Open Thread – Weekend 30 April 2022
1,859 responses to “Open Thread – Weekend 30 April 2022”
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Brains shift in adolescence to tune out parents’ voices
Obvious to Parents and Kids
“So, if it seems like your teenager is tuning you out, that may well be the case. But, Abrams said, “it’s not personal. This is a natural part of development.” – “But at a certain point, he said, kids need to expand their social world, getting ready for independence and eventually starting their own family in many cases.”
With Mother’s Day coming up, Remember
To Abrams, the study also underscores the broader importance of voice to human beings. Just think about any time you’ve become emotional from hearing the voice of a loved one you haven’t spoken to in a while, he said.
It’s different from a text message, Abrams pointed out.
“Voices are among the most important social signals we have,” he said. “They connect us, and help us feel we’re part of a community. And I would argue that hearing a loved one’s voice is one of the most rewarding experiences we have in our daily lives.”
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Hmmm, this one could be interesting.
Birx: With Pence Approval I Went to Local Media to Contradict Trump on COVID (29 Apr)
Former White House coronavirus response task force coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx said on MSNBC’s “Katy Tur Reports” that during the early days of the COVID pandemic, with the approval of then-Vice President Mike Pence, she went to local media all across America to say the exact opposite of the information citizens were getting from then-President Donald Trump.
Does Pence deny saying this, thereby accusing the second most important health czar of being a liar? Or does he say nothing and therefore confirm he was undermining Trump from day one of his Presidency?
Either way I doubt Pence is going to survive this in the eyes of Republican voters.
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Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
May 1, 2022 at 8:52 am
Another day, another Albanese brainfart. If you want to own your own home, don’t live in Sydney or Melbourne, move somewhere where housing is affordable. I did.Zulu Kilo,
trying to get this point across to our youngest – buy where you can afford and rent for future
My wife was unhappy with Bank return and purchased 2 Bedrm 2 storey Townhouse in Mackay last year for $275,000 – 121 sqm internal space, 194 sq total area – rented at $385 pw for 1 year, 5 days after purchased
When we got to see it really happy, well built, excellent location near centre Mackay – not in flood zone, short walk to major shopping centre and beach
Was impressed with Mackay, lots of young people and businesses, 2 Hospitals, loads schools and as wife said, as relations live there, good place to retire in future
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Top Ender says:
May 1, 2022 at 8:02 am
Peter Hitchens on how the BBC has become unwatchableNear the end of TE’s link:
It is time to ask some very simple questions about the Ukraine crisis, which each day threatens to spread, very dangerously indeed. I never really believed there was a nuclear danger in the Cold War, which I lived through. Now I think there is one. Though this country is not actually at war with Russia, and has no defence treaty with Ukraine, politicians and other supporters of this conflict often refer to ‘we’ when discussing it.
Who is this ‘we’? What British national interest is served by deeper involvement in what is at root a Russo-American war? Must we yet again be the fifth wheel in America’s cart?
How much are you prepared to pay in taxes for the munitions we send? If, as is horribly possible, British soldiers are drawn in, what British interest will they be dying or being injured for?
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WHO has contracted German-based Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Systems to develop a global vaccine passport system.
Time toget a new batteryinitiate the
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If it comes to WHO mandates here with a vaccine mandate for a virus no one cares about anymore, I am skipping sovereign citizenship and moving straight to declaring myself as ruler of my own micronation.
The UN can’t deliver aid without molesting children and starving people, so I don’t feel worried about an effective one world government.
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Oh, lookie here……but because it’s Albanese and not someone on the right, all will be forgiven…
Anthony Albanese ‘regrets Nazi reference’ from 2001
Anthony Albanese says he regrets a historical Nazi reference he once used to attack the Coalition over asylum-seekers as Jewish leaders call for an end to the use of such offensive remarks in political debate.
It comes only a day after Mr Albanese was forced to condemn a Labor branch Facebook page that depicted Josh Frydenberg, Australia’s first Jewish treasurer, in a Nazi-SS uniform.
The Labor leader was forced to withdraw the use of a Nazi slogan “Sieg Heil” when accusing the Howard government of racist policy over the Tampa affair in 2001.
He had shouted the slogan across the chamber of parliament – a remark he was forced to withdraw by the Speaker. It went largely unreported at the time.
But the Coalition has used the historical insult by Mr Albanese to accuse Labor of hypocrisy after Mr Albanese earlier this year denounced the use of Holocaust parallels for political purposes.
Mr Albanese told The Weekend Australian: “I regretted the comment of more than 20 years ago, which is why I withdrew it at the time. Holocaust parallels should never be used, which is why I never have.”
With an increasing use of Holocaust references in Australian politics, Jewish leaders have said “enough is enough” and suggested politicians may need to be educated about the Nazi genocide.
Colin Rubenstein, executive director of the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council, said while Mr Albanese had withdrawn the remark, such references could never be justified.
“It was important and proper that Anthony Albanese withdrew the remark at the time it was made, because inappropriate Nazi references are never justified as they risk trivialising the uniquely evil nature of that regime,” he said.
The issue came to prominence during the election campaign when Katherine Deves, the Liberal candidate for the Sydney seat of Warringah, was forced to apologise for previous remarks in which she compared her “activism” on transgender athletes to those who stood up against the Nazis.
Ms Deves was attacked by Labor MPs for her use of Holocaust parallels.
The independent candidate for Kooyong, Monique Ryan, who is running against Mr Frydenberg, has also been forced to apologise for a Nazi meme she published in 2017 that sought to compare Donald Trump with Hitler.
Head of the Australian Jewish Association David Adler said that it was disappointing that politicians still used Holocaust references in political debate and that it was time for it to stop.
“We have seen inappropriate leveraging of the Holocaust for a whole range of political purposes,” he said.
“Our position is that it is just wrong for the Holocaust to be leveraged for political purposes.
“The Holocaust was an industrial-scale attempt to murder an entire people. Nothing in Australian politics resembles that.
“It demonstrates a lack of education or knowledge.”
Umm, so Albanese shouted this across the parliamentary chamber. He obviously likes shouting crude analogies and threats across the chamber. Only a few years ago he shouted across the chamber “smash her, smash her” when a female Liberal MP was talking…something else the MSM have chosen to ignore, just imagine if Peter Dutton had done similar to a female Labor MP.
I suspect Albanese’s pent-up aggression is because of his desire to “fight Tories” and yet he can’t find any in this country so he must be bursting at the seams with toxic male aggression. Here’s a thought, Albanese should migrate to the UK because there he’ll find lots of real Tories and his best buddy, the Jew hating Jeremy Corbyn, can put him up.
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Old Ozzie. My tip spend a bit longer there, there are some downsides to the place. Mackay is a typical mining service town with inflated costs of living. We used to call it the “mining tax.” Also the place is getting but still need more works on roads, unfortunately in the older suburbs the roads can’t be expanded resulting in gridlock at peak times. Drivers are shocking as well, again miners in Dodge Rams or Ford Rangers using might is right principle.
That said I do echo your about the bustle and trade going on, Qantas is running B737 services 2 a day again. Coal prices are at a high atm. At it’s quieter moments on Sundays the place has a very laid back feeling. Plus it has everything it’s bigger northern neighbours up the coast have despite them being much larger in size.
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…launch of Joint Armed Forces of the Union
That worked a treat at Stalingrad. No ill-feeling between Chermans and Romanians and Hungarians and Italians. The smaller countries’ forces weren’t left on the flanks in the snow with almost zero armour and anti-armour at all to face the inevitable belting from seven Soviet armies on two fronts.
Oh well. Maybe they ‘didn’t do it right’ that time.
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For the past year we have been told the vaccination rate federally and statewide. It has almost become the most important statistic rating “success” politically. Huge budget deficits don’t rate as important.
However the double dose stats as time goes by are becoming more misleading. They changed the definition of vaccinated to be up to 6 months after 2nd dose. So I am now considered “unvaccinated” although I count as double dosed.
As time goes by and more double dosed don’t take the booster shouldn’t there be stats to show people have become less “protected” ? They do show how many not boosted but we need a statistic to show how many where no longer considered vaccinated.
Just kidding. Health Departments are hardly going to become honest with the stats now. They have difficulty highlighting the average age of Covid deaths is over 80 with multiple comorbidities. Qld Health stats are particularly bad in this regard. It is almost like they don’t want us to know the real situation.
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The water here is so hard you can’t wash your hair properly
No joke, try bathing to do so and use Epsom salts (magnesium sulfate) – needed it to brew beer when town water had too much calcium carbonate and chlorides in it.
If your hair turns blue, some boffin can explain ligands and spin states to us. 🙂
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I was wondering why no mention of Albos interest in the Victorian ICook scandal. So to refresh my memory I conducted a quick search on google. It could be my poor search skills but as a story it has almost vanished from the internet. There is reference to 7th January story but Victorian Police clearing everyone involved. We know how clean the Vikpol command is so I kept searching. Gone. Well it is Victoria and Stalin would be proud.
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Dotsays:
May 1, 2022 at 6:41 am
The Muffinologist hired by Depp to assess Amber Heard for a psych eval is very cute.Very well spoken, oh my.
Factcheck, true.
I need a moment.
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Though I’m worried that Psych may be like Kim on a date.
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The French Diplomat who’s analysis was posted here a few weeks ago doesn’t share that view. It’s an EU / Putin built train wreck, both equally to blame.
If you mean Jacques Baud, he is a former colonel of the General Staff, ex-member of the Swiss strategic intelligence, specialist on Eastern countries. He was trained in the American and British intelligence services.
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I am really disgusted with Skynews for cutting away from Outsiders to televise ScoMo spouting off about something without context. Couldn’t that have been raised in news later on?
I am convinced that ScoMo’s people schedule these announcements just to cut into the Outsiders’ time.
Shouldn’t a man of faith be in church on a Sunday morning?
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More of the Albanese brainfart…
The Opposition Leader said that the great Australian dream of owning a home was “out of reach for a generation” and argued his Help to Buy Scheme — which offers 10,000 middle income earners the chance to save up to 380,000 on a home — would complement Labor plans for increased social housing.
“We also need to help people into home ownership who aspire to that,” Mr Albanese told Sky News. “I think Australians have got conflict fatigue. My opponent is always looking for an argument. Always looking for a disagreement. Never looking for a solution.”
He argued that Labor had been constructive in opposition in passing the government’s pandemic legislation and stimulus package, saying that he did not allow the “perfect to be the enemy of the good.”
“What I want to do is to take that attitude into government,” Mr Albanese said. “Bring unions and employers together for their common interest. Bring all the state and territory and governments together as well as local government.”
“One of the first things I’ll do is convene a full employment summit. We know that Australians have much more that unites them than divides them. We saw that during the pandemic.”
Mr Albanese said his key message was that Australians could do better rather than having “three more years of the same; three more years of wages not going up; three more years of pressure on cost of living.”
Mr Albanese said he was representing Australians who wanted a strong Medicare and NDIS as well as secure jobs amid a cost of living crisis, arguing that people were “doing it tough.”
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Though this country is not actually at war with Russia, and has no defence treaty with Ukraine, politicians and other supporters of this conflict often refer to ‘we’ when discussing it.
Deep down, it’s a Roman Catholic vs Orthodox Christianity battle.
Catholics number 26% here, Orthodox not many and they’re all in the cities.
Noticed the Sunday after the Invasion, Scotty attended one Sydney Uke Catholic service, fucknuckle attended another one.
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I’m more concerned at the fat chick in rainbow colours, including what appears to a multicoloured Mickey Mouse hat in the front row of that courtroom.
There’s a red flag with the muffinologist though. Says she’s regularly late, and consequently sends hubby down to the bakery to get her daily muffins.
Hubby’s setting the bar too low by doing that all the time. A failure to prepare on her part does not constitute an emergency on my part.
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He argued that Labor had been constructive in opposition in passing the government’s pandemic legislation and stimulus package, saying that he did not allow the “perfect to be the enemy of the good.”
Albanese has got a poor memory.
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On that sort of wicket
The celebrity psychologist wicket. An absolute road. Runs all day long.
You never see ads for them in the paper. It must be like being a wharfie – you need a father or uncle already in the game to get a look in.
She probably married some beige suit to shore up the cash, and gets rogered by tradies in the office dunnies in the afternoon for fun.
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“We also need to help people into home ownership who aspire to that,” Mr Albanese told Sky News.
And in five years time when this Ponzi scheme collapses because the new home owners can’t service the debt, then what?
Labor will then lose the election but go on their way rejoicing, having bought something new and valuable – eg: free university, Medibank, NDIS, leccie cars – into Australia’s awareness, and now some other party can fix up the mess.
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Of course the numbers don’t add up, Rabz. It’s a Labor policy. During one of the last two QLD elections, Labor policy spent Energex money not twice, not thrice, but four times over. These four separate claimed uses for the money were recounted in at least two ABC radio interviews I heard, during what is supposedly the high quality current affairs hour(separate days). Not a word; not a question; one lot of money spent four times.
(Something like: “we get money from Energex, so let’s keep using it where we do right now [1], take the money we get from Energex and reduce the cost of services [2], increase the number of jobs offered by Energex by reinvesting the money we get from Energex [3], improve renewable services by investing the money we get from Energex[4]”.
And that’s ignoring that some of those claimed uses are directly contradictory. Worse, the amount of money they claimed they’d get from keeping Energex was the same as selling it.) -
Re Maiden coup:
Pedro L. Gonzalez
@emeriticus
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Those snipers were backed by the West and killed cops *and* protestors as part of a color revolution. An EU investigation came to this conclusion but it was buried. The new government curiously never cared to figure out who murdered its own people. That’s Ukrainian “democracy.”Apparently, the snipers were trained in Poland as a favour to Washington. What a tangled web.
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I don’t understand what you’re trying to do here. Are you attempting to persuade people that Uke is a deformed democracy? We know that and I don’t think most people here need any persuasion on that score.
If this is your objective you should also look at the other side of the ledger. The “Kriminlan” poisons and jails its detractors.
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Outsiders mentioned PML (Put the Majors Last) http://www.majorslast.com
Site must be being throttled ATM running very slow. Tablet devices couldn’t connect. Desktop connects but too slow.
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custardsays:
May 1, 2022 at 10:44 amOutsiders mentioned PML (Put the Majors Last) http://www.majorslast.com
Site must be being throttled ATM running very slow. Tablet devices couldn’t connect. Desktop connects but too slow.
Yes, I just had a go and couldn’t connect.
I did my own HTV cards a couple of weeks ago and checked the PML link when it was first put up here. Did the HoR and bloody hell – it was an almost exact replica of my own. I haven’t checked the Senate yet – but when PML cools down, I will and I bet the result will be very close to my own below-the-line ticket.
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Also – On This Day:
The Illuminati (plural of Latin illuminatus, ‘enlightened’) is a name given to several groups, both real and fictitious. Historically, the name usually refers to the Bavarian Illuminati, an Enlightenment-era secret society founded on 1 May 1776 in Bavaria, today part of Germany. The society’s goals were to oppose superstition, obscurantism, religious influence over public life, and abuses of state power. “The order of the day,” they wrote in their general statutes, “is to put an end to the machinations of the purveyors of injustice, to control them without dominating them.”
The Illuminati—along with Freemasonry and other secret societies—were outlawed through edict by Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria, with the encouragement of the Catholic Church, in 1784, 1785, 1787, and 1790. During subsequent years, the group was generally vilified by conservative and religious critics who claimed that the Illuminati continued underground and were responsible for the French Revolution.
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FMD, the NT police are in BIG trouble. Read this statement from a 25 year officer.
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And:
Many influential intellectuals and progressive politicians counted themselves as members, including Ferdinand of Brunswick and the diplomat Franz Xaver von Zach, who was the Order’s second-in-command. It attracted literary men such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Johann Gottfried Herder and the reigning Duke of Gotha and of Weimar.
Don’t you SEE?
In subsequent use, “Illuminati” has referred to various organisations which have claimed, or have been claimed to be, connected to the original Bavarian Illuminati or similar secret societies, though these links have been unsubstantiated.
These organisations have often been alleged to conspire to control world affairs, by masterminding events and planting agents in government and corporations, in order to gain political power and influence and to establish a New World Order.
Central to some of the more widely known and elaborate conspiracy theories, the Illuminati have been depicted as lurking in the shadows and pulling the strings and levers of power in dozens of novels, films, television shows, comics, video games, and music videos.
Dan Brown, step forward.
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I don’t understand what you’re trying to do here. Are you attempting to persuade people that Uke is a deformed democracy? We know that and I don’t think most people here need any persuasion on that score.
I’m simply pointing out events that led up to the present. That comment is only tangentially about Ukrainian ‘democracy’. It is more about Western meddling.
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custardsays:
May 1, 2022 at 11:03 amI hope these sites are influential at this election.
I agree. The fact that PML went dark for a time bodes well. Also Topher’s Marbles has had a lot of hits.
As I will be placing Lib Dems 1, 2 and 3, I will report back when I run my Senate ticket through PML to see if it matches your experience.
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I hope these sites are influential at this election.
How #PML works? PUT MAJOR LAST!
439 views Apr 20, 2022Less than 500 views in 10 days.
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Big_Nambassays:
May 1, 2022 at 10:55 am
FMD, the NT police are in BIG trouble. Read this statement from a 25 year officer.NT Police officer suspended without pay for criticising Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker
by Christopher Walsh | May 1, 2022 | Cops, News | 0 commentsThe NT Police top brass has stripped a respected officer and father of two of his livelihood for speaking out against Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker in an opinion piece in the NT Independent, in which he called for the police force to restore its core values and hold a vote of no confidence against Mr Chalker in the wake of the Zach Rolfe matter.
Sergeant Mark Casey, a 25-year veteran of the NT Police, was yesterday suspended without pay after his opinion piece garnered thousands of reads and hundreds of social media shares in support.
Sgt Casey wrote that Mr Chalker had breached the values of the NT Police force through his handling of the Constable Rolfe matter, that investigators’ notes show he was involved in, in the days leading up to the officer’s murder charge in the shooting death of Yuendumu man Kumanjayi Walker despite telling the public he was not involved.
Sgt Casey was also critical of the “authoritarian” approach Mr Chalker and the executive were taking to managing the force.
“I have concerns about the actions of executive officers of the NT Police, in particular the Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker,” he wrote.
“This concern relates to the authoritarian management as a whole, and specifically in relation to the charging of Constable Zach Rolfe.
“I have observed the events since the day of the shooting and have held my judgement until now, as I feel that unless someone speaks up there will be no change.
“It is time for someone to stand up and allow the discourse to happen, rather than sitting in fear, waiting for someone else to take action.”
The article ran in the NT Independent yesterday morning and by 5:40pm, an internal memo was circulated to all police informing them that Sgt Casey had been suspended without pay for “allegedly committing a number of serious breaches of discipline”.
The email was from the ironically titled “assistant commissioner, people and cultural reform”, who is currently Bruce Porter.
The internal broadcast said Sgt Casey, who was not named, was suspended for his “public views that do not align with the oath taken by the officer as a member of the Northern Territory Police Force and not in accordance with the Code of Conduct and Ethics”.
The memo said the matter had been referred to the police’s internal Professional Standards Command and again, ironically, the Independent Commissioner Against Corruption and the NT Ombudsman.
The ICAC is currently investigating the four days between the Yuendumu shooting and the police’s rush to charge Constable Rolfe in which Mr Chalker and Chief Minister Michael Gunner are expected to be called as witnesses.
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Why the fuck would we send any money at all to the UN??
Covid vaccine inequity due to racism rooted in ‘slavery and colonialism’
Racism rooted in slavery, colonialism and apartheid is responsible for higher Covid death rates among people of African and Asian descent, as well as Roma and Indigenous peoples, a UN body has said.
That the vast majority of Covid-19 vaccines were administered in high and upper-middle-income countries replicated “slavery and colonial-era racial hierarchies”, according to the committee on the elimination of racial discrimination (Cerd).
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Australia accused of double standards
Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare of the Solomon Islands called Australia’s protests over its security pact with China “hysterical”
Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has accused Australia of being hypocritical in its opposition to the Pacific country’s recent security pact with China. He argued that Canberra had not consulted with its other partners last year when it unveiled a security deal with the US and Britain, known as AUKUS, which paves the way for Australia to acquire nuclear-powered submarines.
“I learned of the AUKUS treaty in the media. One would expect that as a member of the Pacific family, Solomon Islands and members of the Pacific should have been consulted to ensure this AUKUS treaty is transparent,” Sogavare told his country’s parliament on Friday.
He added: “I realize that Australia is a sovereign country, which can enter into any treaty it wants to, transparently or not, which is exactly what they did with AUKUS.”
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On dreadful government:
China Covid outbreak: Beijing residents must test negative to enter public spaces
Not sure how this can end.
Omigod is firmly in community circulation in China – and there, as everywhere else, vaccines don’t do much to prevent infection or stop transmission.All Team Xi can do is play expensive and indefinite Whack-a-Mole with a virus they invented and let loose.
Canutes.(There will be a wise Confucian saying to cover the irony in all this.)
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If this is your objective you should also look at the other side of the ledger.
The MSM and in fact almost ALL media spew giga tonnes of anti-Russian propaganda daily. It’s attempting mind control through saturation. Not unlike the covid period. Maybe it’s only sensible to be fully informed and understand the other side in greater detail ,seeing as the media are totally and deliberately silent on that aspect?
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Ukraine says Russian strike knocked out Odesa airport; Mariupol pleads for rescue
A Russian missile strike at the airport in the southwestern port of Odesa – a city that has so far been relatively unscathed in the war – has damaged the runway and it can no longer be used, the Ukrainian military said on Saturday.Russia has sporadically targetted Odesa, a Black Sea port, and a week ago, Ukraine said at least eight people were killed in a strike on the city.
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The article ran in the NT Independent yesterday morning and by 5:40pm, an internal memo was circulated to all police informing them that Sgt Casey had been suspended without pay for “allegedly committing a number of serious breaches of discipline”.
Shitshow. Absolute shitshow.
I hope Casey ran his numbers before he went to press. A heretofore-unheard-of state of affairs.
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Hitchens again, this time on e-scooters, which are getting green lights in the UK:
I wonder how many will think this when there are hundreds of thousands of them, often in the hands of drunken or drugged people, careering along pavements, unrestrained by absent police, smashing into children and old people, terrifying the blind, and providing perfect getaway vehicles.
Link Two blokes riding them on a Hobart pavement the other day rang their little bells to tell us to get out of the way. Of course, I turned and hurled one of the scooters into the Derwent. (May contain traces of falsehood)
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The Democrats have become the party of miserable, whiny grumps
When Elon Musk tweeted on Friday, “The far left hates everyone, themselves included!” the only thing he got wrong was his use of the word “far.”
The hatred, anger and resentment of liberals is not exclusive to the extreme Democrat. It’s now the entire party.
When was the last time anyone encountered a happy Democrat? They don’t exist. They’re perpetually miserable, annoyed that normal people have moved on from COVID, offended that anyone objects to public schools teaching 7-year-olds about sexual identity, and frustrated that their fetish with “critical race theory” (also known as “how to properly hate whites!”) isn’t as widely shared as they thought.
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Russian state television earlier this week broadcast a segment which simulated how Putin could launch a three pronged nuclear strike on London, Paris and Berlin, leaving ‘no survivors’.
Hosts on Channel One’s 60 Minutes programme said the three capital cities could be hit within 200 seconds of nuclear missiles being launched, as chairman of the nationalist Rodina party, Aleksey Zhuravlyov, declared: ‘one Sarmat missile and the British Isles will be no more.’
FMD.
NUKING with HUGE missiles, no less. British Isles no more.Hard to see how Putinistic terror propaganda could ever take root in the UK’s news media.
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US weapons supply to Ukraine prepped in January
A scheme to send US weapons to Ukraine, using the “lend-lease” formula pioneered during WWII to skirt neutrality laws, was officially approved by Congress this week. However, it was put together all the way back in January – more than a month before Moscow recognized the Donbass republics as independent and sent troops into Ukraine.
Republican Senator John Cornyn introduced the Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act, also known as S.3522, on January 19, 2022. This is according to the official Congress.gov page for the bill. On the same date, it was co-sponsored by senators Benjamin Cardin, Jeanne Shaheen and Roger Wicker.
Senators Richard Blumenthal and Lindsey Graham endorsed it the very next day, January 20. Other endorsements trickled in over the following weeks, with a total of 14 senators on board by February 9, again according to Congress.gov.
Russia did not recognize the independence of Donetsk and Lugansk until February 21. The “special military operation” to demilitarize Ukraine began on what was already February 24 in Washington.
Oddly enough, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee only took up Cornyn’s proposal on April 6. It was approved unanimously, proposed on the floor by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and adopted by voice vote – whereupon it sat in limbo for weeks while the Democrat-dominated House was on vacation. On Thursday, after an hour of pro-forma debate, the House approved it in a 417-10 vote. Every single Democrat voted in favor, while all 10 dissenters were Republicans.
Cornyn’s bill, by contrast, suspends two existing US laws to make it easier for the White House to ship all sorts of weapons to Ukraine. It eliminates the five-year limitation on the program duration, suggesting the US hopes the conflict goes on for a long time – but also conditions the aid on Ukraine eventually repaying the “lease” or returning the gear if in working condition.
From the Comments
– What a joke. Obviously the USA/CIA were planning the “war” well before the Russian incursion. The corrupt Congress is on board with escalating the conflict.
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The ordinary folk of Transcarpathia seem unhappy with the UKR authorities sending conscripts from the region to the Donbass.
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Knuckle Draggersays:
May 1, 2022 at 11:45 am
The article ran in the NT Independent yesterday morning and by 5:40pm, an internal memo was circulated to all police informing them that Sgt Casey had been suspended without pay for “allegedly committing a number of serious breaches of discipline”.Shitshow. Absolute shitshow.
I hope Casey ran his numbers before he went to press. A heretofore-unheard-of state of affairs.
Bwaaaahahahahahahahahahaha! Absolutely not going to backfire….
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Meddling is part of being human. Every single ethnic or national entity has and will continue to meddle when they believe it’s in their interest.
Correct.
Given all the remarkably one-sided fuss about ‘Western Meddling’ of late, we perhaps shouldn’t mention that Russian meddling in Ukrainian affairs saw the (forunately relatively bloodless) coup de main perpetrated on the Crimean Peninsula in 2014 by Russian-speaking ‘Little Green Men of Indeterminate Origin Please Ignore the Spetsnaz Undershirts and current Russian Army-Issue Equipment, Please.’
And the 8 year long Proxy War against Ukraine that kicked off the same year in the Donbass (which only widened to encompass the rest of Ukraine in February), in which the Russian government didn’t even bother with the actual proxies very much, and just sent entire Combat Brigades in. Once again, politely asking everyone to ignore the uniquely Russian variants of the weapons and equipment said Line Units employed, and that their Russian Army insignias and rank detail was really all that wasn’t worn…
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The Stupidity of Australian Elections
Anthony Albanese’s political minders may be on edge after a photo emerged of the Labor Leader on Saturday awkwardly eating a sausage sandwich in Perth.
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Civil rights activists march on Georgia’s Stone Mountain to protest the return of the annual celebration of the Confederacy: Reenactors wear the Southern Cross battle flag and set off cannons
About 100 civil rights activists protested an annual celebration of the Confederacy at the foot of Georgia’s Stone Mountain on Saturday
More than 200 members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans gathered at the park, which is famed for its giant sculpture of Confederate leaders
They wore Confederate flags on t-shirts and ironed on to their jackets, while counter-protesters carried signs decrying ‘racist traitors’
The protest took place peacefully, with the two sides separated by fences and only interacting through shoutsDaily Mail — “Southern Cross” battle flag….
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A scheme to send US weapons to Ukraine, using the “lend-lease” formula pioneered during WWII to skirt neutrality laws, was officially approved by Congress this week. However, it was put together all the way back in January – more than a month before Moscow recognized the Donbass republics as independent and sent troops into Ukraine.
Clear evidence that the whole thing was a CIA/WEF plot from the outset.
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Given all the remarkably one-sided fuss about ‘Western Meddling’ of late,
Given the brutal arrogance and LIES of the covid totalitarian vax-mandating western Govts of the last 2 years, it’s only reasonable that thinking people are highly suspicious and in fact rebelling against the “meddling” (a truly mild descriptor) of western govts.
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Given the brutal arrogance and LIES of the covid totalitarian vax-mandating western Govts of the last 2 years, it’s only reasonable that thinking people are highly suspicious and in fact rebelling against the “meddling” (a truly mild descriptor) of western govts.
By swallowing wholesale someone else’s propaganda and justifications because it says things against those people in charge of us that you don’t like?
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Bwaaaahahahahahahahahahaha! Absolutely not going to backfire….
Matter of time.
From a few conversations with those who know, the top three NT jacks have run the joint as described in that piece. Like North Korea. Demanding unconditional servitude, regardless of what they say or do. Attrition’s at world record levels. Blokes are running left right and centre to QPOL or the Feds, and the NT people are frantically taking anyone that applies in an attempt to shore up numbers.
Obviously, this will lead to further catastrophes further down the track, like cops shooting someone that – unlike the Rolfe gig – will be completely unjustified.
You can’t just throw hundreds of years of experience out the door*. There are pumpkinheads in every line of work, and you can afford to lose them. But I’m told there are quality, experienced people looking over the fence at greener pastures – and that’s when you know you have problems.
The current boss appears to jusy keep doubling down. He’ll probably blame the rank and file for not supporting him when the Chief Minister, Gunner, throws him under the bus to try and save himself.
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Hard to see how Putinistic terror propaganda could ever take root in the UK’s news media.
Well , it looks like the covid terror has run it’s course so the UK population need to be scared of something else now. Like with covid , the Govt will wrap their caring arms around the fearful and console them – “don’t worry we’ll take care of you.” And a thankful population will be grateful.
Maybe the terror propaganda has a UK purpose after all.
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