell embarked on a series of missions, often in ships’ boats and a small schooner against pirates. These were small, often desperate events, fought with small guns and rockets backed up with small-arms.
One action saw a fierce fight against two large boats and about 120 pirates, with the British contingent heavily outnumbered and, to make matters worse, the schooner aground on a mud flat. The ensuing action saw repeated attempts to refloat her while taking defensive action, and Creswell took a heavy Schneider bullet to the thigh. However he continued to fight, and the pirate attack was eventually beaten off and the schooner refloated.
The bullet was never found, and Creswell later surmised it was still inside him ‘for the rest of his days’. He was promoted as a result of the action.
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Lidia on the hog, lol.
And Bandt’s face.
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From memory the Borneo area was one of the most savage/pirate/shithole areas of the Victorian era.
Taken over by the Poms in effect to allow sea trade to flourish unimpeded.
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Taken over by the Poms in effect to allow sea trade to flourish unimpeded.
And general prosperity to rise.
The heartless bastards.
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promiscuous exchanges of each others’ smells within their camp such as ants do with pheromones to recognise their sisters
Greatn now i have the horrible image of insectoid 7-Nilligan/La-Amphibian hybrids queefing in each others faces seared into my brain.
I HOPE you ARE happY!!!, Christmas is CANCELLED because of YOU!!!”
we’re at the street fighting stage now- like Germany in the 1920s
Try to stay on Planet Earth, Milton.
Aborigines make up 3% of the population, the vast majority are brain damaged children, drunken women, and old men.
The lady is hardly Ioseph Stalin..
She has more gravity than Stalin.
Outsized means in context to the historical perspective.
You’re now putting in my mouth. I haven’t made references to “proportionate”. Military spending takes away resources from private consumption.
The tweet talked about Russian GDP and how this magically infers the sanctions have no bite. The sanctions may or may not be working but I’d love to hear how imports directly contribute to GDP when imports are subtracted from the GDP equation.
Here:
How about falling consumption.
It’s a chilly 6c in Catania, might be the Etna influence.
I am in the square enjoying a cup of froth waiting to go to 10am mass before doing the cathedral and Achilles bath tours.
I have identified my safe place in the apartment, the bathroom has only a light timber roof with a skylight, and a large horizontal steel girder in the wall.
There are workers currently slapping new concrete on the front facade but I don’t think it will make much difference.
Gas here is bottled, I have one smallish blue bottle next to the gas stove and there is a giant blue bottle in the entrance to the building.
If I want to use the hair dryer I have to turn off the electric hot water heater.
Can’t see Italy going all electric any time soon.
the vast majority are brain damaged children, drunken women, and old men.
Crotchless, the vast majority are white lefties with vegan fuelled hair tempers and astronomical sized cognitive dissonance about the havoc they sneeringly inflict.
I’m starting to wonder how much worse off we’d have been.
The RBA was late to the party with rate rises on the way in and they are going to overcook it at the top.
Dumb as.
This is just so beautiful
Rosie
Are you heading to Taormina? We stayed in the hotel where they filmed the latest White Lotus 2, according to wifey. I believe it was a Four Seasons, but I can’t recall the name.
sorry this the clip of Don Lemon being schooled by Hilary Fordwich on reparations to African American
Safe pair of hands.
World’s best standard.
Sounds like you’re on your way to Syracuse, Rosie, which is an amazing place. They did for Athens in the Peloponnesian War.
Many really successful early city states were based near volcanoes, since the fertility of the soil could support a large population, both in total and of craftsmen. Athens is another, since the volcano of Methana is just to the southwest of the city. Of course Athens’ silver mines were stuff of legend too – they were ultimately volcanically* emplaced also.
(*Through hydrothermal transfer of the metals to the rock in which they’re hosted, although RockDoc may correct me.)
I’ve been doing this for years. On the one hand, I am proud that I added +1 to the number of ‘Aboriginal Medical Graduates’, on the other I regret adding +1 to the number of Aboriginals in Jail’. Overall, its a wash and at least I have been putting sand in those administrative gears for ages.
Who was it said ‘the best way to deal with a bad law is to enforce it *strictly*?
“The lady is hardly Joseph Stalin..”
Stalin, Lenin, Trotsky, and Hitler all spent time in prison and/or exile. Many old school revolutionaries did come from impoverished backgrounds (Lenin excepted). Regardless of their putrid politics, they were brave and they took risks for their causes. They endured hardship. In the West today the revolution is being fomented by upper middle class scum, all from wealthy families, all grew up in the best suburbs, all went to tony private schools, all studying useless courses at our best universities, many are still living at home in their parent’s mansions.
Andy Ngo has investigated and unmasked a group of Antifa scum, currently running amok in Atlanta. They’re all children of privilege, bar one.
Back last September, I ran into two gormless effwits putting up posters on Oxford Street Paddington, calling for people to protest CPAC. I confronted the two shits and yes, I gave them a verbal smackdown to which their jaws suitably dropped to the floor. I then watched them scuttle back to the School of Fine Arts a few metres away. It’s isn’t the first time I’d seen far-left posters around the school but I’d noticed they only put them on a few poles near the school, they’re clearly all too effing lazy to even walk far. Revolutions require effort and hard work from their revolutionaries, alas they won’t find this among today’s young Mosman, Killara, and Rose Bay activists. Those two coddled creatures on Oxford Street weren’t interested in exerting too much physical work, no, which is why they quickly scuttled back to drink their oatmeal latte and eat their vegan muffin. These kids call themselves “activists” as long as they don’t have to expend too much activity.
Another one of Cronkite’s cute owls.
The Confirmation of Aboriginality is a piece of documentary evidence. It is a form used by many of our organisations and most government departments and it states clearly that making a false declaration is a criminal offence.
Don’t worry, Cassie, they’ll come for Bruce Pascoe first.
Best leave ornithology to the experts, JC.
Slactivists.
See Muddypuppy’s Catictionary. Wherever it now resides.
Ukraine is a western country now.
Well they certainly took to the western-style corruption.
wrong socialist – it was Malcolm Fraser who set up SBS
The Oz ran the full story on the Coogee home owner.
She was part of the Merivale group for a million years.
Ahahah! I had a brief brainwave.
It’s over at DashCat.
Another one of Cronkite’s cute owls.
You bastard head prefect. Take notice of duk:
Best leave ornithology to the experts
Look at those glutes.
Adelaide Pigs No Fixed Address.
Seems appropriate, given your recent travails.
The idea of an eastern rite church in Ukraine changing the day it celebrates Christmas is bonkers.
Only about a thousand years of tradition down the tubes.
It’s the equivalent of the yanks trying to change the name of French fries to Freedom fries.
10 years after this Ukraine/Russian war is over they will be trading with each other like this never even happened.
it isn’t a race war … it’s a colour war
The Australian wheeled out Indonesia hack Greg Sheridan to
give his opinions on The Voice.
According to Sheridan, Identity politics is the real risk in the Voice.
Here’s his sad argument:
It gets worserer from there, and he abuses the Liberal Party for not adopting the No position and getting reamed, but he touched on the real issue.
A successful Yes vote will give the Voice the powers that the Kings Of England once had.
Is Geoff Clark interested in International Diplomacy?
I has me doots, but if he gave advice to Parliament that Conscription needed to be reintroduced and 100,000 men sent to help Zelenskyy in Ukraine, the Parliament would be bound to do that.
Lift the Migration Intake to 3 million, all African Refugees?
Done deal.
Give Operation Sovereign Borders the bullet?
Yes sir.
Give the CFMEU Police Powers on all building Sites?
Why not?
The former Soviet republics, Russia included, are much more corrupt than the West.
Everybody is in on it; it’s a behaviour dictated by the need to survive.
It’s a chemical weapons war for Ms Onus Williams.
Metformin
Insulin
Fructose
Glucose
Sucrose
Mannitol
Triglycerides
Cholesterol
Lyrica
Just arrived back at Tulla to the regimes propaganda signage.
‘Stronger Together’
Haven’t cursed anything for three weeks in India but that shit annoyed me.
Nailed it.
Fare enough.
The Reserve Bank can not undo 30 years of consolidation.
Some inflation is imported.
A lot is due to energy.
And a chunk is due to most of Australian industry now operating in cartel like structures.
How can that be relevant? We don’t want to know if the investment is larger than it was in the last five years, we want to know if it is proportionate given the undertaking. If I renovate the house, comparing this to last five years is pointless, you want to know if what is spent is proportionate to what I’m getting.
You responded to my comment re proportionality by saying “I guess, so what?”. Given that, it’s perfectly fair to follow up as I did.
The tweet didn’t infer that sanctions had no bite. It simply stated they were failing to force any change in Russian policy.
Aggregate, yes.
I’m not entirely convinced a king ruling is worse than what we have now. Hell, a benevolent king/dictator I’d take over the clownshow we have.
Jeezus, you could crack walnuts with those things.
What’s the Chinese government’s position on flamers? Does anyone know?
Eddles?
I remember seeing a corruption index recently. Ukraine was far more corrupt than Russia, which would imply Russia is more ‘Western’.
Ed Casesays:
February 7, 2023 at 7:15 pm
BTW, what is thorpe’s and WAR’s real agenda?
Terrorist attacks?
Random bashings of white people?
Gulags?
Compulsory confiscation of land and other assets?
Settle, petal.
She’s working for the Feds.
Probably only knows what she needs to know, which is:
Stick to the script and there’s a big payday ahead, go off script and you’ll be lucky to be hawking your fanny down Inkerman St.
Shorter Richard Cranium:
(Taps side of nose.) I know what’s going on, can’t say much right now, but there is a cunning plan being implemented.
Ah yes, I forgot about that – the ‘Canberra Pigs’ listed my address as ‘no fixed address’ at the time of my arrest – despite photographing my licence (with my address) and writing said address in the arresting officers notebook.
This they then used as one justification for my arrest – to quote them verbatim, from my phone vision…. ‘of no fixed address, so we can’t summons him, he might not attend’.
BASTARDS.BASTARDS.BASTARDS.BASTARDS.BASTARDS!
Has anyone here done “EMS training”?
A soft serve cone each breakfast, lunch and tea for Dear Leader, Onus Williams.
Ukrainian corruption. You pay someone a few bucks & a bottle of booze to avoid the draft.
Australian corruption. You’re out of pocket 90k to get your renovation plans through Waverley Council’s DA process.
Michael Smith News.
It’s fun that the whole thing is because the rotation of the Earth, the revolution of the Moon around the Earth, and the revolution of the Earth around the Sun is a messy ratio of complex digits. Which after a couple thousand years meant Christmas is two weeks later in the Orthodox calendar.
On the other hand I don’t think Jesus our Lord was born on either 25 Dec nor 7 Jan. But then QE2’s birthday was in April not June, which is when we had the holiday. And Charles was a November baby, so June is even further away from November than April is. But such is what holidays are made of, and holidays are fun.
The priority list for service with attendant fee. At least in Africa they have the decency to call it a bribe.
Not sure my first reply got through…
I don’t think we’re getting reliable data out of Russia, so the point is moot.
Flamers have a long history in Government in the Middle Kingdom, JC.
Mao was known to be surrounded by Flamers, euphemistically described as “advisers”.
Why would you say that? They weren’t claiming it was scrupulous. It was simply not as corrupt as Ukraine.
I doubt that in the present situation.
But in normal times, you want a driver’s license within a reasonable amount of time? You pay a little extra. It starts with every day dealings with the bureaucracy and percolates upwards.
Recently took the car in for a service & rego check.
There was a 75 buck environmental fee.
That’s the cost of the deposal of all the juices they drain/replace from the car.
75 bucks per car.
Do the math on a decent sized service centre.
FMD.
I think the data from Ukraine is exactly as corrupt as the data from Russia.
I have seen nothing that makes me think otherwise during the whole of last year.
Anyway, why would anyone give anyone else free intelligence?
You missed the point Roger.
It was a reference to the systemised corruption in Australia.
The last corruption index I saw had Russia ahead of Ukraine.
But let’s not split hairs.
Both states are rotten to the core.
Yes, it was called the snake because currencies wiggled within a band in the EMS (European Monetary System) prior to the introduction of the Euro. 🙂
OK.
I have no problem with the unbelievability of Russian of Ukrainian data. I know Russia and China long have regarded economic data as militarily important. Which is true, but also politically important since often the claims are more flamboyant than the actual. Why anyone would believe the official pronouncements from either side of a nasty war like this one mystifies me.
Cassia, I have done Environmental Management System (EMS) training. I suspect that is not the answer you are looking for!
The Unspoken Toxic Femininity | Joe Rogan Experience
Taken from JRE #1933 w/Jordan Peterson:
precession baby … its the dawn of the age of Aquarius
My barber can’t throw hair in the bin.
It has to be collected by some special certified waste group.
Pure insanity.
Perrottet is a piece of shit. Arguably worse than kean.
On the other hand Ed, there is plenty of evidence that Sonny Liston was unfit, undertrained, overweight, 40 years of age, went into the fight with bursitis of the shoulder, had logged little ring time in the past three years, couldn’t handle the unprecedented speed and movement of Cassius Clay, and tore a tendon in the crook shoulder during the fight.
Despite all those disadvantages, Liston gave Clay what the latter called his “toughest fight ever”.
Salman Rushdie as he is today, blinded in one eye, after attack by Islamic throwback
Michael Smith News.
After the fatwa was declared, the Brits should have put out a rumour that Rushdie was holed up in a certain country estate. Then the Herefordshire Field and Gun Club could have got some useful training.
That and give him a pistol, a holster and intensive training in the use thereof and he could have seen what sort of score he could rack up.
Ed Casesays:
February 7, 2023 at 8:51 pm
Flamers have a long history in Government in the Middle Kingdom, JC.
Mao was known to be surrounded by Flamers, euphemistically described as “advisers”.
He was also known to have a – deep – fondness for underage girls.
So BAU then?
Here, we hide it as an ‘application fee’ or ‘processing fee’, or ’emergency services levy’ or ‘Catchment management fee’ etc etc etc
“The devils greatest trick was convincing people he did not exist….’
“He was also known to have a – deep – fondness for underage girls.”
More than a “fondness”. Mao liked to rape underage virgins.
Cassie
I was trying to be subtle, not my usual approach, I agree.
Read the book by Mao’s doctor. Repulsive sex predator.
Dillo!
One thing does – No one is in charge, and everyone is lying for the short term optics.
The West has never been in greater danger from a decapitation strike than it is at the moment.
The West has never been in greater danger from a decapitation strike than it is at the moment
With the quality and good decision making ability of current western leaders why would anyone want to run a decapitation strike? Never interrupt the enemy when he is making a mistake. Mistakes is all the current bunch do.
St @ 6;27
Oh deary deary me.
Gravity Waves
Speaking of which, on my bucket list ( now that Mach 1 at 100ft AGL is probably not going to happen) is this.
‘Many’. Oh, okay.
Does he get it right 40 times a day, given that there are 55 earthquakes per day on earth and working on an 80% strike rate?
No? Oh, he must be at best unreliable, and at worst a charlatan living on subscriptions paid for by the gullible.
Speaking of cracking walnuts, I’ll make this my last cute owl. I defy any of you pansies to find fault with her.
That worked so well at the Oscars for Will Smith.
Further details:
Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann is suing Channel 10 and its star Lisa Wilkinson for defamation, accusing them of seeking to exploit allegations of sexual assault against him for personal and professional gain.
Mr Lehrmann, who has consistently denied raping former colleague Brittany Higgins, has launched defamation proceedings against Network Ten and News Life Ltd – an arm of News Corp Australia – in Federal Court.
Wilkinson, former co-host of The Project, and Samantha Maiden, political editor for news.com.au, are understood to be second respondents in proceedings.
She’s a bit cross-eyed. The only way to make sure she’s okay is to toss a 50 cent piece at her and see if she catches it.
Knuckle Draggersays:
February 7, 2023 at 10:11 pm
Dutch gets the scale right many times
‘Many’. Oh, okay.
Does he get it right 40 times a day, given that there are 55 earthquakes per day on earth and working on an 80% strike rate?
No? Oh, he must be at best unreliable, and at worst a charlatan living on subscriptions paid for by the gullible.
Your f*ckwit status is confirmed. If you had watched the forecasting clip I posted above, you wouldn’t have come out with such tosh. That means so didn’t or are to stupid follow. I did say a 7th grader could follow it….it does go for over an hour so your attention span would probably be challenged.
Go watch television you idiot.
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
When I first heard how long the training was for Western weaponry, I surmised that all the operators would have to be former NATO troops working under the fiction of being military contractors.
Here, an Austrian officer confirms exactly what I thought.
Not a fan of her manicurist’s work.
Her eyelashes could do with a bit of work as well.
Feeelthebern:
I cut my own hair and throw the bits into the back yard. The birds take it for their nest. I’ve raised about four generations of Willy Wagtails in my locks.
They keep coming back, so it’s not killing them.
132andBushsays:
February 7, 2023 at 10:06 pm
St @ 6;27
Weather modifications via radar has been going on for a while. Is it a decision maker in the BOM? Not sure to be honest. The Harold E Holt base in Exmouth has been running amok for ages. I’ve witnessed their shenanigans on the BOM radar many times.
Oh deary deary me.
Oh deary what you ignorant clown?
Which court will hear the.Lehrmann case? A real one, or an ersatz one?
No worries. I am also unburdened by subscription to this Armstrong-esque thief’s Gullibility Channel.
Is it professionally edited and produced?
Year Seven kids follow lots of things. I’m not following a bloke who thinks the government is ‘scrubbing’ his ability to tell the Real Truth to Teh PeoPle, that the same government (here and in the US) is using laser beams to control the weather from secret bases masquerading as BOM locations, that talks a lot about predictions coming true after events that occurred instead of before, and is also a deep-diving Q fanatic.
Michael Janitch is a weedy accountant-looking character living in the northern US, and making a shit tin of cash from idiots.
Given all this, I am unsure whose ‘f*ckwit’ status is confirmed.
P.S. 6PR is the best radio station in the Western world.
You don’t actually realise how radar works, do you?
UK military running out of money and ammo – media
Britain is “under-delivering” on its NATO commitments, a source told Sky News
The UK does not have enough money to fulfill its military commitments after digging deep into its stockpiles to fund and equip the Ukrainian war effort, unnamed defense sources told Sky News on Monday.
Britain’s self-defense is in jeopardy because the government is giving away critical military assets to Kiev, including tanks and artillery, sources warned, explaining that “it is no good having a small number of high-end, exquisite platforms when you have not got capacity around it.”
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak recently promised Ukraine 14 Challenger 2 main battle tanks and 30 AS90 artillery guns – the remainder of the British army’s artillery stocks – leaving the home front vulnerable, according to the sources.
While Sunak inherited a “refresh” of defense policy formulated in 2021, prioritizing investment in high-tech submarines and the development of a new fighter jet, the sources who spoke to Sky argued this plan ignores the military’s immediate needs — a lack of ammunition, artillery, and missile defense systems.
The sources said they had already urged the Treasury to add £3 billion annually to the defense budget and ease restrictions on arms procurement, but Chancellor Jeremy Hunt was playing “hard ball.”
“[The Treasury] recognize[s] the threats. They recognize the pressure defense is under from inflation, the nuclear deterrent, stockpiles, and Ukraine. But despite recognizing the threats and the pressure, they say there is no more money,” one source told Sky.
Making matters worse, the government is actually cutting the size of the military from 82,000 to 73,000 troops. London will thus only be “credibly” able to supply a brigade, numbering between 5,000 and 10,000 soldiers plus supporting equipment, to a new NATO force that would normally expect three to six times that number from a major bloc power such as the UK.
Retired General Richard Barrons warned earlier this month in an op-ed that the country’s army had been so “hollowed out by spending cuts” that it could run out of ammunition “in a busy afternoon” and was by no means prepared to withstand a “surprise attack.”
Sky’s insiders at the Ministry of Defence confirmed the military would “already run out of ammunition within a few days if called upon to fight” and warned that putting together a “modern warfighting division of some 25,000 to 30,000 troops” would take “up to ten years.”
Eyrie:
Perhaps you misunderstand me – if Russia or China were to launch a decapitation strike at the US and immediately follow it up with a counterforce strike, the West would be unable to reply in time to the first. The second strike would remove any possibility of retaliation because no one would be able to order it in time to make effective.
A Russia China Coalition would then be in a position to force the stand down of the remaining Western Strategic Forces – Great Britain and France.
Game over.
According to the Oz, the only one outside blood relatives recognised in the will of the family patriarch a few years ago.
Make of that what you will.
Please explain the method and implementation.
Agree with KD.
6PR are fAb
6. If the Voice gets up, I will make sure I always tick boxes marked “Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander” on every government and medical form.
If the InVoice gets up, it will be interesting what happens when the ‘unintended consequences’ kick in.
6. If the Voice gets up, I will make sure I always tick boxes marked “Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander” on every government and medical form.
Is that because it is the northern islands where there are lotsa ladyboys? i.e. it is a part of the culture or something?
She’s a bit cross-eyed. The only way to make sure she’s okay is to toss a 50 cent piece at her and see if she catches it.
She’s not going to catch anything less than a 5 oz gold bar. Get the gold out of your choppers and melt a few heirlooms and get back to me.
Zhirinovski: ‘I’ll take the world to the brink of war’ | DW English
Knuckle Draggersays:
February 7, 2023 at 10:47 pm
I’ve witnessed their shenanigans on the BOM radar many times
You don’t actually realise how radar works, do you?
On this subject your are clueless. You know what, I’ll leave the subject for a while and end it with this.
This goes for 1:27:51. Probably a bit long for you. You have no idea what they can do with radar and EMF pulses.
Go watch television.
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Premiered on 30 Apr 2022
Lt. Col. Thomas Bearden has passed away, and his website has been deactivated, or taken down!
His company, energetic productions, sent this DVD to me directly, unsolicited, with a hand written note:
“Michael,
Wasn’t sure if you had seen THIS ONE of Tom’s—-
Tahri
Energetic Productions
1988 lecture about Russian Directed Energy weapons, given at the World Trade Center of all places.
This video includes clips added by Mr. Bearden himself at some point in 2010, long before he passed away.
This is a miracle and a half to get confirmation on pretty much everything I discovered ON MY OWN since 2011. He even has HAARP RINGS in the video but calls them “RADAR pulses”!
Listen to the parts about Ukraine and Russia, about nuclear reactors and earthquakes. About Scalar and Cancer. About the US Embassies being attacked with EMF radio wave devices, about Russia having cures to viruses using radio waves. Making ‘viruses’ also with the same technique.
This is a magnum opus of Lt. Col Bearden. The fact that it was just sent to me after he passed away , I feel obligated to carry the torch on this.
4/29/2022 — Secret Super Weapons That Drive Disarmament Negotiations – Lt. Col. Thomas Bearden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0Ggmi_6JFU
Tickler going off.
I blame the 5G.
Or the BoM radar.
Or possibly even the 6PR transmitter.
132andBushsays:
February 7, 2023 at 10:53 pm
Watch the Bearden clip above. I doubt you will though….call it a hunch.
Cohenite
Elbows are too pointy.
Watching good episode of Club Grubbery – Athletes with Voices.
Interviewing : Pat Cash, Trevor Hendy, UK soccer player Matt le Tissier, US Basketball player John Stockton and former Green Bay Packers player Ken Ruettgers. Surfer Kelly Slater may pop in later. All explaining how their suspicions arose about Covid etc.
Matt a smart guy.
It is the mechanism used by the BoM to let clouds know when and where to drop rain.
Sancho Panzersays:
February 7, 2023 at 11:04 pm
Cool calm and collected.
Go watch the Bearden clip above. Have fun. I’ll drop the US .Gov speech on the matter- admitting to it at a later date. They learnt from the Soviets . I just know you don’t have a clue about that one.
Maybe they are lying? It is .Gov ( :
Is it a slick production with good musical backing?
Secret Super Weapons!
Weather! Cancer! EMF! Taylor Swift and Cute Owls! HAAAAARP beams!
It’s all connected! Don’t you SEE?
This blog is off the pace….
‘everything I discovered ON MY OWN since 2011’
Ah. There you are, sir. You seem to have misplaced your pudding.
Here. Let me help you back to your room.
Old mate cannot forecast the next 10 earthquakes that cause over 100 casualties each to the nearest week, within +/- 0.5 on the Richter scale, to within +/- 1 km depth, to within a fifty mile radius of the epicentre and he will not get all the tectonic plates right.
I bet you $10,000 of Australian ram head sterling silver shillings (1938 -1946).
I defy any of you pansies to find fault with her.
Well, she looks nice and hydrated.
But the tattoos are a shame.
Tattoos = issues.
It’s been good fun. A pile on from useless ignorant clowns.
that cause over 100 casualties each
That’s a bit unfair… you’re asking the ouija board for casualties?
One earthquake might kill thousands in Haiti, and none in the Dominican Republic.
Likewise, a five on the richter might level Nepal, yet barely register in Japan.
Make a counter-offer, Trickler.
Let’s make this interesting, or do you lack breeding you simple beast?
wisdom and the development of a worldview informed by their faith,” CEO Dallas McInerney said.
Have You Seen This Boy?
If you see Kim Jong Un, please tell him his generals and wait staff are very worried about him and the whole country would like to see him back in his lair tonight because he needs to rest before the big parade tomorrow. A spokesperson for the USA State Department labelled as unfounded rumours that Kim has been busy building an intercontinental nuclear balloon. Rumours that he has had another tantrum and shot some more generals are still being investigated.
Apparently they especially liked Ethiopian ladies.
Thinking of Mekdes……
Am I too late? Just feeding the nano wrigglers.
From News com au . They will never stop. This is going to cause serious problems as covers everybody over 18 who has not had a jab for 6 months. It also contradicts decision on 7 July when said n9t recommended for under 30s due to heart issues.
Australians will be able to get a fifth Covid vaccine within a fortnight.
The Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) has recommended that everyone over the age of 18 who has not been infected with Covid or received a vaccine within the last six months should get a fifth shot.
The fifth jab was previously only available for people who are severely immunocompromised.
ATAGI made it clear that those over the age of 65 remain at severe risk of death or becoming seriously unwell if they catch Covid.
The announcement means people aged between 18 and 29 will now be eligible for a fourth dose of the vaccine.
Children will not be offered another vaccine unless they have a health condition that puts them at risk.
At the start of the year, 72 per cent of eligible Australians had three doses, while 44 per cent had a fourth.
“From February 20, all adults who haven’t had a booster or an infection in the past six months can go out and get a booster shot, to give them additional protection against severe illness from Covid,” Health Minister Mark Butler said.
“If you’re 65 or over, or you’re an adult at risk of severe Covid illness, and it’s been six months since your last booster or infection, it’s now time for a booster.”
Sailed past Taormina on way here.
I messina’d it.
Next time.
Visited the Diocesan museum and the Roman baths which are under the piazza in front of the cathedral. Most of the decorations of the baths are missing but it’s in better shape than most others I’ve seen.
Then got my squid ink at a pretty cute restaurant run by three old fellas with an Indian chef.
You can’t get in without them pressing a button to release the front door.
The other diners were two young couples who were speaking what I thought might have been Russian but turned out to be Ukrainian unless they were Russian speaking Ukrainians as one of the owners asked them in the intersection language, English, where they were from, the spokesgirl said they were Ukrainian but living in Czech Republic where they were returning this afternoon.
Asked about war they were non committal as you might expect when both young men would be eligible for draught. Pretty adamant they were returning to Czech Republic not Ukraine.
Then walked up to visit the monastery of St Benedict which is now part of the university was the second biggest Benedictine monastery in the world. I have to wait til tomorrow for guided tour so visited the monastery Church instead. Bigger than the cathedral apparently to accommodate visitors for the feast day of St Nails.
Hard to read some of the translations but my impression was they moved from the slopes of Mount Etna after being surrounded by a lava flow in 1669. The front facade of the church was never finished and looks it.
The piazza in front of the church is a semi circle with baroque houses set around it.
It ought to look very nice but too many of the houses are run down and unoccupied, a common problem in central Catania.
nope the lava flow was at the present site when the surrounding area became 12 metres higher.
Interesting Rosie.
Re the Benedictine monastery, do they make the liquor? I used to have a passion for it years ago.
Get your Bingo card for Biden’s speech here!
No TE, like most monasteries and convents in Italy the Benedictines were booted by the government in 1866.
I don’t know if the Benedictines have any current presence in Sicily.
I’m sure St Nails is an incorrect translation.
I look at the Italian tomorrow and see if I can figure it out.
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Peter Broelman.
David Rowe.
Christian Adams.
Morten Morland.
Patrick Blower.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Gary Varvel.
Tom Stiglich.
Chip Bok.
Al Goodwyn.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
Thank you Tom
Now a news update on toxic two-legged amphibians La Rospaccia is now in the cross-hairs:
I was wrongthere is a fascist building, in the same square as the main theatre. I wondered what it was as it looked a little incongruous.
Good morning earlybirds. I am up early, still slightly jetlagged from arriving in on Monday arvo.
Attapuss has been so delighted to see us he’s been following us around like a little dog, and talking his head off, especially at Hairy. Our catsitter did a good job and also left our place spotless. We said to help yourself to the drinks trolley but her usage was moderate. All good news, there was some Bombay Sapphire left for me and some single malt there still for Hairy. We added some new Duty Free to the trolley.
Unpacking is now all done. A major job. A Kleenex up the sleeve of my very useful black Jag cardigan has wrecked my ‘dark’ winter wash. Some items seem too sad and dulled to try to rescue.
Sydney sticky February heat is a challenge after Korean and other winter climes. Aircon is on.
Hope Rosie stays safe in earthquake territory, I note she has checked out safe places such as bathrooms in her accommodations. On the 28th floor in a Korean high rise I had a mild panic about fire possibilities, memories of 9/11 videos, but at least hotels there have to provide a room torch and smoke masks. I didn’t enquire about cladding issues. Too freaky. We’d left there before earthquakes became front of mind, thank goodness.
Most of the Korean population live in high rise apartments; there are very few single houses.
A rosy-pink dawn light is coming over the cliff from the ocean, a celestial dimmer being turned up by an unseen hand, an ageless certainty. The Aussie birds are hunched, sitting in developing outlines on rooftops and fences and in trees. The day begins in earnest now and I am going back to bed. I might get to sleep again now as their calls are a homecoming comfort. Even the Kookas.
Especially the Kookas.
Sorry if this has been posted earlier: Paul Kelly has written a very good article on the pea-hearted ‘leaders’ of this country:
Welcome home Lizzie and Hairy. The weather has been very Sydney Summer of late this morning is a little dull but ’tis early yet. Thanks for the travelogue have been shivering all the way around the Northern Hemisphere with you, but not in the slightest bit envious. 😉
My take way from the absence of political ‘leaders’ from George Cardinal Pell’s funeral, so many of whom were raised as Catholics is this:
The non-attendance to George Cardinal Pell’s funeral by our popinjay-hearted ‘leaders’ demonstrates their total and utter disrespect towards the High Court of Australia’s 7-0 judgment which restored to the Cardinal his state of innocence – meaning he was not guilty of the charges. Little wonder respect for the legal institutions of this country are in decline.
For the ignoranti out there, who say the High Court’s judgment was a technicality: no-one is ever asked ‘do you plead innocent or not innocent to the charge’? they’re asked: ‘how do you plead’? ‘guilty or not guilty’?
Excellent article by Paul Kelly.
A formidable analysis by Paul Kelly, whose ALP cheerleading I normally scroll by. For the first time since I subscribed to the Paywallian 20 years ago, the paper has surprised me.
Test?
The Australian is leading the shilling for The Voice.
The best reason they can arrive at to oppose it is some garbage about Democracy and everyone getting one vote.
And Peter Dutton getting off the fence and announcing for No.
You can bet the house, if he does that, the screaming will be:
How can you oppose The Voice when you don’t know the details?!?!!!!
Tintarella di Luna says:
February 8, 2023 at 6:24 am
Well said Tintarella.
At least a funeral service should have been neutral ground, but NOO! gutless wonders.
Leaders???
No wonder we are where we are, in every sense, but there is nought we can do about it.
Change the system?
Can’t do it. Too many non thinking rusted ons for both sides.
The non-attendance to George Cardinal Pell’s funeral by our popinjay-hearted ‘leaders’ demonstrates their total and utter disrespect towards the High Court of Australia’s 7-0 judgment which restored to the Cardinal his state of innocence –
There’s no Legal State Of Innocence.
Good pick up over the 7-0 judgement, though.
Clearly Parrothead and quite a few others weren’t buying it.
As to holidaying in Europe in winter?
Blimey, it’s cold enough here in winter.
I love hot weather. Bring it on.
Pell faced a Church Court over similar allegations dating back to a Youth Camp in 1961.
Judge Southwell found both Pell and the Complainant credible witnesses and made no finding.
Pell probably shoulda retired then.
It’s similar to when Dutton deported some Kiwis who had no Criminal Record but had beaten numerous Serious Charges and never had any visible means of support..
At some point you’ve just gotta admit the facts.
“We live in an age of phony virtue and fabricated honour.” Lewis was prophetic – leadership in our institutions, public and private, is administered by men without chests.
We are living in a West that is now administered by men without chests.
Thank you Tinta for uploading Kelly’s piece.
Thank you to the Oz for publishing his piece. It confirms why I still subscribe to the Oz.
Ed Case says:
February 8, 2023 at 7:05 am
I hope someone with more time on their hands will pick you up on that claim.
I have to go back to work.
Just been told it’s 12c in Melbourne.
Southern Europe, occasional rain and wind chill off Etna notwithstanding is very pleasant to travel in in winter.
The Republicans just lost the 2024 elections.
Club for Growth Snubs Trump Ahead of Annual Donor Retreat (Newsmax, 7 Feb)
Stupid. Trump is so far ahead of anyone else in the primary polls that he will be the candidate, barring dirty tricks. Which means the RINOs will be wetting themselves and undermining him. Or they will play a dirty trick whereupon the 40 million or so core Trump voters will stay home in disgust. The Dems won’t even need to steal it at this rate.
Interesting assertion.
How?
This goes back to Cardinal Pell not being emotional or something when meeting with victims.
Last Thursday, on the steps outside St Marys, Tinta and I did see some men with chests. These men were a multicultural group, of Asian, Middle Eastern, European, Polynesian, African and Indigenous backgrounds, on their knees praying the rosary. When the degenerate scum were given license by the NSW police to walk directly past the doors of St Marys and mourners such myself, a deliberate act of intimidation, those men with chests walked up to confront the scum, and only then did the vile NSW police move on the scum.
Lewis was writing within the wishy washy Anglophone framework, one that he observed daily. He would have been heartened about what you observed outside St Mary’s.
As one bastion collapses, another takes its place. The Almighty always provides a remnant. It’s a pity that the west looks like being left out but that is its cheap grace choice.
The Stone Toss comic came out really fast in response to this.
Remember a while back there was discussion on whether Brown snakes will live in Black snake territory?
I was right. The largest snake wins, not the breed. The link has good pictures. It reminds me of the children’s song, “I’m being swallowed by a Boa Constrictor.”
As for Cardinal Pell not showing enough emotion to victims, isn’t a practical remedy far more valuable than loud mouth wailing?
It’s the only part of Kelly’s piece I take issue with. He’s done it as a sop for the offenderati. In these degenerate times, it’s more about how something looks rather than what it is. Or what is said rather than what one does.
Already seen it.
*Backing slowly away*
We live in an age of phony virtue and fabricated honour.
Outstanding.
“As one bastion collapses, another takes its place. “
Yep. I’ve been thinking a lot about this lately. After watching the Sam Smith degeneracy, I am now convinced we are witnessing a collapse. And I know this statement will annoy some here, but the fundamental truth is that what happened on Thursday outside the cathedral is, as far as I’m concerned, the inevitable end result of “liberalism” in the West and this liberalism has led us to a steep cliff which the West has now happily driven off.
I’ll take my hat off to Peter Dutton for attending the funeral, but he has always struck me as a man with a chest. As for Perrottet, my seething contempt for him and his cronies in the Liberal party, state and federal, knows no bounds.
I take my hat off to the crooks in the Solomon Islands.
Yesterday their PM sacked the biggest China critic from his role.
Get money from Australia/US. Say & do the right things at the time.
Get money from China. Say & do the right things at the time.
Rinse, repeat.
Also hats off to the ABC for giving it the coverage they did.
“As for Cardinal Pell not showing enough emotion to victims, isn’t a practical remedy far more valuable than loud mouth wailing?”
And therein lies the rub, we live in a time where loud mouth wailing is lauded.
we live in a time where loud mouth wailing is lauded.
Things I heard yesterday at a meeting that got really off track.
“how can Alice Springs get better if we don’t pass The Voice”.
A big problem is the people who frame big decisions have zero skin in the game.
Because 16 year olds are so well educated in science!
SMH: Lower the Voting Age to 16, to Drive Climate Action (6 Feb)
Ah, the wonderful Mr Gittins, who appears to know even less science than a school kid.
My wife has learned it is nessasary to control her emotions when dealing with families otherwise she would be no use. Practical advise gives long term benefits and outsiders have no business sharing the grief.
You enforce the law without fear or favour and it slowly becomes a normal, small regional city.
Ed Casesays:
February 8, 2023 at 6:56 am
The Australian is leading the shilling for The Voice.
The best reason they can arrive at to oppose it is some garbage about Democracy and everyone getting one vote.
And Peter Dutton getting off the fence and announcing for No.
You can bet the house, if he does that, the screaming will be:
How can you oppose The Voice when you don’t know the details?!?!!!!
Richard Cranium
You have been babbling on about the Voice referendum for yonks, but the one thing that you have never done is express a clear personal position.
Are you for or against? Please provide reasons for your preference.
He’s a fat unkempt oaf who loves free food at conferences and seminars. Truly his carbon footprint would exceed some poor labourer from Blacktown or Penrith. He’s a loathsome, offensive brute.
He’s not even an economist, he’s an auditor who got a journalism job.
“Responsibilitism” makes more sense when you see ideologues wanting to use democracy to give us authoritarianism.
1. Veterans vote for the executive.
2. Taxpayers vote for the house of reps.
3. The States or sortition appoints the Senate.
If 16 year olds get to vote, they might also be drafted, male and female too in this modern world. It is a raw deal they don’t know they buying into.
Richard Cranium
There’s no Legal State Of Innocence.
Apart from gross stupidity, what are you not innocent of?
Trump needs to win just to rub it in and punish the steal. What the Democrats did in 2020 was seditious.
‘a loathsome, offensive brute’
And yet, I cannot look away.
Got it. Superb reference.
Everything has become about personal feelings (the subjective). Not about the facts (the objective).
The post modernist doctrine.
I might call my micro-state the Legal State of Innocence, as a (((Sovereign Citizen))).
Articles up at The Oz, Courier Mail, ABC etc but so far all almost identical and not allowing comments yet.
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Uptake of fourth vaccine doses has lagged behind previous doses, with just 44 per cent of the eligible population getting one
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So does this lead to more mandates especially for the 28% who stopped at 2 doses. Even many of those who had 4 may be nearing 6 months since last one.
“My wife has learned it is nessasary to control her emotions when dealing with families otherwise she would be no use. Practical advise gives long term benefits and outsiders have no business sharing the grief.”
This. Bespoke, nailed it.
kyoto university professor sues japan’s health ministry over covid vaccine
accuses health ministry of fraud
Oops did not copy well.
Dot
If 16 year olds get to vote, they might also be drafted, male and female too in this modern world. It is a raw deal they don’t know they buying into.
All rights should be linked to the right to vote.
Drinking, driving, firearms ownership, military service, end of compulsory schooling.
Feel free to add more, then consider what the reactions of the Gittins of this world will be.
Are Fauci, Gates & Moderna responsible for the COVID Pandemic? – The U.S. D.O.D issued a ‘COVID-19 Research’ contract 3 Months before COVID was known to exist – & Fauci & Moderna had a Vaccine ready in Dec. 2019
Teen dies days after collapsing on basketball court
If the politicians in Darwin and Canberra making decisions about Alice Springs could see what the Alice cops are dealing with daily, they’d know the solution is stopping black kids and blackfella drunks running amok.
For that, you need the rule of law, but there is no rule of law and black kids and drunks are running amok.
The problem with Alice is cowardice in Darwin and Canberra.
Does anyone know what this actually means?
US Treasury’s Disastrous 3-Year Auction! High Rate Rises To 4.073% As Allotment To Dealers And Brokers Collapses (Stop Through Yield Crashes To Lowest Level In Years)
Netherlands Largest News Agency Blanketed With 14,445 Post-its, Each Representing a Covid Vaccine Death in 2022
Boambee – exactomundo.
I have no problem with 16 year olds being given the vote, as long as they are also:
1. Subject to full tax rates;
2. Tried in adult courts and sent to adult prisons, where they can sit and walk next to, and sleep near 40 year old dismemberment enthusiasts;
3. Removed from any youth or student concessions of any type;
4. Compelled to pay full rate for firearms and other licence applications; and
5. Made to pay their own power bills.
There are more, but that will do for the moment. You can’t just nibble the good bits off a pizza. You take part of it, you own it.
This may sound out there but if you listen to Schwab and his acolytes for five minutes this is how they actually talk. Whether it’s true or not, or whether it works or not, they’ll give it a good old fashioned try.
Researchers discover a new part of the brain and the World Economic Forum wants to use it to read our minds
The Chinese balloon story is even bigger than it seems
I hereby apologise to all Cats and Kittehs for not giving him a good shove when I had the opportunity to do so.
Death by Ruck and Maul (and deliciously via his own kid’s sprigs) would be too good for him.
Wowee. What a time to be alive.
I’m glad Lehrmann is going the full hog – but he’s missed out one potential target. Morrison.
Children’s Health Defense
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Are you resistant to COVID-19 tyranny? If so, by law, you could be classified as an “Enemy of the State”
Tucker: This practice is illegal
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Once again. This “earthquake forecasting” nonsense has got to stop.
Here is the wager:
Old mate cannot forecast the next 10 earthquakes that cause over 100 casualties each to the nearest week, within +/- 0.5 on the Richter scale, to within +/- 1 km depth, to within a fifty mile radius of the epicentre and he will not get all the tectonic plates right.
I bet you $10,000 of Australian ram head sterling silver shillings (1938 -1946).
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The suggestion has been made to Steve Trickler to make a counter offer, but it appears that he doesn’t want to make things interesting, the poor beast is lacking in good breeding and wouldn’t know entertainment or numeracy if it hit him over the head and kicked him up the bum. He’s a damp squib, ain’t he? I’ve ran across street urchins with more refinement and intelligence than this!
Hasn’t been below 20 degrees in Sydney for a week & has been as humid AF.
I’m reminded of Tony Grieg checking the players comfort on Boonie on one of the 12th Man albums.
Yet another preposterous puffed up mediocrity handed an entirely undeserved megaphone by our beloved braindead lamestream meeja.
As for the lauding of Paul “is wrong (again)” Kelly above, give it a rest, people.
Presumably Dali’s melted clocks were a harbinger of global warming.
Rise in air pollution correlates to creation of impressionist painting, study says (6 Feb)
Maybe it also explains why modern art is so awful.
February in Sydney is invariably my least favourite time of the year.
A big problem is the people who frame big decisions have zero skin in the game.
This would also apply to the current ROBODEBT RC and all the subsequent costs .. a squillion dollar enquiry into a flawed/illegal clawback of around $10million from folk who couldn’t afford to pay it back even if they had, actually, owed it! .. no one will pay for the hardship & deaths (same as KRudd’s roof bats fiasco) maybe a coupla “naughty corner” moments but a week later out of the news cycle and back to norm for the rest ………..!
Yet, over the course of a normal year the “troughers” collective in Parliament would rort, legally & illegally, 2 or 3 times this amount, $30 billion poured into the 251 lake every year so ROBODEBT wouldn’t have even caused a ripple there .. yet no enquiry/RC into that “holy grail” ..!
“burka” & “turgid” alone rorted the tax payers of, probably, a quarter of the entire ROBODEBT total impressing their staff “girlfriends” whilst , supposedly, “working” but no consequences for either .. both still sitting in Parliament and drawing their obscene salaries ……
Seems Royal Commisions are more a revenge tactic on political enemies rather than a checks & balances issue ….
One thing is guaranteed from any RC tho! … only the mug taxpayer foots the final bill ….!
KD
Thanks, I had forgotten about age related concessions for the yoof.
Saw a clip on Twitter of a Davos interview with CEO of Moderna. Presumably one just held last month.
In it he says Moderna made $100,000 in 2019 but after Davos (not sure if referring to 2019 or 2020 but seems more likely 2019) says to his production guys going to make a billion dollars next year as going to be a pandemic.
Read in conjunction with one of the links put up earlier by Indolent.
About bloody time.
Interesting that it is the Liberal staffer who shows more backbone than all those Liberal MPs and Cabinet Members who curled into a ball at the first whiff of an accusation, apologised reflexively and unthinkingly, and resigned from office in disgrace to spend more time polluting their communities with their cowardice.
In this whole affair there has been only one person who has treated it as the legal case it was meant to be. Only one person (who may or may not have wanted a trial) conducted themselves as if it was a proper trial.
Cassie’s Amphibian (pronounced ‘am fibbing’), and a fairly hefty whack of frightbats (and they generally are hefty – moderation not being a word they associate with food) have only indulged in a Bacchanalia drowning themselves in a heady concoction of lurid innuendo, promiscuous exchanges of each others’ smells within their camp such as ants do with pheromones to recognise their sisters, general misandry, undergraduate feminist pap, and self-pleasuring superciliousness.
All this without any restraint at all because they were convinced that the hangover would be felt by someone else – not in the form of a headache, but in Bruce in the form of a ruined life. And they would continue their drunken revelry scolding, denigrating and upbraiding all men forever from their narcotic stupor because, again, there would be no hangover for them.
Perhaps Lisa, perhaps Samantha, through bleary eyes are now beginning to discern the shape of barristers coming for them and feeling a little uncomfortable – partly because they might be in trouble but largely because it is as if the world is being tilted upside down. It will take the others in the sisterhood a bit long, and then they will have to come up with a campaign insisting any examination of them, their motives, and their actions means you think all women should be raped, but this time (very unsettling for them) some of their own egos and jobs (BIRM – their jobs are to flatter themselves) will be at stake.
After so long with a creeping conveyor belt of hapless spineless Liberals waiting morosely to have their heads lopped off, it is a lowly staffer who makes a stand.
And hysterical gullible hypochondriac imbeciles across the country did rejoice.
Mention of ‘melted clocks’ .. this is on one of my walls! .. LOL!
https://postimg.cc/9RY7yvvR
*top*men*
I told my kids in 2015, within my lifetime:
1) I will become an enemy of the state
2) Bitcoin will go to 1 million dollars
One down, one to go
Don’t always admire Paul Kelly, but he is a keen observer of the decline and fall of Australian leadership.
‘Doing the right thing’ is long gone as an Australian civic virtue.
Thanks Tinta for the Paul Kelly post.
I agree with Calli.
A good article spoiled by missing the most important hurdle.
For those who still have faith in “The Science” and “mRNA vaccines”, time for some medical Alzheimers from the great Saint Anthony of Fauci.
A 28 second video on the practice of testing vaccines in the scientific way.
From el gato malo at Bad Cattitude.
Everyone should spend 30 secs getting it from Tony himself.
Australian adults will be able to get a fifth dose of the COVID-19 vaccine within a fortnight,
Gosh, golly!, isn’t it exciting..! only two more doses and a “free” set of steak knives! .. LOL!
who would have thought the “expert vaccine advisory body” was all in for vaccines?
from The Conservative Treehouse – Mark Steyn leaves GB news in the UK after GB News CEO demands indemnity against OfComm lawsuits.
Free speech only as long as they agree with you.
From news.com.au
Today host Karl Stefanovic has slammed the RBA and the big banks following the ninth consecutive rate hike.
King Karl.
The peoples champ.
The claim that there were balloons in the Trump years has been comprehensively debunked by a number of people who’d know, including the former Director of National Intelligence. That these claims have been made, and the awful incident where 51 former CIA and FBI guys said the Hunter laptop was not genuine and probably Russian disinformation, tells you that the USA is in dire trouble – too many bad actors in too many positions.
Marjorie Taylor-Greene has come out swinging (I’d be happy to do a bit of swinging with her) and is taking the Pentagon to task for its ballooning stories
On Monday, Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene demanded an investigation into the claim made by the Biden administration that Chinese spy balloons infiltrated the United States during former President Donald Trump’s time in office.
Greene expressed skepticism that President Trump was unaware of such incidents and suggested that the Pentagon may have kept security information from him. She called for an investigation into the matter to determine the truth and to ensure that the President is always informed of any potential security threats.
She tweeted, “If it’s true the Pentagon purposely did NOT tell President Trump of Chinese Spy Balloons during his administration then we had a serious breach in command during the Trump admin. The POTUS is the Commander in Chief. We must investigate and hold accountable those who broke rank.”
They ordered 14m of the new Vax so even at only $20 each that is $280m.
Then there is distribution costs and I believe a payment to Dr or pharmacy of $32 so the numbers start adding up to real money.
I am presuming this is the bivalent one TGA approved a couple of weeks ago. The same one that WSJ article in Oz 2 days later said was ineffective.
Something very evil is going on.
In Search Engine Wars news:
Reinventing search with a new AI-powered Microsoft Bing and Edge, your copilot for the web
Based on ChatGPT’s performance, the Global IQ is in for a sharp dip.
A sea of supporters farewells a giant of the Church
Sweltering summer heat, angry protestors and a media scrum did little to deter around 4000 mourners from attending Cardinal George Pell’s funeral in Sydney.
Around 2000 people packed St Mary’s Cathedral and almost the same number gathered outside to watch the service on large screens.
People from all walks of life – the young and young at heart, mums with prams, the elderly and everything in between, stood in stifling conditions to pay their respects to the very public prelate.
About 150 people protesting the church’s conservative views on LGBT rights and its response to the child abuse crisis began chanting “Pell, go to hell”, which could be heard inside the cathedral where the Cardinal served for more than a decade as archbishop.
In the end it was the faithful who had the last word. As the hearse carrying the coffin made its way to the crypt of the cathedral, mourners drowned out the protesters by joining in song to the sound of Ave Maria.
The Fairly F**kable Laura Jayes is interviewing (wait for it) Eric Swalwell!
“Mother Lodesays:
February 8, 2023 at 8:52 am”
100 upticks.
A reminder, Maiden was also involved in the Porter affair.
I wrote a thread of this back in late 2021, where I described these women and their involvement in the Lehmann/Porter affairs as a monstrous regimen of females, an evil coven comprising La Amphibian, Maiden, Crabb, Wong. Hanson-Dung, Gallagher, Dyer, Nilligan, and others.
I have zero sympathy for Maiden and the Amphibian. Zero.
Lehrmann sues the gold toothed media rats.
Sometimes it takes a nobody to bring down a somebody.
On my command, unleash hell (the chat logs).
All is not darkness, danger and doom! There is to be a sequel to Fawlty Towers!
Another random black guy attacks random white guy in the US. Fancy that. At least this black guy gave the white guy a fighting chance since he used a knife and was a double amputee as a result of his past violence.
This will probably be ignored:
GE Hitachi Signs Contract for the First North American Small Modular Reactor
why?
Statue of Mary untouched in earthquake that demolished cathedral in Turkey
The image of Our Lady was unharmed in the quake that brought down Annunciation Cathedral in the city of Alexandretta in the Turkish province of Hatay. The cathedral was the main church of the Apostolic Vicariate of Anatolia.
What McConnell and his RINOs did is just as seditious. Republicans have no hope until he is gone.
It is incredible how many gullible idiots willingly donate to that dutchsinse fool.
In actual fact, I blame McConnell even more than the Democrats, they are doing what comes natural to them, what they have always done. McConnell, instead of providing leadership in opposition, is colluding with Democrats against Republican voters and representatives. The world will be a better place when the Good Lord decides to take him (politicians like him never retire, they die in office).
And to think Dot the Queens were really quite civilised compared to this bunch of harpies. It says a lot when quotes from 450 years ago still pack a [punch.
The Greens want to:-
(a) lower the voting age to 16; and
(b) raise the age for any criminal responsibility to 14.
So, in the space of two years, you go from having zero idea about right and wrong to being able to exercise sound political judgement.
Sure.
Talk about chutzpah…
Self-described parliamentary infiltrator and denier of Australian sovereignty Lidia Thorpe has complained that she has not been invited to consult with Voice working groups on its design.
Why don’t they want Lidia’s beneficent presence at their meetings? It’s a mystery.
Interestingly, she also revealed that Peter Dutton has consulted with two such groups (how many are there?). Which would seem to confirm what I posted here yesterday – Dutton’s concern with the Voice is about the details; he doesn’t oppose it in principle.
Speak of the devil…Mark Knight #2 is a corker.
There is to be a sequel to Fawlty Towers!
Cleese once said that alimony was keeping him poor, so he had to keep working.
I think the last State of the Union I watched was one of GWB’s horseshit outings.
The political class wants you to watch the theatre, not what they are actually doing.
Twitter will tell me what to be outraged about later.
Yawn.
Travelling light for women involves taking a dozen changes of clothes instead of twenty.
Older men exchanging pained glances at each other as they test their backs pulling huge heavy cases off the baggage carousel. The women then marvelling at their frugality in packing – this conversation is one way traffic naturally.
“I’ll just do my hair quickly”
When has this ever happened?
Speak of the devil…Mark Knight #2 is a corker.
Roger is quite right.
Lidia on the hog, lol.
I look forward to Wong acknowledging the bloke who pretty well founded the Aussie navy – William Rooke Creswell – and his fight against piracy. This was in 1873, when Creswell was posted to HMS Thalia, a corvette operating out of Singapore.
Temporarily transferred to Midge, a small sloop, barque-rigged but with twin screws, Creswell embarked on a series of missions, often in ships’ boats and a small schooner against pirates. These were small, often desperate events, fought with small guns and rockets backed up with small-arms.
One action saw a fierce fight against two large boats and about 120 pirates, with the British contingent heavily outnumbered and, to make matters worse, the schooner aground on a mud flat. The ensuing action saw repeated attempts to refloat her while taking defensive action, and Creswell took a heavy Schneider bullet to the thigh. However he continued to fight, and the pirate attack was eventually beaten off and the schooner refloated.
The bullet was never found, and Creswell later surmised it was still inside him ‘for the rest of his days’. He was promoted as a result of the action.
And Bandt’s face.
From memory the Borneo area was one of the most savage/pirate/shithole areas of the Victorian era.
Taken over by the Poms in effect to allow sea trade to flourish unimpeded.
And general prosperity to rise.
The heartless bastards.
promiscuous exchanges of each others’ smells within their camp such as ants do with pheromones to recognise their sisters
Greatn now i have the horrible image of insectoid 7-Nilligan/La-Amphibian hybrids queefing in each others faces seared into my brain.
I HOPE you ARE happY!!!, Christmas is CANCELLED because of YOU!!!”