Wolfman, may I nominate Kind Hearts and Coronets for the Ealing list ? Young chap 17th in line or thereabouts for a title sets about knocking off his relatives one by one so that he can then marry the girl of his dreams. The same actor plays the murderer and his many victims (Dennis Surname escapes me).

Also, I’ve long thought an unrecognised but interesting genre was British films made immediately after WW II where the writer has come out of the military and it shows in their work. King Rat for example.

The same actor plays the murderer and his many victims

Alec Guinness would be the droid you’re not looking for.

The 1st Australian Parachute Battalion was prepared for a jump there, but MacArthur would not provide the aircraft. But he made enough landing ships and craft available to put a heavily reinforced brigade ashore on Tarakan.

Landing at Tarakan with a properly sized and supported force vs. parachuting a Battalion in to rescue a POW camp without the ability to withdraw them to safety immediately?

MacArthur, while being a total dick, wasn’t an idiot.

And I forgot to mention that the leftist prophet and seer Manning Clark was rackrenting a student living in his garage at the same time as he was churning out his purple prose denouncing venal philistine capitalism.

MacArthur, while being a total dick, wasn’t an idiot.

Excellent description! I have two minds about MacArthur, but it was totally obvious that Blamey had one, and only one job after Pearl Harbor. Which was MacArthur-wrangling. He was pretty good at it actually.

The US is built on these guys: MacArthur, Patton, Sherman, Grant. Weirdos, but absolute masters of what they could do for their country. We need more dragons’ teeth.

Mater, I’ve seen pretty much that happen with some of the old PUA/alt right types. They formed networks of like minded people and eventually arrived at the same position you’re advocating there. Eventually, I reckon it will give rise to entirely new nations, or replacement governments at the least.

Matersays:
November 27, 2022 at 8:40 pm
She believes people like us have to separate ourselves. There’s no future for us in mainstream society.

I agree, but do you have any thoughts as to how we might go about this effectively?

Well…for a start. Create a seperate economy, as best you can.

Sounds like a plan. Another one is to avoid any businesses putting pronouns in the email sig. It’s good they out themselves like this.

I’m amazed at the degree of near spite that’s shown whenever the subject of dividend imputation arises.

A common reaction of those who consider investing to be something they do at the lotto or the track.

I actually need some paving done around the house and some roofing re-pointing done. If anyone knows anyone on our wavelength. Let me know pls.

Wolfman,
BINGO!
If I could, I would send you a box of my Famous Cinnamon Rolls.
It was a real surprise to see that picture I can tell you. Olivier was absolutely, brilliantly vile in that role.
Very glad my dentist isn’t like him. whew.

We need more dragons’ teeth.

I think they call them Marines these days.

Andrews’ third reich getting up has to be in part blamed on Slomo
HorseShit!
The Feds can’t intervene in a State’s affairs.
Scotty told Andrews he couldn’t sign on to Belt & Road, so he did well.
Anyway, it’s the UniParty, remember?
It wasn’t Liberals turn to win, but they won the psychological war by putting Labor last in the House.

The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
One of the 15 films listed in the category “Art” on the Vatican film list.
A National Catholic Register “Video/DVD Picks” film.

Some of Ealing’s classic comedies were drolly subversive crime stories, and some of them featured Alec Guinness. Three films met all these criteria: Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Lavender Hill Mob, and The Ladykillers.

Each of these films is excellent, and each has its defenders as the best of Ealing’s crime comedies. Probably the most popular today is the first, Kind Hearts and Coronets, and certainly it is the darkest and most subversively satirical, with its story of a disgruntled distant heir to a peerage (Dennis Price) methodically killing every relative (all played by Guinness) that stands between him and the title. Perhaps it was a bit too dark for the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, which selected the The Lavender Hill Mob for the 1995 Vatican list of selected important films.

Diogenes:

Ploesti oilfields were Romanian. Hitler, like most Socialists, believed in the diminishing markets theory, and thus did not believe in international trade. Germany barely had enough fuel for its existing vehicle fleet, let alone adding more vehicles on the farm.

I have to disagree with you on that, Diogenes. Whilst that may have been the official German economic theory, it didn’t stop them from trading with the French, nor did it stop them from trading machinery for Russian oil and wheat. Romania was happy supplying oil to Germany and would have supplied more if they could get it out of the ground.

Do you really think that the US position on recalcitrant Japanese forces would have been tender and loving?

If you are suggesting that they refused to surrender with all that implies, no. They would have promptly had a mudhole stomped in their asses. After which the survivors would have joined the rest of the Japanese forces who were returned to mainland Japan as shipping became available.

Well fellow Mousketeers,
I am back earlier than promised as my television reception is on the fritz. Living in the sticks does have its drawbacks but, I have an extensive book collection and Starlink so all is not lost. If the power goes, I have lanterns and charged batteries.
Reading back through the comments, I wonder if I inadvertently gave the impression I was a prepper. Far from it. I followed my heart and my interests as a teenager (horses, dogs, horses, bush), and have ever since learned as much as I can about basic self-sufficiency. A prime example was during the toilet paper shortage. As any mother who had babies during the cloth nappy years can describe, lack of bog rolls is barely noticeable. Also as any of the awesome farmers, landholders, food producers, (I could go on, you know who you are) can attest, being able to get by and look after yourself, your family, animals and livestock is just par for the course. I love living in and off the land. I love being able to grow and provide my own food.
Preppers believe that if you store enough cans, freeze dried pouches and seed, that you will survive an apocalypse. The fact that they have never grown a bean or a lettuce, milked a cow or lit a fire without a match is totally incidental to them.
I preserve because I love it. I bake because I love it. I garden, grow vegetables, have various poultry for eggs and meat because I love it.
If the electricity goes I can cook my dinner with LPG or with wood. I would have to draw water from the tank to flush the toilet, but it still beats using a Thunderbox, which I have no qualms about using.

As for Cassies’ alternate society, she is correct for the most part, I have discovered over the past year there is almost a secret handshake to test if you are a Covid believer or denier. As for the Society for the Enslavement of Peasants and Plebs, they will cease to have power over us when Tradesmen refuse to deal with them. A lot of tradies were dead against the Stab Mandates. A lot of employers, although demanding the stab, looked the other way when there were deadlines to meet.

Boambee Johnsays:
November 27, 2022 at 9:22 pm
Ed Casesays:
November 27, 2022 at 8:48 pm
Some sheila in Ukraine calling Zelenskyy a Walrus Dick and a Faggot.
BitChute 1:25
My question is to SpongeBob:
Spongey, what’s a Walrus Dick?

The reproductive organ of a male walrus? Didn’t you learn the whole birds and bees thing?

Had a flash back to world funniest movies animal edition in channel 9? in the 90’s, Had animals playing with their private parts’, got taken off air when the CEO found out about it.

Did not the US 6th (check number) Ranger Battalion carry out a similar operation in the Philippines?

An entirely different operation. In the case of the Cabanatuan Camp rescue the Rangers and guerillas could not only take the camp but safeguard the POWs as they evacuated them to major US land forces who weren’t far away. The POWs lived because the Japanese had no chance to kill them once the operation commenced.

While the intent to do so was excellent, the realities of an operation to do something similar in Sandakan without giving the Japanese time to wipe out their prisoners were overwhelming.

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Wolfman,
I remember your review. It was great. I pondered at the time whether they had received the idea for Gandalf’s “is it hidden, is it safe?”, bit of dialogue from that scene you described.

That said, I have no doubt that even if the Australians had followed the US policy, the Japanese garrisons would have surrendered when ordered.

Ya reckon?

It was a damned near thing that they did surrender on the Emperor’s order, if you have read the history. Being demoralized, hungry and under maximum pressure would’ve helped this decision.

But the US policy of no contact if not attacked would not give any impetus for the Japanese local armies to accept the surrender order. They were already self sufficient. Men think ever so much more clearly when someone else, like an ANZAC division, grips their balls in their hand.

Had a flash back to world funniest movies animal edition in channel 9? in the 90’s, Had animals playing with their private parts’, got taken off air when the CEO found out about it.

Razey,
that was Doug Mulray’s Funniest Home Videos Special. Kerry Packer hit the roof and had it cancelled mid program. I remember watching it at the time and was about to change channel when the clip with Islanders running along a beach with shitty toilet paper hanging from their arses was aired.
I miss Kerry Packer.

Winston – I suspect Blamey dreaded getting up each day, such was his job of Doug-wrangling.
My appreciation of FM Blamey is rather high after the years he spent doing this thankless task.

MacArthur is not my favourite person but he got the job done, which is what you need.

Cassie:

“Parallel, not separate, but unless you can wield political power they can still railroad you.”
Yes, thanks DB, that’s a better description…parallel society.

Yes, but unlike European Jewry prewar, armed to the teeth and prepared to use their weapons.

Newsreels showed the military with tanks, routing unarmed veterans. To many, the action confirmed a view of Hoover as coldhearted and detached from reality.

Yeah, the reality that some veterans were convinced by socialists that they deserved their bonuses years before it was supposed to be paid.

The military was called in hopes of resolving it because that was vets talking to vets. The socialists won, some vets rioted, and the military cleared them out of their camps.

He then resigned, and took up the Post of Commander of the Army of the Philippines, where he assured the Filipinos that the United States would never desert them…

Nor did they. On 20 October 1944 MacArthur landed in Leyte. On 3 September 1945 General Yamashita Tomoyuki formally surrendered the Japanese forces in the Philippines.

23,503 Americans died defending the Philippines.

The US posture was clear in all three locations: maintain the perimeter especially around the strategic aerodromes and don’t push out from it.

Understandable, but if I understood you correctly you were speaking of post-war reparation of Japanese forces to the home islands. US operations did exactly that and shipped hundreds of thousands home.

Hard to do with a no-contact order I’d think.

Reading one of the WW2 histories on the 2/16th and a quote from a Jap captive showed the importance of supplies.

From memory “ every time you shot at an Australian your back would be hot with bullets”

Couple of others showing the desperation/ fanaticism was one Jap who was out of ammo so was throwing empty bottles at Aussies till he was flamethrowered to a stop.
Another was going cave by cave with flamethrowers and one lot throwing water at the flamethrower trying to put it out.

Enough to make you feel sorry for the poor buggers.

Enough to make you feel sorry for the poor buggers.

Steady on.

You have your separate culture. Good luck with that.

It used to be called Western Civilisation and it did pretty well until the Marxist infiltration.

Actually, I was wrong. Lt Onoba was bagged in Lubang in the Philippines.

I’ve seen reports of some others but they hid their IDs and hung out among civilians (Nakamura, died 1979). He was on Morotai.

Oh look the Oz is reporting lockdown and Covid policy protests now. In China. Maybe if Melbourne or Canberra etc has any future protests they should ensure protesters are Chinese so media covers it properly.

Crowds have chanted “down with the Communist Party” and “Xi Jinping, step down” in an extraordinary wave of protests across China sparked by anger at draconian Covid restrictions.

Anti-government protests on a scale not seen since 1989’s Tiananmen massacre broke out on Saturday in cities including Xi’an, Nanjing and Shanghai, three of China’s most politically influential cities.

“Down with the Communist party” an angry crowd chanted on Saturday night in Shanghai, a city of more than 25 million people that was brutally locked down for three months earlier in the year.

Crowds have chanted “down with the Communist Party” and “Xi Jinping, step down” in an extraordinary wave of protests across China sparked by anger at draconian Covid restrictions.

It’s wonderful to see so many Chinese people have finally had enough. XJP’s “extraordinary” management of COVID was always overblown, and the returns are now in – it’s an unmitigated failure.

…said a senior official, who was not named, reportedly told Politico.

Oh, a not named senior official quoted by Politico? Well there ya go, take that one to the bank.

Nope, just asked you to back up what you posted.

You can start by answering the question.

What a nice little war this is – decimating Putin’s army for basically spare change down back of the Pentagon sofa, and making a tidy profit on oil revenues and (eventually) arms sales as NATO members’ stocks will inevitably have to be replenished with up-to-date US kit. A great little money-spinner!

I’m simply passing on an article that has been doing the rounds of MAGA types

Yeah, sure that was what you were doing. Bot-like really.

Zatara:

Yeah, the reality that some veterans were convinced by socialists that they deserved their bonuses years before it was supposed to be paid.

Zatara, this was in 1932. The bonuses were supposed to be paid in 1945. These ex troops were out of work, hungry in the Great Depression.

Pensions, benefits, and bonuses had been offered to soldiers since the American Revolutionary War, but these promised benefits weren’t always promptly paid (or paid at all). For example, for some fighters in the Revolutionary War, it took 50 years after America won its independence for the government to pay their claims. Union veterans of the Civil War had to wait decades for benefits, and Confederate veterans were at the mercy of bankrupt states. No bonuses were paid for veterans of the Spanish-American War.

Government even then had a reputation for cheating its soldiers, do you realistically think they would wait another 13 years, 27 years from the time the war ended, for Congress to actually come good on its promises?
No, they had legitimate claims and the four – MacArthur, Eisenhower, Patton & Hoover were willing to kick them out of Washington.
The fact there were socialist agitators in their ranks is irrelevant – had the government lived up to their promises, they would have been ineffective.

From Bloomberg and 12ft ladder can’t crack it:

Germany has set out its plan to claw back 90% of the earnings from some clean power generators as the government seeks funding for its consumer aid package.
The government is planning to skim earnings above €130 a megawatt-hour for solar, wind and nuclear, according to a draft law seen by Bloomberg News. Politicians are trying to reclaim some of the profits that companies like RWE AG are making from high power prices.
The windfall tax will be applied to electricity producers based on the fuel they use. Lignite plants will be taxed on earnings above €82 a megawatt hour and oil plants above €280. The measures will apply for 10 months, backdated to start of September 2022, until end June 2023 and could be extended to end of 2024.
Germany set out a €54 billion package on November 22 that puts a cap on gas prices for companies and households from next year with more earmarked for electricity. The aid for bills will be partly financed by the windfall tax, from which the government expects to raise a double-digit billion-euro amount, according to officials.
The level proposed is lower than the European Commission’s suggested level of €180 a megawatt hour. Renewable generators in Germany have warned that such a levy will deter investment needed to help the nation wean itself off imported fossil fuels.
The more than 200-page-long law proposal, which is supposed to pass cabinet on Friday, has already provoked widespread criticism from energy lobby groups. Andreas Jung, a lawmaker from the oppositional Christian Democrats, said that the levy will “suffocate” renewable energy companies because they have been investing a lot of money in new technology.
The law is scheduled to pass the upper house on December 16 so that it can go into effect on January 1.

From The Wall Street Journal and 12ft Ladder unable to crack it as well.

3) WSJ: Europe Pays for Green-Energy Illusions
The Wall Street Journal, 22 November 2022

Europe is struggling to keep its lights and the heat on this winter, and fuel supply is only half of the energy crisis. The other half, now coming into view, is the ruinous fiscal cost associated with the failure of green-energy flights of fancy. European taxpayers will pay this bill for years to come.
Governments across Europe have announced €674 billion ($696 billion) in handouts and subsidies to alleviate the burden of skyrocketing energy prices between September 2021 and October 2022, according to Bruegel, the Brussels-based think tank. The money includes €264 billion in Germany alone and the equivalent of €97 billion in the United Kingdom. This is on top of what households and businesses are paying in higher energy bills even after the subsidies.
Some policies will help. Almost every European country has reduced excise taxes on fuel. This is a rare instance of the energy crisis forcing a beneficial rethink of green fixations—in this case, Europe’s tendency to treat energy levies as a green “sin tax.” But for the most part the money is subsidizing households and businesses directly or indirectly. One common tactic is to impose a retail price cap, with taxpayers plugging the gap between the costs that utilities must pay for energy and what they’re allowed to charge consumers.
A special dishonorable mention goes to countries such as France and Germany whose energy policies have dragged the government directly into the utility business. Paris has turned majority-state-owned utility EDF into a subsidy slush fund, using state control to limit retail prices today while apparently hoping taxpayers won’t notice plunging dividends or a big equity injection tomorrow. Berlin may nationalize Uniper and is offering tens of billions of euros in subsidized credit to other utilities.
This tabulation assumes “temporary” subsidies will expire on schedule, such as Britain’s energy price cap that’s due to end in April. If you think politicians will do that willingly, we have a hydropower dam in the Sahara to sell you.
This tally doesn’t include costs associated with the race to build new energy infrastructure, especially to import natural gas from sources other than Russia. Governments seem to be in denial about how to encourage private investment to shoulder more of this load.
Politicians still claim their medium-term plan is to ramp up renewables such as wind and solar. But those subsidies will skew incentives against investing in gas terminals or pipelines and the like. Taxpayers may end up footing bills that private investors would have been willing to pay if politicians hadn’t promised to put fossil fuels out of business within 10-15 years. Governments also are rushing to impose windfall taxes on the profits from the fossil-fuel investments they say they want to encourage.
Add it all to the tab. It’s impossible to say how much money Europe has wasted on its failed green-energy transition over the past few decades. Estimates for Germany alone start in the hundreds of billions of dollars. Taxpayers shouldn’t be surprised if their total bill to bail out that failed energy transition tops $1 trillion in coming years. When it comes to green energy, the motto is “pay, and pay again.”

China must pay into a new fund for poor countries stricken by climate-driven disaster on the basis of its high greenhouse gas emissions and large economy, the former UK prime minister Gordon Brown has said.

Haha, good luck with that Gordon.