Do you think 3 murdered in Mexico might deliver some cluebat whacks? Probably not, it’s orange man bad for wanting…
Open Thread – Tues 6 Sept 2022
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- Bumtree #5
- The beach which banned vanilla ice cream
- Bumtree #4
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No minister will resign. It’s just not in their DNA.That’s what cabinet reshuffles are for.
Domestic violence ..! The missus just got home .. LOL! https://packaged-media.redd.it/2bioex0jdayc1/pb/m2-res_478p.mp4?m=DASHPlaylist.mpd&v=1&e=1714806000&s=79157a9df9609f39dbbea77238bb7b6c9bd7dd09#t=0
I don’t think we’ve got a “full responsibility, apologize and resign” type of ruling class. We’ve got a “unforseeable development,…
Rockdoctor May 4, 2024 11:53 am LOL, the guy bringing a little gift home in a foldable chair.https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13374195/Barry-Calverley-11million-camping-bag-heroin.htmlA guy with…
Beetlejuice isn’t happy.
Chicago Mayor Accuses Texas of ‘Manufacturing’ Crisis After Busing Migrants (5 Sep)
Fifty? It’s an invasion!
Easy, went through pilots head did a 180 through the other pilot, exiting to bounce off compressor vane in one engine to aimlessly wander across to the other engine. Inconceivable? A little bit of artistic license may have been used in the telling.
As a sanity check and to eliminate confirmation bias, I showed Mrs and No 1 son all 16 BM types and asked them to pick mine, they backed up the test.
With the Ausidentity ones, the Head Teachers were the first group through and they were asked to predict what their staff, and selection of others (included me) were. They had no problem identifying me, others were more difficult.
But the Belbin team roles flip some of the BM findings. While I am a very strong Introvert (BM), I am a Shaper & RI which are described as extroverted roles, and Plant which is introverted. But as someone once said, it easier for an introvert to fake extroversion than vv.
I treat it all with the same respect as astrology.
The NSW covid stats are revealing in other ways.
Year totals:
Male: 1.5M
Female: 1.4M
Transgender: 4
ie: all this trans bullshit is for about 1 ppm of the population.
That was me. On the other hand “three-point landing” is a widely used colloquial for a perfect landing, which is what I meant.
Maybe it’s a boomerism but.
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Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
The Rt Hon Thérèse Coffey MP
and
Belgian Minister of Health Maggie De Block
And
Admiral Rachel L. Levine Assistant Secretary for Health
What’s the significance of red dye, rickw?
Apparently relates to fuel nozzle blockage. As often seen with these types of additive issues, very small concentrations can have significant effects.
Fifty? It’s an invasion!
That can replace those shot over the summer of joy
Sadly, we all know no action will be taken – the courts, like everything else, are corrupt.
Quite so.
Why electric vehicles aren’t cost-free environmental saviours
A new book finds the shift to Teslas and their competitors, financed by tens of billions of dollars of subsidies, also involves significant environmental and geopolitical damage.
Clean cars drive some very dirty businesses and grubby regimes. That’s the main takeaway from Henry Sanderson’s fine new book Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green.
Among the winners he describes are copper miners exploiting child labour, nickel miners dumping tonnes of waste into the sea, corrupt business people paying off venomous African politicians, and a host of Chinese billionaires. It’s a far cry from the sanitised vision sold to Tesla owners.
Volt Rush is a useful corrective to the utopian rhetoric that portrays electric vehicles as cost-free environmental saviours. Sure, they help limit the greenhouse gas emissions pouring into the atmosphere and heating the planet. But the shift to Teslas and their competitors, financed by tens of billions of dollars of government subsidies worldwide, also involves significant environmental and geopolitical damage.
Happily for readers, Sanderson hasn’t produced a 288-page guilt trip. While the author is clearly a geek – he says the most exciting part of electric cars is the battery – he has written a rollicking tale of greed, politics, and technology populated by a remarkable assortment of brigands, despicables, and visionaries.
They include an ultra-Orthodox Israeli who has exploited the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the scale of King Leopold II of Belgium, a Chilean whose marriage to the daughter of the country’s dictator helped him dominate the lithium mining business, a one-time pal of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs who pitches mining as humanity’s salvation, and a Chinese billionaire who bought an Airbus A319 to chauffeur his wife and lover.
An overlooked secret
Batteries are the heart of electric vehicles, and China is at the heart of advanced battery production. According to Sanderson, the industrial policy that helped turn China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology, or CATL, into the global battery leader involved subsidies and protectionism –unsurprising given China’s goal of dominating the next generation of cars and trucks. Beijing has mandated that 40 per cent of vehicles sold in China by 2030 must be electric.
As part of its strategy, Beijing denied subsidies for several years to electric vehicles using foreign batteries, making the foreign battery-makers uncompetitive in China. That gave CATL a protected market and a big advantage over South Korean firms, which were ahead at one point technologically and remain big rivals.
But government aid doesn’t fully explain the company’s success. Beijing and local governments in China also encouraged entrepreneurship, relentless cost-cutting, and foreign investment – even under the turn to state-owned firms that began in 2013 under Xi Jinping.
In CATL’s case, founder Robin Zeng ditched his job at a state-owned company in Fujian province and began working on batteries, initially with a former IBM scientist from Taiwan. Eventually, Zeng cut a deal with BMW’s Chinese joint venture to produce electric vehicle batteries. BMW’s stringent requirements helped raise CATL’s game high enough for it to become the go-to supplier for other automakers.
CATL now looks to emulate telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies in selling leading-edge equipment globally. In other words, in some clean industries China now isn’t ripping off innovation but producing breakthroughs.
One overlooked secret to China’s renewable energy success is ruthless domestic competition that drives down prices globally. While rock-bottom Chinese prices for solar materials and components, for instance, pushed European, Japanese, and US competitors into bankruptcy, they also helped make solar power affordable. The question for policymakers then becomes whether to shut off Chinese imports to help domestic businesses or open the doors wider to help domestic consumers. University of Wisconsin solar specialist Gregory Nemet has called China’s solar cost-cutting a “gift to the world”.
Sanderson is a reliable guide to China’s global technology role. As a Bloomberg reporter in China, where we crossed paths, he co-wrote China’s Superbank, a look at how China Development Bank bankrolled the global expansion of Chinese firms. Then as a commodities reporter at the Financial Times and executive editor at Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, a market research firm, he poked around in mines from Chile to China to Congo.
A messy business
For Chinese firms to play a leading role in electric vehicles, they needed to expand into global mining – with government financing – because they lacked the raw materials at home. Lithium-ion batteries – the energy source of choice for electric vehicles – require big supplies of lithium, copper, nickel, and cobalt. Chinese mines don’t produce nearly enough of any of these minerals, so Beijing had to look abroad. That created what Sanderson calls a “raw material rush”.
It’s a messy business. Electric cars require about three times as much copper as petrol-powered ones. For electric buses, the difference can be as much as 16-fold. Mining requires lots of energy, often provided by coal-fired plants, which cuts deeply into the overall emissions savings from electric cars versus conventional ones.
Volt Rush details how China acquired leading positions in the minerals it lacks. While Chinese foreign dealings are famously amoral, its tactics hardly stand out in that regard – especially in the cutthroat world of global mining. Consider Dan Gertler, the ultra-Orthodox Israeli adventurer who used his connections with then Congolese President Joseph Kabila to acquire rights to Congolese cobalt and copper for a fraction of their worth, and who acted as an agent for commodities giant Glencore.
Between 2005 and 2015, the Justice Department later said, Gertler paid more than $US100 million ($147 billion) in bribes to get “special access” to Congo’s mining sector. The Treasury Department sanctioned him in 2017.
Chinese companies acquired cobalt in Congo, too. Huayou Cobalt relied on what mining journalists bizarrely call “artisanal mining” – as if mining were like producing specialty wines. Instead, the term describes workers who dig on their own for cobalt for $US2 to $US3 a day without safety equipment, often using children as labourers. In 2019, China processed 90 per cent of Congo’s cobalt, Sanderson reports, with Huayou as a big supplier.
After Amnesty International unloaded on Huayou in 2016 for relying on child labour, in a report called “This Is What We Die For”, Apple paused purchasing from the firm. In response, Huayou formed a corporate social responsibility working committee, saying it wanted to be a world leader in ethical mining. Even so, Sanderson reports, the company continues to buy from artisanal miners.
Another Chinese firm, Tsingshan Holding Group, pursued a different strategy to corner nickel in Indonesia. Tsingshan’s founder, Xiang Guangda, isn’t “ostentatious personally”, Sanderson reports, though he owns a fleet of Bentleys and Hummers and may someday learn how to drive.
Early on, Tsingshan needed nickel to make stainless steel and opened a massive stainless steel factory powered by coal in nickel-rich Indonesia. When Indonesia banned nickel exports to create a domestic processing industry, Tsingshan was the chief beneficiary. To meet the surging demand for electric vehicles, the company used the nickel it mined in Indonesia to make battery materials there. Other Chinese companies followed suit and set up processing operations in Indonesia.
The mines and factories are often coal-powered, meaning that nickel produced for batteries in Indonesia probably produces triple the carbon emissions of similar operations in Canada and Australia, Sanderson estimates.
Green future
“My old man 74. Collapsed, very little pain, dead 3 weeks later of leukemia.”
Mine was in his mid eighties, haemorrhaged on Friday night. Turned out it was liver cancer, secondaries. Dead by Saturday night. No pain, the cause of death was listed a pneumonia due to aspirating too much blood. Even with the best of intentions the statistics are likely to be open to interpretation.
Rep. Eric Swalwell
@RepSwalwell
It’s time to rally, California!
We all need to do our part to help avoid power outages this week.
Before 4pm, pre-cool your home. After 4pm, avoid use of major appliances and turn your thermostat to 78 or higher.
Let’s keep the lights on, California
Due to the scale of the rollout, it now appears tens of thousands of practitioners have repeatedly performed medical treatments, properly termed, gross medical and or professional negligence. With respect to patients receiving the COVID-19 injectables, where each practitioner has no immunity from government whatsoever. So these practitioners are therefore personally and professionally liable to actions for medical negligence from their patients receiving COVID-19 injectables, particularly those patients who subsequently died or suffered adverse side effects from the COVID-19 injectables.
Could start the ball rolling with assault.
If a person doesnt consent to a medical treatment, and falls outside some narrow exemptions its an assault.
Trend detected. The Belgian minister is gargantuan but she still has the same number of chins as the tranny.
Gruinaid deigns to notice the Bunter Hiden movie…
The article is a masterpiece of shrill “LEAve BuNteR ALOne”
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/sep/06/my-son-hunter-review-rightwing-biden-movie
In the case of far-right ear-flicking such as this fiction-laced retelling of the Hunter Biden laptop nothingburger, a writeup in a semi-reputable publication like the Guardian gives hyperventilating Breitbart commenters all the ammo they need to prove that the libs have been thoroughly and irrefutably triggered.
https://youtu.be/q0qTlBst_8c
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That line is delivered by actor Gina Carano, better known for the work she hasn’t done than what she has; last year, in the wake of sharing an Instagram post equating the extermination of Jews during the Holocaust to the supposed persecution faced by American conservatives, she was dismissed from her role in streaming series The Mandalorian and barred from appearances in future Star Wars-adjacent media. Her role may be minimal, but her presence is significant, a clear statement that we’re in a purgatorial sub-industry that allows performers blackballed by “cancelation” (read: radioactive PR calamities) to continue working.
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The gist seems to be that the commander-in-chief’s playboy failson Hunter, desperate to earn the approval and respect of his father, did some backroom dealings with Russian oligarch types and left behind a laptop computer as a smoking gun. Never mind that the contents of said computer have been proved non-scandalous, and never mind that Russian state media has eagerly embraced the cockamamie narratives peddled here.
Can the gruinaid ignore the “lost” russian laptops and conflate them with the one in America… YES IT CAN!!
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The article is a wail that Hunter is a good dude unfairly targeted.
I see it has been confirmed that there were nuclear secrets among the classified documents scooped up from Mar-A-Lago. Specifically, intel on a foreign country’s nukes.
That $2 billion that the Saudis gave to Jared seems to have been useful. Wonder how the Israelis are feeling?
I see it’s been confirmed Trump had reports of Munster’s daily intake of Krispy Kremes. Fat idjit.
Anyone heard of this?
The Iron Boomerang.
100% correct, and that is the true reason you sign a consent form before a procedure – NOT to stop you suing the doc for a bad outcome, but to stop you claiming criminal assault.
The kicker is, consent has to be INFORMED and that means a discussion of risks, benefits and alternatives, including NO treatment.
In our covid world, EVERYTHING WAS INVERTED
1) risks – downplayed, benefits exaggerated, alternatives criminalised – all by the state
2) well people treated (with ‘vax’)
3) sick people denied treatment (with IVM and HCQ)
4) Dr – Patient relationship relegated from sacrosanct to irrelevant (it became the State-Dr-Patient relationship
5) Nuremburg code (medical experimentation on vulnerable groups) extinguished and ‘comply or become a second class citizen’ substituted
6) ‘Protect and serve’ (police motto) became ‘kick them in the head to keep em safe’
7) Confidential nature of medical history became ‘show the door warden your vax papers’.
All the above is why I resisted from the start, and why I wont be returning to medicine even if sanity prevails. It was interesting that Malcolm Roberts twice mentioned ‘doctors chucking it an and retreating to the farm’ … well thats me.
https://www.malcolmrobertsqld.com.au/the-covid-inquiry-2-0/#htoc-dr-philip-altman
Indeed, and there in plain sight is proof that these ‘experts’ in charge of our health have NO understanding of health, and in particular the central role of a healthy diet – and by that I mean a caveman diet: meat for most calories, carbs rarely (only the odd honey treat and local fruit in season – NO vegetables) and regular fasting – I am well into day 3 of fast now.
Duk it seems such a waste of your talents but I do understand and don’t blame you.
does burning candles release co2? asking for a friend….
Anyone heard of this?
The Iron Boomerang.
Sounds like the another transnational, nation building boondoggle.
How about we get something simple and immediately useful up first like some HELE coal power plants or even modular nuclear reactors first.
Saving the country for my children is more important than what I used to do.
Johanna:
The fact the stuff ups are so consistent is because the stuff ups are deliberate.
a actual doctor has the temerity to speak on the topic !!!
go on rosie … put him in his place
Good luck with that swellhead. The punters are going to be even more pissed off than usual:
California takes action to cut more plastics waste, including grocery produce bags (6 Sep)
When you have idiot NGOs with “Against Waste” and “Environmental Justice” in their names wetting themselves with excitement you know that the new laws are going to be real stinkers.
Don’t know if it’s been mentioned before.. but a fun fact:
Goliath’s head in the Caravaggio is one of the several self-portraits of said Michelangelo Merisi (da Caravaggio) in his paintings.
Here in the States, Covid seems to have largely disappeared.
In NY there were some tents set up here and there with “free testing” signs. The staff of one or two sit there playing with their phones. Never saw a customer.
Masks are very rare. Sometimes see an oldster wearing one. And bus drivers in Washington DC.
Perhaps someone with great finance analysis skills could decipher this from the Hun:
‘Labor has backflipped on its call for greater consumer protections in the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort, months after warning the Coalition’s Bill was too narrow in scope and could lead to poor consumer outcomes.
Treasury on Monday met the big 4 banks as well as IAG, QBE and TAL – each of which will have to stump up tens of millions of dollars in a one-off levy for the scheme – as the federal government prepares to introduce into Parliament on Thursday a largely unchanged CSLR Bill.
The new bill, which comes after the Coalition’s version lapsed because of the federal election, will retain the compensation cap at $150k and will not include managed investment schemes, it is understood. This is despite Labor earlier detailing its concerns, which centred on the exclusion of the pooled investments. “Labor is concerned by the narrow focus of the proposed compensation scheme and the decision by the government to exclude managed investment schemes from coverage,” then-opposition said in the final CSLR report.’
Does this compensation thing mean to protect investors who have been dudded by Nigerian scam artists, as an example? And dodgy bank operation like giving people who can’t afford it credit cards etc?
I remember the old days when you actually had to invade russia to get your ass handed too you by general Winter.
The Green Boxheads are determined to see if they can invite general Winter to Germany itself.
https://dailycaller.com/2022/09/05/germany-rules-out-keeping-nuclear-power-despite-energy-crisis/
German Economy Minister Robert Habeck has ruled out extending the life of its three remaining nuclear power plants in the middle of its energy crisis, according to German media outlet Focus.
Germany will continue with its plans to phase out nuclear energy use by the end of 2022, but will keep two of the plants available in case of emergencies until spring 2023 as the nation looks to address its ongoing energy crisis, according to Focus. An electrical grid stress test to help determine Germany’s energy requirements for the winter months informed Habeck’s decision to shutter the nuclear plants.
Habeck, who is also a member of the green party, plans to present the results of the test on Monday evening.
Habeck’s decision comes amid Germany’s energy crisis that is being exacerbated by the complete cutoff of Russian natural gas deliveries, which are spiking electricity prices, according to Reuters. Germany will spend over $64 billion to its curb soaring electricity prices by paying individuals to subsidize their electricity bills and by giving tax breaks to industries that consume lots of electricity, according to the BBC.
Feelthebern:
Now for an encore, we need to see a Biden impeachment.
Not because it will happen, but to make the Democrats and RINOs defend the Old Thief in public.
Speaking of finances, Tim Blair has an article about the ‘teals’ in Parliament. First up Mzzz Spender (in every sense of the word) :
‘Independent Federal member for Wentworth Allegra Spender, who recently gave her inaugural speech to a House of Representatives with just two Liberal Party politicians in attendance, has bought again at Great Mackerel Beach on Pittwater.
The house was secured for $1.8 million just six days after she won the May 21 election, bought with her husband, Canva executive Mark Capps.
The three bedroom home borders the national park bushland, a 320m level walk to the shoreline.’
(Blair) So it’s exposed to sea-level increases and warming-driven bushfires. Quite the gamble, what with all this klimawandel going on.
Quite so
Sophie Scamps:
Some of the newly-elected teal independent MPs are quickly learning that their crusade for transparency in government cuts both ways, with media types now insisting the teals be transparent about their personal financial behaviour …
The latest teal to be given the third degree about her personal finances is the Member for Mackellar, Sophie Scamps, who faced a grilling from the normally mild-mannered host of Sky’s NewsDay, Tom Connell, after it was quietly revealed that she owns personal assets through opaque family trusts.
Despite some persistent questioning from Connell, Scamps seemed determined to shed as little light as possible on what was actually in her trusts …
Connell invoked Scamps’s alleged zeal for transparency as a cue to ask what was actually in the trusts – before being met by the MP’s equivalent of a brick wall.
And Mzzz Daniel. Could be applied to her former employer
https://twitter.com/zdaniel/status/1566988750252810240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1566988750252810240%7Ctwgr%5Eafdfd68a2f790d256e4744efa1e9c822fcf7de33%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailytelegraph.com.au%2Fblogs%2Ftim-blair%2Fteal-watch%2Fnews-story%2F92e9ac38a7f5b00faea1befda7211dd5
Kid mutilator writes a piece in defense of sterilizing and mutilating kids.
Closure of UK gender clinic does not mean change needed in Australia
There has indeed been a large increase in the number of young people being referred to gender clinics worldwide (the number of referrals to Tavistock jumped from 250 to 5000 over a decade to 2021).
Nope, no chance of fucking up after supervising a 40 fold increase in numbers…
Fiona Bisshop
From her practice blurb..
Model of Care
Dr Bisshop practices an informed consent model of care for trans and gender diverse people. This means that there is no “gatekeeping” approach or prolonged assessment process in order for people to access treatment for gender transition.
If you are a new patient wishing to access assistance with transition, you will need to make a long appointment. This first appointment is an introductory chat to help Dr Bisshop clarify with you your issues and goals, and to work out a collaborative plan for how to help you on your journey. There is no requirement for you to have had any formal assessment prior to this appointment, and you do not need a referral to see her. If however you have seen other medical or mental health professionals, it would be useful to bring along a letter or information from them if you have this.
Also active on twitter, I cant access from this comp though.
I think she assumes that the police forces, National Guard, and the rest of the military will remain under the control and obedient to the Federal Government. I think it is not as much a given. The upper echelons would since they are more politicians than soldiers or police, but I can see refusal of the grunts to do some things as disrupting whatever plans they may form.
Even Biden’s talk about MAGA Republicans needing F-15’s is dubious. It takes a lot of people to get those planes in the air and flying – ground crews, mechanics, air traffic controllers etc. And pilots who would have to do the dirty work themselves. They are effective overseas because everyone is willing. Attacking other Americans? I think not so much.
FroMo, what’s that funny flail thing in General Winter’s left hand?
And thanks Gilas, I’d heard that about the Caravaggio, but lost my book
FroMo, what’s that funny flail thing in General Winter’s left hand?
Given the vintage of the poster, probably the Kaisers nuts.
Iron Boomerang should utilise HELE coal-fired locomotives to haul the steel ingredients.
it’s a mystery
s – which could include covid-19, population ageing and NHS problems
Embalmers Are Making Shocking Discoveries in the Blood of the Dead
It sounds like a bad horror movie script from the 1960s, but it isn’t.
The Epoch Times is reporting that embalmers from around the nation are speaking out about strange blood clots they have been finding in the bodies of the deceased since around 2020 or 2021.
The clots are said to be white, fibrous, and rubbery and can be the size of a grain of sand or as long as a human leg. They can be as thick as a pinky finger. One embalmer claimed they can be “nearly the strength of steel.” Embalmers across the nation are contending that these clots are not normal.
FACT-O-RAMA! Embalming is the process of preserving a body with chemicals for viewing at a funeral, including draining the body of blood.
Some bodies have so many clots that the embalmers are forced to drain blood from several points instead of just one. The embalming process takes roughly two hours but can take four hours if the bodies have a lot of clotting.
“Prior to 2020, 2021, we probably would see somewhere between 5 to 10 percent of the bodies that we would embalm having blood clots,” licensed embalmer Richard Hirschman told The Epoch Times.
Today, Hirschman, who embalms in Alabama, claims that 50% to 70% of the bodies have clots.
“For me to embalm a body without any clots, kind of like how it was in the day, prior to all of this stuff, it’s rare,” Hirschman continued.
“The exception is to embalm a body without clots,” he added.
“They’re not even dead from COVID. They’re dying of sudden heart attacks, strokes, cancers,” Hirschman stated. “It doesn’t seem to matter what these people die of nowadays, so many of them have the same anomalies in their blood.”
No one knows yet if the clots are due to COVID-19, the vaccine, or something else, but embalmers from around the country agree that these specific clots were not seen until recently.
Hirschman admitted he doesn’t always know the vaccination status of the bodies he embalms.
Even PolitiFact’s experts agree that “there’s something to the claim about a greater incidence of blood clots.”
“What embalmers are noticing, they say, could well be the effects of COVID-19 infection itself, and those effects are occurring in people who are vaccinated and unvaccinated,” PolitiFact wrote, adding that “they dismiss the idea that it’s linked to the vaccines.”
“If it’s not the vaccine, fine! What is it? Let’s figure it out because something is causing it and it can’t be healthy,” Hirschman continued.
Mike Adams, who runs an accredited lab in Texas, tested one of the clots Hirschman discovered against blood from a living, unvaccinated person and found the clot was almost completely lacking in potassium, iron, magnesium, and zinc.
“Notice that the key elemental markers of human blood such as iron are missing in the clot,” Adams told The Epoch Times, referring to a chart of his findings. “Similar story with magnesium, potassium, and zinc. These are clear markers for human blood. Live human blood will always have high iron, or the person would be dead. These clots have almost no iron, nor magnesium, etc.”
LOTS-O-CLOTS-O-RAMA! The new clots are found in both veins and arteries. They are white compared to regular clots, which are typically dark red or black.
Embalmers from across the U.S. are starting to speak out about clotting, though many are choosing to remain anonymous. A licensed funeral director, who chose not to release her name, told The Epoch Times, “During May of 2021, the embalming process became more difficult. The normal draining of the blood was almost halted by thick, jelly-like blood. Instead of the blood flowing normally down the table, it was very viscous. So thick, that it would not wash down the table without assistance.”
He further states that he “cannot prove it’s the vaccine, but my gut tells me it is.”
China and US having a spat on lunar locations:
Two More EU Aluminum Smelters Going Offline Due to Excessive Energy Costs, Aluminum Shortages Predicted
September 6, 2022 – Sundance
On one hand losing the ability to manufacture aluminum is bad news for any economic activity that requires the use of aluminum. However, on the other hand, this politically guided ‘new world’ we are going toward doesn’t need aluminum, because you cannot eat it.
Predictably 2023 is going to be the beginning of several ‘Build Back Better’ decades where the ownership of material things disappears. When your wages are focused on sustaining yourself with housing, food and energy, all of those other purchases become mere indulgences.
Sustainable life in equity with the needs of the planet, means returning to the era when you received an orange or a piece of chocolate as a Christmas gift, and you are thankful. Cars, appliances, phones or other types of luxury durable goods are indulgences which become out of reach for the worker class. Thus, removing smelters, iron works, factories and other heavy industrial machines only makes sense.
As meager wage earnings are focused on purchases to sustain life, there is little room for indulgences. As the World Economic Forum has stated, we will own nothing and we will be happy. Happiness experiences will be provided and the virtual metaverse will fill our needs.
LONDON, Sept 1 (Reuters) – Two more European aluminium smelters are powering down as the region’s energy crisis shows no signs of abating.
Slovenia’s Talum will reduce output to just a fifth of capacity and Alcoa (AA.N) will curtail one line at its Lista plant in Norway.
Close to 1 million tonnes of European primary aluminum capacity is now offline and more may follow as a notoriously power-hungry sector struggles to cope with soaring energy costs. (read more)
BREAKING: Another Deep State Leak to WaPo: Document Describing Foreign Government’s Nuclear Capabilities Seized by FBI During Mar-a-Lago Raid
Another day, another Deep State leak.
A document describing a foreign government’s nuclear capabilities was seized by the FBI during its raid of Trump’s Florida residence last month.
The document is so highly classified that the FBI leaked it to the Washington Post.
Judge Aileen Cannon granted President Trump’s request for a Special Master review of the material confiscated by the Biden DOJ during their raid on his home at Mar-a-Lago.
Judge Cannon also ‘temporarily enjoins’ or forbid the Biden regime from ‘reviewing and using the seized materials’ pending the completion of the review.
Judge Cannon in her order also noted there is a risk of Deep State leaks to the media.
And like clockwork, the Deep State leaked so-called ‘highly classified’ information on nuclear weapons to the Washington Post.
Trusted blogger or Twitter? Fuckwit.
ftb did say a new talking point would drop today after the Special Master decision yesterday, and of course, mouth of Sauron, WaPo, has the story.
China and US having a spat on lunar locations:
Apple TV’s “For All Mankind” takes place around Shackleton Crater near lunar south pole only it is US vs Soviets (it’s alternate history – USSR lands Alexei Leonov on Moon a month before Apollo 11 – Americans are pissed – Soviet Union doesn’t collapse). Complete with Moon Marines, spaceborne assault, Russian attack on American Base. Well done, particularly the scenes on surface of Moon conveying the wonder of it all.
Special Master Order Reveals Biden’s Direct Involvement In Trump Raid And Six Other Bombshells
BY: MARGOT CLEVELAND
The federal judge’s 24-page order further calls into question the DOJ’s targeting of Trump.
A federal judge on Monday granted former President Donald Trump’s request for the appointment of a special master to review the documents seized by the FBI during a raid on his Mar-a-Lago home last month. Presiding Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, further held that the Department of Justice cannot review or use for criminal investigative purposes any material seized pending the review process.
Besides handing Trump a victory in his battle for some oversight of the Biden administration’s digging into his documents, Cannon highlighted several significant facts over the course of her 24-page order that further call into question the DOJ’s targeting of Trump.
Here are the seven top-line takeaways:
1. President Biden Was Directly Involved
2. Timeline of the Trump Targeting Is Suspect
3. Not So Fast Joe — Trump’s Executive Privilege Can’t Be So Quickly Sidestepped
4. Members of the Investigative Team Saw Confidential Attorney-Client Documents
5. DOJ Seized a Lot of Personal Material
6. FBI Suggested Trump Committed a Crime by Returning a Torn-Up Document to the NARA
7. Leaks Look Bad Too
Incredible Hallward. Neil Armstrong had nothing on you. I also watched a little of the series. How much did you like the series after the lezzo scenes as I tuned out after that?
7. Leaks Look Bad Too
In granting Trump’s request for the appointment of a special master, Cannon stressed that the special master would help maintain institutional trust in a case heavily politicized. She further noted that a special master would serve to ensure “the integrity of an orderly process amidst swirling allegations of bias and media leaks.” Here, the court noted that “when asked about the dissemination to the media of information relative to the contents of the seized records, Government’s counsel stated that he had no knowledge of any leaks stemming from his team but candidly acknowledged the unfortunate existence of leaks to the press.”
Those “unfortunate” leaks provide further proof of the politicization of this entire affair: In three weeks’ time, Mar-a-Lago has sprung more leaks than have escaped from Special Counsel John Durham’s team over three years.
The West.
Myer Briggs was invented in about 5 minutes by a mother and daughter, supposedly based on Jungian theory.
Jung apparently reckoned it was a load of bollocks.
As Old Ozzie’s post makes clear, they are not American nuclear secrets, but records of what is known about another country’s abilities. Then there is talk about how docs such as these are top secret – but not that this document was top secret, or rather currently is.
I would note that ‘people familiar with the matter’ tends to use this thing of avoiding distinctions to make things seem the same more than ‘unnamed sources’ because his father was a professor of propositional mathematics, while ‘unnamed sources’ has a law background.
Monty off for another Bunnings excursion?
In my opinion Caravaggio is one of the top 10 artists is human history. He was also a dreadful human being in every way possible. He’s suspected of a having murdered a few people.
I think it must constantly rankle senior Democrats, who show a dictatorial flair every time they are faced with a policy decision, to have their choker leash snapped back because there are limits to their power. It so rarely happens that they have forgotten that it can.
Any crime of Trump’s is still contested, but the behaviour of the DOJ, FBI, and Democrats have been in plain sight.
If they are saying that the leaks are not coming from his department then should we take that as indicating they are not true? Of the leaks are from the department and are accurate he would know it was coming from his team. If he is not sure then it can only be because the leaks are not accurate and could be coming from someone not privy to the facts.
Also known as a cut and paste from Janes.
Outstanding thread.
In case you missed it
Bristol rapper fatally stabbed at Notting Hill carnival was due to become father
A “kind-hearted and loving” rapper who was due to become a father was stabbed to death at Notting Hill carnival.
Takayo Nembhard, known as TKorStretch, was at the event with his sister and friends when he was attacked about 8pm on Monday.
“You was the most kind hearted, loving, funny and caring person,” she wrote in a post on Instagram alongside photos of Nembhard cradling her baby bump.
Chuckle. Noticed a few disclosing their MB type.
Strongly INFJ. Almost off the scale “I”.
Be afraid. Very afraid. 😀
I’m going to defend my position on civil unions because it doesn’t always have to be a slippery slope.
Iirc all people living in defacto relationships used to have to take their split ups to the supreme court rather than the family court.
People ought to be able to be involved in medical decisions, have inheritance rights etc when they have long term relationships, that’s all.
Anyhow it’s been done, perhaps one day the pretend marriage part can be undone.
Those NSW covid stats, any break down by age, or was it just a blob?
“From 3 months of NSW Covid surveillance reporting, we can see that higher rates of hospitalisation and death with Covid correlate with higher dosage rates of Covid vaccination. ”
Okay I read through, perhaps it might be more accurate to say higher rates of hospitalisation and death correlate with being really old.
Thanks for the reminder Gilas. Those two artists were rivals. From memory, the model for David was one of Caravaggio’s … ahem… favourites.
In fact, Caravaggio’s work is the perfect illustration why you should not cancel a person because they’re a horrible human being.
Australian cases and deaths by age and sex
INTJ here.
I have met some others. We nod slightly when we see each other in public, we have a secret handshake, go on daytrips, and like to share jokes about ESFJ’s over a drink. They, of course, are torn between having a cry and at the same time sucking up to us.
Incontinent eager puppies, the lot of them.
Too true. Even on this tour, the two from “Health” are gargantuan.
Why is this so often the case?
Glenn Greenwald is a good man. He’s gay, ssmarried, an old fashioned leftie, but he’s honest and speaks truth to power. A genuine journalist.
Not many of them around these days.
I don’t quite get why he thinks it’s not adequately understood. We’ve “understood” since the beginning of the 2020 election campaign.
M0nty hasn’t.
I’m the “chile amang ye takkin’ notes”, ML.
Then overthinking the joy out of everything.
And trying desperately to avoid the Hitler/Jesus nexus.
Bill Gates ‘is an oligarch’: Neil Oliver on the billionaire’s global influence
‘God gave us two arms – one for the flu shot and the other one for the COVID shot’: Biden’s COVID coordinator says White House plans to push for ANNUAL jabs
Doc, why pick on someone who is retarded and why is he the defining standard of what is or isn’t adequately understood?
So long as civil union and marriage substantively mean two different things, with different sets of rights, some overlapping (inheritance, power of attorney) and others not (parental rights, adoptive rights) then I agree, but otherwise, no.
Tucker Carlson: Biden criminalizes dissent
I think everyone on the Çat except m0nty understands, but we’re an oppressed minority. There’s a lot out there who don’t have a clue.
Leo helps out a refugee.
hahahaha
This is the poor, sad looking Ukraine ref
It’s disturbing. Watching people who have written many words against being constantly emotionally manipulated only to be seducesd by those same tactics.
Oh, Jack’s twitter comment.
“DrBeauGansays:
September 7, 2022 at 3:36 pm
Outstanding thread.
Glenn Greenwald is a good man. He’s gay, ssmarried, an old fashioned leftie, but he’s honest and speaks truth to power. A genuine journalist.
Not many of them around these days.”
Add Aaron Mate, Matt Taibi and Jimmy Dore to the list too, all old fashioned leftists who speak truth.
We live in a time of post-truth, my truth, your truth, his truth, her truth….anything but the truth.
dover0beachsays:
September 7, 2022 at 3:13 pm
Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald
The regime of censorship being imposed on the internet – by a consortium of DC Dems, billionaire-funded “disinformation experts,” the US Security State, and liberal employees of media corporations – is dangerously intensifying in ways I believe are not adequately understood.
Cant access twatter from here.
But i was reading the “wayback machine” internet archive site has been deleting wrongthink pages…
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32743325
Exactly Dover, how could parental rights flow naturally from a civil union of a same sex couple?
That’s just monkeying around with marriage, again.
Zulu, what exactly is the inquest looking for in this? I’m trying to get my head around it.
It’s obvious that the police were ‘sly’ because they didn’t want to get bashed to death by a mob.
It’s not a coronial enquiry, it’s a circus.
No shit Jack
But more than that, it was designed to incite fear – incite fear in Demonrats and motivate them to vote perhaps even more than once. 🙂
I tend to agree with a podcast I heard today. Demented wasn’t attempting to persuade everyone with his speech. He was attempting to instill fear in Demonrats and motivate them to vote. On this score it may have been very successful because a large number of Demonrats are gullible enough to believe the fear being conveyed in these speeches and talk like Demented’s.
Jack Pos reckons that fear is without doubt the apex of motivation and this is what central casting Demons are up to. He also changed my view on the election candidate. I was tending with DeSantis as I thought the Trumpster is too old. However, DeSantis isn’t an absolute c..t like the Trumpster and won’t go down and dirty in the gutter. The only way to beat a fear election isn’t with the higher ground, according to Jack. It’s creating more fear against opponents. The only fucker who would be able to do that on the Right is… you guessed it… The Trumpster.
National Guard is state based – and although control can be Fed, I can’t see red states’ guards being compliant to a broken federal gov. I wonder what the laws on that are.
The thing that people on the Right don’t seem appreciate it just how motivated (by fear)the left is about the Right. They just don’t hate the American Right, they are so fearful than they can’t sleep at night worrying. They are scared to death of Trump because the demon elite are very successful in cultivating fear in their supporters. The outlandish behaviour, the crying, shouting and screaming – leftists go to bed at night terrified of the American Right.
Case report: Persistence of residual antigen and RNA of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in tissues of two patients with long COVID
Having established the presence of the residual viral antigen in the appendix and skin tissues, we then aimed to assess its genomic presence. Using RNAscope in situ hybridization, we detected viral RNA within both extracellular (Figure 1G) and intracellular space (Figure 1H) of the appendix, providing evidence of viral persistence for up to 426 days after symptom onset.
This ground breaking case reports demonstrate for the first time the evidence for the SARS-COV-2 persistence. Let’s review.
Drbeen Medical Lectures
This is sure to work out well.
Fine.
No need to be worried at all.
Albanese government turns to super funds to help address social housing shortfall
…
The Assistant Treasurer told the round table there were many opportunities for joint cooperation between government and superannuation funds.
“There are many areas where the government can partner with the super funds to advance the national interest,” Mr Jones said.
“Super funds are already major investors in assets that earn great money for members and produce huge economic benefits for the community [and] we need to find new ways to do this.
“Supercharging our economy with Australian workers’ own savings is smart.
‘Smart governments look for all available options to solve these [economic] problems. Engaging with our super funds is one way we can work together to do that.”
….
A report prepared for the Community Housing Industry Association estimated the shortfall of social and affordable housing will exceed 700,000 by 2036.
So if we theoretically had no migration for 4 years there would be enough houses for everyone?
He is a superstar make no mistake. But a quivering bottom lip can be detected.
‘Latrell Mitchell has hit out at Roosters fans who relentlessly booed him last Friday, reminding spectators Sydney Swans legend Adam Goodes retired early after he was constantly abused from the stands.
The South Sydney superstar won two premierships when he was at the Roosters but was booed every time he touched the ball, with supporters taking great pleasure when he was sent to the sin bin late in the game. ‘
Maybe because you defected to your greatest rival you are getting the beans Latrell, or maybe your antics in flooring Manu last year?
The thing that people on the Right don’t seem appreciate it just how motivated (by fear)the left is about the Right. They just don’t hate the American Right, they are so fearful than they can’t sleep at night worrying. They are scared to death of Trump because the demon elite are very successful in cultivating fear in their supporters. The outlandish behaviour, the crying, shouting and screaming – leftists go to bed at night terrified of the American Right.
And that is how the right should think of the left too. I’m starting to think the human race is starting to split into 2 groups: left and right; the defining characteristics of each are so starkly different it’s inevitable. Right now though right ‘leaders’ still think there is a middle ground or a broad church. There is a ground but it’s the ground under a guillotine operated by the left and the church is communism/alarmism.
Couple uses donated sperm for a child.
Married vs. civil union (hetero or not).
Go.
I think Ive found the film that describes why Monty comes here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGI72hsVj2Q
JC
You can insert pretty much any MSM fantasy there. Covid, the American right, global warming, monkeypox, teenage growing pains, the 5:30 bus home being 5min late, etc
Traveling, using phone, test.
Has m0nty-fa come up with talking points on the latest legal decision re Trump?
Virtuoso
ISTP-A
Whatever that means?
Never stand between a politician and a bucket of money.
Said one of Labor’s royalty.
Who knew exactly what happens when you put a trough in front of pigs.
Since he owned a piggery.
“Leo’s poor, sad looking Ukraine ref”
An honest looking girl, to be sure.
Civil union’s can be be just as committed to parenting.
Kyrgios melts down with epic racquet-smashing tantrum after US Open loss
Now that’s a headline I never expected to see. (sarc off)
I’m struggling too, but it seems the coroner wants to give the family a chance to express their feelings and have their questions answered.
The bright distinction between civil unions and marriage would also include in separate legislation a ban re surrogacy. But lets say a lesbian couple just hooked up with someone for the purposes of having a child. Custodial rights would reside in the male and female parents. The point is there is nothing about civil unions that should assume parental/ custodial rights at all whereas in marriage, they should be assumed because the relationship is aimed at the generation of children.
Leo is a laughing stock but who wouldn’t swap places with him?
For frequent-flying Cats:
RTWT
He met a Karen.
Karens can cause anyone to have a meltdown.
Aussie tennis star Nick Kyrgios crashes out of US Open quarterfinal in five-set thriller against Russia’s Karen Khachanov (Sky News, 7 Sep)
Conseption dictates parental rights. Not marriage.
JC that poll you referred to upthread was a Trafalgar poll so it’s pretty shocking.
A Russian can play in the US open.
But an un-jabbed Joker can not.
I can’t keep up with who the baddies are these days.
Sure, but this is often assumed in marriage.
Really? I thought he ran out of imaginary spears to chuck at the crowd and had to call it a day.
Too true. Even on this tour, the two from “Health” are gargantuan.
Why is this so often the case?
You project your lack of self control onto others. The end result is you want fork control, gun control or some other control, depending on your own lack of self control.
This
Yep, it sure was.
Is a lie still a lie if you repeat it 97 times?
‘Absolute silence’ from Albanese govt over promised power price cut (Sky News, 6 Sep)
Hammer it lady. Pedal to the metal, it resonates.
Of course it’d be much more effective if you could, like, offer an alternative rather than basically backing everything Labor is doing that increases electricity prices. Just saying.
Thread Conversation
Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald
– The regime of censorship being imposed on the internet – by a consortium of DC Dems, billionaire-funded “disinformation experts,” the US Security State, and liberal employees of media corporations – is dangerously intensifying in ways I believe are not adequately understood.
– A series of “crises” have been cynically and aggressively exploited to inexorably restrict the range of permitted views, and expand pretexts for online silencing and deplatforming. Trump’s election, Russiagate, 1/6, COVID and war in Ukraine all fostered new methods of repression.
– During the failed attempt in January to force Spotify to remove Joe Rogan, the country’s most popular podcaster – remember that? – I wrote that the current religion of Western liberals in politics and media is censorship: their prime weapon of activism.
– But that Rogan failure only strengthened their repressive campaigns. Dems routinely abuse their majoritarian power in DC to explicitly coerce Big Tech silencing of their opponents and dissent. This is *Govt censorship* disguised as corporate autonomy.
– There’s now an entire new industry, aligned with Dems, to pressure Big Tech to censor. Think tanks and self-proclaimed “disinformation experts” funded by Omidyar, Soros and the US/UK Security State use benign-sounding names to glorify ideological censorship as neutral expertise.
– The worst, most vile arm of this regime are the censorship-mad liberal employees of big media corporations
@BrandyZadrozny
@TaylorLorenz
NYT tech unit). Masquerading as “journalists,” they align with the scummiest Dem groups to silence and deplatform.
– A major myth that must be quickly dismantled: political censorship is not the by-product of autonomous choices of Big Tech companies.
This is happening because DC Dems and the US Security State are threatening reprisals if they refuse. They’re explicit:
– But the worst is watching people whose job title in corporate HR Departments is “journalist” take the lead in agitating for censorship. They exploit the platforms of corporate giants to pioneer increasingly dangerous means of banning dissenters. *These* are the authoritarians.
This is the frog-in-boiling-water problem: the increase in censorship is gradual but continuous, preventing recognition of how severe it’s become. The EU now legally *mandates censorship of Russian news. They’ve made it *illegal* for companies to air it.
So many new tactics of censorship repression have emerged in the West: Trudeau freezing bank accounts of tucker-protesters; Paypal partnering with ADL to ban dissidents from the financial system; Big Tech platforms openly colluding in unison to de-person people from the internet.
The Thread Continues – Worth a Read
Really? I thought he ran out of imaginary spears to chuck at the crowd and had to call it a day.
Goodes watching the footage must have resulted in that “fuck I really am a wanker” sinking feeling.
Indeed.
He had emotional lability with anger-control issues. Not sure if this was enough to label him a sociopath, as he didn’t manipulate people effectively.
Getting handed a death-sentence by a Court, in absentia, isn’t a great strategy for survival or social advancement.
Quite prolific too, with scattered paintings all over Europe, even in back rooms near little known sacristies (Toledo Cathedral).
I’m going to defend my position on civil unions because it doesn’t always have to be a slippery slope.
If you’re not on the narrow path, then you’re on the slippery slope.
100% that at least his wife was as she attended a Met Gala which had vaccination as a pre-condition.
As to Justin himself, with the amount of travel he did it’s inconceivable that he wasn’t. In any event, the damage he suffered was clearly on the list of known side effects.
I just can’t see those rights and responsibilities over a kid any different because your married, Dover.
Adam Goodes treatment by crowds is a Dreamtime story. Cf: Eddie Betts, Shane Burgoyne etc etc
you can’t scare me … I’m married to one
100% correct, and that is the true reason you sign a consent form before a procedure – NOT to stop you suing the doc for a bad outcome, but to stop you claiming criminal assault.
What if the form notes that the “consent” was under duress? I know plenty of people who annotated the form in VIC saying that they were submitting to vaccination under duress of losing employment.
Despite Goodes’ multiple achievements on and off the field and his profile as a proud indigenous man it must have perturbed him somewhat when the public outcry was so muted when he finally flounced. He missed an opportunity to bag “our Yassmin” while she was still on the market though. In terms of a grievance pimping power couple it would be hard to imagine a better pairing.
My recollection is that his star was already in decline when he had that girl (a fan of his previous to then) publicly shamed as a racist and, after it came out how shamefully she had been treated for what was a pretty generic taunt, he doubled down on playing victim.
I think that was when people really had had enough.
And what was the girls taught? She called him a gorilla. Actually a pretty common term saying that someone is a bit dim but physically powerful. I suspect that more than a few henchman in Humphrey Bogart movies were called apes. In fact, I suspect that football players have often been referred to as apes. Of course the real clincher was when Pirate Pete was telling a story and referred to the bar bouncer in the story as an ape. When called out on that, he frantically protested that in Australia bouncers are often called apes, as a sort of slang nickname.
Pete was an ape, but while his muscles have begun to sag, he is still as dim as ever.
What is social housing by the way. Is that what used to be called public housing?
Why bro?
Not a big tennis fan/watcher so don’t know the bloke but how good is the cap!.. LOL!
https://ibb.co/V2Bx60T
Gorillas more often. Err, aren’t ‘oomans with ooman rights, actually apes anyway?
You simian. You hominid. You you you mammal, you.
If there was racism, we’d likely hear “cat-man” with some colourful language.
No one has dared discuss historical and anthropological roots of adoption and how or where from these rights ought to legally be claimed or granted.
The grub biden’s tactics are plain for the mid terms: constant demonisation of the GOP: but the tactic is slipping in that he is already distinguishing between MAGAs and ordinary GOP. Still, it’ll be a test of how the GOP can shape up with election tactics since the conservatives are always weak compared to the left. The other test will be with the sheeple.
I’m still inclined that the mid terms will be disrupted/called off or subject to such obvious corruption that no sane person could accept the results.
It was gross. Adult men vilifying a you girl on TV. And the silence from ‘feminist’ talking heads.
A fate worse than death for any male.*
Man banned from all Bunnings stores in NSW (Ncl local news, 7 Sep)
* Ok not Greens. The sausage sandwiches would repel them from entering, like garlic or a crucifix.
A good start is the pocket skin colour chart
Great post Mother Lode.
In my mind, Australians as a whole are heartily sick of black fellas ramming agendas down their throats. Voice, as Zulu points out the Walker case, whining about land rights, holding up important infrastructure etc. Aided and abetted by white academics.
A new bridge connecting Echuca to Moama is in operation only after 20 years of hold ups with consultation with the local blacks. Same with Swan Hill going over to NSW.
I just want to work, have my kids happy and have fuckwits like Lidia Thorpe and Stan Grant stay away.
How they intend to enforce this, intrigues me.
Are QR codes back in vogue, or are the weekend casuals (all over the State) going to be issued with the equivalent of the FBI’s top ten wanted list, complete with mug shots?
If you are incapable of enforcing a rule, it’s dumb to introduce it.
Goodes’ treatment of the girl was fucking shameful
Hopefully, the war will be over in 2025 when he dumps her, and she can go back home.
Not, that was it. He said Gorillaz.
And it was after this that Tim Blair called him Fitzsimian, and had that great picture of a gorilla with a red bandanna that I believe he still uses.
I am sorry and find these terms acceptable.
Banned from every Dan Murphy’s in the State.
‘Dot’ .Not ‘Not’.
Siri seems to have the shits today.
Goodes “star” started to dim when he was repeatedly called out for his tactic of sliding to take a players legs out.
Then came his abuse of a schoolgirl at the MCG, sadly supported by the stadium nazis and VicPol (a forerunner to Covid tactics?).
Then topped off by his spearing run & stance at the opposition cheer squad at the SCG.
Somewhere in this time idiots gave him an award which now is meaningless.
I booed the fuck out of him at the SCG at a Collingwood v Swans game – as did many others. I was berated post-game by a Collingwood supporter (Sydney variety). I told her I only booed cunts.
I can’t abide by measuring masculinity by adoration of Bunnings.
This is the religion of a broken people!
fuckwits like Lidia Thorpe and Stan Grant
a pollimuppett and germalist- say no more
It was a dog act but Goodes, encouraged by white “liberals” and the ALP-AFL, was allowed to wear an ideological security blanket to mask his disgraceful behaviour.
Footy fans saw straight through it.
Someone has to be responsible for the the kid preferably the biological perents.
The same sort of people who piled-on to that girl (who was about 12-13) as a “racist”, also reckoned that Mad Greta Thunberg (16-17) should not be challenged or criticised because of her youth.
When do they find these dirty wimmin like Griffin and Lawrence?
I can’t abide by measuring masculinity by adoration of Bunnings.
There is the rub and tug variety of attending Thai happy ending parlours.
Goodes played the race card not realising it was No Trumps unless you were at AFL House.
Goodes had acquired a well deserved reputation as a stager well before the MCG incident which was just the icing on the cake.
Might be the facial recognition thing coles and woolies were “trialing” a few months ago (and supposedly canned after public outrage) is up and running.
bespokesays:
September 7, 2022 at 6:06 pm
[My recollection is that his star was already in decline when he had that girl (a fan of his previous to then) publicly shamed as a racist and, after it came out how shamefully she had been treated for what was a pretty generic taunt, he doubled down on playing victim.]
It was gross. Adult men vilifying a you girl on TV. And the silence from ‘feminist’ talking heads.
True.
A rough timeline.
2012: Goodesy starts using a studs out tackle that would have got an instant red card in any soccer game. It’s so far removed from anything in Australian Rules that there isn’t a specific rule against it. The AFL does nothing initially. People start expressing concern that someone will get seriously injured. In time-honoured fashion, faced with possible negative public reaction, the AFL poses as the paragon of responsibility and gets Goodesy suspended under the general “unduly rough play” rule. Cue victimhood hysteria from leftists. The rules get changed to outlaw it.
2013: 13 year old underclass uneducated and not very bright girl calls Goodesy an ape. She later says she didn’t even know he was indigenous and just said it because of his long hair, beard and thick body hair. But she’s held in secret detention for hours, without being allowed to contact anyone, and without any family or friends being told where she was, and gets vilified by the “progressive” movement. When it’s revealed what she was subjected to, public fury ensues. Goodesy probably is genuinely trying to behave fairly, but the victimhood indoctrination kicks in and during his comments on the matter he publicly calls her the face of racism.
2014: Goodesy gets named Australian of the Year because a 13 year old girl called him a rude word. He uses the opportunity to shit all over mainstream Australia from a great height.
2015: in a game against Carlton a group of fans start heckling him over some on-field incident. He mimics throwing a spear at them, which provokes further heckling. Although the AFL has a rule under which players can be (and are) punished for interactions with fans that have the potential to provoke adverse crowd reaction, the AFL does nothing. On radio Goodesy says that he’d never do it to Eddie Betts because Eddie is indigenous – he’d only do it to white people. Still the AFL does nothing.
That’s the point at which people really did have enough and the booing started. If anyone thinks it was worse than, say, Karl Langdon used to cop, they’re delusional.
He retires for a week or so, then comes back. The booing is muted, until late in a game against the Eagles Goodesy blatantly shoves an Eagles player in the back, thus gets an uncontested possession and runs in and kicks a goal. He’s booed the way any player who does that would be. More cant-ridden hysteria from the “progressive” movement.
At the end of the year he retires. He’s 35 and his 2015 season was good but clearly below his peak. But of course the retirement proves he’s a victim.
To be respectful to the Right Honourable lady, I’d say that she has less chins than the Belgian Beast and the Washington Tranny. Shy Ted on the other Cat posted a picture of her this morning and there were less chins than her two competitors.
Have a close look at the photo though and tell me this isn’t Kevin Rudd in drag wearing a joke-shop wig.
BON
Is that a drill in your pocket or were just pleased hoping not to see me?
Kathy Griffin has always been by far my least favourite, and most aggravating Seinfeld guest star.
It must have been at least partly prescience on my part.
The grub biden’s tactics are plain for the mid terms: constant demonisation of the GOP: but the tactic is slipping in that he is already distinguishing between MAGAs and ordinary GOP. Still, it’ll be a test of how the GOP can shape up with election tactics since the conservatives are always weak compared to the left. The other test will be with the sheeple.
Republican politicians are largely a feckless mob of morons without a skerrick of nous, tactical sense or fight in them. There are a few (very few) exceptions but they have shown that they don’t have the wit to get rid of the traitorous moron, McConnell or the back stabbing bastard, McCarthy so they deserve everything they get… much like the Liberals here.
Collectively, they have absolutely no clue on how to counter anything the Democrats want to throw at them… and the Democrats know it.
Collectively, they have absolutely no clue on how to counter anything the Democrats want to throw at them… and the Democrats know it.
That’s the thing about Communists – they have focus.
Best if they have it on the ground rushing up towards them after the helicopter ride.
The rough guide to gauging Trump scandals is that the dumbest scenario ends up being the truth. So he probably flogged Israel’s nuclear secrets off to the Saudis right in front on the CCTV cameras.
The Blowjob Legacy: May’s Brexit, Blair’s Borders, Klaus’s Climate Policy (Breitbart)
IIRC, a senior coach got into very hot water with the AFL for making a shooting gesture at a fan (?), in the last ten years or so.
I don’t recall what penalty (probably financial) he incurred.
bespoke says: September 7, 2022 at 6:28 pm
You can even download your parental rights these days.
Just swipe right, bro.
Can’t wait to see the Amazon-style recommendations in this app.
“People who bought ‘Sperm’ also bought: • Snarkie™ green hair dye, • The Years by Virginia Woolf, • Coolabah boxed wine.”
I think it is OK, as far as it goes.
The thing I didn’t like is when people used it as a crutch or excuse.
“Oh, I’m a Myers Briggs type ABCD, which means I am collaborative and don’t like conflict. Leave me out of this one”.
Err, no.
It’s a management problem in your area.
Fucking deal with it.
I don’t get what your point is here in light of what is being discussed.
Hiding a longneck down his pants would be more difficult than a drill.
Time for a song.
Might be the facial recognition thing coles and woolies were “trialing” a few months ago (and supposedly canned after public outrage) is up and running.
I heard it reported that Bunnings was also “trialling” the tech. Quite possibly they have the tech at their disposal to ban specific individuals.
The tech of course is usually sourced from from the CCP. An area where they are genuinely world leaders.
Curious Cats may find this interesting.
https://qproofs.com/
And this also
https://qalerts.app/
I have no doubt in my mind that this is being played out in front of our eyes.
Regarding those health ministers whose organs and tissues slosh from side to side inside their skin as they walk…
There was an episode of Yes, Prime Minister (The Smoke Screen) where the Minister of Sport is a chain smoker, with the husky voice, short breath, and steady coughs – and constantly with a cigarette.
And of course it was a joke, one which landed perfectly.
We have these new health ministers and are expected to take them seriously now.
Latest invoice from the carriers = freight on a carton of beer is $15.39
That’s for regular stubbies, if the beer is Corona (a fancy imported beer) $20.00 per case.
In news that will please Winston should he visit, the freight on a 30-pack of XXXX heavy = $13.34
So I was wrong in thinking you were making a distinction between the rights owed a parent, married vs unmarried?
In a standout example of fine quality liquors being at a price the workingman can afford, freight charge to me on a carton of Woodstock & Cola = $12.00
FOX CORP TOLD ME TO COMPLY WITH THE NYC COVID VACCINE MANDATE, SO I RESIGNED
I was making a distinction between civil unions and marriage.
Good thing he’s not the Prime Minister of Israel then eh, chief?
No one wants to take on adoption.
I’m more worried by the current proliferation of AOC types popping up in the role of defence minister.
Fatboy had a sugar overdose and appears confused. He’s really talking about Bunter Hiden and ” The Big Guy” cashing in with China.
m0ntysays:
September 7, 2022 at 6:55 pm
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The rough guide to gauging Trump scandals is that the dumbest scenario ends up being the truth.
This is absolutely correct!
That’s why the Russian dossier was proved conclusively to be true.
That’s why Trump has been convicted of numerous offences over the 6 years they’ve been investigating him.
You KNOW it makes sense!!!!
Semantics.
Just tried to reply to Timothy Neilsen @ 6:44pm and got my first “Internal Server Error”.
FIIK what caused it. Just confirming what a flog Goodes was/is.
Happy to.
has the same quality as a some Irish kiddie standing outside IGA trying to sell you some old crap about strokes or roof restoration.
walk past gibbering on the way in
walk past him gibbering on the way out
Not at all. Unmarried doesn’t mean civil union.
Then its void, you cannot enter into a contract under duress – not that the courts will care, I have ZERO confidence they will act on this…
Regardless – ALL consent to COVID injections is void because the recipients were NOT informed about the risks – they could not have been, even absent the illegal AHPRA gag order – the risks were (and still are) simply unknown.
Whispers – facial rec software – you know, the ‘limited, experimental trial’ they decided not to go on with?
Myer Briggs is overrated.
There’s a basic test called DISC that helps with slotting new starters into a team situation.
It had a decent origin but then Tony Robbins bought the IP and passed it off as his organisations work.
“A disadvantaged background.” Riiiiiiight!
PS if anyone googles DISC & does an on-line test, beware.
You’ll be marketed Tony Robbins stuff until you’re six feet under.
Good to know but it looked like it was implied.
Cheers.
The Swan who copped the most abuse from the crowd was Warwick Capper. Most of the abuse centred around him being a potential homosexual.
I saw him on Open Mike a few years ago and he loved every minute of the abuse. If they weren’t abusing him, in his mind he wasn’t playing well.
The resemblance is uncanny, Ob.
Just like Meg Lees and Li’l Johnny Howard.
I see that m0nty-fa has come up with a wet dream about the supposed “nooclear” secrets found at Casa Trump.
As usual, with not even a fig leaf of evidence other than a leak to WaPo which lacked detail. Tom Clancy, eat your heart out. A new fiction author has arisen.
What is the history of adoption?
What happened anthropologically?
How or where did and do adoption rights stem from?
How ought to they be granted philosophically and legally?
“Top Secret Nookular Documents hidden in Melania’s undies drawer at Mary Largo!”