Open Thread – Thursday 12 August 2021

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  1. Bruce of Newcastle says:

    So the Afghan army consisting of 300,000 well trained (?), well armed troops simply walked or ran away from their supposed enemy without lifting a finger to stop them and I’m supposed to believe that no one saw this coming?

    Two divisions of the Iraqi army bugged out of Mosul when a modest number of ISIS guys in technicals arrived.

    This is the exact same issue. The Iraqi army guys were Sunnis because the Iraqi government sent the Sunni divisions to Sunni areas so that the locals wouldn’t shoot at them. So when a more observant bunch of Sunnis turned up the army kiddies took off rather than fight a more virtuous bunch.

    Now the Afghan army guys, who’re Sunni, are bugging out rather than shoot at the more virtuous Taliban. Of course the Taliban regard Afghan army kiddies as infidels since they are in the Afghan Army therefore cannot possibly be muslims. It’s the whole “no true Scotsman” thing on steroids.

    Sometimes a strongman dictator can get around this issue. Sisi has in Egypt, and Hussein in Jordan. But Sisi has a very Westernized officer class and has been purging the Salafis and MB from the Egyptian Army, and Jordan has a tribal basis for the Hashemites to keep control of the Palis, whom they hate. Tribalism can therefore offset the virtue equation sometimes.

    But the West wanted a democracy in Afghanistan, not a tribal regime and a dictator. Sigh.


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  2. egg_ says:

    crass speculation from the usual gentlemen.

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    I’ll bet it filled the “ladies pages” in the day, hypocrite.

    Notaflu would’ve only given such salacious articles a “casual glance”, no doubt.


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  3. egg_ says:

    Ernie Sigley & Denise Drysdale – Hey Paula (1974)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvhZVuPAUNw


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  4. egg_ says:

    I believe he has a legal background

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    Mr “could of”?
    Doubtful.


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  5. cohenite says:

    Pompeo responds to the dead zombie’s attempt to blame Trump for the debacle of afghanistan. Pompeo makes the obvious point that when Trump made a deal there were definite carrots and sticks as Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani found out when he was smeared on a back road in down-town shitholesville. With biden there is fuck all threat as the russkies, chunks, iranians and now the taliban bastards know:

    https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/15/pompeo-biden-afghanistan-blame-504713

    And I repeat the DHS has issued a new terrorism warning.

    Maybe it’ll take everyone’s minds off the chunk virus.


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  6. a reader says:

    The latest totalitarianism from St Anastacia of Olympia:
    Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has announced a huge change to the NSW border.

    From Friday, any Queensland worker who enters NSW for an essential service will have to have received at least one jab.

    Any Queenslander who enters NSW won’t be able to re-enter the state by road and will have to quarantine for 14 days in government accommodation after arriving by air.


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  7. mh says:

    Good morning, Melbourne!

    ‘Victoria imposes strict 9-5 curfew’


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  8. cohenite says:

    I’ll post this on both sites as it needs as much publicity as possible. Physical real property CTs as proof of ownership will cease at the end of October. It will be a debacle as the article explains; and note the smug reasons given by the relevant stooge/minister, Dominello, gives: to wit, people are implicitly too stupid to handles the CTs.

    https://lsj.com.au/articles/what-will-the-abolition-of-physical-cts-mean-for-certificates-held-as-security/


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  9. shatterzzz says:

    Dummies Guide to Afghanistan (illustrated) .. LOL!
    https://ibb.co/HKHCRRM


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  10. shatterzzz says:

    Often hear mention of the Furniture Shop .. soooooo a new header banner LOL!
    https://ibb.co/Jqc608q


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  11. Old bloke says:

    Indolent says:
    August 16, 2021 at 8:42 am

    Has there ever been bigger stooges for global corporates than Antifa?

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

    They are the black shirts, the storm troopers of the new nascent fascist regime. Just look at their emblem. Nazism reborn.

    Their emblem harks back to the German Communist Party pre WWII, international socialism versus national socialism. Not that it matters much, totalitarianism stinks regardless of it denomination.


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  12. Boambee John says:

    Grigory M says:
    August 16, 2021 at 10:08 am
    The policy may have been framed by Donald Trump when he was president, but Joe Biden owns this unfolding chaos.

    The former President let the Taliban back into power over the past two years, then decided to withdraw from Afghanistan by 9/11 this year. So, he owns it.

    It was Biden who chose 9/11 as the final date. Your argument would have been stronger had you recognised that Trump wanted to be out by May 1, but the generals in the Pentagon dragged the chain. I suspect that Biden (or, at least his staff – he is non compos mentis most of the time) chose 9/11 as a final humiliation for the nation they are supposed to be governing.


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  13. Boambee John says:

    Roger

    We are governed by idiots. It becomes clearer every day, alas.

    Unfortunately, we are no longer being governed by our elected representatives, we are being ruled by a mob of fascists.


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  14. rosie says:

    Fraid to say Ernie and Ding Dong were before my time.

    I know he was a son of Footscray, got a mention in ‘A Bunch of Ratbags’

    I only remember her from Hey Hey.

    You obviously spent a lot of time with the ‘ladies pages’ though


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  15. rosie says:

    ‘Hey Paula’

    Old people music.


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  16. struth says:

    As soon as I asked “I wonder what stunt they’re going to pull while your all looking at Afghanistan” The Premiers go into overdrive.


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  17. John H:
    “If you want to see how much sport costs this country go to an ER on the weekends. Bodies everywhere damaged from sport.”
    In 34 years of nursing, I’ve only seen two gunshot wounds in A & E. (outside of army.) One a suicide, the other a ricochet.


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  18. min says:

    Life goes on even with the restrictions imposed . Grand daughter has been looking for a house since before covid with granny helping out to buy something. First of all prices have gone up unbelievably over that period and every auction we attended the price was 2 to 3 hundred thousand over list price.
    Thursday ,start of present lockdown agent rang her about house not on the market so she went with her mum , liked it and made an offer . She made a video so rest of family could see it and looks a good buy in a blue chip area . A house renovated in same area with only 1 bathroom no ensuite sold for well over 3 million on the weekend .
    I have to do the legals to cover the money and also make a new will to as I said in case I got a new boyfriend haha as the say . But also to cover her if her partnership breaks up.


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  19. MatrixTransform says:

    Victoria imposes strict 9-5 curfew

    told youse … base-camp of Mt Stupid

    please mingle intensely at Woolies and Coles between 0900 and 1700

    ya bunch of fucking mongs


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  20. MatrixTransform says:

    Rosie, you’re a fucking loon

    when exactly is the correct time to ask if somebody who died just got vaccinated?


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  21. Steve trickler says:

    mh says:
    August 16, 2021 at 11:51 am
    Good morning, Melbourne!

    ‘Victoria imposes strict 9-5 curfew’

    It would be nice if all the cops chucked a sickie…just for one day. They better break ranks soon.

    I envisage horrible stuff happening to them.


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  22. rosie says:

    That’s right mt

    The only comments made about Ernie’s death after calli reported it were did he have sex with someone and a pathetic attempt to tie his death from Alzheimers to the vaccine.

    I’m the one with a problem though.

    I hope you aren’t leaving the house before 9am and are well tucked in at 5pm.


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  23. Gilas says:

    Apropos of a shatterzz post yesterday on this thread..
    I’ve also, somehow, managed to never wear a mask, register, QR code anywhere in locked-or-unlocked-down Sydney’s South-West and Inner-West.

    Ever. Regardless of any applying Draconian diktats

    Occasional “registering” on entry to Woollies was easily dealt with, providing 100% fictitious information, no verification ever requested.

    Also, aside from hardly seeing them at all, I have yet to be stopped by police, while clearly not wearing the obligatory paraphenalia. This includes train stations, Westfields complexes and otherwise deserted main streets at peak periods.

    Have others also had the same experience?


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  24. Steve trickler says:

    I’m the one with a problem though.

    Correct.


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  25. struth says:

    You’ve got to be aware that they are pushing for a fight.
    I believe the commos in power are upset they haven’t got one already.

    There has got to be a display of crushing power to let the newly acquired slaves be in no doubt who is boss.
    The problem is it has taken more tyranny than they thought.
    This has never been done to any population anywhere in the world , in human history.
    And now with state borders not able to be crossed without being a jabbed essential worker……….how much more do they have to do to get a bite?
    How can they show you they can bring you to your knees if you are already there.
    When this finally blows, Australia will be world news.


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  26. rosie says:

    Incidentally only a loon would attempt to link every death of natural causes to the vaccine.

    And in loon world very single covid death is really a vaccine death, even if the person wasn’t vaccinated.


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  27. MatrixTransform says:

    I’m the one with a problem though.

    other than your mouth ??


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  28. struth says:

    Notafan is so sure his death was not from the jab.
    She knows all…..
    I asked if he died from the jab because it was not going to be reported that he died from it…of course.
    And then in comes Notafan, with concrete proof he died of oldtimers.
    He might have had oldtimers, but did he have the jab.
    Notafan knows all, she heard it on the ABC.


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  29. Barking Toad says:

    3 days into 7 day lockdown and Chief Poo Denter in the ACT has extended it to 2 September.

    Insanity.


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  30. MatrixTransform says:

    Incidentally only a loon would …
    And in loon world …

    you silly bint
    somebody asked the question
    and now here you are making a fucking drama outta the noise in your head

    the fuck is wrong with you?


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  31. struth says:

    All thanks to the millions of hysterical notafans and Karens out there.


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  32. struth says:

    3 days into 7 day lockdown and Chief Poo Denter in the ACT has extended it to 2 September.

    Insanity.

    ………………………………..
    Insanity is putting up with it.


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  33. Bons says:

    I missed it.
    Where has Tom gone?


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  34. mh says:

    Gulag Gladys stated yesterday that the elimination strategy wont be successful. Finally.

    How about lockDan? Is he still a denier?


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  35. min says:

    Dan the man angry at those who drank beer outside of pubs without masks . Doing the same outside of coffee shops with coffee no problem however . Shutting more down and extending the lockdown , we have no choice we have no option he claims . He compares us to other countries with hospitals full didn’t mention that those patients are fully vaccinated .
    No meeting in the park either because we have so many mystery cases according to Bretty boy . Unbelievable !!!
    Of course BLM would probably get the ok to protest likewise Climate Chaange alarmists.


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  36. Gab says:

    Save a life … This clip depicts various families whose lives have changed because of the jab —
    https://www.reignitedemocracyaustralia.com.au/share-video/


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  37. Old School Conservative says:

    the other a ricochet

    Ah for the good old days of gentle humour:

    The comic strip is set in the Western town of Conniption where Rick O’Shay is the deputy sheriff, since the town is too small to have a full sheriff. His best friend is gunslinger Hipshot Percussion. Other key characters include gambler Deuces Wilde, dance hall owner Gaye Abandon, physician Dr. Basil Metabolism (and his nurse, Ophelia Pulse), gunsmith and Civil War veteran Cap’n Ball, banker Mort Gage and a boy named Quyat Burp.


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  38. MatrixTransform says:

    Where has Tom gone?

    https://newcatallaxy.blog/

    I kept going to the Old New Cat site the dover started and it was never updated.
    Had a proper look this morning and realised dover had to start again.
    the link above is the New New Cat … I think.


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  39. Roger says:

    No meeting in the park either because we have so many mystery cases according to Bretty boy . Unbelievable !!!

    —————————

    What does “the science” say about outdoor transmission?

    Or are we just going by what feels right now?

    One thing to look forward to – if there is ever a day of reckoning when these clowns are held accountable – preferably due to a class action – it is going to be so sweet!


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  40. ikamatua says:

    Mouse Utopia.
    Bald glasses dude doesn’t quite seem to get it:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m7X-1V9nOs


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  41. Old School Conservative says:

    Bons says:
    August 16, 2021 at 12:49 pm
    I missed it.
    Where has Tom gone?

    One of the other new Cat sites.
    I’m having trouble keeping up.


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  42. A Lurker says:

    I originally put this on Dot’s guest post, but it’s worth sharing here.

    Below is a link to an interesting article. The article is translated from the original Swedish into English and is a commentary about the recent leak of Pfizer’s contractual agreement with various nation states (which I suspect includes Australia) which are using the Pfizer vaccine. As always, take what is written with a grain of salt, but even then, what is written really does explain much of the irrationality of many of our State and Federal Governments’ decisions over the last year and a half.

    https://juliacaesar.blog/2021/08/13/leaked-agreement-buyers-of-pfizers-vaccine-commit-themselves-to-breaking-the-law/


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  43. Boambee John says:

    With Palace Chook putting restrictions on Queensland tradies entering NSW, there are going to be a lot of unhappy plumbers, sparkies, brickies, concretors, steel fixers, tilers et al, given that there is a major project in train to build a new hospital outside Tweed Heads.


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  44. Old bloke says:

    MatrixTransform says:
    August 16, 2021 at 12:43 pm

    you silly bint
    somebody asked the question
    and now here you are making a fucking drama outta the noise in your head

    the fuck is wrong with you?

    VIBF – Vaccine Induced Brain Fog

    https://www.ournewearthnews.com/2021/05/02/new-danger-on-the-roads-vaxxinated-are-exhibiting-zombie-like-behaviours-as-if-they-are-missing-whole-pieces-of-their-brains/


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  45. incoherent rambler says:

    One of the other new Cat sites.
    I’m having trouble keeping up.

    The many new cat sites are killing each other.

    Sort of like what new conservative parties do to each other.
    Dilution is death.


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  46. struth says:

    Thanks for that video gab, sent far and wide.
    I’m sorry to say it, and I’m sort of embarrassed but I cried with anger and frustration.
    I’m at wits end.
    I only say this because I know there are many like me out there.
    I’ve had enough of this shit.
    If I knew a way to make it stop ……now it’s too late…………without bloodshed, and lots of it.
    God help us.

    Please get stuck in to Jacqui Lambie on twitter.


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  47. Neil says:

    Life is tough in Sydney. I was out walking and somebody on the other side of the road yelled at me that i was not wearing a mask. I told him i thought it was OK not to wear a mask outside. He told me i was wrong. So i went to the Police station and they did not know but said it was a good idea to wear a mask outside.

    Also i mow the lawns of a local Church on Mondays and the Police said even though it was outdoors because it was not essential, mowing the church lawns was banned.

    I think people had more freedoms under German rule during WW2


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  48. Mark A says:

    calli says:
    August 16, 2021 at 10:58 am

    Ahahaha! My comment about all the Cat’s kittens was reported and moderated!

    Still trying to work out what was so offensive about a remark about the Old Cat’s litter of little kitties. So far it’s here, m0nty’s, Dover’s, Zipster, nilk and Arky.

    Cattist!

    Can you elaborate pls?
    What’s it about?


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  49. rickw:
    “Their manufacturing strength is rooted in the UK government’s response to The Great Depression (cut government spending, cut taxes) which resulted in an unprecedented period of growth (and growth in manufacturing capacity) in the lead up to WWII.”
    ****************************************************************************
    Very good video.
    Even better was the realisation that the war was won mainly because of the industrial economy produced by adopting appropriate (industrial) policy – reducing taxes and reducing the size of government.
    If there is ONE thing history proves, time and time again, it is that Government is parasitic and grows without any effective inhibitions on cost to the communities it parasitises.
    Our problem is that Government attracts only the ego driven and control freaks who see it as a tool of desire to remake society in their own image. Rudd was the prime example of this with his reams of documents at his side in Parliament.
    The type needed – people who wish to remove the dead hand of government – are as scarce as rocking horse shit.
    The command economy does not work and ends up destroying its host and impoverishing its citizenry.


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  50. MatrixTransform says:

    Neil,

    it’s not about freedom.
    it’s about thinking for yourself.
    nobody is allowed to do that anymore

    at least until The Pandemi-Death, or you’re hyper-inflated out of existence
    which ever comes first

    so anyway, if you feel original thought coming on, you’ll need to nip it in the bud before we all die.

    in case of wrong-think, ring Rosie … I think she has a hot-line


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  51. Ruprecht says:

    “ The many new cat sites are killing each other.”

    At one of them it will be death by boredom


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  52. candy says:

    “Biden decided to bring the troop withdrawal forward (by 11 days) to 31 August to avoid it coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Centre”
    ———————————
    Biden chose 9/11 in the first place, Grigory.

    As a kind of symbol of America’s domination or something, to humiliate, or to “show Trump” who’s boss even.
    With no plan for the withdrawal as it seems.


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  53. incoherent rambler says:

    Dob in a denier.
    Know someone who has avoided the jab?
    Phone the hotline now and tell us what you know.

    WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE?


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  54. Neil says:

    Matrix

    I also rang up ServiceNSW to find out if it was OK to mow the church lawns on Monday. After waiting for one hour on