Open Thread – Weekend 24 June 2023


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m0nty
m0nty
June 24, 2023 1:04 pm

Daniel @growing_daniel
If Russia is serious about peace they need to make territorial concessions to Wagner to end the war now

LOL!

m0nty
m0nty
June 24, 2023 1:05 pm

The Ukes and the Chechens (plus a lot of other Russian neighbours) would be sharing the popcorn as the stupid Muscovites kill each other.

Roger
Roger
June 24, 2023 1:06 pm

Key government buildings reportedly occupied by Wagner in Rostov on Don.

Governor urging city residents to stay indoors.

cohenite
June 24, 2023 1:09 pm

Gary John’s most damning point is “Is Aboriginal culture relevant in the 21st century?”

It never was in any century that had progressed beyond bashing critters on the head with a womba womba.

3rd nations are the closest humanity has come to being pure natural; and nature is a bitch.

DaFisk
DaFisk
June 24, 2023 1:10 pm

Oh boy, the Vatnik copium is absolutely glorious. Watch all the little fascist critters like Jackson Hinkle scuttling away!

Chris
Chris
June 24, 2023 1:11 pm

It never was in any century that had progressed beyond bashing critters on the head with a womba womba.

Listen whitey, we invented several new uses for the STICK.
More than one of them were not for domestic violence.

Dot
Dot
June 24, 2023 1:11 pm

stupid Muscovites

Sounds too much like Ruski bashing to me.

Dot
Dot
June 24, 2023 1:13 pm

This is interesting:

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Rostov is important here as it’s a city where Shoygu arrived earlier to make some “preparations” for the “coup”, and where Prigozhin claimed Shoygu hid 2,000 Russian corpses to hide casualties. This is also where Russian Army allegedly shelled the Wagner units.

Numerous reports now of the Russian MIA forces blocking roads. It’s unclear if the Wagner units, if they are to move anywhere, are near Rostov.
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Dot
Dot
June 24, 2023 1:18 pm

This seems extremely silly.

The Dive with Jackson Hinkle
YouTube
https: //www. youtube .c …..

The Massive Russian Juggernaut keeps on Advancing and Pushing Forward – No One can Defeat Russia and the Ukraine will be LIBERATED !!!! Bravo Russia Bravo !

Chris
Chris
June 24, 2023 1:18 pm

This is interesting:

I think we should shut the whole thing down until Glenn Reynolds figures out what the HELL is going on.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 24, 2023 1:20 pm

I see Sky reporting a poll which shows Yes to da Voice now at 46%.
The Sky link shows a fat talking head saying that, but no details.
Anyone got details?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 24, 2023 1:20 pm

Unconfirmed report of a Wagner unit on the highway 350 km north of Rostov. Geolocated though.

Ed Case
Ed Case
June 24, 2023 1:22 pm

Hey, Rotten!

What’s Martin Armstrong say?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 24, 2023 1:24 pm

Anthony Albanese dismisses Indigenous voice to parliament poll suggesting ‘Yes’ vote has fallen to 46pc

By Tricia Rivera
Cadet reporter
@tricialeerivera
1:14PM June 24, 2023

Anthony Albanese says there is no downside to an Indigenous voice to parliament and executive government as he continues to pursue his moment of national unity amid polling that indicates dwindling support for the referendum.

Reflecting on the 1967 referendum, the recognition of the legal fiction of terra nullius and the apology to the Stolen Generations, the Prime Minister has batted away polling numbers that show less than 50 per cent of the population would vote Yes.

A new poll on Saturday revealed people leaning toward a Yes vote has dropped to 46 per cent as the Senate passed the referendum legislation on Monday with 52 votes to 19.

“There’s a different poll every day,” the Prime Minister said in Sydney on Saturday.

“All of the polls, including the one you’re referring to, (comes) from some company, and I note that a week ago, there was a front-page story which came straight from the No camp last Sunday.

“So every poll, including the one that was mentioned today, of course, has the ‘Yes’ vote higher than the ‘No’ vote.”

Mr Albanese made an impassioned plea for Australians to accept the “gracious and generous offer” to walk forward together in unity.

“Just like the 1967 referendum was, just like the recognition of the fiction of terra nullius that occurred, just as the apology to the Stolen Generations were all moments of national unity, that made our country stronger, that made our country more united and made it more reconciled,” he said.

“This is a positive change that will not make or have any downside. This is all upside. And I sincerely hope that Australians do vote ‘Yes’.”

The comments come as the Prime Minister rejected Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s calls to delay or change the referendum.

The Liberal leader said Mr Albanese should delay the referendum if he believed it would fail to ensure reconciliation is not set back.

“The Prime Minister of the day has the option before him now to work with us to say to the Australian public that we will go forward in a unifying, not dividing, moment in October of this year. That is the hand of friendship that we extend to the government today,” Mr Dutton said earlier this week.

“We propose to legislate the voice. Let’s do that. Let’s sit down and work together on the drafting of that and make sure that Australians can understand how it works, good and bad, but let them be informed.”

Dot
Dot
June 24, 2023 1:25 pm

Unconfirmed report of a Wagner unit on the highway 350 km north of Rostov. Geolocated though.

Cope and seethe, BrOSINT. The pincer move is coming after the Hostomel feint.

Dot
Dot
June 24, 2023 1:25 pm

Can Russia defeat Russia?

Ed Case
Ed Case
June 24, 2023 1:28 pm

Commenter on Unz says it’s likely fake, 50% chance of this:

Initial clandestine military-civil defense process triggered into motion by Russian equivalent to DEFCON 2. In other words preparation for DEFCON 1.

Commenter history

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 24, 2023 1:30 pm

Cope and seethe, BrOSINT.

Dot – Most of the OSINT guys seem to be Ukie supporters. But they do try to play a straight bat and confirm the open source intel that they report.

The Hostomel thought occurred to me too – since the Russians ran out of fuel. If they’d each strapped a 1000 L carboy of fuel on the back of their tanks instead of having to wait fruitlessly for the tanker trucks to not arrive, history might be different.

Dot
Dot
June 24, 2023 1:32 pm

Written words can be difficult to effectively convey sarcasm with. Have you even read Armchair Copelord, Bruce?

Frank
Frank
June 24, 2023 1:32 pm

The ultimate pincer movement, lol.

Well, I’m sold on it then.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 24, 2023 1:33 pm

Annoying.
They publish a bare polling number, but no detail.
Yes vs No vs Undecided, and state-by-state numbers are what matter.

Makka
Makka
June 24, 2023 1:39 pm

Unconfirmed report of a Wagner unit on the highway 350 km north of Rostov.

If Prighozin to to succeed in removing Shoigu, he’ll need a lot more than a convoy or 2. But perhaps the Wagner siege at Rostov Russian Military HQ is providing for their protection.

m0nty
m0nty
June 24, 2023 1:39 pm

Can Russia defeat Russia?

Its history suggests that Russia’s main achievement is in its endless capacity to defeat Russia.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 24, 2023 1:40 pm

Dot – The OSINT guys strike me as geeks each with a basement full of carefully modded Airfix models of every tank ever made. With accurate decals. They get all excited whenever they see a rare weapon system or radar truck.

Razey
Razey
June 24, 2023 1:42 pm

The Woke West’s ‘modern culture’ is as strong as a carbon fiber sub. Doomed to fail, just a question of time.

Johnny Rotten
June 24, 2023 1:43 pm

feelthebernsays:
June 24, 2023 at 11:45 am
I clocked up 22 hours fishing, 12 hours sun baking, 8 hours walking, 56 hours sleeping aaannd 78 hours doing SFA.

You work for a government department in Canberra?

Well this person can’t be sun bathing in CanBrrrrrrrr right now as it is Winter and farking cold. Maybe this is a part of Tennis Elbow’s recent visits to other Countries when not wanting to stay in ‘Stralia especially the 78 hours of doing SFA.

m0nty
m0nty
June 24, 2023 1:45 pm

Would have loved to be a fly on the wall for the discussion among the Uke generals as they watched the Wagner dudes, who they have fought for the past year and who killed many of their countrymen, strap massive fuel loads to their troop convoys heading north.

On the one hand, these mercenary sons of bitches deserve to die, and there’s no telling when you’ll get a better opportunity to kill a lot of them with a few well-placed missiles to make all that accelerant go boom.

On the other hand, would they do more damage to your real enemy if you sat back saying sayonara and bon voyage?

Dot
Dot
June 24, 2023 1:48 pm

On the one hand, these mercenary sons of bitches deserve to die

Some of them have been gang pressed and one made it into Sweden as a refugee and talked to the Western media.

bespoke
bespoke
June 24, 2023 1:49 pm

Take care of Marya (netflix)

It’s a doco about a mother driven to suicide and a family almost destroyed by a hospital and legal system.

A perfect example of the process killing.

m0nty
m0nty
June 24, 2023 1:49 pm

The cannon fodder victims of the system are mostly dead already, Dot. If you’ve survived this long in Wagner, you’re probably a hardened soldier.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
June 24, 2023 1:49 pm

I wonder who opened the cheque book to the Wagner mercenaries.
They’re either not getting paid or have received a better offer.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
June 24, 2023 1:52 pm

Interesting. You normally start these motors with methanol. Once the engine clicks over, a lever is pulled and the nitromethane kicks in.

Something to go figure it.

Crazy faarkers …it would be a massive rush.

—-

Liquid Voodoo . Top Fuel Hydro . 11k horsepower

Makka
Makka
June 24, 2023 1:52 pm

Would have loved to be a fly on the wall for the discussion among the Uke generals

The Uke generals are undoubtedly much more focused on the carnage their forces are experiencing now with their failed counter-offensive and the horrendous defeat recently inflicted on them in Bakhmut. Time to change your nappy, mOron.

Dot
Dot
June 24, 2023 1:54 pm

monty

There’s no need to dehumanise Russians here. You’re not a general giving me the order to shoot the “Russian apes”. I don’t need to get over the instinct not to kill; you don’t need me to consider this act that will never eventuate as something unworthy of conscientious reflection.

They’re people too and the only glee I have in this is people getting egg on their faces after they’ve berated me for a year and a half about my failure to recognise Putin’s strategic brilliance and the “cancer of Kiev on the whole world”.

War is hell.

m0nty
m0nty
June 24, 2023 1:55 pm

Keep in mind the alleged coup in Turkey in 2016. Still, the most likely scenario is that this is just Prigozin flaming out.

I called it, that is option (a). Bring on the stormtrooper chorus line, Darth Vatnik!

Getting strong CIA vibes.

And there’s (b), caviar and vodka for everyone!

Now all we need is (c) where he gets all maudlin and blames everyone other than Putin for this whole sorry mess. A few more adverse reports from his trusted bloggers should do it.

Johnny Rotten
June 24, 2023 1:58 pm

“This is a positive change that will not make or have any downside. This is all upside. And I sincerely hope that Australians do vote ‘Yes’.”

Tennis Elbow. You are asking the Voters to vote on something where there is nothing properly explained or written down with NO details. Voters may well vote on Election Promises BUT not on a vague promise for a change to the Australian Constitution. Wise up little man or face up to your Waterloo.

m0nty
m0nty
June 24, 2023 1:58 pm

They’re people too and the only glee I have in this is people getting egg on their faces after they’ve berated me for a year and a half about my failure to recognise Putin’s strategic brilliance and the “cancer of Kiev on the whole world”.

Fine, sure. It is curious, however, that the Ukes are now cheering on the exact same troops they were fighting not that long ago. War makes for strange bedfellows.

Speaking of which, is Putin still sleeping like Peskov said?

Alamak!
Alamak!
June 24, 2023 2:00 pm

Farmer Gez> Wager is a multinational corp with many revenue streams. And probably a few moscovite B’s donating to a. good cause.

For Ukes: “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”

Dot
Dot
June 24, 2023 2:04 pm

Priggy has promised to hang that satanic shaman Shoigu in Red Square, so Aleksandr Dugin should be happy that some occultic heresies will be purged from the Kremlin and Duma. It’s a pity for Russian ultranationalists that these beliefs originate in Rodnovery and not English-speaking theistic Luciferianism.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 24, 2023 2:06 pm

This guy is the real boss of Rostov right now.

https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1672454159424016384

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
June 24, 2023 2:07 pm

Town square meeting with the Crows at the moment. They are running amok talking amongst themselves. It’s a massive barney! A cacophony of sound!

They are not stupid birds.

Local Kooka’s would be watching with interest.

m0nty
m0nty
June 24, 2023 2:09 pm

One wonders how much materiel is still stored in Moscow for defensive manoeuvres, given that they could only drag out a single WW2 relic tank for the May military parade on Victory Day.

Reports of skirmishes in Voronezh, which is only 500km from Moscow. Seems like the front is moving about a thousand times as fast as it ever did in Bakhmut.

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 24, 2023 2:11 pm

Ed Casesays:
June 24, 2023 at 10:55 am
Civilians interviewed in Mariupol last year more or less said they don’t trust Putin.
Putin had Kiev surrounded in the first weeks of the War, he signed a Peace Agreement with the Ukes and withdrew troops, then the Hohols broke the agreement.
Plus, Minsk 1 and Minsk II, which they also broke.

Bottom Line:
Putin coulda and shoulda won the War inside a month.
The fact that he went easy is proof of treachery, and the Slavs have woken up.

Enough of this Ukraine rubbish Turd Case. Where is your evidence to prove 41,000 dead Aboriginals in Queensland (Native Police only), Fraser junior killing an aborigine in Toowoomba, and Fraser Junior killing “thousands” of aborigines in 28 years.

bespoke
bespoke
June 24, 2023 2:14 pm

my failure to recognise Putin’s strategic brilliance

Show some respect Dot.
His title is Vlad the shirtless defender of Christendom.

m0nty
m0nty
June 24, 2023 2:15 pm

OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical
Over 350km north of Rostov in Voronezh Oblast, it appears that a separate group of Wagner forces are pushing north on the M4 highway, engaging Russian forces outside of Pavlovsk at the moment.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 24, 2023 2:15 pm

Where is your evidence to prove 41,000 dead Aboriginals in Queensland (Native Police only), Fraser junior killing an aborigine in Toowoomba, and Fraser Junior killing “thousands” of aborigines in 28 years.

In the same file as the evidence that the Japanese were planning to surrender in 1943.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 24, 2023 2:19 pm

Great to see how quick you are Monty.
Less than an hour, amazing!

m0nty
m0nty
June 24, 2023 2:23 pm

Great to see how quick you are Monty.
Less than an hour, amazing!

Those Soros dollarbucks go a long way.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 24, 2023 2:26 pm

Monty – You are supposed to say “snap”.

DaFisk
DaFisk
June 24, 2023 2:28 pm

The Uke generals are undoubtedly much more focused on the carnage their forces are experiencing now with their failed counter-offensive and the horrendous defeat recently inflicted on them in Bakhmut. Time to change your nappy, mOron.

The United States won every single battle in Vietnam.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
June 24, 2023 2:29 pm

Confirmed reports of a Wagner convoy 50 km north of Melbourne.

VIC Police Commissioner has released a press statement saying they are the new overseas recruits for VIC Police and there is no need to be alarmed.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
June 24, 2023 2:29 pm

Vote NO.

The dealer’s missus is cackling with the coven as the knives get sharpened.

Sleazy will be getting in as many oversea trips as possible before the inevitable happens.

Speedbox
June 24, 2023 2:30 pm

Makka says:
June 24, 2023 at 12:49 pm

In the voice over in that video the man is saying about the machine gun positions and that there are three other positions nearby. He said he doesn’t know what is going on.

Crossie
Crossie
June 24, 2023 2:31 pm

Note the last three words.
The females granted acknowledgement and protection by 48th-wave (give or take) feminism, only receive this approval because they are deemed controllable.
As soon as they deviate from the gang’s rules, they are stripped of their protected, insider status, because they are no longer perceived as being controllable.

Muddy, that was the case with Kimberley Kitching, she had a sense of fair play which the Labor controllable women could not allow so she was ostracised.

Johnny Rotten
June 24, 2023 2:41 pm

The United States won every single battle in Vietnam.

As has been said many times before. You can win the battles and still lose the War.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
June 24, 2023 2:43 pm

Sancho Panzer said:

tank whose structural integrity might be tested in the depths of the Botanical Gardens pond.

Interesting choice of pool, rather than the more obvious option of a swimming pool. Any particular reason for that example?

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
June 24, 2023 2:43 pm

In the Oz Greg Craven has definitely been smoking the eucalyptus.
The yes mob are getting desperate in their attempts to shame people into voting for the racist rubbish.

JMH
JMH
June 24, 2023 2:43 pm

Just a quick test.

RacerX
RacerX
June 24, 2023 2:44 pm

Reading the last OT for same reason reminded me that Doverbeach generously set up this thread for the usual suspects to interact …

Appreciate you using this thread, it can be a treasure trove we can revisit all conveniently in one thread. Thanks.

Johnny Rotten
June 24, 2023 2:47 pm

Ed Casesays:
June 24, 2023 at 1:22 pm
Hey, Rotten!

What’s Martin Armstrong say?

He says Fark Off Head Case and a Suitable Case for Treatment. Just STFU and go and play in the traffic at Rush Hour. Actually, he didn’t say it. But I did.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
June 24, 2023 2:48 pm

Reflecting on the 1967 referendum, the recognition of the legal fiction of terra nullius and the apology to the Stolen Generations

What a turd.

I very much doubt he understands what the 1967 referendum was about otherwise he would notice it served the opposite purpose than The Voice. He may well think it was when Aborigines were given citizenship, or first recognised as human, or some other half-thought out idiocy.

Terra Nullius means that there was no state native to or occupying the territory to be approached as a peer. Which was true. You will find this definition everywhere except Australian websites, where they pretend it meant there were no people, and thus easily discredited.

A very discreditable lie.

But the Stolen Generation is the newest lie. Despite being a defined class for whom we are meant to feel unending guilt. Yet they have been unable to find a single case where an Aboriginal child was removed their family merely because they were Aboriginal as a part of policy, nor record of such a policy, laws, or departments or commissions charged with doing so. They found a nurse who had not released a kid back to his mother and the kid (now a man) won compensation precisely because there was no law or regulation under which it would have been permitted.

Then there is Bolta’s long-standing challenge which has not been met yet.

The practical definition of ‘Stolen Generation’ used applies as much to Whitey as Aborigines – removal for welfare reasons, or parents sending kids off to be looked after and educated.

Albo really is a light weight, and is lucky the MSM is prepared to act as a windbreak otherwise he would be blown away by a mild gust of truth.

DaFisk
DaFisk
June 24, 2023 2:50 pm

Wow, this Fisk dude has some interesting ideas. I gotta sign up to his newsletter!

DaFisksays:
March 14, 2022 at 11:58 pm
What else did you think would happen? And why should we listen to you now?

Actually, my position is really simple, which is that Putin has made a catastrophic and immoral decision to invade Ukraine, and has probably destroyed his own country in the process. I’m guessing you don’t agree, and believe Putin has in fact made a wise decision to invade Ukraine???

https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/03/12/open-thread-weekend-12-march-2022/comment-page-9/#comment-176885

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
June 24, 2023 2:58 pm

Well this person can’t be sun bathing in CanBrrrrrrrr right now as it is Winter and farking cold. Maybe this is a part of Tennis Elbow’s recent visits to other Countries when not wanting to stay in ‘Stralia especially the 78 hours of doing SFA.

“This person” is at Eighty Mile Beach caravan park, 240 k’s north of Port Hedland.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
June 24, 2023 2:59 pm
Makka
Makka
June 24, 2023 3:03 pm

UkraineMaps ??

@MapsUkraine
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Prigozhin demanded that Shoigu and Gerasimov arrive. Yevkurov asked to withdraw attack aircraft from the headquarters of the Southern Military District, but Prigozhin refused to do this until the arrival of the Minister and the Chief of the General Staff.

Dunny Brush
Dunny Brush
June 24, 2023 3:11 pm

Some Yes campaign volunteers just banged on the door. They were polite enough but left me with the impression they are doing door-to-door compliance checks. Slightly condescending too. Didn’t look like they are from around here. North of the Yarra types.

DaFisk
DaFisk
June 24, 2023 3:14 pm

https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1672468948141391874

(((Tendar)))
@Tendar
Yevgeny Prigozhin in Rostov:

“We lost huge amount of territories in Ukraine. The Russian losses in Ukraine are 3-4 times higher than reported by the Russian High Command. Up to 1000 casualties a day (KIA + WIA).”

#Coup #Rostov #Russia

He’s right!

Dot
Dot
June 24, 2023 3:15 pm

The coping and seething was already strong in March 2022.

m0nty
m0nty
June 24, 2023 3:20 pm

This is like the race to Baghdad in Gulf War I. Only the most token resistance, Wagner forces racing each other to see who can park outside the Kremlin first.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

The United States won every single battle in Vietnam.

They lost nearly every battle of the Revolutionary war.

Vicki
Vicki
June 24, 2023 3:28 pm
Vicki
Vicki
June 24, 2023 3:31 pm

Ahh – DaFisk has already posted a link to the development.

DaFisk
DaFisk
June 24, 2023 3:33 pm

The United States won every single battle in Vietnam.

They lost nearly every battle of the Revolutionary war.

I know, right? It’s almost like there’s a lesson here – home ground advantage is pretty overwhelming.

bons
bons
June 24, 2023 3:36 pm

Why is that every time that you visit the grandkids you come away with a bug.
Superspreaders.

Johnny Rotten
June 24, 2023 3:37 pm

Sweet Jesus this is a bit over-egged.

Not at all but your comments on the UKR/RUS War most certainly are along with your recent mutterings on the Wagner Group activities.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 24, 2023 3:38 pm

He may well think it was when Aborigines were given citizenship, or first recognised as human, or some other half-thought out idiocy.

Linda Burney thinks that that was what the 1967 referendum was all about, and it’s a pity she’s never been called to account for that.

DaFisk
DaFisk
June 24, 2023 3:39 pm

https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1672479018183163905

Citizen Free Press
@CitizenFreePres
Wagner group has reportedly shot down a third Russian helicopter.

This one in the Voronezh region, only six hours south of Moscow.

This was always The Plan ™/a cunning feint/a strategic encirclement/….

m0nty
m0nty
June 24, 2023 3:41 pm

Wonder what Prigozhin’s plans are for the nuclear missile bunker in Voronezh, if any.

bons
bons
June 24, 2023 3:43 pm

Won the battles, lost the war.
McNamara.
He subsequently moved to Australia and has held senior positions in Defence.
Believed to be a trusted advisor to the CDF.

m0nty
m0nty
June 24, 2023 3:45 pm

Washington-based think tank the Institute for the Study of War said the Wagner chief’s attempt to force a leadership change in the defence ministry “is unlikely to succeed” given that Surovikin had denounced his call for rebellion.

ISW prediction, those always come off! Excellent news for Prigozhin.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 24, 2023 3:46 pm

Won the battles, lost the war.
McNamara.

Robert Strange McNamara. Well named.

m0nty
m0nty
June 24, 2023 3:47 pm

The Doomlord retweeted this today, LOL.

Military History Now @MilHistNow
On this day in 1812, Napoleon Bonaparte marches 650,000 troops into Russia. The invasion ends in disaster. Combat losses, disease and sub-zero temperatures will cut his Grande Armée down to fewer than 100,000 men before the year is out.

Ed Case
Ed Case
June 24, 2023 3:52 pm

I very much doubt he understands what the 1967 referendum was about otherwise he would notice it served the opposite purpose than The Voice.
The 1967 Referendum gave the Commonwealth Powers to make Laws concerning the Aboriginal Race.
They were forbidden from doing that previously.
That Referendum has been the cause of the present disaster.

Vicki
Vicki
June 24, 2023 3:53 pm

Mercenary force fighting for Ukraine has apparently invaded Russian territory.

Sorry – not “for” Ukraine! All too crazy there at the moment.

Ed Case
Ed Case
June 24, 2023 3:59 pm
OldOzzie
OldOzzie
June 24, 2023 4:01 pm

Special Report: Emergency Situation as Prigozhin Goes Nuclear Option

SIMPLICIUS THE THINKER
24 JUN 2023

New Comments give updates

ACroneintheWoods
8 min ago
Liked by Simplicius The Thinker

That first paragraph filled my brain w/the breaking news ticker sounds. You are always on top of things Mr. Simplicius.

There is always a war w/in the war and this one is particularly FUBAR. It is plain weird.

Personally I think both Golem and the Little Green Toad belong in a padded cell together. This is just nuts. Russia/Putin need to clean up this mess and fast.

author Simplicius The Thinker
3 min ago

To some extents I don’t think it’s very ‘weird’ simply due to the fact that it’s no secret that society is split between hardliners who are sick and tired of Russia being humiliated by the West and this ‘slow-walked’ velvet-glove style war, and the others who are ok with the status quo. And so it was only a matter of time before things boiled over at least to some degree and initiated a kind of reckoning between the two groups

Dot
Dot
June 24, 2023 4:02 pm

Not at all but your comments on the UKR/RUS War most certainly are along with your recent mutterings on the Wagner Group activities.

Funny that because I gave nine different scenarios that could happen.

If they’re all wrong, then no one here will be right unless they start making some really off-the-wall claims.

Cope and seethe.

Dot
Dot
June 24, 2023 4:06 pm

To some extents I don’t think it’s very ‘weird’ simply due to the fact that it’s no secret that society is split between hardliners who are sick and tired of Russia being humiliated by the West and this ‘slow-walked’ velvet-glove style war, and the others who are ok with the status quo.

Priggy also said the basis for the war was bullshit.

Maybe not all Russians but Russians with Telegram are seeing dissidence not seen for a long time and with teeth.

Johnny Rotten
June 24, 2023 4:08 pm

bonssays:
June 24, 2023 at 3:43 pm
Won the battles, lost the war.
McNamara.
He subsequently moved to Australia and has held senior positions in Defence.
Believed to be a trusted advisor to the CDF.

Being as dead and a skeleton at best, he would appear to be suitable as a trusted adviser.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 24, 2023 4:11 pm

Jacinda Ardern signs million-dollar book deal to write memoir ‘to inspire my 14-year-old self’
James Salmon, Perth | Foreign Desk
Friday June 23 2023, 4.00pm BST, The Times

Jacinda Ardern has announced that she is writing a book about leadership after five years as New Zealand’s prime minister.

Ardern, who was just 37 when she was elected in October 2017, said she would eschew the usual political tell-all in favour of something that would have inspired her “14-year-old self”.

“I didn’t want to write a book that hauled over the internal politics of the last five years, and then someone convinced me that I didn’t have to,” Ardern wrote in an Instagram post.

“That maybe it might be worth expanding on some of the things I talked about in my valedictory instead — like the idea you can be your own kind of leader and still make a difference. And so that’s what I’m planning to do.”

Ardern said she had no date for when the book would be published because she was “pretty busy”, but “hoped that when it’s done, it’s the kind of book that would have made a difference to my 14-year-old self”.

According to The New Zealand Herald, she has been offered an advance of between NZ$1 million (£482,000) and NZ$1.5 million (£724,000).

Ardern, 42, quit unexpectedly in January, saying that she “no longer had enough in the tank to do the job justice” in an election year.

In an emotional leaving speech, she said she wanted to spend more time with Clarke Gayford, her long-term partner, and their five-year old daughter, Neve, who was born in 2018 during Ardern’s first year in office.

She also signed off by saying she hoped to leave New Zealanders with a belief that you can “be kind, but strong, empathetic but decisive”.

Ardern enjoyed enormous popularity during the Covid pandemic, but by the time she quit her approval ratings had plummeted and her party had fallen behind in the polls amid soaring crime and inflation.

Since leaving office she has been in high demand. She was quickly appointed by her successor Chris Hipkins as a special envoy to tackle extremist content online. The Prince of Wales hired her to join the board of his Earthshot Prize, which funds projects that aim to save the planet.

Having accepted a fellowship at Harvard University, Ardern is set to travel to Boston later this year to study and speak on leadership and governance.

This month the avowed republican was made a Dame Grand Companion, the second highest honour in New Zealand, as part of the King’s birthday honours.

Ardern said she was working with a team of publishers — Penguin in New Zealand and Australia, Macmillan in Britain and Crown in the United States. The publishers did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Speedbox
June 24, 2023 4:13 pm

Bernard Montgomery: “Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: “Do not march on Moscow”. Various people have tried it, Napoleon and Hitler, and it is no good.”

Ed Case
Ed Case
June 24, 2023 4:14 pm

Yeah, thanks for fluffing Ardern, Zulu.
Any other Labour luminaries you’d like to puff up?

m0nty
m0nty
June 24, 2023 4:14 pm

The Spectator Index @spectatorindex
BREAKING: Russia declares a counter-terrorism regime that would give security authorities additional powers

Johnny Rotten
June 24, 2023 4:14 pm

I have to laugh at all this stuff where a child can now identify themselves as a cat. Maybe they want to get on this Blog. Who knows.

Well, Yusuf Islam formerly identified himself as a Cat (Stevens), so why not? Just joking here.

It’s all very ridiculous and I can’t wait until these children/people go to get some ID such as an Identity Card, Driver Licence or Passport. Try putting ‘cat’ down as your identity and see how far you get. LOL.

Ed Case
Ed Case
June 24, 2023 4:16 pm

Edward Slavsquat thinks it may be Legit.
If so, I’d say NATO will intervene to save Putin.

DaFisk
DaFisk
June 24, 2023 4:17 pm

Russia on the brink of civil war!

bespoke
bespoke
June 24, 2023 4:19 pm

This month the avowed republican was made a Dame Grand Companion, the second highest honour in New Zealand, as part of the King’s birthday honour

Naturally she refused because “strong, empathetic but decisive”

/sarc

Dot
Dot
June 24, 2023 4:20 pm

The idea that Russia winning in Ukraine will stop “globohomo” is insane.

What will stop “globohomo” and other woke crap:

*The US stops funding, hosting and being a member of the UN
*Consumers wake up and stop supporting woke companies that want corporatist socialism.
*People stop electing “worker’s” parties & “conservative” parties politicians that are all in on this nonsense and do not care that their constituents do not like this let alone know of the support for this.
(As to the above – DEI only exists because of mandates like a compulsory 40% representation on corporate boards and other nonsense).
*Voters get longer memories and give up their irrational party loyalties.
*Weakening Putin and the CPC who actually push for the West to destroy itself, whilst at the same time grandstanding about the foolishness of woke ideology.
*We push out the Marxist poison from the education system which has churned us out semi-literate, partly innumerate and overly reliant on emotional thinking (as you would be easier to control).

C.L.
C.L.
June 24, 2023 4:36 pm

The idea that Russia winning in Ukraine will stop “globohomo” is insane.

A Bolt-style uppercut to a defenceless straw man.

bespoke
bespoke
June 24, 2023 4:39 pm

Actually I give the likes of Jacinda Ardern some respect .
They effect change within.
Self described ‘conservative’ fired brands make excuses to retreat and opine for the good old days based on faded memories and wishful thinking.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 24, 2023 4:42 pm

Colonel Crispin Berkasays:

June 24, 2023 at 2:43 pm

Sancho Panzer said:

tank whose structural integrity might be tested in the depths of the Botanical Gardens pond.

Interesting choice of pool, rather than the more obvious option of a swimming pool. Any particular reason for that example?

Because it is shallower than a swimming pool.
A measure of how useless this guy truly is.
Both of the failed submariners actually.

bespoke
bespoke
June 24, 2023 4:42 pm

Rejecting US liberalism.

Fixed.

DaFisk
DaFisk
June 24, 2023 4:50 pm

The global alt-right movement is staring into the abyss. Their entire worldview is collapsing around them!

Dot
Dot
June 24, 2023 4:51 pm

If only they rejected liberalism earlier on in their lives. Then they could have become tankies.

Zipster
Zipster
June 24, 2023 4:54 pm

Russia on the brink of civil war!

kabuki theatre more like it

Arky
June 24, 2023 4:55 pm

bespoke says:
June 24, 2023 at 4:39 pm
Actually I give the likes of Jacinda Ardern some respect .
They effect change within.
Self described ‘conservative’ fired brands make excuses to retreat and opine for the good old days based on faded memories and wishful thinking

..
It hasn’t helped that half of them were befuddled by yappy libertarians and a good chunk of the rest believe our salvation belongs with Moscow.

Pogria
Pogria
June 24, 2023 4:59 pm

For your enjoyment fellas.
I had to watch it twice before I realised what was happening. yeah, yeah, I know, girl brain.

bespoke
bespoke
June 24, 2023 5:02 pm

It hasn’t helped that half of them were befuddled by yappy libertarians

This is admission of being easily led, Arky.

Pogria
Pogria
June 24, 2023 5:04 pm

A pictorial to go with Sancho’s comment.
comment image

Top Ender
Top Ender
June 24, 2023 5:05 pm

Having accepted a fellowship at Harvard University, Ardern is set to travel to Boston later this year to study and speak on leadership and governance.

Boston is a leftie-run, dirty and crime-ridden city. Should suit her nicely – just like Auckland.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 24, 2023 5:06 pm

kabuki theatre more like it

Seems a bit more than that. There’s a very dead helicopter in a field near Voronezh for example. Col Girkin says they’ve just arrived in that city too.

Dunno what will happen with this, but there’re a fair few marbles at stake.

Damon
Damon
June 24, 2023 5:08 pm

“Some Yes campaign volunteers just banged on the door ”

Knock knock. Yes, We’re campaigning for the Voice. What race do you think I am? Well, you’re white. I’m Spanish (Immaterial, insert your preferred nationality). Don’t matter, you’re not abo, so you have to vote in favour. Why? Racist bigot.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 24, 2023 5:11 pm

If you wonder what Colonel Girkin means by “musicians”…think about it.
Russian humour… 😀

m0nty
m0nty
June 24, 2023 5:13 pm

Rejecting liberalism.

At least you are admitting that your agenda is to install a fascist theocracy. Makes it easier when you don’t pretend.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 24, 2023 5:19 pm

“Some Yes campaign volunteers just banged on the door ”

Mme Zulu answers the door, and tells them she is not an Australian citizen.

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 24, 2023 5:19 pm

Dot

*Consumers wake up and stop supporting woke companies that want corporatist socialism.

Use the correct word. Fascism.

DaFisk
DaFisk
June 24, 2023 5:19 pm

Putin denounces Prigozhin as a traitor, mutineer on state TV. There is no turning back. The battle is joined!

bespoke
bespoke
June 24, 2023 5:22 pm

Arky.
Not saying I was eny better.
Things I once believed in.

Big Australia.
GW2
I could go on and on but I’m not a cat so I get bored with repetition.

JC
JC
June 24, 2023 5:23 pm

What do you mean, the battle is joined, Fisk?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 24, 2023 5:23 pm

Putin denounces Prigozhin as a traitor, mutineer on state TV.

Albo should offer him asylum.
He has a bigger army than we do.

JC
JC
June 24, 2023 5:30 pm

Mr Wagner is going down, but this looks terrible for Putin. He’s gonesky too I think.

Arky
June 24, 2023 5:30 pm

bespoke says:
June 24, 2023 at 5:22 pm
Arky.
Not saying I was eny better.
Things I once believed in.

..
Doesn’t matter what we believe, we’re riding this bastard all the way down. Just enjoy the spectacle. The last off ramp was probably sometime in the 90s.

mizaris
mizaris
June 24, 2023 5:36 pm

This person” is at Eighty Mile Beach caravan park, 240 k’s north of Port Hedland.

And this one is sitting in shorts and T shirt at site 20 on Winderabandi Point, nearish to Exmouth.
Days 20 – 25 degrees, nights cooler, 12 – 18 degrees. Will get colder nights towards August but who cares? It’s winter and I have 2 jumpers and a warm bed with 12v electric blanket.

Soft, I tells ya.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 24, 2023 5:37 pm

Pogriasays:

June 24, 2023 at 5:04 pm

A pictorial to go with Sancho’s comment.
comment image

I just watched another doco about Madsen.
The similarities between him and Rush are striking (albeit Madsen’s actions in committing murder were more extreme).
Both had unshakeable confidence in their own God-Oracle abilities, and went to extreme lengths when their omnipotence was either not recognised, or inexplicably didn’t produce stellar results.
I strongly suspect Rush new that the odds of failure were increasing, but rolled the dice anyway.
I don’t mind the “better to burn out than fade away” attitude. Just don’t take people with you.
There are no reports as to whether people shit their pants when Rush and/or Madsen walked into the room.
It’s entirely possible.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 24, 2023 5:38 pm

new = knew.
FFS!

Bazinga
Bazinga
June 24, 2023 5:39 pm

I’ve wondered for a while if we could have a referendum to add to the constitution words to the effect “it is treason to alter the constitution”.
This way the only changes thereafter can be by war (takeover/revolution whatever).

C.L.
C.L.
June 24, 2023 5:41 pm

Azov men Facebooking their contempt for Zelensky and his top brass from the steel works vibe.

bespoke
bespoke
June 24, 2023 5:41 pm

Just enjoy the spectacle.

True Arky along with staying strong for the family sake.

Alamak!
Alamak!
June 24, 2023 5:43 pm

The United States won every single battle in Vietnam.

And lost the war … Just like Putin is winning (some) battles but losing the Ukraine war.

Dot
Dot
June 24, 2023 5:46 pm

I’ve wondered for a while if we could have a referendum to add to the constitution words to the effect “it is treason to alter the constitution”.

Section 92 is stated very plainly & unambiguously and yet the High Court interpreted it like a magic eye puzzle.

You are in my opinion, attacking the wrong problem.

DaFisk
DaFisk
June 24, 2023 5:51 pm

And that is that – Russian Civil War II has officially begun.

https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1672510543247155202

Dmitri
@wartranslated
??AP Wagner: “Pypa (Putin) made the wrong choice. That’s worse for him. Soon we will have a new president.”

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 24, 2023 5:52 pm

I’ve wondered for a while if we could have a referendum to add to the constitution words to the effect “it is treason to alter the constitution”.

I’d like a referendum to alter the Constitution, so that anyone sitting in the Senate, and claiming “First Nations sovereignty was never ceded” be booted into the street.

Rabz
June 24, 2023 5:53 pm

This Prigozhin imbroglio in Wussia sounds like an interesting development. Has he declared that all he has to do is “kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down”?

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 24, 2023 5:56 pm

m0ntysays:
June 24, 2023 at 5:13 pm
Rejecting liberalism.

At least you are admitting that your agenda is to install a fascist theocracy. Makes it easier when you don’t pretend.

I see that the Fat Fascist Fool has still not worked out that the combination of woke corporations and woke government is the basis of fascism. Add in the modern pseudo religions of the Alphabet people, and it becomes a fascist theocracy.

Chris
Chris
June 24, 2023 5:57 pm

sounds like an interesting development.

Indeed! What kind of times do we live in Mr Confucius?
Interesting times.

m0nty
m0nty
June 24, 2023 5:58 pm

Anton Gerashchenko@Gerashchenko_en

Russian media:

“All the key facilities in Voronezh have also been taken under control by Wagner PMC, as in Rostov, a source close to the central office of the Russian Federal Security Service has confirmed to the BBC Russian Service.

According to him, they do not have a specific plan to suppress the rebellion of Wagner PMC so far.”

Dot
Dot
June 24, 2023 6:00 pm

“All the key facilities in Voronezh have also been taken under control by Wagner PMC, as in Rostov, a source close to the central office of the Russian Federal Security Service has confirmed to the BBC Russian Service.

According to him, they do not have a specific plan to suppress the rebellion of Wagner PMC so far.”

Not looking good for President Putin.

m0nty
m0nty
June 24, 2023 6:02 pm

We are mere hours into the Russian civil war and the rebellion has already conquered two cities of more than a million people, hundreds of kilometres apart.

We are going to find out exactly how stretched the Russian military has become. Fix the bayonets, comrades!

Bazinga
Bazinga
June 24, 2023 6:04 pm

I’ve wondered for a while if we could have a referendum to add to the constitution words to the effect “it is treason to alter the constitution”.

Section 92 is stated very plainly & unambiguously and yet the High Court interpreted it like a magic eye puzzle.

You are in my opinion, attacking the wrong problem.

And treason to misinterpret the constitution then 🙂

Roger
Roger
June 24, 2023 6:05 pm

Not looking good for President Putin.

Critical moment: Putin has ordered the military to crush the rebellion.

bespoke
bespoke
June 24, 2023 6:07 pm

This is only a small setback in Operation Sudentenland mk2 for Vlad the shirtless defender of Christendom.

m0nty
m0nty
June 24, 2023 6:11 pm

Critical moment: Putin has ordered the military to crush the rebellion.

The military are mostly at the front, though. Is he going to recall them? In which case, the Ukes will advance, Crimea falls and Putin loses the war (and probably his head).

Tough decisions in Putin’s future.

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 24, 2023 6:12 pm

LOL. mUnty “Kennan” is probably drafting a new “Long Telegram” to propose measures to contain the Evil Soviet, oops sorry, Wussian regime.

Dot
Dot
June 24, 2023 6:12 pm

Dmitri
@wartranslated
Men who say they are convicts from Storm Z penal units are supporting Prigozhin.

(32 seconds long video address)

https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1672514994108235778?cxt=HHwWhICwldPh-7UuAAAA

Alamak!
Alamak!
June 24, 2023 6:14 pm

Putin has ordered the military to crush the rebellion.

I think his personal body guard numbers in the hundreds, perhaps a few thousand. Would love to see him ride into battle on horseback, shirtless …

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
June 24, 2023 6:17 pm

About ten kms before going into Batemans Bay from Sydney this arvo on the opposite side of the road strung around the low safety fence was a large long professionally made banner in red saying The Climate Cult. The Con Still Goes On. Wake Up Australia.
I wonder how long before some ‘authority’ tears it down.

Roger
Roger
June 24, 2023 6:20 pm

The military are mostly at the front, though. Is he going to recall them?

A test of morale.

m0nty
m0nty
June 24, 2023 6:22 pm

If Putin doesn’t recall his troops at the front: Prigozhin might string him up on a Moscow lamppost, the Imperial Guard might defeat the Jedis or whatever, let’s roll the dice.

If Putin recalls his troops: he definitely loses the war in Ukraine and might get strung up on a lamppost by whoever replaces him, not to mention going down in history as a massive loser.

He has to rely on the dregs of the security forces, basically. Not being helped at the moment by the police saying barley cross fingers.

Dot
Dot
June 24, 2023 6:27 pm

LOL!

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chen–CJH?????
@fim253
China can help Russia

Roger
Roger
June 24, 2023 6:32 pm

Early days but reminiscent of the Russian Revolution(s), when army and navy mutinees triggered political events. I suspect Prigozhin is counting on the intervention of one or more Kremlin factions.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 24, 2023 6:34 pm

Dmitri’s back already? He went to bed only a few hours ago. I suppose for these guys this is history in action, hard to miss. Certainly one of the most dynamic events of the war so far.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
June 24, 2023 6:40 pm

RacerX, ascthe object of some of your comment if not all of it, let the person who draws the rapier out get themselves to a lonely duel on the defunct duelling thread. I am sick of being pleasantly occupied here and hurting no-one and having a rapier thrust at my throat by some demented female who has years of past form doing this, attempting to stir up trouble and delight in creating divisive upticks. Those who are juvenile enough to offer them to this performer should think twice about what sort of behaviour they are encouraging. Acting in this way like a load of teenagers on Twitter inevitably creates a sewer.

bespoke
bespoke
June 24, 2023 6:42 pm

Geebus!

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
June 24, 2023 6:46 pm

Meanwhile, what the hell is going on in Russia? Excitingment prevails. What is happening in that big vacuum?
Are all bets off?

Cassie of Sydney
June 24, 2023 6:47 pm

You know something, having elderly parents isn’t easy.

Last night, about 9.30 p.m., at the dinner table, just after dessert, my ninety-one year old stepfather went to get up from his chair, and was struggling so my eighty-four year old mother decided to try and help him get up, with the result that he fell and he pulled my elderly mother down too. Now both were on the floor, neither able to get up, so my mother spent the next fifty minutes shuffling to the coffee table to get her mobile. The coffee table is about two metres from the dining table. Once she finally got to the coffee table, she was able to reach for her mobile phone and ring my nephew who had just gone to bed with his wife. My nephew saw the number, spoke to his grandmother and then said to his wife…”They’ve both fallen, I’ll go over”. So, my nephew who has keys, drove over and found the octogenarian and nonagenarian on the floor. He was able to lift my mother who, despite bashing her face on the table as she was pulled down, and with her face covered in blood, was okay and very coherent. My stepfather was not, he was incoherent on the floor so my nephew called the ambos. The ambos turned up about 12.30a.m. and took him to hospital, where he remains. He smashed his hip and needs a hip replacement, not great news for a nonagenarian, especially since he’d smashed his hip socket last year and spent three months in hospital, firstly at Vinnies, then at the Hotel California*, more commonly known as Lulworth House in Elizabeth Bay, and then at rehab hospital.

I didn’t find out any of this until this morning, and after going to Pilates, I went with my mother to the hospital. She was, naturally, distressed, and we couldn’t find disabled parking and so, despite my protestations, she parked illegally and I was worried the car would be towed away whilst we were visiting (thankfully it wasn’t). Anyway, masks are still mandatory in NSW hospitals, ridiculous. Sitting with my frail stepfather, a hospital admin person arrived to speak to speak to my mother so as to admit my stepfather to hospital, he was wearing a mask and we couldn’t understand him. He apologised, and said his English wasn’t good but I told him that it wasn’t his English that was the problem, it was the bloody mask he was wearing!

Anyway, my mother admitted to me that she’d told the doctor on the phone this morning that he’d fallen last week, however she managed to get him up. Neither told anyone of the fall, and he refused to go to the doctor. I was furious. She also admitted that my stepfather had been “odd” ever since that fall, on Wednesday night he’d gotten up at 3.00 a.m., shuffled into the bathroom, and started shaving. She got up and asked him why he was shaving and he said “good morning”, and then said he was getting ready to go and play croquet, and she should get ready too!

* Mum calls Lulworth House “Hotel California” because once you check in, it’s very hard to check out. However, my mother got him out, after much hassle. She did like visiting Lulworth though, she has many friends there!

Arky
June 24, 2023 6:47 pm

Allowing an entire force of mercenaries of dubious loyalty out of the front and back in country still fully bombed up was a bit silly.

Alamak!
Alamak!
June 24, 2023 6:49 pm

Some chinese bloke describes Putin’s situation pretty well:

Now, when your weapons are dulled, your ardor damped, your strength exhausted and your treasure spent, other chieftains will spring up to take advantage of your extremity. Then no man, however wise, will be able to avert the consequences that must ensue

m0nty
m0nty
June 24, 2023 6:50 pm

Dice @DiceOfAvarice

so Russia thought they could take Kyiv in three days

it looks like Wagner is about to take Moscow in three hours

cohenite
June 24, 2023 6:58 pm

I don’t know if this is right:

The 1877 Census of Aborigines in Victoria showed:
• 201 adults and 93 full-blood Aborigines and 83 adults and 109 children of mixed blood living on reserves, a total of 486 people.
• Aboriginal people living off reserves totalled 435 adults and 45 children of full-blood and 51 adults and 50 children of mixed blood.

Altogether, a total of 581, being an overall total of 1,067 Aboriginal people in Victoria 146 years ago.

• By 1900 the statistics of the time show this remnant population had decreased to about 400, many of whom were by now mixed descent children through interbreeding with the new settlers.

The 2021 Census shows that population of people who identify as Aboriginal in Victoria now numbers 66,000, an increase of 59,600 in 121 years, that’s just over four generations.

The point is Pascoe isn’t the only fake. And if the screech gets in I reckon in a few years every one in Australia will be identifying as 3rd nations.

Pogria
Pogria
June 24, 2023 6:59 pm

ah geez, Cassie.
Having looked after my mum for the last fifteen years of her life, all I can say is, it’s a hell of a ride!
Actually, I will add, when they’ve had a couple of bingles, it isn’t just the fall that becomes worrisome, it is that when it happens again, the exhalation of breath, because you’ve been holding it between falls, is almost as hard to overcome.

Best to mum and stepdad Cassie. They both sound brilliant through the stories you have told us here.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 24, 2023 7:00 pm

Sorry to hear all that Cassie. My old mum also fell a few months ago, in hospital a few weeks with a cracked arm, but is back at home now and very happy to be. Once though she had a similar situation where my stepfather, who was very tall passed out and fell on her, doing damage to both of them. Gravity is not a good thing as we get older. Very best wishes for your mum and stepdad.

bons
bons
June 24, 2023 7:02 pm

The thought of the possibilities associated with a post Putin Russia are terrifying.
Upper Volta with nukes.

Dot
Dot
June 24, 2023 7:04 pm

Don’t worry bons.

Seen recently on Twitter.

chen–CJH?????
@fim253
China can help Russia

m0nty
m0nty
June 24, 2023 7:07 pm

Nikkei Asia @NikkeiAsia
Wagner coup: Russian President Vladimir Putin has briefed Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on the situation in Russia, according to a message posted on the Belarusian presidency’s official Telegram channel.

Cassie of Sydney
June 24, 2023 7:08 pm

“The thought of the possibilities associated with a post Putin Russia are terrifying.
Upper Volta with nukes.”

Yep, any post-Putin Russia will be infinitely worse than a Putin Russia. I suppose the likes of the pervert apologist and DaStink think that a post-Putin Russia will become a woke paradise, pushing creepy gender woohoo and LGBTQIAP+ ideology.

Nup, not going to happen.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 24, 2023 7:08 pm

The 1877 Census of Aborigines in Victoria showed:

Quite impossible! Aborigines weren’t counted in the census until after the 1967 Referendum!

Cassie of Sydney
June 24, 2023 7:09 pm

Thanks Pogria and BoN. Elderly parents ain’t easy.

Roger
Roger
June 24, 2023 7:09 pm

You know something, having elderly parents isn’t easy.

Especially spirited ones like yours!

But who can blame them for not wanting to relinquish their independence?

Hope things go as well as they possibly can, Cassie.

Alamak!
Alamak!
June 24, 2023 7:10 pm

Putin lining up a post-presidential bolt-hole. But Belarus sounds more like a s**t-hole

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 24, 2023 7:14 pm

You know something, having elderly parents isn’t easy.

My mother is 92, and still lives on her own. Certain of my siblings, who opined that she should move into a retirement home, were invited to consult a dictionary as to the meaning of the word “disinherited.”

DaFisk
DaFisk
June 24, 2023 7:17 pm

Yep, any post-Putin Russia will be infinitely worse than a Putin Russia. I suppose the likes of the pervert apologist and DaStink think that a post-Putin Russia will become a woke paradise, pushing creepy gender woohoo and LGBTQIAP+ ideology.

No, I just think it will be a smaller, angrier and more impotent country. Much like its supporters in the West tbh.

Cassie of Sydney
June 24, 2023 7:18 pm

“No, I just think it will be a smaller, angrier and more impotent country. Much like its supporters in the West tbh.”

Nah, speaking of impotency, you really should stop talking about yourself, not becoming.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 24, 2023 7:20 pm

The 2021 Census shows that population of people who identify as Aboriginal in Victoria now numbers 66,000, an increase of 59,600 in 121 years, that’s just over four generations.

This is the issue that those proposing massive payments in “compensation” and “reparations” must face – who qualifies, for such payments, and who doesn’t?

m0nty
m0nty
June 24, 2023 7:20 pm

Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en

Kadyrov said his army is on its way to fight Wagner:
“Friends, it has been a difficult night and flights have not allowed time for me to voice here my position on this heinous BETRAYAL!!

Everything that is happening is a knife to the back and a real military rebellion!” – Kadyrov said.

Dot
Dot
June 24, 2023 7:22 pm

I can’t see Russians being happy with Chechnyans deciding their fate.

m0nty
m0nty
June 24, 2023 7:26 pm

Okay so we got Wagner, the Chechens and the Muscovites all converging, all we need is the Elves and Dwarves and we’ve got a new Battle of the Five Armies.

DaFisk
DaFisk
June 24, 2023 7:29 pm

Nah, speaking of impotency, you really should stop talking about yourself, not becoming.

Jeez Cassie, I’m really beginning to doubt you are in fact Jewish!

Pogria
Pogria
June 24, 2023 7:31 pm

You know something, having elderly parents isn’t easy.

It’s a hell of a ride when the dementia kicks in big time. I lived in a rural area when mum came to us. The first few years weren’t too bad. The four years before I had to place her in a nursing home were fun. The more the dementia kicks in, the more cunning they become. I would check on mum in the morning, go back to my house for a cuppa and unbeknown to me, she was off down the driveway with a suitcase in hand, hitchhiking. She also ended up on a list of elderly runaways at the local Police station. Several times I received a phone call and an address to collect mum from some bewildered strangers house.
Quite a few times a strange car would drive in and disgorge mum from the back seat. Only once did one of the samaritans have a go at me about not keeping her safe. I told them they were happy to take her home with them if they liked.
She also had the dubious distinction of being the only resident at the nursing home to have squeezed out of the window from her room. Fortunately, there was a well fenced area outside the rooms. When she could no longer escape, she would play dead. That really freaked out the trainees! lol

Cassie of Sydney
June 24, 2023 7:34 pm

“Jeez Cassie, I’m really beginning to doubt you are in fact Jewish!”

Well I am, and what’s that got to do with the Uke/Russian imbroglio?

I don’t support Ukraine, Ukraine is a Jewish cemetery, full of loathsome Jew haters. Perhaps that explains why Monty supports Ukraine.

Anyway, I note that you disappear from here and only appear when things are going awry for Russia. Why?

bons
bons
June 24, 2023 7:41 pm

Elderly independant parents are a worry but infinitely more so if one suffers dementia.
My Mum refused to put Dad into care and refused also to move from their mountain retreat.
We were very concerned and gave her two phones. One to be with her at all times and the the other to live in her bedside drawer for emergencies.
I was unable to contact her one day and eventually got Dad on the house phone. He announced that Mum didn’t want to speak to me. A panicky phone call and a neighbour found her lying in the garden where she had fallen the day before.
Scolding her in hospital for not having her phone, she told me that Dad had binned them because he believed that they were being used by the family to conspire against him.
There is nothing positive that can be said about witnessing the degradation of the most influential people in your life.

m0nty
m0nty
June 24, 2023 7:41 pm

Cranky should try, whenever she thinks of using the word “globalists” in a sentence, substituting the phrase “world Jewry”. Which is how her colleagues on the right think of the phrase.

Bluey
Bluey
June 24, 2023 7:42 pm

Cassie of Sydneysays:
June 24, 2023 at 7:34 pm
“Jeez Cassie, I’m really beginning to doubt you are in fact Jewish!”

Well I am, and what’s that got to do with the Uke/Russian imbroglio?

I don’t support Ukraine, Ukraine is a Jewish cemetery, full of loathsome Jew haters. Perhaps that explains why Monty supports Ukraine.

Anyway, I note that you disappear from here and only appear when things are going awry for Russia. Why?

Arky at least admitted he just hates Russians. This appears to be another low quality troll.

C.L.
C.L.
June 24, 2023 7:43 pm

Cassie, what a horrible day for your dear mother and stepfather – and the whole Cassie family.

God bless you all, most especially your stepfather.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 24, 2023 7:44 pm

7.35pm
Wagner can’t challenge Putin directly, says Russia expert
By Latika Bourke

I’ve just been chatting to Keir Giles, senior consulting fellow for the Russia and Eurasia programme at the foreign affairs think tank Chatham House in London.

He has written several books on Russia and his most recent, Russia’s War on Everybody, published last year, explores the pervasiveness of Russia’s quest for power and influence far beyond Ukraine.

He is glued to events and provided this analysis for us of the fast-moving events.

“Putin’s brief speech showed he knows just how dangerous the situation could be for him, but if he has a convincing plan for how to deal with it, he didn’t share it,” Giles said.

“Putin compared Prigozhin’s actions to the ‘intrigues’ that he said brought down the Russian army, and then the state itself, in 1917.

“He’s not wrong – this is not unlike the way Russian army units left the front en masse during the military collapse then.

“Putin’s defiant rhetoric promising to deal with this treachery firmly comes after weeks of silence over the growing confrontation between Prigozhin and Russia’s regular military.

“Invoking what happened in 1917 may mean that Putin realises he has left this too late, and allowed a real challenge to the stability of his power in Russia to develop.

“Prigozhin, and the forces with him, are in no position to challenge Putin’s grip on power directly, even if they wanted to.

“But indirectly, they have already shown the weakness of that grip. An armed force is roaming southern Russia and demanding recognition from the state authorities.

“That’s a long way from the unity of power that Putin has worked so long to enforce.

“The situation is still fast-moving. In any stand-off between Russia’s security forces and Wagner troops, a lot can hinge on what happens at a local level.

“Wagner has a long-standing close relationship with Russia’s military intelligence special forces, including shared bases and facilities.

“It’s hard to know which way those forces will jump – or any of the other units that have been deployed to block a possible move by Wagner’s main force further into Russia and towards Moscow.”

Cassie of Sydney
June 24, 2023 7:46 pm

Cranky should try, whenever she thinks of using the word “globalists” in a sentence, substituting the phrase “world Jewry”. Which is how her colleagues on the right think of the phrase.

Yeah pervert apologist, because there are “globalists”, one of whom is “George Soros”. There’s a new organisation in the USA called “Jews against Soros”, real Jews who don’t like or approve of Soros. Are they anti-Semites? I don’t think so.

Now piss off. You really are a dickhead, of monumental proportions.

Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
June 24, 2023 7:47 pm

m0nty says:
June 24, 2023 at 7:41 pm

Cranky should try, whenever she thinks of using the word “globalists” in a sentence, substituting the phrase “world Jewry”. Which is how her colleagues on the right think of the phrase.

Kinda Bigoted and Racist there dude.

AAAAhahahahahaha just fvking with you, but definitely a bigot.

Cassie of Sydney
June 24, 2023 7:48 pm

And I’m being lectured about anti-Semitism who once wrote here that some Jew haters and Jew killers have “legitimate grievances”.

Spare me.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 24, 2023 7:49 pm

Now piss off. You really are a dickhead, of monumental proportions.

For shame, Cassie. I thought you a lady, who didn’t know such vulgarities!

MatrixTransform
June 24, 2023 7:50 pm

Which is how her colleagues on the right think of the phrase

stfu mUnty you gibbering clown

Cassie of Sydney
June 24, 2023 7:52 pm

The pervert apologist and his colleagues on the left think that bashing and assaulting women is okay, all because they have different opinions to him and his fellow travellers.

Ed Case
Ed Case
June 24, 2023 7:52 pm

The 2021 Census shows that population of people who identify as Aboriginal in Victoria now numbers 66,000, an increase of 59,600 in 121 years, that’s just over four generations.

6,400 became 66,000 over 4 generations.
Yep, these people, when they have families, tend to have large families.

Roger
Roger
June 24, 2023 7:53 pm

“It’s hard to know which way those forces will jump – or any of the other units that have been deployed to block a possible move by Wagner’s main force further into Russia and towards Moscow.”

That may explain the injection of Kadyrov into the situation, who only three weeks ago described Putin’s prosecution of the war as weak. The prospective payoff for him & Chechnya must be huge. If he succeeds.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
June 24, 2023 7:53 pm
m0nty
m0nty
June 24, 2023 7:53 pm

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