Yes, but that would be counter propagandical.
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I’m not sure McSweeney is Test standard at the moment. He could be down the track, but not now. Throwing…
I agree. The platforms themselves need to isolate Australians as a group. The screams of fury would be audible on…
I’ve been short sighted right and long sighted left since birth. Brain made neuroadjustments and I had no idea it…
Yes, you are wrong. We know Russia is serious because they are in Ukraine right now.
I did notice that TheirABC and the BOM were positively salivating about the prospect of a cyclone hitting Darwin recently. Sadly for them, it didn’t happen.
The narrative about more cyclones/hurricanes because SUVs and coal fired electricity has fallen flat on its face.
One of the worst disappointments of the Abbott government was its failure to do a review, followed by a root and branch cleanout, of the BOM and its bosom buddy, the CSIRO. Both are infested with ideologues on hefty taxpayer funded salaries to churn out bogus CAGW propaganda.
Tony Abbott has been unfairly blamed for many things which he couldn’t have achieved because his own party and the Nats were spineless wets who wouldn’t support legislative change. But a lot could have been done about the BOM and CSIRO without legislation.
I suspect that he never had any decent advisers about how the administrative State works, and how to get what you want out of it.
For example, Wran had Gerry Gleeson, head of the Premier’s Department and a consummate operator, 100% on the team. Tiresome bureaucratic obstacles (h/t Le Carre) were quickly overcome without the need for legislation.
In retrospect, despite having been a Minister previously, Abbott was a babe in the woods when he became PM.
Cough.
electricity (say) 50Hz
heartbeat (say) 1.1 Hz
Cutout time?
Do the arithmetic.
good point. prolly leakage protected
so newer swichboards and circuits would probably trip in a flood.
but not the incoming, there’s no guarantee that the juice from the transformer isn’t still there.
the solar panels have no such leakage protection
even clouded over, they will still produce a dangerous voltage.
500V-ish up to about 1000V these days will be on the terminals of the inverter which may, or may not be underwater.
The servo in the pic well, that solar inverter will be under water for sure
the whole safety thing relies on every part of the solar string remaining isolated from the tin roof.
water is amazing stuff and capillary force can get the stuff into all sorts of places.
there ‘should’ be string isolators on the roof for the solar cells to break the strings into smaller chunks so the volts don’t rise too high.
30 to 80 ms
I wonder where they shove the cannula on Joe?
Somewhere they can hide the bruising from the weekly infusions.
Any Lieboral election win should be followed by an APS reorganisation that resembles The Texas Chainsaw Masacre II.. Exhibit A: Martin Parkinson. You would only have to do it once, especially for SES types on defined benefit superannuation.
One of the worst disappointments of the Abbott government was its failure to do a review, followed by a root and branch cleanout, of the BOM and its bosom buddy, the CSIRO
Abbott announced an enquiry into the BoM’s “adjustments” to temperature data. Single issue, yes, but a start.
But it never happened. The new Mick Trumble Election Winning Machine government’s first action after shivving Abbott was to announce that it had been cancelled. Greggo was the relevant Minister, and he made some bizarre announcement to the effect that the BoM was being shielded from scrutiny in order to preserve public confidence in it.
Accurate.
Rain bomb detonations, complete with water shrapnel.
Soooooo hot right now.
Drainage at Suncorp Stadium looks to be a little under done.
Same problem for the 2 yrs old Parramatta Stadium .. drainage ..!
You’d think that during the planning stage it would occur to whoever it should occur too .. THAT ..
A natural grass stadium requires the drainage dun right as its 1st priority! ..
Cos it don’t matter what the overall cost is all the rest is just window-dressing .. stands, car-parks, amenities, function rooms, gee whizz technology ect .. none of it matters if the pitch can’t be used! ..
These stadiums are purpose built with one, over-riding, function .. playing sport on the natural turf pitch everything else is window-dressing cos if the event is cancelled then the place is CLOSED .. FFS!
The USA has been in many countries, but not seriously.
You know that’s not a correct statement.
Should we not look at the theatre and politics going on here?
Are we to believe Russian forces are so weak and unorganised, farmers are towing away their tanks?
Are we to believe that after a couple of hundred tanks max, brought in and maybe a few air raids, Russia has nothing left but to go Nuclear?
You think what you want, but I’m just both cynical and sceptical, and nothing is adding up.
“… BOM and its bosom buddy, the CSIRO. Both are infested with ideologues on hefty taxpayer funded salaries to churn out bogus CAGW propaganda.”
In my (admittedly limited – just one lab for 2 years) experience working for CSIRO, you have it rather the reverse – once an issue becomes a political one, CSIRO are quite happy to use it to get themselves more funding by exploiting it, and the best way to do that is to figure out what the pollies want to hear, and then come up with a way to make it so. And let’s face it, with something as ill-defined as “climate change”, it’s not to hard to ’tilt’ and ‘tweak’ things to get what TPTB want.
If that happens to coincide with your own political leanings, it’s so much easier to do and to justify to yourself.
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Steady on there.
I gather Pomona got bombed by more than a metre of rain.
It could be days before anyone can get
a decent pumpkin spice soy latte mocha chino.
If that’s not what a war is like, what is?
Have a look at the pissweak shower described as Tropical Cyclone Anika. ‘SSSiiiiigh Clone!!!’, they cried.
Every year – every single year, as soon as it rains in December here the local media tarts begin pumping up the ‘will we have a Christmas cyclone?’ a la Tracy in 1974. Tracy itself was heavy duty, but it was very small and concentrated compared to most.
Also, its destruction was magnified by Darwin being constructed largely of balsa wood.
A natural grass stadium requires the drainage dun right as its 1st priority! ..
Many years ago during the off season I did a tour of Stamford Bridge.
As soon as the season is over they rip up the turf for maintenance on the heating & drainage.
Amazing to see the skeleton of the infrastructure underneath it.
She also said more than once that it was “Mother Nature” and that nothing could be done to control Mother Nature.
Which begs certain questions…
Today this would be ‘criminal’ and at 4:40 on, JC would go all 18c, but oh how good it was when we were all allowed to laugh out loud at the imperfections of humanity –
(Dean Martin Roasted) Don Rickles Host: Best Highlights 1976
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n78g5zfvADA&t=372s
That’s so dumb it’s genius, people actually go along with that.
While everyone is instantly fixated on invasion #11254231 in eastern europe, otherwise known as “Sunday”, our own dictator masters of the universe are quietly cementing in the New Normal gains they made during their own little Covid coup and revolution over the last two years.
The most insidious development of all: “up to date”, they are making your boss responsible for making you be so via OH&S laws.
Your life as a junkie.
This stuff is absolutely revolutionary, moving into an government created corporate dystopia where employers are responsible for making you get medical procedures whenever the government orders them to, and if you don’t you will be unemployable and frozen out of society. However if you complain on the basis of rights the government tries to claim you have no standing because it’s not forcing you to do anything. Such a diabolical and broad system of thinking and operation is not human.
Jabbed dot?
Not yet.
If you see any messages where I claim to be jabbed, you know that I have already been murdered.
And voila…The Science that cannot be questioned!
Can I wear one of those cool Vaxxed hats? Maybe I need to get on Facebook so I can have one of those “I’ve had my vaccine” filters.
I need to tell the vaxxies how I am saving lives and I am a selfless hero.
Enjoy your last hours of being a pureblood.
Being jabbed aint so bad.
Once the boners die down, of course.
Hail
Brian knows. Great cover.
“My smoking pays for your hospital”
Ah, nostalgia!
These days my smoking pays for the flash cars and opulent lifestyles of organised crime figures running and ever expanding the untaxed under-the-counter trade.
You’d think a party nominally wedded to free markets would grasp that higher prices encourage undercutting by newcomers. But no, that would require a brain.
SFLs
Biden’s interest!
The best twitter profiles now have:
1) 3 syringes;
2) a water drop;
3) Ukraine flag.
With a picture of them/their family all double masked.
BLM fist optional.
You can have as much drainage, heating, cooling and fire proofing as you are prepared to pay for. European buildings are practically airtight, ours not so much. 99 times out of 100 it makes no difference. Clean up, repair, move on.
You forgot the rainbow flag, bern.
Or is that old and busted with the new fluidity?
I heard of a bloke on the Hunter who constructed a hill to put his house and sheds on. Built it like an inside-out turkey nest dam – a hill surrounded by a moat.
Is this here a “I survived COVID 19” option in your profile on Tinder?
I won’t lie about getting poked, but I will lie about having the world’s deadliest disease as a conversation starter.
shatterzzz – while the comments about Parra Stadium being in a flood zone are unquestionably true, it is also true that the builders of stadiums (sorry, purists) all over the world have had to deal with this problem.
If the builders of the stadium, then, or the owners, now, really wanted to solve the problem, they could. The science and application of drainage was well understood by the Romans, and we have moved along a bit since then.
More broadly, I have sat in the train going through the western suburbs of Sydney many times, and have seen what used to be dairy farms that noticeably dip in the landscape being turned into housing developments. After heavy rain, they are briefly swamps – around St Marys for instance. Palms greased, no doubt.
Flooding for those houses is not about if, but when.
No. It isn’t.
Rainbow flag with the trans triangle at the left side.
Roger at 11:30 – took a while for the auto manufacturers to work that one out. Remember Gillard’s green Ford?
Thanks Dot. So hard to keep up.
As the World Debanks the Country of Russia, There Are Some Individual Lessons To Be Learned
February 28, 2022 | Sundance | 101 Comments
A recent image attributed to the Moscow subway system presents some consideration for a potentially larger problem.
Increasingly, people everywhere have stopped using cash to pay for simple purchases. The electronic payment systems shifted to credit cards and debit cards, and then, eventually as technology merged with phone platforms, the linking of your portable transponder to your financial institution in order to make purchases became an efficient way to make transactions.
However, as governments start using definitions of who is good and who is bad to create sanctions against the bad actors, and with Russia representing the most expansive modern targeting of the global financial system, the control of monetary transactions enters the sphere of integrated payment systems like VISA, Mastercard, Apple Pay, Google Pay and others. With Russia being essentially “de-banked” on the world stage, this happens:
There’s an irony to this surfacing now… so soon after the Canadian government began targeting their political opposition for de-banking.
Essentially, what is happening in Russia, on an entire citizen scale, is the same issue that happened in Canada to the individuals targeted. The financial mechanisms in this integrated system of payment are now creating havoc for the individual.
The SWIFT transfer system sanction(s) against the Russian government, end up debanking everyone in the country. These are remarkable times, and this is an example of something that needs to be factored into how you can retain individual liberty and freedom.
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https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/02/28/as-the-world-debanks-the-country-of-russia-theres-some-individual-lessons-to-be-learned/
The political situation in Ukraine is worth further investigation. The coup in 2014 has US fingers all over it. As soon as Poroshenko is installed, he starts bribing Hunter in the same year, and he’s only one of the many US political families that start getting pay-offs. Then you have this incredible situation in 2015 of Ukrainian involvement in Russiagate and the first impeachment. Zelensky defeats Poroshenko on a platform of rapprochement with Russia and anticorruption. What happened there? We got Ukrainegate and the second impeachment based on a phone call of Trump speaking to Zelensky. Does anyone remember Zelensky clarifying this on behalf of Trump? What happened to the Minsk Protocol over all these years? What a mess.
Unless you’re a bee, nicotine is good for you.
You know the “diversity” thing, taken to its ultimate destination, might make for an interesting arrival.
The last stop must be “individual”.
Driving round Kooyong today, there are Monique Ryan signs everywhere.Given that there is a Greens candidate as well and probably another couple of environmental types,I think Josh is in trouble.I cannot see him getting an absolute majority on first preferences and I can see preferences going from the Greens and independents to Labor.If Voices and Greens each get about 15% its may be goodnight Josh.
I could of course be hopelessly wrong on preferences but I expect the doctors’ wives of Kooyong to follow the How to Vote card.
The BOM, always useful. Can’t even forecast 1 month into the future.
Feb rainfall outlook as of 27Jan.
http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/sco/archive/index.jsp?map=rain&outlook=median&period=month1&year=2022&month=1&day=27&y=2022&m=1&d=27
.. but we can tell you what will happen in 7 years due to da climate change. (ps: its always 7 years out)
Does anyone remember Zelensky clarifying this on behalf of Trump?
Zelensky said Trump did nothing wrong.
It was Vindman, who wasn’t even on the call, cooking the whole thing up with Schiff.
The Divine Agatha carried off a parson and a doctor with it hidden in the bottom of a wine glass.
The next question is drainage and electricity. There are parts of Perth that require mechanical pumping to clear stormwater. No pumps = ?
I’ve tried to forget everything about her tenure, Bear.
Good money thrown after bad, iirc, to no effect because the unions had spent decades making Australia’s auto industry unviable in a globalised marketplace.
If you’ve just had brunch or about to have lunch, you may want to wait before trying to stomach this –
With Gasoline Reaching Record Highs, Massive Inflation and a Crisis in Ukraine, Kamala Harris Brags “You get what you vote for”
February 28, 2022 | Sundance | 71 Comments
Attending a black history month celebration at the White House today, Kamala Harris gleefully remarked “you get what you vote for”.
WATCH 04:11 Prompted:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/02/28/with-gasoline-reaching-record-highs-massive-inflation-and-a-crisis-in-ukraine-kamala-harris-brags-you-get-what-you-vote-for/
[and ](more…)
Epickest epic Ukraine War strategy and tactics twitter thread I’ve seen so far. Via Instapundit and Allahpundit.
https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1497993363076915204 (28 Feb)
That is the first tweet of the thread. The whole thread’s awesome, and goes on so long that his laptop died three quarters of the way through and he completed the rest on a phone.
He’s a Wilson Center research/policy guy. Lots of interesting stuff, like who Shoygu and Serdyukov. I’d heard about the latter but not the former, who won the Defence Ministry infighting.
Ukraine didn’t follow through on their undertakings, but as of last week that’s been consigned to the forgettery.
Interesting that in the latest series of Curb, Vindman makes an appearance on the premise he’s a saint who got rid of Trump.
But in the end, he lies for his own benefit & screws everyone over.
duncanm says:
March 1, 2022 at 9:08 am
Lismore peaked at about 14m — 1.6m or so above the 1 in 100 level.
https://lismore.nsw.gov.au/files/Lismore_Flood_Events_1870-2017.pdf
Catchments and water runoff is one of my few areas of knowledge.
Comparing river levels or speed of river rise to records over one hundred years ago is very dodgy.
The early uncleared catchments shed water far more slowly and retained moisture in the upper catchment soils.
Farming and forest clearing has increased runoff in all situations. If you add in the other structures such as bridges, roads, fences, housing and drainage works, you have a guaranteed recipe for high flow rivers.
The evidence for this can be observed in the drowned dead tree lakes.
The undisturbed system resulted in wetlands and not permanent deeper lakes as we see now.
Yes, joke about it Dot.
Are you aware of what that tells adults about you?
You’re shitting yourself and doing it for work.
And trying to convince yourself it’s all a joke and nothing to worry about.
Take your mind off it, and work out what’s going on in the meantime.
The jab won’t save your job, or give you freedom.
But it can, like thousands and thousands of others, kill you..
Here’s a good mainstream summary of what some of us knew two years ago, because as this piece quite simply points out, THEY ADMIT IT and aren’t hiding anything.Ukraine is the least of our problems.
One type of communist power fighting another.
Former Russian Ambassador and Current CIA Director, Bill Burns, Knew Exactly What Would Trigger Vladimir Putin to Enter Ukraine
February 28, 2022 | Sundance | 181 Comments
A fantastic piece by Peter Beinart on substack {SEE HERE} puts excellent clarity on the people around Joe Biden baiting Russian President Vladimir Putin to enter Ukraine.
Current CIA Director William “Bill” Burns was the former ambassador to Russia and Jordan. Bill Burns had a 33-year career at the State Department under both Republican and Democratic presidents and speaks fluent Russian. If the people in the background of Joe Biden wanted an intelligence operative to trigger a specific result from Russia, there’s no one more strategically perfect for the job than CIA Director Bill Burns.
The article by Beinart is mainly focused on pointing out the irreconcilable nature of Joe Biden implying Ukraine could join NATO, while his own CIA Director has a history of giving serious warnings emphasizing the “brightest of all red lines” about that specific point.
[…] “Two years ago, Burns wrote a memoir entitled, The Back Channel. It directly contradicts the argument being proffered by the administration he now serves. In his book, Burns says over and over that Russians of all ideological stripes—not just Putin—loathed and feared NATO expansion. He quotes a memo he wrote while serving as counselor for political affairs at the US embassy in Moscow in 1995. ‘Hostility to early NATO expansion,” it declares, “is almost universally felt across the domestic political spectrum here.”
On the question of extending NATO membership to Ukraine, Burns’ warnings about the breadth of Russian opposition are even more emphatic. “Ukrainian entry into NATO is the brightest of all redlines for the Russian elite (not just Putin),” he wrote in a 2008 memo to then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. “In more than two and a half years of conversations with key Russian players, from knuckle-draggers in the dark recesses of the Kremlin to Putin’s sharpest liberal critics, I have yet to find anyone who views Ukraine in NATO as anything other than a direct challenge to Russian interests.” (read more)
Against this backdrop of Bill Burns, the details about the lead up to the Russia-Ukraine crisis gain quite a bit of clarity.
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https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/02/28/former-russian-ambassador-and-current-cia-director-bill-burns-knew-exactly-what-would-trigger-vladimir-putin-to-enter-ukraine/
FTB:
Probably has a permanent Tunneled CVC/PICC line inserted. Safest of the lot.
(I realise most here would know what a Central Line is, but the information is there for those who don’t.)
Pfizer Vaccine Becomes DNA in Liver Cells. (In-vitro Swedish Study)
original paper
Intracellular Reverse Transcription of Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine BNT162b2 In Vitro in Human Liver Cell Line
Preclinical studies of COVID-19 mRNA vaccine BNT162b2, developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, showed reversible hepatic effects in animals that received the BNT162b2 injection. Furthermore, a recent study showed that SARS-CoV-2 RNA can be reverse-transcribed and integrated into the genome of human cells. In this study, we investigated the effect of BNT162b2 on the human liver cell line Huh7 in vitro. Huh7 cells were exposed to BNT162b2, and quantitative PCR was performed on RNA extracted from the cells. We detected high levels of BNT162b2 in Huh7 cells and changes in gene expression of long interspersed nuclear element-1 (LINE-1), which is an endogenous reverse transcriptase. Immunohistochemistry using antibody binding to LINE-1 open reading frame-1 RNA-binding protein (ORFp1) on Huh7 cells treated with BNT162b2 indicated increased nucleus distribution of LINE-1. PCR on genomic DNA of Huh7 cells exposed to BNT162b2 amplified the DNA sequence unique to BNT162b2. Our results indicate a fast up-take of BNT162b2 into human liver cell line Huh7, leading to changes in LINE-1 expression and distribution. We also show that BNT162b2 mRNA is reverse transcribed intracellularly into DNA in as fast as 6 h upon BNT162b2 exposure.
Also little has been “lifted”. QLD and NSW are still less free than we were this time last year. They’ve just backed off a little until winter which is exactly what they did this time last year. But unlike this time last year they’ve built a platform of mandatory drugging that they’re now sitting on waiting for the tide to come back in. It’s from that starting point they will begin their next invasion into our lives and bodies and advance to the next platform making permanent the ‘vaccinated economy’.
No .
I am not shitting myself.
I am angry.
I am not worried about the possible side effects of Novavax, there are very few.
I am angry that I have to do this to keep my job, that the coercion exists at all, people don’t seem to care about authoritarianism and that Novavax and Sputnik were treated preferentially worse than other vaccines with seemingly obvious political and business connections.
Thanks Winston.
TIK has a fresh vid up on the Weimar republic.
Haven’t had a chance to watch it yet.
WW3 and thermonuclear war vs living in the looming constructed, totalitarian, authoritarian ‘New Normal’ dystopia forever.
Decisions, decisions.
Gorbachev said the same thing on a speaking tour of the US in 1995.
I am angry that I have to do this to keep my job, that the coercion exists at all
I was in exactly the same position Dot and I am mightily pissed off about it too
There’s an interesting parallel with HW’s ambassador being imprecise in conversation with Mr Hussein’s guy, which led Hussein to think he had tacit acceptance from the US to take over Kuwait.
On the other hand the more we see the more it becomes apparent that the Russian General Staff have been planning for this operation for many months.
So far I suspect Biden’s wonks have gotten a lot of what they wanted out of this. It’s squelched the Covid stuff completely. And the inflation stuff. May bite them on the arse though regarding their green energy fever dreams.
Apparently, its not Kharkov but Donetsk.
Oh, for the days of courtly murders. Modern ones are incomplete without lashings of blood, brain matter, vomit, urine and feces. Thanks, TV and movies!
I’ve been watching British (and some US) detective shows, and there seems to have been a period in the 90s and later where no episode was complete unless someone vomited, noisily, and at length. This was meant to tell us that they felt strongly about something. It was a sort of explanation of bulimia.
This was apparently street cred for directors of the time.
I must say when millenials and Cassie claim to feel ‘physically sick’ whenever they encounter something they don’t like, it rather informs that unpleasant phase of film-making.
Cassie, how many times a day do you feel ‘physically sick’ about people on TV? Does ‘physically sick’ mean that you want to vomit, or that you have a pain somewhere?
Can you survive it?
watch what you are about to stick in your body.
This article goes round and round, and then says the bleeding obvious. The Hun:
Uh.
All of them. All of them are high risk, except Hank Mouncey.
Yep.
Yes.
Yes they do.
Of course they do.
Here’s a choice to make about injury prevention. You are not built to do these things with any degree of repetition under load, so you choose to accept the risk or choose not to do it any more.
But it’s okay, because blokes aren’t as good at giving birth. They’re not built for it.
That lie that the government is not forcing anything is particularly egregious.
If you want to ruin your day click the #BoyCottWoolworths hashtag.
etc, etc.
Woolies don’t have any mask mandate now and never had a poke one.
Speaking of the AWFL, apparently the AFL are considering AWFL and AFL double headers. Hmmm, I wonder why. Couldn’t be anything to do with the crowd sizes could it Gill?
People who have read detailed medical papers, lost their jobs, lost their children and been anathemized by society are “entitled assholes”. Um, whatever you say.
Gez, thanks for that.
I also imagine the construction of levies significantly affects the rate of rise of the river before and after it exceeds the levy height.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2YiKgTTKWo
If you want to ignore it, Dot, please just understand from 17 minutes in.
You are still injecting the spike protein.
Via moth cells.
If Russia can’t even beat Ukraine why NATO?
Yes, plus, the Ukraine is a ‘laundry’ for the Global Totalitarians, the WEF mobsters who are working to inflict ‘Jabs’ & Digital Social Passports on us all.
Protesting, while great for morale, won’t stop these evil bastards, it is going to take a proper war, one they were seduced into entering by making them think it was their decision.
I wrote more on this days ago and custard got it, but I won’t bother trying to explain more now.
Oh, but Ukraine has given “Shoot To Kill Looters On Sight” Orders and it’s happening, but meh, Ukrainians are allowed to slaughter & burn alive other Ukrainians, so long as those doing the slaughtering, like the Ukrainian Nazis, are back by the ever so virtuous West & other Globalist Mobsters.
Arky….how long have you been back?
Enjoyed your holiday?
I’m now pretty sure I’m justified in thinking Zelensky is a dishonest, dangerous cockhead.
Handing out rifles to citizens, encouraging Molotov cocktail attacks, freeing rapists and child molesters with combat experience to fight the Russians and now signing an EU application form and requesting immediate membership. This bloke wants a massive, years-long war in Europe because he thinks it’s viable for Russia to have NATO mooning the Kremlin from Kiev from now on.
Sending civilians to be killed for a geo-political fantasy and a war that cannot be won is a war crime.
srr:
In this particular case, let the people ride for free for a week or two until they can organise cash.
Best question of the day.
Just checked back to a tune from the excellent Mongolian band, The Hu (h/t BoN)
They are now up to 92 million views, so eradicating them might be a problem for the Chicoms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4xZUr0BEfE
They may get a Pyrrhic victory but the Ukrainians will be paying for their win for a generation.
The best way to fight a bear is to scare it away.
Has the Oz MSM admitted that those 13 Ukrainians that died on Snake Island in fact surrendered and still live? Today/ Sunrise/ News Breakfast? Anything?
struth
I think I already had COVID.
So why aren’t I dead yet from the spike protein? Novavax doesn’t use mRNA.
TheLastRefuge@TheLastRefuge2 · 1h
**ahem**
Quote TweetJamie Dempsey@JDPlatinumINVST · 3h
??Another update from this US expat living in Ukraine.??
https://twitter.com/TheLastRefuge2/status/1498457380731953153
Sorry, wrong tab.
I’m not back on here. Just flicking through.
You won’t see me again.
Go about your thing.
The ASIC MO is to threaten capital charges then negotiate what they want. Then threaten (or Lay) more charges until they get what they want. During the process, the charges and withdrawn and other charges laid, a lengthy process of extortion , but mirroring the FBI and SEC MO.
struth
Here’s another thing.
You have all kinds of symbiotic living cells in you and dormant or dead animal and plant cells in your food.
Now besides the enviable safety record Novavax had in its trials – why should I be worried about the moths?
I cannot believe this stuff. It’s Day 5 and Russia have likely already won militarily and that is without huge aerial and artillery bombardment conducted over weeks before sending in their grounds forces. They’re surrounding Kiev and encircling the bulk of the Ukrainian Army in the south east. We’ve had hardly any civilian causalities. Had there been anything they would be filling our news cycle daily. Instead, all we’ve had are largely fake stories. People need to get a grip. The Russians want to get this done, it appears, as cleanly as possible with their eyes on the ceasefire and immediate future. As C.L. says above, Zelensky, the EU/ NATO members, media, warhawks, Raytheon, et al. appear to want this situation to escalate and to get bogged down into another European charnel house of blood and gore akin to WW1 and 2. Please. Please, No!
Thousands of Russians flee to US to escape conscription amid Ukraine war
Exclusive: Opponents of Vladimir Putin flying to Mexico with the hope of crossing the border to claim political asylum
In 2020, just 467 Russians were detained at America’s southern border. Last year, that number soared to 9,376 – a result of the Russian crackdown on dissent following widespread protests spearheaded by opposition leader Alexei Navalny, experts say.
But the numbers are still increasing. Last month, 1,028 Russians and 248 Ukrainians made their way across the border, mostly crossing from Tijuana to San Diego.
“We have never been so busy,” said Ekaterina Mouratova, a Russian-American immigration lawyer based in Miami. “But the number is going to skyrocket. I have got tons of emails in the last few days – hundreds. They are mostly men between 20 and 55 who are asking if they can get protection from the US if Russia does a mandatory military draft. These people do not want to go to war.
BoN @11.45, that is the first time twatter has let me read something on my phone without truncating it. Must be approved therefore suspect.
Depends if you believe covid is something other than a yearly flu WHICH DISAPPEARED mysteriously…I think it went on vaccation for two years because it hadn’t ever had one in the hystery of mankind before.
It deserved one, FFS.
That deadly covid which was so weak as to be “asymptomatic” ……..FMD…….and which had a 99.8% survival rate….better than the flu ( these temps never do as good a job as the real thing) as told to us by government experts, ……………….
However, the deadliness of the so called vaccines are proven, and to put it simply, the poison is still in Novovax, it’s just put in via moth cells.
The criminal behaviour of those pushing these jabs is so overwhelming and in your face, that it means you would be an ABSOLUTE FUCKHEAD to stick anything they push in your body .
Fuck your job dot.
Fuck your job.
Sell up, do whatever, but keep what you are both physically and psychologically.
When I make statements like this, the fallen like to claim I am sitting on my arm chair calling for others to fight while I don’t.
I’m not calling you to fight.
I’m begging you to save yourself, and there is a very big difference.
Even though I’ve never even put a mask on, taken a test, lost four jobs so far due to being unvaccinated…one job twice (the entertainment), and spoken and organised rallies etc, apparently I’m sitting on my couch!
One thing is for sure, I’m not holidaying in Europe.
hysterics….hystery…..I like it.
Orthodox Lent starts on Monday.
I think we can expect a second round of cease fire talks before then.
“Against this backdrop of Bill Burns, the details about the lead up to the Russia-Ukraine crisis gain quite a bit of clarity…”
Notice too, the “quietitude” about Durham’s indictments and the use of the US 5th amendment by “Tech Executive 1” during the grand jury case resulting from that.
They need a BIG distraction squirrel, and Russia v Ukraine is the perfect one for their own policy failures as well as their corruption.
Yep, but there’s also the healthy reminder for all sides all around the world that trusting your personal wealth to electronics that can be instantly evaporated by whatever pack of dogs happen to be at the switch at the time, is not the smart way for humanity to go.
OTOH if you were defending your country from an invasion you might also do all of those things.
I think Zelenskyy is kosher, since corrupt countries with fairly real elections often elect outsiders as President. That’s the case in Haiti and the Philippines for example. So it makes sense that a handsome high profile comedian would win in Ukraine, since the people are fed up with the greasy career pollies.
From Daily Mail. Only an extract below but a very large number of kids in the study. Naturally the Australian press still full on in support of vaxxing Aussie kids.
“The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine has done little to protect five- to 11- year-olds from infection from the Omicron variant, data revealed by New York state officials on Monday shows.
Researchers at the New York State Department Health gauged infection rates of minors who have had the Pfizer jab made available to them. Children were split into two age groups, one of children five to 11 and the other for children 12 to 17.
They found that the two-dose Pfizer shot was only 12 percent effective at preventing Omicron infection in the younger age group only one month after receival.
The findings have far reaching implications on the use of the vaccines, and whether parents will want to get their children jabbed.
Children do not suffer much of a risk from the virus, with hospitalizations and deaths being especially rare.
The main argument in favor of vaccinating them is to prevent them from spreading the virus, though these findings imply that the vaccine does little to prevent that anyways.
In cities like New York, children as young as five years old were made to show proof of vaccine to enter indoor dining, fitness and entertainments establishments. Children also had to be vaccinated to take part in some school activities.
This likely influenced some parents’ decisions regarding the vaccine – as uptake for the shots has been relatively low in younger age groups – and now official data is coming from the state showing that the shot did little to protect the children from infection.
Some parents also had significant fears about potential side-effects of the vaccine, and took a risk to give their child the shot, only to now find out it potentially is not as effective as advertised”
Watson rounds up the fake news in his usual entertaining way:
https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/1498439649357881348
Now this is just silly:
BWS & Dan Murphy’s to pull Russian vodka from shelves.
struth
COVID really is just a cold.
I will show and tell.
Please don’t play any AC/DC at my funeral and have a dress code.
A don doesn’t wear shorts.
I’ve said my piece , Dot.
Just know that when you go, I’ll start really pushing hard on the fact that Councils are not government and not constitutionally approved to make laws!
There’s no internet in heaven.
That’s why it’s heaven.
Some of the comments in the thread are bad enough coming from WEF propagandists, but when they come from “intelligent individuals” … nah, they can only come from idiots & propagandists.
And some say Russia doesn’t have air superiority. Or is the photo #FakeNews?
Correct, it was the realisation that I needed non seizable, non inflatable, non censorable money that sent me down the BTC rabbithole.
Dover – That’s not what I’ve been seeing. Widespread reports of poor logistics and bad tactics. Let’s see if I can find some of the articles again.
A historic debacle (Allahpundit, 28 Feb)
Are We Underestimating or Overestimating the Russian Military? (Daniel Greenberg, 28 Feb)
What If Russia Loses? (Noah Rothman, 28 Feb)
Also read through the long twitter thread I linked at the bottom of last page. The comments about the lack of follow-up echelons are notable. If Putin does bring out the artillery it means he’s lost.
Actually the last of the above three links is quite scary. What will a guy do who has had his life’s work demolished? He’s reputed to be having medical issues, possibly Parkinsons. It could get really ugly.
That was Daniel Greenfield of course, not Greenberg. Dunno why I made that typo.
Syphilis is so 20th century.
Highway to Hell?
So it’s true. The Kyiv apartment block wasn’t hit by Russian artillery but by a wayward Uke missile?
FFS, BoN, have you really been taken in by the C.I.A. (Criminals in Action) propaganda?
I got my first jab (Novavax) last week – I have a disabled sibling going into care. His disability and his age will make this a very difficult transition and contact with family will be vital.
And I still detest the forcing of people to be vaxxed and will continue to decry it every chance I get – in fact having compassion for my brother used as leverage to force me adds another level of anger.
You notice a bit of propaganda slip off the fingertips of an otherwise solid guy and you know something’s not right about them, but you quietly sit back and wonder what, as they play the cool headed good guy role again, for years …
The years are important, it’s years spent gaining trust so that when they are called upon to sell shit as sugar, all the people they groomed for so long, don’t even blink as they swallow the poison.
It’s sad to discover you were right about such people because you know they are smart enough and do in fact know better but they want to sell the poison.
I don’t think Zelenskyy is kosher at all- a US state dept operative thru and thru.
Personally I’d like them to concentrate on being more efficient – they lost our bags on Darwin-Canberra the other day…
Qantas uniforms under review as union demands overhaul
Qantas boss Alan Joyce has been asked to make changes to the airline’s uniform policy such as easing the requirement for frontline female employees to wear make up, stockings and heels and allowing staff to display their pronouns on name tags.
The Australian Services Union shared the letter it wrote to Mr Joyce on social media, pointing out that in the month of Mardi Gras and International Women’s Day, it was timely to rethink the uniform policy.
“Qantas is a major partner of Sydney Mardi Gras, and you personally have a role as a ‘champion of change’,” wrote ASU assistant national secretary Emeline Gaske.
“We think it’s time the uniform requirements Qantas has of its employees reflect these commitments.”
Among the changes sought by the ASU, were an easing of make-up requirements for women, and that female customer service staff be allowed to wear low heel shoes including loafers with any of their uniforms, not just trousers.
“While airline uniforms have come a long way since the days of miniskirts and towering heels, we think there’s still a long way to go,” said Ms Gaske.
She urged Mr Joyce to “consider whether heels and hosiery are still necessary at all” and asked that female employees be allowed to wear watches with large faces if they wanted.
“We think women can handle the same size watch face as men if we choose,” she said.
“Allow Qantas badges to display preferred pronouns; remove gender-based uniform requirements; allow employees to wear beards and explicitly allow for culturally inclusive dress and grooming.”
A Qantas spokesperson said the ASU was aware they were working on a review of the uniform guide with a view to updating it in coming months.
“We regularly review our uniform guide and have previously made amendments based on feedback from our people,” said the spokesperson.
“Qantas is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion in all parts of our business.”
The Flight Attendants Association of Australia was aware of the ASU’s approach to Mr Joyce and described the requested changes as “a noble cause”.
But FAAA national secretary Teri O’Toole said her immediate priority was the dispute over a new agreement for international cabin crew and ensuring members not forced onto a lesser award.
“We absolutely appreciate where the ASU is coming from but our focus at this time is the international cabin crew agreement,” said FAAA national secretary Teri O’Toole.
The union reached a truce with Qantas last week to allow cabin crew to vote again on a new enterprise deal that the airline said was essential to the operation of international services.
Flight attendants previously rejected the offer, prompting Qantas to seek to have their existing agreement terminated and employees forced on to the “modern award”.
A second vote is expected to be held within weeks after Qantas agreed to make some slight tweaks to the offer which would allow for more flexible rostering arrangements.
Oz
A few more
Just refused entry to my local library because I wouldn’t show proof of vaccination.
Under the state of emergency laws in Vic they can still do this.
Do librarians ever ponder the fate of the P76 Leyland or those old red telephone booths and ask what happened and why ?
Knuckles, there was a long article at TheirABC about female ACL injuries, pages and pages, waffle after waffle. The bottom line was, women are more likely to get ACLs, and yes, there are things that can be done (like strength training) that help to avoid such injuries.
The rest of it, and it went on and on, was about how female players weren’t being paid enough, and they were too scared to go into male dominated gyms, and young girls were worried about getting too muscly.
Standard ‘structural racism’ stuff fitted to purpose.
Perfect name for a fully equipped M2F trannie.
Well I’m here to tell you that you are wrong.
Because the Australian says
With fortitude, humour and scorn the comedian-turned-Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has scythed through Russian disinformation.
QED.
And some people needed to be jabbed to get through to loved ones…etc, I get that motherlode. A great crime has been committed against you and all of us, but if you had to take it, you should still not be against those arguing that it should be avoided at all costs, or at least most costs, because the real costs are worse.
With fortitude, humour and scorn the comedian-turned-Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has scythed through Russian disinformation.
QED.
jeez the Murdochs and their neo con pals are piling it on a bit
Is that another example of cultural appropriation, this time by The Who?
Mother: The Novavax, any aftereffects?
I’ll be submitting later this week, solely so I can get on a plane and see my son for the first time in three years (and soon-to-be grandchild) in the States.
Bruce, ‘cockhead’ may have been a bit strong but I wouldn’t hand out rifles to girls and tell them to go die for a lost cause because I like being ‘president’.
I don’t trust Zelensky and I don’t trust Ukraine – a country with some very nasty fascist skeletons in its closet – any more than I trust Russia.
Eyrie – Haha. No I have no dog in this fight, but I am trying to get a picture of what’s happening despite very poor signal to noise ratio.
What I am seeing is a transition from “it’s a foregone conclusion Russia will win” reporting a couple days ago to “maybe Ukraine has a chance” today. That tells me the Russians aren’t doing very well. And the refugee issue seems to be drying up not accelerating. We’re starting to see stories of “family flees to Poland then dad goes back to fight Russians”.
Another observation that has been going around is the lack of mechanized infantry support for the tank columns. That’s coupled with reports that the Ukrainian guys haven’t been defending greatly against the armoured spearheads, but have been letting them through then going after the support softies – APCs, trucks and tankers. Again it is hard to give anything specific in the impenetrable smokescreen of media garbage.
While the propaganda from both sides is thick enough to stop artillery shells the vibe is interesting. And the balance seems to be swinging from the Russian propaganda to the Ukrainian. Now that certainly has impetus from the usual suspects in the MSM and the FANGs but I’m seeing it also at a lower level than that.
We shall see. None of Putin’s options seem good right now, since the Ukrainian people clearly hate his guts, and pulverizing Kiev and Kharkov with artillery isn’t going to win any friends. Yet I can’t see his guys taking those places without very heavy artillery support.
Bruce, ‘cockhead’ may have been a bit strong
not at all
Really?
The other day he declared the “FU” 13 who died on Snake Island would be officially decorated as Heroes of Ukraine. Problem is the lads are alive and well.
ok Obama installed (or had installed) a client government in 2014- is this essentially the same government ?
Nothing over the past few days – but that is as long as its been.
But I had no tiredness or pain. That could merely by my particular constitution though.
Went straight to The Oaks afterward and had a few scotches.
They have their idea of medicine. I have mine.
Interesting speculation on Putin’s motivations:
https://www.spectator.co.uk/podcast/does-putin-think-he-s-fighting-a-holy-war-to-preserve-orthodox-russia-
The Jack
I’m inclined to think things are neither going better nor worse than expected.
This is one of the few wars outside Africa where you have no bloody idea of the success or otherwise of the combatants.
The MSM have failed dismally in keeping us reliably informed of the results of battles or even where they are taking place.
The Russians could be stuck for months or win tomorrow for all we know.
I remember seeing a photo of boxes and boxes of Molotov cocktails together. Does anyone believe that is actually a good idea if bullets and bombs are flying?
Oh I’m so looking forward to being brought my tray meal by Princess Jasmine !
I’d suggest the “we’re handing out weapons to civilians” is purely for Western consumption, pictures of babushkas brandishing rifles notwithstanding. The gentlemen on the streets wearing jeans with AK-47s slung over their shoulders are likely members of the Territorial Defense Force, a sort of army reserve to which foreign fighters will also be attached.
Meanwhile, in “let’s shoot ourselves in the foot” news, the UK Home Secretary Priti Patel is leading an attempt to get Russia kicked out of Interpol.
That’s almost as silly as Dan Murphy’s taking Russian vodka they’ve already bought and paid for off their shelves.
Like mass mandatory drugging, social credit systems, central single identification, mass surveillance and paramilitary police forces, the news we read now of these same politicians legally banning us from leaving our own countries, Australia and now Ukraine, and playing fast and loose with conscripting our bodies into their political schemes is becoming a habit and a bit of a giveaway. Like the items above it’s another marker of how this new establishment thinks its going to rule us as a matter of course.
Good to see Collignon spreading the word about the NT Pfizer study on children. From Daily Mail Oz.
Australian Covid expert has warned new data shows the Pfizer vaccine offers very little protection against infection for young children.
New York Health Department researchers found the two-dose Pfizer shot was only 12 percent effective at preventing Omicron infection in children aged five to 11 after only a month.
Protection against catching the virus was about 67 per cent after the second jab, but dropped rapidly by 28 to 34 days.
Australian National University professor Peter Collignon discussed the results on his social media, noting the vaccine’s ineffectiveness against the dominant strain.
‘While protection against hospitalisation is still strong, the vaccine offered almost no protection against infection, even just a month after full vaccination,’ he wrote.”.
Wasn’t the point of vaxxing the kids to protect the elderly ? If don’t protect against infection then can still give it to grand dad. Oh wait, didn’t I read children have a lower likelihood of spreading the virus. Either way, not justified to Vax the kids.
How many kids, without comorbidities, have been admitted into hospital purely because of Covid. Very few.
The Russians could be stuck for months or win tomorrow for all we know.
correct- and the mindless barracking for Zelensky is both pathetic and sinister.
The neo cons wanted a war and as I said yesterday they are not concealing their glee.
As for the poms trying to jump on the State Dept Train- I have nothing but contempt for them.
“C.L.says:
March 1, 2022 at 1:59 pm
OTOH if you were defending your country from an invasion you might also do all of those things.
Bruce, ‘cockhead’ may have been a bit strong but I wouldn’t hand out rifles to girls and tell them to go die for a lost cause because I like being ‘president’.
I don’t trust Zelensky and I don’t trust Ukraine – a country with some very nasty fascist skeletons in its closet – any more than I trust Russia.”
C.L. is correct. While I condemn the invasion, Zelensky and the corrupt Ukrainian government are not without fault in this tragedy.
But I tell who is a “cockhead” and that’s our clown of a PM who thinks he’s going to get brownie points waving around a big stick.
Oh and have I mentioned how Scott Morrison makes me physically sick?
How you you access & trade in electronic ‘money’ when the face, retina, chip in your body etc. doesn’t let you open a phone or computer because your social credit score is in deficit?
A man lives in a society where citizens police each other with their mobile phones. | Utopia
[set in Australia]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJYaXy5mmA8
Other way around I think. He’s a student of history, and very well read. The Orthodox Church in Russia is like a strong skeleton supporting the nation. One which the communists dispensed with. That didn’t go well for them. Vlad is a patriot who wants to restore his country to its former state, and encouraging the Orthodox Church helps that.
The sad thing for me is that he had been doing so well in his aim until this mess. I think the adventurism in Georgia and Crimea was not helpful, but building Russia as a solid economic and technological power was working very well. All now thrown away in one brain fart. Ah well, as I said yesterday even geniuses have a Pickett’s Charge moment from time to time.
Has anyone been watching Paul Murray lately?
He’s really getting agitated about the walls closing in on ScoMo.
One of his guests Sunday night said it didn’t “feel like there was a 10-point gap.”
LOL.
Just refused entry to my local library because I wouldn’t show proof of vaccination.
Under the state of emergency laws in Vic they can still do this.
Am I right that in Tasmania, NSW and South Australia there are next to no vaxx requirements for pubs and restaurants?
Yet Maximum Leader is doing his Hitler in the bunker routine, manically plotting third jab requirements for Victoria as the rest of the world is slowly inching towards normality.
Breaking news!
Feelthebern:
Excellent TIK – he really gets stuck into that idiot Keynes and the rest of them.
A good illustration of where one does when ones ideology defines reality.
Also interesting about why he didn’t trust his generals.
Even the lefties are getting it.
Might be from this story.
Ukrainian brewery joins war effort, switches from beer to Molotov cocktails (1 Mar)
Ukrainian booze definitely has a kick to it.
Twostix:
Twenty years ago one of the yardsticks for knowing if the nukes would fly was the degradation of the Civilian Global Positioning System. Too many navsats up now to make a difference.
Also keep an eye on where all the monied ones are. If the all leave town at once, time to stock up if you haven’t already.
According to Ace of Spades, Jacinta’s vax mandate was tossed by the Supreme Court last Friday.stuff all reporting here.
In the olden days, beloved family members sailed across seas to make a better life for the family, sending money & other treasures back home to family they often never saw again, yet regularly, lovingly exchanged letters with for decades.
When one of my siblings moved to New York it was letters or making an appointment for a very expensive (& so, rare), STD call at the house of someone with a phone, to have a very quick hello.
There was no thought of needing to see a loved one you could send a letter to.
I still don’t understand how ‘needing to see’ family trumps keeping family alive into future generations.
Yes but the vaccine mandates in NZ to be rescinded only apply to her police force, and a few other government departments, so , her paid army against the people.
Not for every Kiwi.
mRNA Vaccines RAISE the risk of infection for kids under 12.
Link
When will the moratorium be announced? People will hang if this is not stopped.
Good Lord.
🙂
Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner!
Indeed.
On religion and sincerity, Putin is no less sincere an Orthdox as Biden is a Catholic.
The history of Orthodoxy is fascinating and complex. Interestingly, fake news features from the get-go. Constantinople always saw itself as superior to Rome, ecclesiastically. As early as the fifth century, the Forgery of Dorotheus purported to prove that the church in old Byzantium was founded by the Apostle Andrew ; as Andrew was chosen by Christ before his brother Peter, the intention of the forger was obvious: the Patriarch of Constantinople was above the pope.
Yes, communism laid waste to the church in Russia but, really, 75 years or so is a blip in the history of Christianity in Russia. The old beefs with the West – with ‘Rome’ – persist and are definitely part of the Putin mindset.
How do you access & trade in electronic ‘money’ when the face, retina, chip in your body etc. doesn’t let you open a phone or computer because your social credit score is in deficit?
No one’s explained this to me yet.
dover0beach says:
March 1, 2022 at 12:59 pm
I don’t think there is any doubt about that. Under ‘normal’ assault circumstances, Kyiv would be a smoking ruin by now with the corresponding casualties. Russian jet fighters and assault helicopters would be criss-crossing the sky strafing anything that moves.
And we would have seen every bomb, every dead civilian, every woman crying over the body of her mutilated child, every ‘hard-faced’ Russian soldier…….all courtesy of the MSM.
Instead, and whilst the civilian losses are tragic, it is also clear that the offensive doesn’t want to obliterate the cities or the population. It seems quite ‘restrained’ in some respects.
Over the years we have all seen on TV (and some Cats experienced firsthand) the capacity of major powers to unleash devastating barrages against a target. But not this time. I’m not suggesting the civilians have it ‘easy’, but it also appears things could be a lot worse.
Separately, whilst there have undoubtedly been some localised logistical issues for the Russian troops, moving 100,000+ people and equipment is always going to have some screw ups. Having said that, Russia has the sheer numbers to overcome the Ukrainian military resistance but a measured advance that doesn’t lay waste to everything will necessarily be slower.
I am also concerned with news of a couple of nights ago, namely that Turkey has closed the Bosphorus and Dardanelles Straits to Russian warships wanting to enter the Black Sea. Russian ships based in Sevastopol (for example) cannot be prevented from returning to their home port under international law but other Russian ships are barred. This is a provocative move by Turkey that will not be easily forgotten by Moscow.
C.L.says:
March 1, 2022 at 2:44 pm”
Thanks for that C.L……most interesting.
Has the Queen of the Nuffies having considered turning her tracking implant off and on again?
Or moving to an area where the Wifi reception is better?
The International Space Station must be seething with hostile pheromones right now, what with Russians mixed with Americans. Yesterday Russia said they might no longer support it, and that it could de-orbit onto a city somewhere.
As you might expect a certain guy said hey I can help…
Elon Musk says SpaceX will save ISS after Russia threatens to drop it from orbit (28 Feb)
What an excellent way to put first dibs on a useful orbital asset! Much cheaper than having to build and launch one yourself.
In less important news, I move on from my job of five years today due to among other issues wanting to not do FIFO any more.
Now looking for a consulting job or contracting.
@ Chris-
Any good prospects out there?
Negative vaccine efficiency.
NSW VACCINATION STATUS
26 Nov 21 to 29 Jan 22
STATUS CASE HOSP ICU DEATHS
Three dose 34,292 1.4% 0.1%
Two doses 513,228. 1.2%. 0.1%
One dose 6,618 2.6% 0.3%
No dose 95,918 1.0%. 0.1%
Unknown 153,048. 1.4% 0.2%
Good comment CL. That’s why I don’t think either side will take up this offer, which otherwise would be a serious proposal with a chance of success.
Vatican offers help mediating between Ukraine and Russia (1 Mar)
Unfortunately I don’t think either Russia nor Ukraine as Orthodox countries could accept this offer. Which is a shame since having a high-prestige neutral arbiter is just what might allow both sides to extricate themselves from the mess without unacceptable loss of face.
Net Zero Watch; latest on the results of the green idiots in Europe and the UK.
1) Mugged by reality: Germany may extend coal use to replace Russian gas
Bloomberg, 28 February 2022
2) Nuclear, coal, LNG: ‘No taboos’ in Germany’s energy about-face
Reuters, 27 February 2022
3) Patrick O’Flynn: Britain needs a nuclear renaissance to end our decadent dependence on Russian resources
The Daily Telegraph, 27 February 2022
4) Rupert Darwall: Standing up to Putin means ditching Net Zero
Real Clear Energy, 24 February 2022
5) WSJ: Energy, Russia and American Power
The Wall Street Journal, 27 February 2022
6) European industry faces shrink or shut decisions on energy cost crisis
Bloomberg, 27 February 2022
7) Susan Crabtree: Russia’s Ukraine invasion scrambles Biden’s green agenda
Real Clear Politics, 28 February 2022
8) Dan Eberhart: Unleashing U.S. oil industry offers Biden path to avoid energy crisis
Forbes, 25 February 2022
9) Nick Timothy: It’s time to stop letting despots weaponise our Western freedoms
The Daily Telegraph, 28 February 2022
10) Climate Cleanup at the Supreme Court
Editorial, The Wall Street Journal, 27 February 2022
That doesn’t look good.
Go to Covid Live and check out the latest data tables under vaccination tables.
Feb 5th date doesn’t improve the the backward direction of booster jabs.
Which is a shame since having a high-prestige neutral arbiter
Can anyone see Putin being willing to listen to Pope Trotsky?
Rosebud
Joe Rogan rips into Bill Gates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6egLTU1GKdo
Be careful. A real journalist might see this and actually write a truthful article about Covid. Would not want to upset the narrative of doses forever as we have a huge outdated stockpile of vaccines we need to use up.
“That doesn’t look good.
Go to Covid Live and check out the latest data tables under vaccination tables.
Feb 5th date doesn’t improve the the backward direction of booster jabs”.
Interesting that Orwell and Orson Welles were doing their thing in the same time period.
Does any Cat have “alien invaders” on their bingo card for 2022?
I agree, Bruce. I think the Holy See could play a major role. It used to be said that the Vatican had the best hum-int in the world – far better than Mi6 or the CIA. The pope is probably not seen as the absolute embodiment of ‘the West’ that he used to be (a good thing) – not because the church left the West but because the West left the church.
The pope and the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus’ met six years ago – after a 1000 year+ quarrel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LACrrCU-z0E&ab_channel=ROMEREPORTSinEnglish
Trade Deficit Jumped 7.1 Percent in January Setting All Time Record, While 2022 Inflation Estimates Now Double Previous Forecasts
February 28, 2022 | Sundance | 16 Comments
Remember that fourth quarter GDP result that seemed manipulated? Well, I suspect the record setting trade deficit now being reported for January is an outcome of those pesky fourth quarter trade results being intentionally skewed by the withholding of December 2021 import data.
Additionally, methinks we are likely to get some increased economic clarity about why the White House needed Ukraine to become the big shiny thing with such urgency.
Just like everything else, geopolitical dynamics –especially those surrounding entrenched ideology– are always about the economics. Someone, eventually, always has to pay. Follow the money; there are trillions at stake.
First, keep in mind that missing Port of Los Angeles result from December as you review the import/export details:
(REUTERS) […] The goods trade deficit jumped 7.1% to an all-time high of $107.6 billion last month. Imports of goods increased 1.7%, led by food and motor vehicles. There were also large increases in imports of industrial supplies, capital and consumer goods. Imports of other goods, however, tumbled 15.3%.
Exports dropped 1.8%, weighed down by consumer goods, motor vehicles, food and other goods. But exports of capital goods and industrial supplies increased. Trade has been a drag on gross domestic product for six straight quarters. (read more)
That missing Port of LA December import data now being introduced into the month of January might just be the cause of the “all time high” noted above. I will bet one sustainable rice cake on it.
Next up, inflation.
(more…)
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/02/28/trade-deficit-jumped-7-1-percent-in-january-setting-all-time-record-while-2022-inflation-estimates-now-double-previous-forecasts/
Extra or non-extraterrestrial?
George Soros and Hillary Clinton Want Increased U.S. Support for Zelenskyy and Their Ukraine
February 28, 2022 | Sundance | 254 Comments
Perhaps people will pause and recognize that just about every totalitarian leftist and globalist in the world is on the side of U.S. increased intervention in Ukraine. Then again, given the scale of the war propaganda playing out, maybe not.
(SOURCE)
Question everything. Take nothing at face value. It is very easy to become a victim of psychological warfare intended to manipulate our opinions. Almost everything being transmitted from corporate news into our psyche is part of a battle for your mind.
(more…)
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/02/28/george-soros-and-hillary-clinton-want-increased-u-s-support-for-zelenskyy-and-their-ukraine/
Anyone else having issues with the internet?
It is slow – either NBN or TPG. My suspicion is the former.
Dover Beach:
If the Ukrainians are letting the tanks through and just hitting the supply trains + the more exposed mechanised troops, that’s just the “Deep Battle” Doctrine of the 80’s and 90’s.* You don’t see the airforces overhead because they’re interdicting the resupply and second echelon forces. Like wise infantry don’t preferentially take on armour because unless you’re in heavily built up areas, you end up with no infantry. Infantry and armour are unable to support each other when separated and that appears to be what’s happening.
*This is the British version – not Tukhachevsky’s version from the pre WW2 era. The modern version lacks the depth of the Russian doctrine inasmuch as it doesn’t feature the Operational Manoeuvre Group that was the focus of the post war planning.
Not many Westerners are aware that there is a four year old schism in world Orthodoxy over…
…you guessed it, Ukraine!
Essentially, the Patriarch of Constantinople recognised a newly created autocephalous (independent) national church in Ukraine. The Russians protested as they regard Ukraine as their ecclesiastical territory.
So now two Ukrainian Orthodox church bodies exist, one backed by Moscow and one by Constantinople.
As various national churches have taken sides the disruption has broadened.
Now, here’s something interesting; it’s long been rumoured that throughout the Cold War the Patriarchate of Constantinople was a CIA asset, used to balance the Moscow Patriarchy, particularly afte the accession to the throne of Athengoras, who was staunchly pro-American (Truman gave him a US air force plane to fly to Istanbul to take up his office). The action of Constantinople in intervening in Ukraine in 2018 do little to dispel the rumour that it remains under American influence.
That aside, the prospect of either nation accepting papal mediation would seem remote given the bitter history between both Ukraine & Russia with Rome over the centuries old existence of Eastern Catholic, Byzantine rite church bodies under Rome’s authority but on their ecclesiastical territory.
Ellis Wyatt
February 28, 2022 10:05 pm
I feel like the house of cards is beginning to fall.
It’s like when one lie leads to another and then another it gets to a point when the story is no longer sustainable.
Everyday fewer and fewer people believe this fake administration. The media is a laughingstock. The fact that security fences and national guard troops are being called in for a state of the union address tells me the fit is about to hit the shan in the US.
I sense that any attempt to insert US troops into this regional conflict between Russia and Ukraine will lead to conflict on our own streets.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/02/28/george-soros-and-hillary-clinton-want-increased-u-s-support-for-zelenskyy-and-their-ukraine/
Sundance (@admin)
February 28, 2022 10:06 pm
What Russia Wants From Its Invasion of Ukraine—and Why Zelensky Is Evil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vdiEABLFoo&t=6s
It’s been pretty clear before and since the dissolution of the former Soviet Union that Ukraine and Georgia were non-negotiable. That drawing them away from Russia and into the West would strain relations and nudge Russia towards China. How does that policy make sense if you are looking to constrain China?
Athenagoras that should be.
Lol, Joh.
Don’t forget the latest (endless) trope. Blokes chatting at the urinal.
In. Every. Cop. Show.
I long for an Eric Idle character to come tripping out of a cubicle singing a little ditty.
Roger: ‘BWS and Dan Murphy’s to pull Russian vodka from shelves.’ Bloody hell, orange juice will go too.
Does any Cat have “alien invaders” on their bingo card for 2022?
Extra or non-extraterrestrial?
What pronouns do aliens have?
MiltonF
Not just the neocons, but the entire Deep State need a war to distract us from the election fraud, the disaster in the White House, and the State Department, Justice Department CIA, FBI parallel government.
It’s all becoming unglued for them.
Hopefully we don’t get caught in the fallout pattern.
Dover
I’m inclined to think things are neither going better nor worse than expected
Things are never either as good or as bad as first reported.
Dover – Russia has been the near enemy for the Europeans since the time of the Mongols. China is the far enemy. Germany started WW1 in 1914 because they were scared Russia would do it in 1917. That was the German General Staff analysis.
It’s entirely in their miserable character that the EU has dropped all their previous policy overnight and are now throwing weapons at Ukraine like there’s no tomorrow. Three days ago that was a dangerous gamble, but if EU country’s intelligence agencies are now telling their bosses that Ukraine is down a goal but is still in the match then that explains why they think they can now send all this stuff they’re sending. Europeans are hypocritical cowards and arseholes but they know how to spell “realpolitik”.
@ Winston-
Good explanation.
Manoeuvre warfare is about speed of advance, but also balancing the allocation of strength . No intelligent attacker wants to get his spearheads bogged down, but he also does not want to leave strong pockets of resistance in territory that is nominally ‘his,’ because his forces lack the strength to at least temporarily subdue or even partially reduce them while the follow-up forces arrive. That risks the spearhead troops themselves being cut off and pocketed, or stymied by strong resistance and then suddenly hit from a flank or the rear by the enemy’s breakout.
The old Soviet tactic of cauldroning and them crushing enemy troops was very successful simply because of the sheer numbers they could use to simultaneously saturate the surrounding territory and the pocket itself.
The Wehrmacht created specific tactical doctrine for breaking out of such cauldrons and warned of the dangerous nature of such breakout, because of the nature of the enemy they faced.
The smaller modern Russian Army no longer enjoys such crushing advantages, even though it outnumbers Ukraine’s.
Zog/Zorg/Florble?
Hi Arky! Lurking is grand.
No nukes yet.
Has everyone had some pancakes today? I suggest lashings of maple syrup before Turdeau closes the pipeline.
I have a few packed, though you might more charitably refer to them as an ‘egged porridge cooked on a frypan.’
They whistle as they go down, though. And they keep you going for hours. 🙂
#FeelingHisOats
it’s complicated
I am giving up even more of the MSM for Lent.
Soon I will be living in the media equivalent of a darkened basement.
And ruin the one decent export they have? Not a chance.
The Syrup Must Flow…
Do what I did, Jorge. Ask for the most senior member of staff on duty, request they print you out a copy of their mission statement and then read it out loud to you.
I did prepare myself by checking the MS out on line first but I can almost guarantee that the cliche ridden word salad will contain the words (or sentiment) ‘open to all’ and ‘we don’t discriminate’.
* I then inform them of the fact that they are willing to discriminate against me on the basis of vax status despite their MS empty words but I can freely go to work in a brothel and not have to disclose my HIV status. Are they intending to revise their MS anytime soon to reflect the actual reality in their open to all workplace?
May not change any minds but it will cause some serious squirming embarrassment if my experience is any indicator. Especially when they opt for ‘It’s the law” and I’m all… ‘So just following orders then?”**
*With excruciating politeness and a kind understanding that this decision is not of their making.
** in an exquisite irony this particular librarian was outside the front door and presenting me with my reserved copy of ‘The Betrayal of Anne Frank”. I raised an eyebrow and said nothing.