Open Thread – Tues 21 March 2023


Saturn Devouring his Son, Peter Paul Rubens, 1636


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thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 23, 2023 12:53 pm

A few tweets at the gruinaid.
They are crowing that the Fed police refused to separate the pro and anti-trans groups therefore a number of anti-trans speakers people pulled out of attending.

Seperate tweets..

Back at the rally, and Paul says Pauline Hanson has stepped up to the microphone to speak in favour of Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull. Her offsider Malcolm Roberts is there, along with Palmer senator Ralph Babet, but that’s all the politicians he sees in support of the British agitator.


Lidia Thorpe has spoken about being stopped by police

Senator Thorpe says transphobes not welcome on Aboriginal land pic.twitter.com/BCxVQQBA8G

— Paul Karp (@Paul_Karp) March 23, 2023

Not that many people could hear what Pauline Hanson or anyone on that side of the rally had to say:

Rice notes pro trans rally outnumber the Posie Parker crew pic.twitter.com/BNt4jISMju

— Paul Karp (@Paul_Karp) March 23, 2023

Lidia Thorpe returned to the counter-protest (which is much, much larger) to cheers, Paul Karp reports.

Posie Parker you cant hide, youve got Nazis on your side pic.twitter.com/isQvNScwrJ

— Paul Karp (@Paul_Karp) March 23, 2023

Paul Karp is at the “rally” and says independent senator Lidia Thorpe attempted to step up to the podium to disrupt what Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull is spruiking but was stopped by police.


Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull gathering

Looks like another huuuuge turnout. Bigly. The parliament lawns have never seen anything like it

(sarcasm)

Posie Parker rally about 30 for the anti trans side, incl Hanson, Roberts, Babet.

And 100+ pro trans rights pic.twitter.com/j0H8bbzUxD

— Paul Karp (@Paul_Karp) March 23, 2023


Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 23, 2023 12:53 pm

She’s right about that.

Voice to Parliament a ‘simple but powerful act’ (Sky News, 23 Mar)

Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney says it is a “truly historic day” in which Australia takes a step forward towards constitutional recognition for Indigenous Australians through the Voice to Parliament.

“Recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the constitution will be a simple but powerful act,” she said during a media conference on Thursday.

One ring party to rule them all. Linda can be Saruman.

Robert Sewell
March 23, 2023 12:55 pm

Mother Lode/Rabz:
I wish to protest against the fashion of using the first two letters of peoples names as an identifier.
I do not wish to be associated with a gay drink variety.

Chris
Chris
March 23, 2023 12:56 pm

In non-Tranny News, Amazon has booted out the staff of dpreview.com and the website will shut, with not even a plan to keep the existing content online.
That is a great loss for photography gear consumers. That site was unnervingly good, even-handed, transparent and filled with helpful staff and users.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 23, 2023 1:01 pm

So was the Bolshevik Revolution.

PM fighting tears on Voice question a moment of ‘Australian political history’ (Sky News, 23 Mar)

Is there anything faker than a Labor Party PM weeping at the chance to cement their absolute control of the nation for at least the next several decades?

Johnny Rotten
March 23, 2023 1:02 pm

One ring party to rule them all. Linda can be Saruman.

I always thought that she was Dildo Baggins along with Wenny Pong, Kenneally, that slag from Canbrrrrrr and that Bishop tart.

local oaf
March 23, 2023 1:02 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.

There was something from Crikey a couple of days ago claiming that two of the nasties were well known. Even put names to the totally not fake Nazis.

Robert Sewell
March 23, 2023 1:02 pm

Lizzie:

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.

No he doesn’t Lizzie. He must first punish them to the same extent that they have punished him, then when the lesson has been learnt that bullying a child to carry out your perverted wishes is WRONG, then he can forgive them. But not before.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
March 23, 2023 1:03 pm

From BoN’s link at 12:49 pm:

According to The Australian, cabinet ministers were advised on Wednesday the government should take out “executive government” from the draft constitutional amendment and replace it with “ministers of the crown”.

The eleventh-hour change to the wording is believed to prevent public servants from being roped into demands for consultation from the voice.

Funny that.
For months we’ve been assured by Experts that there’s nothing but love and Unicorns in the wording – and no chance at all whatsoever of engaging the High Court in the machinery of government.

On ABC radio this week Albanese said there would be “an obligation to consult the voice” on matters directly affecting Indigenous people, such as native title.

“None of that would be subject to the court,” he said. “Someone couldn’t say, ‘Oh, hang on, we haven’t been consulted about that issue. You need to stop the process.’ It doesn’t do that. The processes of the parliament can occur unimpeded.”

In good hands.

Vicki
Vicki
March 23, 2023 1:03 pm

Two friends have been diagnosed with severe GERD (gastric reflux) recently and one of them (referred to a specialist) has been told it is a symptom of Long Covid. My granddaughter (who has suffered from GERD for a while) has recently developed more commonly occurring symptoms.

For this reason I have been searching the internet for information about the relationship between gastric reflux and Covid. I have discovered that it is known by the medical profession as a relatively well known symptom of Covid and Long Covid. I thought I knew a fair bit about Covid, having spent many hours of every day from early 2021 to late last year researching it, yet, I was not aware of this relationship. I then found at least one medical journal article which connected the gastric reflux symptom also the the Covid vaccines – which is logical, since research on Covid/GERD has postulated that the spike protein is responsible!

Yet, predictably, I have found only one article (there may be more) connecting GERD to an adverse reaction to the Covid vaccines. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9250884/

Johnny Rotten
March 23, 2023 1:08 pm

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

I disagree as Francis Lee was a very good footballer. And a very good Businessman to boot.

Here he is having some discussions with Norman (bites yer’ legs) Hunter……………….lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QALdVum0xEk

Robert Sewell
March 23, 2023 1:09 pm

Dover Beach:

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

Wrong, DB.
Pesutto understands his role. It is similar to the German tourists towel on a seat. He will never ask a question that would wound Labor – he recognises he is a place holder, there just to mind a slot in a line for another person of greater importance – i.e. the next Labor leader, and to foil another from the slot he holds.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
March 23, 2023 1:10 pm

TASS – MILITARY OPERATION IN UKRAINE22 MAR, 22:20

Approaches to Artyomovsk (called Bakhmut in Ukraine) under Russian artillery control, says DPR

Currently, Russian forces control about 70% of the Artyomovsk area

MOSCOW, March 22. /TASS/. Artyomovsk (called Bakhmut in Ukraine) has been fully sealed off by Russian forces and all the approaches to the city are under artillery control, Yan Gagin, military-political expert and adviser to the acting head of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), said on Wednesday.

“The city is in operational encirclement, which means that all the approaches and all the transportation arteries leading to it are under the control of our artillery. In principle, it can be said that the city has been actually sealed off,” he said in a live broadcast on the Rossiya-1 television channel.

Currently, Russian forces control about 70% of the Artyomovsk area. The Ukrainian garrison positioned in the city numbers about 10,000-strong personnel, he added.

Artyomovsk is located on the Kiev-controlled part of the Donetsk People’s Republic and is a major transportation hub for the Ukrainian army’s supplies in Donbass. Fierce fighting for the city is underway. Acting DPR Head Denis Pushilin has repeatedly said that there is no evidence of the Ukrainian army’s plans to leave Artyomovsk. Meanwhile, Kiev claims that the city’s defense will be bolstered. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky earlier said that Ukrainian troops would not surrender Artyomovsk and would fight for it as long as they could.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
March 23, 2023 1:10 pm

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”.

Classic Cassie

Cassie of Sydney
March 23, 2023 1:12 pm

“Pauline Hanson has stepped up to the microphone to speak in favour of Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull. Her offsider Malcolm Roberts is there, along with Palmer senator Ralph Babet,”

The only federal politicians with any guts. If the Liberals and Nationals had any decency, had any moral fortitude, had any courage, every single female Liberal and National politician would have been in attendance. But instead, they’re gutless, absolutely gutless. There is simply no point to any of them.

The Liberals, come this weekend, are going to be in for a very rude awakening.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
March 23, 2023 1:13 pm

Tinta, perhaps the local community college has life classes.

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

Thanks calli, but no thanks, you are a true humanitarian, wanting to help others, but for this shy ragazza, there is not a chance of that – we only need to see how much violence there is in the world without having to draw penises and testicles

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
March 23, 2023 1:14 pm
Mother Lode
Mother Lode
March 23, 2023 1:18 pm

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

As bad as Labor is, they always have the Libs dancing like a puppet on a string to their tune.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 23, 2023 1:20 pm

Good get Old Ozzie!
I voted a short time ago, total up another 300 and the ratio unchanged. And on news.com.au!
I think Luigi has a problem.

Tom
Tom
March 23, 2023 1:21 pm

So what are the dumb people who run the world doing today – apart from trying to wreck the economy and move it to China? Tucker Carlson Tonight.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 23, 2023 1:21 pm

On ABC radio this week Albanese said there would be “an obligation to consult the voice” on matters directly affecting Indigenous people, such as native title.

“None of that would be subject to the court,” he said. “Someone couldn’t say, ‘Oh, hang on, we haven’t been consulted about that issue. You need to stop the process.’ It doesn’t do that. The processes of the parliament can occur unimpeded.”

So what he’s saying is that The Voice will be a Pan Aboriginal entity that will be able to make end runs around local Native Title Holders and there’s not a thing any Court can do to stop it?
I can see this Voice being very popular with Miners, Nuclear Waste Processors, and the Oil & Gas Industry.

Johnny Rotten
March 23, 2023 1:22 pm

White House Neocon Spokesman Admits – They Do Not Want Peace in Ukraine

“I have had two employees from Ukraine – Kiev and Donetsk. The one from Kiev just mouths the standard Ukrainian propaganda. If they give up the Donbas, they will then want all of Ukraine. The UK is deeply involved walking hand and hand with Biden into world war III. They have clearly crossed the Rubicon here and for no justification. Had they simply honored the Minsk Agreement and let the Donbas, which is ethnically Russian, separate from a regime that hates their guts the war would be over in 5 minutes.

Instead, Britain appears to have been planning to give Ukraine nuclear weapons with depleted Uranium. Putin has come out and warned the UK that “the delivery and use of depleted uranium missiles by the Ukrainian Armed Forces will be perceived as an attack against Russia with a weapon that has a ‘nuclear component’.” Putin elaborated:

“Today it became known that the United Kingdom, through the Deputy Head of the Ministry of Defense of the country, announced the supply of not only tanks to Ukraine but also shells with depleted uranium. It seems that the West really decided to fight Russia in the last Ukrainian not with words, but with deeds Russia will be forced to react once the collective West starts using weapons with a nuclear component.”

There are some who believe that Ukraine should just be nuked. Give the people 2 weeks to flee to Poland or Germany, and then nuke the region and make it unlivable. That is basically the legion that Rome certainly razed the city entirely, but there are no contemporary sources stating that the Romans salted the land to prevent the city of Carthage from rising a fourth time. The Greek writer from the 1st century BC, Diodorus Siculus, informs us that the city had been razed and Carthaginians destroyed. Horace informs us that after the city was destroyed, the land was symbolically plowed. Polybius in his “The Histories” makes no mention of the land being salted just that the city was completely destroyed. Appian of Alexandria does record that Carthage was reconstructed by the first Emperor Augustus (27BC-14AD) and to avoid the evil spells that were cast on the ground, Carthage was rebuilt in a different location.

Surely, if Russia nuked Ukraine that would kill the European breadbasket and it would guarantee Ukraine’s neutrality. Is that the only way to terminate this Neocon Proxy Way and save the world?

The three Punic Wars (264 BC–146 BC) between Rome and Carthage were a turning point in the history of the Mediterranean world and, more than any other conflict, the Second Punic War (218 BC–201 BC) appears to have been a defining time in Roman history. We also see the debasement in that coinage of Carthage as they waged war to defeat Rome. You can see the early silver coinage debased as the war unfolded.

As Hannibal marched through Spain and invaded Italy from the North, Rome issued its first gold coinage more as a symbol of wealth to the other Italian city-states that they should standby Rome and not join Hannibal.

On the Roman side, we also see the consequence of the war with the debasement of the silver quadrigatus, which was the Greek denomination of the didrachm they complied with for trade with the Greek world. Here too, we can see the cost of war is not just the lives lost, but also the inflation and the monetary debasement.

Hannibal’s war also forced Rome to establish the denarius, which was the weight reduction from the Greek standard of the Didrachm 6.5 grams to 4.0 grams in 211BC. Even though Rome won, the lesson here is that sometimes wars result in the complete collapse of a monetary standard and the rebirth of a new currency. This is what we face. The Neocons care nothing about the economics, nor about the lives of the people they send to die for their arrogance. They are the worst of humanity and should be driven from governments on a global scale.

Indeed, King Louis XIV (1643-1715) was on his deathbed when he lamented.

“I have been too fond of war.”
Meanwhile, the arrogance of the Neocons trying to dictate to the world and ordering China not to help Russia, Xi’s trip to Russia had no other outcome but to support Russia as he called Putin a ‘dear friend’ as China now pushes back against U.S. power knowing full well the real agenda here is to weaken Russia and then for NATO to invade on any pretense to destroy Russia once and for all. This is the Neocon’s dream and they could care less about the Ukrainian people. I have warned that the Ukrainian people are there to be slaughtered for the glory of the Neocons.”

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/white-house-neocon-spokesman-admits-they-do-not-want-peace-in-ukraine/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS

shatterzzz
March 23, 2023 1:24 pm

It looks like a stunt to draw attention to “Emily’s” situation rather than an attempt to enter girls changerooms.
You betray yourself in these moments, Ed.

Ed’s last foray into the “ladies” … LOL!
https://postimg.cc/xqXjWdbp

Roger
Roger
March 23, 2023 1:26 pm

Senator Thorpe says transphobes not welcome on Aboriginal land

Who made you boss lady?

calli
calli
March 23, 2023 1:26 pm

you are a true humanitarian

Chuckle. I knew you’d see it that way.

Disappointed though – I’m too shy to ever attend life class but was hoping for a report. I’ll stick to watercolour landscapes.

calli
calli
March 23, 2023 1:27 pm

Senator Thorpe says transphobes not welcome on Aboriginal land

Tribal Elders may disagree Ms 1/16th.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
March 23, 2023 1:31 pm

Mother Lode/Rabz:

I wish to protest against the fashion of using the first two letters of peoples names as an identifier.
I do not wish to be associated with a gay drink variety.

Ah, but a RoSe by any other name would smell as sweet…

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
March 23, 2023 1:33 pm

While I hope the Voice referendum fails, I do not believe that it will, the left have taken over our education systems and have been for many years producing socialist woke idiots. People under 35 voting in this referendum are followers and will not or cannot think for themselves.

rickw
rickw
March 23, 2023 1:33 pm

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

Did The Mongocracy just weld Hindu’s onto the newly formed Christian-Muslim alliance?

Soon it’s going to be COEXIST, but not in the way that they’d imagined.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
March 23, 2023 1:33 pm

Should mention, in case forgotten, that that was in response to a proscription by Robert Sewell.

Vicki
Vicki
March 23, 2023 1:39 pm

The three Punic Wars (264 BC–146 BC) between Rome and Carthage were a turning point in the history of the Mediterranean world and, more than any other conflict, the Second Punic War (218 BC–201 BC) appears to have been a defining time in Roman history.

Johnny Rotten – I love your referencing of the Punic Wars. Others have also drawn parallels with the Peloponnesian War between Athens and her allies & Sparta and their allies. Every student of Ancient History always marvels at the repetitive nature of the causes of human hostilities.

But we seem to fall blindly into the same pathways or succumb to the same moralistic rationales. While this seemingly reflects badly on the usefulness of History as a learning tool, I still naively cling to the possibility that we will learn something from the past.

I share your belief that had they agreed to peace talks in Turkey they may have reached an agreement to surrender, under UN supervision, the Donbas. Or at least allow a UN supervised poll re separation.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
March 23, 2023 1:40 pm

I’ll stick to watercolour landscapes.

While I stick to Italian cuisine

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 23, 2023 1:40 pm

‘Peter Dutton has proposed a federal ban on Nazi symbols as the Coalition takes up Labor’s challenge to condemn Nazi glorification…’
Sensible.
Albanese won’t be having a bar of that, since a Ban spells the end for Nazi scare campaigns benefitting Labor.

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
March 23, 2023 1:43 pm

OldOzzie says:
March 23, 2023 at 1:14 pm

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

Yes 19 %
No 71 %
Undecided 10 %

7827 votes

9065 votes now and % have not changed, maybe there is hope.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 23, 2023 1:44 pm

Did The Mongocracy just weld Hindu’s onto the newly formed Christian-Muslim alliance?

There’s no muslim/Christian alliance, both religions are moribund in Australia.
Hindus, their religion is making money and scamming government.

Robert Sewell
March 23, 2023 1:50 pm

Boambee John:

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

He could give you all his answers, and he’d still be a waste of pixels.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 23, 2023 1:50 pm

Thorpe “pulverised by police”…

Shes a proud followed of the English round ball game by the looks of the (poor quality) clip.
https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_1.4911242603550297%2C$multiply_0.6058%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_69%2C$y_0/t_crop_custom/q_auto:eco%2Cf_mp4/0ee3aa1677e164fd5f9dd1d1d268c386818f704f

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
March 23, 2023 1:51 pm

Senator Thorpe says transphobes not welcome on Aboriginal land

Before Whitey turned up and ruined everything there was a vibrant transsexual community in Aboriginal societies.

A lot of men bashing their heads against rocks to get skull-deforming injuries and spearing themselves in the leg – because inside they felt they were women.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 23, 2023 1:53 pm

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.smh.com.au%2Fpolitics%2Ffederal%2Fsenator-lidia-thorpe-clashes-with-police-at-anti-trans-rally-20230323-p5cunr.html

After the incident, Thorpe said she was “pulverised by the police for simply telling that person that they are not allowed to be here”.

“We do not tolerate this kind of filth being on Ngunnawal and Ngambri country, let alone, the Nazi support that these people have,” she said.

“They are racist, they are homophobic, they are destroying people’s lives and this country should be ashamed that they even let people like this into this country.

“So I’ve been assaulted by the police today as a sovereign Gunnai Gunditjmara DjabWurrung woman and the police need to answer for the assault but also this government needs to answer why these people are allowed into this country.”

Thorpe said she needed to seek medical attention and returned to Parliament House.

duncanm
duncanm
March 23, 2023 1:55 pm

thefrollickingmolesays:
March 23, 2023 at 1:50 pm
Thorpe “pulverised by police”…

aha, ahhahahha. Watch her crawl off after the dive.

https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/03/23/watch-australian-senator-in-police-scuffle-at-posie-parker-rally/

Zipster
Zipster
March 23, 2023 1:56 pm
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 23, 2023 1:57 pm

Others have also drawn parallels with the Peloponnesian War between Athens and her allies & Sparta and their allies.

Vicki – the “Thucydides Trap” is still relevant today: between Russia and NATO. I hope the Z War doesn’t last for thirty years like the P War did.

His is a fine read btw. Fascinating since Athens ruled the seas and Sparta were unbeatable on land, although the Athenians could stand them off if they had fortifications that they could defend. Athens increasingly matched Sparta in proto-fascism as time went by, which is why they lost. Expediency doesn’t trump values.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
March 23, 2023 1:57 pm

I do not wish to be associated with a gay drink variety.

Then you need to stop endorsing XXXX – beverage of choice of Gay Grampians everywhere.

duncanm
duncanm
March 23, 2023 2:00 pm

Black Ballsays:
March 23, 2023 at 9:37 am
Via Ace Of Spades comes this article.

Conservatives do not just report higher levels of happiness, they also report higher levels of meaning in their lives.

Weavers ” Spoiled-Child Psychology”
The religious, and those who believe in a greater meaning or power, are always aiming for something beyond life, while the non religious are wallowing in childish expectations

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 23, 2023 2:00 pm

Christian extremists- compare and contrast to the number of arrests at most lefty rallies that turn into violent activities.

Police are monitoring militant religious groups after tension over LGBTQ rights erupted into a violent attack on pro-trans protesters, who one fringe leader said should be “dragged by their … hair” away from a south-west Sydney Catholic church.


Christian activist Christian Sukkar was arrested and charged with encouraging the commission of crimes after he allegedly posted a video on social media on Monday, calling on “real boys … to shake [the protesters] up” and drag them by the hair.

The LGBTQ protesters, who did not want to be named because they feared for their safety, said they were ambushed when they arrived to object to One Nation leader Mark Latham’s address on parental rights at St Michael’s in Belfield.

Police sources, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said they have been watching tensions rise since the funeral of Catholic Cardinal George Pell, when Christian groups cut down ribbons tied to church fences by LGBTQ and child protection advocates.

Next Sunday, Christian Lives plans to mark the Day of the Unborn Child with a march. On a social media post, the timing of which was unclear, Rainbow Rights called on its members to attend and “counter-protest anti-abortion bigots”.

mizaris
mizaris
March 23, 2023 2:01 pm

aha, ahhahahha. Watch her crawl off after the dive.

Looked more like they were trying to assist her to her feet.

Zipster
Zipster
March 23, 2023 2:05 pm

Post covid myocarditis
Dr. John Campbell

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
March 23, 2023 2:06 pm

“We do not tolerate this kind of filth being on Ngunnawal and Ngambri country, let alone, the Nazi support that these people have,” she said.

This should help people to see what the attitude behind the Voice might be about.

Eyrie
Eyrie
March 23, 2023 2:07 pm

Thorpe said she needed to seek medical attention

The psychiatric kind would be good.

Winston Smith
March 23, 2023 2:08 pm

Bruce O’Nuke:

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

No.
I will not wear blackface, nor a dress for any amount of money.*
*However I may reconsider wearing a tasteful frock – with lace trimmings – for a suitable carton or two of Victory Gin.

calli
calli
March 23, 2023 2:08 pm

We do not tolerate this kind of filth being on Ngunnawal and Ngambri country

And that’s how it begins.

All you need to do is identify what type of people are “filth” at any given point in time.

calli
calli
March 23, 2023 2:09 pm

WiSmi has a certain cachet.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
March 23, 2023 2:12 pm

The LGBTQ protesters, who did not want to be named because they feared for their safety, said they were ambushed when they arrived to object to One Nation leader Mark Latham’s address on parental rights at St Michael’s in Belfield.

These protestors turn up with the sole intention of drowning out speakers and prevent them from being heard, and to make it so uncomfortable and intimidating that (hopefully) listeners will be panicked into leaving. To deny people they don’t like their free speech.

And then they justify it by calling what they do ‘free speech’.

calli
calli
March 23, 2023 2:15 pm

Lidia, here’s a tip. If you’re going to try to wrestle a mic in a heavily defended position…wear flat heels. And maybe trousers rather than a mini.

And make sure you take some goons to back you up as your magical 1/16th wymynsness will avail you naught.

Roger
Roger
March 23, 2023 2:20 pm

The religious, and those who believe in a greater meaning or power, are always aiming for something beyond life, while the non religious are wallowing in childish expectations

I was speaking with a bright young lady (double degree, law & psychology) last weekend who said to me that the government response to covid made her realise that she needed to look beyond this world for meaning as so much of what she’d put her trust in (including people in authority) was revealed to be hollow and bereft of integrity.

Johnny Rotten
March 23, 2023 2:21 pm

When Captain Cook landed on this land (And no one knew that it was called ‘Horse Tralliar’ as the Queen once said) he might have thought that he was in ‘Who knows where’…………………….And who would he negotiate with? FFS

calli
calli
March 23, 2023 2:24 pm

thefrollickingmole says:
March 23, 2023 at 1:50 pm

Indeed. Play it frame by frame and it paints an interesting picture.

At least she didn’t lose a shoe. Otherwise she’d be Whingerella.

Cassie of Sydney
March 23, 2023 2:26 pm

“These protestors turn up with the sole intention of drowning out speakers and prevent them from being heard, and to make it so uncomfortable and intimidating that (hopefully) listeners will be panicked into leaving. To deny people they don’t like their free speech.

And then they justify it by calling what they do ‘free speech’.”

Correct, and then these cowards got the fright of their lives when hundreds of south-western Sydney men, men who aren’t soy boys and who bear zero resemblance to the soy boys living in Newtown and Surry Hills, turned up. The far-left feral cockroaches also deliberately damaged a crucifix and tried to set fire to it.

Here’s an idea for them, because we all know how brave they are, next time they should protest outside a mosque in Lakemba and set fire to a Koran. We all know what would ensue, the reality is that whatever happened to them outside a Belfield church two days ago is nothing compared to what would happen to them outside a Lakemba mosque.

Cassie of Sydney
March 23, 2023 2:35 pm

“Wasn’t Lydia blocking the Pride parade only a few weeks back? What happened?”

Nothing, you, me or any conservative politician would have been charged. But not Lydia.

Dunny Brush
Dunny Brush
March 23, 2023 2:39 pm

This Thorpe bird is great. Good copy. Is there a media cycle she can’t interrupt?

Roger
Roger
March 23, 2023 2:40 pm

Wasn’t Lydia blocking the Pride parade only a few weeks back? What happened?

Iirc, she was blocking the police float.

Anders
Anders
March 23, 2023 2:44 pm

Wasn’t Lydia blocking the Pride parade only a few weeks back? What happened?

It was the NSW Police’s ‘pride’ float she was blocking, she was protesting against the police, not the pride part.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 23, 2023 2:45 pm

I was speaking with a bright young lady (double degree, law & psychology) last weekend who said to me that the government response to covid made her realise that she needed to look beyond this world for meaning as so much of what she’d put her trust in (including people in authority) was revealed to be hollow and bereft of integrity.

She wasn’t called Russell by any chance?

Russell Brand ‘I Need God or I Cannot Cope in this World’ (22 Mar)

“I need spirituality,” Brand told Fox News host Tucker Carlson last week. “I need God, or I cannot cope in this world.”

That’s a really good start Mr Brand! I suggest you get a Bible and read it. Start with the four Gospels and the letters, then go back to the OT to see how it links together.

Lots of red pills being consumed lately. It’s nice.

Cassie of Sydney
March 23, 2023 2:48 pm

“Amazing, absolutely amazing this never made it in to the immediate media coverage. I suppose when you just interview one of the cosplaying males that’s what gets left out.”

My work colleague, whose husband rushed off to the church to help his Leb mates, told me yesterday that the crucifix had been deliberately vandalised by the LGBTQI+ “protesters”. Then it was confirmed in today’s Telegraph. But of course, the MSM downplay this.

Roger
Roger
March 23, 2023 2:52 pm

She wasn’t called Russell by any chance?

Funnily enough his name came up, Bruce.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
March 23, 2023 2:52 pm

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

BIG PATRIARCHY IS WATCHING YOU!

Perhaps, scene where she is seated in the single spot in the apartment where the Telescreen camera is not visible, Winstonita Ngsmith can write in her diary “If there is any hope it lies in blokes who have cut their dicks off and wear frocks, and shielas who have had their tits hacked off and their forearms flensed and the skin fashioned into tubes they pass off as penises.”

And that poignant last scene where she is sitting in a cafe, smoking Rape Culture Cigarettes and sipping Rape Culture Gin, when she looks up at the telescreen and sees the face of Big Patriarchy, shimmering through her tears of joy, of happiness, happiness that she had finally won victory over herself and now did indeed love Big Patriarchy.

Vicki
Vicki
March 23, 2023 2:56 pm

Athens increasingly matched Sparta in proto-fascism as time went by, which is why they lost. Expediency doesn’t trump values.

Yes, yes! Nicely put BoN.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 23, 2023 2:57 pm

Lie enough, unchallenged and it becomes the truth.

The press conference ended just moments ago but I wanted to go back to this moment right before it wrapped up where Linda Burney drew parallels to past referendums.

“You will make me cry again,” she starts.

I was 10 years old in 1967, so I spent the first 10 years of my life not being counted. Not being considered, as did many other people on the stage today.

“We are not unaware of just how difficult referendum change is. We believe this will appeal to the fairness of the Australian people, and we believe that we have history on our side.

“And we are absolutely committed to the referendum. We’ve been around a very, very long time. We’ve seen the good and the bad. This is good.”

This is the same harlot who calls for “truth telling”.

rickw
rickw
March 23, 2023 3:07 pm

Before Whitey turned up and ruined everything there was a vibrant transsexual community in Aboriginal societies.

The sex change operations with no anaesthetic and a sharp rock were something to behold.

duncanm
duncanm
March 23, 2023 3:07 pm

Here’s an idea for them, because we all know how brave they are, next time they should protest outside a mosque in Lakemba

Cassie,

I think it is very instructive to note they got a right bollocking the first time they ventured west of Leichhardt.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 23, 2023 3:09 pm

Ive found out where Monty comes from…
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/22/eunuch-maker-appears-london-court-gbh-charges-castration

All of the alleged victims are said to have been part of a society in which people willingly undergo extreme body modification.

The practice is linked to a subculture where men become “nullos”, short for genital nullification, by having their penis and testicles removed.

shatterzzz
March 23, 2023 3:09 pm

How sad! .. my youngest daughter, who’s had all 17 jabs, tellz me she has caught BAT FLU for the 3rd time .. life is sooooo unfair …… LOL!

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
March 23, 2023 3:11 pm

tellz me she has caught BAT FLU for the 3rd time .. life is sooooo unfair …… LOL!

Must be a new variant.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 23, 2023 3:15 pm

The latest on the local bloke, being prosecuted for putting a culvert on a creek flowing through his property, and upsetting the mythical Wagayl- given the possibility of a prison sentence, a local couple presented him with a cake, baked in his honor – with a hacksaw blade sticking out of it…

caveman
caveman
March 23, 2023 3:15 pm

Elbow crying over the Voice, we are the ones that should be crying with all the money that’s been pissed up against the wall.
Vote No.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 23, 2023 3:19 pm

I was 10 years old in 1967, so I spent the first 10 years of my life not being counted.

Linda Burney has never been called to account for such an outrageous lie.

shatterzzz
March 23, 2023 3:23 pm

Idia Thorpe ..Gunnai Gunditjmara DjabWurrung woman
How on earth do you get these long winded tribal names from a “culture” that had no written languages and who’s oral “history” is based, soley, on “Tales My Nanna Told Me” .. FFS!

shatterzzz
March 23, 2023 3:26 pm

Must be a new variant.

And the irony! …. she was on a 4 day cruise Sydney/Brisbane/Sydney … LOL!

rickw
rickw
March 23, 2023 3:27 pm

Ive found out where Monty comes from…

You’d reckon they could have pumped out a bit fat while they were in there?

Cassie of Sydney
March 23, 2023 3:28 pm

“I think it is very instructive to note they got a right bollocking the first time they ventured west of Leichhardt.”

Indeed, but what staggers me is the arrogance, the hubris and the outright stupidity, thinking that they could go out to a south-west suburb and protest outside a Maronite Church.

Latham inferred yesterday that they’d been put up to it by the very sinister member for Sydney, Alex Greenwich. I would not be surprised.

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
March 23, 2023 3:33 pm

Genuine question here. Is “natural gas” ( such as the stuff that comes out of the jets on my cooking stove), actually a fossil fuel ie. originates from fossils?

Johnny Rotten
March 23, 2023 3:33 pm

Here you are stupid Stencho Pantyhose, Dotty Dot of Dottiness and the short arse Italian J erk Off Cretin…………………………………

The 1933 Bank Holiday – Can it Happen Again?

QUESTION: Marty there are a lot of people who seem to be trying to create a panic. Some are claiming the stock market will plunge by 50%. Others are saying nothing will survive other than gold. It seems like none of these people have any sense of what is really unfolding. They were saying the same thing for different reasons before the banking crisis. Can you offer any historical perspective?

Thank you. You seem to be the only real source these days.

Pete

ANSWER: The Bank Holiday took place the first week of March 1933. It began with governors closing down the banks in their states. Once one began, like COVID rules, they quickly jumped on the bandwagon. As reported by March 4th, 1933, some 41 states had already declared a banking holiday. Back then, the president took office in March – not January. Thus, Roosevelt was sworn in on March 4th, 1933. As the new president, FDR delivered what is arguably his best-known speech.

“So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is…fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and of vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory. And I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.”

The following day, Roosevelt declared a national banking holiday on March 5th, 1933. Then Congress responded by passing the Emergency Banking Act of 1933 on March 9th, 1933. This action was combined with the Federal Reserve’s commitment to supply unlimited amounts of currency to reopened banks. Back then, they effectively created a de facto 100% deposit insurance and this was before the FDIC was created.

However, what the history books have omitted because it revealed the real reason for the major banking crisis, was the confiscation of gold precisely as Germany did in December 1922 seizing 10% of all assets which unleashed hyperinflation in 1923.

In Herbert Hoover’s memoirs (1951), he documents the fact that Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) played a very dirty game of politics. There were rumors that FDR would confiscate gold in 1932 BEFORE the election. These rumors spread and people ran to banks to withdraw their funds. The night before the election in 1932, FDR denied that he would do such a thing. After FDR won the election, the real bank panic began. FDR would not take office until March 1933.

The run on banks began as the Great Depression started. In 1929 alone, 659 banks closed their doors due to mismanagement and speculation. Ironically, to save money on paper, it was also in 1929 when the currency was reduced in size to save money. This time, they want to move to digital and save 100% on printing money. Here in 2023, the failures are due to the WOKE agenda which has deprived the banks of risk management rather than speculation.

However, as the 1931 Sovereign Debt Crisis hit, the number of bank failures skyrocketed. Goldman Sacks and others were selling foreign bonds to Americans in small denominations., As Europe began to default, US banks holding foreign debt and individuals in need of cash led to a banking panic for external reasons. Here is a chart showing the listing of bonds on the NYSE. We can easily see the collapse in the bond market thanks to the 1931 Sovereign Debt Crisis.

By 1932, an additional 5,102 banks went out of business. Families lost their life savings overnight. Thirty-eight states had adopted restrictions on withdrawals in an effort to forestall the panic. By March 4th, 41 states had declared a bank holiday shutting down banks. Bank failures increased in 1933, and Franklin Roosevelt deemed remedying these failing financial institutions his first priority after being inaugurated.

However, it was actually the election of FDR that started the banking crisis post-1931. Hoover pleaded with FDR to please come out and address the gold confiscation rumors. People had been hoarding their gold coins fearing the rumored confiscation. Despite Hoover’s plea for FDR to come out and deny the rumors after the election, he remained silent. Given FDR’s manipulation of Japan and the attack on Pearl Harbor which he appeared to instigate with sanctions confiscating Japanese assets in the USA, denying the sale of any energy to Japan, and then threatening to use the fleet to block them from buying fuel from anywhere else, They Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. There were Senate investigations afterward about FDR’s role because the US had already broken the Japanese code and knew in advance about the attack on Pearl Harbor. He did that to force the US into World War II.

It was in his character to remain silent and create the worst banking crisis in history before he was sworn in as president. FDR was a radical socialist and many viewed that he admired Lenin. If it were not for Mr. Jones exposing the truth behind Stalin, even the corrupt New York Times journalist promoting Stalinism was meeting with FDR. The run on the banks became massive when FDR won the election on November 8th, 1932. FDR allowed the banking system to implode with people rushing to withdraw the money in gold coins.

At 1:00 a.m. on Monday, March 6th, 1933, President Roosevelt issued Proclamation 2039 ordering the suspension of all banking transactions, effective immediately. Roosevelt had taken the oath of office only thirty-six hours earlier.

The terms of the presidential proclamation specified:

[N]o such banking institution or branch shall pay out, export, earmark, or permit the withdrawal or transfer in any manner or by any device whatsoever, of any gold or silver coin or bullion or currency or take any other action which might facilitate the hoarding thereof; nor shall any such banking institution or branch pay out deposits, make loans or discounts, deal in foreign exchange, transfer credits from the United States to any place abroad, or transact any other banking business whatsoever.

For an entire week, Americans would not have access to banks or banking services. They could not withdraw or transfer their money, nor could they make deposits. The entire economy ran simply on cash in your pocket.

While the first phase of the banking crisis unfolded after 1929 due to speculation losses (hence Glass–Steagall Act), then the second phase was the 1931 Sovereign Debt Crisis, it was the third phase with the election of FDR that led to thousands of banks failing as there was a mad rush to withdraw your gold coin. But a new round of problems that began in early 1933 placed a severe strain on New York banks, many of which held balances for banks in other parts of the country. About 4,000 banks failed during this period alone bringing the total to over 9,000.

Much to everyone’s relief, when the institutions that could reopen for business on March 13th, 1933 saw depositors standing in line to return their stashed cash to neighborhood banks. Within two weeks, Americans had redeposited more than half of the currency that they had withdrawn post-FDR’s election on November 8th, 1932. This would prove to be a sneaky trick of FDR to get people to redeposit all the gold coins they had withdrawn – as we are about to explore.

The stock market was also ordered closed when FDR came to power. With the cleverness of a real con artist operating a Ponzi Scheme to gain the confidence of the people, FDR needed the gold coin to be deposited for Phase 4 of the banking crisis. On March 15th, 1933, (The Ides of March), the stock market was allowed to reopen. On the first day of trading, the New York Stock Exchange recorded the largest one-day percentage price increase ever.

The week before the closure, the Dow Jones Industrials fell to 49.68. The week following the closure, the Dow rallied to 64.56 – a percentage gain of virtually 30% over the banking holiday. The shorts who were better on the collapse of the market once it reopened were devastated. It was a major short-covering rally.

With the benefit of hindsight, the nationwide Bank Holiday and the Emergency Banking Act of March 1933, ended the bank runs that had plagued the Great Depression, but it also set the stage for the confiscation of gold. What you have to understand is that Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s (FDR) actions in 1933 were not directed simply at gold. He was embarking on what he called the New Deal, which was a Marxist Agenda that was very popular at the time. His New Deal would end austerity, whereby they were maintaining a balanced budget in the belief that they needed to inspire confidence in the currency.

It was this balanced budget philosophy that also inspired John Maynard Keynes who argued that in times of economic distress when the demand has collapsed, that is when the state needs to run a deficit and increase the money supply. There was a simultaneous international flight of capital from Europe to the United States in the face of European sovereign debt defaults. That capital flight lasted for nearly two years until FDR won the election in 1932. There was much concern that Roosevelt would do what Germany did in 1922 in confiscating assets. That was the rumor about the possible confiscation of gold.

Milton Friedman criticized the Fed because the capital flows poured into the US but they refused to monetize it. We can see that as Europe defaulted on its debts in 1931, the capital rushed head-first into the dollar. Then we see that the dollar peaked in November 1932 with the election of FDR fearing that would weaken the dollar and exploit the economy. All this gold came to the USA pushing the dollar higher, but the Fed refused to monetize it, was Milton’s criticism. The backing of gold behind the dollar doubled in supply between 1929 and 1931.

So, you must separate gold and the devaluation of the dollar to comprehend what the issue was all about. FDR could have simply abandoned the gold standard, as did Britain, and not confiscated gold. However, that would have also been sufficient to end austerity. But the bankers would have profited and sold the gold overseas at higher prices. Roosevelt in his confiscation of gold was intended to deprive the private sector of profiting from his devaluation of the dollar which was rising the price of gold from $20 to $35. You must keep in mind that he even degraded Pierre du Pont (1870-1954) and called him the “Merchant of Death” because he produced arms for World War I and made a profit off of that war demand. Many saw Roosevelt as a traitor to his own class.

ExecutiveOrder-Gold-ConfiscationThe confiscation of the gold was for two reasons. First, FDR was changing the monetary system from one where there was no distinction domestically from internationally to a two-tier system. Gold would freely circulate without restriction only internationally. Therefore, the confiscation of gold was altering the monetary system moving to a two-tier monetary system with gold only used in international transactions.

Consequently, FDR confiscated gold to move to a two-tier system and to deprive Americans of any profit from his devaluation. What FDR then did was confiscate gold from all institutions ordering them to turn over whatever they had. Ironically, this move was intended to target bankers rather than the public. FDR did not have people knocking on every door demanding all their gold. That is why there are plenty of US gold coins that have survived. If individuals possessed them rather than an institution, then they kept what they owned

Therefore, Roosevelt was able to seize whatever gold existed in banks. He declared all contracts void that had gold provisions for payment. It was in Perry v. United States – 294 U.S. 330 (1935) that the US Supreme Court ruled that Congress, by virtue of its power to deal with gold coin as a medium of exchange, was authorized to prohibit its export and limit its use in foreign exchange. Hence, the restraint thus imposed upon holders of gold coins was incidental to their ownership of it, and gave them no cause of action. id/P. 294 U. S. 356.

The Supreme Court held that it could not say that the exercise of this power by Congress was arbitrary or capricious. id/P. 294 U. S. 356. They held that even if the Government’s repudiation of the gold clause in the government bonds was unconstitutional, it did not entitle the plaintiff to recover more than the loss he has actually suffered, and of which he may rightfully complain. id/P. 294 U. S. 354. Therefore, the Joint Resolution of June 5, 1933, held:

“insofar as it undertakes to nullify such gold clauses in obligations of the United States and provides that such obligations shall be discharged by payment, dollar for dollar, in any coin or currency which at the time of payment is legal tender for public and private debts, is unconstitutional.” id/P. 294 U. S. 349.

Yet, swapping gold for dollars created no loss that was cognizable even though the taking of gold was unconstitutional. Clearly, the Supreme Court did not consider the loss in terms of foreign exchange. The Court reasoned:

“Plaintiff has not attempted to show that, in relation to buying power, he has sustained any loss; on the contrary, in view of the adjustment of the internal economy to the single measure of value as established by the legislation of the Congress, and the universal availability and use throughout the country of the legal tender currency in meeting all engagements, the payment to the plaintiff of the amount which he demands would appear to constitute not a recoupment of loss in any proper sense, but an unjustified enrichment.”

In my understanding of the law, those who argued before the Court made purely a domestic argument. A dollar was still a dollar in domestic terms so there was no cognizable loss and the Court did not reach the constitutional question. Had they argued that their loss was with respect to some debt owed in British pounds, they there was a loss. Purely domestically, the only loss would have been to inflation and the Court would never rule against the government on such an issue.

All of that said, there does not appear to be any historical precedent for the stock market to collapse by 50%, all tangible assets to turn to dust, and only gold will survive given a banking crisis where Biden and Yellen sit on each other’s hands and do nothing. Trust me. Every major Democratic donor will be screaming. And as for those claiming the Fed will reverse its position, say inflation is suddenly no longer a problem, and monetize everything in sight, this is even too big for the Fed. have to create QE and absorb all the debt, there to things have changed. If the Fed does that, it will also lose all credibility. It squarely understands that inflation comes from handing Ukraine a black check to the most corrupt government in the world. The Fed raised rates yesterday for it cannot back down. It is choreographing the best it can but the bankers do not listen.

If they simply stand behind all the deposits, then there will be no panic. That is what they did in 1933 and the market rallied in confidence thereafter.”

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/banking-crisis/the-1933-bank-holiday-can-it-happen-again/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS

caveman
caveman
March 23, 2023 3:34 pm

I just saw Idiot Thorpe crawling on all fours dragging the Aboriginal flag.
Elbow crying, Nazis and Idiot Thorpe.
Makes for a good popcorn night in news today.

Pogria
Pogria
March 23, 2023 3:35 pm

snork! Lidia executing a first class example of a “Bikie Moll Crawl”.

rickw
rickw
March 23, 2023 3:37 pm

I just saw Idiot Thorpe crawling on all fours dragging the Aboriginal flag.
Elbow crying, Nazis and Idiot Thorpe.

Definitely going to help the 10% undecided work out that The Voice is an absolute freak show.

Johnny Rotten
March 23, 2023 3:41 pm

Another St Trinian’s Film on CH 92 (GEM) now……………………………….

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 23, 2023 3:43 pm

There were Senate investigations afterward about FDR’s role because the US had already broken the Japanese code and knew in advance about the attack on Pearl Harbor. He did that to force the US into World War II.

The Americans had broken the Japanese diplomatic code, and knew war was imminent, but they believed the Japanese would attack the Philippines, and Malaya, but not Pearl Harbor.

Dot
Dot
March 23, 2023 3:44 pm

Senator Thorpe says transphobes not welcome on Aboriginal land

Chur, chur.

Captain Cook was greeted by trans flags. The Aboriginal flag came later, around 1810.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 23, 2023 3:44 pm

snork! Lidia executing a first class example of a “Bikie Moll Crawl”.

Was she doing a Brittany?

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2023 3:47 pm

Between Grampian Nazis and Tranny Dreaming is anybody doing any governing? We await the sweet meteor of death or international capital markets, whichever comes first.

rickw
rickw
March 23, 2023 3:47 pm

Was she doing a Brittany?

The thought of Brittany sans knickers was bad enough!!

Johnny Rotten
March 23, 2023 3:48 pm

Captain Cook was greeted by trans flags. The Aboriginal flag came later, around 1810.

The Great Captain Cook was not welcomed at all. So much to ‘Welcome to Country;

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2023 3:49 pm

Thank goodness for the invisible hand, when it is allowed to operate.

Chris
Chris
March 23, 2023 3:52 pm

Thank goodness for the invisible hand, when it is allowed to operate

“Not half the surprise he gave Invisible Man.”

Major Elvis Newton
Major Elvis Newton
March 23, 2023 3:54 pm

Under the proposed referendum wording on “mak(ing) representations to the Parliament and the Executive Government” the voice will have to be consulted on everything from national security, to asylum seeker policy to funding the ABC.

All, it can be argued, are “matters relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples”.

Not only that, it can FORCE the government to LISTEN to any recommendations IT makes to government. This is a two-way street.

It can then choose to not listen and tie up the courts or stymie the legitimate business of government and potentially leverage any urgent action for its political ends.

rickw
rickw
March 23, 2023 3:55 pm

Between Grampian Nazis and Tranny Dreaming is anybody doing any governing?

We’re in a fully fledged idiocracy.

Going to be one hell of a ride!

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2023 3:57 pm

aha, ahhahahha. Watch her [Thorpe] crawl off after the dive.

That’s gonna need some careful editing for the 6pm News.

Cassie of Sydney
March 23, 2023 3:58 pm

“Between Grampian Nazis and Tranny Dreaming is anybody doing any governing? We await the sweet meteor of death or international capital markets, whichever comes first.”

This is what this country has descended into, a farce, just not a funny farce. When I think of my grandparents, who all lived through World War I, who struggled through the Great Depression, who survived Word War II, with one grandfather fighting in New Guinea and uncles fighting in North Africa and the Pacific, despite what they endured, they created families, businesses, and a society they were proud of, they loved this country and they gifted us something special. And now? Look at what’s been done with that legacy, it’s been trashed.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
March 23, 2023 3:59 pm

Was she doing a Brittany?

So the masculine form is ‘going commando’, and the feminine form is ‘going Brittany’?

132andBush
132andBush
March 23, 2023 4:02 pm

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

Here’s hoping he gets vapourised.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 23, 2023 4:07 pm

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

Show some balls Peter, and add in communist symbols. The commos killed far more than the Nazis did.

Roger
Roger
March 23, 2023 4:08 pm

“Between Grampian Nazis and Tranny Dreaming is anybody doing any governing?”

Be careful what you wish for.

calli
calli
March 23, 2023 4:09 pm

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

There appears to be a clue here. Hiding in plain sight.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
March 23, 2023 4:11 pm

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.

Hmmm. Might have to look at removing some serious funds from them in fixed deposits when the term is up, not letting them roll over as usual.

They can play politics then so can their depositors. There are always other banks.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2023 4:21 pm

Be careful what you wish for.

If I’m paying for this I at least expect them to look as if somebody is in charge.

P
P
March 23, 2023 4:25 pm

Maybe some of the legal minds here may wish to read Gray Connolly’s opinion in regard to
the Australian Constitution and the proposed alteration of it to include a new body to be called the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice (Voice).

Kneel
Kneel
March 23, 2023 4:26 pm

” 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.”

No, (m)ethanol is crap as a transportation fuel.

Better to synthesize propane because:

* (m)ethanol is hydrophilic, and getting rid of water contamination is much more difficult for (m)ethanol than petrol;
* (m)ethanol destroys rubber-based engine seals, hoses etc that petrol and propane do not;
* propane (LPG) is already about half the price of petrol (about 60% in terms of cost/km – you do use a little more) and we have more than we can use in this country (we export plenty);
* we already have anaerobic bacteria that can turn organic waste into propane, so we can even solve our sewerage disposal issues as well as use other organic waste (kitchen and garden waste etc), rather than turn “food” (corn, sugar etc) into (m)ethanol;
* until we become fully “sustainable”, we can use “mined” propane/butane (as at present) while we are “rolling out” the change;
* infrastructure, including vehicle delivery (pumps at service stations), transport, storage etc etc, is already mature, widely available and very, very safe;
* other than the tank and fuel delivery system, no engine mods needed;
* near identical performance with existing petrol engines;
* can be run as “dual fuel” (both petrol and propane tanks/fuel delivery, switch between as desired/required);
* near identical range on propane (more range if dual fuel!) vs about a quarter of the range for the same volume of (m)ethanol (compared to petrol);
* propane never “goes off” – it can sit in the tank unused for years, and still be perfectly fine;
* propane burns cleaner than any liquid fuel, because it is a gas when it burns.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 23, 2023 4:43 pm

Kneel – methanol is two steps.

2H2O -> 2H2 + O2
3H2 + CO2 -> CH3OH + H2O

The first needs electricity, the second heat over a catalyst. That is all. Easy.
Making propane is harder, therefore more expensive.

Brazil currently uses nearly pure ethanol in cars without much problem. It is hygroscopic like methanol. I already mentioned the engine and fuel system changes – they’re no more difficult than doing the same for propane. An LPG kit is not expensive, nor would a methanol retrofit.

Don’t get me wrong – I see nothing to say we should give up petrol and diesel at all. CAGW ain’t happening, and some extra CO2 in the atmosphere would help agriculture a lot. After we run out of crude oil we can convert coal to crude using standard CTL tech – which is in operation in many places around the world, especially RSA and China.

We can do methanol once we run out of coal. But it’s interesting that German car guys are starting to realize that EVs mean death to their industry, and are now pushing methanol as a fall back option.

calli
calli
March 23, 2023 4:44 pm

Yikes! Just had a lightning strike 50m away. That got the roos hopping.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
March 23, 2023 4:46 pm

The following is something I thought about last year

UK sending Depleted Uranium Ammo to Ukraine – Putin that’s a Nice Aircraft carrier you Have UK & Nice Nuclear Carrier Fleets you Have America

Why Hypersonic Weapons Change Everything – They can sink ALL of the U.S. aircraft carriers, all at once

Authored by Alex Krainer via TrendCompass,

When it comes to all matters military, I have been following a handful of analysts among whom Croatian Admiral Davorin Domazet (retired) emerged as perhaps my favorite. He has deep and detailed command of technical matters (like Andreiy Martyanov he insists that you can’t prevail in modern warfare without deep knowledge of of advanced mathematics and probability). More importantly, he has perhaps the clearest understanding of the broad historical context of today’s clash between Russia and the western powers.

Unfortunately, Admiral Domazet does not give many interviews and none in English, but I thought that his last one was important enough to share more broadly in this article.

If you happen to speak Croatian/Serbian languages, you can find the interview, published on 17 March 2023 at this link. It runs over 2 hours.

The context is everything

Domazet is the only military analyst that I know of, who takes into account the history of western financial oligarchy, their Venetian roots, migration to Amsterdam where they formed the Dutch Empire, and subsequent move to London which, to this day remains the ideological and spiritual headquarters of the undead British Empire.

He has correctly labelled humanity’s enemy as the “western occult oligarchy,” and has even called the war in Ukraine as the clash between Christ and anti-Christ, underlining that the anti-Christ is in the west. Mind you Croatia is a NATO member state and is, like Poland, a catholic Slavic nation, sharing even some of its cultural Russophobia (though it may not be quite as rabid in Croatia as it is in Poland).

About Russia’s hypersonic weapons

However, the part of Domazet’s last interview that I found particularly worth sharing was what he laid out about Russia’s hypersonic weapons.

It was in 2018 that Vladimir Putin took the stage to present Russia’s new hypersonic weapons. The term “hypersonic” refers to missiles that fly at speeds of 5 mach and higher. At the time, many in the west dismissed Putin’s claims and thought it was a bluff. We now know that he wasn’t bluffing. Russia is the only country in the world that has deployment-ready hypersonic missiles – not one but three types: Zircons, Kinzhals and Avantguards.

Domazet explained why these weapons are radical game changers in warfare. Namely, in World War 1, tanks were the game changing military technology; since World War 2, it’s been the air-force. Aircraft carrier strike groups have been an irresistible force wherever they travelled, dominating the seas ever since. But hypersonic precision missiles have rendered that force obsolete overnight.

The main military front in today’s global conflict, according to Domazet, are the Anti-Ballistic (ABM) batteries which the US has set up on the Poland-Romania axis, and the Russians on the North Pole-Kaliningrad-Crimea-Syria axis. These are defensive systems, conceived to intercept incoming nuclear missiles. However, today’s ABM systems are only effective against missiles flying at speeds up to mach 3.5 (3.5 x the speed of sound).

The Kinzhal turns mighty aircraft carrier strike groups into sitting ducks

Russia’s new Kinzhal missile flies at speeds of mach 12 to mach 15 and nothing in western defensive arsenals can stop its strike. During the war in Ukraine, Russia a stunning demonstration of its power.

The first Kinzhal strike, delivered one month after the beginning of hostilities in Ukraine, was perhaps the most significant: Russian forces targeted a large weapons depot in Ukraine which had been built to withstand a nuclear strike. It was buried 170 meters (over 500 ft) underground and protected by several layers of armored concrete.

The Kinzhal flies at altitudes of between 20 and 40 km, with a maximum range of 2,000 km. When above target, it dives perpendicularly and accelerates to 15 mach, gathering enormous kinetic energy in addition to its explosive payload.

That first strike with a single Kinzhal missile destroyed Ukraine’s nuke-proof underground weapons depot. This was a message for the west.

Moscow calling: we can sink ALL your carriers

The Kinzhal was developed with the express purpose of destroying aircraft carrier strike groups. If it could destroy a warehouse built to withstand a nuclear strike, it can cut through an aircraft carrier like a hot knife through butter.

According to Admiral Domazet, neither the western powers nor China are anywhere near having weapons like that. He explained that the critical issue with hypersonic weapons are the extreme temperatures reached during hypersonic flights on the surface of missiles, which can cause the missiles to break apart mid-flight. Russia is the only nation that has developed special materials that enable the missiles to withstand this stress, so their flight can be controlled throughout its trajectory and delivered with pinpoint accuracy.

Western intelligence estimated that Russia had some 50 Kinzhals at the start of the war in Ukraine, and thus far it has used only 9 of them. Last week, they fired six Kinzhals in a single salvo. That too, was a message.

Here’s how Domazet explained it:

United States have 11 aircraft carrier strike groups. Of these, fewer than half will be active at any one time (while others are in dock for maintenance, or in preparation).

Firing six Kinzhals in one go is military-speak for, “we have the capability to sink ALL of your aircraft carriers in at once.”

Russia will run out of ammunitions any minute now, (experts say)…

Russia has the capacity to build about 200 of them per year and now has means of delivering them anywhere from aircraft, ships and submarines. In addition to destroying aircraft carriers, they can destroy NATOs ABM missile sites also.

In a nutshell, Russia has – for now – won the arms race.

It could take the western powers 10 years or longer to catch up and until then, the only way to avoid losing the war is to either concede defeat and accept Russia’s security demands, or to escalate the conflict to nuclear exchange.

A conservative estimate suggests that at least a billion people would perish in such a conflict and nobody would win. Who would do such a thing? The idea of using nuclear weapons is, in fact, so repugnant that we can be assured that our leaders will never chose the path of escalation.

Surely, nobody’s that evil, are they?

sfw
sfw
March 23, 2023 4:56 pm

Dunno if anyone else has linked to this, John Campbells review of a study into excess deaths is a ripper. The paper is a preprint but seems pretty good. Either it will be ignored by the medical establishment in the hope it will never be read, or if there’s the slightest error no matter how small it will be magnified to massive proportions so as to make the paper second rate and untrustworthy.

Slowly but surely the wall of covid breaks, it will eventually fail, but those who pushed the vaxxes and ignored the evidence will eventually be exposed. The best we can hope for is a Royal Commission with wide terms of reference, but better would be a Nuremburg style inquiry and trial.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyo2UNQcdpQ&t=3s

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
March 23, 2023 4:57 pm

Detransitioned Teen Girl Sues Kaiser Permanente Over Gender Transition Gone Wrong

BY TYLER DURDEN
THURSDAY, MAR 23, 2023 – 12:40 PM

A detransitioned teen is suing Kaiser Permanente hospital because doctors removed her breasts during her transgender procedure.

Layla Jane is an 18-year-old woman who began to identify as transgender at age 11. Jane, at the time, wanted to transition to a male. Initially, doctors at Kaiser denied her any transition hormones, saying she could take them after turning 16. However, doctors changed their minds, approved her request, and performed a double mastectomy when she was 13.

Jane wrote on Twitter, “Mind boggling to me that a doctor signed off on a double mastectomy for me before I took a sex ed course. I barely started 8th grade, I was 13.”

In the letter of intent to sue (pdf), her attorneys at LiMandri and Jonna LLP accused the doctors of approving the breast-removal surgery “without performing an adequate evaluation and treatment of Layla’s extensive mental health co-morbidities.”

According to the letter, Jane suffers from anxiety, depression, pubertal struggles, body dysmorphia, and serious self-image concerns.

“These doctors also pushed Layla and her parents down this transition path engaging in intentional, malicious, and oppressive concealment of important information and false representations,” the letter states.

The lawsuit demands unspecified amounts of pay for damages related to her health issues during her transition period from ages 12 to 17. The case listed Jane as suffering from permanent, irreversible mutilation, an induced state of endocrine disease, an increased risk of being infertile, and the fact that she would never be able to breastfeed a child.

During an appearance on Fox News with her attorney, Harmeet Dhillon, Jane said, “I don’t think I’m better off for the experience, and I think transition just completely added fuel to the fire that was my pre-existing conditions.”

In a statement to DailyMail, Kaiser said that its doctors “practice compassionate, evidence-based medicine founded on sound research and best medical practices.”

“When adolescent patients, with parental support, seek gender-affirming care, the patient’s care team carefully evaluates their treatment options,” Kaiser spokesman Marc Brown said. “The care decisions always rest with the patient and their parents, and, in every case, we respect the patients and their families’ informed decisions about their personal health.”

The Epoch Times reached out to Kaiser for comment.

Chloe Cole, 18, is another young woman who detransitione

Johnny Rotten
March 23, 2023 5:02 pm

A conservative estimate suggests that at least a billion people would perish in such a conflict and nobody would win. Who would do such a thing? The idea of using nuclear weapons is, in fact, so repugnant that we can be assured that our leaders will never chose the path of escalation.

Surely, nobody’s that evil, are they?

Watch this space………………………..

cohenite
March 23, 2023 5:08 pm

Psays:
March 23, 2023 at 4:25 pm
Maybe some of the legal minds here may wish to read Gray Connolly’s opinion in regard to
the Australian Constitution and the proposed alteration of it to include a new body to be called the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice (Voice).

2 things will flow from the screech;
1 Unlike ATSIC the voice will be irrevocable. Birney and other arseholes have admitted this is what they want.
2 It will enable 3rd nations to impose rent and control over private land.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 23, 2023 5:12 pm

2 things will flow from the screech;

Three things will flow from the screech – The High Court will be tied up for months in legal dogfights over how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 23, 2023 5:16 pm

Comment , from the Oz.

Neil
2 hours ago
FIFO, if your Lid, the Min for Indigenous Affairs is not the Voice, why is she drawing ministerial pay and perks?? Her office number, email adress and FB page are out there. Surely the existing Aboriginal, tax payer funded peak voice bodies can contact her?!

Tom
Tom
March 23, 2023 5:18 pm

Surely, nobody’s that evil, are they?

OldOzzie, in the modern world, evil is cloaked in good intentions.

For example, those who say they want to advance Aboriginal well-being simply end up being enablers of vast government bureaucracies that make ZERO difference to Aboriginal disadvantage, life expectancy or happiness.

The ONLY reason government bureaucracies unmoored from any idea of key performance indicators exist is to get bigger, not to produce results.

Thankfully, most Australians who have to make a living without the obstruction of government will vote NO to the farcical Voice referendum because it will make zero difference to the life experience of Aborigines and is an invention of politicians and bureaucrats purely for their own benefit.

Johnny Rotten
March 23, 2023 5:18 pm

callisays:
March 23, 2023 at 4:44 pmve
Yikes! Just had a lightning strike 50m away. That got the roos hopping.

I remember driving from Colorado Springs to Denver in August 1983 and I had no scarrier a time in my life. The lightenining Bolts were every where,,,,,,,,,,,,,

JMH
JMH
March 23, 2023 5:28 pm

Tom @ 5.18 pm:

Thankfully, most Australians who have to make a living without the obstruction of government will vote NO to the farcical Voice referendum because it will make zero difference to the life experience of Aborigines and is an invention of politicians and bureaucrats purely for their own benefit.

I’d argue that “most Australians” are actually unaware of what this Screech thing entails. Probably about 30% of eligible voters have educated themselves. That leaves 70% who have been brainwashed (by everything) to go for the feelz and have no idea of the danger voting “yes” will be to the country and more probably, to themselves.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 23, 2023 5:31 pm

Good article at Quadrant OnLine about the close links between the Nazi Party and the Nazis.

The LGBTIXYZ+ people might wish to lower their profile in relation to accusations of eeeeevillll Nazis at rallies.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 23, 2023 5:39 pm

https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/the-constitution/2023/03/the-most-insidious-defect-in-the-voices-dna/

Another highly relevant article, from Quadrant. Who is an Aborigine?

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
March 23, 2023 5:41 pm

Got covid again.
That’s almost 12 months to the dot since I last had the killer sniffles.
I attended a public meeting with nearly 200 present two days ago – I don’t think we need to look any further.
A bit hot and lethargic otherwise OK.

Tom
Tom
March 23, 2023 5:41 pm

Bloody hell. Even though she’s a Jew who has to endure constant racial abuse because of her ethnicity, Sharri Markson is essentially a luvvie addicted to political fashion.

David Littleproud is one of the idiots who make the LNP unsupportable, but Markson’s harrassment of him on her show today was embarrassing if you’re a political realist.

Markson is one the media idiots who support the tokenism of the Voice because it makes her feel good as a whitey in a distant city.

Do better, Sharri.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 23, 2023 5:41 pm

Moments before this post…
Better to synthesize propane because:
propane

Pogria
Pogria
March 23, 2023 5:46 pm

Tom,
you beat me to it. I was going to post a similar comment. I would add, when footage was shown of the bikie moll, Markson commented that “the bikie moll was thrown to the ground by Police”.

Didn’t happen. The bikie moll threw herself onto the ground. Markson’s eyesight is also bad.

I gave her a go on Sky because commenters here mentioned how great she was. I can’t see it.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
March 23, 2023 5:48 pm

The wedge is well and truly on with the renewables transmission lines.
The company is believed to be offering $20,000 per hectare annually for recompense and access.
Watch the brave crowd melt away who said “no way” two days ago. They’ll be wearing their knees out praying for it to be them.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 23, 2023 5:49 pm

ABC does its usual “boogs booga” Palmersaurus story…

Mining billionaire Clive Palmer rakes in more than $700 million from Pilbara assets

To give the sum the voice approved unit of measurement its 7.7 days of Aboriginal expenditure.
(working on the figure of 490mill a day)


https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/indigenous-health-welfare/indigenous-health-welfare-2015/contents/expenditure-workforce-key-points

On a per person basis, government welfare expenditure was $13,968 per Indigenous Australian, compared with $6,019 per non-Indigenous Australian in 2012–13—this equates to expenditure of $2.32 per Indigenous person for every $1.00 spent per non-Indigenous person.

From the ABS
Based on the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) projections, the number of Indigenous Australians in 2021 was estimated to be 881,600. The Indigenous Australian population is projected to reach about 1.1 million people by 2031 (ABS 2019b).
..
881600 x $13968 = $12,314,188,800

If only they had a voice….

JMH
JMH
March 23, 2023 5:50 pm

I announced here quite some time ago that I would never watch Markson on Sky again. I have held fast to that statement.

calli
calli
March 23, 2023 5:52 pm

The bikie moll threw herself onto the ground.

That is my observation also. Very dramatic.

Good to see the spruikers being so honest. Bodes well for the legislation should it get up.

Frank
Frank
March 23, 2023 5:54 pm

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.

A manhandling, not the usual kind.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 23, 2023 5:54 pm

Much wow.
Very impressed
genocide proven…

From 2021 the numbers were 881,600

From 2022 they were 984,000

Thats a 9% population growth in one year.
https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-peoples/estimates-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-australians/latest-release

Thats a shitload of fresh whistlecocks.

Black Ball
Black Ball
March 23, 2023 5:54 pm

While I hope the Voice referendum fails, I do not believe that it will, the left have taken over our education systems and have been for many years producing socialist woke idiots. People under 35 voting in this referendum are followers and will not or cannot think for themselves.

Which is why it is incumbent on those who can think for themselves and can see clearly through this crap to vote no.
And did Albo really tear up during the reading of the question and other subsequent items related to the referendum?

Dot
Dot
March 23, 2023 5:55 pm

UK sending Depleted Uranium Ammo to Ukraine – Putin that’s a Nice Aircraft carrier you Have UK & Nice Nuclear Carrier Fleets you Have America

…and what is Putes going to launch them with? The Mosvka’s submarine VLS launch tubes or the Kusetzenov’s tug boat?

One year in and they haven’t produced a single Armarta T-14 tank and are retrofitting T-62s!

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 23, 2023 5:59 pm

One year in and they haven’t produced a single Armarta T-14 tank and are retrofitting T-62s!

Do the crews still sit on top of the ammunition carousel?

calli
calli
March 23, 2023 6:00 pm

Seven running the line that police “threw her to the ground”.

Look at the video…no not that angle. The other one.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 23, 2023 6:01 pm

MoLo at 2.52:

If there is any hope it lies in blokes who have cut their dicks off and wear frocks, and shielas who have had their tits hacked off and their forearms flensed and the skin fashioned into tubes they pass off as penises.

Vomit-inducingly beautiful.

Tom
Tom
March 23, 2023 6:04 pm

JMH, Sharri Markson is a very good journalist so I’ll keep watching her Monday to Thursday show on Sky.

She needs constant needling if she is to fulfil her potential. I hope criticism from an old journo in the cheap seats will help.

Cheers.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
March 23, 2023 6:04 pm

Farmers beware of the new and improved Voice wording.
Since Indig social and spiritual practises are based entirely around Fauna, Flora, land and water then it’s open season on interference with any agricultural system or proposed developments.
I’m guessing the Kangaroo cull will be gone as the Green/PoC “advisors”roll out their lists of demands.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 23, 2023 6:06 pm

Daily Mail.

Inside Bruce Lehrmann’s ‘hit list’ as court hears why he was ‘always going to sue Lisa Wilkinson’ after THAT interview with Brittany Higgins

Lawyer says Mr Lehrmann was ‘always’ going to sue Lisa Wilkinson
Said he was ‘happy’ to settle with other news outlets
Ex-staffer is also suing news.com.au and Samantha Maiden

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 23, 2023 6:07 pm

Dot- the Wonderwaffe are coming, the party promised..

( I memed, pray i do not meme again)

JC
JC
March 23, 2023 6:07 pm

JMH says:
March 23, 2023 at 5:50 pm
I announced here quite some time ago that I would never watch Markson on Sky again. I have held fast to that statement.

She’s finished. Done like a dinner when angry Kezza has in for a “Skyer”.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 23, 2023 6:11 pm

Do the crews still sit on top of the ammunition carousel?

Actually the T-62s are better in that unfortunate respect: they’re pre carousel. Locker storage of the ammunition, or something like it. But they need a crew of four including a loader. I looked them up a while back when they were first being pulled out of storage for the DNR guys.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
March 23, 2023 6:11 pm

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.

I have come to the conclusion that a majority of the population have no innate moral sensibility at all. They simply follow the contemporary fashion instead. In times when the fashion is in fact moral, this works adequately, but when the fashion is depravity, it fails completely.

Worrying about the hurt feelings of depraved lunatics is not a mark of moral sensibility.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 23, 2023 6:12 pm

Good article at Quadrant OnLine about the close links between the Nazi Party and the Nazis.

No wonder everyone calls you Cletus.

JC
JC
March 23, 2023 6:14 pm

Does anyone recall?

About a month or so or more, Twitter was awash with reports that a well known figure had been accused of rape (again) and was fronting a Queensland magistrate for a preliminary hearing. The suggestion was that it was Bruce L.

Whatever happened with that as it’s gone silent since then?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 23, 2023 6:17 pm

Leopard Is vs T-62s. Reminds me of all those cold war board wargames.

The poor guys have to fight in vehicles as old as their granny.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
March 23, 2023 6:18 pm

Suggestions on a covid tonic.
I’ve got plenty gin and scotch. Not a big fan of brandy or vodka.
Is it Woodstocks?

It’s Remarkable
It’s Remarkable
March 23, 2023 6:20 pm

Do we really think Ms Thorpe is 65 year old?
She says she was ten in 1967.
She seems to hold her age very well, or is telling more porkies.

Winston Smith
March 23, 2023 6:24 pm

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

No!

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 23, 2023 6:24 pm

2 things will flow from the screech;

1 Unlike ATSIC the voice will be irrevocable. Birney and other arseholes have admitted this is what they want.
Okay, big deal.

2 It will enable 3rd nations to impose rent and control over private land.
Well, the pie is only so big.
If Aborigines get rents, then Medicare, Social Security, NDIS, the Pie In The Sky subs have got to take a haircut.
Works for me, if that’s all it is?

Bar Beach Swimmer
March 23, 2023 6:26 pm

I am so sick of politicians who think a “moralising posture” and tears can bully the electorate into submission.

The sniffling in front of the cameras and that pseudo gunfighter’s walk down the corridor with the throngs of his own staff mobbing him, has the contrivance of the slapper’s misogyny speech.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2023 6:27 pm

Do we really think Ms Thorpe is 65 year old?

Clearly Allanah MacTiernan is no longer in possession of the fountain of youth.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
March 23, 2023 6:28 pm

thefrollickingmole says:
March 23, 2023 at 5:49 pm

ABC does its usual “boogs booga” Palmersaurus story…

Mining billionaire Clive Palmer rakes in more than $700 million from Pilbara assets

To give the sum the voice approved unit of measurement its 7.7 days of Aboriginal expenditure.
(working on the figure of 490mill a day)

thefrollickingmole,

in reply to ABC – The Inbred Innner City Hippy Retarded Person Reteat in Ultimo – On the Australian Taxpayers Teat for doing no visible work

Clive Palmer: I paid $19.5m Medicare levy for no bed

Billionaire Clive Palmer says he paid about $460 million in corporate and personal tax last year after pocketing hefty dividends fuelled by royalty payments from Chinese conglomerate CITIC Limited.

Mr Palmer said on Wednesday that his Medicare levy contribution alone was about $19.5 million, and it was ironic that no bed was available on the one occasion when he required treatment at a public hospital.

If the Medicare levy claim is accurate, it indicates Mr Palmer’s taxable income nudged $1 billion.

Accounts filed by Mr Palmer’s private company Mineralogy show Mr Palmer has continued to pull money out of Mineralogy via dividends this financial year, with payments of $US33 million ($49.3 million) and almost $35 million on August 30 and $US20 million ($29.9 million) two days later.

It paid out an interim dividend of $400 million in February 2022 and another of $200 million in May last year.

This was on top of $100 million pocketed by Mr Palmer in October 2021.

Mr Palmer told The Australian Financial Review that Mineralogy was now reaping between $500 million to $600 million a year in royalties from CITIC, which ships magnetite for steel making to China from mining operations that sit on tenements controlled by Mineralogy in Western Australia’s north-west.

Mineralogy recorded a net profit after tax of $276.7 million in 2021-22, up by about $63 million on the previous year. The improved result included the $US145 million ($216 million) sale of the Balmoral iron ore deposit to CITIC, which – based on a recent court ruling – faces the prospect of having to make another big payment to Mineralogy if it wants to continue its magnetite operations.

Asked why his flagship company had made so many dividend payments in the past 18 months, Mr Palmer said he was “investing in the ultimate prize called happiness”.

“I’ve paid everybody I had to, and I don’t think the taxman is worried. I think he is pretty happy,” he said.

Mr Palmer was taken to hospital on at least two occasions last year, once with COVID-19 symptoms and a second time when he fell off a stage at his Coolum Resort in Queensland during a rehearsal for the United Australia Party election campaign launch.

He said that in a separate incident he had been taken to a public hospital on the Gold Coast with stomach pains and stayed in the casualty ward for observation because there was no bed available.

“The irony is it doesn’t matter how much you pay in the Medicare levy, it doesn’t guarantee you a bed,” said Mr Palmer, who has private health insurance and therefore doesn’t have to pay a surcharge on top of the levy.

Mr Palmer twisted the knife into his arch-enemy, WA premier Mark McGowan, over the scandal-plagued Perth Mint, saying he had lost faith in the WA-taxpayer owned institution as a reliable means to store wealth.

“At one stage I had $200 million of gold in there, but I sold it all. My wife sold all her gold and silver back to the mint as well,” he said.

“There are some real questions to be answered about the Perth Mint.”

Mr McGowan, who has fought defamation and other legal battles with Mr Palmer, was the minister responsible for the mint until April 2021 and is facing calls for a royal commission into its operations and governance.

WA opposition leader Shane Love wrote to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Wednesday to push the case for a royal commission.

In his letter, Mr Love said the integrity of Perth Mint gold was being questioned at a national and international level in the wake of a gold doping incident and scandals.

Roger
Roger
March 23, 2023 6:28 pm

Albanese crying at the announcement of the Voice referendum doesn’t bode well for a gracious recognition of the wisdom of the Australian people should the vote be No.

Having staked his premiership on this signature policy I should think he’d have to resign.

Helen
Helen
March 23, 2023 6:30 pm

Blck Ball

did Albo really tear up

I believe it. Remember when he went snivelling to Rudd because he was going to throw him under the bus – somehow the tears made it ok.

He’s as good an actress as Sparkles Boltons.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 23, 2023 6:30 pm

Whatever happened with that as it’s gone silent since then?

Not sure it’s him, but the Magistrate continued a Suppression Order on Media naming the person.
Hasn’t made it to a Committal Hearing yet, the person hasn’t fronted Court, he’s in Tasmania.

Several Media companies are fighting in the Courts to have the Order lifted.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 23, 2023 6:31 pm

Ed Casesays:
March 23, 2023 at 6:12 pm
Good article at Quadrant OnLine about the close links between the Nazi Party and the Nazis.

No wonder everyone calls you Cletus.

Dick Ed

I, Cletus the Illustrious, thank you for your endorsement.

Or are you still getting your talking points from The Simpsons?

Idiot.

johanna
johanna
March 23, 2023 6:31 pm

Canberra Health Services staff have been caught sending confidential information about mental health patients to the Australian Nursing Midwifery Federation, a union:

Mental Health Minister Emma Davidson has named the ACT’s Australian Nursing Midwifery Federation (ANMF) branch as the recipient of private patient documents sent by Canberra Health Services (CHS) staff, in an alleged breach of privacy laws.
Key points:

It was revealed this week that the private records of 13 mental health patients had been sent to an external industrial partner
That partner has been revealed as the Australian Nursing Midwifery Federation ACT branch
ACT Mental Health Minister Emma Davidson says she has been contacted by the union’s lawyer and an investigation is continuing

CHS revealed earlier this week that staff had ‘deliberately’ sent the clinical records of 13 mental health patients to an “industrial partner”, but refused to name it until today.

The records of 13 patients were sent to the branch over a period of years, in what CHS chief executive Dave Peffer called a “serious breach”.

Yesterday, he confirmed that one Canberra Health Services staff member had been sacked over the incident and two others stood down, pending an investigation.

The immediate question that arises in my mind is: why?

None of the possible answers are reassuring. Possible blackmail, intimidation, or just prurient curiosity are some of the options.

It is a gross breach of ethics, and puts that union under a very dark cloud.

I hope they get sued into oblivion.

calli
calli
March 23, 2023 6:32 pm

Do we really think Ms Thorpe is 65 year old?

I think the claim was made by Linda Burney, not Thorpe. Burney was born in ‘57.

Hair colour has stood up well.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
March 23, 2023 6:32 pm

A bit hot and lethargic otherwise OK.

Yes. Hairy had a two-day Covid around two weeks ago. Strongly positive, negative on day four.
Same as before for him. Big sneezes and nasal inflammation and Mr. Cranky due to that. I felt very tired for one day only, didn’t test positive on that day and was still negative when I retested three days later feeling completely well. Think I had a subclinical dose, must have been very exposed sleeping next to Mr. Snoring Snuffles. No idea where it came from; maybe the supermarket.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 23, 2023 6:34 pm

Is it Woodstocks?

Yes. Yes it is.

Take one Woodstock can, 440ml. Skoll said can.
Wait 30 seconds for the syrupy postmix to curdle all the replicating metals in your bloodstream.
Get the sweats up.
Chunder like fury for four minutes, expelling all impurities.

Take one single sip of icy Carlton Draught, through the ice and onto the ice.
Cured.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 23, 2023 6:35 pm

I think the claim was made by Linda Burney, not Thorpe. Burney was born in ‘57.

Calli is quite correct.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 23, 2023 6:37 pm

Or are you still getting your talking points from The Simpsons?

Ed October on current events:

Bah! Why didn’t you get something useful, like storm windows? Or a nice pipe organ? I’m thirsty. Ew, what smells like mustard? There sure are a lot of ugly people in your neighborhood. Oh, look at that one! Oh, my glaucoma just got worse. The president is a Demy-crat! Hello? I can’t unbuckle my seat belt. Hello? There are too many leaves in your walkway.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 23, 2023 6:37 pm

Wikpedia cites Lidia Thorpe as being born in 1973.

calli
calli
March 23, 2023 6:39 pm

First time for everything, Zulu! 😀

Winston Smith
March 23, 2023 6:39 pm

rickw:

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

The Golden Rule of Revolutions is “After the Revolution, comes the PURGE!”
It must be a golden rule because it happens every bloody time.
…and who does it happen to? The Revolutionaries who have been traitors all along!

Enjoy your donuts, Monty – they don’t get them in the Gulags.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 23, 2023 6:39 pm

Yep, have a look at Woodstock on nanowrigglers under a microscope. It’s like a John Wick movie.

Roger
Roger
March 23, 2023 6:39 pm

Whatever happened with that as it’s gone silent since then?

Adjourned to a future date, JC.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
March 23, 2023 6:40 pm

Right on cue my wife is angry with me for getting covid. She’s got too much to do and can’t afford to be unwell she tells me.
You can be married too long.

Zipster
Zipster
March 23, 2023 6:45 pm

US Lays Out New Rules to Limit China’s Chip Access | China In Focus
00:38 U.S. Lays Out New Rules to Limit China’s Chip Access
02:53 #RussianMissilesStrike Ukraine After Xi’s Proposal
04:26 ‘You Can’t Believe a Word the CCP Says’: Alex Gray on Xi Jinping’s Moscow Visit
09:37 Chinese State Company Wins Solomon Infrastructure Bid
12:10 U.S. Carrier Docks in the Philippines Spotlights Freedom of Navigation Amid China Dispute
13:44 Expert on Possible Looming #EMPAttack from China

calli
calli
March 23, 2023 6:45 pm

Burney attended the local primary school in Whitton.

This non-person went to school but was not counted in the census. Yeah. Right.

Zipster
Zipster
March 23, 2023 6:47 pm

America Divided | Douglas
Wilson

John Anderson
John Anderson enjoys a long conversation with Douglas Wilson on culture wars, American politics, what it means to be a Christian, and whether Christians can be nationalists.

Doug Wilson is a theologian, minister of Christ Church Moscow (Idaho), Senior Fellow at New Saint Andrews College, prolific author, and advocate of Christian education

00:44 Introducing Doug Wilson
02:27 Why are you a Christian?
06:51 Debating Christopher Hitchens
17:01 ‘Secular’ education
24:15 Two revolutions
30:03 Marxist long march through the institutions
38:24 ‘Fly-over country’
41:40 Covid panic
49:37 Trump v Biden
56:43 Classical education
1:07:33 ‘The God of the system’
1:10:05 ‘All of Christ for all of life’
1:13:18 The Founding Fathers
1:19:15 How to fight like Christ
1:23:46 What really matters in the end?

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
March 23, 2023 6:51 pm

We were very lucky to get the Cov inbetween two rather busy weekends of socialising.

Did not go out when positive or possibly so. Civil duty etc.
It does seem to be going around again. Becoming endemic worldwide.
Friends in the UK have just come down immediately after a cruise.

Winston Smith
March 23, 2023 6:51 pm

Where is the Poll on the Voice?
I can’t find it!

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 23, 2023 6:51 pm

The Americans had broken the Japanese diplomatic code, and knew war was imminent, but they believed the Japanese would attack the Philippines, and Malaya, but not Pearl Harbor.

The Japanese Codes were no secret to the Americans, they first broke them in the 1920s.
See:
Herbert O. Yardley.
However, Yardley was laid off in 1940, but the Navy clearly knew that Pearl Harbor was the target, since they sent the 4 Carrier Groups out of Pearl in 4 different directions on November 26/
If that was a coincidence, we woulda heard about it, since not losing those Carriers at Anchor was the difference between winning the War and losing it.
Yardley also wrote a terrific book, Education of a Poker player
about his boyhood in a Hotel and his later life as a Codebreaker for the Kuomintang.

Frank
Frank
March 23, 2023 6:52 pm

Wikpedia cites Lidia Thorpe as being born in 1973.

No spring chicken then.

Winston Smith
March 23, 2023 6:54 pm

Doc Faustus:

Then you need to stop endorsing XXXX – beverage of choice of Gay Grampians everywhere.

Lies!
Damned Lies!
I’ve never seen XXXX at a kameraden Konvention!

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 23, 2023 6:54 pm

Take it easy on Linda Burney, bigots.

She’s not too bright, and given to fantastic ideation.

Not unlike a few here.

JMH
JMH
March 23, 2023 6:55 pm

JCsays:
March 23, 2023 at 6:07 pm
JMH says:
March 23, 2023 at 5:50 pm
I announced here quite some time ago that I would never watch Markson on Sky again. I have held fast to that statement.

She’s finished. Done like a dinner when angry Kezza has in for a “Skyer”.

May I remind you, Giuseppe, this conversation has nothing whatsoever to do with you. However, as I am feeling gracious tonight, I will let you spew forth the pent-up vitriol. Give it your best shot. We are all eyes in anticipation.

Winston Smith
March 23, 2023 6:55 pm

Damn not having a preview button.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 23, 2023 6:57 pm

No spring chicken then.

Past her prime, yeah, but she musta been hell on wheels when she was 18.

calli
calli
March 23, 2023 6:58 pm

In addition, Burney tells us

She was raised by her elderly aunt and uncle, siblings Nina and Billy Laing, who “gave [her] the ground on which [she] stood” and taught her “the values of honesty, loyalty and respect”.

She is of Aboriginal and Scottish descent, and her aunt and uncle have a Scottish surname. Soooo…did they think she was a non-person for the census and counted themselves but not the little niece under their roof? I doubt it.

Frank
Frank
March 23, 2023 6:59 pm

Past her prime, yeah, but she musta been hell on wheels when she was 18.

Rode hard more likely.

Miltonf
Miltonf
March 23, 2023 7:04 pm

So anal had a blub- cheap and theatrical. Like liddle filth when he was closing down the Costigan commission (I wonder why). Hayden said he found it shocking.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 23, 2023 7:04 pm

Latest on Lehrmann defamation hearing, back in Court today.

[Kangaroo Court of Australia]

Winston Smith
March 23, 2023 7:05 pm

Calli:

WiSmi has a certain cachet.

Cheater!
You’re only allowed two letters of the Christian and Surname.
Wism. Not sure I like that one.
It has connotations of the sexual kind.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
March 23, 2023 7:06 pm

but the Navy clearly knew that Pearl Harbor was the target, since they sent the 4 Carrier Groups out of Pearl in 4 different directions on November 26/
If that was a coincidence, we woulda heard about it

Its like freeform Vogon thought patterns.

Ed-Mong, wrong again!
https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/c/carrier-locations.html

On 28 November 1941, Admiral Husband E. Kimmel sent TF-8, consisting of Enterprise, the heavy cruisers Northampton(CA-26), Chester (CA-27), and Salt Lake City (CA-24) and nine destroyers under Vice Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr., to ferry 12 Grumman F4F-3 Wildcats of Marine Fighting Squadron (VMF) 211 to Wake Island. Upon completion of the mission on 4 December, TF-8 set course to return to Pearl Harbor. Dawn on 7 December 1941 found TF-8 about 215 miles west of Oahu.
Lexington: On 5 December 1941, TF-12, formed around Lexington, under the command of Rear Admiral John H. Newton, sailed from Pearl to ferry 18 Vought SB2U-3 Vindicators of Marine Scout Bombing Squadron 231 to Midway Island. Dawn on 7 December 1941 found Lexington, heavy cruisers Chicago (CA-29), Portland (CA-33), and Astoria (CA-34), and five destroyers about 500 miles southeast of Midway. The outbreak of hostilities resulted in cancellation of the mission and VMSB-231 was retained on board [they would ultimately fly to Midway from Hickam Field on 21 December].

Saratoga: The Saratoga, having recently completed an overhaul at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, reached NAS San Diego [North Island] late in the forenoon watch on 7 December. She was to embark her air group, as well as Marine Fighting Squadron (VMF) 221 and a cargo of miscellaneous airplanes to ferry to Pearl Harbor.

Yorktown (CV-5), Ranger (CV-4) and Wasp (CV-7), along with the aircraft escort vessel Long Island (AVG-1), were in the Atlantic Fleet; Hornet (CV-8), commissioned in late October 1941, had yet to carry out her shakedown. Yorktown would be the first Atlantic Fleet carrier to be transferred to the Pacific, sailing on 16 December 1941.

Your kindy teacher was saying try harder, not lie harder you dork.

Top Ender
Top Ender
March 23, 2023 7:08 pm

Wikpedia cites Lidia Thorpe as being born in 1973.

A bit old to be a bikie moll then?

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
March 23, 2023 7:12 pm

Hmmm …..

Well, that’s alright then.

calli
calli
March 23, 2023 7:12 pm

Put the “do” in Wism and you’re set.

Winston Smith
March 23, 2023 7:12 pm

Mother Lode:

And that poignant last scene where she is sitting in a cafe, smoking Rape Culture Cigarettes and sipping Rape Culture Gin, when she looks up at the telescreen and sees the face of Big Patriarchy, shimmering through her tears of joy, of happiness, happiness that she had finally won victory over herself and now did indeed love Big Patriarchy.

I wasn’t, really. I was just waiting for Julia Nolastname.
…and a little bit of rumpy pumpy, perhaps.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
March 23, 2023 7:14 pm

I won’t post them all. A few stood out.

—————

Dr Vernon Coleman MB ChB DSc

Passing Observations 150
21ST MARCH 2023

1. The International Criminal Court has made Putin an alleged criminal (based on very secret hush hush evidence). This is another clear sign that the US, EU and UK are not looking for peace in Ukraine. (We already knew that, of course, because the incredibly nasty, grinning Sunak said so.) What the allegation means is that Putin can’t attend peace talks anywhere outside Russia. For peace talks to be held, Biden and his glove puppet Zelensky would have to go to Moscow. Fat chance. (America never signed up to the war crimes tribunal, of course, to protect a series of war criminals.) Xi will be in Moscow this week to broker peace talks but Zelensky won’t agree to peace because NATO and the globalists want a big, long-lasting war to destroy the world economy.

8. Gas, wood and now nuclear power have all been declared acceptable by the climate change nutters. They didn’t used to like them but they do now. Oil will be next to receive the seal of approval. And British greens, climate nutters and electric car owners must come to terms with the fact that some of the electricity they used in the winter of 2022/3 was derived from coal. Oh dear. (By the way, did you know that a bunch of Democratic lawmakers in the US – the ones promoting the Green Deal Garbage – have millions invested in fossil fuel companies? Check it out. They presumably realise the truth that the world cannot cope without fossil fuels.)

11. Too many of the scribblers on social media are the same sorry souls as the ones who used to write or draw on walls… they especially enjoyed working in public lavatories. I suspect that in terms of literacy and veracity, their work lies between that produced by the BBC and the Daily Mail

13. I find it very sad that doctors and nurses only go on strike for money. They never go on strike for improvements to the care of patients. How many have gone on strike because of the way the elderly are treated or in protest about the use of a fake vaccine for a fake pandemic? Approximately none.

17. Anyone who describes me as a conspiracy theorist is a liar. You can’t be a conspiracy theorist if all you do is tell the truth. Worse still is the abuse I get from people I’ve tried to help over the last three years. My wife and I have worked ceaselessly (not tirelessly because we are exhausted) to bring truths and predictions and assessments about the conspiracies which have unfolded since the beginning of 2020. Our income has been devastated. My reputation is gone for ever. No one in the world can be more banned than I am. I’ve had serious death threats and one serious attempt on my life has been made. Publishers around the world have stopped publishing my bestselling books – not for commercial reasons but as punishment. And we’ve been banned from obtaining essentials such as medicines because I am considered a dangerous, discredited conspiracy theorist. And I no longer look at anything online because of the abuse the trolls spread. Now, we are approaching the endgame. The snitches, the whingers, the sneerers, the bullies and so on are soon going to realise that the warnings were real and they have no future. We’re all totally stuffed. Only those who have made some preparations for surviving the Great Reset stand a chance. Please read my book They want your money and your life which is available through the bookshop on this website.

https://vernoncoleman.org/articles/passing-observations-150

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
March 23, 2023 7:14 pm

A bit old to be a bikie moll then?

She’s 49. A year younger than my oldest child.

Plenty of bikie molls around in her yoof.

And she’s still mates with some of that type.

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