Hi Cats,
As you can see I have created a copy of the Cat for you to continue to bicker, argue and occasionally make a reasonable point.
I do hope a solution is found with the original Cat but just in case Sinc doesn’t want to transfer the site to a new generation I have built a replica before the closure so we can migrate as many of the community across as possible.
Programming Note: I rushed out the site so there will be bugs. I can get them fixed but did not want perfection to get in the way for progress.
Community Note: Please let as many cats know of the new blog as soon as possible so we can capture the magic of the original. In particular would love for the original posters to continue their great work here.
Ideological Note: I am an infrequent poster but long time reader of the Cat. The discussions there have been a huge part of my own ideological growth on many issues. In particular free speech is key for me so will have a very similar light touch to the original Cat, potentially adopting my one policy on an earlier forum I built: “No D***heads” which is subjective but surprisingly easy to implement.
Website Note: I will run the Cat as close to possible as the original because I don’t believe in re-inventing the wheel. However if the community so wants I am happy to make changes to improve the experience so if you have any ideas let me know. For anything specific hit me up at the contact form, else go nuts in the comments.
Agenda derailing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MEH9FiuwP0&pp=sAQA
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The proletariat will reward Govt’s profusely for un-personing the un- vaxxed;
“In September, 33,680 calls were made to the police assistance line just to report COVID breaches. A further 12,535 reports were submitted online. More than 100,000 calls were made in total in April, when Melbourne first went into lockdown.”
h/t The Age – Oct 17, 2020
But of course, you are getting vaccinated JC. That makes all the difference.
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JC asks what possible motive would make Hitler do what he did.
If you think I’m saying that, then you shouldn’t be anywhere near a fucking keyboard, Struth.
Seriously, have they opened to gates to all the nut joints in Australia since the opening of the new Cat.
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Runnybum says:
August 2, 2021 at 4:43 pm
JMH, don’t vote for the liars or the SFL, vote minor parties & vote the uniparty out…if we are still allowed to vote that is.
The minors it will be on my vote. Federal and State.
Makka: “. The frogs are on the streets over this.” Yes, because the Frogs have balls. We, the people, in this country DO NOT. Had I been close to the Rally in my capitol city 2 weeks ago, I would have been there in a flash.
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How the fuck is National Cabinet ‘debating’ whether in the future normal healthy people will be allowed out of our houses or not on a permanent basis.
Have these people gone completely mad?
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“[b]JC says:
August 2, 2021 at 4:48 pm[/b]
srr says:
August 2, 2021 at 4:44 pm
It’s NOT a ‘vaccination Passport’ they’re working to mandate across the globe, it’s a Movement & Contact TRACKER.
[b]For what purpose? Come up with a reasonable easy to understand purpose that the Western governments want to keep an eye on sayspring break backpackers from the US making their way through Europe. Go![/b]”
How many, ‘Aussie Backpackers Executed Overseas For Drug Smuggling’, stories, do have to be reminded of, for just one reason?
How about the very real push to do away with cash and in the meantime prevent people from turning their cash reserves (effectively no longer Legal Tender over $10,000), into Legal Electronic ‘Money’?
What, you haven’t heard how Blockchain & ElectricCoin is going to make New Kings over the ‘fools’ who still take the risks to dig & drill, move & sell real resources?
Are you really that far out of the loop, or is it your job to keep the average Joe & Jane out, while the loose ends are tied & the bugs crushed?
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Lol. A pipe smoking meerkat on a motorbike. Very, very good.
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Crazy, it just doesn’t make any sense.
The little moustache man was illogical, so why, oh why would anyone do what he did.
Hitler was not illogical, you idiot. He was evil and evil doesn’t have to be illogical.
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“ They already have the data on at least 80% of the population carrying around turned on cell phones.”
Add to that the hundreds of Cc cameras, cameras on private residences, data from card transactions.
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Harlequin Decline says:
August 2, 2021 at 5:33 pm
In Qld, the Public Health and Other Legislation (Further Extension of Expiring Provisions) Amendment Bill 2021 extends a range of emergency measures, including the extraordinary powers of the Chief Health Officer, Dr Jeannette Young.
The powers include the ability to impose restrictions on the free movement of citizens, their ability to travel, conduct a business, attend school, church or sport, as well as the power to issue mandates on mask wearing, social distancing rules, the numbers of persons who can gather at any one time, border closures, area lockdowns and quarantine mandates.
The Bill also extends emergency measures, and creates new ones.
It will only require an amendment will allow the sharing of vaccination data and allow authorised persons, which will be such a wide definition as to include my dog, to enquire and if necessary compel you to display your vaccination status. Failure to do so will be an offence.
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It’s NOT a ‘vaccination Passport’ they’re working to mandate across the globe, it’s a Movement & Contact TRACKER.
That’s exactly what it is, the QR codes aren’t going away, the sign in ‘app’ will be converted to the ‘passport’, you’ll still sign in for the government’s sake and to ensure naughty normal people/second class citizens aren’t trying to sneak into places reserved for their medically enhanced betters.
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Okay, I get it.
Today is Nuthouse Release Day. Every nuthouse in Australia have swung open their gates. Let’s hope tomorrow is better.
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More from the whacky world of islam:
France: Muslimas complain of hijab ban, ‘I’m scared,’ ‘I felt violated by the demand to undress’
Iran says jihad ‘suicide drone’ on oil tanker was revenge for Israeli airstrike on military airport in Syria
https://www.jihadwatch.org/
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Ruprecht says:
August 2, 2021 at 5:40 pm
“ They already have the data on at least 80% of the population carrying around turned on cell phones.”
Add to that the hundreds of Cc cameras, cameras on private residences, data from card transactions.
Yep.
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Struth, linking to Facebook is useless for those who don’t join Facebook.
Maybe a short summary of what is in the link would help discussion flow.
I’ve just returned from Redfern/Surrey Hills. Fixed one son’s internet problems with a Telstra mini-modem I purchased for $50 in Coles. It has 4GB on it. He can top it up after that. It seems to have settled him down, along with the Suchi I brought for lunch.
Had a walk with my other son living in that area inner-city area. We did social distancing and sat for quite a while having a chat. On the way we walked by a decrepit old denizen of the area puffing his fag as he was walking along. He blew it straight into my face. For the first time ever it made me wish I was wearing a facemask as the smoke went into my nose and lungs. Wouldn’t have stopped any virus but might have filtered the TB bascillus and smoke particles.
Lucky I’ve had my BCG innoculation vs TB years ago. It is long-lasting. Anyway, when I was fifteen (age up to 17) I worked as a doctor’s helper and receptionist out West. Careful sterilizing that lot, Lizzie, he said to me casually, as I did the usual part of my job. It’s got live TB on it. So I probably was exposed to that long ago 🙂
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“There are no valid arguments for being anti-vaccination.”
There are plenty of arguments against the available covid vaccination. Just “I don’t want one” is perfectly sound. Or do you think compulsory vaccination is OK?
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calli says:
August 2, 2021 at 5:39 pm
Lol. A pipe smoking meerkat on a motorbike. Very, very good.
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Now find out what Ikamatua is.
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I received 4 speeding tickets in the mail today. All for doing between 46 and 48 in a 40km school zone. Total of $820 and 8 points. Pretty shocking trip to the mail box. The thing is. The fines are from July 14th to July 18th. I have the Service NSW app. All the fines have been on there for 2 weeks. I receive multiple texts about Covid lockdowns, and other NSW government announcements. I got one a month before my rego was due. Now, it seems to me that the government could organise a text as soon as fine is processed by them. You know, fine received, Waitara, 46 in a 40 school zone, 248pm 14th July, Rego etc. It just gives you a heads up and allows you to modify your behaviour. Basically, the roads are so empty it is a bit easy to speed becuase you almost have the Pacific Hwy to yourself.. Anyway, 820 bucks………….
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Stix
Real money bet and we escrow. I bet QR is gonsky within 18 months. What odds are you offering on 10 K
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It’s his job.
Well remunerated I bet.
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Water finds its own level, JC. Weirdness may behave similarly.
At present we are all in our lifeboats having just watched a magnificent vessel go to the bottom.
We are still free, even if it’s a bit chilly.
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Test
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Biosecurity Act enables the government …
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Parse the Constitution and quote the part allowing this BS to override it.
Genuinely curious.
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Speedbox says:
August 2, 2021 at 5:41 pm
They’ve gone crazy with power.
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Now find out what Ikamatua is.
Swahili for haemorrhoids?
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Could be the cat is magnetic
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At federal level, the Biosecurity Act enables the government to impose medical treatment on any person to protect the broader community. The law is explicit in saying this extends to requiring a person to receive “a specified vaccination”. Refusing to do so can attract five years in jail.
Reading this makes me think there are going to be a lot of deaths if they go ahead with their “specified vaccinations”. Choice : die by injection or die in prison (or those concentration/quarantine camps)
The arseholes have been planning this for a long time.
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Oh good I’ll be able to collect from the shack that that I’ve been relegated to thanks to the government.
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Oh God!
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Vicki says:
August 2, 2021 at 5:12 pm
Oh, and by the way, “friends” will come and light the torch when they figuratively burn you at the stake for vaccine scepticism.
Yesterday I was staggered at the hostility of a Sydney “friend” who abused me for being a stupid “anti-vaxer”.
Terry Pedersen says:
August 2, 2021 at 5:24 pm
Yesterday I was staggered at the hostility of a Sydney “friend” who abused me for being a stupid “anti-vaxer”.
Of course I hit him in response with a torrid of facts & figures without drawing breath!
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Terry Pedersen says:
August 2, 2021 at 5:24 pm
…Your ex-friend was right. There are no valid arguments for being anti-vaccination.
***************
Vicki admits to “vaccine scepticism”, commonly used to describe doubts about COVID vaccine. It doesn’t mean necessarily being “anti” even those vaccines, let alone all vaccines – often it just means being against compulsion to take any of those vaccines, or personal reluctance to get any of them, or both.
Someone labels her an “anti-vaxer”.
So Terry Pedersen drops in for one of his trademark drive-by sneers.
So is Terry saying there’s no excuse for being “sceptical” in any sense, e.g. as I’ve outlined above, of COVID vaccines? Or is he leaping to the conclusion, on the basis of a reported accusation, that Vicki is “anti” all vaccines?
Either way it’s a first class display of wrongology.
Well, we can change sites, but Terry is still a self-beclownment MACHINE!!!!
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It’s probably no mistake that Lt Gen JJ Frewen from the Defence Signals Directorate (i.e. your metadata) is in charge of the vax rollout.
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Calli, ‘matua’ is gentleman in Maori. That should give you a clue
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JC, go & get the 2nd jab, that way you can speed up the time to yout booster jab.
Then you will be allowed to venture to colesworhs.
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It’s NOT a ‘vaccination Passport’ they’re working to mandate across the globe, it’s a Movement & Contact TRACKER.
JC – I have already said I don’t think this is accurate. Global tracking is impractical. It would require vast resources and an unimaginable level of co-operation between nations. Even friendly nations would baulk.
Swapping relatively small data sets between the Five Eyes countries consumes substantial resources. Imagine increasing that 1000 fold or probably more. Ha. Set aside the political nitro.
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Remember JMH, plagiarizing (Oh God) as well as holding grudges isn’t a great look for you except with the Rones, the Driller and Ted. They’re imbeciles.
If you have an argument put it up, otherwise fuck off. And for good order’s sake, let me remind you the comment that started it all, made you look like a fucking Muppet. You suckhole.
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Fisherman?
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How do you do bolding and quoting?
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It’s probably no mistake that Lt Gen JJ Frewen from the Defence Signals Directorate (i.e. your metadata) is in charge of the vax rollout.
Obviously, because the military is considered the best logistics focused organization in the country – like every other western nation or any with a modern military.
You realize Fedex, UPS, Amazon and other logistics organizations hire from the military for that reason, right?
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Gates called for a “national tracking system similar to South Korea, saying that “in Seattle, the [University of Washington] is providing thousands of tests per day but no one is connected to a national tracking system” and that “Whenever there is a positive test it should be seen to understand where the disease is and whether we need to strengthen the social distancing.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattperez/2020/03/18/bill-gates-calls-for-national-tracking-system-for-coronavirus-during-reddit-ama/?sh=6a6057906a72
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Bang!!!
Heller sticks the boot in. Nothing new, he’s good at it.
Extreme Fraud At NOAA And NASA
I wonder if that dickhead “Potholer” will open his mouth?
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Calli, the picture has some sort of animal in a side car. Does that ring any bells?
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I linked this site for formatting without buttons, cohenite.
I’m sure there are others.
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Oh, I know who it us, Ruprucht.
Some bro from the lend of the lung white cloud. Fond uv fuxung old cars.
Eeew. Kiwi sounds really rude! 😀
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Another example (of many), of the sort of criminal networks it would pay to Track & Trace –
[b]Police expose global child abuse ring centered in Australia
Australian police say a tip from the U.S. has exposed a major child sex abuse ring in Australia with links to the United States, Canada, Asia, Europe and New Zealand[/b]
By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press
11 November 2020
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/police-expose-global-child-abuse-ring-centered-australia-74141439
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Hitler was not illogical, you idiot. He was evil and evil doesn’t have to be illogical.
JC answers his own question and calls me a nut job!
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Take it slowly you fucking drop kicks…..
What is the difference between tracking and a passport?!
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“Obviously, because the military is considered the best logistics focused organization in the country – like every other western nation or any with a modern military.”
What fkg rot. Our military can’t even manage to get bottled water where it’s needed. Ask Rex Anger. Cat, Komatsu, Toyota and any number of industrial manufacturers, have far better logistical systems than the military. And they are commercially effective with stringent controls over costs, productivity, min/bin times, supplier controls , innovation and software application – all open to public scrutiny, unlike the military with their $5000 toilet seats. You do come out with a lot of bullshit at times.
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Time test 6.21pm
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The Mushroom Whisperer says:
August 2, 2021 at 6:05 pm
I just assume its happening already.
Limited data on specific individuals is routinely exchanged between friendly nations. Eligibility confirmation for visa on arrival is a good example and used every day. I was referring to the wholesale exchange of detailed whole-of-population data which is an entirely different issue. Vast….beyond vast…..enormous…..gigantic and at an incalculable cost.
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They’re Comms nerds, NOT Defence Materiel.
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MaNuEl UtE drivers?
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From what I understand, at least in Australia, Medicare has your vaccine records. You get the Medicare app on your smartphone to generate a Covid vaccine only report in a PDF type image after you have had the 2nd shot. You then ask the Medicare app to stick it in your Apple or android wallets. A business wants to see it, you can flash the image, but it don’t give them access to anything else as it is just a verified image. The business can’t get any data on you.
I guess the more paranoid can try to forge it, but I am not sure how that would get into the wallet on your phone.
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“They’re Comms nerds”
Same background as the ASIO boss. Comms, Signals, vax-passport…… nothing to see here.
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Cat ET (“Electronic Technician” – the Magic Puter) can order parts on the spot globally via a field tablet PC, as I’m sure you’re aware.
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Puzzling thing is why the push to vaccinate children as well.
The positive from the very beginning of the pandemic was that children did not get COVID, otherwise there would have been sheer panic. I’m not hearing that children are getting COVID now either.
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Calm down JC, you’re getting hysterical.
The USSR collapsed a long time ago and many of the worst of them scattered around the globe, like other really bad dudes from other really bad places, making masses of money from doing really bad things.
Getting hysterical doesn’t help in the good fight.
Data mining for movements & transactions that can finally draw a net around the more slippery of the bad dudes, can.
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….strolls in nonchalantly, a day late and a dollar short.
Nice party, Adam. Thanks for putting it on.
Where’s the cold beer?
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Olympic News, I – the Hun:
‘Olympic officials say they were “looking into” US shot putter Raven Saunders after she made the first podium protest of the Games, risking possible disciplinary action.
‘The 25-year-old African-American athlete crossed her arms in an “X” gesture during Sunday’s medal ceremony at the Olympic Stadium after claiming silver.
‘US media outlets reported that Saunders, who is black and an outspoken supporter of LGBT rights, said her gesture was made in solidarity with “oppressed people”.
‘After clinching her silver medal on Sunday, Saunders said she wanted to represent “people all around the world who are fighting and don’t have the platform to speak up for themselves.”’
Newsflash, darling Raven – you haven’t got a platform either. You’re a shot-putter, and a big heiferous one to boot. Head like a lamington wearing a wardrobe for a hat.
Piss off to obscurity.
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They do Candy, I guess a lot of the tin lids don’t know they have it though. It seems more interested in hurting older people.
Maybe it is an attempt to imitate those dystopian YA stories where all the oldies die leaving the kids to make a new civilisation.
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USSR
I’m very calm. How’s Pizzagate going?
You’re task is to now provide evidence of your latest stupid assertion.
This:
srr says:
August 2, 2021 at 4:44 pm
It’s NOT a ‘vaccination Passport’ they’re working to mandate across the globe, it’s a Movement & Contact TRACKER.
Go!
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Damienski says:
August 2, 2021 at 6:33 pm
….strolls in nonchalantly, a day late and a dollar short.
Nice party, Adam. Thanks for putting it on.
Where’s the cold beer?
The cold beer’s in your Esky, ya cheap prick….
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Olympic News II:
‘Just like that, the Hockeyroos are out of the Olympics. Only tears remain in Tokyo.
‘At full-time, India cheered and squealed after pulling off an incredible upset while Australia painfully fell to the ground.
‘This wasn’t just a loss. It might have been the biggest shock of the Games.’
That’s what you get when you have zero discipline and ambition in training camps, and replace it with self-congratulatory wokeness.
Note to our hockey chicks – without the requisite determination to get to the standard required (as well as talent) – NO. No, you cannot be anything you want to be.
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“Anyway, 820 bucks………….”
Comiserations, Warwick. It’s a good suggestion to let people know when they are pinged so they don’t keep on doing it the next time and the time after that. I’ve had that happen at the Great Ping Site on New South Head Road just before the Cross City Tunnel. Traffic pings and speed pings.
I have been quite upset about my second son’s gallopping internet bill which I pay. Neither of us can work out what is happening so we’ve closed it down to start again with a Telstra prepay mini-modem purchased at Coles. He can’t be without internet during this lockdown. It wasn’t so much the money even, though it had reach $1,300 by the closure time. It was the sense of injustice at being continuously charged in large amounts for something you didn’t even realise was happening.
That son has bipolar disorder, thus is rather prone to paranoia, and takes it badly. He thinks they have a personal vendetta against him. I’ve had a job persuading him it is just some glitch and that if we have to Hairy and I will either pay it or take it to the Ombudsman for him. Really something we could all do without during a lockdown.
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Let’s give this formatting a burl then:
Head prefect is a poo poo head
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Entropy says:
August 2, 2021 at 6:36 pm
Maybe it is an attempt to imitate those dystopian YA stories where all the oldies die leaving the kids to make a new civilisation.
No Entropy – they wouldn’t be that cruel to the kids.
They want them dead as well as their parents.
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Last time I got the flu (pre stroke) I was in bed for 5 days straight. Seemed like a big deal at the time. Water off a ducks back now.
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Entropy, what if a person doesn’t have a phone?
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You may joke Entropy, but I wonder about the soundness of vaccinating children who have some kind of natural immunity proven already, and then there would be boosters and so on.
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How many, ‘Aussie Backpackers Executed Overseas For Drug Smuggling’, stories, do have to be reminded of, for just one reason?
Oh, so the French government is going to collect information on American packpackers to find drugs and execute them are they?
How about the very real push to do away with cash
Stop lying. There’s zero push to do away with money. There was a push by the Australian government to have transactions above 10 K cash reported, but that’s not doing away with cash.
and in the meantime prevent people from turning their cash reserves (effectively no longer Legal Tender over $10,000), into Legal Electronic ‘Money’?
Again, stop lying. Cash money is legal tender and you should be back in the nutjob institution.
What, you haven’t heard how Blockchain & ElectricCoin is going to make New Kings over the ‘fools’ who still take the risks to dig & drill, move & sell real resources?
Q told you that, did he? How is Q these days?
Are you really that far out of the loop, or is it your job to keep the average Joe & Jane out, while the loose ends are tied & the bugs crushed?
Everyone wishes they were an insider like you, you clown.
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Warwick, this might be worth a look:
https://www.aussiespeedingfines.com/
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If there was a gold medal for over-hype it would be tough to separate the female hockey and soccer teams.
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“Hitler was not illogical…”
I don’t have a dog in this fight – the Cat after dark really isn’t my thing – but…most of Hitler’s generals would demur on that.
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“Big deal.
Google has been doing this for years.”
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Riiiiiiiiiiiiiggght.
So when I do it, it’s stalking.
When Google o the government do it, it’s no big deal.
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but I am not sure how that would get into the wallet on your phone
we are heading toward Block-Chain-Lyfe
every step, every thing you say, everything you buy, every song you sing …
Every breath you take
And every move you make
Every bond you break
Every step you take
I’ll be watching you
Every single day
And every word you say
Every game you play
Every night you stay
I’ll be watching you
Oh, can’t you see
You belong to me
Now my poor heart aches
With every step you take
–Sting (uncanny naming, right?)
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time trial 6.49pm
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I prefer Keri Keri.
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What fkg rot. Our military can’t even manage to get bottled water where it’s needed.
Okay, tell that to Fed Ex, UPS, Deutsche Post, Amazon and any other organization with a logistics component. Even the firms you mentioned, I bet they hire from the military.
What’s your point anyway? If you think our military is useless, it doesn’t mean the government thinks the same thing, so you argument is stupid…. no surprise there.
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Census paper delivery to Gladys closed areas? Gladys in breach of Census Act?
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you probably don’t go clubbing then.
Actually it is interesting how much teh authoritehs assume about people. I tried to get my father in law to finally buy an iPhone but being the scabby old Scotsman he is, he went with a $49 Chinese android thing that no doubt is reporting his activities to an extremely bored Chinese spy.
Probably millennials writing the options papers.
here is a link to how the Medicare app creates the certificate
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Test 6:54pm
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“ After clinching her silver medal on Sunday, Saunders said she wanted to represent “people all around the world who are fighting and don’t have the platform to speak up for themselves.”’
Just wait till ‘the oppressed’ get social media. Oh hang on.
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You’ve been reading John Christopher mushie
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Possibly replaced by a tracking app by then?
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MatrixTransform @ 6.48pm.
Yes!
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welcome to Block-Chain-Lyfe.
Every breath you take
And every move you make
Every bond you break
Every step you take
I’ll be watching you
Every single day
And every word you say
Every game you play
Every night you stay
I’ll be watching you
Oh, can’t you see
You belong to me
Now my poor heart aches
With every step you take
Every move you make
Every vow you break
Every smile you fake
Every claim you stake
I’ll be watching you
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One day in a history class of the future.
Yes that’s right Billy, the people had been dumbed down so much and had not a clue about what freedom even was anymore that they couldn’t tell the difference between a tracking app and a “permission passport.”
Can you believe they had given religion away, …we now know that doesn’t happen, but they thought that it could, but they’d actually replaced Christianity with the religion of government, which we call communism, Billy.
No it’s not bullshit Billy, although I grant you it’s hard to believe, but we only know this now looking back on History.
Let’s make sure we don’t repeat it.
Because they also had history to learn from but didn’t.
The world fell into darkness and evil chaos for centuries, and prior to that the western civilisation was a gleaming light of freedom, wealth and security.
No other civilisation came close for hundreds of years.
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One minute Bonds are flogging gender neutral clothing now on YouTubers mightycarmods they’ve advertising Bonds ‘keep your male bits fertile undies’
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Roger
Was he illogical in terms what Rambler mentioned (and not what his generals said about him). But equally, when have subordinates ever spoken well about the boss – especially when things are turning to shit. Like it’s all his fault and not ours. That’s never happened ever never before and after Hitler.
Rambler made the following stupid comment.
incoherent rambler says:
August 2, 2021 at 4:56 pm
Invade Poland, Russia and bomb Britain.
For what purpose? Go!
JC assumes that there must be an intelligent decision making process in govt..
Evil, but how was it illogical?
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Huh.
I’m procrastinating on YouTube watching an African-American dude ‘react’ to an Adam Calhoun music video (yes, there are better things I could be doing with my time, but that’s another story), when he explains the whole saggy/baggy pants thing which was (still is?) popular in certain communities: Apparently it originated in jail. When you were *ahem* ‘claimed’ by a dude, you sagged your pants as a signal to others you were no longer ‘available.’ This bloke didn’t explain how that signalling came to be transferred to the outside world, but if it is true … Huh.
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Oh dear.
Hasn’t taken long for the pizzas to come out and the blog to go staunch.
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Are we approaching Cat 3.0’s first testing point?
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From the “Australian.”
ABC review into Luna Park documentary
Troy Bramston
SENIOR WRITER
@TroyBramston
21 minutes ago August 2, 2021
The ABC has commissioned an external review into its widely criticised Luna Park ghost train fire documentary that implicated former NSW premier Neville Wran in a cover-up of the police investigation, accused him of socialising with Abe Saffron and influencing the tender process for the amusement park.
The ABC board initiated the review following complaints concerning the program by former ABC chairman and managing director David Hill, former NSW premiers Bob Carr and Barrie Unsworth, former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull and others.
The ABC’s audience and consumer affairs division dismissed a formal complaint by Milton Cockburn, a former editor of The Sydney Morning Herald, and an adviser to Wran, in June. This response, by division head Kirstin McLiesh, is also being reviewed.
ABC managing director David Anderson was instructed to initiate the independent review of the documentary, reported by Caro Meldrum-Hanna and Patrick Begley. It is being undertaken by investigative journalist Chris Masters and Sydney University professor Rodney Tiffen.
The board-ordered review comes after a bruising Senate estimates hearing where editorial director Craig McMurtrie and Mr Anderson were grilled about the attacks on Wran’s character. Sally Jackson, a spokeswoman for the ABC, has repeatedly said the ABC “fully supports” Exposed: The Ghost Train Fire.
In his formal complaint, Mr Cockburn savaged the documentary’s journalistic integrity and credibility, and said it breached ABC editorial policies to be “accurate”, “fair” and “honest” by making unsubstantiated claims about Wran.
The ABC alleged Wran had a social relationship with Saffron, a notorious criminal underworld figure. It relied on Rosemary Opitz, a former Saffron employee, to claim the crime boss and premier were “pally” and had drinks together. No other witness corroborated this.
Former policeman Paul Egge alleged Wran conspired with High Court judge Lionel Murphy to ensure the Luna Park lease went to a Saffron front company, but his claim was found to be without credibility by a royal commission and a parliamentary commission. The ABC did not produce any tapes, transcripts or other police testimony to corroborate this allegation.
The ABC response to Mr Cockburn rejected his complaints made with reference to editorial policies. The ABC insisted the documentary made allegations rather than facts, and it was up to the audience to determine whether they were credible or not. “We are satisfied the program complied with the ABC’s editorial standards for accuracy,” it said.
Mr Hill, who ran the ABC from 1986 to 1995, and previously worked for Wran, said the documentary was “sloppy journalism”, clearly breached editorial policies and should never have been broadcast.
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Top Ender says:
August 2, 2021 at 6:46 pm
Warwick, this might be worth a look:
https://www.aussiespeedingfines.com/
TE, I’m just throwing some caution out there. I splashed out for their guff about 18 months ago after I got a couple of quick fines. Unfortunately at that time, the info they sent out was years out of date. Some of it was also along the lines of challenging the constitutional validity of the entity to actually issue fines. A lot of ducks needed to line up. It seemed to me easier just to suck it up and pay the fines. I guess if someone faffed them around long enough with challenges they might just write the fine off.
I challenged them about their dated info and got no reply. I guess it might have been updated since though.
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No.
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Watching Sky News whaaaaaaa about U Tube ban. Bolt interviewing a young Kevin Rudd (aka Jack Haughton). But……we telling them to get a vaccine, why they shutting us down. Nothing better than self interest.
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“I bet they hire from the military”
So what? So do security companies, cops, mercs, shopping malls, mining co safety depts., RTO’s , so-fkg-what? It’s the systems that deliver the goods that matter, on time at min costs and that makes the difference, not the numpties driving the forklifts.
Stay in your lane, dickhead. You know SFA about logistics of the real world.
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Gee AfterPay possibly gonsky for $30 Billion of those not legal tender dollars. Sydney Airport gonsky for $22 billion. That’s starting to sound like a little more than pocket money.
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Scummo, Fletcher and all the usual Liberal scum are shtum re the Sky News Youtube suspension.
Remind me…what is the point of voting Liberal?
The Liberal party has to be destroyed.
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Space chook banned Sky news for mentioning Hydroxy and Ivermectin:
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/aug/01/sky-news-australia-banned-from-youtube-for-seven-days-over-covid-misinformation
The usual turds at the abc and in the left media, which is the rest of them, vomited up the usual bullshit. Kenny had a list of them today; strongly featuring, and by strongly I mean as in a bad dose of diarrhea, pirate pete and that pencil lipped arsehole chris barry.
I don’t know why the fuck Sky doesn’t sue the bastards.
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