Girl at a Sewing Machine, Edward Hopper, 1921
Ben Garrison.
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Gary Varvel..
Matt Margolis.
A.F. Branco.
Brett Lethbridge.
This too
The biggest question surrounding the Biden files situation is who leaked the story to NBC.
The DOJ & Whitehouse would have kept it on the down low if the team at NBC didn’t contact them to confirm the situation.
Quite the scoop.
This too
Asylum seeker punches man nine times in the head in streetfight video shown to murder trial jury – with his caption: ‘We are Afghan we keep it real’
Afghanistan isn’t a shithole by accident.
The biggest question surrounding the Biden files situation is who leaked the story to NBC.
The DOJ & Whitehouse would have kept it on the down low if the team at NBC didn’t contact them to confirm the situation.
Quite the scoop.
well it’s only because the establishment has decided that the old thief is no longer useful to them.
Bern
I can’t recall, but it’s a 50 50 bet. I can’t remember if it’s NBC or CBS- one them is supposedly very close to the US intel services and is sometimes referred to as US intel’s information service. If NBC is the one tied to them, then it’s likely US intel leaked it.
Sacré bleu – there is no such creature as a “conspiracy theory”, just as there is no such phenomenon as “economic theory”. Therefore the j’ismist bloviating above almost got the “no basis in fact” observation correct, but just not how they imagined.
*Thanks (again) for nothing, you preposterous pompous collectivist pseudointellectual heads lodged firmly up the fundamental orifices of your house sized backsides imbeciles.
You have to wonder if he even knows what hydrogen is.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announces $70 million cash injection for Queensland hydrogen hub (14 Jan)
The process economics are ridiculously awful. But I’ve never found a pollie with an understanding of such things, much less a Labor Party one.
Many cancers lurk and only present obvious symptoms very late in the piece.
Leftist governments brought these mongrels in to do one thing – terrorise their own civil populations.
correct and little Johnnie HoWARd too. The political class at war with the demos.
No.
CBS has ties to Spooks going back to the 1940s.
See: William S. Paley, Spook.
To me, it looks like the Deep State is Nixoning Brandon, but some pundits say they’re pressuring him to commit U.S. Troops to Ukraine before it collapses.
Rabz has cleared out the adjectives’ cupboard again.
Bravo!
Oh , It’s CBS with those ties. Thanks Eddles. I shouldn’t have speculated and just gone to the source (you) when dealing with spookery and flamism.
I knew his son. He died of Covid in 2020, I think. Our kids went to school together.
“They were profound prodigious travellers”
I looked at the shorts to Vikings Valhalla and thought, nup, nope, nyet. I’m soooooo sick and tired of having identity politics shoved down my throat.
As for sub-Saharan Africans making it to Viking lands, whilst not impossible, it’s unlikely, and if so, the few that made is there were slaves. However, Arab traders certainly did make it to Vikings lands, Arabs traded with the Volga Vikings and the writings of Ahmad ibn Fadlan provide us with a rich insight into Viking culture and ceremonies (including human sacrifice) and these writings were cleverly used in the first two series of Vikings, which made good viewing, before it lapsed into a Viking soap opera.
As an aside, having gotten home from a family lunch, tonight I’m re-watching Dr Zhivago, it remains superb and very compelling viewing. The film is rich, lush, historically accurate (in terms of the revolution and its devasting impact on Russia), romantic and epic. You couldn’t remake it in 2022, given our obsession with tawdry identity politics, and if they tried to it would be remade through a progressive lens, with a transgender actor playing Lara, a black actor playing Zhivago, and we’d be preached and pontificated about how the revolution was caused by white people being mean to blacks and other minorities, whereas in fact the Russian Revolution was because whites were being mean to other whites. But that doesn’t fit the narrative anymore….because now ALL white people are baddies.
Oh and Omar Sharif will always be soooo handsome!
Oh and I just love the sound of the balalaika and Lara’s Theme remains one of the most beautiful and moving soundtracks ever.
“Does Netflix have anything worthwhile?”
Fauda is good.
LOL. Anyone who thinks labore are going to “tackle the NDIS” has rocks in their head where some figurative grey matter might previously have existed. Teats is using it solely as an opportunity to “tackle” [that’s enough of that, Rabz – Dover].
“Many cancers lurk and only present obvious symptoms very late in the piece.”
Yep.
About a decade ago they were flogging head to two CT screening for cancers. The problem then became if a cancer was found in the screening what to do, because in a very large number of cases you can have a dormant tumor that doesn’t go anywhere and die of old age or something unrelated to the screening.
toe..
Julie Christie was so gorgeous!
Gilas,
thanks for the tip about Name of the Rose series. I will watch that as soon as I finish the last few episodes of Crossing Lines. I will mention again though, Vienna Blood. Absolutely absorbing series set in 1908 Vienna. A crime series. Great.
Calli, did you know Christian Slater was only 15 when he made that film? The director also screwed with his head a bit as the scene where the poor peasant girl ravishes him in the barn was a complete surprise to him. If I remember, in rehearsal, he wasn’t informed that the girl would be naked and that there would be skin to skin contact when the scene was actually shot. The shock and surprise you see on his face is genuine! Love that movie.
An obscure, but terrific movie with Christian Slater is Guns, Girls and Gambling. It is a real hoot. It also stars the brilliant Gary Oldman as an Elvis impersonator. Also many quotes from “Annabelle Lee”.
I gave Netflix away when Crown went downhill after Series Two. There wasn’t anything else.
SBS On Demand has much more, and it has no monthly drain on the bank account.
In Dr Zhivago, the fervent Bolshevik “Pasha”, played superbly by Tom Courtenay, says to Zhivago “I used to admire your poetry”, to which Zhivago says “Thank you” and then Pasha says, chillingly….
“I shouldn’t admire it now. I should find it absurdly personal. Don’t you agree? Feelings, insights, affections, it’s suddenly trivial now. The personal life is dead in Russia. History has killed it. “
And that is the the essence of Marxism/Socialism, in all its guises, from Bolshevism to Leninism to communism to Maoism to Pol Pot to Shining Path and now to progressivism as we’re seeing smother us in the West. A total negation and a total destruction of the individual, of the personal and of the private.
he wasn’t informed that the girl would be naked
Oh dear! How sad. Never mind.
Gary Oldman. One of the great actors of our time.
His performance as the chemically-enhanced DEA bloke in The Professional (1994) was and is a masterpiece.
Okay. I’m watching Persuasion.
It doesn’t bode well.
Those of us old enough will not just recall Tom Courtenay in Zhivago, but see him in that superb series “Little Dorrit”.
Rabz, NDIS presently costs tax payers more than the aged pension, more than Medicare and more than state hospital funding.
Ten tears ago it didn’t exist except on paper.
It’s also shot rhough with rorts and corruption.
Reining it in is going to be a political imperative for whoever occupies the Treasury benches.
Cr*p. She’s broken the fourth wall.
This had better be good.
As always, a simple “Fuk off” will suffice when dealing with Special Ed.
Uh oh. This ain’t the divine Jane.
A POC as mummy’s “best friend”.
OFF.
Gary Oldman. One of the great actors of our time.”
Yep.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/clinton-appointed-judge-rejects-trumps-motion-dismiss-e-jean-carrolls-sexual-assault-lawsuit/
I doubt we have ever seen such a sustained and vicious attack on a public figure such as we are seeing now.
Heeeeelllooooo….
The Princes Bride. Now we’re talking!
Inconceivable!
“he wasn’t informed that the girl would be naked
Oh dear! How sad. Never mind.”
LOL! Anchor, when Christian Slater was interviewed about the scene some years later, he said it was the first time he had seen boobs in the flesh, so to speak!
My name, is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to Die!!!
Rog, stop being a rockhead. labore have already abolished the AAT, following its “regrettable record” of rejecting NDIS eligibility appeals.
Okay. I’m watching Persuasion.
It doesn’t bode well.
I look forward to the remake set in Peking.
Now that is a classic, even if it was directed by that Reiner fellow.
Cohenite, I swear I lasted three minutes into the rotten thing.
Wesley and Buttercup are much more entertaining.
I find little to watch on Netflix, I love Fauda, Shtisl and there are few others but it’s slim pickings. Much of Netflix is drenched in LGBTQI+, progressive, far-left, critical race theory, rubbish, and I know some will think I’m barking mad (I’m not), but I’ve noticed in some Netflix productions a push to normalise Satanism and evil. I tried watching the new “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” and it was just a show pony for Satanism and paganism. It wasn’t just ghastly, I was more than a little disturbed.
As for SBS and SBS on Demand, yes it’s good, I still watch programmes on SBS whereas I never ever watch a bloody thing on their ABC.
Send him back then…that’d be “keeping it real.”
‘The Recruit’ on Netflix is only 7 episodes long. It is a good series.
mUnty v Hayek. LOL. We can probably shut the Cat now, hard to see this being topped, even if Groogs starts getting his rohypnol wholesale.
Gary Oldpersonage. One of the great Hollyweirdos of our time … 🙂
Wait!
I thought you flounced?
It’s him (m0nster) or me!
Seen Lost in Austen, Calli?
Everything Everywhere All At Once is great. Bit long but.
Oh wait, it’s about Asians, you lot would hate it.
Not abolished, but to be reconvened with more acceptable members, I believe.
Typical Labor politics and small beer compared to the budgetary black hole that is the NDIS.
Milloy would’ve been banned by old Twitter.
https://twitter.com/JunkScience/status/1613724250011242497
Very low energy, monts.
Must read post by Shy Ted on Das Cat
Ed Casesays:
January 14, 2023 at 5:57 pm
I strongly doubt the vax caused lung cancer.
You’re a Doctor now?
The guy was diagnosed on tuesday, heavyweight boxer, dead a week later.
What’s the median between diagnosis and death for Lung Cancer patients?
5-10 years?
He’d taken a few hits to the head over his career,
so, course he was Vaxxed Up.
Richard Cranium
You’re a doctor as well as a lawyer? Did you also manage to fit in an engineering course?
Oh dear. The Jewish vanity press is where you end up when even Waffleworth’s Grauniad won’t have you. One step down from Crikey and an Arts building toilet door.
By political imperative, I mean, where would you make the cuts to sustain the NDIS on its present ever expanding path?
Medicare?
Aged pension?
State public hospitals?
Defence?
Or would you go to an election promising more obscene levels of borrowing and kick the can down the road for future generations to deal with?
These things still matter to the Australian electorate and a government sitting on 32% of the primary vote can’t afford to blithely ignore them.
You should try ABC iview as there’s a number of excellent UK series e.g. Silent Witness, The Capture, Unforgotten, The Split and Doc Martin.
But I agree re anything Australian (news, current affairs, drama or comedy) the ABC is waste of space.
bons says:
January 14, 2023 at 6:02 pm
Gilas, I haven’t succeeded in finding Eco on SBS on demand.
May have been withdrawn unfortunately
I downloaded it 2 years ago, just over 5Gb @ 720p resolution. Unfortunately I don’t use cloud storage..
A 356p version is available on a cyberlocker though.
If you’d like that, please ask Dover for my email address, referencing this post.
To paraphrase Joseph ‘one death is a tragedy, one million deaths is a statistic’ Stalin”
One death is an anecdote, One million anecdotes is data….
Ed Dowd (former wall street ‘quant’ who’s previous job involved analysing data and looking for trend changes) has now documented so many ‘anecdotes’ of bad events shortly after vaxxes that there is smoke and fire aplenty.
https://totalityofevidence.com/edward-dowd/
Cassie
a black actor playing Zhivago
Omar Sharif, an Arab actor, played Zhivago in the film (and also played a German officer in the Night of the Generals).
The NDIS is succeeding more wildly than even a committed Fabian like Gillard could have imagined.
Is Coincidence Now The Leading Cause Of Death?
While the Corrupt DOJ Special Counsel to Look into Biden’s Crimes Starts Up, FBI Director Chris Wray Will Be Dining in Davos at the World Economic Forum
Joseph A. Ladapo, MD, PhD
@FLSurgeonGen
What better time than a Friday afternoon for @CDCgov and@US_FDA to let Americans know that the mRNA shots they’ve been pushing may be causing strokes? Don’t worry, we’ll make sure the word gets out just like we’ve been doing for months.
You would get on well with Bob Carr. His wife is Asian you know?
m0ntysays:
January 14, 2023 at 7:00 pm
Does Netflix have anything worthwhile?
Everything Everywhere All At Once is great. Bit long but.
Oh wait, it’s about Asians, you lot would hate it.
Not everyone shares the racism of you and your ilk.
Where is The Name of the Rose streaming ?
BREAKING: CHD Defeats NY State Healthcare Workers COVID Mandate!
its about existential multi-verse bagels
you’re stuck in this one, and you already ate the bagel
no wonder you didn’t understand it
The next best thing to gathering yams in the Hunter Valley with Mrs Phatty Adams.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
·
Dr Harvey Risch with RFK Jr:
“Dr Fauci comes out saying ‘I am science…science Science science’ – as I scientist, I haven’t seen any evidence – there’s never any evidence being quoted – it’s all just proclamations”
“That’s not science”
With a nice aged Semillon.
Must read post by Shy Ted on Das Cat
Definitely worth a read.
Ed Dowd (former wall street ‘quant’ who’s previous job involved analysing data and looking for trend changes) has now documented so many ‘anecdotes’ of bad events shortly after vaxxes that there is smoke and fire aplenty.
Duk, I thought the entry of Ed Dowd into the fray would help change the narrative. But no. Not Dowd, the embalmers of the USA or noted cardiologists, epidemiologists et al have any sway with the MSM. Now I can understand that the pollies, the medical bureaucrats and Big Pharma would double down. But, I confess that I thought that the MSM would have some interest in the relevance of some dissenters.
The 4th Estate has irrevocably disavowed the principles of critical thinking and careful research.
Omar Sharif is swarthy. But not too swarthy.
That’s why he can authentically act as a Russian.
Oh wait, it’s about Asians, you lot would hate it.
Says the racist imbecile.
Saw some comments on lung cancer…
If we are talking about the much commoner Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer, only cures are surgical, if detected early, usually by accident.
Otherwise, median survival from clinical presentation, where disease is usually advanced and incurable:
Untreated: around 6 months
Treated (targeted therapies ± chemo): 2-3 years
Of course, the survival distribution is normal for each stage and histological subgroup, so 5-10% fall outside 2SD.
Aggressive disease, with drastically shortened survival, has always existed, but is more prevalent in co-morbid patients, the immuno-suppressed, or those with specific Epithelial-Growth-Factor (EGF) mutations, mostly Asians.
U.S. Hospitals started giving Oxygen to Premmies c.1940.
One side effect could be permanent blindness.
Any way, it didn’t stop until 1960, 20,000 Blind Children later.
This is just a preview of the full one hour presentation, with a link to it included.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
650,000 Americans did not need to die during the COVID crisis.
Watch Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s FULL statement on his lawsuit against big legacy media + the ‘Trusted News Initiative’
This dropped out somehow:
Or are you going to raise taxes on an already under pressure middle class?
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
It’s too late to claim ignorance—these people are just plain evil.
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
Peter Zeihan @PeterZeihan is an interesting character—that’s nicespeak for “charlatan”.
At first I thought he was unironically brilliant, with all his geographic and demographic insights.
Then I started noticing some fairly obvious factual errors he was committing.
Simples, Rog. You wind back eligibility and what constitutes “reasonable and necessary” “supports”. There are what – 750,000 currently on Disability Support Pension? Eligibility for the NDIS was always (apparently) meant to constitute a much smaller percentage, i.e. around 50% of DSP claimants according to the original productivity commission reports.
There are currently over 550,000 NDIS claimants and “reasonable and necessary” “supports” now include gardening services and “sex work” among other questionable “services”. The average annual “package” for an NDIS participant is now around $73,000 and counting.
There’s an NDIS provider around the corner from my place. They have a (very) large premises and two brand new bongo vans, one of which sports colour coordinated NSW vanity plates. Gee, thanks, taxpayers, you suckers.
At this rate the numbers on it will balloon out of all recognition within a decade. I reckon at least a million within three years, with an average “package” of around $100,000pa.
Michelle Yeoh is a hot babe.
Hong Kong alumnus.
Superb in Crouching Tiger.
Deserves her Globe!
Rog – feel free to check my figures, most of which are courtesy of the NDIA – the staggeringly incompetent and inefficient bureaucratic behemoth (vomited into existence by Juliar, Teats and Yabbott), which is currently maladministering the “scheme”.
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
It’s not complicated: Joe Biden is no longer needed, because after January 20, 2023, Kamala Harris (Obama’s finger puppet) will be able to run in both 2024 *and* 2028— therefore Biden is being defenestrated to clear the path for Kamala.
Some fool on the Daily Tele website is assuring readers that the 1967 referendum was about “recognizing Aborigines as human beings.” Words fail me.
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
This movie looks really good — anyone know the title and its release date?
(By the way, I love how the villain is kind of like a *retro* villain — a throwback to the old James Bond movies. Very Post-Modern and meta.)
By accidental perusal, saw a quote by Neil Gaiman:
“Every hour wounds. The last one kills.”
Almost banal, yet brilliant in its simplicity.
But Monts, Asians are white. The best diversity hires of academia assure us! Just as well, my various Asian brothers-in-law depend on diversity hires to explain why they are oppressed at the same time as being oppressors.
When we were in primary school, you could kick a drongo like that in the nuts. It would be worth six of the best – WELL worth six of the best to do it in front of the Headmaster.
Kamala Harris (Obama’s finger puppet) will be able to run in both 2024 *and* 2028— therefore Biden is being defenestrated to clear the path for Kamala.
Harris is Electoral Poison.
She wound up her ’20 Primary Campaign after drawing 1.2% of the vote.
Only chance for her is to do a Wilson if Yeezy wins the [R] Nomination and Trump runs as 3rd Party
Bring. It. On. 🙂
The CDC has been ignoring the DEATH safety signal in VAERS for more than two years now
Yes. Start at the first series though to get the follow through with characterisation and styles.
Series 4 is just about to begin. Can’t wait.
Also a new series of Succession is about to start.
Both on Netflix.
Knuckle Draggersays:
January 14, 2023 at 7:33 pm
Omar Sharif is swarthy. But not too swarthy.
That’s why he can authentically act as a Russian.
But he also did well as a German in Hitler’s army.
Test
Leaving Denmark this morning. I put up a comment about Danish food late on last thread some hours too late, can’t keep track of timings in Oz with all the travel.
We go to Lappland via Helsinki where we change planes.
The Sharp Series is based on novels written early on by Bernard Cornwall, who has since had great success with turning his “Uhtred” novels into The Last Kingdom series – we look forward to the movie made to complete this series showing the rise and rise of Athelstan. Uhtred was born a Saxon but raised a Dane. Our hostess yesterday came out to see us into the taxi back to our hotel; she was only wearing a light fabric dress. You’ll freeze, I exclaim. I am a Dane, a Viking woman, she responded.
One tough blonde, actually, and a very good cook.
Netflix: Has some good thriller movies, & some good thriller series. The occasional serendipitous discovery of a foreign made gem.
.. in amongst all the turkeys.
Plus it has Midnight Diner (hat tip to Lizzie)
Frustratingly, half the stuff you save to watch later, is gone when you get around to “tonight I’ll watch X”
Example: All of Ken Burns’ documentaries on various wars of the USA were on there at one stage. All of them.
A late family relative had Lara’s Theme played at his funeral, the top shelf favorite of his and his prior departed wife who now lays beside him. A beautiful composition. David Lean was a masterful director. And yes, the film is rich in landscapes, atmosphere and history. Must watch it again soon.
But did it impair the immune system?
Well, that was fun.
A good story well told. And what more can a movie be?
Dr Zhivago, been made three times. The David Lean version is about twenty furlongs ahead of the others two.
These days they’d probably cast an Arab or something as Zhivago, instead of a blue-eyed translucent skinned Russian type.
Scene with the most impact in the cinema: When they slide open the door of the railway car only to reveal a layer of ice, you’re expecting a vista of Russia, instead the silver screen is one big sheen of ice. Not the same impact on a TV screen, but knocks you back in your seat in a cinema.
Sharif was a seriously top notch competition bridge player.
For those looking for a decent series , here’s 2;
Slow Horses
The Capture
Both highly recommended. Olman is absolutely superb. The grubbiest grub from Grubville.
…Oldman
Tennis season. One of my favorites
How you log a drowning as a vaccine death?
Legendary big-wave surfer Marcio Freire passed away on Thursday while tow-surfing Nazare. According to a statement from the National Maritime Authority, the 47-year-old Brazilian was brought to shore by rescuers but was tragically unable to be resuscitated.
Looks like I’ll have to do a post on Doctor Zhivago then in the not-too-distant future.
I made mention of it in my post on David Lean, but there seems to be enough appreciation and interest of this great film for it to warrant it’s own review.
Looks like I’ll have to do a post on Doctor Zhivago then in the not-too-distant future.
Yes please.
I made mention of it in my post on David Lean, but there seems to be enough appreciation and interest of this great film for it to warrant it’s own review.”
I know but Dr Zhivago is my fave. I’ve been wiping away tears tonight.
How you log a drowning as a vaccine death?
Gee, that’s a toughie.
In RosieClownWorld, a guy that suffers Cardiac Arrest while Surfing is a drowning victim?
“How you log a drowning as a vaccine death?”
Indeed.
And now I’ve switched over to Troy. Same sort of story, but ever so hysterical and overwrought.
How you log a drowning as a vaccine death?
Or a motorbike crash?
Troy Story?
Kamala Harris (Obama’s finger puppet) will be able to run in both 2024 *and* 2028— therefore Biden is being defenestrated to clear the path for Kamala.
If creepy, senile joe can win then anyone can, including cameltoe; but the money is on obama’s hubbie with the male whore from californication second.
Those who were commenting on the poor quality of the western highway outside of Melbourne ain’t kidding, especially west of Ballarat. Lots of road hazard signs and crumbling roads.
Locals my dad was showing me off too are well aware the dictator doesn’t care outside Melbourne, and none too happy having “diversity” rammed down their throats. Pity the LNP are so hopeless.
I read Ted’s post over at DashCat. It echoes my brother’s experiences of the mid-late eighties. Nothing has changed despite the billions thrown at the problem.
Which leads me to believe that there is no solution via money, and even less via “Voice”.
He’s a master for sure. But, there is only one George Smiley.
I should have added…in the Kimberley.
The children were great but destined to hopelessness. Covered in scabies they would be cleaned up, fed and housed pending their delinquent parents returning and demanding them back. Often with rocks and other menaces.
Rinse and repeat.
Ain’t that the truth.
Of course, the ‘rat is a Labor stronghold, so the bit between Melbourne and there gets reasonable attention.
After that … nothing.
Got to keep that bit good for the day trippers to daylesford and such
Here , try to unsee this, it looks mummified .Molly drops his daks.
Dementia. Very sad.
Blessing the trophy… fmd
Have to agree there is only one George Smiley. I also think Alec Guinness would have been pleased with Gary Oldman’s performance.
Tough act to follow GreyRanga. He did a great job.
Anyone reckon they come back from the beach or during beach season, just looking</em better?
There are reasons for that.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5086738/
Part of it is vitamin D production will use up excess cholesterol you may have. Maybe the UV exposure is thermogenic and anabolic too?
Learn to code bro.
Much overlooked but Omar Sharif’s greatest role was as a spy in Top Secret.
“Do you know any good white basketball players?”
Classic.
Makka, Slow Horses was a fantastic book- unique, imaginative but still every bit an accessible gumshoe/state intelligence paperback. Jackson Lamb was a great creation- enigmatic and abrasive, a loaded weapon checked by intelligence and restraint.
However I found the follow-up Dead Lions was woeful. Formulaic. And Lamb was trotted out as a grotesque, and a lightweight at that.
Sounds like the TV production follows the later Lamb?
Maybe a combo. No lightweight, old school nasty. Rude, blunt but devilishly smart. Always one step ahead with a dark past.
I’m reading Gary Johns’ book “The Burden of Culture.” Tends to reinforce that point.
The Voice!!!
“It will be an advisory body that will be able to express a view,” Professor Greg Craven, a member of the government’s Constitutional Expert Group says.
As for fears it will be able to make laws, forget it.
“It won’t be able to amend them, can’t stop them (and) can’t make them,”
This is where the rubber hits the road. I call BS and his statement is typical of what every naive professor in the country thinks… The very first time the “Voice” expresses a ‘view’ and that ‘view’ is ignored by parliament there will not be a TV news bulletin, internet post or newspaper front page that does not carry the headline that the Australian parliament is racist for ignoring the ‘superior’ and ‘sacred’ view of the Aboriginal Voice…
It is my view that the Voice ‘view’ will, within a generation, be supplanted by an urgent need to modernise the Voice and give it a vote on the floor of federal parliament. That will ultimately be expanded to add more ‘voices to the Voice because some Aboriginal ‘nations’ will not get a seat and to leave them out will undoubtedly be viewed as ‘racist’. No amount of obfuscation or promises of never expanding the ‘powers’ and/or parliamentary ‘influence’ of the Voice will change my mind on that. The record of parliamentary promises that are broken because ‘times have changed’ is sufficient to know that they can never keep that promise. Election promises are broken every day based on exactly that premise…
Just this week we witnessed the absurd notion from Michael Mansell that if you are unfortunate enough to suffer the consequences of a natural event (storm at sea) which results in some of your property (a yacht) ending up on so called aborigine land (Cape Barren Island) then you must forfeit your property or pay the aborigines one third the value of your property…. for absolutely no reason what-so-ever… The ‘Voice’ will entrench and exacerbate this situation.
It is also my opinion that it will be impossible to be pre-selected for an ALP or Greens seat in the future in the Australian Parliament if they do not commit to observing the distinctive will of the ‘Voice’ and voting in every instance according to that sacred ‘expression’…
Albanese has set Australia on an unfortunte journey of division, uncertainty and conflict simply to satisfy his innate desire to be ’viewed’ as ‘Albanese the great’….
Not a chance in hell that I will be voting to divide this country by race… There is something fundamentally and dangerously wrong with the mindset of any person who believes such division is good or beneficial for the future…
The ‘voice’ will be an absolute disaster and ultimately result in a total loss of the collective sovereignty for all citizens which was a given when those who built Australia into a first world nation believed their actions were for the benefit and sharing with all Australians…
Some more moves in Brazil. Wonder if the Army will intervene soon, the Judge is now after them. Via Greenwald:
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1614017500462579712
Brad Pitt just killed Eric Bana. Dragging him around behind his chariot.
Simpler times. Better times.
Well said, Digger!
You could start by doing a proper autopsy looking at:
1) the lungs – in most adult (non freezing water) drownings, the victim breath holds at first, but ultimately involuntarily inhales water. Having the lungs full of water suggests drowning. Its not absolute, but dry lungs suggest ‘sudden death’ in the water, NOT drowning.
2) the heart – we now have a variety of pathological techniques to help identify myocarditis and spike protein presence in the myocardium. Dry lungs + a heart full of spikes suggests sudden death from myocarditis, with the location of death being a coincidence.
You might also get a clue from the findings during resuscitation: in a genuine drowning, the heart is NOT the problem and it is usually slow or stopped (bradycardic or asystolic) because it is smart enough to know theres no point pumping de-oxygenated blood around the body. As such, simply ventilating the patient (eg with mouth to mouth) is often enough to restart the heart without defibrillation etc. Alternately, if the heart is the primary problem, you are more likely to see VF as the rhythm during resuscitation, and to need a defibrillator.
(yes, I have resuscitated a few drownings )
Simpler times. Better times.
No phones, no devices, just healthy young people living in the moment.
Well, apart from the dead one
Thank you Indolent for all you do with so many beneficial posts…
I greatly appreciate them.
Yeah but Brad Pitt then gets killed by nancy boy Orlando Bloom who shoots him from behind.
Those dickheads let the Trojan Horse inside the city.
Should have been called the Greek Horse, but then it would have had to have been made out of concrete.
Visiting Cannakle, in Turkey – the city of Troy is a few miles away – the “Trojan Horse” used in the film of that name stands in the main square.
It seems that a certain American actor was asked if he knew where Troy was, and his answer was “In Greece, somewhere.” The producers of that film presented said “Trojan Horse” to the town of Cannakle
by way of apology…..
Phrasing.
Monty,
Why?
James Cintolo, RN FN CPT
@healthbyjames
“I had my eczema so well under control for 29 years, but after every COVID vaccine dose, my eczema got worse and worse. I was told to see a dermatologist and now i’m paying 1164 dollars a month for dupixent out of pocket that I didn’t need before the COVID vaccine— I’m so fed up”
Just hit 4″ since 9am. After a lacklustre day since sunset rain has been torrential and it looks like a typical monsoonal type pattern across the whole top end of the country taking hold on the satellite images. Noice.
A remarkable Australian invention:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fu03F-Iah8
It’s quiet. Too quiet.
The sun ain’t shining and the wind ain’t blowing……..but the aircon still working.
What is going on Dan??
Loy Yang B Power Station
Source: Fossil; Output: 114% (570 of 500MW)
A proper autopsy before declaring someone a death by vax?
Don’t be absurd.
Why anyone would think someone who was taken out of massive surf apparently dead and unable to be resusitated might have drowned, ridiculous, right?
Oh and I think most laypeople know about wet lung dry lung.
Too many crime shows these days not to.
Loy Yang B Power Station
Source: Fossil; Output: 114% (570 of 500MW)
Hopefully there is some Scottish engineer there whispering to her and patting her….
By anti vaxx logic if you are going to declare Marcio Freire a vaxx death then everyone that drowned at Australian beaches this summer must also be declared vaccine deaths.
Australia surpasses 30 drowning deaths this summer
The other two versions are pale imitations of the David Lean version.
The circa 2000 version with Keira Knightley as Lara is about 3 & a half hours long & is bordering on a travesty alongside the David Lean version & is saved only by having Keira Knightley to gaze at.
All pale alongside the Russian made Twelve hour snorefest, worth watching only as a handy tool for polishing one’s Russian language comprehension. Okay it’s only about 8 & a half hours, but feels like twelve (if you manage to stay awake)
Reading any of Mikhail Sholokov’s third & subsequent books would be a helluva lot less dull.
do this.
open google maps and zoom right out
right-click near Capetown and select ‘measure distance’
then click somewhere near Melbourne
marvel at it
and that, is the likely route the Captain James ‘Bully’ Forbes took when he drove the Schomberg to her doom on her maiden voyage in 1855
a few years earlier in 1852, the man was the holder of the world speed record when he took the Marco Polo to Melb and back to Liverpool in less than six months
the guy was today’s equivalent of a rock-star or celebrity chef
and then, he wasn’t
Bully Forbes sailed straight past Heard Island … imagine, if only he’d dropped rosie into the volcano
you know rosie, you’re not a lot different to mUny, dontcha?
Week In Pictures.
Bloomberg & the WSJ reporting another bundle of Biden documents.
Thanks for WiP, Tom.
Piers Akerman in the Daily Telegraph:
Despite claims to the contrary, the culture wars are not only alive, they are virulently raging at every level of society and 2023 will only see them increase exponentially.
Climate change, the Voice to Parliament, the death of Cardinal George Pell, even NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet’s 20-year-old fancy dress folly, are all the ammunition the progressive Left needs to keep the nation divided.
Just as Russia’s Vladimir Putin needs to endorse a mammoth dose of hypocrisy to provide cover for his murderous war on Ukraine’s civilians, so too do Labor, the Greens and Teals rely on double standards and an acquiescing population prepared to ignore duplicity to strengthen their grasp on power.
The Bureau of Meteorology, when not playing its own brand of the identity politics game, has gamed its own records to support its demonstratively false claims that we are in a climate crisis.
BoM officials are as politicised in their support for the Albanese government’s hysterical climate extinction measures as Chris “Blackouts” Bowen, the energy and climate change minister who refuses to acknowledge that his weather-dependent wind and solar cannot provide adequate base load power to support our population as coal-fired power plants are closed.
The need for constitutional change to accommodate a separatist Voice to Parliament only for a minority of Australians remains unexplained but it is clearly only about providing another power base for an urban elite.
The Aboriginal Affairs Minister sits on the frontbench and in Cabinet. If the holder of the portfolio cannot adequately represent those Australians who identify as Aboriginal, then what is the point of the position?
That there is currently a disproportionately larger number of MPs who claim Aboriginal identity than there are Aboriginal Australians in the general population is stark proof that Australian voters are not racists, no matter how vehemently the progressives make that claim.
As Australia Day nears, the usual ranting activists will again make the claim that the arrival of European settlers (albeit, initially convicts and their guards) constituted an invasion.
It goes without saying that the principal medium for spreading propaganda for the woke progressive agenda has been the taxpayer-funded ABC and the hordes of anti-social media bloggers.
Cardinal George Pell’s death saw the public broadcaster indulge in what seemed to be a well-coordinated disinformation campaign, which mentioned his dying only in the context of rehashing the sexual abuse claims on which he was wrongfully convicted, as the High Court found so unequivocally unanimously.
But the ABC, as the driving force behind the Victorian police’s politically-driven campaign against the Cardinal and the false narratives that led to his wrongful conviction, has heavily invested in its war on the Christian religion.
Premier Dominic Perrottet’s naïve choice of a Nazi uniform to wear to his 21st birthday party 20 years ago –and two years before Prince Harry chose a similar outfit to another birthday party – sent some sections of the media into a frenzy.
His response though, unlike the hapless Harry, was honest, logical and clear.
“I think, life, as we go through life, we mature and we grow and we have different experiences that make us understand and appreciate the significance of various aspects of life and I, I’m not the person I was when I was 21,” he said.
A positive recognition that we learn through life and do not need to wallow in self-pity and self-recrimination to achieve a well-grounded maturity.
Looks that way
Thanks for the memories. Where did that story go?
Now that’s what I call merchandising.
An excellent crop, Tom and very hard to pick from. Liked the spuds in the cupboard too.
Good WIP crop, Tom.
Only in your tiny little mind MT.
Another one using his godlike intellect to shove every death into the killed by vaxx box?
And to think despite apparently firmly believing the vaxx kills you got at least two shots.
Oh that’s right, someone you trusted tricked you into it.
Not seeing eye to eye.
Bill Gates: Nuclear Power and Fake Meat can Save Us from Climate Change (13 Jan)
U.N. Chief António Guterres: Renewables Are the ‘Only Credible Path’ to Avert ‘Climate Catastrophe’ (17 Jan)
Then there’s the Grauniad:
Guardian: To Solve the Climate Crisis We Need to Change How We Think about Wealth (14 Jan)
Maybe you could ask Bill Gates about that. He’s apparently quite wealthy.
We’re getting to the absurd stage now, where every incident must be one thing or the other thing. This is how people shore up their world view. Very progressive.
For myself…I just don’t know, and I can’t know. Harm has already been admitted by the perpetrators, how much is still uncertain.
There’s a piece in The Hun which I can’t link to at present, but it deals with the still ongoing investigation into SF people previously on deployment in the ME. Naturally, being run by the AFP it’s a political thing which means the actual investigation was and is breathtakingly incompetent.
Turns out they’ve put listening devices into countless cars belonging to these blokes. One of them was installed in the new family car of a former trooper who happened to be cross-trained in electronics.
The car kept stalling because the device was draining power from the wrong source. The trooper quickly worked out what and where the problem was, and offered the AFP – through his legal rep – to reconnect the listening device properly so the Feds could keep listening to him in the car, and send them the bill.
This entire debacle will be marveled at for generations as an absolute benchmark of idiocy and cocking stuff up. The Alexandrian Library of stupidity. The Colossus of Rhodes of failure. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon of ridiculous, political ignoring of both the separation of powers and ‘well we’ve already spent all this money so we might as well keep going’.
Steve Kirsch’s journey (more like leap) from blue to red pill.
The Twitter DM thread that started my career as one of the world’s top “misinformation spreaders”
The Lancet has become a laughing stock
Mr Old’s remarkable invention immediately made me think of Ben Lexon’s similarly remarkable keel “ invention”, in this case turning something upside down. Netflix currently has a fun doco on our 1982 America’s Cup challenge.
feeling like cooking something on the gas stove right now.
Here you go Mole, via Instapundit:
Yet Another Stash Of Classified Documents Discovered During Biden’s Colonoscopy (13 Jan)
Glenn Greenwald – Brazil court orders Twitter, Facebook and Rumble to censor
EXCLUSIVE: EXTREME ESCALATION OF BRAZIL’S CENSORSHIP REGIME
“Brazil is Going Full Gulag. This is the Worst Communist Takeover Ever”
Kathy Chung, former VP Biden’s executive assistant when he left office, has a very curious past with Hunter and now is being questioned
Speaking of Aussie inventions.
No.
We are at the absurd stage that all celebrity deaths are vaxx deaths, as announced by Steve Kirsch et al before bodies are even cold, without even knowing if the person is dead (Princess Bajrakitiyabha) or how they died.
Ordinary people, meh.
It’s stupid, ghoulish and disrespectful.
As for global cover ups, no, the msm was all over astrazeneca deaths early in 2021, particularly in Australia, no-one has shied away from acknowledging there is a link between myocarditis and the mrna vaccines, particularly in men under 40.
Constant carping crap catastrophying con-artists copying climateering.
Death of the Christian God in the hearts of all humans: Why America and W. Europe are committing suicide
Ivermectin May Help Post-COVID and Vaccine-Induced Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Expert
I expect those documents are Obama’s. Has nobody asked him what he thinks about them being all over the place? Didn’t he have the ultimate responsibility for them?
KD. You are awarded one week’s worth of angel stamps.
The “concrete horse” was pure genius.
Especially for someone who eons ago had a Greek concrete driveway turn to sand. My fault. I should have known. Paying cash to an Hellenic. Idiot.
All would have been well if they had just stuck to making banana splits in the Olympic cafes.
RealSCAREY
@RealScarey
Another one bites the dust. Dies suddenly, but it was “worth it.”
The demonrat-meja complex obviously decided the old thief’s time is up. If they wanted to keep the incontinent old grub polluting the oval office, there is NO WAY that this stuff would be ‘reported’ by the legacy meja.
Knuckle Dragger outlined an article in the Hun about the AFP and Special Forces personnel. Here is the article, and Dragger is correct:
A covert Australian Federal Police operation has been derailed with a listening device found by their target after its poor wiring kept stalling his new family car.
But the target, a former Special Forces soldier with a knack for electronics, has offered to rewire the device to the correct power source so they can continue to listen in on his drives.
The incident has been one of many complaints from Special Forces troops linked to allegations of war crimes in Afghanistan who say after more than two years of “harassment” it is time for the Office of the Special Investigator (OSI) to charge them or let them go.
The OSI has lifted the tempo and broadened the scope of its investigation into allegations raised by the 2020 Brereton report into the operations of our elite SAS and Commando soldiers.
Houses, phones and cars have now been bugged, suspects have been tailed at all hours, houses have been raided with one “tipped” for almost 10 hours and some possible witnesses offered immunity inducements if they spill on their colleagues.
In one instance a former SAS trooper was detained while dropping his children off at school as part of a perceived campaign to embarrass suspects into working with police.
It is understood the probe has also been expanded to now include more senior officers with allegations some After Action Review mission profile reports were recast by senior commanders when a killed Afghan was found to not have been on a Joint Prioritised Effects (JPEL) kill or capture list.
The OSI is expecting to complete its first brief of evidence for the Commonwealth DPP of an unlawful killing within the next six months but is understood to be struggling with making a case that stands up despite identifying alleged potential witnesses in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
There were now 57 investigators, analysts and specialists working for the OSI plus another 38 specialists in the AFP for a total team of 128 and a budget to hire more later this year.
The soldiers suspected of wrongdoing have said they were being treated like criminals with little scope to defend themselves and want to get on with their lives.
“You have a job to do, we know you are going down these paths, we are not stupid, we know the methodology of it but … if you are going to charge us with something hurry up and charge us so we can get these things underway you know,” one said, speaking on condition of anonymity. “We want to get on with our lives.”
In one case another former SAS trooper, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, had long suspected he was under surveillance.
In recent weeks he had bought a new Range Rover and couldn’t understand why its battery kept on going flat before he found the listening device.
The man has now asked through his legal counsel for the AFP to reinstall the device which had been connected to the battery but was draining the wrong power source or alternatively he was skilled enough to reconnect it himself for them but send them the bill.
The OSI probe is looking at 23 individuals implicated by the Brereton report for an initial 36 incidents including unlawful deaths now expanded to up to 45 incidents.
The OSI declined to comment.
“The OSI does not comment on operational matters,” a spokesman said.
FMD
Via CL, the US House of Representatives just passed a resolution condemning the 78 (count ’em, 78) attacks on pro-life pregnancy support centres and over 100 attacks on churches since the Dobbs leak. Only three Demonrats voted in favour.
I guess that this is what m0nty=fa was on about when he complained about denial of medical assistance to pregnant women. Hard to get assistance from a centre being attacked by pre-abortionists!
Kamala has been in action again:
And on her recent visit to the Caribbean:
Maybe Biden should appoint that new AI chatbot to the Vice Presidency, it’d be more competent.
It’s like the implicated bodies are at war with the very men who are charged with the defence of this country or operational matters overseas.
Miltonf, I think you are correct and I have a conspiracy theory of how it will go:
Biden is “advised to retire” due to health reasons or more and more documents will be discovered in his houses, sheds etc.
Kamala is made a president and Gavin Newsom is appointed Vice President.
Soon after they find she also has been nicking presidential documents and storing them in a school bus. She decides to resign and spend more time with her family.
Gavin Newsom is president and the whole of US turns into shitty California.
That’s the piece BB.
Ta.
Oksana
@OskanaShadow
After watching footage from Soledar (too grim to post), I am ever more convinced the Ukrainian Armed Command & NATO see human life the same way WWI generals did 104 years ago.
A mere commodity that feeds a nationalistic narrative of the fallen heroes and demonize the enemy.
and don’t forget the profit.
I found this upsetting too.
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
I found this as disturbing as the most horrific violation.
WOLSNED
@wolsned
Excess deaths UK.
Red equals bad.
They are panicking.
Rosie, with all due respect…that is what I said. But I didn’t make the distinction between celebrity and the common man, so there is that.
As for AZ, it isn’t death alone, but a raft of other illnesses triggered by the thing – I get to see it every single day. No one wants to admit it and it’s too long ago to even matter any more. All I know is that it has ruined what is left of my father’s life.
All I want is more light and less heat on the subject. Difficult when people are so heavily invested one way or the other, but the ones who can sit back and discuss it analytically have my gratitude and respect.
pro-abortionists, but pre-abortionists works too.
It gets even better, BB. The OSI investigators are totally incompetent and have no idea what they’re doing.
They might as well call themselves the weather bureau.
Champagne Joshi
@JoshWalkos
Mega Thread: The Curious Case of Excess Deaths
We have been told that to date 1.1 Million people have died in the United States from the disease COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic.
The OSI probe is looking at 23 individuals implicated by the Brereton report for an initial 36 incidents including unlawful deaths now expanded to up to 45 incidents.
The OSI declined to comment.
“The OSI does not comment on operational matters,” a spokesman said.
FMD
Too effing right- Canbra’s malicious incompetence on full display.
Further to comments last night re the NDIS, I see Albanese is under pressure to increase the GP Medicare rebate amid questions yesterday as to whether his “super clinics” ( a band-aid solution in any case) are on track. A reminder, the NDIS, which didn’t exist ten years ago, now costs tax payers more than Medicare.
The parasitic canbra pubes are at war with Australia and Australians. This is another example.