Open Thread- Mon 1 Nov 2021
2,962 responses to “Open Thread- Mon 1 Nov 2021”
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Perhaps we need to reconsider Marxism and its evil little suckers and offshoots as being a man-made religion instead of a mere ideology.
In this sense, its constant reappearance in umpteen different forms (and the hilarious schisms and heresies this provokes) makes more sense.
Marxism as derived in 1879 faced its first crisis of belief in 1920-24, when newly Sovietised Russian society all but carked it. Lenin stroking out and the Georgian arsehole considating his control did not help matters.
Somewhat reformed under its new Master, Communism became a patriarchal, prosletysing faith. Finding traction amongst the rich and idle in the west, and even more murderous expression amongst its devotees and subjects in Eastern Europe. It fought off its competitors between 1941 and 45, obtained millions more followers and established outposts and missions worldwide.
Consistent military and political rebuttals in the 1960s through 80s saw it being forced to reform again, as idealists and zealots sought to take Communism’s transformative and millenarian aspirations and apply them semi-independently of the increasingly calcified and moribund Centre of the Faith in Moscow. Marxism now applied to race and sex and the Environment (reviving ancient animist ideals for political gain), not just economics.
The great Glasnost and Perestroika Heresies if the late 80s and early 90s finally shattered the power of Marxism as it was known, and shifted its powerbase into zealous young preachers and believers amongst its most hated enemies. Especially those Christian organisations not rooted in their own faith, and wont to chase the world in its windblown giddiness.
Think of latter-day Sexual, Racial and Environmental Marxism as semi-competing Reformation movements (versus the established pseudo-Marxism of China) with an old guard of Classical Marxists in Sestern society…
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China wants world to pay for net zero as India demands $US1 trillion
India and China have called on advanced economies to provide up to $US1 trillion ($1.33 trillion) now for developing countries to reduce emissions, rejected 2050 net-zero targets and offered no firm commitments to phase out coal-fired power at the Glasgow climate summit.
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David Rowe (Anti-Business Daily).
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For the military history book nerds among us.
The History of the Sixth Battalion the Royal Australian Regiment Volume I: Vietnam Era 1965-1970.
Black Swans over Java.Avonmore Books also has some great Japanese WWII aviation illustrated books.
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Graeme Bandeira.
LOL. That’s based on this story:
Biden Cruises Rome with 85-Car Motorcade Before ‘Climate’ Summit (30 Oct) -
Croissants are killing the planet.
‘Eat fewer croissants!’ France’s eco minister urges breakfast change in climate fight (2 Nov)
Barbara Pompili, minister for the ecological transition of France, told the BBC’s Chief Political Correspondent Adam Fleming that the traditional French breakfast doesn’t have “the best carbon footprint”. She said: “A croissant is so good but it is fat and it’s not the best carbon footprint.
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In his speech, Mr Johnson said that “humanity has long since run down the clock on climate change.” He added: “It’s one minute to midnight on that doomsday clock and we need to act now.You should avoid the puff pastries too then Mr Johnson.
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Bruce of Newcastle says:
November 3, 2021 at 6:15 am
Graeme Bandeira.
LOL. That’s based on this story:
Biden Cruises Rome with 85-Car Motorcade Before ‘Climate’ Summit (30 Oct)I suppose it takes that many of them to make sure Biden is alive and coherent (well somewhat). The last presidential candidate Democrats had needed to be peeled off a post and tossed in the back of a van before she disgraced herself. Democrats can certainly find them.
But Trump wrote mean tweets. What I wouldn’t give for a mean tweet now.
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Winston Smith says:
November 3, 2021 at 6:36 am
IT’S HAPPENING AGAIN – Judge In Virginia Dismisses Case – Allows Fairfax County to Include Absentee and Mail-In Ballots in Governor Election that Violate the LawOf course it is. Did you think Democrats would let the people decide anything ever again. The election result of 2016 surprised and scared them so much that democracy had to go.
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sfw says:
November 3, 2021 at 6:30 am
Been listening to the audiobook of ‘The Gulag Archipelago’, it’s around 75 hours long. I’m about 20 hours in. It’s amazing but the endless descriptions of the evil that was the USSR is both amazing and depressing. A work of genius but I’m wondering if I’ll stay the course.I would be too scared to read it in case it showed how closely we are tracking with what occurred in USSR. I’m already thinking we are done for and will never be free again. Solzhenitsyn had somewhere to escape, we have nowhere to go for asylum.
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IT’S HAPPENING AGAIN
Yeah, I thought that too after seeing this headline:
Trafalgar Poll: Youngkin Has 2.3-Point Lead in Virginia Gubernatorial Race (1 Nov)
They always play games with the polls too, so that the Dem is just behind the Republican, so that they can stir the rank and file to go and vote. Yet the “margin” is kept small so a “surprise win” isn’t too unbelievable. Polls are now completely fake.
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BAT FLU fact check : TRUE …
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Just catching up on last night’s discussions. Re the idea of all legislation having sunset clauses and having to be reintroduced into Parliament at regular intervals, it would also have the effect of taking up a significant proportion of Parliament’s time and there would be little time for pollies to think up new legislation and ways to make our lives more complicated and miserable.
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Death from covid complications means death from vaccines.
95% jabbed means 95% of four fifths of fuck all times by the power of socialism carrying the five.
Looks like I’ll be in the concentration camp with 4000 doctors and nurses who are decent people and who have seen what the vaccines do.
Maybe be able to see a decent quack!
The reality is, unfortunately, if you succumb to the bullying to take the jab, you will lose all freedom forever.
As will your fellow Australians.
I believe the moral stance is to not cause misery and death of your fellow Australians by submitting to tyranny.
In submitting, what follows is on your head.
4000 doctors and nurses have been willing to lose their careers and livelihoods rather than become good little Nazis.
Be at peace with yourself and fight by not complying and insulate yourself and your loved ones as best you can.
Lose a job or lose your nation, your freedom, and all reason for existence.
In reality there are about 30% vaccinated Queenslanders.
It doesn’t jump up to 60% in one week.
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They always play games with the polls too, so that the Dem is just behind the Republican, so that they can stir the rank and file to go and vote. Yet the “margin” is kept small so a “surprise win” isn’t too unbelievable. Polls are now completely fake.
People think our polls are any different to those published in the US. We keep getting the two party preferred split rubbish when they are both mightily on the nose. Equally silly are the polls for the preferred prime minister when Australian politics are not presidential though that is more for the benefit of the MP to see when it’s time to ditch the head prefect.
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Diogenes says:
November 3, 2021 at 6:51 am
I would be too scared to read it in case it showed how closely we are tracking with what occurred in USSR.
I have been rereading Hitler’s First Hundred Days.
The parallels are striking.Why is it that we and millions of ordinary Australians can see it but the media are oblivious? Is it ignorance or malice?
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A work of genius but I’m wondering if I’ll stay the course.
SFW,
It can seem a little repetitive at times (because of the sheer magnitude of the evil), but it opens up again as you move through it, and there is some stuff you really shouldn’t miss.Well worth staying to course.
My 15 year old has listened to it, and now regularly sees analogies with everyday life as we now know it. It’s mandatory reading in Russian schools, and it wouldn’t hurt our kids to plough through it either.
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Biden Cruises Rome with 85-Car Motorcade Before ‘Climate’ Summit
Make of this what you wish, but that’s more vehicles than a US Army mechanized infantry battalion which has 60 vehicles and 900 soldiers.
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Shirley, this can’t be for real .. I’m not a fan of compulsory voting or waste-of-time Council elections but read on one of the news sites this morning that dum parrot-head moving the “open” day means that the un-vaxxed won’t be allowed to vote on Dec 4 ..
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Crosstie asks why so many people, including the media, cannot see the serious situation that has occurred in respect to freedoms & the persecution of the unvaccinated.
Yesterday, we visited my daughter and son-in-law for the first time in many months. It was a joyous reunion, & we had a wonderful afternoon.
He is a good man & has shown a very high sense of morality and dedication to his family and friends over the years. He is high in the corporate world in work safety.
For the life of me I could not convince him of the wrongness of the rules regarding vaccination. For him, it was about liability issues! Companies & government, he insisted must guarantee the safety of people. But, I argued, the vaccines have limited efficacy – where, ultimately, is the difference in viral loads when either is infected? He acknowledged this, but still could not abandon his conviction that the official entities were just doing their legal duty! Any other argument, for him, was not going anywhere.
This particular attitude will not apply specifically to others. But it does illustrate the commitment to a certain way of thinking that justifies the otherwise inexcusable. And, of course, there is undoubtedly a form of mass psychosis, & even Stockholm Syndrome that is occurring.
We went home thrilled that we had seen our loved ones, but deeply saddened & frustrated at what we had heard. I will argue to the point of violence over these issues with all others, but not with the ones so locked in my heart. And so it is thus.
And what do they think of us. Fondly eccentric, I think.
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Harvest trail report from the environs of Walgett.
Crops are fantastic, last paddock went 5.7t/ha APW which hits the sweet spot of nutrition / rainfall / protein.
Heavy going with a lot of green and still sappy stalks (got through 1100 lts of diesel yesterday, that’s a lot of battery recharges)
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‘According to reports from various eye-witnesses, some voting locations are turning away voters in Virginia over not wearing masks or are trying to convince others that masks must be worn at the very least.
Washington Times writer Charlie Hurt wrang the alarm bell, reporting claims from some voters that they were being troubled by people for not wearing a mask as they lined up to vote. Hurt noted in a tweet that this was indeed illegal voter suppression and reminded voters that they may vote in any polling place in Virginia, even in schools, without a mask.’
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The point being, you dumb bint, I won’t be showing my papers anywhere to do anything, ever.
What I am allowed to do up here, I continue to do without showing ze papers.
I don’t comply with any of the bullshit.
The things that stop me are guns.
Guns on the borders.
You know, after all this, after you being absolutely wrong about everything , like scoffing at the very thought of vaccine passports and social credit schemes, anyone with a semblance of humility would slink away in embarrassment.
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I don’t comply with any of the bullshit.
The things that stop me are guns.
Guns on the borders.Weren’t you going to ram the border checkpoints in your Kenworth? Or someone else’s Kenworth? I’m quite sure you said that this is what you would do. More recently, the thing that stopped you was an unelected border nuffy not letting you back into Quenthland. Well, that’s what you said.
Hold the line.
Thank you, Sir William Wallace.
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For him, it was about liability issues!
Things like the Flu have NEVER been considered a work-related infectious disease, and thus liability issues are extremely questionable.
From The Australian Compensation and Safety Council:
Work-related infectious disease
Work-related infectious disease is infectious disease that is caused or exacerbated by occupational factors.
Organisms capable of causing an infection in humans are ubiquitous in the environment. This is true for both the occupational and the non-occupational environment. Infections that may arise from workplace exposures, but that could just as easily arise from non-workplace exposures, would not usually be considered work-related infections. An example is the common cold. The likelihood of catching a cold increases with a person’s proximity to others, and so would be higher in a busy workplace than it would be if the person stayed at home on their own. However, this increased risk arises from interaction with work colleagues, rather than from some specific exposure related to work, and would be similarly increased if the person travels to or from work on public transport, or walks around the local shopping center.
If employers want to go down this path, they’ll be giving out workers compensation for people going down with the cold. It’s very short sighted of them.
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Razeysays:
November 3, 2021 at 7:48 am
Covid-19: Researcher blows the whistle on data integrity issues in Pfizer’s vaccine trial‘Falsified Data’: Pfizer Vaccine Trial Had Major Flaws, Whistleblower Tells Peer-Reviewed Journal
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He acknowledged this, but still could not abandon his conviction that the official entities were just doing their legal duty! Any other argument, for him, was not going anywhere.
Vicki – A possible argument is HIV/AIDS. Do you exclude people with HIV because of legal liability?
Of course that would be illegal. But then if it is illegal to discriminate against people infected with HIV should it not also be illegal to discriminate against someone unvaccinated? Especially when they aren’t even infected?
None of these arguments will work against emotion, which what the elites have been tweaking into a frenzy. But at least it illustrates their hypocrisy.
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Tom does a great job with the toons but I think Rowe’s cartoons are not necessary.
Dunno Crossie.
Rowe is, of course, an A Grade cockhead firmly in the Canbra bubble with a fetish for naked flabby old blokes. There are others here would rail against him, calling him a global agrarian socialist Marxist elite in the pay of Davros*, leading the long march.
I just think he’s a dickhead putting out what he thinks will be popular in his own little circle.
But it’s worthwhile having the opportunity to see his ‘work’, if only to see how some people genuinely think. Otherwise it’s like turning you head the other way and pretending there isn’t a giant spider on your pillow while you sleep.
*The leader of the Daleks. Deliberate.
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Lindsey Graham Reportedly Called for Officers to Murder Jan. 6 Protesters: ‘You’ve Got Guns… Use Them’
…and they did – one dead protester.
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Bruce of N – re that argument citing discrimination on the grounds of a disease, there is indeed a law ( can’t cite it at the moment) against such discrimination that is being cited in cases such as the one recently in a NSW court. But it was rejected in the decision of the court, although it is now under appeal.
Will try later to find the reference. I contributed to the crowd funding of Sydney law firm who took up the case.
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Ha ha.
Turnbull said it wasn’t just a sub deal. Apparently it was a ‘sovereign partnership’.
Morrison could have thrown a crumb off the table by turfing him from the Libs quite some time ago, but no. He can’t bitch and moan now about the press pack doing what press packs do, which in this case is giving disgruntled multi-millionaires a voice.
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New Hampshire Governor Sununu Brings Close to 80 State Troopers to Public Meeting with 150 Constituents – 9 Citizens Selectively Arrested (VIDEO)
I’m beginning to think there’s no way out for the people except through violence.
The presence of so many thuggish looking troopers is dismaying in a nation like the US.
“The question of where the Gestapo/Stasi/KGB goons came from is answered – they were always there.” -
Demonstrating yet again that no depravity is too low for a leftist trying to maintain power.
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I believe the moral stance is to not cause misery and death of your fellow Australians by submitting to tyranny.
In submitting, what follows is on your head.
4000 doctors and nurses have been willing to lose their careers and livelihoods rather than become good little Nazis.
Be at peace with yourself and fight by not complying and insulate yourself and your loved ones as best you can.
Lose a job or lose your nation, your freedom, and all reason for existence.So sayeth the man whose two jobs (one self-employed) contribute tax dollars levied from his income and commercial transactions, to perpetuate the Queensland TyRanNy (and its Nasti passes) he so despises.
After all, as Greta demonstrates to us, no modern Moral Crusader ever need suffer any of the privations their convictions might inflict on their followers. Solidarity is a rhetorical, not practical concept…
#Front-BarUrger
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Great find, Tom. From the link:
The ensuing hours at CNN were noxious but upbeat, as each anchor did their patriotic duty and ratings quickly doubled. The janitorial staff quit en masse, every dry cleaner in Atlanta closed shop, but still, the noble anchors pressed onward.
Jim Acosta delivered the most handsome, brave defecation humanity has ever seen, and demanded he be surrounded with mirrors to witness his own perfection. Chris Cuomo, unable to be physically present, still cut a rope in his joggers as he chased after a woman in Central Park.
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Starving children ‘as young as NINE forced to give UN officials oral sex to get food’
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed “profound regret that these children were betrayed by the very people sent to protect them” and said he accepted the panel’s broad findings.
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No one has been arrested more than a year and a half after UN authorities were made aware of the sexual abuse allegations.
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I may have called that a bit early. I also like Branco, Stiglich and Margolis.
As I’ve said before I do like Ramirez drawing style. His messages are sometimes a bit tepid, echoing the MSM message when it has already started to crack under its absurdity and mendacity, but the drawing style is good.
But I really like Margolis too. Just the right amount of detail with a clear focus on the action (compared to Rowe who fills the entire panel most of which is just meaningless detail – unless he crams in one of his long overdone ancient references). The drawings have 3-D solidity and physical weight and movement.
He is beginning to nudge past even Ramirez.
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