Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph, Rembrandt, 1656
It’s not commonly known, but Teslas use Righteous Electrickery (RE), so all is balanced with Gaia. Namaste.
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I see scrolling down at his Cricinfo [age that Joe Burns made 108 not out for Italy vs. Romania. Forza…
https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/joe-burns-326632 Joe Burns is out of calculations as he is now representing Italy in cricket, the rotten Dago turncoat. Neil…
Only if he builds a new road to the house.
Yes, but that would be counter propagandical.
It’s also recruitment.
Win their hearts and minds and you’ll eventually win their bodies.
Indolent:
I wonder if the Japanese family situation is similar to Australia’s. Taxation being the main inhibitor of family formation.
In which case, Japan is stuffed. The government will not change its taxation policies even if it means destroying Japan.
The parasite cannot change it’s predation on the host even if it kills the host.
It’s a picture we are seeing all over the civilised world.
Lizzie! Yes, you have the right email for me – & I do keep receiving your emails. And I have replied several times – so something is going wrong. Could you perhaps text AND email your respective email/text so that I can be sure I have the correct info on your addresses? It’s very strange because I reply directly to your email!
Is Steve Trickler a J.C. sock?
There are many similarities.
Qld police press conference about the cop shooting case.
Religious extremists is the conclusion. Planned ahead of the day.
I funny (not haha funny but)
Any overt sign of religion is taken as offensive.
Yet the rituals of fagottry are more overt and pushed than any Catholic high school could dream of projecting.
The hormone pills as the sacred host, the high priests of ticktock/academia intoning their liturgies and anathemas and the dead bodies of the suicided “tormented trans kid” as their holy sacrifice legitimizing everything they do.
Its a cult.
Like Marvin the Martian, someone is very, very angry:
Jim Chalmers says he understands why customers are “furious” with their banks for raising mortgages but not passing on higher interest rates to deposit holders.
The Treasurer has put the nation’s banks on notice to ensure they are passing on interest rates to customers with savings accounts after tasking the consumer watchdog with? investigating the issue.
Dr Chalmers also revealed on Thursday he “speaks frequently” with under siege Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe about the economy.
“Governor Lowe and I talk frequently about the economy. We talk frequently about the bank itself,” Dr Chalmers told reporters at Parliament House on Thursday.
“We spoke last night, for example.”
But Dr Chalmers said he would never direct Dr Lowe on interest rate decisions.
“I don’t ring up the Reserve Bank governor on the morning of the board meeting and say this is the outcome that the government wants,” he said.
Dr Chalmers this week asked the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to look into how banks set interest rates for savers, including differences in interest rate increases between bank deposits and home loans.
He told Thursday’s press conference: “I understand that people are furious when mortgage rates go up and they got much lower or not at all [for saving accounts].”
The ACCC’s probe into deposit pricing is also due to be complete by December 1.
“I want to make sure that banks are doing the right thing here,” Dr Chalmers said on Thursday.
“I think there is a lot of community anger about this.”
Australian households together hold more than $1.3 trillion in savings and deposit accounts.
Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe said on Wednesday the country was better off having “strong resilient banks” as he was grilled over the matter at a parliamentary hearing.
Asked what he would tell renters and mortgage holders who were “getting smashed” by interest rate increases while the major banks pulled in “megaprofits”, Dr Lowe said he knew people were struggling.
“I get a lot of people writing to me at the moment telling me about their personal circumstances and it’s really, really tough, I understand that,” he said.
“Personally, I find it disturbing. People are really hurting, I understand that, but I also understand that if we don’t get on top of inflation it means even higher interest rates and more unemployment.”
But Dr Lowe said Australian needed its banks to be profitable in order to be able to provide essential financial services.
“I know it’s hard for people to accept when they’re suffering problems with their personal finances,” he said.
I first came across lane keep assist in a German hire car. After fighting the alarming correction on the autobahn I pulled over, called Europcar for a WTF conversation, only to discover that SpurhalteAssistent was a thing and that I was an ignorant pleb with no idea about community safety.
Doc telling me how difficult it is to get an appointment in feraldton, 2 weeks at least, and they have a $40 charge for people that miss their appointments as well.
Gave me a great idea for a business.
Ill simply buy up a block of appointments and auction them off to the highest bidders!
Ethics, we dont need no stinking ethics!
Lovely description.
Jim Chalmers.
What a risibly stupid man.
Pro tip for frustrated rental drivers:
1. Find the lane assist off button before beginning your journey.
2. Deactivate.
The season can affect the type of accommodation you chose on a driving holiday. Going to the UK this January we decided against Airbnb accommodation, even though we had enjoyed it very much in the previous May. We thought that trying to find out of the way country cottages or check house numbers in busy urban streets would be rather difficult if, as usual, we got up late and were looking for our next accommodation around 3.30pm, which in winter is when things re getting dark and the cold is bleak. Pitching into a hotel with parking and someone at reception with no fuss about keys seemed far more preferable. And with breakfast ready made – most hotels in the UK include brekkie in the deal, and it is always a hearty one.
Hence, one relies on shoes and jewellery for the sense of an easy fit in getting dressed.
In the evening, stoles and ponchos and loose jumpers are the go. They don’t lose their good fit.
Horrors, even in Lapland’s Rovanieme, for which I’d dug out my big black fur hooded zip up coat, it was a little snug. Had to eschew the zip and just use the duffle pegs to do it up. Except in the snowstorm, when it was a case of breathe in and tug it up regardless.
These interest rate hikes are throwing a spanner in the works of his well being budget.
No.
They’re stuffed.
263% public debt to GDP ratio.
This proves that the other half of Americans are below average intelligence.
There’s a Nobel Peace Prize waiting for you, roger.
Coming up…how to solve the missing sock problem.
“…how would being found dead of a head injury in a hotel be ruled ‘not suspicious’ so rapidly?”
IIRC, they once found a man with no arms, no legs and no head – no suspicious circumstances.
Yeah, sure – no suspicion involved at all, clearly nefarious, innit?
I regret to say, I no longer have any confidence that Plod is on my side, in any way whatsoever.
Not only were they complicit in the COVID insanities, the last time I dealt with them, they deliberately misled me to make their own shift easier.
So as far as I am concerned, they are to be questioned very carefully, and their answers parsed with great care and then maybe they will be believed – maybe.
So very sad that they have allowed themselves to come to this, but all I can say is they did it to themselves.
Lowe is so retrograde when he says unemployment rising is the only way to bring down inflation.
Australia needs less government intervention in energy markets.
And Australia needs less cartel pricing structures within industries.
Lowe can’t do anything about the last two so he uses the luddite tool of interest rates.
For those who were unable to read the “Jack the Insider” Covid injury article in The Oz because of the paywall – here it is. Contrary to what I thought, it is actually a sceptical piece which, although acknowledging that there are vaccine injuries, largely debunks the extent of them. He clearly has not bothered to search for credible evidence outside some few cases the media has reported and the paltry numbers that official sites such as VAERS allows to get through. Nor does he acknowledge the fear of GPs and nurses etc in reporting these.
The issue of Covid-19 vaccination injuries and deaths have been largely ignored by the media. It’s a dangerous business which allows misinformation to flourish.
There have been some notable exceptions.
Last month, Christine Middap’s sensitive article in The Weekend Australian included profiles of people who had suffered serious Covid-19 vaccine injury. And Chris Kenny recently drew attention to the problem in a thoughtful way on his program on Sky News.
The figures on vaccine related injury should be widely available, published by the Therapeutic Goods Administration to the point where even the incurious will have a broad understanding.
The compensation scheme, known as the Covid-19 Vaccine Claims Scheme is administered by Services Australia. The scheme was announced by then health minister Greg Hunt as the vaccines were rolled out in the first half of 2021. Therein lies an acknowledgment that Covid-19 vaccines were likely to cause injury and death in rare cases.
Less than 10 per cent of 3206 claims have been approved. Most of the remainder are still being considered.
These are Australians who have suffered injury as a result of taking the Covid vaccine and they should not be forgotten or cast into a bureaucratic abyss.
Even obtaining an official figure on vaccine related deaths is fraught. My understanding from the often tortured TGA’s reports is that 14 Australians have died from severe adverse reactions to Covid vaccines, nine from Astra-Zeneca and five from mRNA based vaccines, including Pfizer and Moderna. One of those five is an extraordinarily harrowing story of the death of a 21-year-old Melbourne woman in March 2021.
Those who suffered injury, and often extended periods of incapacity have been left to deal with the usual bureaucratic exercise that requires medical evidence, which may include but not be restricted to proof of hospital admission, sending the forms in, then sitting and waiting. And waiting. And waiting.
In the United States, a similarly convoluted compensation scheme is in place. The Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program is known to be a well-intentioned office but under-resourced and not fit for the purpose of dealing with thousands of claims and determining outcomes in a timely fashion.
At the end of 2022, there were more than 7500 claimants to the scheme. Some have been waiting for compensation for more than a year. I’ll leave it to the mathematicians to figure out the percentages of claims for Covid vaccine injury against the more than 600 million doses of the Covid vaccine administered in the US.
A void of information is filled with misinformation and the people perpetrating are armed and ready, bristling with falsehoods and deceit.
Stew Peters is a Minnesotan former bounty hunter who has developed a business model to achieve fame and fortune from the pandemic. He refers to Covid vaccines as “bioweapons”. Peters contends Covid vaccines are a means of global depopulation.
Peters’s pseudo-documentary, Died Suddenly, has been described as a “tsunami of anti-vax misinformation and conspiracy theories” by Science Based Medicine magazine. It has been viewed over 250,000 times on Rumble. The documentary makers were allowed to post the entire 69 minutes on Twitter.
People are entitled to be “informed” about the risks of COVID vaccines, says former Speaker of the House Bronwyn Bishop. This comes after former federal MP Dr Kerryn Phelps revealed in a submission to a parliamentary inquiry… into long-COVID that she and her wife both suffered from injury More
The ersatz doco includes the appropriation of news items reporting on people who had suddenly died, many of which were probably not vaccine-related. Some of the sudden deaths exploited in Died Suddenly occurred before the pandemic.
Retired teacher turned writer in Los Angeles, Dolores Cruz, published an article in the Huffington Post about the grieving process she had undergone and written extensively about in two books. Her youngest son, Eric, had died in a car crash in 2017 at 24-years of age. The fake doco used a screenshot of the headline in the film, portraying his death as vaccine related.
It would be difficult to imagine more ghoulish behaviour. I reached out to Cruz recently, asking how she felt seeing Peters appropriate the death of her son.
“I want people to know that the suggestion that my son died from the Covid vaccine is completely false. I was angered to see that the title of the article I wrote for HuffPost was used in the documentary Died Suddenly. My article was about my grief and healing journey after my 24-year-old son died in a car accident in May of 2017 which was years before the pandemic began and has nothing to do with the Covid vaccine. The documentary has misappropriated how my son died and it hurts to have my son’s story used in this way,” she wrote.
But she was not surprised that it happened.
“Though this has made me angry and caused hurt, sadly, false information runs rampant in the world today by way of news media, social media, and film and television.”
This fake documentary watched by a relatively small audience in global terms has now taken on a life of its own as a hashtag that runs across every possible social media platform, republishing every newspaper headline, every media article, small or large, where the phrase ‘died suddenly’ is mentioned and aggregates them to infer people have died suddenly from vaccine-related injury.
Liberal MP Russell Broadbent is advocating on behalf of the thousands of Australians who have experienced an adverse reaction after getting a COVID-19 vaccination. “They feel … they are not being heard, they don’t feel like… they are being justly treated by governments,” he told Sky News host More
On Saturday February 13, a Belgian goalkeeper, Arne Espeel, died suddenly while playing in the second division league in Belgium for Winkel Sport B. According to reports, Espeel made a save and then collapsed. He was attended to by a doctor at the ground and a defibrillator was used. The attempts to save his life failed and he was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
And there it was again. A flurry of Died Suddenly hashtags amid anti-vax comments on social media.
Espeel’s sudden death comes after a bogus review announced that 108 footballers had died suddenly in 2021. The original report was published in Hebrew but was subject to a Reuters Fact Check that found that, of the 108, only a few died playing soccer. There were archers, American footballers, hockey players – both on ice rinks and on fields, rugby league and union footballers. Some were not playing at all, including a cricket coach, and a golf caddie.
What the misinfo shouters didn’t account for is that FIFA established a sudden death register in 2014 due to concerns that had risen over decades that men and women playing soccer were dying on the pitch at a fairly high rate.
In the five-year period 2014-2018, the sudden deaths of 617 footballers were registered with FIFA, on average 123 in any year. Elite players were less likely to suffer sudden cardiac arrest due to elevated fitness levels and were more likely to survive these events due to the increased likelihood of being attended to by skilled first aid practitioners and the presence of defibrillators. Nevertheless, the study published in the British Medical Journal and peer reviewed found that five per cent of the 617 deaths came from the elite level.
Misinformation is easy to create and requires ten times the energy to refute. ‘Died suddenly’ should not be a loaded term but that’s where we are now.
The issue of proper and prompt redress to people who have suffered Covid vaccine injury and those who spread misinformation is deeply entwined. Morally, those who have suffered injury should not be pushed into the shadows, collateral casualties of a rush to vaccinate. But more so, the vacuum created by bureaucratic babble and evasion will always be filled by misinformation. The truth gets left dazed and bruised by the roadside.
JACK THE INSIDER COLUMNIST
Vicki and I have just had a chat by telephone, the old fashioned way. She rang.
Often the best way to sort out any communication problems with other modes.
Especially if neither of you is/are A Grade in this new fangled internetty thing. 🙂
I wonder if the Japanese family situation is similar to Australia’s.
Japan is past their event horizon.
They are now in a shit spiral.
The most important theme that will impact every part of the globe is how China changes its age stratification over the next 20 years.
After seeing Japan, they know what they have to avoid.
Fairly grim new years resolutions coming into fruition.
Stretch target.
Even the Earthquake Dude would struggle with that one.
I suspect their population decline is worse than official statistics suggest and irreversible.
On Japan, I note they’re opening up on immigration; there are some things robots can’t do.
Thankfully my grandson found it so I could disable the feature though I had to do it anew each time I switched on the engine.
The Toyota Corolla’s lane assist is $#@*ing demonic.
Glad it was only a rental.
Quickly dashes off email amending order from hemp rope to ‘pikes – one cwt – suitable for putting heads on..’
Roger says:
February 16, 2023 at 2:07 pm
He’s not constitutionally authorised to relinquish terrirory…that has to go to a referendum. The best he can do is go to the people with such a proposal. When he last suggested it, he was threatened with assassination. I believe this, and the Ukrainian peoples’ intransigence on the matter (which may budge over time) plays a large part in his stance.
Yeah, I know. But the rhetoric has to shift away from the outright bravado because time will overtake him. And, despite the bold commentary from both Zelensky and Putin, I think there is still room for negotiation that doesn’t formally cede territory to Russia (which will fall at the Ukrainian constitution hurdle) BUT that window may be closing. If Russia become 100% established in the Donbas and meanwhile they further reinforce the Crimea, then that portion of the conflict is ‘over’. There will be nothing to negotiate – except mercy for towns/villages further west. Yes, the sanctions will continue (yawn) and Russia will be the eternal pariah (more yawning – what’s different?), but the cost to the Ukrainian people will be immense.
When this first started I said that I was concerned that Ukraine will eventually become a mere smoking husk of itself. Zelensky has allowed himself to be serenaded by hawks whose agenda is indifferent to the real outcome for Ukraine or its people. I think he’s a fool. He may end up as ‘President in Exile’ in Paris or Zurich, but it will be the Ukrainian people that will wear the consequences.
Simple as.
You buy multiple pairs of the same colour socks.
Say, navy for business, white for sports and whatever for casual wear.
You always have a spare and the lost sock turns up eventually but was never missed.
My son aged in his forties developed severe wrist synovitis incapacitating both wrists immediately following his second Pfizer shot, thus disastrously affecting his physical independence, his life and employment chances for more than five months. He has given up on ever being compensated, even though an MRI paid for by me showed this damage after medicos and a hospital emergency department had sent him home without any diagnosis and no further investigation or treatment. They simply did not want to acknowledge what was wrong with him and why. He lives alone and should have been hospitalised for both extreme pain and for intimate personal care. But that would have validated his claim. Now, only those hospitalised can claim compensation.
I expect he is one of the many vaccine injured who will never be acknowledged or compensated.
Doctors were simply sending people home undiagnosed and untreated.
Sock problem is easy, just buy all socks of the same brand and colour. At worst there will only ever be one recalcitrant to deal with.
Switched over to 1026 ABC and caught some parliamentary debate.
Labor member telling the house that nine out of ten jobs now require a university degree.
That explains why our roads are so bad -not enough graduates to man the road plant.
I think a suitable response to this would be to gather all the pride shirts, shred them, and sprinkle on the doorstep of the Melbourne Victory facility.
You’d think that the team that is coming, dead, last in the A League (mens) 2 points adrift of the team above them & 20 points away from no.1 would have more important issues, like scoring goals you don’t get extra points for political correctness .. at least not yet, anyway .., than worrying about what strip the infant players wear …….!
I think that is now Putin’s plan, the “little brother” having spurned his offer of “liberation.”
Putin will not tolerate a viable Ukraine and will grind this war out for years if necessary.
Hope I’m wrong!
Sugar daddy to the rescue!
Netball has received more than $9m in federal funding in a bid to sustain the sport through to the 2026 Commonwealth Games in regional Victoria.
The federal government and Australian Institute of Sport have committed $9.4m to Netball Australia and the Diamonds, following a tumultuous year in which Gina Rinehart pulled her $15m sponsorship of the national team before the state-backed tourism body Visit Victoria came to the rescue.
Jack the Insider
One of the worst examples of which has been the UKHSA.
The official fluffing around over UK population estimates energised the dark side of Trusted Bloggers, many “armed and ready, bristling with falsehoods and deceit”. This has obscured sensible discussion globally about the relative risks of vaccination vs WuFlu.
Speedbox, I think bravado in the attitudes of both leaders, stemming from a fear of being assassinated, is at the heart of the failure to negotiate. Some excellent negotiators could certainly find a way through this if they were given half a chance. Plural or singular. Time for someone of standing known for straight talking and clever deal making to step into the breach? It would save the two leaders some face and combatants some lives.
Donald Trump even? Or Benjamin Netanyahu? Or a team at a Summit Talks?
Wishful thinking maybe, but this surely cannot go on for more years with more bloodshed.
the same people who obsess about sustainability are making themselves unsustainable
As I posted in more detail earlier, the importation via sex trafficking of scarce ‘brides’ for peasant food farmers across the border with North Korea is probably part of China’s push for more babies.
One wonders too whether ‘reconstructed’ young Uighur women might be encouraged in this way to get out of their lives in camps. Those not surgically decomissioned as breeders by the regime due to their religious ‘intransigence’ that is.
Calli said:
“Be Prepared. Dib dib dib.”
At the risk of being branded a pedant, I believe it’s Dyb, dyb, dyb.
Shot an email off to the local council the week before last to alert them to a length of connecting road that was so bad that, to borrow a metaphor from Knuckle Dragger, your vehicle was flicked around like a pinball. Not a happy experience at the best of times, but especially not when faced with a truck coming the other way!
Got a prompt response from them to say they’d be right on to it with remedial works and a long term fix down the track ….from an engineer, no less (I was expecting a clerk if I heard anything at all back).
True to his word, I drove past yesterday and the road was closed for works.
Can’t complain…for once!
“The Toyota Corolla’s lane assist is $#@*ing demonic.”
The last time I drove a newish one, I was appalled at the combination of too tall a gearing and electronic manipulation of the throttle – despite a 7 speed auto, there is a massive “hole” off the line, where it just doesn’t have the acceleration you might expect after puttering around in it. Yeah, great, it does 1500 rpm in 7th at 120km/h. But off the line from stopped, you drive off at “normal rate”, seems good with just 1/4 or so peddle down. Mash the loud peddle and despite expecting significantly more performance, it struggled until it hit 40 km/h or so, hardly anything more than what it had at 1/4 throttle. Bloody dangerous, if you ask me!
Agree as above. Would also add it would help to have a curtailment of massive governmental overspending, especially when on useless boondoggles. Lowe’s actually suggested governments can also tighten their belts, but he’s not being very serious in putting that about.
The abbott said initial reports were that Duangphet was injured in a fall. He was admitted to hospital and put on a ventilator.
Jack the othersider reveals something with this line…
It would be difficult to imagine more ghoulish behaviour. I reached out to Cruz recently, asking how she felt seeing Peters appropriate the death of her son.
Id be inclined to think removing peoples bodily autonomy to coerce them into having a medical procedure many didnt want tops a internet rando upsetting an individual.
But thats just me.
Apparently the only one hes ‘reached out to” to add colour to his story is that one.
Bit too hard to call Phelps or any Australian claiming to have a vax injury then?
https://www.alrc.gov.au/publication/equality-capacity-and-disability-in-commonwealth-laws-dp-81/10-review-of-state-and-territory-legislation/informed-consent-to-medical-treatment/
10.47 At common law, all competent adults can consent to and refuse medical treatment. If consent is not established, there may be legal consequences for health professionals. Under the law of trespass, patients have a right not be subjected to an invasive procedure without consent or other lawful justification, such as an emergency or necessity. At the international level, the CRPD expresses this in terms of a ‘right to respect for his or her physical and mental integrity on an equal basis with others’.[35]
Emergency is not a disease that kills people over 80 and has otherwise negligible health impacts for most of society.
Necessity is not “oh shit we panicked and brought tens of millions of “chicken soup in a syringe” doses and will look like incompetent spastics if we dont use them up.
feelthebernsays:
February 16, 2023 at 3:01 pm
I wonder if the Japanese family situation is similar to Australia’s.
Japan is past their event horizon.
They are now in a shit spiral.
The most important theme that will impact every part of the globe is how China changes its age stratification over the next 20 years.
After seeing Japan, they know what they have to avoid.
Chainerr being Chainerr might follow the suggestion of that Japanese academic, and move to compulsory euthanasia to adjust the profile.
Still flogging Marburg.
Farmer Gezsays:
February 16, 2023 at 3:22 pm
Switched over to 1026 ABC and caught some parliamentary debate.
Labor member telling the house that nine out of ten jobs now require a university degree.
Minor subtle difference skated over by the pollimuppet.
That’s nine out of ten jobs of Labor’s current targeted voting demographic that now require a university degree. As for those dumb rural and urban working classes, and the aspirational tradie and small business demographics, they are abandoned to their fate by the Liars, with only the useless Lieborals and One Nation as options.
If only La Hanson, whose heart is definitely in the right place, could establish a capable party organisation.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
February 16, 2023 at 3:33 pm
Speedbox, I think bravado in the attitudes of both leaders, stemming from a fear of being assassinated, is at the heart of the failure to negotiate. Some excellent negotiators could certainly find a way through this if they were given half a chance. Plural or singular. Time for someone of standing known for straight talking and clever deal making to step into the breach? It would save the two leaders some face and combatants some lives.
Until recently, the UN would at least mouthe some words about negotiations, but that seems no longer to be part of the UN agenda.
Unfortunately, not up to earthquake predictionating standard.
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[Technical Note: The correct answers are: No; and No.]
The Brownies also.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLUFAKspex4&t=64s
BJ true, PHON could do well, my experience with the UAP showed me how a party without a branch structure will not be successful, Clive wanted to control every aspect, input from members wasn’t wanted. Without a branch structure come election time, the candidate has to organise everything and everyone from scratch, a big job without having to campaign.
“That’s nine out of ten jobs of Labor’s current targeted voting demographic that now require a university degree.”
Meanwhile, the guy with no qualifications, but who is prepared to drive the garbage truck will pull more money per week than the uni graduate, and he won’t have to pay back his “higher education” bill – after all, “That’s a dirty, smelly job, right? Who wants to do that? Wait – they get paid how much? With no degree?”
Not allowed to call them that.
‘Brownies’ Changes Its Name Because It Was Racist (12 Jan)
The Left destroys everything good it can reach.
“At the risk of being branded a pedant,…”
PENDANT!
(sorry, no branding iron available at this time – it’s on it’s way from China) 🙂
They’ll probably delete scouts and guides also since Baden-Powell was obviously a colonialist imperialist.
Change it to ‘whities’ and I promise you no white people would give it a second thought.
Brown people would still complain because it would imply brown people were not welcome.
Al of it utter BS of course.
When he last suggested a settlement he resoundingly won an election. Once he began to move forward on this Galician nationalists and Azov threatened to ignore any such settlement incl. the ceasefire. As for the Ukrainian people, it is hard to know what they actually want given the major opposition parties are banned, the media is entirely controlled by the government, and social media is strictly censored. If his government is incapable of steering through this situation it bears the responsibility itself.
Uncharacteristically slow off the mark, Bruce.
Robert Baden-Powell statue to be removed in Poole
11/06/20
The Trifecta of Shame.
Racist, homophobic and literally Hitler.
Do Your Best.
I looked it up and it can be spelt (spelled) both ways. Had both Cubs, Scouts, Brownies and Guides and the Beloved, all 6’3.5” of him, was Baloo.
And Cliff…DOB DOB DOB! 🙂
Meanwhile, the guy with no qualifications, but who is prepared to drive the garbage truck will pull more money per week than the uni graduate, and he won’t have to pay back his “higher education” bill – after all, “That’s a dirty, smelly job, right? Who wants to do that? Wait – they get paid how much? With no degree?”
Kneel it brings to mind this article from Elizabeth Farrelly some time ago, which Tim Blair picked apart ruthlessly.
Brownies are little elves in folklore. Nothing to do with skin colour.
The Story
Roger says:
February 16, 2023 at 3:29 pm
I think that is now Putin’s plan, the “little brother” having spurned his offer of “liberation.” Putin will not tolerate a viable Ukraine and will grind this war out for years if necessary. Hope I’m wrong!
I also …….but fear you may be correct as there is no sign that negotiations are even remotely possible under the current scenario.
Zelensky needs to take a long hard look into the future. I expect Western resolve to gradually diminish over time; elections will be held and western leaders replaced (not all of whom may be as accommodating); Russia will (has) adopt a long-term approach that sees Ukraine gradually pulverised kilometre after kilometre westward. Meanwhile, the Western hawks will maintain their agenda with encouraging rhetoric that, in reality, couldn’t give a stuff about the average Ukrainian or their welfare.
I note that Ukraine has utilised over 0ne million 155mm artillery shells in the past 11 months and, at the current rate, it will take 5 years (!) of production to replace them. Most of the HIMARS missiles recently promised by the USA won’t be delivered until well into 2024, at best. Other missile and arms supplies are also months/years away from delivery with time frames pushing out. The Ukrainians are digging into the depths of their old Soviet Union stocks which are so old that misfires are becoming more frequent.
In many respects this conflict has been relatively restrained in terms of the mass destruction (non nuclear) weapons available, but to date unused, by Russia. The West is resisting arming Ukraine with more powerful and longer range missiles which even the dullest Western politician recognises will result in escalation – because if a missile lands on Moscow, retaliation on Kiev and Lviv will be swift and devastating. Christ knows where that could end.
I don’t trust the West to ‘maintain the rage’ because it rarely does and sooner or later, believe Ukraine will be left to its fate. The cost in Ukrainian and Russian lives will be a footnote in Wikipedia. What a waste when wiser heads could have at least attempted to negotiate a settlement.
I was taken to Brownies when I was seven. I hated it.
Definitely not a “joiner”. 😀
Re Jack the Insider
I love how the very same people in the media, academia and government who now need unquestionable independently verified proof of a link between a death and the vaccines, were all okay with claiming every death within 6 months of having a cold was definitely a COVID death.
if only marxism would disappear for ever
Sitting in an Uber in Sydney traffic again. 40 minutes to do 7 kilometres.
Raquel Welsh, aged 82, has died after a short illness.
A great beauty and a pop culture icon.
Vale.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:
February 16, 2023 at 3:33 pm
Speedbox, I think bravado in the attitudes of both leaders….. is at the heart of the failure to negotiate. Some excellent negotiators could certainly find a way through this if they were given half a chance. It would save the two leaders some face and combatants some lives. Wishful thinking maybe, but this surely cannot go on for more years with more bloodshed.
Yes but cannot see it in the current climate. Zelensky was wavering back in March/April and Boris put and end to that. The Germans had some second thoughts (pure self interest over gas supply) and the USA/UK put an end to that by blowing NordStream2, with reputed involvement from the Norwegians.
The hawks in the State Department are in no mood to allow Zelensky any latitude – they want this to play out as long as possible and to achieve that, they are feting Zelensky. Address a joint session of Congress! Address both Houses of Parliament in the UK! Meet world leaders that would otherwise ignore him! Here, have $50 billion ……and another $75 billion….. we are right behind you!!
Yeah, sure. Right up to the time much of Ukraine is a smoking ruin and it becomes apparent that Russia is still a homogenous entity and the grand plan of the dissolution of the Federation has failed. As the years pass, the death toll will stretch well into the many hundreds of thousands across both sides? Pffftt – small price to pay for what ‘could have been’.
As for reconstruction of Ukraine……huh, what…..nah, that’s Russia’s problem.
Firstly as I suggested yesterday, it’s not a viable Ukraine that won’t be tolerated, it’s a Ukraine as a NATO military outpost that won’t be tolerated. The consistent line since before Putin has been no eastward expansion of NATO, neutral Ukraine, and the like. The 8 point plan put forward in Dec 2021 established what was to be negotiated. Secondly, given such a disposition was clear before Putin, it’s counter-productive to think this begins and ends with Putin. Thirdly, pretty clear also that Putin didn’t intend on ‘liberating’ Ukraine, rather he sought to get them to the negotiating table by force majeure. He did, but that fell apart in late March.
Yep, the new Carolla is truely awful.
As a tallish chap, I find that the low profile body makes you feel that you are peeking out from under a bed.
As a consequence of the low profile, the windscreen pillars stretch out in front of you and successfully block vision of upcoming intersections.
And yep, the gearing is terrible and dangerous.
How did the wonderful old indestructible Carolla mutate into this monster.
5 months I waited for fvcking telstra to refund a not insubstantial credit on my closed account.
Overseas call centre liars lied, then lied, then lied some more. Promises, promises, apologies, lies.
Put in a complaint to the TIO – result – 24 hours later – direct employee contact in Australia, credit method organised, credit received.
I HATE TELSTRA – IT SHOULD BE RABZ’D WITH THE ABCD.
An Extremely Lightweight Fission Rocket Could Reach the Solar Gravitational Lens in 15 Years
Which of course means that even a neutral Ukraine wouldn’t be tolerated. Russia demands an obedient puppet regime.
And Coon cheese.
Why cant they just tell them to talk to the hand
Same thing with that Audi 5, the low profile ‘beast’ which we hired. Although longer than most cars and very sleek in looks it was really difficult to get and out of, and the pillars on all of the windows made it feel very enclosed. Hairy would say to me as he was turning into a difficult rhs turn, anything coming your side?, and I’d be unable to see back because of the design of the vehicle.
Not at all. If you are neutral you won’t be a member of NATO or have NATO military infrastructure on your territory. They could have simply adopted Austrian-style neutrality and this would have satisfied Russia.
Pic of the ‘Big Blue Beast’ that tried to devour me.
& so on.
I’ve an entire foolscap page (yep, foolscap) in a clipboard folder in my cabinet,
each & every handwritten line is a separate prawn act pulled by Telstra.**
Most are, as above, almost unbelievable & not the manner in which a reputable or organised business would conduct itself.
Uh, it’s Raquel Welch.
Wonder if she was vaxxed?
Lotta B-Listers dropping off the twig “after a short illness” lately?
As for those dumb rural and urban working classes, and the aspirational tradie and small business demographics, they are abandoned to their fate by the Liars, with only the useless Lieborals and One Nation as options.
Complete and utter tripe, SpongeBob.
Labor compete for the Women’s Vote, whether it’s Primaries or Preferences, they don’t care.
Richard Cranium
She was 82, the time of life when you pinch yourself when you wake up, to be sure, to be sure.
Still unable to share with us the real reason for the $576,000 payout to the Tudge staffer? Or still don’t know yourself, just doing your usual blow-harding?
‘Brownies’ Changes Its Name Because It Was Racist (12 Jan)
How about Brownies Not For Profit but still in receipt of Government largesse, gets a heads up to get on board the Hate YT Express
if they want any more dosh?
dover0beach says:
February 16, 2023 at 5:59 pm
Not at all. If you are neutral you won’t be a member of NATO or have NATO military infrastructure on your territory. They could have simply adopted Austrian-style neutrality and this would have satisfied Russia.
Which was the guts of it. And stop pounding ethnic Russians in the Donbas. Leave them alone.
In fact, if the Ukrainian leadership had been smart, offering up those two basic Russian objectives could have been parlayed into a windfall for Ukraine. In return for guaranteed sovereignty of existing borders conditional on no NATO membership and no (further) harassment of Donbas residents, Ukraine could have squeezed a very good outcome including financial and infrastructure inducements. Russia was ready and wanted to deal.
But then others got involved…..
One for Dot:
Packing Aerogel With Uranium Could Give Us The Space Engine We’ve Been Looking For (15 Feb, via Instapundit)
Interesting idea. I don’t think it works because infusing an aerogel with uranium loses the energy density advantage of the uranium. And how do you make it fiss? Still it’s nice to see the innovation that is going on.
Utter trash, Richard Cranium.
The Liars want the university credentialled, taxpayer employed, inner city dwelling demographic, male and female. The women’s vote alone is not enough. Some women are spouses of workers, tradies, small businessmen. Some belong to those groups.
In seeking that vote, they are now competing with the Slime.
She was 82, the time of life when you pinch yourself when you wake up, to be sure, to be sure.
You were her Doctor, SpongeBob?
I think we’ve past that point. We’ll see.
Take it easy, SpongeBob.
If you insist on shilling for Labor 24/7, as you do, expect the occasional pushback.
We are indeed in the End Times. Wandering along past the rooms in this tradie-oriented motel, I saw not one, but two pairs of work boots (left outside the door by our well brought up guests) with elastic tops instead of laces. Elastic tops! Slip-on work boots! Next, they’ll be putting pink bows on them.
Also, slightly belated, but here is a great tribute to the late Burt Bacharach, with a great selection of clips. Every song is memorable, and every song can be sung along with – I discovered I knew the words to all of them. A gigantic talent, RIP.
Bespoke gets a snap.
Well done!
I still don’t think it’ll work though.
Peta Credlin hoes into Labour in The Oz today:
oops, make that Labor, not Labour.
One of the worst scenes in film, from Casino, but this meme is perfect.
De gustibus non est disputandam.
Put Brussels sprouts on your pizza if you want.
I prefer Slip-on work boots, Johanna. Picking seed seeds from laces isn’t something to look forward to at the end of day. My boss third generation grower in his 70’s likes them too.
They even have zip up ones, Joh. With fake laces.
End Times.
Long since.
Ed Casesays:
February 16, 2023 at 6:28 pm
Take it easy, SpongeBob.
If you insist on shilling for Labor 24/7, as you do, expect the occasional pushback.
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the greatest Liars shill of all?
Why it’s the blow-hard who babbles on, hinting he knows the “real” reason for a $576,000 payout, but can’t say what it was.
Reveal, or shut up.
Ed Casesays:
February 16, 2023 at 6:25 pm
She was 82, the time of life when you pinch yourself when you wake up, to be sure, to be sure.
You were her Doctor, SpongeBob?
Jealous? Mother had her eye on Raquel?
I loved my Redback steel caps. Elastic sides. Wish I still had them – dropped a brick on my toe a couple of weeks ago and only had a daggy old pair of Sketchers between me and toe oblivion.
When I saw the doc for a “skin” check he looked anxiously at the surviving blood blister – “brick” was all he got out of me. 😀
Ahaha, Faustus! Gab and I had a good laugh about those back in the day. I miss her comments.
Groogs, you strike me as more of a puller.
A major concern of mine is tradies who can’t tie their shoelaces.
I suppose, now that we have the slip-on workboot, the designer, tailored, hi-viz isn’t far behind. 🙁
I loved it, in England, living with my grandparents, aged just eleven.
I loved the little gold brooch in the form of a Brownie that I got to hold the big fat yellow tie in place, and the simple brown uniform, and sitting around on toy toadstools with Brown Owl, a very kind young woman, on her stool in the centre of our Brownie Circle. Brownies of course were a form of elves, as Calli mentioned, and as elves we were supposed to do good and learn to be clever by getting badges to sew on our uniforms and to go on outings to discover ‘nature’, in ponds and under bushes.
Then, about six months later, I grew out of it. It just wasn’t as interesting any more. As a newcomer,
I’d been given a book of ‘practice’ examples for the Eleven Plus examination and I aced these, fascinated by then in my spare time. I was beyond Brownies by then. Could work out if Mary was taller than Fred given some complicated x about Harry compared to Mary, and stuff like that. Could line up pictures of boxes every which way. Knew every Proverb in the English Language.
Of course, Proverbs are now regarded as culturally bad for working-class kids.
No-one told me that. I imagined scenarios for every one of them.
I went on to ace the Eleven Plus.
Popped over to the old ‘hood and had lunch in a 2nd tier, sub-regional shopping centre. Lots of vacant tenancies, including a couple of popular businesses that were obviously happy to let the lease lapse. Storm clouds gathering me thinks.
Jim’ll fix it.
Oh, and I read upthread that someone is trying to get a refund from Telstra. It’s like dealing with the airlines – you will get it back eventually but while they have the interest free use of your money, they will drag their feet.
It took me four months and many phone calls to get back $400 when there was never any question that it was a mistake.
Over eighty, you remember things from long long ago far more readily than where you put your glasses five minutes ago. And always with rose coloured lenses. Not what your glasses have at all.
Telstra whacked $200 plus on my phone bill for no apparent reason.I managed to talk to a human and she couldn’t explain it so she wiped it
I see much huffing and puffing in the NT ‘Parliament’ about proposed legislation to prevent drunks from annoying and worse businesses.
It’s huffing and puffing, because they all propose fines for offenders. How is a pisswreck (h/t KD) of no fixed address going to pay thousands of dollars in fines? How could it even be enforced?
More kabuki.
I loved my Redback steel caps. Elastic sides.
A gift from God.
Peta Credlin.
If you’re non Indigenous … .
What a phony.
From johanna’s link:
A legal expert says the proposed laws would have a discriminatory impact on Aboriginal people
What the actual phuck?
Steel caps wreck your toes.
Why wear those when there are other types of safety caps out there that meet the same AS?
Don’t be so naive. The only reason the Russians didn’t take Austria like they took East Germany is because the Americans told them to f… right off, and it would have started a war. Austria may have been neutral, but it was nominally so. It was always part of the West.
Peta Credlin.
If you’re non Indigenous … .
What a phony.
Richard Cranium
Stop shilling for Labor, it’s demeaning to the blog. Almost as bad as your regular shilling for the Liberals.
That’s actually correct.
Is someone who is 1.5625% Aborigine, Aboriginal?
Who believes that crap?
What about 12.5%, 25%, 50%?
Not really.
What about 100% Aborigines?
Will there be any of those on The Voice?
So, yeah, Discriminatory against Aborigines in the extreme.
A solution cribbed from Rudd no doubt, Porkulus MKII.
The only reason the Russians didn’t take Austria like they took East Germany is because the Americans told them to f… right off, and it would have started a war.
Could be.
The version I read was that Austria was divided up into quarters and all the Austrians fled the Soviet quarter, so rather than stretch themselves by stationing a garrison there, the Soviets walked away.
Noteworthy that when Finland recently moved to join NATO, Putin removed Russian troops from the border.
Yeah, Peta Credlin is a phony.
The Voice won’t have any positive outcomes for the Indigenes, so why exclude them from her list of people harmed by it?
I’ll tell ya.
She’s a Labor shill.
I guess the oft cited fear of NATO expanion is selective, depending on the country.
Nothing escapes the Eye of Sauron.
The coin collection yesterday gave an excellent timeline of who occupied/ruled Malta from the introduction of currency.
Like Sicily Arabs were booted by the Normans in about 1020 and were only around for about two hundred years.
But like Sultana is Queen, Alla is Malteses for God, see I was paying attention.
..
I take it you’ll be writing your uncle Puty and suggesting he invade Finland next then.
Just to be “consistent”.
Should we be worried then?
Albanese only got elected because he wasn’t Morrison, so he was never going to let Reynolds revenge herself on Higgins while the Commonwealth paid for it.
“I’m a woman who has spent my life serving my nation in the parliament and in the army, but I was expendable,” she says.
Cry me a river, it’s all about Linda.
Easy.
When the going gets tough and you’ve gotta do the right thing, don’t be Linda Reynolds.
Looks like Marty has got the media on the drip. Watch out Brittany.
Consistency is so important.
It trumps right and wrong every time.
In the minds of fkn imbeciles.
Richard Cranium
Still nothing to say on the “real” reason for the $576,000 payout?
Put up or shut up.
The Media Watchdog not in da house.
I was on morning walk. BMW outside school this morning had license plate LUCIFR.
I wondered why someone would choose to use the name of Satan on their car.
I was happy it was outside the public school at least, not the Catholic one.
SAURON would be better, but it was probably taken.
The video someone put up yesterday about Latinos exploring their DNA heritage was interesting.
Currently not possible to identify aboriginal DNA and of course DNA is not inherited in a simple 50 50 even split so it’s possible for someone with say, an aboriginal great grandparent to have close to zero Aboriginal DNA.
Still if the voice is meant to address aboriginal disadvantage what is the point of swamping the votes of, especially rural and remote aboriginals by votes of upper middle urban professionals of Anglo Celtic appearance?
I imagine the same families and big men will run the shows.
afiak Finland is not a client state of the ‘democratic’ party
AN INTERVIEW WITH
SEYMOUR HERSH
This has been mentioned before. I’m not sure if this article in The National Pulse has been posted
Moderna Chief Bragged to WEF Attendees About Predicting a ‘Billion Dollar’ Pandemic in 2019.
Richard Dawkins vows ‘I’ll use every one’ after scientists condemn words including ‘male’ and ‘female’
Daniel Greenfield
After Biden sent $1 billion to the PLO, Israeli deaths rose 900%
30% more young people dying from heart attacks
The ‘DeSantis Is Trump Without the Baggage’ Crowd is in for a Rude Awakening
Belgian soccer player suddenly collapses on field and dies just moments after defending penalty kick
Got a chuckle out of a private number plate I saw here that said “MUM 666”.
I seem to recall reading that she went to Vietnam to perform (with Bob Hope) for the troops. (As opposed to posing on a piece of enemy artillery smiling with their troops.)
Ahhh – camping.
I remember when the old man decided that camping was the go. We went to Green Patch, Jervis Bay, arriving just before nightfall. 1965 or 66.
He had bought the latest design tent – two rooms with sleeping space at the back and a half screened living area at the front. It was all supported by metal rods with slide out bits, and holes at the end. There were lift-up buttons to stick in the holes to hold it together.
Now, he had been in service in Korea, so he wasn’t a novice at putting things up. But this thing was a nightmare. Probably the training manual for Ikea in the early days.
To top it off, a southerly buster rolled in as he was trying to put it up. To non-Sydneysiders, this means a sudden onslaught of cold howling winds and crying beasts, after a period of still, hot weather. Cold in the relative sense, as in dropping 10-15C in an hour or two.
I remember us kids sitting in the car, now and then venturing out in the darkness (he was using the headlights to see WTF he was doing). Most of all, I remember that just as the damn thing finally got up at around midnight, the car radio played ‘Satisfaction.’ First time I heard it, and it stuck for good.
We had some good times there, but my mother preferred Bateau Bay, where there were cabins with kitchens and bathrooms. I’m with her.
The other vivid memory of camping was a school geology excursion to Sofala to explore gold mining and panning. I was in a camp bed in a caravan annexe when it was below zero, and was chilled to the bone. Luckily Mrs Lipschitz realised my predicament and brought me into a warm bed in the caravan.
Oh, just remembered the almost erased memory of a sleeping bag in a tent in Yellowstone National Park. Every skerrick of warmth being sucked out of my body by the ground. I fled to a motel.
Camping is not for the faint of heart, the unprepared, and especially novices in cold places.
I get all the ‘I was Born Under a Wandering Star’ stuff, but the whole point of civilisation is to get past that.
Best license plate was a NSW rego Daimler Double Six with 6ULDV8
6ULDV12 didn’t work as well
Nigel Farage
The truth about the hotel protests.
Yes, she did.
She was an avowed conservative & a real stand up gal.
Farage reacts to Sturgeon’s resignation.
Miranda Devine
Hunter Biden’s link to disgraced ex-FBI official Charles McGonigal
“I seem to recall reading that she went to Vietnam to perform (with Bob Hope) for the troops. (As opposed to posing on a piece of enemy artillery smiling with their troops.)”
I remember reading about Welch years ago and the piece said she was a GOP voter. Once upon a time Hollywood actually had out and proud Republicans such as Steve McQueen, Clark Gable, Debbie Reynolds, Bob Hope, Charlton Heston, Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne and many others. Now it’s career suicide. Republicans keep quiet and remain in the closet.
Ummm, Ten years of Soviet military occupation.
Austria was carved into Four occupation zones on almost exactly the same lines as Germany, including a 4-power bust up of Vienna, which was carved into East & West Vienna (almost exactly as was Berlin)
Austria became neutral only because neutrality was the price of the Soviet Union ending the split of Vienna & the occupation of about One-Third of Austria.
Soviet Union troops did not withdraw from Austria until Ten years after WWII ended.
For shame! Don’t you know that Jane Fonda was in North Vietnam to support the North Vietnamese in their struggle for independence and liberty?
This one I saw a few days ago. Very very good!
(From these memes.)
Story goes that, just after Jane Fonda released her exercise video tapes, the officer in charge of the Post Exchange on a large U.S. Army base, decided it would be a good idea for the P.X. to sell Jane Fonda exercise tapes for wives and dependents to exercise to. He nearly had a full blown mutiny on his hands…
Rogersays:
February 16, 2023 at 8:20 pm
I seem to recall reading that she went to Vietnam to perform (with Bob Hope) for the troops.
Yes, she did.
She was an avowed conservative & a real stand up gal.
Also a stand out gal.
Cassie of Sydneysays:
February 16, 2023 at 8:25 pm
“I seem to recall reading that she went to Vietnam to perform (with Bob Hope) for the troops. (As opposed to posing on a piece of enemy artillery smiling with their troops.)”
I remember reading about Welch years ago and the piece said she was a GOP voter. Once upon a time Hollywood actually had out and proud Republicans such as Steve McQueen, Clark Gable, Debbie Reynolds, Bob Hope, Charlton Heston, Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne and many others. Now it’s career suicide. Republicans keep quiet and remain in the closet.
Remember leftards screeching for decades about Hollywood “Black Lists”? Seems their only complaint wasn’t about their existence, just who was on them.
Reynolds sacked Texas Bruce Lehrmann without Notice on 26/3/2019, yet he never sued for Unfair Dismissal?
What’s all that about, SpongeBob?
The Russians occupied about a third of Austria. Austrian neutrality was the key that ended both Soviet, US, UK, and French occupation of Austria. But you missed the point, what I referred to was simply what neutrality involved as the counter to your claim that Ukraine could be neutral and still house NATO infrastructure, etc.
What happened to Toowoomba?
About 15 years ago friends moved there. One of the main reasons was that it was safe, clean and peaceful. It is certainly blessed in terms of scenery and climate.
Must be a shock to not feel safe in your home.
The last time i went camping in a tent was in Kruger park. Spent the night drinking with my aunts while my youngest still in nappies was entertained by the femail staff. The freindly curly blond toddler wone their hearts. Bought a stone elephant from some kids on the way out for two Rand.
HT. Don’t get out of the car to have a pee unless you have death wish.
Those Farage YouTubes in the European Parliament were things of beauty.
Your committed progressive is one the most intolerant people on the planet.
She makes Vladimir Putin look like an old fashioned liberal.
The Palaszczuk government’s youth “justice” policies, that’s what.
And it’s not just Toowoomba, it’s state wide.
That’s actually correct.
Is someone who is 1.5625% Aborigine, Aboriginal?
Who believes that crap?
What about 12.5%, 25%, 50%?
Not really.
What about 100% Aborigines?
Will there be any of those on The Voice?
So, yeah, Discriminatory against Aborigines in the extreme.
What it is discriminatory against is those people who wish to have a BBQ of a Friday afternoon with their kids playing in the park.
That’s if these people have the gumption to attend with all the chaos in Alice Springs.
If it’s targeted at blacks who have nothing better to do than drink and be arseholes, so be it.
Leave Ed, and leave now. You offer nothing but phuckwhittery.
Not really. In many things, you might suffer wrongs or threats or courses of action because you believe the costs of not doing so are too great, or you are too weak to prevent it, or you hope the other party might change their mind in due course, and so on. The idea that because Russia did not stop the first expansion eastward, consistency now demands it not protest any further eastern expansion is just too silly for words. As is the claim that it must judge Finland precisely as it does Ukraine. And, finally, the above ignores that Russia has protested NATO’S eastward expansion since Yeltsin. So the fear isn’t selective, what is selective is the course of action it invites, as it must always be.
From today’s Oz:
Linky
Lidia Thorpe takes the Greens — and her supporters — for a rideTHE MOCKER
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Another week, another drama in the form of Gunnai and Gunditjmara woman Lidia Thorpe, who as you know was returned to the Senate last year by members of the Gullible Nation, otherwise known as Melbourne inner-city progressives. They donated to her campaign, handed out pamphlets, knocked on doors, and effusively proclaimed at their little goat cheese soirees that the Greens senator had enriched the party with her knowledge of country.
It was much the same when she gained preselection in 2020 to fill the casual vacancy following the resignation of former Greens leader Richard Di Natale. Back then Thorpe was all smiles and honey. “I’ll be a senator for all Victorians,” she promised. “It’s an incredible honour and a huge responsibility to be chosen by Greens members as the next senator for Victoria,” she said. “I won’t let you down.”
Needless to say, she was full of – well, schmooze. “I will be a senator for all of us,” she declared in her maiden speech to parliament. “I invite you all to come on this journey with me, a journey of truth-telling, healing and justice.”
It was a journey all right in the sense that Thorpe took her supporters and the party for a ride. Only after the election did she reveal her real purpose was to “infiltrate” parliament, her self-appointed role being to “question the illegitimate occupation of the colonial system in this country”. Last week she resigned from the Greens to join the crossbench, declaring she intended to “amplify the Black Sovereign Movement”.
A sovereign movement? A circus movement more like it. But that has been typical of Thorpe’s puerile behaviour ever since she entered federal parliament, whether it was labelling the late Queen Elizabeth II a ‘coloniser’ when she swore her oath or delighting in the “colonial system burning” when Indigenous protesters allegedly deliberately set fire to Old Parliament House. Her contrived anger and other theatrics are such that, by comparison, she makes Sofia Coppola seem like a great actress.
Not surprisingly, Melbourne’s bien pensants, having been played for fools, are miffed. Human rights activist and barrister Julian Burnside, who unsuccessfully ran for preselection against Thorpe in 2020, told The Age she should leave parliament, given she was elected on a Greens ticket. While not a fan of Burnside, I do think he was the most appropriate candidate. After all, Greens constituencies comprise largely wealthy voters seeking to assuage their white guilt by waving their progressive credentials at every opportunity.
As for Thorpe’s future on the crossbench, there have been some amusing predictions. As the Sydney Morning Herald reported: “One former Greens colleague expects Thorpe will quit within a year or two because she doesn’t actually enjoy being a politician”. Turn it up. Her annual salary is $217,000 plus allowances, and her term does not end until 2028. That’s not to say it’s money for jam, because Thorpe will be very active for the remainder of her time in parliament. You can be sure she will visit just about every part of the country in her quest to amplify the Black Sovereign Movement, provided her destination is within cooee of a Qantas Chairman’s Lounge.
Usually the defection of a sitting member results in swift and strident demands by party members for them to resign their seat. Greens leader Adam Bandt is an interesting case study in this respect. Far from being the firebrand, he is behaving like the office wuss. Interviewed on RN Breakfast just days after Thorpe’s departure, he repeatedly said he was feeling “sad”. And so was his performance. Asked by Patricia Karvelas whether Thorpe should have vacated her seat, Bandt could only lamely offer that she had “made her decision”.
His pusillanimity and reticence are even more puzzling when one considers that Bandt had offered extraordinary concessions to Thorpe to try to dissuade her from leaving, including allowing her to remain as First Nations spokeswoman despite her opposition to the Indigenous voice to parliament.
And it is not as if Bandt was a hard taskmaster to Thorpe during her tenure. He defended her repeatedly, despite her juvenile stunts and her bullying manner. He did everything to appease her, including moving the Australian flag away from view during press conferences, claiming it represented “dispossession and the lingering pains of colonisation”. So why isn’t he now at least calling her out for disloyalty?
In short, Bandt fears indictment by the divisive racial politics that he himself has fomented and championed for so long. There is a narrative that applies to situations like this, which is both militant and irrebuttable. It goes as follows. Lidia is a brave and strong First Nations woman who is forced to leave the Greens because she was not able to fully speak her truth. Adam, the party leader, has condoned this situation as he had not provided a culturally safe space for Lidia. This happened despite Adam’s enthusiastic pledge in 2021 “to decolonise” the party’s “platform and language”.
Clearly this raises questions about whether Adam should continue as leader. The circumstances of what led to Lidia’s appalling treatment must be publicly explored. What’s that you say, Adam? No, I’m sorry, but it’s irrelevant you and Lidia signed a nondisclosure agreement. We are going to have a mini-Makarrata, and the subject matter is the structurally racist party which you preside over. Truth-telling is painful, but it will ensure justice and allow everyone to heal. Sound familiar?
It is a case of poetic justice, and not only at Bandt’s expense. In addition to peddling racial disharmony for opportunistic reasons, he and his colleagues have long demonised big business and high-income earners in the name of social justice, incessantly demanding they be taxed exorbitantly under the slogan of paying their fair share. Meanwhile these same ideologues, some of whom have never held a job outside politics, enjoy a privileged existence on the public purse, funded largely by the corporates they despise.
Having long sponged off others, the Greens are dismayed and angry at discovering someone has stolen from them. Say what you like about Thorpe, but I am enjoying this spectacle of the master grifters being grifted.
THE MOCKER
And that’s why we have a tradie shortage and the ones that exist charge like a wounded bull. Central planning doesn’t work, if only because it’s populated by idiot lefties.
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Ed Casesays:
February 16, 2023 at 8:47 pm
Reynolds sacked Texas Bruce Lehrmann without Notice on 26/3/2019, yet he never sued for Unfair Dismissal?
What’s all that about, SpongeBob?
You’re the eggspurt on bureaucratic shenanigans, you tell us, right after you tell us what you claim to be the “real” reason for the $576,000 payment to Tudge’s former staff member.
Toowoomba, like Townsville & some other regional centres (e.g. Kingaroy), is proximate to some indigenous settlements created by the state governments of the day to accomodate folk who were moved off their ancestral land, places where they were mixed with other “tribes”. Not a great start. Not everyone from these communities is a bad egg by any means; far from it, but the dysfunction is significant and has been growing over the decades. People migrate to the larger regional centres for the serviecs they provide. To welfare dependance and poor parenting add a justice system that imposes no consequences for repeated petty criminal acts (I mean dozens and dozens of offences) and we then wonder that the kids progress to serious criminal acts. In Toowoomba, at least, you can also add Sudanese youth who favour machetes into the mix.
Sorry custard, I never click on links without explanations.
Imagine being so frightened that you won’t click on a link because. It’s your loss not mine.
Hold it right there.
Thorpe had grassroots support, she was elected in Northcote, then The Greens appointed her to a Senate Vacancy.
Then the Greens tried to get her to resign a few months after being elected and leaked damaging material about her private life to force her out.
So she snatched it.
Now panty wetters like Paul Kelly and George Brandis are calling for a Constitutional Amendment to allow Parties to sack their Senators from the Senate and replace them with their choice.
I’d say the brouhaha over Thorpe is probably fake, and her quitting The Greens is a ruse to damage the No case by association,
but,
Greens shenanigans aren’t a valid reason to amend The Constitution.
Jacqui Lambie is another one brought up.
Lambie had a support base in NW Tasmania and she had political ambitions, that’s why Palmer funded her.
I’d say Palmer wanted access to her mailing list for purposes not in her best interests, so she gave him the arse.
Again, no reason to change the Constitution, unless you want vested interests controlling and selecting Senators, as happens in the ALP already.
Toowoomba, like Townsville & some other regional centres (e.g. Kingaroy), is proximate to some indigenous settlements created by the state governments of the day to accomodate folk who were moved off their ancestral land,
You’re wrong about Townsville, Palm Island was founded as a place recalcitrant blacks from the Missions were sent to as punishment.
One of the smaller islands in the Palm group was home to sufferers of Leprosy transferred from Peel Island in WW2.
There were no State Government Indigenous settlements at or near Toowoomba.
Most actually can.
There is a reason for boots which are both lace-up and zip-up.
They can tie the laces once to the right tightness. They can then zip them off and on quickly when they encounter fussy types (usually retired ladeee public servants) who won’t have them anywhere on their property wearing boots.
Richard Cranium
Around 200 kms from Toowoomba to Murgon, site of the former Cherbourg Mission.
You’re the eggspurt on bureaucratic shenanigans, you tell us, right after you tell us what you claim to be the “real” reason for the $576,000 payment to Tudge’s former staff member.
He’s also a doctor, lawyer, foreign affairs eggspurt, diplomatic relations master
From the article by Credlin, ‘Then there’s the move to strip the concept of shared parenting from family law settlements, as if children don’t need a male and female presence in their lives, that could easily result in separated dads once more being restricted to seeing their kids on weekends and school holidays.” Surely this is an election issue for the Libs. Doesn’t anyone here remember the absolute anger and disruption caused by the family law courts restricting access for fathers. Lives were irredeemably wrecked. This is untenable.
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Two corrections.
.1 Nine out of ten job descriptions have a pre-requisite of a degree. This is not nine out of ten jobs.
.2 The fact that a degree is a pre-requisite does not mean a degree is required to execute the functions of a job effectively.
Only one thing wrong with The Mocker’s article, the mention of Julian Burnside as some sort of moderate.
Lidia Thorpe’s claim to Aboriginal status is based on the fact that her great great grandmother was Aboriginal – Thorpe is of 1/16th Aboriginal ancestry.
custard says:
February 16, 2023 at 9:36 pm
Well, I did click on it, but can’t see what you are on about.
1 post(s) found containing “#778”.
What are we supposed to find?
All I see is meaningless gibberish one-liners a retarded 5-year-old would chant.
You are off the reservation, I’m sorry to say.
Sad.
Anyway, “Sliante” to you hairy mob. The dividend reporting season is beginning – last year was a belter for self funded retirees, this year looks like being even better.
Paging feelthebern
Jimmy Dore on BeanieCast IRL
Driller
Yes, Wiki is your friend, but just piss off. Go clean the pool dickhead. You’re attempt at fact checking is even more dishonest than Lambert. F…..g idiot.
Dover.
Dover, Austria, was considered part of the West for much of the Cold War. The Russians were prevented from taking all of Austria because the US was around, and there was zero acceptance of the Sovs in Austria. If they tried to take all of Austria, it would have meant World War 3.
I’m not missing the point. Ukraine would never be allowed to behave like Switzerland in a neutral sense. I think the word you’re looking for is “neutered” rather than “neutral.” 🙂
The link works perfectly Gabor
Thanks Indolent. Some interesting studies to read.
Just a bit of Indolent bait.
The USA CDC page for vinyl chloride had not been updated in 15 years, then it was updated just 11 days before the train crash in Palestine Ohio.
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/113d47o/comment/j8piedx/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
Spooky?
Not exactly. The timing is amazing but there’s nothing in the changes that seem suspicious. e.g. the page used to say it causes nerve damage and immune reactions and cancer, and it still says that. Some explanations were removed because they link to other pages that say the same thing.
#778
>>388588Why is everything ‘really’ made in China?
Cost savings?
Why is POTUS focused on SA/CHINA/RUSSIA?
WHY???????????
WHY IS RUSSIA BEING USED AGAINST POTUS?
WHY RUSSIA?
WHAT DAMAGE CAN RUSSIA DO TO DEMS?
WHAT DAMAGE CAN CHINA DO TO DEMS?
IRAN?
NK?
WHY DOES HUSSEIN TRAVEL BEFORE/AFTER POTUS RE: FOREIGN TRIPS?
USE LOGIC.
WHY IS POTUS FOCUSED ON BRINGING BACK MANUFACTURING?
JOBS?
SECURITY?
CONTROL?
TRUE CONTROL?
WHO CAN YOU TRUST?
THE WORLD IS NOT HOW YOU VIEW IT.
TRUST THE PLAN.
WE ARE WINNING.
ARRESTS WILL COME.
LOGIC SHOULD ANSWER WHY IT MUST FOLLOW OTHER UNFOLDING EVENTS.
LEARN AND SPREAD.
BUILD PROOFS.
WE’VE PROVIDED MANY PROOFS THAT CANNOT BE DISPUTED AS COINCIDENCES.
THIS WAS DONE FOR A REASON.
MORE WILL BE PROVIDED.
DIRECT CONFIRMATION WILL COME.
IT CANNOT COME NOW.
IT WILL BE LOST.
THE MESSAGE IS NOT READY.
YOU ARE PART OF THE ARMY.
WE ARE DEPENDING ON YOU.
FOR GOD & COUNTRY.
WHERE WE GO ONE, WE GO ALL.
STAY SAFE THIS WEEK.
Q
Feb 15 2018
Interesting
Just on camping… local camping ground at Ulladulla. Close to the Marlin and Tony’s Pizza place.
Arrive there in darkness because you stayed too long at the Steampacket at Nelligen. Then at the Marlin before closing time.
Wake up next morning and think thank Christ I turned right when I opened the barn doors of the XC panel van to have a late night hose. Turn left and I’d be over the cliff.
Camping is dangerous and liver destroying.