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Excellent article at Red State on Tucker Carlson’s Moral Myopia. Tucker is another one who had great promise, but is…
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Why RNA Dr. John Campbell
Is this another review of Married At First Sight?
Ooh that Tamara is a piece of work.
It may well be that both are simply all hat and no cowboy, with Ukraine dependent on support from the west and the Russians relying on the nuclear arsenal to push their claims (I can’t help thinking of the sheriff in Blazing Saddles).
Varies, but yes. On the better behaved end of the spectrum there’ve been several prisoner swaps since the start of the invasion. Appear to be more around Kharkov. Also the island defenders who fought to the death got prisoner swapped back to Ukraine about a week ago. Seems they made a remarkably good recovery from their fatal injuries.
‘Russia warship, go f**k yourself’ hero returns home in special Ukraine prisoners swap (30 Mar)
The social niceties continuum goes like this:-
Civilteh … cordiality ….. bonhomie …. get a room.
Putin is making a huge mistake here. If he hasn’t contacted Bob Katter for advice on what to do next, he’s lost the war.
There plenty of moral equivalence and propaganda at play but an invading army of a foreign power tends to lend itself to the black hat stereotype.
The stupidity of Russia heading to Kiev instead of just concentrating on the separatist zones allows us to point the finger I think.
Seven Worst-Case Scenarios From the War in Ukraine
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-04-03/niall-ferguson-7-worst-case-scenarios-from-putin-s-ukraine-war
Good column from Niall Ferguson.
Also uses it as an excuse to give Steven Pinker a few jabs.
Most Tamaras are.
Let me guess.
Blonde, Queensland, fake tits, and with a fancy job title meaning receptionist or beauty ferapist.
Get a room is really an Entente Cordiale. I would, therefore, reshuffle the deck.
With one exception. Brucie! Both sides are giving Brucie all the intel for further analysis.
Blonde, Queensland, fake tits, and with a fancy job title meaning receptionist or beauty ferapist.
As if you don’t know.
Fake blonde, Ballarat, real tits, and a fancy job title as a property manager in a real estate company.
Or, as we like to call him, General George C. Hatton.
Ballarat?
Jeez, they a scraping the bottom of the barrel now.
From the Oz.
Decoded.
Receptionist who updates the rental roll.
Bern
That’s a scary piece.
Footy joke doing the rounds …
“The last time Essendon started a season with three losses, the Prime Minister drowned.”
KD last night.
This generally involves the aforementioned hideous mezzanine floor, extra-polished floorboards and a tangerine colour in there somewhere. This usually precedes an appearance in a second-tier Better Homes and Gardens or the June issue of Qantas magazine where immaculate trolley boys Lionel and Quentin divide their time between flying the friendly skies and (badly) regrouting stained glass windows.
Not to belabour the point but the same couple usually have a “delightful” antique shop in the local village, well stocked with Shirley Bassey and Judy Garland LPs. There will also be a picture of them with their family that consists of a couple of schnauzers and a Honda Jazz in the driveway. Their impressive English cottage garden will have its own name like “Chatsworth” or “Pemberton”. The old ducks who are members of their Garden Club think they are adorable.
(Apologies to a couple of posters who drive Honda Jazz.)
I hope he’s wrong.
A swift end to the conflict with each side taking less than what they wanted please.
Putin’s reputation is in tatters regardless.
Realy! Ill ask my little blond Sis.
Hence the joke…
The Russian military was ranked second in the world.
Turns out they’re only second in Ukraine.
Tomsays:
April 4, 2022 at 8:08 am
Seems both sides have now been implicated in torturing and killing prisoners.
ALL the “news” coming out of an active war zone is propaganda with a political purpose.
Indeed. At this stage, the only thing that can be claimed reliably is that things are neither as good nor as bad as each side says about itself and the enemy respectively.
Cassie of Sydney:
Onya, Cassie>
Challenge the bastards whenever you can.
It’s a war.
You don’t expect anyone to tell the truth, do you?
Why You Shouldn’t Live In Fear
I think I’d prefer the green cordiality to the red cordiality.
The good thing about tinyurl links: hiding the content from the algorithm.
The bad thing about tinyurl links: hiding the content from the cautious link-clicker.
But I can understand why Dennis Prager links may need shielding. 🙂
Interesting priorities. A urea plant – fairly crucial to agriculture – as opposed to same cave paintings and song lines….
Need a new phone case. Two bits of rubber and some plastic sheeting can cost over $100!
Roger
I’m no esteemed military historician as some here are. If the stories of depleted Russian supplies and supply lines are true Putin is a complete imbecile.
The joke is that we were worried about them overrunning Western Europe in the Cold War. These idiots would have likely taken a wrong turn and ended up in Siberia. Their military would have asked for asylum in Europe. Incredible.
JC
The joke is that we were worried about them overrunning Western Europe in the Cold War.
The concern was more that they could have made a good start (as they seemed to do in Ukraine), and the war would have rapidly become very hot – about a million degrees Celsius hot!
Thanks for that, bespoke.
“Do not be afraid” and variations are mentioned in the Bible 365 times, one for each day of the year. Pays me to remember that upon waking. So much of what we fear is irrational at best, deliberately sown in us by manipulative people at worst.
WarningWarning ABC at link
Research has found that people with higher levels of memory T-cells from other coronavirus infections — i.e., those responsible for common colds — were less likely to become infected with SARS-CoV-2.
Might explain why little people who got cold after cold after cold at childcare never got covid despite both parents getting it.
And vice versa.
Prager U links get eaten by the WordPress gremlins, Nelson.
Dover is following in his predecessors practices by paying his Tech nerds with autographs.
So I’m not hopeful of change.
The aim was to tie up large amounts of ukrainian forces away from Donbass. Same with the feints on Odessa. This was clear very early on.
The great disappointment is at it again! After two years of silence when our freedoms, rights and the constitution was trashed by the Federal Gov and the State Govs, Tony Abbott has found his voice!
It’s Ukraine! That’s right, our former PM and minister of giving in is using our taxes to travel the world and give advice on a war on the other side of the world. What a waste of talent.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/04/tony-abbott-on-the-russian-dictators-war-of-subjugation-in-ukraine.html
Giving Pinker a thwack is quite popular in academic circles. He is regarded much like their Gargooglery.
sfw.
Prime Ministers this century.
Howard, Rudd, Gillard, Rudd, Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison.
Care to rank them best to worst?
The most expensive feint in military history?
It seems to me from that ABC article that the caravan has moved on.
We are now expected to forget the deliberate downplaying of comorbidities in death and disablement stats. Nothing to see there. It’s as if these things are suddenly being allowed to penetrate the media shell.
And the Ruby/Diamond Princess petri dishes, once discarded, are now proving to be right on the money as far as raw infection numbers go.
It doesn’t matter any more. The senile imbecile is in the WH, the west is in debt to its eyeballs, restrictions and mandates appear to be set in concrete and we have a nice, ugly little war to distract us. Our populations have been gaslighted into irrational and debilitating fear. And China continues to advance its tentacles towards us unchecked.
Thank you ABC for reporting the news. Two years too late.
Tony abbott urges against coronavirus restrictions 1 September 2020
Sancho, I wouldn’t know where to start, they vary from incredibly bad to absolutely useless, I guess what they all achieved was making the nation worse off at the end of their terms than it was when they started.
None of them made Australia a better place in the long term.
What’s more likely is that his generals weren’t telling him the truth, as their subordinates weren’t telling them the truth, and so on down the line. But Putin is responsible for presiding over this culture of fear and corruption.
Tony Abbott attacks coronavirus hysteria and health depostism 26 January 2021
Sri Lanka: Tear gas and water cannons used as thousands break curfew to protest over economic crisis
The protests come after social media sites including WhatsApp, Facebook and Twitter, were blocked in the country due to being used to organise demonstrations.
Tony Abbott reveals the staggering cost to save just ONE Covid-infected person as he slams Australia’s ‘over-reaction’ to the virus claiming the country has ‘forgotten the inevitability of death’
Thanks for the memories, rosie.
Which of of these bullet points from his speech were unwise or untrue? The responses to the tweet give you an idea of the mental capacity of his detractors.
UK
That appears to be the guts of Putin’s message to NATO.
Sure you could turn the Invincible Russian Tank Army to scrap in 48 hours, but first sign of that sort of shit and
Berlintactical targets gets frizzled.Reading the tea leaves, Germany has received loud and clear.
Agents of the EV industry levelling up the score…
Well they’re gone now. Amazing change in a couple of days:
https://twitter.com/WarintheFuture/status/1510736410868785154
That’s an update from Maj Gen Ryan a short time ago. I suspect the Russians will withdraw from that area north of Sumy too, as the fighting has been pretty fierce there also.
If so things may become very interesting. There will be a long stretch of Ukr/Rus border from north of Chernigov right down nearly to Kharkov that has no Russian forces on the Ukraine side of the border. But there will be plenty of Ukrainian forces in those areas. If I were a Russian on the Russian side of the border I would be getting quite worried about now.
Russia’s strategy may be to move their forces into Donbas to create a fact on the ground pending negotiations but there’re two sides in this game. Ukraine just might decide to create a few counter facts in the SW Russia homeland. I’ve seen this discussed nowhere, but it seems logical.
sick nutcase
Go to a Sunday market & pay cash; considerably less.
Abbott was right on the money from day one. I suppose he knew, none better, what his colleagues from both sides of the house and the toxic media would make of the crisis.
And yes, he is using our money to travel. He is also volunteering, as usual, to help others.
Show me what our other PMs (current and ex) are doing please.
Clearly not a biologist.
Russia has issued evacuation notices for some areas near the border. It would be foolish for Ukes to spearhead into Russia, it’s almost certainly a trap. Reports on the forces massed near Donbass suggest the force is larger than the first wave.
Didn’t the Egyptian Army have the same problem in 1967?
Plus this:
Eco-Extremists Claim Credit for Deflating Tyres of 2,000 SUVs (2 Apr)
So which set of religious fanatics got all car burny?
“callisays:
April 4, 2022 at 9:19 am”
Well said Calli.
Abbott was the only Australian politician to say anything sensible about the pandemic, he said it several times but got drowned out.
And, as often happens, we discussed his excellent comments at the time.
Be nice if there was a well-featured CC code base for blog software to complete with WordPress, Bespoke. (Disclaimer: I haven’t looked.) That model seems to be largely working for browsers.
Teh Paywallian Media Diary speculates that Mrs Snowcone will take over 7:30 with Mr Snowcone as Exec Producer. Do it Ita! The final nail in the coffin.
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Strange way to set a trap:
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https://funker530.com/video/drone-records-destruction-of-multiple-russian-vehicles/
One wonders what the current payment arrangements are with the Snowcone family despite neither of them having held an on air role for over six months?
John Howard went to SA to shore up the Liberal vote.
That went well.
That would be hard since Russia committed three quarters of their BTGs in the first wave. Including the best and most professional formations. About a third of those need serious rest and re-equipping based on photo-verified vehicle losses.
I can believe that the odds and sods from Chechnya, Syria and elsewhere may be about to be committed in Donbas, but their performance hasn’t been very effective so far. On the other hand in Donbas the Russians will be defending on interior lines, which is a significant advantage.
That is exactly why the Ukrainians may go after SW Russia instead, since frontal assaults against prepared defensive positions aren’t great tactics.
Apparently war correspondent (and erstwhile on-line dating coach), Gonzalo Lira, is able to identify fake massacres because of “the way bodies are laying”. Apparently they “usually” don’t fall that way “in such situations”.
Makes you wonder how many massacres he has attended.
Do our pollies look at Orban and wonder, “How does he do it?”
The answer is simple, of course. He promotes family and community and commonsense.
Oh, for a Viktor Orban in The Lodge!
That’s the problem in dictatorships. A useless general gets the boot in the west and receives a pension. In a dictatorship you get a bullet in the head and worst of all, no pension!
Here’s hoping.
That was USSR’s go to Twitter account. Find the most useless, deranged account and run with it. Good strategy.
But really, shouldn’t it be Gonzalo Euro?
Former politicians, including Prime Ministers should have the decency to disappear into private life and STFU forever. It isn’t as if they ever did any good.
There’s video from Russian TV of Putin consulting his council of state on the war. Anyone who raises the least of objections is goaded into submission by him.
Ferguson opines the situation is more 1970 than 1939.
I reckon it is more like 1938 and the annexation of Sudetenland since we’ve already had Anschluss with Crimea.
Good article and I like how he adds some quantitative information to support his views.
Sancho Panzer:
Never seen her before so I had a look on google.
MAFS Tamara?
First photo seen – Bunny Boiler!!!
shudder
Sancho- just reading the tea leaves.
Nelson
Still a few open source alternatives but less refined.
Eat that, globalists.
You’d think seeing their political memoirs remaindered would be enough of a hint as to what people outside the political class think.
Far more likely his real name is Gonzalo Ruble
Being wrongly gendered I can’t speak with authority, but it seems to me that biological women are consistently getting beaten with the shitty stick in the Woke Revolution.
As a male identifying being, I’m yet to be assailed by lesbians or cougars in the toilets and change rooms, affronted by male impersonators playing in mens sports, or being medically classified as a ‘sperm donator unit’ rather than ‘Father’.
Did Marki Kay retain his seat?
Howard is a one man, vote gathering machine. SloMo will need him.
Howard, Rudd, Gillard, Rudd, Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison.
Equal seventh.
No point having all your fuel depots away from the action.
Remarkable how some switch from critic to defender (and back again) of Abbott depending of whose initiates.
Yikes!
Don’t even hint at red cordial around this place.
It wasn’t a stupid move at all. It pinned a lot of UKR forces in the north, incl. some of their best formations, which gave the RUS the opportunity to make large gains in south and east and pin down a third of the UKR forces in Donbass.
you can expand that to any MSM talking points
With what we are now seeing out of Bucha, shit you cannot imagine being faked, I think we can understand why Ukrainians might have given POWs harsh handling.
From India Today, on the ground and certainly not Pro Ukraine in editorial content.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqZK9B1y12U
Fuck Putin.
If I was Vlad, about now I’d have my guys drilling some deep holes in a nuke test area and setting one off underground. Then when the outrage builds over the next couple of days, do two more.
He’ll know his nukes work as will the West. Not too sure about the Wests nukes. Haven’t been tested in a long time. Relying on computer simulations.
The Ukes will get the message.
Depends what he’s up to, Bespoke.
He isn’t perfect, but the frame today was Covid and Other PMs. Against which Abbott performs quite exceptionally.
In other areas…not so much.
ZK2A:
Start with confiscating the royalties paid to the locals and using them to defray the $32 Billion /year rent. It’s a staggering amount and doesn’t get to the minor families – it just cements the abusive power of the “Big Men”.
After the first confiscation from the companies, watch the ‘sacred sites’ disappear.
It’s way beyond time this scam was taken out the back and buried.
Their military ground the Germans into dust in the East. People need to chill.
I’d be interested in his comments on Ukraine/Russia.
It wasn’t a feint; they wanted Kiev.
Massive overreach as it turns out, and not just militarily.
Zipster:
I wonder if any of the worlds democratic nations will heed the obvious lesson?
But I doubt it – they will turn themselves into multi dimensional pretzels find reasons why it doesn’t apply to them.
Knuckle Dragger says:
April 4, 2022 at 7:16 am
Just wondering if any of those corpses were holding the free AKs given out by the Ukrainian government to civilians – which improved their status from civilian to partisan, but that also reduced that status to immediate receipt of two in the head when located by the other team.
Indeed. You may recall that a few weeks ago here on the Cat there was discussion about that very point following the news and photos of civilians ‘practicing’ with their new weapons. It was also revealed that civilians received just two days (!!) of training in weapon handling, target practice and ‘tactics’.
I think we all agreed that handing out weapons to civilians with that level of training was a tragedy waiting to happen because if you appear in your doorway with a gun, it won’t matter whether you are a defender or simply going to the shop for some milk, your status has irrevocably changed.
It was incredibly irresponsible of Zelensky to authorise this.
Ha, ha.
He’s a total dick.
I my go-to guy is Pedro Peso.
Maybe Percy Pound or Danny Deutschmark at a pinch.
So, a little better than the WA Lieborals.
Yes it put a target on all civilians.
Dieter Deutschmark surely?
If they could have taken it, they would have, but the main focus was always south and east. That’s where the majority of their armour is situated.
Yeah, sorry.
It was Danny Drachma I was thinking of.
I would imagine the Hungarian Jane Caros are packing their bags for the move to Finland.
Or Dimitry Drachma.
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And yet the often stated position on here was that private individuals should be able to own whatever weapons they wanted.
One of a few libertarian arguments I have warmed to over the years.
the videos are on southfront, sorry but looks completely fake.
Shades of the 4 Kotluban offensives, which were costly to the Russians, but they did a great job pinning down German troops on the Don who could have been sent to reinforce Stalingrad.
Ah, but is someone trying to disguise a real massacre by filming a fake one around the corner so as to discredit the reports of the real massacre …
You have to be prepared to defend your home with whatever weapon comes to hand, even just waving your arms about and shouting if that’s all you have left.
Surrendering is the other option.
The sad fact is that you may also die in the process.
Time to close some tabs and get some sleep.
One has years of living with and using the other don’t
Simple.
Zipster:
You won’t see this headline:
“40 Vehicles Damaged by One EV Charger Malfunction”.
I suspect it is similar to Men of No Religion, or Member of No Political Party.
Vehicles of No Appearance.
Ziggy Zloty?
On 26 Feb the Russian state run news agency RIA Novosti accidentally published a pre-written editorial stating that Ukraine had fallen and boasting that the West should never have believed that Russia would ever give up Kiev.
if there was ever any doubt, the cat was now out of the bag.
Calli:
None of them.
LOL
The thing is, this might also be how fake news works.
Putin puts out so many lies with the truth they are so hard to tell apart, that you lose an economic war in sorting fact from fiction and give in and believe everything they say.
Can’t say our mainstream press are too different.
Could also be signalling of intention, kite flying or psychological warfare, aimed at the top of western governments.
Fighting an actual war can be very damaging to an army’s reputation.
Thinking Putin some anti- globalist hero was always a mistake,I warned against it early.
Get off that bus, it’s headed nowhere good.
You can be against the globalists without getting it on with a Soviet era dictator in an unholy alliance with the CCP.
Good toons today. But then the leaders today, biden and the other swampies, blojo, macron, scomo and rub and tug are so easy to lampoon.
My son’s wrist synovitis was extremely severe, he was crying with pain and unable to use his hands for weeks, even now after months he has deficits in wrist strength still. No doctor anywhere would say it was due to the second Pfizer jab given only 21 days after the first, although he has never had any autoimmune reaction before and it started the day after the jab and built up heavily in the next five days till it was excruciating. No diagnosis was offered until I paid for an MRI of both wrists (c$700) showing severe synovitis in both, he was sent away by his GP to take panadol, to see a wrist clinic in six weeks (still no aetiology offered there nor any treatment with corticosteroids etc) and no doc was prepared to go on record relating it to the vaxx. I would expect there are many thousands like him, not on any reporting schedule.
No one has any idea what happened in Bucha. Bucha was re-occupied by UKR on the 31 March but we didn’t hear any news about the deaths until 3 April. I’ve heard reports the of UKR soldiers purging ‘saboteurs and collaborators’. I’ve seen pics of bodies next to Russian rations that are typically distributed to the civilian pop., wearing white arm-bands (indicative of pro-Russian disposition), and so on. Best to see how this unfolds.
ZK2A:
Yes they did. But there may be a cultural difference at work.
Armies of Sand. Kenneth M Pollack.
The point was, how many do they have not if the dumps are close or far away.
The Russians have a word for that too.
Then:
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Which is it? No one has any idea of what happened in Bucha, or YOU know that the Russians were busy handing out supplies to civilians and kissing babies?
Not to worry, there’ll be plenty of green jobs.
Goering said “It’s easy to make an atrocity propaganda film…”.
But then, he was seated in a courtroom in Nuremberg when he said it.
Even an inebriated Russian bear wouldn’t have bought it.
All those boys at the front have mobile phones.
We now will not have Pfizer as a booster before we go to the UK. I consider a booster may be useful even though 8 weeks ago I had Covid, as I am in a dangerous age for Covid and I don’t want another dose of it at any level of impact while I am travelling. We are prepared to accept a Novavax booster, but you try getting one anywhere through an online booking. You get given an online run around leading to a telephone run around in which the person at the end of the telephone suggests you try the exact same NSW Health website which has led to your call to her. Totally circular. They do not list anywhere that explicitly provides Novavax boosters and the only information is to consult your doctor, who we find may agree to a Novavax for you, but who hasn’t a clue either where you may get it as a booster.
Clearly, they still want to unload their stores of Pfizer on the unwilling.
Lorenzo used to be a main contributor on the Legal Eagle site about ten years ago.
Sinc was fond of it, but I always thought it was rather pretentious and overly-academic.
Especially Lorenzo.
Hope that helps.
No one here knows how any of the people in those photos were killed and/or by whom.
Clown World: UK Hospitals Are Now Being Encouraged to Ask ALL Men Under 60 if they are PREGNANT Before Getting Medical Procedures
Thank heavens I’m over 60 and don’t have to worry about getting knocked up.
Lizzie @ 10.42am-
Very sorry to hear of your son’s synovitis. I live in dread of hearing adverse developments after vaccinations of my family members. So far only transitory problems. Most of them, in spite of vaxx have succumbed to Covid. Although initially mild symptoms, daughter & grandson developed chest & breathing problems 2 weeks after recovery. Daughter followed a couple of my recommendations (amazing) based on protocol of FLCCC. But she eventually consulted their GP, which I thought would be futile.
I was pleasantly surprised when said GP prescribed Dymista, a combined antihistamine & steroid drug. It worked a treat, as you would expect, & they both improved dramatically in 24 hours. Good to see a GP who understands the nature of this respiratory virus & what works.
Lizzie, I do hope you have considered what flyingduk & others have reported here in respect to Novavax. Some early bad reactions already being reported elsewhere in Oz.
Re the assumed executions of civilians by Russians in Bucha-
anyone considered the possibility of looters from local population? Looters not tolerated in such circumstances.
They created a blog that was a cross between a forum for regular readers and specialists in particular fields. It didn’t work, it couldn’t work because blogs are more about casual discussion and social interaction. Blogs are best for “butterfly cognition”, drifting across various subjects in an almost whimsical manner. They tried to present specialist style content across many subject areas. That was a mistake and yes too often pretentious.
I am leaning towards the view that there are egotistical corruptocrats on both sides of the Ukraine punch up.
Oddly there weren’t bodies in the street before the Russians came.
Inconceivable.
How dare you malign Russian soldiers. They were perfect gentlemen in WW2. All the German POWs were returned in full physical and psychological health, no women were raped, and they created day care centers for the children of Berlin.
Relying on my many hours playing Command and Conquer, watching historically inspired moves like Saving private Ryan and years serving in the AAL.
I agree Sancho.
right – but with that level of gun ownership for people that want it, comes years of firearm experience/training and handling.
Also the wherewithal to know that if you’re carrying a weapon, you’re a threat and therefore a target.
Undoubtedly.
What is also clear is that a majority of Ukrainians don’t want to be absorbed into Putin’s Greater Russia.
Not that they’re crazy about their own oligrachs and their political puppets either.
Going back to something I wrote last week, it seems the FSB did report to Putin that Ukrainians were unhappy with their leadership and this led Putin, in a gross miscalculation, to believe Russian troops would be welcomed.
For the military buffs. This is a remarkable surface to air missile. Laser guided so it can’t be spooked, very fast, two man operation. Helicopters are doomed.
The First Time a Russian Aircraft Shot Down by British-made Missile System!
If Putin knew then what everyone knows now this conflict would not have happened. It’s an embarrassment for Russia, the exact opposite of what he desired. One of Russia’s fundamental problems is trying to maintain a massive military with such a pitiful GDP.
H B Bearsays:
April 4, 2022 at 9:32 am
One wonders what the current payment arrangements are with the Snowcone family despite neither of them having held an on air role for over six months?
Double pay to compensate for lack of exposure?
There was a GoFundMe campaign that doubled their income on the condition they stay off the air.
Worth recalling that Zelensky’s polling was in the doldrums before the war started due in large part to his failure to resolve the Donbas situation as promised. Mind you, the Azov people all but accused him of treason when he asked them to stand down (his being a native Russian speaker wouldn’t help his standing with them). He’ll come out of this with a lot of popular goodwill, but one wouldn’t want to be in his shoes trying to enforce a settlement on his own side.
Yes.
If he had visions of Ukes throwing flowers on to Ruskie tanks as they drove on through, I want whatever he’s been smoking.
My sister got novavax booster a couple of weeks ago.
No difficulty at all.
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There are numerous videos of Russian soldiers looting.
If the Russians want to shoot looters, they should start with their own.
https://funker530.com/video/russian-spetsnaz-loot-ukrainian-market/
+1
And upticked.
Don’t all Swiss householders own a gun and are trained to use it?
Would this mean that in the event of a conflict there were no civilians in Switzerland?
Morbius Receives Second-Worst Audience Score Ever for a Marvel Movie
Good to hear, Rosie. We will keep trying. But they are not making it easy in Eastern Sydney via their online or telephone channels.
That’s the point, if the Russians hadn’t invaded, there wouldn’t be millions of refugees, towns and villages in smoking ruins and thousands of dead Ukrainians and Russians, mostly male and mostly young.
Pope Francis was correct in saying this is the powerful deciding when the poor should die.
Still, Zelensky should be under as much pressure to end this as Putin.
That’s why he’s been saying any peace deal must pass a referendum.
Because he knows no peace deal will pass, at least none that Russia would agree with.
Some more black on black carnage in calishitia. White supremacists will be blamed:
Sacramento Shooting: Police say 6 adults killed, 12 others shot downtown; Search for multiple shooters
No mention of colour in the article but last photo is the give away.
How much of the alleged looting is people scavenging for food?
Ukraine is a poor country, what are people supposed to do.
He should be 90 times dead.
Well Dah!
Sigh!
Timing is everything in politics. And Albo has managed a fine faceplant. Not his fault though.
Anthony Albanese says he aims to replicate Qld Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk in government if he becomes Prime Minister (Sky News, 4 Apr)
Queensland’s Tourism Minister suggests the controversial ‘bin chicken’ could be the mascot for the 2032 Brisbane Olympics (4 Apr)
There you go, Albo plans to be the bin chicken of Prime Ministers…
It’s called Russkiy Mir (Russian World), and it’s a pretty heady blend.
It starts with the laudable aim of promoting Russian culture at home and abroad, but also inculcates a belief that Russia has a Eurasian “manifest destiny”, to borrow a term from another context.
Lizzie try the federal government website. According to that site, which you can book through, Rose Bay North pharmacy, Gaslight pharmacy, Bondi doctors, Bondi pharmacy and Double Bay doctors are all offering novavax boosters.
John H – from your link:
If you’d put this up last week – well. Goodness me. My wordy lordy oh my.
What? Is that the time? Geez the weather’s shit.
Arrogant and corrupt.
Righto.
April 2104
There is something seriously wrong with Zelie and Kolomoyskyi.
Sacramento Shooting: Police say 6 adults killed, 12 others shot downtown; Search for multiple shooters
We can only hope the dead were shot with semi automatic hand guns and not automatic assault weapons.
The news anchors seem very worried about the method of dying.
Great to have a smorgasbord of boosters.
How quickly do they update your green tick?
Good to see Zelensky at the Grammy’s.
It’s about time there was a song for Ukraine.
criminally incompetent
There you go, Albo plans to be the bin chicken of Prime Ministers…
He has the necessary scavenging skills and personality.
Ibis used to keep insect plagues down in agricultural areas.
They were known as “the farmer’s friend”.
Now they are urban scroungers.
Perfect!
Exact Sancho.
Variety is the spice of life.
So, does Magdeburg Man (aka Magd Lad) have less than 12-42 months to live?
Or did he hear a certain challenge spoken forth from the depths of the Antipodean Internet, and declared “Ja…”
#HowManyBoosters?
#All
#Of
#Them
Can I suggest you don’t have to go that far afield to find similar stories.
Dead easy when all you need is a Medicare card. Arrive around closing time at a busy centre and the ID only gets a cursory inspection.
Theoretically that’s how it would work.
90 shots, eh?
He’d be setting off the x-rays at Tullamarine going past the Bell St exit.
How quickly do they update your green tick?
Pleb.
You need your blue tick/pass now.
Wut?
When did they go blue?
I’ll bet it is UN blue too.
When did they go blue?
Just the international pass.
Not really a UN blue.
A tad darker than azure.
Dim bulb. They’re missing out on many, many more controversial invasive species:
• Cane toads,
• Carp,
• Dengue mosquitoes,
• Victorians.
(Retires immediately.)
a reminder of why Ukrainians might not adore Russians
Oh that’s a link to Lorenzo again.
I was trying to find a link to legal eagle, found that.
Last tick I got was brown.
Still got the marks from the little bastard… 🙁
Surrounded by colleagues seething in annoyance that such a dim bulb lucked it into the top job.
The Magdeburg guy was collecting a vax passport each time he got a jab, then was selling it to someone who didn’t want to be vaxed. Good money. As usual only a government can instantly create a completely unnecessary black market out of thin air.
The lefty German Health Minister even now wants to make vaccination mandatory despite all the recent stuff going on. This is the thing with lefties: once they decide on something nothing ever changes their mind, no matter how persuasive and truthful. It’s a weird die-in-a-ditch syndrome that’s really strong in that political species.
German Health Minister STILL Wants Forced Vax Despite Lack of Parliament Support (3 Apr)
intersting read – times of israel
When one just knows they have the secrets to saving and perfecting humanity, no cost is too high to bear…
…For someone(s) else to pay on one’s behalf.
They still do, Roger. I welcome their appearance. They hoover up Noctuid caterpillar outbreaks.
@ Bruce-
I also forgot to mention that the Left is incredibly cliquey and trend-conscious.
So when one group does something particularly spectacular, trumpets about its achievements and appears to have gotten away with it, others immediately want to jump on the bandwagon.
This is how they end up appearing so monolithic to the outside observer- Everyone wants to copy everyone else. Down to the last detail. It’s how we got Captain Cook being called an enslaver and doused with red paint, because the leftwits here had seen the same thing being done with statues at random in the UK and US. And et cetera, et cetera and so forth…
Not now, Gabor.
Avi’s bodyguard put through the wringer by victoristan wallopers after he protected Avi from street trolls:
https://www.rebelnews.com/avi_yemini_s_security_fends_off_vexatious_police_investigation?utm_campaign=ay_danielwins_040422&utm_medium=email&utm_source=therebel
Recalling the 300 dead Russians in Syria when they challenged the US. The USSR was a feminist paradise: on-demand abortion and child care from a young age. Those young, very young, children grew up in a collective, and showed little initiative and non-conformity. I suspect much is the same in the RF, and the average soldier is unable to show any flexibility and initiative to go outside their orders, or show any talent whatsoever, much like a bunch of public servants.
Bear
Re Brighton
I was the family business earlier today and the gals working there were hysterically excited. The Danish princess (Mary) was having lunch at the Pantry Kitchen. It’s a well known digs down there. She even had a salad!
Just thought you wanted to know. 🙂
Oh Last week apparently .
Good to hear there’s still some earning their keep on the farm, JMH!
We get smallish flocks foraging along the creek bank which is presently teeming with grasses and insects but they don’t come near the yard, which is a pity because there is ample evidence of caterpillars munching on my capsicums.