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rickwsays:
February 11, 2023 at 6:48 pm
You don’t need a vaccine passport to leave Australia either.
Start of 4Q last year I needed to produce a vax certificate to leave. Destination country didn’t require vaccination.
Not requiring one to leave is a recent event as the Australian Mongocracy continues to be bludgeoned with reality.
Right now 90% of the population are not technically vaccinated, most have had COVID and you can now travel anywhere without a certificate. WTF was the last two years of Bullshit about? “We done f’cked up!” Ain’t going to cut it.
Oh, and the countries now full of vax injured, and f’ck knows how that’s going to change with time.
I disagree. Until I see the Biosecurity Act changed in front of my eyes I will not believe anything on this Bog, I mean Blog.
Unless Hanscomb gets a bowl in an unlikely Injun second dig, I don’t think so.
Handscomb goneski.
5/52.
But their carbon footprint is all good.
Oops, now 5/56.
Right now 90% of the population are not technically vaccinated, most have had COVID and you can now travel anywhere without a certificate. WTF was the last two years of Bullshit about? “We done f’cked up!” Ain’t going to cut it.
OK smart arse. Fly into the USA without being jabbed with this shite. See how you go.
Smith and Carey will not only save this test but win it.
Episode 46 of The Knife Went In:
No, a ‘car was driven’ by a Palestinian, not ‘a car drove’.
I disagree. Until I see the Biosecurity Act changed in front of my eyes I will not believe anything on this Bog, I mean Blog.
Last time I left no one was interested. But that could be a difference between rules and enforcement, or different rules taking precedence. See Cali’s link upthread.
Yeah okay little buddy Martin Armstrong wrote a better AI than ChatGPT in 1985.
He never studied programming, but yeah sure, okay.
The FBI wanted it and it can make predictions about wars and it is sentient.
Vomitous bilge.
Got to say Mr Murphy, as a spinner, getting 7/124 on debut, on an Indian track, day two, is something he can tell his grandkids about. Good work sir.
They were unable to do their homework on Murphy, since he’d never played Cricket before.
Aussie selectors did the same in Nagpur with Jason [12 for 360] Krezja in 2010, he never took a wicket after that.
Steve [12 for 70] O’Keefe was another success in Nagpur, never took a wicket anywhere else.
That’s correct. Just got back from taking a small group ski tour to Japan. The pre-arrival procedures are a bit bureaucratic but made the process very smooth on arrival at Haneda Airport. Most of the group had the three shots and just uploaded a soft copy of their certificate into the Visit Japan Web app/website. One of the group and I had to get the PCR test done, I got the results in a pdf that I uploaded to Visit Japan Web and got the blue ‘accepted’ page printed out, together with the Customs and Immigration Declaration QR codes. Having the printouts made it easier, the health checkers lining the corridor to Arrivals took one look at the blue page and gave me the pink ‘Health Check Accepted’ slip. The printed QR codes worked for the Immigration and Customs officers and I was through to land side with the bags in 30 minutes.
Japan is very much operating on a ‘You do you’ philosophy. Lots of mask wearing, more than a usual winter, but no evil eyes if you’re sans mask. Given that the country only opened up in October the people are very welcoming of gaijin, especially the area in the Tohoku region where I took the group, which is still to some extent recovering from the 2011 disaster.
Subcutaneous fat – a big part of our body’s insulation system – decreases as we age.
OK smart arse. Fly into the USA without being jabbed with this shite. See how you go.
I wasn’t being smart. Generally no country gives a shit about this anymore, the USA is an exception. Corrupt Senile Pedo in charge.
6 for sumfin
Would you believe Smith and Cummins?
Boebert Accuses Climate Activists Of ‘Forcing Us All To Bow At The Left’s Altar Of Climate Change’
Fire.
Rosie,
I admire your stubbornness but the information about vaccine issues from multiple sources are coming in daily. A notable one has been the Japanese experts berating the Health Department, demanding an inquiry, and asking to stop the jabs
There are simply too many to ignore. There is plenty of evidence (ie. Study into 50,000 Cleveland health workers) to suggest the more taken the more likely to get reinfected. A year ago EU version of TGA warning about dangers to immune system of repeated doses.
Only a few weeks ago in Oz Bill Gates said can’t keep up with the varants and even then wear off quickly.
My Dad, 89, had two serious comorbidities and both his experts told him not to take the jab as more likely to harm than help. The blanket Health Department instruction was that all elderly be vaccinated.
There is clearly more danger to the young from repeated jabs than there is from the virus. Even more so now that at least at least 80% population have had the virus.
Missed it by that much.
Indians learn concentration by crossing the road as kids. Only the aware survive.
I see Port Stephens’ 31% and raise you Queanbeyan-Palerang’s 100% increase in general rates over the next 3 years.
Fly into the USA without being jabbed with this shite
No longer needed Stateside. Just don’t transit through Manila, because they still think the virus hides under every mustache hair
Funny thing: Prior to landing at NYC, cabin crew handed out COVID questionaires and told one and all they needed to be filled in and handed in.
They all ended up in the Arrivals rubbish bin because nobody was on duty to collect ’em.
And his house is rubble.
Netanyahu orders demolition of Ramot terrorist’s home (10 Feb)
Not that he cares since he’s dead. But his family does. Perhaps terrorist wannabes might want to think before they act?
Be a nice policy to import to Australia. Screw up and your family pad is a pile of somewhat damaged second hand building material.
Thanks rugbyskier.
Gives me an idea what to look for.
Providing there isn’t a yuuuge price discrepancy we might book airfares through a travel agent and let them do the admin.
Bruce O’Nuke:
I’m not.
Especially after consuming a glass of Gin last night.
Had a few interesting conversations at the pub, a few beers, and decided I’d try this gin stuff you lot keep on about when I got home.
So:
60 ml of gin
100 ml of Tonic water,
4 icecubes.
Bloody ‘ell! You people drink this stuff without the aid of a nasogastric tube?
It tasted like perfume – and if I’d never tasted perfume before, I now have a good idea of what it’d be like.
Ended up tossing half of it down the sink.
Washed my mouth out with single malt.
At least my farts today smell like roses…
Wall of Green Lasers Blankets Sky in Hawai’i, Likely From Chinese Satellite
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Its all on Boland.
Sancho, you’ll need to do all the form filling. The Customs and Immigration declarations are what you used to have to do on the plane on a paper form but you now do it online a few days before. If you have to get the PCR test you can do it through any of the Sonic Healthcare pathology centres but you’ll have to organise it yourself and upload the results into the Visit Japan Web site and take the printouts to check-in. The PCR test cost around $120.
Winston – the first time I tried gin was 50 years ago. The last time I tried gin was also 50 years ago…
I have some Brokenwood Cricket Pitch CSM in my glass next to the mouse. It is grown 20 km west of me and was on special this week. Quite decent.
7 for 68. Captain Greenie out for 1.
Anyone want to bet on an Aussie win? Anyone?
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Dover at 6:58
CNN apparently think a self-driving car was involved…
I am sure enjoying watching our woke poofter loving test cricket team being thrashed. I really enjoyed the Aussie’s accusing the Indians of ball tampering! I wonder where the Indians got that idea from…oh wait.
8 for
It was a good Test for Agar to sit out.
Lyon did nothing, so this should be his last Test.
Renshaw and Labuschagne to open, Head back at 4, Hazlewood to replace Boland, happy days.
8 for 75.
Embarassing.
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
February 11, 2023 at 7:28 pm
8 for 75.
Embarassing.
Unfortunately Bruce, it serves them right. Very hard to win in India and Pakistan.
“There are two teams out there; one is trying to play cricket and the other is not.”
Ed Case says:
February 11, 2023 at 7:27 pm
I will temper my language due to the blog master. FMD Renshaw? first ball duck and second innings not much better, put him on first plane home. We need good spinners who want to win! Not talk woke and wear rainbow colours.
ninefor
It is hard dealing with anyone, let alone parents, at this stage. Keep your chin up and always be true to yourself.
Yep.
No worries.
Smith and
Handscomb…Carey…Cummins…Murphy… Boland will win this for StrayaHottest day of summer today.
Still haven’t cracked 40deg though.
Haha, offie Tod Murphy getting 7/124 says you are full of it Ed.
I like Mr Agar, but Murphy has grabbed his chance with both hands.
That’s all you can ever do.
But their carbon offsets are great.
I will temper my language due to the blog master. FMD Renshaw? first ball duck and second innings not much better, put him on first plane home. We need good spinners who want to win! Not talk woke and wear rainbow colours.
You did well. I got moderated. Whoooooooooops.
Tucker: Airbnb goes full North Korea
Nice.
I’d been up to the roof enjoying the weather. I come back to the control room and the Chinese guy watching it is talking to his his wife on speaker phone. She’s singing to him! 🙂
Sancho Panzersays:
February 11, 2023 at 7:44 pm
Yep.
No worries.
Smith and Handscomb …Carey …Cummins … Murphy … Boland will win this for Straya
LOL Mrs Stencho Pantyhose. Just like the marvelous film – The Castle . ‘Tell them that they are Dreaming……….’
Tucker: The climate cult has grown stronger
91 all out.
I was hoping they’d make three figures. A bit.
All out for 91.
Per-thetic.
I really enjoyed the Aussie’s accusing the Indians of ball tampering!/blockquote>
Unfortunately. the Australians are the ball tampering experts. Got the sandpaper from Bunnings dirt cheap……………………….
Head and Green in for the next test.
Long list of who deserves to be dropped.
Alarming new details revealed about Chinese spy flight
We need to get Allan Border over there.
Wodney Wottenhead, for someone who posts a lot of Benny Hill jokes, your sense of humour is sub-par.
Disrupting 15 Minute Cities and other nonsense
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
February 11, 2023 at 7:51 pm
91 all out.
I was hoping they’d make three figures. A bit.
You can still make three figures at 91.0…………………………………..lol
Hopefully the Japanese vaccination rules change before September, paperwork is a pain.
They picked the wrong side.
Sure, Murphy got 7 for 150 in an Innings and 133 run defeat, he won’t take another 3 Test Wickets, they took Renshaw as a 3rd opener, he’ll play instead of Usman, Agar is the best cricketer they’ve got, Hazlewood will get wickets, and what’s the point of taking Head on Tour if he can’t get a game?
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Sancho Panzersays:
February 11, 2023 at 7:56 pm
Wodney Wottenhead, for someone who posts a lot of Benny Hill jokes, your sense of humour is sub-par.
Mrs Stencho Pantyhose you are not very good at losing. I like it and keep up the great work that you do wherever and whatever that is. Somewhere in Sictoria and MelBum I suspect. Bye for now and enjoy the Indian innings if you can stomach it that is. I expect that your stomach may be a bit wobbly right now. Maybe some Delhi Belly…………………..lol
What’s the story on Usman Khawaja’s difficulty in getting a Visa for India?
That’s the second time it’s happened.
Watch opinion?!:
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Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) said Friday on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” that Republican lawmakers exemplified “anti-women fervor.”-does this piece of trash really believe this or is she reading from a script. Jeez she’s 150 too.
I was about to say they’ll be lucky to get triple figures. Go the 7-11ers
I was about to say they’ll be lucky to get triple figures. Go the 7-11ers
Bringing Shaun Marsh in as Captain and replacement for Davey wouldn’t hurt either.
Was bright blue when I set out thus morning, overcast now.
The walk around the cliff walls was very pleasant, unlike late yesterday afternoon when I poked my head around the corner and had a look.
I’m now sitting having coffee near what were possibly once baths just inside the cliff wall, if the steps down to the water are any guide, now a fish pond zealously guarded by geese that I saw honking madly and giving chase to a couple of marmalade cats.
The path around the pond is dotted with rat traps so I wouldn’t be going down for a closer look.
I saw someone feeding the cats at the park while I walking in yesterday, so they get looked after and I also saw a couple of headless pigeons (not the first of those) later on one of the narrow streets, no doubt the cats do a bit of vermin control.
None of the ones here look like the battle scarred horrors I saw in Portugal or on that little island off the coast of Venice.
Siracusa is gorgeous.
And just for Mrs Stencho Patyhose………………………………………..
A Chinese drunk and a Jewish drunk are sitting together on a park bench.
After finishing his drink, the Jew takes his bottle and smashes it over the head of the Chinese drunk.
“What the hell was that for?” ask the Chinese man, rubbing his head. “That was for Pearl Harbour!” replies the Jewish drunk.
“Pearl Harbor? That was the Japanese! I’m Chinese!” he exclaims in return. “Eh, Chinese, Japanese, Korean… you’re all the same to me!” the Jewish man explains as he gets up to leave.
The next day, the two drunks are back on the same park bench.
The Chinese drunk suddenly takes his bottle and smashes it over the head of the Jew.
“Why the hell did you do that?” the Jewish man stammers. “That was for the Titanic!” explains the Chinese drunk.
“The Titanic? What are you talking about? No one attacked it, it sunk when it hit an iceberg!” the Jew replies. “Eh, Iceberg, Goldberg, Greenberg…. all same to me!”
We’re missing Watto in the 2nd dig.
Sicily does look like a beautiful place to visit.
Nut Case knows as much about cricket as anything else he comments on.
Good lord, JC, do keep up. We have been since then back to the UK and on to Korea and five days ago returned to these hallowed Antipodean shores.
I have been pissed off on return to read in the latest Speccie this extract from a podcast on Nigel Biggar’s timely book purporting to ethically assess Colonialism, with Nigel Biggar in discussion with interviewer Speccie journalist Matthew Parris.
My dander was up when I read this, because within the interviewer’s comment is a blind acceptance that everything done in early Aboriginal Australia towards aboriginal people was somehow evil and wrong, whereas that is far from the truth of it. What lies behind this unwarranted ‘bad press’ for Australia?
I am thinking of ways to counter this sort of misinformation.
It’s very important to do this, as The Voice is seen still as a second-order issue by most voters, who simply see it as some form of guilt trip for past wrongs.
They don’t realise quite what a burden it may become in their children’s future.
Nothing wrong with a legislated Voice of some sort, if it coalesces many existing ones, but a lot wrong with enshrining it into the Constitution, where it must live for all time, in undefined chaos.
rosiesays:
February 11, 2023 at 5:27 pm
What this blog needs is more discussion about the Tartarian Empire and the lost civilisation of the Tartarians.
Sure.
Explain this? Give it your best shot.
Enter into G-Earth.
35°54’13.27″N 105° 0’53.97″W
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
Presstitute coping with Sy Hersh’s story.
He’s talking about the rights of all minorities in Ukraine, including Hungarians, being further diminished in the middle of a war.
Based Hungary
@HungaryBased
The Hungarian foreign minister issues an official statement after the worsening of Hungarian-Ukrainian relations:
“Law after law, they reduce the rights of ethnic Hungarians in Ukraine.”
This is a highly contagious, airborne virus. EVERYONE in Australia has been exposed to an infective dose, multiple, multiple times. You have either
1) Caught it and had symptoms
2) Caught it and not had symptoms.
You will get exposed to it (or whatever mutant variant is going around) again in future, and will either
3) Catch it and get symptoms
4) Catch it and not get symptoms…
(Rinse and repeat)
*Let*it*go*
It was COVID *19* fer chrissake!!
Here’s your problem, Gray Wronger:
Like quite a few others, you get all your cricketing knowledge from Sportswriters.
Sportswriter is a polite way of saying:
He’s a drunk in a pub.
His brother, probably.
February 11, 2023 at 7:01 pm
Cassie, I have noticed this too. I think it’s because they feel the cold (regardless of the room temp) a lot more than us.
Subcutaneous fat – a big part of our body’s insulation system – decreases as we age.
Gosh, I wish mine would.
This is not about Covid. It’s one doctor who did a study of all babies born into his practice (some 4,000) over time who was himself astonished by the result. You won’t be astonished to learn that the outcome for him was losing his licence. The CDC has NEVER done any studies to assess the safety and efficacy of the vaccine schedule.
Chief Nerd
@TheChiefNerd
Dr. Paul Thomas Shows Powerful Data on the Overall Health of Vaxxed vs Unvaxxed Children
“The data spoke for itself. Over 10.5 years the more vaccines you had, the worse you were. So whether we looked at infection, ADD/ADHD, neurodevelopment issues, eczema, allergies…[it] skyrockets in the vaccinated when compared to the unvaccinated.”
The Vigilant Fox
@VigilantFox
Shocking WHO Pandemic Treaty Update – Australian Senator
@MRobertsQLD
In a rare win, the World Health Organisation has backed down on proposed IHR amendments for compulsory vaccination and lockdowns.
The battle, however, is not yet over.
Paul Thomas woke me up to the major downside of the vax programme in general – it *might* provide *some* protection against the disease in question, but it acts, by its very nature, to *permanently* alter the immune system in the direction of hyper-activity.
I believe this is the cause of the EXPLOSION in inflammatory chronic illnesses of children and adult as seen today (diabetes, autism, food allergies, sinus/ENT issues, eczema etc etc etc.
An the reward Dr Thomas got for revealing this to the world?.. to quote him ‘they yanked my licence within 48 hours’.
Something very evil has been going on for a LONG time with big pharma (and big food) and covid has just been the latest iteration.
Petros says: February 11, 2023 at 9:13 am
Don’t frame it in such a tribal and doctrinaire way, lest it be indistinguishable from the brainwashing you claim to oppose.
An occasional “Establishing the truth of Claim X”, where Claim X is the controversy of the week, would be interesting and probably helpful if it finds credible sources and constructs valid arguments.
Also an armchair lawyer’s playground.
Bill Lawry’s birthday today, 86 years old.
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This worries me a LOT too …if COVID injections are causing “Sudden Adult Death Syndrome’ .. are childhood vaxxes causing SIDS?
I don’t know a lot about Seiko, but this seems a versatile, good looking watch. Sports watch specs with an elegant dial, it is a quintessential go anywhere do anything (GADA) watch.
Seiko have combined two of their collections for this piece. The Alpinist was the first sports watch made be the brand in ’50s and the Prospex is their dive collection (starting in the ’60s). It’s also interesting that the retail website you link to, names it as the Seiko Prospex Alpinist SBDC159, while the Seiko website calls it the SPB249.
It is way cheaper on the retail website, but that’s not to say that a Seiko authorised dealer wouldn’t give you a discount. I’ve never bought a watch on the internet so I can’t advise you on that.
https://www.seikowatches.com/au-en/products/prospex/spb249j1
Try this.
When protestors outside abortion clinics were prevented from coming within 100m it must have made these panelists heady with delight. Now they want to extend it to everyone. Tyranny exercised for our own good.
Yet childhood vaccination rates are up. The rate of SIDS deaths per 100,000 live births has declined in Australia since the beginning of national public education campaigns about risk factors associated with SIDS in 1991 (AIHW 2012). Between 2007 and 2017 the rate declined from 28 per 100,000 to 6 in 2017, following a peak in 2009 of 32 per 100,000.
Lizzie at 8.23
Yes I was quite angry when I read that particular exchange when reading the article yesterday, a bit of a pity considering the rest of the interview / discussion seemed alright.
Then suddenly, it’s over, and you wish, wish, wish that you could see them again and hear their beloved voices one more time.
But you can’t.
Why would you need sport specs on a watch?
Olympic selection in the offing?
Jupes… many a fine dial has been spoilt by the dopey addition of a day number window. They are the septum bullrings on the face of horologery.
Changed the definition of a SIDS Death?
That’s the only way SIDS could decrease while Childhood vaccination rates go up.
Basically water proofing and general ruggedness.
You need a sports phone not a watch.
On a traditional dress watch, sure, but for the majority of watches, a well placed date window adds to the design and provides useful information.
I need both. My phone has been in the washing machine and survived.
Waterproof! Rugged! Glows in the dark! And before any schmuck suggests inconsistency, the date numeral window is cancelled by the weekday indicator, as they acts as a cross-check.
behold… the Casio MRW. A ticking package delivered for $25.
S.Trickler brandished:
Initial impression without doing any reading/research at all, the central portion is in the shape of a defensive structure similar to forts of the western European tradition and found at least as far back as Ancient Rome. (I saw the drawing of one in a painting of the ancient city in the Vatican Museum.) The wisdom of such designs is preventing attackers from using your own walls as a defensive shield, as it allows visibility (e.g. arrow fire) onto all parts of your wall’s exterior. It seems unlikely that such a design would remain confined to one empire for all time.
That there are additional chevron-shaped structures nearby at quarter-circle intervals threatens this interpretation if they are also walls, but not if they were trenches. These could be simply for protecting soldiers firing guns, or in the pre-firearms era they could be filled with water or an unstable packing such as fresh foliage which cannot support a person’s weight but through which a person cannot walk either.
The outline of a fort, in other words.
Was this supposed to be a difficult question with a dramatic spooky answer?
Champagne, over the dinner table on Saturday night, has been a longstanding tradition in the non marital hootch. It lapsed last year, with Mme Zulu’s illness. We’ve just opened a bottle of Veuve Cliquot….
Old Ozzie:
You’d think that of the 32,320 viewers, at least one of them would be able to add to 100.
Colonel Crispin Berkasays:
February 11, 2023 at 10:08 pm
S.Trickler brandished:
Explain this? Give it your best shot.
Enter into G-Earth.
35°54’13.27?N 105° 0’53.97?W
Initial impression without doing any reading/research at all, the central portion is in the shape of a defensive structure similar to forts of the western European tradition and found at least as far back as Ancient Rome. (I saw the drawing of one in a painting of the ancient city in the Vatican Museum.) The wisdom of such designs is preventing attackers from using your own walls as a defensive shield, as it allows visibility (e.g. arrow fire) onto all parts of your wall’s exterior. It seems unlikely that such a design would remain confined to one empire for all time.
That there are additional chevron-shaped structures nearby at quarter-circle intervals threatens this interpretation if they are also walls, but not if they were trenches. These could be simply for protecting soldiers firing guns, or in the pre-firearms era they could be filled with water or an unstable packing such as fresh foliage which cannot support a person’s weight but through which a person cannot walk either.
The outline of a fort, in other words.
Was this supposed to be a difficult question with a dramatic spooky answer?
Keep digging , sunshine.
rosie:
That’s a lot of very expensive sutures, rosie. Don’t they use surgical staples any more? They were all the go a few years back.
We have been watching the latest series of Fauda where this sort of thing features regularly.
This latest series is a bit more complicated in its plotlines, so Hairy is asking me after last night’s to recap for him, who is Aisha and why are Doran and the Arabic Israeli policewoman going undercover to meet Aisha in Lebanon and who are the passports for? The series has also recently taken us to Belgium, so it’s gone quite international and the sub-plots are multiplying rapidly.
Where would they all be without mobile phones? I ask of Hairy tonight, because the scripts rely on these so much (as no doubt the real life situations do too). He doesn’t reply, because his mind is already turning towards the big soccer game tonight, where Easts will feature, and he’s watching it now. I did watch the beginning of it with him where I was amused by the image of a Chinese-looking young chap leaping around demented with joy at his team’s appearance. This Asian century.
Re Covid requirements in Japan and Korea, these two countries tend to hate each other but they both have the same reactions to Covid and to diseased foreigners gaining entry to their territory. Mask wearing and loads of bureaucracy is still a thing over there in Korea as it seems to be in Japan.
S.Trickler ventured:
Nope. You aren’t the boss of me!
If you have an alternative explanation, you can explain it.
Colonel Crispin Berkasays:
February 11, 2023 at 10:30 pm
Who built the tunnels in the UK underground? Tip: It wasn’t the Romans.
Siracusa report.
Visited the Duomo.
Baroque front facade looks stunning in the sunlight but when I walked down the side it was obvious the cathedral was on top, at least, of the foundations of an ancient temple.
And it was, Doric columns still line the interior of the building which has Byzantine elements as well as a Baroque altar.
Hidden in the St Lucy chapel is a an 80kg statue of the saint which might only come out for feast days.
St Lucy/Lucia is a local, another martyred by Diocletian in 304. Most of her body is in a church in Venice, (I’ve seem her there) but they have an arm here.
Cathedral is a glorious space and I shall return tomorrow at 11.30.
My host recommended the ‘crazy sandwich place’ (Borderi) at the market and that’s where I am now.
Who can resist a sandwich that gets the torch treatment before being served?
They’ve just turned on the gas heaters where I’m sitting so it’s very cosy.
So many cats.
blunt, honest and brief is about as polite as you’re gonna get
ps. passive-aggressively attacking other peoples character … isn’t polite either
dont worry Lizzie … maybe nobody else noticed you being a hypocrite again
Surviving in the Antarctic
Recent whistleblower testimony describing giants that have lived there and may possibly still be living there is also just now starting to be revealed. Could these be the offshoots of the original Tartarian race or the Tartarians themselves?
I don’t need ‘polite reminders’ from people who gulp down every crazy theory like a wide mouth frog or those that encourage them.
Did I miss reading some of my forecasted personal abuse?
So sad.
Dragnet,
I have written them a letter, which I have for want of better
knowledge, sent to where the Speccie said the email ought to go.
I can only hope they read it and that what I said may seed it
For me dander’s something wicked as you lot already know.
And an answer’s come directed in an email unexpected,
and I think the same was written by a robot in a jar
‘Twas this fakir bot who wrote it, and verbatim I will quote it:
Giss yer London postcode pronto or we won’t know who you are.
Now I somehow fancy that my chances are quite chancey
Of being published, by the Brits, in a postcode upside down.
Long-winded wails from Aussie gals will cut no ice in Putney
‘Tho they warm the cockles of the heart in good old Sydney town.
Zulu, re Champers with missus, Bravo!
Did she keep her appointment with the Beauty Parlour?
rosiesays:
February 11, 2023 at 11:02 pm
I don’t need ‘polite reminders’ from people who gulp down every crazy theory like a wide mouth frog or those that encourage them.
Did I miss reading some of my forecasted personal abuse?
So sad.
You gobbled up all the C-19 MSM garbage, and repeated it. No hiding from that.
What, me worry?
When did you stop being a hypocrite, Matrix?
Enquiring minds would like to know.
Donbass Devushka
@PeImeniPusha
Zelensky is the record sniffer-smasher.
Someone said he’s a coke addict.
He is sniffing all the borders
I’m remembering a case, way back when, when the Israelis blew up the houses, with the families inside.
That’s the next item on the agenda – secret woman’s business!
The Best Speech I Never Gave
Guest Post by Scott Ritter
The Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.
[Note: I was going to speak at the Rage against the War Machine rally, scheduled for February 19 at the Lincoln Memorial, in Washington, D.C. For personal reasons, I will no longer be speaking.
In short, I have decided to take one for the team.
I wish all participants and attendees at this rally to have a very successful event, and hope that it can serve as the start of something even bigger down the road.
This is the speech I was planning to deliver at the rally. I think it would have done the event proud.
Thank you very much for allowing me the opportunity to address you today.
I speak to you from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, a place of history filled with gravitas worthy of the task we have set for ourselves at this time in our collective history: to stand up—no, to rage—against a war machine that has perverted the very definition of what it means to be an American.
We stand here today at the very nexus of this war machine. To our right, just over the Potomac River, lies the Pentagon, a structure built at a time when America called upon its collective might to defeat the scourge of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, but which has since then morphed into the very symbol of evil itself, a breeding ground for weapons and plans that are used by the other partners, in what has become known as the military-industrial complex, to spread malfeasance around a world we once protected, but now enslave through a process of perpetual conflict used to sustain the American war machine.
And who are these other partners? Before us, past the monument to our founding father, George Washington, stands the Capitol of the United States, where the people’s representatives fund, in great secrecy, the nefarious schemes cooked up in the bowels of the Pentagon.
And to our left stands the White House, the seat of Executive authority, where individuals we invest with singular authority betray the trust of those who put them there by conceiving and implementing policies designed to further the Pentagon’s war efforts.
This is the very nexus of evil, an unholy trinity of terroristic madness, which some 61 years ago Dwight D. Eisenhower, an American warrior turned political leader, warned the American people about, cautioning that “in the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”
In the history of the United States that has transpired since that speech, no truer words have been spoken by an American president, and no greater wisdom has been disregarded by those whom Eisenhower entrusted with that message—we, the people of the United States.
We stand here today to announce to this terrible trinity, this military-industrial complex, this war machine, that we hear you now, President Eisenhower—we hear you, and we will act on your warning to bring this nexus of un-American conspiracy to an end.
Of all the weapons produced by the military-industrial complex, of all the evil schemes hatched in the minds of the so-called national security experts—most of whom are unelected by, and unknown to, we, the American people—none reek of madness more than nuclear weapons.
“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds,” the father of the American atomic bomb, Robert Oppenheimer, said at the time of the first American nuclear test.
Destroyer of worlds.
This is the ever-present reality that we all live in today—that from this nexus of evil we call the military-industrial complex comes the very weapons necessary to bring the words of the Hindu sacred text that Oppenheimer quoted—the Bhagavad-Gita—to life and, in doing so, bring about our collective deaths.
Most Americans, including many of you assembled here today, live in blissful ignorance of just how close the world has come to being destroyed by Oppenheimer’s progeny.
On 26 September 1983, a Soviet Officer, Lieutenant Colonel Petrov, was on duty at a nuclear early-warning station when the system reported that five nuclear armed missiles had been launched from the United States. Colonel Petrov disregarded protocol requiring him to report this detection as a factual launch, an act that would have triggered a Soviet response, and in doing so bought precious time for the error to be identified, and nuclear war averted.
In November 1983 the United States and NATO carried out a command post exercise code-named “Able Archer 83” which tested the launch control procedures for the release of NATO nuclear weapons against Soviet and Warsaw Pact targets. The Soviets, believing this exercise to be a cover for a first strike, placed its nuclear forces on high alert. Later, the CIA assessed that the Able Archer 83 exercise brought the US and Soviets closer to nuclear conflict than any time since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.
And on January 25, 1995, the Soviets detected the launch of a Norwegian atmospheric test rocket that mimicked the track of a US Nay Trident submarine-launched nuclear weapon. Fearing a high-altitude nuclear attack that could blind Russian radar, Russian nuclear forces went on high alert, and the “nuclear briefcase” was delivered to Russian President Boris Yeltsin, who had to make a split-second decision whether to launch a retaliatory nuclear strike against the United States
These three incidents underscore the razor’s edge we all walk daily when it comes to living in a world where nuclear weapons exist. One mistake, one error or judgement, and the Bhagavad-Gita becomes reality.
We were saved from the inevitability of our collective demise by one thing, and one thing only—arms control. The deployment into Europe by both the US and Soviet Union of intermediate-range nuclear armed missiles in the 1980’s only increased the possibility of a mistake or misunderstanding that could trigger a nuclear conflict. The fact that these weapons could reach their respective target in five minutes or less once launched meant that the 30–40-minute buffer of time that existed regarding the use of strategic nuclear forces was no longer there.
To put it more starkly, if it were not for the implementation of the intermediate nuclear forces treaty in 1988 that eliminated these new and dangerous weapons, the January 25, 1995 atmospheric rocket incident would have more than likely resulted in a general nuclear war, simply for the fact that Boris Yeltsin would have been denied the luxury of time to decide not to launch his missiles.
Everyone standing here today should reflect on this statement and say a quiet word of thanks to those men and women, American and Soviet alike, who made the intermediate nuclear forces treaty a reality and, in doing so, literally saved the world from nuclear destruction.
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Arms control, however, is no longer part of the US-Russian dialogue. The American war machine has conspired to denigrate the notion of mutually beneficial disarmament in the minds of the American public, instead seeking to use arms control as a mechanism to achieve unilateral strategic advantage.
When an arms control treaty becomes inconvenient to the objective of American global domination, then the war machine simply quits. America’s record in this regard is damnable—the anti-ballistic missile treaty, the intermediate nuclear forces treaty, the open-skies treaty—all relegated to the trash bin of history in the cause of seeking unilateral advantage for the American war machine.
In a world without arms control, we will once again be confronted with a renewed arms race where each side develops weapons that protect nothing while threatening everything. Without arms control, we will return to a time where living on the edge of the abyss of imminent nuclear annihilation was the norm, not the exception.
The war machine has allowed the principled position of peaceful coexistence regulated by mutually beneficial treaties governed by the time-tested maxim of trust but verify to be replaced by a new posture defined by a war machine that uses the nuclear weapons establishment, and the billions of dollars it costs to maintain it annually, as a means of buying off politicians at the expense of the population our government is sworn to protect. This is the final corruption of the military-industrial complex—its conversion to the military-industrial-congressional complex, where we the people are excluded from every consideration, whether it be funding or consequence.
The key to sustaining this inherently un-American mechanism is the ability of the military-industrial-congressional complex—the war machine—to generate fear amongst the American people derived from ignorance of the true nature of the threat or threats these nuclear weapons are designed to address.
In the case of US-Russian relations, this fear is produced by systemic Russophobia imposed on the American public by a war machine and its compliant minions in the mainstream media. Left to its own device, the collusion between government and media will only further reinforce ignorance-based fear through a process of dehumanizing Russia and the Russian people in the eyes of the American public, until we have become desensitized to the lies and distortions, accepting at face value anything negative said about Russia.
It is here, in such a situation, that we can turn to scripture, John 8:32, for some guidance:
“Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
But what truth? The truth as told by the government? As promulgated by the mainstream media? That is no truth, but rather a bodyguard of lies constructed on behalf of a war machine that wants every American to accept without question the legitimacy of weapons the only known utility of which is the destruction of all mankind.
Some 60 years ago, on these very steps, in this very place, a man of peace gave a speech that captured the imagination of the nation and the world, searing into our collective hearts and minds the words, “I have a dream.”
Dr. Martin Luther King’s historic address confronted America’s sordid history of slavery, and the inhumanity and injustice of racial segregation. In it, he dreamed “that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”
All men are created equal.
These words resonated in the context of America’s desperate internal struggle with the legacy of slavery and racial injustice.
But these words apply equally, especially when taken in the context that we are all God’s children, black, white, rich, poor.
American.
Russian.
You see, I too have a dream.
That the audience gathered here today can find a way to overcome the ignorance-based fears generated by the disease of Russophobia, to open our minds and our hearts to accept the Russian people as fellow human beings deserving of the same compassion and consideration as our fellow Americans—as all humankind.
I too have a dream.
That we the people of the United States of America, can unite in common cause with the Russian people to build bridges of peace that facilitate an exchange of ideas, open minds closed by the hate-filled rhetoric of Russophobia that is promulgated by the war machine and its allies, and allow the love we have for ourselves to manifest itself into love and respect for our fellow man.
Especially those who live in Russia.
Newton’s Third Law, that every action has an equal and opposite reaction, applies to the human condition every bit as much as it applies to the physical world.
Love thy neighbor as thyself is applicable to all humanity.
I too have a dream.
That by overcoming the hate generated by systemic Russophobia we can work with our fellow human beings in Russia to create communities of compassion that, when united, make a world filled with nuclear weapons undesirable, and policies built on the principles of mutually beneficial arms control second nature.
I too have a dream.
That one day, whether on the red hills of Georgia, or the black soil of the Kuban, the sons and daughters of the men and women who today operate the Russian and American nuclear arsenals will be able to quote Dr. King, “to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.”
This is not an impossible dream.
I have lived it. I once was corrupted by the hatred that comes from fear generated by the ignorance about the reality of those whom I was trained to kill.
But I then embarked on a remarkable journey of discovery, facilitated by the implementation of the very same intermediate nuclear forces treaty that ended up saving humanity from nuclear annihilation, where I came to know the Russian people not as enemy, but as friend. Not as opponent, but colleague. As fellow humans capable of the same emotions as myself, imbued with the same human desire to build a better world for themselves and their loved ones, a world free of the tyranny of nuclear weapons.
I too have a dream.
That the people gathered here today will join me on a new journey of discovery, one that tears down the walls of ignorance and fear constructed by the war machine, walls designed to separate us from our fellow human beings in Russia, and instead builds bridges that connect us to those we have been conditioned to hate, but now—for the sake of ourselves, our children, and our grandchildren—must learn to love.
This will not be an easy journey, but it is one worth taking.
This is my journey, your journey, our journey, where we will embark, literally, down the road less travelled.
And yes, it will the one that will make all the difference.
It will take us, as Dr. King once cried out from these very steps, to the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, the mighty mountains of New York, the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania, the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado, the curvaceous slopes of California…to every hill and molehill of Mississippi.
This is an American journey—a journey of Americans, united in the cause of peace and justice, and a world free from the tyranny of nuclear weapons. Our numbers will grow, from two thousand, to twenty thousand, from twenty thousand to a hundred thousand, and from a hundred thousand to a million or more.
And who knows? Maybe in June of 2024, on the anniversary of the 1982 gathering of a million people in New York City’s Central Park, where they rallied in favor of nuclear disarmament and an end to the nuclear arms race, we can come together and send a similar message to the war machine.
A million people or more demanding that their government act in a manner that preserves and protects the lives and future of all Americans—of all humanity.
The 1982 rally set in motion events that led to the implementation of the intermediate nuclear forces treaty in 1987—a treaty that literally saved the world from nuclear destruction.
I too have a dream.
That together, we can harness the same energy, the same vision, the same passion as those who have gone before us and create a movement of people united in the principles of peace that will lead to a future arms control agreement between the United States and Russia that will preserve our collective futures.
There will be forces that will try to disrupt us, to dissuade us—to destroy us.
We cannot allow ourselves to be intimidated.
We must not go gently into that good night, but instead rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Rage, rage against the war machine.
Rage, rage so that together we may breathe life into the words of President Lincoln inscribed on the memorial behind me:
“…to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”
Let us get to work.
Thank you.
Awesome, you just need a drivers license:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eJqYftL4uY
Get a load of Trans unloading on the girls.
The bloody death of a liberal dream: After throwing open its borders to 2million migrants, DAVID JONES investigates how Sweden has been left with an underclass of alienated teenagers, a murderous gang culture and gun crime that’s spiralling out of control
. 200 mourners attended a Muslim cemetery to bury a teenage Afghan boy
. The 15-year-old was killed allegedly by a gangster of the same age in Sweden
. Since Christmas, Stockholm faced 30 shootings and bombings, four were fatal
Yet as his coffin was lowered into the frozen ground, it seemed to me that we were also witnessing the death of Sweden’s great multi-cultural dream.
Brought to this famously hospitable country three years ago, to escape the impending return of the Taliban, it appears that Ali Shafaei is the latest victim of a vicious war being waged largely by child gangsters from Sweden’s migrant sink-estates.
Among Swedish politicians, the precise causes of this internecine conflict may be a matter for debate.
Yet even those on the liberal Left now grudgingly agree that they are rooted in the country’s disastrously failed immigration policy — which in recent years opened Sweden’s borders. Some 2 million immigrants (20 per cent of the entire population), now live in Sweden, often from the most troubled parts of Asia and Africa — and the country failed to plan for the immense difficulties of integrating them into society.
Many of the offspring of these migrants have morphed dangerously into a lost generation who are effectively stateless.
Though they were born here, many don’t feel remotely Swedish, yet have no allegiance to their parents’ homelands, either. Their alienation and discontentment smouldered for several years.
But in recent weeks it has erupted with a terrifying upsurge in ultra-violent gang crime and, with its hand-wringing justice system, which many feel prioritises young offender’s rights over those of their victims, Sweden evidently has no fix.
Twenty years ago, gun crime was almost non-existent here. Today, the grisly murders we see in Scandi-Noir TV series are no longer fictional. Sweden is awash with real-life crime podcasts, documentaries and books.
Coming soon to Sweden’s cinemas (after special screenings for police chiefs, politicians and criminologists) is Bullets, a docu-drama about a 12-year-old Egyptian boy who lobs a grenade at a police car after being lured into a gang.
In Stockholm alone, 52 gangs are vying for control of the burgeoning drugs trade, according to a recent police report, and they are becoming ever more ruthless.
Last year, the country saw 63 fatal shootings. In the UK, whose population is six times the size of Sweden’s, there were 35 in 2021. This cradle of liberalism is, along with Croatia, the most trigger-happy nation in Europe.
Since Christmas, the spree has reached epidemic proportions in the capital, with 30 shootings and bombings, four of them fatal. Half the suspects are aged under 18.
Elegant Stockholm, hitherto known for its Scandinavian splendour and gentility, is now redolent of Al Capone’s Chicago.
The crisis is so serious that, this week, scores of extra police officers were drafted in from other cities and billeted in hotels. I have watched them blitzing the most notorious crime areas and raiding buildings for weapons and drugs.
Last night, three more people were shot in Fittja, south of Stockholm, an area with high levels of immigration and crime.
And as buildings are randomly sprayed with machine gun fire — a new gangland tactic designed to scare rivals and show strength — it seems only a matter of time before more people are killed.
The youngest boys to have been arrested are aged just 13 and 14. Caught after a car chase through the city streets, they had with them semi-automatic weapons.
Some child gang members reportedly even carry explosives in their school thermos flasks. A police officer tells me that boys aged nine are groomed to serve as street corner lookouts, and to hide drugs and guns.
Videos posted online capture the audacity and ruthlessness of these Swedish Bugsy Malones.
Where once the shooting and bombing was confined to a few, ghettoised estates ringing the city, it has now spread to more affluent parts.
One jaw-dropping film, captured for bravado on an accomplice’s mobile phone, shows a masked boy stalk into an apartment block, in a smart residential area, and pepper a door with 15 rounds from an AK-47 machine gun, neither knowing nor caring who might be behind it.
He was apparently sending a warning to a celebrated Swedish rapper whose ex-girlfriend had lived in the flat (some rap artists have been accused of inflaming the gang rivalry and encouraging youths to join them by glamorising their lifestyle).
Another film, recorded by a security camera, shows an alleged ‘hit boy’, of Armenian extraction, brandishing a pistol as he bursts past a terrified female receptionist in an up-market city-centre fitness club.
Seconds later, gunfire rings out from the gym downstairs and the brazen teenager makes his escape.
Mercifully, we don’t see the body of his victim — a 54-year-old man who courageously tackled the boy, preventing him from assassinating his true target, and paid with his life.
The alleged killer, then aged 16, is currently on trial.
Among the many innocents caught up in this madness is Cristina Bilfeldt, 54, a respectable, Cuban-born chiropodist.
She tells me she was awoken, a few nights ago, by what she took to be someone banging loudly and insistently on the door of her stylishly furnished flat in the northern Stockholm suburb of Husby.
Not realising this was the sound of a machine gun, she ventured into the corridor. Thankfully, the shooting had by then stopped and the bullets only pierced a suitcase that she’d left behind the door.
Since Ms Bilfeldt and her twin sons, both university students, are upstanding citizens, police assume her home was also mistaken for that of a gang member.
The murder of 15-year-old Ali Shafaei was no accident, however.
His story serves as a parable for Sweden’s fatally flawed experiment with untrammelled immigration.
Link – The bloody death of a liberal dream: After throwing open its borders to 2million migrants, DAVID JONES investigates how Sweden has been left with an underclass of alienated teenagers, a murderous gang culture and gun crime that’s spiralling out of control
Been involved in outdoor pursuits today, followed by a convivial meal at an establishment on Sydney Road, aka the Gaza Strip.
I have now watched all ten dismissals in the Strahan second innings.
People can talk selection all they like, although it is accepted that Renshaw is a gigantic arrogant flog and should never be allowed near normal people of any stripe, let alone the national cricket team.
The fact is that they were beaten mentally before they took the field on Thursday. The chatter about the pitch and its alleged doctoring was started by the Indians and had the desired effect. It’s not about left and right handed batsmen or dry bits on the deck.
Both teams batted on it. Only one made a shitshow of it, twice.
They were gone before they started. Wait for the screams about where the mental toughness is. Perhaps they need someone like, oh I don’t know, a Justin Langer.
Every single Australian batsman was terrified of the turning ball, as though they’d never seen one before.
Warner, may I say, is now gorn. Missed a straight one on the first dig, and put up a referral for the second dismissal that would have made Shane Watson burst into tears with shame.
JC you sad clown
wanking on a forum is also pretty gauche behavior
you should try to stop
is Lizzie a frail waif-girl?
or a doddering geriatric?
is rosie an empowered self-determining woman of the world
or a dipsy ingénue?
whatever would they do without you and the firm grasp you have of everything?
Doug Asdown, “Winter in America.” Pour yourself a triple single malt, and think of past loves….
Winter in America, his one great tune. Thanks Zulu.
Rivals Raglan Road in its poetic nostalgia about place and time.
We’ve all been there, sometime.
As the graffiti once said about those times: ‘dirty rotten love’
Oh how the heart does still ache for it, for all the loss and grief of it.
Thanks, btw, JC. From the frail waif-girl geriatric who did a fairly hard aerobics class this morning but who still appreciates a little male support against the mob.
And who gets to bed far too late for her own good. 🙂
ps if you want to see some really tough girls, check out Fauda.
Zipster 11 Feb 3.02pm
Joe Watson and chicks at gym – personally I won a look away – those tights show we have not progressed from gorillas or orang a tans galloping around all 4 with their bright pink arses in the air
Those tight are off
Yet as his coffin was lowered into the frozen ground, it seemed to me that we were also witnessing the death of Sweden’s great multi-cultural dream.
There was never a multi-cultural dream. By definition, it was always a nightmare.
the Casio MRW. A ticking package delivered for $25.
Not a bad option!
what mob?
the up-tickers?
ffs … people are still here waiting for something
anything
yearning for proof that the world inst populated entirely by vapid self interested tossers
just one sign
instead we get JC’s incessant onanism … flogged to death
repetitions of sancho’s singular joke every day (hi Razey)
tokyo rosie’s daily disinformation broadcast
and Lizzie in lycra
this joint is a shit-hole
Another Seiko watch:
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/254542412246?epid=13043778026&hash=item3b43e8f9d6%3Ag%3A5WwAAOSwt3teb4MV&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAA4E5KmE8CAIcq1MzYkZ6h5mbEuHS469W1RtT8YcmqCPOCsMcYnniPDK%2FjosmuGA22bJAIQG%2BKxLHB%2BjQtI1Gj6yClwV6dZJGzCAq6HB3fDzDT8GHAxY0cxG6BxLEDzTysHm%2FsPd86PctiUa23IYkgM7Vnqnm8d%2B5HSlwj69V1BEwxUn0dwWBlgAcvZHcMoJwgXSGD%2Fvx9BJF9Xa9K3p5DVcbanSoNh6Ci8cJRprURlfnT2MFNKeFxtichPwkX9%2Frfrg78xOisi0vutccIYu%2By1oqiN9QTVftDHlpwBzD36SGi%7Ctkp%3ABFBM4quUjshh&LH_ItemCondition=1000
Not following cricket as much as I used to, what was the real reason he was sacked?
Other than some snowflakes having their feelings hurt?
If you like to look at beautiful old things without being overwhelmed by quantity Pallazzo Bellono is worth a hour or so, including some nice architectural bits and pieces, even some early Byzantine work, door jambs and fragments of frieze etc.
A couple of big ticket attractions are on the mainland, ear of Dionysus, the amphitheatre and catacombs about a 2 km walk so plan to visit there tomorrow.
The island has been well endowned with big chunks of cut rock to dissipate the energy of the waves that would otherwise undermine the limestone cliffs.
Well done those men who put them there.
I think that should have been endowed.
Where’s autocorrect when you need it?
thus is the premier work in the museum, I wonder where it was between 1474 and 1897.
From a short piece on Happiness by Helen Garner:
instead we get JC’s incessant onanism … flogged to death
repetitions of sancho’s singular joke every day (hi Razey)
tokyo rosie’s daily disinformation broadcast
and Lizzie in lycra
this joint is a shit-hole
LOL. Exactly.
Flying to Singapore tonight.
The world slowly returning to normal as fascist governments lift their boots from its throat.
Almost everyone is technically unvaccinated, almost everyone has had covid, almost everyone has had a shot of experimental shit in their arm.
What was it all for you f’cking fascist imbeciles?
Week In Pictures.
Johnny Rotten says:
February 12, 2023 at 3:30 am
Well, some certainly treat it like it.
Shame.
Thanks Tom!
Particularly good WIP!
rickw:
Awesome, you just need a drivers license:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eJqYftL4uY
I want one.
Old Ozzie:
No sympathy. The smug idiots were warned what would happen and now it has, they haven’t a damn clue of how to solve it. Or the guts.
Smh, probably paywalled
Tears and a test case: The meeting that sparked the Sally Rugg, Monique Ryan feud
Had a Swedish backpacker as a chaser bin driver in 2017, the stories he was telling back then emulate the ones in the article. One that sticks in my memory is when they visited his uncle in Malmo they would always hear gunshots at night.
eating their own
no voice
everyone should read this great story
OldOzzie says:
February 11, 2023 at 11:44 pm
What a sad outcome of good intentions.
Not unexpected though, practical people predicted this from the start, yet it’s being repeated all over the world.
Seems like it’s being done on purpose.
Is it?
Max and JR since you both think this blog is merde why do you come here?
Eating their own. Tell munty the lefties taste better than Krispy Kremes. Problem solved.
Seems like it’s being done on purpose.
Is it?
Dress up malicious intent as ‘good intentions’
An excellent question.
Excellent WIP. Appreciated, Tom. Highlights for me were the reaffirmation that only ugly people still wear masks, and that Susannah Hoffs remains awesome.
I’m no fan of tennis and thought Cash was a bit of a wanker, perhaps I was wrong. Funny how the media will turn on people and paint them as lunatics when it suits the medias agenda.
https://www.news.com.au/sport/majorly-cooked-sporting-legends-pat-cash-and-kelly-slater-appear-in-controversial-conspiracy-chat/news-story/57413dce109e01363098c3d337fee388?utm_campaign=EditorialSB&utm_source=news.com.au%20Sport&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_content=SocialBakers&mibextid=Zxz2cZ
The NT News is reporting that the quintessential bored housewife turned politician turned Chief Minister by accident Natasha Fyles is howling that ‘top-down Federal interventions’ will not stop problems in Alice Springs.
Apparently there needs to be consultation.
This is of course code for ‘we need to be further subsidised to the tune of more billions in infrastructure and public servant troughing, and from which we will siphon off considerable amounts for our own pet projects that have nothing to do with serial pisswrecks and that didn’t work the first two times we tried it’.
Helen Garner has discovered one of life’s little secrets. Or maybe it’s really a BIG secret hiding in plain sight so that it seems little.
Happiness is contentment’s sister. Joy is the third and the livewire of the family. They all have a parent, but I’ll leave that to your imagination.
Top down interventions won’t work, but we need the Voice.
???
Imagine if Alice Springs elected their own police chiefs and judges. Now there’s a voice with some weight.
sfw, Cash can be a wanker and still be right. Same with Slater.
The trouble with rabbit holes is that the truth gets lost in all the other speculation, and the wilder the speculation the easier it is to paint the truth-teller as a nutter. So you bet someone who talks about a particular evil, which is truly evil and real, but then they go off on all sorts of tangents making it easy for critics to mock and suppress.
And the critic who wrote that piece was a particularly stupid form of the journalist bug-class, but the guys made it easy for her.
Someone might be able to help me here- if I retire early and cash in my super, the canbra pubes help themselves to 30% – is that correct?
A person in power who can’t laugh at themselves is a dangerous human being. That person is a fascist.
Roseanne Barr.
I used not to like Roseanne but she seems to get it now which is good.
You can pay exorbitant amounts if you retire before certain ages.
yep, it’s outright theft
Tears and a test case: The meeting that sparked the Sally Rugg, Monique Ryan feud
The meeting was meant to be a routine briefing. Instead, it became the moment when, for people forced to work absurd hours within the unrelenting pressure of a parliamentary sitting week, the Canberra bubble finally burst.
There were about 15 political advisers dialled into the teams meeting, all of them working for crossbench MPs. Among them was Sally Rugg, a prominent political activist who, to the surprise of many and scepticism of some, had taken a job as chief of staff to the new member for Kooyong, Monique Ryan.
The online meeting was organised by one of the nation’s most senior bureaucrats, then deputy secretary of Prime Minister and Cabinet Stephanie Foster, to explain where the review of the law which regulates the work arrangements of federal parliamentarians’ staff had landed.
It had landed like a brick.
Probably a Dumb Question, does this mean like every NSW & Federal Public Service Dept I hve recently called, they were all “Working from Home”
Sorry, too early in the morning – Link – Tears and a test case: The meeting that sparked the Sally Rugg, Monique Ryan feud
And on the subject of wild speculation…
It appears some of the famous Lurkers here like it and lap it up, sweet little kittens that they are. An assertion was made yesterday about vaxx passports being required to leave Australia. Yay, applause.
Except it was a lie. Booooo!
Our lives have been turned upside down by governments here and abroad, and sadly by our own people, often our own friends or those we thought were our friends. This is more than enough for criticism and comment without resorting to peddling and repeating untruths, however delicious they seem.
From the Cooker’s Bible
Urging the faithful to be objective, calm and patient, the advice was given:
Let your tinfoil hat become a golden crown of truth
Let your manifesto ring out in the aether as your sygil like the seal of Solomon
For the Princess of Siam had a heart
Cursed by Asmodeus and the witch of Endor
So they said, master, how deep shall we peer down a rabbit hole?
Verily, he said unto them,
Let those holes reveal their own inequity
For there is nothing evil that is new under the sun
When the heavens shine down on Gehennna,
The righteous shall walk with crowns of truth and the wicked shall walk with millstones of tallow and lard around their bellies
Let those holes become 10,000 strong hosts of donut shaped millstones which they wear chained unto them
As they stroll into Port Phillip Bay
Meanwhile at Caesars Palace, Sharalleeanne was slapping a beer voucher into The Queen of The Nile.
Among them was Sally Rugg, a prominent far-left political activist who, to the surprise of many and scepticism of some, had taken a job as chief of staff to the new member for Kooyong, Monique Ryan.
Two key words omitted, intentionally or otherwise. I’ve added them for accuracy.
I am definitely going to try this with my dogs. 😀
‘lap it up, sweet little kittens that they are’
Heh.
Spot on. That horseshit was bad enough without the believe-everything-you-read crowd slathering several inches of out of date mayonnaise on it.
Rest assured that if it wasn’t Covid, it would have been something else the exact same people would have (and are) wailing about. Those people seem to take a peculiar type of joy in predicting Armageddon – which is fine, but it’s not lurking around every corner.
Now, if you don’t mind – I have to manually extract several feet of replicating metal alien wire from a vein in my leg. To assist me, I will need long-nosed pliers and iodine.
Ok – Today’s Woke Lunacy
Meanwhile, Restoring Sight to Blind People ‘Reinforces Moral Superiority of Those Without Disabilities’
If you’re going to continue reading, consider yourself forewarned: It gets far crazier than the headline suggests.
Let’s begin with the left’s latest insane notion: restoring sight to the blind is yet another example of ableism — the discrimination of and social prejudice against people with disabilities based on the belief that typical abilities are superior — and moreover, disabilities “need no cure.”
See what I mean?
Then came Aquino’s unhinged craziness (emphasis, mine):
In the broadest lens, the biggest problem with wanting to “cure” blindness is that it reinforces a moral superiority of sorts by those without disabilities over those who are disabled. Although not confronted nearly as often as racism and sexism, systemic ableism is pervasive through all parts of society.
The fact of the matter is that the majority of abled people view disability as a failure of the human condition; as such, people with disabilities should be mourned and pitied. More pointedly, as MrBeast stated in his video’s thumbnail, disabilities should be eradicated — cured.
Oh, the humanity! Eradicating or curing disability would be the work of the Devil, for sure!
Knuckles your brief analysis of NT politics and that means everywhere too is wasted. Of course you could go into politics yourself but seeing the obvious disqualifies you. The same same applies to munty jismism. Do something useful like poorly cooked smallgoods. At least you can hold your head high knowing no one is forced to swallow garbage the other two produce.
OldOzzie there’s none so blind that will not see.
Bruuuuu of Newcastle
You posted this is a cool summer for you in Newcastle.
It’s been cool here in Adelaide for the past 2 summers. Last time it was this cool was in the 2010/2011 and 2011/2012 yrs.
I was surprised by a recent post the 2022 yr was the 22nd warmest since 1910 (I point out the numeric correlation between 2022 and 22 warmest yr for no reason except for its co incidence – or is there some other cosmic relation drawing us into some existential phenonima).
Last I tried looking I could not find what the rainfall for Adelaide was in 22 but a farmer client in the Barossa – 75km north of the Adelaide gpo – had rainfall of 730 mm. Their ave is approx 525 mm.
We also have not experienced the week of temp in excess of 38C.
I find it difficult to believe the yr was 22 warmest since1910.
Interested in your thoughts and the science community. Interest in Ducks observation in Wimmera and Knuckes in Darwin – Is that right Knuckes – you had posted rain comming in at an angle of 65 degrees .
Look forward to your observations.
‘Mentally challenged’ could als have been added Cassie. What is going on in the heads of people that employ the likes of Rugg? Same as Tony giving Spot Destroyer a gig. Do they think it gives them some cred with the Left loonies or no idea. No guessing what I think.
The only people who label their ideological opponents as “far right” are the far left –most of them media activists for whom journalism is just a political weapon that has nothing to do with informing people or any concept of public interest.
‘you could go into politics yourself’
My election victory was stolen! I have the video which I will produce!
At some point!
Matrix, rosie, Lizzie, I’m no good at being noble, but it doesn’t take much to see that the problems of three little bloggers don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you’ll understand that.
In a rare win, the World Health Organisation has backed down on proposed International Health Regulation amendments for compulsory vaccination and lockdowns. It is a win yet the pandemic treaty, that would do the same thing again, is still waiting in the wings.
This week represents a rare victory for Australian sovereignty.
A victory for common sense, decency and humanity.
And a victory against the sprawling monster of unelected, unaccountable foreign bureaucrats at the World Health Organisation.
Gone is the universal ‘health passport’ – or vaccine passport – that was going to control the ability of citizens to travel between countries in a permanent capacity.
It was decided that this would raise ‘ethical’ and ‘discriminatory’ concerns. A global digital vaccine passport will no longer be developed under the committee’s powers.
For now.
https://www.malcolmrobertsqld.com.au/shocking-who-pandemic-treaty-update/
Maidan in Budapest incoming.
That piece made me think of this excerpt from The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood –
To outdoor pursuits!
Eleanor Powell, of course.
Louis – The fraud they use is known as “cooling the past”. Adjustments are made to the dataset by lowering the supposed historical temperature. Since no one has invented a time machine you can’t go back to check.
Ken Stewart has been documenting this stuff for quite a while. Here’s a graph from one of his earliest posts, where the adjusted dataset is subtracted from the raw data. Strange step changes. Here’s the full blog post:
GISS manipulates climate data in Mackay (Jan 2010)
This is about NASA GISS but he forensically explores BoM too. They’re all in cahoots, as we saw from the Climategate emails where the UK guys discussed how to get rid of the “blip”, which was the hot period in the 1940’s. That’s been done in the latest editions of the dataset so that it looks like a proper rising slope, not a cyclical upswing.
The whole thing is complete rubbish. I’ve linked the snow line data a number of times – it shows the snow line hasn’t moved since 1994 on average. Snow doesn’t care how fake the temperature records are, it just is. And it’s easy to measure from sat pics – just count the white pixels. No adjustments needed.
She appeared on The Drum at least twice when I used to watch it.
The GetUp girl.
There is a room named after her in Oxford Street, Sydney named “The Sally Rugg LGBTIQ Pride Room”
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The earth ripped apart in Hatay, Turkey.
100 ft deep and 650 ft wide…
Locals say they heard the sound of a loud explosion before the earthquake.
A filthy rich Florida man decided that he wanted to throw a party and invited all of his buddies and neighbours.
He also invited Leroy, the only redneck in the neighbourhood. He held the party around the pool in the backyard of his mansion.
Leroy was having a good time drinking, dancing, eating shrimp, oysters and BBQ and flirting with all the women.
At the height of the party, the host said “I have a 10-foot man-eating gator in my pool and I’ll give a million dollars to anyone who has the nerve to jump in”.
The words were barely out of his mouth when there was a loud splash. Everyone turned around and saw Leroy in the pool!
Leroy was fighting the gator and kicking its arse! Leroy was jabbing it in the eyes with his thumbs, throwing punches, head butts and choke holds, biting the gator on the tail and flipping it through the air like some kind of judo instructor.
The water was churning and splashing everywhere. Both Leroy and the gator were screaming and raising hell.
Finally, Leroy strangled the gator and let it float to the top like a dead goldfish.
Leroy slowly climbed out of the pool. Everybody just stared at him in disbelief.
Finally, the host says “Well, Leroy, looks like I owe you a million dollars!” “No, that’s okay. I don’t want it” said Leroy.
The rich man said “Man, I have to give you something. You won the bet! How about half a million bucks then?” “No thanks, I don’t want it” answered Leroy still catching his breath.
The host said “Come on, I insist. That was amazing. How about a new Porsche and some stock in my company?” Again Leroy said no.
Confused, the rich man asked “Well, Leroy, then what do you want?’ Leroy said “I just want the prick that pushed me into the swimming pool!”
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BREAKING: Over 20 states have banned COVID vaccine mandates for schools in response to the CDC adding the vaccines to its routine immunization schedule.
THEY DID WHAT CHINA WANTED: Biden’s Energy Secretary Met With Far-Left, China-Connected “Green Energy” Group Before Pushing To Ban American Gas Stoves
When I was born I was so ugly that the doctor slapped my mother.
– Rodney Dangerfield
Piers Akerman:
The federal Labor frontbench has learnt nothing over the summer break.
As Martin Luther King Jr is claimed to have said: “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
When it comes to the debate on lifting the ban on nuclear energy, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Energy and Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen personify that quote. Albanese again repeated Bowen’s mantra that nuclear is the most expensive form of energy when he attempted to rubbish Coalition energy spokesman Ted O’Brien’s nuclear fact-finding trip to Japan.
Opponents of nuclear energy should take a leaf out of O’Brien’s book and do some research – better still, they should read the 38 submissions currently posted by the Senate Committees on Environment and Communications’ inquiry into removing the ban on nuclear energy.
My favourite is that posted by William Shackel who, as a Year 11 student, founded Nuclear for Australia, an independent, non-registered information campaign advocating for the ban on nuclear energy in Australia to be lifted.
Shackel’s submission explores nuclear energy from the perspective of a young person (even the greener-than-green Greta Thunberg embraces nuclear) and examines its environmental impacts, economic viability, safety, community support and more before concluding that nuclear is not only one of the most environmentally friendly sources of energy but, importantly, is economically viable with community support in Australia. Further, Shackel writes, none of the potential harms that arise from nuclear are enough to justify such a draconian prohibition.
As Shackel notes in his extremely detailed submission, the primary issue with solar energy pertains to the manufacturing of photovoltaic panels and their disposal.
Solar requires 14 times more materials than nuclear, with individual panels composed of many minerals and a plethora of toxic chemicals which, unlike radioactive waste, never lose their toxicity.
When disposed of, solar panels produce copious amounts of waste with most elements not recycled. This is unsurprising given the current price to recycle a photovoltaic panel is $US20-$30 compared to $US1-$2 to simply dispose of one in landfill. As a result, currently in Australia only 17 per cent of a solar panel’s mass can be recycled and, considering the approximately 21-year lifespan of a panel, it is estimated Australia will accumulate 145,000 tonnes a year of solar PV waste by 2030. Moreover, solar also requires 379 times more land than nuclear with a 2021 study estimating up to 2.8 per cent of the European Union would be needed if solar accounted for 80 per cent of electricity generation by 2050.
Wind energy also has severe environmental effects. Most significant is its land footprint. On average, wind requires 421 times more land than nuclear, with estimates comparing it to the Rolls Royce SMR, stipulating 10,000 times more land is needed for wind to produce the same output of electricity. In most cases, this land is unsuitable for further use, with exclusion zones needed to avoid negative health impacts derived from wind turbines. Moreover, wind turbines have a detrimental impact on wildlife, particularly birds.
Using an estimate formulated by ecologist Emma Bennett, annually each wind turbine in Australia kills 17 birds which, when extrapolated, suggests up to 47,000 birds are killed each year which will dramatically increase with new investment in wind farms required as part of current government climate plans.
Predictably, there is a handful of absurdly irrelevant submissions from citizens concerned about nuclear war but the government’s own submission is possibly the most risible.
Written by Beth Brunoro, the acting deputy secretary for the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, it relies on the totally discredited GenCost 2021-22 report.
Last September, this column reported on the Energy Policy Institute of Australia’s comprehensive demolition of the GenCost report.
Author of the EPIA paper Robert Carland concluded that GenCost’s capital cost estimates for nuclear small modular reactors (SMRs) were outdated and significantly overstated.
It found that nuclear power could facilitate Australia’s energy transition at least cost when an objective analysis is undertaken of the latest costs. Indeed, unless the prohibition on nuclear power is lifted, developers would never be given the incentive to bring forward nuclear power projects in Australia.
But here’s the reality that the Labor ignoramuses wilfully reject.
When writing this column, the average price for electricity in NSW was 28c/kWh (kilowatt hour) but in the province of Ontario, where nearly 60 per cent of electricity is generated from its 15 operating nuclear power stations, the average price was half that – 14c/kWh – and Ontario is adding an SMR to boost its clean energy production.
It takes just one student, not a department, to put the facts on nuclear energy before the people and expose the fools responsible for the laughable ban on nuclear power.