Oh look. Newbie!

I’ve given you one, Megan.

Thank you, Doc, only 15 999 to go on my path to undisputed Uptick Champion 2022. It’s good to set challenging goals.

Oh Bear. How easy it is to misinterpret my humble attempts at fame and fortune. I am suitably disappointed.

Thanks Rabz. Completely appropriate for the early morning hours. I was unaware the battlefield had shifter from Uptick Mountain to Emoji Fields.

I resolve to do better. Maybe

😉

Shifted…autocorrupt needs to be killed outright.

I’ve given you a tick in sympathy for your joint pain, Megan. I’d give you more but don’t know how!

Johannes Leak.

Mark Knight #2.

Bob Moran.

Michael Ramirez.

Chip Bok.

Al Goodwyn.

Matt Margolis.

Ben Garrison.

Thanks Tom.

Michael Tracey is in eastern Poland.
He says he’s embedded with Polish forces.
He is having his phone & camera checked for authorised photos.
Considering they are effectively twiddling their thumbs what can he share that is so dangerous?

Punishment for Brexit

says:
March 26, 2022 at 6:19 am

Punishment for Brexit

Punishment for green stupidity, Milton.

I doubt Kiev is a serious target.

Part of me thinks the Pentagon is losing their mind over this.
Every US invasion since WWII has been about capturing a city & having a tenuous hold on territory.
The bigger the city, it seems like the shiny bums at the DoD view it as more important.

This Russian invasion has been the opposite.
Avoiding Kiev would have many perplexed.

But we really don’t know.
Only time will tell.

The Patreon purge continues.
If the DOJ wasn’t in the pocket of the DNC they’d be all over this for anti trust issues due to the collusion.
In addition to Patreon kicking people off, there are a range of others who use Vimeo to broadcast their Patreon hosted content.
Vimeo have informed a bunch of them that their monthly charges are going up from a couple hundred dollars per month to 1ok ish because of usage.
But the owner is not allowed to see the data that shows this usage.
And until a billionaire funds litigation against Vimeo, this anti competitive behaviour will continue.

So if you survive the Patreon purge & then get hit with the seperate (not seperate) Vimeo standover move, you change your Patreon content destination from Vimeo to a private youtube link.
But then almost immediately Youtube demonetises your account for some nebulous reason.

Patreon, Vimeo, Youtube (google/alphabet).
And the DOJ doesn’t lift a finger even though these companies are all colluding.
But they’ll spend decades proving chicken farmers collude.

China can come up with a similar rationale why they need Australia as a security measure. Solomon Islands are only the beginning, Papua New Guinea next and then we will be seen as a threat to those.

You’ve got this upside down.
The Ukraine is a sovereign nation & can do whatever it wants even though it enrages a neighbour.
The Solomon Islands is a sovereign nation & can do whatever it wants even though it enrages a neighbour.

Post the sovereign nation Ukraine doing whatever it is entitled to do, hopefully all the opponents to the China one-belt one-road will now stop complaining.
Sovereign nations can not whatever they want regardless of what their neighbours think.
And they definitely can do whatever they want if the biggest loser is a country on the other side of the world (the US in the case of OBOR).

Pragmatic desire for a quick resolution, Rosie? It’s like saying don’t you dare defend yourselves or I will have to kill more of you.

I reckon about 40million Ukrainians want to live in peace & only a couple million want a war.
They don’t give a shit about Putin or the billionaires who installed Zelensky.

I’m saying the west should be very hesitant to get further involved.

Agree but it’s American meddling that’s led to current state of affairs.

It seems to be the whole of Ukraine is the objective.

Based on what?

Another possibility is to destroy the rest of the country and kill as many people as possible as a punishment.

Rest of the country?
You don’t know how big Ukraine is do you?

McCain filth for example.

PS gas from Russia keeps transiting Ukraine to Europe.
The gas keeps on getting paid for.
Russia gets their money for the gas.
Ukraine gets their money for the transit fee.

When was the last time an war was on and something like this kept happening?
A war?
Let alone an invasion.

Truth is, I absolutely despise what the US has become- pushing ‘sex change’ operations on minors, imprisoning dissenters without trial in DC, trashing their own history. The Russians don’t have an establishment that hates its own country.

Granted Ukraine is large but if you destroy cities you destroy main population centres and destabilise everything.

If Brisbane had an earthquake, would people in Rocky, Townsville or Cairns care?

Pragmatic desire for a quick resolution, Rosie? It’s like saying don’t you dare defend yourselves or I will have to kill more of you.

I just want it over too, Crossie. Seen enough of these stupid skirmishes to know that no one really “wins” except the bank accounts of the already mega wealthy.

By all means defend yourself. This is a natural and worthy response to an aggressor. It can get past the point of negotiation and onto an endless cycle of death and destruction all too easily.

Especially if there’s all care no responsibility barracking from the bleachers.

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miltonfsays:
March 26, 2022 at 6:27 am
The private plated tax payer funded cars for MPs is another grotesque rort. I know they used Dept of Admin Services fuel card- that was the give away when I worked at a servo.

A rort shared by public servants at SES level and above, equivalent military officers, judicial officers, and undoubtedly very many more of those on the taxpayer teat of whom I am unaware.

Crossiesays:
March 26, 2022 at 6:57 am
I still cannot understand how people can sympathise with Putin and the Russians in the Ukrainian war and hope they win.

Neither side is pure of heart or mind. Can’t they both lose?

From last night, this is an important reminder to all those allowing themselves to be lulled into believing the lie that, ‘Covid’s Over, The Mandates Are Done, freedom, blah blah …’

Bourne1879 says:
March 25, 2022 at 11:37 pm

Got an update from cop contact in NZ. NZ PM / Government are scum.

“on the last working day before the appeal deadline date, the Crown announced this morning they were appealing the ruling.

Our lawyer has reviewed the basis of the Crowns appeal and deemed it weak at best and very narrow regarding a point of law.

It’s obvious now the decision to appeal is politically motivated as opposed to an actual legal issue.

The Govt are trying desperately to hang on to the ‘mandate’ option which is evident by the PMs comments on Wednesday.

According to our lawyer the JR decision seriously damaged the Govt and in turn the police.

Regardless the appeal announcement today was upsetting for our group as it not only threatens a return to work but questions the validity of the JR”.

They are appealing a High Court Judge who gave them a major smacking over sacking people for not taking a jab. I guess they have a Supreme Court or Court of Case also involves NZ Defence.
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They Never Stop Unless They Are Stopped!

And while you’re still being niggled by it johanna –

johanna says:
March 26, 2022 at 5:51 am

Oh, and I note from way back the (correct) comment about Dettol not being suitable for deep wounds because it kills everything. Then again, deep wounds should not be treated at home.
[…]
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That’s why we called the ambos and followed their instructions as we waited.

Again, the ambos were GREAT, it was only at the grossly understaffed & overworked hospital that everything went to shit.

But then, as Public “Servant” letter reader who had no time for reading letters from the public she considers beneath her, I don’t expect you to care about the dangerous state of our public medical system either.

This idea that the Ukrainian billionaire class, the Ukrainian political class & the poor old punter in the Ukraine has common goals is juvenile.

Latest medical squirrel let loose on the gullible public.
The wife relates that ladies she speaks with are reporting heart issues with their men after they have covid. The vaccine didn’t get a mention as a possible culprit as they’ve been convinced by doctors that it’s the virus at play.

For certain we will all contract covid at some stage, so it’s very handy for health practitioners to have a ready made explanation for seemingly healthy men getting chest pains.

I’ve had two jabs and the last in early August last year. That’s it and after my covid infection a couple of weeks ago I see no earthly reason for another shot.

Crossie says:
March 26, 2022 at 7:11 am

The presumption seems to be that Putin has a right to some or all of Ukraine.

As I mentioned before, even the Ukrainians who built our Churches & Communities here in the 1960’s, had raging arguments about where the actual borders of the Ukraine should be.

‘Ukrainian’ Govt Backed Nazis terrorising, torturing & slaughtering Russian sympathetic Ukrainians for over eight years, is the sort of thing that Western Nations would find an excuse to ‘interfere in’, IF, it wasn’t for the fact of their interference there already having made it possible for those Nazis to go the hack against the Nation of Ukraine.

Rabzsays:
March 26, 2022 at 9:22 am
You forgot the ghastly Oakshott

Indeed, calli and thanks for reminding me … ?

I would rather not have been reminded of the horror.

Crossie says:
March 26, 2022 at 7:15 am

At the beginning I thought too that taking the majority Russian populated Donbas may be politically defensible but that’s no longer what it’s about. It seems to be the whole of Ukraine is the objective. If it’s not then why not pull back, why the attack on the whole country?

Funny, western commenters love telling us that, “Putin’s plans are going as he intended”, while ignoring the fact that Western commenters aren’t privy to Putin’s plans, yet when he clearly states that a key part of his plan is “DE-NAZIFICATION”, that just goes straight into the Nazi Enabling Wests black hole.

Doesn’t anyone remember, “Punch A Nazi!”, being justified all over the West … right up until Putin went in to stop the imminent attack by Ukrainian Nazis against Eastern Ukrainians?

Pleasing news (see blockquote below) that ‘the tide is turning’ and that the Church of England is responsive to moral pressure. I’d like my Huguenot ancestor’s bones to remain under their own monument on the floor before the altar in the ancient Listed church where he and his family worshipped daily, next door to the manor where he farmed in the 1600’s and 1700’s. While I have only faint hopes for success there, the item below did cheer me up. I’ll mention it when I visit with the Recor and other hierarchy in May.

The up-cheering item below, from the UK Daily Telegraph this Thursday, was sent to us because my dearest beloved, a Cambridge man from Jesus College through and through, has been part of the active and once very hairy group (you should see the 1970 freshmen photograph of them all) who have stood up for the integrity of their ancient chapel and were against smashing the window therein to an earlier benevolvent benefactor. The woke College students, the administration and the College Master (one deeply mired into Chinese money too, btw) ganged up against old pothead alumni but they have lost and the alumni have won (but don’t discount an appeal, as these top dogs don’t like to be shown up wrong, note the James Cook’s unimpressive VC’s pursuit to the end of Peter Ridd). Nice words in this piece from a Cambridge historian on making judgements out of historical time, slamming all of the deficiencies of CRT.

The Rustat verdict is a humiliation for woke activists
The tide may have finally turned against campaigners, and we can now hope that rational thinking is returning to our great institutions

DAVID ABULAFIA 24 March 2022 • 5:31pm

Representatives of Jesus College, Cambridge, have declared themselves “shocked” at the verdict that, despite the strident demands of campaigners, Grinling Gibbons’s monument to Tobias Rustat should remain in the college chapel.

What is truly shocking is the sheer certainty of these campaigners that the judgment of the Consistory Court of the Diocese of Ely, tasked with deciding the monument’s future, would go their way. It is of a part with the arrogant attitude of activists across the country, who have closed their ears to intelligent debate about how we commemorate notable people from the past whose social and political assumptions were very different from our own.

It turns too on a distorted view of the past: one that is rooted in the assumption that modern British society is deeply and ineradicably impregnated with the legacy of the slave trade. What the judge in the Rustat case, Deputy Chancellor David Hodge, rightly called the “evil, utterly abhorrent, and repugnant” slave trade did have a role in the making of Britain. But to afford it such exclusive predominance is to ignore all the other ways in which Britain enriched itself over the centuries. No better example of this distortion can be found than the row over Rustat, who, it has now been shown, made his many benefactions with money obtained elsewhere than the slave trade.

Some quiet victories have been obtained in recent months by those who oppose the new iconoclasm championed in universities and museums. Imperial College, for instance, has agreed not to remove the name of Thomas Huxley, one of the college’s founders. But it is the Rustat judgment which provides the firmest indication yet that the tide has finally turned. It is a landmark decision in the resolution of our current disputes. We must now hope that rational thinking is returning to British institutions just as the public grows exasperated by increasingly absurd claims about historical figures.

Deputy Chancellor Hodge had harsh words for those who jumped to conclusions about Rustat, enlarging his role in slavery out of all proportion, making it out to be the main source of his wealth, though it was not. Sloppy research about links between colleges and slavery is unacceptable in one of the world’s leading universities. In Jesus, as in other great educational establishments, the absurd generalisations of “Critical Race Theory” have been allowed to guide debate about events and behaviour several centuries ago. In one email a student even complained of “a concerted effort by external white supremacist organisations” to retain the Rustat monument.

The judgment also makes powerful positive points about the religious setting for the monument: a church or chapel belongs not to humans but to God, and “the Rustat memorial may be employed as an appropriate vehicle to consider the imperfection of human beings?… Forgiveness encompasses the whole of humankind, past and present, for we are all sinners; and it extends even to slave traders.”

Nor should we forget the words of the Rustat monument itself: “The greatest part of the Estate he gathered?… he disposed in his life time in works of charity.” Such a man, whose bones lie under the floor of his beloved chapel, deserves more than to be reduced to a cardboard caricature.

David Abulafia is a professor of history at the University of Cambridge

Crossie says:
March 26, 2022 at 7:22 am
Based on what?

Widespread attacks.

Why not negotiate for the Donbas which they hold if they don’t want more?

Another possibility is to destroy the rest of the country and kill as many people as possible as a punishment. You OK with that?
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Because The Ukrainians were already in position to attack the Eastern Ukrainians after more than eight years of terrorising them.

No one from the West cared to take their pleas for a solution seriously.

They all sat back and let it happen.

Putin kept calling for a solution, as with his attempts to negotiate a solution since he went in.

Still the evil West backed Ukrainians & their Nazis absolutely refuse to stop the slaughters of civilians, until they are stopped.

Dot says:
March 26, 2022 at 8:10 am

How did Zelensky get installed by Obama in 2014?

Oh I see, Putin is invading because he hates corrupt billionaires.

Remember when Team Obama (Clinton et al), set up their ‘Shadow’ Deep State Govt just down the road from the new Trump Govt, to better enable their continued spying and pressuring of everyone daring to work with the Trump Govt?

If you don’t, you should probably refrain from comments on what’s going on now, that is still so strongly tied to what went on way back then, when the same mobs that used, “Russia!”, “Ukraine!”, to take down Trump also installed Obama and put him in the Ukraine Biolab driving seat.

If you do know about all that, your comment is pure Pro-US Deep State Propaganda.

Eyriesays:
March 26, 2022 at 9:44 am
Crossie, just in military terms the Russians are dividing the Uke forces and preventing reinforcement and re-supply of the Azov and other troops which were shelling Donbas while severely degrading Uke C3I by missile strikes on key nodes. Whilst the Ukes may be still resisting they don’t have that ability on large scale as cohesive national armed forces.
Putin’s demands are:
1. Ukraine never joins NATO and becomes neutral i.e.no NATO bases, missiles or exercises on Uke soil.
2 Ukes respect the Donbas etc autonomy as agreed by Uke govt in 2014 and stop killing them.
3.Crimea is Russian. It is de facto now and the Russians actually have good claim. They bought it under Catherine.
4.De-Nazification ie de-fang the Azov mob etc. Probably being taken care of right now by Russian soldiers who will kill them all.

Given the reaction of the west, I also see it as a in for a penny, in for a pound type of thing. What exactly is the cost of taking the whole thing instead of negotiating or only securing part, given the rhetoric?

The other point to it is, the more ground taken or threatened, the stronger the position for negotiations. If, in practical terms, Russia own everything east of the river, it gives them a “concession” of handing some back to the government of Ukraine for example.

Although, I don’t expect much to happen until most of the neo-nazi groups are destroyed.

Tim, he isn’t Irish. His identity remains secure.

I’m probably more Irish. 😀

Dick Ed

Why would the Ukrainian Military wanna cut of Europe’s Gas, since NATO/Europe is resupplying them?

You’re not a deep thinker, are you?

The money that Europe pays for the gas is also paying to resupply the Russian forces.

Indolent

On the most basic level, I think he’s less of a danger and less rapacious than Klaus Schwab and his acolytes.

What is that CS Lewis quote about the robber baron occasionally being sated in his depredations, while the WEF “do gooders” (You will be happy!) will persist in their stupid attempt to make us happy forever?

The wheels are wobbling on Emperor Xi’s Golden Victory Zero-Covid strategy:

Frustration with Covid response grows in China as daily cases near 5,000

As the Omicron variant takes hold, some say the country’s hardline approach is causing more deaths than the virus itself

Familiar symptoms of an infection of fuckup fairies.

…some residents have claimed they’ve been locked down for far longer than warned, and others reported issues in securing fresh food and other deliveries.
A run through the snow, PCR tests and no guests: a wedding in China’s Covid lockdown

“2+2+2+2+2, the lockdown days has been infinitely increased by two,” complained one resident. “Policies change every day, prices rise every day. I have to get up at 5 o’clock every day to grab food. It is still unknown whether it can be delivered. This is how our government treats its citizens?”

Luckily, Xi’s Winged Monkeys have been busy:

Social-media users in China are obsessing over a conspiracy theory claiming the COVID-19 virus was produced by US-linked laboratories in Ukraine

Well played Infowars. You’ve found a soul mate.

What “consensus”, Arky at 10.22am? The only thing I’m sure of is that almost everyone is lying about almost everything and it’s hard work sorting it all out.

The Silicon Valley social media monopolies have magnified the problem 100-fold.

New word! “pinkwashing”…

Labor leader Anthony Albanese has been accused of being transphobic after answering a flat ‘no’ when asked if he thought men could have babies.

‘This is what we mean about politicians pinkwashing. F***ing shameful. This election is going to be so painful.’

Daily Mail