Zatara. Thanks for the Bee coverage of lunatic left interpretation of the causes of our Vlad’s FU in the Ukraine. My favourite was “Putin would never have been permitted to act this way if he were a black or brown man”.
It’s not just the fringe. An acquaintance, ex- Navy fighter pilot, now academic at UNC, texted me this morning saying that we are reaping Trump’s whirlwind.
WTF have rhey been putting in the water?

It’s not just the fringe. An acquaintance, ex- Navy fighter pilot, now academic at UNC, texted me this morning saying that we are reaping Trump’s whirlwind.

Yeah, they still believe Trump is in bed with Putin despite that Clinton was the one really in bed with him (sorry, that’s an unfortunate mind picture this early in the day…)

The endless drip, drip from the MSM just confirms it to them. The MSM couldn’t be lying about everything could it? Takes a large amount of mental energy to accept that yes, yes it could. And is.

The other thing about TV both here and in the US is that it has spawned, incubated and fostered the most repulsive, dangerous and evil parasites imaginable.

Ukrainian Security Forces Seen Scrambling to Burn Documents in Kyiv as Russian Invasion Intensifies (VIDEO)

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/just-ukrainian-security-forces-seen-scrambling-burn-documents-kyiv-russian-invasion-intensifies-video/?utm_source=Gab&utm_campaign=websitesharingbuttons
[…]
It is unknown what is included in the kindling, but it is likely confidential and sensitive documents that Ukraine’s notoriously corrupt government – or any of their business partners (looking at you, Biden crime family) – can afford to let fall into the wrong hands.
[…]

BOM ignoring low off Queensland but going full on about the one off the WA/NT border. JTWC notes stating NT low is in an area not favourable to intensification due to interrupted outflow, Queensland low in favourable conditions. Must be a lot of indecision in the models, wonder which one will win out, regardless will be a wet weekend for the top end and anyone heading to Port Moresby will be having a rough ride north of Cooktown.

Not much new on SM overnight in Ukraine, one of the columns filmed was over a minute long of back to back BMP,s and T72’s on a road in northern Ukraine. Apparently their is going to be an offensive on Kiev today, if the tweets are right. If so that was quick.

<…we are reaping Trump’s whirlwind.

I expect to hear a lot more of this over the next week or so. It’s to juicy to resist.

…wonder what they would of made of Robert ‘Bones’ McGhie from Richmond FC. He liked a durry and a beer.

He was also a droog-haired deadshit and one of the dirtiest behind-the-play jabbers, punchers and ball-squeezers ever to take the field. He should have been in the Pentridge Remand first XVIII, not the VFL.

From telegram

Here’s my take on what’s happening in Ukraine/Russia. I’m just spitballing here. Like everybody else I have more questions than I do answers but I think this plays into Devolution.

First think about what Ukraine is – It’s the epicenter of corruption for the political establishment. Victor Pinchuk, George Soros, Ihor Kolomoisky… All funding “deep state” agendas worldwide, all based out of Ukraine. We know their ties to the Clinton foundation and liberal politics in America.

If Trump was going to truly drain the swamp, he would have to tackle the corruption in Ukraine. The oligarchs have funded their own militaries in previous color revolutions. Trump could wouldn’t be able to take them down without a fight. So if Trump is going to clean up Ukraine he would likely need boots on the ground to do it.

Enter Putin.

It’s no secret that Putin hates Soros as he banned him from Russia long ago, and it’s also no secret that Putin despised the “deep state” tactics of implementing color revolutions to overthrow pro-Russian leaders and install ones that would play ball with the “deep state”. It’s speculated by many that Putin could be working with Trump in the fight against the “deep state” and it’s hard to argue with. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

So think of the brilliance that might be taking place right now.

Boots on the ground were likely necessary to fully remove the problem in Ukraine, but Trump couldn’t invade Ukraine with US troops. Somebody else would have to do it. However, if somebody like Putin were to do it while Trump was president, it would make Trump look week and the media would have a field day.

What better time to clean up the mess in Ukraine than with Biden in office? Kills two birds with one invasion. You make the Biden administration and the MSM look like fools, while taking on the “deep state” in one of the most corrupt countries on the planet.

Putin is simultaneously helping Trump to serve up red-pills while fixing a problem that actually benefits the USA and the rest of the world – the denazification of Ukraine.

We won’t have any definitive answers until this blows over but make sure you guys are using the 24 – hour rule with news reports coming out about this stuff.

JC says:
February 25, 2022 at 8:40 am
Gez

Stop whining. I know it’s a professional trait for farmers but you’re going to have some great years even though a few input coats will rise.

Say what?
Stereotypes are sooo stereotypical.

Want the Eastern territory, not western, etc.

as soon as someone hits on the facts that break the ‘super diversion’ narrative, there’s always a scramble for other diversions

media, ms & social is a dogs breakfast this morn

Sancho Panzersays:
February 25, 2022 at 9:45 am

custard says:

February 25, 2022 at 9:32 am

You don’t think that is a somewhat long bow?

only if you didn’t notice how many decades Trump put into making key contacts around the world that made Middle East peace possible etc. and that just as he did that work without being POTUS he hasn’t ‘gone away’ and now he has the extra benefit of having been POTUS

bugger the long bow, you’d have to have the world’s shortest memory & most shallow mind to forget all these wars of business men against businessmen still have top-tier players opposing teams Clinton/Biden & Co.

That’s the thing JC.
Now the Germans have said they want no part of anything, the only way to engage with them is to interrupt the gas.
Which means the infrastructure is such a juicy target.
But if that’s cut, keep in mind there is a finished nice new shiny pipeline ready to go, just waiting for a piece of German paper – “certification” that was put on hold.
Which means the Germans still get their gas.
Russia still sells their gas.
But Ukraine no longer gets their transit fees.

Robert Manne’s daughter, Kate, philosophy professor at Cornell,tweeting that the Ukraine troubles are a consequence of “toxic masculinity”. And here she is “recalling” how she was alerted to the bestial nature of men. As the Not The Bee notes, ‘these are not serious people’:

Misogyny has a way of getting in the way of female solidarity, regardless of how much we need each other. And we truly did. I remember one time when just the three of us were sitting cross-legged on the grass at recess, hanging out together, unusually. A group of boys formed a circle and advanced on us holding water balloons—or condoms, maybe, I’m not sure—they’d jerked off into beforehand. We were literally smeared. Don’t get me started on that metaphor: it’s too obvious and too painful.

Believe it or not!

The only thing the Kiev billionaire class care about from their yachts off Monaco are the transit fees.
As soon as the IMF loan money came in over the last couple of months, it went straight back out to the billionaire class’s off shore bank accounts.
It’s like Afghanistan.
Another grift.

Joe Biden Holds a Press Conference Declaring “No one expected the sanctions to prevent anything from happening”
February 24, 2022 | Sundance | 189 Comments

Earlier today the installed current occupant of the White House delivered remarks and held a brief press conference to discuss the latest Russian entrance into Ukraine. Simultaneously, the White House also released their latest sanctions on Russia [SEE HERE]

For well over a month Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, the White House and State Department have promoted the assembly of “harsh sanctions” as the deterrent that would keep Russia out of Ukraine. However, when Biden was questioned by the media about the ineffectiveness of sanctions he declared, “no one expected the sanctions to prevent anything from happening.” WATCH (prompted):
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/02/24/joe-biden-holds-a-press-conference-declaring-no-one-expected-the-sanctions-to-prevent-anything-from-happening/

I’m so angry at ourselves for our historical failure. After Georgia, Crimea, and Donbas, we have not prepared anything that would have really deterred Putin.

Operation Barbarossa II ?

rosie:

You making excuses for the nazis Winston?

Our conversation is over, rosie.
Don’t you ever suggest I have made excuses for those bastards.

Custard, the Dems were wised up already that he might do that, so they sicced Vindeman onto him and impeached him for supposedly being in bed with Ukraine. That pretty much prevented him from doing anything since the MSM would’ve been squawking day in day out. I suspect the Dems and the RINOs were terrified he’d out all their sideline businesses in that country.

Which is why he & his trusted business associated of many decades, from around the world, could be less hamstrung with Trump as an “Ex” President of The United States.

If it was always clear to me that ‘The Swamp’ was global and couldn’t be drained without blowing in the swamp creatures bolt holes around the world, I’m sure clever people such as & Trump & his mates would have figured a way to deal with it long before ever saying he would run for POTUS.

Trump didn’t only beat Team Hillary to become POTUS, he beat the world’s most dangerous & deadly cabals including Clinton/Biden & Co’s Chinese, Russian, Ukrainian, Middle Eastern, Central & South American partners in crimes against humanity & all of THEIR Western Media/Propaganda, and he is still kicking.

I don’t see any fat lady yet.

Yep, speaking of ‘great negotiators’ –

“Roger says:
February 25, 2022 at 10:25 am

Germany’s “Wandel durch Handel” (Change through Trade) Russia policy, which granted Russia “special status” as a trading partner, is in tatters, much like its military.

Merkel’s former Defence minister:

“I’m so angry at ourselves for our historical failure. After Georgia, Crimea, and Donbas, we have not prepared anything that would have really deterred Putin. We have forgotten the lesson of Schmidt and Kohl that negotiation always comes first, but we have to be militarily strong enough to make non-negotiation not an option for the other side.”

Putin really has played them like a master.”

Sancho Panzer:

It is paradoxical that the workers whose union driven work practices contributed to the fall of Probuild should also be among the sufferers.

It was always going to be that way, Sancho. The Unions have done it to nearly every industry in Australia. Why should building be any different?

Rex Anger:

Problem being, their Tier 5-level emissions reduction figures demanded AdBlue. And this is an extra consumable that would add cost and weight and chew up unavailable space (particularly in nations with less generous loading gauges- Europe and Australia spring readily to mind), so the big railroads said ‘no.’

So. We did this to ourselves?

Also …
Jason Miller @JasonMillerinDC
·Feb 24
WITCH HUNT!

“Two prosecutors leading the Manhattan district attorney’s investigation into former President Donald Trump and his business resigned Wednesday, according to people familiar with the matter, casting doubt on the future of the yearslong criminal probe.”

Two Prosecutors in New York Investigation of Donald Trump Resign

The departures cast doubt on the future of a yearslong criminal probe.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/two-prosecutors-in-new-york-investigation-of-donald-trump-resign-11645650257?mod=djemalertNEWS
http://www.wsj.com

So. We did this to ourselves?

Winston – Yep. AdBlue isn’t technically required to run a truck or a train, it’s only required to appease Gaia and her holy software. The irony is that appeasing Gaia causes the gas price to be extortionate, meaning that it then becomes too expensive to make urea from it. So there’s no AdBlue to buy and Gaia cannot be appropriately sacrificed to.

I feel a strange urge to pull Occam’s Razor out of its scabbard.

Professors Fiona Russell Robert Booy, both infectious disease specialists have a piece in The Hun calling for the removal of masks from school kids.
TaliDan and his pet chief medico are fast running out of friends.

https://notrickszone.com/2022/02/22/the-worlds-dumbest-energy-policy-just-got-dumber-the-frightening-race-to-reset-by-world-war/
Inflation?
In Germany?
A nation that invented hyperinflation?
Way to go, wunderkind.

mh says:
February 24, 2022 at 10:54 pm

According to Trump, Putin was emboldened by Biden’s complete mishandling of the Afghanistan pullout.

“He saw the weakness and you know, it really started with the weakness in Afghanistan,” he said. “The way they pulled out of Afghanistan. I really believe that’s where he started thinking he could do this.”

East “Ukraine” is Russian and always was. Ukraine proper has no claim to it now after disenfranchising and overthrowing the president the people in that region supported and voted in.

If that region can vote against the wishes of the rest of the nation, it makes the vote seem rigged doesn’t it?

If Putin and Russia were overwhelming popular, why hasn’t Putin taken control of these places after 7.5 years of separatism? It should have been a peaceful ceremony years ago.

The mighty Russian army advances disregarding the clear danger of a Covid super spreader event.
The fools.

There are many very very old diesel-electric locos still operating in Australia eg 48 class- I’m wondering if the zealots (or disingenuous economic saboteurs) will come after them.

I’ve seen a lot of woke chatter amongst railfans (of all creatures) about pollutants and smoky motors and so forth, but the regulations regarding noise pollution and other things like that in NSW are already fairly onerous without stopping traffic completely.

The problem is (and I have little doubt that this has been pointed out to any bureaucrat who has tried), is that the old stuff is very often essential to getting vital grain and other export produce out of pioneer branchlines and the like, that will never take the weight of anything bigger or more modern than 1960s and 70s branchline designs.

You have the choice of upgrading the lines at massive cost for relatively little improvement in tonnages delivered vs. Gaia-offensive puffs of smoke vs. getting rid of the lot and replacing it with trucks. And then having to deal with the increased road crashes, injuries and fatalities, cost of road repairs, very public discontent and ultimately nastier emissions and fuel use statistics because it takes very many trucks to carry the equivalent mass in grain or produce of a single train.

Ukraine found itself with artificially expanded borders when the USSR fell apart. Couldn’t believe its luck! And good for them, a little payment for the long suffering they endured, though students of history know not necessarily at the hands of the Russians per-se, but of the “international” communists that ran the USSR which isn’t necessarily the same thing – and Russians suffered under too.

The problem was, and this is the problem in eastern europe – and always has been, that their newly expanded territory was full of an ethnic group who didn’t really want to be part of that fake new country. And as neo-cons are so happy to remind us everyday: Ukrainians (the real ones) hate Russian’s guts. But there they all are stuck in a brand new fake artificial ‘modern’ ‘democracy’ like one big happy family. A mild problem, no?

So they set up a fake federation and pretend to be a federated “democracy” for 20 years. “We can all live happily together, but apart”, was the idea. But the subtext was always “Just remember who the real Ukrainians are, and we’re ultimately in charge of our country”. Then in 2010 eastern “Ukraine” I.e Russians manage, in a Trump style upset, to get their guy elected as president.

In 2010, Yanukovych won office for five years with 12.5?million votes (48.9 per cent) against 11.6?million votes (45.5 per cent) for Yulia Tymoshenko.

And in before lame Muh electoral corruption!:

A total of 3,149 international observers did monitor the January 17 presidential election in Ukraine.
…
[the OCSE] endorsed the first round of the Ukrainian presidential poll, saying it was of “high quality”
…
After the second round of the election international observers and the OSCE called the election transparent and honest

The situation was essentially Trump version 0.1. “Hey we have a ‘democracy‘ here, that means you aren’t allowed to elect anyone we don’t like, and we get to use any means necessary up to and including violence, to remove any that you do.”

So in 2014 the Ukrainians – the actual ones, with the backing of the Obama administration and EU (read Germany), after running the exact same playbook the international security state later ran against Trump: “corruption!” “Russian spy!”, “secret Putin stooge!”, violently staged a coup, overthrew the democratically elected president that they didn’t like, nor vote for (coincidentally), and installed a naked Junta. Which as we all know now – and curious people knew long ago, one of its quirky small pay backs for the favour was to put Hunter ‘crack head’ Biden onto the board of the largest energy company in the country, and all the rest that we know about re Russiagate and the “Ukraine” security apparatus’s deep involvement in that.

This was Euromaidan, and contrary to Johanna’s strange carry on above, in 2014 arguments about it all nearly tore the old Catallaxy apart all year. Though it’s interesting to see how people have shifted for the better now post Trump, in 2022. The old cold war mentality that reanimated zombie-like in 2014 appears to be stone cold dead and buried now, thank god. This is a new world order, so the people in charge seem to like to say these days, and it’s not 1982 anymore.

Post “coup” the “not-at-all Ukrainian” Russians in the east, understanding that the modern Ukraine “country” was now a farce and there was no future for them in it – which is exactly what the often neo-nazi curious Ukrainian revolutionaries were clearly telling them, attempted to separate. Naturally Ukrainian nationalists don’t want to give up the new territory they inherited from the Soviet Union, but certainly do want to get rid of their enemies in that territory whose duly elected president they had just overthrown in a coup.

So the anti-democratic failed Ukraine state has spent nearly ten years – with complete cover by the western media, disenfranchising, running low level ethnic cleansing programs and making fairly overt threats of genocide against their enemies in the east of the “country” (of the “you’re just lucky you’ve got Russia behind you there, or we’d have already dealt with you”).

This is why Russia has finally recognized the independence of those regions, and is now making clear that they won’t be touched. Neocons in the Biden regime, picking up right where they left off in 2016, have spent the last twelve months giving their puppets in Kiev and the neo-nazi militias in the east, the green light to the fix the Ukrainian’s little ethnic problem so as to secure Ukraine as an Iraq style “democratic” puppet state right on Russia’s border from which they can operate.

And here we are.

The mighty Russian army advances disregarding the clear danger of a Covid super spreader event.
The fools.

quote of the week.

If covid don’t get ’em, Dan’s better equipped goons will.

YES. I am recommending that we send Dan’s goons off to fight the Ruskies.

Eyrie:

Easy way to fix this. Everyone over 16 does some military training, keeps semi auto or better rifle, ammo and uniform at home. The more nerdish get to fly small armed military drones when required. Those who wish to fight the invaders, put on uniforms and have at it. More ammo available at neighbourhood depot.
Might give an invader pause before taking you on.

A bit like the Swiss model. Everyone – and I mean everyone, no exemptions – does their training at 18 for two years, building on the skills they learnt at 16 on weekend camps.
Like the Russian model. Have you seen the videos of Russian schoolkids stripping and reassembling AKs?
Then enlisted in the irregular militia.
“You don’t know how to shoot? We’ll teach you.”
“You don’t want to fight? We’ll make you.”

And what are to make about our “western” leaders bleating on when they’re talking about defending “our values” re Ukraine. A country run by a violently hyper-nationalist junta sprinkled with literal neo-nazis was installed after hundreds of thousands of protestors who didn’t like the “corrupt” democratically elected government of the time, (that coincidentally none of the protestors voted for), turned up, occupied the capital, invaded parliament and started shooting people.

Erm…ok?

Convoy’s and protestors around the world are you hearing this?

The current political classes over the top responses to our peaceful protests becomes a little clearer when you see what operates in their own minds. What their “values” actually are. Those are them, and when we turn up with our own protests against them, they, in their degenerate state, think that we’re all thinking the same as they do, and immediately reach for the gun.

Western ‘leader’, what is the name of the devil inside you? “My name is Hypocrisy.”

It has been said before, but Biden’s “election” and the shooting of Ashli Babbitt is not what I would call a “liberal democracy”.

too damn right

Farmer Gezsays:
February 25, 2022 at 11:44 am
The mighty Russian army advances disregarding the clear danger of a Covid super spreader event.
The fools.

They’re taking all valid scientific precautions.
They’re refraining from criticising Dan Andrews. It’s not a super spreader event as long as Maximum Leader isn’t being criticised.

Milton F:

Giving up TV was one of the best things I ever did.

Damn straight.

students of history know not necessarily at the hands of the Russians per-se, but of the “international” communists that ran the USSR which isn’t necessarily the same thing – and Russians suffered under too.

Which “International” Communists were those?

The Comintern, every Warsaw Pact state and every network of useful idoots and stooges in the West took their directions to the letter from the Kremlin and its apparatus. The Party did not suffer any deviation from its interpretation and application of Communism.

Unless you are trying to point out Uncle Joe was Georgian, which is historically accurate but a moot point.

Now, since the quips about WW3 have started, I am calling Dos Gringos in for a gun run:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8A_YEsLbLBY

#ClearedHot

Yay, I don’t have to wear a face nappy to church any more! After two years of stupid lies about the wretched things.

Mandatory face masks ditched in most settings around Australia from Friday (Sky News, 25 Feb)

Our church has gone full-online this weekend because McClown government rules.

Yay, I don’t have to wear a face nappy to church any more! After two years of stupid lies about the wretched things.

china’s humiliation of the west, a face gag

Not to mention the disgraceful bullies in police uniforms around the country.

Remember when the US made China ‘Most Favoured Nation’ despite its appalling record of human rights abuses, claiming that trade would lead to change in China?

Instead of them importing “Western” values, we are importing theirs.

Ignore that.

I forgot that some are only allowed to post links but not share personal opinion.

Commenting on links makes it harder for others to accept all the praise tossed their way when they post them later with & as ‘their’ opinions.

Open Forums are great, for reminding people who gets the bouquets and who must be drowned in the buckets.

I say this as someone’s who’s got to enjoy both China’s Firewall and ‘our own’.

Sure, put sanctions on Russia, why not.
But sanctions should be hitting all the Ukraine billionaires who have filleted the country too.

Every advertisement will now include 1 brown person, 1 yellow person, 1 green-haired white lesbian, 1 dog and 1 cat.

How ads with dogs and cats affect consumer behavior (Phys.org, 24 Feb)

These results are supported across multiple product and service contexts. For example, exposure to dogs (cats) led research participants to choose riskier (risk-averse) options in decision making, such as choosing the riskier stock investment option (the less risky mutual fund investment option), and more willing to risk monetary compensation for a chance to win an even a bigger payment. In addition, exposure to dogs (cats) led participants to prefer ad messages that are framed with a promotion (prevention) focus or messages featuring eagerness (vigilance) appeals.

I confess I’m mystified by the whole “dogs (cats)” thing throughout the article. It sounds like anything dogs are for cats are against. Maybe so. But since I’m neither I don’t think I’ll buy what’s on offer.

Rogersays:
February 25, 2022 at 8:32 am

Thanks for the tip Roger. I find Tan very hit and miss, but he nails it here.

Some very good points made.

.. liberal democracy can leave us unmoored: it hollows out our communities, it mocks tradition, banishes faith from the public square.

Liberalism elevates the individual to the point of alienation.

because of the way I was treated at the docs surgery

Metoo.

I am getting the ingredients together for some very slow vengeance.

very slow cooked vengeance.

FMD, I’m outta here. Belarus looks nice.

I have just come across “agility dogs”. Amazing what you can learn.

New information on the routines of competition-level agility dogs in Finland (Phys.org, 24 Feb)

A dataset comprising nearly 750 Finnish agility dogs collected by researchers at the University of Helsinki reveals that there are differences in training and competing between different dog skill categories and sizes. Most of the dogs practiced agility once or twice a week. Typically, the time spent on active training was a little under 20 minutes per week.

That’s the first para. I’m none the wiser, other than they’re Finnish.

Dogs at the highest competitive level trained less per week than dogs competing in the lower categories. The researchers speculate that the reason for this is that maintaining the skill level of more experienced dogs requires less training, whereas less advanced dogs require more repetition to acquire new skills.

The higher the level of competing dogs, the more frequently they participated in competitions and the faster they completed the courses. As the skill category went up, so did the share of faultless runs.

“The dogs typically completed two agility runs per month, with the average speed of over 4 m/s,” says doctoral researcher Leena Inkilä from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki.

The next three paras. I’m still mystified. No idea what an agility dog is. It also sounds like the less they train the more successful they are. Finland is a weird place.

In Finland, competing agility dogs are divided into five height categories. In competitions, the jump height in proportion to a dog’s height at the withers (the area above the shoulders) increases according to height category. This was also reflected in the jump heights used in training. Higher jumps can cause greater strain on the musculoskeletal system in larger dogs. In addition, the speed of the dogs was greater in the larger categories.

That’s para #5. Ok, it’s some sort of competition, with five different dog heights. I’m not sure I’ve ever heard about “dog withers” before.

Almost all of the dogs involved in the study were warmed up before agility runs and cooled down afterwards, usually for roughly 10 to 20 minutes. More than 60% of the dogs received musculoskeletal care at least once every three months, with massage and physiotherapy the most commonly used therapies.

Para #6. One should always warm up your agility dog, then cool him down afterwards. I’m still unsure what an agility dog is. The final three paras of the article don’t say either. Finns are odd. I love the daily science news.

The mighty Russian army advances disregarding the clear danger of a Covid super spreader event.
The fools.

‘The decision to invade Ukraine was made using the best available health advice.’