Open Thread – Tuesday 17 August 2021

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  1. Axl Rosé says:

    Eureka in Geelong?  LOL when?


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  2. Axl Rosé says:

    Will you tell us when to live; will you tell us when to die? h/t Yousuf Islam/mh


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  3. srr says:

    “Eureka in Geelong?  LOL when?”

    It was when I was still young, somewhere in the late 1970’s.


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  4. Armadillo says:

    Most federal MPs can be emailed using this formula – firstname.lastname.MP @ aph.gov.au (no spaces, obviously.)

    Cardi, why don’t you just pick up the telephone to your SIL and tell him to slap the fuck out of Morrison?

    Barney has the most secure seat in the nation. If this shit continues, he’s going to be hanging on by his fingernails. Now is the time.

    Enough is enough.


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  5. Boambee John says:

    <i>Indolent says:
    August 21, 2021 at 8:42 pm

    If via email, why not send it out to other pollies, as well?

    Does anyone have a collection of politicians’ emails?  Many of them don’t even provide one, you have to write to them via their web sites.  Malcolm Roberts for one.  I would have loved to include him.</i>

    Not sure about the states, but the Commonwealth Parliament House website used to include full lists of contact details for MHRs and Senators.


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  6. Boambee John says:

    <i>candy says:
    August 21, 2021 at 9:02 pm

    Victoria police say the protestors came with “violence in mind”.   That seems a huge assumption.</i>

    VICPOL clearly came with “violence in mind”.


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  7. Axl Rosé says:

    OK thanks srr.  The “old” Eureka.

    I saw Chopper Read at the De La Ville.


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  8. EvilElvis says:

    Q.  Which Elvis was the one who died at Graceland?

     

    Hang on, hang on…

    Just checking.


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  9. Armadillo says:

    Cardi, its starting to appear that Barney is so caught up in his own bubble that he’s forgotten his own electorate.

    Police firing rubber bullets at their own citizens. FMD.

    Jim must be shaking his head in despair. So should you.

    Pull him into gear, before your kids and grandkids get hurt by this shit. And ours.

    Barney is apparently the second most powerful person in this nation. He’s Deputy Prime Minister.

    Instead, we have unelected health officials and public servants running the show, with the Police running around shooting voters with rubber bullets.

    This crap needs to end. Now.


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  10. The Beer whisperer says:

    It seems any old fool can copy Zeppelin, but an honest rock ‘n roll band that has a lead singer with a similarly great voice should be judged on the merits of its music.

     

    Dirty Honey


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  11. mh says:

    RT with all the action
    Clashes & arrests in Sydney, Melbourne as anti-lockdown protesters defy Australian police pledge to unleash ‘full force’ (VIDEOS)
    https://www.rt.com/news/532690-australia-lockdown-protest-clashes-arrests/


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  12. The Beer Whisperer says:

    Why is this so hard?  Posts keep failing.


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  13. MatrixTransform says:

    <blockquote>Instead, we have unelected health officials and public servants running the show, with the Police running around shooting voters with rubber bullets.</blockquote>

    chilly in here … or is it just me?


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  14. Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says:

    “Clashes & arrests in Sydney, Melbourne as anti-lockdown protesters defy Australian police pledge to unleash ‘full force

     

    Where was that “full force” at the BLM protests?


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  15. mh says:

    Alex Jones used to rant and rave about how much the globalists hate children.

    It seems there are a lot of childless leaders that have been manoeuvred into positions of power for the Great Reset.


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  16. The Beer Whisperer says:

    70s rock will never die.

    Dirty Honey

     


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  17. srr says:

    “I saw Chopper Read at the De La Ville.”

     

    Ah, comedians, a good night out.

    Late 80’s, early 90’s saw this chap at The Rat –
    Austen Tayshus – Australiana (Official Uncensored Version)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StcXGhuliRk


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  18. Adam P says:

    Mark,

     

    Cheers for that. I will raise a glass in your honor.


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  19. Grigory M says:

    “Police running around shooting voters with rubber bullets”

     

    Hard to understand – live rounds would be more effective – if they want to stop a super-spreader event – and prevent it being repeated.


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  20. Armadillo says:

    It’s in a hairs whisker of people just saying “Enough is enough”.

    Go ahead and write, email or whatever to your local MP. Writing to your local paper usually ends in no result. Online, all your comments go to some fuckwit 18 year old moderator in one of the news agencies that sometimes lets it go through (if you can disguise it enough that they can’t comprehend).

    Meanwhile, people like nUmbers get a “free pass”. Alternate views and stuff.

    We fire literal “rubber bullets” at the media. They bounce off, because the media don’t bother to print them.

    Meanwhile, the Police fire real rubber bullets at us. Ones that actually break the flesh.


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  21. a reader says:

    (2) A reasonable excuse includes—
    (a) between the hours of 9pm on a day and 5am on the following day—an
    activity specified in Schedule 2, clause 2, 3, 5, 6 or 10–12, or

     

    ___________

    and with those words that bellend Health Hazzard locks up 2.32 million people. I really want to use the banned word to describe him.


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  22. Armadillo says:

    chilly in here … or is it just me?

    Matrix, I’m just slightly upset at the idiocy.

    Carry on 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊


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  23. Axl Rosé says:

    mh at 10:01pm.

    Yes.  That does seem so.   Deliberately barren women would be a lot more ruthless I suspect.

    Ghastly creatures who would have no power if a natural scheme of things.  Ghoullard,  Palace Chook,  Bin Chicken et al.  Mr. Wong if it got a chance.

     


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  24. Indolent says:

    Since Cardimona was kind enough to provide the PM’s email address I have sent my first ever letter to him, couched in much softer terms than my real feelings.

    Dear Prime Minister,

    Please see below an email I sent today to NSW One Nation Senator, Mark Latham.  It makes me sad to write in these terms, but this is the state we are in at the moment.

    Why have you let such a situation of local demagogy develop?  We are literally prisoners in our own homes, vastly more at risk from the capricious actions of our gaolers than from a virus which, despite the hype, has devolved into the equivalent of a mild flu.  If you investigated the matter, you would find that far more people have died in Australia this year from reaction to the vaccines than from Covid, particularly young people who were not at risk in the first place.

    In any event, you must be aware that cheap, safe and effective therapeutics are available one of which, Chloroquine (now in the even safer form of Hydroxychloroquine), has been known since at least 2005 to be cure corona viruses – as stated by Dr. Fauci himself at the time.

    I know that the powerful drug companies benefit mightily from the experimental drugs but don’t you think it’s about time to put Australians first?  Whatever the politics, whatever the international  commitments, this experiment in authoritarian rule must end now.  Medical tyranny is still just that – tyranny and that is definitely not the Australian way.

    I stated in my message to Senator Latham below that Australia is no longer a free country.  Please prove me wrong by releasing us from the yoke of this manufactured crisis which has already caused untold damage in terms of our economy and people whose lives and livelihoods are literally being stollen by governments apparently drunk on power.

    Yours sincerely

    Indolent


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  25. Zipster says:

    (2) A reasonable excuse includes—
    (a) between the hours of 9pm on a day and 5am on the following day—an
    activity specified in Schedule 2, clause 2, 3, 5, 6 or 10–12, or

     

    written like true bugmen


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  26. Rabz says:

    Bluddee hell – a wall of sound 🙃

     

    Trigger warning – if you do not like the Cocteau Twins, do not click on the link …

     


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  27. mh says:

    Macron, too.

    No kids, former banker at Goldman Sachs, of course he’s there for the Reset.

    Disgusting piece of anti-human shit.

     


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  28. Bar Beach Swimmer says:

    I’ve been watching The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp and it’s got about 15 minutes to go.  It’s on SBS on-demand.  Though I’ve seen it before, it’s a tour de force of a film and thus repays subsequent viewings.

    I’ve stopped it to relay a major moment – a discourse really about fighting the enemy.  I think it holds special resonance at the moment because of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and because of the Ben Roberts-Smith case.

    For those who don’t know the story, the movie follows the life of Major-General Clive Wynn-Candy from 1902 until the middle of WWII.  It was made during WWII for the war effort by two of the greats of British Cinema – Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.

    We’re at the moment where, having come home from being booked to read a speech on the wireless, which at the last moment has been cancelled, the General has been informed that he has been stood down from his army position and, like anyone who’s lost their job, especially someone who’s given his whole life to one, specific career and one that’s needed right at this moment, he’s questioning why.

    His close friend of 40 years, an ex-Prussian army officer, now living in England as a refugee from the Third Reich, explains:

    Wynne-Candy: ‘They don’t need me anymore…Does my knowledge count for nothing, experience, skill, you tell me.’

    His friend replies:  ‘It is a different knowledge they need now.  The enemy’s different so you have to be different too…I read your broadcast  up to the point where you described the collapse of France.

    You commented on Nazi methods, foul fighting, bombing refugees, machine gunning hospitals, life boats, light ships, bailed out pilots and so on, by saying that you despised them, that you would be ashamed to fight on their side and that you’d sooner accept defeat than victory, if it could only be won by those methods…

    If you let yourself be defeated by them just because you are too fair to hit back, the same way that they hit you, there won’t be any methods, but Nazi methods.  If you preach the rules of the game, while they use every foul and filthy trick against you, they’ll laugh at you; they’ll think you weak; decadent. I thought so myself in 1919…’

    [Clive says but we won the war, to which his friend replies] ‘No, we lost it, but you lost something, too.  You forgot to learn the moral.  Because victory was yours, you failed to learn your lesson 20 years ago, and now you’ll have to pay your school fees again.  Some of your will learn quicker than the others.  Some will never learn it.  Because you have been educated to be a gentleman, and a sportsman, in peace and war… but this is not a gentleman’s war.  This time you are fighting for your very existence, against the most devilish idea ever created by a human brain: Nazi-ism.  And if you lose, there won’t be a return match next year, perhaps not even for 100 years.’

     

    How many times will the West go to war to be defeated, partly, by the unwillingness to fight with everything it has, in every way possible, to win? Are we at the juncture where “there won’t be a return match next year?” After Afghanistan, we should all be wondering that now.

    And as to BRS.  His reputation is being besmirched because, allegedly, standards of warfare were not maintained. While he has unreservedly denied any wrongdoing, we should all know by now that the other side does not play fair.  It’s a pity that our politicians still don’t know it.

    For those who have not seen the film, I highly recommend it.

     

     


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  29. mh says:

    Dammit, Macron was Rothschild.


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  30. Armadillo says:

    The Police can fire rubber bullets at citizens, but they can’t figure out how to stop overseas scammers from sending you messages on your mobile phone and to your email address.

    Excellent work, plod.


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  31. Bar Beach Swimmer says:

    Indolent, great letter.

     


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  32. Axl Rosé says:

    “Former banker at Goldman Sachs” makes all other peculiarities pale into insignificance. Turdball etc


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  33. Rabz says:

    This is not a gentleman’s war.  This time you are fighting for your very existence, against the most devilish idea ever created by a human brain: Collectivism.  If you lose, there won’t be a return match next year, perhaps not even for 100 years.

    We’ve already lost. Collectivism manifests its hideously uglee self in many guises. Too many for a decadent and beyond redemption West (if it could be dignified with such a term) to comprehend.

    We were not warned about this before, of course.


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  34. mh says:

    Sorry Axl, I meant Rothschild. But I expect there is a Goldman connection, too.

    2008 Works as investment banker at Rothschild, where he earns about €2.9m, notably for his role in advising Nestlé on the acquisition of a Pfizer unit.

    🤔


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  35. Armadillo says:

    Since Cardimona was kind enough to provide the PM’s email address I have sent my first ever letter to him, couched in much softer terms than my real feelings.

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    Brilliant letter Indolent. It will be forwarded on to other departments and everyone will nod. It will end up in a digital filing cabinet. Somewhere.

    If you want to see action, post them a rubber bullet in an envelope with your home address on the back.


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  36. Bar Beach Swimmer says:

    Hard to understand – live rounds would be more effective – if they want to stop a super-spreader event – and prevent it being repeated.

     

    I’m surprised that flag gravatar of yours hasn’t got on it a hammer and a sickle.


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  37. Axl Rosé says:

    “Goldman Sachs” or “Rhodes Scholar”.  Same finishing school.  Turdball is both.


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  38. Jorge says:

    Tucker Carlson: 90% of Afghan military graduating from US training programs could not read. Nearly all had drug issues. US Soldier: it was like being in charge of 26 kids. You had to repeat 30 times in a day: ‘Don’t do that. Don’t do that.’

    US spent a billion training them and every journalist and politician must have had wind of this  but hey rights of women.

    What a filthy, rancid sewer of corruption and depravity we inhabit. China must be straining at the traces.


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  39. MatrixTransform says:

    <blockquote>if you do not like the Cocteau Twins</blockquote>

    if there’s a helicopter crashing with bjork and kate bush as passengers, then I hope the cocteau twins are pilot and co-pilot.


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  40. mh says:

    I stumbled across some Afghan toons at Politico