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It’s almost hilarious that Sir Robert Menzies’s Liberal Party (what was he thinking when he came up with that?) is…
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President Joe Biden on Tuesday delivered an aggressive speech against Russian President Vladimir Putin, warning him again not to invade Ukraine.
I hope Putin just laughs at this disgusting old grub.
This proud Canadian tradition has made its way over the border, as demonstrated by the Vermont State Highway Patrol…
A pox ridden street walker has more integrity than the old thief.
The mRNA Covid shots are killing teenagers
Alex Berenson
Watching Trudeau freezing the bank accounts of anyone opposing his regime, you can see why our government is salivating at the prospect of eliminating cash.
Brings control to a new level – can’t buy food, can’t pay rent, can’t pay for fuel…..can’t live.
Brings control to a new level – can’t buy food, can’t pay rent, can’t pay for fuel…..can’t live.
Actually used during the O’bummer era against his opponents.
Trudy is like Turnbull. A man with a soft face but with ashes and gangrene in his heart.
Biden not unlike the both of them, and guys like Beto and Buttigieg.
Trudy is like Turnbull. A man with a soft face but with ashes and gangrene in his heart.
Biden not unlike the both of them, and guys like Beto and Buttigieg.
true Bruce, worthless human beings but very dangerous
Push comes to shove – use US dollars. Works in Afghanistan, it can work anywhere.
Does Howard realize what he did to his image when he cozied up to Trumble? Maybe he doesn’t care.
You just have to thieve it all. Perfectly moral in the circumstances. Mug a pollie.
Old Bloke:
There’s an infrasound app by Sergio Gudkov https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microcadsystems.serge.infrasounddetector&hl=en_US&gl=US
and also an ultrasound detector https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microcadsystems.serge.ultrasounddetector&hl=en_US&gl=US
Download them into your phone for the next demo and record the highs and lows.
Scummo, Albo & the state premiers will be watching the goings on in Canada & wondering how far they can push it here.
Unfortunately this coming election will prove how dumb the average Australian voters is.
After decades of watching the thieving bastards rob us blind, they will be voted back in & by many on this blog.
We are fucked.
Bolt is infuriating: he announces on his program tonight that scomo has gone too far in saying rub and tug is the chunk’s preferred candidate along with the rest of the liars and, according to bolt, implying rub and tug is a traitor and marles the Manchurian Candidate (bolt’s words). And then that fat faced fool andrew clennell comes on and agrees with the fucking fuddy duddy.
Bolt personifies what is wrong with conservatism: bowties, tut tuts and stiff upper lips while the left rant and act like crazed ferrets. The main problem with scomo is like other conservative leaders, he has not gone on attack and played fire with fire against the lying fuckers in the liars and the filth. Now that he is showing a bit of ticker he will cop it from not only the liars but also the conservative commentariat.
Bolt did the same with Milo by getting sniffy about Milo’s bad language and completely disavowed Milo’s powerful message about the left. Bolt is a fucking prim and proper cuck.
sfw upthread
shatterzzz, I’m out of touch obviously, is that one of those bikes with massive fat wheels and tyres? They would be pretty hard to push around with all that mass and rolling resistance.
I think they’re called beach cruisers or fat bikes. 29r tyres are mountain bike versions of road/700c tyres. They ride over bumps nicer than a typical mountain bike 26 inch tyre. I bought my wife a 27.5 inch tyred mountain bike which is a nice in between tyre.
Shatterrz do you ever ride the Parramatta River cycleway? I commute on that a fair bit as well as ride around Parramatta Park. Just look for the overweight middle age bloke in lycra. Actually there’s a few of those.
Bolt personifies what is wrong with conservatism
maybe he’s controlled opposition- he didn’t Trump either. I don’t waste my time with him anymore. Much diminished.
I took AFP commissioner’s answer to mean that he would check to see if there was any way he could refuse to provide the information.
e.g. if it wasn’t deemed appropriate for members of the public to know details of police operational methods.
If they were prepared to use that on a lawful and peaceful crowd, what were they prepared to do if the crowd became unruly?
Bolt personifies what is wrong with conservatism: bowties, tut tuts and stiff upper lips while the left rant and act like crazed ferrets.
Correct, Cohenite.
Have you noticed that Bolt hardly ever gets trolled by the Left anymore? That’s because he is only controversial when attacking the Liberals. His attacks on the Left are insipid. He wants them to like him. He is totally house-trained these days. I think the hate finally got to him. He wants to cruise to retirement being liked by everybody.
If they were prepared to use that on a lawful and peaceful crowd, what were they prepared to do if the crowd became unruly?
depends on the political leaning of the crowd. The establishment seems to be quiet ok with violence, vandalism or general criminality if it’s advancing and entrenching the Gramsciists.
Not a conservative. More of a windvane who hopes his viewers have short memories.
If he was a conservative, he’d be out of a job.
Dover Beach.
I think we both agree that Germany didn’t have the means to get to and utilise the Caucuses oilfields.
Re law and order- consider the attacks on Victorians in their own homes
“cohenitesays:
February 16, 2022 at 7:53 pm”
I would agree. Bolt’s problem is that he wants to be liked.
Still, Bolt was strong re. Pell and he withstood a frenzied attack by the left to shut him down because of his support for Pell and he’s right re. the accused in the Higgins case….he had the lawyer for the accused on the other night.
20 post-flounce posts.
This is a Bradman-esque, Walter Lindrum game-changer of the flounce industry.
I guess the other thing to say in Bolt’s defense was that he was put through a show trial which I thought went out with the USSR.
TE at 5.26:
No I am not on for the Mitchell Street Mile tonight.
Last night one of the denizens decided to do a brown snake impression and lie on the middle of one of Mitchell Street’s side lanes, and is probably wondering with the remnant of her grey matter why she got splattered by a passing punter.
I would agree. Bolt’s problem is that he wants to be liked.
Still, Bolt was strong re. Pell and he withstood a frenzied attack by the left to shut him down because of his support for Pell and he’s right re. the accused in the Higgins case….he had the lawyer for the accused on the other night.
The problem isn’t that people like Bolt exist. He’s correct on some things and wrong on others, and that’s nothing to condemn him for. Yes, when he’s wrong he’s wasting space on Sky and in the Herald-Sun, and perhaps worse making people think he represents “conservative” views, but at least sometimes he’s a high profile voice for truth.
The problem is that we don’t have a Limbaugh or a Rogan or a Steyn here in Australia who’s reliably correct pretty much all the time and has a large audience. We’ve got Avi, Rukshan and the Cossack, but their reach is still small.
Blocking of supply would appear to be an issue in Canada, as it was here in 1975. Just in a different way.
I reckon Lizzie isn’t at all well. She may have the plague, so let’s be kind to her. And her husband seems to have it, which can’t be good for either of them.
I hope they both recover soon.
I’m not.
Made the best Italian sausage and mushroom rissoto for dinner. Teaspoon of fennel seeds dry roasted then the sausage cooked in butter, etc. So simple, flavours to die for.
“The problem is that we don’t have a Limbaugh or a Rogan or a Steyn here in Australia who’s reliably correct pretty much all the time and has a large audience. We’ve got Avi, Rukshan and the Cossack, but their reach is still small.
Correct…..we did have Alan Jones but he’s departed the scene…basically pushed from 2GB and Sky. I hear he’s not well so let’s all pray he recovers. I think Rita’s pretty good on Sky….as is Rowan Dean, James Morrow, Chris Kenny. We need more robust cultural warriors. I think Gideon Rozner is superb.
“so let’s be kind to her. And her husband seems to have it, which can’t be good for either of them.
I hope they both recover soon.”
I second that DrBG. Lizzie is a wonderfully warm and decent person. I have emailed her, she doesn’t have Covid but Hairy does so let’s hope he recovers well.
I guess the other thing to say in Bolt’s defense was that he was put through a show trial which I thought went out with the USSR.
He’s also been subject to threats and physical violence.
(I’m not a fan but it’s easy to criticise him and forget the entirety of what he’s been subjected to for holding mildly incorrect views.)
Turkey – circling the drain with a gold grab
Sounds pretty shit.
Can’t get a decent pie overseas, would not recommend.
Just remember, Bolt was physically attacked by Antifa scum walking to a book launch…the attackers have never been found because Vic police have better things to do, like concocting lies in order to charge a Catholic prelate.
I’d be interested in an account of Hairy’s symptoms and their severity, when he’s recovered. When Lizzie confines herself to facts she’s interesting; it’s when she gets on to personalities that I scroll past.
If they were prepared to use that on a lawful and peaceful crowd, what were they prepared to do if the crowd became unruly?
That’s what all those AR-15’s and Police Rescue vehicles are for…..
They have the means to wage war against citizens.
They have recruited the right type of personnel to wage war against citizens.
They have the command structure that is prepared to wage war against citizens.
Apparently the Winter Olympics is still on.
Huh. How about that.
the attackers have never been found because Vic police have better things to do
The power of selective policing.
EPIC!
AVI Yemeni files motion to unmask “PRGuy17” !!!
https://youtu.be/HMVfW1Ji1iU
The power of selective policing.
Another facet as to why disarming the population and destroying the right to self defence is so important.
Selective policing doesn’t work if the punters are smoking the useful idiots.
Imagine if Bolt whipped out a piece and double tapped Antifa. A powerful message sent to the fascists. What happened of course is he gets assaulted, protected only with his bare hands, and the perp is never found. A powerful message sent to conservatives.
Avi Yemeni is doing the lord’s work but I still prefer to read about it rather than watch the videos.
I agree DGB, the whole covid saga has changed her. Sure she let Johanna get to her and was over the top at times about herself, but that was Lizzie. So what? I noticed a big change in JC and told him so. I’ve only known as an acquaintance one person from the old Cat and I think not many people would want to know him if they knew who he really was even though he was popular in both his iterations. One person from my past knew who I was though I still don’t know who they were. I find most people here interesting. What this shithouse government has done has affected us all some more than others. Lizzie has had health problems which she didn’t seem to cope with very well. As for Delta losing a leg, I don’t know how she coped but she did. I personally have been given a chance that wouldn’t have happened in NSW coz of no electives for the heathen and even then not the chance I got in the ACT. I hope Lizzie comes back, I hope Johanna has go at her and I hope Lizzie laughs at her.
More episodes of dickhead dan, this one’s about what happens when you cross the floor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCCm0BYD0Xg
Unmasking a lefty troll is like killing an orc in D&D.
Plenty more where it came from.
There’s a dungeon master.
Find and out him.
Latest Net Zero collection:
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1) Back to the Dark Ages: Britons return to burning wood to cut spiralling energy costs
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3) Three months on from COP26 and Net Zero targets are already backsliding
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7) UK urged not to abandon climate goals amid Net Zero row
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8) Daniel Yergin: America Takes Pole Position on Oil and Gas
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10) Ollie Wright: America and the unanswerable case for fracking
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Shatterrz do you ever ride the Parramatta River cycleway? I commute on that a fair bit as well as ride around Parramatta Park. Just look for the overweight middle age bloke in lycra. Actually there’s a few of those.
No, I live over Wetherill Park , generally, ride the Prospect Reservoir – Fairfield bike track(s) loop .. I get over to North Parramatta when I op-shop (Vinnies &Salvos within a 100mts of each other) via the hwy & cutting thru Westmead Hospital which is where I’d been this morning coming back to 7 Hills (Salvos) via O’Briens Road then up Blacktown Road to drop down into the industrial estate (Davies Road) & on to home .. sadly, a 3 inch nail just past Home Base Shopping Centre added an hour & a half to the trip .. LOL!
Never, ever would I be seen in lycra .. “housos” have standards .. LOL! ..
Western Sydney Wanderers tee(s) & shorts the traditional garb ..!
Repost.
Malcolm Roberts puts Long Range Acoustic Devices question to The Gestapo and gets fobbed off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inkcMc_yoRs
Knuckles I reckon 7 have done their dough. Different channels showing the same event. So much self advertising. I love the winter Olympics but having to put up with 7’s lack of personalities is just enough for me to be very selective.
So (!) It might not be in the public interest to find out the cops have acoustic weapons available. Nor if they have used them.
Riiiiight.
I had a three inch nail through my bike tyre once. It managed to got through one side and out the other. Amazing sight, like seeing a star picket through a car tyre. Like how did that happen? In those days I had a tube repair kit and, after waiting for the glue to dry, went on my way. I’m too soft these days to repair punctures.
Zatarasays:
February 16, 2022 at 6:15 pm
Few switched on posters on one of Small Dead Animals threads last night reckon there are a few options open. Court is likely and the Governors have to agree to allow it in their provinces, which is starting to look problematic for all but the left leaning provinces. As for seizing funds the banks may be up for massive lawsuits/compo if the HC goes against Castro Jnr and the wheels are already turning on that one apparently.
The nub apparently is this legislation is a descendant of a war act and only meant to be used in the context of invasion, border incursion or attack. The assessment Castro Jnr could be on very thin ice.
Wait and see I suppose.
Never, ever would I be seen in lycra .. “housos” have standards .. LOL! ..
I grew up in a houso street! I only wear lycra because chaffing (too much info, I know). If you get a flat near Westmead Hospital, I keep a spare tube in my drawer!
A reminder of the attack on Andrew Bolt and just like when Abbott was viciously assaulted later that year in Hobart, progressive scum laughed….because the left love violence, it’s in their DNA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anUyzZzz4Q0
Bike tyre tube, phrasing…
That’s it in a nutshell, you can always scroll.
And I know I get extremely verbose at times.
Sorry.
However, it is ridiculous that some people here take such a predatory interest in what Lizzie posts.
FMD you idiots, get a grip!
The lady can bung words together quite well in my opinion and the same goes for Johanna among others.
If you want to read it, read it.
If not, scroll.
It’s pretty bloody simple, right?
All the invective and snide that has been spewed out has done fuck all for the blog.
It’s sad.
It’s pathetic.
“132andBushsays:
February 16, 2022 at 9:19 pm”
Well said.
Thanks for that link Dot, we get value for money with Senator Roberts.
Can I suggest what I think is a fabulous movie. Never Look Back on SBS. It’s truly a masterpiece.
I believe that what we’re witnessing in Canada will happen under an Albanese Labour government here.
I think we should enjoy what’s left of our freedoms whilst we can.
Bruce of Newcastle, since I’m allergic to caffeine, the current stimulant, perhaps I might better tolerate the original stimulant. I think I was born a century too late to find out.
The Catholic church is not ‘going soft’ on women’s ordination.
St John Paul made it quite clear he had no authority to ordain women, and Pope Francis reiterated that, that God chose to send His Son, and thus only men could be priests.
Groundhog Day is a masterpiece movie.
NZ Police Commissioner makes threats and then asks for help. Apparently he called the NZ Army and they didn’t return his call, fucking hilarious!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lku2DUyC6Xs
What freedom? I’m unclean. I cant leave the country without permission, vax passports in Dan’s vax economy, cant go to the office. Stuck here for 2 years. I’ve had enough. I dont think this will ever be over.
Thanks Dr F for the history of German energy decisions. Great to see that timeline laid out.
I read an article a couple of days ago about an airbnb customer who was furious that a host in Spain had installed a device on the air-conditioning that required an extra payment to use it.
Apparently green energy in Spain has pushed prices through the roof. €140 a megawatt? People are screaming because many in Spain are still poor with high unemployment.
Macron btw is no doubt on a big vote winner with his nuclear energy expansion announcement.
Razey, even we double vaccinated are no longer “up to date” so we cannot leave either. There will be no cruises or travelling overseas unless we submit our poor bodies. We are living in the Eagles’ Hotel California.
I did notice Grigs has been remarkably quiet of late.
And Benito M0ntylini has neither tended his blog since last September, and very rarely even turns up to get weeble-slapped on the Discord anymore…
Yes, I saw that this morning.
A very instructive exercise in cause and effect and confirmation bias.
Things we might have thought were rock solid cause and effect relationships from thirty years ago turned out to have the “effect” preceed the “cause” by 3-4 years.
Nicely put together Dr F.
re: Canada GG’s powers..
Trudeau is leader of a minority government.. all it would take is for some of the other parties to remove their support, and then the GG would be forced to have them call an election, or have the 2nd party in line (# seats) try to form another minority government.
.. but as I pointed out previously.. the majority of the parliament is to the LEFT of Trudeau, so that ain’t going to happen.
So the Canucks are getting pretty much what they asked for.
On Girona.
Yesterday I visited the Jewish museum and was pleased to see a model town that showed that a long time ago my apartment was once the border of the Jewish quarter, which later shrunk considerably, well before the expulsion of the Jews around 1491, though many of their homes are still in existence.
I really like to get that feel of where I am.
The museum is housed in a building located over the location of one of the former synagogues and at the rear you can see archaeological remains of the ritual baths and a private home/butcher shop.
There is a number of Jewish gravestones, recovered from Montjiuc, the Jewish cemetery which was gifted to a woman? by the Jewish community when they were expelled and left, as is, for the next five hundred years.
Worth a visit.
Many of the narrow streets and stairs I have been traversing are in that original Jewish quarter.
I don’t know whether there is a Jewish community today, will have to look that up.
I’m guessing people build and lived high above the river because of flooding, apparently the river has been diverted, so that doesn’t happen any more, the river that divides the town, is so shallow it barely covers the feet of the seagulls who hang out in it.
The city used to have massive walls (on the other side of the river?) and had been besieged many times, there is a photo of some of them in the apartment so they must have been demolished fairly recently.
I also visited the Basilica of St Felix, whose body is still in the basilica, one of the many Christians martyred under Domitian in around 304/305, unusual in Spain it’s paid entry (as is the cathedral) but the audio guide was excellent.
There are eight third and fourth century sarcophagi embedded in the wall on each side of the presbytery, the oldest one is pagan but the rest Christian. Beautiful.
I went to mass in the cathedral this morning and will go back to do the tour this morning.
It was me and four priests at first, in the side chapel this morning. I figured they were reciting Lauds, and finally the mass, one other person slipped in behind me so it wasn’t so awkward.
There are many morning masses on offer within 500 metres so low numbers at probably the highest location should be expected.
My apartment is only 50 metres from the cathedral so closest for me, not to mention the 7 am and 8 am options is a bit too early.
yup – good and hard.
Gagging for it
and so are we
South Aust …
Cross the border and set yr clocks back 25yrs and 30 minutes
Rosie.
Going to Barthelona?
AussiegirlAnna
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Will doctors get that right acknowledged in Australia or is Aphra too powerful?
Suspended English Doctor Wins Back His Right to Free Speech
https://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2021/12/06/suspended-english-doctor-wins-back-his-right-to-free-speech.aspx
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The narrative collapses ~ From Ben Fordham
“Hearts in the right place” !!!! But he’s quoting the statistics and and showing the real perspective.
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‘Trudeau is Alone’: Fifth Canadian Province Abandons Vaccine Passports Amid Crackdown on Freedom Convoy
From TommyR’s feed..
Now in the treasury of the cathedral. They have an 11th century tapestry, in amazing shape for its age, that was rediscovered in the 19th century.
Apparently Gironans were also very keen on Charlemagne whom they “beatified’ locally.
Retail right now is tough.
I can’t supply.
I’m down 60% on last year so far.
Is what it is…
Why would anyone in WA buy anything of substance right now?
Which begs the question would you buy anything of substance in any other state?
I believe that what we’re witnessing in Canada will happen under an Albanese Labour government here.
I think we should enjoy what’s left of our freedoms whilst we can.
Well that is a bit of a novelty statement for this blog where it appears the majority want to oust the current government and the only alternative is Albanese.
Any statements counter to that are pure folly.
You will get what you vote for – either Morrison or Albanese. Anything else is pure fantasy and I am willing to discuss it at length in the days following the election.
Federal Parliament has paused to reflect on the 80th anniversary of the Bangka Island Massacre, paying special tribute to Sister Vivian Bullwinkel.
Well done to Federal Parliament. In these days of political correctness and “moving on” from horrific events, it would have been tempting to turn a blind eye to a mass killing of Australian nurses by the Japanese.
There was a memorial to one of the victims of that particular atrocity, unveiled in her home town, today.
Terrible people.
Went for coffee in Darlinghurst today for a weekly catch up with friends. The young Vietnamese couple who run the joint said they are closing up and returning to Hanoi in 2 weeks.
They have battled hard to stay open for nearly 2 years, barely getting by, but now their landlord is demanding they make up for past rent deferments or “discounts” thru the pandemic of government overkill.
Imagine this; this great young couple see a better future for themselves in Vietnam than Australia.
When I was in Hanoi I spoke with a woman who’s hubby ran a trucking business and told me that each driver left the depot every morn with 8 envelopes containing cash to pay off the 8 levels of government, police and civil, they would encounter on their runs.
That the known extortion in Hanoi is better than the ever changing 3 level goat rodeo that is Aust governance, who only see small business a their milch cow, is too fucking sad for words.
U.S. dollars only, no-one is interested in Vietnamese Dong, bearing the image of kindly old Uncle Ho?
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LRADs
You do know that antifa blm types made exactly the same claim about sonic weapons after the BLM protests in Sydney in June 2020, which kinda puts the kybosh on selective use claims.
Lrads are primarily a public address system with a very loud warning option, so I’m entirely sceptical about these sonic claims.
But it’s pretty obvious whatever the official response is, the really smart people won’t believe it.
Also Canberra has a population of 426 000.
Claims of 100,000 to 200,000 attendance at the protests, in that context especially, seem absurd.
45,000 farmers turned up in Canberra in 1985 for a protest.
Compare the photos.
Lol dot I thought of you.
Apparently Charlemagne is credited with driving out the muslims in 785.
What’s not to like?
Stick to travelogues, Rosie. Physics is not your long suit.
Yes Zulu, heard all about the “ American war”the length and narrow breadth of the joint but American dollars were best.
Went to see Uncle Ho at rest and the enforced solemnity was hilarious, no levity allowed, save the rifle exchange during the changing of the guard which was deliberately subverted by the participants, causing lots of facial contortions by the guards and a deal of sniggering in the crowd of onlookers.
Sancho
I have been to bathelona on five previous occasions so no not this time, despite being very fond of Señor Gaudí.
I am returning to Francia, firstly to Carcassane which I now find has ties to Girone via Esmeralda of Carcassane who ruled Barcelona and Girona in the 10th century? and is buried in the cathedral.
Her alabaster effigy is on display in a side altar and gets a big rap from some bloke called Thomas Steiner whose rhapsody about the beauty of the image is part of the audio guide.
Quite a few of us tourists around despite the season, many doing guided tours, French obviously, Germans, Poms and Americans too.
The train trip is looking like a bit of a pain, one, two or three changes?
I really wanted to go to Cordoba but am running out of time due to too long on Corsica.
Is okay, next time.
Cos model trains is model trains, Sancho.
And they are substantial.* Particularly as you go up the scales into stuff like rickw has that really only can be practically run in your garden…
* There is a reason why jokes like these have been around so long…
We lobbed into Hanoi, the day after one Vo Nguyen Giap had died. We were on a tour bus from Hanoi to Halong Bay, the tour guide was informing us about how our “great leader, Uncle Ho, defeated the French and the Americans – she didn’t mention the Australians – as we passed through a town where the French Army handed Uncle Ho one of the worst defeats he suffered……
Will it be the first time that you went?
How could rosie forget?
The minute you stepped into the room, it took your breath away?
(Freddie Mercury’s ghost is now raging…)
Oh, and staying in the Metropole, in Hanoi, where the French paratroop officers, had final drinks in the bar, before parachuting into Dien Bien Phu…
I was shown a one paragraph mention of the Battle of Long Tan in a copy of the official North Vietnamese history.
They said they defeated an armoured division. Not that they had had the shit kicked out of an entire NVA Regiment and its supporting elements by a single rifle company. Backed up by an Artillery Regiment, some US fast air and a single reinforcing Rifle Company and a Troop of APCs.
Noticing comment of surprise? that the right dominated French senate voted unanimously to return this stolen art.
more looted world war two art returned in France
daily mail story about that white table
Visiting Long Tan in 2013 – it was becoming an issue then – the ugly Australian backpackers, in the bars of Baria, drunk and shouting the odds……
Off to the art museum though I really want to be bad and just go back and watch TV.
This place has Amazon Prime and I’m binge watching Bosch.
But I’ll feel guilty later about wasting precious moments.
Night all – Wesfarmers declares the dividend tomorrow, and payday for self funded retirees looks like being a ripper!!!!
Sliante to all you horrible mob!
Zulu, funny that I reminded guides on 3 occasions that “we” were there too, but could not get an acknowledgment from any of them.
Whether the young know anything beyond the “American war” I don’t know.
Did a Cu Chi tunnels tour and was determined to keep up with the guide. At 55 I was the last tourist squatting and kept up with the guide to the end.
That he exited the tunnels squeaky clean and I was a sodden mess is not important.
Oh
A lovely story about a group of villagers who decided to restore a collapsed chapel/hermitage (Sant Salvador in de Cogolis) and discovered a 12th century statue of Our Lady, still with some of her blue cloak.
What is your point here drbg, other than a reflex need to disagree with me?
I wasn’t claiming they couldn’t do it, I was claiming I didn’t believe they did.
I suggest you stick to cigars, as reading comprehension isn’t your strong suite.
Yes the art museum was fantastic a little paleochristian, visigoth, some Arab coffrets, then Romanesque through Gothic, baroque and modern.
I was hunting for Gothic stain glass windows that were discovered behind a baroque altarpiece in the cathedral during restoration works but turns out that must have been very recent as an attendant told me they are currently being cleaned and restored and will go on display in a year or so in the treasury of the cathedral.
Rats.
This San Fran school board recall is fascinating.
120,000 votes approx.
Average was 80% for the recall.
Looks like there were some administrative games played at the start of it to stop it but those failed (that non-reporting should have been biggest news a couple of months ago).
To put those 120,000 votes into perspective, the population of San Fran is 900k.
Registered voters approx. 500k.
And this is the big one, only 60k public school students.
With unlimited resources, the DNC machine could not mobilise to stop this.
One could say it’s only a school board recall vote.
But it’s a bloody nose to the DNC organisers in San Fran.
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Warren Brown.
Peter Broelman.
David Rowe.
Christian Adams.
Peter Brookes.
Patrick Blower.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Bob Gorrell.
Chip Bok.
Tom Stiglich.
Matt Margolis.
Russiagate was already the greatest political scandal in American history. It just got a lot worse.
https://rumble.com/embed/vsfln9/?pub=5f67r
Devin Nunes Published February 15, 2022
“He’s Going to Deliver. He’s Unraveling BIGGEST Political Scandal in US History” – KASH PATEL DROPS BOMBS – Durham Grand Jury Interviewed 24 People So Far (VIDEO)
Kash Patel, the former chief of staff to the Acting United States Secretary of Defense
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/going-deliver-unraveling-biggest-political-scandal-us-history-kash-patel-drops-bombs-durham-grand-jury-interviewed-24-people-far-video/
Spacecowboy 777 ?? @Spacecowboy777
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https://gab.com/Spacecowboy777/posts/107808841276146158
Gateway Pundit:
“ Yesterday Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Chrystia Freeland, announced crowdfunding for Canadians protesting for freedom will be considered terrorist financing. This comes as no surprise since her grandfather was a highly connected Nazi and she’s close to George Soros. “
link
Cameras in trees in Canberra?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKpLOs2NwQU
Salty recap in day 3 of the Canadian Dictatorship:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GFzZbBD-Ms
Canadian deputy PM Chrystia Freeland’s name is rather ironic. Branding everyone who protests against government or helps financially those who do as terrorists is hardly a mark of a free land.
Dot, thanks for posting the Malcolm Roberts video re the inland rail scam.
Seems very similar to the wealthy Sydney family who out of the blue bought tranches of land on the fringe of Sydney which was then magically became where the M7 was planned.
Nothing to see of course.
Move along.
It sounds like Malcolm Roberts has himself a whistle blower.
I would imagine the public servants have been working around the clock since the Senate committee trying to work out who it is so they can bring down furious vengeance upon them.
The truth goes mainstream.
Liars like Kerry Chant and the rest of the “Health” bureaucracy need to be investigated for fraud. They have misled the Australian people deliberately and cruelly.
Texas Sues Facebook For Hundreds Of Billions Of Dollars For Abusing Facial Recognition Tools
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/texas-sues-facebook-hundreds-billions-dollars-abusing-facial-recognition-tools
“A Recurring Fountain Of Revenue”: FDA Exec Admits Biden Planning Annual Shots, Including Toddlers
“The drug companies, the food companies, they pay us millions of dollars a year…”
THU FEB 17, AT 1:12 AM
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/recurring-fountain-revenue-fda-exec-admits-biden-planning-annual-shots-and-vaxxing
The material from the ABS read out on Ben Fordham and broadcast on last night’s news would have been available to the National Cabinet and the State Health Departments – they were the ones collecting it.
This is a national disgrace and has been exposed for what it is. Fraud.
Vast sums of money have been deliberately channelled out of the public purse into the pockets of charlatans. And the people of Australia have been manipulated in the most shameful and cynical way – through fear.
Project Veritas
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“The power of what he has is – this is coming directly from the gentleman’s lips.” -Dr. Malone on #ExposeFDA
https://gettr.com/post/puxenw30ad
Project Veritas @Project_Veritas
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Truth hurts.
Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec
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There’s a reason the regime is targeting people like Joe Rogan, ZeroHedge, DefiantLs, Dr Malone, and Project Veritas
Startling news on Covid deaths in Australia according the ABC
People born overseas, particularly in Sub Saharan Africa and the Middle East are ten times more likely to die of Covid than Australian born.
Racism is always the answer.
Project Veritas @Project_Veritas
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BREAKING: @US_FDA Executive Officer on Hidden Cam Reveals Future COVID policy
“You’ll have to get an annual shot”
On Biden’s vaccine vision: “Biden wants to inoculate as many people as possible”
On the FDA Emergency Use Authorization for vaccinating children as young as six months “They’re[FDA] not going to not approve it”
#ExposeFDA
https://gettr.com/post/pus5igc12f
Leave the Durham investigation well alone, USSR. You’ll ruin it with your usual demented conspiracy crapola. Stop talking about it.
Good on you GreyRanga sounds lovely – Italian cuisine mmmmwha – biased but have tried many different cuisines ma it’s Italian all the way – so flavourful and satisfying — olive oil, oregano and fresh tomatoes cooked with an egg for brekkie – lush! Ciao
I can see this shyte is going to be swept under the carpet. No media will go the politicians and bureaucracy and all the tiers of the medical “profession” and other complicit parties – because they were up to their necks in it too.
Wall-to-wall, unquestioning coverage of a fake pandemic for clicks and eyeballs. They preened and dictated and demonised while real people were suffering. They continue to do it in the face of the truth.
Governments have established petty fiefdoms on the back of the support from a lying media – their media – and challenging them is going to be a mug’s game for real journalists brave enough to do so. Like Trudeau, they will just double down and threaten and damage the people even more.
Ben Fordham excused the government, pretending they had our best interests at heart. This is not true. Whatever the motives for what they have done to us, “best interests” is not one of them.
Am very sad to see the contremps here of late… time-consuming and discomforting. I too know Lizzie and her husband personally and both are warm, generous and loving people, and I hope things go well for them.
The world is full of people we like and those whom we dislike so how about live and let live, isn’t that wha the Cat motto? just scroll, is that too much too ask?
Gez, this is how our media, now exposed for what they are, will go about “discovering” the truth.
They will chip away at the stats, pulling one thing out and amplifying it according to the fetish of the day. They will strain out gnats while allowing camels to pass unhindered.
The reader of their utter tripe will be bamboozled by detail, while the disgusting fraud in its entirety will remain unexamined and unexposed. All courtesy of the taxpayer, of course.
US inflation is running at 7.5%, if it was measured the same as it was in the 80’s it would be around 15%. The Fed is terrified of raising rates because they know that if they do there is a good chance the economy will start to fall apart as so many have borrowed so much at very low interest and what they have invested in just doesn’t return enough to support higher interest payments, or their wages won’t cover the interest.
My question is. How long can it last? If there is strong inflation over consecutive years and interest rates remain relatively low, at what point will it self destruct? Or can it just keep going indefinitely?
I guess we have a somewhat similar situation here but much of the risk is in home loans, it won’t take much of an interest rate rise, say a couple of percent and many will be unable to keep up with the mortgages. The Federal Gov is dying to start up the ponzi immigration scheme asap but even with that interest rates will rule what happens. How long can it last?
I have a long memory, something which is both a curse and a gift. Last night I remembered how at the federal election in 1990, Liberal John Spender, father of Allegra Da Big Spender, lost his seat of North Sydney by a huge swing to independent Ted Mack. I recall Spender being interviewed on election night by their ABC (I only watched the ABC then, seems like another world) and a visibly shocked Spender was asked by an ABC journalist what Mack will accomplish in Canberra. I recall Spender saying “nothing, absolutely nothing”.
The thing is that Ted Mack, unlike Spender’s daughter Allegra Da Big Spender here in Wentworth, was a true independent. Mack was a man of integrity and he introduced ideas to parliament to benefit all Australians. He introduced a private member’s bill for citizen initiated referendums like those practised in Switzerland, he retired from from federal parliament in 1996 so as to avoid receiving a parliamentary pension. He had no sinister puppeteer pulling his strings, he was his own man. Mack was full of original ideas and in hindsight, his views on any Australian republic, had a lot of merit.
I wonder if Liberal elder Spender remembers those words that he uttered on election night in 1990 and I wonder what he’s said to his very shallow and vacuous daughter? Whilst not a fan of milksop Dave Sharma and I won’t be voting for him, after hearing some of slime ball Holmes a Court’s weasel words and watching his body language at the National Press Club yesterday, I was reminded of a cult leader like L. Ron Hubbard. There’s little difference, Holmes a Court is a highly cashed up member of the cult of climate change, a cult that will destroy many, many more lives than Scientology. He’s a disingenuous, evasive, dangerous, sinister and hypocritical rodent (exactly like his late father) who doesn’t give a rat’s arse about mainstream Australia. At the end of the day it’s all about the money and there’s a lot of money in renewables.
His appearance yesterday was an ominous portent and one we should take notice of. Don’t say we weren’t warned.
“rosiesays:
February 16, 2022 at 10:06 pm”
Thanks for that Rosie….very interesting.
Teaspoon of fennel seeds dry roasted then the sausage cooked in butter, etc. So simple, flavours to die for.
Damn!
“Old School Conservativesays:
February 16, 2022 at 11:03 pm
Federal Parliament has paused to reflect on the 80th anniversary of the Bangka Island Massacre, paying special tribute to Sister Vivian Bullwinkel.
Well done to Federal Parliament. In these days of political correctness and “moving on” from horrific events, it would have been tempting to turn a blind eye to a mass killing of Australian nurses by the Japanese.”
The story is, hushed up after the war, is that the nurses were raped before they were murdered.
Defiant L’s has been been unbanned by the twitter arseholes.
Yes.
If Lizzie would just scroll past the real and perceived insults and ignore the malicious dickless upticks, she would be in a happier headspace.
Bangka Island Massacre
Is that what the movie Paradise Road was based on?
One of Cate Blanchett’s first movies before she broke through with Elizabeth & immediately dialled the woke up to 11.
Been travelling, different device.
Test
Another protest in Canberra this Saturday.
Please, no-one uptick Panzer.
(scurries away)
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
I notice yesterday that he went to great lengths to say that Climate 666 is not a political party. No doubt trying to dodge AEC disclosure regulations.
Hello Zali!
Perhaps if the coals weren’t continually raked over, they could be allowed to cool down and scatter.
It’s a new day and a fresh start.
Let’s concentrate on flensing the government instead. I, for one, am in a flensing mood.
One Sydney academic referred to Kerry Chant as “our fearless leader”. Our intellectuals seem to be just a bunch of star-struck school girls.
I already upticked myself.
And so did my wife.
Is upticking yourself the equivalent of online masturbation?
Ah yes.
The raking of very, very lukewarm coals is how this whole thing got started, wasn’t it?
Well, in one sense, she is.
First in the conga line to the gallows.*
* NADT#
# except a political and professional one that is
One Sydney academic referred to Kerry Chant as “our fearless leader”
She’s had unlimited resources.
A huge support team.
Taxpayer funded income.
I reckon there would be more than a handful of small business types shaking their heads at the tongue bathing.
The Critical Drinker has a tweet responding so some other person who (I assume wanting to defend the orc-like travesty of LOTR, ‘Rings of Power’ and its woke re-imagining to make all the races ‘diverse’ and push ‘strong women’) complains that there would be outrage if the scene in the trilogy showing Eowyn killing the King of the Nazgul was filmed today.
The argument presumably being that the reaction to woke is a recent concoction, rather than a reaction by normal people to the recent concoction of woke.
The Drinker deftly points out that it was in the book. And woven into the story.
People had no problem because…why should they? Since it was not politics being rammed down their throat but a fascinating story why would they be angry.
But it illuminates the thinking of the woke warriors.
For something to do, while watching the slow disintegration of the West, I loitered here and took notes.
Interesting last few days and nights on the Cat, it would be fair to say.
Herewith my humble mutual abuse summary (MAS), in no particular order or predilection, and by no means exhaustive:
MT vs JH, Rosie, Sancho
Johanna vs Lizzie
JC vs ZK2A, Cohenite etc..
Rex vs srr
Cassie vs srr
Struth vs Rosie
KD vs Fat Tony
Yours truly vs Milts
Lizzie vs JMH
Clowder of Cats vs Lizzie
And, for old times’ sake.. who can forget the hilarity of Arma vs Arky?
All allegedly intelligent, accomplished, mature individuals.
And yet, here we are, wandering what to do about the inexorable fucking-over of this Country, by well organized, lying, hateful, resentful, envious, immensely stupid but cunning ugly c.ts.
As they say… It’s a mystery!
Geez! .. they are getting desperate for headline acts now that BAT FLU is slipping down the “front page”!
Apparently, according to the SCIENCE, some ethnicities were more susceptible to an early departure than others .. what a load of codswallop .. with chips & vinegar .. LOL!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10517823/Covid-Australia-Incredible-statistics-reveal-truth-Australians-dying-coronavirus.html
Well, that’s my rants over and done with for the day.
I have electricians in the roof*, so the modem will soon be “off” and my day will become instantly low tech. Just as the Greenies intend it.
*Better than bats in the belfry.
Lol, Gilas.
I see you’re in a flensing mood too. 😀
was Having trouble with car radio reception yesterday so did the rounds to check if it was just a couple of stations. ABC RN came on loud and clear. And
Within 10 seconds..I kid you not…’hmmm yes and we know the biggest problem and risk facing us all today is climate change and needs actions…’
Bang! There you have it …24 hours a day… high rotation.
…and I casually switched to another channel and wiped the radio down in case of infection from rampant ABC.
Time for reflection.
Just rolling around in my Superannuation Money Bin (ala Scrooge McDuck) and reflecting on My Brilliant Career.
What were the highlights you ask?
No doubt about it.
The business trips to Adelaide.
Particularly where it was an overnight stay on a Tuesday.
Pretty good indicator the flu will go back to just being the flu though.
Don’t disagree Calli, Fordham shouldn’t have made excuses for them, but perhaps too much to expect given MSM complicity. But, if getting the truth out into the mainstream sooner requires a figleaf for the guilty and complicit, so be it.
It just means it’s on people like us to keep trying to tear it away and hold at least some of these pricks accountable.
calli says:
February 17, 2022 at 8:14 am
I see you’re in a flensing mood too.
Thank you Calli, just learnt a new word today!
Oh, the Health Advice!
She’s had unlimited resources.
A huge support team.
Taxpayer funded income.
Gladys used it as a shield. Various governments went further and used it as a bludgeon, or sledge hammer.
And it has been for the most part wrong.
Stop the QR and face masks now, you fucking idiots who just happen to be in positions of power!!!
Canadian deputy PM Chrystia Freeland’s name is rather ironic. Branding everyone who protests against government or helps financially those who do as terrorists is hardly a mark of a free land.
And her ancestral line is interesting … her grandfather was very closely involved with some high level Nazis including Hans Frank, Gaulieter of Poland …
https://dcweekly.org/2022/02/15/exclusive-canadas-deputy-prime-minister-chrystia-freelands-grandfather-was-a-nazi-and-she-admires-george-soros-its-no-surprise-shes-labeling-freedom-loving-canad/
Or…… Vitamin D?
Gilas.
You missed the big one.
Egg_ster vs Arky which caused Sinc to ice the old blog for three days.
The real motto here is:-
“Everyone should just scroll … after I have the last word”.
What were the highlights you ask?
No doubt about it.
The business trips to Adelaide.
Tim Blair has a lot of fun at Adelaide’s expense. There are the Adelaide names, and then there is the joke about sub-editors having a function key with the pre-made headline “Drowned Man in Woman’s Clothing Retrieved from Torrens River.”
In Decisive Action news:
Russia still building forces on Ukraine border, says top Nato official
Luckily, NATO is like a crouching Tiger, ready to pounce:
Ha! Within weeks!
You weren’t expecting that, eh Putin.
“Gilassays:
February 17, 2022 at 8:11 am”
Not exhaustive and those that you missed were the highlights….on Sinc’s Cat and Adam’s Cat. The stoush between Faulty and the gang of twenty which led to Faulty’s slow and inevitable meltdown but the premium award goes to the stoush between Egg and Arky on Sinc’s Cat which resulted in the site being closed down for three days. I don’t know of any other stoush that achieved that….but happy to be corrected.
Like how did that happen? In those days I had a tube repair kit and, after waiting for the glue to dry, went on my way. I’m too soft these days to repair punctures.
Bruce, I dips me lid, sorr! .. never, ever have I managed to successfully apply one of those patches to a tube and got very far ..!
Gave up trying yonks ago and now always keep a coupla new tubes at home .. LOL!
“Sancho Panzersays:
February 17, 2022 at 8:29 am”
Snap Pancho.
Sancho Panzersays:
February 17, 2022 at 8:30 am
The real motto here is:-
“Everyone should just scroll … after I have the last word”.
Quite so SP.
Sancho Panzer says:
February 17, 2022 at 8:29 am
You missed the big one.
By no means exhaustive.. should have been in 24-point font, but WordPress…
Swimmer dies after being attacked by a shark off Sydney’s Little Bay Beach
Someone sent me an uncensored video clip of the attack – which I suppose is floating around on the net.
I’m not often shocked, but I was.
“All allegedly intelligent, accomplished, mature individuals.
And yet, here we are, wandering what to do about the inexorable fucking-over of this Country, by well organized, lying, hateful, resentful, envious, immensely stupid but cunning ugly c.ts.
As they say… It’s a mystery!”
Here’s a thought, since you are rightly concerned about the state of the country and the west (as I am and as most here are too), perhaps you could post a comment dealing with issues and where you’re not passing sanctimonious judgment on others here. Those of us who do engage in the occasional stoush actually do post interesting and pertinent comments.
Sancho Panzer says:
February 17, 2022 at 8:30 am
The real motto here is:-
“Everyone should just scroll … after I have the last word”.
So (!), so, very true..
Someone sent me an uncensored video clip of the attack – which I suppose is floating around on the net.
I’m not often shocked, but I was.
What about the car driving over the punter in NY.
Dunno how they were still alive after it looked like their head was popped like a melon.
Repent at leisure
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Fancy forcing (?) people to wear masks in a hospital bed. Just what you need with a heart problem, obstructed breathing.
It’s funny that like the term vaccination, inflation has also been redefined.
Rising prices are a symptom of inflating the money supply. TIKs videos on the Weimar HyperInflation bring to mind what is happening today. It won’t be pretty
Oh & someone took a baseball bat to Bob Saget.
The injuries were brutal.