Open Thread – Tues 21 March 2023


Saturn Devouring his Son, Peter Paul Rubens, 1636


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Johnny Rotten
March 23, 2023 4:41 am

Thank you Tom. With the Leak Cartoon, and if only the ABCcess would go on strike permanently. LOL.

132andBush
132andBush
March 23, 2023 5:41 am

m0nty says:
March 22, 2023 at 11:47 pm

Anyone who stands on absolute truth cannot lose a culture battle.

You really don’t understand the concept of culture, do you Bruce? That is probably why you keep losing.

Serious question, Monty.

Are you suggesting a culture is best built around lies?

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
March 23, 2023 6:02 am

Munty can’t handle the truth.

Anchor What
Anchor What
March 23, 2023 6:13 am

Too many bad actors in too many places in the USA. At every level, in every jurisdiction?
It’s currently not just DA Bragg in NY serving up a load of crap, but also Judge Beryl Howell now saying ( via a leaked report) that there’s criminality on Trump’s part re those documents he had at his home. They are so desperate to take him out of the race. Any dodgy accusation will be used.
Gateway Pundit

132andBush
132andBush
March 23, 2023 6:24 am

On roundabouts.

Of course, slow down…
…but make every attempt to keep moving.
When approaching you should be scanning not only what is on or at the roundabout but what is approaching from 12 and 3 o’clock. The amount of times I see people arrive at any intersection, come to a halt and then look is frustrating.
It’s perfectly acceptable and even preferred for a vehicle entering a roundabout at the 6 position to slide in front of one which has entered from 12, is passing 3 and headed for 9.
There is more time than you think for this manoeuvre because the car to your right is having to scribe a circle and not a straight line such as a straight up 4 way xroads.
Pet hate is morons who indicate “right” when going straight through.

Cassie of Sydney
March 23, 2023 6:35 am

“so you resort to ad hominem.”

So writes the creep who dreams of punching a Nazi.

Dot
Dot
March 23, 2023 6:41 am

Every time I hear the word “culture”, I reach for my popcorn.

Dot
Dot
March 23, 2023 6:42 am

Anyone who stands on absolute truth cannot lose a culture battle.

There are only two genders.

Anchor What
Anchor What
March 23, 2023 6:50 am

Rigging elections is the path to power for the zombie left Dems. Biden’s latest executive order tries to expand the scope for dodgy ballot harvesting. It’s their main weapon, since nothing they’ve done so far will win if 2024 is a fair election.
American Thinker

Cassie of Sydney
March 23, 2023 7:01 am

PJW is on target…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VTWnYOqICk

Dark, dismal, and depressing.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 23, 2023 7:06 am

It’s perfectly acceptable and even preferred for a vehicle entering a roundabout at the 6 position to slide in front of one which has entered from 12, is passing 3 and headed for 9

It’s like tackling.

Going in tentatively and/or half-hearted is what gets you hurt.

Dot
Dot
March 23, 2023 7:16 am

Every time the AFL talks about tackling, I reach for my Melbin Comedy Festival Tickets.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
March 23, 2023 7:18 am

One rule that all idiot drivers ignore at a roundabout is that all feeder roads are equal.
Can’t count the times that you get a second in line vehicle roaring straight in because they’re on the major road.

Cassie of Sydney
March 23, 2023 7:21 am

The left just love violence and threats of violence to women……

Speakers withdraw from Keen’s Canberra rally
Matthew Denholm

High-profile speakers have withdrawn from Kellie-Jay Keen’s rally in Canberra today, citing fears for their safety, with organisers blaming police for refusing to keep them separated from transgender ­activists.

Former Liberal candidate Katherine Deves and Liberal Tasmanian senator Claire Chandler are among those to flag a withdrawal from the rally, hosted by Ms Keen, the British transgender rights critic.

Both blamed fears for their safety, after Tuesday’s Keen rally in Hobart was besieged by hundreds of transgender rights supporters, and her event in Melbourne on Saturday was gatecrashed by neo-Nazis.

Senator Chandler posted her speech on Facebook, suggesting it was unsafe and pointless to try to deliver it in person at the rally on the lawns at Parliament House, Canberra.

“I haven’t seen a single word of a speech given at the last two events reported by Australian media, with the entire focus consumed by those there to disrupt and scream over the top of women trying to speak about their rights or, in the case of the Melbourne event, to hijack the event,” Senator Chandler said.

“There is no assurance that it is even going to be safe for women to attend Thursday’s event.”

Ms Deves accused the Australian Federal Police of a “dereliction of duty”, alleging it had refused to provide an assurance to organisers it would keep the Keen camp physically distanced from pro-transgender protesters. “Seeing what’s happened in the other two cities (Melbourne and Hobart), that the police would be prepared to allow the counter-protesters to get within arm’s length and spitting distance from us is a dereliction of duty,” Ms Deves said.

“At this stage” she did not intend to attend. “I don’t trust the police to keep us safe and I think the threat of mob violence is so great I need to put my safety first,” she said.

Ms Keen said the rally would “100 per cent” proceed and her private security had, after liaising with the AFP, concluded that all speakers’ safety could be assured.

Threats of violence work, particularly against women. Our resident pervert apologist will be happy, he likes violence towards those who refuse to kowtow to his ideology. Anyway, I’m glad the NSW police did their job when the rally was held in Sydney and I got to hear Kellie-Jay and Kath.

You want to know what I liked about the footage from the suburb of Belfield? I personally found it sweet, very sweet, to see the LGBTQI+ scum activists tremble and cower when hoards of mainly Maronite and some Muslim men arrived to protect the church.

By the way, if you you want to see arrogance, an arrogance that has been cultivated by successive do nothing governments, particularly do nothing Liberal governments, that LGBTQI+ protest at Belfield showed absolute arrogance from the queer perverts, who thought they could travel out to Sydney’s western suburbs and protest a legitimate political meeting being held in a Maronite Church. Well, did they got a shock. Perhaps next time, when stoked by scum like Greenwich, they might think twice about it.

To the readers and commentators here who live in NSW, vote One Nation. I have, I know I sound like a broken record but I don’t care. I have a feeling Liberal and Labor are going to bleed votes on Saturday to minor parties, particularly One Nation and the Lib Dems. I happen to think Mark and One Nation are our last hope. Watching Mark Latham on Paul Murray Live last night, he doesn’t flinch, he doesn’t grovel, he doesn’t surrender, he was both articulate and resolute. Using the words that former Tory MP Ben Habib said about the Conservative Party on GB News two days ago, I’ve just replaced the word “Conservative” with “Liberal” and “National”….

“The aim is to obliterate the Liberal and National Parties, there will be NO surrender, there will be NO deals, there will be NO standing down in seats, we are going to take the fight to the Liberal and National Parties and destroy them.”

Yes please.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
March 23, 2023 7:51 am
calli
calli
March 23, 2023 7:53 am

Carnies gotta carnie.

calli
calli
March 23, 2023 7:56 am

Gwynneth’s terrible tale me of an old song.

Now, where did I put that shotgun?

calli
calli
March 23, 2023 7:58 am

Found it!

😀

calli
calli
March 23, 2023 8:01 am

I need to remind myself to proof read my comments before I press Send.

“Reminded” me of an old song.

rickw
rickw
March 23, 2023 8:17 am

“I don’t trust the police to keep us safe and I think the threat of mob violence is so great I need to put my safety first,”

Why the complete and absolute takeover of personal safety by police is an absolute disaster.

Anchor What
Anchor What
March 23, 2023 8:18 am

Sky News Daytime salivating over the prospect of Trump being arrested. Not so interested in the dodgy aspects, including the fact that Bragg withheld evidence from the Grand Jury, or the transmogrification of a misdemeanour into a felony for the sole purpose of knobbling any further run by Trump.
The USA is currently a state administered much like the old East Germany.

Rafiki
Rafiki
March 23, 2023 8:25 am

In a Liberal-held seat that borders Western Sydney electorates where One Nation reportedly has strong support, the Liberals have produced a corflute that urges those who propose to vote ON give a number 2 vote to the Liberal candidate. It’s testimony to the growth in ON support in Western Sydney (which have been given a filip by the Belfield brou-ha-ha).

lotocoti
lotocoti
March 23, 2023 8:29 am

In England’s green and pleasant bus lanes.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2023 8:34 am

A major difference between the two branches of the UniParty is preference flow. The Liars collect the bulk of the Green preferences and end up forming government with a 32% Primary Vote. The Lieboral preferences are scattered to the seven winds and their primary vote is ages away from forming government. At present at least.

will
will
March 23, 2023 8:47 am

Doing Less, with Less: Capital Misallocation, Investment and the Productivity Slowdown in Australia
Abstract
Productivity growth has slowed in Australia in recent decades. Previous research highlighted the roles of persistently weak non-mining investment and a pervasive decline in economic dynamism, including slower reallocation of labour from low- to high-productivity firms. While these facts have so far been considered separately, this paper attempts to connect them by documenting investment patterns for firms with different levels of productivity. We find that more productive firms are more likely to invest and expand their capital stock than less productive firms, but the extent to which this is true has declined over time. This has weighed on productivity, output and incomes through lower aggregate investment, and also through a less efficient allocation of that investment. We find evidence that capital reallocation slowed more in sectors that were more dependent on external finance, pointing to financing frictions as potentially playing a role. Declines have also been more pronounced in sectors with increasing mark-ups, suggesting that weaker competition may have blunted incentives for firms to expand and improve or exit.

so since 2007 productivity has stalled, what government was in power then?

and less competition leads to less investment leads to less productivity leads to less competitive prices, so everyone’s standard of living suffers

what causes less competition? try higher taxes and more regulation, that only big business can swallow

Rabz
March 23, 2023 8:49 am

I gather from the pommie cartoonists that fat mop headed imbecile is busy mainlining ozone into his fundament while imagining a glorious comeback from the political dead.

The other two on his blandwagon are his greenfilth bimbo and Rees-Mogg?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 23, 2023 8:49 am

the Liberals have produced a corflute that urges those who propose to vote ON give a number 2 vote to the Liberal candidate

Rafiki – Good luck with that. Lizzie’s comment at midnight about exhaustion rates is worth a look. I suspect a lot of PHON voters would rather gnaw their arm off than preference the Libs.

bons
bons
March 23, 2023 8:50 am

There is something dodgy about the QLD kiddie fiddler case.
The Mum watched her boyfriend get railroaded and only after the conviction did she question the kid.
Um!

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 23, 2023 8:51 am

Robert Sewellsays:
March 22, 2023 at 10:44 pm
Boambee John:

Poor quality Chinese steel in the towers, plus aa strong wind, as happened in South Australia once upon a time. Why do you ask, Blog Spook?

He’s trying to make the suggestion of nefarious deed, as a basis for getting the Blog into strife with the authorities.
It wouldn’t occur to him that the same problem that would happen to a single track railway would also happen to a power line.

I understood that at the time. Richard Cranium shows distinct signs of being a Spook/Glowie. Keep him in the dark, treat him with contempt, and feed him bullshit.

Rafiki
Rafiki
March 23, 2023 8:52 am

What chance this scenario?
Labor/Greens form government
One Nation have the balance in the Legislative Council
The Matt Keen faction has majority support in the Luberal Party
Anti-Keen Liberals in the LC vote regularly with ON
And as a result, over next couple of years a new centre-right political party emerges.

calli
calli
March 23, 2023 8:53 am

I refuse to start the day being angry.

Like most things, that attitude may change as the day progresses.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 23, 2023 8:54 am

Ed Casesays:
March 22, 2023 at 10:59 pm
And then you can explain to Dover Beach why you are making statements of this nature on his blog, which can be construed in multiple ways – some of them with dire consequences to us all.

Don’t bring the big guy into this, you weak scumbag.
Explain your comment!

Robert S was a nurse for decades. You (as you so often do) just made up the bit about explosives.

bons
bons
March 23, 2023 8:56 am

I was on the verge of sacking Sky last night when a final straw arrived.
One of their increasingly bizarre guests announced that Moira was not a Nazi but she was guilty of not screaming about the Dan Nazis early enough. Boot her out.
I record all sky CA shows now so that I can fast forward whenever they go nuts or have one of their ‘balance’ guest commentators on.
I’m finding that I am getting through a two hour recording in about 15 minutes

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2023 8:57 am

Has anyone done work on optional preferential voting at State level v compulsory preferential voting at Federal level? The idea of compulsory voting and compulsory preferences is an abomination.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2023 9:00 am

What chance this scenario?

Not impossible but I wouldn’t have it on my multi.

Rafiki
Rafiki
March 23, 2023 9:00 am

Bruce
Your comment was posted while I was posting. In a 2GB podcast, Latham stressed that PHON HTV’s do not do other than advise a no 1 vote for their candidate. It will be of interest to see what happens this time. If a large number of former Liberal voters switch, we might see a difference.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 23, 2023 9:01 am

m0ntysays:
March 22, 2023 at 11:47 pm
Anyone who stands on absolute truth cannot lose a culture battle.

You really don’t understand the concept of culture, do you Bruce? That is probably why you keep losing.

Oh, m0nty=fa, we really do understand the fascist leftard concept of culture. It is lies built on falsehoods, built on hatred and envy. You are its exemplar. It has nothing to do with civilised behaviour.

Rabz
March 23, 2023 9:06 am

I’m finding that I am getting through a two hour recording in about 15 minutes

My policy is to not be in the same room when Sky is on the tele of an evening. That way it’s about 50% less annoying – and I can eat dinner and read the Cat while keeping an ear out for any relevant outpourings, including the idiocy of “guests” like that basset hound faced cretin Sheridan, Kroges, the Nuclear Milkman and General Buck Kean (Retd) of the Henry Kissinger Peace Academy.

Black Ball
Black Ball
March 23, 2023 9:06 am

Alice Coster in the Hun:

It was discussed at Christmas lunch, to much eye-rolling from some of the oldies. The topic again came up at a family friend’s BBQ, this time without anyone over 70, or a conservative in sight.

But it wasn’t the barbecue causing the sudden heat.

Over a few wines with the girls after a healing circle (that’s a whole other column) the weekend before last, the conversation again pivoted to trans people and pronouns.

The hot topic always seems to start with email signatures, then to confusion on getting pronouns right and the predictable “but they is a plural, it’s all sooooo tricky”.

While that issue has grown tedious, surely we are educated enough to just move on now. Yet there seems to be a growing fear to the conversation of late.

Topics around the trans community have leapt from confusion to bigoted tripe. From gibberish around children in the US wanting to reverse their so-called forced gender assignment surgery, to hyperbole about trans women in female prisons. (Ms Coster is down with females getting raped in prisons)

What isn’t discussed over wines or Xmas ham is the alarming suicide rates in the trans community, or how two teens were charged last month in the UK for stabbing to death a 16-year-old trans girl in a park.

It was shocking to hear so many deep-seated fears, microaggressions and phobias from some of the women in what had seemed like a like-minded space. C’mon we’d all just downward dogged together!

Wanting to speak up, the tongue was bit down on instead.

A friend and I eye-rolled to each other, but for different reasons to the oldies at Christmas lunch. Neither of us said a single word. We later told each other we didn’t want to make the other women feel uncomfortable.

The following weekend a bunch of Nazis chanting anti-trans hate marched the streets of Melbourne giving the Hitler salute.

Tears still well at the fear and isolation people within the trans community must have felt around Melbourne and beyond on Sunday.

Then comes the realisation that fear and isolation is felt by trans people around the world every minute of every day, a community which is statistically 15 times more likely to take their own lives than people like you or me.

Biting my tongue the weekend before last suddenly feels so wrong.

As a young child, movies like Tootsie, Some Like It Hot and The Rocky Horror Picture Show were always on high rotation on the clapped out VHS. Dame Edna Everage was throwing her gladdies. Robin Williams was being Mrs Doubtfire. (Correct me if I am wrong, Mrs Doubtfire was no tranny, just Robin Williams wanting to stay close to his children?)

As a pre-teen, we marvelled at Guy Pearce’s costumes and giggled at Terence Stamp’s facials in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of The Desert.

Later, cabaret Les Girls star, Carlotta, was always the best panellist on daytime TV talk show Beauty and the Beast, giving right wing host Stan Zemanek some highly amusing schtick. (Carlotta was conservative if memory serves?)

While the mockery and belittling jokes around cross-dressing from films like Tootsie has certainly aged, the issue around trans people never seemed contentious growing up.

Parents weren’t ejecting the videos for fear we youngsters might suddenly decide to don a moustache, or the lads would start dressing in stilettos, or that we would be magically manipulated into being queer.

Is this the reason people get in a lather about drag queens reading story books to our kids in libraries? (No dear, it’s because it isn’t normal behaviour)

But after seeing Nazis march the street and the conversation conveniently skewed by the mainstream media to some MP getting ejected from the Liberal Party for attending a Let Women Speak rally, there comes the realisation that not speaking up is tantamount to being complicit.

But what to say?

Surely the debate doesn’t need some white woman weighing in has always been the first thought when contentious issues, like race and identity, come up.

But what a cop out.

Often I find myself defending the newspaper I have worked at for most of my career. “You must get censored all the time?” and “Do they dictate what to write?”

Everyone is always surprised to find it is a resounding “no” to the above. So why not use the platform now to admit I don’t know what to say about many of the issues the trans community is facing.

And, yes, sometimes the political ra-ra around trans issues, especially involving language like “birthing person”, can seem confronting.

But deeper than the extreme rhetoric is that humans are decent and want the best for people, whatever they choose.

Most people these days know someone, or of someone, who has transitioned, whether that be a family member or a school friend’s kid. The journeys of those who transition are inevitably touching, poignant and so, so tough.

They aren’t waiting for the slip of a misplaced pronoun to jump on. They don’t want to be treated as victims.

When Nazis march down the streets against an already maligned and scared community, it is time to stand up and say this is not okay.

Sure, we might not understand some of the language we are being told to change.

But surely we are decent enough to say that hate speech or Nazi salutes of last Sunday are never okay. Otherwise shame on us all for biting our tongues.

FMD.

calli
calli
March 23, 2023 9:07 am

I take it that by “culture”, m0nty means the iron fist. It has definitely won against the speakers proposed for the Canberra rally, Deves included.

Yes, we understand it all too well.

Johnny Rotten
March 23, 2023 9:07 am

The Banking & Debt Crisis Continues

“The banking crisis continues and it is impacting funds that have been buying bonds. Allianz, a subsidiary of Pimco, is writing off countless millions with Credit Suisse bonds. The banking crisis has been the result of artificially low-interest rates for far too long and banks that were hooked up to the free money and bought long-term bonds all because they were making their money on the spread. Now that rates are rising, their risk management was effectively nonexistent, and thus the losses are widespread.

The Allianz subsidiary Pimco is one of the largest asset managers in the world. They have to now write off a loss in Credit Suisse bonds and it’s ain’t over yet as we head into April 10th.”

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/banking-crisis/the-banking-debt-crisis-continues/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 23, 2023 9:10 am

Cassie of Sydneysays:
March 23, 2023 at 6:35 am
“so you resort to ad hominem.”

So writes the creep who dreams of punching a Nazi.

But only dream, he is too weak and insipid to do it himself. He is probably even too weak to stand watching as Ante-fa does the job.

Johnny Rotten
March 23, 2023 9:11 am

callisays:
March 23, 2023 at 9:07 am
I take it that by “culture”, m0nty means the iron fist. It has definitely won against the speakers proposed for the Canberra rally, Deves included.

Yes, we understand it all too well.

The only ‘culture’ that MontyPox Virus has been exposed to is the stuff in yoghurt. Along with all that egg over his/her/its face.

Rabz
March 23, 2023 9:18 am

The idea of compulsory voting and compulsory preferences is an abomination.

It certainly is. Although while we nominally have “secret ballots” it’s simply “compulsory turning up and having your name crossed off”.

Roger
Roger
March 23, 2023 9:19 am

I often think that Bob Moran over eggs it, but he is very good today.

Thanks, Tom.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 23, 2023 9:19 am

Do away with preferences at Federal Elections and Labor will just fund
“Independent” ringers to bleed the Liberal primary vote.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2023 9:19 am

I take it that by “culture”, m0nty means the iron fist. It has definitely won against the speakers proposed for the Canberra rally, Deves included

See also: the need for bipartisanship under a Liar government. Yeah, nah.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 23, 2023 9:19 am

The topic again came up at a family friend’s BBQ, this time without anyone over 70, or a conservative in sight. … Over a few wines with the girls after a healing circle (that’s a whole other column) the weekend before last, the conversation again pivoted to trans people and pronouns.

BB – I think that column neatly explains this story….

Gender Vote Gap: Trudeau Polls Most Favourably With Women Over 55 (22 Mar)

Lots and lots and lots of cats in the lives of those ladies I suspect.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
March 23, 2023 9:21 am

The ‘Neo-Nazis’ that crashed the Let Women Speak rally in Melbourne – I have not seen any clear pictures of them, but am I right that they were remarkably non-Neo-Nazi looking (sporting none of the usual grotesque tattoos of swastikas etc)?

Johnny Rotten
March 23, 2023 9:22 am

Things must be serious as Boris J has had a hair cut and sort of combed his hair. LOL.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 23, 2023 9:23 am

While talking about Trudy the nice Nazi, he’s got his blazingly woke boots on today:

Justin Trudeau: ‘Non-Diverse’ AI Engineers May Develop ‘Evil’ Algorithms (22 Mar)

Justin Trudeau: Online Disinformation Fuels ‘Flat-Earthers’ and ‘Anti-Vaxxers’ (22 Mar)

The way Canada is going lately the place may melt down even before the US does.

Roger
Roger
March 23, 2023 9:25 am

“There is no assurance that it is even going to be safe for women to attend Thursday’s event.”

Where are all the self-procliamed “feminist” men?

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2023 9:25 am

Special Ed has a stopped watch moment. Isn’t that right Mr Holmes á Court?

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 23, 2023 9:26 am

I take it that by “culture”, m0nty means the iron fist. It has definitely won against the speakers proposed for the Canberra rally, Deves included.
Common sense has prevailed.
Had Claire Chandler attended, masked Boxers in Black were a certainty to make another appearance, and the Liberal Party has a Nazi problem days out from the NSW Election and the Aston by election.

Even Kath Deves is smart enough not to show up.

Johnny Rotten
March 23, 2023 9:26 am

The UN is holding a Conference on safe water (how safe?) and sanitation. A 3 day Conference………..blah, blah, blah, blah…………………………….How about doing something you talking heads other than talking.

Top Ender
Top Ender
March 23, 2023 9:28 am

Coming to a city near you!

‘You can’t run a business when people are pooping on your porch!’ Portland residents reveal how the historically progressive, hipster city has transformed into a lawless hellscape thanks to homeless crisis and rampant drug use

Daily Mail

Rabz
March 23, 2023 9:30 am

For goodness’ sake, is there anyone with a functioning brain (and aware of the incident) who thinks the “nayzees” at the Let Women Speak demo in Disasterstan weren’t hired goons?

I’d expect imbeciles like Proscuitto not to question the “official narrative”, but what sort of credulous numptie would you have to be to swallow such obvious rubbish?

Nayzees are extinct. Anything else is just ahistorical idiots playing dress ups (e.g. Dumb Parrothead and the Ranga Romonoff-Bourbon).

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 23, 2023 9:32 am

These Feminists are okay with Drag Queen Story Hour, okay with Teenage Girls taking puberty blockers, okay with Gender Theory being taught in Schools, okay with teenage girls having breast removal, but they draw the line at M-F Transsexuals using female toilets, should they want to?
It’s a beat up.

Rabz
March 23, 2023 9:32 am

Snap, Molo – I should have refreshed first.

Roger
Roger
March 23, 2023 9:33 am

I have not seen any clear pictures of them, but am I right that they were remarkably non-Neo-Nazi looking

Certainly more a Hugo Boss than a Brown Shirt vibe, ML.

Bearing a fresh Australian flag with its folding creases highly visible.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
March 23, 2023 9:34 am

For goodness’ sake, is there anyone with a functioning brain (and aware of the incident) who thinks the “nayzees” at the Let Women Speak demo in Disasterstan weren’t hired goons?

It seems exceedingly improbable that they would. I was asking how obvious it was just looking at them – which is to say in the printed photographs that everyone would have seen online or images on TV and how straightforward it would be, therefore, to show anyone the absurdity.

If they did a proper costuming job it would be less obvious.

Johnny Rotten
March 23, 2023 9:35 am

Jim decided to propose to Sandy, but prior to her acceptance. Sandy had to confess to her man about her childhood illness. She informed Jim that she suffered a disease that left her breasts at maturity of a 12 years old. He stated that it was okay because he loved her so much.

“I too have a problem. My penis is the same size as an infant and I hope you could deal with that once we are married”. She said “Yes I will marry you and learn to live with your infant penis”.

Sandy and Jim got married and they could not wait so Jim whisked Sandy off to their hotel suite and they started touch teasing, holding one another. As Sandy put her hands in Jim’s pants, she began to scream and ran out of the room! Jim ran after her to find out what was wrong. She said “You told me your penis was the size of an infant!” “Yes… 8 pounds, 7 ounces and 19 inches long!”

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
March 23, 2023 9:36 am

Snap, Molo – I should have refreshed first.

(smiling emoji raising a glass and winking in a amiable yet fraternal manner)

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
March 23, 2023 9:36 am

Oh, they don’t have that emoji.

Johnny Rotten
March 23, 2023 9:37 am

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

– Neil Armstrong

calli
calli
March 23, 2023 9:37 am

Well, Rabz, before I saw actual footage of the event I thought it might have been halfwit marginalised goons escaping from their clubhouse for an afternoon romper stomper.

Having seen it and the way the police “escorted” them – not so much. What happened to the rhetoric about hunting them down and disbanding them? The unmasked grin into the crowd said it all.

Black Ball
Black Ball
March 23, 2023 9:37 am

Via Ace Of Spades comes this article. Worthwhile reading. I didn’t click on all the links presented but the gist becomes clear early in the piece.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
March 23, 2023 9:37 am

Adam Creighton has an article about lockdowns in the Oz. Also subject of the Editorial which also calls for royal commission.

calli
calli
March 23, 2023 9:39 am

Where can I get my Neo-Nazi bucket hat?

Was there a special on at the Dollar Shop?

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 23, 2023 9:40 am

Ed Casesays:
March 23, 2023 at 9:26 am
I take it that by “culture”, m0nty means the iron fist. It has definitely won against the speakers proposed for the Canberra rally, Deves included.
Common sense has prevailed.
Had Claire Chandler attended, masked Boxers in Black were a certainty to make another appearance, and the Liberal Party has a Nazi problem days out from the NSW Election and the Aston by election.

The Liberal Party does not have a Nazi problem. The parties of the left, which include the Liars and the Slime, have a Nazi problem, because they have encouraged the fascists of Ante-fa, and now find that pseudo-Nazis are springing up everywhere. And the source of those pseudo-Nazis looks increasingly like leftards.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
March 23, 2023 9:42 am

While the mockery and belittling jokes around cross-dressing from films like Tootsie has certainly aged, the issue around trans people never seemed contentious growing up.

Parents weren’t ejecting the videos for fear we youngsters might suddenly decide to don a moustache, or the lads would start dressing in stilettos, or that we would be magically manipulated into being queer.

And that, my dear deluded HUN columnist, is because back in my day there was a degree of acceptance of personal difference carried with a healthy dose of skepticism, and no-one was forcing ‘transference’ onto little kids in libraries and more particularly, encouraging it as ‘normal’ (it is not) in schools across the nation. What a wittering load of ‘shared downward dog’ nonsense she writes.

Nor was assisting kids to ‘transfer’ justified by the statistically fake view that it stopped youths suiciding, as it is today. Only adults engaged in genuine transitioning back in my day. In fact, kids who have been ‘transitioned’ without undergoing puberty will never be happy nor sexually fulfilled and suicide is always high on their life-long agenda.

bons
bons
March 23, 2023 9:43 am

I awoke to find the Chook’s latest land valuation on my primary home lying in the letter box.
You have got to give it to her, she is industrious. In six years she has elevated the land value to 10% more than I paid for the house.
Cannibal government.

Johnny Rotten
March 23, 2023 9:44 am

Federal Reserve. You have a problem. Don’t talk to Congress as they have NFI.

– Martin Armstrong

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
March 23, 2023 9:45 am

Bearing a fresh Australian flag with its folding creases highly visible.

How does the observation go, that the true evil of Soviet propaganda was not that it persuaded you of anything, but that instead to make people feel ashamed and hollow by confronting them with obvious, exaggerated, untruths and let them be aware that there is absolutely nothing they can do.

That must be what it feels like in Victoria sometimes.

Black Ball
Black Ball
March 23, 2023 9:46 am

The horror, the horror!
An excerpt:

SEN reports AFL security lead Alistair Meldrum sent an email to one fan conceding the flag should not have been allowed under the stadium’s condition of entry.

“Once identified, it should then have been requested to be seized/confiscated or the patron in possession requested to leave if they refused to surrender the flag,” Meldrum wrote.

“This has been communicated to MSL Venue Management.”

So Aboriginal flags could have been taken? USA flags in support of Mason Cox?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 23, 2023 9:47 am

I love it when rude engineering reality catches up with pollies.

EU Already Caving On Their 2035 Combustion Engine Ban, Considering Allowing E-Fuel Vehicles (22 Mar)

On Tuesday morning it was reported that the EU has now “drafted a plan allowing sales of new cars with internal combustion engines that run only on climate neutral e-fuels”, according to Reuters. The plan comes as part of a compromise proposal with Germany over the existing 2035 ban plans.

Under the plan, cars that run on carbon neutral fuels would be placed into a new type of vehicle category.

E-fuels are synthetically made fuels that can be made using hydrogen in conjunction with captured carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide. The source for the components of the fuels generally has to be sustainable in nature, such as wind or solar power.

Combining captured CO2 with hydrogen gets you methanol. I’ve long said that methanol would be a far better choice if the climate cabal were serious, since it can be centrally synthesized and fits into the existing fuel logistical system nearly seamlessly. Some modifications to engines and fuel systems would be needed, but far less onerous and expensive than the silly EV stuff. My suggestion had been to use nuclear energy to do the methanol synthesis, and the economics for that aren’t too bad.

The push for this “e-fuel” appears to be coming from Porsche/VW, plus a dawning recognition from German pollies that the ban on ICE cars by 2035 is going to lay waste to the German car industry.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 23, 2023 9:47 am

Mother Lodesays:
March 23, 2023 at 9:34 am
For goodness’ sake, is there anyone with a functioning brain (and aware of the incident) who thinks the “nayzees” at the Let Women Speak demo in Disasterstan weren’t hired goons?

It seems exceedingly improbable that they would. I was asking how obvious it was just looking at them – which is to say in the printed photographs that everyone would have seen online or images on TV and how straightforward it would be, therefore, to show anyone the absurdity.

If they did a proper costuming job it would be less obvious.

Black Shorts doesn’t have quite the same cachet as Hugo Boss.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2023 9:47 am

Bearing a fresh Australian flag with its folding creases highly visible.

Who’s ever seen a Nazi with an iron? They can’t all drop them off at their Mums like JC does with his jeans.

calli
calli
March 23, 2023 9:49 am

Not just in Victoria, ML.

We are confronted with it everywhere. I’m still reeling from the BOM and their TV lackeys terming Summer a “low intensity heatwave”.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
March 23, 2023 9:49 am

Carlotta, by the way, the most publicised Kings Cross drag queen from Les Girls, did ‘transition’, but last I heard in his later life he now lives quietly (in NZ as I recall) as a man.

Black Ball
Black Ball
March 23, 2023 9:50 am

That Pride flag abomination surely is highly political.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2023 9:54 am

… and now find that pseudo-Nazis are springing up everywhere. …

Try getting a park in the Grampians on weekends.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 23, 2023 9:55 am

For goodness’ sake, is there anyone with a functioning brain (and aware of the incident) who thinks the “nayzees” at the Let Women Speak demo in Disasterstan weren’t hired goons?

Nobody, but that’s not the issue.
Here’s the issues:
#1. Why was a Liberal MLC stupid enough to show up?

#2. Who hired the Goons?

#3. What is Kelly-Jaye Minshull’s and the people paying for and organising her tours real agenda?

Crossie
Crossie
March 23, 2023 9:55 am

You want to know what I liked about the footage from the suburb of Belfield? I personally found it sweet, very sweet, to see the LGBTQI+ scum activists tremble and cower when hoards of mainly Maronite and some Muslim men arrived to protect the church.

Cassie, I too saw the QWERTY activists clinging to each other in the middle of the melee and had a good laugh. And yes, the stark difference in masculinity between the activists and the Christians was instructive.

Pogria
Pogria
March 23, 2023 9:57 am

Regarding Katherine Deves and Claire Chandler not going to the Tasmanian “Let Women Speak”, rally, where are their husbands? They are married aren’t they? Correct me if I’m wrong. If they have husbands who go to the rally with them, it is one of the greatest shows of solidarity for women and families.
Also a finger to the coppers who refuse to protect these women.

That the husbands are there to protect their wives because the Police won’t, not can’t, won’t, should be a rallying cry to the husbands, brothers and boyfriends of the women who want to attend these gatherings. There is no greater example of the love for women and family than the men turning out to protect them.

The men at Belfield showed the way. Does anyone really believe that the filth that were protesting Mark Latham that evening, and I include the police in this, were not maimed, damaged, filling pot holes in the road because of the Police presence? No one was hurt because the men at Belfield chose NOT to hurt anyone. Their presence was all that was needed to get their message across. “Mess with our families, our Church, anyone we choose to associate with and reap the whirlwind.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
March 23, 2023 9:58 am

That Pride flag abomination surely is highly political.

Imagine if there was a ‘straight’ flag. Would that be allowed in stadiums?

Roger
Roger
March 23, 2023 9:58 am

We are confronted with it everywhere. I’m still reeling from the BOM and their TV lackeys terming Summer a “low intensity heatwave”.

ABC afternoon presenter read out a text from a listener complaining about bias in climate reporting yesterday. Then proceeded to lecture listeners on “the science”, the IPCC consensus and how floods and fires are caused by climate change. Ergo, we must shut down the coal mines.

Crossie
Crossie
March 23, 2023 9:59 am

Rabz says:
March 23, 2023 at 8:49 am
I gather from the pommie cartoonists that fat mop headed imbecile is busy mainlining ozone into his fundament while imagining a glorious comeback from the political dead.

The other two on his blandwagon are his greenfilth bimbo and Rees-Mogg?

At one stage a few years ago Rees-Mogg was spoken of as a possible PM. He also used to be quite sensible and great in interviews for championing the conservative cause. What happened to him?

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
March 23, 2023 10:01 am

Case in point for ‘transitioning’ being a form of child abuse: poor little Jazz.
I can only hope that child connects up with a de-transitioning community in his adult life who can help him come to terms with the appalling abuse he suffered. He may rightly wish to blame his parents for being so taken up with the zeitgeist of the day, one that is now being subject to scrutiny as it was not back then. He has to learn to forgive them, but also to move away from what they have done to him and place his anger onto the media circus that encouraged it all.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
March 23, 2023 10:02 am

Sadly, it may be that poor little Jazz will continue to be encouraged to live the lie for much of his life.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
March 23, 2023 10:03 am

Another oddity with the Seig Heil, Handsome! boyz…
they’re all boys, or at least in the extended childhood 25 – 30 year old range. One bloke I noticed with dark grey hair, but definitely no elder statesmen, no grey beards, no chopper moustaches…

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 23, 2023 10:04 am

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:

March 22, 2023 at 11:53 pm

Bern is just taking a break.

As I said above to John H (to a fairly resounding silence), many people feel they need a break from here for a short time, for various reasons. Even CL once took six months leave of absence from the old Cat while still being seen on other blogs.

And let’s not forget Sancho, who briefly died from the jab, but resurrected himself.
Like Cromwell.

Roger
Roger
March 23, 2023 10:11 am

If only Pesutto had the sense to ask Andrews in QT yesterday whether ‘Emily’ should be allowed to freely enter women only spaces?

To which Andrews would have replied, “I follow the experts. Bigot.”

lotocoti
lotocoti
March 23, 2023 10:13 am

The Liberal Party does not have a Nazi problem.

I would argue they do.
The jelly-backs’ first instinct is to roll over and bare their throats in submission
whenever the n word is thrown at the slightest hint of Conservatism.

Zipster
Zipster
March 23, 2023 10:15 am

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been formally accused by the International Criminal Court (ICC) of war crimes and faces an arrest warrant, which the Kremlin considers illegitimate.

ICC president Piotr Hofmanski said in a video statement Friday that an arrest warrant has been issued for Putin for the “alleged war crimes of deportation of children from Ukrainian occupied territories into the Russian Federation.”

International law prohibits occupying powers from transferring civilians from occupied areas to other territories.

Hofmanski said the contents of the warrants would be kept secret to protect the identities of the allegedly abducted children.

the west is overrun with idiots

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
March 23, 2023 10:17 am

Germaine Greer called her first and only major book ‘The Female Eunuch’. I recall a lot of us back then thought the title, obviously metaphorical, was a bit much. These days the metaphor is reality – they really are trying to take away our femaleness, our womanhood, by including biological males into it. Let alone those sad and deluded teenage girls who think womanhood is so unlovely that they have to be men.

A note of comfort, if there is such, to males whose genitals have been destroyed by this contemporary madness, may be the knowledge that in ancient times eunuchs, coming to terms with their loss, were able to have dignified and productive lives still living as men. Women rejecting the ancient pressures and denigrations placed upon them in those days fought back by proving their worth in many ways, as women. Female genital mutilation was an uncivilised and backward tribal horror. Now for an increasing number of young girls it is part of the transitioning mutilation and psychic denial of being a biological woman. Biological womanhood is under such attack, no wonder women of all political and sexual stripes are joining forces to fight back around kitchen tables everywhere. And hence giving woke female fellow traveller columnists such conniptions.

Johnny Rotten
March 23, 2023 10:20 am

Mother Lodesays:
March 23, 2023 at 9:58 am
That Pride flag abomination surely is highly political.

Imagine if there was a ‘straight’ flag. Would that be allowed in stadiums?

A straight Rainbow Flag would be the one with the 7 colours of the rainbow. The Alphabet Soup people are not very inclusive as their ‘rainbow’ only has 6 colours. Not very scientific or inclusive. It looks to me as though Indigo and Violet have been merged into one ‘colour’. Barbarians one and all.

Zipster
Zipster
March 23, 2023 10:21 am

E-fuels are synthetically made fuels that can be made using hydrogen in conjunction with captured carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide. The source for the components of the fuels generally has to be sustainable in nature, such as wind or solar power.

lol. bwahahahahahah. HAHAHAHAHHAHA. the west is drowning in morons

Cassie of Sydney
March 23, 2023 10:22 am

“Pogriasays:
March 23, 2023 at 9:57 am”

Pogria, I don’t know whether Claire has a partner but Katherine does. Her partner was at the Sydney rally, I was introduced to him.

The thing is, and this what Rita Panahi argues, a group of women, left and right, straight and lesbian, should be able to have a rally to defend women’s rights without threats of violence. I don’t know about others but what I’m seeing in this country is very worrying and very distressing. Women are being smeared and silenced. The women who’ve attended Kellie-Jay’s rallies, women such as myself, have not been violent. A politician, Mark Latham, like him or loathe him, should be able to got out to a Western Sydney church and give a talk without inner-city scum activists turning up. But no, the left are using violence to intimidate us, to scare us and to silence us. Expect this to continue, they are emboldened, and have been so since the SSM plebiscite.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
March 23, 2023 10:25 am

The US Biden Crime Family rub their Hands in Glee along with DemoRats & RINOS!

Cost of Ukraine reconstruction revealed

The estimated cost of rebuilding and restoring Ukraine has surpassed the $400 billion mark, a fresh report suggests

Ukraine’s reconstruction and recovery bill has grown to $411 billion, according to a new assessment conducted jointly by the country’s government, the World Bank, the European Commission, and the UN.

According to the evaluation, Kiev would require $14 billion this year alone for the most critical and prioritized reconstruction investments. The estimated costs mean the country’s government will need $11 billion in external financing over the sum already allocated for these tasks in the annual budget, according to the assessment.

“Energy infrastructure, housing, critical infrastructure, the economy, and humanitarian demining are our five priorities for this year,” Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmygal said in a statement.

The new evaluation represented a $60 billion increase compared to the previous assessment, which was released by the group last September. Back then, the estimated costs of recovery and repair amounted to $349. The figures apparently indicate that most of the damage to the country was inflicted over the first six months of the ongoing conflict with Russia, which began late in February 2022.

The figures “should be considered as minimums as needs will continue to rise as long as the war continues,”

the report noted. According to the World Bank’s vice president for Europe and Central Asia, Anna Bjerde, the reconstruction of Ukraine will “take several years,” with the official providing no estimates as to when it might actually begin. Bjerde also said that public investments in Ukraine should be “complemented by significant private investment to increase the available financing for reconstruction.”

It was not immediately clear who exactly was expected to foot the bill.

According to Shmygal,

“the amount of damage and recovery needs currently does not include data on the loss of infrastructure, housing, and businesses in the occupied territories.”

The PM was apparently referring to the formerly Ukrainian territories that were incorporated into Russia last year following referendums – Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions alongside the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics – as well as Crimea, which broke away from Ukraine and reunified with Russia back in 2014 following the Maidan coup in Kiev.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 23, 2023 10:25 am

Good news.

U.S. Bishops Ban Sex Reassignment, No One Born with the ‘Wrong Body’ (22 Mar)

ROME — The United States Catholic Bishops have issued guidelines banning surgical and chemical intervention aimed at exchanging “the sex characteristics of a patient’s body for those of the opposite sex.”

In a March 20 “Doctrinal Note,” the bishops rule out certain forms of medical interventions in Catholic healthcare institutions such as puberty blockers and sex reassignment surgery, insisting that the do not promote the authentic good of the human person but are, in fact, injurious.

The bishops recall a fundamental tenet of the Christian faith that “there is an order in the natural world that was designed by its Creator and that this created order is good,” and therefore, we are called “to respect it.” … In their text, the bishops also argue that no one is born with the “wrong body.”

Should produce some interesting cultural fireworks.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 23, 2023 10:25 am

Teacher Education Expert Panel recommends focus on classroom management, reading and maths
Exclusive
By NATASHA BITA
Education Editor
Updated 9:49AM March 23, 2023, First published at 12:00AM March 23, 2023
104 Comments

Young school teachers will be better trained to control rowdy classrooms and teach children to read and master maths, in a back-to-basics transformation of teaching qualifications.

A government review of teacher training has called for a return to the “explicit instruction’’ of subjects in schools to lift Australia’s lagging performance in literacy, numeracy and science.

Education degrees should be stripped back to basics, giving new teachers the practical skills to manage increasingly disruptive classrooms, and to clearly explain concepts to students and measure their learning.

As schools struggle with an unprecedented shortage of teachers, the review has recommended that other professional workers be recruited to work in classrooms, through fast-tracked training courses, paid work experience and generous scholarships.

The Teacher Education Expert Panel, set up by federal, state and territory education ministers, plans to make education degrees as rigorous and evidence-based as degrees in dentistry.

Federal Education Minister Jason Clare said universities must deliver “classroom-ready graduates … I want more people bursting out of high school wanting to be a teacher rather than a lawyer or banker. Not enough people starting a teaching degree finish it, either,’’ he said.

P
P
March 23, 2023 10:29 am

Mexican President AMLO Hits Biden Over Likely Arrest of Trump, While Pushing Back Against Dangerous Cartel Narrative
March 22, 2023 | Sundance

The energy plan, which runs counter to the expressed demands of Canada and the United States, includes two regional ‘green’ refineries that will have the ability of turning used cooking oil into fuel. However, the plan also includes new oil refinery capacity that will permit cheap gasoline independent of the need for Mexican oil to be refined in Texas and returned.

All of the refinery projects are on schedule to be completed by the end of this year and into 2024. In essence, Mexico will have very cheap gasoline and diesel fuel in the near future. This was previously outlined as a goal by AMLO in July 2022, and is against the interests the Biden administration. Now those plans are becoming a reality. Mexico is not joining the North American suicide mission of windmills, solar panels and reliance on unstable green energy.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
March 23, 2023 10:30 am

Cassie of Sydney says:
March 23, 2023 at 10:22 am

“Pogriasays:
March 23, 2023 at 9:57 am”

But no, the left are using violence to intimidate us, to scare us and to silence us. Expect this to continue, they are emboldened, and have been so since the SSM plebiscite.

Cassie,

It was Bleeding Obvious that the SSM plebiscite was “Give Them an Inch and they will take a Mile”

Fascinating to note that even a Female someone brought up by Lesbians understands this

Again I give you

Liberal Democrats – Legislative Council (Upper House)

Millie Fontana
#2 NSW Legislative Council

Millie Fontana is a 30 year old children’s rights advocate, activist, and political commentator based in Western Sydney, NSW.

As the daughter of a lesbian couple, Millie made an entrance into the political spotlight during the same-sex marriage debate and became the face of the ‘No’ campaign, opposing changes to the marriage act predicting that the push for ‘Equality’ was a Trojan horse used to undermine those with conservative values, and manipulate discrimination law in the long-term.

Millie decided to run for the Liberal Democrats when the member for Sydney announced his Equality Omnibus bill with no opposition to the bill from a Labor or Liberal government. Millie firmly opposes the bill, citing it as an attack on religion and parental rights.

Millie also recognises an obvious fix to the NSW health crisis, determined to end vaccine mandates and bring emergency service workers and health professionals back to work where they belong.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2023 10:31 am

Arguably no area of the academy spends more time looking at its navel with less results than teacher education. Probably what you would expect from former teachers.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
March 23, 2023 10:36 am

E-fuels are synthetically made fuels that can be made using hydrogen in conjunction with captured carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide.

Ok, as long as they are not confused with bio-fuels, which use palm oil and destroy untold acres of productive farmland and rainforest habit at in the third world. I saw this first hand in Borneo.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
March 23, 2023 10:37 am

Bruce
Your comment was posted while I was posting. In a 2GB podcast, Latham stressed that PHON HTV’s do not do other than advise a no 1 vote for their candidate. It will be of interest to see what happens this time. If a large number of former Liberal voters switch, we might see a difference.

I range the NSW One Nation head office and asked if there was a candidate in my electorate — I was told no because there had been no statistical evidence that One Nation would have fared well but they were keeping an eye on the Upper House voting in each electorate to see how the vote goes. Wanting not to waste resources is a reasonable approach. So I hope that each electorate tells One Nation what people want and that’s low cost energy for households and businesses, small government, freedom of and from religion (I mean the nigh-on compulsory trans/gaia religions), support for small business and no political science in place of real science.

In our electorate there is no One Nation or LDP lower house candidate — so both the Sunbather and I voted 1 for One Nation nothing more and voted to keep out Labor/Greens/Grifters in the lower house but had no choice but to vote 1 and no other preferences for the party that must be destroyed because the only other option was to draw a penis and testicles and my artwork is not very good.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
March 23, 2023 10:37 am

US trying to ‘cover up’ Nord Stream sabotage role – Seymour Hersh

The CIA has been told to provide the media with an alternative story for the pipeline’s destruction, the veteran journalist claims

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh has claimed the US intentionally provided false stories to the media to cover up Washington’s involvement in the destruction of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline.

In a post on his Substack blog on Wednesday, the veteran reporter claims the CIA was tasked with preparing a cover story – in collaboration with Berin’s BND intelligence service – to provide the American and German press with an “alternative version” of the Nord Stream 2 explosions.

“In the words of the intelligence community, the agency was ‘to pulse the system’ in an effort to discount the claim that Biden had ordered the pipeline’s destruction,” Hersh wrote, citing an anonymous source with access to diplomatic intelligence.

He noted that the CIA had completed its task and, with the help of Germany, planted stories in the New York Times and German weekly Die Zeit. These referred to a supposed “ad hoc ‘off the books’ operation” carried out by a “pro-Ukrainian group,” which allegedly used a luxury sailing yacht to plant explosives on the Nord Stream pipelines.

“It was a total fabrication by American intelligence that was passed along to the Germans, and aimed at discrediting your story,” a source within the American intelligence community reportedly told Hersh.

“The disinformation professionals inside the CIA understand that a propaganda gambit can only work if those on receiving are desperate for a story that can diminish or displace an unwanted truth. And the truth in question is that President Joe Biden authorized the destruction of the pipelines,” he added.

In February, Hersh published a bombshell report on last September’s Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipeline blasts, accusing Washington of orchestrating the attack. The White House denied responsibility. Last week, several Western media outlets claimed the culprits may have been linked to Ukraine. Moscow dismissed the reports as “a coordinated media hoax campaign.”

READ MORE: US ‘obviously’ blew up Nord Stream – French politician

&

Danish Navy present near Nord Stream 2 – media

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 23, 2023 10:37 am

Haha, homo superheroes still don’t seem to sell movie tickets. Who’da thunk?

Nolte: ‘Shazam 2’ Zachary Levi Star Blames Box Office Collapse on… Marketing (22 Mar)

“Once Shazam! Fury of the Gods began catering to America’s woketards with the promise that one of Shazam’s sidekicks would come out as gay, it undoubtedly hurt the box office. People are beyond tired of this nonsense, most especially parents.

Nevertheless, even if Levi believed that that was the cause, he couldn’t say it and remain employable. In fact, Levi laughably described Shazam! Fury of the Gods as a family movie

Except Shazam! Fury of the Gods did not advertise itself as a family movie—quite the opposite. The moment families hear that a movie contains adult sexuality in the form of homosexuality, they know it is not a movie for kids.

Content is everything, and this woke/gay content is exhausting audiences who just want to get back to being entertained and watching characters they can relate to—ask Top Gun: Maverick about that.”

They keep on trying and the punters keep on staying away. GWGB.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
March 23, 2023 10:40 am

Mexico is not joining the North American suicide mission of windmills, solar panels and reliance on unstable green energy.

lol. The flow of migrants across the border to the US might soon start to run in the other direction.

Roger
Roger
March 23, 2023 10:45 am

To which Andrews would have replied, “I follow the experts. Bigot.”

And there is your next campaign ad.

I see little evidence that the Liberals have the principles to make this an electoral issue.

Women will need to make it so themselves.

Cassie of Sydney
March 23, 2023 10:47 am

“In our electorate there is no One Nation or LDP lower house candidate — so both the Sunbather and I voted 1 for One Nation nothing more and voted to keep out Labor/Greens/Grifters in the lower house but had no choice but to vote 1 and no other preferences for the party that must be destroyed because the only other option was to draw a penis and testicles and my artwork is not very good.”

I voted One Nation in the upper house. Just the 1, did not preference anyone else.

In my electorate there was no One Nation and no Lib Dems. So, on my lower house ballot I wrote “Women don’t have dicks”.

Roger
Roger
March 23, 2023 10:47 am

I see little evidence that the Liberals have the principles to make this an electoral issue.

‘Peter Dutton has proposed a federal ban on Nazi symbols as the Coalition takes up Labor’s challenge to condemn Nazi glorification…’

The Grauniad, 16h ago.

Jump!

How high?

Zipster
Zipster
March 23, 2023 10:48 am

Australia looking likely to import gas to fix looming shortfalls
Australia could be just years away from importing gas, despite the nation’s vast production of the fuel, amid new warnings of looming energy shortages that have seen an east-coast shipping terminal developer report growing demand from customers seeking liquefied gas cargoes from 2026.

Mining billionaire Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest’s privately owned Squadron Energy is building what could become Australia’s first terminal capable of receiving shipments of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Queensland or overseas, and turn it back into vapour to supply homes and businesses.

Argentina is starting to look more hospitable and stable by the day

Eyrie
Eyrie
March 23, 2023 10:48 am

And the source of those pseudo-Nazis looks increasingly like leftards.

Of course. Real Nazis are leftards also.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
March 23, 2023 10:48 am

Zipster says:
March 23, 2023 at 10:38 am

Horowitz: They knew: FOIA document shows government anticipated mass vaccine injuries, then observed them from day one

As you can see from page 8 of the pdf, General Dynamics warned the CDC that VAERS had blown through the expected 1,000 cases per day and even reached a level above 4,500 – to the point that GD couldn’t process the data.

Mind you, they were never concerned with the human toll, just the logistics of the contract labor. They predicted a need for “reforecasting of staffing needs” to process all these reports.

Already in December 2020, when the shots were only available for select people like doctors, there were over 19,000 reports and close to 344,000 website visits. It’s hard to see how this wasn’t organic from people genuinely in pain because there was no organized campaign in the United States to inform people of VAERS at the time. I myself (who obsessively focused on this) hadn’t heard of it until two months later.

By Feb. 15, General Dynamics reported a continued record-setting pace of reports and website visits, to the point that workers had to expand their VAERS ID reports to allow for seven digits instead of six.

In April, officials reported that they had to hire an additional 200 staffers to deal with the backlog and continue to process 25,000 reports per week, well beyond the threshold they originally contracted for.

As eligibility for the shots expanded for all age groups, they continued to process over 30,000 injury reports a week, yet the CDC never said a word about it. Not only did officials not take the products off the market, they began mandating them over late summer 2021, with some mandates that remain in place to this very day.

It’s nearly impossible to astroturf these sorts of injury reports.

Clearly, our government saw how organic they were and how they coincided perfectly with the uptake of the vaccine.

Indeed, the FDA had access to the infamous Pfizer document in Feb. 2021 – before almost any younger adult was vaccinated – showing that the shot killed over 1,200 people and was associated with over 1,400 categories of serious maladies that were chronicled in a list eight pages long.

Now, keep in mind that after the government observed all these adverse events, and after officials knew about the 7.7% clinical injury rate from the CDC’s own V-SAFE program, perfectly corroborating the VAERS data, they accelerated the approval of these shots for children and then the mandates for everyone.

Emails released via FOIA show that in July 2021, when the shots should have been canceled, Peter Marks, head of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, pressured Marion Gruber, then head of the office of vaccines research and review, to truncate the already accelerated timeline to fully approve the Comirnaty shot (which is still not commercially available 2.5 years later).

calli
calli
March 23, 2023 10:51 am

The moment families hear that a movie contains adult sexuality in the form of homosexuality, they know it is not a movie for kids.

And not just the kids. Off to the Jurassic Coast in a few months, and I wanted to watch a movie about Mary Anning. Netflix…Amonite – they decided to make her a lesbian, because discovering all those fossils and the subsequent contretemps with the Royal Society just wasn’t woke or interesting enough.

Netflix described it as “loosely” depicting her life. Click.

lotocoti
lotocoti
March 23, 2023 10:52 am

to protect the identities of the allegedly abducted children.

It should be remembered, these are the children whose bones
mØnty’s Waffen SS adjacent Right Sector bro’ wanted to feed to wolves.

Eyrie
Eyrie
March 23, 2023 10:52 am

E-fuel article here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrofuel

BoN, what would be the advantages of butanol over methanol? Seems butanol is less toxic.

Pogria
Pogria
March 23, 2023 10:52 am

Cassie,
I understand what you are saying. As you said, you went to the rally, you weren’t violent. You understood, I’m sure there was an implied threat of violence, yet you still went. You also went to Cardinal Pell’s funeral, for which I am forever grateful.

What I am trying to ineloquently get across is that we need more solidarity. A greater show of standing with each other. Not capitulate at the slightest sign of disquiet. The numbers need to be there. The amount of women who used to march for “Take Back the Night” was phenomenal. Deves and Chandler should be there to help “Take Back the Day”. Cheesy, I know but we can’t run from this fight.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
March 23, 2023 10:55 am

Zipster says:
March 23, 2023 at 10:39 am

Manhattan DA Accused Of Concealing Exculpatory Evidence From Grand Jury

Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett on “Hannity” on Tuesday night revealed that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg hid hundreds of pages of exculpatory evidence from the New York grand jury.

Jarrett furthermore called for the disbarment of the prosecuting attorneys involved in the travesty of justice.

“I mentioned it yesterday, I think, when Bob Costello got into that Grand Jury room and told them, ‘Wait a minute. You don’t have the hundreds of pages I handed over to Alvin Bragg over here? You only have six cherry-picked documents?’

You know, hiding from grand juries exculpatory information is reprehensible and unconscionable,” Jarrett said. “And the conduct of Alvin Bragg and his henchman Mark Pomerantz, who specifically says in his book, ‘We’re targeting zombies because we don’t like his beliefs,’ those guys should face disbarment proceedings.”

“And I want to add something new that hasn’t been said before,” he continued. “I think that Bob Costello has changed this case dramatically. I think that Bragg note now only has two possible results from that. Number one, he can say, alright, ‘I’m going to try to make the case without Cohen.’ He cannot use Cohen as a witness anymore.”

“That would be unethical because of the testimony that Costello gave,” he went on. “Or he could say, ‘Look, I have to drop the case.’ He may not be able to make it without Cohen. But if he can’t make it without Cohen, he can’t make it, because no ethical prosecutor is allowed to put on as a witness, somebody who has told the lies and has contradicted himself so much.”

“So I think that Bob Costello — it’s a game changer,” he added. “I think maybe that’s a reason for the delay here. I think ethical experts are now telling Bragg, wait a minute, you cannot use Cohen. So if you can make it through Pecker, if you can make it through some of the other people, okay, go ahead. But if you can’t make it without Cohen, you cannot bring this charge.”

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 23, 2023 10:55 am

Trump hush-money grand jury proceedings ‘canceled’ for Wednesday, sources say

This may have something to do with it:

House Administration Chair Bryan Steil: Alvin Bragg Has ‘Until Thursday to Come Forward’ to Congress (21 Mar)

ORLANDO, Florida — Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg faces a Thursday deadline to come forward to appear before three congressional panels for a transcribed interview, the chairman of one of those committees told Breitbart News exclusively here at the House GOP retreat.

“We gave him until Thursday to come forward,” House Administration Committee chairman Rep. Bryan Steil (R-WI) told Breitbart News of the push to bring Bragg in. “We look forward to his response.”

Good. If he wimps it they can hit him with contempt of Congress, if he fronts up he can be grilled up one side and down the other.

Cassie of Sydney
March 23, 2023 10:57 am

“Pogriasays:
March 23, 2023 at 10:52 am”

I agree with every word you’ve written and if I was in Canberra today, I’d be there.

This lady is not for turning

calli
calli
March 23, 2023 10:57 am

Tinta, perhaps the local community college has life classes.

Enrol in anticipation of the next election and hone your skills. 😀

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 23, 2023 10:58 am

Regarding Katherine Deves and Claire Chandler not going to the Tasmanian “Let Women Speak”, rally, where are their husbands?
Earning a living to enable their dopey wives to gallivant the country whistlin’ up fake Nazis?
How would you like it if Deves woodbutcher husband was putting in a kitchen for you and he said
Sorry, Poggy, I’m off to Tassie for a week to support Kath, see you after Easter?

Correct me if I’m wrong.
I haven’t got time to be here 24/7.

Zipster
Zipster
March 23, 2023 11:00 am

Senior neo-Nazi slips out of Australia to fight Russian army
The Department of Home Affairs and ASIO have engaged in extensive efforts to stop Australian white supremacists travelling to Ukraine to fight, with authorities launching a dedicated operation, codenamed Project Backencourt, to block neo-Nazis from leaving Australia to gain military training.

Roger
Roger
March 23, 2023 11:03 am

The Department of Home Affairs and ASIO have engaged in extensive efforts to stop Australian white supremacists travelling to Ukraine to fight…

Don’t forget to pack your bucket hat!

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 23, 2023 11:03 am

The amount of women who used to march for “Take Back the Night” was phenomenal.

Reclaim The Night.
Every last one from the Universities, organised by the Loony Left.

They’ve been quiet since a few tragedies happened.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
March 23, 2023 11:07 am

Advances in Fossil-Free Motorsports Fuels for Sustainable Transportation – Paper 30 Pages

A.Ferrari, D.Vrtiska, M.Popilka R&D / Technology Department
P1 Performance Fuels GmbH
Salzufer 16, 10587 Berlin

[email protected], [email protected],
[email protected]
M.Schmidt, Prof. Dr techn. C.Beidl
Institute for Internal Combustion Engines and Powertrain Systems
Technical University of Darmstadt
Otto Berndt Straße 2, 64287 Darmstadt
[email protected], [email protected]

Abstract:

The topic of sustainable transportation has acquired a central position on the agenda of governments and industries globally. However, the discourse around which pathway to take to achieve sustainable mobility is sometimes incoherent, due to differing views and opinions from diverse stakeholders. This paper describes how it is technically possible to introduce drop-in carbon-
neutral fuels (CNF) in ICEV and PHEV for fleets of vehicles, and how this immediately produces a greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the transportation sector. In particular, Berlin-based fossil-free fuel specialist P1 Performance Fuels GmbH has been developing various grades of sustainable fuel since 2018. It began introducing these products into international motorsport in 2020 and is currently transferring this technical know-how into the development of CNF for passenger vehicles.

This paper describes the steps that allowed the introduction of CNFinto motorsport, and the reasons why the motorsport arena is ideal for the development of sustainable fuel technologies.

3. 100% Fossil-free racing fuel in the FIA WRC 2022

In 2022 the FIA WRC became the first FIA World Championship to adopt a 100%- sustainable gasoline called P1 FossilFree100 WRC (Figure 5). The inclusion of the Advanced Sustainable Fuel Standard in the FIA AppJ 252.9 facilitated the rapid introduction of racing fuels with a high renewable component content, either biosynthetic or PtL. In particular, the increase of the maximum oxygen concentration, from, for example, 3.7 % m/m as in the E10 EN228 spec., to 7.5% m/m (Table 2), is a major change in the technical regulations, which allows today to reach both a high level of renewability and good performance of the fuel. According to the mass balance calculation as in Table 1, during the 2022 FIA WRC season, the introduction of the 100% CNF of P1Fuels contributed to a reduction of
ca. 512 Tons of CO 2 Beyond the constraints of the 100%-fossil-free composition, the fuel FossilFree100
WRC has been designed to reach a level of performance like its fossil-based predecessor (called here WRC 2021, produced by a different fuel supplier), to be suitable for use in motorsport and the existing rally engines. All constraints described in chapter 2.3 were taken into account to supply the final product. During the development at P1 several fuel formulations have been evaluated with use of an
internal ML (Machine Learning) development tool (it will be presented in future publications), allowing an efficient selection and screening of the possible solutions in short time, and limiting the number of physical laboratory measurements.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
March 23, 2023 11:08 am

Advances in Fossil-Free Motorsports Fuels for Sustainable Transportation – Paper 30 Pages

A.Ferrari, D.Vrtiska, M.Popilka R&D / Technology Department
P1 Performance Fuels GmbH
Salzufer 16, 10587 Berlin

Abstract:

The topic of sustainable transportation has acquired a central position on the agenda of governments and industries globally. However, the discourse around which pathway to take to achieve sustainable mobility is sometimes incoherent, due to differing views and opinions from diverse stakeholders. This paper describes how it is technically possible to introduce drop-in carbon-
neutral fuels (CNF) in ICEV and PHEV for fleets of vehicles, and how this immediately produces a greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the transportation sector. In particular, Berlin-based fossil-free fuel specialist P1 Performance Fuels GmbH has been developing various grades of sustainable fuel since 2018. It began introducing these products into international motorsport in 2020 and is currently transferring this technical know-how into the development of CNF for passenger vehicles.

This paper describes the steps that allowed the introduction of CNFinto motorsport, and the reasons why the motorsport arena is ideal for the development of sustainable fuel technologies.

3. 100% Fossil-free racing fuel in the FIA WRC 2022

In 2022 the FIA WRC became the first FIA World Championship to adopt a 100%- sustainable gasoline called P1 FossilFree100 WRC (Figure 5). The inclusion of the Advanced Sustainable Fuel Standard in the FIA AppJ 252.9 facilitated the rapid introduction of racing fuels with a high renewable component content, either biosynthetic or PtL. In particular, the increase of the maximum oxygen concentration, from, for example, 3.7 % m/m as in the E10 EN228 spec., to 7.5% m/m (Table 2), is a major change in the technical regulations, which allows today to reach both a high level of renewability and good performance of the fuel. According to the mass balance calculation as in Table 1, during the 2022 FIA WRC season, the introduction of the 100% CNF of P1Fuels contributed to a reduction of
ca. 512 Tons of CO 2 Beyond the constraints of the 100%-fossil-free composition, the fuel FossilFree100
WRC has been designed to reach a level of performance like its fossil-based predecessor (called here WRC 2021, produced by a different fuel supplier), to be suitable for use in motorsport and the existing rally engines. All constraints described in chapter 2.3 were taken into account to supply the final product. During the development at P1 several fuel formulations have been evaluated with use of an
internal ML (Machine Learning) development tool (it will be presented in future publications), allowing an efficient selection and screening of the possible solutions in short time, and limiting the number of physical laboratory measurements.

Zipster
Zipster
March 23, 2023 11:10 am

Senior neo-Nazi slips out of Australia to fight Russian army

must be one of smutley’s mob

Roger
Roger
March 23, 2023 11:12 am

Does anyone here really think that normies actually approve of ‘Emily’ appearing in the grand/daughter’s or wife’s or grandmother’s changerooms or the like? That terms like person with a cervix replace women. Etc.?

Would that a journalist put these questions to Minister for Women Katy Gallagher.

Eyrie
Eyrie
March 23, 2023 11:16 am

The Department of Home Affairs and ASIO have engaged in extensive efforts to stop Australian white supremacists travelling to Ukraine to fight…

ASIO should be encouraging this so Putin’s boys can make them dead.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 23, 2023 11:21 am

Ed Casesays:
March 23, 2023 at 9:55 am
For goodness’ sake, is there anyone with a functioning brain (and aware of the incident) who thinks the “nayzees” at the Let Women Speak demo in Disasterstan weren’t hired goons?

Nobody, but that’s not the issue.
Here’s the issues:
#1. Why was a Liberal MLC stupid enough to show up?

#2. Who hired the Goons?

#3. What is Kelly-Jaye Minshull’s and the people paying for and organising her tours real agenda?

So, tell us the answers, otherwise you are just a waste of pixels.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 23, 2023 11:24 am

If only Pesutto had the sense to ask Andrews in QT yesterday whether ‘Emily’ should be allowed to freely enter women only spaces?

“Emily” is on remand in a Maximum Security Federal Prison, facing 500 years without Parole for bombing a Mosque.

It looks like a stunt to draw attention to “Emily’s” situation rather than an attempt to enter girls changerooms.

Richard Pusey did something similar by changing his pronouns in a bid to draw attention to the travesty that was being done to him.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 23, 2023 11:29 am

A couple of good righty opeds today on the ructions being pulled by the Left in Israel.

Israeli protesters, I can no longer keep silent – Prof. Phyllis Chesler (22 Mar)

Op-ed: Israel’s second war of independence – Malcolm Dash (22 Mar)

Mr Dash points out the activist left already controls the Supreme Court and the AG’s office. Which is why they are refusing to compromise on the judicial reform law – they already have what they want, why would they compromise? It’ll be interesting to see how it goes, the situation is so like what is going on here with the Voice and in the US with the deep state.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
March 23, 2023 11:31 am

Pauline Hanson on NSW Labor’s hilarious electric campaign bus fail!

The wheels on the bus go rrrooooooou…. oops, no they don’t.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2023 11:31 am

I haven’t got time to be here 24/7.

A groogle’s work is never done.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 23, 2023 11:34 am

It’s a Separation Of Powers issue in Israel.

The Extreme Right Parties now hold the balance of power, and they want the right to enact any law without judicial oversight.

Predicted result, if successful, is that preaching the Gospel is made unlawful, and eventually the closing of Christian Churches.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
March 23, 2023 11:36 am

Freaks vs Fanatics.

Wednesday, 22 March 2023

Who do you think is getting ready to win the long game?

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2023 11:36 am

#2. Who hired the Goons?

Ummm … the BBC?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 23, 2023 11:37 am

Senior neo-Nazi slips out of Australia to fight Russian army

Do the same with him as for jihadis who go to Syria. If you want to fight in someone else’s war you can go there and lose your Australian citizenship and residency. I’m sure your grateful allies will let you stay. And if they don’t: bad luck.

Top Ender
Top Ender
March 23, 2023 11:39 am

Callie – Wki says:

The film Ammonite, directed by Francis Lee, and based on segments of Anning’s life and legacy, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 11 September 2020. Kate Winslet portrays Anning and Saoirse Ronan portrays Charlotte Murchison, with the two engaged in a fictional lesbian relationship.

A very odd concept. It’s a deliberate distortion of history, along the lines of making Anne Boleyn black. All we can hope is the viewers stay away in droves, and the composers of such rubbish go broke for going woke -or at least make such a loss they stop doing it.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
March 23, 2023 11:39 am

EXCLUSIVE: Is this the smoking gun? Letter from Michael Cohen claiming Donald Trump did NOT reimburse him for hush money paid to Stormy Daniels appears to fly in the face of the star witness’s grand jury testimony

. Bombshell document, exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com, could cripple prosecutors’ pursuit of criminal charges against Trump
. Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer, is the star witness in the case over which Trump reportedly faces imminent arrest for campaign finance violations
. But in a February 2018 letter Cohen’s attorney wrote that ‘Mr. Cohen used his own personal funds’ and that ‘neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign reimbursed Mr. Cohen’

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 23, 2023 11:40 am

If you want to fight in someone else’s war you can go there and lose your Australian citizenship and residency.

When the “Bush war” was raging in Rhodesia, the Rhodesian Army was recruiting in Australia. The authorities had no difficulties threatening prospective recruits with being stripped of Australian citizenship, and becoming a “stateless” person….

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 23, 2023 11:41 am

We know it wasn’t Moira Deeming.
She’s just a dope.
So, take your pick from:
#1.
The Rally organisers.
They organised Permits and Access to the Parliament’s steps, which would hafta be okay with Andrews or it wouldna been granted.
#2.
Er, that’s it.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 23, 2023 11:44 am

Ed Casesays:
March 23, 2023 at 10:58 am
Regarding Katherine Deves and Claire Chandler not going to the Tasmanian “Let Women Speak”, rally, where are their husbands?
Earning a living to enable their dopey wives to gallivant the country whistlin’ up fake Nazis?
How would you like it if Deves woodbutcher husband was putting in a kitchen for you and he said
Sorry, Poggy, I’m off to Tassie for a week to support Kath, see you after Easter?

Correct me if I’m wrong.
I haven’t got time to be here 24/7.

You’re wrong.

And don’t feel obliged to be here at all. We respect your right to a life away from here. But perhaps is you could spare a minute a day? Say, around midnight?

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
March 23, 2023 11:47 am

And only a couple of months later Gruber and her deputy Krause (top 2 Vax guys in FDA) resigned due to White House political pressure relating to approval of jab no 3 also known as the booster. That was a safety signal if ever there was.

My recollection about the ATAGI decision on jab 3 made just before Xmas 21 was daily calls from PM and Health Ministers for booster gap, after no 2, to be reduced from 6 months to 5,4 and then 3 months. Surprise surprise ATAGI did exactly as required.

By demonising alternative treatments the TGA / Govt had only one weapon to use, a not properly tested vaccine. Now they can’t admit any error and keep recommending more jabs.

“Peter Marks, head of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, pressured Marion Gruber, then head of the office of vaccines research and review, to truncate the already accelerated timeline to fully approve the Comirnaty shot (which is still not commercially available 2.5 years later)”

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 23, 2023 11:50 am

Ed Casesays:
March 23, 2023 at 11:41 am
We know it wasn’t Moira Deeming.
She’s just a dope.
So, take your pick from:
#1.
The Rally organisers.
They organised Permits and Access to the Parliament’s steps, which would hafta be okay with Andrews or it wouldna been granted.
#2.
Er, that’s it.

No, that isn’t “it”. The answer flows form the bolded words. Talidan set a trap, then organised for it to be sprung.

rickw
rickw
March 23, 2023 11:50 am

The Department of Home Affairs and ASIO have engaged in extensive efforts to stop Australian white supremacists travelling to Ukraine to fight…

Mong Nation.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 23, 2023 11:52 am

Rabzsays:

March 23, 2023 at 8:49 am

I gather from the pommie cartoonists that fat mop headed imbecile is busy mainlining ozone into his fundament …

I do hope “ozone up the bottom” is a euphemism for summink else.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
March 23, 2023 11:54 am

Usual BS from 60 minutes -Australia. I haven’t watched it in so long, I forget the name of the mole who is hosting the show.

Like or dislike her, actions such as this are alarming.

————-

Stew Peters Show:

Australian globalists have targeted Maria Zeee for speaking the truth on the Stew Peters Show.
Maria Zeee joins Stew to talk about being persecuted because of her political beliefs and her status as a teller of truth.
The Australian 60 Minutes hit piece labeled anyone who questions authority a domestic terrorist.
The fake news report went on to deride Christians who believe in the Bible as enemies.
On March 9th ING Group sent Maria an email giving her a week to take her money out of the bank.
ING Group is listed as a partner on the World Economic Forum’s website.
The debanking coincided with the mainstream media hit piece against Maria Zeee.
Are governments, banks, and the mainstream media colluding to silence anyone who speaks out against power?

https://tinyurl.com/p3nmyphs

rickw
rickw
March 23, 2023 11:58 am

‘Peter Dutton has proposed a federal ban on Nazi symbols as the Coalition takes up Labor’s challenge to condemn Nazi glorification…’

Does this mean the Mongocracy is coming for my Mauser 98K?

Vicki
Vicki
March 23, 2023 11:58 am

This is from today’s sub stack of Dr. Phillip Altman. I’ve reprinted it – but you can view & link to the report on phillipaltman.com.au & on his sub stack.

BOMBSHELL REPORT: C-19 JABS STRONGLY LINKED TO NON-COVID EXCESS DEATHS IN EU
What will it take to withdraw these dangerous COVID “vaccines”?
PHILLIP.ALTMAN
MAR 22
I am writing this at 2am…..cannot sleep because of this report.

There is now evidence published as a preprint to show that an analysis of COVID vaccine use is strongly correlated with all-cause mortality over 31 European Union member states and Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Switzerland.

The report: Aarstad and Kvitastein – Is there a Link between the 2021 COVID-19 vaccination Uptake in Europe and 2022 Excess All-Cause Mortality? 21 Feb. 2023.

The meticulous Dr. John Campbell has (carefully) reviewed the report to avoid reckless and irresponsible YouTube censorship.

The report shows that the more a country engages in COVID vaccination, the higher is the overall mortality from all causes. This is the most important evidence yet that COVID vaccines should be immediately withdrawn from use.

This report is consistent with reports of Excess Mortality (non-COVID deaths from all causes above that expected in previous years prior to COVID vaccination rollout). In Australia, the spike in non-COVID deaths amount to more than 10,000 per year.

Given the massive worldwide main stream media and medical literature censorship, news of this report will undoubtedly be suppressed to prevent further vaccine hesitancy and to protect those responsible for approving and promoting the use of the gene-based so-called COVID “vaccines” to all people, with little qualification, including to healthy people, adolescents, children, infants and pregnant women. It is a catastrophe of epic proportions.

The health officials in Norway already know the truth and are not recommending general COVID vaccinations. Our TGA and so-called “health experts” which have now been totally captured by Public-private-Partnership (PPP) arrangements with Big Pharma, are slowing walking back their recommendations in light of the constant stream of disturbing news about the safety of these “vaccines”. But it is all too late……. many thousands of Australians have died already and tens of thousands are carrying permanent injury. Given the wilful blindness and incompetence of our health authorities….more Australians will undoubtedly needlessly die.

Don’t let them get away with it……..

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
March 23, 2023 12:05 pm

Fed Hikes Rates 25bps, Maintains QT, Removes Hawkish Guidance

Fed hiked 25bps and maintains QT (as expected), and left the terminal rate (via the DotPlot) unchanged. However, it shifted a slightly more dovish guidance on future policy hikes and an admission that the impact of its monetary policy could impact banks.

A lot has changed since The Fed last met on February 1st and decided to hike 25bps. Between Powell’s hawkish hearings with Congress and the dovish-inference of a global financial system crisis, the market’s expectations for The Fed’s actions today have swung wildly – but ironically, are basically unchanged since the Feb 1st meeting.

At its most hawkish the market priced in a 75% chance of a 50bps hike (after Powell’s hearings). That then collapsed to a 63% chance of a ‘pause’ by The Fed following the collapse of SVB and CS. The last week has seen expectations rise back to 80% or so of a 25bps hike…

Dot
Dot
March 23, 2023 12:06 pm

. Bombshell document, exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com, could cripple prosecutors’ pursuit of criminal charges against Trump
. Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer, is the star witness in the case over which Trump reportedly faces imminent arrest for campaign finance violations
. But in a February 2018 letter Cohen’s attorney wrote that ‘Mr. Cohen used his own personal funds’ and that ‘neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign reimbursed Mr. Cohen’

LOL

The Mueller saw his own shadow again, no more indictments for six more months!

Dot
Dot
March 23, 2023 12:06 pm

Well, it’s Muellerween. Again.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
March 23, 2023 12:13 pm

Anthony Albanese announces final wording for Voice to parliament referendum

Anthony Albanese choked up at as he revealed the wording for the Indigenous Voice to parliament referendum at an emotional press conference.

Australians will be asked:

“A Proposed Law: to alter the constitution to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice. Do you approve this proposed alteration?”

If a majority of Australians vote in favour of the Voice, the Constitution would be amended as follows:

1. There shall be a body, to be called the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice;

2. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice may make representations to the Parliament and the Executive Government of the Commonwealth on matters relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples;

3. The Parliament shall, subject to this Constitution, have power to make laws with respect to matters relating to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice, including its composition, functions powers and procedures.

Federal cabinet approved the wording Thursday morning after Mr Albanese received a final proposal the previous night from the referendum working group which has been debating the amendment to be put to Australians.

The wording of the question and the proposed constitutional amendment will be put to federal parliament next week before the referendum is held sometime in the final quarter of the year.

CHANGE IN WORDING

The wording of both the question and the proposed constitutional amendment differs slightly from what Mr Albanese first proposed at Garma festival in East Arnhem Land last year.

The draft question put forward by Mr Albanese at the time was: “Do you support an alteration to the Constitution that establishes an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice?”

The clause that would be inserted in the Constitution to enshrine the Voice in the nation’s founding document have also been changed from the government’s “starting point”.

The new wording makes it explicit that the Voice may make representations to “Parliament and the Executive Government of the Commonwealth” rather than simply the “Executive Government”.

TOP LAWYER SEEKS TO ‘ERADICATE’ FEARS

Indigenous senior counsel and referendum working group member Tony McAvoy, who has been advising the government on the legal requirements of the Voice, said he wanted to “eradicate fears” people might have about the proposed advisory body.

Mr McAvoy outlined the principles that will underpin the Voice.

“A. The Voice will give independent advice to the Parliament and Government.

“B, it will be chosen by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people based on the wishes of local communities.

“C, it will be representative of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, gender-balanced and include youth.

“D, it will be empowering community-led inclusive, respectful and culturally informed.

“E, it will be accountable and transparent.

“F, it will work alongside existing organisations and traditional structures.

“G, it will not have a program delivery function.

“And, H, it will not have a veto power.

Mr McAvoy said the referendum working group encouraged everyone interested in the process to pay “close attention” to the design principles.

“This is how we set out where the Voice should go,” he said.

THE QUESTION OF EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT

Mr Albanese confirmed the Voice would be able to advise executive government as well as the parliament of the day if the referendum succeeds, shutting down speculation it was going to be altered to win over conservatives.

There had been some disagreement over how the proposed change to the Constitution should be worded, including whether the Voice should have the power to advise the executive government.

Giving the Voice the ability to advise federal cabinet has been contentious among some conservatives and lawyers who are concerned it could lead to legal challenges in the High Court.

But Mr Albanese sought to allay those concerns on Thursday.

“I understand, but the referendum working group also had a legal team of the best legal minds in the country who have have worked on this,” he said.

“And if you look at the tweaking of some of the words, based upon (that) advice, they make it very clear about the primacy of the parliament.

“This isn’t about veto or third chambers or anything else. It is about consultation and respect”

FEDERAL COALITION YET TO COME ON BOARD

The working group met with Mr Albanese as the Referendum Machinery Bill passed the Senate after Labor struck a deal with the Coalition on the legislation to modernise the way the commonwealth is able to hold the national poll.

The Coalition’s demand for equal funding for both campaigns was watered down to legislate a “neutral” education campaign to be run in the lead up to the referendum.

In addition, groups on both sides of the debate will be granted tax-deductible status.

Australians are expected to vote between October and December.

Labor accepted the Coalition’s request to have the government distribute official pamphlets containing both “yes” and “no” campaign information has also been accepted.

If a Voice to Parliament referendum were held today, how would you vote?

Currently 72% NO

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2023 12:18 pm

Groogs even gets his own hypotheticals wrong.

Is this a first?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 23, 2023 12:20 pm

A very odd concept. It’s a deliberate distortion of history, along the lines of making Anne Boleyn black.

I can’t wait for Hollywood to remake 1984 with Minitru employee Winston Smith played by a black lesbian.

calli
calli
March 23, 2023 12:20 pm

Interesting change.

“A Proposed Law: to alter the constitution to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice. Do you approve this proposed alteration?”

It assumes that “First Peoples of Australia” are not already “recognised”.

How can this be? I go up to the shops and the Aboriginal flag is flying on the Community Centre. I go into the library and there are many…many artworks. I drive to Newcastle and pass not one but two Aboriginal cultural centres. All government offices and many private shops and medical centres have an “acknowledgement” of the local tribe.

I don’t need to do the same thing twice, in the same way as I don’t need to say the same thing twice. The first is empty virtue signalling, the second is nagging.

flyingduk
flyingduk
March 23, 2023 12:22 pm

E-fuels are synthetically made fuels that can be made using hydrogen in conjunction with captured carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide.

*ALL* fossil fuels use ‘captured CO2’ … just over a longer timescale.

If you want to see a greens eyes spin… ask them how the CO2 which burning fossil fuels releases got into said fuels in the first place……. its just being recycled back into the air… you arent against recycling are you?

Johnny Rotten
March 23, 2023 12:23 pm

Soros – Taking Down America

“Alvan Bragg in his vendetta against Donald Trump is clearly not just abusing his power, but he is attempting to interfere in the presidential election of 2024 by harassing Trump and trying to make him so toxic that nobody will donate to him. While I personally thought that Trump had fallen too far to be a viable candidate, at this point, this has all had the opposite effect. We have to come to the realization that Washington DC is so toxic itself, on both sides, that perhaps we need Donald Trump to actually kick ass. Will anyone else be effective in DC as a president from here on out? The answer is absolutely no way. And BTW, even if Trump is indicted and found guilty, he can still be president. A felony does not preclude you from being president.

Bragg is trying to claim that Trump used his own funds that he put into his campaign to pay the hooker and that makes it illegal. Bill Clinton did the same to pay $850,000 to Jones to settle a public lawsuit after an election but before any reelection no less Hillary’s run for president. Trump won against Stormy Daniels that he never had an affair with her and she eventually admitted that whereas Clinton did have an affair with Jones. All of this is absolutely desperate interference in the 2024 election.

What deeply offends me is that Bragg is tainted with the worst possible funding – George Soros – the man who wants to destroy the very economic system that enabled him to make billions. As Fox News reported, George Soros “funneled $40 million dollars into district attorney campaigns nationwide, and now his beneficiaries represent around 20% of Americans,” and that included Bragg on that list. I traded head-to-head with sorry. I never lost against him for he was famous for a single trade. I detest him as an individual and I believe if anyone is the equivalent of the AntiChrist, he would be in my top 5 candidates. He is 93 years old. When he dies, perhaps they will declare it a national holiday. But not the day he was born – the day when he finally dies.

I was actually asked if I would get back into politics and advise Trump NOT TO RUN in 2024 and to support DeSantis because “he is a better administrator.” All of that I do not argue with. I told them that my concern would be that they eat DeSantis for lunch if not breakfast.

Despite all the propaganda set in motion by the Democrats led by Hillary that Trump was a puppet of Putin., it was Trump who authorized the first delivery of Lethal weapons to Ukraine. Here is a BBC video on this top and every adviser that was put in the White House when Trump first took office were ALL Neocons. It took Trump some time to realize that he was surrounded by Neocons who wanted nothing but World War III with Russia.

Fiona Hill, a British citizen, was stuffed in there by the Neocons as deputy assistant to the president and senior director for European and Russian affairs on his National Security Council staff. After Trump got rid of her for her constant warmongering, Hill returned to Brookings in April 2019 where she was a colleague of Victoria Nuland’s husband David Kagan. Hill also had a very close working relationship with National Security Advisor John Bolton, a notorious Neocon who always advocated war and still does. Hill has openly remarked that it was very difficult to maintain a consistent U.S.-Russia policy under President Trump because she always advocated war with Russia.

Today, the Neocons have FULL CONTROL of the Biden Administration and are hurling us into World War III. This is what I mean that I would rather have Trump in there than DeSantis, ONLY because Trump had to fire all of these Neocons when he came to realize they will sacrifice all American youth on a battlefield to achieve their single-minded goal of destroying Russia and then they want to turn on China. There is no place in their vocabulary for the word PEACE! They have taken the United States as the defender of LIBERTY and transformed it into an evil empire to dominate the world. Fiona Hill’s testimony to impeach Trump

This is NOT who the American people are! We need to take back our country from these very dangerous and evil people. I fear that Trump may not be the ONLY person who really understands their game. They seem to be relying on George Soros and his funding to change America and the world. In support of Soros, Fiona Hill calls attacks on George Soros anti-Semitic.

In November 2019, during the impeachment inquiry, Hill testified in a closed-door deposition for ten hours during the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. Some Republicans, and many others, questioned the credibility of her testimony. Even Connie Mack IV, questioned the veracity of her testimony in light of her agenda to create war with Russia which Trump opposed. Mack even described Hill in the New Yorker as a “George Soros mole infiltrating the national security apparatus”. On May 31st, 2020, Roger Stone also publicly stated: “This is very hard to believe, but I confirmed the facts again this morning. Soros has planted a mole infiltrating the national-security apparatus—a woman named Fiona Hill.”

Washington is a very dirty tricks place. They will do anything to get their way. It was long suspected that even during the election of Ronald Regan and Iran holding the 52 American hostages, there was a secret deal to let Iran hold the hostages to influence the presidential election and defeat President Jimmy Carter. Now Texas politician, Ben Barnes, has come out and confessed that he was personally involved in rigging the election. Those pushing Ronald Reagan for president struck a secret deal with the Iranian government to hold 52 Americans hostages so that Reagan could defeat Jimmy Carter. Back then, that is when I first heard that Reagan was a governor and that they would have to “train him” for they were clearly looking at him as someone they could manipulate. As I pointed out in The Rise of the Neocons special report, they stuffed his cabinet with Neocons who objected to Reagan even meeting with Gorbachev. They kept telling him that it was a trick and he should never trust a Russian. It was the Neocons maneuvering with Iran to ensure Regan would win so they could manipulate him into war.

The Neocons want a new kind of world where they govern with no accountability except to themselves.”

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/soros-taking-down-america/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS

Top Ender
Top Ender
March 23, 2023 12:25 pm

Gay Nazis everywhere!

Quadrant…

JMH
JMH
March 23, 2023 12:26 pm

If a Voice to Parliament referendum were held today, how would you vote?

NO.

bons
bons
March 23, 2023 12:28 pm

It is a little surprising that none of the clean cut young gentlemen that Andrews inserted into the womens’ event have been identified as yet.
The still and video photography of their faces is rather clear.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 23, 2023 12:30 pm

I do hope “ozone up the bottom” is a euphemism for summink else.

Sancho – It’s Gwyneth Paltrow’s latest wellness treatment. She’s fun!

Johnny Rotten
March 23, 2023 12:32 pm

MHsays:
March 23, 2023 at 12:26 pm

If a Voice to Parliament referendum were held today, how would you vote?

NO.

I would and will vote. Get farked.

Eyrie
Eyrie
March 23, 2023 12:33 pm

‘Peter Dutton has proposed a federal ban on Nazi symbols as the Coalition takes up Labor’s challenge to condemn Nazi glorification…’

As if this country has no other pressing issues, Peter. You are a severe disappointment.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
March 23, 2023 12:35 pm

Democrats Vow To Arrest As Many Political Opponents As It Takes To Defeat Fascism

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a press conference held in support of Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg yesterday, Democrats vowed to arrest as many political opponents as it would take to defeat fascism.

“Fascism is a clear and present danger in this country,” began Senator Chuck Schumer, “and the only way to defeat it is with a corrupt, all-powerful police state that can imprison anyone who disagrees with us politically. If we don’t do this, fascism will win.”

“No one is above the law,” agreed House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. “Using campaign funds improperly to pay off someone you slept with is the height of fascistic evil, and something no politician in Washington has ever done before. I’ve certainly never done anything like that. Don’t be silly!”

Already, Democrat leaders are calling for the immediate arrests of dangerous fascists such as Trump, anyone who worked with him, and every American who ever expressed support for him. “These undesirables could implement horrible fascism at any time, so we need a final solution for them,” said Schumer.

At those words, an enthusiastic crowd of anti-fascist warriors cheered and fired guns into the air.

At publishing time, former President Trump was still at large. Authorities have advised he is armed and extremely dangerous in addition to being fascist.

Anyone caught collaborating with him will be subject to imprisonment.</em>

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
March 23, 2023 12:37 pm

Once upon at time, people would laugh at this suggestion. With that said, it’s still not a given it will happen, however, it remains a worrying thought.

———-

Dr Vernon Coleman MB ChB DSc:

From Bank Crash to Digital Currency and 15 Minute Cities
22ND MARCH 2023

I have been explaining for over a year that the conspirators need a world war in order to destroy the global economy, to get rid of banks and cash and to usher in their beloved new digital currency. Most people don’t know this is happening. And most people who know it’s happening don’t seem to care.

No less than 18 central banks have tested digital currencies. The aim is to crash the banking system so that we all have no choice but to accept a global digital currency. And they’re doing well at it. Last week (ending 17th March) bank shares lost half a trillion dollars.

A few days ago the Silicon Valley Bank went bust. This was possibly the world’s wokest bank. The directors gave $74 million to Black Lives Matter. The bank went bust in the strangest of ways. On Wednesday 8th March, Israel banks took billions out of the bank to protect the interests of a huge number of Israeli companies which had accounts there. (Half of all companies in Israel are reported to have had links to the SVB bank.) The directors took money and bonuses out of the bank on Friday 10th and then Twitter spread the word and `ordinary’ depositors queued for their money. As it turned out they didn’t need to worry. Over the weekend Joe Biden said that all the depositor, private and corporate, would get all their money back. Once again, American taxpayers had ridden to the rescue.

Everything that is happening is being run by insane, woke communists. The two American banks which collapsed (and which were bailed out by the Americans) were largely run by and for tech firms. Most of them were Israeli and the bail outs were organised to protect Jewish tech companies from collapsing. At least one of the two banks which collapsed appear to have been run largely by people with much woke experience but little banking experience. In fact only one member of the SVB’s board appears to have had a career in investment banking. How many of the rest were extreme left wing supporters of war mongering Clinton and Obama? And, as is usual with banksters, senior staff are alleged to have given themselves bonuses as the bank closed its doors.

Banks and other companies everywhere are obsessed with ESG, climate change, green issues, gay rights and general wokeness. It seems to me that the companies which spend most time and money on these absurd, irrelevant and incredibly unpopular policies are often the ones which are losing touch with the reasons for their existence. The big Silicon Valley bank which collapsed recently seemed to have a massive enthusiasm for ESG policies. And now that the bank has gone bust it will be American taxpayers who will pay the price. America is already bankrupt. And it has massive commitments in Ukraine – where Biden has agreed to pay the pensions of the Ukrainian people. Or rather he has committed the American taxpayers to pay the pensions of the Ukrainian people.

(The startling thing is that auditor KPMG had audited both Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank which also collapsed at much the same time. KPMG had certified the accounts of both companies. It is to be hoped that regulators will look hard at the accounts and the role of KPMG.)

The collapse of one bank always starts more trouble. Two bank collapses doubles the danger. Many other banks in America are in trouble. And around the world banks everywhere are in dire straits. Even huge Credit Suisse needed a government bail out in Switzerland. (US President Obama had, years before, pretty well destroyed Swiss banking and had started the slide. The destruction of the banking industry has been going on for years. Regulators and central banks around the world have consistently damaged banking credibility and the security of bank customers.)

So what will happen next?

Well, as I’ve been explaining for more years than I care to remember, the plan has always been to get rid of cash and to replace it with digital currency. Take a look at my book Endgame for a fairly recent summary of how this will work. Central banks such as the Bank of England have boasted that they will be able to produce digital currencies which can be programmed. Paper money, bank accounts and banks will disappear to be replaced by nothing but central banks and central digital currencies.

And the digital currency in which you will be paid, and with which you will pay your bills, will be held in your local central bank. You’ll never see any money. And the bank will be able to decide how you spend your money. If you drink too much alcohol your digital money won’t be valid for buying booze. If you are overweight your digital money won’t work for buying doughnuts. And so on and so on. You can see how it works. Digital currency is the essence of social credit.

And, once the 15 minute cities have all been created (and they are being created already) your digital money will only work in YOUR 15 minute city. If you try to go elsewhere for a trip or a holiday you will find that your money won’t work. That’s the plan. And it is happening very, very quickly.

The terrified public, frightened by the fragility of the banking system, will welcome digital currencies. Indeed, they will beg for the security of a single, global currency. The most stupid will think that the new currency will make it easier for them to travel without having to change currencies. The reality is that the new global digital currency will make it impossible for them to travel anywhere outside their 15 minute city. The currency that works in Oxford won’t work in London, Paris or Rome.

https://vernoncoleman.org/articles/bank-crash-digital-currency-and-15-minute-cities

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
March 23, 2023 12:39 pm

Once upon a time…

rickw
rickw
March 23, 2023 12:39 pm

Ramadan off to a smashing start. I can still get a coffee in the morning.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 23, 2023 12:39 pm

Sure to work.

Albanese government to double down on ‘failed’ vaping laws that have created ‘thriving black market’, following release of ‘flawed and misleading’ study (Sky News, 23 Mar)

The Albanese government looks set to double down on Australia’s prescription-only vaping laws, despite criticism the legislation has “created a dangerous black market” and failed to keep dangerous products out of the hands of kids.

Federal Health Minister Mark Butler rejected a move away from the current prescription-only approach during an interview on ABC radio on Wednesday, instead saying he would strengthen controls at the border.

While you’re at it Mark why not make pot and chop chop prescription-only as well? That would be sure to work too. /s

Johnny Rotten
March 23, 2023 12:40 pm

All government offices and many private shops and medical centres have an “acknowledgement” of the local tribe.

Exactly. They were all tribes and still are with all of their different languages and customs. There was NO Nation here. The British were and still are a Sovereign Nation. End of this stupid made up story. First Nations? Tell them that they are Dreaming (courtesy of ‘The Castle’)…………………………

Robert Sewell
March 23, 2023 12:40 pm

Black Ball:

Biting my tongue the weekend before last suddenly feels so wrong.

From your quote by Alice Coster.
Remaining silent while others succumb to the fad of whatever the current fad is, is wrong morally and psychologically. The people – especially family – who have travelled down those dark lanes need your help to see reality again.
Buy a T shirt with a simple message on it. It doesn’t have to be offensive, just thought provoking.
Currently I have “Remove the mask and smell the Bullshit”, “The Unvaccinated aren’t a threat to Society. They are a threat to Authority.”
Next will be “We don’t have a Trans Crisis. We have a Munchausen’s-by-Proxy Crisis”. That one needs a bit of work. But the message is there.
People don’t like going against the flow of society, that’s just human nature. But they are susceptible to acknowledging there are alternatives in society. Sort of like football teams.
All we need to do is let them start to think that alternatives they may naturally gravitate to are valid.
I get mine done at Vistaprint because they have a design facility on the ordering page, and a choice of styles and colours. Five T shirts for <$100 and free delivery. No, I don't get any commission.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2023 12:42 pm

As if this country has no other pressing issues, Peter. You are a severe disappointment

Take a number and join the queue.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 23, 2023 12:45 pm

They know that those that may watch the movie will never know it is fabricated. They will assume that the storyline has some basis in history because the character is historical.

Just so long as they don’t watch a double feature with our Cate Blanchett as Elizabeth I.
She’s rather pale to be that Anne Boleyn’s daughter…

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 23, 2023 12:46 pm

As if this country has no other pressing issues, Peter. You are a severe disappointment.

He won’t have time to address those issues if he’s spending every day putting out Nazi spotfires.
He’s already found that out the hard way, by taking 2 days to request Burke to withdraw an assertion of Nazi-ness in Liberal-land, and getting knocked back by the Speaker.
That’s politics Australian style, let some fruity Victorian backbencher attend an obscure Rally, spend the next 96 hours [and counting] fighting for clear air.

Johnny Rotten
March 23, 2023 12:47 pm

At publishing time, former President Trump was still at large. Authorities have advised he is armed and extremely dangerous in addition to being fascist.

Anyone caught collaborating with him will be subject to imprisonment.

So, where were all these USA’n ‘do gooders’ in the 1930s when Hitler and his thugs were rounding up the Jews and others? FFS.

rickw
rickw
March 23, 2023 12:47 pm

If you are overweight your digital money won’t work for buying doughnuts.

Someone hasn’t thought through their support of Woke World.

Then again, these individuals have never been particularly good at realising that once the enemies are put through the meat grinder, they’re next.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
March 23, 2023 12:48 pm

And not just the kids. Off to the Jurassic Coast in a few months, and I wanted to watch a movie about Mary Anning. Netflix…Amonite – they decided to make her a lesbian, because discovering all those fossils and the subsequent contretemps with the Royal Society just wasn’t woke or interesting enough.

Netflix described it as “loosely” depicting her life. Click.

Click?
Well, you are a bigotty bigot – and probably a stinky poo bum, too.
And a Far-Right Extremist, obviously.

Ammonite director Francis Lee: ‘I wanted to give Mary Anning a relationship that felt worthy of her’

While there is no record of Anning’s romantic life, she and Charlotte became lifelong friends and correspondents. “I wanted to give Mary a relationship that felt worthy of her and respectful of her,” says Lee. “And to me that didn’t feel like it could be with a man, given how men operated in this society, so Charlotte felt like a really interesting person to explore. It is my imagining of how Mary might have conducted a relationship.”

It seems to go without saying that Francis Lee is an enthusiastic homosexualist.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 23, 2023 12:49 pm

Hahahahahaha!

‘This is a very modest request’: PM says Voice is above party politics (Sky mainpage headline, 23 Mar)

Pull the other one Luigi, it has bells on.

Johnny Rotten
March 23, 2023 12:53 pm

The Albanese government

There is no such Guv’ment only the Australian Federal Government for what it is worth…………

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