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Dover @1:06 It doesn’t matter what Putin is, what matters is how we respond to the circumstances Putin, etc. bring…
Stalin just wanted more people to control and murder.
“Putin is a traditionalist, and supports church and familyA carefully curated image for the consumption of gullible Westerners.” Indeed -…
Come down off the ledge Dover.I’m not on any ledge. Noting such a reversal doesn’t mean I’m going to be…
It is Teh Grandiua making the claim, after all.
Of all the lefties with a vested interest in obfuscating and watering down the prospect of leasing US Virginias with a plan towards new subs, they’d be at it.
Ditto the Marles-boro man…
Yes. I find her disgusting. Her hand gestures when talking, the Bronx twang. Everything about her is revolting.
I seem to remember something like that too.
Note there are many people on long covid forums that have had long covid since 2020.
No, there are many people on long covid forums self diagnosing long covid.
What proportion of them are affluent urban-dwelling upper middle class women with pre-existing anxiety disorders?
I’m not saying long covid isn’t real – there can be long lasting effects from other viruses or other medical conditions, and there’s no grounds to assume covid’s different – but in this day and age of internet fuelled mass hysteria and fashion statement victimhood we should at least keep an open mind.
Multiple news items worthy of scorn or admiration.
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Matt Ridley fertilises the Telegraph with some truth bombs.
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Veneztraya leader Fidel Elbow due to announce new policy platforms of “Return Houses To The People” and a “Socialism for the 21st Century, 2nd Edition”.
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O.M.G.
Sounds too good to be true.
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Today’s NewCatallaxy Challenge: Which fish species most closely resembles premier Daniel Andrews?
shatterzzzsays:
July 20, 2022 at 7:55 pm
And this month’s DARWIN Award goes tooooo ……!
There’s penis enlargement gimmicks and then there’s this .. LOL!
According to the link, doctors have told a 15 year old boy not to crack a hardon for 10 months.
He’s doomed.
Daily Mail.
How about who here resembles a Caribbean turtle?
hagfish?
what a display of total moronic ignorance
My suspicion is that this bioweapon is in fact part of a multi virus system, priming the recipient for further intervention. We are under continued attack.
Yes.
Fauci should be subject to the sandfly treatment the CDC put those poor dogs through.
Zipster:
Following on from your Economist link, Geoengineering – putting up a solar shade system to cool the planet.
These people are mad.
In 1956, after exercising with USS Nautilus, the Brits decided they wanted nuke subs. The US agreed to help. The yanks supplied the reactor and the Brits designed the hull and combat systems. Dreadnought was laid down in June 1959 and launched in October 1960. The reactor was embarked in 1962 and Dreadnought made her first dive, in Ramsden Dock, on 10 January 1963. She was commissioned on 17 April 1963.
7 years from decision to commissioned boat.
During Dreadnought’s construction, Rolls-Royce, in collaboration with the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority at the Admiralty Research Station, HMS Vulcan, at Dounreay, developed a completely new British nuclear propulsion system. On 31 August 1960, the UK’s second nuclear-powered submarine was ordered from Vickers Armstrong and, fitted with Rolls-Royce’s PWR1 nuclear plant, Valiant was the first all-British nuclear submarine.
HMS Valiant was commissioned in 1966. Another Valiant class sub, HMS Warspite, was commissioned in 1967. So 11 years after the initial decision, the Royal Navy had three nuke boats with plenty more in the pipeline.
Yet here we are in the 21st century, after spending five years NOT even designing, let alone commissioning, a diesel sub, going back to the drawing board with no hope of getting a commissioned boat in the next 18 years. Eighteen years!!!
What the fuck is wrong with us? Is technology a drag on efficiency, or are we too regulated and wedded to inefficient process, or is it that Defence is populated by useless hacks? My money’s on the trifecta.
Zipstersays:
July 20, 2022 at 10:18 pm
[Note there are many people on long covid forums that have had long covid since 2020.
No, there are many people on long covid forums self diagnosing long covid.
What proportion of them are affluent urban-dwelling upper middle class women with pre-existing anxiety disorders?]
what a display of total moronic ignorance
Ignorance? Well, yes, I don’t know the answer so I am literally “ignorant” of it.
So please do tell me the answer. Or are you just as ignorant?
then keep your stupid insulting opinion to yourself.
A new mum has hit out at a government form which calls mothers “birthing parents”, saying it’s like something out of the Handmaid’s Tale by erasing the word “mother”.
Podcaster and scriptwriter Sall Grover, who has just given birth to a daughter, said she was shocked to be handed the paperwork to include her baby on her Medicare card which asked her to sign off as a “birthing parent”.
She said she crossed out the words and wrote “mother”.
The consent form was introduced in March in some hospitals as part of a trial to upload new baby details to official Medicare records.
It asks for the “Birthing parent’s full name” in one box, and the “Birthing parent’s signature” in another.
Ms Grover, who runs a women’s social podcast network called Giggle and gave birth at the Gold Coast University Hospital last week, called it “dystopian” and “alienating” to mothers.
“Enough is enough,” she said.
“To see the whole role reduced to that one act – in the name of some bizarre kind of diversity & inclusion – is ridiculous,” she wrote.
“My own mum was with me and we both were furious.
“Being called a ‘birthing parent’ on government forms is too close to A Handmaid’s Tale for my liking.”
“The fact is, this ideological language is being introduced to appease a very fringe group of people, many of whom are lobbyists and activists.
“It’s only ‘inclusive’ of gender identity ideologues who want to detach themselves from all traces of femaleness but still want to be pregnant and give birth – a uniquely female act.”
Coalition for the Biological Reality founder Stassja Frei said it was an example of the “public service so completely captured by bad ideology that mothers are erased from language”.
Services Australia, the federal agency responsible for the forms, said they tested the language before going ahead with it and had “positive feedback”.
“The term ‘birthing parent’ is being used in a consent form provided to parents participating in the Birth of a Child pilot,” Services Australia general manager Hank Jongen said. “This language was tested before being trialled.
“We continue to review all aspects of the pilot in line with customer feedback, which has been positive to date.”
He said the pilot was a trial of a digital process to make it easier for parents to register their newborns with Medicare.
Department of Health secretary Brendan Murphy came under fire recently for taking three months to come up with a definition of the word “woman”, when grilled at a Senate hearing.
He had originally said the word “woman” was a “contested space at the moment”.
The official definition eventually provided was “the Department of Health does not adopt a single definition”.
Daily Tele
It’s not just Defence – fertilizer is a crucial resource, yet a plant producing same can be halted for the sake of a few cave paintings and song lines.
did the same when one of mine was born, crossed out parent 1 and parent 2 and wrote mother and father.
the woke are fuckwits
A lot of that could be Viterra importing and then on selling to Chermany, France, etc.
Viterra are huge.
Then you have Royal DSM. You may not have heard of them, but their products (like protein or colour extracts) and commodities are ubiquitous the world over what like Wilmar , Pepsi or Unilever.
Zipstersays:
July 20, 2022 at 10:29 pm
…
then keep your stupid insulting opinion to yourself.
Presumably my reference to “keep an open mind” was incomprehensible to you.
Oh dear
https://www.indonesia-investments.com/business/indonesian-companies/salim-ivomas-pratama/item570
Stock code is “SIMP”.
Russia soooo stupid! Can’t fight wars, military’s all shot up, total losers!
Beware of pushing this foolish narrative. And don’t trust the mainstream British media’s Ukraine takes, for chuck steak. They’re the worst.
And:
Utter bollocks. They are lying.
“…customer feedback…”
From a self selected make work focus group comprising the committee that thought it up.
CCW holder who took down mall shooter had an 80% hit rate (!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxFVJtXgCTw
Tech’s generally okay, particularly with a series of proven things like nuclear/steam turbine propulsion and pump jets.
The latter two combined with virulent anti-Americanism seem to be way to view it.
What the fuck is wrong with us? Is technology a drag on efficiency, or are we too regulated and wedded to inefficient process, or is it that Defence is populated by useless hacks? My money’s on the trifecta.
The ability to get shit done is no longer considered meritorious.
But being a woke zombie is.
From the words of those on the ground:
https://wartranslated.com/intercepted-call-they-wont-show-that-on-tv-theyll-never-tell-the-truth-we-are-losing/
And from Wagner:
https://wartranslated.com/wagner-group-on-himars/
And from the FSB man who speaks forth for those within Vlad Bae’s administration who want Russia to succeed even harder than OCO, Zipster and the other vatniks on this blog:
https://wartranslated.com/igor-girkin-lashes-out-at-the-russian-minister-of-defence-shoygu/
#NotWhatAWinningPowerLooksLike
It’s OK, Tim.
Zip’s much cleverer than the rest of us and has looked into these things.
He tends to adopt the same position if you point out that 5.5 months into a 3 day Special Operation, Russia still doesn’t even control its downwards-revised (in Month 3) objective of the Donbass…
I’ve had long covid since 1984.
Bloody hell, your covid must be longer than Ron Jeremy’s.
I’ll bet mine might be longer… 🙂
I had short covid. It lasted about ten minutes.
rickw says: July 20, 2022 at 11:22 pm
He fired from 40 yards away.
Eight of his ten shots hit the murderer.
That’s not bad shooting. Without warning, under pressure, and within 15 seconds.
He’ll do.
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#GoToBed,Rex!
Underestimating your opponent can easily be a fatal error, Rex.
I thought you were better than this. Sad.
Why are you assuming I am underestimating the Russian army?
Much of the reason such scorn is out there now is because every day we find out just how grossly overestimated the Russians’ ability to make war has been since 2001.
Hell, when Russian troops are in awe of the mere socks, clothing and load-bearing equipment supplied to their enemies on the ground, there is a serious problem.
If you can’t even equip your troops with decent basics like boots that fit well that don’t injure them unnecessarily, how can you expect them to win your wars?
Amateurs talk numbers and tactics. But the logistics are what make or break wars.
And when Russian troops have been fundraising amongst themselves and foreign well-wishers to get even decent tools, radios, helmets, body armour, night vision gear, medical supplies and food for themselves, that’s quite a problem.
In fact, it’s appalling.
Better than being terrified of Victoria Nuland.
After all, once upon a time a leftwit statist who was responsible for the single biggest growth of the American Deep State since Woodrow Wilson took America close to an unwanted war in 1940. By choosing to arm and support combatant nations who were fighting back against a the territorial ambitions of a continental European power whose supporters said it just needed to be allowed to assert itself defend its borders from foreign encroachments.
And when his hand was forced in December 1941, he chose to continue and prioritise the fight against that nation for the sake of his allies, despite the fact his primary war was with Japan.
Today, conservatives and liberals remember his efforts to lead the free world to victory between 1942 and his death in late 1944.
His name was Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Sometimes, a broken neo-con clock might have just got the time right on something, and just might have got it right for the second time in February…
The world being what it is I’m willing to bet there are people self diagnosing long covid who can’t even say for certain they’ve had covid.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — After a heroic protest at the Supreme Court, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spent the better part of three hours sitting in an invisible police car with her wrists bound by invisible handcuffs, waiting to be taken to an invisible jail.
“After being threatened with an invisible gun, I was thrown on the ground by invisible police!” shouted Ocasio-Cortez as she flipped her hair for the camera. “They’ve kept me stuffed in this invisible squad car for hours, the fascists! When I get out of the invisible slammer, I’m going to make them pay – every last invisible one of them!”
Several members of Congress were reportedly arrested outside of the Supreme Court today, where they were protesting the court ruling that Congress had to actually show up for work. “It is absolutely heinous that the Supreme Court would ask us to like, make laws,” said Representative Ilhan Omar. “We are far too busy leading protests about abortion to actually write any legislation on it. Ugh, why are these invisible handcuffs always so tight?”
Sources say Ms. Ocasio-Cortez has already obtained her first prison tattoo, which is invisible, and is subsisting well thus far on invisible prison food. She has reportedly kept herself in solitary confinement inside an invisible box, but she does come out to weep outside her own invisible prison cell if she thinks anyone with a camera is nearby.
At publishing time, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez has generously offered to donate her invisible handcuffs to be displayed in the Smithsonian in commemoration of her bravery.
I wonder if the US would lease these four submarines to Australia:
Better than nothing.
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Warren Brown.
LOL. Bob Moran.
Patrick Blower.
Christian Adams.
Peter Brookes.
Michael Ramirez.
Gary Varvel.
Matt Margolis.
Al Goodwyn.
Tom Stiglich.
In the daily cartoon lottery, I have tried to load today’s Ben Garrison (a ripper) three times and the WordPress software has rejected it each time, so I’ll have one last try: Ben Garrison.
Tom – The Garrison link works.
Rex Anger says:
July 21, 2022 at 12:33 am
Not sure if it’s all true but soldiers in any army do buy some civilian gear to replace badly produced
army supplied gear if they can afford it or are permitted.
If I recall some forum members who served in the Australian army did the same, I’m certain it was either Zulu or KD and others who mentioned it.
Thanks Tom. Again.
Lavrov’s comments overnight make me feel sick in my stomach.
You can tell when the kiddies at the smh get out of bed as they don’t have it on the website yet let alone their top story.
The fact that the Lavrov comments aren’t the top story on every news site right now show the Ukraine narrative is changing.
Don’t leave us is suspense, Bern. What did Lavrov say? Is there a link?
RUSSIA’S LAVROV: GEOGRAPHICAL OBJECTIVES OF ‘SPECIAL OPERATION’ IN UKRAINE HAVE CHANGED FROM JUST DPR AND LNR TO A NUMBER OF OTHER TERRITORIES – RIA
RUSSIA’S LAVROV: IF WEST DELIVERS LONG-RANGE WEAPONS TO KYIV, GEOGRAPHICAL OBJECTIVES IN UKRAINE WILL BE ADVANCED EVEN FURTHER
Looks like CNN is the first to move it to the top of the page.
RTWT
You’re right, Bern. Vlad has major territorial ambitions and now he’s not pretending otherwise. If NATO doesn’t get itself together, we’re going to see a rerun of World War II.
Wrong time of day for Oz media — e.g., there’s just a kid doing late stop at the Paywallian who has no idea what’s going on in Europe.
How much firewood does a German need to keep warm for three months this winter?
We’re about to find out.
This is the animal symbol of the DemonRAT party and this is the human symbol – so young, so fresh, so insightful, so eloquent, so intelligent, did I say so young and so fresh?
With everything going on at the moment globally, reducing global oil & gas prices was the easiest release valve I could see.
But that was dependent on a Russian/Ukraine off ramp.
Lavrov’s comments end that.
Not looking good, bern. Starting to envy people oblivious to what’s going on.
Dover, to add to your WordPress woes, there’s something wrong with the uptick function.
When I tried to uptick a couple of Tom’s toons, either it refused to register, or it appeared and then disappeared.
Not earth shatteringly important, but WP seems to have contracted Coding Covid, or something. 🙂
Dumb left wing children complain about non existent non problem.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5vqgq/scientists-find-link-between-wolf-attacks-and-far-right-politics
Well OK. If you had enything comparable to my vast aluminium empire I would bet on it.
Lavrov making these statements after Putin & Erdogan meet with terrorists in Tehran can not be a coincidence.
But hey, it’s weally weally hot in London & the Tories will have a shiny new leader.
Let’s spend all our time on those distraction squirrels.
Prediction.
During November “foraging” will be a top ten google search in Germany.
Maybe @sarc.
Maybe not.
Were they that bad? #6 – Access to Soldier Settlement Schemes
Boris Johnson has delivered his final speech in Parliament.
Most of it appeared to be an excellent impersonation of an eshay tweaker suddenly confronted by Christmas lights during a meth bender.
At the end, he revealed himself to be no different from any other politician, and reliant on the fundamental questions they ask themselves every day:
1. How long can I keep this covered up?;
2. How long can I hang on for?; and
3. Does this affect my entitlements?
As much as I condemn Putin, we simply cannot ever afford Russia and America going to war.
It really is that simple. I don’t want humans to die off. It is also a sin to immenatise the eschaton.
The cost of backing Ukraine no matter what is too high.
The cost of backing Ukraine no matter what is too high.
This is it.
I don’t like 300-400mill Europeans freezing even though they voted for the turkeys who put themselves in this situation.
I definitely don’t like a billion of the worlds poorest who rely on Russian/Ukrainian grains to survive.
Reality really fucks with you sometimes.
No evidence of voter fraud? Check this one out:
How to get registered but inactive voters to vote – in hundreds of thousands.
American Thinker
The erasure of “women” and “mother” continues unabated in order to please a small group of perverts. From The Daily Telegraph.
“Sal Grover’s outrage at NSW Health baby form erasing word mother
A new mum has hit out at a government form which calls mothers “birthing parents”, saying it’s like something out of the Handmaid’s Tale.
A new mum has hit out at a government form which calls mothers “birthing parents”, saying it’s like something out of the Handmaid’s Tale by erasing the word “mother”.
Podcaster and scriptwriter Sall Grover, who has just given birth to a daughter, said she was shocked to be handed the paperwork to include her baby on her Medicare card which asked her to sign off as a “birthing parent”.
She said she crossed out the words and wrote “mother”.
The consent form was introduced in March in some hospitals as part of a trial to upload new baby details to official Medicare records.
It asks for the “Birthing parent’s full name” in one box, and the “Birthing parent’s signature” in another.
Ms Grover, who runs a women’s social podcast network called Giggle and gave birth at the Gold Coast University Hospital last week, called it “dystopian” and “alienating” to mothers.
“Enough is enough,” she said.
“To see the whole role reduced to that one act – in the name of some bizarre kind of diversity & inclusion – is ridiculous,” she wrote.
“My own mum was with me and we both were furious.
“Being called a ‘birthing parent’ on government forms is too close to A Handmaid’s Tale for my liking.”
“The fact is, this ideological language is being introduced to appease a very fringe group of people, many of whom are lobbyists and activists.
“It’s only ‘inclusive’ of gender identity ideologues who want to detach themselves from all traces of femaleness but still want to be pregnant and give birth – a uniquely female act.”
Coalition for the Biological Reality founder Stassja Frei said it was an example of the “public service so completely captured by bad ideology that mothers are erased from language”.
Services Australia, the federal agency responsible for the forms, said they tested the language before going ahead with it and had “positive feedback”.
“The term ‘birthing parent’ is being used in a consent form provided to parents participating in the Birth of a Child pilot,” Services Australia general manager Hank Jongen said. “This language was tested before being trialled. New mother Sall Grover, with her new baby Isabelle, is not happy at having to sign a government form calling her a “Birthing Parent” instead of mother.
“We continue to review all aspects of the pilot in line with customer feedback, which has been positive to date.”
He said the pilot was a trial of a digital process to make it easier for parents to register their newborns with Medicare.
Department of Health secretary Brendan Murphy came under fire recently for taking three months to come up with a definition of the word “woman”, when grilled at a Senate hearing.
He had originally said the word “woman” was a “contested space at the moment”.
The official definition eventually provided was “the Department of Health does not adopt a single definition”.”
Occasional cortex’s arrest LARPing is much more unattractive than what minor plastic surgery and orthodontics could fix (she could be a ten with my vision and someone else’s skills).
Her LARPing is psycho level shit, no amount of fluffy handcuffs and spanking could turn her into a demure trophy wife.
Run boys, don’t look back. She has a “pillar of salt” vibe now.
“Top Endersays:
July 20, 2022 at 10:31 pm”
Snap TE….sorry I didn’t scroll back.
AOC is a TYT/Uygur/Katzenberg construct that got out of the lab.
She also has a job for life.
“Today, conservatives and liberals remember his efforts to lead the free world to victory between 1942 and his death in late 1944.
His name was Franklin Delano Roosevelt.”
RA….firstly, FDR sold our Eastern Europe to Stalin. Even Churchill was furious.
Secondly, FDR died in April 1945.
You just want to date her.
I feel sorry for Cortex. I want her to get married and have kids.
Ana Kasparov can eat shit and die alone.
I can still see optimism in Cortex.
Kasparian decided to become a bitter old man hating hag before she turned 30.
She crossed out “birthing parent” & wrote “mother”.
FIGHTBACK.
ABC lead.
People who only have two vaccines or less are over represented in covid deaths in Victoria.
Bad people who don’t obey “the science”are the problem you see.
Considering the average age of the dying is eighty three, you could wonder if perhaps “the science” is playing with stats to give the Dear Leader a reason for more tough love.
Numbers provided to the ABC by the health commissars but curiously not freely available to the public for scrutiny.
Eat your Soylent Green plebs.
By 2022, the cumulative effects of overpopulation, pollution and an apparent climate catastrophe have caused severe worldwide shortages of food, water and housing. In New York City alone, there are 40 million people, and only the city’s elite can afford spacious apartments, clean water, and natural food. The homes of the elite are fortified, with private security and bodyguards for their tenants. Usually, they include concubines (who are referred to as “furniture” and serve the tenants as slaves). The poor live in squalor, haul water from communal spigots, and eat highly processed wafers: “Soylent Red,” “Soylent Yellow,” and the latest product, far more flavorful and nutritious, “Soylent Green.”
I feel I may have shared too much.
Anyhow, if they made a movie about me as a plastic surgeon, imagine “10” and “The Constant Gardener”.
1. What does “just date” mean? This is a Christian blog.
2. It’s not called sexual harassment anymore, it is “day game” and “maintaining alpha frame”.
“The cost of backing Ukraine no matter what is too high.”
Yep….and all the West has done is to embolden a clown.
What do you know!
https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports-data/health-conditions-disability-deaths/life-expectancy-deaths/overview
Fortunately this morning on Ch 9 the mother involved explained her outrage. She is very bright and articulate. Fantastic. Stephanovic was similarly outraged. Good. He said it was “bureaucracy gone mad”.
“Fortunately this morning on Ch 9 the mother involved explained her outrage. She is very bright and articulate. Fantastic. Stephanovic was similarly outraged. Good. He said it was “bureaucracy gone mad”.”
I’ve been following Sal for the last two years. Sal is intelligent, articulate, attractive and unflinching in her defence of women. She’s been targeted by trans perverts for the last three years, ever since she launched her female only app “Giggle”. We need more women like her willing to speak up about this sinister nonsense.
That’s because we’re not hip-deep in snow, and foraging is kept to a minimum.
So far.
its phrased terribly, but basically they’re saying that electorates where wolves are returning are swinging away from green-left parties. Not surprising, given those parties want to encourage the problem, not deal with it.
* – “Far right” is of course code for anything to the right of Marx.
If you don’t stop Putin there you will have to do so in Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland etc.
Let’s be honest, how much do you want to give him?
I’ve never actually seen a twitter handle with four syringes until today.
I’m sure they’ve been out there but I haven’t seen one.
It’s a religion.
Appeasing a crocodile with nuclear weapons is not an easy task.
I’d feel more comfortable drawing a line at Poland.
And Finland.
Because dropping a nuke on Moscow at that time would be more than reasonable.
FTB, will the West have the capacity to resist by then?
The West will never again drop another nuke. That arsenal is for looks only.
That was evident from late February.
Post coup Washington is just as dangerous to us as Moscow and probably more so.
I trust the Polish & the Finns more with US taxpayer money than the Ukrainians.
Ukraine is far too nebulous.
There needs to be a red line.
Not an Obama red line.
A Trumpian red line.
Fuck around and find out.
Aussie farmers should never cry poor again either.
This war is the event to settle old debts, get cashed up and buy new capital.
We’re basically war profiteering. Canola and sunflower prices are sensational for Australia. It is like the mining boom 3.0.
A 5000 hectare farm with 4000 arable hectares…new canola varieties yield as much as wheat (> 5 mt/ha).
Canola is what per tonne now? $780/mt?
You could pay off half of the mortgage on that farm in one season!!!
The cultural Marxism exported from the US over the last 60 years has done enormous harm
Short Covid, Long Covid.
How about No Covid? 😀
I have had post viral syndrome, or Chronic Fatigue and it’s terrible and long term. I wonder if that’s what sufferers are experiencing?
Re Lavrov’s ominous suggestion that Russia’s ambitions go beyond the Donbas:
Hopefully, he is just using the pressure of their current domination to bring capitulation of eastern Ukraine. There was always that possibility way back at the beginning when peace talks were held, & then abandoned, in Turkey.
Zelensky, those who of the Azov brigade who had too much to lose, & the uninformed in the West who would not countenance peace negotiations refused, & the rest is history.
Of course, the vulnerability of Europe. & indeed the rest of the world, to the denial of Russian energy & food sources, has been revealed.
Weakness is always inviting to predators.
I am so black pilled this morning.
I need DMT, stat.
PS, thoughts and prayers for Joe Biden who announced today that he had cancer.
100 000 Australians estimated to have whatever it is, I heard the other day.
I’ve had post-viral syndrome too; it was worse than the virus!
FLAT WHITE – The Spectator
Jeremy Clarkson torments Twitter by enjoying summer
I was up at a scary hour this morning when I stumbled across Jeremy Clarkson braising a few thousand Twitter birds in gin, dusting the bare legs with salt, and skewering their soy-fed bodies before putting them over a high heat for what looked awfully like an Aussie BBQ.
Must be the weather.
The only difference being that Clarkson had a glass of iced-rose to wash the feathers down.
‘It’s very hot in the south of France but so far as I know, there’s no DefCon 8 level 3 killer death heatwave warning in place.’
Clarkson’s July 17 tweet was immediately ‘fact checked’ by a swarm of overheated Poms and Frogs posting apocalypse-themed weather maps that came with a lot of ‘strong warnings’ that Clarkson ‘shouldn’t tweet when he’s wrong’.
The weather maps provided were helpfully colour-coded, with extreme heat depicted as dark purple and mauve. They probably went to the same school of weather that coloured Australia’s intense flooding rains as ‘red, orange, and yellow’.
Regardless, it’s always a joy when Jeremy Clarkson manages to annoy social media’s Wokerati. If only online rage could be harnessed as energy, Clarkson would be an Outrage Baron. A renewable source of fury or at the very least, petty grievance.
‘We probably haven’t seen weather-related incidents on this scale before!’ screeched Jonathan Smith, Assistant Commissioner of the London Fire Bridge, who must have hibernated through the Winter of 2020-21 that recorded tens-of-thousands of excess cold-related deaths.
‘Every day we wake up to increasingly alarming headlines about coronavirus, but where is the panic about the tens of thousands who are already dying unnecessarily? Britain’s rate of excess winter deaths is twice that of Finland,’ insisted the Guardian, a couple of years ago when things got catastrophically chilly. ‘An average of 9,700 deaths each year are believed to be caused by living in a cold house.’
The Guardian seems to be suffering a little apocalypse-dysphoria. One minute they’re on their knees begging for money to build warmer houses for the poor, and the next they’re running headlines like, UK is no longer a cold country and must adapt to heat, say climate scientists.
So far, five Brits have died in the 2022 UK heat wave – from drowning. Which suggests that if the government wants to save lives it should do what Australia did, and make basic swimming skills mandatory for all children and that means passing a Life Saving exam. Unfortunately, ‘teaching children to swim’ doesn’t sound as profitable as ‘billions for catastrophic sky burning’.
As for claims that this is the ‘hottest weather ever’, the Romans weren’t exactly hanging thermometers off the Senate during the Roman Warming. Humans couldn’t measure temperature accurately until the 1650s and it took a while to become a mainstream habit. By the time the Medieval Warm Period came around, ancient Brits were much more interested in the science of beer-making.
Mind you, only the Brits could find a way to complain about perfect beach weather.
Yesterday, I casually suggested that those who don’t appreciate the heat might think about buying an air conditioner (like the rest of the world), putting their beers in the fridge, and heading out for a swim only for grill-marked Twits – I mean Brits – to turn me into a meme. How dare you suggest we buy air conditioners! We don’t need them!
Well, stop moaning then.
‘I’ve spent my life working in extreme heat and we survived by having a beer under a tree. Climate change is real. Drink more beer.’
Clarkson might have become a bit of a climate luvvie of late (be honest, mate – was it in the fine print of the Amazon contract?) but panic, like manual labour, isn’t his thing.
‘Drinking a diuretic is just about the most stupid way to avoid dehydration,’ scorned a self-described a ‘Forever European. Aggrocentrist. Green. Muso. Post-theistic Anglican’.
‘Yeah let’s laugh about climate change,’ added a retired public sector worker.
Clarkson replied, ‘We should laugh about anything we want. Now go and sit under a tree and have a cold beer.’ And, ‘Really hot in France this evening. But I’ve had a beer and all is well.’
‘So you’re saying that human activity has not created a significant impact on global warming?’ asked Andrew Penfold, evidently ignoring the beer offering.
‘Nope. It has. But as there’s jack shit I can do about it in a world where China and India and Africa exists, I’ll sit under a tree and drink some beer.’
Ouch. Now there’s something you won’t see the Tories utter in their race to No. 10.
Answering calls for Clarkson to smash into James May’s Fiat Panda outside Downing Street as the next British PM, Clarkson replied, ‘First job. Shut down the government. We don’t need it.’
Fair point. The average street cat would do a better job of governing.
‘People go on holiday every year and love spending two weeks in 40 degree heat.’
That’s an even better point from Jezza. Before Australia became a medical fascist prison complex, it played host to many of these tourists that spent a fortune to spend weeks in 40 degree heat with an all-you-can-drink cocktail bar. 40 degrees is deadly in the UK, and paradise in the Pacific. Location. Location. Location.
That said, Clarkson probably committed at least one hate crime when he told the ‘ageing (disgracefully) Dandy Punk with Rock, & Hippy roots #ANTIFA #BLM #RejoinEU #DeepWoke #StillMasked #4Jabs #Pronouns oi/c**t #Veteran’ to, ‘Shave your beard off. Then you’d be less hot and angry.’
Burn.
‘Thankfully, the global warming thing is now over but tragically, its brief visit took the life of my big pig. RIP pig.’
And that was it. The end of a very short heat wave. Clarkson has some bacon to go with his birds, and for the next few weeks, the UK is set to cool down and start raining – which people are already complaining will ruin their summer plans.
Then again, they wouldn’t be British if they weren’t moaning about the weather.
Why does Germany need 1400 wolf packs?
Why is wolves close to human settlement even a thing?
What’s next?
Lions in London?
A 5000 hectare farm with 4000 arable hectares…new canola varieties yield as much as wheat (> 5 mt/ha).
Average yields for canola in good areas is about 2-3 tonne/ha. Four tonne crops were grown last year but only in very favoured zones, kind finish with no heat or frost stress.
The price for grain has fallen up to 20% in the last month. Input costs haven’t shown any sign of doing the same.
Good times with good weather but let’s not get ahead of ourselves.
Calli, my poor mum suffered what was then known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome after contracting Ross River Fever in Queensland many years ago.
It manifested very similar symptoms to those who are suffering with Long Covid.
I read an interesting research article recently which suggested that “autophagy” ( which seems to me old fashioned reduction of food intake) may be a successful treatment.
Gez
Have you been blinded by greed and attempting to grow sunflower?
I have heard of growers in Vic and sthn NSW having a crack.
Also on FDR – his Greed to Lead led to the 22nd Amendment – the limitation of Presidents to two terms only.
This was an unwritten convention since George Washington refused a third go – no sitting president challenged it. Until FDR shat all over it.
Dot.
I’m too far south for successful sunflower production. It’s been tried after very wet spring weather but no one has persisted with it in the Wimmera. Northern VIC irrigators will probably give it a crack.
Bison released into wild Kent yesterday.
The Guardian called them “gentle giants”.
Paul Whitfield, director general of Wildwood Trust, said: “…we’re giving people in the UK – for the first time in over a thousand years – the chance to experience bison in the wild. It’s a really powerful, emotional, visceral experience and it’s something we’ve lost in this country.”
Yes; I imagine being gored to death by a bison would be quite visceral.
To stop freezing peasants collecting wood in the Black Forest, of course.
What did Germans use to heat their homes before wood? Gas and electricity.
Germany’s Running Out Of Energy: Wind Turbine Construction Stalls, Firewood Becoming Scarce! (16 Jul)
I like Ricky Gervais but his crusade of normalising fox/human interaction is bonkers.
Foxes are not friendly Basil Brush creatures.
A kid is going to get seriously injured because they copied Gervais/Beckinsale/every other English celeb who lives on a large county estate.
I’ve raised a fox pup in the distant past.
They’re definitely not a candidate domestication.
If British celebs love foxes so much they should move to suburban Melbourne.
We have kazillions.
(I’m more than pleased the family of four living in my back garden moved on after my son threw their tennis balls away. Though it was entertaining to watch the cubs playing catch)
Do they mean American bison? If so, here’s hoping the entire Grauniad editorial staff goes into an enclosure with a few of them to give them a pat.
Gervais is an idiot. Does he think the foxes in his garden just eat grass and insects?
I suppose he’ll ascibe the lack of birdies to climate changey.
The tactics might be different, but the ‘continental European power with territorial ambitions’ could just as easily describe the EU/NATO as well.
It should not be too difficult for them to supply this evidence. (I mean they won’t, but it should not be difficult.)
No doubt there will be protestations of ‘confidentiality’ and details to allow analysis of method will be omitted. I will wager that it was not presented to a true representative pool of Australians. A bit like the ABC’s ‘Vote Compass’, a self-selecting stagnant creek of ABC viewers, yet constantly churning out convenient tidbits about how Australians are worried about AGW with 98% wanting to go back the living in caves and a further 80% want to go back to living in trees.
Perhaps if someone conducted a survey on these terms. I have no doubt ‘birthing persons’ would receive very little support. Put the results out there and leave the government department in the position of explaining the discrepancy.
European bison.
The experts insist they are not dangerous to humans unless provoked.
However, I noticed the handlers weren’t taking any chances while releasing them.
If and when someone is injured or killed by one of these beasts I can already hear the experts opining that it’s a small price to pay for the rewilding of the countryside.
Indeed, Birthing Person Lode.
The methodology of the ‘trialling’ must be very dodgy indeed, or the results less than strongly supportive. And, this will have been in the works under the previous government. Who was the Minister again? And WTF was he/she/ze thinking?
What’s the bet the fox lovers only eat free range eggs?
😀
I’d be happy to conduct the Grauniad Staff Petting Zoo experiment with a bunch of European bison, especially if there are a couple of dominant bulls and birthing bison with calves in the mix.
Leak’s right. But I suspect it won’t make any difference. Put on your best red shirt and get out there and vote.
I would bet the birthing ‘language’ that purportedly received positive feedback wasn’t tested with new mothers or pregnant women…
European bison.
Hermann Goring would be smiling at the news.
If one can smile while roasting in hell.
fighting against Christian Ukraine is fighting holy war against LGBT and antichrist.
I remember reading somewhere that in the WW1 the Germans left their trenches and dislodged the British from their own.
Once ensconced there the Germans had a chance to look at the quantity and quality of the British food and other supplies. Comparing it to what they had been living on this ‘victory’ had a very bad effect on the morale of those German troops.
Ascibe; when you mean acscribe but it’s about 4c.
Regarding those combat robots:
They are probably using LIDAR to navigate. That, and with the networking, means a huge EM signature. You may as well fit them a homing beacon.
Or they might be using visible light and infrared passive cameras and while close, very low power radio for comms. Most radios nowadays are at UHF and higher and are line of sight essentially.
Is it difficult to cook and What does one serve with Bison?
When and how did rewilding get on progressive to do lists?
Here, the plan is to reintroduce large colonies of tiger snakes to inner Melbourne.
I’d like to know who made the decision, and for who.
Obviously it can’t be for someone who’s consigned their birthing parent bits
to a medical waste bin. Why would a freemartin care?
Is it difficult to cook and What does one serve with Bison?
Bison is buffalo isn’t it?
I’ve eaten beefalo in the US.
It was just like a lean piece of beef.
Regarding the Russian Su-34M shootdown. Was it or was it a technical failure? The US has no reason to point a finger at the Russians as they lost a Super Hornet blown overboard from a carrier last week. Not to mention two collisions with civilian ships. Hope they can do better in combat.
The 1918 Offensive – The Germans captured British supply dumps, and found the rations and equipment there was far better then their own – not only that, the time they spent in looting those dumps slowed up the offensive and disrupted their plans.
Foxes are seen a bit differently in the UK. Chaps in red coats riding around with hounds raises their innate class prejudice. Ergo Gervais.
Dolphin nose.
440 comments so far – five are supportive of the cave paintings and songlines, the rest are along the lines of “just hurry up and build the fvcking plant.”
If you’re going to be serious about “re-wilding”, it’s probably a good idea not to introduce exotic animals.
The European bison is not a native to the UK.
Are these people imbeciles? (Rhetorical question)
During my service time, everyone supplemented the officially supplied ‘camping gear’ with privately bought stuff, but the ‘combat gear’ webbing, helmets, body armour was strictly ‘issued – unmodified – fit for purpose’ and you had to declare that regularly.
I got a buffalo burger once. God knows what it was but it was quite tasty. Every now and again I get some kangaroo from Colesworths but always come back to cow.
Hang about, what is the methane count on these Bison?
Although is that reclassified as an essential gas now?
Oh it’s just so hard typing with these invisible cuffs on!
There’s a large range of symptoms. Brain fog, headaches, shortness of breath, chronic fatigue, dysautonomia, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, mast cell activation are all common.
It’s a mild virus that carries and leaves behind a nasty toxic payload in the form of spike protein.
Problem is, Humphrey, we’re surrounded by communists who love Free Stuff. And they vote.
I had 2 years of hell after ‘long something’ about 20 years ago. You feel shattered all the time – brain fog, everything hurts and your muscles have a malignant ’emptiness’ which makes even a walk to the letter box like climbing mount everest. Nothing medicine could offer in the way of diagnosis or treatment yielded anything. I eventually beat it with periodic steroids and believe it is an autoimmune response to an infective insult, probably viral.
Autophagy = fasting which then causes your body to break down its own cells to keep running. The theory is that it choses the old dead wood first, thus ridding your body of its least health bits. Ive tried it and think there is merit to it. A 3 day fast certainly improves your clarity of mind and energy!
Never forget The Golden Rule. Teh Paywallian comments are unlikely to be representative, similarly Teh Grauniad.
David Speers unexpectedly does some journalism:
Keep an eye on this one.
How Albanese/Chalmers deliver wage growth, without productivity growth – without triggering an inflation tsunami – will set the economic tracks for the next 10+ years. One way, or another.
Tragically, Albanese seems to have been convinced that he has the personal capacity to do a Hawke Accord Redux. Not sure that new teeth, and spending three years as The Invisible Man of Canberra, has prepared the track for that.
Personally, I expect him to be more ‘chewing gum on the shoe’ than ‘glue of the Nation’.
Dark days ahead.
Keep an eye on this one.
Somebody above mentioned VIC Premier talking about unvaxxed dying at higher rate. Must admit never looked at their health web page.
However 2 days ago was talking to somebody in WA and he mentioned the bad Covid situation. Looked at WA Health weekly stats page and it was only two pages with hardly much information. Nothing that helped regarding average age.
They have daily reports so looked at every one for July and came up with this.
I looked through all the WA July dates and the death breakdown is :
50’s 1
60’s 3
70’s 5
80’s 25
90’s 22
From that you can see the average age must be over 85 as a big group in 90’s. That is without knowing if they have comorbidities. If we knew how many were in aged care that might also help as those residents tend to be worse off than those at home.
Their total deaths was 445 so far but of course we have never seen reports comparing to normal number of deaths and whether other causes have gone down.
The poor stats and lack of analysis are deliberate as it helps the narrative which is just to give the Vax to everybody multiple times.
What did Churchill say about dealing with FDR?
Mind you, it was impressive the way Churchill got FDR to commit to prioritising victory in Europe over the Pacific when it was the Japanese that attacked the US and Pearl Harbor was the injury that overcame determination to remain out of the war.
This is all about Ukraine. Lavrov’s comments overnight are in response to the West sending longer range artillery and saying the longer the range the bigger the necessary buffer zone.
duk – Taleb is a big fan of ancient wisdom, rites and fasting which he notes is incorporated in a number of religious practices. Perhaps there is someting in it. Who knows? Can’t hurt.
I’ve just noticed that the plastic tabs that keep bread packaging closed at the top have been replaced with cardboard versions that bend and are therefore next to useless once opened.
Why are you mischaracterising me? It’s quite a discreditable habit of yours.
Almost as much as plagiarism.
Which one?
Russia scores own goal as 2nd aircraft shot down by own defence forces in 48 hours – VIDEO (20 Jul)
I don’t know why anyone would be surprised. Such things are a long known aspect of war, which is made even likelier when both sides use the same equipment. Furthermore the Russians are keen to establish absolute air superiority, especially in the south where logistics don’t favour massed artillery as well as in the Donetsk area.
Re – foxes:
Despite a very well constructed chook pen, a fox managed to climb (yes – they are expert climbers) up the fence adjacent to our chook house ( a comfortable ex large kids cubby with verandah!) and squeeze through an unnoticed hole.
He then bit the heads off the Isa Browns & chased the white Leghorn (white feathers everywhere – they are flighty chooks) around probably for sport, as they do. He/she then faced the problem of getting out with one chook. It actually chewed through a thick brush box fence to do it.
The scene next morning was carnage. In many ways it was our own fault. We knew the fox was coming every night as we saw new tracks every morning in the track leading up to the house from the back paddocks and the creek. We knew that a vixen raised her cubs on a property adjacent to ours and saw her fleetingly on occasions. But especially during the mice plague we tolerated her nightly visits.
Headless chooks and a scene of carnage put paid to any fond thoughts I harboured of the vixen & her progeny.
Albo spent the Hawke-Keating years doing the photocopying for Tom Uren. I’m not terribly optimistic about him and Wayne Goosesteen’s Brains Trust.
Have they Roger
My gd’s child care collected the plastic tabs from bread bags to be recycled into furniture.
Seemed a colossal effort to me.
No doubt that means plastic bread bags are next on the list to go for gaia’s sake, pretty soon after than there will be no more sliced bread.
Strange as it may seem the ACTU had a bit of economic nous in the 80s. It didn’t resemble a Brunswick wymmyns collective.
Mine appeared after a bout if HepA in PNG. Had to come south to recover, then went back and carried on. No alternative – a young mum and no fainting couch to fall back on.
It lasted well into our return to Australia – I had no description for it, just “The Tiredness”. Every day was a struggle through gritted teeth and often debilitating pain, but like most things, you get used to it. Then, over the course of a few months, the thing retreated never to return.
Fasting does clear the cobwebs – I wouldn’t go too long though. These days it’s just daily IF, keeping the intake window at around 8 – 10 hours. It seems to suit me.
Yes; I’ll just have to go back to tying a knot in the top of the bag, despite the better half’s protests.
As a lad I used to set traps outside the chook pens on a circle so the fox would get caught in multiple traps and not be able to chew their foot off to escape.
The chooks would soon tell you a fox was caught. The old single shot .22 BSA did the rest.
Interesting comment, over on WA Today, regarding the foot and mouth outbreak in Indonesia – The Gilliard Governemnt could close down the live cattle trade to Indonesia overnight, yet now the trade relationship with Indonesia is too important to be damaged by a ban on traveling to Indonesia?
I have to venture outside – Weatherzone tells me it’ll feel like -1.2.
Roger – we lost our disposable plastic medicine cups which were replaced with a paper version like the old paper cups you get with water coolers. I snaffled a couple and periodically have to rescue one from the bin. No doubt violating a number of OH&S protocols.
The left does not want its children (or adult minions – which is most of them) smart. They don’t want them to pause and reflect on a question their leaders have already decided upon.
They want them to obey. They want them uniform. They want them to instantly descend upon and to crush by sheer number any opposition to their leaders’ agenda. They want them ready to commit violence against (physical and otherwise) in violation of any moral, intellectual, or social bond – and even blinding them to their own welfare – as ruthlessly and mercilessly as possible.
I wore very little issued equipment, except on parade, when uniformity was essential, but practically not so much.
Thousands, upon thousands of dollars spent buying kit that worked, was practical and didn’t weigh 3 times what it needed to. Everyone at the sharp end did.
The requirement to have a certain percentage of equipment made in Australia resulted in a lot of substandard equipment, and wastage.
The upside was, at least you could claim equipment purchases on tax.
Roger.
We ran out of our regular coffee machine pods (usually bought online) just before the hordes descended last weekend.
Mrs Panzer grabbed few boxes from the supermarket, including one pack of “recyclable” pods. Rather than the fine lip that the aluminum and plastic ones have these were rough and uneven and wouldn’t drop into the machine cleanly. So I push and they go all the way through to the waste tray.
Fucking useless.
Temper lost but planet saved.
On a separate note – off home today, some 2 years 9 months after collapsing on my dining room floor. I suspected I was in trouble.
Sun – re the muscle fatigue from post viral syndrome:
My poor mother eventually consulted a well known rheumatologist or some such expert at Prince of Wales. After tests he assured her that there was nothing wrong with her muscles. He took her out into the corridor of the hospital & said let me see you walk, now. Of course, she couldn’t. I think he thought she was a malingerer. But the family knew that wasn’t the case, because she was a keen gardener & it hurt her immensely that she could no longer garden. The medical profession at that stage had nothing to offer her.
Incidentally, I have mentioned before on this blog that our cattle suffered viral Bovine Ephemeral Fever a couple of years ago & (like Covid) all except one recovered in a few days. The little heifer who did not recover had no muscle strength in her rear legs & just could not get up, despite being nursed with food & water for almost 2 weeks, & given cortisone & calcium by the vet.
It broke my heart to have to shoot her.
We now stench our herd twice with Ivermectin during the mosquito season since the virus is carried by the mozzie. The new young vet said it was worth trying. You bet!
The German government admits hundreds of thousands of people have had severe side effects following mRNA shots
The mental sickness here is beyond sad.
Long covid…spare me.
You can’t prove covid exists.
It has and always has been nothing more than the seasonal flu.
Stick with me here….as it may be difficult for the lost, weak minds to contemplate….but when covid turned up for the first time in history the flus and colds all disappeared.
Funny that.
Now hyperchondriacs and the totally brainwashed….mostly hysterical women latch on to long since discredited tests and….Gossip.
Get back to fucking work.
Get out of the testing lane and fucking wake up to what you are doing.
You are helping our enemies destroy Australia.
Long covid?
Long psychotic hang ups.
You shouldn’t have taken jabs from those who want you dead.
You did.
Stop laying about and get back to work for what little time you have left before the blood clot Warnies you.
Previous entry addressed to “Duk” not “Sun”!!!!
rule by emergency is not the solution, it’s the problem
Mother Lodesays:
July 21, 2022 at 9:20 am
Dumb left wing children complain about non existent non problem.
The left does not want its children (or adult minions – which is most of them) smart. They don’t want them to pause and reflect on a question their leaders have already decided upon.
They want them to obey. They want them uniform. They want them to instantly descend upon and to crush by sheer number any opposition to their leaders’ agenda. They want them ready to commit violence against (physical and otherwise) in violation of any moral, intellectual, or social bond – and even blinding them to their own welfare – as ruthlessly and mercilessly as possible.
Don’t forget the need for a rousing chorus of “Tomorrow belongs to me”, and finish with a couple of vigorous “Sieg Heils”.
Yes, certainly not offering to roll Russian tanks into Warsaw.
So, presumably a westward-rolling exclusion zone, as each new independent republic is created.
Creeping fealty.
What You Don’t Know Could Hurt You: Novavax’s ‘Loud-and-Clear’ Nanoparticle Adjuvant
Struth ! You know that I am with you re Covid & the vaccines – but mate, chronic fatigue syndrome is definitely a complication of viral infection – whether a flu or Covid or any other viral infection.
Telling people to “man up” or similar is mindless when there is a medical complication that current medicine does not understand.
Every day, a fresh horror.
New Study Adds to Growing Body of Evidence Suggesting Mask Mandates Are Ineffective
Was going to start stripping a window someone had painted with a moulting cat.
Weatherzone said too manky.
Cal EPA Asserts Shockingly Broad Domain Over Private Property
Interesting thing about issued kit in a war zone, was that a lot of people I worked with supplemented the weapons to a fair degree – and nothing was done about it.
For example, a lot of people carried some sort of combat knife – a Bowie or similar.
A lot of people carried extra weapon mags and ammo. These were issued by the quartermasters/armourers with no eyebrows raised. Nor did you have to account for them.
A few people carried a “holdout gun” of some sort. A .32, for example, in a holster of some sort. That these were bought illegally bothered no one.
The general rationale seemed to be that if this is what made you happy then go for it.
Mechanochemical breakthrough unlocks cheap, safe, powdered hydrogen
We are in the pluses.
I like this weather.
Sunny, clear and … shall we say … crisp.
The Medical Community is Baffled by SADS But “Whatever You Do Don’t Solve the Mystery”
So, not gastric, I’m guessing.
Hope the homecoming works out as you want.
I suspect Sergey Lavrov is feeling rather confident after seeing the picture of “Rachel” Levine and Sam Brinton at the French Ambassador’s residence last week.
Hi Charlie!
Sure fits Australia.
A BASIC PUBLIC HEALTH PRINCIPLE:
A basic public health principle is, “The more society can function normally during a pandemic—the better the people will manage and survive.” This policy was turned on its head into, “The more society can be frightened, isolated, controlled, and suppressed—the safer it will be from the virus.”
(Breggin, Peter Roger; Breggin, Ginger. COVID-19 and the Global Predators (pp. 12-13). Lake Edge Press. Kindle Edition).
Cry more, Sergei.