Open Thread – Weekend 24 June 2023


Burial at Ornans, Gustave Courbet, 1849-50

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JC
JC
June 25, 2023 5:48 am

Hahahahahahahhaaha So true.

To recap, this is as if the US was struggling to invade Mexico so disgruntled Blackwater mercenaries seized San Antonio, shot down several helicopters, and drove halfway to DC before the Prime Minister of Jamaica negotiated a ceasefire where the Secretary of Defense was fired

Bear Necessities
Bear Necessities
June 25, 2023 7:12 am

If I was the Wagner boss I wouldn’t go into buildings with more than 1 storey. Seriously it might of been a pay dispute. The monthly cheque to Wagner didn’t arrive or bounced or wasn’t for the ‘right’ amount.

lotocoti
lotocoti
June 25, 2023 7:18 am

Looks like 1917 Redux never got past the pitch meeting.

Diogenes
Diogenes
June 25, 2023 7:31 am

Peter Zeihan’s take on the coup https://youtu.be/TZJok9oBrs8 .

Note to Dumbocrats: this is what a real insurrection looks like.

Black Ball
Black Ball
June 25, 2023 7:33 am

Piers Akerman:

The elements of the economy the Albanese Labor government’s “net zero” insanity won’t kill, a successful Voice referendum certainly will.

Australia is facing its gravest threat since WWII – and it springs from the inner urban suburbs, where Green-Labor supporters now live, and in the affluent enclaves where Teals wooed ignorant elites with their hopey-wishey siren songs.

The unachievable “net zero” is a massive con. Our piddling contribution to reducing emissions of CO2 is wiped by the growth in emissions-producing power plants in China, Africa and elsewhere. Oh, and it’s destroying our economy too.

But it wasn’t enough for Labor and the Greens and the Teals to have signed up to this humbug. They went further and backed the Voice referendum which, if passed, would give a blank cheque to anyone claiming a skerrick of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander heritage to challenge any law and administrative action, or non-action, on the grounds that they may be affected.

Anthony Albanese has descended to ad hominem attacks as he attempts to cover his ignorance of the concept he’s trying to flog. His Indigenous Affairs Minister Linda Burney is totally out of her depth, such is the incoherence of her contradictory statements about the effects of constitutional change.

West Australians are about to suffer the damage socialist power wreaks. Three years ago, the destruction of a rock shelter known as the Juukan Gorge site, which showed evidence of human habitation going back 46,000 years, triggered a major reset of WA’s heritage laws.

With a total lack of consultation, the state introduced a truly appalling piece of legislation in 2021, the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Bill.

Under the legislation, which comes into effect on July 1, penalties for serious harm to Aboriginal cultural heritage by an individual range from five years in jail to a $1m fine, or both.

There is a daily penalty of $50,000 a day or part of a day during which an offence continues, and for a body corporate there is a fine of $10m and a daily penalty of $500,000.

You can employ a local Aboriginal cultural heritage consultant at a daily rate of $600, ranging up to $2250 – depending on how much consulting needs doing – and there is a 15 per cent administration fee on top of that.

In remote areas, an additional 20 per cent may be charged for service provider fees.

It’s a perpetual cash machine for people who are still to be trained, which raises real questions about who holds the traditional knowledge now?

A petition opposing the laws has garnered almost 30,000 signatures but the government is adamant it is going to proceed, even though there are not enough heritage officers to manage the enormous caseload.

The big mining lobby has signed up. But farmers are bitterly opposed as they will have to seek cultural approval before almost any work involving anything beyond scratching the dirt. On top of the looming live-sheep export ban, this is crippling.

Anthropologists say the law goes too far, but the anthropology industry is now so locked into the Aboriginal industry, few will speak out.

No one doubts the importance of preserving cultural heritage but this is dramatic overkill.

And it’s just a foretaste of the nation-crushing rort a Yes vote on the Voice would deliver.

Black Ball
Black Ball
June 25, 2023 7:39 am

James Campbell writes:

The National Party looks set for another leadership change, with opponents of David Littleproud increasingly confident he is on borrowed time.

If Mr Littleproud were to be challenged, the two most likely candidates are former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce and former resources minister Keith Pitt.

Mr Pitt has been a strong advocate for nuclear energy.

Mr Littleproud, who ­replaced Mr Joyce after last year’s election, has been the subject of internal criticism ­recently over his relationship with Liberal leader Peter ­Dutton.

MPs have also accused him of losing his temper with his colleagues and staff.

A senior National Party source said it was now only a matter of time before Mr Littleproud was challenged.

“It’s not a question of if, it’s a question of when,” the source said.

A National MP agreed a challenge to Mr Littleproud was increasingly likely, saying there was no doubt he had lost confidence with his colleagues.

But the claims have been rubbished by Mr Littleproud’s supporters.

“This is the calmest I’ve seen things since (Warren) Truss’s time,” another MP said

The Sunday Telegraph has been told that Mr Littleproud’s behaviour towards staff has angered some MPs, with the leader gaining a reputation among some for “flying off the handle”.

“His treatment of people in general and particularly staff is concerning particularly in the current environment,” an MP said.

A number of National Party MPs also expressed discontent over Mr Littleproud’s relationship with Mr Dutton, saying the Liberal dominates him.

Last Thursday, Mr Dutton led a debate in parliament on the Voice but no National MP was given space to speak, a move that angered a number of their MPs.

Mr Dutton is understood to be a strong supporter of Mr Littleproud staying in his post.

One National source claimed there was no doubt that the leader no longer had the numbers but said the debate internally was now about who would replace him.

But another MP, not a supporter of Mr Littleproud’s, said they still thought he would win if he were challenged.

“I don’t think much has changed but I could be wrong,” the MP said.

Another MP, a supporter of Mr Littleproud’s, blamed the chatter on Mr Joyce.

“He will never give up trying to come back as long as he’s there,” the MP said.

Mr Littleproud has not yet ­responded to The Sunday ­Telegraph’s questions.

jupes
jupes
June 25, 2023 7:50 am

Morning Cats, how’s the Russian Civil War going?

Oh …

WolfmanOz
June 25, 2023 7:53 am

calli says:
June 25, 2023 at 4:55 am

Lovely updates calli.

Beertruk
June 25, 2023 7:59 am

Speedboxsays:
June 24, 2023 at 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.”

The Swedes had a bit of a shot as well.

Crossie
Crossie
June 25, 2023 8:04 am

Another MP, a supporter of Mr Littleproud’s, blamed the chatter on Mr Joyce.

“He will never give up trying to come back as long as he’s there,” the MP said.

Beetrooter has relevance deprivation syndrome. What did he do when he had the leadership last time? Nothing. What will he do should he wangle himself in again? Nothing.

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 25, 2023 8:09 am

m0ntysays:
June 24, 2023 at 10:10 pm
There has to be a better alternative than the binary of Tsarism and Stalinism. There is no existential threat to Russia, it is always going to exist. Maybe when the current regime changes, the rebuild can include some new institutions which have some meaning.

“To dream the impossible dream ….”

They tried that in the 1990s. The results were less than optimal.

Johnny Rotten
June 25, 2023 8:09 am

jupessays:
June 25, 2023 at 7:50 am
Morning Cats, how’s the Russian Civil War going?

Oh …

There never was a Civil War. There was an uncivil disagreement between two parties. Games seemingly over…………….for the time being.

Angus Black
Angus Black
June 25, 2023 8:09 am

Don’t March on Moscow…but the truth is that it’s the winter that gets you, every time.

Worth considering that it’s only a couple of days past the summer solstice, right now.

132andBush
132andBush
June 25, 2023 8:10 am

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.

I see what you did there.
Go f#ck yourself, you slandering arseh8le.

And stay away from children.

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 25, 2023 8:10 am

Social media was going crazy over night.
Then it all stopped.
What happened?

JC
JC
June 25, 2023 8:14 am

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.

Ha fatboy, I didn’t know Klaus Schwab and Bill Gates are Jewish.

Johnny Rotten
June 25, 2023 8:15 am

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

– Norman Schwarzkopf

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 25, 2023 8:17 am

Dotsays:
June 24, 2023 at 11:05 pm
If Putin is toppled we don’t know who has control of the nukes.

That’s why this “let’s break up Russia” gloat is pure spite and insincere.

It’s worse than that. It’s completely, mUnty/Turd Case standard, stupid.

bespoke
bespoke
June 25, 2023 8:20 am

UPDATE: Now the Kremlin has weighed in. “The outlines of a deal that appeared to defuse a rapidly evolving Russian security crisis began to come into focus late Saturday, as the Kremlin announced that a Russian mercenary leader, who for nearly 24 hours led an armed uprising against the country’s military leadership, would flee to Belarus and his fighters would escape repercussions. The announcement capped one of the most tumultuous days in President Vladimir V. Putin’s more than 23-year rule in Russia and followed an apparent intervention by the leader of neighboring Belarus, who stepped in to negotiate a solution to the crisis directly with the head of the Wagner private military company, Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, who was leading the revolt.”

lotocoti
lotocoti
June 25, 2023 8:21 am

What happened?

Yesterday’s freedom fighters became today’s terrorists.

lotocoti
lotocoti
June 25, 2023 8:30 am

Seems mØnty was mainlining Occasional Cortex.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
June 25, 2023 8:30 am

Sources have revealed – Prigozhin marched on Rostov after Zelensky sent details of his asset and share portfolio to the Wagner leader, with a taunt.
“My sugar daddy is better than yours”

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 25, 2023 8:33 am

m0ntysays:
June 24, 2023 at 11:54 pm
I doubt the nukes are in play until we figure out who will be leader.

“Wishin’ and a -hopin’ and prayin’ …”

It Prick-goes-in takes over, you will look back on the Putin days with regret for your arrogant stupidity.

Cassie of Sydney
June 25, 2023 8:33 am

Wasn’t the pervert apologist and Fisky getting all excited last night at the thought of Prigozhin marching all the way to Moscow? I laughed out loud before I went to bed, and being tired, I went to bed, exhausted by a week, and particularly of familial drama.

This morning I awoke to the news that..

“Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin will be exiled to Belarus in a deal agreed with Russia after standing down his fighters.

Oh well, I can’t say I’m surprised by this outcome, because even I knew Prigozhin wasn’t going to get anywhere near Moscow. But reading upthread, I note how our very own doyen of Russian history, Generalissimo Munchkin of a Melbourne Basement, aka as the “pervert apologist”, is now suddenly an expert on Russian history and the Russian psyche. Perhaps Munchkin, in a previous life, gave advice, obviously in hindsight very bad advice, to the French, German, Polish, and Swedish armies over the last four hundred years, armies which all failed dismally in their various and many conquests of Russia. But I note how our new found expert on all things Russian wrote this pearler of a sentence ..

“There has to be a better alternative than the binary of Tsarism and Stalinism. There is no existential threat to Russia, it is always going to exist. Maybe when the current regime changes, the rebuild can include some new institutions which have some meaning.”

Well, I laughed out loud reading this lame attempt at seriousness by our resident progressive toad. However, we might ask exactly what “institutions which have some meaning” the pervert apologist means? He clearly possesses little to no knowledge about Russian history. Notwithstanding that Russia already has institutions that have ‘some meaning’, institutions like the Russian Orthodox Church that go back a thousand years, institutions that managed to survive the almost hundred years of Communism, I found his line profoundly ignorant of Russian history and the Russian psyche, and it also revealed his progressive mindset that the only “institutions” he respects or he wants built are those of the left, are those that he approves of. So what does he really mean when he writes “include some new institutions which have some meaning”? Perhaps the pervert apologist wants Russian schools to open up to LGBTIAP+ ideology (and I insert the letter “P” deliberately), like what is happening in the West where they are now openly grooming children to be sexual toys for adults? Perhaps the pervert apologist is okay with children in Russian schools identifying as Cats and their fetish being given credit by teachers, like what is happening in the West? Perhaps the pervert apologist thinks Russian males, with their dicks swinging from their groin, be allowed to enter female only spaces, where and when their dicks suddenly and curiously harden up (wonder why), posing a threat to the women and children inside that bathroom or changeroom, like what is happening in the West? I could go on, but you get the drift, because I can guarantee you that when the pervert apologist delicately writes about “new institutions which have some meaning”, he ain’t talking about strengthening the Orthodox church, building institutions like Rotary, Girl Guides, Boy Scouts and so on, is he? Nah, nah, nah. When he writes about building ‘new institutions which have some meaning’, he means institutions only he and his fellow ideological travellers approve of. But his pathetic attempt at being serious begs the question, isn’t wanting to create “new institutions which have some meaning” in a foreign country what was once called ‘imperialism and colonialism’ by the left, and once disapproved of by the left? But I should remind everyone that the progressive left of 2023 bears zero resemblance to the left of even 1993. So, it’s good to know that our resident progressive doesn’t mind some colonialism and imperialism, but only when it’s deemed progressive colonialism and progressive imperialism. What a hypocrite he is.

Two final points…

1. The best commentator here on Russia is Speedbox, by a mile.

2. Yevgeny Prigozhin is a dead man walking. Russian leaders hunt down mutineers, from Ivan the Terrible, to Peter the Great, to Nicholas I, to Stalin, and to Putin. Nobody calls for a march on Moscow and lives, and Prigozhin knows it. He’s on borrowed time.

Crossie
Crossie
June 25, 2023 8:39 am

as the Kremlin announced that a Russian mercenary leader, who for nearly 24 hours led an armed uprising against the country’s military leadership, would flee to Belarus and his fighters would escape repercussions.

There will be no repercussions after they are dead.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
June 25, 2023 8:41 am

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg has disappeared from the list of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s favourite movies.

Cassie of Sydney
June 25, 2023 8:42 am

“Some hilarious commentary re events in Russia last night.”

I think you’ve said it best DB.

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 25, 2023 8:43 am

Babasays:
June 25, 2023 at 3:54 am
Oh no! What a disaster! It’s over. Possibly.

https://www.rt.com/russia/578632-wagner-agrees-to-end-insurrection/

Will Prick-goes-in withdraw before ejaculating?

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
June 25, 2023 8:47 am

Wagner has mercs in a number of African countries.

Wonder what the impact will be there. Are they working in Wagner interests or for Russian?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 25, 2023 8:49 am

Beetrooter has relevance deprivation syndrome. What did he do when he had the leadership last time? Nothing. What will he do should he wangle himself in again? Nothing.

School Fees 2.0.

lotocoti
lotocoti
June 25, 2023 8:49 am

Mexico City is a no-go too.

Crossie
Crossie
June 25, 2023 8:50 am

Allegra Spender is telling Sky that families and communities are hurting and that the government should go in harder. Neither she nor the gormless interviewer even acknowledge why prices are up, for electricity, housing, mortgages. Looking into it would show that their current policies are killing cheap fossil fuel power generation and importing millions of migrants is driving the price of housing Sky high.

It’s all a mystery to almost everyone in any government and in media while perfectly clear to the non-PhD voters. We need Poirot’s little grey cells to solve the case, or even Miss Marple to unravel it for them.

The take-away really is that it’s in the interests of politicians’ mates to keep receiving the subsidies and work contracts. There are billions to be made fleecing the taxpayers.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 25, 2023 8:50 am

Weird day yesterday. Like a GoT episode. Or a remake of Kelly’s Heroes.

Cassie of Sydney
June 25, 2023 8:53 am

“JCsays:
June 25, 2023 at 3:22 am”

Yep, yep and yep.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 25, 2023 8:55 am

I am really quite pleased I didn’t offer up any commentary on the Wussian Wevolution.

Crossie
Crossie
June 25, 2023 8:55 am

Sancho Panzer says:
June 25, 2023 at 8:49 am
Beetrooter has relevance deprivation syndrome. What did he do when he had the leadership last time? Nothing. What will he do should he wangle himself in again? Nothing.
School Fees 2.0.

Vikki can put the kids in care and get a job like they have made it almost mandatory for every working class family. An occasional article in the Daily Telegraph the Australian is not work, it’s like indulging in social media. When she is earning close to what the Beetrooter does then there will be parity. They could, of course, always enrol the kids in the nearest public school, I hear it’s free.

Indolent
Indolent
June 25, 2023 8:57 am
Tom
Tom
June 25, 2023 8:58 am
Cassie of Sydney
June 25, 2023 9:00 am

“I am really quite pleased I didn’t offer up any commentary on the Wussian Wevolution.”

Vewy wise SP. I’m reminded of the fates of Kolchak, Denikin, and others.

Indolent
Indolent
June 25, 2023 9:01 am

French President Emmanuel Macron Calls For ‘Finance Shock’ As He Opened The Summit For A New Global Financial Pact Meeting In Paris

French President Emmanuel Macron has opened the Summit for a New Global Financial Pact in Paris with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman that seeks to find financial solutions to Climate Change

Indolent
Indolent
June 25, 2023 9:03 am
132andBush
132andBush
June 25, 2023 9:05 am

Sancho Panzer says:
June 25, 2023 at 8:55 am

I am really quite pleased I didn’t offer up any commentary on the Wussian Wevolution.

Indeed.
Unlike monty whose Wagner Viagra has worn off this morning.
Back to the usual flaccidity.

Buccaneer
Buccaneer
June 25, 2023 9:05 am

Watching the media avoid calling the Wagner insurrection an insurrection

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 25, 2023 9:06 am

Cassie

2. Yevgeny Prigozhin is a dead man walking. Russian leaders hunt down mutineers, from Ivan the Terrible, to Peter the Great, to Nicholas I, to Stalin, and to Putin. Nobody calls for a march on Moscow and lives, and Prigozhin knows it. He’s on borrowed time.

1. Prick-goes-in should be watchful for drinks waiters with the ice bucket.

2. Good summary in your full comment.

Razey
Razey
June 25, 2023 9:08 am

Money Supply Growth Falls to Depression-Era Levels for Second Month in April

Everything is under control, Sleazy has a plan.

lotocoti
lotocoti
June 25, 2023 9:09 am

Sancho Panzer says:
June 25, 2023 at 8:55 am

T’was a feculent cup best avoided.

Razey
Razey
June 25, 2023 9:11 am

The Leftard definition of ‘tolerance’ means to ‘lower ones moral standard’.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
June 25, 2023 9:13 am

So does this whole Wagner’s thing leave Putin stronger within Russia, or weaker?

Well, I suppose he has seen off a threat and will now be able to punish people as a lesson to others even within the actual military. But he has also let weaknesses be seen and later attempts will calculate with additional insight.

These are very generic ideas which may or may not, to one degree or another, apply to the real Russia and the real Pute.

Curious to see what other cars make of it.

Crossie
Crossie
June 25, 2023 9:15 am

Indolent says:
June 25, 2023 at 9:01 am
French President Emmanuel Macron Calls For ‘Finance Shock’ As He Opened The Summit For A New Global Financial Pact Meeting In Paris

Says the guy who will never feel the effects of any Finance Shock. These people are real degenerates.

C.L.
C.L.
June 25, 2023 9:19 am

Has anyone seen Prigozhin and Pope Francis in he same room at the same time?

Makka
Makka
June 25, 2023 9:21 am

On the Prigozhen brain snap, what all should notice was that while it all went on the Russian people remained calm and patriotic to their nation and Putin. Also, citizens milling around PMC troops looked quite at ease. There was no rising up against the state or demonstrative opposition. Prigozhen had a beef with Putin but the Russian people’s sympathies remained steady for Russia and Russians.

Russians appear content with how Putin is managing their country, rightly or wrongly.

shatterzzz
June 25, 2023 9:27 am

How easy does it get for the media to mislead folk with their doom & gloom predictions ? ..
I was reading earlier a story on mortgage default (can’t link as I forgot where it was) .. anyway, the upshot of it was focussing on 3 suburbs around Oz that are showing the highest default levels ..
One of these suburbs is BONNYRIGG in Sydney’s south-west but what the media doesn’t waste time on is the why this area is a target for default ..
Bonnyrigg is next door to me so I know all about the place .. during Bob Carr’s reign Bonnyrigg was a high profile “houso’ drug estate (we specialize in them out here .. LOL!) .. in fact things got sooo bad that Bobby realised there were soo many drug dealers that HC had no idea who, actually, was a legitimate tenant as opposed to a “freebie ring-in” so he came up with the idea of “gradual” re-development .. ie: knock it down in stages and rebuild as a private/houso estate .. and this is what has been happening over the past 15 years .. slow but eventual .. the gummint way considering 2 major builders went broke over this estate so lotza delays ..
Anywayz, it’s now about 3/4s finished and the crack are starting to appear money-wize .. to entice folk to buy into such a bad reputation area the gummint offered all sorts of financial incentives and buyers flocked to the “free” money …
Now, of course, with the interest rates and general finance tightening a lot of folk who normally wouldn’t have had the money except for the additional gummint “freebies” are starting to feel the pinch ….
End result .. Bonnyrigg is now classed as a high default area but no media finger pointing at gummint involvement just another tale of post BAT FLU money woes to brighten a Sunday morning …….!

C.L.
C.L.
June 25, 2023 9:28 am

Loved Calli’s 1:13 am.

Tattoos have not aged well as a phenom.
Poor souls who got them.

Bear Necessities
Bear Necessities
June 25, 2023 9:32 am

Are Monty, Fisky and Dot currently on top of a T72 entering Moscow?

C.L.
C.L.
June 25, 2023 9:34 am

Yellowstone River train bridge collapse is a disgrace for the richest country in human history.
Infrastructurally, the joint is falling apart – as neocon loonies blow trillions abroad.

MatrixTransform
June 25, 2023 9:40 am

REMEMBER: It's only a coup if it comes from the coup d'etat region of France. What's happening in Moscow right now is a sparkling insurrection.— Ben Ramanauskas (@BenRamanauskas) June 23, 2023

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
June 25, 2023 9:41 am

Would it be considered crass to take bets on how many weeks before Wagner boss dies and manner of his passing?

How many weeks or months?

Car accident
Gun
Knife
Poison
Building fall

Culprit
One of his own men
Russian
Belorussian
CIA or other foreign spy mob

C.L.
C.L.
June 25, 2023 9:45 am

What’s the aftermath following whatever this was?

Pee or get off the pot, I think.

Arky last night:

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

Yes. This has always struck me as odd. The time for mainstreaming the Russian war effort was about six months ago. The Ukrainians have also had in-house troubles – Zelensky reputedly having been threatened with death if he negotiated, and the hard men of Azov accusing the sainted midget of treachery and incompetence etc (on Facebook).

As for Prigozhin, the erratic purse snatcher is still a threat if he is allowed to build a HQ in Belarus.

Buccaneer
Buccaneer
June 25, 2023 9:47 am

Adams funeral song, Doug Murray, You are soul. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXzGQld1tY8

Dot
Dot
June 25, 2023 9:48 am

I am very happy the deranged neoconservative and progressive vision of Russia broken up in a civil war with tens of new nuclear states, some with strange or murderous ideologies never eventuated.

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 25, 2023 9:50 am

Are we likely to see much of the Fat Fascist Fool today?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 25, 2023 9:52 am

Colonel Plumski.
Lead pipe.
Library.
Next Wednesday.

Dot
Dot
June 25, 2023 9:52 am

Would it be considered crass to take bets on how many weeks before Wagner boss dies and manner of his passing?

No. You can’t downplay his statements in the last 48 hours. He challenged the legitimacy of the war and said all but in name he was going to depose of Putin. If he really said what was reported he said about Shoigu he’s a marked man and either way if he’s still sane should try to get out of Belarus ASAP. Putin could always change his mind.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 25, 2023 9:54 am

Daily Mail.

EXCLUSIVE: Champion swimmer who was forced to change in a CLOSET to avoid undressing in front of trans athlete Lia Thomas breaks her silence and slams NCAA for putting women in a ‘stressful and hostile environment’

Kylee Alons revealed she was forced to cower in a closet to avoid trans rival Lia Thomas at the 2022 NCAA Championships
The champion swimmer slammed the NCAA organizers for putting women in a ‘stressful and hostile environment’

Makka
Makka
June 25, 2023 9:54 am

As for Prigozhin, the erratic purse snatcher is still a threat if he is allowed to build a HQ in Belarus.

In 6 months or so Prigozhin will die after a short illness. It will be interesting to see any changes to how the Russian MoD now prosecutes the Ukraine war. There is also the (weak?) possibility this was a maskirovka to test Kremlin loyalties,

eric hinton
eric hinton
June 25, 2023 9:54 am

pearler

uptick

miltonf
miltonf
June 25, 2023 9:54 am

I am very happy the deranged neoconservative and progressive vision of Russia broken up in a civil war with tens of new nuclear states, some with strange or murderous ideologies never eventuated.

me too- as CL pointed out the US is falling to bits socially and economically and they still have the impertinence to bully other countries including us. AS JC said, the old thief is a consequential prez but not in a good way.

shatterzzz
June 25, 2023 9:59 am

Lotza media glee yesterday that Vlad was falling yet today media treating it as a minor excursion that didn’t work out …. nuttin’ to see ‘ere .. mooove along, pleeeze ..!
why! oh why does anyone believe the rubbish the msn callz “news” when in reality, these dayz, it is OPINION, their opinion ! …….

miltonf
miltonf
June 25, 2023 10:00 am

Thanks again to commentators like Speedbox, JC and Cassie- cracking good reading.

Calli really enjoying your travelogue – haven’t been to the yookay since the start of the bLIAR era. My last visit left me rather disappointed. I thought London was just dirty. I’m glad my forebears emigrated tbh. Not that we’re not under attack here too.

Makka
Makka
June 25, 2023 10:00 am

the old thief is a consequential prez but not in a good way.

Biden doesn’t know what day it is. He hasn’t the faculties to orchestrate what is happening there. You can see it every time he’s let out. So, who really is running the show? My money is on Obama. And to some further extent , Brennan. Both would love to see the USA and all it has stood for rendered incapable and in chaos.

Razey
Razey
June 25, 2023 10:02 am

Remember, Ukraine is dealing with the Russian mentality. Even in the old days when Napoleon entered Moscow, they simply let all the prisoners out and ordered them to burn the city down. LOL.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 25, 2023 10:03 am

Wagner absorbed into RuAF and under RuMOD command ( but not those men involved in mutiny).

Dover – I think one of the aspects of this is what Bourne1879 raised: that Wagner has a substantial PMC business outside of Russia. That would suggest Wagner will continue to exist in some form with Prigozhin as boss, at least for a while, assuming the deal with Lukashenko holds. Wagner-in-Russia will vanish as you say, also presumably Rusich and all those private militias/security units the oligarchs like Gazprom has been recruiting lately.

Without Russian state backing Wagner-in-Africa is going to have a lot of problems, and will probably fall apart eventually like previous mercenary attempts have. There’s still a market for such services though, so who knows?

132andBush
132andBush
June 25, 2023 10:04 am

Watching the media avoid calling the Wagner insurrection an insurrection

A peaceful protest that some took a bit too far.

miltonf
miltonf
June 25, 2023 10:04 am

I’d say a cabal of DC cockroaches Makka- O’bumma, Klain, Brennan and other poisonous trash

cohenite
June 25, 2023 10:04 am

I read head prefect’s astute analysis of how successful the old pervert’s administration has been; from a commie perspective. I dis agree however that this senile pustule is in charge; as I said obama is in charge with other scabs on the body of the US like the clintons and the rest of the swamp involved. But I reckon this is the black bastard’s third term.

Dot
Dot
June 25, 2023 10:06 am

Russia (proper) as it is now has existed in almost the same borders for over 320 years. Russian as an intelligible language to modern speakers goes back around 600 years. The Russian State as we know it (the union of preceding ancestral stem monarchies) goes back at least to 1547.

The neocon-progressive fever dream/troll about a “broken up” Russia is quite unreal.

I think there is a bit of envy from Europe in that they often have a longer traceable national history, but often have not been a country for as long.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
June 25, 2023 10:08 am

Breaking news: Californian plastic surgeons now tendering for what could be the most lucrative plastic surgery operations ever conducted.

However there is concern amongst some that once they have completed the work their life expectancy will be about 10 seconds.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 25, 2023 10:11 am

35m ago
Aussies will see voice as way to advance reconciliation: PM
Rhiannon Down
Rhiannon Down

Anthony Albanese says he remains optimistic the referendum to enshrine an Indigenous voice to parliament will succeed.

The Prime Minister said he had faith the Australian people would support the referendum when they go to the ballot box later this year, noting that the voice was a “simple proposition”.

“It comes from my faith in the Australian people,” Mr Albanese told Sky News.

“This is a very simple proposition to recognise Indigenous Australians in our Constitution and in our founding document.

“It’s time that we did that. I believe most Australians will accept that.”

Mr Albanese said he believed voters would see the voice’s intentions for “representation and recognition”, and avoid listening to suggestions by critics that it was a complex proposal.

“It doesn’t change any of the way that we are governed,” he said.

“It just provides for the opportunity for Indigenous people to have a say, in matters that affect them.

“And I think that when Australians look at what the actual words that are being put forward, like when they look at the Uluru Statement from the Heart, they’ll see this for the generous and gracious offer that it is to advance reconciliation.”

C.L.
C.L.
June 25, 2023 10:12 am

I agree with James Morrow (whose US Report is first rate) that Biden won’t be the nominee.
Everybody knows that by 20 January 2025, Biden will living in his pyjamas.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the vainglorious Dr Jill is interfering with Operation Dump Joe.

The DNC also has to work out a way to assassinate RFK Jr (metaphorically, of course).

Re Trump, the Baier sit-down was a bigger train wreck than Yellowstone.

Crossie
Crossie
June 25, 2023 10:16 am

C.L. says:
June 25, 2023 at 9:34 am
Yellowstone River train bridge collapse is a disgrace for the richest country in human history.
Infrastructurally, the joint is falling apart – as neocon loonies blow trillions abroad.

We are no better, just look at Victoria. My last two visits to Melbourne, from Sydney, were within the last twelve months and the roads are just getting worse. It’s a relief to cross the border back into NSW and the concrete base Hume Highway.

The other stupid thing we are doing is importing literally millions of migrants and nowhere for them to live. And lastly, our betters, in the face of this population increase, are scaling down electricity availability and pushing electric cars. We live in an era of utter mass public insanity.

Razey
Razey
June 25, 2023 10:17 am

For a lazy Sunday. Good series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBd67qQy96k

Zipster
Zipster
June 25, 2023 10:18 am

What’s the aftermath following whatever this was?

kabuki

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
June 25, 2023 10:28 am

Bad roads.
I occurred to me yesterday, as a passenger with my eighteen year old daughter driving, the basic training skills for early drivers is being thrown out the window by bad roads.
I noticed she drives to the middle of the road most of the time and I told her to stay further left in case she encountered a truck. She huffed and said that is she did she’d be hitting potholes and it’s too dangerous.
I realised the bad habit she’d picked up was from poor roads and not poor skills.

Frank
Frank
June 25, 2023 10:29 am

Seems mØnty was mainlining Occasional Cortex.

It’s usually a cut and paste from The Chaser website. No self respect.

Razey
Razey
June 25, 2023 10:29 am

Here is some trivia most people don’t know about. Ever seen sparkles in a blue sky? Guess what, they are your very own white blood cells.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_field_entoptic_phenomenon

Chris
Chris
June 25, 2023 10:31 am

One for Tom! Offered as a comment on the problem of the developing woes of higher education.

Thanks Powerline!
Week in pictures is pretty good this week too.

One for Muellerween Monty!

Chris
Chris
June 25, 2023 10:36 am

I see that idiot stenographer for albanese on the voice has zero upticks.
I uptick the zero itself, by no tup-ticking.

Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
June 25, 2023 10:36 am

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says:
June 25, 2023 at 10:11 am
35m ago
Aussies will see voice as way to advance reconciliation: PM

Anthony Albanese says he remains optimistic the referendum to enshrine an Indigenous voice to parliament will succeed. ….

Elbowsleazy is either putrid stupid, or a liar, or … both.

In any case, he is a racist and a traitor to this once-great country.

Frank
Frank
June 25, 2023 10:43 am

Anthony Albanese says he remains optimistic the referendum to enshrine an Indigenous voice to parliament will succeed.

Any movements lately with regards to staffing of the Australian Electoral Commission.

miltonf
miltonf
June 25, 2023 10:44 am

Elbowsleazy is either putrid stupid, or a liar, or … both.

both but a has an endowment of rat cunning- this is what expanded hiya ejucashun has given us

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
June 25, 2023 10:48 am

“It comes from my faith in the Australian people,” Mr Albanese told Sky News.

He has to say it, I suppose.

But given his popularity how many people does he think he will persuade? How many people are out there who were thinking of voting ‘No’ will change their mind because Albo assures them they should.

I suspect more might have been tending ‘yes’ but might find themselves increasingly suspicious of the ‘yes’ side because it is so dear to that f’wit.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
June 25, 2023 10:49 am

Mother Lode says: June 25, 2023 at 9:13 am

Curious to see what other cars make of it.

There’s certainly ssangyong here, but I cannot afford to be involvoed.

Luzu
Luzu
June 25, 2023 10:49 am

People hoping that Russia will somehow break up into a number of smaller states are just exposing their own ignorance. There are no natural or historical borders inside Russia itself, unlike the multitude of princedoms and duchies that ultimately formed the modern state of Germany.

The Russian people regard themselves and their country as one entity, whether they live in Pskov, Novokuznyetsk or Sakhalin. The various oblasts are administrative units only – akin to local councils rather than state governments. The people identify as Russian first and foremost.

The drama of the last 24 hours has seemed strange to Western eyes – and it is. There is a saying in Russia: Scratch a Russian, find a Tatar. Their ways of conducting politics are not like ours.

My attitude from the start was: Wait and watch.

As Dot said, war is hell. And those who were rubbing their hands in glee that Putin’s downfall was deliciously imminent, they seem to have forgotten that the Ukrainian and Russian dead are still dead, that Ukraine has suffered devastation to its people and infrastructure that will have consequences for many years to come and that the human misery and pain being experienced by so many has not ended.

Blessed are the peacemakers, not the vultures who pick over the carcasses.

miltonf
miltonf
June 25, 2023 10:50 am

If they lose, and I hope they do, their abuse of the Australian electorate both publicly and privately will be massive. ‘Racist’ ‘redneck’ ‘unejucated’ etc etc.

m0nty
m0nty
June 25, 2023 10:51 am

Many things happened yesterday that didn’t make much sense. Things were said that couldn’t be unsaid. And then, overnight, it got even more ridiculous.

I find it hard to believe that any of the major Russian players can trust each other enough for this deal to hold.

Kasparov is right, Russia is not a state any more, it’s a collection of gangsters. I suppose there is some sort of code in the Mafia? You can’t run a country like that indefinitely.

When I mentioned institutions yesterday I was talking about courts, parliaments, police… what you might call the shallow state. None of that is working at all in Russia, it has long since been hopelessly corrupted.

Yesterday took about three months. Today, well who knows what will happen.

Dot
Dot
June 25, 2023 10:54 am

When I mentioned institutions yesterday I was talking about courts, parliaments, police… what you might call the shallow state. None of that is working at all in Russia, it has long since been hopelessly corrupted.

Now you must accept the truth that there is indeed a deep state.

m0nty
m0nty
June 25, 2023 10:55 am

Also, I never said anything about breaking up Russia. The future I would wish for them is more like modern Germany: a transformation from a warmonger state to a locus of peace and economic strength based on liberal values and strong institutions. It happened there and in Japan, it can happen in Russia.

Makka
Makka
June 25, 2023 10:56 am

Today, well who knows what will happen.

We all know what will happen, mOron.

You will still be the air headed lemming leftist fkwit you have always been. Ever ready to leap onto the nearest rake and defend your perverted deviant fellow travelers to the death.

Perfidious Albino
Perfidious Albino
June 25, 2023 10:56 am

My main worry is why Albo feels confident enough to keep pushing the Voice based on a vibe and lies. Now maybe he’s bet the farm and has no choice, but the noises from the AEC about pushing postal ballots out ‘so everyone can participate’ concerns me greatly.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 25, 2023 10:57 am

When I mentioned institutions yesterday I was talking about courts, parliaments, police… what you might call the shallow state. None of that is working at all in Russia, it has long since been hopelessly corrupted.

That’s very funny Monty, you just described our local system and Biden’s regime neatly in two sentences. Have you ever thought of buying yourself a mirror?

Makka
Makka
June 25, 2023 11:01 am

a transformation from a warmonger state to a locus of peace and economic strength based on liberal values and strong institutions.

Yes, we too hold the same hopes for the USA.

Dot
Dot
June 25, 2023 11:01 am

The NAFO larpers and devushka larpers were certain Priggy was paid by the CIA.

You can’t walk this back.

“On 24 February [2022] there was nothing extraordinary happening there. Now the Ministry of Defence is trying to deceive the public, deceive the president and tell a story that there was some crazy aggression by Ukraine, that – together with the whole Nato bloc – Ukraine was planning to attack us.

“The war was needed… so that Shoigu could become a Marshal, so that he could get a second Hero Star… the war wasn’t for demilitarising or de-nazifying Ukraine. It was needed for an extra star.”

m0nty
m0nty
June 25, 2023 11:02 am

Now you must accept the truth that there is indeed a deep state.

This Cat obsession with an alliance between spooks and flamers to create a clone army of flamer spooks is a joke, Dot. It’s a punch line, not serious.

You know who is the deep state? Kissinger, and all he represents. But it’s not as if he is hidden.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
June 25, 2023 11:03 am

There’s certainly ssangyong here, but I cannot afford to be involvoed.

It changed ‘Cats’ to ‘cars’?

Well, probably not. ‘R’ and ‘T’ are next to each other and I am typing on a phone.

Still, I will be curious to learn the breakdown of opinion among vehicles.

I would expect EV’s, hybrids, and Smart Cars to lean heavily toward Putin being severely weakened because they want it to be so for brave and doughty Ukraine’s sake.

m0nty
m0nty
June 25, 2023 11:13 am

That’s very funny Monty, you just described our local system and Biden’s regime neatly in two sentences.

The Australian and US systems are not perfect, Bruce, but your side is in the minority so it is unsurprising that it keeps losing democratic elections.

MatrixTransform
June 25, 2023 11:13 am

Kasparov is right, Russia is not a state any more, it’s a collection of gangsters.

only 12 hours ago mUnty was practically cheering for more death, more destruction, more disorder, and more punching of Russkies

today he’s pretending to be the disappointed revolutionary

I dunno what you think you sound like mate but it aint the Dove of Peace

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
June 25, 2023 11:15 am

Albo thinks he’s a Hawke style messiah when he’s the very definition Hayden’s Drover’s Dog.
Voters wanted to kick out the Sydney Televangelist and didn’t care who took the top job.

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 25, 2023 11:18 am

m0ntysays:
June 25, 2023 at 10:51 am
Many things happened yesterday that didn’t make much sense. Things were said that couldn’t be unsaid. And then, overnight, it got even more ridiculous.

Welcome back, Fat Fascist Fool. Did you spend the morning offloading your over-supply of Gloatium, so as to stock up on Copium and Seethium?

Kasparov is right, Russia is not a state any more, it’s a collection of gangsters. I suppose there is some sort of code in the Mafia? You can’t run a country like that indefinitely.

See also: the USA under first O’Bummer, and now Creepy Joe.

When I mentioned institutions yesterday I was talking about courts, parliaments, police… what you might call the shallow state. None of that is working at all in Russia, it has long since been hopelessly corrupted.

Stick to fantasy football, fantasy politics and fantasy strategy are well beyond your intellect.

And speaking of “long since been hopelessly corrupted”, see again the USA under O’Bummer and Creepy Joe.

Chris
Chris
June 25, 2023 11:19 am

The future I would wish for them is more like modern Germany: a transformation from a warmonger state to a locus of peace and economic strength based on liberal values and strong institutions. It happened there and in Japan, it can happen in Russia.

Wow that is some A-grade stuff you are smoking Monty. Ask Speedbox what the Russian character will make of your noble-spirited ‘liberal values and strong institutions’ as a basis for their future.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
June 25, 2023 11:19 am

Morn all.

Late flight back north last night. Qantaslink late again despite being on time into Sydney. Flight was full of soldiers obviously travelling for Ex Talisman Sabre. Had 3 yanks possibly military in front of me that two were rather indiscreet, one was talking shop at a level I could hear with industrial deafness mentioning an Australian Colonel by name a number of times that wasn’t hard to look up on Linkedin. Big SF looking guy was trying to chat up flight attendants in galley for a fair chunk of the flight but he seemed pretty harmless, LOL hope his work paid off. Apart from that fairly uneventful though I did have a brief conversation with a Canadian lass (Big red maple leaf tag on her luggage a dead give away) who was travelling the eastern seaboard after doing a year as an exchange student in Perth.

As for my stay. Sydney Ferries don’t have a tap off as I found out, the view from the back of the ferry though very cold on Thursday night was spectacular of the Harbour Bridge, Sydney CBD skyline and Domain/Botanical gardens with some light show on the waters edge. Spent few days at Harbord and had coffee on Harbord Beach yesterday morning was a bit crisp but beautiful sunny morning & view made up for it. Lunch yesterday, highly recommend Bucketty’s microbrewery in Brookvale. Another one Dad & Daves down the road looked packed as well and was recommended if I am ever back. Don’t know what idiot renamed the suburb as Freshwater, confused me at first but noticed the older name Harbord that I associate with the area lingers. Small mercies it wasn’t renamed to something else incomprehensible I suppose. The mess coming out of the Sydney Harbour Tunnel at North Sydney and rubbish road surface is a disgrace, that could have been planned better. In fact the signposting along the Eastern Distributor, Harbour tunnel and turn off to Military rd was just as bad.

Funeral was on the central coast Friday and was as these are, an emotional experience. The wake in true Irish catholic tradition was a different affair. I think he would have been satisfied at his send off. Some extended family who have been abroad working I saw for the first time in close to 30 years. Interesting mix of corporate lawyers, senior executives, soldiers and tradesman in our family. Found out a lot more about my relatives military career though short as it was before he jumped into the corporate world which I knew much more about. All I’ll say is he had an interesting period before joining the Army and it was all hard work to get where he got retiring as a senior executive. Sometimes he was too honest for his own good but that is the way he lived his life, I remember him as being very much like that myself and have memories of him translating Latin when I was a child. Anyway I start to ramble on an anonymous blog, Friday night traffic to the Central Coast along the M1 hasn’t changed, Brooklyn Bridge was a big traffic snarl northbound but a truck tyre fire wouldn’t have helped that.

Anyway back to the grindstone soon. Enjoy your Sunday all and more importantly enjoy life, it’s too short.

miltonf
miltonf
June 25, 2023 11:20 am

I dunno what you think you sound like mate but it aint the Dove of Peace

likes seeing destruction and suffering from the comfort of an armchair

miltonf
miltonf
June 25, 2023 11:20 am

Another product of hiya ejucashun

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 25, 2023 11:21 am

m0ntysays:
June 25, 2023 at 10:55 am
Also, I never said anything about breaking up Russia. The future I would wish for them is more like modern Germany: a transformation from a warmonger state to a locus of peace and economic strength based on liberal values and strong institutions. It happened there and in Japan, it can happen in Russia.

The reality that it took massive defeats (and a nuclear attack on Japan), followed by years of occupation, to set up the conditions for those changes has still not sunk into your thick head.

Gilas
Gilas
June 25, 2023 11:22 am

Great Cat updates on the CIA-mediated Russian “crisis”.

But how could anyone predict that the “Russian coup” was only yet another nothing-burger, at a time of constant end-of-days catastrophic genocidal-peddling lies by anyone with a computer keyboard?
By the fact that a totally unnecessary, totally optional musical competition , of no particular political importance, in central Moscow, just carried on, without missing a beat.

And at an artistic standard that is something that has to be seen to be believed.
Thank you YouTube!

lotocoti
lotocoti
June 25, 2023 11:22 am

At the back of Elbow’s weasel brain there’s probably a couple of upsides
to the voice failing.
He dodges a colossal legislative nightmare.
The racist tories broke the first nations peoples’ hearts.
A club the little shit would wield with enthusiasm.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
June 25, 2023 11:23 am

Mutley goes to bed in the basement with an oak woody, wakes to find its a wilted pansy.

Dot
Dot
June 25, 2023 11:24 am

This Cat obsession with an alliance between spooks and flamers to create a clone army of flamer spooks is a joke, Dot. It’s a punch line, not serious.

Except it is. Not really the same topic monty, but an example of what you changed the topic to is the completely unprofessional investigation and prosecution of Brandon Caserta.

A paid informant (paid so he could quit his job and be a full-time informant for six months to 120k p.a. pro rata) at trial alleged text/smartphone app messages that could not be reproduced that talked of drinking zionist banker blood.

The FBI is a shameful institution and needs to be closed down.

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 25, 2023 11:25 am

m0ntysays:
June 25, 2023 at 11:02 am
Now you must accept the truth that there is indeed a deep state.

This Cat obsession with an alliance between spooks and flamers to create a clone army of flamer spooks is a joke, Dot. It’s a punch line, not serious.

LOL. The Fat Fascist Fool didn’t get enough Copium and Seethium this morning.

m0nty
m0nty
June 25, 2023 11:26 am

Ask Speedbox what the Russian character will make of your noble-spirited ‘liberal values and strong institutions’ as a basis for their future.

Ask Germans whether they are better off now than under Hitler or the Kaiser.

Beertruk
June 25, 2023 11:28 am

acres of pale female flesh littered with tattoos

Brits : slag tags
Americans: tramp stamps

Dot
Dot
June 25, 2023 11:29 am

LOL

Ed Case is hard at work downticking any comments made by commenters to the right of Brendan Nelson.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 25, 2023 11:31 am

The Australian and US systems are not perfect, Bruce, but your side is in the minority so it is unsurprising that it keeps losing democratic elections.

Haha, Monty. Christians always have been a minority, that’s what all those Bible verses about the “remnant” are about. If I was in the immoral majority I’d be fearful. Maybe your lot should take a break from stealing elections to consider the, shall I say, long term consequences?

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 25, 2023 11:31 am

The “Nett Zero” stalker is busy this morning.

Lay your bets. Turd Case or the Fat Fascist Fool? Or both?

m0nty
m0nty
June 25, 2023 11:33 am

I mean sure, the circumstances in Germany and Japan allowed a complete rebuild of their nations, and it’s hard to see Russia in that situation unless NATO invades and wins. Is there a path for Russia to emulate post-war rebirth without going through that sort of destruction? I don’t know.

The alternative is the continued threat of a chaotic warlord-ruled Russia on Europe’s doorstep. This situation has festered for too long.

Can things get even crazier by the end of today? Prigozhin might say, hold my vodka.

Makka
Makka
June 25, 2023 11:34 am

Ask Germans whether they are better off now than under Hitler or the Kaiser.

From: The Kindergarten School of Political Analysis.

Dot
Dot
June 25, 2023 11:36 am

Only 46% to YES vote.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12228879/Voice-Parliament-New-JWS-Research-poll-shows-growth-Australians-voting-No-referendum.html

You have to also consider that there is virtually no organised NO campaign and the government seems to be heavily favouring a YES vote.

The economy and Lidia Thorpe are doing great unofficial campaigning. Really I think people not understanding what they are voting for is the greatest asset the NO case has.

Makka
Makka
June 25, 2023 11:36 am

Now he’s upticking his own drivel.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
June 25, 2023 11:36 am

No natural borders Luzu? Two of my Russian friends see that a little different. The Urals. According to one of them West is European and East is Chinese. The one from East looks nothing Chinese, more Scandi. He saw it as East are thinkers, West are airheads.

rickw
rickw
June 25, 2023 11:39 am

the noises from the AEC about pushing postal ballots out ‘so everyone can participate’ concerns me greatly

Setting it up.

m0nty
m0nty
June 25, 2023 11:42 am

There was nothing chaotic about Putin’s Russia.

LOL, after the events of yesterday you say that. They literally had a one-day civil war.

JC
JC
June 25, 2023 11:42 am

Pretty sure Germans in 1910 would far prefer then than now.

How would you know unless you yanked a bunch of 1910’ers out of that era and placed them in the present? To get a reasonable idea you also have to get a bunch of people from the present and stick them in 1910.

What are you saying?

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 25, 2023 11:43 am

mUnty

it’s hard to see Russia in that situation unless NATO invades and wins.

Still getting a woody at the thought of nuclear war? Because that will be the result if NATO invades Wussia.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
June 25, 2023 11:43 am

My main worry is why Albo feels confident enough to keep pushing the Voice based on a vibe and lies.

He will be able to pretend he was brought down on a point of principle (‘Da Voice’, and all of the ideological lint it has accreted) rather than outright economic mismanagement – if that is what it comes to.

With Labor managing the message and with the full complicity of the MSM, Albo will be rehabilitated as a man of destiny thwarted by small minds – a moral light snuffed out by by dead-breath of far-right racists.

Rudd was a disaster, but they talk about his magnificent (if empty) gesture – the stupid apology to no one.

Gough was an economic custer-fluck and yet the left still insist his name only be spoken in a hushed reverential voice.

rugbyskier
rugbyskier
June 25, 2023 11:43 am

Pretty sure Germans in 1910 would far prefer then than now.

Particularly the citizens of Memel, Königsberg, Danzig, Breslau, Stettin and Eupen.

Makka
Makka
June 25, 2023 11:43 am

The Urals. According to one of them West is European and East is Chinese.

Having lived both sides of the Ural, I think your Russian friends show the common bias of the Russian pompous. The biggest 2 Russian cities , Moscow and St Pete’s in the east are both heavily Euro influenced materially, while the resource wealth of Russia and the hardy types reside centrally and east. It’s kind of like how sophisticates in harbour dwelling NSW regard the redneck Qld Maroons.

MatrixTransform
June 25, 2023 11:45 am

Ask Germans whether they are better off now than under Hitler or

mUnty wants conflict to get to peace
wants revolution so as to hack away the overgrowth on the path to harmony

how to give yourself a close shave using mUnty’s Razor …

Hitler was a Socialist
mUnty is a Socialist
therefore mUnty == Hitler

JC
JC
June 25, 2023 11:48 am

There was nothing chaotic about Putin’s Russia.

Yeah, a mercenary army threatening to March to the capital …happens most Thursday afternoons in Western counties.
No biggie.

pete of perth
pete of perth
June 25, 2023 11:49 am

Just got back from visiting grandson in Melbourne. The juxtaposition between the shiny high-rise and the filthy city streets is amazing. Still, my son likes it there, lives in Southbanks. Moved to Melbourne for a job. Maybe I am used to Perth’s sterile CBD. On a plus, we weren’t subjected to the welcome to country crap when the plane landed in Perth. As for the bio-security anouncement, I thought I heard mention of the ACH act as part of the blurb.

MatrixTransform
June 25, 2023 11:50 am

They literally had a one-day civil war

lol … suddenly nothing happened

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
June 25, 2023 11:50 am

Albosleazy knew he had one throw of the dice and he got up because of useless Morrison.

He’s always known that he is a one term PM because his party think he’s a goose. He can hear the coven sharpening the knives.

He wants the inVoice to be his signature legacy for the Labor history books. Won’t happen – the punters are awake to what a dud proposal it is. Likewise his support of Bowen the climate/energy lunatic. Punters are awake to that dud as their bills skyrocket.

JC
JC
June 25, 2023 11:51 am

It’s kind of like how sophisticates in harbour dwelling NSW regard the redneck Qld Maroons.

The old chip on this shoulder is bigger than a Northern California redwood.

Makka
Makka
June 25, 2023 11:51 am

JC, what most don’t understand is that in Russia, chaos is far from uncommon. From all the footage I saw, there was no chaos or distress seen in the average citizen. To them it was more a spectacle and curiosity than an insurrection. They are probably the best judge of events.

Dot
Dot
June 25, 2023 11:54 am

m0nty the First World War was incredibly destructive, excluding the strong historical claim that it directly caused WWII. Pre-war society was idyllic and to be idealised.

There is an estimate in 1913 dollars that the war cost the Allies 147 bn USD and the Central Powers 67 bn USD.

In today’s money (USD) the global direct financial cost was 6.399 trillion dollars or 9.55 tn AUD in today’s money.

The indirect financial cost was about 173 bn (1913 USD); 5.315 trillion dollars or 7.93 tn AUD in today’s money.

The middle estimate for the global population in 1913 was 1.811 bn; the world population is probably 7.95 bn right now.

The per capita loss in income/wealth would be 4.5 times worse than now as well; more so in the warring states.

Makka
Makka
June 25, 2023 11:57 am

No biggie.

You can’t be expected to know , with your mOronesque view of evil Wussia.

And still pouting too , girlyman.

Chris
Chris
June 25, 2023 12:01 pm

Maybe I am used to Perth’s sterile CBD.

Tumbleweeds blow through our city of onion bag and witches hats. Saturday afternoon for breakdancing pink-haired gits, otherwise the big feature seems to be closed frontages and pre-9am homeless encampments.
I really enjoy the underground train to the airport though – bargain at a billion dollars a passenger.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
June 25, 2023 12:02 pm

Simplicius’s Garden of Knowledge

Prigozhin’s Siege Ends – Postmortem Analysis

m0nty
m0nty
June 25, 2023 12:03 pm

Germans are politically irrelevant, says db. They are literally rulers of Europe, the entire economy of the continent has been recast to make them the cosseted elites. Hitler would be jealous of the power they have.

Of course Hitler would be aghast at other aspects like diversity and inclusion, funnily enough those are the same aspects at which db is aghast.

Dot
Dot
June 25, 2023 12:04 pm

The Germans saw -27% GDP growth during WWI, net of the implicit costs to human life, future financial liabilities and destruction of fixed & financial capital, currency seignorage and devaluation (thus large and eventual losses of purchasing power) and loss of land and other resources.

m0nty your assertions regarding the Kaiser are unfathomable to normal people who strive to be less ignorant.

JC
JC
June 25, 2023 12:04 pm

You can’t be expected to know , with your mOronesque view of evil Wussia.

And still pouting too , girlyman.

But of course you would because you were drilling screws to pipes in the middle of Shitcreekgrad , or so you claim.
Look, there’s never a possibility of a reasonable discussion with you because you can’t handle being wrong and accuse others of lying. So STFU and stop talking you bigmouth.

MatrixTransform
June 25, 2023 12:06 pm

Of course Hitler would be aghast at other aspects like diversity and inclusion

mUnty’s Razor in action

literally, knows what Hitler would think

C.L.
C.L.
June 25, 2023 12:08 pm

Trump just-in:

If re-elected, he will inform China it has 24 hours to leave Cuba or he will “drop the hammer.”

JC
JC
June 25, 2023 12:08 pm

Wagner pretty much depends entirely on the Russian MoD for heavy weapons, etc. and ammo. It can never actually successfully undertake a coup without significant support from the RuAF, etc.

Harry Hindsight is never wrong. Pity you weren’t around last night making these “hindsightful” predictions.

There was talk last night of very little resistance from the regular military and in fact there was no reports of any ground fighting as the Wagners were advancing.

But of course you knew in advance, right 🙂

Chris
Chris
June 25, 2023 12:11 pm

Un-fazed passers-by are not a good indicator of underlying existential dangers.
They are sometimes sh1t-scared and pretending, mostly nothin’ happens but when it does your pretending avails nothing.
There was a moment in a far city when my hosts saw the passers-by were all heading one way, asked a few what was up and we headed the same way, away from the action tout de suite. Behind us were smoke, burning buildings, riot, shots from loyalists sorting the rioters.
The wisdom of crowds is usually applied after the first shots.

JC
JC
June 25, 2023 12:12 pm

They are the cats paw of the US. Their gas pipeline was destroyed by or with the knowledge of their NATO ‘partner’ and they didn’t even say boo. Bismark turned in his grave.

How do you know who cut the cord? You were in the NATO meetings?

cohenite
June 25, 2023 12:13 pm

the noises from the AEC about pushing postal ballots out ‘so everyone can participate’ concerns me greatly.

Correct. Rub and tug is not going to lose the screech; as we speak thousands of yes votes are already being printed. My guess: the number of ballots counted will exceed the eligible voter number by just enough in 4 key states and overall by padding NSW and victoristan.

Makka
Makka
June 25, 2023 12:18 pm

You missed my main point Chris. When it comes to the Regions, Muscovites and St Pete’s are generally considered big city snobs by those east of the Urals.

cohenite
June 25, 2023 12:18 pm

Of course Hitler would be aghast at other aspects like diversity and inclusion, funnily enough those are the same aspects at which db is aghast.

One of the most ham fisted applications of Godwins Law; and when I say ham fisted I mean dickless has no dick to fist so he uses meat as a substitute.

JC
JC
June 25, 2023 12:22 pm

You missed my main point Chris. When it comes to the Regions, Muscovites and St Pete’s are generally considered big city snobs by those east of the Urals.

Which of course has absolutely zero relevance to what Chris said.

dopey
dopey
June 25, 2023 12:23 pm

The coup attempt was called off when it was pointed out that Stan Grant was on leave. There can be no other reason.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 25, 2023 12:23 pm

Correct. Rub and tug is not going to lose the screech; as we speak thousands of yes votes are already being printed

And when he wins the screech, and the demands begin for a “truth telling” – similar to what we have already seen with the “Bringing them Home” inquiry – the Aboriginal Legal Service vetted the witness list, and anyone whose story didn’t fit the “vibe”, wasn’t allowed to give evidence – and a treaty, involving massive sums in “compensation” and “reparations?” Oh, and “sovereignty?”

JC
JC
June 25, 2023 12:24 pm

dopey says:
June 25, 2023 at 12:23 pm
The coup attempt was called off when it was pointed out that Stan Grant was on leave. There can be no other reason.

Hahahahahahaha

m0nty
m0nty
June 25, 2023 12:25 pm

They are the cats paw of the US. Their gas pipeline was destroyed by or with the knowledge of their NATO ‘partner’ and they didn’t even say boo. Bismark turned in his grave.

Good business by the Germans, they get the Yanks to pay for their defence. Trump had a few words to say about how easy the Germans have it, as I recall.

Germany in 1910 had it so good that four years later they went to war. And lost.

Cassie of Sydney
June 25, 2023 12:30 pm

I’ll just remind everyone here what the pervert apologist wrote late last might, at at time which was way past his bedtime…

m0ntysays:
June 24, 2023 at 11:16 pm
All will be revealed in … what is it m0nty, 8 days until Wagner gets to Moscow?

Not even eight hours, at this rate.

I repeat, Monty wrote “eight hours, at this rate“.

And thanks to Luzu for her comment. Like Speedbox, Luzu writes with both knowledge and sense about Russia, the same cannot be said about the pervert apologist.

JC
JC
June 25, 2023 12:32 pm

What was an example of disinformation last night, Dover?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 25, 2023 12:33 pm
m0nty
m0nty
June 25, 2023 12:35 pm

Of course I didn’t know in advance but I knew the best thing to do, at least in the first 48 hrs of something like this, is to recognize that a lot of the info, reports, and like are likely to be disinformation, misinformation, partial reports, wish fulfilment, etc. and just see how things pan out, usually with the maintainance of the status quo.

Says the bloke who declared victory over the Uke offensive within two weeks.

Cassie of Sydney
June 25, 2023 12:36 pm

“Hitler would be aghast at other aspects like diversity and inclusion”

Actually, Hitler was quite “inclusive of homosexuals, until they threatened his power base. His friendship with Rohm went back to the earliest days of the Nazi Party, immediately after World war I, and Hitler long knew about Rohm’s sexual proclivities, proclivities he was quite happy to ignore until Rohm and his army threatened Hitler’s power base.

m0nty
m0nty
June 25, 2023 12:37 pm

That was true when the Germans were getting cheap energy from Russia and able to operate a competitive manufacturing sector. Without that, a terrible business.

You reckon cheap gas from one source was the only thing making German manufacturing competitive? Um, no.

JC
JC
June 25, 2023 12:37 pm

I’m not but you are by pretending to know who cut the line.

C.L.
C.L.
June 25, 2023 12:38 pm

RFK Jr de-shirts to lift weights at Venice Beach (I presume).

Far out.

https://twitter.com/alx/status/1672744512840400897

m0nty
m0nty
June 25, 2023 12:39 pm

“Hitler was too woke” is certainly a take.

C.L.
C.L.
June 25, 2023 12:43 pm

Monty, I presume you agree that Biden is mentally shot and the DNC has to come up with a plan to slot Newsom in to the picture, yes?

Frank
Frank
June 25, 2023 12:43 pm

“RFK Jr de-shirts to lift weights at Venice Beach”

Roids? At his age, too.

Anders
Anders
June 25, 2023 12:44 pm

Good business by the Germans, they get the Yanks to pay for their defence. Trump had a few words to say about how easy the Germans have it, as I recall.

Yeah and you were calling Trump a pawn of Putin when he was saying that. If Europe had increased its defence spending as Trump wanted they would be much more in a position to assist Ukraine in its fight against Russia.

In other words, you’re full of shit.

Gilas
Gilas
June 25, 2023 12:45 pm

Just catching up.. read Cassie’s family travails from yesterday..
If I can be so bold.. I’d caution against any hip surgery at 91, for several reasons:

1) It’s highly risky at any age, especially after the 6th-7th decades of life, due to risk of embolism and long, poor recovery rates because of ageing protoplasm (general fitness).
2) No age-adjusted empirical data on success rates (meaning a return to pre-surgery mobility).
3) Significant (>15%) probability of intra-surgical demise.
4) Need for life-long added prophylactic meds, with all the concomitant complications thereof.
5) High likelihood of recurrence.. falls don’t happen at these ages by accident…

One has to pick their poison.. The alternative: wheel-chair, prophylactic anti-thrombotics, analgesics and pressure-care are also unpleasant, but survival will likely be longer.
It’s all a matter of choice.

pete of perth
pete of perth
June 25, 2023 12:47 pm

Chris, caught a cab home from the airport at about 9pm. No one was going down the escalater to the train as we drove past.

Razey
Razey
June 25, 2023 12:47 pm

Hitler was into scat, just like Munty probably is.

Perplexed of Brisbane
Perplexed of Brisbane
June 25, 2023 12:48 pm

Makkasays:
June 25, 2023 at 10:00 am
the old thief is a consequential prez but not in a good way.

Biden doesn’t know what day it is. He hasn’t the faculties to orchestrate what is happening there. You can see it every time he’s let out. So, who really is running the show? My money is on Obama. And to some further extent , Brennan. Both would love to see the USA and all it has stood for rendered incapable and in chaos.

So who is running the Biden ’empire’? Hunter? Why would Jo care about how much money they have? He won’t be taking it with him. He would have had plenty to retire on years ago while he still had some faculties to enjoy himself.

Interesting.

Dot
Dot
June 25, 2023 12:49 pm

Good get, Anders.

Dot
Dot
June 25, 2023 12:51 pm

How piss poor is my generation?

An actual article from Medium:

How to Make Friends as an Adult

Pro tip: Be polite, say hello, don’t be weird and don’t be a total retard.

Makka
Makka
June 25, 2023 12:52 pm

So who is running the Biden ’empire’?

Dr Jill, with Hunter.

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