Open Thread – Tuesday 17 August 2021

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  1. Bruce of Newcastle says:

    ≫The beloved daughter pulled the pin.  They just want to FO from Johnson/Carrie Britain and come to Oz≪

    Frying pan to fire.  She obviously hasn’t yet worked out that Australia is run by fascist maniacs.

     

     


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  2. cohenite says:

    Apparently, under the Australian Privacy Act 1988 QR codes cannot be made mandatory and this is confirmed by exchanges with both Woolworths and Coles.

     

    I think they can; not permanently because Public Health acts have 90 day or otherwise short sunset clauses.


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  3. kaysee says:

    Ponderable Points 🐻

    One


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  4. Joanna says:

    Crazy that this Jeff Buckley track has so few views.  Breathtakingly good, as is the whole album

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    Love it, Bruce. It’s one of my favourite Jeff Buckley songs, along with Vancouver.

    I’m surprised a movie hasn’t been made about him yet. James Franco would have to be the one to play him. Uncanny likeness.

     

     


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  5. mh says:

    ‘Scott Morrison’s office has released a transcript of his Insiders interview, claiming David Speers cut off the Prime Minister 26 times.’

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    Don’t worry Scotty, everyone has stopped listening to you anyway.

     

     


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  6. egg_ says:

    ‘Scott Morrison’s office has released a transcript of his Insiders interview, claiming David Speers cut off the Prime Minister 26 times.’

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    Speers was just trying to get around his evasive mantra.

    Wuss.

     

     


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  7. Steve trickler says:

    Hey, egg! Skip to 6:25 for the fastest U-turn recorded. How he didn’t die?

    Spirit Of America Sonic Arrow (Formula Shell LSRV) – Craig Breedlove’s Supersonic Challenger

     

     


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  8. Rabz says:

    Bluddee hell – according to The Garudain, “a man existing in NSW” was fined for “hiding behind curtains”.

    Is there no fresh hell we can flee to in order to avoid this ever increasing idiocy, I asks ya? 😾

     


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  9. Indolent says:

    From the Service NSW website:

    《 Some businesses are required to record customers’ contact details under the Public Health Order, to assist with any contact tracing that may be necessary. Under the Order, you’re required to provide your details upon entry to these businesses. If you choose not to provide your details, you’ll be refused entry.》

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    This seems to conflict with the document headed Legal Exemption to Contact Tracing and Notification to Cease and Desist Contact Tracing which clearly states that Commonwealth Law overrides state law (or, in this case, most probably just regulation) and it’s interesting to note that when this was raised with Woolworths and Coles they both backed down.  As I said, they would have easy access to the best lawyers and surely at least one of them would shoot it down if they could.


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  10. Boambee John says:

    kaysee

    Thanks for your various links, always worth a look.


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  11. Harlequin Decline says:

    Bons,

    …..Were the dear Sister still alive she would be in jail for rightfully applying the 24 inch ruler to every judge, plod, health bureaucrat, journo arsehole, the woman down the street, Counsel CEO, and the postie prick who rides his moped over my garden.

    Surely she would have belted the crap out of the politicians as well?


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  12. egg_ says:

    Steve trickler says:
    August 22, 2021 at 9:20 pm

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    Beautiful vehicle.


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  13. Armadillo says:

    It’s looking like the “trucks vs trains” debate is going to a new level.

    Watch and wait.

    Politicians think they are in control. They aren’t.


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  14. Bruce of Newcastle says:

    ≫“a man existing in NSW” was fined for “hiding behind curtains”.≪

    It’s curtains for him.  He’s going to be sucked dry now.

    Pete Townshend – Give Blood


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  15. Rabz says:

    A magnificent cover.

    Although outdoing the original is basically impossible.

     

    You be the judge, cats. 😺

     


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  16. Steve trickler says:

    Foot traffic in Britain has picked up again at the train stations. A sense of freedom. God knows how long that will last.

    Dr K:

    New Piano Talent LIVESTREAM


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  17. Rabz says:

    Pete Townshend – Stop Hurting peoples! 😐

     

     


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  18. mh says:

    ‘He’s going to be sucked dry now.’
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    Phrasing


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  19. Black Ball says:

    May have been noted by other commentators on this site but I believe the truckies around the country are er, calling in sick on the 31st of August. Seen plenty of posts on Facebook alluding to this. Can anyone here confirm? If true, a most fantastic turn of events.


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  20. a reader says:

    Onlyfans “millionaire” Renee Gracie supposedly going to use her, ummmm interestingly gotten gains, to make a motorsport comeback according to the Tele


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  21. jo says:

    Sorry Bons fat fingers


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  22. Rohan says:

    Black Ball says:
    August 22, 2021 at 10:00 pm

    May have been noted by other commentators on this site but I believe the truckies around the country are er, calling in sick on the 31st of August. Seen plenty of posts on Facebook alluding to this. Can anyone here confirm? If true, a most fantastic turn of events

    I’ve seen this. I’ve seen that it could be longer than one day.


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  23. MatrixTransform says:

    er, calling in sick on the 31st of August.

    Well fancy that … i’m feeling a little bit queasy myself


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  24. jo says:

    Dillo its ok to run a pollie down with a truck or a train. First place a pollie in front of either. Plod works better with chicken truck. So I’ve been told.


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  25. srr says:

    This Is Tim Buckley –

     
    Tim Buckley – Sweet Surrender
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-qNBxXjbI4


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  26. FlyingPigs says:

    https://freedomaustralia.freeforums.net/thread/1356/australian-uni-party-ratings

    Liberal Party of Australia = National Socialists

    Australian Labor Party = International Socialists

    The Greens = Socialist Anarchists

    National Party of Australia = Fkn Useless Crapheads.


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  27. mh says:

    NZ concedes Covid-zero approach may not be viable

    New Zealand has conceded its ambitious “Covid zero” elimination strategy may no longer be viable, as its Delta variant outbreak spreads further.


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  28. Mark A says:

    If the Americans had any guts, this would be the perfect time to destroy the Taliban.

    Previously they were hiding in the countryside and caves, had to be hunted down, now they are out in the open, a swift deadly strike and Booom, finished.

    Never happens though, first they will be condemned by the west and soon after,  business as usual.


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  29. mh says:

    Paywalled – Gold Coast Bulletin

    Chaos erupted on the NSW border with more than 2000 anti-lockdown protesters clashing with police. One of the protesters has defended his use of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler’s face in protest material. SEE THE VIDEOS AND GALLERY OF PROTESTERS.


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  30. mh says:

    Kwitter

    @Kwitter12085169

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    A man has ridden his horse through today’s protest at the #Queensland–#NewSouthWales border, encouraging crowds to cross through checkpoints. “Cross over! They cannot arrest all of us!” #COVID19 #7NEWS


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  31. Jorge says:

    I heard they were going on strike. If so, panic buying everywhere.


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  32. mh says:

    Dan meltdown:

    Rita Panahi
    @RitaPanahi

    Don’t go out and enjoy the Sunday sunshine if you’re in Melbourne or you’ll, err, end up in hospital. Weapon grade lunacy.
    https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/1429254339822907396?s=20


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  33. Steve trickler says:

    Big Boy is still cruising around. Marvelous spectacle.

    “In a historic moment, UP 4014 climbs up the approach to the Huey P. Long bridge to cross the Mississippi River into downtown New Orleans for the first time in history. Stay tuned for more Big Boy action! Enjoy =)”

    Union Pacific Big Boy #4014 Steam Train Climbs The Huey P. Long Bridge Into New Orleans (8/20/21)


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  34. cohenite says:

    “If the Americans had any guts, this would be the perfect time to destroy the Taliban.

    Previously they were hiding in the countryside and caves, had to be hunted down, now they are out in the open, a swift deadly strike and Booom, finished.”

     

    This is what Dan Bongino said; when the scumbags were fucking around in the weight-room and pissing in the corners of the presidential palace thousands of them could have been taken out with a couple of stingers; and the SEALS could have mopped up the rest. Collateral would have been substantial but then happy days.

    But biden is the demented figurehead of a disease which has the West in it’s death throes: wokeism, self-hatred and a complete inability to defend the West. This is a disease which was displaying the gay pride flag a month before the talifucks took over.

    I don’t know what the answer is: Trump would have handled this withdrawal but even he would not have been game to do what Bongino suggested; and no matter how effective he was the reptiles in the msm would have chittered like cockroaches.


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  35. FlyingPigs says:

    Whatever happened to the Parents Rights Bill in the communist State of NSW?

    An Act to amend the Education Act 1990, the Education Standards Authority Act 2013 and the Teacher Accreditation Act 2004 to provide that schools must recognise that parents are primarily responsible for the development and formation of moral and ethical standards and social and political values in their children, including an understanding of personal identity and questions of gender and sexuality and to prohibit schools, teachers, and training courses from teaching gender fluidity, and for other purposes.

    https://freedomaustralia.freeforums.net/thread/929/parental-rights-bill?page=1&scrollTo=2175


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  36. Steve trickler says:

    One more clip of the Big Boy. Half the fun is watching people react to this machine and the traffic that follows clogging up the roads…

    Pacing Union Pacific Big Boy #4014 Steam Train Between Plaquemine & Donaldsonville, LA (8/20/21)


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  37. mh says:

    Soon, we’ll have nothing left to lose
    Australians are being deliberately and methodically terrified, while enforced isolation weakens our resilience.

    STEVE WATERSON Senior writer


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  38. srr says:

    Steve trickler says:
    August 22, 2021 at 11:11 pm

    One more clip of the Big Boy. Half the fun is watching people react to this machine and the traffic that follows clogging up the roads…

    Pacing Union Pacific Big Boy #4014 Steam Train Between Plaquemine & Donaldsonville, LA (8/20/21)

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    Thank You!


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  39. Steve trickler says:

    A quickie 2:22. Premiered Aug 14, 2021.

    Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 Cab ride


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  40. FlyingPigs says:

    The so called Australian Public Health System apparatchiks are ALL devotees of WHO indoctrination.

    Check their overseas conference attendance.

    Australia was one of the first countries to take a knee to WHO recommended absolute lockdowns and jabs.

    Now we have a UN divided country.


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  41. Steve trickler says:

    srr.

    👍


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  42. mh says:

    MEDIA DIARY

    Uhlmann lashes media’s ‘boilerplate lefties’
    Nine’s Chris Uhlmann says it is media outlets who ‘ritually hyperventilate about the detention of asylum seekers’ that have egged on the ‘imprisoning’ of entire states.


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  43. mh says:

    Craig Kelly MP

    @CraigKellyMP

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    MEDIA ALERT: Craig Kelly MP
    • Media Conference: 9.20am
    • Monday 23rd August 2021
    WHO: Craig Kelly MP to announce his Federal Election intentions
    WHEN: 9.20am • Monday 23 rd August
    WHERE: Mural Hall • Federal Parliament House • Canberra


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  44. SVC says:

    Testing


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  45. mh says:

    They don’t like it up ‘em:
    Man charged with intimidating Police Minister
    A man who followed Police Minister David Elliot down a street to grill him about the government’s management of Covid has been charged with intimidation.


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