Open Thread – Saturday, 05 March 2022

Posted on March 5, 2022 by Adam D
This entry was posted in Open Forum. Bookmark the permalink.

349 Responses to Open Thread – Saturday, 05 March 2022

← Older Comments
Newer Comments →
  1. Old bloke says:
    March 6, 2022 at 1:34 pm

    Not with Varney lol

    I think he’s been on with Tucker, and Tucker runs his own race.

    ***************************************************

    Yes, you just get sick of the bullshit. Even the WIP had those memes of a brave Zelensky facing off the Russian bear. He’s just an actor, someone who achieved fame by playing a piano with his dick, a totally inconsequential person by any measure, now he’s hailed as a hero.

    Give me a break.


    Report comment
  2. JohnJJJ says:
    March 6, 2022 at 1:44 pm

    Not really ‘on topic’ but an interesting observation by Lord Hannan of Kingsclere “Islam, the only great religion in the world founded by a businessman” and “a joint stock venture limited by liability” describing the trade camel caravans.


    Report comment
  4. kaysee kaysee says:
    March 6, 2022 at 2:43 pm

    The Cat3 Independent Research Team (C3IRT) 😼 continues on its search for answers to the Russia-Ukraine war.
    The results will be posted on this site.

    1/
    The Jimmy Dore Show – March 1, 2022

    What the Media Is HIDING About Ukraine/Russia


    Report comment
  5. kaysee kaysee says:
    March 6, 2022 at 2:46 pm

    2/

    Interview with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in the political weekly “Mandiner”

    It’s in our interest to stay out of the war, for the parties to reach an agreement as soon as possible, and for there to be peace. We must not, under any circumstances, be drawn into this conflict.

    Good questions from the interviewers and detailed responses from the PM.


    Report comment
  6. Steve trickler says:
    March 6, 2022 at 3:03 pm

    GTV:

    24 hrs after South Australian Health finally disclosed they had *NO EVIDENCE* to support jab mandates, some mandates are being dropped.

    Lawyer up Australia


    Report comment
  7. kaysee kaysee says:
    March 6, 2022 at 3:11 pm

    The media presents Zelensky as a brave hero.

    Even the Rinos are joining in. They have forgotten the issues in their own backyard.

    Rino Ted Cruz

    Just got off a call with @ZelenskyyUa
    His heroism & the bravery of the Ukrainian people have become an inspiration to the world. The US needs to immediately step up to make sure they have the jets and weapons they need, & to impose an oil & gas embargo to disrupt Putin’s war.

    An opposite view

    I literally can’t stand this midget. He is a transvestite coke-sniffing elf that bombs his own people. Corrupt beyond repair. NWO/WEF puppet. LOL. “HERO”

    Looks like Zelensky is with the WEF agenda. Hero?


    Report comment
  8. kaysee kaysee says:
    March 6, 2022 at 3:25 pm

    OFFICIAL Somewhere over the Rainbow – Israel “IZ” Kamakawiwoʻole
    1,196,505,897 views

    CELEBRATING 1 BILLION VIEWS AND COUNTING!

    From Wikipedia

    In 1988, a friend of Kamakawiwoʻole called a Honolulu recording studio owned by Milan Bertosa at 3:00 am with a request that Kamakawiwoʻole be allowed to come in to make a recording. Bertosa was about to shut down, but told the friend that Kamakawiwoʻole could come if he was able to make it within 15 minutes. In a 2011 interview, Bertosa recalled, “In walks the largest human being I had seen in my life. Israel was probably like 500 pounds. And the first thing at hand is to find something for him to sit on.” A security guard gave Kamakawiwoʻole a large steel chair. “Then I put up some microphones, do a quick sound check, roll tape, and the first thing he does is ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow.’ He played and sang, one take, and it was over.


    Report comment
  9. mh says:
    March 6, 2022 at 3:29 pm

    Countries you can currently travel to without a vaccination are: (Covid Vax)

    Albania
    Aruba
    Bahamas
    Belize
    Bosnia and Herzegovina
    Burundi
    Cape Verde
    Comoros
    Costa Rica
    Cuba
    Croatia
    Cyprus
    Dominican Republic
    Egypt
    El Salvador
    Eswatini
    Gambia
    Georgia
    Gibraltar
    Greece
    Guinea-Bissau
    Haiti
    Hungary
    Iceland
    Ireland
    Israel
    Jordan
    Kazakhstan
    Kenya
    Kyrgyzstan
    Lebanon
    Lesotho
    Luxembourg
    Madagascar
    Malawi
    Mexico
    Monaco
    Mozambique
    Namibia
    Nepal
    Nicaragua
    North Macedonia
    Norway
    Oman
    Panama
    Portugal
    Russia
    Rwanda
    São Tomé and Príncipe
    Senegal
    Serbia
    Seychelles
    Slovenia
    Somalia
    South Africa
    Sri Lanka
    St Lucia
    St Maarten
    St Vincent and the Grenadines
    Sudan
    Tajikistan
    Tanzania
    Turkey
    Uganda
    Ukraine
    Venezuela
    Zambia


    Report comment
  10. kaysee kaysee says:
    March 6, 2022 at 3:30 pm

    I would say, “is the pope a Catholic?”, but one can never be sure these days.

    That hypothetical Q could be asked pre-2013.


    Report comment
  11. kaysee kaysee says:
    March 6, 2022 at 3:44 pm

    Is Klaus Schwab the Most Dangerous Man in the World?

    His henchman Yuval Noah Harari ist ein Jude.

    From the link:

    Harari is gay and in 2002 met his husband Itzik Yahav, whom he calls “my internet of all things”. Yahav is also Harari’s personal manager. They married in a civil ceremony in Toronto, Canada

    Would that explain why there is no intelligent design of some God above the cloud? But the IBM and Microsoft clouds are intelligent design?


    Report comment
  12. Eyrie says:
    March 6, 2022 at 3:51 pm

    Good to see you back, Prof Fred Lenin!


    Report comment
  13. kaysee kaysee says:
    March 6, 2022 at 4:04 pm

    24 hrs after South Australian Health finally disclosed they had *NO EVIDENCE* to support jab mandates, some mandates are being dropped.

    Lawyer up Australia

    I hope the Russia-Ukraine conflict is resolved quickly because most governments are happy to use it to distract the sheeple.

    The NZ case last month is a big deal. Although it may seem that it is an internal matter for that country, in reality, legal cases in other countries can be quoted as a precedent. Especially, as this is a global issue.(Is that correct, Legal Cats?)

    The legal profession needs to start up with class actions.
    Begin with all politicians and political parties who supported the mandates/did not speak up against the tyranny. That gets rid of the four: Lib-Nat-Lab-Grn. Before the elections.


    Report comment
  14. kaysee kaysee says:
    March 6, 2022 at 4:20 pm

    Leftists Fail to Pressure Disney to Condemn Florida Bill Barring Sexuality Teaching for Young Students

    The Walt Disney Co. is resisting left-wing pressure to condemn the Florida bill that would restrict the teaching of sexuality and transgenderism to students in kindergarten through third grade.

    As one of the biggest private employers in Florida, Disney has become a target of activist groups and the mainstream news media who want the company to speak out against the legislation, which Democrats have deceptively called the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

    Why has Walt Disney changed and now resisting the lefties?

    The answer lies with the new CEO. If a company has a leader, it will not give in to the activists.

    Disney’s decision to avoid commenting on the bill sheds light on the differing leadership styles of current CEO Bob Chapek and his predecessor, Bob Iger, who is staunchly leftist and has publicly condemned the bill.

    “Whatever Bob [Chapek]’s personal politics are, he’s not an activist and does not bring any partisan agenda to work,” Disney spokesman Geoff Morrell told the site WDW News Today, which covers Disney theme parks.

    “He sees himself first and foremost as the custodian of a unifying brand that for nearly a century has been bringing people together, and he is determined that Disney remain a place where everyone is treated with dignity and respect.”

    Meanwhile, Bob Iger used his Twitter account to denounce the bill. Under Iger’s leadership, Disney took a number of left-wing political stances, including condemning Georgia’s anti-abortion law.


    Report comment
  15. mh says:
    March 6, 2022 at 4:48 pm

    Professor Fred Lenin says:
    March 6, 2022 at 12:14 pm
    Thereisa country full of corrupt poiticians ,their president is in power trough a rigged election , the leaders are all old corrupt people , they oppress dissent and demand obedience ,they are firmly in the hands of billionaire corruptocrats, they invade other countries and kill innocent people to try to look powerfull . They live on borrowed money and have a debt to GNP rate of 125 debt to
    100 GNP, Russia? No ,a clue it’s capital isa Washington DC
    Russias debt 17.7 GNP 100

    The US Federal Reserve still has another tranche of QE to go and also has its rates set at zero.

    The US has raging inflation at 7.5%, however Peter Schiff argues that if it was calculated the same way as when inflation was last at these levels, 1980, the rate is near to 15%.

    So why doesn’t Jerome Powell raise rates? Because firstly the stock market would crash, and secondly the US government couldn’t afford to pay the interest on its debt. It would be shown to be insolvent. So the Fed is left to signal that it may raise rates in the future and hope that does the job.

    Some argue that the only thing that keeps the shitbox on the road is the US dollar having the reserve currency.


    Report comment
  16. JohnJJJ says:
    March 6, 2022 at 4:53 pm

    OFFICIAL Somewhere over the Rainbow – Israel “IZ” Kamakawiwoʻole
    1,196,505,897 views
    I was in a semi war zone in Africa at a UN base. The large cafeteria was outside under tarpaulins, in the red dust, and had troops from everywhere, Nigeria, Bengalis, Pakistan, South Africa… all relaxing but still armed. The cooks were Somali and I asked them to play some music over the loudspeakers.
    It was this piece. Surreal, like Apocalypse Now.
    I wanted to film it but I would have been shot.


    Report comment
  18. kaysee kaysee says:
    March 6, 2022 at 4:59 pm

    In Bolivia.

    The Baby Shower. The Cheating Wife.

    And the husband.


    Report comment
  19. kaysee kaysee says:
    March 6, 2022 at 7:11 pm

    US – The People’s Convoy

    One

    Drone Footage From Hagerstown, Maryland Showcases Just a Fraction of the People’s Convoy

    The movement amassed so many cars that the convoy had to split up and stay in neighboring cities as far as 30 miles away from Hagerstown.

    Two

    The Revolution Will Not Be Televised—The People’s Convoy Is Stretching Over 60 Miles Long


    Report comment
  20. kaysee kaysee says:
    March 6, 2022 at 7:13 pm

    Three

    Good morning friends welcome to Hagerstown Maryland and The People’s Convoy

    Four

    The People’s Convoy Is Not Heading for D.C.

    “We Don’t Want To Be Framed And Set Up By Nancy Pelosi”


    Report comment
  21. egg_ says:
    March 6, 2022 at 7:27 pm

    Good to see you back, Prof Fred Lenin!

    +1

    + Boambi John and presumably others lurking.


    Report comment
  22. egg_ says:
    March 6, 2022 at 7:41 pm

    OFFICIAL Somewhere over the Rainbow – Israel “IZ” Kamakawiwoʻole
    1,196,505,897 views

    Interestingly, Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg. who wrote the songs to The Wizard of Oz also wrote the songs in the Marx Bothers At The Zoo in the same year (1939).

    “Swingali” featuring Harpo masterfully on the harp has a ring to it likely stolen by Disney for The Jungle Book.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9keU-VSMsnI&t=3221s


    Report comment
  23. mh says:
    March 6, 2022 at 7:41 pm

    Rino Ted Cruz

    Just got off a call with @ZelenskyyUa
    His heroism & the bravery of the Ukrainian people have become an inspiration to the world. The US needs to immediately step up to make sure they have the jets and weapons they need, & to impose an oil & gas embargo to disrupt Putin’s war.

    Cruz is not a RINO.
    But Cruz isn’t reflecting the Trump base, this is a return to the Bush/Neocon Republican party.
    There is no guarantee of a ‘red wave’ in the mid terms if they keep this up.

    ***

    …Some might say the foreign policy hawks have not learned from their catastrophic regime-change wars in the Middle East. But they have. They learned the importance of narrative control and information warfare targeting domestic audiences: consolidating the media, tightening their hold on information, marginalising the few investigative journalists that remain, and nullifying scepticism as examples of appeasement or Putinism. Undoubtedly, the situation seriously endangers civil liberties and freedom of thought in the Anglosphere, undermining the very foundation of Western democracy…

    https://unherd.com/2022/03/how-western-elites-exploit-ukraine/


    Report comment
  29. kaysee kaysee says:
    March 6, 2022 at 8:13 pm

    Cruz is not a RINO.
    But Cruz isn’t reflecting the Trump base, this is a return to the Bush/Neocon Republican party.
    There is no guarantee of a ‘red wave’ in the mid terms if they keep this up.

    May not have been a Rino in the past.
    But he has fallen for the Zelenksy-good, Putin-bad propaganda.

    Lindsey Graham suggested Putin should be assassinated.

    Whatever gains the Republicans have made in past year, will be lost in the next few months, if they don’t understand what is happening.


    Report comment
  30. Eyrie says:
    March 6, 2022 at 8:29 pm

    Whatever gains the Republicans have made in past year, will be lost in the next few months, if they don’t understand what is happening.

    Sigh, they never learn.


    Report comment
  31. kaysee kaysee says:
    March 6, 2022 at 8:33 pm

    Dr. Robert Malone and Dr. Peter McCullough Accuse CDC of Scientific Fraud

    “In my opinion, withholding scientific data constitutes fraud. This is scientific fraud. In my opinion, if I was to publish a study in which I had a large body of epidemiologic data, and I decided to only public publish part of it because I wanted to advance some agenda, I would be guilty of scientific fraud. The paper would be withdrawn. I would be kicked out of my academic institution. I would be guilty of scientific fraud. That’s what this is.”


    Report comment
  32. kaysee kaysee says:
    March 6, 2022 at 8:37 pm

    The Pfizer Vaccine Only Has 1,291 Side Effects!

    A judge forced the FDA to release Pfizer’s clinical data and it’s worse than you can possibly imagine


    Report comment
  33. Steve trickler says:
    March 6, 2022 at 8:40 pm

    Covid enforcers, do not get a head swell.

    Hill Street Blues Theme 1981 – 1987


    Report comment
  34. egg_ says:
    March 6, 2022 at 8:54 pm

    Would that explain why there is no intelligent design of some God above the cloud?

    What of the extremely odd lunar data:
    – Surface rocks and dust dating back older than the Earth and Sun by 1 Billion years
    – A density so low that it is likely hollow* (and rings like a bell, as NASA found)
    – The perfect size for a solar eclipse – no other planet in the solar system has a moon of such relative size by a long shot
    – Always faces the Earth
    – Circular orbit*
    &c.

    Is it a natural satellite?
    Many Cosmologists, including Carl Sagan, say no.
    Co planet?


    Report comment
  37. egg_ says:
    March 6, 2022 at 9:40 pm

    NASA:
    Is the Moon a Planet, Too?

    Lunar scientist Barbara Cohen explains how our moon functions very much like a planet.


    Report comment
  38. Cardimona says:
    March 6, 2022 at 9:43 pm

    First-born’s Saturday News Corpse column…
    ***

    Thanks for prayer but what else do you have
    VIKKI CAMPION

    NOBODY knocks at the door begging for thoughts and prayers. While politicians and zealotillionaires, fall over themselves with well-wishes for Ukraine and condemnation of Russia, thoughts and prayers are not all we can offer and mean nothing on the ground for those caught in air strikes or taking in millions of refugees.

    Thoughts, prayers, and condemnation must be the precursor to action.

    When Poland called Australia this week, it wasn’t for soothing conversation. They wanted Australian minerals, our coal, not out of friendship, not out of a trade relations junket, but out of necessity.

    Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is holding Europe to ransom over gas supplies.

    Energy is their vulnerability, like it is ours, as our mining and fracking projects, or even diversification projects funded with coal or gas money, are cut off from finance and insurance.

    Liberal democracies don’t subdue to subservience, but Europe weakened itself by cutting off baseload power on a Glasgow fantasy, and became reliant on a totalitarian state to keep warm.

    European institutions, like Australian banks, won’t insure or finance our coal. Still, now their governments ask for tens of millions of tonnes because they yielded their energy independence to a dictatorship. One of the co-investors in Nordstream 2, the umbilical cord for Europe’s energy supplies, is Engie, the French company that bought Hazelwood in the La Trobe Valley and shut it down in 2017.

    The company that bleated about its commitment to shut down Hazelwood for green credentials with a “transformation plan concentrating solely on low carbon projects for power generation, renewable energy and natural gas” was at the same time backing in Nord Stream 2 designed to force Europe’s reliance on Russian gas and isolate Ukraine.

    In Victoria, Engie are ecowarrior wokevestors. In St Petersburg, they were supporting Putin.

    Lay down your environmental sanctity unless the economic support of an invading army is something of merit. Emerging threats are not pitching for green preferences.

    Energy is our soft spot too; it has growing implications for national security as South Australia discovered a few years ago.

    Responsibility for energy is divided between the states and the federal government, the former who are refusing to approve any new coal projects, and instead are subsidising renewables.

    The latter must ensure there is co-ordination to run your toaster and the Tomago aluminium smelter, another industry that will be forced out of Australia. If states consider energy supply from a purely greenpreferenced policy perspective or follow the wokevestors in Peter Pannish “if you believe, you can fly” corporate activism, ignoring national security implications, the compounding affect on us and our neighbours is massive.

    The mining industry is by far Australia’s most strategic economic asset. Our economic relationships are mainly in the Indo-Pacific and coal, iron ore and natural gas dominate.

    While wokevestors falsely proclaim that coal is dead, this week, the price of coal tripled to a new spot record above $US400 a tonne.

    Board members in bespoke suits, who drink from the same Peter Pan cup of believing happy things gives you wings, are demanding those companies implement Environmental Social and Corporate Governance policies that satisfies their demands around climate change.

    Now that Europe is dusting off its coal power stations, are these European-based institutions going to impose their ESG policies on them too? Or do your views on emissions change when you can feel the vibrations of the shells? These same wokevestors fly first class and tell us to embrace a cottage-core life.

    Our petrol price has doubled to $2 in two years yet we still don’t refine our own petroleum, don’t make our own petrol and very little of our own fertiliser, which is important if you want to eat.

    When petrol goes over $2 a litre, you hear you should have bought an electric car – a ridiculous proposition for anyone on basic wages or living in the bush, looking at their sorghum crop wondering whether it will be worth the fuel costs to harvest it.

    The state of the world should serve as a reckoning – that we should be using our natural resources like coal and oil at home – instead of shipping it all overseas.

    It will cost hundreds of millions of dollars to rebuild after the floods and it’s going to take imported product because we have talked ourselves out of making it.

    Saying the right thing is the name of the station where wokevestors get off as they smother industry in environmental impact statements in this crusade to save the
    world.

    Our primary national interest test should be security and economic growth, and that basic interest test should apply to all our jobs and standard of living for all
    Australians.

    Thoughts and prayers to our corporate activists and politician Peter Pans, please let them grow the conviction to actually change things, not just wish it.


    Report comment
  39. egg_ says:
    March 6, 2022 at 10:11 pm

    Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is holding Europe to ransom over gas supplies.

    Nailed it.

    Grunenfuhrers shtupped.


    Report comment
  40. mh says:
    March 6, 2022 at 10:42 pm

    Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is holding Europe to ransom over gas supplies.

    Ok, who else smiles when they read that? 😀


    Report comment
  41. mh says:
    March 6, 2022 at 10:57 pm

    Our tax dollars at work

    MEDIA DIARY

    While Ukraine fights, ABC gets a massage
    The judgment of an ABC correspondent in war-torn Ukraine is in question, after he wrote his lengthy review of a massage in Lviv in a tone-deaf post to Instagram last week.


    Report comment
  43. mh says:
    March 6, 2022 at 11:32 pm

    Fvck yeah!
    How did I miss this?

    #RepublicTV #GDBakshi #RussiaUkraineWar
    ‘West Is Prolonging Ukraine’s Agony’, says Maj Gen GD Bakshi On Deteriorating Situation In Ukraine

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOkn3l7mddc


    Report comment
  48. mh says:
    March 7, 2022 at 1:34 am

    The Hill

    Kim Iversen: ”Ukraine Will Be Wrecked.” OMINOUS Warnings Of NATO-Provoked War Given For DECADES

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY3JsqVR_04


    Report comment
  49. Steve trickler says:
    March 7, 2022 at 5:10 am

    Bonkers! Pilot running amok….many Russian pilots would be champing at the bit to give this bloke a run for his money. A mock dog fight would be cool….I doubt we will ever see it.

    2022 F-22 Raptor Demo – Davis Monthan AFB (2 Flights)


    Report comment
  50. Steve trickler says:
    March 7, 2022 at 5:24 am

    We’d all spew our guts up being a passenger in that thing.

    MAKS 2019 ✈️ Sergey Bogdan Steals the Show with the Su-57 – HD 50fps


    Report comment
  55. struth says:
    March 7, 2022 at 12:38 pm

    A certain video I can’t post anywhere, even here, but it’s bloody good. So testing without it


    Report comment
  56. struth says:
    March 7, 2022 at 12:40 pm

    What do you have to do so you don’t have to wait 5 minutes to see your post come up?


    Report comment
  57. Shy Ted says:
    March 7, 2022 at 12:55 pm

    Want to be offended?
    Family

    Dating

    On being great

    Think I’ve covered all the isms and phobias.


    Report comment
  58. Fat Tony says:
    March 7, 2022 at 1:10 pm

    cohenite says:
    March 7, 2022 at 10:20 am
    Good summary of biden’s policies. This guy should be in a straight jacket and in jail:

    Biden was put there to destroy the USA, along with some good old-fashioned looting.

    Biden is doing his job admirably.


    Report comment
  59. egg_ says:
    March 7, 2022 at 1:15 pm

    All the latest madness in the world with woke green ratbaggery

    The circus has moved on and all that the wokeratti are left with is a sore @rse and 20 cents under the pillow?


    Report comment
  60. Shy Ted says:
    March 7, 2022 at 2:10 pm

    And the media smears him an Elvis impersonator. Email, introducing Dean Vegas as local UAP candidate. Don’t think he’ll fit in with all those lawyers and unionists.
    For those of you of you that know me only as Elvis, then please let me introduce myself.
    I will keep this very short as I know how busy we all are.

    I have been self employed almost my entire life.
    ​At the age of 7, I was put into an Orphanage,
    At 12, I was living in housing commission in Sydney’s Western suburbs.
    At 15 and a half, I got my 1st job at the Abattoir in Sydney. 86km round trip daily.
    At 17, I started working as a laborer for 3 bosses laying Pavers
    At 21, I started my own business as a paver and purchased my 1st house
    At 25, I moved to Qld and set up my paving business again.
    at 33, I started the Elvis business with no prior knowledge in the industry what so ever.
    at 38, I competed in the worlds largest Elvis festival and won best Elvis in the world.
    ​In 2007, I was invited to Tupelo (Elvis Presley’s birth place) where I became the 1st person in the world to receive the Key to the City.
    In 2008 I ran for Mayor of the Gold Cost where I received almost 21,000 votes after spending $16,000 of my money.
    Currently, I own a Boutique Motel in SA along with properties.
    I’m also a proud father of 4 and a grandfather of 7 beautiful kids.

    I’m standing up for our rights, so Australia once again can become a free and prosperous country!
    If you can support in any way what so ever, then please contact me asap.

    Warmest regards

    Dean Vegas


    Report comment
  61. johanna johanna says:
    March 7, 2022 at 2:15 pm

    Thanks for the info on Dean Vegas, Ted. He sounds like quite a guy, and much more substantial than the ‘Elvis impersonator’ description implies.

    Can’t vote for him where I am, but any readers in that part of the world – please spread the word.


    Report comment
  62. Arky says:
    March 7, 2022 at 2:38 pm

    Ukrainians, unlike other more recent war torn nations, have got over a million women and children out of danger while their men stayed to fight the invasion.
    That is the West at it’s best, and why we still have something to defend, despite the shits in charge.


    Report comment
  63. egg_ says:
    March 7, 2022 at 2:47 pm

    And the media smears him an Elvis impersonator

    Salty recently showed a video of the Ukranian President looking like Bruno (Sacha Baron Cohen).

    How could he be any worse the Trudeau?


    Report comment
  64. egg_ says:
    March 7, 2022 at 3:41 pm

    Marx Brothers At the Zoo Circus YouTube above is the full movie.

    Even Arden of Our Miss Brooks features as the trapeze artist.


    Report comment
  65. cohenite says:
    March 7, 2022 at 4:16 pm

    Roy Spencer put up this video of the latest tornado. It’s massive but doesn’t touch down consistently. As usual the storm chasers are nuts and one of them rips out a couple of gigantic farts at around the 2m 50 seconds point:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiMKGnfoDN4


    Report comment
  66. Boambee John says:
    March 7, 2022 at 5:04 pm

    cohenite

    For your edification, extracts from one of Homer’s comments at CL’s site (the Putin/Murdoch thread.

    Dum dum, you do know AEMO has coal power constantly on because it is not dispatchable and solar plus wind power is switched off when supply exceeds demand.


    Report comment
  67. Steve trickler says:
    March 7, 2022 at 5:42 pm

    Visuals: Improved
    Audio: 👌

    Saturday Night Fever (Opening Credits)


    Report comment
  68. mh says:
    March 7, 2022 at 6:57 pm

    Paywalled

    Ricky Ponting is haunted by the voice of Shane Warne because of one thing he wishes he told the cricket icon before his untimely death.

    Don’t do extreme diets when you’ve been double vaxxed and boosted?


    Report comment
  69. egg_ says:
    March 7, 2022 at 7:04 pm

    Dum dum, you do know AEMO has coal power constantly on because it is not dispatchable and solar plus wind power is switched off when supply exceeds demand.

    Does anyone care what Homo Patch says?


    Report comment
  70. cohenite says:
    March 7, 2022 at 7:15 pm

    Boambee John says:
    March 7, 2022 at 5:04 pm
    cohenite

    For your edification, extracts from one of Homer’s comments at CL’s site (the Putin/Murdoch thread.

    Dum dum, you do know AEMO has coal power constantly on because it is not dispatchable and solar plus wind power is switched off when supply exceeds demand.

    FMD. Dispatchable power means power on demand: only non weather dependent power sources such as coal, gas, nuclear and hydro (while the water lasts) can do this. Batteries can’t because they do not produce power only store it inefficiently. Wind and solar are weather dependent and cannot supply power on demand. They are therefore non-dispatchable energy sources.

    Solar and wind are switched off or rather their power is run up a pole because they often produce excess power when demand is lowest, such as noon with solar or in the middle of the night with wind.

    S&W get preference to the grid when they do work which means the big coal generators have to keep operating because they cannot be switched on and off without being able to sell their power. As well the big coal generators have to buy Large Scale Energy Certificates from the W&S producers for every watt of power W&S do manage to produce, which is only 20% of the time averaged over the year. To rub salt into the commercial wound big coal has to keep running to back up the intermittent W&S.

    When you add the $13 billion in direct subsidies W&S receive from the government you then realise the fraud that W&S are. Unless of course you are a pompous stupid greenie.


    Report comment
  71. mh says:
    March 7, 2022 at 7:52 pm

    Multiple Russian banks on Sunday announced plans to begin issuing cards using a Chinese card operator’s system with Russia’s Mir network after Visa and MasterCard pulled out of Russia.

    Sberbank, Alfa Bank and Tinkoff all said they would begin using the Chinese UnionPay system, according to Reuters.

    The announcement comes one day after Mastercard announced cards issued by Russian banks will no longer be supported by its network, while any Mastercard issued outside the country will not work at Russian stores or ATMs. Visa similarly announced it is working to suspend all transactions in the coming days, over a week after the Russian invasion of Ukraine first began…


    Report comment
  72. mh says:
    March 7, 2022 at 8:17 pm

    Vaccine caused Tas man’s death: Coroner
    Robyn Wuth
    AAP
    March 4, 2022 4:51PM

    The death of a Tasmanian father of four who collapsed while on a family holiday was caused by side effects of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, a coroner has found.

    Ian William McDonald Reed, 44, had a headache for four days after receiving the vaccine in July last year.

    He was holidaying with his family on Tasmania’s east coast when he suddenly collapsed on July 13.

    Mr Reed was airlifted to hospital where doctors discovered intracerebral haemorrhage – a type of stroke involving a blood vessel rupturing and bleeding inside the brain and abnormal blood clotting.

    Despite neurosurgical intervention, Mr Reed did not recover and died on July 16.

    In a report handed down on Friday, coroner Simon Cooper found Mr Reed died from a “rare but recognised” complication of the AstraZeneca vaccine .

    “It is in fact a complication of the immunological response to vaccination,” the coroner found.

    Mr Reed’s wife questioned whether there had been adequate information about the vaccine’s risks and side effects.

    However, the coroner found the warnings were adequate.

    “I am satisfied that at the relevant time there was sufficient information available as to the potential side effects associated with the AstraZeneca vaccine.”


    Report comment
  73. shatterzzz says:
    March 7, 2022 at 8:30 pm

    Multiple Russian banks on Sunday announced plans to begin issuing cards using a Chinese card operator’s system with Russia’s Mir network after Visa and MasterCard pulled out of Russia.

    Makes you wonder why in this age of technology it wouldn’t occur to these companies that they are replaceable .. they only keep their monopolies until they get too clever .. LOL!


    Report comment
  74. mh says:
    March 7, 2022 at 8:52 pm

    China on Monday reiterated its position on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, calling for all parties involved to engage in dialogue.

    China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi emphasized China’s “rock-solid” friendship with Russia and said the prospects for cooperation between the two countries are very broad.


    Report comment
  75. Steve trickler says:
    March 7, 2022 at 9:30 pm

    NFKRZ:

    Discussing the current situation with sanctions on Russia related to the situation in Ukraine, as well as Western companies and services leaving Russia. I’m living in a sort of my own personal hell at this point. Oh boy.
    Anyway, let’s talk about how huge corporations such as IKEA, Apple, Netflix, Intel, BMW, Visa, Mastercard and more are leaving Russia and how it will affect regular Russians.

    RUSSIA IS CANCELED: every company is leaving Russia


    Report comment
  76. mh says:
    March 7, 2022 at 9:42 pm

    Just got sucked in to the Shane Warne story tonight.
    Leigh Sales interviewed Adam Gilchrist, which then led in to a repeat of her interview with Warne from about three years back. And what a cracking interview it was. Congrats to both of them.


    Report comment
  77. mh says:
    March 7, 2022 at 9:49 pm

    Anyway, let’s talk about how huge corporations such as IKEA, Apple, Netflix, Intel, BMW, Visa, Mastercard and more are leaving Russia and how it will affect regular Russians.

    If you are an Apple fan it would be annoying, but who needs any of the others? They are very replaceable.


    Report comment
  78. John Smith101 says:
    March 7, 2022 at 10:08 pm

    Maidan: Road to War
    Good background to the Ukrainian situation.


    Report comment
  81. mh says:
    March 8, 2022 at 12:15 am

    Thanks for links, John.

    Will try and watch the first one tomorrow.


    Report comment
  82. mh says:
    March 8, 2022 at 1:30 am

    There is scant evidence Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky turned down a US offer to evacuate Kiev by responding, “The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride.”

    The Washington Post investigated the purported quote and found it could only be sourced to one anonymous “senior American intelligence official” who fed it to the AP…

    https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=62941


    Report comment
  83. mh says:
    March 8, 2022 at 7:54 am

    Big falls on Wall Street overnight.
    Dow over 2%, NASDAQ over 3%.


    Report comment
  84. Vicki says:
    March 8, 2022 at 8:04 am

    Michael Clarke gave lovely interview recalling the larrikin Warnie. Recalls visiting what he described as a Westfield size house of Warne. Door wide open – he enters to find Warnie laying in a solarium inside one of the many lounge rooms. He had goggles on & was smoking a ciggie!

    We recall one of his first appearances at the SCG when he emerged from the dressing room at lunch dressed as an umpire. Everyone was sort of shocked at the irreverence. It was just the start of that larrikin career.


    Report comment
  85. mh says:
    March 8, 2022 at 8:18 am

    Full length doco.
    Might be worth a look:

    Oliver Stone
    Revealing Ukraine 2019
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLWuYFSBn6g


    Report comment
  86. Boambee John says:
    March 8, 2022 at 8:23 am

    mh

    The Washington Post investigated the purported quote and found it could only be sourced to one anonymous “senior American intelligence official” who fed it to the AP…

    How does that make it (more than usually) fake? “A senior administration official” is one of the most common WaPo sources. Are they saying that much of what WaPo publishes is fake news? Sounds like it.


    Report comment
  87. Eyrie says:
    March 8, 2022 at 8:37 am

    If you are an Apple fan it would be annoying

    If you are an Apple fan you are a fool paying twice as much for glitzy non robust crap. Maybe Putin could nuke their headquarters? It is nicely laid out in a circle.


    Report comment
  88. Old bloke says:
    March 8, 2022 at 10:58 am

    Despite neurosurgical intervention, Mr Reed did not recover and died on July 16.

    In a report handed down on Friday, coroner Simon Cooper found Mr Reed died from a “rare but recognised” complication of the AstraZeneca vaccine .

    These extremely rare vaxx deaths aren’t really that rare. At least Mr. Reid’s family can apply for a free funeral at – https://www.servicesaustralia.gov.au/deceased-covid-19-vaccine-recipient-payments-and-funeral-costs-you-can-claim-through-covid-19?context=55953

    There’s no financial support though if Mr. Reid had life insurance. The American and European life insurance companies don’t pay out on death from those “extremely rare” vaxx deaths, I assume it’s the same situation here. In a recent ruling in France, a judge ruled that vaxx deaths were suicide (knowingly took an experimental drug), and suicide isn’t covered by life insurance policies.


    Report comment
  91. johanna johanna says:
    March 8, 2022 at 2:21 pm

    A lucid explanation of the Hivemind, and a good antidote to conspiracy theories:

    https://www.takimag.com/article/the-all-powerful-leviathan/

    It’s not a 100% explanation (nothing ever is) but it’s a lot more believable than the James Bond movies type ‘explanations’ with evil individuals controlling the world.


    Report comment
  92. egg_ says:
    March 8, 2022 at 2:47 pm

    It’s not a 100% explanation (nothing ever is) but it’s a lot more believable than the James Bond movies type ‘explanations’ with evil individuals controlling the world.

    Goebbels would have marvelled how ManBearPig morphed into the Couf.

    Propaganda is the instrument of centralized Government control in a Democracy, apparently.

    Dan Andrews and others of his ilk seizing on Rona as an instrument of control via “Emergency Legislation”.

    No “Emergency” and the Kerry Chants of this world return to life as innocuous Public Servants.

    Whip up hysteria over Rona/911 et al and soon you have Air Marshalls and Border Patrol.

    Simples.


    Report comment
  93. egg_ says:
    March 8, 2022 at 2:48 pm

    How is Kerry Chant’s Rona-sponsored tour of the South of France going?

    No bugs in the 100 year old wine?


    Report comment
  94. Steve trickler says:
    March 8, 2022 at 3:00 pm

    Regardless of what you think of certain actors, this was a great scene in a movie.

    Best scene from science fiction movie, K-PAX


    Report comment
  95. Steve trickler says:
    March 8, 2022 at 3:51 pm

    I’d tap all those females on the shoulder and tell them go to home.

    U.S. Navy goes METAL – Just a Little Rock’n’Roll (Steam Roller)


    Report comment
  96. egg_ says:
    March 8, 2022 at 4:20 pm

    NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard said Dr Chant has “worked flat out for over two years on the pandemic as well as enormous work before that in public health. She works 18 to 20-hour days, 7 days a week. Any leave she wants, she should get, and we should double it. It is a long-awaited and extremely well-deserved break.”

    Spare a thought for baristas, ‘Elf Hazzard.

    /Ruby Princess – cough, cough


    Report comment
← Older Comments
Newer Comments →

Comments are closed.