Thanks for the reply. I’ll pop my thoughts into an email and ask Adam to pass it on to you. It’s still a very rough concept, but I would be curious to gain some feedback. Stay Tuned.
Cheers.
Rubbish collectors in Glasgow have confirmed they will strike for a week during the COP26 International Climate Conference.
Around 1,500 Glasgow refuse and cleaning staff have confirmed they will strike during the COP26 International Climate Conference due to a pay dispute.
The planned walkout will commence on November 1, the first full day of the summit, and go on for seven days …
Glasgow during a garbage strike in 1975
With over 100 world leaders expected to attend the conference, fears are growing that the city could be thrown into chaos with uncollected rubbish and transport issues.
One local authority insider told MailOnline: “We could be in a situation where the city is turned into a giant rubbish dump – just as it is on show to the world.”
‘Bus drivers, garbage collectors, school cleaners, and janitors, also plan to go on strike during the summit, and there could be chaos. Glasgow’s functioning and physical appearance would hit a note contrary to the goals of the summit—one of a world awash in trash and without sustainable infrastructure.’
Rubbish collectors in Glasgow have confirmed they will strike for a week during the COP26 International Climate Conference.
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I’m sure Greta and the climate kiddies would happily collect garbage to ‘save da planet’
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Open Thread – Saturday, 23 October 2021
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shatterzzz says:
October 27, 2021 at 12:41 pm
My early 2020 build Dell Inspiron 3493 laptop (FHD Graphics, the works), despite glowing recommendations from Windows Update, failed to update to Win11 on 2 attempts then needed the Dell factory recovery tool to revert to a Win10 image, saving my data.
You have been warned.
Not a worry for me.. my 2 desktops are both 2012 at latest & the laptop 2014 so I’m not thinking W11 .. LOL!
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mh says:
October 27, 2021 at 12:48 pm
The PM ‘shut down’ by Premier
Paywallian:
‘THE BLANKET RULE IS NO’
Novak’s Australian Open dreams dashed by Andrews
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has shut down the PM’s suggestion that unvaccinated tennis players could apply for an exemption.
By ANGELICA SNOWDEN
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Steve trickler says:
October 27, 2021 at 1:17 pm
I wonder if any of this will appear on channel Stokes?
7 News Perth Reporter asks Bass Tadros from HAP about Vaccine Mandate
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Steve trickler says:
October 27, 2021 at 1:40 pm
Find the time. 2:32:16 😉
David Gilmour – Live at the Royal Albert Hall 2006 Full Concert
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Steve trickler says:
October 27, 2021 at 3:11 pm
Judge for yourself. 1:01:01
*****
Peter Santenello:
Join me inside a home for a fascinating conversation with 12 American Muslims. We talk about what it’s like to be Muslim in the USA, why some women cover and others don’t, how they feel about American patriotism, how it is to be a Muslim woman in the workplace, how September 11th changed life for them, and many other compelling topics
Dinner With 12 American Muslims (BIG Episode) 🇺🇸
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Black BallBlack Ball says:
October 27, 2021 at 3:27 pm
The decay in Australian entertainment is complete.
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Black BallBlack Ball says:
October 27, 2021 at 3:31 pm
That previous link was from Tim Blair. From that blog post comes this from the Paywallian:
“Former Today show host Lisa Wilkinson has omitted important details in her new book about a separate $500,000 contract she had with a vitamins company that was a key frustration for Nine management during her contract negotiations in 2017 …
In the book she discusses numerous times the “gender pay gap” between her and co-host Karl Stefanovic, who she said was earning much more than her, but it is understood she fails to make any mention of a separate, lucrative contract she had with vitamins company Vitaco (owner of health brand Nutra-Life)’
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Neil says:
October 27, 2021 at 3:41 pm
Marcus Harris out for 9. Joe Burns currently 73 not out. And people want Harris to open for Australia????
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Steve trickler says:
October 27, 2021 at 4:07 pm
G’day, Silty…
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Bald and Bankrupt:
🇷🇺 We have all heard of the Trans-Siberian, Russia’s mega train journey that crosses Siberia as it skirts the Chinese border. But few have heard of the even more impressive B.A.M ( Baikal Amur Mainline ) which passes through virgin forest in the middle of Siberia. Built in the 1970s by young communists, the BAM is the greatest construction project of the 20th Century. And yet it is unknown in the West.
I decided to go and ride this unknown journey across northern Siberia and speak to the people who came to build it. Join me as we ride ‘The Bam’!
The journey route: Tayshet-Severobaykalsk-Novi Uoyan-Tinda
Riding The BAM: Russia’s Unknown Trans-Siberian Train🇷🇺
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shatterzzz says:
October 27, 2021 at 4:10 pm
The decay in Australian entertainment is complete.
Not surprised .. NETFLIX has sooo much money to waste .. they financed that, kiddie porn, rubbish movie, CUTIES, so a few bob wasted on Lisa won’t be missed …!
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Black BallBlack Ball says:
October 27, 2021 at 4:22 pm
And what were the previous scores Burns has posted?
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Black BallBlack Ball says:
October 27, 2021 at 4:27 pm
Quiz time. Who said these words?
‘It was the biggest cheat in the US election. Media and tech giants, plus top US intelligence figures, buried a truth likely to destroy Joe Biden’s campaign, claiming it was “Russian misinformation”.
But even a media outlet which spread that fake news now confesses: damning emails found on the laptop of Joe Biden’s son were actually real.’
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Neil says:
October 27, 2021 at 5:01 pm
And what were the previous scores Burns has posted?
Who cares?? Harris has a Test batting average of 24. Burns = 37
Neil Burns, What was joe burns average before his run, or should I say lack of run, of Zero,Zip,Zilch,NadaandFuckall. You’ve put in more effort than he has.
Neil Burns, What was joe burns average before his run, or should I say lack of run, of Zero,Zip,Zilch,NadaandFuckall. You’ve put in more effort than he has.
That was the most epic blockquote fail i have ever seen.
‘Alex Jones breaks down Joe Rogan’s bombshell info that over 200 members of Congress were treated with ivermectin while at the same time publicly denouncing the live-saving drug and suppressing its availability during the COVID crisis.’
‘In a shock move, the man confirmed as Dr Jeannette Young’s replacement as Chief Health Officer has decided against taking up the role just days before she is due to become the state’s next Governor.’
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And Pfizer had nothing to do with this. I’m sure.
Readers of military history might be aware of the Lend-Lease program during the Second World War where the industrial powerhouse, the United States of America, provided materials to a number of Allied countries, including other powers such as Great Britain and Russia. Australia, which joined the Lend-Lease program in early September, 1942, three years after the beginning of the war in Europe, also had a reverse or reciprocal Lend-Lease arrangement with the U.S.
By early February, 1943, Australian media was reporting with pride that our primary producers, in conjunction with our New Zealand cousins, had supplied U.S. forces then in both countries “with over 100,000,000lb. of food in the form of beef, veal, pork, eggs, milk and butter. Practically no food was being shipped to American forces in the Pacific. Instead, shipping space was being used for tanks and guns.”
In the 1942-43 financial year, it was estimated that Australia had provided the U.S. with $US196 million worth of supplies and services, including $39 million in ‘stores and provisions,’ $US66 million in ‘works and buildings,’ and $21 million in transport and communications. The ‘stores and provisions’ included food stuffs such as 61 million lb [pounds – weight] of meat, 48 million lb of bread, biscuits and cereals, 49 million lb of vegetables and fruit, and 28 million lb of canned foods.
New Zealand in the same time period contributed $US51 million worth of products and services to the U.S. forces based there. This total included $US24 million of foodstuffs, and ship construction worth $US6 million.
In the first three months of 1944, Australia provided 380 million lb [weight] of food to American troops. In addition to food, Australia also provided road making equipment and specialist signals and communication equipment.
During the 1943-44 financial year, Australian reverse Lend-Lease products and services to the U.S. were worth $US 575,000,000 – “almost 20 per cent of [our] total war expenditures” Australia was supplying “about 95 per cent of all food requirements [to U.S. forces in our region] as well as clothing, transport and other service supplies.” These included millions of packs of field rations “developed by American and Australian diet experts for our jungle troops.”
On a ‘down side’ for civilians “Some of Australia’s largest chocolate makers have turned their entire facilities over to the task of supplying rations leaving little chocolate for Australians themselves.”
Australia was not the only country with reverse or reciprocal lend-lease arrangements with the U.S. Britain, for example, provided U.S. forces in North Africa with warships, 130 reconnaissance boats, 160 Spitfire aircraft, 500,000 flak grenades, and anti-aircraft and field artillery.
“During the war, Australia received 3.3 percent of total Lend-Lease, but provided U.S. forces with 13 percent of total Reverse Lend-Lease, supplying U.S. formations in the region with roughly 1.5 billion dollars of materials, equivalent to 70 percent of what Australia itself received.”
[Muddy is the author – References are available on request].
Washington Sinks Australia – The Naval Treaty that sank our Battle Cruiser.
It is to be expected that naval vessels are liable to be sunk during wartime, but what about in periods of peace, by one’s own country, and intentionally, rather than by accident? Such an occurrence took place in Australia in the otherwise unremarkable year (by recent historical standards, that is), of 1924.
The battle cruiser H.M.A.S. Australia was deliberately scuttled on the 12th of April, 1924 as a result of the post-World War One Washington Agreements of late 1921/early 1922, specifically the Five Power Pact which set a limit on the number of capital ships maintained by the U.S., Britain, Japan, France and Italy. As the Royal Australian Navy was regarded as an element of the British Royal Navy, H.M.A.S. Australia did not ‘make the cut’ and so was disposed of to meet British obligations.
The Australia was the largest warship in the R.A.N. at the time. An Indefatigable class battlecruiser, she was built in Clydebank, Glasgow, Scotland, was 179 metres in length, had a displacement of 18,500 tons, and carried 900 crew. She was armed with “four sets of 12 inch breech loading guns… side firing torpedoes and fourteen 4 inch quick firing guns for surface and air contacts,” and after launching from her shipyard, the Australia embarked for her namesake country, reaching there in July, 1913 to wide public celebrations and pride about the country’s naval coming-of-age. In the early months of the First World War, HMAS Australia accompanied the Australian expeditions to capture German Pacific territories such as New Britain and New Guinea, and her presence intimidated the German Pacific Fleet into passivity. Australia was thereafter based in Scotland, patrolling the North Sea. She returned home in 1919 after acquitting herself well during the Great War, but was declared redundant in terms of design, being replaced as the Australian Fleet Flagship by the cruiser HMAS Melbourne. Following this retirement, she was used as a training vessel and fixed coastal battery at Westernport, Victoria.
“[H]er day is done,” declared a contemporary newspaper article.
“For some time she has been obsolete…out-engined, out-armoured, out-gunned by newer vessels”
Despite her declared obsolescence – the British Royal Navy, for example, had cancelled production of the 12-inch ammunition that Australia’s guns required, and the cost of maintaining the vessel during a period when the defence budget had decreased, was no longer justifiable – was by no means popular with either the Royal Australian Navy, or the general public.
Numerous alternatives to the scuttling of the vessel were made, but many were either impractical, uneconomic, or disallowed under the strict terms of the Treaty. These included conversion “into a floating barrack for the unemployed, a training ship, a naval home, or a war museum, which would house the trophies now in Melbourne, and could periodically visit the different states.” Scrapping of the ship – salvaging the materials that comprised her structure – was deemed not to be possible in Australia, and sailing the Australia to Great Britain for scrapping there was cost prohibitive. Another option of sinking her in a strategic position for use as a breakwater was given serious consideration, but again, the financial cost of such a project, and the practical risks involved in positioning such a large vessel with certainty also resulted in dismissal.
According to the Treaty, those ships destined for scrapping “had to be rendered incapable of war service after 6 months, and disposed of within 18 months.” With the Five Power Treaty having been signed in February, 1922, time had run out.
In the end, on the 12th of April, 1924, in the presence of the Australian Prime Minister, the Honourable Stanley Bruce, several Rear Admirals from both the R.A.N. and the Royal Navy – the event had been timed to coincide with the visit of a British cruiser squadron – she was towed to a point 50km east of Sydney Heads and “scuttled with full military honours.”
“After a 21 gun salute, the scuttle-cocks were opened and charges used to blow holes in the side of the hull. With wreaths laid on her deck and the naval ensign still flying … [the Australia] capsized and began to fill with water.” H.M.A.S. Australia’s final voyage took just fifteen minutes.
She was “sunk with all her main guns on board…”
The first photographic inspection of the wreck site was undertaken in 2007 with the aid of a U.S. Navy underwater robotic vessel that had been engaged to search for an Australian Blackhawk helicopter lost overboard from an R.A.N. vessel with the loss of two lives near Fiji. As a result of the survey, it was determined that the Australia “had rolled over [during sinking] and sank by the stern. The forward and aft masts of the control towers snapped off when the wreck hit the sloping seabed and the vessel slid approximately 400 m down the slope before coming to rest.”
Postscript.
In December, 1934 Japan denounced the Washington Agreements – which included two other accords in addition to the Five Power Pact – and set about rapidly increasing her naval strength. Japan had always seen herself as equal to the U.S. and Britain and had been unhappy about being denied ‘full equality’ in naval matters. The race to the Second World War was on.
[Muddy is the author – References are available on request].
‘The mayor of Hazard, Kentucky, who is also the principal of Hazard High School, was seen receiving a lap dance from a scantily clad male high school student during a “man pageant” at a school assembly. Other staff members at the high school were also seen receiving lap dances from male students.
“The incident is under investigation, and as you know, anything under investigation I really can’t talk about,” Hazard Independent Superintendent Sondra Combs told the Lexington Herald-Leader on Wednesday.
Photos showcasing homecoming activities at Hazard High School were reportedly circulated on social media.
The photos appear to show scantily clad male teenagers — some appearing to be dressed in drag — giving lap dances to staff members, one of whom was Donald “Happy” Mobelini, the principal of the high school, as well as Hazard’s mayor.‘
‘Alex Jones breaks down Joe Rogan’s bombshell info that over 200 members of Congress were treated with ivermectin while at the same time publicly denouncing the live-saving drug and suppressing its availability during the COVID crisis.’
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That seems wild and crazy if true.”
Joe Rogan Bombshell: ‘200 Members of Congress Successfully Treated With Ivermectin’
October 27, 2021
Joe Rogan says that hundreds of members of Congress have been successfully treated with ivermectin – the same drug he used to treat his recent Covid infection.
During a recent podcast with Michael Malic, Rogan revealed that Dr. Pierre Kory from the Front Line Critical Care Covid group treated him and members of Congress with monoclonal antibodies, prednisone, z-pak, NAD, vitamins, and ivermectin.
“By the way, 200 Congresspeople have been treated with Ivermectin for Covid. Google that. You can probably find that in Dr. Pierre Kory’s Twitter page,” Rogan declared.
“Before there were vaccines, this was a common off-label treatment for Covid.”
Fun fact: Between 100-200 United States Congress Members (plus many of their staffers & family members) with COVID.. were treated by a colleague over the past 15 months with ivermectin & the I-MASK+ protocol at https://t.co/OvU8SLfLJq. None have gone to hospital. Just sayin’
— Pierre Kory, MD MPA (@PierreKory) October 8, 2021
Joe Rogan Vows to Sue CNN into Oblivion for ‘Making Sh*t Up’ About Ivermectin
“I do not know the motivation for demonizing this particular medication,” he added.
“But I would imagine some of it has to do with money because… this a generic drug now. The patent has run out… and it’s worth like 30 cent per dose.”
Great reading Muddy. These war efforts I certainly don’t know enough of much to my shame.
I note that Andrews’ power grab in Yarragrad has cleared the first hurdle in the Lower House. Time to get the fuck out of Dodge
Near the town of Mohacs by the Danube River, on the afternoon of the 29th of August, 1526, a Hungarian Army under its King Lajos II, was smashed by the larger Ottoman army of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent. For the following century and a half, Hungary, formerly a strong Christian European power, succumbed to the domination of Islam under the Ottomans.
The Hungarian Army was thought to have numbered between 25,000 and 28,000 men (including German and Polish mercenaries) and 80 canon, and included a greater proportion of their nobility and ruling elite. King Lajos himself was only 20 years old. The Ottoman Army had set out from Constantinople some four and a half months earlier with perhaps 100,000 men and 300 canon, though by the time they reached Hungary after a march of 600 miles (965 km), their numbers may have dwindled to perhaps 70,000.
The Hungarian cavalry, comprised of the nobles, charged recklessly into the Ottoman front line which had been instructed to ‘give way’ and suck the attackers towards the centre of their forces while the ‘wings’ turned and enveloped them. The more numerous Ottoman artillery pounded the trapped and tightly packed Hungarian cavalry, and within three hours, roughly 24,000 of the best, brightest, and most prosperous of Hungary’s young men had been killed, though this number may include the 2,000 prisoners murdered in the days following.
[Reference: “Mohacs: The Tomb of the Hungarian Nation,” by Aram Bakshian, Jr. in The Quarterly Journal of Military History, Spring 1992, Volume 4, Number 3, p.40-41].
De Kock bows to Marxism after having his career threatened:
“I understand the importance of standing against racism and I also understand the responsibility of us as players to set an example,” de Kock’s statement read.
“If me taking a knee helps to educate others and make the lives of others better, I am more than happy to do so.”
Scott Morrison said some very interesting things today about going to the next G20 with plans of how to shut down anonymous users of social media who engage in bullying or saying nasty things and so on.
He is going to tackle facebook, etc.
I am a little cynical here. I think he wants to shut down Craig Kelly and George Christiansen and anyone on social media who says unpleasant things about him. People do say some disgusting things anonymously, that’s for sure, but I think there is something going on here in the LNP he would like to close off.
Won’t matter with de Kock. In such a diverse side as South Africa, he will be an outcast. I said he would be right with Indian Premier League but I read that mightn’t be an option. But Big Bash may be, although not as lucrative
‘The prevailing view is there is now no way back for de Kock now in the South African team after abandoning his teammates just hours before a World Cup match against West Indies.
On June 12, de Kock explained his reason for refusing to take the knee.
“My reason? I’ll keep it to myself. It’s my own, personal opinion,” he said.
“It’s everyone’s decision, no one’s forced to do anything, not in life. That’s the way I see things.”
White South African players have received death threats and had property vandalised for taking and knee and it’s this pressure from families and communities which has in some cases prompted decisions to refrain from the protest.
De Kock’s Stan has polarised opinion across the world. He has been labelled racist in some quarters but in others has had his right to free speech defended.
Most expect him to now become a Twenty20 mercenary, although those hopes would be dealt a major blow if his actions lead Mumbai and other franchises to freeze him out of his number one meal ticket at the IPL.’
‘The prevailing view is there is now no way back for de Kock now in the South African team after abandoning his teammates just hours before a World Cup match against West Indies.‘
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Abandoning them? Lololololol
They are playing a fvcking bat and ball game.
Black Lives Matter is an openly MARXIST organisation.
Taking a knee is purely about giving your allegiance to BLM.
‘Hospitalized COVID-19 patients are far more likely to die or to end up in severe or critical condition if they are vitamin D-deficient, Israeli researchers have found.
In a study conducted in a Galilee hospital, 26 percent of vitamin D-deficient coronavirus patients died, while among other patients the figure was at 3%.
“This is a very, very significant discrepancy, which represents a big clue that starting the disease with very low vitamin D leads to increased mortality and more severity,” Dr. Amir Bashkin, endocrinologist and part of the research team, told The Times of Israel.’
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Will our medical authorities look at VitD levels? No. Because it’s not about health, it’s about control.
For those thinking of making puerile jokes – Kok means ‘cook’ in Dutch and therefore in Afrikaans.
It is saddening to see South Africa, once a beacon of hope in the Dark Continent, slithering down the slope to the default setting of corruption and poverty.
A quick shout-out to commenters and lurkers: be kind to yourselves. You are worth it. Stick around. We need you – ALL of you.
Absolutely Muddy.
In these ‘strangest’ of times it is reassuring to see that ‘samizdat’ websites like AdamCat, DoverCat and The Currency Lad let alone some of the video folk out and about.
Its on YouTube for now. Young turks Josh Hawley and Tom Cotton absolutely destroy Merrick Garland. It is almost tear inducing. Where the fuck are these blokes in Australia? Perrotet is seen as a beacon on conservative ranks. Give me a spell Bananaby
I worded incorrectly. Bananaby I have used on other fora other than this site, so autocorrect and fat thumb assisted.
But point stands. There are no, zero, nada, zilch blokes like Cotton and Hawley determined to stick by conservative values
Lot of pomp and bluster with Morrison’s answers
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Page turn 🍻🥳
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Albo asks SloMo why he has flipped in relation to electric vehicles etc. SloMo blames Labor for what I don’t know
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Avi:
‘Exiled’ MPs share a warning to the world
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Wodonga and Albury apparently 97 percent vaxxed according to Hunt. Why then an outbreak of Teh Rona?
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Ring the bell for 4 minutes!
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Black Ball.
Thanks for the reply. I’ll pop my thoughts into an email and ask Adam to pass it on to you. It’s still a very rough concept, but I would be curious to gain some feedback. Stay Tuned.
Cheers.
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Calling Bald and Bankrupt & Harald Baldr to Celebrate! Silver Play Button Award!
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Sussietube is borked at the moment.
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Golf clap. Greta may be of use again
Rubbish collectors in Glasgow have confirmed they will strike for a week during the COP26 International Climate Conference.
Around 1,500 Glasgow refuse and cleaning staff have confirmed they will strike during the COP26 International Climate Conference due to a pay dispute.
The planned walkout will commence on November 1, the first full day of the summit, and go on for seven days …
Glasgow during a garbage strike in 1975
With over 100 world leaders expected to attend the conference, fears are growing that the city could be thrown into chaos with uncollected rubbish and transport issues.
One local authority insider told MailOnline: “We could be in a situation where the city is turned into a giant rubbish dump – just as it is on show to the world.”
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From Tim Blair. Same blog post has an update
‘Bus drivers, garbage collectors, school cleaners, and janitors, also plan to go on strike during the summit, and there could be chaos. Glasgow’s functioning and physical appearance would hit a note contrary to the goals of the summit—one of a world awash in trash and without sustainable infrastructure.’
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Rubbish collectors in Glasgow have confirmed they will strike for a week during the COP26 International Climate Conference.
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I’m sure Greta and the climate kiddies would happily collect garbage to ‘save da planet’
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Neil Burns, What was joe burns average before his run, or should I say lack of run, of Zero,Zip,Zilch,NadaandFuckall. You’ve put in more effort than he has.
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That was the most epic blockquote fail i have ever seen.
Well done (golf clap)
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‘Alex Jones breaks down Joe Rogan’s bombshell info that over 200 members of Congress were treated with ivermectin while at the same time publicly denouncing the live-saving drug and suppressing its availability during the COVID crisis.’
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That seems wild and crazy if true.
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‘In a shock move, the man confirmed as Dr Jeannette Young’s replacement as Chief Health Officer has decided against taking up the role just days before she is due to become the state’s next Governor.’
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And Pfizer had nothing to do with this. I’m sure.
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Every cent spent on renewables is a cent wasted. Scomo needs a red hot poker up his tight arse.
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VIDEO: Journalist Reads Filthy Porn Book from School’s Library at FL School Board Meeting – Board Members Call Police to Have Him Forcefully Removed for Reading Obscene Content Aloud
The book is about 2 pooftas rooting the arses off each other. Just what you need in a school.
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Readers of military history might be aware of the Lend-Lease program during the Second World War where the industrial powerhouse, the United States of America, provided materials to a number of Allied countries, including other powers such as Great Britain and Russia. Australia, which joined the Lend-Lease program in early September, 1942, three years after the beginning of the war in Europe, also had a reverse or reciprocal Lend-Lease arrangement with the U.S.
By early February, 1943, Australian media was reporting with pride that our primary producers, in conjunction with our New Zealand cousins, had supplied U.S. forces then in both countries “with over 100,000,000lb. of food in the form of beef, veal, pork, eggs, milk and butter. Practically no food was being shipped to American forces in the Pacific. Instead, shipping space was being used for tanks and guns.”
In the 1942-43 financial year, it was estimated that Australia had provided the U.S. with $US196 million worth of supplies and services, including $39 million in ‘stores and provisions,’ $US66 million in ‘works and buildings,’ and $21 million in transport and communications. The ‘stores and provisions’ included food stuffs such as 61 million lb [pounds – weight] of meat, 48 million lb of bread, biscuits and cereals, 49 million lb of vegetables and fruit, and 28 million lb of canned foods.
New Zealand in the same time period contributed $US51 million worth of products and services to the U.S. forces based there. This total included $US24 million of foodstuffs, and ship construction worth $US6 million.
In the first three months of 1944, Australia provided 380 million lb [weight] of food to American troops. In addition to food, Australia also provided road making equipment and specialist signals and communication equipment.
During the 1943-44 financial year, Australian reverse Lend-Lease products and services to the U.S. were worth $US 575,000,000 – “almost 20 per cent of [our] total war expenditures” Australia was supplying “about 95 per cent of all food requirements [to U.S. forces in our region] as well as clothing, transport and other service supplies.” These included millions of packs of field rations “developed by American and Australian diet experts for our jungle troops.”
On a ‘down side’ for civilians “Some of Australia’s largest chocolate makers have turned their entire facilities over to the task of supplying rations leaving little chocolate for Australians themselves.”
Australia was not the only country with reverse or reciprocal lend-lease arrangements with the U.S. Britain, for example, provided U.S. forces in North Africa with warships, 130 reconnaissance boats, 160 Spitfire aircraft, 500,000 flak grenades, and anti-aircraft and field artillery.
“During the war, Australia received 3.3 percent of total Lend-Lease, but provided U.S. forces with 13 percent of total Reverse Lend-Lease, supplying U.S. formations in the region with roughly 1.5 billion dollars of materials, equivalent to 70 percent of what Australia itself received.”
[Muddy is the author – References are available on request].
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Washington Sinks Australia – The Naval Treaty that sank our Battle Cruiser.
It is to be expected that naval vessels are liable to be sunk during wartime, but what about in periods of peace, by one’s own country, and intentionally, rather than by accident? Such an occurrence took place in Australia in the otherwise unremarkable year (by recent historical standards, that is), of 1924.
The battle cruiser H.M.A.S. Australia was deliberately scuttled on the 12th of April, 1924 as a result of the post-World War One Washington Agreements of late 1921/early 1922, specifically the Five Power Pact which set a limit on the number of capital ships maintained by the U.S., Britain, Japan, France and Italy. As the Royal Australian Navy was regarded as an element of the British Royal Navy, H.M.A.S. Australia did not ‘make the cut’ and so was disposed of to meet British obligations.
The Australia was the largest warship in the R.A.N. at the time. An Indefatigable class battlecruiser, she was built in Clydebank, Glasgow, Scotland, was 179 metres in length, had a displacement of 18,500 tons, and carried 900 crew. She was armed with “four sets of 12 inch breech loading guns… side firing torpedoes and fourteen 4 inch quick firing guns for surface and air contacts,” and after launching from her shipyard, the Australia embarked for her namesake country, reaching there in July, 1913 to wide public celebrations and pride about the country’s naval coming-of-age. In the early months of the First World War, HMAS Australia accompanied the Australian expeditions to capture German Pacific territories such as New Britain and New Guinea, and her presence intimidated the German Pacific Fleet into passivity. Australia was thereafter based in Scotland, patrolling the North Sea. She returned home in 1919 after acquitting herself well during the Great War, but was declared redundant in terms of design, being replaced as the Australian Fleet Flagship by the cruiser HMAS Melbourne. Following this retirement, she was used as a training vessel and fixed coastal battery at Westernport, Victoria.
“[H]er day is done,” declared a contemporary newspaper article.
“For some time she has been obsolete…out-engined, out-armoured, out-gunned by newer vessels”
Despite her declared obsolescence – the British Royal Navy, for example, had cancelled production of the 12-inch ammunition that Australia’s guns required, and the cost of maintaining the vessel during a period when the defence budget had decreased, was no longer justifiable – was by no means popular with either the Royal Australian Navy, or the general public.
Numerous alternatives to the scuttling of the vessel were made, but many were either impractical, uneconomic, or disallowed under the strict terms of the Treaty. These included conversion “into a floating barrack for the unemployed, a training ship, a naval home, or a war museum, which would house the trophies now in Melbourne, and could periodically visit the different states.” Scrapping of the ship – salvaging the materials that comprised her structure – was deemed not to be possible in Australia, and sailing the Australia to Great Britain for scrapping there was cost prohibitive. Another option of sinking her in a strategic position for use as a breakwater was given serious consideration, but again, the financial cost of such a project, and the practical risks involved in positioning such a large vessel with certainty also resulted in dismissal.
According to the Treaty, those ships destined for scrapping “had to be rendered incapable of war service after 6 months, and disposed of within 18 months.” With the Five Power Treaty having been signed in February, 1922, time had run out.
In the end, on the 12th of April, 1924, in the presence of the Australian Prime Minister, the Honourable Stanley Bruce, several Rear Admirals from both the R.A.N. and the Royal Navy – the event had been timed to coincide with the visit of a British cruiser squadron – she was towed to a point 50km east of Sydney Heads and “scuttled with full military honours.”
“After a 21 gun salute, the scuttle-cocks were opened and charges used to blow holes in the side of the hull. With wreaths laid on her deck and the naval ensign still flying … [the Australia] capsized and began to fill with water.” H.M.A.S. Australia’s final voyage took just fifteen minutes.
She was “sunk with all her main guns on board…”
The first photographic inspection of the wreck site was undertaken in 2007 with the aid of a U.S. Navy underwater robotic vessel that had been engaged to search for an Australian Blackhawk helicopter lost overboard from an R.A.N. vessel with the loss of two lives near Fiji. As a result of the survey, it was determined that the Australia “had rolled over [during sinking] and sank by the stern. The forward and aft masts of the control towers snapped off when the wreck hit the sloping seabed and the vessel slid approximately 400 m down the slope before coming to rest.”
Postscript.
In December, 1934 Japan denounced the Washington Agreements – which included two other accords in addition to the Five Power Pact – and set about rapidly increasing her naval strength. Japan had always seen herself as equal to the U.S. and Britain and had been unhappy about being denied ‘full equality’ in naval matters. The race to the Second World War was on.
[Muddy is the author – References are available on request].
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Breitbart
‘The mayor of Hazard, Kentucky, who is also the principal of Hazard High School, was seen receiving a lap dance from a scantily clad male high school student during a “man pageant” at a school assembly. Other staff members at the high school were also seen receiving lap dances from male students.
“The incident is under investigation, and as you know, anything under investigation I really can’t talk about,” Hazard Independent Superintendent Sondra Combs told the Lexington Herald-Leader on Wednesday.
Photos showcasing homecoming activities at Hazard High School were reportedly circulated on social media.
The photos appear to show scantily clad male teenagers — some appearing to be dressed in drag — giving lap dances to staff members, one of whom was Donald “Happy” Mobelini, the principal of the high school, as well as Hazard’s mayor.‘
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Bo and Luke Duke would sort those fvckers out.
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“mh says:
October 28, 2021 at 6:37 pm
‘Alex Jones breaks down Joe Rogan’s bombshell info that over 200 members of Congress were treated with ivermectin while at the same time publicly denouncing the live-saving drug and suppressing its availability during the COVID crisis.’
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That seems wild and crazy if true.”
Joe Rogan Bombshell: ‘200 Members of Congress Successfully Treated With Ivermectin’
October 27, 2021
Joe Rogan says that hundreds of members of Congress have been successfully treated with ivermectin – the same drug he used to treat his recent Covid infection.
During a recent podcast with Michael Malic, Rogan revealed that Dr. Pierre Kory from the Front Line Critical Care Covid group treated him and members of Congress with monoclonal antibodies, prednisone, z-pak, NAD, vitamins, and ivermectin.
“By the way, 200 Congresspeople have been treated with Ivermectin for Covid. Google that. You can probably find that in Dr. Pierre Kory’s Twitter page,” Rogan declared.
“Before there were vaccines, this was a common off-label treatment for Covid.”
Fun fact: Between 100-200 United States Congress Members (plus many of their staffers & family members) with COVID.. were treated by a colleague over the past 15 months with ivermectin & the I-MASK+ protocol at https://t.co/OvU8SLfLJq. None have gone to hospital. Just sayin’
— Pierre Kory, MD MPA (@PierreKory) October 8, 2021
Joe Rogan Vows to Sue CNN into Oblivion for ‘Making Sh*t Up’ About Ivermectin
“I do not know the motivation for demonizing this particular medication,” he added.
“But I would imagine some of it has to do with money because… this a generic drug now. The patent has run out… and it’s worth like 30 cent per dose.”
WATCH: https://newspunch.com/joe-rogan-bombshell-200-members-of-congress-successfully-treated-with-ivermectin/
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Cheers Muddy!
That was an interesting read.
I am now more informed than I was, and can see parallels and ideas for supporting future big fights in the Indo-Pacific region…
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Great reading Muddy. These war efforts I certainly don’t know enough of much to my shame.
I note that Andrews’ power grab in Yarragrad has cleared the first hurdle in the Lower House. Time to get the fuck out of Dodge
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Last for tonight:
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De Kock bows to Marxism after having his career threatened:
“I understand the importance of standing against racism and I also understand the responsibility of us as players to set an example,” de Kock’s statement read.
“If me taking a knee helps to educate others and make the lives of others better, I am more than happy to do so.”
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Scott Morrison said some very interesting things today about going to the next G20 with plans of how to shut down anonymous users of social media who engage in bullying or saying nasty things and so on.
He is going to tackle facebook, etc.
I am a little cynical here. I think he wants to shut down Craig Kelly and George Christiansen and anyone on social media who says unpleasant things about him. People do say some disgusting things anonymously, that’s for sure, but I think there is something going on here in the LNP he would like to close off.
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“If me taking a knee helps to educate others and make the lives of others better, I am more than happy to do so.”
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What else could he do. He was about to be totally crushed.
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Won’t matter with de Kock. In such a diverse side as South Africa, he will be an outcast. I said he would be right with Indian Premier League but I read that mightn’t be an option. But Big Bash may be, although not as lucrative
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Ben Horne in today’s Hun writes about this
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‘The prevailing view is there is now no way back for de Kock now in the South African team after abandoning his teammates just hours before a World Cup match against West Indies.
On June 12, de Kock explained his reason for refusing to take the knee.
“My reason? I’ll keep it to myself. It’s my own, personal opinion,” he said.
“It’s everyone’s decision, no one’s forced to do anything, not in life. That’s the way I see things.”
White South African players have received death threats and had property vandalised for taking and knee and it’s this pressure from families and communities which has in some cases prompted decisions to refrain from the protest.
De Kock’s Stan has polarised opinion across the world. He has been labelled racist in some quarters but in others has had his right to free speech defended.
Most expect him to now become a Twenty20 mercenary, although those hopes would be dealt a major blow if his actions lead Mumbai and other franchises to freeze him out of his number one meal ticket at the IPL.’
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‘The prevailing view is there is now no way back for de Kock now in the South African team after abandoning his teammates just hours before a World Cup match against West Indies.‘
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Abandoning them? Lololololol
They are playing a fvcking bat and ball game.
Black Lives Matter is an openly MARXIST organisation.
Taking a knee is purely about giving your allegiance to BLM.
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‘Hospitalized COVID-19 patients are far more likely to die or to end up in severe or critical condition if they are vitamin D-deficient, Israeli researchers have found.
In a study conducted in a Galilee hospital, 26 percent of vitamin D-deficient coronavirus patients died, while among other patients the figure was at 3%.
“This is a very, very significant discrepancy, which represents a big clue that starting the disease with very low vitamin D leads to increased mortality and more severity,” Dr. Amir Bashkin, endocrinologist and part of the research team, told The Times of Israel.’
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Will our medical authorities look at VitD levels? No. Because it’s not about health, it’s about control.
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De Kock is back in the cage
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FCxrdD4VcAIc9uQ?format=jpg&name=medium
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A quick shout-out to commenters and lurkers: be kind to yourselves. You are worth it. Stick around. We need you – ALL of you.
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For those thinking of making puerile jokes – Kok means ‘cook’ in Dutch and therefore in Afrikaans.
It is saddening to see South Africa, once a beacon of hope in the Dark Continent, slithering down the slope to the default setting of corruption and poverty.
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Time to chill now🍹
It’s a long weekend for Brisbanites.
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Lengthy vid from the Cossack
‘Escaping Australia: Why are thousands of Aussie families permanently fleeing as refugees? 1/3’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr8QvsI7AOI
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😂 More great vision.
Live fire rounds in front of the crowd. You have to love the Swiss!
AXALP HORNETS – A SHOW OF FORCE (4K)
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Absolutely Muddy.
In these ‘strangest’ of times it is reassuring to see that ‘samizdat’ websites like AdamCat, DoverCat and The Currency Lad let alone some of the video folk out and about.
More power to all of you.
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Great video from Cossack.
But quite sad.
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Wow, more of the Swiss Hornet squad – a reminder to anyone who was wondering why attacking Switzerland from the air is a very bad idea.
Awesome!
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Its on YouTube for now. Young turks Josh Hawley and Tom Cotton absolutely destroy Merrick Garland. It is almost tear inducing. Where the fuck are these blokes in Australia? Perrotet is seen as a beacon on conservative ranks. Give me a spell Bananaby
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Brisbane currently has an App Temp°C of 28.6
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I worded incorrectly. Bananaby I have used on other fora other than this site, so autocorrect and fat thumb assisted.
But point stands. There are no, zero, nada, zilch blokes like Cotton and Hawley determined to stick by conservative values
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