It’s not commonly known, but Teslas use Righteous Electrickery (RE), so all is balanced with Gaia. Namaste.
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I see scrolling down at his Cricinfo [age that Joe Burns made 108 not out for Italy vs. Romania. Forza…
https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/joe-burns-326632 Joe Burns is out of calculations as he is now representing Italy in cricket, the rotten Dago turncoat. Neil…
Only if he builds a new road to the house.
Yes, but that would be counter propagandical.
I wouldn’t gainsay the Ukrainians in that regard.
But they are seriously outgunned.
NATO forces won’t come into it, which is just as well for them.
Possibly the most important book written on the Palestinian cause.
Which is why it has been largely ignored by mainstream reviewers.
Not rebutted…just ignored.
Did well by your mother, urb, that’s what counts.
LibDems very concerned that not enough old people are being killed by their Doctors in Victoria.
Not my cup of tea, thanks.
Thank you. Probably one of the most important books written about the whole Palestinian cause – I’d rank it alongside “From Time Immemorial” and Benny Morris’s ” The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited.” (Morris has a mixed reputation amongst historians – he’s condemned as a mouthpiece of the Zionists by the Palestinians, and a stooge of the Palestinians by right wing Israelis.)
thanks Cohenite
Watch: Rogan Speechless As Guest Breaks Down Klaus Schwab’s Great Reset, Infiltration of World Governments
https://twitter.com/CltrWarResource/status/1495280535207555079
Guest Maajid Nawaz points out globalists inching towards global ID digital passport system attached to social credit score with help of WEF’s Young Global Leaders.
Following Nawaz’s appearance, Rogan’s podcast temporarily inaccessible on Spotify streaming service.
https://www.infowars.com/posts/watch-rogan-speechless-as-guest-breaks-down-klaus-schwabs-great-reset-infiltration-of-world-governments/
.303 volley sights @ 3000 yards:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWOw9Q6bovs
Define ‘protracted’. This also assumes combatants are going to restrict themselves to more or less the current borders.
If Russia starts falling short and identifies resources nearby, they’ll take them from somewhere else. They effectively manhandled their entire industrial base across the Urals less than 100 years ago. Don’t think they couldn’t or wouldn’t do it again.
‘Ooooooh they would never.’ Oh yes they fucking would.
Emmy @Serremmy
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Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson says he plans to sell the confiscated freedom-fighter’s trucks and use the funds to promote his liberal agenda.
Sounds like he is stealing personal property and then selling it.
These people make me sick.
https://gettr.com/post/pvy7obe0fc
If I recall correctly, I think Credlin simply said that Russia’s economy was less than Italy’s, no exact figures mentioned.
Joe ‘I had a friend once. He was an ant’ Biden would be shitting himself right about now, as would his Joint Chiefs (of Woke).
‘What? Open warfare? We’re not trained for this!’
No intercity in the end, there was an earlier TER.
€29.30 for the entire trip.
You are correct calli, once I paid my air fare using points and pay the only real extra expense over being at home, is accommodation and for me one meal out a day.
I love catching the train, I’ve hired a car once, many years ago in France, way too stressful, love driving in the US Midwest so it’s not the left hand drive, it’s the narrow roads and signals.
Of course nocar limits choices but I’m coping.
I think Lysander got it right when he said, the only political party good enough for him is the Lysander party, or words to that effect.
Sometimes you just have to hold your nose.
Hola! I’m challenged enough at the mile with modern glass!
Darn magpies are smarter than people.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-22/magpies-show-cooperative-behaviour-by-removing-tracking-device/100851458
From the Oz. Did anyone ever discover where Khemlani was getting his billions of dollars from?
Trudeau’s Terror Troopers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOty-RuumnE
Feb 22, 2022
The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters
The BBC is even prepared to take the proverbial out of the apology industry:
https://fb.watch/bkzltl3-Qg
Would never happen here.
And one thing I will say about the French, they are very kind, I cannot count the number of times a young man has come up the stairs and insisted on helping me carry my suitcase.
Sorry, wrong link. This isnthenpiss-take on the sorry business:
https://www.facebook.com/bbccomedy/videos/3580876798664835/
The Vortex — Is Bergoglio Really the Pope?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE99YJvKsiY
Feb 22, 2022
Church Militant
The last time we were in the Netherlands, we were checking into the hotel, when the lass behind the desk apologized because the lift was out of order. She grabbed both our suitcases and set off up the stairs, ahead of us. She had very long and shapely legs, and the shortest miniskirt, I had seen in several years…..
Trudeau’s International Isolation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_2diPMPSSs
Feb 22, 2022
The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters
It will be all OK if Vlad doesn’t find out.
He what?
He knows?
How?
Fucking Trump colluding again!
This is absolutely true.
The ‘arrogant Frenchman’ is nothing but a myth.
A racist myth I might add.
Germans not certifying Nord Stream 2 ?
what arse-about brinkmanship game is this?
The pipe line is already constructed AND the dumb fucks rely heavily on Nord Stream 1
maybe they gonna turn the reactors back on.
or maybe the Chermans gonna freeze without bothering to march to Moscow
For someone just used to watching rifles fired over long distances in the movies, that looooong pause between shot fired and dust flying was enormous.
John Spooner.
Mark Knight. Brilliant.
Warren Brown.
David Rowe.
Christian Adams.
Morten Morland.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Patrick Cross.
Chip Bok.
Bob Gorrell.
Tom Stiglich.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
The People Unifier
@ThePatriot46
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Shame on them.
https://gettr.com/post/pw61ma5bf0
The Vigilant Fox @VigilantFox
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“This is Scientific Fraud.” The CDC has been hiding data from all of us, and a whistleblower may soon blow this open.
Samueal Scarpino: “The CDC is a political organization as much as it is a public health organization… Politicians have forced us to commit scientific fraud.”
‘This is Scientific Fraud’ – The CDC Has Been Hiding Data from All of Us
Samueal Scarpino: “The CDC is a political organization as much as it is a public health organization… Politicians have forced us to commit scientific fraud.” https://rumble.com/vviqoa-the-cdc-is-a-p
https://rumble.com/embed/vswr8v/?pub=5f67r
rumble.com
Jack Posobiec ??
@JackPosobiec
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Canada is now denying bail to the organizer of the Freedom Convoy
They are threatening her with 10 years in prison
Wake up
Truckers4Freedom
@Truckers4Fredom
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Charges for the truckers appear entirely instrumental (fabricated for convenience). This is re organizer Tamara Lich’s arrest. There is no excuse for holding her without bail.
https://gettr.com/post/pw58kbf10e
Well no shit Sherlock.
Ottawa Police Highlight International Trend of Jackboot Aggression Toward Citizens
February 20, 2022 | Sundance | 479 Comments
We have watched police disturbingly follow orders from federal, regional, state and local politicians throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. So much so, the severity of increasingly brutal tactics from law enforcement has been one of the most eye-opening revelations of recent memory. The most recent behavior by police officers and RCMP officials in/around Ottawa, Canada, reflects this increasingly hostile approach.
There are thousands of recent examples from the U.S, U.K, France, Europe (writ large), Australia, New Zealand and now Canada. What was once rare, perhaps unimaginable, is now commonplace. It is far beyond unnerving to see this descent into totalitarianism, and it is even more unnerving to gain an understanding of how previous horrific events in history took place.
Yet, we must face these issues as they exist, and not as we would prefer them to be.
Unfortunately, the result of their behavior, a behavior that must be seen in the totality of its visibility, has been a significant drop in support from the general public. We have long passed the time when “a few bad actors” could be accepted as the excuse, and we now enter that dark period where most people accept that police officers as a group are the enemy of free and democratic society. WATCH:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/02/20/ottawa-police-highlight-international-trend-of-jackboot-aggression-toward-citizens/
King Arturius
@allnights
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#KyleRittenhouse announces to #TuckerCarlson that he is going to sue #CenkUyghur of the #TheYoungTurks and #WhoopiGoldberg
Oops
https://gab.com/allnights/posts/107843003163969530
https://youtu.be/h1tSzU73FMo
Am in Tarbes. Not going to Clermont Ferrand. It’s a ten hour change trains about 15 times train trip backtracking via Nimes and I can’t be bothered. Going to stop next in Angoulême instead.
Tarbes is average for a French provincial town so far, looked nice coming from Pau on the train last time I was here but will go to the resistance museum and another museum tomorrow then L the next day.
My airbnb has been based on the seven dwarves cottage, with upstairs ceiling height of about five feet at its highest.
Most likely a remodelled atelier, I’m really disappointed there were no garden gnomes in the little garden.
Though the tete-a-tete were flowering, one of my favourites.
Owner speaks about zero English but we muddled along with various advice and instructions.
see Dan is openly admitting primary school students are being punished for not getting vaccinated.
It is true, when I watch French fta TV the amount of English inserted is quite astonishing.
I could never see the reverse happening here.
Down the road from me is a business called ‘Sex Shop’, no idea what they might sell.
French academy says stop speaking franglais s’il vous plait
Is this The Australian turning green? So many articles by the renewables booster awilliams. Surely the others have that topic covered. One of the Editor’s Picks reads:
“Green Power – why climate change is a business opportunity.”
I thought that being a bit different to most of the media (who are banging on about climate change 24/7) would be a business opportunity.
Twitter claims they suspended hundreds of bot accounts used to spread pro-China propaganda during the Beijing Olympics
I’m shocked. Not because they did it, because they did it to the Chicoms.
Then again, who says it’s true?
Thanks for the toons Tom.
Lots of Russia! Russia!
It’s the Spooner and that pachyderm that worries me.
Wussia, Wussia, Wussia
I urge everyone to read C.L.’s blog piece “An Irony Curtain Has Descended”.
Read it, Cassie. Excellent piece from the master of distraction squirrel spotting.
Had an incident driving into town this morning.
On Ocean Street, some older chap jogging/shuffling on road.
As I approach he hops off the road onto the footpath.
Waiting at the next set of lights I shit myself as old mate is banging on my window.
“Didn’t you see me running on the road!”.
Lights turn green, I roll away too shocked to say anything.
Where to begin?
yeah that sort of moronic nastiness can really spoil your day
You’re probably too young to remember the show, bern.
You did the right thing. Never escalate with an idiot.
“feelthebernsays:
February 23, 2022 at 6:41 am”
Are you okay?
If I hear of an old jugger getting clipped by a car in the eastern suburbs any time over the next 20 years I’m going to wonder if it was old mate.
Tyred, I suspect…
#OhGod
I’m laughing at the stupidity of it now.
Seriously, he would have been in his 60’s.
Anyway, got the blood pumping.
You know what’s really nuts right now.
Russian gas is still flowing through Ukraine to Europe.
Gas which Ukraine gets paid a transit fee.
Still going.
Right now.
Let me know when the gas gets turned off.
That’s when shits getting real.
Will Swanton in The Australian’s sport section has a go at Nadal for backflipping on his former opinion re Djokovic playing. First he said no, he shouldn’t, but now he says yes, he should be allowed to play.
Backflips are all around. The “deadly danger” that was hyped for far too long and saw Djokovic pilloried in Melbourne has now been declared over. A bit late, and the authorities look stupid – not for the first time.
We had masking outdoors, two weeks to flatten the curve, vaccines that didn’t cure the dilemma, restrictions on our personal freedoms, and businesses ruined.
Plus the Debt Elephant in the Room as per Spooner’s cartoon.
Dilbert
Armed Portland Antifa Punks Pick Fight With Violent Biker Gang … and get their asses handed to them.
Oh, and Dan Andrews doing for ages the sort of rubbishy ruling that Trudeau is just now doing, albeit Trudeau doing it with a tad more viciousness. Victoristan preceded the Peoples Republic of Kanadaa.
Very nearly ran over a tiny dog with bicycle yesterday. Lady has it on longish leash but as I was passing it trots across in front of me. Fortunately not quite too late…
My front brakes squeal like a banshee after years of wear and tear. SQUEEEEEEEEE and much sliding of tyres as frantically braked. Dog just about craps itself and flees to the left with alacrity. Hope it and its lady learned a lesson. Didn’t look back.
Look at this MSM bullshit, from the Daily Telegraph this morning. Here’s my opinion, Martin is a liar and a fraud. This is precisely the kind of verminous lying Liberal that needs to be cleaned out from the party. I’m not worried, this slag called Fiona Martin is gonski in a few months and that will be a good thing, a very good thing. This slag is no different to Keneally. BTW, I’ve seen the whole clip by Aussie Cossack, there were zero threats.
“Reid MP Fiona Martin targeted with ‘threatening messages’ after Simeon Boikov encounter
A Liberal MP has said she was left “shaken” after a “self-declared agent of Russia” approached her with a cameraman and tried to prevent her from leaving so he could ask her questions.
A Western Sydney Liberal MP has been targeted online with “threatening” messages and phone calls after she avoided an “intimidating” encounter at a public campaign event.
Reid MP Fiona Martin said she and her staff were “shaken” after Simeon Boikov, a “self-declared agent of Russia” who produces YouTube videos as the “Aussie Cossack,” approached her meet-and-greet event in Cabarita Park on Monday morning with a cameraman and tried to prevent her from leaving so he could ask her questions.
“We’ve been shaken by this,” she said. She said she had reported the online activity to NSW Police and the AFP.
“There’s a lot of [people online] that are calling our office and sending quite threatening messages on my phone.
“It’s quite horrible.”
Mr Boikov is pro-Putin, and once described Australia as an “enemy state” for its sanctions on Russia.
Dr Martin said she was stopped from leaving the scene on two occasions when Mr Boikov stood in front of her car.
“I couldn’t drive out of the car park because he was leaning over my car,” she said.
“I was held for a period of time, I wanted to drive off but I didn’t want to run over him.”
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Dr Martin said she was “advised for security reasons to move” from the event, but was now being attacked by people online for “running away” from Mr Boikov.
“I’m trying to do my job to be available to my community in different parts of the electorate, I don’t think elected reps or anyone for that matter … should be intimidated,” she said.
“I‘m happy to talk to everybody, I listen to everybody … but it’s the way you conduct yourself that’s important.”
Mr Boikov shared several videos of the incident, including one called, “hilarious police operation ordered by Fiona Martin MP”.
In the video, Mr Boikov explains he and his cameraman are planning to go to Dr Martin’s “meet Fiona” event in the park to ask her questions.
Mr Boikov can be seen approaching Dr Martin and telling her he wants to ask her some questions as she walks away from the park toward her car.
“That’s the member for Reid, she’s a coward, she doesn’t want to face the people,” he said.
Photos later show Mr Boikov standing in front of Dr Martin’s car as she tries to drive away.
In his video, Mr Boikov then returns to the park as NSW Police start to arrive, where one officer tells him they are responding to a report of “property damage,” which he then said was a “false” accusation.
Mr Boikov leads the Zabaikal Cossack Society of Australia, a group which supported Russia’s invasion of Crimea in 2014.
He has previously denied any Russian involvement in the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines MH17 over Ukraine in 2014 in which 283 people died, including 38 Australians.
Mr Boikov once travelled to Moscow to visit one of the pro-Russian separatist leaders accused of responsibility for the downing of MH17, Igor Girkin, aka “Strelkov”.
Earlier this month he was part of a delegation of anti-vaccine mandate protesters signed into Parliament House in Canberra by the United Australia Party leader Craig Kelly.
In a statement the Australian Federal Police said it does “not confirm who may be the subject of an investigation”.
Asked about the potential safety risk to MPs subjected to ambushes by members of the public, the AFP said it provides, “security advice to Members of Parliament on a regular basis based on protection assessments and any identified threats.”
self-declared agent of Russia
oh Lord trying to build on the DNC Russia hysteria- I think the lieboral party is beyond being cleaned up
Keeping masks on primary kiddies:
Masks stop omicron – no
Keeps kids from dying – no
Keeps kids out of hospital – no
Keeps teachers safe – no
Kids need vaccination – no
TaliDan is an arse wipe – yes.
‘I ped muh taxes for 60 years, my road now. Damn kids and their cars and their rock and roll.’
You should have said ‘Unfortunately, yes. You’re on the council, aren’t you?’
She’s a doctor too!!
Actually, that’s a guest post bern.
‘My Encounter with Harold Scruby.’
This is not a joke apparently…
Real Mark Latham
@RealMarkLatham
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This is true.
I was there.
Minister Natalie Ward said “we don’t make announcements in question time”.
Well, you do when it comes to selling the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Rule it out!!
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Courtney Houssos
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Today in Question Time I asked the Roads Minister to rule out selling off the Harbour Bridge… and she refused! Unbelievable! #outoftouch @JohnGrahamALP
Psychology.
And she’s armed and dangerous.
Instructions from on high.
Rupert Murdoch’s Australian news outlets plan to dial back climate change denial and promote net zero emissions by 2050, according to reports (7 Sep)
Almost certainly due to pressure from Lachlan, and especially James, who is green as grass.
KD, perfect time to drop in an “ok boomer”.
But alas, brain turned to custard.
Maybe when I’m writing my memoirs I can embellish it, Toowoomba style.
miltonf says:
February 23, 2022 at 7:20 am
She’s a doctor too!!
She’s a victim.
All the victim industry lingo on display.
Vote her out and get someone with a backbone not just an agenda.
She represents herself not the electorate.
You just know King Arturius is on the money. He’s one of the Big Three.
ambushes by members of the public
they really don’t think of themselves as elected representatives at all
Maybe when I’m writing my memoirs I can embellish it, Toowoomba style.
No need to embellish. Just describe how you ‘awakened from a daytime doze’ to hear the bloke’s KT26s being squished while you were in another country.
Don’t skimp on the jellybeans.
“She represents herself not the electorate.”
Correct…which is what she did a few weeks ago when she crossed the floor. She won by miniscule margin in 2019 and it’ll be joyous to watch her go on election night.
Martin is example of why bullshit uni courses do so much damage to society. Universities are a serious menace and have been for decades.
Damn kids these days and their blockquotes!
Martin seems even worse than Laundry!
Martin seems even worse than Laundry!
They’re not sending their best are they.
“I think the lieboral party is beyond being cleaned up”
Ahh yes. I note that Scumbag has decided to speak up about the transgender bullshit…thanks to the wonderful Senator Claire Chandler – one of the few decent remaining Liberals. The thing is though, he’s left it too late. The ship has sailed.
Anyway if the murdoch press is so concerned about globull warming maybe they should stop printing newspapers.
I see the ‘minor incursion’ continues apace.
Hands up everyone who reckons Putin would have tried this on while DJT was in the chair.
Me neither.
Instead there’s a demonstrably senile POTUS giving the thumbs up, and a Western Europe consisting of a dozen countries desperately trying to out-poof each other. Plus, Putin’s got his hand on Europe’s gas tap.
He’d be mad not to go in, because there’ll never be a better opportunity.
Hi Cassie,
I watched Aussie Cossack’s video. Although I often like his stuff, I thought he was fairly aggressive and intimidating. One female politician with a couple of soy boy staffers being hounded by a bloke who is a pretty big unit jamming his microphone and camera up to the window of her car. The police response was OTT, but he is not exactly a gentle soul is he? Yes, the libs aren’t helping us but Simeon is not exactly being chivalrous. Or maybe I’m old fashioned. Our enemies might be jerks but we don’t have to imitate them. Minor rant over!
Like him or not but you got to admit Putin is a smart bastard. Nobody saw that move coming.
jamming his microphone and camera up to the window of her car
I thought a currant affair germalists did that sort of thing all the time
Correct.
Ambush journalism. Mark Riley anyone?
She’s soft. She’s used to tame, castrated males and yougogirl females, not aggressive, difficult questions. She ran away and is now covering up her embarrassment with a tissue of the usual “mean questions/actions/bullying” shyte. Put a fork in her. She’s done.
Can’t wait to see how you squeeze in the yanks and their carpet bombing B-52s.
Oi! Koch!
Are you listening to this?
And here’s me thinking this “climate change” stuff was about some existential threat to the planet. All along it was a “business opportunity”. Who’d have thought…….
And that doesn’t let Aussie Cossack off the hook either. I’m still wondering about that LRAD stuff.
The Martin Great Escape is slightly more solid ground. I don’t think his sophistication has reached the CGI stage yet.
Remember, the politicians created Cossack with their disgusting, in-humane treatment of the people.
I’d like to thank Anna, the Mother of All Queenssslanders,
for that emergency text at 0244.
If it hadn’t been pissing down so hard,
I might’ve slept through that warning about driving in the rain.
New levels of helicopter parenting from State Mummy.
interview with Fiona Martin MP
This video is from 2020 when Davey Boy went to a Burwood Park to meet Fiona Martin, the Liberal MP for the federal seat of Reid. The main topic discussed here is the Currency (Restrictions on the Use of Cash) Bill 2019 aka the Australian Cash Ban bill (since dropped).
Judge for yourself based on the Q+A in this video how Ms Martin approaches voting for legislation placed before her, and how she characterises representing the voters in her electorate.
Au contraire (see what I did there ? 🙂
When recently in Europe, I found the Parisians to be contemptuous and rude, whereas in Rome, even the muggers were friendly.
Bit of morning inspiration for these dark times.
Good to know that could NEVER happen here
+100
That Fiona woman and her masked-in-a-park gimp looking handlers know exactly who he is the moment they saw him. The fleeing, the over reaction, the police phone call and subsequent ridiculous campaign by their helpful mate in the Murdoch press was caused by a moment of PR panic at seeing him to avoid being ridiculed in one of his videos.
As said above this is stock in trade for media in Australia. Next time ACA or Today Tonight style “journalists” operate I expect the police will turn up sirens blazing and news articles will be written about the menacing man with his camera crew.
flyingduk my dearly beloved Sunbather has always wanted a visiting Frenchman native to Paris to ask him the way to Circular Quay and he’d send him to Parramatta such is his regard for the friendliness of Parisians
There would be no Ukraine invasion is the 2020 US presidential election was not rigged.
…if…
Perhaps just feeling a little run down.
Watch now as the election campaign develops a sub plot of poor Liberal MP’s feeling “unsafe” because a large chunk of the public – their own ex-supporters that they abandoned two years ago when Morrison suspended Parliament and created a new secret government where he rules from via the premiers using the state emergency powers, resent the lazy pathetic creatures and tell them so.
I mean what have these duds done for their massive salaries for two years?
Nothing.
Juggers? Joggers?
Hmmmm…
These medical staff.
most people accept that police officers as a group are the enemy of free and democratic society
Just a gang of thugs working for another gang who claim a monopoly on violence or threat thereof.
What is the history of liberation movements throwing off the yoke of totalitarian government without significant external help or threats from outside actors?
I did read once that Yugoslavia was the only example and even there the Germans had other pressing business and another gang of totalitarian thugs took over.
Can anyone here see a credible path out of totalitarian rule for the Anglosphere?
Can anyone here see a credible path out of totalitarian rule for the Anglosphere?
Outside of some states in the US?
No.
Very probable.
Putin only deployed increased numbers of troops to the border after Biden was inaugurated.
I do Bern.
Think how the west felt during Carter’s reign and there was the left winger in the UK. The Russians had gone into Afghanistan and the inflation rate was 15% in the US. Those times were the depths.
Then Reagan and Maggie came along.
Things will reverse.
What would Trump have done? Sent troops? Honest question.
Then Reagan and Maggie came along.
The Cold War was in full swing, keeping everyone focused. No longer and we’ve had 40 years of degenerate left wing indoctrination (BIRM).
If trump doesn’t run and they can manage to stop the cheating, desantis will shit it in. The midterms are very important as a firewall to prevent demonrat cheating.
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Good question. Trump was more unpredictable than Biden is, and Biden has already telegraphed his response to Putin – a border incursion, as opposed to a full scale invasion, will not see NATO troops deployed to Ukraine because it’s not a NATO member & will only draw sanctions as a response.
But I think with Trump in power Putin would have had more hope of the negotiated settlement of the Minsk II Protocol being implemented, so he would have maintained the status quo as a sign of good faith.
And I think Putin has now achieved his main strategic goal – Ukraine will not be invited to join NATO any time soon.
JCsays:
February 23, 2022 at 9:14 am
Putin only deployed increased numbers of troops to the border after Biden was inaugurated.
What would Trump have done? Sent troops? Honest question.
Possibly boosted US domestic oil and gas production, and undercut Russia economically – the Reagan solution?
He wouldn’t have had to do anything because Putin wouldn’t have tried it on. Trump loved the big stick (aka peace through strength).
Biden is the geopolitical town bike: whatever you want, sweetie, cash up front.
The rest of France think the Parisiennes are rude.
Thanks P, and will this be mentioned in tonight’s news or the papers?
Eyrie
There is serious shit going on at the ground. Demonrat polices at the school level are being soundly rejected – even Sam Francisco! Shit is really happening.
It wouldn’t have happened in the first place because the US was a net exporter of oil and gas. But if it had he’d have pumped more.
Putin was pretty quiet when he didn’t have the EU over a barrel to keep the lights on.
Murdoch’s Newscorp going all in for green will lead to the same financial situation as Fairfax found itself only there may not be anyone left to whom they could sell the failing publications. They are forgetting who are their customers and it it certainly not the green left.
This is exactly what happened to my poor old Dad. The GP couldn’t explain it. (Har, har). It was a mystery.
It took weeks of agitating on the part of Mum to have him referred to a specialist. Auto immune response.
Months of treatment later and he can now walk (the suppurating blisters were on the soles of his feet too). He is a shadow of his former self.
Trump’s actions in office certainly did not favour the Russia’s economy, unlike the actions of the Europeans in making themselves mroe relian ton Russian gas.
But he also knew that Russia is nowhere near the threat to American interests that China is.
Biden and the Democrats combine a 1980s Cold War mentality vis a vis Russia with a visceral dislike of Putin because of his anti-liberal social policies.
Roger
Arresting the group Pussy Riot for demonstrating in an Orthodox church, negative attitude towards the Alphabet people and rejection of trans “rights” are sufficient for the DemonRats to hate Putin. Cash for their business supporters for military expenses (10% for the Big Guy) are the cream on the cake.
Roger
The demonrats caused this by the years and years of demonising Russia. It’s so fucking ugly what they’ve done with all the wussiagate bullshit.
Russia should be on our side. The US and Russia should be allies.
Von Clausewitz’ often quoted dictum that ‘war is the continuation of policy by other means’ is actually a misquote. His original quote is ‘policy with other means’.
The difference is that ‘by’ lends itself readily to the idea that war replaces other efforts, while ‘with’ suggests it is another (expensive and very disruptive) method.
If it is ‘by’ then the only resolution would be military and every war would only end when one nation is brought to its knees. That would certainly seem to have been the case with the axis powers in WW2, and perhaps even the case in WW1 where Germany was at the brink of starvation, but earlier wars not.
What would Trump have done? The consummate deal maker I think he would not have let it get to this point. And he would have sought a solution that did not require America to sponsor an agreement that either of the sides would back out of when they thought they had an edge (hello, ME Peace Accords!)
Would he have succeeded? Maybe. Maybe not. But Biden’s and the Democrats were utterly indifferent to the plight of Ukraine until they needed a distraction, and his diplomacy has consisted of nothing more that giving in to the Russians and hoping they would be grateful.
Note they’ve pushed Russia closer to China, which in the east is their main competitor.
In Europe they’re also pushing Hungary closer to Russia.
If the Democrats keep the WH this is going to play out in many strange ways.
It’s good to be on the cutting edge, not so much the bleeding edge.
Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good?
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could?
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul
Bob Dylan, Masters of War.
I’ll try that again.
It’s good to be on the cutting edge. Not so much the bleeding edge.
Posting links on this blog from an iPhone totally blows.
Site is. Try http:/
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According to BOM, our 147 milliflans overnight was actually 0.09 to 9.0.
The dams will never again be full.
That was a learning moment for the Deep State.
Germany laughed at Trump when he predicted this
On a different point, Putin has been rattling swords over Ukraine since near the end of the magic negro’s term. Obama sent Ukraine blankets and rations and shortly after left office.
When Trump became President Putin waited until he had his hands full with Russiagate etc. and tried it on again. Trump responded by sending thousands of the latest model anti-tank missiles (among other munitions) to Ukraine. Putin shut up.
Biden is now President and Ukraine just lost 2 provinces to Putin.
There is a lesson to be learned somewhere in there.
Crossie: Check out Young James’ political donations — 50 pages’ worth. If it moves and is Democrat, lotsa cash. If you slither — Hillary — in the money, sweetheart.
https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?name=James+Murdoch&cycle=&state=NY&zip=&employ=&jurisdiction=&cand=&type=
@ Fair Shake-
Linky worked correctly on your second attempt.
Also, regarding
and being curiously appropriate to Fair Shake’s link-
It is not unknown for a fellow to feel a bit flat afterwards…
#Hoho!
Having learnt to keep the receipts, Monday’s forecast for Tuesday was :
Shower or two. Possible storm.
Possible rain: 0 to 3mm.
Chance of any rain: 60%
The main bridge between Cheapside and town is closed.
I am so glad I stopped sending money to the filth via subscription some years ago.
When you copy/paste the link address into the ‘Link’ function, delete the extra ‘http://’ it provides. For example, I want to link a Derp Song from Youtube: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8KfRKWXPVyg
When I press the ‘Link’ button, I get [a href=”http://”][/a]. If I was to just paste the link address in, I get: [a href=”http://https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8KfRKWXPVyg”][/a]. It isn’t quite going to work correctly, usually going into your browser’s search function instead of straight to the site.
By removing the extra http://, we get [a href=”https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8KfRKWXPVyg”][/a]
And the link then works perfectly.
Happy Derping. 🙂
Isn’t Ukraine better off without those two rebellious, ethnic Russian regions? And it’s still clipping tickets on Russian gas exported through its territory.
Meanwhile, Russia is killing the pig selling gas into Western Europe and gets a permanent buffer against a Ukraine within the NATO orbit.
And western governments get a distraction from the wheels falling off the Covid bandwagon.
Looks like a win, win, win to me.
While Australia’s second rate journalists have been obsessed with Grace Tame, Brittany Higgins and talking up war with Russia (including Greg Sheridan), the US released its Indo-Pacific Strategy, which is crucial to our future.
As far as I can see, only the Lowy Institute has covered it.
Clowns, the lot of them.
The Aussie Cossack is always polite, with a fine sense of the absurd. His videos show him to be a principled gentleman whose sardonic laughter in the presence of his antagonists enrages them no end; and they don’t know how to react when the Aussie Cossack does not fold at the merest of threats but instead brings to light the comic emptiness of the threats. As well, his unpredictable questions rattle antagonists, leaving them flailing in their search for answers from their stock of rehearsed and workshopped answers.
Have those annoying spam texts about imaginary parcels and deliveries suddenly disappeared?
I haven’t received one for a couple of weeks now.
I got one last night. They haven’t stopped.
What’s with that. I don’t get the scam.
Interesting that no one in the media has addressed the elephant in the room regarding the ship floating on fire off the Azores. Could it be that the fire that can’t be put out was caused by one of the VW or Porsche electric vehicles en route to the United States?
Fling enough mud at a wall, and some of it will eventually stick to somebody stupid or unlucky enough to open the hyperlink and accidentally dowoad the malware…
Download
#UwU
Heh.
The Italian pickpockets (always kids) were funny, cute, and angelic in appearance.
Shame about their troublesome ways.
I found the Seattle beggars to be amongst the most erudite people on the planet.
@ Rugbyskier-
Inconvenient Truths, maybe?
Or we are all waiting for the Lloyds’ bill before passing further comment…
Why Canada Will Become a Dictatorship Under Trudeau
Wow. That was not only written in 2015, it appeared in the ultra-lefty Huffington Post, and it’s spot on.
One does not drive into town from the Eastern Suburbs.
One gets driven.
Crossie: Check out Young James’ political donations — 50 pages’ worth. If it moves and is Democrat, lotsa cash. If you slither — Hillary — in the money, sweetheart.
I am so glad I stopped sending money to the filth via subscription some years ago.
me too – Murdoch was a big fan of the Iraq debacle
JC
Russia should be on our side. The US and Russia should be allies.
They would be more useful than most of the Euroweenies.
Zatarasays:
February 23, 2022 at 10:17 am
Zatara, similarly to the ridiculous half-witted buffoons laughing at Trump in your link;
In the 2008 election campaign Sarah Palin said that Obama’s soft foreign policy approach might lead to Russia invading the Ukraine. She was ridiculed. I’m not aware that she got any apologies when in 2014 on Barry’s watch Russia invaded the Ukraine and annexed the Crimean Peninsula.
Trump and Palin were both way smarter and more competent than any of their critics. But even the most slapstick bozo on the conservative side is right way more often than any of the “progressive” supposed geniuses.
He could always do an Irish “Well I wouldn’t start from here.”
@ Zatara-
Any idea how long Canadian governmental terms are?
It’s taken 7 years of rule for Justin Trudeau to go full Grand Poobah, and even then only because Western society has had the last 2 getting used to its (ostensibly fairly) elected leadership doing weird things.
rugbyskier
Could it be that the fire that can’t be put out was caused by one of the VW or Porsche electric vehicles en route to the United States?
Even if the EVs didn’t actually cause the fire, once it got to them, it would have made the fire far, far, worse.
The author was certainly paying close attention to Trudeau early on.
Good find!
Nationalists are evil. M’kay.
I thought maybe the sudden increase in spam email I was getting was a change in tactics.
Could also be revenge for my donation to the convoy of evil. Still disappointed at not getting enquiry from their ABC.
No more than five years.
they would have …
Rogersays:
February 23, 2022 at 10:55 am
Any idea how long Canadian governmental terms are?
No more than five years.
I am becoming more attracted to maximum terms of three years, and reject terms fixed at any length more than one year.
In these troubled times some books of faith to take comfort in:
Reverend Eugen’s Book about Sluts: tales of redemption and other forms of faith satisfaction
I found Jesus at Wal-Mart by Reverend Eddie Brumley. Plus other shopping tips
Enter me Lord and let me feel your mercy by the Reverend Mary Hinge
The Magus Chord Organ Big Book of Easy Funeral Hits: simple one finger grieve chord chart included
Fingering and Preying for the Lord by Reverend Loretta Fudge: an organist’s simple approach to faith ecstasy.
Press X to Reasonably Doubt…
Speaking of troublesome ways.
IDF fighters eliminate firebomb throwing terrorist in Gush Etzion (22 Feb)
Do please try to avoid throwing firebombs at motorists, IDF suggests gently, it would be bad for your health.
(Maybe a little more forceful action might deter 13 year old ferals here too. Not necessarily rule 303, but perhaps a work crew in shackles picking up garbage and cleaning graffiti for 6 months at a time. That would be an amazingly good deterrent I suspect.)
I think 2025 is the next election year. In the meantime, there better be a significant (supported/and carried) move of no confidence. I cannot believe I am watching Canada being so royally rooted by that Trudouche brat.
Rex
I’m not sure when he is up for election again. He won a snap election in Sept 2021 and in Dec he said he was going to run for a 4th term. But I don’t know when that happens unless they remove him from office sooner.
I am becoming more attracted to the recall referendum.
The Athenians were onto something with that provision, and also with ostracism.
Together they would focus leader’s minds on serving the people humbly.
Including, sadly, the Lowy Institute. I’ve been getting their emails for years. Very noticeable the downward spiral into boilerplate leftyness.
Thanks Zatara and Roger.
I suspect Justin is a better-looking Kevni, who somehow managed to get the term-and-a-half of complete and total control he wanted instead of being de- and then re-fenestrated by a party afraid first of his attitude, then his replacement’s greater incompetence.
We will probably see Justni continuing to anklebite around Canadian and Western political discourse for decades after his looming and very public failure and removal from office. Just like him of the glasses and Murdoch-obsession…
A man who died after paying a fruit picker to hack off his leg with a circular saw sought out the brutal amateur surgery as he was suffering with crippling diabetes, police will allege in court.
Locals in Innisfail, a town of 10,000 people south of Cairns in North Queensland, woke on Saturday morning to find the 66-year-old man dead outside a fish and chip shop.
Police have charged banana-picker John Yalu, 36, with the unnamed man’s alleged murder – who detectives believe injected himself with a sedative beforehand – and are investigating whether he was offered $5,000 to saw off the man’s leg….
It is understood the alleged victim had diabetes and was agitated about the state of his leg, with foot complications relatively common among those living with the condition.
People with diabetes have a much higher risk of lower limb amputation, often due to wounds or ulcers that don’t heal.
Multiple local residents told Daily Mail Australia the suffering man had asked a doctor to amputate his leg, but no medical professional would agree to do the procedure.
Police will allege the 66-year-old alleged victim then brought his own battery-operated table saw to the banks of Innisfail’s Johnstone River around 3am last Saturday and then injected himself with a sedative.
Then, Yalu, a summer fruit picker who arrived in Australia from Vanuatu last year, took up the saw and severed the man’s left leg below the knee, police will allege in court.
Police then alleged Yalu helped the man back to his car and fled from the scene.
Daily Mail
Remember when the Jug Eared ‘America’s Greatest Diversity Hire’ mocked Romney with “The 80’s called. They want their foreign policy back.”
A truly detestable man. No idea what he was doing – just thought he was so cool the way he did it.
This is absolutely true.
The ‘arrogant Frenchman’ is nothing but a myth.
A racist myth I might add
Fromage stained claws typed this…
Well he was- The Media and Oprah told him so for some eight years…
‘Stroke’ is 11,361% more likely to be suffered as an Adverse Reaction to the Covid-19 Vaccines than the Flu Vaccines per Number of Doses administered
Police have charged banana-picker John Yalu, 36, with the unnamed man’s alleged murder – who detectives believe injected himself with a sedative beforehand – and are investigating whether he was offered $5,000 to saw off the man’s leg…
This is just another encroachment on “my body, my choice”.
I am having ExtremHerrenBoner for the 2nd Amendment. If the populace can’t enforce their own freedom, then constructions like maximum terms and recalls can have only limited utility.
Yes indeed, Bruce; but in this instance at least they took the trouble to read the document and offer their analysis.
No doubt Greg Sheridan will get around to it when he’s stopped writing pieces urging Ukraine to give Putin a bloody nose, which is akin to urging a welterweight to take on a heavyweight with a superior reach and combination of punches to boot.
Seen a couple articles on that issue. Apparently they couldn’t use water on the EVs because so much would be needed the ship would sink or capsize. I recall the fireys have a rule of thumb of 10 tonnes of water per EV. I’d say also as a chemist that using seawater would be bad, as chlorine gas could potentially be generated. So they just had to let it burn out.
Incidentally it comes to a cool half billion bucks worth of cars. Ouch.
Abandoned luxury car ship is still burning at sea – vehicles lost could total £290million (22 Feb)
Then, Yalu, a summer fruit picker who arrived in Australia from Vanuatu last year, took up the saw and severed the man’s left leg below the knee, police will allege in court.
Police then alleged Yalu helped the man back to his car and fled from the scene.
The plan was fine, until he remembered he was driving a manual car.
I admit to not being a lover of the Romanie. Too many cars broken into, bags snatched and Metro corridors blocked for me to exercise sympathy for their victimhood scam. I was pleased when the Paris City council cleared them out of town.
I was therefore probably a little more than necessarily agressive when I pushed away a kid in Florence who had her hand in my pocket. I was shocked, the little scroat almost tore my arm off. Tough girls.
The worry is that on conclusion of his second term 45% of Americans thought he would be remembered as an above average or outstanding POTUS.
I guess that’s the benefit of following someone like George W. into the WH.
Bollux, in the Damn Lies and Covid Stats thread, put up a link to How Bad is My Batch which I thought might be of more general interest. Chook full of links, the latest being COVID19 vaccines are killing younger people and killing them sooner with some pretty horrendous examples towards the end.
Hmmm, I wonder if bans on elective surgery contributed in any way?
On the positive side of my disliked Gypsie culture, they do know how to look after their own.
When the putrid Russian and Albanian traffickers were running out of young girls to condemn to hell in the late 90’s, they decided to go after Romanie girls.
The Balkan gangster population was apparently swiftly and significantly reduced.