Open Thread – Weekend 22 Jan 2022


The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire, J. M. W. Turner, 1817

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feelthebern
feelthebern
January 23, 2022 3:13 pm

Who is this fucking retard?

The finest goddam retard in this wide brown land, that’s who !

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 23, 2022 3:14 pm

Perfesser F.R. Etard, thank you very much.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 23, 2022 3:15 pm

I don’t want to get Archer fans hopes up, but I’m reading about an ocelot breeding program.
They want to release them into the wild to take on feral animals.

Old bloke
Old bloke
January 23, 2022 3:15 pm

feelthebern says:
January 23, 2022 at 11:12 am

I know people in Oz who had AZ, Pfizer & Moderna who all have had shingles within a couple of months.
Oldest one in their 80’s.
Youngest one early 20’s.
The only person I know who had the J&J shot also had shingles during the middle of the US summer which he said was just horrible.
The question is, why ?

Shingles is a secondary disease which follows childhood chicken pox*. The virus stays dormant in your body, suppressed by your immune system. When your immune system is weakened, usually through the ageing process, the chicken pox virus reasserts itself as shingles.

Shingles in the vaxxinated is a sign of a weakened immune system, what else are the vaxxinated now susceptible to?

*chicken pox or mumps or some other common childhood illness.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 23, 2022 3:15 pm

Professor Etard is also big on the Global Warming Scam, it’s all interconnected.

Roger
Roger
January 23, 2022 3:17 pm

He said it was not shutdowns that caused the greatest economic loss, but rather how people changed their behaviour while in a pandemic.

Who is this fucking retard?

A Perfesser of Economics at our leading university.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 23, 2022 3:19 pm

Sorry Dot, I didn’t make it clear. Those are just the ones lined up against a wall and shot.

What did Barbara Tuchman say, in “The Guns of August?” The Germans, having committed a gross breach of international law by the violation of Belgian neutrality, cited international law in the shooting of Belgian civilians, who may, or may not, have dared to resist them

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
January 23, 2022 3:21 pm

It doesn’t add up, and when something Political don’t add up, that means Spooks!!!

Not poison?

#MostLikely

Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
January 23, 2022 3:21 pm

McGowan continues

To wear his floppy clown shoes in the Peoples Republic of Wesghanistan

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 23, 2022 3:22 pm

dot, there were whole towns, with contents, wiped off the map.
There only sin was that they were in the path of ab advancing German army.
I could look up the names of the towns, but you will be better served doing it yourself.
Books like the “Guns of August” might fire your curiosity.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
January 23, 2022 3:23 pm

I don’t want to get Archer fans hopes up, but I’m reading about an ocelot breeding program.

Fox-eared arseholes. Every last one…

Dot
Dot
January 23, 2022 3:25 pm

Sorry Dot, I didn’t make it clear. Those are just the ones lined up against a wall and shot.

So what, they claimed they were free shooters? Wow, I did not know; I had seen the British propaganda and assumed it was all nonsense.

This is a cautionary tale about following government blindly. The Germans (Prussians) were militarists, how can the Kaiser and Army be wrong?

How can our democratically elected Premiers and our caring Health departments be wrong?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
January 23, 2022 3:25 pm

McGowan continues

To wear his floppy clown shoes in the Peoples Republic of Wesghanistan

Sneakers and The StairMaster locked in a death-spiral for Whom Is The Biggest Dick, colourised.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 23, 2022 3:27 pm

Jab Heil!

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
January 23, 2022 3:29 pm

Do we pay this person from our taxes?

The quoted is a tenured academic at ANU…

The main positive from the “pandemic” is that it has outed the fuckwits.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 23, 2022 3:30 pm

dot, there were whole towns, with contents, wiped off the map.
There only sin was that they were in the path of ab advancing German army.

The worst atrocity was at Dinat – the town devastated, 674 civilians shot.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 23, 2022 3:31 pm

I typed “their” !
Where is ower poof reeder?

rickw
rickw
January 23, 2022 3:31 pm

A Lanz Bulldog that you can drive to the shops (I’m sure he does):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRB7xIF_utY

miltonf
miltonf
January 23, 2022 3:36 pm

The main positive from the “pandemic” is that it has outed the fuckwits.
Yes it sure has. The great unveiling Trump started continues.

What do economists actually do?

Dot
Dot
January 23, 2022 3:37 pm
Vicki
Vicki
January 23, 2022 3:40 pm

Jo Nova has a review of the recently published complaint of the British Medical Journal about the lack of published data on the trial participants for the genetic “vaccines”. This may be the first serious departure from the unexamined acceptance of the narrative on these treatments.

The BMJ article is published for the medical industry only – but this link may retrieve it:
BMJ 2022; 376 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.o102 (Published 19 January 2022)

If not – go to Jo’s website for the commentary.

Dot
Dot
January 23, 2022 3:40 pm

What do economists actually do?

Write great books like Human Action or The Way the World Works.

No. Chumps that just have a cheque from government each time they praise government are not economists. They’re Pavlovian Dogs.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 23, 2022 3:40 pm

zk2a. I read (somewhere and I’m hoping you know the book) that when you look in detail at the WW1 butchering of civilians Belgium/France, then you begin to understand the rise of Adolph.
They were practicing.

srr
srr
January 23, 2022 3:41 pm

calli says:
January 23, 2022 at 2:45 pm

Prog rock was great fun, though not very, um, cerebral.

No. Jethro Tull’s “Thick as a Brick” was an elaborate joke, complete with its own newspaper.

Good album, though.

Joke, smoke, it matters not as this is still one of the best, most giving performances –

Jethro Tull – Thick As A Brick (live in London 1977)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAt1b21S97k

… and here he is 15 years later –

Jethro Tull Live At Musikfest 2003 Bethlehem, PA. USA. Full DVD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezlJFrk0I-I

“BroadSword 66
5 months ago
Some bands make music look easy cos they keep it simple. Tull demonstrate that their music is hard: complex, intricate, demanding, physical, intelligent, multi-layered and a real team effort. They do it brilliantly, with each member at the top of their game to push the collective higher and higher. Amazing stuff!”

Bruce of Newcastle says:
January 23, 2022 at 3:00 pm
Good album, though.

Had it on vinyl whilst at uni, it was wonderful. And I’ve the CD in a pile somewhere too.

Didn’t link it as a forty five minute-long song is probably more than Cats can take on a lazy Sunday afternoon. It’s also slightly rude. ?
[…]

Yep, it was in my big sisters first share house, my first Uni share house and in the vinyl stacks of all my fellow old farts who love music preformed with passion.

Cassie of Sydney
January 23, 2022 3:42 pm

“The main positive from the “pandemic” is that it has outed the fuckwits.”

True but the fuckwits remain unaccountable.

Pogria
Pogria
January 23, 2022 3:42 pm

Ole Sneakers has been doing research on how to keep the kiddies in WA scared.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 23, 2022 3:44 pm

What do economists actually do?

They tell lies to support the Narrative.
In this way, you can have Classical Economists, Marxist Economists, Friedmanite Economists, Keynesian Economist, Misesean Economists, they all disagree and the only thing they have in common is that they’re all liars.
The basis of any successful civilisation is Agriculture, specifically the raising of Cattle.
Once a country is led astray from that basis, it’s Game Over.

rickw
rickw
January 23, 2022 3:44 pm

then you begin to understand the rise of Adolph. They were practicing.

WWII was a continuation war, there is very little that they did through the 1930’s and into WWII that they hadn’t already practiced in WWI.

Cassie of Sydney
January 23, 2022 3:45 pm

I went for a walk this morning with two dear friends…one who is up from Melbourne. My Melbourne friend has gone from a rabid Dan Andrews fan to a Craig Kelly fan.

miltonf
miltonf
January 23, 2022 3:45 pm

McKibbin’s statement is asinine. Is that the best a P haitch D from Harvard come come up with?

miltonf
miltonf
January 23, 2022 3:46 pm

Good to hear Cassie.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
January 23, 2022 3:46 pm

Ole Sneakers has been doing research on how to keep the kiddies in WA scared.

I suspect cat owners would relate strongly to the third image in that hyperlink.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 23, 2022 3:46 pm

rabid Dan Andrews fan

Tautology alert!

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
January 23, 2022 3:47 pm

WWII was a continuation war, there is very little that they did through the 1930’s and into WWII that they hadn’t already practiced in WWI.

Their application and development of armour significantly improved.

General mechanisation and logistics? Not so much. Especially compared to the Brits, latterly the Americans and even the Soviets.

srr
srr
January 23, 2022 3:49 pm

Terrence K. Williams
@w_terrence
·
February 4, 2020
I’m speechless for the first time in my life.

The President & The First Lady invited me to sit at their table.

I used to be a foster child in need & to sit with @FLOTUS a women who cares for all children & @realDonaldTrump a man who fights for people of all colors was an honor.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
January 23, 2022 3:49 pm

The basis of any successful civilisation is Agriculture, specifically the raising of Cattle.
Once a country is led astray from that basis, it’s Game Over.

That’s a remarkable backflip from such an ardent devotee of mutton as Grigory…

#ITellALottaLies,Pal

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 23, 2022 3:50 pm

What do economists actually do?

Economists say.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
January 23, 2022 3:52 pm

No misunderstanding I hope, she is not begrudging the costs, she is a keen gardener, and she could hardly walk.

I noticed this backthread re Cassie’s need for surgery and her orthopaedic surgery costs.

I’ve known Cass for a while, but I’ve never known her to be a ‘keen gardener’.
I may be wrong, but I suspect there is a name confusion here with Calli.

And Calli, that gardenia of mine in the indoor conservatory is still struggling with tiny little black things like a fungus or insect droppings on the leaves, especially the undersides. Doing well on the new growth shooting upwards but lower down the leaves are yellowing and falling. I have used white oil and a light misting of household mortein in case it was unknown insects, but nothing works. Unusually too, a weblike cream residue is appearing all over the glazed pot. I wipe it off but it reappears. What is the best thing I can buy at Bunnings for this weird stuff?

Cassie sat next to it on Friday night but noticed nothing amiss. She did well to get up our steps.
If there Calli may have spotted the problem but she lives far away from Sydney.
I hope she has an answer anyway.

bespoke
bespoke
January 23, 2022 3:53 pm

What do economists actually do?

DnD

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 23, 2022 3:54 pm

No one’s ever let on why McGowan is called Sneakers, so i’ll have a shot at it.
Sneakers was originally Snickers, a short chocolate covered bar.
Since Snickers’ minders knew the name couldn’t be memory holed, they changed it to Sneakers, which adds a layer of obfuscation.
How’s that sound?
Rex Franger?
Anybody?

miltonf
miltonf
January 23, 2022 3:54 pm

I’ve heard economists could ‘soothsayers’ of the modern west

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 23, 2022 3:54 pm

Dick Ed

The basis of any successful civilisation is Agriculture, specifically the raising of Cattle.

Do you do your bit by providing the bullsh1t?

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
January 23, 2022 3:56 pm

That gardenia was a bad purchase. It was full of beautiful buds that I thought were about to burst forth. But it had an insect infestation (as Calli advised), seemed to be cured by white oil, but then all of the buds went black at the tips and all except one struggler bud failed to open and all eventually fell off.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
January 23, 2022 3:57 pm

The worst atrocity was at Dinat – the town devastated, 674 civilians shot.

That was the worst individual atrocity. During the 1914 advance, German troops murdered over 6,000 Belgian and French civilians in similar circumstances.

Ask any Belge and they’ll tell you.

One impressive thing is the extent and care with which the Belgians rebuilt after the war. Today Dinant looks just like the pretty little town that existed before being flattened by war.

Frank
Frank
January 23, 2022 3:58 pm

The main positive from the “pandemic” is that it has outed the fuckwits.

If they outnumber everyone else they cease to be fuckwits. Consensus then says the sane are retarded.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 23, 2022 3:59 pm

I went for a walk this morning with two dear friends

Cassie – Nice to hear the mechanical knees are performing!

This comment is in honour of Cohen the Barbarian, who when asked “what’s best in life?” answered “Good dentistry.”

Not to be confused with Conan the Barbarbarian who yesterday ran over a Prius.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
January 23, 2022 4:03 pm

No one’s ever let on why McGowan is called Sneakers, so i’ll have a shot at it.
Sneakers was originally Snickers, a short chocolate covered bar.
Since Snickers’ minders knew the name couldn’t be memory holed, they changed it to Sneakers, which adds a layer of obfuscation.
How’s that sound?
Rex Franger?
Anybody?

Let’s just say that for much of Mark McGowan’s early years in the ALP, he was a noted sycophant of major Party powerbrokers. The classic Australianism comes into play from there.

(Any references to chocolate ‘bars’ when even you understand that ‘Sneakers’ is a variation on ‘Boots,’ indicates that you are an appalingly sick-minded individual who needs banning, Grigory…)

calli
calli
January 23, 2022 4:04 pm

From the songwriter himself:

Anderson has also said that “the album was a spoof to the albums of Yes and Emerson, Lake & Palmer, much like what the movie Airplane! had been to Airport”and later remarked that it was a “bit of a satire about the whole concept of grand rock-based concept albums”. Although Anderson wrote all the music and lyrics, he co-credited the writing to a fictional schoolboy named Gerald Bostock. The humour was subtle enough that some fans believed that Bostock was real. Reviewing the 40th anniversary reissue, Noel Murray suggested that many listeners of the original album “missed the joke”.

No smoke, just a joke. Unless those listening inhaled. And many…many did. In those days everyone scanned lyrics for meaning.

But is was fun. And the lyrics might be useful today as a cultural observation.

And the sand-castle virtues are all swept away in
The tidal destruction
The moral melee.
The elastic retreat rings the close of play
As the last wave uncovers
The newfangled way.
But your new shoes are worn at the heels and
Your suntan does rapidly peel and
Your wise men don’t know how it feels
To be thick as a brick.

The last couplet describes our economist quoted up thread.

I was listening earlier to Wakeman’s ponderous staves from “And You and I” (Close to the Edge). I get why Anderson wanted to parody them.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 23, 2022 4:06 pm

WWII was a continuation war, there is very little that they did through the 1930’s and into WWII that they hadn’t already practiced in WWI.

Posted upthread about the opening of the archives of Imperial Germany in the mid 1960’s – Kaiser Wilhelm had territorial ambitions in Europe, equal to anything the “Austrian corporal with the funny mustache” had twenty years later.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
January 23, 2022 4:06 pm

The basis of any successful civilisation is Agriculture, specifically the raising of Cattle.
Once a country is led astray from that basis, it’s Game Over.

Agriculture is the raising of plants; civilisation does not depend on this, plenty of horticulturalists are sporadic planters of various crops, as in New Guinea. Proper agriculture on which civilisations depends produces a storable surplus; usually some sort of grain crop. The domestication of animals is also no foundation alone for civilisation. Depends on what is domesticated and how it is used, often animal power is important for more than food, and cattle are only one of the important animals raised and depended upon. The place of the horse under civilisation is also worth inspecting. And it is Western Civilisation that the above mainly applies to. South American and to some extent Eastern Civilisations, were different in significant resources and produce. Jared Diamond, for all his faults, gives a reasonable overview.

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
January 23, 2022 4:07 pm

Alice Roberts and Bettany Hughes

Alice wins this one easily.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 23, 2022 4:08 pm

Can someone please order the following labels for me?
fsckwit
retard
moron
idiot
fscktard
slugbrain

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
January 23, 2022 4:08 pm

Agriculture is the raising of plants; civilisation does not depend on this,

A enjoyable and concise reply, Lizzie.

A shame it’s wasted on the fartings of our gypsum-flavoured wrongologist… 🙁

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 23, 2022 4:09 pm

Let’s just say that for much of Mark McGowan’s early years in the ALP, he was a noted sycophant of major Party powerbrokers. The classic Australianism comes into play from there.

That’s not correct though, is it, but it’s convincing evidence that you’re a Labor Party Narrative Promoter.
The name Snickers originated during McGowan’s Service in the RAN.
Back to the kiddies pool, Franger.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
January 23, 2022 4:09 pm

Can someone please order the following labels for me?
fsckwit
retard
moron
idiot
fscktard
slugbrain

Ed Case.

(Wait- That’s an anagram…)

#Meh

calli
calli
January 23, 2022 4:10 pm

Any particular typeface, Rambler?

Or would you stick with Comic Sans?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
January 23, 2022 4:12 pm

That’s not correct though, is it, but it’s convincing evidence that you’re a Labor Party Narrative Promoter.

Righto, Grigory…*

The name Snickers originated during McGowan’s Service in the RAN.

Got any recently-discharged salty seamen (Stop that!) who can verify that, Grigs?

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 23, 2022 4:13 pm

calli, we need to sure to use the right word. There are new blog rules.

jupes
jupes
January 23, 2022 4:15 pm

They’re still contact tracing in the West (naturally – McGowan continues to belabour under the assumption his government will be able to get a handle on this outbreak).

I have only had a day and half of ‘freedom’ in Perth since May last year but here is a little snapshot of what I’ve seen in Perth City:
No business is enforcing QR coding, and nobody that I saw was bothered to do it voluntarily. The Old Mill Theatre, on the other hand, did enforce the QR code probably because it is run by (volunteer) Karens.
No business is enforcing masks, though plenty of people do wear them when they enter a business. I occasionally will wear the stupid thing if I don’t feel like putting an employee in an uncomfortable position, but generally don’t. I have been chipped twice: Once by the Karen at the theatre and the other by a ferry driver. It was encouraging to note that when the play started, over 50% of the patrons I could see took their masks off.
I have seen signs in businesses stating only the fully vaxxed (whatever that is these days in the West) can be served but, again, no one has asked to see my ‘passport’.

That’s a pretty big change in attitude since I was last here. I hope it continues next week when McClown cracks the whip harder and bans the Jews unvaxxed from society.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
January 23, 2022 4:16 pm

Discussions on Belgium shoulld really include their governance of the Belgian Congo.
To bring balance.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
January 23, 2022 4:17 pm

That’s a pretty big change in attitude since I was last here. I hope it continues next week when McClown cracks the whip harder and bans the Jews unvaxxed from society.

I somehow think he might not be entirely willing to risk going any further or any harder.

At least, not for the moment.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 23, 2022 4:18 pm

Looks like it was Snickers after all.
Thanks, Franger!
Now to the mystery at hand:
Why would sailors name an Officer after a Chocolate covered bar?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 23, 2022 4:18 pm

Let’s just say that for much of Mark McGowan’s early years in the ALP, he was a noted sycophant of major Party powerbrokers. The classic Australianism comes into play from there.

Most notably one Brian Burke and Kim Beazley.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 23, 2022 4:19 pm

Belgian Congo

Heart of Darkness country?

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 23, 2022 4:19 pm

Groogs, “thinking” again? Back on the ol’ horse. Good for you little buddy.

calli
calli
January 23, 2022 4:19 pm

We could always add this, Rambler.

Women do it all the time and get away with it.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 23, 2022 4:20 pm

Discussions on Belgium shoulld really include their governance of the Belgian Congo.

Paul Ham makes that very point in his book “1914.”

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 23, 2022 4:20 pm

The Belgian Governance of The Congo was no better or worse than that of other Colonial Powers in Africa.

srr
srr
January 23, 2022 4:21 pm

DrBeauGan says:
January 23, 2022 at 3:29 pm

Do we pay this person from our taxes?

The quoted is a tenured academic at ANU…

The main positive from the “pandemic” is that it has outed the fuckwits.

The funny bit being that fuckwits don’t know they’re fuckwits so still think they haven’t been pinged 🙂

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 23, 2022 4:22 pm

Sneakers certainly rose without trace as they say.

Eric Ripper as Leader of the Opposition gives an indication of how much trouble the Liars were in.

Cassie of Sydney
January 23, 2022 4:23 pm

“The Belgian Governance of The Congo was no better or worse than that of other Colonial Powers in Africa.”

BULLSHIT.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 23, 2022 4:25 pm

Alice wins this one easily.

Extreme Archaeology Pt 1

Dr Mark Davies and his team (including an early appearance by Dr Alice Roberts) explore the dangerous old mine workings in Parys Mountain, Anglesey in search of Bronze Age artefacts and attempt the breakthrough from Parys to the Mona mine. This Channel 4 / Mentorn production dates from 2004. Alice Roberts was in her pink hair phase!

Ranga! Seriously out there doco, very dangerous. Bunch of cavers and archaeologists investigate a historic underground copper mine, sulfuric acid everywhere and rotten wooden wall props. Mesmerizing even with the low res video. (Pts 2-4 are also on YT.)

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 23, 2022 4:27 pm

The Belgian Governance of The Congo was no better or worse than that of other Colonial Powers in Africa.

Bullshit. The Belgian governance of the Congo was up there with the German Governance of South West Africa – no other of the colonial powers had such a record.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 23, 2022 4:27 pm

BULLSHIT.

Explain yourself, young lady..

Rabz
January 23, 2022 4:30 pm
Ed Case
Ed Case
January 23, 2022 4:30 pm

The Belgian governance of the Congo was up there with the German Governance of South West Africa – no other of the colonial powers had such a record.

Rubbish.
The German Governance of Namibia was also no better or worse than the other Colonial Powers, though probably better than France and Portugal.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 23, 2022 4:30 pm

“I hope it continues next week when McClown cracks the whip harder and bans the Jews unvaxxed from society.”

He’s currently wetting himself about two cases of the sniffles.

McGowan’s impassioned plea to residents as WA reports two mystery COVID cases (22 Jan)

That’s the headline as it appeared on Sky News website this morning. He’s impassioned! I was amused.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
January 23, 2022 4:33 pm

The Belgian Governance of The Congo was no better or worse than that of other Colonial Powers in Africa.

Nope.

The French and British alike still maintain their old colonies as allies and commonwealths, though the French are a little more active in the affairs of West Africa than the Poms are in the East.

The Belgians were ejected and stayed the hell away. The UN became the DRC’s de facto patron. And a football for many different Cold War powers’ competing agendas.

bespoke
bespoke
January 23, 2022 4:34 pm

Ed, Are you a professional fishermen? If not you should.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 23, 2022 4:38 pm

The German Governance of Namibia was also no better or worse than the other Colonial Powers, though probably better than France and Portugal.

85,000 dead Namibians – today’s German Government describes that “Governance” as “genocide”, apologizes and pays compensation?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 23, 2022 4:38 pm

Got to be fair and balanced.

The Minoans – Bettany Hughes

The whole Ancient World series was wonderful.

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
January 23, 2022 4:39 pm

Oh dear…

Formula 1 has banned military air displays at Grands Prix on sustainability and environmental grounds.

Fly-bys and other demonstrations by military aircraft have become commonplace as part of events building up to the start of races.

There is also a concern the displays can be used to make geo-political statements with which F1 does not want to be associated.

However, it is likely groups such as the RAF’s Red Arrows will be permitted as they are less obviously linked to the military.

And fly-bys involving civilian aeroplanes – such as happen at some of the Middle Eastern races that are sponsored by airlines – will still be permitted as long as the planes are using sustainable fuels.

Rabz
January 23, 2022 4:41 pm

Err, some sad news, Cats. Yet another of my contemporaries has died, way before his time. A twin, adopted by high profile corporate parents and in my year at school with his brother.

He was a legend. Strong and fit, musically and sportingly gifted and the funniest guy I’ve ever known in my lifetime. He leaves behind a devoted wife and a twenty year old daughter, distraught at their loss.

It’s not right.

srr
srr
January 23, 2022 4:43 pm

Sir Richard Taylor ???????
@RWTaylors
·
Jan 3
Any government that mandates a medical intervention by force is evil.
https://gettr.com/post/plgwoj83b4

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
January 23, 2022 4:43 pm
calli
calli
January 23, 2022 4:43 pm

Rabz, I’m so sorry.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 23, 2022 4:45 pm

Any government that mandates a medical intervention by force is evil.

I think I will repeat that many many times.

Diogenes
Diogenes
January 23, 2022 4:45 pm

The Belgian Governance of The Congo was no better or worse than that of other Colonial Powers in Africa.

Unlike the Poms, French or Germans, the Belgian colonies were the personal property of the King of the Belges.

srr
srr
January 23, 2022 4:45 pm

LastChance
@RunToGod
·
1h

UK– Covid 19 Vax is now under Criminal Investigation
https://gettr.com/post/pq27v7c97d
http://www.bitchute.com

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 23, 2022 4:47 pm

Sorry to hear that Rabz.

DC.

Rabz
January 23, 2022 4:47 pm

Thanks calli – yet again, it makes you wonder how you’ve continued to blunder on, when those far better than you have fallen by the wayside.

There is little justice in life or death, it seems.

Roger
Roger
January 23, 2022 4:47 pm

Unlike the Poms, French or Germans, the Belgian colonies were the personal property of the King of the Belges.

Only until 1908 in the case of the Congo.

calli
calli
January 23, 2022 4:48 pm

In weird news from Galaxy Government, this from NSW health:

Masks

All primary and secondary school staff will be required to wear masks indoors.
No vented masks or cloth masks should be worn. If required, surgical masks will be available at schools.
Secondary school students are required to wear masks.
Primary school students are strongly recommended to wear well-fitted masks indoors.

The surgical masks are a textile product, the same as any other including neoprene. The surgical masks are one size “fits” all and are designed for ADULTS. They are meant to be worn for a short duration only because of health risks for the wearer.

Yet there smooth brains expect our little ones to wear them ALL DAY.

This is child abuse.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 23, 2022 4:48 pm

The best thing the Pommy cricketers could do is catch Covid and go for a lie down.

calli
calli
January 23, 2022 4:49 pm

these

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 23, 2022 4:49 pm

England must be suffering ‘long Ashes’

A different batch of players.
Jason Holder emulating Scott Boland with 4/7

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 23, 2022 4:49 pm

The German Governance of Namibia was also no better or worse than the other Colonial Powers, though probably better than France and Portugal.

A Forgotten Genocide: What Germany Did in Namibia, and What It’s Saying Now

The German government agreed to recognize the killings of two ethnic groups in Namibia as genocide. What happened more than 100 years ago, why was it forgotten, and what is Germany doing to atone?

By Norimitsu Onishi and Melissa Eddy
Published May 28, 2021Updated May 29, 2021

It has been called the first genocide of the 20th century, the “forgotten genocide’’ and the genocide that was the precursor of the Holocaust. Tens of thousands of Africans were killed between 1904 and 1908 by German soldiers in what is now Namibia, a vast, arid country northwest of South Africa.

German soldiers targeted people of two ethnic groups — the Herero and the Nama — because they had resisted land grabs by German settlers. Africans were shot, hanged, abandoned in the desert and died in concentration camps. Descendants of the Herero and Nama, marginalized groups within Namibia itself, kept alive the stories of their genocide through oral tradition and cultural events.

A push to recognize the genocide began after Namibia’s independence in 1990, and grew stronger with the 100th anniversary of the atrocities in 2004. In recent years — with researchers and left-leaning politicians pushing Germany to come to terms with its rarely examined colonial history — the process gained momentum.

While Germany indicated early on that it was ready to recognize the atrocities as a genocide, there was a stumbling block: money, not only the amount to be given, but what any payment would be called.

On Friday, Germany formally described the killings as a genocide, agreed to issue an apology and committed to providing $1.35 billion toward reconstruction and development projects. The Namibian government hailed the agreement, and some Namibians welcomed it.

But Herero and Nama leaders dismissed the deal as a “public relations coup” because it did not include funds deemed “reparations.”

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
January 23, 2022 4:50 pm

No one’s ever let on why McGowan is called Sneakers, so i’ll have a shot at it.

Missed by that much

Sneakers the Insufferable is called Sneakers because on clambouring up the greasy pole of Labor politics Sneakers McClown was a brown-noser extraordinaire so much so he was so far up the fundaments of the higher-ups in the Labor party all one could see was McClown’s Sneakers — voila the name has stuck as has the rancid stench.

Pogria
Pogria
January 23, 2022 4:51 pm

Rabz,
all the good will and prayers I can muster for your friends’ family. And some for yourself.

srr
srr
January 23, 2022 4:52 pm

Shay
@Sh4y

7m
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COVID-1984 Vaccine Side Effects
Father finds Son dead on the floor a few weeks after ‘vaccination’

The video is cut off at the end but regardless, this man and his wife deserve real answers. No parent should have to lose their child.
https://gab.com/Sh4y/posts/107670187370071878

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
January 23, 2022 4:53 pm

Rabz,
what Pogria said.

Pedro the Loafer
Pedro the Loafer
January 23, 2022 4:55 pm

The name Snickers originated during McGowan’s Service in the RAN.

Sez Ed.
Bullshit.

“Sneakers” has been a long standing nickname coined by WA journos in McGowan’s early political career.

He was very obliging to the party hierarchy to the degree that not much of him could be seem apart from his shoes.

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
January 23, 2022 4:58 pm

More contemporary and relevant German news

German navy chief Schönbach resigns over comments on Putin, Crimea

Vice Admiral Kay-Achim Schönbach stepped down as the head of the German navy after publicly saying Crimea was lost to Ukraine and that Vladimir Putin “probably” deserved respect.

What were Schönbach’s remarks?
Schönbach made the comments during a talk that he gave in a visit to India. Speaking at the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses.

“What he really wants is respect,” the vice admiral said, speaking in English in remarks that were posted on a video on YouTube.
“And, my God, giving someone respect is low cost, even no cost. … It is easy to give him the respect he really demands — and probably also deserves,” Schönbach said, calling Russia an old and important country.
Schönbach said Russia’s actions in Ukraine needed to be addressed, but added that “the Crimea Peninsula is gone: It will never come back — this is a fact.”

Pedro the Loafer
Pedro the Loafer
January 23, 2022 5:00 pm

Snap, Tinta.

I should have read upthread before bashing on the keyboard, but a pile on on Grigs’ wrongology is a bonus.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
January 23, 2022 5:02 pm

Rabz condolences to you and your friend’s family. I too learned very early this morning of the death of one of my dearest friends at 2:00am. I am so shocked and saddened, that’s two life-long friends lost in the last couple of months, and well before their time, totally unexpected with no chance to hug and say farewell.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 23, 2022 5:03 pm

Only until 1908 in the case of the Congo.

The Belgian Government assumed control of the personal estate of King Leopold, in 1908, following revelations of atrocities perpetrated on those who were forced into virtual slavery.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
January 23, 2022 5:04 pm

Snap, Tinta.

I should have read upthread before bashing on the keyboard, but a pile on on Grigs’ wrongology is a bonus.

Yes Pedro and snap Rex Anger — say what? Snickers, ha, trying to sweeten a turd

Rabz
January 23, 2022 5:05 pm

Sorry to hear it Tintz. As the saying goes, “in the midst of life, we are in death”.

Hug those li’l grandkiddies of yours even harder, not that you’d need any encouragement.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 23, 2022 5:06 pm

Groogs wrongology is more impressive when he goes off script.

srr
srr
January 23, 2022 5:06 pm

Sharyl Attkisson
@SharylAttkisson

10m
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It’s almost as if…
Nah, never mind.
“Israel, One of Most Vaccinated Countries in the World, Sets New COVID-19 Case Record”
https://www.theepochtimes.com/israel-one-of-most-vaccinated-countries-in-the-world-sets-new-covid-19-case-record_4229781.html

miltonf
miltonf
January 23, 2022 5:07 pm

Sorry to hear Rabz. It can be a terrible shock. Precious friends hidden in death’s dateless night.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 23, 2022 5:16 pm

Rubbish.
The German Governance of Namibia was also no better or worse than the other Colonial Powers, though probably better than France and Portugal.

OK, that’s it for the day. Dick ED has scaled the heights of stupidity and ignorance, no-one else is even in the race, including that ANU “economist”.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
January 23, 2022 5:17 pm

Hug those li’l grandkiddies of yours even harder, not that you’d need any encouragement.

You bet Rabz in fact the older littlie was in my arms this morning as I received the call – such devastating news my heart stopped as soon as I saw her husband’s number on my phone. I hate what they’ve done to us, kept us apart from the people we love, I haven’t seen my friend since the 29th of May last year when during a hiatus in the madness we had a party for all our life-long friends and her brilliant son entertained us all with a stunning performance, ably supported by our own son. Such memories will fill the void and thank heavens there are many such wonderful memories because the void is so great.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
January 23, 2022 5:20 pm

Rabz and Tinta,
commiserations and prayers.

jupes
jupes
January 23, 2022 5:25 pm

All primary and secondary school staff will be required to wear masks indoors.

Masks! The constant reminder of the value of propaganda and the gullibility of a large proportion of the population. How anyone can still believe masks are worthwhile is beyond me. It’s a classic example of people being broken by having to repeat an obvious lie.

Normally, I have sympathy for staff who are told to enforce the mask mandate. However, last night I was chipped by a volunteer Karen at a small theatre in South Perth. While waiting for the play to start, my darling wife and I sat down in a fairly large waiting/lounge room. There were four other people in the room, two had a wine while the rest of us didn’t. None of us were wearing masks.

Karen entered the room and went around individually telling the non-drinkers to put their masks on. When she told me to, I decided to emphasize the absurdity of the situation and asked her to pretend that I had a glass of wine. Seriously, how can anyone not see how stupid that rule is? Karen was a bit taken back but then claimed that I needed to consider whether it was appropriate to be questioning a volunteer about such things. The darling wife then took over and bit Karen’s head off who retreated without another word.

Hopefully she learnt something but I doubt it.

shatterzzz
January 23, 2022 5:27 pm
Rabz
January 23, 2022 5:27 pm

Tintz – so much can happen in 36 hours, it seems. 😕

shatterzzz
January 23, 2022 5:29 pm

Sorry .. wrong link! .. duuuuuuh!
This one ….. https://youtu.be/AkPwfcCzF54

Roger
Roger
January 23, 2022 5:31 pm

Vice Admiral Kay-Achim Schönbach stepped down as the head of the German navy after publicly saying Crimea was lost to Ukraine and that Vladimir Putin “probably” deserved respect.

As Russia supplies about half of Germany’s gas supplies and owns about a quarter of the gas in storage in Germany, with no alternative supplier to be found in the short to medium term, I’d venture to suggest the Rear Admiral was only stating the obvious.

rosie
rosie
January 23, 2022 5:32 pm

I don’t agree, pretty clear that even in the absence of a government mandated lockdown, many people will change their behaviour in the presence of a pandemic disease.
Sweden is a very good example.
Qantas are cancelling flights, eg to Honolulu through February and March because people are reluctant to travel.
And it was distinctly my experience in early mid March 2020 when the morning coffee/brunch crowd absented themselves from my local cafe, I had the ‘have here’ to myself for a week before the government said anything.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 23, 2022 5:32 pm

Unlike the Poms, French or Germans, the Belgian colonies were the personal property of the King of the Belges.

Correctimundo.
Case closed, I believe?

Cassie of Sydney
January 23, 2022 5:37 pm

Rabz and Tinta….commiserations. Stay strong.

shatterzzz
January 23, 2022 5:38 pm

All primary and secondary school staff will be required to wear masks indoors.
Makes me wonder how/why the Teachers Union(s) around Oz are able to dictate terms rather than teach .. Two, bloody, years and they’ve been on full pay whilst for most of the time kids have been at home .. instead of caving in to these bludgers why aren’t gummints ORDERING them back into classrooms on gummint this-is-hjoe-it-will-be instructions! …. gotta be as simple as …. NO work .. NO pay … of course, when your getting paid to stay home your not gonna be too keen to go back …….. FFS!

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
January 23, 2022 5:39 pm

Case closed, I believe?

If that is so, then why are you still posting, Grigory?

You said Case closed. So turn your computer off and begone…

Cassie of Sydney
January 23, 2022 5:40 pm

“The Belgian Government assumed control of the personal estate of King Leopold, in 1908, following revelations of atrocities perpetrated on those who were forced into virtual slavery.”

Correct…and even in the early 1900s there were outcries about what Leopold was doing in the Congo.

miltonf
miltonf
January 23, 2022 5:40 pm

Conrad’s Heart of Darkness iirc

rosie
rosie
January 23, 2022 5:41 pm

Commiserations Tinta and Rabz.

miltonf
miltonf
January 23, 2022 5:41 pm

WE were told in High School that Leopold used the Belgian Congo as his personal plaything.

miltonf
miltonf
January 23, 2022 5:43 pm

Shouldn’t generalize I know I know, but Belgium is a rotten little place imho. How appropriate that the EU operates out of there.

calli
calli
January 23, 2022 5:45 pm

Sweden is a very good example.

Sweden is culturally unique. The population is very, very obedient.

The behaviour changes can be shortlived, ie. the beginning of the pandemic when people were quickly in and out of venues because they feared the worst. But when lockdowns were formalised, behaviour patterns became locked in. The longer the behaviours were enforced, the more entrenched they become. Anyone who has had a smidgen of exposure to cognitive therapy will know this. It’s even worse with children.

The cancellation of flights now is evidence of the long term effects resulting in aversion to travel. Not to mention changing rules that may catch travellers mid-route.

Robert the Irish Scot
Robert the Irish Scot
January 23, 2022 5:46 pm

In the current world of turmoil, grief, anger, frustration along with complete and utter contempt for those who falsely believe that they are our betters, there are at times, moments of great joy, happiness and beauty.

The old Irish Scot and his beloved have become grandparents again for the sixth time. Only two hours ago no. three son and his beautiful wife gave birth to their fourth baby (well, she did, am I allowed to say that lol) and finally we have a grand daughter.

Whilst we are over the moon (as are the other siblings) we are unable to visit as they are interstate. The Irish Scots anger is smouldering under the surface, however, the Welsh beloved is more than a little livid at the spivs, bums and numb nuts who continue to make most peoples lives a mess.

Thankfully we know that we are truly blessed and proud ,we do have skype and/or zoom to keep in touch. But my word grandmum would dearly to cuddle of the newest family addition.

Might sit and have a glass of wine with her tonight just to settle her.

rosie
rosie
January 23, 2022 5:50 pm

French TV has low key covid ads to remind people to ventilate rooms with an open window ten minutes every hour when you have visitors.
I’ve also noticed older French men who normally greet with a handshake are fist bumping, which is quite jarring to see.
And like in Italy, most people use hand sanitiser before receiving Holy Communion.
Mask wearing is inconsistent though it’s mandatory, most people adopt the sensible, at a distance, under the chin, close contact put it on properly.
I suppose, when it is likely everyone knows at least one person who has died, people will maintain these behaviours, irritating though they are, but infinitely preferable to the former stay at home orders.
Looking forward to February when France is flagging further relaxation of rules.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 23, 2022 5:52 pm

German soldiers targeted people of two ethnic groups — the Herero and the Nama — because they had resisted land grabs by German settlers. Africans were shot, hanged, abandoned in the desert and died in concentration camps. Descendants of the Herero and Nama, marginalized groups within Namibia itself, kept alive the stories of their genocide through oral tradition and cultural events.

Tripe.
The native people of Namibia are the Khoi/San, no one else.
German colonists treated them quite well.
The Herero and the Nama were Bantu herdsmen who entered Namibia after German Colonisation.
Relations were okay until the Herero and Nama started massacring German Settlers to the last child in 1904 but sparing British Settlers.
In other words, acting as proxy murderers for the British.
Now, the present day Government of Germany is totally cucked, but back in 1904 they didn’t have a lot of choices against an armed uprising funded and encouraged by the British Empire.

Fat Tony
Fat Tony
January 23, 2022 5:52 pm

Deaths – and a birth.
The Circle of Life continues.

rosie
rosie
January 23, 2022 5:54 pm

Congratulations on the granddaughter Robert.

Seems to be lots of couples having babies, several of my daughters’ friends have just had or are about to to have babies.
I guess that’s not surprising all early, mid thirties, it’s time.

Rabz
January 23, 2022 5:56 pm

One of Craig’s favourite songs – he was after all, a child of the eighties …

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 23, 2022 5:58 pm

The native people of Namibia are the Khoi/San, no one else.
German colonists treated them quite well.
The Herero and the Nama were Bantu herdsmen who entered Namibia after German Colonisation.

Ballocks on stilts to both counts.

Oh come on
Oh come on
January 23, 2022 6:01 pm

Heh. Masks can come in handy as sociological filtering devices, even though they don’t filter much else when it comes to Covid. Wear one under your nose. You’ll get some glares. Those people are the fuckwits. Avoid them, and get ready with a snappy riposte if one of them moans at you.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 23, 2022 6:01 pm

WE were told in High School that Leopold used the Belgian Congo as his personal plaything.

If that’s what you were told, then you were told wrong.
Leopold never set foot in Africa in his lifetime, his interests in the Congo were managed by Non Congolese and the atrocities carried out by the Congolese.
King Leopold derived no personal benefit from the tapping of Rubber Trees, but spent his share of the money on building beautiful buildings for the people of Belgium.

Control of the province passed from Leo to the Government in 1908 and, presumably, conditions for Congolese Rubber tappers improved from horrific to dismal, just like in the British Colonies.

flyingduk
flyingduk
January 23, 2022 6:04 pm

Masks! The constant reminder of the value of propaganda and the gullibility of a large proportion of the population. How anyone can still believe masks are worthwhile is beyond me. It’s a classic example of people being broken by having to repeat an obvious lie.

Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.

—Theodore Dalrymple, “Our Culture, What’s Left Of It” (HT: Bob Suden)

cohenite
January 23, 2022 6:05 pm

ABL on the gender bullshit:

Matt Walsh DEBATES Trans Activists On Dr. Phil!

Walsh declares that his pronouns are handsome and brilliant and they must be used in addressing him.

My pronouns would be muscular, resolute and really smart.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 23, 2022 6:08 pm

King Leopold derived no personal benefit from the tapping of Rubber Trees, but spent his share of the money on building beautiful buildings for the people of Belgium.

Oh, well, that’s all good. Flogging, starvation, murder, sex slavery and rape are all excused because there are beautiful buildings for the people of Belgium.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
January 23, 2022 6:11 pm

Just had a call from my mate in NZ. Has only discovered within the last 2 weeks that government,health and media lie. Something I’ve been telling him for nearly 2 years, what prompted this I don’t know but it is good. I only hope his wife does too. He is quite influential in his small community as a voice of reason and for getting things done through community hard work. I’m waiting to hear if he has a go at another mate of his whose family own a newspaper. It seems the tide is turning, I could be wrong, been wrong before but I was wrong about that and was actually right. Right.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
January 23, 2022 6:17 pm

Thanks Timothy, Cassie and rosie and the kind thoughts of others here – the finality is very sobering –

MatrixTransform
January 23, 2022 6:17 pm

The polite word for those who cannot show such basic social courtesies is “yobs”

what’s the word for somebody that puts themselves on a pedestal and proselytizes their own piety?

Wanker?

MatrixTransform
January 23, 2022 6:19 pm

Oh … snap Cassie

miltonf
miltonf
January 23, 2022 6:20 pm

prissy

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 23, 2022 6:21 pm

Snickers’ nickname is because he’s a brown nose?
Well, why not call him Florsheims, Grosbys or Julius Marlowes?
Who wears sneakers at Labor Party functions?
Unconvincing.
I read that the name originated in the Navy, Snickers sounds about right.
The imagery for the fake Sneakers name is interesting tho.
Imagine if he was wearing a pair of those Bata Scouts with a compass in the heel?
Interested observers could guide him

“Your left is NNW, Mark, your right is listing S/SE …”

Cassie of Sydney
January 23, 2022 6:22 pm

“Matt Walsh DEBATES Trans Activists On Dr. Phil!”

Matt Walsh is a hero….and his most scathing and accurate comment on Dr Phil to the two sinister trans activists was as follows…”what you want to do is to appropriate women and womanhood and turn it into basically a costume that can be worn”.

100% true.

rickw
rickw
January 23, 2022 6:23 pm

Has only discovered within the last 2 weeks that government,health and media lie.

Incredible that this is a revelation.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
January 23, 2022 6:26 pm

Robert what wonderful news congratulations, in the midst of sadness, thank heavens for joy and life.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 23, 2022 6:29 pm

but spent his share of the money on building beautiful buildings for the people of Belgium.

If the histories I’ve read are any guide, Leopold spent considerable sums on the teenage prostitutes he kept as mistresses.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
January 23, 2022 6:29 pm

Matt Walsh is a hero….

. Fact check: True. He has written a book called Johnny the Walrus which has made it to the top of the best seller list on Amazon — about a little boy who thinks he’s a walrus, mother is dealing with it as the usual childhood transient fantasy until the social media crowd pressure her into going further and indulging in the fantasy as if it is the reality. An absolute pisstake of the wolkfolk.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 23, 2022 6:30 pm

Oh, well, that’s all good. Flogging, starvation, murder, sex slavery and rape are all excused because there are beautiful buildings for the people of Belgium.

You’re talking like the old Zulu again, the stupid one.
This was the deal in the Congo:
The native congolese were set a daily tally of latex that they had to collect from the rubber trees in the plantation.
Demand for Rubber had exploded in the 1880s and The Congo was one of the few places it could be grown profitably.
Labourers who failed to collect their tally for the day might have a hand or a foot amputated by machete.
More commonly their children suffered the amputations. The Tibetan Elites inflicted similar punishments on their slaves.
Worse is happening in the Congo today.
There’s a War on for resources there that may have claimed 20 million lives.

Rabz
January 23, 2022 6:32 pm

For those Sweet Janeys out there … 😕

Oh come on
Oh come on
January 23, 2022 6:34 pm

Boom:
Omicron can’t be ‘eliminated’ in WA, Health Minister concedes as case numbers jump

This was obvious when they first announced OMG community spread last week. Now we get to see if McGowan is dumb enough to lock the city down. Will he cancel the Australia Day fireworks? He’s damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t. He’s already copped a lot of flak for abandoning his commitment to open the border, and I think he’ll be leery of cancelling the fireworks. On the other hand, if he lets them go ahead, there will be an explosion of cases linked to the show. Then he’ll be flayed for not cancelling them.

McGowan has flown high and flown far on the crude formula of pulling up the drawbridge and stoking parochialism. I’m going to enjoy his power dive into the ground.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 23, 2022 6:34 pm

If the histories I’ve read are any guide, Leopold spent considerable sums on the teenage prostitutes he kept as mistresses.

Leo liked ’em young, no doubt about that.
At least he stuck to females and didn’t abuse boys, like most other Royalty.
However, the profits out of the Congo were enormous.
He spent that on buildings that he bequeathed to the Nation.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
January 23, 2022 6:35 pm

Relations were okay until the Herero and Nama started massacring German Settlers to the last child in 1904 but sparing British Settlers.
In other words, acting as proxy murderers for the British.
Now, the present day Government of Germany is totally cucked, but back in 1904 they didn’t have a lot of choices against an armed uprising funded and encouraged by the British Empire.

Fuck off, Grigory.

And take your cheap, discount Bird act with you.

srr
srr
January 23, 2022 6:36 pm

Jack Posobiec ??
@JackPosobiec
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Jan 21
2024 National General Election Poll:

Donald Trump 49% (+5)
Joe Biden 44%
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Donald Trump 51% (+10)
Hillary Clinton 41%
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Donald Trump 51% (+11)
Kamala Harris 40%

McLaughlin & Associates ~ 1,000 LV ~ 1/13-1/18
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Rabz
January 23, 2022 6:38 pm

Stop hurting peoples, people …

JC
JC
January 23, 2022 6:39 pm

Ed

You’re sundowning . Enough now.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
January 23, 2022 6:42 pm

I read that the name originated in the Navy, Snickers sounds about right.

Grigory, come West and work for the railways.

I know of some locomotives that have dynamic brake faults. If we wired you into the dynamic grids instead, I and my fellow drivers would have all the retardation we need to keep our trains in check on the downgrades. So much retardation, in fact, that if we put you into maximum dyno, we could send the train backwards.

A reasonable price to pay for the outbursts of racism, a-historicity, bigotry, glowposting and the odd temper tantrum when Cats won’t play along with your gypsum-fuelled stupidity…

Rabz
January 23, 2022 6:43 pm

Bluddee hell – give blood, I asks ya!

slackster
slackster
January 23, 2022 6:43 pm

Oh come onsays:
January 23, 2022 at 6:34 pm
“McGowan has flown high and flown far on the crude formula of pulling up the drawbridge and stoking parochialism. I’m going to enjoy his power dive into the ground.”

He can’t do anything but lockdown
He’s backed himself into a corner he can’t get out of
He is too stupid to retire for “famly reasons” like Bracks
Its going to be a shit show of epic proportions
Grab popcorn

rosie
rosie
January 23, 2022 6:43 pm

WA government still needs to talk to the public about ‘eliminating’ omicron.
Wow.
I guess you reap what you sow.
Meanwhile France has over 11 million cases and here, life seems normal, other than the little adjustments I mentioned upthread.
There is no supply chain disruption and hospitals are under pressure but that’s two years of same.

srr
srr
January 23, 2022 6:46 pm

Jason AIdean ?
@JasonAIdean
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13m
Absolute bullshit. *

Homeschool your kids so they don’t get abused and turn into good little communists.
* https://gettr.com/post/pq2o2we24f

Rabz
January 23, 2022 6:47 pm
Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
January 23, 2022 6:50 pm

Yobs.
Haven’t heard that for ages.
I must remember to use that.
Often.
Probably on male Karens.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
January 23, 2022 6:56 pm

I dunno, MA.

A male Karen is not the sort of boisterous, foul-mouthed, quick-tempered, belligerent and occasionally hilariously unintelligent caricature that the word ‘yob’ implies.

A ‘yob’ will stand up for itself when challenged, for good or ill.

A Karen is about as cunning (not wise, nor intelligent) as a shithouse rat. It will whine and wheedle and passive-aggro at you, then reach out from behind Mummy’s skirts to stab you in the back for whatever sins it believes you have committed. Then smarm and smirk and simper when Mummy/Daddy/Nanny Government punish you further for bleeding.

Rabz
January 23, 2022 6:57 pm

An angree northern man, channelling Goose Springsteen …

Rabz
January 23, 2022 6:58 pm

This is not an Australia I recognise.

Join the queue.

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
January 23, 2022 7:00 pm

I recognise it.
The cops are yobs.
These days. Can’t fight, need the weight of numbers.
No wonder they wear masks.
The freaking yob smurfs.

Makka
Makka
January 23, 2022 7:02 pm

I see the queers and freaks have their special day at the AO tomorrow. What fuckwittery. Kids dress ups and face paints in drag too, just to enforce the notion that a hairy legged and chested bloke dressed up with tits and heels is entirely normal.

Rabz
January 23, 2022 7:03 pm

Anthro – are we good?

rosie
rosie
January 23, 2022 7:04 pm

All this talk of Belgium tempts me to go there.
However I’ve heard it’s only interesting for beer and chocolate.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 23, 2022 7:04 pm

A recap. Ed’s life philosophy:

‘I tell a lotta lies, pal.’

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
January 23, 2022 7:05 pm

The cops are yobs.
These days.

And their male and female seniors and non-uniformed civil functionaries are almost all universally Karens.

Same with many upper echelons of the Services.

It seems to be a organisational personality type and set of behaviour patterns that flourish in this decadent and lazy phase of society…

#Bugmen

Indolent
Indolent
January 23, 2022 7:06 pm
Rex Anger
Rex Anger
January 23, 2022 7:07 pm

All this talk of Belgium tempts me to go there.

Douglas Adams spent a lot of time writing against it…

#Unhoopy

MatrixTransform
January 23, 2022 7:08 pm

These days. Can’t fight, need the weight of numbers.

mate rang me outta the blue from Hong Kong the other day.
We got talking about stuff and he asked what it’s like here.
what it’s really like

I said it aint the same and the Polis are disgusting.
It isn’t the some polis force that D* used to work in.
It is populated by Bolshie little pricks that can’t think for themselves

He said D* isnt in the force anymore … got done for bullying by some mole.
lucky not have been criminally charged

I know the guy and he is a stand-up, fair dinkum, no nonsense bloke that lived and breathed his job

and there it is … regime change

bespoke
bespoke
January 23, 2022 7:09 pm

A Karen is about as cunning (not wise, nor intelligent) as a shithouse rat. It will whine and wheedle and passive-aggro at you, then reach out from behind Mummy’s skirts to stab you in the back for whatever sins it believes you have committed. Then smarm and smirk and simper when Mummy/Daddy/Nanny Government punish you further for bleeding.

Correct or in old school term a frightbat.

Rabz
January 23, 2022 7:10 pm
Oh come on
Oh come on
January 23, 2022 7:11 pm

A lot of chickens are coming home to roost for McGowan, and they’re going to make him look like the absolute plonker he is.

His perfect score for keeping Covid out is gone.

His decision to not open the borders at a time when OMG was already circulating in Perth – idiot. If he goes on to cancel the fireworks, he’s going to look like the Grinch taking revenge because he couldn’t steal Christmas. If the fireworks go ahead, they’ll be branded a ‘superspreader event’ (rightly or wrongly) and he’ll cop the blame.

He will probably attempt to suppress OMG, his efforts will fail, and he will look incompetent. The more heavy-handed the measures he takes, the worse it will be for him. The introduction of his vaxx passport regime will – at best – pass relatively unnoticed and be largely unenforced, or it will generate resentment. It’s not working. Nothing’s working! The numbers keep rising!

The media is going to scream blue bloody murder at the slightest strain on the hospital system. Then he will have to explain why he wasn’t able to make adequate preparations in the two Covid-free years he had. This will probably be unfair, but he deserves every bit of what’s coming, given the hysteria he’s whipped up and profited off of over the past two years.

Have you ever seen someone garroted by their halo? You might be about to.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
January 23, 2022 7:11 pm

Indolentsays:
January 23, 2022 at 6:52 pm

Canelands Mackay. Don’t condone it but there are other shopping centres around.

Indolent
Indolent
January 23, 2022 7:14 pm

Officially announcing murdering people. We all know Remdesivir kills people

It is murder when proven therapeutics are ignored for a toxic drug which should, in good conscience, be pulled from the market – as should the jabs, of course. They literally are killing people.

Miss Anthropist
Miss Anthropist
January 23, 2022 7:15 pm

If the most famous thing about a country is a boy pissing in a fountain it doesn’t seem very attractive.
Sounds like yobs up the cross in the old days.

Rabz
January 23, 2022 7:15 pm
Oh come on
Oh come on
January 23, 2022 7:17 pm

They literally are killing people.

Excuse me, there is no randomised control trial that proves this statement. None that Pfizer paid for, anyway, and they’re the only types that count.

Indolent
Indolent
January 23, 2022 7:17 pm

Pfizer CEO sees annual COVID vaccine rather than frequent boosters

They’re going the “effective against severe disease and death caused by the heavily-mutated Omicron variant but less effective in preventing transmission” route again. No proof, of course, unless you count the number of deaths of “vaccinated” people. But that’s not the kind of proof he’s after.

rosie
rosie
January 23, 2022 7:21 pm

Typical Indolent.
Vaccine induced suicide by throwing himself from a building under construction?
French language news services don’t pander to the anti vaxx crowd by not explicitly stating cause of death in the case of suicide.
at gala.fr

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
January 23, 2022 7:21 pm

They’re going the “effective against severe disease and death caused by the heavily-mutated Omicron variant but less effective in preventing transmission” route again. No proof, of course, unless you count the number of deaths of “vaccinated” people. But that’s not the kind of proof he’s after.

The profits must flow…

srr
srr
January 23, 2022 7:22 pm

Paul Weston – Why Did Vaxxed 2021 See Similar Covid Deaths to Unvaxxed 2020?

https://rumble.com/embed/vqcjg5/?pub=5f67r

Paul Weston Published January 20, 2022

Rumble — Office for National Statistics Link Here: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/deathsregisteredweeklyinenglandandwalesprovisional/weekending7january2022

Rabz
January 23, 2022 7:25 pm

Carolyn’s fingers … 🙂

srr
srr
January 23, 2022 7:27 pm

COVID Helped Show the REAL Public Health Issue of our Age

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Styxhexenhammer666 – Published January 21, 2022

Rumble — Lack of sleep and activity, coupled with poor diet, has always been known to help reduce resistance to disease.

srr
srr
January 23, 2022 7:30 pm

Dear Liberals: It’s OK to Admit You Were Wrong and Got Conned by Biden and the Media

https://rumble.com/embed/vqdylh/?pub=5f67r
Styxhexenhammer666 Published January 21, 2022

Rumble — There’s more shame in clinging to a lie than admitting you were misled.

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