Open Thread – Thursday 5 August 2021

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  1. Farmer Gez says:

    It’s good at the Cat.
    Good to be in the company of people who are angry and not accepting meekly the shit served up to them.
    There is no fucking way I’m wearing a mask in the open air in a small country town.
    The blokes that do, should be ashamed of themselves.


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  2. MatrixTransform says:

    My wife is a GP and she says …

    my missus went to her Osteo today.

    her Osteo just got out of 14 day house arrest and happens to be very good friends with a couple that apparently actually had the couf. Which, was the reason for her own quarantine.

    The Osteo told my missus that yes, the couple were crook.
    very crook apparently.
    nonetheless they were left at home with the kids

    missus was also told that although they did each go into the hospital for a couple of days, they had to go separately because well, there needed to be someone to look after the kidlets.

    missus just recanted that story about 5min ago. ( and for the third time this arvo)

    make of it all what youse will


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  3. Speedbox says:

    Professor Higgins says:
    August 9, 2021 at 6:22 pm

    Yes, he said a couple of times he made (uncomplimentary) edits. But they would never last because as I said, all edits are subject to review and would be deleted.


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  4. struth says:

    Is it fear that makes people want to chuck MV out?
    Nobody seems to care that numbers or monty are here, so I must assume it’s because you are frightened of being put in the same group as MV when the stasi come a -callin’
    Just call him out on what you find offensive and hey presto, you’ve let the world know you don’t agree with him.
    I’ve had blues with MV, and I agree with him sometimes.
    I understand what others think of him, but him commenting here does not mean you are BFF’s with him.
    Or Monty or Numbers or Terry or Graeme, or……

    Adam will get around to smiting many I am sure.
    Until then use your scroll wheel and stop having kittens.
    There are some strange people out there………………..
    So what?


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  5. incoherent rambler says:

    I can’t get no o. Satisfaction.

    [think I’m onto a tune here]


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  6. Cassie of Sydney says:

    “struth says:
    August 9, 2021 at 6:25 pm”
    —————————————————————–
    I suspect that Sinc was also tired of dealing with the various lunatics, conspiracy theorists and nutcases that seem to congregate here at times.


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  7. MatrixTransform says:

    Who the fuck is Thorium?

    its Bird again.

    both Frosty and Thor made the same idiotic post the other day within a minute or two

    fair dinkum time for a cull


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  8. Professor Higgins says:

    Struth.
    Possibly right.
    The reasons Sinc pulled the plug might include:-
    Pressure from “stakeholders” in his other work?
    Technical IT and web hosting issues?
    Being a bit over it?
    Who knows?
    Probably a bit of “all of the above”.
    Anyway, he doesn’t owe anybody anything.
    If he just says, “Fuck off, I’m shutting it” it is none of anyone else’s business.


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  9. Makka says:

    “Is it fear that makes people want to chuck MV out?”

    I’m not advocating that struth, so don’t imply it. I never have either I just want to see whatever it was he claims led to the Cat being shut down.Or is it secret squirrel? From then I’ll make up my own mind.


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  10. rocinante says:

    Makka says:
    August 9, 2021 at 6:25 pm

    It was originally posted on the Open Thread, Makka. But NFA moved it to a separate thread he set up especially to rubbish me (so much for me having editing rights).

    The title of that thread is “Peter Sawyer aka Memory Vault aka Memory Fault” (yes, he doxxed me in the process). The actual post is titled “A Quiz For Struth”. and it should be near the top.


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  11. Ruprecht says:

    rocinante says:
    August 9, 2021 at 4:32 pm

    I “got booted” from the original Catallaxy site when I threatened the owner/moderator with exposure when I discovered some home truths about him.

    ————————————————————————————————————————————-

    Is that true, rocinante?


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  12. Professor Higgins says:

    No Bird.
    Rocinante made an insinuation against Sinc here.
    He should put up or shut up here.
    Not just mumble “it’s all over at some other place”.


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  13. struth says:

    Half of you wouldn’t know each other if you bumped into each other on the street.
    Only the subject matter…..matters, and who has good ideas, or news.
    Those who speak truth.
    If you want a soap opera, turn on the television.


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  14. m0nty says:

    This site has proven that libertarianism is better than anarchy.


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  15. JC says:

    MatrixTransform says:
    August 9, 2021 at 6:03 pm

    Hey JC,

    the missus just telling me that a particular ex-footballer, pub owner from Sth Melb has just been fined $10K on trumped up charges of trading after LockDan.

    Maxi, I saw the story while having dinner.

    We were there that evening with Ms Dolittle, her charming hubby and another couple who have now also become our friends. Lamarro’s pub. It’s owned by a dude called DiMartina and we spoke to him that evening. The poor dude was in tears because of the impact these lockdowns are having on him and his business. No kidding, he was in tears.

    The neighbors dobbed him in because he continued keeping the pub open a couple of hours after the 8 pm lockdown. And to top it off, the cops obviously notified 9 news to dob on him some more. FMD, this can be an awful country at times.


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  16. cohenite says:

    The latest IPCC iteration, AR6, is imminent. The Australian obviously has a copy, hence their headline:

    No doubt humans caused climate extremes

    This is nuts. In AR5 the IPCC published its SPM which confirmed what it had just previously said about extreme weather in SREX;

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/10/03/pielke-jr-agrees-extreme-weather-to-climate-connection-is-a-dead-issue/

    Which is to say they had no proof of any connection. Not only that but there is no extreme weather; every indicator, from tornadoes, floods, droughts shows no trend in extreme weather. A concurrent report in Nature said the same thing. So did Professor Richard A. Muller, famous for exposing the hide the decline.

    In fact declining extreme weather is consistent with a warming world because extreme weather needs severe energy gradients which decrease when warming occurs. If you want extreme weather go to a cold world where such wonderful things as D-O and Heinrich events occur where global temperature swings of up to 15C can occur in 50 years.

    Every bastard scientist/i> who signed off on this abortion of a report should be shaved, covered in honey and sent to play with bears.


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  17. rocinante says:

    Ruprecht says:
    August 9, 2021 at 6:40 pm
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    Professor Higgins aka Ruprecht aka Leigh Lowe aka abacab aka Geoff Lawrie aka Izen aka etc etc etc, asking the same question multiple times under different sock puppet names does warrant multiple replies.


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  18. Professor Higgins says:

    JC.
    The guy who owns Lamaros has been outspoken on Sky about Lockdowns.
    This is a square-off, pure and simple.


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  19. Ruprecht says:

    rocinante, I seem to remember you got booted for threatening Sinc and his family. There was no mention of any ‘discovery’ from you or Sinc. Strange you added the last bit.


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  20. Makka says:

    I got it MV . Thanks.


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  21. JC says:

    Higgins

    We were there that evening. The poor fuck was in tears about what’s happening to him. We went home distressed because of how sorry we felt for him.

    He’s copped an 11k fine and the story thrown on the 6.00 pm news. Vicpol are fucking disgusting.


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  22. K2 says:

    Professor Higgins.

    The “here” doesn’t exist anymore.


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  23. MatrixTransform says:

    Look, MV sometimes says some interesting things.
    just because it doesn’t attract any commentary doesn’t mean anything.
    my objection to the creepy prick is how it tries to put words in other people’s mouths.

    the way it sashays up and spouts crap about balance and fairness and moderation
    and then a hour later admits to some skanky bastardry as if it’s a scout merit badge.

    its like your Auntie’s dachshund that wont stop trying to scrabster yr Ugg Boot.
    even after you give it some snacks and a scratch behind the ears, it goes right back to trying to root yr shoes

    MV, try to stop being such a fucking drama queen.


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  24. hzhousewife says:

    Armadillo says:
    August 9, 2021 at 4:43 pm
    Nephew had the jab a week ago (36 years old).

    Now in hospital with heart inflammation. Probably just a coincidence?
    ……………………………………………………………..
    Oh Armadillo, wishing your nephew all the best, not good news for your family.


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  25. Speedbox says:

    Ruprecht says:
    August 9, 2021 at 6:53 pm

    My recollection was the most offensive remark was ‘I know where you live’ or something similar and the implied threat. At the time, most/all of us thought it was waaaay out of line. Obviously, so did Sinc.


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  26. Steve trickler says:

    A former Top Gun F-14 pilot, suffers the worst. Hard to watch folks.

    Fatal crash of SIAI Marchetti SM-1019B | Lewiston, Idaho | 07.24.21


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  27. Wally Dalí says:

    It’s better than a square-off, Prof H. It’s someone who has had a gutful, and is probably on the brink of his last staff drinks before handing the keys over to the bank, going down with a fight. I hope the headlines follow him, tho I suspect that they will not.
    I’m reminded of what the Catholic Education Board did when threatened with defunding (by Keating?). Basically said, if you withdraw our meagre funding, we’ll close overnight, which will flood the state school system with an instant 25% student increase.
    If only a few businesses had done that at the first lockdown, instead of the corporatism and collusion by usually bolshie businesses like Wesfarmers and QANTAS. Say, if the Imaginary Emergency closes our doors for even a week, all of our staff will be instantly unemployed, all our stock will be slapped down for quick cash sale, and we’ll wind up rental tenancy, utilities use, maintenance, GST, payroll, super, you name it. IE bring the chaos straight to dump on the doorstep of the dictators.
    But, no-one has. Precious few individuals. Perhaps we deserve this anaemic death, tied up in cheap elastic and smothered by permit forms.


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  28. Professor Higgins says:

    Peter Sawyer?
    May I ask if that is the same Peter Sawyer mentioned in a November 1989 issue of Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) under the heading “Australian patriot is frameup target” by Allen Douglas?
    EIR was a magazine produced by Lyndon la Rouche in the US.


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  29. ZK2A:
    “Rolfe faces two alternative charges: manslaughter and violent conduct causing death.
    From the “Australian.” Any Cats care to comment?”
    Standard ABC attempt at poisoning the well of public opinion.
    I hope that Rolfe is declared innocent and that the ABC gets held for contempt.
    They keep pulling this shit and it’s a rerun of the Pell case.


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  30. Ruprecht says:

    Speedbox, can you remember any argument over a ‘discovery” about Sinc? I can’t


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  31. Baba says:

    We were there that evening with …

    Expect an early morning visit.


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  32. rocinante says:

    Makka says:
    August 9, 2021 at 6:54 pm

    No probs, Makka.
    Perhaps you could explain to Professor Higgins/Ruprecht et al how to find it.
    Please note he prefers his directions drawn in crayon on big sheets of paper.


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  33. mh:
    “At least 45 people shot in Chicago in a single night of violence.”
    Vote for clowns, you get a circus.
    I don’t know why they can’t figure that out.


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  34. struth says:

    I’m not advocating that struth, so don’t imply it.

    ……………………………………………….
    I never specifically mentioned you Makka, but others are saying it.

    MV’s old enough to fight his own battles, and I’m sure he will.
    You can call him a bullshit artist and he doesn’t curl up and die over it.
    He has some theories, some worth listening to, some not (in my opinion) and LL still lives in a time where he thinks upsetting the left wing establishment can be detrimental to your health, and admonishes anyone who dares to peep over the parapet.
    The problem is the left are standing on top of our sandbags now, bayonet fixed and it really is too late to worry about that shit.

    For example.
    I think Sco Mo should be arrested, charged with treason and lined up against a wall and SHOT.
    I’m not going to do it, and I’m not asking anyone else to, but make no mistake the man is killing thousands and destroying life, liberty and one of the greatest nations to have ever existed by stepping above the constitution and setting the great reset in place.
    It needs to be said.
    LL would freak out at somebody saying it, YOU’LL GET THE BLOG CLOSED DOWN, hence the shitting of pants he had when MV once said it may come to taking up arms and I said I agreed.
    It looks like it is going to come to exactly that.
    So what was wrong with saying it?
    We have limited time with this blog, the freedom furniture blog and others.
    All will obviously be soon shut down, no matter what we say.
    ‘Tis better we finally work together on the keyboard warrior stuff while we can, and maybe even work out other ways to stay in contact with those you wish to.
    To me the big mistake they are making is they are urban people and they think the whole world has gone digital, and they control the digital.
    The internet is too big for that anyway, while
    the world operated without it for most of it’s history and we can again.
    We are the oldies that know how it was done………………….
    It is a weapon.
    Cardimona showed us one way today.
    It was raining heavily here today so my work will be put off until the sun shines, but these ways will work, and they can’t control it.
    Actually dropping flyers into places like community billboards and letter boxes.
    etc etc.
    Whatever.
    Sure we need to argue.
    But, you know what, you have to admit, SSR doesn’t appear to be too tin foil hat now, does she.
    She may have been too far one way, but can we admit many of us were too far the other way.
    Times have changed and the conspiracy theorists were mostly right, and the scoffers have had to admit it.
    Personally, knowing the left, I think what we have now seen, the evil out in daylight, is only the tip of the iceberg.
    The left are always more evil than we give them credit for.
    I think MV every now and then has something to contribute, so does SSR, and many others.
    Some not so much but it’s worth hearing them out is it not?
    These ideas we could be discussing, along with news and being a force for good instead of just narrating our own demise.
    Basically, we don’t have time to be offended, because it side tracks us.


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  35. Professor Higgins says:

    The EIR article is below.
    The author sounds like a bit of a fantasist.
    Published in Executive Intelligence Review November 1989
    Australian patriot is frameup target
    by Allen Douglas

    Readers of EIR may remember the humorous but devastating expose of the “greenhouse effect ” and “ozone hole ” frauds in our Oct. 27 issue, by Australian publisher Peter Sawyer.
    The expose, one of the most effective on the subject produced anywhere, was particularly useful coming from “down under,” since the Fabian Socialist governments of Australia and New Zealand have been leading the charge in international forums for supranational police-state measures to be enacted to “save the environment.”
    In his Inside News newspaper, over the past couple of years, Sawyer has produced several similar exposes which have rocked Australia and have forced themselves onto the floor of the Federal Parliament. Most pointed have been his revelations on Soviet penetration of Australian politics, and on the buildup of police-state measures in the country. For instance, Sawyer first blew the whistle on the true role of the Deakin Center in the nation’s capital of Canberra.
    The Deakin Center was alleged by the government to be a telephone exchange, but it turned out to be a massive computer center with centralized data on all Australian citizens and satellite links to the U.S. National Security Agency. In another article, Inside News exposed the now-defunct National Safety Council as a CIA-funded private political police force. The NSC’s exotic range of weaponry, as well as facts which came out in March 1989-when NSC head John Friedrichs disappeared, leaving a $35 million-plus hole in the NSC’s accounts–confirmed Sawyer’s charges.
    Inside News has caused a great deal of grief to Australia’s establishment, and to its Fabian foot-soldiers in government. Now, according to reports reaching EIR from several sources, that establishment has decided to get rid of Sawyer, with help, in particular, from the CIA and from British MI5 and MI-6, agencies which have always been extremely active in Australia.
    The plot is fairly simple. Several months ago, these sources report, bank accounts were opened up in the names- of Sawyer and nine others loosely associated with him in what Australians refer to as the “Freedom Movement,” a loose-knit grouping of individuals and organizations bitterly opposed to the economic and political destruction being wreaked on the country by its Fabian leadership. Funds have regularly been put into these bogus accounts over the past few months, and some time soon, a raid will take place on Sawyer’s house in the state of Queensland, coincident with raids on the houses and businesses of others being so framed. Lo and behold, drugs will be found, and Sawyer and his Inside News will be trumpeted in the press as a drug distribution network. It will be announced that “hundreds of others ” of Sawyer’s subscribers are also under investigation. That the charges will ultimately be thrown out, is not of concern to those arranging the frameup; the idea is to put Sawyer and others like him out of commission in the period between now and the expected national elections in February or March, so that no new political force emerges in those elections. One inside source who had details on the plot was scheduled to expose it on the popular Brian Wilshire show on Radio 2GB in Sydney, on Monday, Oct. 23. On the way to the station, that person was shot.
    The setting
    To understand the priority that Australia’s establishment puts on getting rid of Sawyer et aI., it is necessary to appreciate the extraordinary rate of economic collapse in the country. Australia, a nation of only 16 million people, has a federal foreign debt of over $100 billion, which makes it a vastly more indebted country per capita than Brazil (population 145 million, debt of$120 billion) or Mexico (population of 85 million, debt of 105 billion). Interest rates for farm loans are currently at 23.5% (25% for overdraft), and are only slightly lower for businesses; home mortgages are running at 17%, an all-time high. Prices for wheat and wool, two of the country’s three top exports, have collapsed over the past six months; wool revenue dropped from $6 billion to $4 billion annually. This, together with the stratospheric interest rates, has produced record failures among Australia’s businesses and farms. The situation is so bad, that there have already been rumors of the formation of a “national unity government ” among the existing major parties, i.e., Labour and the Liberal-National coalition.
    Parties in crisis
    Both the unpayable foreign debt, as well as the collapsing standard of living, are causing disgust with the existing political parties. This disgust registered loud and clear in the early 1989 elections for the newly established Legislative Assembly of Canberra. Independents running on a variety of slates, from the “Abolish the Self-Government Slate ” to the “SunRipened Tomato Party, ” received more votes than both of the major parties combined, and this in a situation where an unprecedented balloting procedure was used precisely to try and avoid this result.
    In this situation, Sawyer’s Inside News, read by an estimated 200,000 Australians each issue, is acting like matches tossed onto gasoline-soaked rags.
    In addition to his political exposes, Sawyer has been predicting an economic collapse, both for Australia and globally, for some months now. As that collapse accelerates, he has an excellent chance of being elected to the Australian Senate, for which he is expected to run.
    Of course it would not only be Sawyer who might be elected as an independent, but enough other groups and individuals are now preparing to run as independents, that they could possibly hold the balance of power between Labour and Liberal-National, giving them great political clout far beyond their numerical strength.
    A foretaste of what might be expected in the national elections may appear in the state parliamentary elections in the key state of Queensland on Dec. 2. Establishment newspapers such as the Sydney Morning Herald have voiced their anxiety that some “new force” might take several seats, the most likely candidate being the Citizens’ Electoral Councils (CEC), which are running several vigorous campaigns. The CEC, also loosely part of the “Freedom Movement,” burst into national prominence in 1987 when it swept to victory in the Barambah electorate, the most entrenched National Party seat in the country. The CEC now has over 150 councils spread across Australia, and has been under intensive attack from the same forces trying to eliminate Sawyer politically.
    The alarm with which the Australian establishment views Sawyer and the hundreds of thousands, or millions, of independent-minded “Aussies” who think like him, is best captured in the words of one of its spokesmen, Labour Member of Parliament Keith Wright. Last year, Wright called for an all-party inquiry into a plot to take over the country by “the most sophisticated political structure in this country [which] has carefully and strategically infiltrated what could add to hundreds, if not thousands of organizations and associations across the country.” Wright branded this movement of ordinary Australians as “the most insidious, sinister, and extremist threat coming from the most extremist force that this nation has ever seen or witnessed. ”
    Despite the fact that all parties in the Parliament agreed that such an investigation should take place, one year later precisely nothing has been done. As Sawyer has noted, one of two possibilities accounts for this: Either the Australian Parliament has been criminally negligent in not following up on this “extremist threat,” or, no such threat in fact exists. In the latter case, an attempted political witchhunt is under way, and all the bluster about “extremism” is to set the stage for eliminating political opponents. In a recent issue of Inside News, Sawyer exposed the joint CIA-KGB operations to blame then U.S. presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche for the murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme. He argued that if the CIA would do this to a patriot of its own country, what might they not do abroad?


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  36. Steve trickler says:

    Here is a follow up to that crash above.

    blancolirio:

    One more thing investigators will be looking at closely. The elevator trim on the 1019 is electric, and very powerful….

    Dale ‘Snort’ Snodgrass Siai Marchetti UPDATE- Elevator Trim System 8/8/21


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  37. Speedbox says:

    Ruprecht says:
    August 9, 2021 at 7:04 pm

    Nope. I don’t recall any ‘discovery’ or ‘exposé’ about Sinc.


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  38. m0nty says:

    I just read MV’s accusation at the furniture store. Suffice to say, he’s a conspiracy nutter of the highest order. He’s doing a connect-the-dots picture of an elephant but somehow he’s drawn the outline of Cthulhu.

    The worst part of this stuff is that it is all terribly boring. Long dead arguments that have been run and won and are now dessicated corpses rotting in the mud.

    The Cat should not be this boring.


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  39. Bons says:

    Turn me into a pillar of salt for mentioning it, but does anyone know what has happened to the Toowoomba thing?


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  40. Bruce of Newcastle says:

    No doubt humans caused climate extremes

    The real world data still says the global temperature is trending sideways and has been doing so for over 25 years.

    So there’s no doubt humans caused climate extremism, and also IPCC report is extremist bulldust.


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  41. “I fear Socialism is about to give birth to fourth and worst of the siblings – #Globalism.”
    To mangle a Reaganism…
    “Globalism is the inheritor of the lunatic ideologies of the 20th Century.”
    Think about it – it’s quite accurate.


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  42. Makka says:

    “I think MV every now and then has something to contribute, so does SSR, and many others.”

    I tend to agree. What we have witnessed these last 12 months shows that our instincts about what is being perpetrated on us have been correct. To an extent we could never have imagined. So we should keep all lines of thought open and use commonsense to filter out the dross.


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  43. Baba says:

    The Cat should not be this boring.

    It should be land of permanent bliss. Like phatpussy.com.


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  44. custard says:

    Surely it’s all about the Solar Minimum


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  45. Makka says:

    mOron,
    Stop lending your stamp of wrongology approval.


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  46. Bruce of Newcastle says:

    The Cat should not be this boring.

    Nor should leftism, but there you go.

    I’m amused the latest reboot of Suicide Squad, which was remade by a woke director only 5 years after the original, has faceplanted this weekend. Not only do the woke have seemingly no original ideas but the ideas they do take from others they magically turn into utter crud. Weird how this happens.

    Nolte: Pro-Blacklist Director James Gunn’s ‘Suicide Squad’ Is a Box Office Catastrophe


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  47. Ruprecht says:

    The Cat should not be this boring.

    ——————————————————————-

    That’s right Monty. It would make it like your forum


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  48. struth says:

    So MV is now my hero?
    Why would you post that LL?
    It fluffs his feathers, does it not?


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  49. Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure says:

    Mr. Dimattina was fined for speaking up for small business re Dan Xiaoping’s lockdowns.

    If only it were possible for there to be a total ban by all small business on serving any member of Vic Pol, or immediate family of a serving Vicpol officer.

    This would cause some lifestyle inconvenience.
    There are some things not provided by Big Supermarket or bigbox warehouse style stores.


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  50. rocinante says:

    Professor Higgins says:
    August 9, 2021 at 7:03 pm

    Probably, Professor Higgins aka Ruprecht aka LL etc etc.

    EIR did several articles on me. As did the SMH, The Australian, Time Magazine, The Courier Mail, Laurie Oakes in different places, Yana Wendt on “A Current Affair”, Terry Willesee in their something current affairs program on Channel 7, and several others.

    I also appeared as a guest on “60 Minutes”, The Ray Martin Midday Show”, and on radio with Alan Jones, John Laws, Brian Wilshire and others.

    Finally, you will find reference to me in Hansard by Charles Blunt, Brian Howe, Wilson Tuckey, Keith Wright, Ron Boswell, and Ian Sinclair.

    Some of it was praise, some of it was neutral, some of it was critical. So keep digging. I’m sure you will find plenty of juicy bits.

    Time to have some dinner and watch a movie.
    Red and Red2 were great. Thanks to whoever recommended them.


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  51. Bruce of Newcastle says:

    Surely it’s all about the Solar Minimum

    Yah. Lots of sinuous Rossby waves atm. That causes alternate patches of heat then cold to move over areas in the mid latitudes, like the US and Europe. Sometimes the jet streams get stuck, like in NW USA due to the Rocky Mountains, which led to the heatwave there. And the freezing which hit Texas causing a partial blackout of the state was another such weather pattern.

    The climate druids keep on trying to pin this stuff on CO2 but they never manage to explain why it comes in pulses every 11 years.

    Unfortunately with the demise last year of the CRWS jet stream site I don’t know where to find archived jet stream maps to show this. But I keep an eye on the real time jet stream maps and you can usually see the loops arriving from the west.


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  52. struth says:

    I tend to agree. What we have witnessed these last 12 months shows that our instincts about what is being perpetrated on us have been correct. To an extent we could never have imagined. So we should keep all lines of thought open and use commonsense to filter out the dross.

    well said.


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  53. struth says:

    It doesn’t make you right all the time MV.
    Far from it.
    I’m the only one right all the time.


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  54. Professor Higgins says:

    Struth.
    Not sure why people keep serving up the LL insult.
    😪
    Yeah, sure, it starts out OK, but the whole CIA, murder attempts on the way to/from 2GB, exposing John Friedrich (after the event), etc?
    Let’s say it is “fairly colourful stuff”.
    Some would say incredible.
    Not sure whether the author or the subject was responsible for that.


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  55. cohenite says:

    Surely it’s all about the Solar Minimum

    Sunspots are trending down although TSI is less clear:

    https://spot.colorado.edu/~koppg/TSI/


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  56. custard says:

    I understand we reached the actual solar minimum in December 2019 and it’s been trending slowly up from there. But it took 10 years or so to get there. Pundits are saying it’s going to take 20 years to get back to the maximum.

    That’s as I understand it.


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  57. Ruprecht says:

    Sorry, but I’m not comfortable in you besmirching Sinc like that rocinante and just strolling off as you’ve dropped a large steaming turd on the man and his reputation


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  58. MatrixTransform says:

    It should be land of permanent bliss


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  59. Professor Higgins says:

    Bird.
    The EIR article is a direct lift from a pdf of la Douche’s magazine.
    Take up your formatting issues with the man himself.


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  60. Professor Higgins says:

    Struth at 7:26.
    To clarify what I mean, I can refer to Ricardo Bosi.
    Solid bloke with some really good points to make, but he totally goes off reservation at times and loses people.


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  61. Indolent says:

    Sorry, but I’m not comfortable in you besmirching Sinc like that rocinante and just strolling off as you’ve dropped a large steaming turd on the man and his reputation
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    It’s not a question of besmirching but simply whether it’s true or false. Even if true, there’s nothing illegal there, however antithetic to the views held on this site, and his previous one. Didn’t people keep saying that he was trolling his own site?

    Even if true, why should anyone be surprised. Universities have long gone where the money is and the march through the institutions has been mentioned here once or twice.


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  62. 132andBush says:

    Prof Higgins,

    As you’re relatively new here you may have missed when rocinante (MF) informed us of how his recently passed wife loved cunnilingus.

    It was a little while ago now but not too long in the past.
    Really raised the tone of the place.


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  63. struth says:

    I had some idea about MV and the past, but all that I was not aware of, if it is correct.
    However it surely should read as we can understand better why MV sees conspiracies everywhere, maybe even when there are none.
    I won’t go on about something like the convoy in comparison, suffice to say that even that opened my eyes to the overall united front of the left politicians, and the media, and just how sinister it all is. How they tracked me, how people got my number, visited Mrs Struth at home while I was away, etc.
    This type of experience is why I didn’t believe the covid hoax for a second, and now we can see why MV didn’t either.
    It is hard to state the sense of pure evil you know you are in the midst of.
    And people actually think these people care for their safety. That you don’t catch covid.
    They want you dead, or silent, either way is of no concern.
    AT ALL.
    Your opinion is not a consideration.
    Power is all that matters and how you may affect it.
    That’s why we need to be silenced one way or the other.

    I haven’t had anywhere near the experience of MV in being amongst this shit for so long, but I can well imagine that it has made him what he is.
    Playing in that shit for any length of time will have an effect.
    Especially if you are right wing and fight for freedom.
    You put a target straight on your back.


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  64. Bruce of Newcastle says:

    I understand we reached the actual solar minimum in December 2019 and it’s been trending slowly up from there.

    True, but the 2010 Great Moscow Heatwave was in summer of 2010, and at exactly the same point in the cycle as this northern summer. Just off the bottom. The devastating Pakistan floods occurred on the other side of the same Rossby wave.

    This year we’ve had heat waves in Oregon and Greece, floods in Germany and China. I saw the jet stream loop as it arrived in NW USA – bringing hot air right up from the Mexican desert. The events are the same just the longitudes vary as the jet stream loops form when they form around the temperate circle of latitude.


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  65. Professor Higgins says:

    123andBush at 8:01.
    Oh.
    Riiiggght.
    Could have been taken out of context.
    Trying to think of the right context, and not coming up with anything.
    I’ll try to stay clear of that one.


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  66. struth says:

    Struth at 7:26.
    To clarify what I mean, I can refer to Ricardo Bosi.
    Solid bloke with some really good points to make, but he totally goes off reservation at times and loses people.

    He lost me because of it.
    You can’t afford to go in like that .
    Swearing and mentioning Pedos every five minutes.
    He probably is right and the emotion and anger is understandable but he has shot himself in the foot.


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  67. Bar Beach Swimmer says:

    At the human level, one of the most evocative aspects of the war years is the real fraternity of the British nation in defying Hitler.

    Everyone, man, woman and child as well as the King and Queen, and the Princesses, all pulling together to overcome the Nazis, and most clearly personified in the indomitable person of Winston Churchill standing at the despatch box in the Commons and laying out the plans of his government in wonderful and uplifting language.

    I caught a bit of the PM’s performance in the House today. It reminded me of a “Churchill” speech, at least that’s what I think he was striving for but failing miserably at.

    No amount of encouragement and the evoking of a fighting spirit will move me or, I suspect, anyone else in Australia today. No, we not at war, and, no, we are not all in this together, which is the reason for the lack of comport in this nation.

    F*ck, how many times can we endure hearing these arseh*les expect the nation to survive let alone prosper for weeks on end, and presumably all the way to December, without allowing people to go out to work, to school and be involved in the normal human interactions that are the natural default in a free country?

    It shocks me that these people, who are our actual parliamentary representatives, are so divorced from real life and the basic needs of their constituents, that it could be considered reasonable by them to keep us in lockdown and think it okay.

    And for what they’ve done to this nation, when their time comes, I hope they all rot in Hell.


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  68. Cassie of Sydney says:

    “He probably is right and the emotion and anger is understandable but he has shot himself in the foot.”
    ———————————————————
    No….he’s not right.


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  69. K2 says:

    Prof Higgins,

    as you are relatively new here…..

    He was hiding behind the pot-plant 123andMush, FFS!


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  70. Professor Higgins says:

    Bosi.
    FMD.
    One of Mrs ‘Iggin’s pals sent her a video of Bosi.
    She started playing it on her phone and I say, “Hey, I know this bloke. Not too bad.”
    Next thing he goes into all this weird shit and Mrs ‘Iggin’s is looking sideways at me.
    Mate, you’ve got some good ideas. Leave that crazy shit out of it.
    I reckon he might have had some sort of mental wobble.


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  71. DM OF WA says:

    Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says:
    August 9, 2021 at 3:48 pm

    “So, no one is interested in kicking in some cash to help Adam finish off this site? ”

    Happy to contribute.

    Ditto.

    BUT you should post an article with instructions on how you want us to donate, preferably pinned to the top.

    I rarely look at the Open Thread discussions so will probably not see any instructions posted there.


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  72. Grigory M says:

    Prof Higgins,

    As you’re relatively new here

    Lol. As if.


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  73. struth says:

    My lived experience with government, I would take every word of that report as totally feasible and expected.
    It’s rotten to the core and Australia hasn’t been governed by Australians since Menzies.
    Make no mistake, I doubt that we can win.
    Look at what’s happened to Gladys.
    Classic example.
    Some here would actually believe she panicked and folded.
    Scared the deaths of people would be on her hands.
    The only life she is trying to save is her own.
    Forces got to her, and she’s doing as she’s told.
    That’s how I would read it straight away, and I would think MV might think the same way.
    It’s a blood sport.
    Those that do the right thing get to leave the prison island and live with the elites somewhere else.
    Kevin 07 got a bit short changed, but ended up alright.
    There is only two ways to win.
    Pure guts and a following that makes them nervous into making mistakes.
    Playing by their rules is a dead end street.
    Independents and new parties were poison. However, none of that matters now.
    The other way, well, that’s the only way left.
    It’s just a matter of when that is realised by the nation.
    Because we took too long to realise it, it is now the only way left.
    Democracy is gone.
    We never really had it.


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  74. Dot says:

    *Larouche was an authentic genius.*

    If you can’t count, buy snake oil and are economically illiterate.


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  75. Professor Higgins says:

    I am prepared to cut Bosi a bit of slack because I think he might have had some sort of breakdown.


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  76. Professor Higgins says:

    Hmmm.
    Bird thinks LaDouche was an “authentic genius”.
    What can we conclude from this, boys and girls?


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  77. struth says:

    Look what Tony Abbott did to Pauline Hanson….way back then.
    Put her in prison.
    Any of them.
    That senator that had the eggs thrown at him, and on it goes.
    Go against the cabal/socialists’ globalist ………in other words, right wing, and it’s a dirty dirty business.
    These people only want power.
    Scott Morrison does not give a shit about one Australian, or the nation of Australia.
    They are consumed within themselves and the power games being played amongst the political elite.
    Nor any Premier, and the media will watch you die and film it before trying to save you, so what do we expect from them?
    These are the realities onced face we can fight.
    But deluding ourselves this is about a virus………………..or they give a shit……..is laughable.


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  78. Bar Beach Swimmer says:

    132andBush says:
    August 9, 2021 at 8:01 pm

    Bush, PH is LL.


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  79. mh says:

    Courier Paywall:

    ‘Bank accounts to zero’: Lockdowns claim beloved eatery
    One of Brisbane’s favourite suburban eateries has shut, claiming continual Covid lockdowns have made operating no longer “physically or mentally” sustainable.


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  80. struth says:

    I think Bosi is disgusted and angry about his countrymen.
    He is too decent and when he commenced his political journey, the shit that is the average Australian punter would have seriously depressed him.
    What is logical and ethical he takes for granted that most Australians agree with.
    His campaigning would have depressed the shit out of him.


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  81. struth says:

    No….he’s not right.

    ………………………………
    Talking about Bosi?!


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  82. Cassie of Sydney says:

    “Bar Beach Swimmer says:
    August 9, 2021 at 8:33 pm
    132andBush says:
    August 9, 2021 at 8:01 pm

    Bush, PH is LL.”
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    Really BBS? I don’t see it.


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  83. Speedbox says:

    This is not necessarily directed at MV but I have always been bemused at those who note their appearances on TV as some consolidation or endorsement of their opinion or gravitas.

    Uri Geller appeared on TV. So did Doris Stokes. And with covid, we have more recently seen a veritable conga line of snake-oil salesmen, liars, spivs and those promoting their particular form of idiocy.

    In the last 50 years, television has served up countless dimwits who, ordinarily, should be chased out of town. A television appearance doesn’t cement your ‘value’ to society.


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  84. Bar Beach Swimmer says:

    Really BBS? I don’t see it

    Cassie, uses the same idioms:

    e.g. truthiness, Hmmm, One of Mrs ‘Iggin’s pals


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  85. Cassie of Sydney says:

    “Talking about Bosi?!”
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    Yes Struth, I watched a video with Bosi, from December last year…he’s off with the fairies with his pedo stuff.

    I regret voting for him.


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  86. Professor Higgins says:

    Speedbox.
    Like Denis DeNuto at the end of “The Castle”.
    Puts a new brass plate on the front of his office, “As Seen On TV”.


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  87. 132andBush says:

    Bar Beach Swimmer says:
    August 9, 2021 at 8:33 pm

    132andBush says:
    August 9, 2021 at 8:01 pm

    Bush, PH is LL.

    🙂


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  88. mh says:

    Grigory M says:
    August 9, 2021 at 8:18 pm
    Prof Higgins,

    As you’re relatively new here

    Lol. As if.
    ***
    Sock try hard meet sock blow hard.


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  89. Professor Higgins says:

    Jeez, Bird.
    You must really have the hots for Linden LaDouche.
    Bringing out two socks in support.


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  90. struth says:

    If you are right wing dealing with the media, then your experience is of value.
    For example, I would never do another interview unless it was live to air.
    To understand they want to destroy you as quickly as possible.
    That even Alan will keep something going he could end for the sake of keeping us right wingers angry and watching.
    He never quite comes to conclusions, have you noticed?
    And he’s the best we got.
    Actually, Rowan Dean is better, IMHO.
    Credlin is virtually a globalist plant, her husband is king maker in the global socialist Liberal party.
    She’s a player, or thinks she is.
    Thinks she was going to get Dan….because that’s the fight.
    Not what is right and wrong. Just egos, position and power played amongst themselves.


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  91. Professor Higgins says:

    Yes.
    I have patented “truthiness”, “Hmmmm” and “Mrs ‘Iggins pals”.
    Don’t tell me someone else has been using my catch phrases!


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  92. K2 says:

    How is he not right, Cassie?

    A serious question, and I would like your input.

    The Epstein, Maxwell, Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, Katherine Keating (our own) network/contact tracing is all there in the open.

    A recent New York Times article mentioned a Melinda Gates’ complaint in her divorce with Bill was his friendship with Epstein.


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  93. 132andBush says:

    Bush, PH is LL.

    ————————————

    Shhhhh.
    I don’t think he’s actually aware of that himself.


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  94. FlyingPigs says:

    Ben R Smith redux

    Gallagher describes how a small crew of junior members in his platoon, dissatisfied with the demands he made on them, and angry that he had called them out on their poor performance, decided to destroy him. This dovetailed with my belief that leftism has used classic toxic femininity — emotionalism, viciousness, backstabbing, and passive-aggression – to remake society.


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