-
Liberty Quote
- Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself.
— Madeleine L’Engle -
Pages
-
Recent Comments
ARCHIVES
- February 2025 (2)
- January 2025 (3)
- December 2024 (5)
- November 2024 (5)
- October 2024 (6)
- September 2024 (4)
- August 2024 (7)
- July 2024 (5)
- June 2024 (2)
- May 2024 (4)
- April 2024 (4)
- March 2024 (6)
- February 2024 (4)
- January 2024 (4)
- December 2023 (6)
- November 2023 (6)
- October 2023 (3)
- September 2023 (5)
- August 2023 (5)
- July 2023 (4)
- June 2023 (3)
- May 2023 (8)
- April 2023 (11)
- March 2023 (9)
- February 2023 (8)
- January 2023 (10)
- December 2022 (10)
- November 2022 (11)
- October 2022 (11)
- September 2022 (12)
- August 2022 (11)
- July 2022 (15)
- June 2022 (11)
- May 2022 (14)
- April 2022 (16)
- March 2022 (18)
- February 2022 (14)
- January 2022 (13)
- December 2021 (14)
- November 2021 (23)
- October 2021 (15)
- September 2021 (7)
- August 2021 (33)
- July 2021 (2)
Open Thread – Tuesday 14 September 2021
This entry was posted in Open Forum. Bookmark the permalink.
‘Eight Argentinian players and staff have thrown Saturday’s rugby union test against Australia into doubt after being locked out of Queensland following a day trip to Byron Bay.’
🤡🌍
Report comment
Lame pics.
Report comment
Rebel News NSW:
In this short interview, we talk to a nurse who was recently fired from her job, for not complying with medical mandates that are leaving millions out of work.
Nurse fired over refusal to comply with unreasonable medical mandates
Report comment
Notafan says…..
I don’t remember anyone saying the vaccines were 100 % effective.
Think about the insanity, denialism and desperation of that comment.
Panadol can now be classified as a vaccine with that logic.
The only question is, how many fellow Australians have succumb completely to communist propaganda this badly?
Report comment
We find in many women and beta males the never questioning acceptance of all “official” propaganda from the government or those in authority.
It has been notafan’s downfall from day one and as reality bites her on the arse we see the mental gymnastics of the insane in pixels here daily.
Report comment
So desperate to disagree with me he’ll say ‘anything’.
Classic hysterical old woman.
If you have evidence that any point in time, ‘big pharma’ , government, medical experts, even ‘frontline doctors ‘ ever claimed that the various covid vaccines were 100 percent effective I’m all eyes.
Panadol.
What?
Report comment
If Scott Morrison allows himself to get spooked by rampaging Nationals and the handful of Liberals who oppose net zero, then baulks at adopting a target, he risks the loss of urban Liberal seats.
Niki Savva
Award-winning political commentator and author
***
Savva writes for the leftist Age now.
Her natural home.
A guest on Alan Jones last night called her a “conservative” commentator. lol
Report comment
Bitter truth is we will likely never get any nuclear subs
It fills me with regret to say this, but analytically the conclusion is inescapable that nuclear subs under the AUKUS rubric will probably proceed the way of all our other deals.
By GREG SHERIDAN
Report comment
mh, do you really see elections happening let alone not being corrupted.
We’ve been living in a globalist communist state for nearly two years.
“C’mon Man”
Report comment
Michael P Senger
@MichaelPSenger
DeSantis: “In Australia right now, after a year and a half, they’re still enforcing lockdowns by the military…Is Australia freer than communist China right now?…The fact that’s even a question tells you something has gone dramatically off the rails.”
https://twitter.com/MichaelPSenger/status/1442951330021068804?s=20
Report comment
God help us.
Tell us what a vaccine does, notafan, and then tell us what panadol does.
Report comment
Struth, that’s just the Age article from Savva.
She is probably right in saying a “handful” of Liberals oppose net zero.
God help us.
Death to the Uniparty.
Report comment
I’ve got little faith that there will be fair elections in this country. Zippo actually. It will be the Ludlam fiasco on steroids.
UAP and others should raise the issue now to get people talking about it.
God help us.
Report comment
Zactly. A general awareness of the corrupt election intentions of the uniparty is critical.
I have joined three minor parties just to add to their numbers.
Holding my nose is easier than living under tyranny.
Report comment
Looking through the twitter comments on the DeSantis thread, they are saying the military is not involved in enforcing lockdowns.
Don’t they do any research?
Covid in Sydney: Military deployed to help enforce lockdown
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-58021718
Report comment
Australia’s leading causes of death, 2020
In 2020 there were 161,300 deaths, a decrease from 2019.
Ischaemic heart diseases were the leading cause of death, accounting for 10.3% of all deaths.
Deaths from the top five leading causes all decreased from 2019.
The top five leading causes of death have remained the same since 2011.
There were 898 deaths from COVID-19, ranking as the 38th leading cause of death.
In 2020:
The leading cause of death was ischaemic heart diseases (IHD).
Dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease was the second leading cause of death. People who died from dementia had a high median age at death of 89.1.
Cerebrovascular diseases, lung cancer and chronic lower respiratory diseases rounded out the top five leading causes.
Deaths from the five leading causes all decreased from 2019.
There were 55 deaths due to influenza. Influenza and pneumonia dropped to the 17th leading cause of death (down from the 9th leading cause in 2019). The ranking of influenza and pneumonia is influenced by the severity of the flu season.
Suicide was the 15th leading cause of death. People who died from suicide had median age at death of 43.5.
COVID-19 was the 38th leading cause of death, with 898 deaths recorded through the civil registration system.
ABS figures:
https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/health/causes-death/causes-death-australia/2020
Report comment
Future sit down protests should target all the MSM / ABC offices. They are complicit in this massive scamdemic / crime of humanity. The biggest in history. They seem to have been left alone. Lying wankers, the lot of them.
Banners should read: <<<Klaus Schwab and the WEF were not elected to govern this country.>>> etc etc
Only ignorant fruit loops would disagree and we know one individual here in that camp.
Isn’t that right , Rosie. The Facebook fact checker linker and resident fruit loop.
Fruit Loops
God help us.
***********
To add. Who feeds that shit to children?
Report comment
Why should I?
Unlike you I’m not claiming to be a medical expert.
I’m simply pointing out a fact.
No-one ever claimed the vaccines were 100% effective.
If you have evidence to the contrary you could produce it.
Report comment
Aussie Cossack:
Court appearance turns into a Political Protest as Channel 7 wait to ambush “The Sydney Horseguy”
Report comment
You don’t have to be a medical expert to cut through the crap, garbage, filth and lies, Rosie. Others have done it for us AND you can use your own brain to make a determination.
They are not vaccines, otherwise people who’ve been jabbed would not be filling the hospitals.
God help us.
Report comment
Note to self:
UNiparty, not uniparty.
Report comment
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/nearly-50k-medicare-patients-died-soon-after-getting-covid-shot-whistleblower/
Report comment
Information that should be known. Pfizer HQ should be declared a military target. The chief is a bloody evil sicko.
It is worth keeping on eye Del Bigtree and his channel.
Via Rumble.
BOOSTER SHOT IN THE DARK
*********
I figure my old man has found out he will be required to have booster shots by now. He chastised me suggesting it was crap on the internet. Bitch Chant, is on the public record as we know. I hate arguing with family over this scam. It is f*cked no matter which way you look at it.
God help us all.
Report comment
Vaccine….
a substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases, prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products, or a synthetic substitute, treated to act as an antigen without inducing the disease.
immunity…..
the ability of an organism to resist a particular infection or toxin by the action of specific antibodies or sensitized white blood cells.
In calling the death jab a vaccine they are claiming it to be something it is not.
And now the truth is coming out.
You’ll be more likely to end up in hospital due to any little cold you next catch, and probably dead within 5 years.
Your submission to tyranny has made it easier for them to round people like me up and starve us out, or put us in a concentration camp.
And you think the yearly summer exercise break now only the “temporarlily-vaccinated” will get is freedom?
The problem you are having is the stubborn indignation you have in refusing your own weakness and gullibility.
Denying even that.
That you indeed, most likely, through submission to evil, caused by your own weakness of character, has cost you your life.
Every day, looking at Britain and Israel, this is becoming exceedingly obvious.
The jab has killed thousands and killed more here in Australia than the death sniffles have.
And as studies are now showing, you may be feeling fine now, but it’s where it’s landed in your body, where it has accumulated that will be what you die from.
You were warned and I would feel sympathy for you but while you publicly try to deny reality ( I can understand why, but that is no excuse to do so) you are doing what you have been doing since the start of this Coup d’etat, and that is deluding yourself, and doing it publicly muddies the waters for others.
Face your own death without trying to get others to join you.
Report comment
“Let me be very clear: Life for the unvaccinated will be very difficult indefinitely,” Berejiklian told 7News
***
Evil woman.
Report comment
It only took til 8.15am today to decide people are effing mad. Anyway, I’ve unearthed a pic of a young Friedeggburger.
Report comment
Rosie
《No-one ever claimed the vaccines were 100% effective》
True. However, no one in authority, or those that should know better, have pointed out the vaxx has a 55% efficacy.
Report comment
No.
The vaccine doesn’t work at all.
There is no percentage of prevention that can possibly be worked out while they also say you can be covid positive but asymptomatic while unjabbed.
They cannot tell you how good or otherwise the jab is, and to believe they can armed with what they have told us, means you’ve lost your marbles due to propaganda.
Do you really think Dan killed 800 people?
Because he didn’t.
He reclassified 800 deaths, the PCR tests produced false positives as well.
That’s why they are always careful to say “with”
That we are still talking like this to some people is a measurement of how completely rooted as a nation we are.
Report comment
struth says:
September 30, 2021 at 8:15 am
God help us.
Tell us what a vaccine does, notafan, and then tell us what panadol does. What was health advice? After being tested positive with a test that strangled the life out of the sample and not recommended by the inventor of the test, the Nobel Prize winner Kary Mullis. Go home and have a panadol. This deadly disease is so deadly a panadol is the way to go. Dick Pusey should have offered the chicken truck recipients a panadol. That would have saved them. Had DP followed plods directions he would be dead.
Report comment
I should point out that that 55% efficacy only applies to the alpha strain. Who knows what it is for delta. Having a poke around the data suggests something close to 20% – 30% efficacy
Report comment
And people going on about the vaxx reducing hospitalisation are missing the point. The vaccine is not reducing symptomatic infection
Report comment
A jump in COVID-19 cases is forcing Singapore – one of the most vaccinated countries – to reintroduce restrictions.
The city-state reported 1647 new coronavirus cases and two deaths yesterday, taking the total number of cases to 89,539, the Ministry of Health said.
It was the seventh consecutive day that the number of infections exceeded 1000.
Singapore has one of the highest COVID-19 vaccination rates in the world, with more than 80 per cent of the population fully vaccinated.
In response to rising cases, Singapore authorities this week tightened restrictions until October 24 in a bid to combat the spread of the virus.
Social gatherings have been reduced from a maximum of five to two people, with the same limit for household visitors and restaurants and cafes for vaccinated residents
Report comment
I like the lame pics where you have to say you’re over 18 to get in.
Report comment
This bastard country
Huge Covid crowd blow for Suncorp NRL grand final
Queensland were hoping its Covid outbreak wouldn’t hamper Sunday’s NRL Grand Final, but Annastacia Palaszczuk has confirmed a significant change for the showpiece game.
Report comment
From haaretz 27 September 2021, with graphs
Israel covid 17% unvaccinated make up 60% of deaths this week
Report comment
Reassuring to see Tony Abbott defend the protestors.
Report comment
Tony Abbott calls the Vic coppers storm troopers and says they were out of control.
Neil Mitchell says TA is “very very wrong”
Report comment
For those that think this a nutty conspiracy theory, this came out APRIL 2, 2020.
World Bank:
COVID-19 STRATEGIC PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE PROGRAM.
Slated to end <<<<<<<2025.>>>>>>> Ladies and Gents. Let that sink in.
This along with a mountain of other evidence suggests this was planned way before the “outbreak”. F*cking arseholes have it all out in the open along with the WEF, for all to see. They are not even hiding it.
Read when you can find the time.
World Bank document. PDF.
Report comment
Neil Mitchell is a abscess that needs to be lanced. That would look good written on a banner if a protest were held outside 3AW.
The prick is protected by his producers and the time delay. He’d get his arse kicked in a forum where a true debate could take place. Good luck with that happening… he remains in a protective bubble having suffered no financial loss, cos deemed an essential service. He’s the exact type that existed during the Nazi era, duping the masses on a daily basis, along with all the other dropkick talkback radio hosts in this country, formally known as Australia.
Scum of the EARTH. People that tune in a listen to that flawed piece of shit for <<<guidance>>> need their head read.
Report comment
Some squawky chickens coming home to roost:
China provincial governor urges more coal imports to resolve power shortages | Reuters
Greenie energy leaves Europe in the cold — the freezing cold – American Thinker
I hope the bastards freeze their tits off.
Report comment
No transcript as yet. This goes for 9:45. This chap has been way ahead of the curve in exposing this scam.
Doc Coleman:
Time is Running Out Fast, 29th September 2021
Report comment
From haaretz 27 September 2021, with graphs
Links to a pro-vax pushing Israeli MSM propaganda outlet.
Israel’s vaxxed are 69%. So straight off the top Haaretz is lying to you.
Report comment
Gee whiz.
The co$t of going to Court is outrageous. Bloody scary actually for the average punter. Get beaten up by the cops and then you have that to deal with if you wish to take action.
Avi Yemini: Police can’t get me, so they’re going after those close to me
Report comment
Gaetz rips the medal laden arsehole generals new arses:
‘YOU SHOULD BE FIRED!’ Matt Gaetz rips military commanders during fiery hearing exchange – Whatfinger News’ General Dispatch
Report comment
The two times I’ve been in hospital recently I have been in beds opposite ones who have attempted suicide or contemplated it. The first was a young girl 16 yo. who tried. Not because of her own situation but off her friends situation. I love how the privacy curtains work almost as well as panadol does for the coof. She was talking to a psychologist who never once asked her did she think of trying to help her friends and how was losing her life going to help them. The other was a man my age who lives alone with his dog. Lookdown has been too much for him. Told me he rang Lifeline to talk about his particular problems and when he said he was going to kill his dog first as no-one would care for it as it was an old dog, the person on the other end of the phone was more concerned for the dog. We talked all night. The night nurses came in and chatted. I was the first person he talked too for longer than a few minutes in he didn’t know how long. what has happened to him I don’t know. Gave him my phone number. How many out there are in the same boat. This over three days. The conversations I’ve heard while at emergency. I shake my head.
Report comment
Bald and Bankrupt and Johnny FD:
We walk through the underground passages of the “most dangerous” neighborhood in Kyiv called Troieshchyna (Kiev) and check if the Ukrainian notes given to us by the local Babushka sellers are in fact, counterfeit money. With our newly acquired 200 uah possibly counterfeit notes, my friend Bald and Bankrupt and I look for the only restaurant in all of Troieshchyna.
21:45
The only restaurant in Troieshchyna. 🇺🇦
Report comment
How many out there are in the same boat. This over three days. The conversations I’ve heard while at emergency. I shake my head.
To help answer your question; the two unfortunates you speak of would normally be in the psych ward, not the public.
Report comment
ᵔᴥᵔ
Un
Report comment
Deux
Report comment
Trois
Report comment
Quatre
Report comment
Cinq
Report comment
Jo, that’s terrible. You did what you could, and more than most people ever do.
You listened.
Report comment
FMD kaysee.
Trois!
Must be billions out there.
Report comment
Un Kaycee’
Report comment
Top Ender says:
September 30, 2021 at 8:42 am
Australia’s leading causes of death, 2020
From the government’s own website:
Causes of Death, Australia
The top two key statistics are:
《▹ COVID-19 was the 38th leading cause of death (898 deaths).
▹In 2020 there was a decrease in mortality in Australia. 》
What is the justification for the lockdowns and the gestapo tactics being used?
Report comment
Jo it’s great you took the time to chat to the two persons when you had your own health situation as well.
Not hard these days with isolation, financial and other pressures for people to sort of “fall through the cracks “. A nice conversation with someone really listening is a good thing.
Report comment
Aussie Cossack:
Court appearance turns into a Political Protest as Channel 7 wait to ambush “The Sydney Horseguy”
Like the Cossack, I am waiting for the Nuremberg 2.0 trials.
Steve, you have been following the Cossack for some time. What is his career background? Does he work in construction or does he own a construction business?
He hasn’t been working in the media, yet he handles his interviews, really well. I watched the one posted yesterday on the Bikies, as well as this one at the court. He is handling it all like a pro and has the Fake media running away.
Report comment
Sanity prevails.
Already mentioned by others here. Norway has had enough.
Kim Iversen: Norway DROPS All Restrictions And Chooses To LIVE With Covid
Report comment
Deux is great. Cynical but funny.
Report comment
Kaysee.
He runs a labour hire business. Predominantly in construction if I am not mistaken. Truth be told, I haven’t done much digging into his background.
Report comment
Aussie Cossack from 5 years ago.
Simeon Boikov and Cossacks CONFRONT Christian grave vandal at Burwood Local Court
Report comment
mh says:
September 30, 2021 at 9:24 am
“Let me be very clear: Life for the unvaccinated will be very difficult indefinitely,” Berejiklian told 7News
‘You will go backwards’: Berejiklian’s warning to unvaccinated
Gulag G is telling us all to “do the right thing”.
The same person who is under ICAC investigation due to her relationship with a secret partner.
Report comment
jo says:
September 30, 2021 at 2:20 pm
I was the first person he talked too for longer than a few minutes in he didn’t know how long. what has happened to him I don’t know. Gave him my phone number.
jo, you offered some solace to the man you spoke to while you were in hospital. It would have helped him to know that someone listened to him and he could contact again in the future.
We have a faketious Chanting medical officer advising people not to talk to anyone in the supermarket. Under normal circumstances, there are so many people out there who live alone. The weekly grocery trip is the occasion for them to meet others and have a chat.
Even with strangers, while shopping, you can grumble about the cost of the food items, or just have a casual conversation. How much harder it must be for these people who need some human contact to have all these restrictions imposed on them?
Report comment
Aussie Cossack is a very interesting guy. He has the size and wit to really bamboozle the wallopers.
Report comment
Already mentioned by others here. Norway has had enough.
Kim Iversen: Norway DROPS All Restrictions And Chooses To LIVE With Covid
Not due to high vaccination rates or having the virus under control but ……
《 The Prime Minister said: The lifting of restrictions is due to fatigue in the public ….. 》
A government that is listening to its employers?
Report comment
Steve, thanks.
He has mentioned his connection to the construction industry, a few times.
Report comment
Sorry axle
You seem to have confused percentage of total population with percentage of ‘eligible’ population.
Seems to be a common error
Try again.
Report comment
Leading British medical journal ripped for calling women ‘bodies with vaginas’
《Leading British medical journal The Lancet describes women as “bodies with vaginas” on its latest cover — sparking swift backlash and an apology from the weekly’s top editor.
The publication — among the world’s oldest and best-known general medical journals — was accused of sexism for the cover, which refers to an article titled “Periods on Display, the Telegraph reported. 》
The article from The Lancet:
Periods on display
Report comment
Posted by someone asking for translations of the phrase Jesus is King in your native language. The thread contains responses from around the world. It would have been helpful if all had included the name of the language, as well.
Sachin Jose
《 Please comment the words “Jesus is King” in your mother tongue. My mother tongue is Malayalam. In Malayalam language we say: “യേശു രാജാവാണ്” 》
Report comment
Why are some women obsessed with menstruation?
Report comment
Apart from fucking with people, in what way does restricting the NRL grand final to 75% capacity logically prove or achieve anything?
Report comment
‘in what way does restricting the NRL grand final to 75% capacity logically prove or achieve anything?’
***
Good question.
The seating at Suncorp is shoulder to shoulder.
And if it’s 75% capacity that would mean possibly you could have a family sit without spacing then others be spaced, but that’s just not going to happen. Tickets have been sold for particular seating areas.
Anna should declare that Qld is now living with covid, have full capacity at the GF, and tell everyone to judge the risk yourself. Like adults.
Report comment
The funny thing is the bloke concerned was a lefty. Only follows the ABC. I told him to check the sources to get the real story. We actually had a lot in common.
Report comment
Below is an essay I found while wandering around on Project Gutenberg. I will lose the copy when I go back to the source, so here it is for now. I can say that it was written by an American woman about 100 years ago.
A BRETON AMONG HSÜ HSI
The black-and-white maid told me I was expected and showed me into the
drawing-room to wait. As I waited I looked around at the beautiful
room with the leaden depression which such beautiful rooms always
produce in me. It was a wonderfully elaborate composition with as many
details in it as there are notes on a page of music, and every one of
them was correct and accredited. As I stepped in through the door the
whole shouted in my ears a pæan of religiously devout acceptance of the
fashion then prevailing in interior decoration.
The floor was dully lustrous, avoiding the vulgar shininess of varnish
so esteemed a decade or so before. There was a great deal of black in
all the fabrics as was then the fashion (now it would be vermilion
and verdigris green); chintz curtains with a black background and a
splashingly-colored design of wreaths and strange large birds; black
satin sofa-pillows, with stiff quilled ruffles in brilliant colors
to match the birds. The shades of the electric lights (which were
of course designed to make them look like candles) were ornamented
with cut-out black silhouettes of nude ladies with extremely long
legs. The furniture was either all “antique” or had been doctored to
look as though it were. A large, dark, carved chest stood against a
wall–to contain what it was difficult to conjecture. The chairs had
the correct kind of legs and backs and arms, that is, the kind that
had not yet been copied sufficiently to spoil it for the discerning
taste; and the straight, curiously-shaped table was at least two jumps
ahead of anything shown at that time even by the most enterprising
department-store. The walls, in accordance with the order of the
day, were for the most part smartly and knowingly bare, with a
few permissible reproductions of Chinese landscapes; one a tall,
narrow study of bamboo shoots, another a long, narrow study of snowy
mountains, depicted in three or four lines (this year it would be, I
suppose, an 1858 panel by Jolly).
I sat down in what looked like the most comfortable of the
distinguished chairs, my feet on one of the correctly Oriental rugs,
and looked dispiritedly about me for some sign of living taste in all
that tastefully arranged room. There was plenty of taste shown there;
but it smelled so of the pages of an expensive magazine printed on
highly-glazed paper, that presently, as I sat there, despairing of
my race, I felt my own body take on the same flat, two-dimensional
unreality. Well, that is the sort of flat and unreal creatures human
beings are when it comes to taste, I reflected.
There was not, so far as I could see, one single object in that room
(and God knows there were plenty of objects in it!) which rang out with
the clear, brave note of a thing chosen because it gives pleasure.
Everything about me wore a large, invisible but plainly legible
placard, setting forth that it was there because it was “the thing”;
and that the instant “the thing” was something else it would be cast
out and replaced with something else as meaningless as itself in the
life of the owner.
The whole expensive show was perched on the branch of other people’s
opinions, and was ready to fall to the ground as soon as that branch
waved in the wind of a new fashion. There was not one object which
suggested what you might think would be the first, simple, hearty,
healthy instinct of prospering humanity, the desire to surround itself
with what it likes. No, in its abject consistency, the room shamelessly
proclaimed that its ambition was to be well thought of by “people in
the know” and not at all to please the family who had paid for it and
had to live with it.
Docility in human beings is always a dreadful quality, but docility
in matters of taste is shameful. I sighed, and fixed my eyes on what
looked like a Chardin. Oh, yes, Chardin was “in” now, I remembered.
But an ordinary private family would be as little likely to own a
real Chardin as a real Veermeer. I reflected that as soon as it was
discovered not to be a genuine one, it would certainly be sent off to
the junk shop. And yet it was a delightful canvas, apparently by some
one of the period who had absorbed Chardin’s atmosphere and loved it as
we do. If it looked so much like a Chardin that only the X-ray could
tell the difference, why wasn’t it as good as a Chardin? I fell into a
meditation on the hideous ways of collectors of pictures, blasphemers
against the Holy Ghost of Art that they are. Ostensibly they buy
pictures because they love good paintings (I am not referring to art
_dealers_!). A collector sees a small canvas, said to be a Teniers,
and is ready to pay a fantastic price for it, enough to endow a school
for all time. Some expert with a chemical test proves that it is not a
Teniers. It is the same picture as before, the very same; but now the
lover of good art would not hang it on his walls, if it were given to
him.
What kind of a race is that to belong to, I asked myself plaintively.
They don’t want beauty, they don’t want art, they haven’t even the
plain courage that any dog or monkey has, to want what they want. They
want what other people pretend to want.
I got up restlessly, crossed over to the other side of the room,
turned my eyes to the side I had left, and was electrified. There
in the center of the wall, next to a small reproduction of a Madhu
camel-fight, was a large canvas, a solidly painted, honest, dark,
sentimental Jules Breton. I gazed at it with profound thankfulness.
There was not an extenuating circumstance. It was his usual peasant
girl, done with his usual pseudo-realism, with her usual bare feet,
every muddy toe conscientiously drawn, and it had darkened to the usual
Breton gloom. It swore at the top of its voice at all the knowing,
Orientalized, simplified, subtle things about it, and my heart leaped
up to hear it swear. For it sounded like a living voice.
Here was something that must have been bought some time ago (for nobody
can actually have bought a Breton recently), which must have been hung
on the wall when Bretons were in style. But it had not been banished
when the style had changed!
And yet the rest of the room told me unmistakably that the owner of
that room knew as well as any one else what was now thought of that
Breton by people “in the know.”
Well, there was one visitor who appreciated it. Never before had I
thought to admire so ardently the dull, faithful, unimaginative surface
of a Breton. But I gazed at it with affection. There could be no reason
for its presence except that somebody liked it enough to keep it in
spite of what other people thought. Well, now–I took heart–maybe the
situation wasn’t so desperate as I had thought. Perhaps we may have a
live national taste in art, twenty or more generations later on. If
there was _any_body not an artist himself, who had the honesty and
courage which must be at the foundation of anything alive in artistic
taste, why perhaps….
Just then a dreadful possibility came into my mind–perhaps it had been
a wedding present from a wealthy uncle not to be offended?
On this my host and hostess came in. As we talked of the object of my
visit (which had nothing to do with art) I was constantly spying on the
expression of their eyes, listening half-hopefully, half-despairingly
to the sound of their voices, watching feverishly every turn of
expression in their kind, honest faces. I had never seen them before
that day and probably shall have no occasion to see them again. But I
often think of them and wonder about them. They really looked as though
they might be capable of not being ashamed to like a picture no longer
in fashion. Perhaps they _had_ kept that Breton on their walls out of
sheer, honest, brave, artistic integrity….
But the more I think of it, the more unlikely it seems.
Report comment
What’s the rules for getting on the suds at the cakko or paddo?
Report comment
OK. It is from a collection of essys called ‘Raw Material’ by Dorothy Canfield Fisher, published in New York in 1923.
The whole book is well worth a read. She reminds me of another New York Dorothy who was to become famous for her sharp observations.
Report comment
Johanna! Love it.
The whole expensive show was perched on the branch of other people’s
opinions, and was ready to fall to the ground as soon as that branch
waved in the wind of a new fashion.
A keeper. Who is the author?
Report comment
“Why are some women obsessed with menstruation?”
They’re just bloody minded I guess.
Report comment
Axl Rosé says:
September 30, 2021 at 5:28 pm
………………….
LOL
Report comment
This video (re-posting) of the PM of this country speaking to the UN General Assembly. The footage displays that he is either a hypocrite or completely oblivious to reality.
My suggestion:
Email this video to as many Federal, State and Local LNP members as possible.
Cc to Scotty, of course. And to Gulag G, too.
Add your own message to it.
Let them know why they will not be getting your vote, again.
Email this link, too. The reputation of Australia, overseas.
From Gateway Pundit:
《Australia under Morrison is unrecognizable. Surely, he knows this. And obviously, he doesn’t care.
This is one of the best videos made on the new world order and lying politicians 》
Report comment
Federal
Contacting Senators and Members
Open the PDF File. It contains the email addresses.
State
NSW
VIC
Check websites of other states
Report comment
From the website of Australian Criminal and Family Lawyers:
Why the “Police Lockdown Powers” are Unlawful
《Since 26 June 2021, New South Wales has been subject to the longest and harshest lockdown the State has experienced since the start of the Pandemic.
While the restrictions and conditions have increased substantially with time, surprisingly, so have the powers that have purportedly been given to the NSW Police Force.》
《 Note: This article is not intended to be legal advice and reliance should not be placed on this document as legal advice. This is the authors views on the law and is not intended to apply to any particular circumstances. We recommend that you obtain legal advice specific to your circumstances.》
Report comment
When the first Lockdan of this year was lifted in regional Victoria, Geelong were permitted a 25% capacity crowd. They were all squeezed into one corner of the stadium.
Some footy commentators made note of the ridiculousness but any enquiry seemed to go no further.
Do they do this to laugh at us?
Report comment
Cossack and Bosi are having a live chat.
The link should revert to a video once it is over. If not I’ll repost it. I missed the start.
Aussie Cossack & Ricardo Bosi LIVE
Report comment
Strata premises in NSW probably cover a wide range from a very small block to large complexes of hundred apartments or maybe more. Some small blocks have outdoor garages, mailboxes and garbage bins areas. Bigger blocks may have mailboxes in the foyer, underground parking and spaces for garbage bins.
This means the possibility of transmission of the virus (whatever that is) in common areas differs depending on the kind of building, block or complex.
The NSW government is too chicken to pick out specific areas as their targets. So, everyone living in Stratas gets hit with the same Gestapo set of rules. Even if you are staying at home, ordering your groceries online, they are still finding ways to take away your freedom, get your contact details, force a testing regime.
There was a time when you had to worry about police if you were doing something illegal, breaking the law, speeding, dealing in drugs. Now, just leaving your home to put out the garbage or pick your mail from the mailbox is the equivalent of breaking lockdown rules.
Not content with the Gulag Strata rules in July, a new order was issued this month.
《This is a revision of the previous order (“No 2”) and incorporates provisions specifically to support apartment lockdowns.
The order gives the NSW Minister for Health the power to declare premises with more than 2 dwellings a “high COVID-19 risk” premises and force residents into a hard lockdown 》
Report comment
The Bee is on the money again:
NEW YORK, NY—After being found guilty of a series of grisly murders in the upstate New York area, convicted killer Simon Davis, a.k.a. “Stabbin’ Simon”, has been sentenced to life in Australia without the possibility of parole.
Davis collapsed in the courtroom as the sentence was passed down. “NOOOOOOOO! Anything but that, please! Send me to Sing Sing! Alcatraz! Azkaban! Anywhere! But PLEASE! Not Australia!”
Formerly a prosperous Western nation and beautiful vacation destination, Australia has more recently been transformed into a massive prison colony reserved for the worst of the worst, such as rapists, murderers, and people who go outside for some fresh air without permission.
“In this case, the punishment certainly fits the crime,” said Judge Stephanie Anders, who passed the sentence. “In Austalia, Davis will be forced to reflect on his horrific crime as he wanders through the bush, avoiding spiders, snakes, and coppers who want to bash his skull in for not wearing his mask over his nose.”
The ACLU has filed suit, saying exile to Australia is unconstitutional as it is cruel and unusual punishment.
Report comment
Bosi is thinking like me re:cops. Chuck sickies, take some time off work / long service leave etc. The latter I didn’t consider to be honest.
Cops have no excuses…. ‘following orders’ will not cut it.
Report comment
The Bee is on the money again:
Another link to include in your email to the LNP Gulag pollies.
Will they will feel ashamed of their role in thrashing the reputation of this country?
Report comment
Meet melting face, the new emoji for all our conflicting feelings
《There are times when words feel inadequate — when one’s dread, shame, exhaustion or discomfort seems too immense to be captured in written language.
That’s where the melting face emoji comes in.
The face, fixed with a content half-smile even as it dissolves into a puddle, is one of 37 new emojis approved this year by the Unicode Consortium 》
Report comment
teve trickler says:
September 30, 2021 at 7:34 pm
Cossack and Bosi are having a live chat.
_____________________
On the live stream now, nearly 6000 watching.
Many thanks for the link
Report comment
No problem, Carpe. 👍
Thank link is still active and is now a repeat. I only saw the last 20 minutes.
Aussie Cossack & Ricardo Bosi
Report comment
Johanna I particularly liked the line “They only want what others pretend to want”. So apt for most today. Too many frightened to be themselves.
Report comment
Ben Garrison has an Aussie cartoon
Report comment
Qld
Police and health workers win reprieve on vax mandate
A group of twenty police and health workers who are challenging a mandatory vaccine order in court will not have to comply before October 12 to give the challeng time to be heard.
Report comment
The entire fake desecration narrative turned out to be all about Abbott Derangement Syndrome.
Not a single photo of litter, let alone desecration, and the left are demanding Abbott be thrown into the Sun.
Isn’t it amazing that despite thousands of people there, all with cameras, and no one took a photo? Fake news has gone to a whole new level.
Hunch jumps on the bandwagon
Report comment
The last two Leunig cartoons the Age and SMH refused to publish
Leunig #1
Report comment
Leunig #2
Report comment
Was in grade 1 Carnarvon Primary School when I first heard this. Of course I was oblivious to its meaning at the time. Today however, it resonates like never before.
Some memories never fade.
Jon and Vangelis – I’ll Find My Way Home (with lyrics)
Report comment
Australia hurtles off the rails
The Spectator Australia
‘Look what’s going on in Australia right now. After a year and a half they are still enforcing lockdowns by the military. That’s not a free country. It’s not a free country at all, in fact, I mean, I wonder why we would still have the same diplomatic relationships when they are doing that. Is Australia freer than China – communist China – right now? I don’t know, but the fact that that’s even a question tells you something has gone dramatically off the rails’.
‘Off the rails’ is putting it mildly. That was Florida’s Republican Governor Ron de Santis answering questions about last week’s protests and subsequent police crackdowns in Melbourne. For those who didn’t see the images on social media (the majority of the mainstream media avoided showing them), the approach by the Mussolini-style, black-clad Victorian Police forces included bludgeoning a man on the ground with a rifle butt, tackling numerous unsuspecting individuals onto concrete surfaces, shooting people with rubber pellets, throwing a 70-year-old woman to the ground and then spraying her in the face with capsicum spray and other such grotesque human rights abuses almost too numerous to mention.
These images are now sweeping the globe and are fast becoming the new face of Australia. In this week’s cover story, Nyunggai Warren Mundine recalls how Covid restrictions are eerily reminiscent of the same brutal authoritarian over-reach which Indigenous Australians endured for decades. Already one Victorian police officer has been suspended but a full investigation is needed and criminal charges must be laid where police brutality has occurred. Shamefully, not a single political leader has so far addressed these potential crimes, preferring instead to demonise the protesters and hide behind the Orwellian shield of ‘public health’: ‘We are smashing you in the face, shooting you, throwing you on the ground, kicking you in the kidneys and spraying a toxic substance in your face in order to protect your health’.
This is as ugly, as repugnant and as sinister as the activities and behaviour of those tinpot dictatorships and creepy authoritarian regimes we free Australians either fled from or grew up holding in contempt. Yet it is many of those societies, from eastern Europe, from parts of Asia and South America, who now pity us. In all likelihood, the huge amount of money and effort that Australians invested in promoting the openness and beauty of our nation around the planet has now been rendered redundant by these new images of the ugliness perpetrated primarily, but not exclusively, by the narcissistic authoritarian regime of the Victorian Labor government of Daniel Andrews and the unacceptable fascist behaviour of its police force.
Of course, police must be allowed to do their job and law and order must be upheld and public property protected. But not at the expense of long-cherished and hard-won personal freedoms, the hallmark of a self-respecting democracy.
Although some of the protesters may have been ‘Nazi man-babies’ as the reliably obnoxious and unctuous Bill Shorten sneered at his own union members, and ‘anti-vaxxers’ no doubt made up a hefty percentage of those most fervently protesting, the simple truth is that these demonstrations were the inevitable and predictable result of arguably unconstitutional and illegal mandatory vaccination rules being forced upon the citizens of this country. Inevitable because there can never be a justification for coercing people into injecting a foreign substance into their bodies against their better judgment and predictable because we have seen similar demonstrations in many countries around the world, most notably in France. Here, only one politician has genuinely railed against the assault on our democracy and way of life, the United Australia Party’s Craig Kelly. Taking out full page ads in the mainstream media and saying what once the journalists themselves would have been proud and principled enough to say, Mr Kelly writes:
Dear Prime Minister, The violence on the streets of Melbourne has shocked the nation. To see in the shadows of the Shrine of Remembrance, Victorian Police firing rubber bullets into the backs of fleeing protesters is what you might see in a dystopian dictatorship – not in a free and democratic nation. This division and violence is being driven by one issue – the State Premiers wanting to enforce a Domestic Vaccine Passport. I no longer recognise the nation I grew up in, and as Prime Minister the buck stops with you. You have the power to end this division by banning Domestic Vaccine Passports, as many states in the USA have done.
There is legislation (I have introduced) modelled on Florida’s legislation which bans discrimination based on Covid vaccination status. The case for vaccine passports has been debunked by experts around the world.
I implore you Prime Minister to stop the division in our society through a despicable ‘No Jab, No Job’ policy; to end the chaos and madness that the nation has fallen into under your watch; and to restore our nation’s freedoms by recalling Parliament and urgently passing the No Covid Domestic Vaccine Passport Bill 2021.’
Report comment