speaking of opera I watched Moonstruck the other night with Cher and Nicolas Cage …and I liked it
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the antithesis phht, opera was the original rock’n’roll
Rock ‘n’ Roll … Uggy and QOTSA on Jools 🙂
Cho Cho San excellent behaviour
you didn’t do opera Yes, I did not “do Oprah”, being as it is, the antithesis of Rock ‘n’ Roll.…
Status of Worst. Internet. Troll. Ever. now confirmed.
Uh oh.
Looking forward to Brandon’s spox explaining how Vlad the Terrible used Iranian missiles to attack an airbase in Kurdistan.
And the US Consulate.
She needs a taxi and the next two days off sick.
No more house wine for Madam Vice President.
Oh shut up ‘ball lighting’ you’re a broken 33 rpm playing at 78.
Major companies publically playing at being ‘churches’ is a very recent phenomenon and what companies are doing in relation to the Ukraine is afaik unprecedented.
As we’ve seen with the aforementioned gaffe, Biden’s mental state is dangerous.
But the neo-cons in his administration are more dangerous.
Blinken was inviting an escalation of the conflict last week with what we now know – courtesy the Polish president – was a lie. He has quite a history of lying. That’s beyond incompetence, it’s evil.
Be patient ffs, because never in our lives have we seen a pandemic and our reaction going for a period of two years and then another supply shock brought on by war.
The world these days is an incredibly flexible operation and the adversity will be met with flexibility.
Is the “flexibility” real, or is it setting us up for a full scale crash?
I would have thought a lot of whats gone on would see different states having decent recessions in the last 20 years.
Instead it seems to be possible to print money to paper over the issues.
Does it really mean no more Weimar type disaster or a Weimar type disaster for everyone if it comes unstuck?
Hmmmm.
Just had an interviewee (US) on Outsiders mentioning that Iran has just lobbed missiles at the US Embassy in Iraq…………………. the Middle East seems a bit touchy at the moment, Saudi Arabia just hanged 81 blokes – criminals and people with “wrong thoughts” (which I take to be homosexuals by the bbc report).
Gonewiththerain @Gonewiththerain
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SCIENCE: some 41% of Democrats, when asked the question … how many people who get COVID need to be hospitalized, thought it was over 50%, when it was, of course, around 1%.”
MAHER: ‘Left-Wing Media Needs to Answer for COVID Misinformation’
Bill Maher says the left needs to answer for their COVID misinformation. The comedian and late night talk show host spoke with the Daily Wire…
https://gettr.com/post/pzjaqs1f7d
hannity.com
Quite.
It’s zero degrees in Florence SC and 000’s of people are in attendance for Trumps rally.
Trump due on stage next….
Agreed.
At the very least, the China-Russia ‘arc of autocracy’ our leaders have created puts a spoke in their wheel.
Even the WEF has signalled what’s coming; one of the Davos themes last year was “preparing for deglobalisation”.
So where are our trusted science guys to explain ball lightning to the ‘ladies’ having conniptions.
For instance that one of it’s strange ‘behaviours’ is that it can shock & burn and also pass through things without a mark and that it’s many strange ‘behaviours’ are still far from being fully understood.
Knuckle Dragger boasts of being ‘unkillable’, others have shared countless stories of freakish bits of good luck, but I mention one freakish bit of good luck related to the then still live topic of how different people are affected differently by ‘electric’ charges and oh my, bring out the fainting couches for the ‘ladies’.
Isn’t carrying spears, to impress your womenfolk, part of Walpiri culture?
TRUMP’s UP, Live Now –
https://rumble.com/vi1or5-rsbn-live.html
Trump Rally Live
snap !
This article is worth a look in light of the current propaganda duels/ Trump overthrow and general “misreporting” on seemingly every topic.
I was trying to find an older article which set out it was perfectly legal for the US alphabet agencies to deliberately lie and plant stories in the media, couldnt seem to track it down though.
https://www.cato.org/commentary/how-national-security-state-manipulates-news-media
Reforms enacted in the late 1970s after investigative hearings by the Senate Intelligence Committee, chaired by Sen. Frank Church (D?ID), supposedly brought an end to such CIA penetration of the press. However, evidence of recent media??intelligence agency collaboration suggests that while the manipulation may have become more subtle, it has not gone away. A startling September 2014 exclusive report in the Intercept confirmed that the problem of excessively close ties between the CIA and certain prominent journalists is not a merely a historical artifact.
….
One of the CIA’s long??standing, favorite tactics is to generate favorable, including outright bogus, news stories in foreign media outlets, with the expectation that American outlets will eventually pick them up. There is no question that the U.S. government still recruits foreign journalists for propaganda missions in their home countries. For example, the United States and Britain have mounted an extensive joint propaganda effort regarding the Syrian civil war using an array of Middle Eastern reporters and columnists. Among other possible effects, one must ponder how many of those orchestrated “news” stories found their way back into American media, impacting the narrative and domestic debate about the Syrian civil war and what Washington’s stance should be toward that conflict. The potential “blowback” phenomenon is a worrisome example of how the intelligence agencies can manipulate the debate on a foreign policy issue in the United States.
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Perhaps most striking, major media outlets, especially the Washington Post, the New York Times, CNN and MSNBC, have avidly joined the national security state’s campaign to demonize Russia. Those media heavyweights enthusiastically promoted the false narrative about collusion between Donald Trump’s campaign and the Russian government to influence the 2016 presidential election. Even worse, they parroted the CIA’s unsupported, far??fetched allegation that Moscow had paid the Taliban bounties to kill American soldiers.
Comment, to an article from the Oz.
President Donald Trump Rally LIVE in Florence, SC 3/12/22
LIVE NOW
Which reads like we are supposed to be locked in that the handful of Despotic Global Regions with each being kept in constant fear of the ‘Enemy’ Regions, because they didn’t put together and Beta test the various Social Credit Passports for nothing.
The CIA should have been abolished. Their crimes (many against US citizens they had no authority to ever surveil) were numerous and heinous.
Flooding the theatre with MANPADS forces tactical air to bomb from altitude
which expands their Circular Errors of Probability, which they compensate for
with bigger bombs which causes more collateral damage
which increases the clamour for a NFZ.
Everyone starts using steam hammers to crack walnuts.
“Dotsays:
March 13, 2022 at 11:11 am
The CIA should have been abolished. Their crimes (many against US citizens they had no authority to ever surveil) were numerous and heinous.”
And the FBI. Both the CIA and FBI have been completely corrupted and compromised.
Ed Casesays:
March 13, 2022 at 10:24 am
Poor SpongeBob.
Not a vet, but it sounds like Hydatids.
Trapped by his own stupidity, DickWitEd releases a diversion squirrel.
Who knows whether a Warlpiri Culture ever existed?
Even if it did, which is doubtful, it became redundant once the first Whites showed up in Central Australia.
Bottom Line:
Homo Sapiens don’t thrive in captivity, physical or mental.
MANPADS aren’t one of those transgender feminine hygiene products are they?
Better slow down on the mutton today Groogs. Don’t want you peaking too early.
dover0beachsays:
March 13, 2022 at 10:49 am
I’m more hopeful about ‘the West’ in a multipolar world than I am about it leading a unipolar one.
Particularly under the current crop of western “leaders”.
It’s worth their lives if an Albanese Government is elected, since he’ll send the Diggers wherever Biden tells him to.
If they weren’t told that bullying and harassment by poofters was a Condition Of Service, before they signed up, why should they hafta cop it up the arse now?
Towards the end of his latest talk, after tongue bathing the Ukranian leader, Starkey makes mention of the tripolar world that seems to emerging and draws comparison with the 3 great powers of Orwell’s 1984.
Looks like Women and Children Hardest Hit is taking a back seat to The Climate.
H B Bearsays:
March 13, 2022 at 11:21 am
Better slow down on the mutton today Groogs. Don’t want you peaking too early.
Too late, he already got stuck into the gypsum at breakfast.
Googlin’ away on a Sundy Morn, I find that well known Mobsters of the 50s & 60s were being paid by the CIA, for some reason:
More here:
https://spartacus-educational.com/USAchurchF.htm
Frank Church also ended funding for the Vietnam War.
“Duel” 4.1.2.
Returning back down the Hume on Thursday we turned off to get a coffee.
Coming back down the on ramp there is a semi in the left lane, and it was fairly obvious we would arrive at the merge simultaneously.
I thought he might move to the right, but no.
No biggie. Maybe there is a vehicle in the right lane. So I brake and pull in behind. No vehicle in the right lane and none for 300 metres behind or in front.
Yes, yes, he isn’t bound by law to move over, but good drivers do.
Anyway, as I pass him, Mrs Panzer says “Fucking hell. He’s texting.”
So I wind the window down and give him a toot and wave (not necessarily involving all four fingers).
This is where it gets funny.
He goes apeshit, flashing and honking, arm waving, followed by more honking and flashing.
Within a kilometre we get to a long, long climb with an added left lane and a “slow vehicles use left lane” sign.
I stayed left about 100 metres in front and kept slowing down as he dropped speed going up the incline, maintaining the distance. He was still very animated, waving and flashing and peddling like Fred Flintstone. I reckon I slowed to about 75kmh before I engaged turbos and left him behind.
Anyway, I took his attention away from his phone I guess.
Waiter can you please return this slab of Grigglemutton to the kitchen.
Its stale, reheated and quite frankly overgypsumed and gay.
As usual.
What were you driving Sancho?
Another Semi?
A Double Decker bus?
Flooding the theatre with MANPADS forces tactical air to bomb from altitude
which expands their Circular Errors of Probability
I’d be surprised if the Russians didn’t have the equivalent of JDAM’s. The US used them in Afghanistan to do CAS from 20,000+ feet, out of MANPAD range.
Sancho, the truckie was a dangerous idiot shouldn’t be on the road, the problem is that you were one as well.
FMD. Ease up on acronyms.
China will be the geographical great power in our part of the world, counter-balanced by 4 US-led regional alliances – northeast Asia, south Asia, SE Asia and Oceania plus the security pact of AUKUS ( and, presumably, some sort of cooperation with France).
That’s the plan as outlined by the US last month. We’d better hope it works.
From my observations of military types on the outside, older grunts talking to younger grunts doesn’t appear to be the greatest problem.
I suspect a bigger breakdown comes from commissioned officers trying to be “men of the people”, listening to gripes from the lower ranks and unilaterally acting on them and undermining NCOs.
No biggie in peacetime, but a potentially disastrous break in chain of command in a crisis.
sfw.
Point to where anything I might have done was dangerous.
(And please don’t go with “taking a hand off the wheel and putting it outside the vehicle” or “driving too slowly in a slow vehicle lane”)
Ah, Ed.
The bloke was holding the phone in his right hand and was observed by Mrs Panzer from our passenger seat.
Do your best string and drawing pins with that one.
Don’t distract him. He’s still working on the JFK shooting.
The mutton fat is clogging the lizard brain arteries.
Relax, sfw.
Every Semi on the roads the last 30 years has tinted windows, so even if Sancho passed by driving a Double Decker bus, he still can’t see inside the cabin.
What this is really about is Sancho [plus his Cast of Wacky Characters] and Rex Franger talking about this non existent incident for the next coupla days.
Trump calls for defeating the RINOs. “Dump these grandstanding losers!”
It’s a bit sad in a way. Now he’s just LARPing as president.
“We want our Generals to focus on winning wars, not on teaching pronouns!”
It’s just bizarre that he’s not joking, but that’s the Dems’ bizarro world.
“We MAY have to run again!”
Still not eliminating the possibility of Trump 2024.
If only the FBI cloud seeding plane hadn’t been unserviceable that fateful day.
If they had managed to get it pissing down, the roof would have been on the Lincoln and disaster would have been averted.
His driver’s window was down Googlery.
Next theory, Clouseau.
A recommended long read that should be accompanied by a suitable bevvie or three.
https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2022/03/09/why-do-we-have-experts/
Dot says: March 13, 2022 at 11:11 am
Dot is lucky his Maserati doesn’t have much remote-controllable electronics, unlike the 2013 Mercedes-Benz C250 Coupe.
Trump spoke for exactly one hour.
custard says: March 13, 2022 at 12:12 pm
Can you tell us the significance of that?
Or is there a fictional US military insider who has to drop you some crumbs before you can get your thrills from that particular duration?
Iz zis your minkey?
It’s “Our Maserati”, people’s.
No significance just a fact.
H B Bear:
MANPAD = Man Portable Air Defence= shoulder launched guided missile
CAS = Close Air Support=use airpower to kill bad guys close your guys on the ground
JDAM = Joint Direct Attack Munition = GPS guided bomb
Speaking from experience, Grogs? What unit were you with?
WTF is “Industry 4.0”, peoples?
Is it how things work with fuel at $4/litre?
Oh come onsays:
March 13, 2022 at 10:41 am
Joe Biden totally didn’t steal the 2020 election
The odd thing is there are never accounts of such despicable fraud done by the conservatives.
Trump is too old now.
The US gerontocracy has to go.
DeSantis.
DeSantis/Paul
Japanese encephalitis Australia to buy 130000 vaccine doses
Has been rolling around in NE VIC and Southern NSW for probably 5 months. Now they’re onto the outbreak in pigs it will most likely be over by the end of autumn.
How much commission did Greg Hunt get for that panic purchase?
DeSantis/Paul
With Trump running offence from outside. Could work well.
Trump does the talking, DeSantis/Paul take the action.
Mak at 12:08
Great article linked
Ran out of smokes earlier this morning. So I sat out on the back verandah, watched some TV, and then…. concentrated. Focused my mind.
Five minutes later, there was some scratching noise coming from the side gate. I went around and opened it.
A baby deer stood there, looking at me. Balanced on its nose was a pack of JPS Red.
Trump/DeSantis
Where will Tulsi fit in?
“C.L.says:
March 13, 2022 at 12:41 pm
Trump is too old now.
The US gerontocracy has to go.
DeSantis.”
Agree. I also think that DeSantis is really good dealing with MSM scum….even better than Trump.
I was on the Tiwis recently. Lots of fishing spears there.
DeSantis is a fine orator, too. Talks sense with few dramatics.
Someone (sorry, forget who) put up a bit on the pronunciation of Kharkiv a day or so ago, pointing out that the initial “K”is not pronounced, so the city is Harkov. This raises the question, is Kyiv pronounced as Hyov, phonetically, Highov?
Secondly, I ran across a claim that the initial “K” is not pronounced in Mongolian, so in Genghis Khan, the second word is pronounced Haan.
Is the Ukrainian style a relic of the Golden Horde? And, Han is rather close to Han Chinese. Is that a relic of the extended Mongolian rule over China?
Idle curiosity beckons.
A baby deer stood there, looking at me. Balanced on its nose was a pack of JPS Red.
I hope you sent it back for a carton of Winnie Blues?
Or was the price 2 deer?
/Oh god, what have I punned.
I hope you made a crack about smokes being dear/deer?
Boom, boom!
Deer smokes!
Too obvious.
Mak Siccar:
March 13, 2022 at 12:08 pm
From Mak’s link:
‘Professor Medley said one of the ‘worst things’ would be for the modellers to under-predict the approaching wave.
He told MPs: ‘The worst thing for me as chair of the committee is for the Government to say “why didn’t you tell us it would be that bad?”, so inevitably we are going to have a worst case that is worse than reality.’ 4
…inevitably we are going to have a worst case, that is worse than reality’… Roll that idea around for a moment or two. I did, and this was my interpretation. ‘Inevitably, our models will always be worse than the worst thing than can ever happen.’ Ergo, our models are designed to be utterly useless and inaccurate. A great way to plan your response?
Can be applied to the Global Warming modelling scam.
Ed Case said:
Sancho Panzer replies:
March 13, 2022 at 12:03 pm
Ha ha, knew you’d try that one.
His right elbow was perched on the sill and he was catching some breeze in the stifling heat, right?
AIR CONDITIONED DRIVER’S CABIN, Sancho.
Every Semi on the road the last 30 years has it.
HB Bear, maybe you could subscribe to FLAG.
Pulp Fiction. Presented without further comment:
Apparently no truck driver in Australia ever drives with the window wound down.
Mutton chops has spoken.
‘Inevitably, our models will always be worse than the worst thing than can ever happen.’ Ergo, our models are designed to be utterly useless and inaccurate. A great way to plan your response?
Sounds like many BoM forecasts. So conservative as to be useless.
Dover.
Can we have a separate “Miracle or Coincidence” thread?
Thanks.
Still no response from the Whitehouse about their Iraqi embassy being bombed.
Not sure how long it’s been or if it’s significant.
Yeah, that makes more sense. I guess Trump was leaving it ambiguous until it is certain Red Wave Ron can take over the reigns. Presumably a bizarre Dark Crystal style ceremony will take place in Mar-a-Lago to transfer the essence of Trump into Ron DeSantis.
But could deSantis rebrand the movement, or is support for him inseparable from “MAGA”? I assume the latter, as “same message, new guy” is the easiest path.
Hey, don’t be a sore loser, Sancho.
Heheh …
Sang with extra gusto at church this morning.
Take that! Dr Mortianna Chant!
Turdball times doing their bit to knife Rolfe after his not guilty verdict and BRS during his trial:
Ben Roberts-Smith a mentor to Zachary Rolfe, the NT police officer cleared of murder
“Presumably a bizarre Dark Crystal style ceremony will take place in Mar-a-Lago to transfer the essence of Trump into Ron DeSantis.”
Perhaps you could tell us the significance of that?
Watching ‘Ukraine on Fire’ atm. So far so good.
Never ask for Camels, for the obvious reason.
It’s a joke, that’s the significance.
Unlike custard, who was not joking.
And more seriously some amount of knowledge transfer of tips’n’tricks from the campaign trail wouldn’t be a waste either.
All Cook had to do was purchase the Lonely First Planet Nations guide to the Australian Coast. They had an office in Whitby. Just shows what a racist he was.
srr:
I understand they will become the core of an elite bodyguard for a future Labor PM.
Biden is a Skeksis? Makes perfect sense.
Trump did speak for an hour, and I wasn’t joking.
But it’s significant, apparently.
Fuck off dickhead!
Watched a couple of episodes of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” last night.
Funny as.
Larry discovers that a MAGA cap is the perfect people-repellent in LA, if he wants to piss someone off.
These episodes were about the time he split from his on-screen wife* and he goes on a date. He tries to be totally compliant about consent and records on his phone each stilted question he asks the woman along the way for every little move.
“It’s a joke, that’s the significance.”
Oh…really? Here I was thinking it was a patronising sneer.
Yes it must be, or it would be unusual to have said it. There must a thousand facts from the livestream available for repeating, so to pick very few or just one of them is (necessarily) to select based on their significance.
I had thought custard might remark something like ‘Trump is learning to be punctual’ or ‘It’s so cold Trump doesn’t want to prolong the event speaking’ or some other less obvious explanation of the significance. But there wasn’t one, so we’ll leave it at that.
Sancho, if you’re that immature and hot headed, and you can’t see the problem with your actions then you shouldn’t be driving anywhere.
eh? Against who? How… what?
so we’ll leave it at that.
A significant backdown perhaps?
A hymn from my youth
Ha, funny you mention Larry David as I had a Curb Your Enthusiasm moment this morning. I was walking on a pier this morning and it was really crowded. I was stuck behind a female land whale using a walker and three aside with her pals, so she/ they were blocking the entire pier. I managed to squeeze through and I was then in front of her I heard her complaining about me. Of course a slight entanglement occurred. Some people are so thoughtlessly rude.
Give it a rest sfw.
No, as the vowels in Russian are different.
It’s well over 30 years since I studied Russian but I think it’s a short o and short e respectively.
As for the Golden Horde, it’s notable that they reigned in that part of the world for c. 250 years, which is the historian’s rule of thumb for how long empires last.
The Russians will have to level Ukraine in order to win if this is true. The Russians are using around 1,200 tanks for the invasion. Ukraine has 17,000 Javelin anti-tank missiles. Unless they use heavy duty artillery and planes, the Russians will lose every single one of those tanks.
Those Javelin missiles are really fucking cool.
Indolent:
They really do want a full on war and Russia’s army is not going to be enough. So Putin may have to decide on a decapitation strike to get the upper hand.
I understand there are two satellites one launched by the USSR and one launched by China that have an elliptical orbit which at its lowest point is over Washington. It was suggested they were configured as EMP weapons.
I don’t know the truth of it.
His right elbow was perched on the sill and he was catching some breeze in the stifling heat, right?
AIR CONDITIONED DRIVER’S CABIN, Sancho.
Every Semi on the road the last 30 years has it.
What “stifling heat”? Sancho said he was coming back down the Hume recently. The last few weeks have hardly been non-stop searing heat here in Victoria.
Poor old Ed. Reality-impervious as usual.
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@Cookie
Same reason the Vietnam War collapsed into ruin: US politics.
The Bush II Central Asia initiative has failed. The US has withdrawn from Iraq and Afghanistan, neither of which were successfully included in the world trading network as functioning liberal societies, nor are they likely to be so included.
This is widely taken as the end of US influence in all of the Asian continent. The US is extremely unlikely to wage a non-nuclear war against any country in Asia, largely because the US government has neither the money nor the legitimacy to reconfigure its counter-insurgency army for conventional warfare. Further the reconfiguration would not lead to successful policy.
The Bush initiative that employed highly proficient conventional warfare failed, and would be likely to do so again, because of gross incompetence on the strategic planning level. Giving even overwhelming military force to strategic incompetents will result in failure, “snatching defeat from the jaws of victory” as it did in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The US has formed AUKUS as a backup, much as the US fell back to the Island Chain Strategy ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_Chain_Strategy ) after defeat in S. Vietnam. The US is in process of withdrawing to AUKUS, and to a pure Oceanic strategy much like that of the British Empire. Implementing such a strategy means withdrawing from Europe.
The Ukraine was is a face saving exercise by the US. The US does not want to be seen as driven out of Europe. US cannot hold Europe because the US is no longer protecting Europe, the US does not have the military ability to hold Europe against its base population, the policies that it has imposed upon Europe are wildly unpopular among the base European population, and the world trade system is in some danger of losing its reserve currency (due to US strategic incompetence again). Still, the longer the US can delay loss of Europe, the longer it will be until it has to face the domestic consequences of such a loss.** And, who knows? Perhaps there will be a miracle and Europe won’t be lost.
A face saving exercise is just more strategic incompetence, quite possibly leading to a much earlier loss of Europe (or, if you please, European independence). When people don’t know what to do, they do what they know (Marshal Saxe), and the US establishment knows how to formulate, coordinate, and implement failing strategies.
** The Vietnam War was (according to Fire in the Lake) largely an exercise in US domestic politics. The Democrats had lost the Presidency in part because they were blamed for the “Loss of China”. The Left wing of the Democrats did not want the Republicans to win in Vietnam, and the remainder of the Democrats did not want the Democrats to lose in Vietnam. In practice, JFK (and Internationalist Democrat who wanted to win) was assassinator along with his brother and the incompetent LBJ proceeded to lose Vietnam. LBJ was sacrificed, and Republican Nixon was handed the blame for the actual withdrawal, then Nixon was removed as well. Vietnam’s welfare, and that of the troops fighting for the US, was at no time considered. In fact, a there was a serious attempt to identify returning soldiers as drug addicts with PTSD that made them dangerous to have around. As for the welfare of the American (or Vietnamese) population, that was also not considered.
And this level of incompetence by politicians preoccupied by the next election persists to right now, as you are reading this. The US is lucky that it has professionals, probably in the State Department, who have established AUKUS.
Boambee John,
Your questions about the pronuniation of various placenames in Ukraine is easily answered.
As both Russian and Ukrainian are spelt using the Cyrillic alphabet, transliteration into the Latin alphabet doesn’t always work easily as the sounds we attribute to the letters are not necessarily how the word would be pronounced in Ukrainian.
The letter grouping ‘kh’ is the Latin alphabet transliteration of the Cyrillic letter ‘X’. It is pronounced like the ‘ch’ at the end of the Scots word ‘loch’ – a kind of raspy aitch if you like.
‘K’ is the same in both alphabets and produces the same sound.
So Kiev has a hard sound at the beginning (as Kiev starts with K) but Kharkiv has the rough aitch sound as Kharkiv starts with X in Cyrillic.
And then there is the peculiarity of the Ukrainian accent in which the hard ‘g’ sound (represented by the Greek letter gamma) is softened to sound more like our aitch sound. Even native Russian speakers from the east of Ukraine have this accent.
Clear as mud, I bet (smiley face, winky face).
Mr. Ed
STFU. Between you and USSR, you’re ruining the site with nonsense layered over stupid shit. Stop annoying people.
Wasnt the Embassy it was a consulate in some shithole.
Our 30-Year Victory Dance on Top of Russia Planted the Seeds of War in Ukraine
https://stream.org/our-30-year-victory-dance-on-top-of-russia-planted-the-seeds-of-war-in-ukraine/?fbclid=IwAR00Ge2QqSKpnQq325NpFLGTDhtwR1i_10HQwBCJBUYPaoL3RaVcvAqmTlc
Russia/Ukraine situational analysis. Jack Jones. Begins at 3:50min https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcJXB6Jmzpc
All the real ones do. The Last Holdouts*.
Aircon is for pooftah-pansy tekkin er jebs immigants. Plus, the open window gives you something to throw the driver-assist tech out of.
*And SA pig shooters, who hang their broomstick handles out of them.
March 13th, 1954. The Viet Minh bombardment of the French Union forces at Dien Bien Phu began. The French had already taken heavy casualties – some ten percent of the garrison – in attempts to use the position as a base for offensive operations, but the start of the bombardment began fifty five days of what became known as “Hell In a Very Small Place.”
Interesting from the fact that some people in the effected North Coast areas were whinging because they felt the Federal Government didn’t respond quick enough.
From todays Sunday Tele:
NSW SES twice rejected flood assistance from the Australian Defence Force
Linda Silmalis
13 Mar 2022
It can be revealed that the Australian Defence Force offered their services to NSW ahead of the deluge that swamped the state only for their offer to be knocked back — twice.
Defence officials offered NSW their help ahead of the east coast “rain bomb” on two separate occasions, only to be told they were not needed.
A week after Premier Dominic Perrottet promised a review into the state’s emergency flood response, which he admitted had fallen short, we can reveal Australian Defence Force (ADF) support was initially knocked back.
On February 25 an ADF representative contacted the NSW State Emergency Services headquarters about 2pm to seek advice on any potential request for assistance, including a presence in the Emergency Operations Centre.
However, the Defence representative was told there was no expectation support would be required.
About 7.30pm, Emergency Management Australia (EMA) – the federal government body within the Department of Home Affairs and responsible for emergency management co-ordination – activated the Australian Government Disaster Response Plan, known as COMDISPLAN, for the east coast of Australia.
Shortly before 9.30pm, a Defence representative again contacted the NSW SES asking if Defence presence would be required.
The representative was again advised there would be no requirement.
The following day the army began increasing its readiness in Queensland, which would be the first state hit by record rain. Just after midnight on February 27, the head of the ADF ordered two helicopters to help the Queensland SES.
It also increased its readiness with 600 personnel for ground support.
Just after 3pm, it also began readying its ground forces in anticipation that NSW would be requesting its support.
On February 28, Defence helicopters were tasked to fly to Lismore ahead of a request from NSW.
Just before 1pm, an EMA NSW request was made for search and rescue helicopter support, high clearance vehicles and evacuation support.
And just after 2pm a task request from NSW was received, which ADF accepted.
Asked when the state government requested Defence support, the office of Emergency Services Minister Steph Cook referred The Sunday Telegraph to the NSW SES.
A spokesman for the NSW SES said members had been on duty since February 24, alongside other emergency services personnel.
“Additional NSW SES members have been on duty assisting with the recent weather event,” the spokesman said.
“Both NSW SES and other emergency services personnel and their equipment/vessels, were pre-positioned in northern NSW to help with the potential impending weather coming from Queensland. The record-breaking flood that occurred in Lismore was like nothing that had been experienced before. It came much quicker and more intensely than was forecasted.”
Tanya rides to the rescue of Lismore!
Australians are getting ‘pretty tired’ of a PM who’s ‘never there when you need him’ (Sky, 13 Mar)
I can’t recall seeing Ms Plibs in a tinny rescuing people’s cats, or Albo filling sandbags. I must be losing my memory.
Wasn’t Albo in Western Australia?
Zelensky softening, facing the facts on the ground? And his mention of the need for a more global settlement (including EUR/NATO?) sounds positive.
RT News;
“A group of Ukrainians and Russian representatives are discussing certain issues. They began talking about something, and not just throwing out ultimatums,” Zelensky said on Saturday, during a press conference with foreign media.
Kiev is of the view that any high-profile talks with Russia should be held on neutral territory, Zelensky said, naming Israel as a potential host for such negotiations.
“We spoke with [Israeli Prime Minister Naftali] Bennett, and I said that today it is not right [to hold] meetings in Russia, in Belarus. I’m not talking about technical meetings – I’m talking about leaders’ meetings. Do I think that Israel can be such a land, and Jerusalem? Yes, I think so. And I told him that,” Zelensky stated.
However, the president said, if the outcome was to be successful, his country would need certain “security guarantees” that the ongoing conflict was settled not only from the perspective of Russia, but also from that of the West. Israel could act as a guarantor in that respect, he suggested.
So far, Russian and Ukrainian delegations have met three times in Belarus to discuss the ongoing conflict. Apart from reaching some understanding on establishing humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians from the combat zones, the two sides have failed to achieve any tangible results.
A more high-profile meeting took place in the Turkish resort city of Antalya on Thursday, when Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held talks with his Ukrainian counterpart, Dmytro Kuleba. These discussions also proved inconclusive, with Kuleba describing them as “difficult”, and Lavrov claiming the Ukrainian officials “always want to substitute the real work of implementing agreements with inventing new formats.”
Lismore council;
Fkg dummies. The natural environment has caused 90 floods in 150 years. Does Scummo need to subsidize brain transplants?
Yes, it’s a long time favourite from LM. But the flavour of the week has been the single-use disposable NLAW https://www.youtube.com/embed/zSQV9TRll-0?rel=0 , which has been the coolest new model SAAB to “drive” in Ukraine this March.
e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfRcmJTAouM
(That video was not age-restricted when I watched it yesterday, sorry, now youtube are doing their soft-censorship thing. You can’t actually see anything gory happen, but much like a Hollywood movie the violence is implied. )
Really sfw?
At what point did I say I lost my rag?
It was a bit of an eyeroll when he didn’t move over, but not the end of the world.
Yeah, I gave him a toot when I knew he was using his phone. A perfectly legitimate use of the hooter (alerting someone to a road hazard – ie himself).
The hand signal? Merely a wave to attract his attention after I was well forward of him.
As for slowing on a long incline and maintaining a safe distance in front of him, and not impeding other traffic (there was none), how is that dangerous or “being a hot-head”?
Truth is, we were having a giggle at the moron’s antics.
A bit of light entertainment to break up a long trip.
This grub needs to make herself useful and cut the relief workers some sandwiches.
Show biz for ugly people
Correct Mr Neilsen.
I can’t recall exactly but I was wearing a jumper and the outside temp was around low 20’s.
And it always reads a bit high off the tarmac.
calli says: March 13, 2022 at 2:37 pm
And, please, which room of the house specifically should Ms Plibbers be in when she assembles said nourishments? 😀
The military term they use for the Javelin is Fire-And-Forget.
great term.
Not without a camera crew present…
Cite you the incident a few years ago, in New South Wales, during the bushfires, where volunteers had to go and buy their own breakfast from Macca’s , because Albo had commandeered the fire shed to be photographed serving breakfast to what later proved to be his entourage?
A memory for you, just in case you are losing it. (No, really, don’t thank me.)
Reprisal attacks? So the Abos admit that they attacked first but are now whinging that they lost. FMD
“DeSantis.”
Unlike Trump, Desantis is always fully armed with the facts, and refuses to engage in twisted media narratives – he calls them our every time. Eg, with the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, he said along the lines of “Where does it say that in the bill?… You can’t tell me where it says that in the bill because it doesn’t say that in the bill…. Do your homework”. When they asked him about mask mandates he similarly eviscerated them by quoting actual science at them.
In short, he expects them to be the enemy, he expects they want to push their own narrative, he expects they aren’t interested in the truth, and he knows they don’t and won’t like him. So he is well prepared and doesn’t take any shit. Furthermore, he is always fully grounded in what “Joe Average” actually wants, and does it, so he’s resoundingly popular.
I for one can’t wait to see him go national – if only to have a good giggle at them trying to distort the narrative and being mercilessly shot down every time. It’ll be glorious and humourous in equal measure – the media is nowhere near as smart and well prepared as Desantis inevitably is.
Thanks Roger
Luzu
Thanks. Languages were never my strong point. I got to a reasonable understanding of the Wade-Giles transliteration of Chinese words, then along came Pinyin! Cyrillic is beyond me!
Mr. Ed
STFU. Between you and USSR, you’re ruining the site with nonsense layered over stupid shit. Stop annoying people.
Actually head prefect that particular post by donut makes sense and is worth repeating:
Same reason the Vietnam War collapsed into ruin: US politics.
The Bush II Central Asia initiative has failed. The US has withdrawn from Iraq and Afghanistan, neither of which were successfully included in the world trading network as functioning liberal societies, nor are they likely to be so included.
This is widely taken as the end of US influence in all of the Asian continent. The US is extremely unlikely to wage a non-nuclear war against any country in Asia, largely because the US government has neither the money nor the legitimacy to reconfigure its counter-insurgency army for conventional warfare. Further the reconfiguration would not lead to successful policy.
The Bush initiative that employed highly proficient conventional warfare failed, and would be likely to do so again, because of gross incompetence on the strategic planning level. Giving even overwhelming military force to strategic incompetents will result in failure, “snatching defeat from the jaws of victory” as it did in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The US has formed AUKUS as a backup, much as the US fell back to the Island Chain Strategy ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_Chain_Strategy ) after defeat in S. Vietnam. The US is in process of withdrawing to AUKUS, and to a pure Oceanic strategy much like that of the British Empire. Implementing such a strategy means withdrawing from Europe.
The Ukraine was is a face saving exercise by the US. The US does not want to be seen as driven out of Europe. US cannot hold Europe because the US is no longer protecting Europe, the US does not have the military ability to hold Europe against its base population, the policies that it has imposed upon Europe are wildly unpopular among the base European population, and the world trade system is in some danger of losing its reserve currency (due to US strategic incompetence again). Still, the longer the US can delay loss of Europe, the longer it will be until it has to face the domestic consequences of such a loss.** And, who knows? Perhaps there will be a miracle and Europe won’t be lost.
A face saving exercise is just more strategic incompetence, quite possibly leading to a much earlier loss of Europe (or, if you please, European independence). When people don’t know what to do, they do what they know (Marshal Saxe), and the US establishment knows how to formulate, coordinate, and implement failing strategies.
** The Vietnam War was (according to Fire in the Lake) largely an exercise in US domestic politics. The Democrats had lost the Presidency in part because they were blamed for the “Loss of China”. The Left wing of the Democrats did not want the Republicans to win in Vietnam, and the remainder of the Democrats did not want the Democrats to lose in Vietnam. In practice, JFK (and Internationalist Democrat who wanted to win) was assassinator along with his brother and the incompetent LBJ proceeded to lose Vietnam. LBJ was sacrificed, and Republican Nixon was handed the blame for the actual withdrawal, then Nixon was removed as well. Vietnam’s welfare, and that of the troops fighting for the US, was at no time considered. In fact, a there was a serious attempt to identify returning soldiers as drug addicts with PTSD that made them dangerous to have around. As for the welfare of the American (or Vietnamese) population, that was also not considered.
And this level of incompetence by politicians preoccupied by the next election persists to right now, as you are reading this. The US is lucky that it has professionals, probably in the State Department, who have established AUKUS.
The simple fact is Trump would have averted this because he was changing the mould. Biden’s stealing of the election has literally fucked the world.
listen sancho, I hope you don’t mind, but I went ahead and emailed Neil Mitchell on your behalf.
…reckon I got a nice balance between the outrageous indignation and the eye-rolls
thank me later
The poor bastard who exposed the creep biden’s bigger creep son’s lap top has been stuffed by biden’s swamp:
Hunter Biden’s ‘Laptop from Hell’ Repairman Says Life Upended, Bankruptcy Looms
Possibly the most famous looting photo in Australian history.
Gentlepeople please.
Can I ask that we not use the term V*****m War?
It attracts the lawn grubs.
Just say “the 1960’s SE Asian skirmish” to frustrate Google searches emanating from ToWomba.
I was always fond of the footage of him trying to out he-man Abbott by doing pull ups in some park with a personal trainer. Physique of something gelatinous that washed up on the beach.
Here it is. Mr Muscles.
How do you subject yourself to reading his nonsense?
Originally given to the Exocet missile in the Falklands war.
Oops, the rest;
Hahaha!
Oh, Good Lord.
Is there a name for the new variant of COVID supposedly bearing down on us all? thanks – I’ve been rather distracted lately
Tinta. BA2 also known as BAZ or Barry.
Groogs knows trucks.
For the rest of you
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd5ZLJWQmss
In reprisal for the murder of one European – a stockman named Fred Brooks, and the attempted murder of a station leaseholder, one William Moreton, there were at least fifty two Aboriginal people shot, at Coniston Station, in 1928.
Pretty sure that diplomatic solution will be the “end game’. Clever to suggest Jerusalem as venue – all parties can be assured of personal security. Interesting that preliminary talks involving trusted emissaries have already been held in Belarus and Antalya.
RT good source of info – pity that our general MSM sources are SO abysmal.
JC at 1:44 – watch it mate. Us walker users stick together. Except for Harvey Weinstein, what a jerk.
Groogs would be au fait with the handling of piss jugs too. Way of the road buddy, way of the road.
South Australia’s St Peter’s College lawyers are about to hand the State back to South Australia’s Rostrevor College lawyers.
Dot will be overjoyed.
Nobody else will notice the difference.
LNP didn’t bother campaigning, but the ABC’s campaign was masterful.
Disgusting town pretending to be a state.
Kinda Irish eh Dot?
How many chins did he get over the bar?
Tell us how they oppressed you with hate filled wickedness.
On a more serious note, they’re all pretending to be States.
They’re fiefdoms.
People are virtually blind to Frank Thring keeping the subject off the Liberal party.
Frank’s inability to merge correctly and him slowing down a heavy vehicle going up a hill could be reported as road rage, the menace he has admitted to being, however if some of you wish to go back since I’ve been gone you’ll see nothing but subject change attempts my the “midnight rider” of the Liberal party.
He’s always been the same.
Just check it out.
Go on.
It’s worth the scroll to see what he’s really up to.
You don’t do much, do you comrade?
F…ing rail unionists.
You need to take a little rest too Frank, you are never away unless your suffering from getting the jab.
24/7 you are here….No life, you sad fuck?….I am almost starting to believe you’re also employed in the railways, ………
Hate truckies….goes with the job, a bit like an ex Vic plod..
All little Jealous types who wouldn’t be able to ever conquer a crash box of eighteen gears, just a forward and reverse lever and a big choo choo whistle to pull with your other hand.
It’s pathetic.
Peter Campion. LTE’s.
So now Dean Wallis (age 52) has been rushed to hospital for surgery after suffering a major heart attack.
Must be something in the water.
Trevor the Rubbish Warrior (look him up) approves of this post.
Is anyone here 52 ?
This one’s for West Australian Cats.
Is anyone here 52 ?
Fortunately not, all we need now is for Kylie Minogue (53) to croak….
Apparently they can find covid in sewerage, so I’m sure we’ll have the truth shortly…………………………..
Ah yes, here it comes……
He had a packet of fattening twisties when he was seven……..
It’s a wonder he remained healthy for so long.
there were at least fifty two Aboriginal people shot, at Coniston Station, in 1928
Any subsequent reprisal attacks?
How to put down an insurgency 101.
Sounds a tad disproportionate, perhaps?
What’s the background though?
Were Brooksie and Moreto jus mindin’ their own bidness when they were suddenly festooned with spears, or had they been up to mischief themselves?
Well, no, because they shot the entire Tribe.
Thanks incoherent rambler I’ll check it out — Baz/Barry sounds rather meh? but you never know with these things they can be ramped up to a lethality that will give the collective schiffosi a woody
Plenty of old Footy players kick off in their Fifties, so you’re Gaslighting there.
I used to be 52
Dean Wallis, Warne, Marsh, Kitching.
I don’t feel remotely sorry for anybody who willingly got the vaccine – you deserve it and even if you didn’t support the mandates you made it easier for the government to impose them.
But it’s devastating to think of all the deaths that will happen to those who were coerced into getting it.
Tinta:
Metoo!
Thanks for the mansplaining, DickEd.
Pity you’ve got it wrong. Unsurprising though.
Figures clearly drinks deeply of the milk of human kindness.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/breaking-four-west-point-cadets-overdose-fentanyl-laced-cocaine-vrbo-ft-lauderdale-two-cadets-hospitalized-giving-mouth-mouth/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=daily
It looks like the Chinese Fentanyl War is working…
?
dover, this fkhead should be banned. Immediately.
I don’t know how to do a winking smiley face on my laptop 😉
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/proposed-maryland-law-allow-babies-killed-within-28-days-birth/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=daily
Oh my goodness — yes I do
How do you subject yourself to reading his nonsense?
Donut didn’t write it head prefect, he was quoting someone much smarter. Pay attention or I will fart in your general direction.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/government-data-shows-inflation-trending-trumps-final-year-spiked-record-highs-soon-biden-democrats-took/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=daily
I resemble that remark.
I might have to watch some of her movies:
JK Rowling accuses Labour of cancelling women on International WOMEN’S Day after their Shadow Equalities Minister refused to give a definition for ‘female’
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/vaccine-injuries-skyrocket-two-months-2022-vaccine-related-myocarditis-reports-vaers-surged-nearly-half-total-reported-2021/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=daily
Looks like the after-birth abortion is coming to fruition so to speak – who are the unspeakable creatures that dream this evil up and then try to implement it, more interesting still are those who draft the legislation – are they even human?
Sorry. I shouldn’t have said that.
I feel bad for those coerced and tricked. I don’t feel bad for those who supported the mandates.
Oh no not you Barry, worth contributors excepted –
I’d like to know who will be tasked with carrying out the executions, should this proposed law be implemented.
worthy contributors – but you knew that
I being up partial birth abortions to Aussies who vote ALP but are seemingly ready to be red pilled.
*No way that is legal. I don’t believe you. This is radical conservative propaganda. No way that exists!*
Um…anyone remember Iago’s MO in Othello?
“Kneelsays:
March 13, 2022 at 2:53 pm”
Kneel. Thanks, I think you’ve said it best re De Santis and this is why I believe he should run in 2024 and I have no doubts he’d win. I’ve watched him deal with MSM scum, he’s masterful, he shuts them down and he shuts them up. Just watching the way he’s dealt with corrupt MSM scum over the “gaaaaaaaaayyyyyyy bill”.
Wouldn’t it be nice if we had here in Oz a right of centre politician with a smidgen of DeSantis’ ability to deal with the corrupt, lying MSM. But here in Oz we have scaredy-cats, supine cowards, appeasers and capitulators.
I love Orange Man Bad but I think for the sake of America and the world, we need a figure like Ron DeSantis….that’s if there’s a world left in 2024.
Oh I’m sure there are plenty of Kermit Gossnels out there — we only have to remember what was done so very recently by those who pledged to “first do no harm”
“I don’t feel remotely sorry for anybody who willingly got the vaccine – you deserve it and even if you didn’t support the mandates you made it easier for the government to impose them.”
Nasty.
“Franksays:
March 13, 2022 at 4:44 pm
Figures clearly drinks deeply of the milk of human kindness.”
Yes, it’s very revealing.
Good point, Tinta.
I’ve always wondered how anyone in the abortion business can sleep at night. Must be pyschopathic
Tintarella di Lunasays:
March 13, 2022 at 4:58 pm
A proposed Democrat law in Maryland will allow for babies to be killed within 28 days of being born, says a legal expert from the ACLJ.
Looks like the after-birth abortion is coming to fruition so to speak – who are the unspeakable creatures that dream this evil up and then try to implement it, more interesting still are those who draft the legislation – are they even human?
The piece of excrement who dreamed it up is an Australian “ethicist” named Peter Singer, last I heard of him he was a wackademic at Princeton University. Under the US system, where lobbyists often have input to legislation, he may have helped with the drafting.
He has three children. They might lobby for after academia abortion as a favour to the world.
JMHsays:
March 13, 2022 at 5:02 pm
Looks like the after-birth abortion is coming to fruition so to speak – who are the unspeakable creatures that dream this evil up and then try to implement it, more interesting still are those who draft the legislation – are they even human?
I’d like to know who will be tasked with carrying out the executions, should this proposed law be implemented.
Look at the market for parts of aborted babies in the US. There will be plenty willing to do the job, at the right price.
This is the slippery slope which decent people warned about when legal abortion – and then legal euthanasia – was first touted. Of course, liberals pooh-poohed that, citing it as hyperbole; a conspiracy theory.
It affords no joy to say, “We told you so.”
The boosters especially Moderna are likely to be the problem. Moderna booster had been causing about 7 times more myo/pericarditis in young men than the original vaccine.
As I posted earlier Orange County Public Schools for the first time are requiring an ECG for all school athletes this year. A very big tell.