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JC April 26, 2024 11:58 pm Best news of the week, month even Atlassian Corporation175.12. -11.74%Down almost 12% I agree. Hopefully,…
Does our word ‘bogeyman’, pronounced ‘boogyman’ derive from the Welsh ‘bwganod’? Enquiring minds, et cetera
Best news of the week, month even Atlassian Corporation175.12. -11.74% Down almost 12%.
Bob Moran.
Andy Davey.
Christian Adams.
Peter Brookes.
Patrick Blower.
Dave Brown.
George Alexopoulos.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Tom Stiglich.
Al Goodwyn.
Steve Kelley.
Henry Payne.
Henry Payne #2.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
Good on him.
The timeline is way off.
Queen swears Warren Truss in [in London], looks okay for a 105 year old, 3 hours later she’s dead in a remote part of Scotland surrounded by “her loving family”.
Finding it hard to believe.
All the cartoons are on the grim side this morning Tom but then again that is where the world is . Nothing to laugh about. On the edge .who will make he first move?
rickw, can you say what region you’re working in?
I know someone who worked in Gabon & ROC a million years ago & still makes us laugh retelling stories like that.
Dealing with Chinese workers & the lengths the locals would go to steal diesel was worthy of it’s own tv show.
A downtick to 2dogs for interrupting Tom’s stream.
Many, many upticks to Tom for his daily work.
Bob Moran’s take was interesting.
The Bear breaks outta it’s cage and heads for the forest.
Ol’ Vlad reckons Bear should be heading straight into Ukraine’s
[read NATO’s] artillery.
Plenty more fresh meat left, eh, Vlado?
Is Putin really that keen on nukes?
I’m not.
https://youtu.be/HsM_VmN6ytk
In the future children won’t even know what coal is.
Or maybe not.
Coal miner New Hope’s profits jump more than 1,000 per cent (22 Sep)
Which even more amazing when you consider they’re mainly in Qld where Ponygirl has put up royalties to the highest in the world.
Cheers
I hope it a start.
Been going on for decades, which means the Labour MP is either clueless or lying.
MP’s look of disbelief as Jacob Rees-Mogg claims ‘Putin funds anti-fracking campaigns’ (22 Sep)
Nice that Moggy has actually said it. It was disappointing that he didn’t go for the PM pozzie, but maybe he thinks he can do better by gently steering Truss in the right direction. As for anti-fracking protesters and green groups being funded by overseas interests yes both China and Russia have been doing so for a long time, they’re not stupid and know that Western governments are. It’s a cheap investment with big returns.
rickw, overnight:
There are goat rodeos all over the place that make anything this country does look like a well-oiled model of competence.
Waiting to see if Ali’s on the money. From a link put up yesterday evening:
That’s 10.07 p.m. ACST. When it hits, be sure to record the event and your reactions for your Instagram story.
Irrespective Rees-Mogg doing good work.
Trust Labor to throw the man with a van off the climate emergency cliff.
It’s likely for most it didn’t involve a lot of lifestyle change. I’m not trying to diminish the significance but seriously get some perspective. It is nothing like being a in the French resistance or storming the Normandy breaches. All we did was not take the vax.
The small splinter group that requires constant affirmation sound ridiculous.
Not much big happening that I can see. NOAA is predicting a G1 storm for 23 Sep.
G1 is the lowest of five levels.
https://www.spaceweather.com/
you have to really admire those ‘Voice’ campaigners, hitting every high note.
At the Guardian
Catholics outnumber Protestants in Northern Ireland for first time
Shots fired!
Sri Lankan fishermen say key Australian tool to combat people smuggling can be dodged
More Guardian, what surprise.
Sky and the Australian find ‘no evidence’ of a climate emergency – they weren’t looking hard enough
Champagne tears from climateers.
In some respects, the UK has been among the world’s most successful countries at taking action against climate change over the past few decades. Yet that progress could be reversed and thrown away for a few years of slightly cheaper gas for a few people, and a lot of profits for even fewer people.
Putin is an evil guy.
Don’t forget it.
If you give Martha’s Vineyard a migrant.
Maybe the Greens hid it under a rock somewhere so as not to scare people.
/s
At the very least, the sacrifices involved were incredibly diverse.
For a working age individual with young kids, the pressure was nigh on impossible.
For a retired, financially comfortable individual…meh!
Vaccinated or unvaccinated is not the defining factor. Pro-mandate v anti-mandate is we’re the rubber meets the road.
BTW, the fight isn’t over. Governments might be rolling back the health orders, but public service departments and corporations are still busily developing and implementing stringent Covid vaccine employment policies, which are not designed to be temporary. The fight continues. Admire those who are still punching on, unvaccinated or otherwise.
Test.
A very good morning to everyone except Grigory (does he frequent this place?) and Montifa.
*still frequent
No.
It’s bigger than that.
At least the people landing on Normandy still had their boats.
It’s likely for most it didn’t involve a lot of lifestyle change.
Who said that?
Biden is an evil guy.
Never forget it.
Custard.
If the meteor/sunspot/whatever cataclysm doesn’t happen on schedule tonight, will you undertake to run a critical eye over some of the other stuff you have been reading on the web?
My money is on Sun Tzu.
Sancho
No.
Predictions are difficult especially about the future.
America’s Humiliated and Demoralized Military
Black Pigeon Speaks
Haha, after interfering in the 2020 election with big money Facechook is now getting worried.
With ‘Great Caution,’ Facebook Considers Lifting Trump Ban (22 Sep)
Sounds like they think the 2022 election might be a trifle harder for the Left to steal this time. Being forced to give endless evidence before Congressional investigation committees would be quite irritating for uberelite world-saving heroes like Zuck and Clegg.
OK.
I respect your right to read silly stuff.
Hydroxychloroquine Blocks SARS-COV-2 Entry (New in-vitro study)
DrBeen
JCsays:
September 23, 2022 at 12:04 am
Some time ago you sent me an unsolicited email. I’m not suggesting anything untoward, but it was “unsolicited”, which is relevant to this issue. Obviously that disclosed your email address to me.
You could at any time during that correspondence have asked me not to use the email address in future. But you didn’t.
You posted a derogatory comment about me on this thread, saying it was something you’d “read on another site”.
When I asked for details of the site, you then said it was from a “confidential source”.
Taking you at your word, I emailed you requesting that if you couldn’t disclose the details publicly on this site you disclose them privately.
Given your assiduously cultivated swaggering New York tough guy persona on this site, it never occurred to me that you’d have a meltdown because I emailed you at an address that you’d, totally unasked, freely and voluntarily disclosed to me without any conditions being imposed as to future correspondence.
I regret that the meltdown occurred, but there’s no reason for me to apologise for having emailed. The moment you asked me to agree not to email you any more I agreed and have complied with that agreement.
I do apologise for not having intuited the vast gulf between your onsite anonymous persona and the reality.
PS: from this moment on, whenever you try your swaggering New York tough guy antics on this site, readers will be able to contrast those antics with your performance in this matter. You reap what you sow.
Media making out that Putin will just use Nuclear weapons at at given moment. He had the decency to give his speech after the Queens funeral.
Here’s the part mentioning nuclear. He will just deliver like for like.
“Nuclear blackmail was also launched. We are talking not only about the shelling of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, which is encouraged by the West, which threatens a nuclear catastrophe, but also about the statements of some high-ranking representatives of the leading NATO states about the possibility and admissibility of using weapons of mass destruction against Russia – nuclear weapons.
To those who allow themselves to make such statements about Russia, I would like to remind you that our country also has various means of destruction, and for some components more modern than those of the NATO countries. And if the territorial integrity of our country is threatened, we will certainly use all the means at our disposal to protect Russia and our people. It’s not a bluff.”
Full text here.
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/09/21/text-of-putins-speech-on-ukraine/
Memorial of Saint Pius of Pietrelcina (Padre Pio) – 23/09/22
Padre Pio Review: Movie on mystic misses the mark
Beloved by millions of Catholics around the world for his great faith and devotion, Pio of Pietrelcina’s life of miracles and humble ministry has been the source of many conversions.
Hollywood Actor Shia LaBeouf recently opened up about his own conversion to Catholicism and how his movie role as Pio led him towards God.
Fox News host Sean Hannity sits down with former President Trump in an exclusive interview to discuss the Mar-a-Lago raid and the two-tiered system of justice.
Or is this the scare event?
https://bioclandestine.substack.com/
Dilbert has a couple of nice ESG strips.
This is something quite a few appear to have forgotten over the journey.
Those without significant debt caused by merely having a home, or presuming to school multiple children could perhaps afford to bark at literally millions of people who, if they didn’t finally get it, would lose homes, businesses and their own families in some cases.
Those people (the ‘sneerers’, let’s call them) could afford to say things like ‘purebloods’, ‘Nazi pass’ and even ‘new Jews’, and put themselves on pedestals because it didn’t affect them to the same degree.
The anti-mandate cohort are the silent majority. Back it in.
Sancho is off the pace. And possibly a moron.
No.
Donald Trump reacts to New York attorney general’s civil lawsuit
custard
You might balk at a younger man saying this, but this blog is a machine of the gods.
Whom they’d destroy, they first turn mad.
I have seen this blog literally drive people nuts.
Bird
Annie
Alice
When people with different beliefs all think you are going nuts and you refuse to accept when a hypothesis might be falsified; please step back from the brink.
You have been woken up and become open minded (that’s great), but we are worried your mind has become so open your brain is falling out.
I’ll take that as a comment.
– Sun Tzu.
I’m fine, thanks Dot.
Call me , other Cats have
0409447497
It was fun being a pure blood, but as a Novavax inflictee, I am more of a Half Blood Prince.
Surely if you can claim to be Anne Frank, well why can’t I be Harry Potter?
Please check in every two weeks.
R U OK?
Bespoke don’t forget one of us had to sell their 16ft Hartley. Oh the humanity, how will we cope. I couldn’t go to my beach house, woe is me. On the other hand the place was rented out for 4 months at top rates coz the people renting it couldn’t return to Victoria. Thanks dan. I’m not concerned about myself but the millions of people forced, coerced through manipulation and straight out lying to get jabbed.
Fuck off Hitler! You owe me a riparian (((conveyance))).
custard says:
September 23, 2022 at 7:42 am
Thanks, interesting site, not going to subscribe, but.
Nothing wrong with reading widely, provided you keep an open mind and don’t treat everything as gospel, lots of cats read the Guardian, the Age and SMH.
Keeps you informed of what the enemy is up to.
Please don’t be a millennial girl on Facebook.
I have identified the Big Scare Event. Take heed, people:
– Monty Python, Life of Brian
Here’s another sign.
When a particular website feels the need to abbreviate End Of The World to an acronym – EOTW – it means they use the term frequently.
Which means they are frequently wrong about it.
Another tip.
If they are saying EOTW is at 10:07 pm tonight (earlier in Perth), but are also saying “only five more days to save the Daily Cataclysm”, they might not be serious.
custard says:
September 23, 2022 at 7:54 am
I’m fine, thanks Dot.
Now I got it!
You just want to flog more vans.
Dot a quick question.
Did Trump sign the insurrection act whilst he was President?
Listen here, Franco. You just keep your riparians off my ovaries, and we’ll all get along just fine.
I remember reading a biography about Hungarian twins, whose parents had converted to Catholicism in the early part of the 20th Century so their father could get a public service position. The mother’s conversion was sincere, anyhow very complicated and fascinating story but the brother that ultimately became a priest was sent to Padre Pio’s monastery to convalescence from a very serious illness,when things got very sticky Padre Pio urged him to remain with him in Italy, where he survived.
I wish I could remember the name of the book, written by the son of the other twin, the brothers having ended up in the US.
And bother, I’ve been to Foggia and didn’t realise how close I was to San Giovanni Rotondo.
Those Dilbert toons are real aren’t they?
What is the significance if he signed it or not?
I thought it already was pointed out the Act predated his term in public office.
He may have assented to a minor change in the Act under the US Code. Did he actually sign an executive order relating to the Act?
I don’t know.
Please explain the above to me.
No stupid quips, fuck off with that nonsense.
The Jimmy Dore Show
New York has declared a state of emergency over an outbreak of polio that many fear is going to get much worse in the near future. That’s right, polio. And the reason, if you can believe it, has to do with the fact that there are two different types of polio vaccines, one that employs a dead strain of the virus and another that employs a weakened version. The latter vaccine is delivered orally, and is widely distributed in poorer, third world countries. But somehow a “vaccine-derived” form of the disease has made its way to New York and, well, all bets are off about where it goes next.
I understand Vic legislation was changed to allow employers to discriminate on vax status. I don’t know don’t know if the changes could be used to extend that discrimination further but it would not surprise me.
Just hope they don’t stay too silent. Not seen too much back lash at my work where new policy requires ongoing vaccination to keep working
Trump was preparing a proclamation in light of the George Floyd protests.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/charlestiefer/2021/06/25/an-insurrection-act-proclamation-was-prepare-for-trump-by-his-aides-during-dc-protests/
Okay?
What has this got to do with “Q”?
Sophia Dahl
@sophiadahl1
Thierry Baudet continues to spread truths in the Dutch Parliament??
Watch how the government walks off, obviously he hit a nerve…Bravo Thierry
Zip
Nice work on the hydroxychloroquine link.
Like Ivermectin, it was a trusted medical drug until Trump mentioned it.
Which funnily enough the left said about vaccines (the orange “bigot” implemented operation light speed after all) until they wanted to suck off AZ and Pfizer.
And that’s why Scott Adams has been dropped by 70 newspapers. Evil cannot stand to be mocked.
The only way, I believe that you can explain what has been happening since the 2020 election (a coup d’état) is that Trump declared an insurrection.
And apparently you don’t have to make a proclamation about it.
eugenics must go on
Will Civilization Collapse?
Academy of Ideas
Fauci Blames ‘Divisiveness in Society’ for COVID-19 Policy Confusion, Admits to ‘Draconian’ Measures
Say Only What We Want to Hear, or We Will Take Away Your Livelihood
‘How much of that money is going to the migrants? Oh, none’: Tucker Carlson slams GoFundMe for Martha’s Vineyard migrants as it’s revealed none of the money raised will go to the 50 Venezuelans
This EOTW thingy,
I hope it involves chemtrails.
The Gabors?
Obviously.
And 5G.
You are correct Cassie. Biden is evil. He may be gaga but that evil is still there as it has been throughout his entire rotten life. A cheat, a bully, a compulsive liar. A pay to play corruptocrat.
The wives of border patrol agents running for Congress because they are fed up with the border crisis their husbands have had to deal with since the start of the Biden administration
Re Big Scare Event:
this is a tad annoying, as I still have about 30 bottles of wine in the rack, and there’s no way I can drink them all by that time.
Dilbert gets canceled as the comic’s creator Scott Adams takes on woke ESG business ratings
Tim , that’s some of the most laughable nonsense I’ve read from you in a while. The email would be like lots of business dealings – they’re unsolicited. I have to look back, but I’m reasonably sure the introduction came through this blog owner as I requested he ask if you would be kind enough to exchange emails – not that it matters. I was investigating service on a tax related matter. You’ve publicly state you’re a tax attorney and thought there could be a match. I appear to have dodged a bullet.
I posted an unambiguous comment which you misread and contorted, but out of the goodness of my heart I made a correction- even after the abusive email.
Yep. I respected confidentiality. You don’t appear to, judging by your unethical conduct with the email.
There’s no meltdown. I thought about it and I’ve decided I want an apology from you posted here now. Do I really sound like a tough guy? Wow, okay. I guess it’s better sounding than a Melbourne mentally distressed guy trying to intimidate 80 year old women and generally polite lefties like Monty. I still can’t get over the reams of crap you’ve written against those two. You would be a billionaire if you were charging $1,200 bucks an hour like some tax attorney do. Not you though.
It’s been one day, so I’m only hopeful.
No problem, perhaps you should never have crossed a boundary of sending out abusive email.
Sure, people can make up there own minds. Your email was unethical.
“I have seen this blog literally drive people nuts.
Bird
Annie
Alice”
Umm, you’re missing a few names from the list.
Custard, please STOP posting your telephone number. I think many of us are rightly concerned about your mental state, step away from the keyboard and go for a walk with your wife.
Custard, I’m going to write something that you many not like but here it is….
DONALD J TRUMP IS NOT THE MESSIAH.
Another article on polio
Why has polio returned to London and New York?
A strain derived from the oral vaccine has gained dangerous mutations
BravoZulu17 ??
@BravoZulu17
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New Zealand Politics
Morena New Zealand
Who is this entitled idiot?
We’re hearing a lot of travellers were unhappy that Victorian Governor Linda Dessau somehow got lost between the Qantas chairman’s lounge and the boarding gate at Melbourne Airport on Wednesday, delaying the flight by almost 30 minutes.
About 200-odd passengers were left smouldering by the inconvenience and watched on, aghast, as Dessau shouldered her way to the front of the queue for the flight to Canberra, having been granted a request to board first by Qantas management.
Why this was even necessary completely evades us. Business class passengers are already given priority boarding.
As to the aggravating factor of Dessau’s late arrival, the notion that she was led astray en route to the gate – as suggested to Margin Call on Wednesday – sounds a little dubious, although we concede it’s amusing.
Consider that she was accompanied by two staff members and an airport worker who’d somehow been co-opted to carry her garment bag. Were they all bamboozled by the uncomplicated signage? It’s absurd.
We’ve been to Melbourne airport on a number of occasions. It’s not an engineering marvel. It’s not even close to Heathrow or the labyrinthine Charles de Gaulle with its network of train shuttles and sub-designations.
The choices are to turn left or to turn right, a task comparable in complexity to the single-track drudgery of Ikea shopping; to become lost, in either setting, is an achievement.
Excruciating as it might have been to witness, Dessau, unperturbed by the fuss, still boarded the flight ahead of everyone else. Exactly why Qantas management didn’t just let everyone onto the plane is stupid enough; their own staff were visibly appalled by the fiasco.
The airline couldn’t tell us why all of this pageantry was necessary but the Governor’s office disputed the claim there had been some tarrying in the chairman’s lounge.
In one of the most curiously worded statements we have ever been provided, a spokesman said: “Neither the Governor or her staff requested or expected any passengers to be delayed from boarding the flight. There was no delay in the Governor and her party leaving the lounge when requested to make their way to the gate.”
In any case, the resulting intermezzo saw hundreds of passengers file past seat 2D knowing that its bejewelled occupant was the cause of their disruption.
Fortunately for Dessau, many of them believed she was a federal politician, owing to scuttlebutt disseminated earlier at the gate lounge. “And then no one recognised who it was,” one told Margin Call.
Oz
No he’s not. An amazing guy but not the Messiah.
You’ve got 14 hours.
Give it a crack.
And who cares if your licence gets scrubbed for 12 months for .05?
No-one will need a licence after 10:07 tonight (earlier Central Time).
“generally polite lefties like Monty”
No such thing as a polite lefty.
Sorry second read hit paywall.
What Trump has done is expose the mendacity of the western political establishment. Exhibit A- little Johnny hoWARd
Mike Pompeo: The Chinese Communist Party has declared economic war on America
Oh Tim, one last thing. If you think I would be intimidated in some way by your reply on this site, just get it out of your head right now. Nothing really intimidates me. Certainly not an over the hill tax attorney abusing 80 year women and running her off a blog,.
The Slave Psychosis
Naming the core problem we are dealing with has a lot of power
In many cases Trump just made them expose themselves
A guy takes his wife out for the night and they end up at a disco where there’s a guy on the dance floor giving it large – break dancing, moonwalking, back flips, every dance move going. The wife turns to her husband and says “See that guy on the dance floor? 25 years ago he proposed to me and I turned him down”. The husband replies “Looks like he’s still celebrating!”
I’m fine thanks Cassie.
My wife can’t walk with me at the moment after recovering from a medical procedure.
I’m doing everything.
And I agree with you, Donald Trump is not God, but possibly a gift from God.
This Bloomberg article is paywalled. However, the headline says it all. They’re road testing the (planned) future again.
Floods, Riots in Mock 2026 Food Crisis Test Government Response
All jokes aside, custard, this is good advice.
If Big Things are, in fact, unfolding as we speak, they will happen whether you are watching 24/7 or not.
It will all still be there Monday if you take a break (depending on the meteor track, of course).
Interesting article, ” Both the oral and the inactivated vaccine prevent paralysis. But they are not particularly good at preventing this kind (ingested particles) of transmission. The inactivated jab is especially bad at this. The oral vaccine’s protection against transmission is strong at first (so good for outbreaks) but is relatively short lived. America and Europe stopped using it about twenty years ago.
Custard
If you like to be respected – even though you’re claims are a real stretch, it would be a good idea to say your good mornings without those silly qualifications.
I think he is perhaps the only person that can save the US. De Santis would not be in a position to do the type of cleanout that Trump could do and needs to do. Think of him as De Santis’s battering ram: get in, go full on, then give De Santis two terms to tidy up afterwards and put the ship back on course.
John Hinderaker has this one today, which shows just how bad things are.
Democrats Move to Criminalize Opposition | Power Line (22 Sep)
The current path is to either a Soviet one party state or a civil war. Only shock treatment can avoid both of those outcomes, and I’m not sure it’s even possible to avoid both. But the only remotely feasible way of doing so is for Trump to do a Samson-in-the-temple job. De Santis could not do that.
elites uber alles
The tragic Cayler Ellingson killing should not be seen as a political issue.
Brandt had a blood alcohol of 0.08 and was well above the limit. This is a straight forward case of drink drive manslaughter.
All of the politicisation of it is coming from Brandt. He knows he is screwed, and is making out this is a political issue to become a Hero Of The Left™.
Given the corporate media will, no doubt, champion him, the strategy will probably work.
An serious conflict of interest –
On one hand, I will declare myself a staunch monarchist.
On the other, the day of mourning for her Majesty means the dividends for my holdings of BHP shares will be a day late, going into my bank account…
Senator Dodson, allow me to point out that you still have to get your voice passed at referendum?
The US will not survive another chaotic presidency like Trumps and Bidens. Trump has served his use.
Every now and again there’s a comment of such breathtaking stupidity it defies belief. Talk about false equivalence. Anyway, what do you think about the next step?
Zipstersays:
September 23, 2022 at 8:27 am
Mike Pompeo: The Chinese Communist Party has declared economic war on America
A bit late for the B’Obvious for decades
I wonder if Mike Pompeo realises the Pope is Catholic?
( But with Pope Francis that is debatable!)
Caught 5 minutes of John Wick on FTA last night. Unwatchable at its best. The timing so slow that editing would have resulted in a much shortened scene. When Bruce Lee started in TV the scenes were slowed by 1/2 and still viewers had trouble seeing the action.
Trump didn’t chaotic. People determined to stop him from doing what he was elected to do made it chaotic. I was in Detroit during the Trump era and the place purred.
KD at 7.58
There shall in that time be rumors of things going astray, erm, and there shall be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia-work base, that has an attachment. At that time, a friend shall lose his friend’s hammer, and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before, about eight o’clock.
And also:-
“and the bezan shall be huge and black, and the eyes thereof red with the blood of living creatures, and the whore of Babylon shall ride forth on a three-headed serpent, and throughout the lands, there will be a great rubbing of parts. Yeeah…”
Brilliant. Just brilliant.
What’s the connection Shy Ted?
The Gates Foundation is Researching How to Manipulate You Into Taking ‘Future’ COVID Vaccines.
https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/09/22/gates-foundation-tries-to-curb-valid-vaccine-hesitancy/
Apropos of the DJT resurrection:
For years after Steve Bracks tipped him out, there were substantial calls made via furious Letters to the Editor and similar mechanism to bring back Jeff Kennett as Premier of Victoria.
The current contretemps has the same familiarity about it.
Trump will not and cannot come back to that office. Sure – he can be a kingmaker, but he can never again be King.
Admire the Unvaccinated. They withstood the greatest pressure from all fronts. People who were capable of such personality, courage and critical ability are the best of humanity
Only some! .. I remain unvaxxed but as an OAP I had nothing to lose! .. those that put their jobs on the line are the ones who deserve the praise .. for me it was easy .. I remembered Thalidomide was tested, maybe not properly but .. tested .. the BAT FLU rubbish and the 36 boosters weren’t … !
Does he realise he goes from manslaughter to a hate crime murder?
A non death penalty state, that is like Australia, up to 25 years with usual early parole, to life with no possibility of parole?
Dumb fella.
Upgrading maybe 8 years in the can to possibly 50+ years until almost certainly death (unless paroled for terminal illness).
Bespoke – Then it won’t survive, because without a cleanout of the alphabet agency bugmen the Dems will continue to steal future elections, since they dare not now stop.
Ed Snowden: America’s Open Wound – The CIA Is Not Your Friend (22 Sep)
Nor the DoJ, DHS, NSA, IRS, FBI, EPA, DEA or the ATF. They’re all solidly captured by the Left and are being used increasingly as Stazi against anyone who objects to totalitarian control by the Democrat Party.
Shy Ted,
I thought the mention of the Normandy beaches and the French underground obviously facetious.
Brought a smile to my face.
Is this the false equivalence you are referring to? Or are you dismissing the point that people in different situations might be exposed to the mandates in different ways?
Don’t forget EOTW.
German domestic intelligence is running hundreds of fake right-wing extremist social media accounts
The operation involving fake right-wing accounts has become so big that information sharing is necessary so authorities do not target each other
Hundreds of the radical Nazis and right-wing extremists online are actually German domestic intelligence agents, and many of them may be responsible for “inciting hatred” and even violence. These agents, who once needed to drink and directly socialize with members of the extreme right to gain information on their targets, are now running right-wing extremist accounts online in Germany.
Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) argues that these accounts are needed to effectively monitor the extreme right, but critics say that they may also be promoting and actively encouraging radicalism, according to a report from German newspaper Süddeutsche
However, the activities of the BfV running hundreds of right-wing extremist accounts have come to light at the same time that Germany’s left-wing government has labeled right-wing extremism the biggest threat to the country, despite data showing that left-wing extremists and radical Islam pose bigger threats.
Mostly true, other than Detroit electing racist socialist Rashida Tlaib to the Congress in 2018.
I’d rather live under tyrannical islam than tyrannical left-wing extremists.
I’m not the one making the false equivalence, Shy Ted.
Possibly In My Brother’s Image: Twin Brothers Separated by Faith After the Holocaust
“We Have Not Yet Started Anything Serious…”
Reminiscence of the Future… : They Wanted War.
They surely got one now:
Okay, so take that Russian MOD of Russian military KIAs in Ukraine with however much salt you’d like, although why would you if you’ve been swallowing the Ukrainian estimates of such casualties without demur? If that seems low, remember that I have discussed several times how the Russians have waged this war: Most of the front line troops have come the the Donbass republican militias, and “professional” (hired) forces from within Russia – the Chechen batallions, the Wagner Group, and other contract (mercenary) forces. Much of the regular Russian military was withdrawn back into Russia beginning in April. The regulars who remained manned the devastating Russian artillery units, the airborne formations, and other positions not so directly in harm’s way as the frontline troops, which bore the brunt of the casualties among the Russian Allies.
Since all of this seems to be going faster than anybody had predicted – if they predicted it all all – I will hazard a guess that the Ukrainians and their NATO mercenary units will be facing the regular Russian military sooner, rather than later, because once those referenda’s are passed, (and they will be – overwhelmingly so), and formally accepted by the Russian Duma, their borders will become Russia’s borders, and will be defended by the Russian regular army.
Since Ukraine’s Zelensky seems to regard their current attempts to advance on the battle front as imperative to keep the gravy train flowing into Zelensky’s and other Ukrainian oligarchs’ pockets, look for some crushing defeats to be inflicted on them as they advance.
Yeah, yeah. Be sure to lay in a lot of firewood for the winter, Euros. If you can find any. Because you’re about to get a lot colder.
The US neocons apparently intend to fight Russia not just to the last Ukranian, but to the last European as well.
Prediction: I expect the Russians to try to inflict some major, impossible to cover up or ignore defeat on the Ukrainian military prior to our November elections. They understand 5G warfare probably better than our military muppets do.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/putin-is-at-war-with-the-west-not-ukraine/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
caveman says:
September 23, 2022 at 7:40 am
Media making out that Putin will just use Nuclear weapons at at given moment. He had the decency to give his speech after the Queens funeral.
Here’s the part mentioning nuclear. He will just deliver like for like.
“Nuclear blackmail was also launched. We are talking not only about the shelling of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, which is encouraged by the West, which threatens a nuclear catastrophe, but also about the statements of some high-ranking representatives of the leading NATO states about the possibility and admissibility of using weapons of mass destruction against Russia – nuclear weapons.
To those who allow themselves to make such statements about Russia, I would like to remind you that our country also has various means of destruction, and for some components more modern than those of the NATO countries. And if the territorial integrity of our country is threatened, we will certainly use all the means at our disposal to protect Russia and our people. It’s not a bluff.”
Full text here.
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/09/21/text-of-putins-speech-on-ukraine/
You will use the pronouns we tell you to use, or we turn off your credit cards and you lose your job.
Mother of Eliza Fletcher’s accused r@pist and killer Cleotha Abston says she is standing by her son
‘I talked to him and he said he didn’t do it,’ she recalled of their conversation. ‘He said [to me]: “They’re trying to put me in some stuff, mom”.’
‘I believe him,’ she continued. ‘I don’t believe he did it. If it comes out of his mouth, that’s what I believe.’
‘He’s just a good person, kind, lovable,’ she added, disputing depictions of her son as a monster.
You should ask them about that, Sancho, since they’re the climate people. As I’ve been long saying there’s nothing much happening global warming wise, but these people seem to believe they have to take absolute control to save the planet. That’s the biggest recent change that appears to underpin this new totalitarian push – the Left has added climate religion to the old save-the-proles-from-capitalism Marxism religion.
Anyone who sees it as anything else is probably a stolen valour, “stand or fall if necessary” wannabe military fantasist who rubs up against the Cenotaph every Anzac Day.
No names.
Bullshit.
It’s a False Flag stunt to create straw man adversaries, the only countermeasure to which is obviously the implementation of increased ‘social control’.
Speaking of such things…
Iran: Regime Militia Thugs Killed as Hijab Protesters Torch Police Stations (22 Sep)
Sounds messy.
The United States Air Force Academy is training its cadets to “use inclusive language” that bars them from calling people “terrorists” or using male and female identifiers
A diverse and inclusive force is a warfighting imperative!” according to the presentation. “Our USAF/USSF faces a complex environment and tackles ‘wicked,’ complex problems.”
Jeff Kennett knackered himself by being an arsehole to the bush community.
People who volunteer for everything and ran their communities on the smell of an oily rag didn’t like being told they were irrelevant and needed big city management to have a future.
Kennett’s council amalgamations only produced unaccountable bureaucracies that were prime for exploitation by the socialist regime that followed.
Jeff is a tool.
Things not going well in Japan?
Only partly MT. My post was motivated by a link to a certificate posted earlier.
It’s a bit sad when you have to print your own participation award.
Speaking of Japan.
Indolent, regarding your Kiwi conspiracy theorist banging on about Shinzo Abe being murdered by the WEF for refusing vaxxes.
Might be a good idea to check some basics.
Like the dates Shinzo Abe was PM, for example.
And to perhaps consider why the WEF, with all their resources, would use a long-time known nutjob and a home-made shotty for the hit.
No upticks for you.
The Saddest, Most Senescent Joe Biden Video Yet
Biden is a shameless liar, braggart, and fabulist, who — much to our national shame — was never laughed into richly-deserved obscurity.
Longtime Sharp VodkaPundit Readers™ have joined me in the more recent fun of watching Biden try to shake hands with people who aren’t there, do the Old Man Shuffle to or from the Marine One helicopter, or get ignored — as POTUS! — at a White House reception because Smiling Barack Obama showed up to dazzle the crowd.
But this next video is just sad because it shows just how diminished the supposed Most Powerful Man in the world has become.
Here he is, after wrapping up his prepared remarks to The Global Fund earlier this week.
If it weren’t for the damage Biden and his handlers have done to this country, it would be one of the saddest things I’ve ever seen.
Lawmakers Call to Decouple From China; Two Chinese Telecom Companies Deemed a Threat
01:01 Two Chinese Telecom Companies Deemed a Threat
01:58 Lawmakers Call to Decouple from China
04:11 China Ties: Climate Officer of U.S. Bank Regulator
05:42 25% of iPhone Production to Move to India by 2025
06:57 China Warns U.S., Canada After Taiwan Strait Passage
07:41 China to Make Utmost Effort to Take Taiwan
09:04 Hong Kong Man Arrested After Paying Tribute to Queen
09:54 U.S., UK Join Pacific Allies in Fiji Military Drill
11:20 UK, Japan to Work on Countering China
decoupling from china is now a life or death matter
Not EOTW but there are a number of Catholic seers who have been warning of ‘three days of darkness’ coming.
Perhaps this is it.
To be specific, Shinzo Abe ended his term as Japanese PM on 20th September, 2020.
The only vaxes touted as being available before then were the Chinese one being used for their military, and the Wussian Sputnik V vax.
The mainstream vaxxes (Pfizer, AZ) were approved in November-December 2020, and widespread release was in the first quarter of 2021 – nearly six months after Shinzo Abe left office.
So how did he refuse acceptance of supply of the vaccines as Japanese PM nearly six months before they were released?
By all means, Indolent, argue against vaxxes.
But enough with the bullshit.
Virgie Abston, putting the lie to ‘black don’t crack’.
On my mind because of a lot of excitement on twitter about a photo of the royal Princes and their wives, and how Meghan despite being the oldest, looked the youngest.
elites uber alles
Why slum it with the proles?
A private charter jet should be the minimum.
FBI hero paying the price for exposing unjust ‘persecution’ of conservative Americans
By Miranda Devine
Bombshell allegations by FBI Special Agent Steve Friend contained in a whistleblower complaint filed late Wednesday with the Department of Justice inspector general reveal a politicized Washington, DC, FBI field office cooking the books to exaggerate the threat of domestic terrorism, and using an “overzealous” January 6 investigation to harass conservative Americans and violate their constitutional rights.
Friend, 37, a respected 12-year veteran of the FBI and a SWAT team member, was suspended Monday, stripped of his gun and badge, and escorted out of the FBI field office in Daytona Beach, Fla., after complaining to his supervisors about the violations.
He was declared absent without leave last month for refusing to participate in SWAT raids that he believed violated FBI policy and were a use of excessive force against Jan. 6 subjects accused of misdemeanor offenses.
This American hero, the father of two small children, has blown up his “dream career” because he could not live with his conscience if he continued to be part of what he sees as the unjust persecution of conservative Americans.
“I have an oath to uphold the Constitution,” he told supervisors when he asserted his conscientious objection to joining an Aug. 24 raid on a J6 subject in the Jacksonville, Fla., area. “I have a moral objection and want to be considered a conscientious objector.”
Friend, who did not vote for Donald Trump in the 2020 election, said he told his immediate boss twice that he believed the raid, and the investigative process leading up to it, violated FBI policy and the subject’s right under the Sixth Amendment to a fair trial and Eighth Amendment right against cruel and unusual punishment.
Among Friend’s allegations:
. The Washington, DC, field office is “manipulating” FBI case management protocol and farming out J6 cases to field offices across the country to create the false impression that right-wing domestic violence is a widespread national problem that goes far beyond the “black swan” event of Jan. 6, 2021.
. As a result, he was listed as lead agent in cases he had not investigated and which his supervisor had not signed off on, in violation of FBI policy.
. ?FBI domestic terrorism cases are being opened on innocent American citizens who were nowhere near the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, based on anonymous tips to an FBI hotline or from Facebook spying on their messages. These tips are turned into investigative tools called “guardians,” after the FBI software that collates them.
. ?The FBI has post-facto designated a grassy area outside the Capitol as a restricted zone, when it was not restricted on Jan. 6, 2021, in order to widen the net of prosecutions.
. ?The FBI intends to prosecute everyone even peripherally associated with J6 and another wave of J6 subjects are about to be referred to the FBI’s Daytona Beach resident agency “for investigation and arrest.”
. ?The Jacksonville area was “inundated” with “guardian” notifications and FBI agents were dispatched to conduct surveillance and knock on people’s doors, including people who had not been in Washington, DC, on Jan. 6, 2021, or who had been to the Trump rally that day but did not go inside the Capitol.
Friend says he was punished after complaining to his bosses about being dragged into J6 investigations that were “violating citizens’ Sixth Amendment rights due to overzealous charging by the DOJ and biased jury pools in Washington, DC.”
I’m predicting days of darkness ahead, but more of a slow burn than a sudden flash.
Sadly, I don’t think it’s going to be limited to three days.
Well it is an improvement from bugs and nothing but bugs.
Bill Gates wants to force everyone to live off of his patent pending synthetic corn (23 Sep, via Climate Depot)
If there were three people you might wish could be exiled to a desert island then Gates, Schwab and Soros would be high on the list. They could then eat each other to reduce their collected carbon footprint.
WTF is this shit?
Glowie posting?
Get back to the 1800s where you belong with this inflammatory nonsense.
“I’d rather live under tyrannical islam than tyrannical left-wing extremists.”
What an utterly stupid thing to write. The fact is, you would not. Both ideologies are as bad and as tyrannical as each other, nasty, controlling, brutal, insidious ideologies.
Oh and you’d be happy to live in a society where alcohol is banned?
three days of darkness, but no firm dates.
It may be but it would particularly ugly. In fact almost impossible I’d say, unless it came down to all out hot war. The trillions invested in China by US industry and finance will ensure the US power elites aggressively resist any and all attempts to de-couple. Additionally there is no stomach on the left to pull the plug on their China gravy train.
However, I do think there will be a significant effort to lower China “risk” by moving portions of manufacturing back on shore. And future inward investments in China will reduce. Not helpful to inflation reduction efforts and a significant departure from the preceding 40 years of capital flows.
What never ceases to amaze about EOTW predictionators is that, every time one of their “fer sure and certain” deadlines passes, they have an entirely plausible explanation for why The Plan changed.
And here is the revised date.
I’m going to predict a massive rejection of dying of cold for the sake of a ‘climate emergency’ by people living in western Europe, starting in a couple of months.
Yep.
1800 and 1900 is roughly when the two most famous mystics made their predictions.
Which confirms what Q said about a solar storm in 2022.
FMS, are you people serious?
I don’t think you are. Either you are incredibly naive or taking the piss and trying to discredit everyone else here.
We had a solar storm a few years back, I lost valuable files.
No EOTW though. Enough was donated to a trooper to hold it off for 8 years.
Some articles about the French Resistance and Normandy for you, bespoke
And while we’re on the subject, can you see any similarities between what the Na zis did across Europe, you know, entering people’ homes with guns and taking their possessions and worse, and the powers the police have in WA (which was brought to you by the Cat, not the MSM)?
All these things are coordinated at the National Cabinet. WA has just gone first this time. Who’ll do it next? And are you going to fight them on the beaches? Or your lawn? Or front doorstep? Or will you just let WAPOL
The only thing being “vaxxed” got you was the right to another “vax”. And another.
Australia will power on until 2050, punching ourselves in the balls, telling ourselves it will make us Chads.
Speaking of Schwab…
World Economic Forum touts ‘personal carbon allowance programs’ – ‘COVID-19 was the test of social responsibility’ – ‘Huge number of unimaginable restrictions for public health were adopted by billions of citizens’ (22 Sep)
This is Climate Depot reporting on an official WEF document from 14 Sep, which is both linked and included in the post. It’s long and very creepy, especially the carbon allowance graphics on phones.
JCsays:
September 23, 2022 at 8:28 am
Just a couple of very minor things for the record.
Your first email was unsolicited. It wasn’t arranged through dover. You looked up my work contact details online, and in your first email asked me to confirm that I was the Cat commenter of my name.
Then in your response to my email of which you’re complaining you alleged that I might be faking my connection with the very firm at which you’d contacted me. No meltdown at all.
I’m astounded why Schwab even has any voice to power let alone credibility.
He’s just some crank with a lot of money.
And hopefully his cred has taken as huge a hit as Fink’s after losing $1.7T of his clients dough. Talk about get work go broke”!
What?!?
Which one is this?
Only partly
MTSPShellenberger: Battery Deaths Put Nuclear Safety In Context
Lithium batteries kill many more people than nuclear plants. Why, then, aren’t we scared of them?
For decades, critics of nuclear power plants have pointed to their unique danger. When there is a loss of water coolant for the reactor cores, plant operators can lose control, leaving them to melt, and potentially spew toxic particulate matter into the environment. Nuclear accidents are unique in requiring people to “shelter-in-place,” and close windows and vents, to avoid breathing radiant particulate matter. And nuclear accidents can unfold in unpredictable and mysterious ways, such as by creating hydrogen gas explosions, like the kinds that occurred during the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011.
And yet nuclear plants remain the safest way to make electricity and one of the most benign of all human activities. Nobody has ever died of nuclear power in the United States, nobody will die from the radiation from the Fukushima accident in 2011, and only roughly 200 people will have their lives shortened by the fire and radiation from the Chernobyl fire. And because nuclear plants prevent the burning of fossil fuels, the climate scientist James Hansen calculates that they have saved nearly 2 million lives to date.
And now a series of deadly accidents reveal that even lithium batteries are more deadly than nuclear power. Last Saturday, a fire started by a lithium battery in an electric scooter killed an 8-year-old girl in New York City. In New York City alone, lithium battery fires in 2021 killed 3 and injured 57, while in the first half of 2022, they killed 5 people and injured 73.
Meanwhile, a fire Tuesday morning at a Tesla battery facility in Moss Landing in Monterey County, California emitted so much toxic smoke that the Fire and Sheriff Departments issued a shelter-in-place order, asking people to close windows and vents, and closed several roads. Contrary to widespread perception, shelter-in-place orders are not unique to nuclear accidents but are also used to protect the public from chemical fires and other accidents. It was the third fire since the facility opened two years ago.
Lithium battery fires have, like nuclear accidents, been unpredictable, mysterious, and difficult to manage. The battery fires that grounded the first Boeing 787 Dreamliners in 2013 were difficult to control, and mysterious, A Tesla that had been in a Sacramento junkyard for three weeks spontaneously, repeatedly, and mysteriously caught fire. “The batteries would keep reigniting the fire,” said firefighters, who only were able to stop them by flipping the Tesla onto its side.
As such, lithium batteries are as dangerous and more deadly than nuclear power plants.
All of which begs a question: if lithium batteries are deadlier than nuclear, why is nuclear so much more feared?
TE I’ll help you out with that mouldy old d’Yquem, Lafitte, Latour and Mouton if you like and leave you with the new McWilliams so it doesn’t go off like the others. Its the least I can do for your most excellent work and service.
Bird would now be seen as a voice of reason around here. For half an hour or so.
3 Mile Island and Chernobyl. The left used stupidity of operators of old generation sites to instill fear, which is all the left ever have.
3 days of darkness v nano wrigglers? Toss of the coin.
Eugyppius has published some good take downs of Schwab recently (blog link in sidebar).
Gez at 9.25:
Yep. He also released hundreds if not thousands of nuffies out of psych wards and onto to the streets in regional centres and the city that later became MongYang. He got many, many hand-patter upticks for that one.
Still, it didn’t stop the clamouring for his return by sections of the community. For quite some time, he was going to be the next Messiah.
Must have got the tip off from the FBI
Icelandic police arrest four people over alleged terror attack plans
Several semi-automatic weapons, including 3D-printed ones, were seized at nine locations, as well as “thousands” of rounds of ammunition, by a large police operation involving 50 officers
Local media reported that officers were exploring potential links to Nordic far-right groups and that the police were the central target.
BARR LIED! FOIA Requests Reveal There Were No DOJ Investigations on Election Fraud After 2020 Election as Bill Barr Claims
Michael Leary
@bluzrocker
The #Democrats are working double overtime to attack and silence the voices of constitutionalist conservatives, they cannot tolerate the free expression and exchange of ideas, and they cannot abide any dissenting opinions to their authoritarianism. Democrats cannot abide truth!
Insurrection Barbie
@DefiyantlyFree
If you drive your car through a Christmas parade full of people and if you drive your car into a conservative and kill him you have the option of bail. If you walk into the capital and take selfies you get solitary confinement and no bail for a misdemeanor.
I wonder how much the Fed will have to raise interest rates to offset this.
Catturd ™
@catturd2
We have deranged, insane lunatics wasting OUR money and funneling to their friends. This country will not survive unless something major changes.
Every now and again there’s a comment of such breathtaking stupidity it defies belief. Talk about false equivalence. Anyway, what do you think about the next step?
The Magna Carta is now being well and truly ignored. Us serfs have nearly had it and the Robber Barons are now trying to do their serf (surf) riding over us. Big Time.
It is now time for a bit of ‘Push Back’………………………..
As much as I fear for the common man, I hope for our sake the lights go out in Europe. The rural population will fare far better than the Urban dwellers, which is where the lefties mainly live. The sight of the elite being strung up may, and only may encourage our pathetic bunch mend their ways but probably not. No spine and no balls is the ruin of this once fine country.
Still is in some quarters.