Open Thread – Tuesday 17 August 2021

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  1. H B Bear says:

    Is there anything in the pipeline to either extend or do away with these powers?
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    You mean like parliamentary democracy?


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  2. mem says:

    mh says:
    August 22, 2021 at 10:23 am
    “Tucker doesn’t suggest what that might be.
    I don’t think it’s about Kamala.
    I think Biden’s removal will ‘coincide’ with a planned economic collapse.
    But that’s just a personal opinion.’

    Alternate view to consider is that Biden is pensioned off, Kamala shifts into President temporary role with Hillary as VP then before election  Hillary is put in as President. She always wanted the top job and believes its hers by hook or by crook. The old dynasty will be back. Perhaps Biden was set up to fail. Afghanistan mess wasn’t expected to be so bad though and trying to blame on Trump is a big stretch.


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  3. H B Bear says:

    Australia is a world class laughing stock. Just imagine what we could have done with KRuddy as Sec-Gen of the UN.


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  4. ikamatua says:

    The wanker demographic needs to understand what the problem looks like from a yob perspective, and the yob demographic needs to figure out what the hell the wanker demographic is banging on about:

    ..

    Uncle Tony’s Garage:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOVnHhDldJM


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  5. Bar Beach Swimmer says:
  6. egg_ says:

    Is “holier than thou” a form of narcissism?

    Gaslighting and goalpost shifting seems to go hand in hand.

     


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  7. egg_ says:

    Australia is a world class laughing stock.

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    https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/03/21/open-forum-march-21-2020/comment-page-10/#comment-3369280

    notafan says:
    March 22, 2020 at 2:44 pm
    Fanciful stuff.

    Anyone going street to street distributing holy communion in a pandemic would be a moron.

    That would be a complete overriding of social distancing.

    Just stupid.

    Catholics have the option of ‘spiritual Communion’

    There are many times in history when people have not been able to attend mass etc.

    We can deal.

    It is very sad that people will have to forgo funerals.

    And I’m very sorry for those whose weddings have been cancelled.


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  8. Bruce of Newcastle says:

    ≫I don’t think it’s about Kamala.≪

    Lots of interesting dynamics between those two.

    First Joe assigned her to fix the border, whereupon she hid for a month.  Then someone got her to say “she was the last person in the room before President Joe Biden made the decision to pull all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan”.  Then Afghanistan melted down, whereupon she’s gone to ground again and refuses to make any statement on the mess.  In the middle of all this she managed a trip to Vietnam just as the policy she signed off on became Vietnam v2.0.

    Now she’s apparently going to campaign for Cali Gov. Newsom in the recall election.  Is this a kiss of death? Maybe she should audition to replace Scarlett as the Black Widow.

     

     


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  9. Carpe Jugulum says:

    Biden is pensioned off, Kamala shifts into President temporary role with Hillary as VP then before election Hillary is put in as President

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    The Hildebeast isn’t in the line of succession, if they got rid willy browns cumdumpster it would then go to the speaker, granny Rictus McBotox.


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  10. Franx says:

    Bear

    Foolishly, I did resort to the memory of parliamentary democaracy.


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  11. MatrixTransform says:

    A present from Santa is a better bet than projections from government or health

    officials.

     

    A present from Santa is a better bet than PROJECTILES from government or health officials ??

     

    FIFY


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  12. egg_ says:

    Only thing you had to say when Ernie died.

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    “Ernie and Ding Dong” was all we heard in Sydney – Ding Dong being the better known as a former Go Go dancer.

    Ditto their record.

    Melbourne has always been daggy – the Moomba festival being testament, cardigan.

     


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  13. egg_ says:

    the yob demographic needs to figure out what the hell the wanker demographic is banging on about

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    Chattering class midwits?

    Yawn.

    Lockdowns are just the latest iteration of Far Left Bob Brown’s carbon “price signal” to the lumpen proletariat.

    Enabled by concerned Science tards.

     


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  14. calli says:

    Is “holier than thou” a form of narcissism?

    Could be, but I’d call it a delusion.  No one’s perfect.

    Carpe, I think Mme PompaPerm will get the Top Job.  No wonder Caramela looks anxious.

    Accidents Happen.  Tragedies Happen.

    Which reminds me, how’s BidenLotto going?


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  15. Bruce of Newcastle says:

    ≫Alternate view to consider is that Biden is pensioned off, Kamala shifts into President temporary role with Hillary as VP then before election  Hillary is put in as President.≪

    A lot going for that scenario Min.

    Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau Says He Spoke with Hillary Clinton About Afghanistan as Biden Hid at Camp David (19 Aug)

    Apparently Kamala was nowhere to be found either, so he wound up talking with ex-SecState Hillary.  Which begs the question where was the current SecState?  Or Pelosi for that matter?  And why is a private person talking to the PM of Canada as official representative of the WH in middle of a crisis?

     


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  16. Bar Beach Swimmer says:

    min, yes, there are so many parts to being human, which even the ancients understood, but has no bearing on the decisions of our “leaders and  betters,” for our own good.

    I understand exactly what you are saying.  We think our other senses hold sway – sight, especially, and hearing, with the others somewhat understood as optional – I could live well enough, I suppose, if I could not smell or taste.

    But without touch I am no different to an automaton, which may “see” with cameras and “hear” through microphones and has no use for taste or smell.

    One of the group Queen’s songs has a line: “I want it all and I want it now.”  I don’t think when this is over that I will settle for less.

    To you, I send my best wishes and a big hug!

    BBS


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  17. Bar Beach Swimmer says:

    Arky @ 10:54 yobs have no interest in the others.


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  18. H B Bear says:

    Foolishly, I did resort to the memory of parliamentary democaracy.

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    Seems a long time ago.  Doesn’t look like we’ll be seeing it any time soon either.


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  19. ikamatua says:


    Bar Beach Swimmer says:
    August 22, 2021 at 11:19 am

    Arky @ 10:54 yobs have no interest in the others.”

    ..

    I only put the second line in because I thought I was posting on the Wanker Cat.

    Sorry yobs.


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  20. egg_ says:

    Lockdowns are just the latest iteration of Far Left Bob Brown’s carbon “price signal” to the lumpen proletariat.

    Enabled by concerned Science tards.

    ________________

    I.e. lockdowns… enabled by concerned ‘Elf tards.

    Rinse and repeat.

     


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  21. H B Bear says:

    BBS at 11:15. I have effectively lost my ability to eat normally.  My swallowing muscles deteriorate to the point it becomes dangerous after about 25 minutes.  I can eat a pie over. about an hour in two sessions after cutting it up into little pieces, like you would do for a small child.

     

    I would rate this loss as being up there with being able to walk normal distances.  You don’t realise the importance of food to social interaction till it goes.


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  22. HD says:

    egg_ says:
    August 22, 2021 at 10:09 am

    RE: Holden
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    Hear, Hear!


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  23. egg_ says:

    Looks like Cate is the sTan Grant of the wanker blog.

    Grunts of the Caesarean “noble sacrifice” grappling with Afghanistan?

    Trump basically outed the Deep State as black ops in 911 as soon as he became Prez (happy to link, it was an interview with ABC).

    The Deep State cut a deal with the (CIA created) Taliban (of the Iran-Ira war era)?

     

     


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  24. Roger says:

    Pope Francis makes decisive intervention in Afghanistan debacle:

    Calls for “dialogue”.

    In the 1980s we had Pope JPII, Reagan & Thatcher.

    Now we have Francis, Joe and Boris.

    Trump’s extraordinary iterregnum may prove to be the West’s moment of terminal lucidity (a.k.a rallying just before death).

     

     

     


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  25. egg_ says:

    WIP link stolen from the wanker blog 🙂

     

     


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  26. Lizzie of Sydney says:

    ” what is lacking is touch as last hug I had was weeks ago.”

    Min, yes, even a virtual hug, whilst nice, doesn’t quite cut it.  And I guess they don’t allow a massage therapist either.  I enjoy getting a therapeutic massage every few months, definitely medical only.  Once on holidays I called a local therapist at her home, decided she was legit and booked an appointment.  She turned out to be excellent, and told me that most of her clientele were older people who simply lacked physical touch in their lives. I think that therapeutic ‘companion animals’, what we simply call our pets at home, can offer that sense of physical contact too.

    I see my little two year old grandson in the park with his dad as we all go for a walk ‘socially distancing’.  At the park it is nice to at least push him in his little baby seat on the swings, as we can touch the back of the seat to do so.  It almost feels like touching him, even though it isn’t.  We have to play by the rules there, but at least we can see him regularly and marvel at his achievement milestones, week by week.

     


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  27. Knuckle Dragger says:

    As usual, the _roomba is a day late and a dollar short.

     

    The third time the WIP’s been posted.

     

    Still totally confused, mixing up who is who and missing various points along the way.

     

    Intellectual lightweight.  Physical heavyweight.  You must have been on the Chiko Rolls when the other two WIPs were put up.


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  28. candy says:

    I think Biden’s removal will ‘coincide’ with a planned economic collapse.
    But that’s just a personal opinion.

    ++++++++++++++++++++++

    I tend to think CNN and left media are trying to have Biden seen as incompetent and stubborn and having personally  “failed” and not a  dangerous demented old man installed by the Dems who directly caused a humanitarian disaster and the world watching.   Better have him go as “failed” rather than demented and they all knew and were covering.

    The way he fixates on little girls in an audience until someone puts the child on his lap and he sticks his head in her hair is atrocious.  Maybe it is all snowballing.


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  29. Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says:

    Doctors dare to denounce Cuba’s sacred health system

    Stephen Gibbs, Caracas

    Sunday August 22 2021, 12.01am BST, The Sunday Times

    Fidel Castro visiting Matanzas hospital in Cuba in 1988. Healthcare workers have been alienated during the pandemic

    Most were wearing their white coats. All gave their full names. One by one last week, dozens of Cuban medical workers took aim at one of the pillars of the revolution.
    “I want to denounce the collapse of our health system in our hospital and many others . . . This is the reality in which we are living today,” Dr Héctor Santiesteban Fuentes, a surgeon at the Lenin hospital in the city of Holguin, said in a recorded mobile phone video. Aware that the government labels its critics as “mercenaries”, he stressed that no one had paid him to make his declaration.
    Another doctor, Yuliet Consuegra Leyva, complained that underpaid and overworked staff were “mistreated every day” by the authorities. “And actually we are the ones sustaining this country,” she said. The denunciations were uploaded on to Cuban social media, drawing shock and admiration. In
    Cuba open dissent by state employees — especially doctors — is almost unheard of. Most public criticism is forbidden.
    But these are unprecedented times. Last month, for the first time since the 1959 revolution, thousands took to the streets in at least 14 cities in anger at repression, inequality, shortages, power cuts and the handling of Covid-19.
    The pandemic has vividly exposed the precarious state of the health service, long the country’s most vaunted achievement. When the Soviet Union was pouring in billions of dollars of subsidies, Cuba’s healthcare was widely seen as a model for the developing world. But hard economic realities, especially over the past two years, have meant the system is ever more threadbare.

    Harrowing stories have emerged from hospitals as the Delta variant rips through the country. Rates of infections and deaths are the highest in the Americas region. After keeping cumulative coronavirus cases below 15,000 last year, Cuba now has had more than half a million infections, according to, according to its ministry of health. It has declined to import vaccines and instead developed its own. It says they are highly effective, but the rollout is sluggish.
    This month, as the surge worsened, patients and doctors began reporting shortages of basics including oxygen, personal protective equipment, antibiotics and Covid tests. Calls were made to Russia, China and regional allies for donations, which have just begun to arrive.
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    Wasn’t there somebody here, who extolled the virtues, of the Cuban Health system?


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  30. egg_ says:

    The third time the WIP’s been posted.

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    “When too much… is never enough”, Cate?

    Hard at work cross posting on two blogs, old girl?

     

     


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  31. calli says:

    Whoops!  Just saw Cold-Hands had posted WIP first back in the early hours, pre Mater’s ballistics post.

    My favourite


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  32. Bar Beach Swimmer says:

    Less interesting and relevant than listening to a vacuum cleaner salesman.

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    +1

    or a vacuum cleaner


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  33. Knuckle Dragger says:

    Bradley Murdoch just died in prison.


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  34. Covid ate my homework says:

    <i>I think Biden’s removal will ‘coincide’ with a planned economic collapse.
    But that’s just a personal opinion.</i>

    What about Biden in a slow moving convertible rolling down the main drag in Scranton, Ohio. BANG! It’s a win,win,win,win…


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  35. Lizzie of Sydney says:

    Flipping between Flash-Cat and Dash-Cat.

    Dash-Cat improves with the lack of Bird.

    Both are worthwhile now.  Spirited competition always good.


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  36. srr says:

    Mater says:
    August 22, 2021 at 4:31 am

    Thanks Mater. I did warn people this was coming. I linked to info on what VicPol (and the rest of them), would be using against the people.

    I’m glad you managed to get the message through.
    Yes, the difference between conspiracy theories & facts is only time.


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  37. Ruprecht says:

    Oh good. We have a stamp of approval from a forum flitter and all round doer of good , but often mentioned deeds.


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  38. srr says:

    I haven’t had a chance to catch up with all the cats yet, but even if this has been posted, it deserves many more airings, all over the world –
    Tucker Carlson Mocks Daniel Andrews
    Australia is the laughing stock of the world thanks to Dan & Brett’s “science”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWhMKLr8djE


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  39. caveman says:

    Health Hazard is one arrogant prick, and that fat pig Wobblebois telling us what is and is not exercise. None of these pricks have had anything happen to them in loss of wages or jobs, they in their own bubble and expect you to do what your told.


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  40. incoherent rambler says:

    Do bears shit in the blog?


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  41. egg_ says:

    Trump’s extraordinary iterregnum may prove to be the West’s moment of terminal lucidity (a.k.a rallying just before death).

    ________________

    A “Troofer” cleaning up International relations?

    The Deep State would have none of that!

    Trump only partially released the Warren Commission documents, despite promising the lot.

     

     


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  42. Bar Beach Swimmer says:

    Bear:

    I would rate this loss as being up there with being able to walk normal distances.  You don’t realise the importance of food to social interaction till it goes.

    Bear,

    the things that we experience through the physical side of our selves and which we probably take for granted because we’re busy or self-absorbed or not living in the moment, and then only fully understood when lost, whether through illness, injury or because the state decides one day that none of that stuff is important anymore.

    Meals, together, sort of sum it up. Encompassing every part of the human self in touch, taste, smell, sight and sound.

    The other night MT was talking about what he was having for dinner and which he’d cooked, and it sounded delicious.  I wanted to be invited; I suppose part of it was to be sitting at a table with another, drinking a nice red and enjoying all of it.  Memories help, and friends; even ones on-line.  👍

     


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  43. Barry says:

    <blockquote>Roger says:
    August 22, 2021 at 9:50 am

    The “pandemic” has revealed a truth hitherto only known by lawyers but now plain to anyone paying attention: without a properly drafted Bill of Rights Australians have very few rights guaranteed by law.</blockquote>

    How about if we rely on Section 303 of Part 7.62 (attempted repealed by J.W. Howard)?


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  44. Bar Beach Swimmer says:

    Trump’s extraordinary iterregnum may prove to be the West’s moment of terminal lucidity (a.k.a rallying just before death).

     

    We are at the end times – the real end times – not that “beam me up, scotty,” nonsense.  Biden is gone both in mental ability and in electoral support.  The Dems will be cowered in Congress and in the Senate.  That’s not to say that they still won’t try things on the electorate but the voters have, in the main, like here, stopped listening.  Trump will be back and he will have learnt a lot in his four year hiatus.  Get ready for Super Duper Trump!

     


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  45. Bar Beach Swimmer says:

    Barry @ 12:43.  Well, don’t leave us hanging…🙂

     


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  46. Bar Beach Swimmer says:

    a reader says:
    August 22, 2021 at 12:49 pm

    But never said all that other stuff – masks etc and vaccination passports – won’t be required.


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  47. incoherent rambler says:

    Hospitalizations.

    Will the body count from police cavalry charges and rubber bullet volleys be listed in the number hospitalized?

    Or do we skip over that and go straight to the morgue?


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  48. incoherent rambler says:

    Covid side effects:

    Trampled by horse

    Shot in the head by rubber bullet

    Blown up by hand grenade

    Back injury from slip on stairs

     


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  49. Indolent says:

    Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) responds to the Sarasota School Board passing a mask mandate for children.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSbsHQxGwVI

    Talk about a breath of fresh air.  This is all we ask, in relation to masks and everything else.  Let people make their own decisions and assess their own risks.

    If we are to be treated as children then, fair is fair, Gladys should be tied down and made to watch this 500 times.


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  50. egg_ says:

    Trump’s extraordinary iterregnum may prove to be the West’s moment of terminal lucidity (a.k.a rallying just before death).

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    It must have been confusing for the villains around the globe having to deal with Trump rather than the usual Deep State puppets.

     

     


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  51. min says:

    BBS , Lizzie and others who commented .thanks for the best wishes and an online hug .
    Laughter is often the best medicine so I have been able to make a few jokes about it although serendipitously when I turned on tv there was a psychologist talking about the importance of touch and she listed the health benefits  starting from birth. In the lockdown it was mainly men who would suffer from  the lack of touch she thought . Although maybe not on this blog judging by the referrals to wankers .
    Maybe that’s why Sutton , Foley and Dan in Victoria allowed the brothels to stay open .
    although not sure what the ruling is now after a sex worker here tested positive forCovid  which of course led to may humorous remarks about QR or  paper tracing in those places . Martin Foley also appealing to those who had employed sex workers  to get tested .
    Many oldies need to use a podiatrist to have their toenails cut  ,similar to  massage therapists I  reckon and not allowed . I’ll check with a friend in this situation.

     

     

     


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  52. Grigory M says:

    “Covid side effects:”

    Blinded by an orange flare
    Lungs damaged by orange flare smoke
    Burnt by an orange flare.


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  53. Top Ender says:

    Knuckle Dragger says: Bradley Murdoch just died in prison.

    You’re just trying to make my Sunday better, aren’t you Knuckles?


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  54. min says:

    Well something is going on In NZ . Just posted on michaelsmithnews so perhaps someone can put it on here . A fellow from government talking about the lack of ability for some to spread their legs , it’s ok  to take a car.


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  55. Bar Beach Swimmer says:

    Old bloke says:
    August 21, 2021 at 10:49 am

    +1

    & Dot @ 11:24 21/8/21

    top comment!


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  56. egg_ says:

    Bradley Murdoch just died in prison.

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    Along with the dingo in the cell next door, “NT man”?

     


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  57. jo says:

    He’s not dead, he’s just resting, having a quiet chat with Ricky Slater. Said in Michael Palin voice.


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  58. srr says:

    thefrollickingmole says:
    August 22, 2021 at 8:42 am

    Vicpol have been drooling to use their new toys since 2018.

    […]

    He warned that while there was a need for the equipment, ‘‘It is an ugly look to see police in riot gear in a suburban street. We now have some equipment that has not been seen before that may alarm people.’’

    _____________________________________

    Oddly enough, yes, all the black cars & black clad stormtroopers muscling into a gathering of Aussies having their say, are even MORE alarming than having the bomb squad in their unmarked white vans rock up with their robots at your neighbours.

    Living amongst your average violent Vinny can happen to anyone, anywhere, but there’s the whole thing about not shitting where you eat that does work, and when it starts to get a little too edgy The State does tend to step in, in time, BUT having The Whole of State Powers getting off on crushing all the people, good & bad, is actually much more terrifying.


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  59. Ragu says:

    Bradley John Murdoch, is innocent.

     

     

     

    Change my mind


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  60. Old bloke says:

    Bruce of Newcastle says:
    August 22, 2021 at 8:46 am

    “How about legalizing ivermectin and HCQ?  They reduce hospitlization and death also, and do it by a different mechanism to the vaccines.  So why not do both things?”

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    I suspect that the Australian Government entered into an agreement with the pharmaceutical companies to ban the use of HCQ / Ivermectin, as has been revealed in the leaked agreement with the Albanian government.

    If this is the case, the Australian Government is responsible for the needless deaths of many who have died from / with Covid-19. They are also responsible for the deaths and permanent injuries resulting from the approved “vaccines”, and the economic and social destruction of Australia.


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  61. egg_ says:

    Avi video: “Rubber bullet” injuries from “one metre away” shown at c. 5 min mark.

    Don’t take your kids to a peaceful protest, Cate?

    In case of nuffies?

    The baddies win.

     

     


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  62. egg_ says:

    Avi video: “Rubber bullet” injuries from “one metre away” shown at c. 5 min mark.

    __________________

    Near Young and Jacksons Hotel, 1 Swanston St.


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  63. Ragu says:

    Egg, you really should get an interactive girlfriend. One that goes “no eingang in the ausgang!”


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  64. calli says:

    From Avi’s twitter feed.

     

    Quite


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  65. Bar Beach Swimmer says:

    MatrixTransform says:
    August 22, 2021 at 12:31 pm

    I still can’t believe that these people in power – politicians, health bureaucrats and police – don’t understand what they’re doing to real people.  Someone said yesterday, I think, that this tells us all we need to know about how the Nazis took control in Germany.  And that that is not registering at the top levels of govt now is truly chilling.

    As I’m writing this I can’t help but think of this great skit.  Though not for its humorous side, although it’s top notch  Rather, from the reasonableness of it all, which is how it all happened 80+ years ago.

    If only our betters would take a leaf out of this book…

    https://youtu.be/hn1VxaMEjRU


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  66. Muddy says:

    Old bloke says:
    August 22, 2021 at 1:35 pm

    I suspect that the Australian Government entered into an agreement with the pharmaceutical companies to ban the use of HCQ / Ivermectin, as has been revealed in the leaked agreement with the Albanian government.

    I’m advertising my ignorance here (just for something different!), but how does this sit with our anti-competition laws?


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  67. Top Ender says:

    Joe Biden getting bad press everywhere:
    In what turned out to be a calamitously inept attempt to show the President was in charge of events, the White House press team belatedly issued a photo of him, all alone in a conference room, staring gormlessly at a bank of TV screens.
    In a withering putdown, the New York Post reported: ‘Isolated, feeble, indecisive: that is the lasting image of the President of the United States as his nation suffered the worst self-inflicted humiliation of its history. In a polo shirt, a hippy bracelet on his left wrist and his right hand covering his mouth, the vacationing President looked every bit his 78 years as he sat alone at a vast table set for 18 absent advisers.’
    The photo encapsulated the Taliban’s contempt for ‘Sleepy Joe’ – a nickname given to Mr Biden by Donald Trump in 2019 when he announced his presidential candidacy. Mr Trump said: ‘Welcome to the race, Sleepy Joe. I only hope you have the intelligence, long in doubt, to wage a successful primary campaign.’
    Daily Mail


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  68. incoherent rambler says:

    But Bruce, our government employees were only following orders.

    (Sales orders)


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  69. Harlequin Decline says:

    The Australian has really gone on the offensive against the Government and their ABC with a several articles recently.

    I missed this one at the time 7 August some excerpts from Steve Waterson’s article-
    <b>……..The politicians look on, stern-faced and witless, bleating their platitudes about feeling our pain, and urging us to get vaccinated as the only way to escape the shackles on our lives, as though they had nothing to do with the sinister emergency powers they have granted themselves and aimed against us. “A surge in cases has closed restaurants”; “the latest outbreak means tradesmen can’t go to work”; “thanks to some selfish cab driver we must stay at home for the next month”.
    No, ladies and gentlemen, the virus hasn’t done this to us; you have, cosy in your luxurious offices with your index-linked financial cushions, surrounded by sycophants and shoving people around like demented puppetmasters.  It may come as a shock to those snorting and gobbling at the trough of public money, but not everyone makes their living by opening a spreadsheet on a laptop, reaching out to a stakeholder and unmuting themselves on a Zoom call……….</b>
    <b>……..And it leads always to the same destination: lockdown. It’s “horrible”, Berejiklian said this week, “but we know we have no option”. In Victoria, Premier Daniel Andrews parrots her: “There are no alternatives to lockdown”, he said on Thursday. Unless of course you don’t order a lockdown, which I think does qualify as an option, and a much more appealing one.</b>


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  70. egg_ says:

    Ragu says:
    August 22, 2021 at 1:46 pm

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    Meltdown man from the old Cat?


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  71. Figures says:

    Laws eh Muddy?

    I remember those things.

    Apparently they’re only supposed to exist when the last virus and bacteria have been eradicated from the planet.


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  72. Top Ender says:

    I tried to put the above lift from the Daily Mail in italics, but the italic function doesn’t seem to work.


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  73. shatterzzz says:

    Thoughts on STAIRMAN DAN …….

    https://ibb.co/23R0NLC


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  74. Figures says:

    How many times has ScoMo tried to segue away from obsession over cases only to fold like a cheap suit when the Premiers put some pressure on him?

     

    This must be at least a dozen.

     

    At any rate, as Israel shows, high vaccine rates don’t equate to low hospitalizations. We will be back for a booster before December. And the states will use that as an excuse to lockdown again.


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  75. incoherent rambler says:

    Like the link shatz.


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  76. Bar Beach Swimmer says:

    Mark A,

    thanks for the lame pics – loved the read the directions, falling of the cliff & Andy Capp.

    & Calli,

    some great Biden jokes in that lot – I mean, Biden as the joke!


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  77. Rorshach says:

    Amusingly – and for the record – Joe Biden’s mental decline was known and a subject of humour back when he was VP.  Here’s from 2014:

    https://twitter.com/trumpjew2/status/1429272071918469127?s=21


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  78. H B Bear says:

    BBS at 12:40 – yes, have some great food memories.  Late to the bahn mi and pho party.  Just hope I haven’t missed anything.  Can still try stuff, just need to be a bit more careful now.  As with most things, it could be worse.


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  79. H B Bear says:

    With Biden the joke’s on us.


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  80. Bar Beach Swimmer says:

    Mater @ 4:31 this morning.

    Thank you.

     

    So where to from here for Vicpol?  Escalate further? To what?  They’ve already crossed the threshold from being called a police state to fast becoming one.

    In debating terms, it’s reminds me of the first person who introduces into the conversation – “Nazi” – they rightly lose the argument.

    After using plastic bullets on citizens, there’s nowhere else to go from there except to resign.


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  81. Boambee John says:

    Muddy

    <i>I’m advertising my ignorance here (just for something different!), but how does this sit with our anti-competition laws?</i>

     

    Laws, schmaws, just words on a scrap of paper.


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  82. cohenite says:

    The zombie’s parting gift to the world; let’s hope there’s a hell for this bastard:

     

    “The Biden administration… has made no efforts to pressure the Iranian regime into answering the International Atomic Energy Agency’s questions about three undeclared clandestine nuclear sites found in Iran.

    “For objectivity’s sake, I should say that the Iranian government has reiterated its will to engage and to cooperate and to provide answers, but they haven’t done that so far. So I hope this may change, but as we speak, we haven’t had any concrete progress.” — General Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director General, International Atomic Energy Agency, Seattle Times, June 7, 2021.
    It seems — worryingly, especially after failures of both intelligence and planning in the Afghanistan debacle — that the Biden administration is again standing idly by while the mullahs of Iran comfortably keep enriching uranium to acquire a nuclear weapons arsenal.”
    Iran Mullahs Closer Than Ever to Obtaining Nuclear Weapons :: Gatestone Institute


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  83. Grigory M says:

    “Vicpol have been drooling to use their new toys since 2018.”

     

    The videos show that the crowd of stupid people in Melbourne yesterday gave them plenty of valid reasons to do so – and so they did.


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  84. Steve trickler says:

    Grigory M.

    Boring and predictable.


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  85. Carpe Jugulum says:

    The videos show that the crowd of stupid people in Melbourne yesterday gave them plenty of valid reasons to do so – and so they did.
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    Like Vikplod yelling “come on pussies” at people. then gassing and shooting them?

    How very Biden of you

     


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  86. JC says:

    Eyrie.

    As you say, which applies to you.

     

    <b>Remain in you lane and don’t even think about jumping lanes ever again as you’re not qualified.</b>

     

    This chart, provided by the Israeli Health ministry shows the impact of vaccination on covid sufferers.

    The evidence is on the chart below and the debate is over.

     

    Vaccination causes your age to illness ratio to drop by about 30 years. In other words for a 60 year old fully vaccinated person, their covid age drops to about 30. In your case, a 98 year old would be like a 68 year old contracting the virus.

    I don’t want to hear from you again on this topic. Ever!

    https://img.haarets.co.il/img/1.10121860/3503796959.png?precrop=1184,2138,x0,y0&height=2167&width=1200


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  87. JC says:

    Gools , how’s the brain tumor going?

     

    You once told us you had brain cancer and we all fet sorry for you.


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  88. Bar Beach Swimmer says:
  89. thefrollickingmole says:

    Grigglebot flicking its bean to tyranny.

    Just another day in the life of a feckless ferret felching family fondler then.


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