The Dow Jones Index nearly at 40,000 Who would have thought? And look at the NASDAQ – Wow And the…
Open Thread – Weekend 13 May 2023
Executive privilege for me, but not for thee.
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In other news, Thomas Jefferson University uses someone who is functionally illiterate to announce graduating students Calli, part of me…
China rolling out the red carpet in this Russia visit and the latter have really brought in their A-team. The…
Wealth doesn’t make you Superman or Captain America. They were likely wealthy because they were sensible, they at least respected their mortality and the gift & miracle of life.
CentreLink via the Oz taxpayer definitely showed respect and gifted ’em enuf OPM to further the miracle of life …….
Russia now owns Libya and Sudan, apparently.
Zatara says:
May 13, 2023 at 12:16 pm
Egypt has ignored US requests that it close its airspace to Russian military flights, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. This airspace is a vital corridor between Russia and its military bases in Syria.
Somebody’s geography sucks. Egypt controls no airspace between Russia and Syria.
Which kind of puts the whole article into the doubtful file.
Situated on Syria’s Mediterranean coast, Khmeimim Air Base is one of Russia’s most important military facilities in Syria.
With Iraq, Jordan, and Türkiye blocking most Russian military flights since last year at the US’ request, Russian aircraft must now fly south over Azerbaijan and Iran, west over Saudi Arabia, and finally back north over Egypt before landing at Khmeimim.
Without permission to fly over Egypt, Russia would be forced to seek a new and far longer route over Africa to reach its forces in Syria by air.
Meanwhile, Türkiye’s closure of the Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits to military vessels last year has complicated the movement of arms and equipment by sea.
Hardly surprising, given the current US clownshow WH.
“Here’s what I think is happening: So-called ‘conservatives’ in the West (the polite word for rightists and traditionalists) now react to left-wing extremism by retreating into the familial, the private and the remnant-minded. They are no longer interested in the commons, the agora or even – increasingly – the hollowed-out, lawless ‘nation.’”
I agree C.L. I’ve argued this for a while. I think it’s too far gone now, and the only option is retreat. History is replete with groups “separating themselves” from the mainstream…Jews in Eastern Europe, Catholics in post-reformation England, Mennonites, Amish, the Old Believers in Russia. Even in modern times Haredi Jews live “outside” the system as does the huge Muslim community in Dearborn Michigan. They have created communities that enable and support each other, even in commerce and healthcare. They are separate and only engage minimally with the broader society, and when they have to, they do so with great care. They distrust the mainstream. Once upon a time I used to look down on communities like that. No longer, because that’s the future for conservatives, and now I understand exactly why they live like they do.
The Russians are also trying to buy stuff from the Egyptians. If I were an Egyptian with a whole bunch of poorly maintained Soviet era tanks that some nice person wants to buy from me for an inflated price I’d be nice in return!
Was Grandma tripping on acid at Aquarius?
Somewhere, in between the volcanic needles of Nimbin Rocks and the soft round shadows cast by Lillian Rock, the self-anointed freaks are gathering again.
Fifty years ago, they were mainly middle-class uni students, sometimes stoned, often naked, who descended on a psychedelic jamboree known as the Aquarius Festival in Nimbin.
A gob-smacked nation watched these aspiring hippies excitedly manifest manifestos on the nightly evening news, even prime minister Gough Whitlam was called on in parliament to explain what was going on, especially since his government had given $50,000 to help stage the event.
In the middle of the kaftans and beads crowd was Doug Anthony, Australia’s longest-serving deputy prime minister, the federal member for Richmond, and renowned hard man of the Country Party and later Nationals.
Anthony died three years ago. However, his wife Margot, 92, happily recalled the day they visited Aquarius in the station wagon with no seatbelts.
It has gone down in family folklore. They joke that the politician was resolute in shaking hands with naked revellers, looking them firmly in the eye.
“I’m pretty sure Doug was invited out by the residents for one of their events, and he probably did wear a safari suit, although I can’t remember one that was powder blue as some have suggested,” Margot laughs.
“We took the whole family [sons Dugald and Larry and daughter Jane] thinking that Aquarius would be something interesting. Well, it was certainly that.”
Jane, who was 12 at the time, says her father and mother had no idea what was going on. “Dad had a lovely time,” she said.
Dugald, then 15, was uninterested in the politics of the day, and walked among the tepees.
“I then came upon these naked women swimming, and it was like a Norman Lindsay painting,” he says. “I remember thinking, ‘I don’t know what this is all about, but I love it’.”
Youngest in the family, Larry, aged 11, was transfixed by something else.
His father was giving a speech to a mixed audience of locals and visitors outdoors. High up, behind his father, a man wearing a top hat was crossing a raised wire on a unicycle.
From Friday’s New York Post – ‘The Border Patrol union called the current crisis “the worst sustained disaster … ever seen at our border” — saying President Biden deserves to be arrested and that his administration is “absolutely corrupt to its core.”
Guess we won’t be seeing anything about this on our ABC.
Cassie of Sydney says:
May 13, 2023 at 12:31 pm
“Here’s what I think is happening: So-called ‘conservatives’ in the West (the polite word for rightists and traditionalists) now react to left-wing extremism by retreating into the familial, the private and the remnant-minded. They are no longer interested in the commons, the agora or even – increasingly – the hollowed-out, lawless ‘nation.’”
I agree C.L. I’ve argued this for a while. I think it’s too far gone now, and the only option is retreat.
History is replete with groups “separating themselves” from the mainstream…Jews in Eastern Europe, Catholics in post-reformation England, Mennonites, Amish, the Old Believers in Russia.
cassie,
point made in article above
‘Migrant village’ for conservative Americans to be built in Russia – lawyer
Thousands of Westerners want to flee “radical liberal values,” a Russian immigration attorney has claimed
At my last hand pick found myself wondering how can those Sri lankans afford late model cars.
Thousands of Westerners want to flee “radical liberal values,” a Russian immigration attorney has claimed
I am completely unsurprised by this. Rod Dreher has also said that Western Christians will look to Eastern Europe to find sanctuary.
Relive the coronation of King Charles III with your own Gold State Coach
Forget tea towels, plates or stamps… if you’re looking for King Charles III Coronation memorabilia, you need this on your mantlepiece
To commemorate the 2023 coronation, Matchbox (now part of Mattel) is offering a scale model of the Gold State Coach. The model itself celebrates the 70th Anniversary of Matchbox cars, with the Gold State Coach one of the original models offered in 1953, to honour Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation.
Built in Matchbox’s traditional 1:64 scale, the model is 4.5 centimetres high and 23 centimetres long with the full train of horses attached. The horses and harnesses can be removed, and the coach has working wheels and an articulated front axle. There’s even King and Queen moulded inside.
The Matchbox Gold State Coach is available to pre-order now, with orders closing on 22 May 2023.
If you want to add a little more horsepower to your royal procession, Oxford Models in the UK offer a seven-piece royal set in 1:76 scale.
I had the Britains made a number of sets including this one, No 9401, comprising the coach, eight Windsor grey horses with four riders and the seated figures of Queen and Duke of Edinburgh.
Yes, Cassie.
This week, the ACT Labor government stole a Catholic hospital it had been harassing for months for not aborting babies. Reaction from Peter Dutton: nothing.
Why do climax mange attention-seekers (I refuse to call them ‘activists’) not glue themselves to a floating iceberg? Surely that would be a more relevant and symbolic act?
In fact, let’s just put this out there for any non-nudity attention-seekers/Excrement Retention, etc.:
1). Find yourself a floating iceberg.
2). Get someone to drop you off on it, along with a camera so you can film every waking and sleeping moment of your tremendous, courageous, sacrifice.
3). Invite lots (and lots) or your friends and total strangers to do the same (it will be sooo much more powerful a statement. How revolutionary!).
4). Make sure everyone live streams their thoughts, actions, and community singing.
5). Don’t tell us the website address: We’ll guess it.
6). We’ll arrange food drops and return transport. It’s the least we can do.
P.S. Gaia is transitioning. Please use the correct pronouns.
Loving the OldOzzie news service.
Thank you, OO.
Cohenite:
Perhaps if women hadn’t been so vocal in taking our mens only clubs from us in the past, there’d be a bit more sympathy for them today.
But there’s not.
I wonder what happened to the old rule of the owner/renter of the building/club setting their own standards?
I had a massive ‘aha’ moment watching “The Negation of the Real”. Is it conservatives have walked into the Sorcerer’s Circle? The circle distorts reality has been so we are unable to clearly articulate or discern it eg Science vs Scientism,aka “The Science” or “A study has shown” or “experts claim”
Women’s rights and equality happened….
The ACT government has been attacked over its takeover of Calvary Public Hospital, but insists it’s not about religion
ABC – posted 4hr ago.
Rumours had been swirling for months of a bid by the ACT government to take over Calvary Public Hospital in Bruce.
What took some by surprise — including stakeholders like the Australian Medical Association, who support the idea — was the speed at which the government moved.
The announcement was made on Wednesday of this week, and on Thursday the enabling bill was introduced in the Legislative Assembly.
Along with it came a motion — which passed — suspending the requirement for any committee inquiry into the bill to table a report before the proposal is debated.
The plan is for Canberra Health Services to take over delivery of public health services at Calvary’s Bruce campus in just two months’ time.
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A bill for voluntary assisted dying laws — which is expected to pass in the Legislative Assembly in some form — is also expected to be introduced later this year.
That’s something the Catholic-run Calvary Health Care does not support.
Don’t forget “growing calls.”
I’m not running away to much at stake. Besides I’m un convinced that a ‘conservative’ utopia would be less authoritarian.
As you do. Ideally they all looked like Heather Graham and Liz Hurley.
Robert Sewell says:
May 13, 2023 at 10:40 am
Old Ozzzie:
The problem is that the Conservatives have no will to fight any more. Like all Conservatives worldwide, they are politically and morally, cowards.
I certainly lean towards that feeling also, but I think that ego and hubris have a good deal to do with it. A few years ago now, I wrote about what I called an amygdalic freeze – as in ‘Flee, Freeze, Fight’ – and I believe that is where conservatives are ‘stuck’. Those states of mind play havoc with the logical cognitive process (planning, evaluation), and the result is either denial (“It’s not that bad yet,”) or a rationalisation of one’s own inactivity (“What can I do as an individual?” “They have better resources/more experience/control of the media, etc.).
I don’t know what the answer is. It’s frustrating, because I believe the conservatives I’ve had contact with, including on here, possess the ability to begin the long process of recovery and redemption. However, it’s the latter that many are incapable of coming to terms with, that as conservatives, blessed with a complex, valuable, legacy, we have failed to actively promote that legacy in the manner and method more applicable to the changed circumstances of our time. Our thinking, in terms of execution, is half a century old. I think there is a deep guilt and sense of shame, but to protect our fragile egos, we refuse to acknowledge our roles in the deterioration of the world around us. It’s psychologically safer to hug ourselves and repeat some self-soothing mantra.
It’s shame, because having come to conservatism later in life, I’m only just beginning to understand it’s potential. But potential is irrelevant if not matched with planning and execution.
Thus ends Muddy’s stream of consciousness.
A glimmer of hope as the West crumbles into dust.
The turtly dangerous plastic thingies that close sliced bread packets have returned.
• Cardboard: ineffectual and annoying to the punters;
• Plastic impregnated cardboard: expensive and still obnoxious to Gaia.
A tiny example of experiential learning in action.
I’ve said my piece regarding the futility of offering political salvation to the general public.
All I will leave you with is try to convince a casual ALP voter who only news source is 10 minutes a day of radio and TV.
Convince them Trump’s phone calls were not criminal and that Biden’s wire transfers, prosecution meddling, child sniffing, vote rigging are.
Even if they are interested in the evidence, they will just deny it.
If you think well, that’s irrelevant, any principled policy or ardent campaigning is going to get smeared as “Trump like” or similar.
“C.L.says:
May 13, 2023 at 12:48 pm
Yes, Cassie.
This week, the ACT Labor government stole a Catholic hospital it had been harassing for months for not aborting babies. Reaction from Peter Dutton: nothing.”
Yep, and from Dutton and the Liberals…..nada, zilcho, nothing. As I was writing my words above, I thought of the Catholic hospital in Canberra. There are Jewish hospitals in Sydney and Melbourne, there’s the San in Sydney, there are numerous religious aged care facilities. How long before they’re stolen? There’s no way, no way in the world, a Jewish hospital will allow euthanasia.
The Demon’s position is similar to our previous Liars Party government. It’s a “complexity of push/pull factors”.
And “Scientists Warn”.
I like the painting of a ‘Reekie’ Glasgow. Could be London, Liverpool, or many other places in the UK.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
– Plato
Drumgold isn’t too sharp.
There are only two possibilities:-
.1 a juror leaked details of deliberations to him; or
.2 he is engaging in unfounded speculation in the witness box.
Neither is a good look for him.
Yellen & Biden Should be Impeached to Save America?
“Janet Yellen has become way too partisan to be a trustworthy government official. Since Biden now says he will nominate a Latina for Fed governor regardless if they are qualified or not is precisely why SVB failed for starters. Everyone just wants to be WOKE and hire people based entirely on their race or gender preference. SVB hired risk managers to check a box. Why is Yellen still there? She would be fired being a white over-the-hill official. Or is it that she is just like Biden and says whatever the people writing cue cards instruct her to say next?
All Yellen does now is illustrated if she had any economic qualification, she is either corrupted or senile. Yellen just preached that the Biden Administration should be allowed to spend recklessly and it’s all Republican fault about a default. She said that the US will default somewhere if the debt limit isn’t raised. How about we start with ending the Ukrainian black hole? How about the $3 trillion unaccounted for in the Pentagon budget?
Janet Yellen and Biden should not wear masks, they should be gagged. Yellen only claims doom and gloom and it is all the Republican fault. She said that they will have to renege on “some obligation, whether it’s Treasuries or payments to Social Security recipients,” if Congress fails to act. You can bet that she will default on Social Security before anything else to inflict as much pain on people and then blame the Republicans for the next election.
Neither Biden nor Yellen should be in office. They are spending recklessly with no regard for the economy or the American people. What they have given Ukraine would have paid off ALL student loans. They constantly screw the American people all for the agendas of the Neocons and the Climate Change zealots. Since the FBI infiltrated the Catholic Church because of this gender nonsense, all Catholics should go light a candle and pray for the United States to be spilt soon than later. It is rapidly approaching the time to just turn out the lights on this failed experiment.
Once upon a time, this was supposed to be a country run by We the People.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/govt-incompetence/yellen-biden-should-be-impeached-to-save-america/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Yes, I saw that Dot. It’s what I claim in my article, the term ‘Wales’ simply meant foreigner, speaking another language (similar to the term Walloon, the derivation used in Belgium), i.e. the leftover rump of Roman Imperialists and British Christians who had fled to south Wales. This is not a new observation, it’s been noted by some historians already. I, in fact, see Baden, the ‘culminating’ battle in the HB in a new way as a major conflict over the old Celtic beliefs and the newer, especially Trinitarian, Christian beliefs that took place in 429ad. Many historians refer to the battles of ‘Arthur’ in the 9th Century Historia Brittonum as disparate but now collected internecine squabbles, not necessarily fought against incoming Saxons. Gildas mentions this internecine fighting amongst the new emergent ‘kings’ and nominates the Scots and Picts as clearly pagan opponents quite often too. The Scottish (read Irish) Dalriada (tribe of the Rex Arda/Atha) and the Strathclyde (read Irish) Scottish, as I claim, were pagans fighting for the old ways against Christian settlements further down the coast. It is clear that even as late as 573 in the Battle of Arthuret, above Carlise, religious issues were at the heart of many of these conflicts, especially this one (the Battle of Alfdereiddyn condensed down to Arthuret along a textually apparent name scatter).
Urien of Rhegged, by the way, is not a ‘real’ figure either; much of his legend contributes to the Mordred figure and the Battle of Camlan memories. The Annales Cambrae dates for Arthur, Baden and Camlan are late interpolations made from Bede’s view of Gildas, on a clear pathway, which I can demonstrate. Urien is an avatar of the name and persona of Arthur. So is Ambrosius Aurelianus a constructed persona; this time relating to the Trinitarian anti-heretic policies of St. Ambrose of Milan, instituted into Roman law by the Emperor Theodosius after 381AD and reinforced by an Imperial Rescript I have found, the Aurelianus Rescript of 428AD. Heresies are what the whole kit and kaboodle of Gildas was about. As you can see, once you start this sort of analysis it changes things. I am writing this up now and don’t need to reveal any more of it here.
Oliver is now on SBS World Movies. A Great Film and Musical.
Edinburgh was called “Auld Reekie”. You only had to look at the city’s geography to see why dirt and smoke would drop with the fog.
On Glasgow, I’ll be there again in July. This time I’m catching the Clockwork Orange and out to see the gallery and museum (and maybe take in the gardens). Only there for a day, so we’ll have to leg it.
Sounds like Armstrong is just recycling Andrew Anglin with a thin veneer now.
Lizzie, that is fascinating, and I am eager to see the product of all this work.
If we do too much roamin’ in the gloamin our reward will be watching the stern of our ship exiting the estuary. I don’t fancy a flight to the Shetlands to catch up with it.
And Queen Vic has a shapely and alluring stern, unlike her namesake. 😀
Indeed. Sydney has no significant further water availability, but much of the rest of the state does. And with more water. The problem of course is long but shallow flows. We’d get far less bang for our buck than we do with the Snowy scheme.
Lizzie
Please discuss later after the articles are written up.
Dummkopf, squirming in the Smirnoff inquiry, is caught out for calling police boofheads.
Huh.
He also claims that he was unaware that a certain report, which would have been a boon for the defence, had been withheld from them.
Now, if he believed the defence had received the report he would naturally have devised a strategy to deal with it.
So it would have been something in his mind. Probably amongst his fevered imaginings of some of the jurors naked and petty torments, threats using his clout in the legal fraternity, to inflict on the prick in a wheelchair who complained about Dummkopf constantly parking in the disabled spaces in his building.
So, front of mind.
And then…nothing in the report comes up. Not when he expected it, nor when he didn’t.
Since failure to furnish such a document could well lead to an appeal, did it never cross his mind to check whether it had been delivered? Would he really have been satisfied thinking he might have got away with when he could check that he had?
It is possible to be convicted by 9/36 people for very serious crimes and be handed a medieval sentence by a judge who likes puffing up their reputation, pursued by incompetent police and psychotic prosecutors.
No, it’s not.
You idiot.
Let’s not forget Dr Duk’s non-crime traffic offence that the ACT bench dismissed merely as “curious”!
Attempting to run over a TC is a Non-Crime Traffic Offence.?
The description “adult, human female” now violates Facebook’s “safe space policy” and it is considered “hate speech”. I’m sure John Pesutto will agree.
Oh and last night Kellie-Jay Keen did a late night Youtube livestream. The stream is titled, “What is Liberal about the Australian Liberal party?” Now that is a very good question.
The Benedict option.
By all accounts (including her own), Albert never complained. 🙂
There’s no way, no way in the world, a Jewish hospital will allow euthanasia.
I’ll take your word on it.
Do they allow abortions?
I suppose Edinburgh would be “Auld Reekie” and Glasgow could be “Wee Reekie”. Like London, not much remains of the dirty old towns – they’ve all been cleaned up.
Hard to believe how terrible the air quality was back in the days of steam trains and furnaces. Wash the clothes and pull them in dirtier than when they went out. Those of us who are old enough remember Sydney with its dingy, dirty sandstone.
Looking at all those horses last week was also a reminder about the other hazard pre motor vehicle. You either stepped in it or it stepped on you.
Whoops. No jurors.
Perhaps sticky, graphic images of Smirnoff, Counsel assisting, and the recorder.
By all accounts by the time she died she was almost as wide as she was tall. At barely five feet, she had a girth of around 50 inches.
Her surviving bloomers and nightgown (chemise) tell the story. When you see the menu cards for the Victorian’s gargantuan meals, you can see why.
Nigella Lawson bottom fancier CL has never encountered a female stern he didn’t like.
“Her surviving bloomers and nightgown (chemise) tell the story. When you see the menu cards for the Victorian’s gargantuan meals, you can see why.”
I once read an amusing anecdote of Queen Victoria by one of her granddaughters. Victoria would hoover her meals down and when she’d finished eating a course, regardless of whether others at the table had finished their plates, table attendants would also quickly remove the plates from everyone else at the table, until one day, when the Duke of Devonshire loudly yelled out “damn it, don’t take my plate, I haven’t finished”. Queen Victoria was greatly amused.
As for the Queen’s girth, she was a true Hanoverian.
Daily Mail
She must have carried some of George IV’s genes.
How to be ‘offended’ when having your photo taken by an obliging person. LOL.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwOGMNrFBiM
Thh my e statue of Queen Victoria outside the QVB in Sydney has always struck me as perfectly personifying the size, the imperturbability, and confidence, of her Britain and its empire.
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
May 13, 2023 at 2:17 pm
Daily Mail
India threatens colonial ‘reckoning’ for Britain as it prepares to ask for the return of legendary treasures including priceless Koh-i-Noor diamond used in Crown Jewels
The reclamation of historical artefacts is a primary of goal of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration
I wonder how much stuff the Vatican has in it’s Vaults let alone the stuff on show and where all that Gold, Silver and Diamonds came from. Let alone all that money in the Vatican Bank and where that came from. And with Portugal and Spain, where did all that stolen Gold and Silver from South America go? Maybe they want it all back.
This has a never ending story.
WHITE SUPREMACY? Massive protest in South Shore, Chicago against illegal immigrants arriving (watch)
Apparently those elusive Grampian Nazis have appeared in Melbourne’s CBD and given the Nazi salute.
This is the way forward. Long term it’ll be the basis of new nations rising from the ashes of the old.
The cycles of history.
One heartbeat away from the Oval Office.
https://twitter.com/AmandaLarreni/status/1657052141310050304
First, I reckon she’s done a few lines before taking to the podium
Second, even allowing that she’s a round-heeled ninny with a cackle straight from the first scene of Macbeth, she’d be no worse than the brain dead Thief in Chief.
America’s tragedy.
Except he stopped his car and then the glowie posing as a hi vis ticketed wukka STRUCK his car with his fists.
Grandpa Ed Simpson
Let’s not forget Dr Duk’s non-crime traffic offence that the ACT bench dismissed merely as “curious”!
Attempting to run over a TC is a Non-Crime Traffic Offence.?
The Beak rejected the police description, when the tape from Dr Duk’s in-car camera showed that the police were less than honest with their evidence. If you are going to fantasise, do it (mentally) with Mizzz Knickerless, not with actual evidence presented and accepted in Court.
The Insanity of Illegal Aliens & the Plot of the Democrats Nobody Will Talk About
“I have worked advising governments around the world for over 40 years. In the process, I have learned all their tricks. The Democrats are using the RACE CARD to fool the public and destroy the United States. All of this total nonsense that the Republicans demanding ID to vote are racists because poor blacks have no ID is just total bullshite and not a single Mainstream Press has the guts to report the truth. When my children were born, you have to file to get them their social security number. There is NOT a single real American who does not have ID. You cannot get welfare, food stamps, or any social benefit without an ID no less enter a hospital. I would be in prison if I was hiring illegal aliens and paying cash under the table. Nobody can get on a plane or a train without ID no less get a job. How do you even get a driver license or buy a car without ID?
In our company, we have every race including blacks. I hired the first black Financial Analyst who unfortunately died – Robert Howe. To say that blacks are too stupid and do not have ID is so insulting the black community should be rising up against the Democrats who were originally the slave owners and have done nothing but exploit them ever since. LBJ was said to have told Democrats to vote for the Civil Rights Act saying: “I’ll have those N-Word people voting Democratic for 200 years.” What has been confirmed was that he always used the N-Word when he referred to them generally. Many want to claim Lyndon Johnson never said that, but they cannot deny those were the words he would typically use. LBJ did tell a Journalist, Bill Moyers who did report what he said:
‘Well, I think we may have lost the south for your lifetime – and mine.’
The Hong Kong government knew I also knew the Australian government. They asked me if I could negotiate to buy land from Australia to allow Hong Kong to move before it would be handed back to China in 1998. I met with Prime Minister Paul Keating. No matter what I proposed the answer was NO. I even said I had a blank cheque and could pay off their national debt. The answer was still NO. Out of frustration I finally asked: Is this a RACIST issue? He responded NO. They were fleeing Communism and they would come to Australia and vote CONSERVATIVE. Keating was Labour. It was all about Labour losing power if they let the people in from Hong Kong.
This is precisely what is going on and NOBODY in the press has the courage to report the truth. Blacks are not stupid and lack even ID. The ONLY people without ID to vote are all the illegal aliens Biden is letting in. As soon as they have a child, then the child is American, and then the parents can claim status as a family member.
The Democrats are flooding the United States with illegal aliens to change the demographics and assume all of these people will vote Democrat so they can harass and exploit all real Americans who have been born here and work for a living. This to me is not just insulting, it is treason! There is NO WAY an illegal alien can come to the USA and even get a real job. Employers will be prosecuted for hiring illegal aliens paying cash under the table since they will not have a Social Security number.
This is the plot to marginalize ALL Americans to impose by FRAUD their Marxist views where you will own nothing and live in a 15-minute city denied the freedom to even travel. This will not just lead to the destruction of the United States, but it will lead to civil unrest where the Democrats will rely on the army to gun down real Americans all for their Marxist agenda and absolute power. Our only hope is that someone will stand on the tanks and persuade the military to defend the people, not plow them down as Yeltsin did during the 1991 Russian coup.
These illegal aliens are housed at the border. What happens when they are released? If they cannot work, do they then start robbing people to survive? You cannot impose draconian taxation and enforce laws that employers must only hire people and collect taxes and then allow 20% of the population to be illegal aliens and then hire 87,000 IRS agents with guns and search eBay for people who sold a used bike for $600. Americans are being targeted while illegal aliens are flooding the country. Then they want to outlaw guns so we cannot even defend ourselves if people start storming houses looking for food and money. So many policies are just contradictory. Threaten our security but outlaw guns? You can’t reasonably have it both ways.
When I try to bring in staff from overseas, I am told NO, I should be hiring Americans. I have to spend countless thousands on legal fees for staff simply because we are an international company. I tell them just put on a sombrero and walk across the border and say they will vote for Biden in every state and they will let them in.
I have had a front-row seat in how governments around the world will always exploit the people for their own personal gain. Only a fool believes governments actually really care. They are only interested in maintaining their power. This is a Private Wave and they know they are losing control. They are now diminishing the black community using them as the excuse to usher in voting without ID as the cover for illegal aliens to repay the Democrats by voting to exploit real Americans so they can retain power. This is all part of the cycle and the end of the United States as we have known it. There will be nothing to leave our children and grandchildren but political chaos and insecurity. I wish we could stop it, but the mainstream press is so leftist, they are blind to their own destruction.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/the-insanity-of-illegal-aliens-the-plot-of-the-democrats-nobody-will-talk-about/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Indeed, maybe you can find the true copies of the Protocols there too with Silas’ artefacts used to foil Langdon and Neveu.
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Given the paltry levels of talent talked about as candidates for the next USA spending and marketing campaign a.k.a. Election I wonder how well Queen Victoria would do in the Prez role. Or PM of Australia.
I imagine running a failing empire or just one of the colonial should be a fiddle for her.
Cassie of Sydneysays:
May 13, 2023 at 2:33 pm
Apparently those elusive Grampian Nazis have appeared in Melbourne’s CBD and given the Nazi salute.
Did ASIO tip off the ever-alert VicStasi to arrest them?
Yes, it is.
Longing to separate people from family and freinds is cultism.
I think I beat some ex copper and ex teacher boomers on Haute Crapper into submission re Trump’s phone calls not being criminal (like when he and Zelensky agreed that the Europeans were kinda crappy and they wanted to drain the swamp in DC and on the Dnieper) and Biden’s kids’ secret wire payments probably being illegal. I also posted the uncut C SPAN kid sniffing and groping video too, they conveniently ignored it.
You can lead a horse to water, you can’t make it drink, but you can pop a .308 slug in the back of its head.
“This is the way forward. Long term it’ll be the basis of new nations rising from the ashes of the old.
The cycles of history.”
Indeed. It’s happened before.
15-Minute Cities – Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs)
“Let’s take a closer look at Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) that have been proposed for 15-minute cities. These small units are typically under 1,000 sq ft and were once considered secondary structures on an existing residential lot. Think of what we once considered “in-law suites” or guest houses. There are numerous designs for ADUs, but 15-minute cities will seek to create connected units to house as many people as possible. The exact plans for ADUs within 15-minute cities are shrouded in mystery, but we can ascertain what they have planned based on other proposed policies.
“You will own nothing,” as these structures will be built upon government and/or privately owned land for the people to rent. The 15-minute city is marketed as a futuristic town where everyone will live within 15 minutes of essential services. Some may say that large cities already meet this criterion, but the difference is that people currently have the ability to own their properties. Excess will not be possible in ADUs due to size. The World Economic Forum is also proposing more “micro-housing units” or “plug-in houses” that will be no larger than 500 sq ft. Cars will be unnecessary in these sustainable cities, as reducing fossil fuels and sustainability is the top priority.
Sensible City Lab analyzed 40 million mobile devices to analyze how and where people travel. The study backed by MIT found that people tend to travel 7 miles for essentials, which is much further than what is being proposed for 15-minute cities. Hence, the ADUs proposed for the 15-minute cities will be connected, one on top of the other, for this to work logistically.
Regulations and zoning restrictions need to be altered or dismantled for these cities to work. Another issue is equity and eliminating our “unfair” capitalistic societies where some have more than others. The C40 Knowledge Hub explains this premise to “build back better” in detail throughout their writings.
“In a successful 15-minute city, everyone would have the opportunity to live in a 15-minute neighbourhood. It is vital that cities prioritise 15-minute city-style investments for lower-income neighbourhoods and those that are most underserved, informed by the baseline mapping of existing amenities in each neighbourhood. Just as critically, take steps to ensure that existing local populations in those neighbourhoods are not displaced through the process of gentrification, or feel excluded due to changes to local identity. Cities should also pursue opportunities to build affordable homes and diversify the mix of homes within neighbourhoods.”
Equality in this manner does not meet the dictionary definition, as equality is intended to “prioritize the most underserved neighbourhoods and disadvantaged groups.” Hence numerous policies are being brought forth that penalize the middle class with taxes, shrinking the group that was once the bulk of modernized societies.
Sustainability, equality, and going green are cited as the main reasons to “build back better” with these 15-minute cities. However, the real motive here is control and power. They are discussing controlling everything, including food production. They are making it increasingly harder for the average person to obtain housing, whether it be rentals or owning. These AUDs will be brought forth as perhaps the only solution for permanent housing. Yet, they are making it clear that those dwelling in these structures will have landlords who may become overlords as the people relinquish all their freedoms to exist.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/markets-by-sector/real_estate/15-minute-cities-accessory-dwelling-units/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Really? Colorado must use a different time and calendar to the US east coast.
https://www.aaafainc.com/lecount-davis
In 1970, Mr. Davis, established his own consulting firm specializing in tax planning, small business management, financial planning, financial management and investment consulting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_A._Armstrong
In 1973, he began publishing commodities market predictions as a hobby. As his coin and stamp business declined, Armstrong spent more time on his commodities ventures, launching a paid newsletter in 1983.
SITREP 5/12/23: Panic! Ukraine Launches Counter-attack
SIMPLICIUS THE THINKER
13 MAY 2023
Let’s begin with the biggest news: the AFU has launched a large multi-vectored counterattack on Bakhmut as has been expected for weeks, or even months, now. There are a few key things to clear up right off the bat:
Firstly, the much-ballyhooed ‘retreat’ of Russian units is in fact going exactly as planned, and I have the receipts to prove it. In this Sitrep from March 19, I stated that Russian/Wagner forces had temporarily halted advances in Bakhmut proper in favor of broadening the flanks to create ‘crumple zones’ for the very purpose of having a large buffer area to fall back through for when Ukraine launches their long-awaited counter-assaults. Screenshot from the report:
The point of such crumple zones militarily is to create a large buffer of space that you technically ‘don’t need’ in capturing your objective, but is captured solely for the sake of establishing a layered defense which you can withdraw through to put your advancing enemy through a grinder. How defense typically works is you don’t just sit there on one line and “butt heads” with your enemy til you’re both gored. You preferably lead him back through several layers of increasingly fresher echelons that can put him through the ringer.
For anyone that’s interested, here’s a detailed explanation on how Russian defense in depth works from a respected ex-U.S. Army officer expert: LINK.
So what else do we know about this assault? That elite Ukrainian units, such as Azov and 24th OSHB of Aidar battalion are being sent against weak spots on the flank manned by some form of either mobilized, volunteer, or LPR units. There’s much controversy about claims that Russian units are “running away”, which have stolen headlines for the past several days. These claims are being endorsed and amplified by Prigozhin himself, and one video showing 4-5 troops running across a field.
Let me first say that there is zero evidence thus far that I’ve seen that these flanks and “retreating troops” are Russian army regulars. Every single named unit thus far has turned out to be LPR or ‘volunteer’ forces. For anyone claiming they are Russian army, let’s hear exactly which unit? So far, the so-called ‘retreating’ units have been variously described as 2nd Army Corps (LPR), 3rd Army Corps (new ragtag volunteer brigade), the 72nd (which no one can find in any Russian OOB, only Ukraine appears to have a 72nd brigade), the 374th OMSB, which means separate motorized rifle brigade(Russia had one in WW2 that was disbanded, this appears to now be an LPR unit), and the “4th OMSB” which once again, appears to be LPR:
The 4th OMSB were said to have retreated from the southwest Ivanovskoe direction, while a claimed Russian ‘72nd Brigade’, of which no one can find any information or valid OOB placement on, was said to have retreated from Kleeshchevka area just south of Ivanovskoe. Another ‘9th Motorized Rifle Regiment’ was said to have withdrawn from the forest belt on the road to Chasov Yar. This unit, too, appears sketchy although I’ve found a potential match for a Baltic Fleet unit from the 18th motorized rifle division stationed in Kaliningrad. This is the only one I could find with any semblance of connection to nominal Russian armed forces.
Though it may be a semantic issue, I wanted to clear it up because people are using this to drag the RuAF’s name through the mud, and I have yet to see a single piece of evidence of an actual Russian army regular unit involved.
Now, onto the second thing I want to clear up. Because there have been retreats and losses of buffer territory, the AFU is trying to sell this as a massive rout where Russian forces are being slaughtered and captured. Yes, there have been videos showing a total of maybe 10-15 KIA’s on the Russian side, as well as 5-6 captures. But there’s also videos showing the exact same for the AFU, for instance today’s video of what appears to be at least 10+ captured AFU, and a separate video showing some captured in the Zaporozhye direction as well.
Additionally, the AFU’s own propaganda video shows them taking massive losses during the assault. For instance, the video making the rounds for days where the alleged ‘Russian soldier’ surrenders to an AFU drone shows the soldier walking through a field full of destroyed AFU armor/equipment including corpses next to one of the Turkish MRAPs that can obviously only belong to the AFU:
Does that look like a successful assault to you? Those are all burned out AFU APC/IFV/IMVs in the no man’s land between the two sides’ trenches.
And yesterday there were other big losses in separate assaults. For instance, AFU attempted to assault Mayorsk and Ozaryanovka at the NW tip of Gorlovka. They were blown away with losses of half a dozen armored vehicles or more, many captured POWs all seen in this video here.
In other directions, Russian-Allied forces successfully stormed AFU positions in several directions, from capturing Kamenka in Avdeevka, to capturing new positions in Spirne (near Seversk) as well as Bilogorovka (also same area). Another more detailed report showing Spirne captures.
In short, the AFU is clearly taking huge losses in their ‘assaults’, and Russian MOD’s report confirms this, whether exaggerated or not:
Russian Ministry of Defense:
In total, in the Donetsk zone of operations, the total losses of the enemy amounted to about 900 Ukrainian servicemen killed and wounded. More than 30 armored vehicles, two D-30 howitzers and one L-118 howitzer made in Great Britain were destroyed.”
In fact, Shoigu stated the following of AFU’s losses for the entire past month:
– Full statement made by the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergei Shoigu at a conference call with the leadership of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation:
– Over the past month, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have lost more than 15 thousand people;
– The number of basic types of weapons purchased under the State Defense Order increased by 2.7 times compared to 2022, and those in high demand – by 7 times;
– The Russian Armed Forces destroyed 8 Ukrainian aircraft, 277 drones, 430 tanks and other armored vehicles, 18 MLRS vehicles in a month;
– Measures have been taken to increase the pace of production of weapons and military equipment for delivery to Russian groupings of troops in special operations;
– The Russian Armed Forces continue to eliminate weapons supplied by the West for the needs of the Ukrainian armed forces;
– The system of interaction between departments for the prompt resolution of issues related to the production and supply of weapons has worked effectively;
– Corporation “Tactical Missile Weapons” continues to create promising, modernized and existing models of weapons.
Of course, some will argue that Russian MOD also claimed thousands of losses during the Kharkov offensives which allowed AFU to recapture huge swaths of territory, so clearly AFU doesn’t care about losses.
But what I’m simply stating is that there are objectively large losses being seen, and the narrative that AFU is ‘routing Russian forces’ while suffering no losses is provably wrong. Like I said, just watch the video of the ‘surrendering Russian serviceman’ from which I posted screenshots above, and decide at what cost that one flimsy trench came to the AFU? The trench appears to have 3-4 total Russian casualties including the POW, yet all around it are half a dozen destroyed Ukrainian armored vehicles, including AFU corpses strewn about.
With that out of the way, let’s see what they have actually taken:
Basically, it appears they’ve taken up to the reservoir in the northwest of Bakhmut, with some small sections on the southwest line. Prigozhin now rightfully cries that this gives the AFU a height advantage, as they have secured some heights there which allow them to look down on Bakhmut, but as I reported last time, that’s not much different to the height advantage they already had on the entire western flank of Bakhmut because that whole line is elevated:
I circled in blue the area they appear to have captured adjacent to the south side of the reservoir. This doesn’t even look like a particularly big height compared to the actual red zones they’ve already controlled for a long time all around it. So is Prigozhin exaggerating when he tries to claim that these captured ‘heights’ are disastrous?
But Wagner fighters actually inside Bakhmut continued to advance and captured several new blocks, seen in orange below:
So now that we’ve caught up with the assaults, it should be said that this does not mean Russia is in the clear.
So far, they’ve fallen back as expected (at least by those who know how military strategy works), but this is not a carte blanche statement to mean that there is no danger, and that Russia has successfully fought everything off.
First of all, it does clearly show the weakness that Russia is utilizing much lesser trained or lesser armed troops on the flanks. It’s unclear exactly because early reports stated the units which “fled” did not even have ATGMs or any anti-tank weapons, which allowed the elite Azov/Aidar groups to crush their trenches with a full-on tank assault. However, in the footage of one of the taken trenches, they appeared well stocked with lots of confirmed Konkurs ATGM canisters, which refutes that narrative. The trenches also had tons of TM-62 mines which flies in the face of claims Russia is not providing them any mines against the assaults:
So it’s clear from the above that much of the current narrative is objectively wrong and disproven by actual facts on the ground, which should give anyone pause from directly swallowing AFU’s or even Prigozhin’s reportage hook, line, and sinker.
But the attacks are worrying in the sense that it shows the AFU retains good intelligence capabilities as they are clearly able to ascertain where the weakest, most ragtag units are stationed and hit them hard.
Thirdly, it can be argued to be worrying for the fact that, though the AFU used elite Azov units for some of the assaults, which are well-equipped and trained, they still have not utilized their truly elite ‘Western trained and armed’ new brigades that are expected to be utilized in the main offensive still to come. So one could argue that, if Russia’s weaker troops are overrun by these units, then what will happen when the truly elite units armed to the teeth with the top Western armor likewise pinpoint weak spots on Russia’s Zaporozhye line and blitzkrieg them?
The ultimate answer to these questions will come once we await the outcome of the current assaults. We have to give it a few days at the least to see if the advances actually stick, or will they run out of steam and get turned back?
Depending how far they make it before they’re exhausted, we can then draw proper judgments and conclusions. As we speak, the offensive appears to have petered out. Maybe they’ll renew more attacks, or maybe they already suffered enough losses and expenditures to slink away while licking their wounds for a few glorious hundred meters of empty no man’s land.
In the meantime, amid various AFU ‘offensive’ talk and false reports, Russia continues striking strategic targets in the AFU’s rear quite viciously. The past few days were rife with new reports of Russian missile strikes, destroying all sorts of depots, equipment, etc.
For instance:
As many here have likely heard, there’s even rumor that Ukrainian supreme commander Zaluzhny, and ground forces commander Syrsky were both liquidated in Russian strikes.
Neither has been seen in public or video, nor has been heard from, and crucially, Zaluzhny mysteriously did not appear at a recent NATO summit, not even by video call, reportedly being ‘too busy’.
Some believe Ukraine is trying to hide their deaths. Whether that’s true or not, it does highlight the fact that Russia did recently strike another top level meeting:
Now, onto some other disparate updates.
The British have resumed flights towards Crimea, with Typhoon fighter-jet escorts:
As well as American RQ-4 Global Hawk:
Some believe they are scoping out the Kerch bridge, now that it’s been announced that Ukraine has received Britain’s latest ‘Storm Shadow’ missiles, the next ‘wunderwaffen’ on the long list.
The SS missile (pun intended) has a claimed range of 300-500km, although the opinion appears to be that Ukraine is receiving the export version with 290km limit. This puts it just at the limit of the Kerch bridge from current Ukrainian territory plus or minus 10km.
That I would just like to say a big thanks to all the new subscribers, both free and paid. At one point recently this blog hit #4 highest trending on all of Substack, which to me is a huge achievemnt and shows that we’re making big waves, and a big difference in accurate reporting of the truth, as truth has a way of being a magnet in these dark and turbulent times, this day and age of ubiquitous propaganda:
Though I’m clearly on the Russian side, I don’t brush away the failures which have in fact occurred and still do occur. There are many that can be explained away by a grand strategy, that is true. But there are also ones that are simple failures of strategic forethought or capability.
My point in highlighting this is simply to say that on this blog, you will get the truth. If there are failures, they will not be couched or brushed away, but rather we’ll work to understand them and why they happened with an outlook towards understanding how improvements can be made.
A lot more detail at the link
An anti-propaganda car is traveling around the USA…..
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7nprhxc2Lxc
I had a bird’s eye view of the organisational and financial side of the festival, because I was working for the Australian Union of Students (AUS), which bankrolled and sponsored the event. AUS was then based in Drummond Street, Melbourne.
At that time, AUS had 250,000 members (pretty much every tertiary student in the country was an involuntary member) plus a booming travel business. I knew Johnny Allen pretty well, Graeme Dunstan not at all.
While I am not sure of the process that got AUS to sign up to support the festival, I am well versed in what happened once they had. The accountant, Phil Jackson, spent the next couple of years tearing out what remained of his hair as bills for travel, accommodation, staging, talent hire, insurance, accommodation, restaurants, clothing, cash advances and more poured in. It was a gravy train for spivs of the hippie persuasion, and there were plenty of them along for the ride.
All sorts of people were charging stuff to AUS, and the momentum of the festival was by then unstoppable. I don’t know how much it cost them in the end, but I do know that it was much, much more than the promoters had pitched originally. We are talking hundreds of thousands of dollars, in the 1970s.
Incidentally, I didn’t go (AUS employees all got a free ticket). I dropped a trip and flew to Sydney, where I stayed with my boyfriend in a flat near Cronulla beach. Much more pleasant than wallowing in the mud with a bunch of brain-dead hippies.
In retrospect, I don’t recommend tripping while flying. But, it was my counter to the counter-culture, which I always instinctively loathed.
The Peace and Love festival was a huge rip-off and fraud by spivs disguised as hippies. That said, it captured the zeitgeist, sometimes people get lucky. Right place, right time.
Big Serge
@witte_sergei
There were reports earlier that Ukraine attempted to advance on Soledar (north of Bakhmut), but the attack collapsed. More interestingly, there are now claims that Leopards were positively ID’d in the AFU battle group and at least one was knocked out.
This matches Ukrainian reporting that some of the western armor was released to the Bakhmut axis.
Interesting rumors, to be sure. Let’s wait and see if photos of the wrecked leopard surface
– Instead of saying “Ukraine”, can we more accurately say “NATO”?
British Government has Lost its Mind
QUESTION: The rumour was that you were considering coming to London to hold a quick update WEC. Is there any chance of that?
WJ
ANSWER: You have good sources. Yes, I was considering that. Since the UK has insanely crossed Putin’s “red line” by sending Ukraine long-range “Storm Shadow” missiles to use in its fighting against Russia, I am not sure London is a viable place anymore. Ukraine is NOT trustworthy. Why do they need long-range missiles unless they intend to attack Moscow? Germany sunk the Lusitania because the US was secretly sending arms on passenger ships to London. Britain has made that mistake with Ukraine.
Britain has just put its own national security and its citizens at risk all for what? This war would NEVER have taken place if the West did not lie and simply honored the Minsk Agreement and let those people in the Donbas, which are Russian, not Ukrainian, decide their own future. That was OK for Kiev, but not the Russians?
Those in the Donbas had a basic human right to vote on their own future. This is a war against Russia to conquer it. Handing these missiles to Ukraine will provoke Russia and would even justify attacking Britain according to the basic rules of war. They use these to attack Moscow, and Russia would be justified to attack London. This is a BS war that was to destroy Russia from the start.
The British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace told lawmakers in the House of Commons that Storm Shadow missiles “are now going into or are in” Ukraine, but he did not say how many Britain was planning to send.
I love London. I miss it very much. But the British government is out of its mind putting all of Britain at risk for Ukraine? These people making these decisions are just Neocons who love war all the time.
Wars should be fought between leaders – not the people. Put them all in a room and let them sort it out and leave the people alone. But the truth is, your children are expendable. They risk NOTHING themselves. You mean less than nothing to these people. By their decisions, they prove we do NOT live in a democracy. For Wallace to unilaterally send those long-range missiles without the people’s approval shows he is not a trustworthy individual who should be in charge of even being a meter-maid for parking tickets.
So it does not look good for a WEC in London. I would have to ask my staff how they would feel.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/govt-incompetence/british-government-has-lost-its-mind/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Interdiction.
Kelly Jay Keen attacking the Liberal Party for not being Liberal?
WTF is that all about.
Let’s get real here.
Tony Abbott’s Union R.C. killed the ALP by destroying the power of the AWU.
So, their strategy now is to scream hysterically about the Liberal Party and hope that works for a while.
Moira Deeming:
let’s say she gets Women Only spaces.
That will require Legislation.
In other words, Jim Crow for men and women.
How can anyone take her seriously?
Voters aren’t, they’ve totally rejected Deeming and Katherine Deves.
The American president is a senile child molester and his deputy, chosen by the party because she’s no threat to the power structure, is a cokehead who specialises giving speeches full of brain-dead asssinities.
They have the power to start World War Three but there’s nothing to see here.
Americans try to carry on as if there’s nothing wrong with their country’s power structure.
FMD.
Nothing wrong with Nigellas bottom. (For the record)
they carry on because they are wealthy and content
FMD OldOzzie. After that wall of text, more detail? Just no.
Did someone leave the monkeys typing? Sad Case is in here again.
willsays:
May 13, 2023 at 3:31 pm
Americans try to carry on as if there’s nothing wrong with their country’s power structure.
they carry on because they are wealthy and content
They are no longer that wealthy or content. Feral Guv’ment Debt (Taxpayer Debt) is out of control and so is Guv’ment Spending. A once healthy Economy and Society with Manufacturing, Mining, Services and lots of Energy (no pun intended) is weakening by the day. Let alone an open Southern Border and increased crime in its major Cities.
Like Whoopi Goldberg. She has the dimensions of a bowling ball. I’m kind of surprised she can walk without significant difficulty.
Excellent news for Russia and China. They can learn how to take out the western armor. They might even be able to capture a few to send back for study. Talk about own goals. LOL.
Chrissays:
May 13, 2023 at 3:40 pm
Did someone leave the monkeys typing? Sad Case is in here again.
And that is a very sad case. A suitable Case for Treatment no less. That last post shows that he/she/it/whatever is off the rails.
Could The US “Lose” Australia?
Australia as a colony, and then after independence, operated as part of the British armed forces, sending substantial number of troops to World War I and II to fight in Europe. However during World War II, the collapse of Singapore saw Japanese forces attack the mainland Australia. Only the US was able to offer military support, and from this moment on, Australia military was reconfigured to ally with the US rather than British Armed Forces. The military bond between the US and Australia is so close, that Australia reintroduced conscription during the Vietnam war. Even today songs like “Cold Chisel – Khe Sanh” – 4 Mins 10 Secs and “Redgum – I was only 19 – 4 Mins 20 Secs” that describe the trials and tribulations of Australian soldiers in Vietnam are well known.
After the Vietnam war, for years Australian defense policy was centered on a “large country to the north” aka Indonesia. Military fears were driven by the invasion and annexation of West Papua by Indonesia in 1969 that saw a number of Australian journalists perish. Papua New Guinea was ruled by Australia until 1975, meaning that Australia was already protecting a land border against Indonesia. As an Australian military map shows, only Indonesia is close enough to possibly invade the populated East Coast. A military policy focused on stopping a potential Indonesian threat was both logical and sensible.
The isolation of Australia with the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the rise of democracy in Indonesia has led Australia to have defense policy of “strategic warning time”, which in essence meant that Australia had 10 years to respond to any real military threat. The most recent review argues that this period is over, and Australia needs to commit to a much more rigorous defense strategy. In particular it is looking to work much more closely with other nations in the Indo-Pacific region to counteract the influence of China. The landmark agreement of AUKUS where Australia will acquire nuclear submarines from the UK. The problem is that Australia now seems to be investing heavily to protect itself from its largest trade partner (memorable parodied here).
Given the distances involved, and China’s dependence on Australian raw materials, the likelihood of China invading Australia seems very low. Australia already spends around 2% of GDP on military, which is enough to make it the dominant power in Oceania.
Militarily Australia looks like its spends more than enough to resist any possible invasion, and to project power near its borders. So what exactly is the aim of Australia’s more robust defence posture, and the AUKUS treaty. The most controversial feature of the AUKUS treaty was Australia cancelling the contract to buy Collins class submarines from France, and buying nuclear powered submarines from the UK.
There is much debate over whether these submarines are actually better, for Australia, but it is very clear that the nuclear submarines can travel much further than conventional submarines.
The conclusion I make from all of this is that Australia has decided to participate in the potential defense of Taiwan. The reunification of Taiwan to the mainland has been government policy since the foundation of the People’s Republic of China. If that is the unstated aim of this policy, then the question has to be whether this is correct strategy. If the aim is to bolster Taiwanese defences, then it would make more sense to bolster spending in areas near a potential conflict. Why not have Australia send more military equipment to Taiwan? Or why not give Japan nuclear submarines? The AUKUS plan has Australia building 8 submarines coming into service in 2030s and 2040s.
Given the current mismatch between Chinese and Taiwanese navies, what is the point?
Plainly Australia’s military plans are sending a political signal, but at the cost of $10bn a year for 30 years. Other problems included the lack of nuclear industry in Australia means developing the know how to deal with nuclear material from scratch, as well as making mainland Australia a legitimate target if China did invade Taiwan. While the Vietnam war is still remembered in song, the failures of British military strategy in World War I are remembered even more keenly in Australia (ANZAC day is a more important that either Australia Day or Federation day – and commemorates the loss of Australian and New Zealand soldiers lives in a badly planned military campaign in Turkey). Some historians saw the debacle in Turkey in World War I was the true beginning of Australian independence from Britain. Confused strategy regarding Taiwan could have the same effect.
Former Prime Minister Paul Keating has already spoken out against this new military strategy, and he makes a valid point.
As the parody video linked above makes clear, Australian military strategy would benefit from clearer objectives, and perhaps refraining from throwing money at projects until it can clearly state those objectives.
Grandpa Ed Simpson still shilling for leftard policies, combining it with his hatred of private spaces for women. Grandpa Ed seems to like the idea of sharing their private spaces.
let’s say she gets Women Only spaces.
That will require Legislation.
In other words, Jim Crow for men and women.
How can anyone take her seriously?
Voters aren’t, they’ve totally rejected Deeming and Katherine Deves.
There’s a lot to unpack there crotchless, so I won’t; I’ll just advise you to stick it up your arse.
Pentagon Officials Acknowledge Uncertainty In Defending Against Hypersonic Missiles
The United States Department of Defense (DOD) is seeking nearly $30 billion in its $680 billion Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) budget request for missile defeat and defense programs across all branches of the military.
Right now, the DOD is in a race to develop its own hypersonic missiles and engineer effective defenses against the high-velocity, maneuverable missiles being developed by Russia and, particularly, by the Peoples Republic of China (PRC).
During questioning by Senate Armed Services Committee’s Strategic Forces Subcommittee Chair Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) in a May 9 budget hearing, four flag officers said some existing systems have “capabilities” against hypersonic weapons but did not know for sure until they are tested against the evolving missile systems.
King was not happy. “It seems to me that we are spending a lot more money to developing hypersonic missiles than we are developing capabilities to defend against them,” he said.
King asked Missile Defense Agency Director Vice Adm. Jon A. Hill if an aircraft carrier could be defended against a hypersonic missile attack.
“We have the capability to stop it in two places, in the boost-glide phase” and when the missile re-enters the atmosphere, Hill said, noting the Navy’s SM-6 missiles are “cruise missile killers” designed to track and kill fast-moving, maneuverable targets that can fly high and skim the surface. “It would be defeated by a destroyer defending a carrier.”
What do you think of the theory poised by HistoryLegends and others that Ukraine is planning an amphibious assault across the Dnieper on Kherson and ZNPP?
Simplicius The Thinker
18 min ago
I think they definitely are, there’s ample evidence and I began to lean more and more towards the notion put forth by some that even taking ZNPP may be the actual secret overall goal of the entire offensive. The reason being that they know they can’t actually reach Crimea or possibly even Melitopol so using all those vectors as distractions to actually seize ZNPP would give them a huge ‘psychological victory’ that they can sell to their western/nato partners as a major win to gain another year of morale and funding.
There have been new updates on this front just in the past day as tons of new boats have been recorded on the waterline with some suspecting they may be readying to launch the assault soon, not to mention all the games they’ve been playing with the water level, damming the river so it goes dry for a crossing. With that said, there was also a new video released today from a Russian unit on the line in Kherson, responsible with watching the river and they said very confidently that ‘AFU stands no chance’ of crossing and their defenses are tightly in place, so it’s hard to know what chance they truly stand. But I definitely believe they’re planning such a crossing with almost 100% certainty.
HistoryLegends recently elaborated on this theory by pointing out a shipment of diving equipment and several videos of Ukrainian special forces training with said diving equipment for a mission in which they would swim underwater across the Dnieper in order to avoid the majority and most effective of Russia’s anti-amphibious landing measures to plant a bridgehead that will enable more conventional amphibious forces to pour in with fewer losses. Do you think this plan is likely to happen? Do you think it could succeed? I’m personally certain that they will try it, but I don’t know if it has much of a chance to succeed as the divers can only be light infantry with no heavy equipment against entrenched foes with lots of heavy equipment.
That zero hedge article is a joke oldozzie.
if that was true why does Procurement waste most of its time guzzling wine and buying useless euro kit?
bwwahahha! Where to start?
oh, dear.
Stephen
edited 20 min ago
I have upgraded to “Paid”. These articles must take an age to craft and deserve recompense.
My own country the U.K. shocks me most. Our elites still think they are living in the nineteenth century. Why on earth RAF aircraft are deployed in the Black Sea, so far from home is utterly beyond me. Perhaps they want to rerun the Crimean War. Sebastopol for sure seems to be an obsession.
The Duran made an interesting point that British elite bellicosity may partly be driven by Russian success in Syria. According to them, the British security / war making machine was heavily invested in removing Assad.
It therefore burns with resentment at Putin’s role is stopping their games. Of course, things may be as simple too as Russophobia and a desperate urge to keep proving themselves to Uncle Sam as loyal allies.
After all, there is a lot of competition right now for that dubious “accolade”.
Your calculations on munitions are interesting and remind me of WW1 and WW2 histories where this type of logic always seemed crucial. Fascinating too that the British Army is rediscovering artillery. My recollection of history is that in WW2 the artillery was viewed as the best arm of the British service. It operated very much as the Russian artillery does today it seems and by late 1944-5 the whole practice of the creeping barrage and literally saturating the battlefield in shellfire had been heavily perfected. Of course, with total air superiority, no radar tracking of firing points and no drones concentration and sustained fire from fixed positions was much easier then. They were criticised for not having the alleged elan of the Wehrmacht but the approach was effective.
I guess that 50 years or so of fighting poorly armed Middle Eastern opponents has allowed everyone to forget the true science of warfare.
Mr Podolyak has a way to go to match nice Mr Medvedev.
Endlessly threatening to nuke everything in sight isn’t a way to make many friends.
I just had a look at the sources, not much is happening in Ukraine. The Ukies nibbled a morsel off the Russkies on the NW side of Bakhmut, maybe a couple kms, but otherwise little to report on the ground. A bit more in the air though, with drone and cruise missile strikes going in both directions.
I had a look at Igor Girkin’s twitter for the first time in a while. Twitter has annoyingly put all his tweets behind a login wall. I thought Elon was all for free speech?
Classic Soviet trolling for gullible Westerners. Well done Vlad the shirtless defenderof Christendom.
I’m sure the families will love being exhibits.
It’s lookin’ like a rerun of the Vietnam War.
Like the NVA/Viet Cong, Russia isn’t trying too hard to take and hold territory.
They’re focus is engaging and killing Ukraine/NATO soldiers for as long as it takes.
King asked Missile Defense Agency Director Vice Adm. Jon A. Hill if an aircraft carrier could be defended against a hypersonic missile attack.
“We have the capability to stop it in two places, in the boost-glide phase” and when the missile re-enters the atmosphere, Hill said, noting the Navy’s SM-6 missiles are “cruise missile killers”.
This dickhead has been playing too many computer games. A “cruise missile killer” is no defence against a Hypersonic Missile. It is not a cruise missile. It is not cruising as it is going really, really farking fast. Like hypersonic even. FFS.
If this is the case, then why does the US suddenly need to spend billions of dollars on defending against Hypersonic missiles?. Or, even developing their own?.
Entropy says:
May 13, 2023 at 4:06 pm
That zero hedge article is a joke oldozzie.
Australia military was reconfigured to ally with the US rather than British Armed Forces.
if that was true why does Procurement waste most of its time guzzling wine and buying useless euro kit?
Wines are nicer in the Euro & Yanks not into Wine when working – Remember Kittens in Ratheon Data Systems in Boston when I had taken some casks of Australian Wine for Friday Night Drinks with my Team working on the Software Project there – Security had Conniptions and was only calmed down South Afrian VP who said itbwas an Austraian Friday after work tradition
Versus Senior Staff Dining Room SITA Avenue Charkes De Gaulle Paris – Superb Food & Wine Selection Amazing
Did anyone notice that after Twitter got Tucker, the other prominent firing that week was the odious Don Lemon. Elon offered him a channel … crickets,
Everest winner Giga Kick wins the $1.5 million Doomben 10,000 in Brisbane, making young trainer Clayton Douglas the most successful rising star in the Australian thoroughbred racing industry.
I am particularly pleased because Douglas was publicly deserted by his slutty former fiancee Jamie Kah on Instagram to root a fellow jockey who has none of Douglas’s talent.
Fellas, why is it that you are so invested in arguing about a distant and irrelevant war?
It seems to push some buttons.
Which ones?
Faced with a choice, Malcolm Turnbull publicly supports Chris Bowen over Peter Dutton.
Saturday, 13 May 2023
Prick.
Sorry, pricks.
Turnbull could have said nothing at all.
It’s reported that a Patriot stopped a Kinzhal last week. If so then maybe they can.
As the parody video linked above makes clear, Australian military strategy would benefit from clearer objectives, and perhaps refraining from throwing money at projects until it can clearly state those objectives.
Ahhhh the benefit of hindsight, Old Ozzie!
I blame both major Parties for neglecting to address the strategic elephant in the room (or rather, the Indo Pacific) for two decades or more. The bureaucrats who determine Defence spending must take a big share of the blame – though we all know how politics overwhelms sensible planning.
Too damn late now, even if we massively increase the annual percentage of defence allocations. Jim Molan’s startling conclusions in the book he penned before he died – “Danger on our Doorstep” says it all. Scared the hell out of me.
Well a counter missile just has to be fast enough to get in the way.
I thought colourful racing identities here HATED the Everest.
‘SHE’ raped girl with ‘HER’ penis UK court heard, proving country has now gone mad
This week a man claiming to be a trans woman was jailed for nine years for raping a young girl. Throughout the trial the court referred to him as “she” and discussed how “she” used “her” penis to commit the rape.
Have we gone mad?
Trumble was always wannabe liebor. Why little Johnny hoWARd gave him a portfolio and convinced him to stay, I still want to know.
Some of us were never terribly sane to begin with.
Did you look at how the lead skews in a two-way between Trump and DeSantis in Florida once the other contenders are removed from the link? Trump wins them 2:1.
Brutal and funny, for extra laughs, turn on subtitles.
“Now I have not become the master.”
Marco Pierre White’s smooth and steady scrambled eggs vs Ramsay’s jittery baby food.
Gordon Ramsay vs Marco Pierre White Scrambled Eggs Battle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s5G1lr61VQ
Australia has paid very dearly for hoWARD’s actions re Trumble.
Seems to work for me….
Old Ozzie, she’ll have lots of lovely suitors in prison offering her flowers and sonnets to attract her attention.
The sad fact is that most ppl will just conform to prevailing modes, whatever they are. If the roots of conduct are more or less in line with reality, they will behave more or less sanely in standard situations. Take them outside the norms, or make the norms insane, and they’ll reveal their very shaky grasp of reality.
We’re a pathetic species.
Speak for yourself
Razey – I can see them but can’t read ’em without logging in. Which would be hard since I don’t have a Twitter account.
Col. Girkin is always interesting even if more than a bit spookish.
This is exactly right and its largely been the result of failed and failing ideology which has hollowed out any robust, substantive understanding of all three.
Fallen out of love with Jamie, have you Tom? My, my.
Chris, you may not be aware of this, but it is all set out in a basic summary form in my article ‘Decoding King Arthur and the Grail’, Quadrant, Vol 62, No. 9, September 2018, pp71-80. I have written more since then, but events have overtaken me in getting it into a publishable form that I am happy with. As happens with many aspiring writers who consider they have wasted good time (see the Poem ‘Talking to Myself’ by Dannie Abse which I put up here recently and which expressed just such an emotion). I still hope to continue with further articles or a book (maybe). Pace those who rail against me re more than tardiness, for I have published enough in an academic format, including a book of oral histories, to rest on some minor laurels.
Muddy’s comforting thoughts put up here the other morning advise making the best of whatever you’ve done or can do. Wise words. We’ve all had our troubles and things to hold us up.
Trumble siding with the poisonous shitweazel against Dutton is actually favourable to Dutton. Have the NSW Lieborals expelled Trumble yet BTW? One thing’s for sure, the NSW lieborals are no less abominable than the Vicco ones.
Hilarious, Dot. I’m with Marco here. Ramsay is demented.
Heat the butter in the frypan, whisk the eggs in the bowl, add a teaspoon of water to “loosen” them. Once the butter foams, in go the eggs. Wait…wait…gently move the cooked egg to the centre, allowing the uncooked to contact the frypan. Do this a couple of times, no more.
Onto the toast (the eggs keep cooking even after they leave the pan). Top with good things, or nothing but salt and pepper.
Mmmmm…..
I’m not a species. Nor am I a conformist. So I can see the horrible aggregate that is humanity, and have a very low opinion of it. All the accomplishments of the species are the work of a tiny minority, in the face of opposition from the majority. Just occasionally, that small minority can actually accomplish something, this isn’t one of those times.
What Plato actually said:
Pay attention joanna. The same idiot WH and US neocon actors promoting the carnage and potential nuclear war in Ukraine will be same lunatics demanding we join them as their allies in a hot war with China. Looking at the fate of US allies in prior post WW2 wars (Vietnam and Afghanistan) we should be paying very very close attention while being just as equally concerned.
Hardly irrelevant.
Actions have consequences, JMH.
What are you actually Bogan, an academic?
Why in the hell does anybody give the Turngrub a platform or the time of day. FFS.
They can’t expel Turngrub.
He’s the bank.
johannasays:
May 13, 2023 at 4:22 pm
Fellas, why is it that you are so invested in arguing about a distant and irrelevant war?
Cos’ it is not an irrelevant war. And I am not invested in it but I am very very interested.
However, you are irrelevant with a comment like that. One that you made on this blog not so long ago in fact. Once is enough but twice is boring. FFS.
He told Gordon only a fool would rush scrambled eggs.
Gordon rushed the eggs and made himself cry.
“Gordon got hurt and fell down” as they say in the old computer role-playing-games.
I’ve been cogitating on Joh’s comment about that “distant and irrelevant” war, and picturing myself standing on that street corner in Sarajevo last year, surveying the scene of the crime.
Sometimes these things take on a life all their own.
Who cares? We’re not sending Medvedev endless amounts of money and equipment. Further, blowing off Podolyak’s threats to make ordinary life in Europe intolerable if the spigot is turned off is very strange.
What criteria would make it relevant?
Australia has paid very dearly for hoWARD’s actions re Trumble.
Little johnnie is Australia’s worst PM for 3 main reasons:
1 he persuaded turdball to stay
2 he didn’t close the abc when he had huge majorities in both houses
3 he signed us up to Paris and started the whole climate/renewable crap
And nothing has changed; nothing sums up the libs more than that turdball is not kicked out and is still a member.
Pope, Zelensky both have ambitions for meeting on Fatima feast
CRUX – May 13, 2023
ROME – Assuming Pope Francis and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky do indeed meet today in the Vatican, as officials on both sides have been suggesting, a good deal would appear to be riding on the outcome for both men.
It would be the second face-to-face encounter between the two men, after a first meeting on Feb. 8, 2020, though the first since the war began.
Business decision. Fab income stream for those in the loop.
Which isn’t you. Or me.
Those Marco scrambled eggs are the very French way – the egg equivalent of a blue steak. No thanks. In Oz, follow the master Bill
https://www.smh.com.au/goodfood/tips-and-advice/how-to-cook-folded-eggs-aka-the-perfect-cafe-style-scramble-20230328-p5cvwv.html
Not currently. It’s one of the things I’ve tried.
Interesting. Both appear to be making threats hoping we will bend to their will. One side makes dark threats of using nuclear weapons and the other , we’re told, is making threats of terror attacks. I dunno, but I kind of think nuclear threats are 1000s of times more threatening. You dismiss the nuke threats and focus on the other side.
The Australian government has approved a new coal mine for the first time since it was elected – on a climate action platform – last year.
The government was bound by national environment laws when considering Central Queensland’s Isaac River coal mine, a spokeswoman said.
Environment groups had called on the government to block the new development, on the grounds it would increase global emissions and damage the habitat of endangered or vulnerable species like the koala, the central greater glider and the ornamental snake.
But when Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek’s proposed decision was announced on Thursday afternoon, the government said no-one had made submissions during the formal consultation period.
“The government has to make decisions in accordance with the facts and the national environment law – that’s what happens on every project, and that’s what’s happened here,” a spokeswoman for Ms Plibersek said .
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-65541621
“Ha farking Ha. So the Greenies got caught out by NOT following the rules. Sounds like a great fark up to me and long may it continue”.
Yes Bear. I do the slow folded style. None of this mad stirring.
I leave that for the blog. 🙂
Marco Pierre White gently spoke those eggs into existence, like Tolkein’s Eru Illuvatar singing Middle Earth into existence along with the Valar and Maiar.
The Egg Whisperer.
As a small economy just under 2% of global GDP, what do you think would have happened to us if we didn’t sign on? The EU, and the US under the Kenyan, would’ve imposed sanctions. You have to be realistic. The only nation that can say no is the US, which it did under Trump.
But attempting to stop this would be ‘authoritarian’.
“1 he persuaded turdball to stay”
And now Howard is now spruiking for Turdbull’s ex son-in-law, James Brown, to fill the late Jim Molan’s senate spot. Let me remind everyone, Jim Molan had to fight hard for that senate spot in 2019, before that 2019 election Molan had been relegated to the unwinnable fourth position on the senate paper by the scum in the NSW Liberal Party.
Just face facts. Uncontrolled immigration is unsustainable. Most are not brain surgeons or Nobel Prize winners, and will end up working for. a minimum wage. This will not pay for their medical care, the education of their children, or support of their parents. So who will? If asked, most will not even pay a dollar to support ‘climate action’, but will be expected to fork out millions to fund people who they did not even invite into the country. It can only end as a downward spiral into poverty and revolution.
And nothing has changed; nothing sums up the libs more than that turdball is not kicked out and is still a member.
And Moira Deeming is kicked out!
“Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here. This is the War room.”
—President Merkin Muffley (Peter Sellers), Dr. Strangelove
Hey, peoples ly sufferin’ from depression, laughter is the best medicine. 🙂
A Victorian Gliberal, before and after death.
Thanks to the Cat that posted the above image this morning. You legend.
That was Pogria, Rabz. May her bread always rise.
Howard’s spiteful comments about Trump are further proof he’s just another venal pollimuppett.
He’s hit the trifecta (AAP):
Queensland speaker of the house Curtis Pitt will temporarily step down to address mental health issues, citing divorce, depression and inflammatory bowel disease.
A really irritating aspect of the woke shits is this:
The problem with inserting ethnic minorities into period dramas and historical films
The guy giving the talk looks like colonel Blimp but is great. For me the worst examples of this are the black characters in film versions of our Jane’s novels. Just imagine if they made a bio of obuma and had Ryan Reynolds playing the bastard.
Today’s new word is: Splenk.
It means… uhhh, I’m waiting for someone to tell me…
Thing is, when Howard signed us up to Kyoto we were actually allowed to increase emissions to 108% of 1990 levels. This is because in the end the euros didn’t care about Australia. Kyoto was really about international economic power, and the EU’s economic advantage target was the same as it has always been, the yanks. Even the 1990 date was so the EU could take advantage of the collapse in dirty industry in previously iron curtain countries. They just wanted us to sign up for strength in numbers and didn’t sweat the details.
Of course, with a rapidly rising population thanks to immigration and no nukes it will always be hard to realistically reduce our emissions. Howard cheated by counting banning veg clearing of course. But you could only get away with that once.
On the other hand china’s emissions are rising so rapidly our global share of emissions will be below 1% next IPCC five year report even if we did nothing. I suppose Bowen will try and claim victory though.
I was thinking about that scene when a Ukrainian punched a Russian at a confab in Ankara last week.
Ukraine delegate punches Russian at Black Sea nations assembly in Ankara (5 May)
Kubrick-grade black humour. Got to love Eastern European diplomats, they’re classy.
I harbour a faint hope that they are keeping their powder dry until the final Britnah report drops.
But I fear my hopes will be dashed.
“Frank Elly and Virginia Trioli might say we’ve got a woman problem”.
When people are struggling to pay their bills, attacking the $3 meg payout should be a winner.
Again, tried to explain the phenomenon that is the utter absurdist imbeciles that are the Victoriastanian Gliberals to some friends last night – struggled, as I kept bursting out laughing.
Dim Smith’s BMW journey into some poor Wally’s suburban fence being the final stage in an inexorable path to a well deserved and long overdue extinction.
To cut a long story short, if the Victoriastanian Gliberals did not exist, satirists would have to invent them. 😕
As a small economy just under 2% of global GDP, what do you think would have happened to us if we didn’t sign on? The EU, and the US under the Kenyan, would’ve imposed sanctions. You have to be realistic. The only nation that can say no is the US, which it did under Trump.
You’re not thinking this through head prefect: 90% of our fossils and 100% of our uranium is exported but we use none here. Sure, obuma would have applied pressure but when the black bastard left and the golden God came in we could have done what we wanted but pip pippers like little johnnie hated him and another wasted opportunity went by.
Does anyone want to bet when the first blackouts occur under rub and tug and turtle?
His ex-wife has given him a sad case of the screaming shits.
Heading into Melb CBD this evening on the train. 3 v attractive young ladies sat down around me. I think i have acquired that grandfatherly look. Anyhoo a ways down the line this drunk or drugged young chap of middle eastern descent plonks himself across the aisle and gets a bit miffed when the young lasses wont engage with him. Then he tries me, in a loud voice. ‘You got credit?’ ‘What?’ ‘You got credit mate? On your phone? I want to make a phone call.’ I channel a bit of Clint. Strong eye contact. Pause. Strong voice. ‘Not for you.’ Continue stare unblinking. Hes done. Mumbles. Gets up and wanders off down the carriage to try his luck elsewhere.
All those Clint movies finally came in handy. LOL.
Thanks Calli 🙂
Sadly, I think it more likely that the animal on the right still votes for the one on the left.
Just because it ain’t movin’, doesn’t mean anyfink, right? It’s just restin’.
(Unless it’s a zombie dodo).
No, what is interesting is that I pointed out that UKR appears to be now threatening European nations with a terror spree and the only response appears to be whataboutism. Why would I have to bring up the escalatory see-saw involving Medvedev or respond to it? It’s completely unrelated.
“On the information presently available, the ICAC anticipates it is more likely to be available for furnishing its Report on Gladys Berejiklian in the second quarter of 2023,”
– it said in the Statement on 10 Jan 2023.
The corruption watchdog turned its attention to the former premier in October of 2021, after she revealed during a public hearing they had been seeing one another for about five years.
Anyone know why these sort of investigations seem to take so long and cost so much?
Not long to go now then.
Pancho:
people? Little ‘p’ people?
Good God, man, do you want to catch something?
Australia has paid very dearly for hoWARD’s actions re Trumble.
The background was that Ton y Abbott had just deposed Turnbull and Howard couldn’t see any way he could beat Rudd.
Anyway, Labor blindsided Howard by replacing Rudd with Gillard who Abbott also couldn’t beat, but went fairly close.
It turned out well [unless you’re a Labor Supporter, because when Abbott
inevitably crashed and burned Turnbull was there to pick up the pieces and they ended up with 2 extra Terms that they wouldna got otherwise.
Like the cut of your jib Fair Shake. Being direct gives them nowhere to go unless they are going postal. Easier to go elsewhere like they did.
When people are struggling to pay their bills, attacking the $3 meg payout should be a winner.
Sure, if you consider winning being able to hold a Party meeting
in a Kombi Van after the next Federal Election.
It turned out well [unless you’re a Labor Supporter, because when Abbott
inevitably crashed and burned Turnbull was there to pick up the pieces and they ended up with 2 extra Terms that they wouldna got otherwise.
Epic piss taking by crotchless.
All those Clint movies finally came in handy. LOL.
love it
Given anyone with a functioning brain might not nominally give a rodent’s about the bureaucratic idiocy described in that sentence.
The creature identified above is among those at the top of “The List”.
Cats, I give many, many rodents.
Never forget, never forgive. 😡
Not mine.
“When people are struggling to pay their bills, attacking the $3 meg payout should be a winner.”
Yep. You’d also think defending women’s biological sex and safe spaces would be a vot winner too, and defending women’s right to speak, but what are the Liberal’s current priorities? Ah yes, banning gambling advertisements an hour before and after sports matches. LOL.
Stupid stupid f*cking Liberals.
The new Liberal Party slogan: “Just restin’.”
It’s pithy. Easy to remember. Unlikely to be satirised.
And only cost $112m* to come up with.
Special.
*My dog may have made up that number.
cohenitesays:
May 13, 2023 at 5:47 pm
Does anyone want to bet when the first blackouts occur under rub and tug and turtle?
No need to bet. A certainty before the next Genewal Ewection in 2025.
Another Gimmegrant drop kick that never deserved to be let into Australia.
Hopefully, sooner rather than later.
It will be a hard lesson and many, many imbeciles are needing to be learning it. First hand, good and hard. 🙂
Turnbukl is merely supporting his own bets on renewable power. Would be nice if he admitted to having a stake in the game but he is as shameless as the rest of his political class
Never forget, never forgive.
Preach, brother.
Well we saw the thinking of the gaggle of lawyers and BAs re the electricity supply- ‘fingers crossed’ and ‘good omen’. Think of all the public money wasted on ejucading these rubbish people.
Liberal Senators Cash & Reynolds were found to be hostile witnesses in the Lehrmann case.
Just have a think about how that plays to female voters?
2 Liberal Women were Hostile Witnesses against their former employee in a Rape Case.
No wonder Dutton wishes the entire issue will disappear.
But, don’t worry, shills, Labor will keep it alive right up to the next Election.
Not mine.
Cad.
Owl.
More good news: the trannie creep who abused a customer at Starbucks for misgendering him has been fired. Actually he should have been arrested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovZJGTS4qfs
Just read the thread up to here. Hairy’s at the gym then the shops and I was going to sit down and do some thinking and writing, but I’ve had an autistic four year old still in nappies who can’t talk or sit still to look after all afternoon and I’m a bit worn out. He’s thrown some of my best shell collection over the verandah and onto inaccessible rocks below. They’ll fool some future geologist for sure. 🙂
I’m shell shocked. So’s Attapuss who has just crawled out from the safety of under our bed.
The magic word has been said: Saturday night cute owl.
our objective should be present ourselves as a porcupine.
Invade, and you may succeed, but it will cost you dearly.
There’s no way we can successfully defend ourselves from invasion, so we need to aim to inflict as much pain as possible on any aggressor. Unclear subs are good – pick off targets remotely and generally cause chaos at the home of the invading force, but a trained local militia (30% of population) armed and ready for guerilla warfare would be my proposal for local activities.
Ah, good ol’ Kamala:
Everythang being in context: “I don’t know what’s wrong with you young peoples, you think you just fell out of a coconut tree, I asks ya?”
Brrr. Winterish today. I have my portable stove ready for the coming emergency.
It can boil water, so I will fill two hot water bottles with heat and retire under the doona to read.
By my LED lights. I can also heat some hot milk and baked beans. Hairy can have a bottle of scotch.
We’ll survive. We can listen to my solar-chargeable portable radio for news and musical interludes.
And charge our mobile phones on one of the solar lights with a USB ready to go.
Plan B is more long term and involves the airport.
You’re suggesting the actual government of Ukraine is making these threats? The Ukraine president is making direct threats like the Russian President has made countless nuclear threats against The West?
I appreciate the fit female form as much as the next red-blooded bloke; but I’m afraid those crushing thighs just don’t appeal. More hawk than owl.
what’s the bet. Coke, alcohol, a bit of both?