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Thank you I d like to thank the ‘thwack’ Academy
… chokes back tears, ‘I want to be a river to my people …of Lismore ‘
Thwack.
Too soon?
…after seeing the action of the Academy Awards, looks forward to Melbourne Comedy Festival. Might take the wife.
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Warren Brown.
Peter Broelman.
David Rowe.
Bob Moran.
Christian Adams.
Brian Adcock.
Motorcyclist Who Identifies As Bicyclist Sets Cycling World Record
A.F. Branco.
Al Goodwyn.
Tom Stiglich.
Ben Garrison.
They get the point across without the rage.
Good stuff.
Dilbert
bespoke says:
Didn’t go to the link, sorry, time is money here, but I disagree.
Will had done the only thing possible, you cannot argue with stupid insensitive pricks.
As to calling security? For what? Too late bro, the deed was done.
Not pressing charges?
Blimey, I should think so, according to today’s standards he should be charged for something or other, violating something, rights or whatever, I think.
that would be the slappee who should be charged!!
the great covid reset
Just as well both involved were poc.
Though I think racism is probably the root cause of Rock overstepping the joke line and Smith taking offence.
Also toxic masculinity something something.
I see it differently Gabor.
“It’s Ok to belittle others but not me because I’m special”
If the footage is correct Smith didn’t take offence and thought it funny until his wife gave him the stink eye.
The theme of show from what little I’ve seen it was cheep fact free shots at Florida.
So I don’t care about the feelings of either party they are just clowns in the circus.
A rumor, worthy of Anne, according to WSJ, (unknown sources of course) Roman Abramovich and two of the Ukrainian peace delegates have been poisoned.
By the Russians obviously, needless to say.
Flicking through Twitter I see quite a few people think Andrew’s covid is a convenient excuse to avoid the Warne funeral.
The spin is in.
#avoidingtheboos
more on the Kiev poisoning allegations. Hard-line Russians?
I hate the way these guys are going back and forth to the negotiation table.
People are dying.
time to talk turkey in Turkey
Erdogan playing peace maker!
Incidentally it’s all very well to talk about past wars and how there are circumstances where taking prisoners is a practical impossibility or people are so overwhelmed in the moment they kill surrending enemies.
The former is reality, the second somewhat understandable though I’m sure for everyone that didn’t exercise self restraint many more did.
That doesn’t excuse cold blooded torture just because you can.
I also remember reading about German soldiers preventing civilians, furious at being bombed by the Allies, from murdering downed air crews.
Nothing to do with Geneva Conventions, a lot more to do with morality.
It really doesn’t look like Russia is ‘winning’.
an apparently objective analysis of the current state of play in the Ukraine at the Guardian.
It’s mess, rosie. Not worth the agro and I only drew the line at loony clames that Putin is some defender of Christendom or the Ukrainion leadaship are angels.
All true bespoke, all I want is for it to be over as soon as possible.
Al Jazeera has a nice map that is updated daily showing how far the Russians have allegedly advanced. The area has grown steadily. The news site is generally anti-Russian so it would seem strange to exaggerate the Russian success. Rosie gets her news from the Guardian so that says it all.
I draw the credulity lone at where any Biden is involved.
That the US can have a president like him is a disgrace.
Line FFS
Me too rosie.
the ongoing battle to control the church in the Ukraine, from 2018
it seems Ukrainians are more likely to be faithful church goers than Russians.
Disgraceful! Dover please ban Gabor.
Says it all?
I get my news from multiple sources as anyone who isn’t hyperbiased would acknowledge.
Nor do I ever swallow reports from this or that source whole, unlike some. All reports are intended to be subject to criticism not merely dismissed out of hand because big evil.
What I look for is objective analysis of events, especially from certain rational knowledgable people here, not rah rah for this side or the other.
Otherwise we no different to Rudd bots fulminating about Murdoch monolopies.
Garrison is unusually direct with his latest cartoon. However, I can’t say Joe was off the mark with his comment regarding Putin.
If Milosevic, Mladic and Karadzic plus others can be indicted and hauled before an international court, why not Putin?
Simply because he’s Russian, not Serbian or African?
If the Guardian article is wrong then articulate why.
Al jazeera as an unbiased source though.
Down with monolopies!
A pox on both their houses. The propaganda war is disgusting and one needs to take everything you see and hear with a massive grain of salt.
Anchor What says:
March 29, 2022 at 7:01 am
Winners make the rules, simples.
Diogenes
Yep and it’s not relativism it’s resistance to being a puppet.
In the Donbas area I would suspect. The Russians have had to pull back to Irpin NW of Kiev and about 50 km east of Kiev. Also they’ve pulled back from Mykolaiev to Kherson, where there’s been fighting in the suburbs. That means no chance of taking Odessa. Serious losses in those three areas in the last week, with reports that at least two Russian BTG’s being forced back to Belarus to reorganize.
Also there are reports and footage of Russian forces are moving out of Sth Ossetia and yesterday from Nagorno-Karabakh. The latter is a worry as the Russians are all that is keeping the Azeris from ethnic cleansing the place of Armenians, since the latter lost the war last year (the Azeris had help from Turkey). The Russians stepped in as peacekeepers when the cease-fire was negotiated.
The two best twitter feeds are still Maj Gen Ryan (ex-commandant ADF college) and Phillips O’Brien (Prof at Uni of St Andrews). They’re about as professional and centrist as you’ll get in this mess.
You heretic BoN.
I just clicked through Major General Ryan’s account and his analysis was published by the ABC.
How could you expose people to such trash?
Ricky Gervais and allusions to the seedier side of Hollywood are sooooo 2020.
Let’s have Chris Rock and bald jokes instead! With offended wymmyn, and offended husbands, and offended slapping! And lots of entriggered column writing and speculation on slapping technique.
That’ll get the punters back to the movies, for sure.
Who said “black on black” violence wasn’t a thing?
At least no one can pull the race card.
Chris Rock and Will Smith don’t like each other and it goes back to 2016 when Rock made a joke about Jada Smith boycotting the Oscars because of a lack of black representation.
Rock pointed out Jada was a tv actress and it would be like him boycotting Rihanna’s panties, he wasn’t invited.
Big bad Will didn’t like that or the numerous jokes about him being cuckolded by his wife.
The Al Jazeera map largely correlates with the French government map. Steady advances by the Russians over the month. It seems the Russians have taken Mariupol. A slow advancement is still a slow advancement despite what people want to believe.
Will Smith is a cuck who let’s his wife fuck their son’s friends.
No man can keep it together with that sort of shame.
Being a cuck isn’t cool.
She never got over Tupac. Smith is competing with a dead guy. 25+ years of that. Most people couldn’t cope.
Plus professionally he put out a book and produced a series of a more realistic Prince of Bel Air.
(Then the persistent rumours he is gay).
Worst of all, those awful YouTube end of year videos.
Regardless of ongoing hostilities between Rock and Smith over perceived insults to the lady’s honour, the gentlemen should have taken it to the carpark.
All it does is reinforce a persistent stereotype – poor impulse control. And it legitimises it at the same time.
Both men are diminished in my view. It’s pathetic.
You do know the Guardian article says Mariupol will fall to the Russians?
The lady has no honour and Rock is doing Smith a favour for pointing out her thottery.
Rock is just abiding by the Bro Code.
Rock didn’t retaliate.
Seems his impulse control is okay.
Jada Pinkett Shakur Zincstein.
It really doesn’t look like Russia is ‘winning’.
And yet you wrote this, Rosie.
Black on black violence is all kosher.
Every day, in Democrat swamps like Chicago, Baltimore, NYC, DC, San Fran and LA, blacks are murdered by other blacks. Nobody gives a damn because it’s only white man who’s evil.
Oh and before Queen Liz apologises for Britain’s role in slavery, abolished by an act of parliament over two hundred years ago, perhaps the perpetually aggrieved Caribbean and American blacks along with that always offensive low IQ piece of human garbage, Whoopi Goldberg*, can also demand an apology from the descendants of the African tribal kings who sold black men, women and children to the European slavers.
* I note Goldberg is yet to change her surname, a name she culturally appropriated back in the 1980s. She’s a hypocrite.
Rosie – Yeah, and the SMH. He seems to be building a post-retirement business as a go-to pundit, and moved with his family from Canberra to the Gold Coast last week having retired from running the ADF college. So of course he’s going to write for the lefty MSM. There isn’t anyone else in Australia who’ll pay, except Sky, and Sky would probably have him on anyway.
The trouble is the information available skews so heavily towards Ukrainian sources, because Russia doesn’t want to stir up their own people too much whereas the Ukrainians are in the begging business. So they have to keep a high profile to win the support of the arms making country populations. Notably there’s been a bit more stuff coming from the Russians in the last week – carefully selected footage like that PoW one that Cats discussed yesterday. More drone and strike footage too. I take it to mean they realize that Ukraine is winning the propaganda war and they have to counter that somehow.
Not much you can do about the one-sidedness of the info available, other that try to get professionals who are more technically aligned like Ryan and O’Brien. Even they will have a leaning towards Ukraine because the all the elites in the West are screeching in unison like a fruit-bat colony on the side of the Ukrainians. Makes it hard to pull out nuggets of data from the cacophany.
I look at many sites from strongly pro-Russian to strongly pro-Ukraine. These two guys are as close to centrist as I’ve seen. The other guy who has still been doing well is Trent Telenko: he’s pro-Ukraine but has a lot of good technical tactical stuff. Yesterday he did a thread on Russian military technology development which was interesting, and which explains a lot of what we’re seeing in the electronic warfare side.
It’s like everything in the MSM. You read it, sort through and cross check as best you can. Then a nugget might be true. But might not be either. Eventually after a while you get enough pieces to put a bit the jigsaw puzzle together to see what the picture could be. No different from R&D really, except in R&D the natural world doesn’t generate propaganda and lies like humans do.
Apologies for not using the /sarc typeface.
Lol, you think taking Mariupol is proof that Russia is winning this war?
My takeaway from oh lookit Al jazeera map analysis is you don’t have a clue because other than putinfanbois no-one is claiming Russia is ‘winning’
Which is all I was saying.
We can circle back to Russia is winning (decisively) in a couple of weeks.
Let’s have a bit of Ricky being insulting.
Anyone spot the difference?
Thanks BoN.
Like I said I was just a) looking for opinions as to how objective the Guardian piece was and b) suggesting that only Putin fanatics could claim Russia was on the verge of a substantial victory.
Only thing I hope for is swift resolution via negotiation.
I saw Chris Rock when he was in Sydney pre Obama getting elected in 2008.
Geez he gave it to Michelle Obama.
“Damn bitch gunna fuck the whole thing up”.
Very funny night.
Re the Ukrainian sources – we watched Al Jazeera this morning & it had a pretty fair coverage, unlike soo much you see in mainstream Oz TV & in the print media.
They reported the early aborted peace talks in Turkey & said they were to be reconvened with Zelensky willing to consider conceding territory to Russia & an agreement not to join NATO.
You don’t read that in the usual sources.
Michael Lee is running a tight ship with the Palmer/McGowan circus.
He also ran a tight ship with the Elaine Stead/Joe Ashton (Fairfax, Nine) case.
By comparison the Ben Roberts-Smith case is as loose as a wizards sleeve.
BTW – all this talk of who is “winning” in the Ukraine depends on understanding exactly what Russia’s original intentions were.
And who can claim that in the West?
So Cannon Brooke’s father was a financial, legal and IT guru?
Most people spend a lifetime mastering one…plus many banks were bailed out in that time, those puff pieces scream knee padding like a custom skating kit made in Daylesford (“Dale’s Fjord”).
They certainly hadn’t as of lunchtime yesterday. I’ve not gotten to the war news yet this morning.
Yesterday there was a report that Zelenzky had told the defenders that they had permission to withdraw if they could, but the Azov guys said no they’d defend to the last. While that sounds melodramatic they’d know they’d get no fun if captured, so I thought it might be plausible. On the other hand Zelensy has to appear moderate and warm and fuzzy for the cameras, so telling his guys publicly to withdraw but privately to fight would be in character. Even the Australian generals in WW2 commonly told troops to fight to the death. It goes with the political species.
The French are iffy as they are quite Russophilic. That’s fine by me since the other maps tend to be Ukrainophilic. As I said, look at all of them and confirm from other sources when you can. There are a few sites that will use geolocation and Goolag Maps to identify where footage is on the ground. Also a nice source is NASA satellite fire maps, which pick up the locations of fires on the ground…most likely where fighting actually is, rather than where sites claim it is.
Brucie
The idea you, yes you, would be able to discern centrist/ unbiased is laughable . Let’s not forget how you told us you don’t speak to neighbours because you’ve assessed them as leftwing.
Not two days later you were trying to make hay by highlighting how some lefties don’t talk to people on the Right.
You buffoon.
I think the US has turned into a grotesque abomination.
Another one.
23 year-old Romanian water polo player is dead… Sudden heart attack during game…
are you saying no-one else reported on the failed peace talks in Turkey a couple of weeks ago?
No one will win in the Ukraine. It will be a festering forever. And outside agitators cheering the destruction.
8 Lessons From The Ron DeSantis School Of Dominating The Corrupt Media
Just outstanding. Nos. 4 and 6 particularly resonate. Lessons to be learnt, indeed.
Amen. A hard lesson to learn. We see it played out all the time.
I hate to say it, but it’s very hard to argue with this sentiment. The beacon of freedom has been turned into an evil cesspit. The scum has risen to the top.
Ed Casesays:
March 28, 2022 at 10:33 pm
Did not get the Medal of Honour but the most awarded medals of any US soldier.
Rubbish.
They’ve pushed that line about any number of American soldiers.
Famous for criticising the conduct of the war whilst still serving.
Yeah, as if they’d let someone get away with that.
Unless he was a Spook and that was part of his cover story.
Good old Dickless Ed. If in doubt, spin about spooks, and add in flamers for good measure. Never any actual evidence, though. Just random assertions.
Read up those memoirs of Australian soldiers who served on the Kokoda Trail yet, Dickless?
ECASH & Biden’s Attack on the Financial Markets
and the report says ‘chest pain’ before the sudden death, so they cant claim its an arrhythmic death due to undiagnosed congenital condition
still, I’m sure its nothing..
Go back, have a read of today’s Dilbert. Substitute Goose Moronson for the boss and Elbownium for Vaccines. Couldn’t be more fitting. Morrison is an idiot of the highest order.
“Kitching’s vacancy will be filled by Jana Stewart, a Muthi Muthi and Wamba Wamba woman and until recently the deputy secretary at the Victorian Department of Justice, who had previously been lined up to run in the safe seat of Pascoe Vale at the Victorian state election in November.”
https://www.pollbludger.net/2022/03/29/all-too-much-preselection-news/
She’ll be no good at all.
She isn’t “proud”.
I’m not going to side with fruit loops just because they occasionally claim to believe the something I do. Populist jingoistic rhetoric has lead normally rational people to go along with the worst atrocities in the past.
Orright. Who stole me “most dangerous eva” rain bomb.
Sheesh, go to bed with the ABC forecasting disaster porn and you wake up to sunshine.
ABC!
If you want a more realistic analysis of the Ukrainian war I suggest you read The Saker:
http://thesaker.is/
You should realize that this is not a war as we know it. This is not a shock-and-awe, raze everything war that we are used to seeing from America. The Russians have clearly stated this is a “special operation” to clean out Nazis and secure the Donbass. They have no intention of taking over the whole of Ukraine. They also have been exceptionally careful not to cause civilian casualties (unlike the US and allies completely destroying towns and buildings), as they see the civilians as brothers.
Their tactics are more akin to those of old times – encircle the enemy, close them in a cauldron, siege warfare.
Remember that the Russians have complete air superiority over the entire Ukraine, and have completely destroyed the Ukrainian command and control structure. All the Ukraine armed forces can do now is guerrilla warfare, though the Russians have much experience with this in Chechnya.
It’s a modern day version of the Council of Nicaea, what to leave in and what to leave out.
https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2022/03/the-scandals-of-the-dead-sea-scrolls/
They never stop, ever. Terminators.
Report: Scientists Seek to Make a ‘Self-Spreading’ Vaccine (27 Mar)
I used to wince whenever I saw a mad scientist on a cartoon or in a movie. Now I don’t.
Sigh. The hubris is strong with these guys.
I wonder what a non-proud Muthi Muthi and Wamba Wamba woman is like. Is she just a woman who happens to have a particular ancestry but otherwise just does her own thing?
And another.
Schoolboy dies after Year 7 pupil collapsed and air ambulance rushed to sports field (28 Mar)
Heart attack, at age 13.
Has it never happend before?
..and just in case we need any reminders on how the Democrats saw the 25th for both Reagan and Trump.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/01/how-reagans-mental-health-concerns-were-handled.html
Actors spend every minute of their professional lives pretending they’re someone else. They’re the dregs of society. Putting them on a pedestal is perverse and masochistic.
Apparently not bespoke
A new report from National Geographic indicates that scientists are now working on “self-spreading vaccines” that can jump from vaccinated to unvaccinated populations.
It already exists. It’s called “Omicron”.
And the Oscar for Best Girly Slap at an Awards Ceremony goes to …
No one wants a fruit loop for a friend, bespoke. Especially a nasty one.
I find myself becoming more Treebeard-ish as I get older. Some aims and objectives might overlap, but taking sides where no one is exactly on my “side” is utilitarian at best, dangerous at worst.
Probably makes me first in line for the axe though. From all sides.
Not for that poor kid. It’s well known that the boosters especially Moderna have a bigger incidence of myo and pericarditis in teenage boys. It’s about 7 times more than the first dose. Girls for some reason don’t have much difference between first dose and booster.
The problem is that there is no open reporting of such cause and effect for the obvious reason. That is actually undermining the government line as people increasingly are taking in stories like this. People aren’t stupid, they just get cautious and don’t say anything. But they think it.
Unfortunately the governments can’t walk this back at all without committing seppuku. They dare not fess up. So all that’s now going to happen is they’ll stop talking about it and hope people will forget.
Can’t foresee anything going wrong with this one.
No. Wait…
The Victoriastan justice system has really been kicking some goals. A great appointment in the Liar tradition.
Joe Biden not walking anything back. He can’t find the way.
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The meme guys are fast!
Albansleazey is one of the deepest political thinkers to have strode this planet in human history – to paraphrase an audio grab just on the 9:00am news:
“It the gliberals want to give people some free money, well, we’ll point out that it’s only because of the (upcoming) election.” *
As if anyone with a functioning brain wouldn’t have been able to figure that out for themselves – although to be fair, that excludes every labore and greenfilth voter, for starters.
*A very similar statement (in its sheer patronising idiocy) to Goose Morristeen’s “We’ve never supported vaccine mandates, except when we have”.
Report: Scientists Seek to Make a ‘Self-Spreading’ Vaccine
Anyone else want to join a mob with pitchforks, torches and boiled rope aimed at doing over these guys?
BoN
The justifiable frustration in the beginning was the perception all deaths was attributed to Covid has flipped to all deaths regardless of other factors be being attributed to the Vax.
I have to be frank. You are not helping.
Also heard him on the news. His condition appears to have worsened – the sad syphilitic geriatric imbecile now sounds barely conscious.
Elder abuse, indeed.
It already exists. It’s called “Omicron”.
You may well be correct. Funny how it is a branch off a much earlier variant than delta.
Ahahaha! Cassie! They read your comment!
Starkey’s new video an interesting take on foreign affairs. Starkey in previous videos has been very pro Ukraine, but this is an interesting take on the Lavrov Doctrine.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FofS0aNQSnE
I have to be frank. You are not helping.
I thought BoN’s comment at 9:03am was very reasonable. What is your problem?
We are being denied information by our governments. Why wouldn’t any one be suspicious.
OK lets have a survey: How many of you during your entire time at school and university (if applicable) knew of any boys in your school having heart attacks?
Seems there’s a back story to that slap:
Will Smith used Chris Rock as a stand-in as he vented his rage at being openly cuckolded.
Hollyweird living down to its standards again.
calli
It never and never will be an attack from me just disagreement.
Heart attack, at age 13
Old school Justice is coming.
No boys died of (as far I can remember) hepatitas, Eyrie.
Bitchfighting Hollyweirdos. There needs to be a lot more of it.
Hi Frank! So far everything I’ve said about Covid and the mRNA vaccines has proven to be spot on going back to Feb 2020. I wish I wasn’t. See the transcript with Steyn yesterday that a Cat put up. Not my business what people want to believe.
The Dead Sea Scrolls affair is one thing, but can you expand on that in regard to Nicaea?
Following a deep forensic analysis of the text one is drawn inexorably to the conclusion, people are just making shit up.
The role of your life – pretending to be a straight male in Hollyweird.
Knock on effects from the Ukraine war in the Middle East – very serious stuff:
and
Kinda puts our problems in perspective.
I frequently read the German press. Unsurprisingly Ukraine is a front and centre issue: just as de-nazification is a red hot issue for Russians because of their WW2 experience, so Russians rolling westward is a big deal in Deutschland.
Defence is a difficult issue in Germany and mainstream reporting on military issues is usually fairly muted. Over the past month however, the left/centre-left German Government has been firmly on the front foot on defence:
• Military equipment transfers to Ukraine.
• Increased contributions to NATO, and significantly increased spending on the Heer.
• Purchasing 30 F35’s so that the Luftwaffe can replace its Tornados and more reliably drop the nukes the US apparently keeps at Büchel airbase for NATO use.
• Planning a ‘water tight’ national ‘missile shield’ based on the Israeli Arrow missile defence system – apparently the ‘best and most tested option’.
The knee jerk political reaction to an issue that’s been staring them in the face is no particular surprise – German politics is no different to ours.
The interesting thing is the limited public political response from die Grünen and the usual mob of far left anti-war activists – who would normally be in violent hysterics over this sort of stuff.
Instead we see German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock – herself a Green – explaining the government’s decisions to arm Ukraine against Russia.
Not sure if boosting Germany’s war fighting capabilities and sidelining pacifism was one of Putin’s objectives – perhaps he’s playing 5D chess.
Jada wears the pants in that relationship. Will Smith’s anger was at his own insecurities.
they have been for years – this is old news.
Sure BoN “And another.” wasn’t a nudge.
Bespoke, I never imagined an “attack”. :D. Just an expansion on “side taking”. If only life was that simple.
Also, I get the reservations about every death (especially the young) being attributed to the vaxx and how it mirrors the “every death was from Covid” panic narrative early in the piece. The stupid* eclipses the reality.
There is a definite link becoming apparent, particularly for fit young men. Not every single one, but a few too many for comfort. It’s worrying me for sure, and I can’t discount it personally – my rugby playing grandsons for instance.
* William Hurt, druggie drummer, etc.
Because they are ineffectual temporisers with no vision extending beyond the next election.
Otherwise known as contagious pathogens, disease really.
There’s one issue I care about more passionately than the Will Smith/Chris Rock shock horror imbroglio.
Will the Wiggles survive becoming too woke to entertain small children?
Cheers calli.
They have an adults only show on tour at the moment. They can transition seamlessly into burlesque with primary colours to keep the dollars rolling in.
Green and yellow.
Mouldly East German SAMs and 5000 steel helmets…
The lefty German government actually quite likes Russia for historical reasons, but is wedged by the voters who detest the Russians for some reason or other. So the government has been doing the least it can do they can get away with on the equipment front, while defending their use of Russian gas and oil. It’s been fun to watch them squirm.
There’s been plenty of virtue signalling though.
Free Speech Clampdown: German States Criminalise ‘Z’ Symbol Used by Russia Supporters (28 Mar)
Devastating! Putin will be shivering in his bunker.
Roger – Nicaea was a bunch of people many pushing for different things to be left in and for other things to be left out, hundreds of years after the events. One faction eventually formed and dominated and managed to get their way and much was left out. Just like what is happening with all these old texts, some just get disappeared when it suits those who control the narrative.
How anyone can take any religious text as truth is beyond me.
Mick Ryan’s analysis of Rudskoi’s “Plan B” announcement last Friday.
Have these idiots ever looked at a map – what are they going to do, swim to PNG or NZ?
Ummm…
So how many PGMs have the Americans used since the end of the Vietman War and how many towns have they completely destroyed???
In perilous times, would we fight or flee?Greg Sheridan
Problem with articles like this is they are polled on folk living in the selected postcodes not on/at all folk born here .. when you have a high percentage of the population who’s loyalties tend to favour and are often, publically, demonstrated to support their birth countries why would you, realistically, expect them to “stay & fight” .. like most polls target the demograph and you get your required result ..!
sfw, as I mentioned before, that’s not a fair characterisation what happened at Nicaea.
Councils are usually only called to deal with a heresy, the heresy at the time being Arianism.
The definition of heresy literally is “a thing chosen”, rather than receiving the doctrine handed down.
Nicaea simply reaffirmed the doctrine handed down regarding Christ, which was being denied by Arius.
Before the fun begins, a blast from the past,
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i8hZ0wxSUV0
There is something to religion.
Most religions have a triune god. Either that is divinely revealed or it is a cultural trope to do with how we see ourselves.
Most of the time, it is simply traditionalist advice that works from empirical observation.
There is often a redemption cycle.
Flawed humans can either improve themselves, seek god or find their proper purpose.
Religious people are happier.
Religion doesn’t stop science, see Lamaitre, Mendel, Copernicus (all Catholic priests or Jesuit trained canon).
Google their names – their work is seminal.
That’s why it is taken seriously.
I have read some of the missing gospels, they’re obvious fakes.
What I do find amusing is people who reject the deuterocanonical work, referring to Enoch I and II etc.
Heart attack, at age 13
I’m 74 now but remember going to school with a lad who died of a heart attack at 14 ..!
From Adam’s Cat:
🙂
Rhinestone Wiggle will be the give-away.
Will Josh bring the LOLs? Will Josh even have a job in a month?
They could never have held the whole of Ukraine, but clearly they were intending to take Kiev, to which Putin attaches great symbolic value as the birthplace of Rus, and the territory to the east of the Dnieper across to the Donbas. Stategically, that would also have provided the buffer he desires against NATO.
That reminds me, who does have the Q&A arseless chaps?
Bespoke – Only an 80% chance of being correct. Actually that’s probably higher now we’re into boostering, since as I said the boosters multiply the risk of myo/peri significantly. Moderna is also worse than Pfizer, possibly because the dosage is higher.
5-fold increase in sudden cardiac deaths of FIFA players in 2021 (16 Nov)
It’s gotten so bad that Orange County schools are requiring all school athletes to get an ECG before playing.
‘What has changed?’ New ECG screening requirement initiated for student athletes in Orange County, Fla. (7 Mar)
Going to be even harder to get kids to do sport now if they read on social media (which they will) that they might have heart attacks.
If you believe in God, there is no great leap to believing the council at Nicea was guided by the holy spirit.
Seriously?
Dot, you’ve summed it up beautifully. Well said.
The woke want your children. They want them sacrificed to their Moloch. They are little tokens through which we will purchase a glorious future where everything is a matter of politics – so much so that there will not even be enough space on the wrapping of a carob bar to mention how many grams it is. But the breakdown of races, genders, privileges, alliances etc that went into its production will all be there for careful scrutiny and judgement.
Mariupol Human shields (Special Report) Russia – Ukraine War
Patrick Lancaster
Oh it might all be people paying more attention because of bias.
Have heart attack rates in these demographics increased, or not.
15, no vaccine, no reason
You were griping about this the other day.
Could be black powder muskets and sabres. The political significance would be exactly the same.
The German rubicon that’s been crossed is transferring anything military into a war zone involving Russia.
Incidentally one of my mother’s friends lost a thirteen year old granddaughter a couple of years ago.
Perfectly healthy, one morning she just didn’t wake up.
sudden unexplained death in childhood
Widely reported that the Russians thought they would be welcomed by the people with open arms. So yes they DID think they could held the whole of Ukraine. Unfortunately for the Russians it seems they had started believing their own propaganda.
There was one story that during the first days of the invasion Viktor Yanukovych had moved to Minsk in advance of forming a new government in Kiev. That’s the guy who the CIA somehow caused to flee the country from millions of orange wearing people. Weird how the CIA are so effective at such things.
“When they shine torches in your eye, that’s where your totem sits . . . shining lights on it and interfering with that is spiritually dangerous, (especially) without my consent,” Mr Walley said.
“And putting electricity in your arms upsets the rhythm of your dance, and how much are electricity are they going to put through you?”
Methinx, an appointment with Nurse Ratchett would have been more appropriate than an visit with a neurologist .. for both Mr. Walley & the member(s) of the PS Appeals Board who arrived at the re-instatement decision .. LOL!
How is that vaccine going for you now?? Any side effects??
read the whole thing at substack.
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When is mRNA not really mRNA?
What is pseudouridine, why is it being injected into you, and why should you care.
Robert W Malone MD, MS
Mar 28
Comment
Conculsion
Based on this information, it appears to me that the extensive random incorporation of pseudouridine into the synthetic mRNA-like molecules used for the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna SARS-CoV-2 vaccines may well account for much or all of the observed immunosuppression, DNA virus reactivation, and remarkable persistence of the synthetic “mRNA” molecules observed in lymph node biopsy tissues by Martinez et al. Many of these adverse effects were reported by Kariko, Weissman et al in their 2008 paper “Incorporation of pseudouridine into mRNA yields superior nonimmunogenic vector with increased translational capacity and biological stability” and could have been anticipated by regulatory and toxicology professionals if they had bothered to consider these findings prior to allowing emergency use authorization and widespread (global) deployment of what is truly an immature and previously untested technology. Therefore, neither the FDA, NIH, CDC, nor BioNTech (which employs Dr. Kariko as a Vice President) nor Moderna can claim true ignorance. To my eyes, what we have seen is more appropriately classified as “willful ignorance”.
In conclusion, based on these data it is my opinion that the random and uncontrolled insertion of pseudouridine into the manufactured “mRNA”-like molecules administered to so many of us creates a population of polymers which may resemble natural mRNA, but which have a variety of properties which distinguish them in a variety of aspects which are clinically relevant. These characteristics and activities may account for many of the unusual effects, unusual stability, and striking adverse events associated with this new class of vaccines. These molecules are not natural mRNA, and they do not behave like natural mRNA.
The question that most troubles and perplexes me at this point is why the biological consequences of these modifications and associated clinical adverse effects were not thoroughly investigated before widespread administration of random pseudouridine-incorporating “mRNA”-like molecules to a global population. Biology, and particularly molecular biology, is highly complex and matrix-interrelated. Change one thing over here, and it is really hard to predict what might happen over there. That is why one must do rigorously controlled non-clinical and clinical research. Once again, it appears to me that the hubris of “elite” high status scientists, physicians and governmental “public health” bureaucrats has overcome common sense, well established regulatory norms have been disregarded, and patients have unnecessarily suffered as a consequence.
When will we ever learn.
Faustus – The reason for sending the mould-affected SAMs and the steel helmets was so they could say to Putin “we were forced to do something so we did the least we could get away with, meanwhile here’s payment of your most recent gas bill”.
Actually they sent the helmets first, to widespread derision, then political pressure forced them to do something more real. Hence the SAMs. Not many of them were usable after being poorly stored for 35 years. But as you say it was never about actual support, it was about perception management.
I like Orban’s style better. He’s at least up front and honest about his position.
Just like what is happening with all these old texts, some just get disappeared when it suits those who control the narrative.
That’s certainly not what happened at Nicaea.
There was a strong push to exclude Revelation from the canon on the grounds that the critics didn’t see any substantial pastoral or theological benefit in including it, and predicted that it was all too likely to be used by weirdos to push aberrant gibberish. (It has to be said that the prediction has been borne out totally.)
The critique was generally accepted. However it was found on the facts that its provenance was clear and that St John the Evangelist had clearly wanted it circulated widely, so it was decided that the Council shouldn’t attempt to second guess an Apostle, and therefore despite the misgivings it was included.
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
March 29, 2022 at 10:15 am
Wonder if they’d accept that as a get-out from the vaxx if there was a vaxx mandate for that particular job.
If they did – and I doubt it -that would be the height of hubris.
Mother Lode, griping is ok, isn’t it? I just went back to it because of the Quadrant article on the Dead Sea Scrolls. You can always do what I do whenever Rex, JC and the rest go slightly mad and attack each other in a strange, unpleasant abuse feast, scroll down.
why does rosie sound like psaki?
I look at it this way BoN.
The world has a population of over six billion (probably well over).
This site and others are a funnel for all the anti vax news. Reinforced by the hostility of a minority if someone goes against that narrative.
Not Dovers fault ,it is what it is and unavoidable Human nature.
So the factors that created the original panic i.e. people unable to discern local numbers with global populations. Is also at play when it come to the Vax.
All of my family and friends who have had the Vax have only gotten mild side effects. This is only an anecdote and does not disprove concerns.
Suck up!
would not stay and fight for their country but would seek to flee overseas
Q: What are we fighting with?
A: Nothing, we confiscated most of your firearms and melted down the war emergency reserves.
Q: What are we fighting for?
A: Nothing, we took away pretty much all your freedom, Liberty and wealth.
Q: Do you blame me for choosing to flee overseas instead of standing and fighting?
A: Errr….. upon reflection, not really.
Biden Botches His Kennedy Moment as His Call for Regime Change in Moscow Provokes Massive Backlash
Alexander Mercouris
All of my family and friends who have had the Vax have only gotten mild side effects
For now.
Browsing the USAF’s 2019 procurement requests, they still buy metric shit tons of the now rebadged cheap and cheerful 2000lb Mk84.
Strapping a Paveway kit on one doesn’t make it less neighbourhood flattening.
Because it amuses, zippy.
What a peculiar place is Victoria. Jana Stewart, who will take Kitching’s place, last contested an election as the Labor candidate for Kooyong in 2019. She didn’t win, obviously, so Andrews parachutes her into a plum public service job to bide her time on the taxpayer teat. Now public servants are supposed to be apolitical, but not in Victoria, where everything from the police to the courts to council contracts (I Cook Food) are nakedly and brazenly partisan.
Oh, and Calli, don’t fret for Ms Stewart. She is as ‘proud’ as proud can be.
The Snake Island 13 was also ‘widely reported’.
And as I explained last time I binged on Bosch (which is pre psaki) and the characters said it all the time.
Another one was ‘the question answers itself’
Btw, still waiting for the ‘Catholic Education Office class action’ to explode into the msm.
Some commentators are suggesting that Smith needs some time away from Hollywood spivs in order to sort himself out.
Smith IS an A List Hollywood Spiv. His arrogant actions at the narcissist fest were entirely in character.
A number of years ago the egomaniac was filming in a surburban street in NY. The arrogant prick parked his double story trailer at the kerb and had his security thugs prevent locals from using the sidewalk.
One fellow was roughed up and called the police. No response, but the New York Post had fun.
Monique Ryan’s organization is doing a full court press in Kooyong .Two volunteers at the door Monday morning, today 5 cyclists going up our street towing a sign.
All wearing the gear.
I didn’t engage with the volunteers, just said I didn’t approve of fake independents and astroturf candidates.
Some fightback, we got a leaflet pointing out she was an ALP member for years and I noticed that one of the signs had a counter sticker on it asking which alternative applied out of about 5 including Marxist or useful idiot.
Likewise. Some moderate side effects but nothing permanent. Other Cats haven’t been so lucky, if you have been paying attention. On the other hand it is pointless to keep boostering yourself to protect against a virus which is roughly on a par with the common cold, and substantially less dangerous than the flu.
Because of the mode of operation of the vaccines (excepting Novavax of the Australian suite of available choices) you are risking autoimmune responses and clotting issues with every shot. The chance of permanent side effects is fairly low, seemingly between 5-10% on the data I extrapolate (getting data on this is tough). But even 1-2% would be much higher than the official data suggests, and who’d take a booster if they thought they’d have 1% chance of permanently harming their health?
I never said I am against Covid vaccines, only that I am against mRNA vaccines given their mechanism of action. I said this from around March or April 2020. I was exactly right about that. I always said that Covaxin and possibly Novavax were to be preferred since the former is a conventional killed-virus vaccine and the latter is not a mRNA vaccine. However I have seen no data on Novavax side effects, and I doubt that data will now be released given the authorities are now totally paranoid, and that the number who’ve received it is small.
My caveat is that the spike protein itself seems to deactivate certain T-cells. Which could mean problems with both Covaxin and Novavax, which both use the original Alpha spike. The Omicron spike is different and seems less of an issue with T-cells. That is only a hypothesis so far since I haven’t seen data for or against.
The use of mRNA is valid if you have a really nasty pathogen. But that in not true of Omicron and not true of Alpha and Delta for anyone under the age of about 65. Certainly unjustifiable for kids who are not vulnerable to Covid at all.
Accounts of Nicaea are always tendentious.
The history that was filtered by university departments replayed Nicaea as a Labor Party conference. Everything was seen in those terms by these true believers.
Real believers knew differently.
Some still barracking hard for the ADE, aids etc
Any moment now…
No, I was really just curious why it was coming back up. Particularly as the characterisation of the Council had already been discussed extensively in response to the original asseveration.
Yes, there was some sifting of the texts circulating in the early centuries as the early church coalesced and had to determine the authenticity of writings that had previously only been known to local communities of Christians. But the exclusion of some texts from the canon was not arbitrary and based on powers controlling a narrative. There was a very clear criterion for authenticity, as Timothy has mentioned, and that was apostolic authorship or imprimatur.
Good Moaning.
Let us pray.
Let us pray for those who can’t comprehend that Christ can be in people’s hearts even when church attendance is a dangerous activity.
Let us pray for those with mental conditions that cause them to deny the bleeding obvious and to also block out and forget reality.
For ’twas at least a few years ago on the old blog that I first told of curry munching crap holes being cut in sleeper cab floors.
I was at Kenworths in Adelaide speaking to the actually mechanics that had found the disgusting mess.
Poor Sancho Smullet needs a prayer said about him as well, because he has either forgotten this, or is lying about it.
He has problems and deserves your prayers for he has confessed to fabricating complete stories.
He cries for your help, publicly admitting he is a liar.
Some of you, who have received your good Nazi passes, and are flashing them about in this apartheid system in NAZI Australia, may be unfamiliar with the ways of the world, but if you can flash your triple jabbed good Nazi tick at the border guards at Border Village, head on down through the basement , up Madura pass and head on into cocklebiddy Roadhouse, do so.
I’m not allowed in WA, but that’s another story to be completely forgotten it seems.
It was and most likely still is, the preferred roadhouse for the curry munching wet farters of transport, and other truckies leave them to Cocklebiddy, and don’t stop there.
Go and check out the toilets for a reason why.
So let us pray for the willfully ignorant.
Those that will get themselves jabbed with a poison (which will kill them) based on no evidence of a disease it is meant to vaccinated them from, while now dismissing the reports coming in from British government and Christian news services etc, as conspiracy theory pushing propaganda outlets.
We are at the stage now where we must pray for anyone still dismissing anything without argument as a conspiracy theory because they don’t want to hear it, as somebody that needs praying for.
They are lost.
When those people we pray for gather, such as on blogs like this, their insanity multiplies to the point that they’ll be consumed by a foreign little war because the government told them to be.
And because they want to be.
It’s sad.
Let us pray.
It was one of the Walley clan, who, together with Ernie Dingo, invented the “Welcome to Country’ ceremony…..
Here you go, it will take a while to read and digest
https://inumero.substack.com/p/more-evidence-for-vaccine-accelerating?s=r
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/uk-covid-becoming-chronic-like-aids?s=r
From heroes to villains to quitters – how the front line of the pandemic got screwed while those in power partied maskless and Big Pharma made billions.
Russell Brand
In which case the division of the FSB charged with keeping tabs on Russia’s former CIS near neighbours really screwed up.
When the dust settles, it will be interesting to see which heads roll in Moscow.
I have seen no data on Novavax side effects
Not a trace of anything adverse after first Nova jab. Second due on April 8.
After that I can get on a plane and piss off. Can’t wait.
In which case the division of the FSB charged with keeping tabs on Russia’s former CIS near neighbours really screwed up.
As the inheritors of the KGB, I doubt that they are that incompetent.
After that I can get on a plane and piss off. Can’t wait.
Where are you going to go? Looking around, the rest of the world seems a complete shambles. Certainly the English speaking parts.
Can we have NZ declare war on us just so the useless F ing Greens F off. Cant be a bad thing.
What is the limit of mocking your religion? If at all?
No I’m not referring to sfw.
Dover – The RGS would have designed the campaign totally differently if they thought the Ukrainians would react like they did. The coup de main strategy was like the Germans taking over Vichy. You move in quickly from all directions and grab the apparatus of government and bureaucracy.
For a conventional conflict at 190,000 guys the odds for Russia weren’t even 1:1 on the headline numbers of what Ukraine could field. Let alone 3:1. And the Ukrainians had interior lines, which any officer will have learned the value of very early in their training. Even the choice of season and weather was wrong.
Yep, they thought they’d be welcomed by the people and the Ukrainian Army wouldn’t fight, except for a few hard cases. Wrong call. Not the first time, since both the Russo-Japanese War and the Winter War were similar misjudgements.
Unfortunately this mistake will probably prevent a common sense peace deal with the Ukrainian and Russian-ethnic areas partitioning and going separate ways. The Ukrainian people are now spitting chips, which is why Zelensky says the deals have to be subject to a referendum. He knows he can’t enforce a deal without one because he’d get Oranged immediately. And the referendum answer will be “no”. It’s sad. I don’t know what is going to happen, but I’m not seeing anything remotely optimistic for either side. It’s a bloody mess.