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Open Thread – Tues 4 Oct 2022
- No, it is not all of the above, stupid!
- Open Thread – Weekend 21 Dec 2024
- Open Thread – Thurs 19 Dec 2024
- Open Thread – Mon 16 Dec 2024
- All for a few lousy seats
Makes sense Despite claims made by the German press, Taleb Al Abdulmohsen is not an ex-Muslim atheist, nor is he…
New nickname for Albo?
The interesting thing about the attack is that the Regime is using the counter-jihad links to smear AfD. That’s not…
If I may feculate on the boxhead murderer. He was facing charges back home. He needed asylum claim accepted to…
The petty Australian crim locke dup in Vietnam wouldn’t even go to prison here unless an incorrigible recidivist.
In any case, Australia’s prisons are among the the most expensive in the world and they’re already overcrowded.
That’s a different issue Dover. It isn’t Ukrainian secret service black ops, like poor Ms Dugina. The local resistance cells have been getting better at their art, especially as the rear area security has been withdrawn to beef up the frontlines. It is no surprise that the Russians are seeing partisan activity in those areas, the same phenomenon tied down many German divisions in WW2.
The UK experience with 2nd generation jihadis isn’t great. There is no reason to think Australias will be any different.
KD.
You’re having a meltdown.
Again.
Failure is being jabbed.
I am a winner.
Always have been.
I mock those who killed themselves with a jab and then complain about those people taking the piss out of them for doing so
Tick tick tick……
.
Heard them promoting that earlier but didn’t bothe to tune in.
“How to raise revenue?” they asked.
What about cutting spending instead?
Starting with health and education, how much federal expenditure duplicates what is (or could) be done at state level?
And what exactly is the rationale for a public broadcaster in 2022?
Give yourself a merit award. Oh, you already have.
Older one’s yes but the newer ones are more bording schools with less restrictions. The high cost is in the services provided.
News.com.au has David Koch slamming a “controversial” pastor (the City on a Hill guy) about his views on gays and abortion
How do you take a bald-headed flog like Koch seriously?
Fairfield Deputy Mayor Reni Barkho, an Assyrian who migrated to Australia in 1994 and has a number of family members who escaped Islamic State.
You live & learn .. having lived in Fairfield for over 40 years I’d never heard of this bloke, not that I take too much interest on who is who on Council but most get mentioned, locally, sometime or other, so was surprised he is the deputy mayor turns out he is also my local councillor, a newbie, from last year’s election ..
tho this isn’t reflected on the FCC website which currently lists DAI LE as deputy mayor ..
Finally, the real answer why your best ideas come during showering
This possibly relates to what Hofstadter calls “joosting”, the experience to stepping outside of the usual frame of reference to explore new perspectives. Conscious application typically involves using the same approach but we can locked in by a frozen representation which prevents us considering other possibilities.
For me it isn’t the shower, it is going for a walk after hours of reading. Then I my mind wanders over all the reading. That does help but only with the prior effort.
They’ll also have a hard time getting people to watch any “super hero unwaxed” movie.
He’s human clickbait. Nothing more.
Chuckle.
Un-vaxed.
Bruce, they aren’t acting without SBU support, but that still doesn’t address the matter about claimed attempts by FSB to assassinate Ukrainian officeholders or the analogue of Dugin.
What has he said?
Ah…the lady who’s since taken up residence in KKK’s nightmares?
Yes, they really should update that.
😀
Anyone wielding the special tax spotlight should be looking at the renewables sector.
The fuckers are currently enjoying $90-170/MWh wholesale prices – propped up by Pootgas prices forced into the electricity market solely to prop up renewable shortfalls.
Their marginal cost of sent out power is virtually $zero.
Australia is not run in the interests of Australians.
It worked for me. Got a lot of ideas that way, many ended up in patents.
Dunno why that happens, but it does. The other way was to sit at desk at work and woolgather. After an hour of that all sorts of interesting things would come together. It’s a similar mind state.
Peter Thiel’s keynote address at the Miami National Conservatism Conference on September 11, 2022.
Bill Gates SWEARS He’s Not An Evil Mastermind
The Jimmy Dore Show
First prize?
A new boat!!!
….
Only joking.
First prize is an oar.
A single oar.
To help you keep paddling in circles.
If you get your boat back.
– Sun Tzu.
Dover – They certainly have Ukrainian state support of some kind, I agree. But I suspect more military logistical support rather than SBU. Perhaps army intelligence. Classic support of partisan resistance fighters with arms and ammunition. The front line seems fairly pervious from what I read, and certainly the numbers on each side don’t appear sufficient to fully close off a front that long. The Brits did this, and we did too in WW2.
What is interesting is the 007 style stuff is less evident on both sides, in the respective capitals. Which is what makes me think there’s a bit of a tacit agreement since Ms Dugina got caught in that failed black op.
How is this even an argument? The only reason abortion gets a free ride is because we never show the aftermath of abortion at 12 weeks, at 15 weeks, at 18 weeks, and so on. BTW, is excluding people from public life on the basis of their now verboten views, love or inclusion?
You don’t. The Cash Cow has more credibility.
Sorry Dover, to dumb to link but will paste below:-
Sunrise host David Koch slams senior pastor linked to controversial beliefs
The morning TV host used an interview with a controversial pastor to question his church’s views on homosexuality and abortion.
Madeleine Achenza
2 min read
October 6, 2022 – 9:31AM
NCA NewsWire
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Kochie slams leader from Thorburn’s church (Sunrise)
The sunrise host savaged a senior pastor from the church for their controversial statements about homosexuality and abortion.
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Sunrise host David Koch has savaged a senior pastor at the church attended by former Essendon chief executive Andrew Thorburn.
Mr Thorburn resigned from the role just 30 hours into the job after he was condemned for his links to the City on the Hill church.
The church’s controversial views on abortion and homosexuality were found to be in direct contradiction to the values of the Essendon Football .
The Sunrise morning show invited City on a Hill senior pastor Guy Mason to respond to public criticism of the church’s values.
David Koch probed the church leader on the Christian church’s views. Picture: Sunrise
David Koch probed the church leader on the Christian church’s views. Picture: Sunrise
“Even the most conservative bloke I think I know, Peter Dutton, called your views an abomination,” Koch said to round out a heated interview with the pastor.
Mr Mason was staunch in his defence of his church’s values and threw his support behind the former Essendon boss.
“I know Andrew to be a great man, he is a man of integrity, generosity, warmth and he is a man of faith and I admire that in him,” Mr Mason said.
Former Essendon chief executive Andrew Thorburn resigned on his second day in the role. Picture: Supplied
Former Essendon chief executive Andrew Thorburn resigned on his second day in the role. Picture: Supplied
Koch moved swiftly to confirm whether the former Essendon boss aligned with the church’s statements on abortion and homosexuality.
“You need to ask him his views,” Mr Mason replied.
“He wouldn’t be chairman of your board unless he shared the same views the church does,” Koch said.
The morning show host pushed the pastor, asking the church leader to explain statements made by the church in past sermons.
City on the Hill senior pastor Guy Mason said he would not use the same words he used in past statements. Picture: Sunrise
City on the Hill senior pastor Guy Mason said he would not use the same words he used in past statements. Picture: Sunrise
“But comparing abortion to the Holocaust is not love, it’s not inclusion,” Koch said.
“There are so many other churches that are tolerant, are inclusive. You all read the same book, why do you have this hard line and not so loving view?”
Mr Mason said Koch was taking a quote from 10 years ago and the statement was not meant to be “inflammatory”.
“I’d use different words today,” he said.
Koch drilled down on the church’s beliefs surrounding homosexuality and abortion. Picture: Sunrise
Koch drilled down on the church’s beliefs surrounding homosexuality and abortion. Picture: Sunrise
Finally, Koch called to question how the former AFL boss was going to stand up during the upcoming AFLW pride round and support the celebration of the game’s LGBTQIA+ community.
“Why did he apply for the job when he knew the values of the Essendon Football Club were completely different to the values of his church and faith?” he asked.
“When the pride round comes up in the AFLW in a couple of weeks, how could he have honestly stood there and encouraged the sentiment around pride round?”
“A footy club is about loving the game and the jumper and it’s bringing together of people of all different walks of life,” Mr Mason replied
Of particular interest is this quote from above article.
Koch drilled down on the church’s beliefs surrounding homosexuality…
Phrasing…
Sheesh struth, halfway through the VO before breakfast? FMD.
Apparently rated well in Sydney.
Koch says the quiet part out loud, the ‘pride’ round is an ideological test.
Meme:
I surrendered lots of sleep watching CPAC, burning up my host’s excellent internet connection.
It was cleverly presented, entertaining, but no more than comfort food for the dispossessed.
The fact that the majority of speakers were Speccie staff or contributors, and no significant Liberal pollies attended, highlights the bankruptcy of Conservative support in Australia. The topics were tired.
We are a people who cannot even prevent our premier state branch from implementing marxist tyranny on behalf of putrid cronies. These ‘Liberal’ creeps permitted a squilionaire thug to buy six ‘rotten boroughs’ in their heartland.
We have to accept that Conservatism in this country lacks any levers that would permit influence, indeed we are about to learn that we cannot even protect ourselves from tyrannical supression and dispossession.
Even the once reliable Murdoch outfit is on the cusp of total submission as a consequence of generation three decadence.
The flagship IPA, remains a pompous irrelevant playground for academics too cowardly to face the fires of the campus. It is even deserted by its original sponsors, the Corporates.
Mundine’s initiative is admirable but doomed. There is no money, no means of broad-based ‘in your face’ communication and is vulnerable to lawfare and gangsterism.
It will take national collapse and a generation before conservative grass roots re-emerge.
I will no longer donate or subscribe to organisations that have no chance of achieving change, or as in the case of the IPA, don’ seek change. We need to conserve our dwindling assets. Warm and fuzzy is no longer affordable.
I’ll stick with the Speccie, solely because it is more entertaining and cheaper than Netflix.
I’m still waiting for my Folau refund!
essendon pooftaball club
Koch is and always was a repulsive meja parasite. The meja incubate and foster way too many of these types. Can’t the legacy meja just hurry up and die?
Koch is a cock.
bons, perhaps celebrate it could be held at all.
What actually is the ‘pride’ round?
Is it an all-gay footy game?
It is taking a while isn’t it?
Sad Sook Struth, what a hero! How’s the Hartley going? tick tick tick. The sound of Ken Worth thinking.
We’ve reached an end to the old left/right divide, the left are flaming out in a bonfire of madness and insanity, conservatives are deer caught in the headlight of the future. I expect both to reinvent themselves or be replaced entirely by new alternatives.
Part two of that analysis of the Ukraine war I linked to the other day.
tl;dr (which is something you say on the Internet when you are about to sum up a link for those who don’t have time to read it):
The Ukrainians have succeeded in two main areas, which are targeting Russian rail links with HIMARS artillery, and fooling Russians with deceptive propaganda to hide their real troop movements and targets. This has led to the current situation in Kherson where they are toying with 25,000 Russian troops like a cat with a half-dead bird, while they finish off cutting key supply lines.
There is a fair bit of mayo on that article, but you can’t argue with most of it.
Holocaust is exactly what it is.
This needs to be flung right back at Koch. We’re too nice and they aren’t.
They breed ’em nasty in Perth:
A teen who was with the 15-year-old accused of dragging a pregnant mum to the ground and sending her pram flying in an attempt to rob her is being held over a shockingly similar alleged crime.
Daily Mail
Legacy media is propped up by the political class and boomers.
Shades of Monica!
Ms Higgins – who the court earlier heard was ‘Schoolies drunk’ that night – struggled to buckle her shoes up after walking through security again.
She then walked barefoot in a white cocktail dress through the corridors, carrying her shoes in her hand, according to the clip.
Ms Higgins told the court she kept the white cocktail dress in a plastic bag under her bed for about six months.
She told the court that, once it was clear she couldn’t report the alleged assault without losing her job, she ‘very symbolically washed the dress’.
‘I wore it once more but I never wore it again after that.’
Daily Mail
If the SFL collected all their conservative values together they would not amount to one of Cassie’s rants. They may as well take their bat and no balls and go home. I think they are well past saving.
Essendon Abortion as Birth Control ARFC?
In That’s a Bit Awkward news:
Queens Wharf, Brisbane’s biggest and most transformative development, is a joint venture between lead partner, The Star Entertainment Group, and its Hong-Kong based partners, Chow Tai Fook Enterprises and Far East Consortium. The Star Casino is a centrepiece in the development.
Oops:
But luckily:
Watch this space, as the Palacechook Government ventures deep into Brown Paper Bag country…
so… the dress still has DNA on it?
The embittered all cross at the winner of life’s lottery in upbringing. ..struth…who’s parents taught him what it was to be a man.
Not a Karen.
A western man…
Tick tick tick………
You’d have to be one fucking dumb bastard to let anti human commos inject you.
You’d have to be a miserable sod to hiss at those much smarter than you with teenage level crap Because you’ve got nuthin’.. ..
Tick tick tick
Higgins’ alleged rape is increasingly pointed at the liberal party. Why would that be?
.. and there was (alleged) evidence — but she destroyed it?
and we have..
Now.. let’s summarise the timeline.
March 23, 2019 – alleged rape
2 weeks later – AFP receive info from Parliament House department (?)
April – AFP review video tapes
April 1 – Higgins discusses report with Reynolds in her office, where “Reynolds had raised the option of going to the police”
April – Higgins’ decides not to proceed with charges. Asked by AFP if she’s being pressured not to press charges, says no.
May – Fed election
September or later — washes dress.
That lovely white cocktail dress had chocolate spew on it, didn’t it?
25K troops you say, does he say how many the UKR have in theatre there?
He does not. Also, most of the stuff I have read puts the Russian forces trapped in Kherson at about 15k. Like I said, a bit of mayo involved there.
I suspect getting pissed and vomiting in the minister’s tends to make your clothes shrink
TE
She told the court that, once it was clear she couldn’t report the alleged assault without losing her job, she ‘very symbolically washed the dress’.
‘I wore it once more but I never wore it again after that.’
Had she got some kind of a career “boost”, rather than a sideways move, what are the odds that this story would never have become public?
GreyRangasays:
October 6, 2022 at 12:40 pm
If the SFL collected all their conservative values together they would not amount to one of Cassie’s rants. They may as well take their bat and no balls and go home. I think they are well past saving.
So what is the next move for those of a conservative inclination?
The death of conservatism?
I don’t think so. I think it is being reborn from the base of individual pursuit of growth.
That is what the Jordan Peterson phenomenon is part of.
When some purple-eared freak is given control of your children its YOUR JOB to make sure they can be trusted. GROW UP.
When everyone around you refuses to see that the ABC is broadcasting fashionable obsessions that result in corruption of the values of your society, you figure out an ethical response and take responsibility for your own stuff. Withhold going along with others who capitulate willingly to the cults of Moloch.
I will now stand up straight, clean my room, do the lobster claw salute of our legions, and try to GROW UP.
As I learn what it takes to get my mother buried, get the burial paid for, collect and resolve the debts and assets of my loved dead, I am learning indeed to grow up.
‘I wore it once more but I never wore it again after that.’
Well, she has gained ten kilos.
ooof… like I said, this case will make boors of us all.
Didn’t someone say that Higgins was on the promise of a $250k book?
“He’s [Trump] famous y’know, and you can say anything you like about a famous righty if you’re a journo.”
As Tim Pool points out, Project Veritas’ case against the New York Slimes introduces another aspect that may come up – viz, you can’t intermix opinion with fact. If you publish a “news” piece, and put opinion in it, people might reasonably think that the opinion is fact, you see. If it’s an opinion piece, you can say whatever you like about a famous personage, even “Trump is Hitler”, but if it’s a news piece, the aforementioned precedent may change things if you publish the exact same words. So context will likely matter bigly – if the judge believed they said it as part of a news piece, not an opinion piece, they might be in deep do-do.
CNN can’t use “Fact Checkers”, as (IIRC) Facebook has claimed in court that these are just opinions too – obviously, you can’t say it’s proven to be a fact by relying on someone’s opinion.
So not perhaps as clear cut as it may first appear to be, and certainly dependent upon how smart and how eloquent Trump’s lawyers are and what judge they get (on appeals as well), as well as the specifics of the facts for each alleged incident.
Notice I never stir Monty about getting injected.
It’s expected
He is just dumb left wing sheep.
You knew what he was going to do straight away.
You knew better.
You knew better before you were presented with all the moral ethical and safety arguments.
Yet not only did you go ahead with submitting. …you mocked those who did not.
You allowed them to take the weight of the fight while you flashed your Nazipasses everywhere
Pure scum.
Monty is gone.
He’s not worth the spit.
The c…ts so up themselves and so dismissive of standing against this while claiming to be right wing deserve all that is coming to them.
To not even have the decency to stay silent on the jabs…just in case they were deadly…means we will never know how many were swayed by their smug ignorance and weakness of character and got jabbed.
These types are of no use to the world and no great loss.
Tuff choice.
Take a video or intervene and be portrayed as the aggressor.
My mistake, the VO is finished.
Brittany yesterday.
(Linky)
After encountering many morons on twitter last night who contend that the High Court Justices were either wrong or paid off by Abbott and Co to set Pell free, I sincerely worry for our future. Where do they get these inane “ideas?”
Yup. She’s a heifer now.
(No offence to heifers).
Still waiting over at the Duelling Thread St Ruth.
If you are up for it, that is.
What about ‘most of the stuff you’ve read’, do they mention or estimate the number of UKR in Kherson?
Lysander
Where do they get these inane “ideas?”
From the absolute conviction that they, and only they, are the only ones with access to the “truth”.
See also: m0nty-fa.
No db, I have not seen anything about that.
I guess it’s hard to gauge numbers from an attacking force on the move, especially since they have been spread across the oblast with a number advancing from the north while others come from the west. When they all converge around Kherson to lay an old-fashioned siege then it might be easier to count.
This idiot is hellbent on global destruction:
Glenn Beck has also noted that there is absolutely zero per cent congressional oversight on the billions sent to Ukraine…
“10% for the big guy?”
Hmm — dare i mention Julian Assange? he’s done his 55 days for skipping bail in the UK and he’s still in solitary in Belmarsh prison. I wonder how the welfare checks are going?
Picked up a cheap boat recently, the motor has bit of a whine in it. Must have picked it up from the previous owner. I hear he loved that boat.
Clears throat…
Has anyone seen Prof. Flim Flammery lately?
Check if it’s running on all cylinders, Ranga.
Some random thoughts on the drunken bimbo court case farce currently underway in the ALPCT.
There is no way the trial will go six weeks, it will struggle to make it beyond two (the case I was a juror on went for five and half days, after being told initially it could run for four weeks or longer).
Higgins and her legal team has zero evidence that would prove beyond any reasonable doubt that she was sexually assaulted, much less raped.
The appearance of that imbecile Wilkinson is beyond ridiculous. What could she possibly present to the court and jury that would amount to anything other than florid hearsay? Remember, this is the idiot that almost got the entire farce called off through some ill advised remarks (duly megaphoned by braindead lamestream meeja monkeys) that effectively amounted to prejudicing the accused’s right to a fair trial.
The empaneling of 16 jurors, 12 of whom need to return guilty verdicts is another disgraceful aspect of this entire sham and seems to have been done purely to ensure a conviction.
Whatever remains to played out in the court will eventually come down to “she said, he said” and whether or not the alleged victim was even aware of what actually took place in Reynold’s office.
It’s an absolute abomination and should never have even made it to trial. What a bloody joke.
bespoke says:
October 6, 2022 at 1:33 pm
Check if it’s running on all cylinders, Ranga.
Wot it’s got more than 1?
You identify the formations, make estimates about their strength, and perform addition. Exactly what you do with a defensive force as well.
I’m a happy little heterosexual. I’m not proud of it, it isn’t my identity, it’s just a fact. I’m glad I’m not a poof or a trannie, because they’re a miserable bunch judging by the suicide stats.
They’ve obviously got some wires crossed in their brains, and taking pride in it is a bit of a giveaway that they know it themselves.
We should, of course, be kind to them, which doesn’t extend to encouraging them in their perverted ideas.
And what’s with this lgbqti++ crap? We should go back to calling them perverts. It’s shorter and more inclusive. 😉
This will be a difficult one:
A 13-year old boy and seven other teenagers have been committed for trial over the alleged stabbing murder of Declan Cutler, 16.
The eight accused boys — aged 13 to 17 — each pleaded not guilty in a children’s court on Thursday, where they were ordered to face a jury over the alleged pack murder.
The decision of a magistrate to commit the youngest alleged offender, 13, meant that a jury could find he was criminally responsible for the killing, in Coburg on March 13.
Declan had left a Reservoir party to avoid a confrontation when he was allegedly set upon by a group and stabbed four times before dying within minutes.
The magistrate’s call to commit the boy came despite him being under 14, which under the law presumes he would not have had the knowledge to hold criminal intent.
It followed a psychologist’s earlier rejection of the presumption of “doli incapax” — translated from Latin to mean “incapable of evil” — who found that the boy knew the killing was morally wrong.
Meanwhile, a lawyer for another boy had tried to argue there wasn’t enough evidence for him to stand trial.
But the prosecutor stated while the case against that boy was circumstantial, it relied upon evidence of his clothing captured on CCTV, phone records and communications with witnesses that he was due to attend the Reservoir party.
The magistrate determined it was a matter for the jury, and committed him, along with his seven other co-accused.
All eight charged boys appeared one-by-one via video link from youth detention, where they were asked by the magistrate how they pleaded to the charge of murder, each stating, “Not guilty”.
When the magistrate tried to give them alibi cautions — noting they must give evidence to police within 14 days if they had an alibi — three boys said they didn’t know what an alibi was.
The magistrate explained: “If someone was charged with a crime and the crime was in Melbourne … (but they say) ‘I was in Sydney’, that’s an alibi: ‘I was somewhere else, it wasn’t me’.”
Asked if he understood, one boy replied, “Yes, Your Honour”.
The children’s court earlier heard that Declan would have died within minutes of being stabbed three times to the chest and once to the back, with the attack captured on CCTV.
Police at the time described the crime as “one of the most violent and brutal attacks” they had ever seen.
The case will return to the Supreme Court for a pre-trial hearing on October 11.
Given the previous owner probably not.
I wish I knew BJ. The libs I used to know were all hard workers and very generous. I’m at a loss. Political parties are all grifters now.
Last month French General Christian Blanchon paid tribute in the French press to the UNVACCINATED for their extraordinary achievement in withstanding immense – even inhuman – pressure from all sides.
His powerful message of “tribute” gives all the people who were defamed, marginalized and viciously attacked during the Corona period the credit they deserve. They stood strong against the worst imaginable kind of government and institutional coercion, and did so peacefully, courageously and intellectually.
https://notrickszone.com/2022/10/05/french-general-tributes-the-unvaccinated-superheroes-who-embody-the-best-of-humanity/
No.
Making an issue of the husbands implies that it might be hunky dory to bring the just the women and kids back.
But lets say Dutton did make that mistake.
All Albanese has to do is say
and he’s killed the issue stone dead.
Obviously, at some stage down the track we’re importing the husbands too, but let Albanese wear the responsibility for that.
Gag!
Looks like there’s been a clean out of deadwood in the Victorian Liberal Party.
I’d say Andrews has ran outta puff and the result will be tight now the voters have punished the Libs Federally and everyone’s mortgage has gone up a coupla hundred buck$ since then, with no end in sight.
DrBeauGan says:
October 6, 2022 at 1:37 pm
I’m a happy little heterosexual.
Exactly. While I agree with all that, I still hate poofs.
I know the previous owner still isn’t running on all cylinders. Spluttering all over the place. tick tick tick, must have a nervous tick.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7930357/warragamba-dam-wall-rise-now-critical/
I’m old enough to remember when Tim Flannery said Sydney’s dams would never be full again because of climate change.
Warragamba has overtopped 7 times since then and is predicted to go over again with the forecast La Nina.
Dutton is the most conservative guy Koch knows. And bear in mind that even that is only because he is leader of the Opposition. Koch could have more conservative neighbours a few houses down the street and not know them. But Dutton? Conservative? How conservative could he be in the Libs? I think Koch knows no conservatives.
In the matter of belief, if they all thought the same they would not need a board. Just one person. If the boards function is administrative then they do not need to have identical religious beliefs.
I really cannot abide the continued existence of Koch. A supposed master of making money he still earns his crust getting up and speaking in that strange falsetto voice to bleary-eyed housewives and pensioners for whom the bright lights and unconvincing rictus-joviality of that awful show serves to demarcate last night and this morning within the endless cycle of days.
Why isn’t the polished-pated bigmouth living large on his investments – drifting about the harbour on a gaudy yacht called “Big Koch” being served lobster breakfast, lunch, and dinner by scantily clad nymphets who rub scented lotion into his scalp and coo sensuously into his ear in a rather too obvious attempt to make up for all the girls at school who laughed at him?
Interview?
Knowing Kockhead it was a lecture where a question was asked, the “interviewee” starts to answer, and Kockhead then tells them what they should be answering.
I’ve given you one uptick but would love to have given you 87 — ah well — rules is rules
Well, she has gained ten kilos.
At least. Go back and look at her photos from 2019/20.
My comment about her weight increase is not being snide but I’m thinking of her alleged alcohol intake of 11 vodka shots over a 4 hour period on that night. That’s the equivalent of about 12.5 standard drinks and the impact on a woman who (in 2019) would have weighed about 54kgs, was obviously significant.
Did she read the care label? Did it say ‘Dry Clean Only.’? Important questions.
It’s roomy inside ranga’s head.
Thanks, ML. First belly laugh of the afternoon.
Well, ‘beer goggles’ is a thing, and the Lehrmann is not exactly a strapping Adonis. I suppose if you live in a bubble (and Canberra is as bubble-y a bubble as there ever was) then the sense of beauty lowers itself until it again makes contact with carnal possibility.
. Ms Higgins methinks is. stretching the truth somewhat — so she leaves the white cocktail dress in a plastic bag untouched, uncleaned for months (nice environment for mould and the like) then symbolically washes it and wears it again, once — I call BS with pike — lots of embroidery right there — could the defence perhaps call a diligent housewife to rebut that BS or better still an expert fabric and clothing dry-cleaning expert?
Big_Nambassays:
October 6, 2022 at 1:56 pm
DrBeauGan says:
October 6, 2022 at 1:37 pm
I’m a happy little heterosexual.
Exactly. While I agree with all that, I still hate poofs.
You need to settle down.
Err, Mrs Bandana is more likely to be of use to the defence. Firstly, she is dimmer than a fly-shit smattered 40 watt bulb, so will not see the traps being set. She will proudly spout her ‘mentoring’ from the stand, not realising that this ‘mentoring’ was, in fact, creating a fudged narrative.
I don’t think so Rabz. It isn’t a case of a majority 12/16 verdict will convict. The four reserve jurors are there in the likely event that a juror will be discharged. This is insurance against an aborted trial.
Mmmyes.
Our Britnah’s recall seems to be remarkably lucid when it comes to certain events, but conveniently vague regarding 93.1% of the evening.
Veritas gets another.
Vis instapundit
Thorburn the latest sacrifice to cancel culture
KEVIN DONNELLY
The example of Andrew Thorburn, the recently appointed and departed chief executive of the Essendon AFL football club, being made to step down because of his Christian views and his links with the City on a Hill church should not surprise.
Thorburn joins a long list of those cancelled by the cultural left, including Geoffrey Blainey, Fred Hollows, Israel Folau, Margaret Court, Barry Humphries, Germaine Greer and JK Rowling, because of their failure to conform to neo-Marxist-inspired groupthink and mind control.
Especially targeted are those who express or are associated with Christian teachings that run counter to the prevailing woke ideology – an ideology committed to radical gender and sexuality theories and intent on undermining the nuclear family.
Much like George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, where Big Brother and the Thought Police stifle independent thought and freedom of expression, we live in a time when conformity is enforced and anyone who questions the prevailing orthodoxy is vilified and attacked.
The Australian Christian Lobby’s Wendy Francis says if we no longer allow people to have freedom of thought and freedom of religion, we are in a “very sorry state”. She said the “hypocrisy” of the Essendon Football Club and… Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has been “well and truly More
As American non-binary feminist Camille Paglia has argued, “We are plunged once again into an ethical chaos where intolerance masquerades as tolerance and where individual liberty is crushed by the tyranny of the group.”
Woke cancel culture is a relatively recent phenomenon, but it is possible to trace its origins to the Communist Manifesto, written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and published in 1848, and before that to the French Revolution, beginning in 1789. Under France’s Reign of Terror, those who questioned the ruling clique, including leading revolutionaries such as Georges Jacques Danton, were put to death.
The Communist Manifesto argues that such is the oppressive nature of capitalism, any action, no matter how violent or cruel, is justified. As Vladimir Lenin said, “Morality is whatever brings about the success of the proletarian revolution.”
The amoral and Machiavellian nature of Marxism is exposed in the writings of 20th-century Italian philosopher Augusto Del Noce: “Every kind of violence, every ruse, every illegal action, every dissimulation, and every deception become licit if they are deemed to be necessary to reach the goal.”
The origins of cancel culture also can be traced to the Frankfurt School established in Germany in the 1920s. The Marxist academics involved, who were disillusioned with Joseph Stalin, concluded workers in the West would never rebel and take to the barricades.
As British conservative politician Michael Gove noted in his book Celsius 7/7, “The thinkers of the Frankfurt School revised Marxism as primarily a cultural rather than an economic movement. Instead of traditional capitalism, scorn was directed at the reigning values of the West.”
Such was the extreme nature of the philosophy underpinning the Frankfurt School that Del Noce wrote: “Liberation becomes the criteria for truth (where) the disappearance of authority must be viewed as the end point of progressive thought.”
One academic associated with the Frankfurt School, and the person most responsible for today’s climate of cancelling free speech, is Herbert Marcuse, whose essay Repressive Tolerance argues there is no room for independent thought and free and open debate.
According to Marcuse and his disciples, tolerance, instead of being an inherent good, is condemned as a critical part of the ideological state apparatus employed by the capitalist class to enforce the status quo and oppress and marginalise “the other”.
Marcuse argues the existence of tolerance “strengthens the tyranny of the majority” and, as a result, “The conclusion reached is that the realisation of the objective of tolerance would call for intolerance toward prevailing policies, attitudes, opinions.”
As Jennifer Oriel writes in her chapter in my book of essays Cancel Culture and the Left’s Long March, “Marcuse argues it was acceptable to use ‘undemocratic means’ including ‘the withdrawal of toleration of speech and assembly’ from groups that dissented from left-wing politics.” During the cultural revolution of the late 1960s and early 70s, a time of anti-Vietnam moratoriums, youth rebellion, Woodstock and the pill, the neo-Marxist critique of capitalism and Western societies morphed into a rainbow alliance of centre-left theories.
Radical theories including postmodernism, deconstructionism and postcolonial, gender and sexuality theories, while often in disagreement, all embrace Marcuse’s argument that tolerance requires intolerance.
We now live in a society – although not as violent or oppressive as that of Nineteen Eighty-Four or communism under Stalin – where free and open debate is replaced by groupthink and where any who fail to conform, like Thorburn, are cancelled.
Reason and rationality no longer apply as such concepts are binary and Eurocentric. As Christopher Lasch noted: “Once knowledge is equated with ideology, it is no longer necessary to argue with opponents on intellectual grounds … it is enough to dismiss them as Eurocentric, racist, sexist, homophobic – in other words, as politically suspect.”
Oz
The pro-Ukraine shitposting on Twitter can get quite funny.
“bonssays:
October 6, 2022 at 12:18 pm
Firstly Bons, I understand your frustrations but I take issue with your negativity. I attended CPAC and I had a wonderful time. I enjoyed the speakers, I enjoyed the dinner, I enjoyed meeting and talking to likeminded people*, it was all great. I don’t expect miracles in life but I’ll take little pleasures. Sure, it was comfort food but what’s wrong with that? Okay, it’d be great if CPAC Australia could nab Orange Man Bad to be a guest speaker, although I’m pretty sure that if that was to happen, rather than a 100 motley middle class scum turning up to demonstrate, we would have had hundreds or thousands. Whilst I understand your frustration with the current situation we find ourselves in, I don’t think you, me or anyone else should give up. That’s what they want, they want us to give up, they want us to leave public life, they want us to stay silent. And if nothing more, attending CPAC has stiffened my resolve to be resolute in the face of this progressive barbarism we find ourselves in. The reason why they’ve won is because we’ve stayed silent. Only this week we’ve seen what has happened with Andrew Thorburn. We need to rally, we need to organise, we need to speak up, we need to stop remaining silent and I can assure you, I will not be silent….actually, I’ve never been silent.
* And meeting up and talking with people who share our politics and our concerns is important, it’s why we’re here on the Cat, isn’t it? Okay, here on the Cat we don’t physically interact but we do engage with likeminded people, and that’s important, very important.
Rogersays:
October 6, 2022 at 1:30 pm
Clears throat…
Has anyone seen Prof. Flim Flammery lately?
Last seen on the roof of his Hawkesbury Riverside home?
Not exactly…the premise of both Gramsci & the Frankfurt School is that to be deCapitalised, Western society must be deChristianised.
GreyRangasays:
October 6, 2022 at 1:45 pm
I wish I knew BJ. The libs I used to know were all hard workers and very generous. I’m at a loss. Political parties are all grifters now.
Truth!
Jordan Peterson says the last act of discrimination that will be targeted by progressives is marriage.
How dare you be allowed to single out one person for lifelone marriage. That’s discrimination against all others.
This has been the case since February. It’s strange how incurious people are about the lack of info regarding the number of troops employed overall by the UKR or on this or that front, or the estimate of losses, dead, wounded or missing in total or in each offensive. I wonder why that is the case? I read very recently an article in a well-known British mag (I’m including it in the Weekend Reading tomorrow) that argues the UKR has had more troops in theatre than RUS from the start, approx. a 2:1 advantage, that will only achieve parity once the first wave of RUS mobilisation is completed (UKR has had about 8 waves of mobilisation since Feb 24).
The reason for the reluctance can’t be because commentators and analysts don’t want RUS military intelligence to find out these numbers or estimates. If they are targeting military formations, HQs, and supply dumps, they are going to have pretty reliable info about who is in theatre and their numbers. It seems to me the only plausible reason for doing this is to control the public narrative about the war. The public perception of the war here in Oz and elsewhere is of the plucky UKR, outnumbered, holding fast at the beginning and now starting to turn the tide. It’s hard to run this narrative where the defender outnumbers the enemy 2:1 from the outset, and still suffers significant losses both on the defensive and offense.
But, what then, is the reason for the incuriousness? Probably also maintenance of the narrative.
So the economic goal is still there, they just intend to reach it via a different route than classical Marxism.
Here’s a quote from the sports section of Tuesday’s The Australian:
That’s from running Bank of New Zealand from 2008-2014 and NAB from 2014-2019.
So, no, Christians aren’t being thrown to the lions yet, the guy was just a poor choice, and the brouhaha was window dressing.
Update from Ukraine
Interesting perspective, Lysander. How do you think global destruction is likely to come about?
Thanks, Pancho, not how I heard it reported, but then it was chiple jay news and the silly moaning hemorrhoid we’re talking about. Cue the SMH below:
No mention of reserves in the piece quoted above. Just checked the ALPBC news and it at least mentions the following:
I notice that all 16 have been sitting in on the case, hopefully “the reserves” have been clearly identified.
Thorburn disassociated himself from his church’s rhetoric on abortion and flamers, so no attack on Christianity, not that this church sounds particularly Christian.
They’re probably saying similar things at the Ashram, the Buddhist Temple, and down at the Mosque.
The other reason, as detailed in the link I provided earlier today, is to deceive the Russian military into thinking that they had enough troops committed to the front – that a SMO-sized force was enough. Those battlefield tactics seemed to have been more decisive than fleeting public opinion.
Who wrote this tripe.
The big issue is how a Footy Club can afford a CEO.
Where’s the dosh coming from?
UNDERSTANDING THE NEW ABNORMAL
by Francis X. Maier
10 . 4 . 22
Mmm…in that case, given the basic premise of force concentration that defenders have a 3:1 advantage over attackers, Putin & his generals have made massive miscalculations from the start.
Wow, did Nick Reikata really get banned from Yew Chube today?
Probably some salty antifa bitch whinging about Kyle Rittenhouse.
Yeah, it’s a bit late now for Putinist tankies to be saying “no fair, you have too many guys, that’s not cricket”.
Also, according to Putinists (here and on Twitter), the war is inevitably going Russia’s way regardless of Ukraine tactical victories in the present. So why does Putin need to threaten nuclear strikes when a conventional victory is assured?
No, we don’t even get figures after the fact. But, again, I’m not even talking about official UKR figures or estimates, there is little to no speculation from pro-UKR analysts and commentators. Have you, for instance, seen any estimate of numbers that involved in first week of Kharkov offensive over a month ago? What about over the last three weeks in Lyman?
I would like to believe that Ed, but if that were the case, why do Dan and koche feel the need to put the boots in on the grounds of faith. A very clear signal is being sent.
From my experience. You have to know someone close to get word in and even then the time is limited. That’s why I’m not so inthousastic about talk fest like CPac.
It’s a feel good exercise for the converted nothing more.
I have to say I’ve given more attention to the war from the legal and political angles than to what’s been happening in detail on the ground. I’m really surprised by that troop ratio. Could it be the Russians really believed they’d be welcomed as liberators in eastern Ukraine? How else to explain it other than as sheer ineptitude which unnecessarily put their troops in grave danger?
I don’t doubt they miscalculated in ways that have made this more difficult for them, nor do I think its unfair that UKR have a manpower advantage at present, but they weren’t the points I was raising.
Grigs rules that Thorburn’s Church “isn’t very Christian” because they against homosexuality and have moral standards.
Wow. What a duplicitous liar (or moron). Take your pick.
Perhaps because Putin knows the Russian military is in a parlous state with antiquated hardware, corruption, and is incapable of obtaining air superiority that allows attacks on supply lines, depots, etc. Their strategy has been abysmal, from that ridiculous purported “feint” maneuver of troops all along the border to the inability to hold taken ground. It’s almost as if they are poorly trained, lack morale, and wonder what the hell they are fighting for.
Post-feminist Cinderella.
I thought it was interesting how Higgins described her massive booze intake.
“The shots just kept coming,” she said yesterday.
Reminded me of Dalrymple’s “the knife went in.”
The shot glasses just wouldn’t leave her alone.
Also reminded me of how Melvin Udall wrote women so well. “I think of a man. And I take away reason and accountability.”
A few things DaShpincht…
Signing an agreement that says you’re never going to talk is a start.
Or how about asking for an “express pass” to NATO so Russia can be accused of invading NATO territory… He knows exactly what comes of this. And yet he still applies.
Pretty sure that doesn’t end well.
Apparently she asked Christian Porter whether he knew anyone who could help. No luck.
Yes, they did. And they also thought Kyiv would collapse in a matter of days (the alternative explanation is that they encircled, parked for over a month, and then dumped a huge load of equipment in a disorderly retreat from Kyiv through a brilliant “fixing” or “feinting” strategy!).
WHAT THE FUCK!… Welcome to WA…
https://www.watoday.com.au/national/doctor-claims-man-was-alive-when-put-in-body-bag-and-sent-to-morgue-20221006-p5bnoz.html
You mean, you don’t want to just come out and say “Putin will launch a nuclear strike on Ukraine because he is losing a conventional war there”???
C’mon, Putinists! Too much abstract guff – let’s have some specifics: who will launch a nuclear weapon against whom and why?
That’s right, but Andrew Thorburn isn’t the hill to die on here.
He disavowed his own church’s dissing of flamers and abortions, so what is worth defending about him?
To be fair, the estimates of Russian numbers are suppositional at best as well, even when they are stationary as in Kherson. Countries at war don’t tend to post accurate troop sizes, for obvious reasons. We will only get a full picture of relative numbers after the war is over, maybe many years after.
There is as much mystery surrounding current troop levels as there is about how the Russian mobilisation is going. When are the new chums going to arrive at the front in any great number?
I’m surprised it even got to court because of all the publicity declaring lock him up! I have a suspicion she wasn’t going to pursue this course of action but was nudged, pushed, cajoled, and told outright to it take to court by the likes of Bandana batshit crazy woman and Tame. It’s too convenient she forgot certain details, was absolutely sloshed when she walked into Parliament House, and decided to wash that dress after all. The narrative is too constructed to be believable. More likely they both thought it would be arousing to fuck in Parliament House in the dead of night.
There’s a further angle we need to explore here as well – if Putin does launch a nuclear strike due to his failed conventional war, I wonder if anyone here will condemn that action?
Let’s have it out in the open it from our local Putinists – if Putin launches a nuclear weapon in response to Russian conventional losses on internationally-recognised Ukrainian territory, will you condemn Putin for that or not?
Too many comments from when I last read this site to scroll up and I apologise if it’s been mentioned.
I note a young lady, who adheres to the religion that shouts Allahu Akbar quite often, is standing out of the AFLW Pride match this week.
Have at it media whores! Chase her out of her spot in the side!
Oi!
And, who TF is Melvin Udall?
Generalisations like that put you in the same boat (if it were possible, but alas …) as St Ruth.
The denialism about Russia’s anti-human COVID policies has to stop
It’s extremely embarrassing.
Edward Slavsquat, 16 hr ago
Give yourself a tick Groogs. He’s untouchable. Would have been a good fit at Essendon.
Tucker Carlson: Asking obvious questions is forbidden
Sphincter.
Where have I ever said Putin would launch nukes in any single post. Ever. Furthermore, where have I ever said “I support Putin.” Ever.
I’ve always said on this blog, to your chagrin and others, that I think its baddies Vs baddies and I take the piss out of both sides (but you tend to get riled up and make wild presumptions when I attack your homo pal in UKR).
I was interested in the 16 member jury situation in the Canberra show trial. Dr Google:
It seems that all 16 sit through the evidence and the reserve jurors are discharged when the judge directs the jury to consider their verdict, so only the 12 deliver the verdict.
Settle down, DaFisk.
You’ve been reasonably sane lately, but there’s no way Putler is launching a Nuke, unless it’s at his own troops.
Wow grogs, reputable source! He has at least 160 followers on YouTube lol!
Oh ok. So you don’t think nuclear armageddon is going to happen. Cool cool. So why do you keep talking about it?
This is really strange – I don’t actually have any gay friends at all in Ukraine. Who are you talking about?
We’d all like to think Putin wouldn’t press the button to launch a nuke, but no one knows except him.
Whether the nuke would get launched is another matter, given the decrepitude of the Russian military and its equipment.
Apart from the fact that the Essendon Board released a statement saying the exact opposite, I’d believe you Ed.
“Let’s have it out in the open it from our local Putinists “
DaStink’s go to smear.
Did he though? I thought he launched into a Voltairean defence of those views. He did do multiple pres statements IIRC, so maybe I missed one.
It preaches Prosperity Christianity [which is Satanic] and throws in some
anti abortion/flamers windowdressing to tart it up for the dopes.
Biden is America’s ‘most corrupt’ president in history: Gingrich
Russian military doctrine allows for the use of nuclear weapons when Russia’s borders are threatened. That ridiculous referendum allows Putin to use nuclear weapons if UKR does step into those regions Russians claims as its own.
The problem with mobilisation is it could result in a cannon fodder situation because those troops will not be well trained and probably not that willing to go to war. Modern wars are won with modern weapons and highly trained personnel. Russia doesn’t have enough of those. If the mobilisation gets underway and Russia is experiencing heavy losses the temptation will be great.
This be the link to peruse about aforementioned lady
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-02/haneen-zreika-aflw-pride-round-tanya-hosch-inclusion/100797858
This Tanya Hosch seems a bit of a fuckwits.
Did you get a mail order ukie bride? why do you hate russians?
At least they gave me a private room in the Canberra Lockup
Mutti Merkel gets a cash payoff from the UN:
As well as all the under-the-table rewards for supporters, like lavishly paid, tax free sinecures, they also openly hand over cash, courtesy of members’ (i.e. taxpayers’) subscriptions to this bloated, corrupt and wasteful behemoth.
Describing Mutti’s welcoming of a million people from alien cultures, and who knows who they were, as a triumph, says it all.
Apart from Tuesday’s Australian, which was printed before it blew up, everything i’ve read has been on this website.
He did disavow the flamers/abortion stuff by saying that there was room for a range of views in that particular church, or words to that effect.
Which is a fair enough response, then he resigned 5 minutes later.
So, it wasn’t really about being a Christian.
It will be piquant if Russia ends up losing its superpower status because in its post-communism phase it embraced the corruption inherent in capitalism without also building the strong institutions that are supposed to prevent such corruption.
Lysander
Had to re-phrase to beat spaminator.
Richard Cranium decides that Thorburn’s Church “isn’t very Christian” because they are against homosexuality and have moral standards.
What a duplicitous liar (or moron).
Embrace the power of and.
From Black Ball’s link
that’s the AFL’s job.
‘Not drowning – waving’ perhaps?
m0nty-fa
To be fair, the estimates of Russian numbers are suppositional at best as well, even when they are stationary as in Kherson. Countries at war don’t tend to post accurate troop sizes, for obvious reasons. We will only get a full picture of relative numbers after the war is over, maybe many years after.
There is as much mystery surrounding current troop levels as there is about how the Russian mobilisation is going. When are the new chums going to arrive at the front in any great number?
Good points, so why do you persist in giving us excited day by day accounts of the battles? Wait a bit, and when the dust settles, you might (only might) have a chance of saying something useful.
The question is what are they trying to achieve? There’s no way – on current evidence – that they can prove a rope took place. Higgins seems hell bent on having the mud stick the Reynolds above all else.
The accused seems to be a bit-player in this opera.
famous last words. I suspect this entire war is designed to give Biden some sort of “win” and make him look tough on the world stage, they haven’t thought through what the long term consequences are.
What’s the density of Ukro Troops at any given point and what’s the blast range of a nuke?
It doesn’t sound plausible, particularly since Russia claims it’s hopeless performance so far is due to reluctance to endanger civilian lives.
Might the Russians have underestimated the speed and amount of overt support the Ukes would get from the US and other Western European nations. They might have expected sharing intelligence but the Uke’s supporters have gone way beyond that – hence the Russians brought the army they thought would be sufficient against the Ukes to defeat them quickly to present the West a fait accompli from which negotiations, recriminations, and accommodations would begin.
I suspect the Germans would have preferred to have Russia take Ukraine quickly whereupon they could throw their arms up in the air and denounce Russian imperialism…while the gas continued flowing.
A megaquake or megathrust earthquake on the Hikurangi Subduction Zone in New Zealand has a 25% probability of occurring in the next fifty years. This is the first time scientists have been able to give a probability for such an event in New Zealand.
The UN is probably the only place you will see Mutti Merkel or an ex NZ politician.
DaFisk
Let’s have it out in the open it from our local Putinists – if Putin launches a nuclear weapon in response to Russian conventional losses on internationally-recognised Ukrainian territory, will you condemn Putin for that or not?
Not a Putinist (I think it would be good if both sides could lose), but anyone who launches a nuclear strike over the issues being contested in Ukraine must be condemned.
this is the idiot that almost got the entire farce called off
That was Mrs Hany-Head’s explicit intention.
The chockie gobbler (who treats a hangover by gutsing a box of Roses?) had served her use by that stage.
Depends on what constraints RUS were facing and what UKR’s intentions were later in the year that might have made RUS decide to move in Feb. Nevertheless, it is interesting that UKR hasn’t done better given such a troop ratio and hometown advantage.
But to return to my initial point, that the above troop ratio is news to you seven months into this war demonstrates my point.
I hope they give her a credit in the mini series. It certainly does seem to have developed a life of its own. Lot of agendas being driven here.
Given Russian targeting isn’t that accurate there could be huge civilian losses but that misses the point. The Putin threat(this time I’m not bluffing!) and an attack is designed not to slay Ukraine troops but force a surrender.
Week 1 is not looking like a success:
Brittany Higgins has admitted she was ‘clearly wrong’ when she said she stashed the dress she was wearing on the night she was allegedly raped away for six months – after she was confronted with photo proof of herself wearing it.
Ms Higgins on Thursday had earlier told the rape trial of former colleague Bruce Lehrmann that she put the white cocktail dress in a plastic bag under her bed for six months, ‘untouched and uncleaned’, following the alleged sex attack by colleague Bruce Lehrmann.
She told Lehrmann’s rape trial that, once it was clear she couldn’t report the alleged assault without losing her job, she ‘very symbolically washed the dress’.
‘I wore it once more but I never wore it again after that.’
But in the ACT Supreme Court in Canberra on Thursday, Ms Higgins was shown a photograph of her wearing the same dress two months after the alleged attack.
The picture was taken at birthday celebrations for her defence minister boss Linda Reynolds in Perth in May 2019.
Under cross examination from Lehrmann’s lawyer Steven Whybrow, Ms Higgins denied lying – but admitted she had made a mistake.
Daily Mail
How someone get fined $370 plus a loss of 3 points for doing 51k in a 40k zone? This place is just unreal.
m0nty-fa
It will be piquant if Russia ends up losing its superpower status because in its post-communism phase it embraced the corruption inherent in capitalism without also building the strong institutions that are supposed to prevent such corruption.
Post-Soviet Russia was mentored on its path to capitalism by lots of spivs from the US, many with DemonRat connections.
Note that the Obama and Biden administrations have also been engaged in destroying the “strong [US] institutions that are supposed to prevent such corruption” there. See FBI and many others.
Litigation does seem to develop a life of its own. Which is great if the bills are getting paid.
As discussed before, it depends on ‘what victory looks like’ …ie what are the Russian objectives? One school of thought is that the Russians are principally trying to demilitarise Ukraine (ie destroy its combat power), NOT to over run it. In that context, using the Russian troops to goad the Ukes into counterattacks (ie where the Ruskies not the Ukes are the defenders) then allows them to produce inordinate losses on the Ukes, particularly given the Russian tactic of withdrawing a dozen miles or so, then using massed artillery fires to slaughter the advancing Ukies.
Still not sure why you believe anyone can’t estimate maneuvering forces in an offensive. They begin their maneuverers from an actual location on the front. Nevertheless, the thing is where are these suppositional estimates about UKR forces? Do you remember seeing them in the first four or five months of the war when they were on the defensive? I don’t.
Court is tougher than Teh Project.
But Ukraine has troops now in ALL of those regions (except Crimea which was annexed years ago). Why hasn’t Putin launched a nuke already??
Of course – the use of nuclear weapons is a line that has not been crossed since 1945.
Putler has been saying he’s not bluffing anymore for the last 20 years.
Of course he’s bluffing.
If Joe Brandon was saying I’m not bluffing, yeah.
1) Most likely the newly mobilised troops will NOT go to the front, but will instead replace other regular units with duties inside Russia – letting them go to the Ukraine
2) Putin has announced a LIMITED mobilisation, concentrating on those with some existing military training – ie reservists and former serving members. He isn’t calling up raw civilians.
You were doing 51 going past a Primary School between 7-9 or 2-4?
“Brittany Higgins has admitted she was ‘clearly wrong’ when she said she stashed the dress she was wearing on the night she was allegedly raped away for six months – after she was confronted with photo proof of herself wearing it.
Ms Higgins on Thursday had earlier told the rape trial of former colleague Bruce Lehrmann that she put the white cocktail dress in a plastic bag under her bed for six months, ‘untouched and uncleaned’, following the alleged sex attack by colleague Bruce Lehrmann.
She told Lehrmann’s rape trial that, once it was clear she couldn’t report the alleged assault without losing her job, she ‘very symbolically washed the dress’.
‘I wore it once more but I never wore it again after that.’
But in the ACT Supreme Court in Canberra on Thursday, Ms Higgins was shown a photograph of her wearing the same dress two months after the alleged attack.”
They’ll have to scrub that from the book.
Traffic fines ceased being about road safety some time ago. Particularly in Victoriastan.
It’s hard to say, but having territory means you can use it to your advantage if pressed. If you get too cocky on the offensive a parry in the style of Third Battle of Kharkov is always possible.
Because he is hoping the mobilization will do the job.
flyingduksays:
October 6, 2022 at 4:10 pm
The problem with mobilisation is it could result in a cannon fodder situation because those troops will not be well trained and probably not that willing to go to war.
They have to go to the front. If Dover Beach is correct about the numbers they need to x3-4 increase troops at the front.
How much military training? The current forces have had the same training and are being shamed into retreat. It is not just the numbers of troops but also numbers of tanks etc. Russia needs to catch up with the 21st century and recognise that personnel without modern equipment are cannon fodder.
Thanks to those who already responded. EVERYONE who concern trolls over “nuclear armageddon” in the abstract MUST be asked if they will specifically condemn a Russian first nuclear strike specifically. If no condemnation is forthcoming, it tells us a lot about their motivations!
@Zipster – how about you? Condemn Putin for a nuclear first strike or no?
Or, to use the accountability-free phrase favoured by lawyers, she “got caught up in a shot frenzy”.
Here’s a tip, ladeees.
If you don’t want a drink, put your hand in your purse and shout the next round, and leave your drink out of the round.
Or simply say, “No more for me, Brucey”.
If you are adamant about it and he still buys you one, tip it out. Not too many blokes will happily watch $10 go down the drain.
It’s called self-control for a reason.