He’s not that…more an iron fist in a velvet glove.
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Correct….and he’s married to the execrable Louise Adler, …That cannot help.
Conroy’s desperate now. He’s doubling down on the “bottoming out” b/s he peddled last week. Good little apparatchik that he…
follow up question … what should the black king do after g4? Kh4 or Kxg4 ?
Alas you are correct.
PS we drove through the area where the towers went down about that time.
The wind was horrendous.
Visibility down to 50-100 metres in the dust and trees behaving like sticks of celery in a blender.
I voluntarily slowed down a bit because it was buffeting the Sporty Beemer off it’s line.
So the old system (gen, transmission) is being left to rot since it’s all going away real soon. And the new system is being held back by real world factors (quelle surprise).
I do hope Victoria continues on the same path as we will be able to use them as an example of what not to do. Sad for the folks there but at least their failure will help the rest of us.
As opposed to the PLAN doing the same in the SC sea.
Let’s not be naive here.
Tucker Carlson’s visit to a shopping centre, and particularly to a food supermarket, is totally relevant despite what the naysayers are spitting out. He made passing reference to the bad old days of GUM and the lack of product then.
I recall that Boris Yeltsin way back visited the USA and was gobsmacked by the range of goods readily available in USA shops, particularly supermarkets. It was a Damascus Road moment for him.
Things have improved. Why is it a problem to point out that things have improved.
Back in those bad old days, Russian jokes went along these lines:
“They are going to give us all a TV and a jet plane. Then if we see eggs are for sale in some city we can fly there and buy them.”
Daily Mail. Seems the gentleman concerned is also on Sky news.
building militarised islands in the middle of the SC sea, within territorial areas controlled by other countries is not a “freedom of the sea”.
Naivety comes in many forms
In the bad old days of the Soviet Union there were two main papers: Izvestia (News) and Pravda (Truth).
The Russian citizen would summarise as follows: “There’s no news in Izvestia, and no truth in Pravda.”
Sounds like the USA’s MSM now.
My visit to GUM in Moscow in January 1976 is burned into my brain. When we got back to Waterloo, I burst into tears at the sight of the oranges on the counter of the tuck shop on the station.
we become a “vassal” state.
We are already an American satrapy.
On the spur of the moment I added some left-over pineapple pieces to an enchilada soup I was cooking up for lunch.
It was delicious.
The pineapple was left over from home-made pizza night.
One of the great ironies of “winning” the Cold War.
We’ve been through this before. China demands commercial shipping obtain approval from China to sail through the South China Sea.
Why would they?
Yep, sure does within the constraints of the laws. Same as applies to others.
The Cat too quiet for you today, Roger?
There’s common or garden trolling.
Then there’s pineapple trolling.
A whole different level.
Department claims the rainbow serpent Waugul was disrupted
Fight them in court. Make them produce evidence of Waugul and how he was disrupted.
It’s about time these idiots were put on the spot.
The emperor has got no fu%$n clothes.
Roger
Feb 16, 2024 8:50 AM
Which means they are unaware that their job is to be gardeners of the plots they have raised, and that if they want to raise healthy food, they must also weed. Paspalum has no place in a garden – it’s place is in a field, nourishing cattle – not choking out the tomatoes.
Who is being naive here? The SC sea is literally off their coast.
Indolent
There is no other way to see the problem outside the frame of “Population Replacement.” The ones pushing this police are utterly unaware that they are part of the population that will be replaced.
It is literally off their coast in the same way seas abut other nations, and in the same way S China Sea is literally off other nations’ coastline, including Taiwan. It’s also used for shorter distances with respect to S Korea and Japan.
amortiser
Feb 16, 2024 1:21 PM
Department claims the rainbow serpent Waugul was disrupted
Fight them in court. Make them produce evidence of Waugul and how he was disrupted.
It’s about time these idiots were put on the spot.
The emperor has got no fu%$n clothes.
Ask them boil water without white mans utensils.
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And the Phillipines coast.
And the Japanese coast.
And the Vietnamese coast.
Lisa Wilkinson ‘sobbing’ over fears she could be forced to sell multimillion-dollar mansion
Lisa Wilkinson was “almost hysterical” as she detailed her fears she would have to sell her multimillion-dollar Cremorne mansion.
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Lisa Wilkinson was “almost hysterical” and “sobbing” as she detailed her fears she would have to sell her multimillion-dollar Cremorne mansion to pay her legal fees according to her boss Network Ten CEO Beverley McGarvey.
The bitter battle behind the scenes over Ms Wilkinson’s decision to hire top defamation silk Sue Chrysanthou SC and her own legal team has been detailed in new emails and texts tendered in the Federal Court.
The new trove of court documents also reveals the TV host had a $100,000 annual wardrobe allowance, which was then slashed to $40,000 after November 18, 2022 when she was “removed” as a regular host on The Project.
In a briefing note prepared for Ten’s legal team Ms McGarvey details a “challenging” call she had with the network star on June 7, 2023.
She had called to ask how Ms Wilkinson was going in the wake of Channel 7’s Spotlight program and the leaking of audio provided to police and lawyers but never tendered in court.
“Lisa was very upset and emotional and it was a very challenging call,” MsMcGarvey wrote.
“She was almost immediately upset and started talking about legal fees and how she would have to sell her house.
“I would say her tone was almost hysterical.”
But the Ten CEO then made a series of observations about the value of her Cremorne family home.
“She is being paid by us on full salary, and lives in a lavish multimillion dollar home with a pool and a tennis court and harbour views so I hope this is not a real risk,” she said.
“She asked if we would pay for her fees and this came up over and over again in the conversation. I told her to talk with Nick, her manager.
“But she had chosen her own legal team against our advice and chosen a team we objected to.
“She said if I actually cared about her, I would make sure we pay their legal fees.”
The documents were released by the Federal Court on Friday after Ms Wilkinson won her legal battle to force Network Ten to pay for her legal fees that are estimated to amount to up to $2 million. The exact amount Ten will pay is not yet determined.
‘Irrational claims about our choice of lawyers’
The new documents reveal Ms Wilkinson was upset that Thomson Geer, the media lawyers acting for Ten, also acted for News Corp, the parent company of news.com.au.
“She made irrational claims about our choice of lawyers because they worked for News Corp,” Ms McGarvey claims in her briefing note..
“She seemed to imply although it was confusing that she thought that meant our lawyers were feeding stories to News Corp.
“It should be noted the lawyers she has chosen has represented Lachlan Murdoch and also News Corp.
“She was very angry at me and very upset at others sobbing so much she could not talk. The recurring theme was that she did not believe we were supporting her.
“She asked what moment it all went wrong. I assured her there was no moment. She asked what she had done to me and what she had done to make me or someone at the network hate her.”
Ms McGarvey said that Ms Wilkinson was extremely upset and raised her voice several times “about how we have not stopped all the bad press about her.”
“It has destroyed her reputation. She gave some confusing examples,” Ms McGarvey said.
“She believes the Logies was the moment it became untenable and she blames us for that.
“I told her I found her comments offensive and we did care about her and our brand. I generally stayed calm. However in several moments I found myself agitated and had to take breaths to calm down.
“She said the Spotlight programme was disgraceful. And I agreed, noting Bruce (Lehrmann) had the right to his say, but they used material they obtained from a source unknown to us.”
She said Ms Wilkinson was annoyed that the material leaked.
“I explained material had been subpoenaed from us.” Ms McGarvey said. “She said we told her the material was confidential. I told her that was true. And as far as we could tell, there was no legal way for the material to change hands.
“She in no way feels she has done anything wrong at all.”
Ms Wilkinson lost a bid last week to redact some evidence on privacy grounds.
It related to separate documents where Ten revealed she was so distressed in the wake of damaging leaks over her six-hour interview with Brittany Higgins that Ms McGarvey feared for her “state of mind” and wanted her to have mental health support.
Documents released this week revealed for the first time that the Channel 10 star complained of the “weaponisation” of an alleged rape victim after her employer informed her that Ms Higgins was opposed to the television host hiring her own barrister in the defamation trial.
Network 10’s head of litigation Tasha Smithies, who gave evidence on Tuesday, details the negotiations over legal counsel in her own affidavit tendered to the court.
“I assume that Ms Wilkinson is referring to an email from Mr Zwier that Ms McGarvey forwarded to Mr Fordham and Ms Wilkinson on 15 March 2023 which stated the following,’’ she writes.
“For the avoidance of any other misunderstandings, Brittany has instructed me not to assist lawyers and counsel currently retained by Lisa Wilkinson to defend civil claims commenced by Lehrmann against Lisa Wilkinson,’’ Mr Zwier wrote.
“I am not prepared to work with Lisa’s current senior counsel, under any circumstances. And the more Brittany is required to deal with differing lawyers, the worse it is for her to manage the civil trial processes, to the detriment of all those defending Lehrmann’s civil claims.
“If Lisa Wilkinson subsequently elects to retain the same lawyers as Ten then the process will be smoother, more orderly and manageable.”
Ms Smithies notes that Ms Higgins was a critical third party witness from the trial, and was integral to any truth defence that Network Ten or, necessarily, Ms Wilkinson would put forward.
“We had no control over her legal representation, and Network Ten had limited dealings with them,’’ Ms Smithies said.
“I do not understand how informing Ms Wilkinson and Mr Fordham of the fact that Ms Higgins, a critical witness, did not want to assist their choice of legal representation constitutes weaponisation of Ms Higgins.”
Justice Michael Lee has reserved his decision in the defamation case brought by Bruce Lehrmann, who maintains his innocence
Cry me a river.
It is also literally off the coasts of Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore. And limited parts of Indonesia.
If you have pineapple left over after making pizza, you are not trying hard enough.
As at all times in history, the isolationist movement will completely disappear once the shit hits the fan.
When the big event occurs all these people will quietly disappear or pretend they never uttered a word of support for Moscow or Beijing.
We will again look to the only viable option: the United States of America, and hope they will again preserve us.
police is meant to be policy. – obviously.
Courier Mail running a poll on whether Qld Police boss should go.
Not been a good week for her.
Has Zalli traded in her 4WD gas guzzler for a Tesla yet to use for all the family transportation? Is she hasn’t she has no right to point fingers at anyone?
Last time she was challenged about it she insisted that there were no suitable EVs to accommodate her family. I’m sure that has since been rectified with many models from which she can choose.
Practically, what does this mean?
So why hasn’t the US ratified it?
Funny as.
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And they can each negotiate with the other.
Steve trickler
Feb 16, 2024 1:56 PM
Funny as.
Non-essential Commentary Highlights
Oops. That was Steve Inman on Rumble.
The regime has to approve any commercial ship sailing through the S China Sea.
Senate Republicans refused to ratify the treaty. China did ratify the treaty and will walk away from the ruling about the S China Sea. So no biggie, right? Who’s being the problem child then, the US that didn’t sign it or China who has and will walk from a court ruling?
There are also other conventions too.
The self unawareness is strong in this amphibian.
Surely Pedro FitzSimians could simply churn out another literary tour de farce* to cover any unexpected expenses due to his woife’s staggering stupidity and out of control narcissism?
*But wait, there’s more – it can also double as a handy doorstop.
Exactly what Lee criticised Ten for the other day. That is, telling Wilkinson that any discussion of picking up the tab for separate legal advice would be contingent on her ditching Ms Crysanthou.
Totally inappropriate to acknowledge that someone should retain “independent” counsel, then try to dictate who that might be.
Remember Zwier was the one taped discussing with Shiraz what a hypothetical client might say in a hypothetical case which was remarkably similar to the one Britnah was currently giving evidence in. Zwier didn’t think Shiraz would pass that on (which would contravene rules governing coaching whilst a person is on the stand).
I am starting to believe Ms Crysanthou when she asserts that Cane Toad is bissfully ignorant when it comes to matters legal.
On what planet does she think that there is a conflict between media lawyers representing both Ten and Nein on totally unrelated matters. Did she think there was a conflict when she advertised Carefree and Libra in the same edition of Dolly?
She has total Mudrock Derangement Syndrome.
It is so satisfying to see her squeal about being “crucified in the meeja” and complaining about “damaging leaks”.
Things she has built her shoddy career on.
The Higgins saga is a gift that keeps on giving..
Typical of such person to live on the wrong side of the Harbour.
Again, practically, what does that mean? You haven’t actually answered what was asked.
Pogria
You mean ‘vinegar tits’ didn’t get a run? How odd.
… whilst simultaneously complaining about leaks against her.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2reuF9krFQ
Tyre wear. You really don’t want to buy one. Let alone double the road damage.
Pogria
Feb 16, 2024 10:18 AM
Re Gizzards nicknames;
Juliar
The Lying Slapper
The Droner from Altona
Vuvuzela
If you can remember anymore, please add to the list. ?
Lard Arse
The Ranga
Kunt
Apparently 100 country shoppers have got off a boat at Beagle Bay.
Must be those push factors eh?
Please stop! That’s just creepy.
Lisa Wilkinson was “almost hysterical” as she detailed her fears she would have to sell her multimillion-dollar Cremorne mansion.
I would have loved to have seen smartphone footage of that meltdown.
All that her and her husband have worked for. 100000 dollar wardrobe budget (heck, I still don’t quite get that as an annual salary). And what is she? A self-described “cheap tabloid journalist”, who has been outed as a dumb hack who can blather at the Logies without understanding any notion of subjudice.
She won’t even be able to advertise demtel products on daytime television. All she’ll have left is to be invited as a panellist on the Drum. Oh wait.
Advertising prices on Channel Tin are going down 😛
Gingarella.
Nice work. Too right. Would have probably preferred Vera as PM.
I told you that she did not live in Mosman. She is the amphibian of Cremorne.
More on the story above:
A real estate agent accused of breaching cultural heritage laws by building a concrete bridge on his rural property could face jail time and a $20,000 fine after he allegedly disrupted the area’s ‘Rainbow Serpent’.
Tony Maddox allegedly broke cultural heritage laws when he hired contractors to concrete a gravel creek crossing on his sprawling property in Toodyay, 85km northwest of Perth.
The Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage claims the concrete bridge disturbed Waugul – a rainbow serpent central to the mythology of the Noongar people – after Mr Maddox removed a large amount of silt from the creek.
It’s only fair. If an investigation team finds the serpent within a five hour beer and sandwiches search then he should go the full row of houses.
Daily Mail
Dumb as a rock.
Lisa Wilkinson married hanky head.
‘Nuff said.
I recall someone maybe on the old Cat or Tim Blair’s saying they went to high school in Adelaide with Juliar. She never spoke with that droning lower class voice. It is all a put on, like Shorten too.
Finally, what sort ‘vassalage’ would they demand?
They want our ‘lebensraum’ and our resources, not our leben.
“Is socialism possible in the Sahara Desert.
In theory, yes. In practice, after the first Five Year Plan, there would be a severe shortage of sand.”
Indeed.
Not that US doesn’t deserve criticism it’s the conflicting narratives.
condemning the US for being an unreliable allie at the same time as condemning the US defending allies.
The inhabitants must be remarkably good at holding their breaths…..
I’d wager we are already owned by China. Victoria is at least. Folk just haven’t clued up to it yet.
You may not have meant to, Lysander, but you just perfectly renamed the channel at the bottom of the Australian TV dial that no-one watches — a US tax dodge Down Under formed in 2019 when Viacom merged with the CBS network.
The idiots who run Paramount are trying to attract millenials as their core Australian audience at Channel 10 — the fish that 7 and 9 reject because millenials don’t buy the stuff advertisers want to advertise on TV.
An Energy Expert opines:
She’s quite right in one sense: because of our natural endowment of self-destructive stupid, there is no affordable nuclear for Australia.
If Australia was sensibly run and played to its advantages (widespread Uranium mineralisation, exploration and mining expertise, lots of uninhabited space, geologically stable and arid disposal sites, commercial rule of law), we would already have an international full-cycle nuclear industry. Uranium mining, Uranium processing, fuel unit manufacture, fuel unit lease-and-return, reprocessing and waste disposal.
As a side benefit we could have had lowest-cost nuclear power generation.
But instead, we can have Unicorn technologies that depend on China – and are as dependable as a Rorex.
The old Daryl Somers joke. Nunawading is aboriginal for “low ratings”.
China is the real blocking nation, using the PLA, Coast Guards, and “fishing vessels” to monster the others. China believes, and acts on, the adage that “Power grows out of the barrel of a gun”.
Only a bigger gun restrains China.
I lolled like an overweight kookaburra.
JC
Feb 16, 2024 1:42 PM
“It is literally off their coast in the same way seas abut other nations, and in the same way S China Sea is literally off other nations’ coastline, including Taiwan. It’s also used for shorter distances with respect to S Korea and Japan.”
Taiwan is not an independent nation. It is part of China.
In October 1971, UN Resolution 2758 was passed.
This determined that the PRC was the “only legitimate Govt of China” and as a consequence, Chiang Kai Chek, (Leader of the Republic of China in Taiwan), was ordered to “tell his story walking”, as he and his acolytes had no authority in the UN.
https://www.state.gov/countries-areas/taiwan/
The link is to a group of obvious Sinophiles, who have been bought off by Xi.
They are the US State Dept.
“The 1979 U.S.-P.R.C. Joint Communique switched diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing. In the Joint Communique, the U.S. recognized the Government of the People’s Republic of China as the sole legal government of China, acknowledging the Chinese position that there is but one China and Taiwan is part of China.”
Taiwan is part of China.
Katie Hopkins: Imagine a Compulsory Purchase Order on your home, in order to house ‘new arrivals’
Klaus Schwab headlined this year’s World Governments Summit. But is his influence weakening?
Brett Weinstein said in his extended interview with Tucker Carlson that this was an entirely separate and well equipped stream of “asylum seekers”.
‘What are these guys doing here?’ U.S. general says Chinese ‘coming to kill us’
This is a fever dream. They are each hustling like the other.
We will again look to the only viable option: the United States of America, and hope they will again preserve us.
Too bad the USA is broken – decades of welfarism, low IQ immigration and bad nutrition have destroyed its financial and population health. Now less than a quarter of ‘fighting age males’ are even fit for military service, let alone interested in it. The USA is rapidly losing the moral, economic and military power to sustain a serious military campaign.
Perhaps the British could send a battleship?
Tucker Carlson
@TuckerCarlson
Lindsey Graham’s latest scheme is convincing Republicans that it’s somehow better to loan Zelensky $60 billion, rather than give it to him. Some are falling for this. But it’s fraudulent. Ukraine will never repay the debt, and we’ll never make them. This is just a more dishonest way to send more unaccounted for weapons to the region, delay the inevitable peace deal and kill more forcibly-conscripted Ukrainians, some of whom are nearly Lindsey Graham’s age. It’d be easier to take if he’d join them on the battlefield.
She has better taste in bedroom furniture then Shapiro but not by much.
Egg droughts are back.
Russia’s Egg Crisis is Spiraling Out of Control (Jan 2024)
Mostly alleviated now through increased supplies from Kazakhstan and Turkey, but it was causing some angst late last year. Rearing a tropical bird in a cold country like Russia would be tougher than in most places I guess.
Fight them in court. Make them produce evidence of Waugul and how he was disrupted.
Would love to, but its ‘secret business’, so you will just have to take our word for it.
Cheers Indolent. I like Katie. Time for the Saxon to begin to hate.
Both of their new carriers are lemons.
HMS Prince of Wales finally sets sail for historic Nato drills after week of setbacks for UK warships (13 Feb)
HMS PoW did finally get going but HMS Liz is off to the drydock.
Suuuure! And they are all equally strong hustlers. One Philippine patrol boat “hustling” multiple Chinese naval of Coast Guard ships is just part of the day-to-day management of an area (the so-called “Nine-Dash Line”) that China claims, against a court ruling, is enclosed territorial waters.
Either the Law of the Sea applies to all, or it becomes a free-for-all. China acts as it it is a free-for-all.
naval or Coast …
Neil Oliver: ‘World domination & a terrifying ‘what if’!!!
Definitely a John Laws deliberate “mistake” Tom! 😛
Cameron Milner in the Oz.
Don’ forget this guy was Tits Shorten’s Chief of Staff when Shorten was Leader of the Liars Party.
Shipping firms have to request approval for each ship that goes through, they have to explain what is on the ship and the Chinese have the right to interdict and audit the cargo.
I keep thinking Neil Oliver can’t get any better. And he keeps surprising me. His latest is absolutely brilliant.
John H.
Feb 16, 2024 12:05 PM
Chinas problems is the destruction of the economy brought about by a command economy. Every economy falls into the same hole of nepotism, misdirection of capital and labour once government – made up of the smartest people in the room – starts interfering in allocation of resources above that strictly necessary.
You are completely cooked.
The Chinese government is illegitimate.
Roger
Feb 16, 2024 11:54 AM
I stopped going to McDonalds despite their facilities always being clean, several years ago when I ordered a black coffee from a young bloke who could barely hear me due to the music coming from his earpiece – not the normal one they use for communicating – and got a white coffee. I took it back and got a black coffee with a serving of milk which the young woman was about to empty into my black coffee until I stopped her.
It looks like I failed the Cool Kid test.
At that point I decided Mc Donalds was a different world that didn’t acknowledge my different likes and orders. Never been back.
Without a doubt, this has to be the best concern trolling I’ve ever seen. Of course, he wants Trump to win.
Vlad Stanning is to some extent, understandable.
Xi Stanning is bloody certifiable.
Anyone know if the car that caught fire in the Sydney Harbour tunnel yesterday was electric, hybrid or IC?
Paging Mr Lightfoot! We’ve found your ship.
WWII-Era Shipwreck Found in Lake Superior (15 Feb)
Actually it’s the Arlington not the Edmund Fitzgerald, but the story is interesting.
Was just reminiscing about 20/21 “COVID” psyop. How 99% of people at the supermarket are wearing masks and Q coding on their phones. What a piss weak servile subservient kow-towing display. That was a proving ground. What is coming down the pipeline next that you will adhere to?
Andy Lee’s TV show The Hundred had a question about what percentage of people have not taken a COVID test? It was 2%. LOL.
They will find a mutually agreeable point of equilibrium.
Playing those mind games
I would be sobbing uncontrollably if I was about to lose my tennis court. A little bit of me died every time I played on public access courses.
Many problems, not one.
A big one is manufacturers going to place where the risks of supply interruption are less. That in turn makes other problems.
H B Bear
✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Oh dear. Boats. The Liar’s Workchoices.
It was 2%
A few good men (and women). Gideon’s Band.
Will Australia be invaded? Just might.
Bizarre: Iran Declares Ownership of Antarctica, Plans to Build Military Base in South Pole (15 Feb)
If they took our Australian Antarctic Territory bases there’d be next to nothing we could do about it. We can’t even send a frigate to the Red Sea.
We’re always tolerant of subcultures with loony ideas bereft of evidence for them. Christianity, Islam and Wokism for three.
The Wagyl is long dead.
An exploration driller in the Kimberley drilled four holes through it in 1997.
The Toodyay one must risen from the dead.
Well, colour me TRIGGERRRREEEED!
I would have been sacked if I didn’t.
Yes I was coerced, but that doesn’t make me servile.
Mobile phone ubiquity bedevils us. It was this that coercion could be imposed. The MD could see a SMS from your boss of an image you sent in a work WhatsApp group. Taking a picture of a RAT is low effort. How could you get out of it?
I was one of the last people I know to get vaccinated. It still annoys me that I was coerced. I have no concerns as it was Novavax. I dug myself a hole as I promised to get vaccinated if that was approved. No Pfizer science juice for me. The forced vaccinations were to do with a giant shit test or cult ritual. It was public humiliation for anti vaxxers. Until that point, I wasn’t.
Now I hold a sort of anti cancer position out of spite. Spite isn’t healthy, but there needs to be a pushback to such coercion.
What really gets up my nose is two weeks later Vlad invaded New Iraq from Greater Tartaria, then no one cared.
Please tell me what my options were.
Employment was not easy to secure at the time and being able to work actually gave me more liberties than many people who were much more compliant.
Being unemployed is a real and significant risk for your health.
Retirees bragging that they never got vaccinated or done a RAT is really bemusing. As a GROUP they are still going along with this mask wearing nonsense.
When I see them, maybe I should call the National Security Hotline.
BAIT
Like it or not, you’re culturally Christian and live in a culturally Christian sphere.
You don’t need to justify your actions to enyone, Dot.
What is the Toodyay joke? I’m not in the loop. I reckon I have been there back in the day. It is near Northam yeah?
Dutton pounces!
It’s fun that “pounces” is now a work used very carefully by lefty journos, since the resulting hilarity completely undermines what they are trying to propagandize.
China’s “mutually agreeable point of equilibrium” is that it possesses and has fortified multiple atolls, and the rest can go suck eggs.
Power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
In the 2%! I’ve managed to completely avoid both rats and jabs. More by accident and luck that planning, but very pleased to’ve done so in light of the complete stupidity of the whole fiasco.
Dr Faustus
It’s about time we realised that our rulers are at war with us.
I wonder why the media is telling us this now?
The Brittany saga back on the bubble. So many rabbit holes and juicy tid bits. I haven’t given up hope of Richo being called at some stage.
Thanks Dot. I read your post. You are super funny. I took two AZ shots just to work/eat. I will never forgive those mofos.
I have to admit, using the Johnson era UN and Cater era administration official pronouncements to combat American neoconservatives such as Democrat, Victoria Nuland (wife of the Democrat co-founder of the Project for the New American Century, Robert Kagan) is rather crazy brave and perhaps desperate.
Yeah Bruce. Good on you. What a crock of shit it was.
As do the others. Let them sort it out.
They believe Antarctica is the one place where the USAF cannot hit them. Where is the retaliation for the recent strikes? The poor sods didn’t take down one aircraft and were hit with over 100 precision strike weapons. Oh how we tremble in fear of mighty Iran!
I’ve seen it all now. A trolling blog owner.
We should get a majority of the landmass and take it before these loonies do.
Bruce O’Nuke:
China has already done so – why not Iran?
You have seen at least two.
Hard to avoid the RATs if you were even remotely involved with the disability or aged care sector in the last few years. Takeaway coffee in the park just a memory now. Never forget.
Looks like The Age has learned from the US MSM on how to blame Dutton for our borders being breached.
The headline ‘Lack of leadership’: Dutton seizes on WA boat arrival’ and
“Peter Dutton seized on the arrival of 30 Pakistanis believed to have arrived by boat in Beagle Bay to accuse the PM of having lost control of the country’s borders.”
BoN, you beat me to it! Should’ve scrolled up.
Adultery, porn, same sex marriage, satanism permitted, heretics roam freely, other religions and cults permitted, slavery abolished, democracy isn’t Christian, rule of law predates OT. We’re more Greek\Roman than Christian.
I’m sure it will only be a small war.
To the extent that the “others” still possess minor atolls, they have not fortified them by dredging coral to make a (dubious) base for airfields, nor have they deployed missile offence and defence systems to them.
You seem reluctant to address the issue of China ignoring a court decision that their actions are illegal under UNCLOS. Is that because you accept that “Power grows out of the barrel of a gun”, and for all practical purposes China has the guns. Do you also consider that closing off international waters via the Nine-Dash-Line, while in breach of UNCLOS, is acceptable?
If UNCLOS does not apply to China, could it also be ignored by, for example, the US and Japan? What then?
Same here, Bruce of Newk.
How is this trolling? I don’t think AUS has any interest in taking sides in any dispute between the nations bordering in South China Sea apart from avoiding war.
Young bloke who sleeps in the back room is a 25yr old electrician. He came to Australia from Seth Efrica when he was 13 .English Seth Efrican. Would Kung Fu you in about two seconds.
Was saying that him and his mates can’t see a future. Like buying a house and what not.
Don’t I wish. As JohnH points out, I live in a loathesome woke shambles.
But being culturally Christian, and I am, is very different from buying all the superstitious flim-flam that goes, unfortunately, with a very sound morality based on an acute grasp of human nature. It’s not that I object to the superstitious element per se, it’s just that if you do buy into one it’s hard to dismiss the alternatives. Except on religious grounds, which would be unacceptable to the wokist loonies.
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Maybe.
But when the crisis comes you too will drop to your knees and beg for their help.
Indeed.
Dr. John Campbell with Mr. John Watt, the man who confronted the Prime Minister. Scottish Vaccine Injury Group. Unfortunately, he has a strong accent and I find him rather hard to understand.
After the vaccine
DrBG telling us how virtuous he is.
Again.
Boring.
No. DrBG being logical as he normally is.
Chuckle!
Jeff Taylor is saying pretty much the same thing as Katie Hopkins.
UK homes to be purchased for ASYLUM SEEKERS!
Does Australia trade through the South China Sea? Does Australia trade through other restricted waters?
If so, Australia has a major interest in freedom of innocent passage. If, as you seem to imply, China can be allowed to restrict innocent p[assage through use of the Nine-Dash-Line, then you must also accept that other nations can also restrict innocent passage.
What would you expect to be the likely Chinese reaction to a blockade of Chinese ships passing through either the Sunda or Malacca Straits? Would this reaction be reasonable? What di you think should be done in such a case to avoid war?
Either international trade has the right of innocent passage, or it does not.
Retirees bragging that they never got vaccinated or done a RAT is really bemusing. As a GROUP they are still going along with this mask wearing nonsense.
Never got the Jabs/Boosters
Never got tested
Never got the ‘Virus’
Rarely stayed indoors (when challenged by the Cops, I just said that I was homeless)
Only wore a mask when I had to. Certainly not right now.
Never went around bragging and still don’t
I was and still am one of the lucky ones
Just waited for the World to come to it’s senses (still waiting on that one)
Can’t wait for the Royal Commission (I am a dreamer sometimes)
I keep getting a database connection error.
Very straight, plain-speaking, bloke. Even with a Scot’s accent. Campbell likewise.
I’d trust them a whole lot more than the politicians they’re up against.
As Americans Struggle Financially, Climate Agenda Set to Spark New Food Price Hikes, Analysts Say
Bespoke
Feb 16, 2024 5:58 PM
No. DrBG being logical as he normally is.
OK Bespoke, argue the point. Where is DrBG wrong. Where has he floundered?
You can do it. Tell Dr BG (and me) where he is lacking in logic.
Bespoke – DrG gave his lady handcrafted silver centipedes from a silversmith he visited in Sri Lanka. I told my artist mum that and she was quite envious.
#Metoo.
Boambee John
Feb 16, 2024 6:03 PM
dover0beach
Oh for the upticks!
It was bait to talk about his faverate topic, JMH.
Enough said.
A very good petition; sign it or get a red poker up your clacker; unless you like that sort of stuff in which case you can eat the bottom of a pigeon hatch:
A great sign of hope on the horizon (Thur 15th) Coalition MPs announced they wanted nuclear power plants built on the sites of coal-fired power stations to to minimise environmental impacts of massive renewable projects and transmission lines, as new research reveals nuclear reactor footprints could match existing coal plant infrastructure. Queensland Liberal National Party MPs Ted O’Brien, Keith Pitt, Colin Boyce, Llew O’Brien and Phillip Thompson backed a Coalition a nuclear approach to renewables with coal and gas maintained as baseload fuels until reactors are built. “Nuclear power stations mean tiny amounts of land used, less transmission lines and reliable affordable electricity for Australian consumers and industry when compared with intermittent wind and solar,” Mr Pitt said. https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/nation/politics-latest-coal-plants-perfect-for-reactors-says-coalition/live-coverage/cd115c1ac0d33407bfffc7297e801dbe
Could I recommend that this move by the Coalition deserves to be supported as much as possible. It is IMPOSSIBLE TO POWER AUSTRALIA on only eight ‘uncertain’, hours of sunshine, along with an unreliable eight hours of wind.
Could I also recommend supporting ‘Nuclear For Australia’ a website founded by eighteen year old Will Shackell with the aim of having Australia’s Nuclear Ban lifted. https://www.nuclearforaustralia.com/about_us
THE FRAGILITY OF OUR ENERGY GRID UNDERLINES WHY THE LIDDELL COAL FIRED POWER STATION SHOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN CLOSED
Well I suppose that better then regifting virtual cards like last time, BoN.
Yeah, couldn’t avoid that one, even though it was obviously mad. As I pointed out at the time. Simple SI units showed it couldn’t possibly work. But it was a government edict. We had to wear a mask in church and weren’t allowed to sing hymns BUT we were allowed to hum along to the tune. While being carefully distanced from each other (another completely mad directive). That’s how stupid and evil it all was. Never forget.
Agree 100% Cohenite. Just discussed me how real scientists and engineers have been pushed aside by a gaggle of lawyers and other eloi.
It’s right up there, for sure.
Sean Davis
@seanmdav
DOJ might just be the most corrupt institution on the planet.
Which Rub’N’Tug did Luigi meet Jodie in? Some of us would like to know. Actually I was just wondering aloud but didn’t want to appear greedy.
Bespoke
Feb 16, 2024 6:10 PM
What’s DrBG’s favourite subject, Bespoke? I asked you to argue your point where he is in error. You haven’t done that. You have just accused him of some sin of pushing “his faverate topic”. What tf is his favourite topic?
No
Boambee John
Feb 16, 2024 5:28 PM
dover0beach
Feb 16, 2024 5:06 PM
China’s “mutually agreeable point of equilibrium” is that it possesses and has fortified multiple atolls, and the rest can go suck eggs.
As do the others. Let them sort it out.
The islands/atolls that the Chinese have built on and fortified in the South China Sea are actually slowly sinking as the airfields and other fortifications have not been constructed properly.
Also, these islands/atolls are sitting ducks to cruise missiles and bomber aircraft from a certain Big Country.
Funny as when I was reading something or other the other day about the Chinese Foreign Minister saying that just because the Indian Ocean had the word India in it, then this didn’t mean that India owns the Indian Ocean. This had something to with a spat between India and China regarding chinese involvement in docking a “Research Ship” in Sri Lanka and then the Seychelles.
LOL. The same logic goes for China and the South China Sea and East China Sea.
Freedom of Navigation is paramount.
I don’t think AUS has any interest in taking sides in any dispute between the nations bordering in South China Sea apart from avoiding war.
Australia can get involved in this dispute once China, Japan, Vietnam & the Philippines can stop arguing about it for 5 minutes.
Zafiro
The smart move for him would be to buy a decent sized caravan with one or two of his mates. Advertise in moderate country towns that a licenced sparky was coming and sign up enough work to keep him on.
I’ve never had problems with our electricians here – good work at reasonable rates – but getting concreters/carpenters/brickies etc is a nightmare.
Bespoke is a strange little weirdo who got annoyed with me for pointing out that his spelling mysteriously improved when he got irritated enough. So now he keeps trying to annoy me. He seems to find me fascinating. This is not reciprocated.
Somebody who hasn’t figured out that his weird affectation isn’t genuine tried to credit it to his claimed dyslexia. He has since gone back to it. For a while, after being busted, his spelling was more or less normal.
Weirdos often find me fascinating for some reason. I try to be kind to the afflicted.
Multiple DB errors – I’ve lost 3 World Award winning posts of Breathtaking Clarity and Intellectual Genius and with just a smidgen of Moral Ambiguity.
Might as well go to the the rubbity and collect my awards, and have a XXXX Bitter as well.
Which Rub’N’Tug did Luigi meet Jodie in?
An actress hired for a gig to make Albo look cuddly. The gig has now gone on for longer so I hope she’s well paid. Wonder if there’s a pre nup?
Without wanting to be unkind, I suspect she may have been on reception.
Your grasp on reality is as real as your brovado, DrBG.
I’ve lost 3 World Award winning posts of Breathtaking Clarity and Intellectual Genius and with just a smidgen of Moral Ambiguity.
Winston, just write them in Notepad and save. Then copy and paste into the comments box.
Julia’s First Hairdresser would have an interesting story to tell, “So how did you two meet?”. Toto too.
cohenite
Feb 16, 2024 6:11 PM
Agreed. The NuclearforAustralia website has a regular News Letter. This is part of the latest News Letter –
“Australia is investing billions of dollars as part of its AUKUS nuclear-powered submarines program. It will take years to be delivered. The enormous cost of this program contrasts with the small possibility that it will ever be used, yet many countries including Australia enhance their defence capability based on the theory that it will deter future conflicts.
But this is where Australia’s current relationship with nuclear technologies seems to be at odds with itself. Nuclear-powered submarines are on order. Nuclear power is not.
Limiting the technology to the military seems arbitrary. Dr Edward Obbard, a nuclear materials engineer at the University of NSW, summed it perfectly: “It is strange to prohibit the civilian benefits of something, yet embrace the military … why would we then not use that technology when we have all the pieces in place to do so?”
The Opposition has now pledged itself to be an advocate of nuclear power. The Labor government and crossbench rightly point at the Coalition’s failure to overturn the ban during its nine years in-charge. However, a reactive – no pun intended – shunning of nuclear energy is irresponsible. For a government claiming a mandate to combat climate change, it should be open to all clean energy strategies with enough technological merit.
The debate on nuclear energy should not be viewed as a “distraction” but complementary to the ongoing investment into the renewable energy industry in Australia. Renewable sources of energy will continue to occupy a far larger share of the nation’s energy supply as they will in most other parts of the world. But all options should be considered.”
DrBeauGan
Feb 16, 2024 6:29 PM
You obviously know who’s side I’m on, DrDB.
I can feel another Australia Council grant application coming on, “In the Dog House – life in the Publc Eye” featuring Toto and Brittany’s cavoodle.
Sad!
Gawd, the stupid Evil, it burns.
Hubby and I are 2%’ers also. High proportion of us on this blog I notice.
You have to be inclusive to perverts. To normies, not so much.
Probably been posted but a good comment from in the comments areas of the Aus:
The EU has 468 coal plants and is building 27 more, a total of 495.
Turkey has 56 coal plants and is building 93 more, a total of 149.
South Africa has 79 coal plants and is building 24 more, a total of 103.
India has 589 coal plants and is building 446 more, a total of 1035.
Philippines has 19 coal plants and is building 60 more, a total of 79.
South Korea has 58 coal plants and is building 26 more, a total of 84.
Japan has 90 coal plants and is building 45 more, a total of 135.
China has 2363 coal plants and is building 1171 more, a total of 3536.
Australia is planning to shut down it’s six remaining coal power plants in order to save the world!
From Esther’s Son
Purity has no cost, Remark.
We’re in the Puritan age.
The low inflation era had a decent run.
Ctrl AC. is what I use because that happens so often.
“The Chinese government is illegitimate.”
Indeed, not like the current US administration, hey Dot?
Would you care to elaborate on your statement Dot?
Did you read the link I provided, to the US State Dept? They would appear to agree with me.
Speaking of Nazi lovers, I see the imbeciles in charge of the Ukraine Army are going through troops faster than even in Bakhmut last year.
The Azov Brigade, (3rd as I recall), was sent into Avdievka a few days ago.
They are the blokes who wear the swast….., I mean, ancient Egyptian symbols on the uniforms and vehicles. The chaps who Dot supports.
Anyway, they have lost about a third of their strength in four days.
If you have been following the fighting, you would have noticed that for about three weeks, the town has been almost surrounded, so, why anyone would send more troops into the “cauldron” instead of getting your troops out, is simply mystifying.
The town will fall within hours, not days. Those inside, have no way out now, other than surrender.
“St Volodymyr the Pure” once again shows, he will fight, till the second last Ukrainian.
Those British SAS types providing security for the clown puppet, really have their work cut out.
Cheers Winston.
Have already clued him up with stuff in regards to that. Has a mate in Stawell he said. Get out there bro.
My electrician son, who is now moving up the ladder to project supervisor and commissioning, in the organisation he works for has just bought his third property (in cahoots with army son) as well as a myriad of other pursuits.
Tell the bloke to get out to the large regional centres but above all get a plan together and stick to it.
Bing Bong!
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Bing Bong!
Dear Lidia
Whitefella won.
Blakfella lost.
Too bad.
So sad.
Oh, you sign the surrender here, and here. Treaty? What’s that?
Brovado should be up for Cats new word of the year award.
Bespoke languaging.
Oh?
Whose were they?
This fani willis debacle is astounding: there is direct witness testimony, documentation, travel documents and the most astounding testimony from this black bitch and her black stud, nathan wade, who she appointed as special attorney to prosecute Trump on some bullshit. They were rooting before she appointed him; she has paid him extra money, taken many holidays together and when they’re both in court they make outrageous comments about paying for everything in cash.
The fulton county prosecution against Trump was decided by a grand jury with many actual certifiable people on it. They assert Trump tried to steal the 2020 election by making phone calls to various officials in Georgia. This has been disproved.
If willis and her stud are not struck off and this shit case against Trump also thrown out then this is the nail in the coffin of the US.
The giant is based on l French botanist Julien Revercho. Kane Pixels ran with it produced one scary film …. it takes a lot to rattle me but it sure did.
Life of a Giant
Further, six of those countries import coal from us.
Strap yourself in.
The Rolling Giant (The Oldest View Part 3)
Illegal Immigration: It’s about Power
Hopefully a plus for Trump, showing up the insanity ranged against him. Also exposing the grift.
In the we are too stupid to survive category.We know someone with a daughter in year 9 in a high school in the outer east of Melbourne.Daughter is all in on they rather than he she.Also tells mum she has furries in her classes.Kids who identify as dogs or cats and answer only with a bark or miaow and spend all day pretending to be animals.Also kids who claim to be bi polar who spend the day abusing the teachers yelling and throwing chairs.When challenged they respond that they can’t be touched as they are bi polar.
Not surprisingly little or no reduction is happening.
Education not reduction
Apropos of shill for totalitarian regimes and Xi bootlicker, Rufus “Pogo” “Gacy” T Firefly.
You’d have to be pretty stupid to claim to be an ex-RAAF Group Captain and then publicly claim that the Chinese regime is legitimate but also that if someone opposes Putin’s imperial ambitions, then they MUST support the Ukrainian Nazis, but then give Putin a pass on Nazis and soft balling of Hamas.
This is the pre-1941 version of communism. Nazis are good if they’re allied to “us”.
Thank God you never got a staff rank. The damage an over-promoted imbecile that you could have done would have been incalculable.