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Hayden believes players should not be able to pick and choose which national tours they go on
+1 on that, KD.
Rebuilding is part of every team’s evolution and in fact it also can help the individual in his/her personal growth; so have him start right now. (And we need the same commitment in the political arena so we can get what we pay for).
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“On the fracturing of the Cat – the Internet is a “winner take all” numbers game. Ask Facebook competitors. I’ll give it a while longer. Got to keep an eye on Bird and the nano wrigglers though.”
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True but some of Facebook’s competitors are doing okay…such as Minds. I think at the moment there’s room for more than one Cat. Thankfully Bird has gone….for the time being….however just like the sun rises everyday in the east….Bird will be back.
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Jo Nova really is a Loon. Karening about the virus again this morning.
Seriously, she’s a complete fool.
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“The Age.”
‘Palpable fear’: The Afghan advocate takes on the Victoria Cross winner
Nick Bonyhady
By Nick Bonyhady
August 19, 2021 — 11.23pm
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There was no doubting their common sincerity as the Afghan-Australian human rights campaigner and the Victoria Cross recipient spoke to their respective communities. But that was where the common ground ended in a gripping exchange on Q+A. And at the end of the debate over Australia’s plans to take 3000 refugees from Afghanistan, only the soldier had won the public support of the Immigration Minister.
Victoria Cross recipient Daniel Keighran went first. “To start with, let me first say that as a veteran myself, I know there’s a lot of hurt in the veteran community right now,” Keighran said. “Let me say that your service absolutely was worthwhile in Afghanistan.”
Diana Sayed, chief executive of the Australian Muslim Women’s Centre for Human Rights, started the same way. “I want to say: Afghans, I see you, I hear you, I am one of you,” Sayed said. “And I’d also like to say there is palpable fear right now for those here in Australia for loved ones back at home, and for the rest of us who are reliving past traumas for our parents and our families and their experiences of war.”
Asked by host David Speers whether Australia’s initial commitment to accept 3000 Afghan refugees after the rapid collapse of the Afghan government and seizure of power by the Taliban was enough, Sayed was adamant it was not nearly enough.
“We need an emergency intake of an additional 20,000 visas to be granted to Afghans,” she said, naming those who have assisted Australian troops such as translators as a priority along with vulnerable groups such as women and LGBT people.
Keighran, who joined the army at 17 and deployed to East Timor, Iraq and then Afghanistan twice, made clear the risks in his view.
“I think there’s plenty of reasons from my personal experiences on the ground [not to do that],” he said. Keighran recounted an ambush in 2010 in Afghanistan’s Uruzgan Province where he drew fire to himself three times in an attempt to save a mortally wounded comrade’s life. It won him the Victoria Cross, Australia’s highest military honour.
“The reason it was so big, that engagement, was because the Afghan National Army commander on the ground was working for the Taliban,” Keighran said. Other veterans had told him of their interpreters guiding them into improvised explosives, he said. Vetting of potential refugees was important, he said, but Keighran ended with this: “I went to Afghanistan to fight the problems in Afghanistan, let’s not import those problems to Australia.”
Sayed would have none of it. Keighran’s whole way of presenting the issue in military terms reduced Afghans to security threats, she said. “You’re flattening us as a people… We’re here to tell you that we’re human beings worthy of being granted safety just like anyone else.” It traduced Australia’s vetting process too, she added.
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min says:
August 20, 2021 at 8:29 am
min, Gladys is not being hammering in NSW for her love affairs; she’s being hammered for her 180 turnaround on how to deal with ‘rona. She is deliberately and consciously wrecking the state’s economy after being monstered by the PM and General Frewin. She has abrogated her responsibility to the residents of NSW; it’s time for her to go, or be rolled.
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Bird does have occasional use as beare repellant.
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The Cairns taxi driver infected with the super dooper infectious Delta variant spent 10 days driving very vulnerable indigenous passengers around town and transmitted the disease. To absolutely no one.
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I’ve got friendly noisy miners taking food away to all four points of the compass! The suburb will be awash. Which is a good thing since they can displace indian mynahs if they have sufficient strength in numbers. Nearest nest is in a small tree in neighbours’ yard to the west, the others seem to be a lot further away.
Only one resident butcherbird at the moment as his lady is too busy right now to come to the Cafe, but hubby makes up for her absence by enthusiastically taking great quantities of mince back for her.
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Patience, Baba.
The Miasma is lurking, waiting to pounce.
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“Bird does have occasional use as beare repellant.”
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Wrong…..there is no “use” for Bird on any platform
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Good comment Knuckles. Everything in life is standards, don’t be surprised with the results if you have none.
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Calli
I have noticed some interesting differences. For a start, Dover’s site doesn’t appear to attract trolls, whereas this place oozes with them. We are so blessed.
Sad news, Dover was plagued by Steve from Brisbane and Homer yesterday.
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“I went to Afghanistan to fight the problems in Afghanistan, let’s not import those problems to Australia”
Probably the most cogent statement uttered about Afghanistan in the 20 years we were there, and, quite possibly, the most cogent statement said on any subject in this country in the last 18 months.
The question is, will it get the proper degree of coverage it is worthy of by the media class and the politicians?
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Auchan in Marseille: anti passport activists blocked the entrance to the Auchan supermarket because it refuses entry to non-vaccinated customers. 👊
https://twitter.com/chrissy_2697/status/1428306886336688133?s=21
Good on them. If we can’t come in, no one can…
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Scroll down a bit from this tweet and there’s a message from a Dr. Utsava about something going on at Bondi Beach. I can’t click into it because twitter won’t let me without joining and I refuse to join.
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‘More than 90 Australians and Afghans have landed in Perth this morning as Scott Morrison said the rescue mission could be increased.’
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What does Mark Moron say about this?____________________________________________________________Were they vaccinated first before being allowed in?
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OK, I better go and do something…
Actually, before I go, I just will say that I don’t miss that endless cry of a previous time of “play nice.” It was patronising and always seemed to me that some of those who said it, seldom did it.
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Misery likes company. If we are unable to share the joy, let’s make everyone equally joyless.
There is probably some link there with the second law of thermodynamics.
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BBS , discussion was to do with her stepping down as a result of ICAC investigations into the ex boyfriend where she might get tarnished in the results .
As for Covid backflip, up until now Glad has followed advice of Chant but there appears to be a split , as observed from Danistan . Chant wants harder lockdown . So who runs the show Premier or CMO ? Or will there be a stouthearted after months of getting along together?
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“What does Mark Moron say about this?____________________________________________________________Were they vaccinated first before being allowed in?”
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Quarantined at the Hyatt Regency..
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That would be me. But also with the understanding that there would be a cleaning up of bloodstains and body removal. And perhaps a skip for the broken furniture.
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According to Michael Smith news , Astra Zeneca has been renamed Vaxaveria
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From Dover’s –
“Those who take Covid ‘vaccines’ … have a HIGHER risk of severe disease or even death”
Steve Kates
Posted on August 19, 2021
https://newcatallaxy.blog/2021/08/19/those-who-take-covid-vaccines-have-a-higher-risk-of-severe-disease-or-even-death/
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The issue is not Afghanis per se. It is large groups collectively from low-trust societies with war torn, socially dislocated upbringings not able or equiped to actively participate in wider society. Enough examples on the streets already. Not sure there is anything in it for us to add another one.
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‘One of Sydney’s most iconic eateries, Chinatown’s Golden Century Seafood Restaurant, has gone into administration with one staff member saying they had been “terminated”.’
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Most restaurants are on the verge of insolvency at the best of times. Surprised any are left at all.
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Hi graeme.
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How did Mc Clown let them in?
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Another medical expert
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/im-angry-about-covid-lies-tennis-legend-pat-cash/
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Interesting bear.
I remember a former colleague saying a few years ago he could buy a restaurant in his speciality for 10k any time he wanted to.
Because there were literally too many
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Some businesses fail! News at eleven.
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Rosie, he appears to have put more thought into it than the dumbo NRL players currently spruiking frankenshots.
The YouTube comments look positive.
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Chinatown’s Golden Century Seafood Restaurant
Isn’t that an ALP hang-out?
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The question is, will it get the proper degree of coverage it is worthy of by the media class and the politicians?
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I think the politicians are on board.
Morrison has said the window of opportunity is small & the numbers will be modest.
We won’t be bringing in 20 000 Afghani alphabet people.
Not least because the “optics” of doing that when we have 30 000+ Australian citizens stranded abroad are not politically tenable.
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Isn’t that an ALP hang-out?
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Was.
Meanwhile, as I noted yesterday, the local rag has a new regular features:
Business Liquidations.
Unemployment in QLD now the highest in the nation thanks to tourism being decimated and our CHO is threatening a “months long” lockdown if just 1 Delta case occurs in the community.
This is the CHO who lets movie stars in because “it’s good for the economy”.
We are governed by idiots.
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calli says:
August 20, 2021 at 9:12 am
calli, I remember your morning check-in with, “what a mess! ‘ere, you lot, it needs a clean up ’round ‘ere” A great resetting of the Cat’s equilibrium, it was/is(?😁). Direct, yes; patronising, no.
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Roger – hard to see how commercial property comes back after this Covid or no Covid.
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We are governed by idiots.
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Speaking of which, Joe Biden closed Trump’s Afghanistan Contingency and Crisis Response office.
He lied to the world when he said every contingency was planned for. He’d sacked the very people who were tasked by Trump with doing that.
As Barack Obama once said, “never underestimate Joe’s ability to fuck things up”.
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Peter Campion (cardimona)
All the worst Hitlerian tendencies of the international left are on full display again. Mandatory medical experiments (gene-altering vaccines), domestic travel documents (vax passports), house arrest for the innocent (lockdowns), fascism (forced business closures and business models). What a shame we stopped teaching history. Now we’re going to repeat it. And you know who’ll suffer the worst? Women, the elderly and the disabled. Woz, Parramatta Park
A whistleblower in the aged care sector in Hawaii has revealed that covid vaccines are killing the elderly – and their deaths are being recorded as being caused by covid, because that qualifies the organisation for government covid cheques. Tam, Brinsmead
I’m a tradesman in the transport sector. I have never seen so many tradies and truckies so filled with loathing for politicians. Nobody thinks all this is about a disease any more. We don’t understand what politicians are up to, but we know we don’t like it. Mechanic, Smithfield
The army could supply a pontoon bridge for the Barron at Kuranda. It wouldn’t take much to rejuvenate the road approaches to the earlier low-level bridge. Use them to take heavy vehicles off the the high-level bridge and then reopen it fully to light traffic. That’d give the government time to fix its failure to plan properly. Frank, Kuranda
Covid is actually the most treatable respiratory virus ever – but the governments of the western world want an unmanageable pandemic for political control reasons and therefore that’s what we now have. Mark W. Redlynch
A global psychological operation (psyop) such as “covid” may have worked in the past, but in the age of the internet a complicit media is just not enough. “Vax hesitant” people are simply everyone who knows governments and media lie and who do their own research. One Tooth Wally, Cairns North
Everyone knows the climate changes but only the left believe humans can control it. Same with Covid. Everyone knows there’s a new flu every year but only the left believe the government responses to this year’s variant are justified. Everyone used to believe we had a left and right in domestic politics but now only the left believe that because almost all our politicians are acting as leftists. People who don’t lean left are going to be looking for somewhere new to park their votes. Darryl, Westcourt
Geez, we’re aiming low with our “magnificent seven” construction projects, aren’t we? No new dams? No new reliable power stations? No new overpasses? Colour me underwhelmed. Moorooboolian, Cairns
I feel that we have lost our civilisation – because tyrants now control our governments and the majority of the voter population have been completely brainwashed by domestic media which is owned and run by our ideological enemies. Jennifer, Edge Hill
“Vax was key to why Delta didn’t spread” (CP, 19/8). Ha ha, that headline was widely predicted – because it’s been used elsewhere. No, the vaccinated are shedding virus particles. The vaccinated are spreading Delta. The vaccinated are the ones who should be isolated and shunned. Fortunately, Delta is just the common cold so it only bumps off the terminally unhealthy anyway. Joanne, Manunda
Tom Urban (CP, 18/8) what’s your alternative to opening up regardless of Covid? A prison island locked down forever? Even the remotest islands got Spanish Flu eventually. David Clapham (CP, 18/8) there are no videos of people dying of covid. There are only videos of people with respiratory illness such as we’re used to seeing. There are no excess deaths in any country. There’s only inevitable deaths brought forward slightly. And you’d jail people? “First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a socialist.” Careful what you wish for. Ray E, Trinity Beach
If you can smell a fart through your silly mask you can catch a virus through it, too. That’s just science. Chloe, Kuranda
Once the truth comes out about the covid panicdemic – and it will – the media employees who wilfully blocked that truth will be pilloried. “Just following orders” wasn’t a valid defence for Auschwitz guards and it won’t help Australian journalists either. Higgs, Tolga
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Buy your local member a dog as thanks for standing up for your rights, defending the constitution and so on. This dog. https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-r9kBALZenkU/YRrzdsmsYSI/AAAAAAAA8Gg/75nwM9yfa_EFQzAPtqhf6mQcx7eJ0Ul9ACLcBGAsYHQ/s444/daily_gifdump_3621_02.gif
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Why are we Giving Legal aid to Convicted Rapists?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_d-PwC8HQI
Aug 20, 2021
The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters
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THE problem has always been that the ‘proper channels’ of Police, Courts & Govt Ministers are full of ‘gates’ opened to drown the victims in despair & give the child rapists swift & smooth rides to safety.
Keep it in mind when those who point it out are fobbed off as, “Crazy Conspiracy Theorists”, and especially when they’re told to, ‘shut up & take their concerns to the police.’
Victims of child sex slavers are still being sold out by ‘proper channels’, to this day.
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Roger – hard to see how commercial property comes back after this Covid or no Covid.
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On the upside, Bear, universities are being told their business model is obsolete.
No need for foreign students to come to our shores when they can log in online.
I suspect there’ll be quite a drop in demand without the lure of a visa attached.
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Bits of the universities will make lovely apartments or retirement villages. Much of the new stuff will have to be demolished.
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Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says:
August 20, 2021 at 8:45 am
“The Age.”
‘Palpable fear’: The Afghan advocate takes on the Victoria Cross winner
Nick Bonyhady
By Nick Bonyhady
August 19, 2021 — 11.23pm
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The afghan advocate should shut her fucking gob and count her blessings. It’s because of skanks like her that BRS is being prosecuted. There are no civilians in wars like afshitistan.
Speaking of muzzies good to hear Langer is standing up to the token one in the team and the snowflakes. Don’t forget these ratbags were busy taking the knee during the recent T20 when the WI wiped the floor with them.
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I had a quick look at doover’s site.
It is infested with a “rosie”.
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Could be worse. Could be invested with a know nothing, nothing to add sad sack called incoherent rambler
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Roger:
We won’t be bringing in 20 000 Afghani alphabet people.
Not least because the “optics” of doing that when we have 30 000+ Australian citizens stranded abroad are not politically tenable
Good point.
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Adam should rename this blog to ‘Rosies rant site’
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Bloody hell SSR, the way Rosie and Lizzie are dismissing all evidence regarding the dangers of the vaccineshotzunfucken could almost have me believe you that they are being paid. Especially on other cat sites.
They’re meowing and hissing all over the place.
However, it’s probably closer to the truth to say, ….never underestimate what some women will do to twist the real world into their reality, especially when they know they’ve stuffed up big time.
Hysteria and it’s side effects.
More people have died from these so called vaccines than all others put together in the history of vaccines.
Yet they are not halted.
Facts matter.
And we don’t know how many more will fall because they are untested.
Maybe all of them, who knows, ……….the planet needs saving, and the bastards keep breathing out carbon.
By the way, do we all remember before this happening, the sudden rush to legalise killing babies up to and after birth?
Came out of left field didn’t it.
And Government assisted culling of the old.
(saves a shit load of money)
But I digress…….well what do you expect from me?!
No other disease needs a passport , it’s almost as if no other diseases exist at the moment……………….well the flu has been renamed, and death by old age is now death by covid….
And the insanity continues with people believing they’ll vote their tyrants out next election…..(you can’t make this shit up) and oh, yes, our pollies are just stupid.
Incompetent.
If they are following Klaus’s orders which they seem to be doing, to kill Australia and Australians, Australia has the best and brightest pollies on the planet.
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Google mobility data compiled by The Age
Your phone as is your personal spy.
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Some of the headlines about the zombie’s withdrawl from afshitistan:
Joe Biden Claims ‘No One’s Being Killed Right Now’ in Kabul Despite Reports of 12 Deaths
Biden Ensures States, Cities Have No Veto Power Over Afghan Refugees
Report: Biden Admin Charging Americans Up to $2000 Per Evacuation from Kabul
CAN’T MAKE THIS UP: Biden State Dept. Focused on Gender Equality as 10,000-20,000 Americans Remain Trapped inside Afghanistan
‘That’s Not True’ – Biden Throws Military Brass Under the Bus, Claims They Never Urged Him to Keep 2,500 Troops in Afghanistan to Maintain Stability (VIDEO)
BIDEN EFFECT: US Lost Several Military Aircraft that Were Flown Out of Afghanistan – They Have No Idea How Many Were Lost — VIDEO
Taliban Execute Four Afghanistan Army and Police Commanders in Kandahar Cricket Stadium
In a just world the zombie and about 100 of the swamp would be dropped in afshitistan for the talifucks to play with.
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He should always be welcome here just for that reason.
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Oh, forgot this one:
Biden says Taliban is just ‘going through sort of an existential crisis,’ gives them credit
Biden should be executed.
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Bits of the universities will make lovely apartments or retirement villages. Much of the new stuff will have to be demolished.
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Demolished to make way for affordable housing for working families would be a good way to go.
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“incoherent rambler says:
August 20, 2021 at 10:38 am
I had a quick look at doover’s site.
It is infested with a “rosie”.”
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Yes, I just emerged from there & believe Mater deserves a medal for –
“The Keeping of Good Will Under a Barrage of Bad Will and Suffocating Arrogance.”
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I don’t think we will be seeing the same demand from Chinese developers the next time around. Whether working families can get a look in, who knows?
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Eyrie says at 8:47 am:
Ho, ho, ho! 😁😂🤣
… which identifies me as a bad person deserving of a darting, flicking tongue and a hiss about being boring or old or incurious all my life or something. 😎 “Dark alleys and dangerous beings” are all about!
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The real Obama revealed:
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-vanishing-legacy-of-barack-obama-147
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Why would you want to repel bears?
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Eyrie, +1
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Dan Bongino saying history will deal harshly with the zombie, his sec of defence, lloyd austin, general miley and the swamp. It is not enough that history deals with them; they have to be dealt with now; with ropes.
Still, as usual, a very good episode of Bongino:
https://rumble.com/vleont-ep.-1588-bidens-shocking-admission-the-dan-bongino-show.html?mref=6zof&mc=dgip3&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The+Dan+Bongino+Show&ep=2
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Kerry Chant highlighting sewage detections.
I can detect something as well when I watch your presser 💩
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Reports of Army being deployed to Shepparton. Signs are of a Statewide lockdown coming to Victoria
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Three people in their 80s have died:
‘Four people with Covid-19 died overnight, including:
A woman in her 80s from Sydney’s inner west died at Royal North Shore Hospital, who was a resident at Wyoming Aged Care Facility and is the fourth death linked to this cluster.
A man in his 70s from south-east Sydney died at St George Hospital, where he acquired his infection.
A man in his 80s from western Sydney died at Nepean Hospital, where he acquired his infection, the second death linked to the outbreak there.
A woman in her 80s from south-west Sydney died at Campbelltown Hospital.
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https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/something-is-wrong-with-the-president/
In other NRO news “The Titanic was sunk by an Iceberg”
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An srr endorsement.
I’d be delighted if I got one of those.
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Gulag Gladys concerned that as many as 200 people have been picked up by NSW Police for “wandering around”.
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Hahahahh Eyrie, well said
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People getting covid in Sydney hospitals.
Not exactly good news
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According to the media reports the 1st plane with Afghan refugees has landed in Perth with 90 folk on board …. must be bloody quick breeders yesterday’s news said 26 on board …….!
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Gladys’ is buggered now.
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Curfew introduced for Greater Sydney.
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Fair Shake says:
August 20, 2021 at 11:21 am
Reports of Army being deployed to Shepparton. Signs are of a Statewide lockdown coming to Victoria
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I will type what I just said out loud: OH FFS (full version)
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Calls to suicide crisis line at 57-year high
ANGELICA SNOWDEN
Australia’s biggest suicide support line has recorded the most calls for help it has ever received in one day, amid concerns about longterm mental health consequences of Covid-19 restrictions.
Lifeline counsellors received 3436 calls on Monday – more than any other day in 57 years. Monday was also the day that cases in NSW reached a new high of 478 – a figure since surpassed.
Covid-19 was a physical and mental health pandemic, Lifeline Australia chair John Brogden said.
“While Monday was our busiest day on record, it wasn’t a oneoff. It’s been a difficult few year for everyone in the community,” he said. “We’ve seen demand grow 20 per cent since 2019 and it continues to ramp up. Five of Lifeline’s 10 busiest days on record have occurred just this month.
“These are challenging times, it is OK not to be feeling OK.”
On August 5, 3425 Australians called the service. And on August 2, 3345 dialled the helpline in what were the organisation’s second and third busiest days respectively.
The news came after The Australian revealed eight Victorian teenage girls died by suicide in the year to July 31, up from one in the same period in 2020 and three in 2019. The rise prompted youth mental health expert Patrick McGorry to describe mental health fallout from Covid restrictions as a “shadow pandemic”.
After they endured one of the longest and strictest lockdowns in the world in 2020, Victorians faced further tough news on Tuesday – that their sixth lockdown would be extended by another two weeks, with a 9pm-to-5am curfew enforced. As NSW, Victoria and the ACT remained in lockdown, new research indicated mental health fallout may extend beyond lockdowns.
A study conducted by Monash University and the Austin Hospital and which surveyed 1157 Victorians, found poor mental health did not appear to be linked with high Covid-19 case numbers. Psychological problems did not improve as cases dropped, according to the report.
“Stability in rates of poor mental health across time and region stands in stark contrast to variation in SARS-CoV-2 infections and Covid-19 hospitalisations and deaths, suggesting that … adverse mental health impact during the pandemic may be insensitive to objective Covid-19 risk,” the report reads.
Of those surveyed, one third reported they had anxiety or depressive symptoms in September 2020. About 16 per cent – or 196 – said they wished they were dead in the past 30 days. And 110 – or 9.5 per cent – reported serious suicidal ideation in the past month.
Study co-author and Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health deputy director Shantha Rajaratnam said behavioural and lifestyle changes – sleep disturbance, reduced outdoor time and increased screen time – appeared to be risk factors for poor mental health. “We concluded there are likely to be direct and indirect effects of Covid,” Professor Rajaratnam said.
“Sharp increases reported in mental health (issues) persisted until September at least in Victoria and through to February in the US. That warrants a more sustainable government response to address these mental health problems in the community.”
Professor Rajaratnam said the report highlighted the need for improved access to mental health support services. “This study at the height of Victoria’s long lockdown, at a time when case loads were relatively low, provided us with a unique opportunity to robustly assess the indirect mental health effects of the pandemic, such as isolation, lack of certainty about income and work, homeschooling, disrupted routines and so on,” he said.
“(The Victorian 2020 lockdown) helped the rest of the world to understand what may be expected … in a situation like this and therefore what supports need to be put in place.”
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Chant asking people to “hang with us for the next 4- 6 weeks”.
🤔
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Would I be right in assuming the ADF had its pants pulled down by the Biden Afghan withdrawal as well?
That is, we were fed shit from their millitary/intelligence fundament about “months to withdraw’ as opposed to hours?
Gee lucky we got rid of that chap doing mean tweets who was damaging Alliances around the world eh?
RTWT
Taliban violently block Australian citizens from Kabul airport evacuation flights
Australians report being hit with weapons and whipped by Taliban militants when they presented their documents
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/20/taliban-violently-block-australian-citizens-from-kabul-airport-evacuation-flights
On Thursday afternoon, the Australian government issued a public message to Australian citizens and visa-holders in the Afghan capital to travel to Kabul airport to board an evacuation flight out of the country that has fallen to the Taliban.
That group includes a number of former interpreters who served alongside Australian forces, and whose service – in Australian uniform – has made them particular targets for Taliban retribution.
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But despite Taliban assurances that those seeking to leave the country would be granted “safe passage”, militant fighters blocked the gates to the airport, letting few through, and beating and shooting at some who tried to pass.
Many of those seeking a flight out of Afghanistan got to within a few hundred metres of the plane that could take them out, only to be pushed back by armed Taliban.
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Australians at the gates to the airport reported being driven back and shots being fired. Several have reported being beaten, hit with weapons and whipped by Taliban militants when they presented their documents and insisted there were flights waiting for them.
And the US is like those WW2 German generals turning up to finally surrender and trying to insist on niceties being followed
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Craig Kelly MP
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REOPEN breast screening clinics NOW
@GladysB
President of Clinical Oncology Society of Australia has become latest voice to join calls to reopen BreastScreen NSW service
Gladys putting lives at risk by delaying early detection of cancer
DISGUSTING
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People getting covid in Sydney hospitals.
Not exactly good news
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People calling this shit “news” and believing it, is the real bad news.
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Chant asking people to “hang with us for the next 4- 6 weeks”.
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Tell her she can hang first and we promise to follow.
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Jacinda Ardern asks the Taliban to be ‘nice’ to women
Alexandra Marshall / The Spectator
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has come out and asked the Taliban to be ‘nice’ to women during this period of upheaval.
‘Of course!’
The Taliban have been brutalising women since their founding in 1994. Why didn’t anyone think to ask them to stop? We don’t need armies or weapons – just a timely press conference from a socialist dictator presiding over her prison state at the arse-end of the world.
“The international community is calling on the Taliban to demonstrate a willingness to allow people to leave, that includes foreign nationals,” said Ardern, giving the bearded desert terrorists her sternest glare.
“Demonstrate that you are going to be an administration that takes into account the wellbeing of women and girls. The whole world will be watching. It’s not a matter of trust, it’s going to be all about the actions, not the words.”
Presumably the ‘actions’ Ardern is referring to are the Taliban fighters going door-to-door, dragging families onto the street where they are massacred as a warning to others.
Religious zealots acting on the belief that God will reward them for violence and slavery are not interested in the distant bleating of a woman they’ve never heard of. Ardern wouldn’t last five minutes in Taliban-held Afghanistan, and yet the New Zealand leader appears to be under the impression that the world can do business with a pack of terrorists.
She has probably come to this conclusion because China is moving in to take control of the region.
Afghanistan, which is in a transitional process from a republic into a pre-Stone Age theocracy, is about to become the latest ‘autonomous’ region under Xi Jinping’s command.
Plenty of commentators in the West are cheering on China’s ambition to occupy Afghanistan, mistakenly thinking that it will tie the empire’s resources up for decades as it did to Europe and America.
That is an unlikely conclusion.
China has many dubious brides, and the Taliban will make a great arranged marriage. Xi Jinping has endless pockets and zero interest in human rights.
Instead of trying to impose globally recognised morality on the Taliban, China will encourage their depravity – so long as they keep the blood and explosions away from their infrastructure projects.
The world can expect China to adorn the Taliban with riches beyond their wildest dreams, leaving the world with a well-resourced religious terror group raining havoc across the globe and destabilising Western democracies while China rapes Afghanistan’s resources.
The region is home to one of the world’s largest Lithium deposits as well as rich veins of Cobalt, Copper, and Gold. So – who knows? Maybe allowing the Taliban to slaughter their way to power is in service of the ‘greater good’ Net-Zero UN Climate Change goals.
It is doubtful that this alliance will break down until China is finished taking what they want. Then, they’ll leave the warring tribes of Islam to continue what they’ve always done – fight over the scraps of empire.
“I would just again implore those who made these moves in recent days to acknowledge what the international community has called for – human rights and the safety of their people,” continued Ardern, who has obviously missed a lot of memos regarding the Taliban. “What we want to see is women and girls being able to access work and education. These things have traditionally not been available to them where there has been governance by Taliban.”
It’s another one of Ardern’s detached-from-reality statements. Ardern has been known to don a headscarf to win brownie points with the international socialist ‘diversity and inclusion’ movement, while actual women under oppressive Islamic rule burn theirs on camera in protest.
While it is safe to say that Ardern is a standard-issue idiot, the Biden administration in the US is not. I say ‘administration’ because it’s tough to argue that Biden himself knows what’s going on in his own mind, let alone the rest of the world.
The fall of Afghanistan is a favour to China, just as the lifting of sanctions on Tehran was a gift to Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road oil pipelines.
Officially, the Taliban’s allies have included China, Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and a scattering of the ‘stans’. Many of these also happen to be signatories to China’s dangerous Shanghai Cooperation Organisation pact of ‘non-interference’.
If there is a global conflict on the horizon, a well-armed force of unscrupulous murders with no interest in the rules of engagement would be invaluable to China.
While we watch thousands of civilians rush at military jets, desperate to escape the rise of a religious dictatorship, it would be prudent to remember that this is bigger than one nation.
The United Nations is of no use. Their votes were bought over the last decade by China’s debt-trap diplomacy flipping leaders from Africa to the Pacific. The West might have set it up to prevent socialist dictators from pursuing dreams of global power, but it has become a tool to silence dissent against exactly that goal.
Perhaps Ardern imagines that if she says all the right things, the new world order will give her a little throne to sit on?
A trip to meet the new Taliban administration in person would clear up any confusion she has over their adherence to woke ideology.
Alexandra Marshall is an independent writer. If you would like to support her work, shout her a coffee over at Ko-Fi.
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Sydney elites getting panicky about tomorrow’s protest.
They’ll be throwing their weight around today.
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“People getting covid in Sydney hospitals.”
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My other half caught Covid in a Sydney hospital.
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‘The curfew will be in place from 9pm to 5am in the LGAs of concern, with exceptions for critical workers. Outdoor exercise will now be limited to one hour a day in those LGAs.’
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What st ruth?
You think people contracting covid in hospital isn’t newsworthy or you just can’t help your endless scolding?
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Yet I’m still running job ads offering $120,000 p.a. to any unskilled who wants to ‘have a crack at’ barmaiding or chambermaiding.
… and pretty much coming up no trumps.
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The traitors generally had east European names. Which was why the superb and charismatic Charlie Buchinski had to change his name to Charles Bronson, being as the scandal was successfully diverted to Americans of East European descent generally, rather than any culpable group within.
Bird showing off about his movie knowledge. Charlie was a staunch conservative and had abs like dinner plates and biceps like 2 pythons; he was a serious man and he treated his woman like a man should:
https://www.facebook.com/theselvedgeyard/photos/saturday-stroll-charles-bronson-jill-ireland-santa-monica-1971/10153686088858488/
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I have a mate who has an well placed source inside Vic Government. He was told last week (week 2 of the 3 day lockdown) frontline staff were told plan for 8 weeks lockdown. I of course told my mate to tell his source to go F himself. A few days later media reports of extension considered …then September…
Chairman Dan is so full of shit he makes Werribee treatment works look like Albert Park lake.
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All the presstitutes’ questions to Gulag Gladys, Chant and Fuller are pointing the finger on why they haven’t gone harder.
Just disgraceful.
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struth, where is the protest in Sydney tomorrow?
I want to go.
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China throws some chum in the water…
Global Times
@globaltimesnews
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China state-affiliated media
#环球时报Editorial: From what happened in Afghanistan, those in Taiwan should perceive that once a war breaks out in the Straits, the island’s defense will collapse in hours and US military won’t come to help. As a result, the DPP will quickly surrender. https://globaltimes.cn/page/202108/1231636.shtml
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Top Ender says:
August 20, 2021 at 11:08 am
Thank you TE, instructive read. Lotsa points there I’ve burned into the mind for the next time some vacuous doxy begins rattling on to me about how marvellous he was & how hard he worked for the common person.
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Alexandra Marshall
@ellymelly
OUTRAGEOUS:
NSW Police Minister David Elliott announced #VACCINEPassport plan for NSW.
At 70% vaccination, only those who are double vaccinated will be able to attend bars/restaurants/gym.
He calls it a ‘#FreedomPlan’
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Jacinda is only good for racing tips. You herd it from the horses mouth.
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Had a zoom conference with my colleagues during the Gulag Glady’s Hilarity Hour. of the 8, only 1 other was concerned about these precedents. All under 35. Perfect products of the education system
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‘Yet I’m still running job ads offering $120,000 p.a. to any unskilled who wants to ‘have a crack at’ barmaiding or chambermaiding.’
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Where are you, Sal?
Let’s put the word out.
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Of course you’re going to catch covid in f…ing hospital, that’s where they perform the dodgy tests.
Then you’re “hospitalised with covid” when you origanally went in to get your piles operated on.
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thefrollickingmole says:
August 20, 2021 at 11:45 am
Was thinking of that last night, when reading about 2para detailing squaddies to keep watch on their partner yank unit, in case the 82nd Airborne try to bug out during the night.
Thank heavens fence-mender Biden is in charge, instead of alliance-destroying Trump buffoon.
I can only imagine how the average 82nd Airborne enlisted feels about the Brits feeling that they need to put a few sections on watch detail to check you don’t bug out when the light goes down.
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Honestly, what hope have we got with women continuing to talk.
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I just got an email from a performance in NSW that was rescheduled to next year :
No Jab No Jive
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I’ve Worked with Refugees for Decades. Europe’s Afghan Crime Wave Is Mind-Boggling.
(She is talking about rape at epidemic level in Europe)
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/ive-worked-refugees-decades-europes-afghan-crime-wave-mind-21506?amp
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