The Rocky Mountains Lander’s Peak, Albert Bierstadt, 1863
The size of this dog still staggers me. He’s been clocked at 34 mph = 54.717696 kph. When Stevo drops…
Open Thread – Weekend 21 Jan 2023
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The jailing judge was overruled shades of USA
What an utter slimeball. @WallStreetSilv Bill Gates: “I don’t remember talking about masks at all” This is footage of him…
On the subject of Nazis. I notice that a lot of people here reference the loons in the green movement…
Was just down at a local establishment, having a feed with an associate. Obviously, I was rated highly by the…
Cronks – I’m with JC on this. You have a very regrettable tendency to post pictures of less than aesthetically pleasing womanages*.
You poor bastard. Head prefect’s idea of the ideal woman are anemic French waifs.
*For example, you seem to have managed to find the least attractive photo of JLC in her prime that is known to exist – this is not something to be even remotely proud of.
Ok, I accept the challenge; try this.
Now there’s a job being treated as property. Not the only example in those parts.
Unless you’re a conspiracy hypothesist and even then, it makes no sense. 😕
I’ve a soft spot for Willie Nelson, dunno why. He has an amazing ability of shooting out short sharp songs. This one is special since it was picked up for the apocalyptic BBC series Edge of Darkness.
Willie Nelson – Time of the Preacher (1975)
Cronks – Not having it. I have never hidden my admiration of aesthetically pleasing womanages, thanks very much.
I didn’t comment on that aspect of the story but that she would be very open to having a transgender child. I wonder whether she influenced her child to become a transgender because she was neither one nor the other.
For a now very dead hippie – although how anyone was able to ascertain the difference might be a topic for some discussion.
I have never hidden my admiration of aesthetically pleasing womanages, thanks very much.
That’s a cute owl if ever I’ve seen one.
I actually think they like it. It’s NATO’S war now. Ukraine is just front of house.
The most gorgeous face built by God. And Sophie speaks French.
BTW,
Willie Nelson wrote ‘Crazy’ which was recorded in ’61 by Patsy Cline.
The most gorgeous face built by God – which for me would be Miss Emily. Just staggeringly beautiful and forever unobtainable …
Oi, Rabz, I had to sing that song in Music classes. No, just no.
Continuing with 1981 here’re the Duran guys. The sumo ladies are awesome.
Duran Duran – Girls On Film (1981)
Here’s what I posted on the 31st of March 2020:
Sancho of the Upticks & Stuphid-on-Yarra have dramatically changed their story.
For on the 31st of March 2020 neither of them responded with the comments they’ve made tonight, or anything like it.
You pair of Bourke street bushies stay down in the town & stick to your lane.
This is my favourite Willie Nelson song: Blue eyes crying in the rain.
It’s good that all of us have a different perfect person. I was very fortunate to have had mine in my life for decades. You never know Rabz, your time could come.
I should have said, may come.
I didn’t know Willy Nelson wrote “Crazy”.
Thank you, P
Chutzpah for anyone in Victoria to say that & not be referencing the Cain dynasty.
2D:4D digit ration can be up to 90% accurate in determining sex.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Histograms-of-the-distributions-of-the-2D4D-ratio-for-400-females-and-400-males-Age_fig1_13433627
Ratio. Not ration
One of the fellers in Cold Chisel moonlighted as a songwriter for Slim Dusty, including two of Slim’s hits.
He wrote songs for Slim right until pretty much the last day of Slim’s life.
Driller, you asshat. Today, you made it sound as though tradies were going hungry. The guy sounds like a general laborer – not a trained tradie, you dishonest idiot.
Furthermore, where in your 2020 story does it say he was impacted by COVID? This was a time when welfare was paying $750 per week to people out of work due to COVID restrictions. Your story., in the way you were building the guy up sounded very homosexualized. I know you’re short of sheilas way up there, but really?
Lastly, why weren’t you lying then? What proof is this other than you could have peddled this bullshit before? It’s not as though you’re not known for this.
I have to go with Gnarls Barkley for that song title, a song which is completely different to the Willy Nelson one.
Gnarls Barkley – Crazy (2006)
Fine video too.
Cold Chisel/Slim
I didn’t know that either!
Thank you, S
I saw a news item the other night about us sending “advisers and trainers” to Ukraine.
This whole shit-show has a “Saigon 1962” feel to it.
Check the back of your hand now. If your index finger is longer than your ring finger, you were probably born a girl.
What a lovely pair of b-b-b-b-b-big b-b-b-b-b-brown eyes that young lady has!
This whole shit-show has a “Saigon 1962” feel to it.
They’re fast learners….
Driller
I would like to see the link to that 30 March 2020 comment. It’s not that I don’t trust you. Actually I don’t. Everything about you requires verification.
At what stage were Covid restrictions on the building industry as at 30 March, 2020?
The first lockdowns were imposed the weekend after 6th March 2020.
Even i hardcore Victoria lockdowns didn’t apply to the building industry until much , much later.
Keep digging Driller.
What deals are being done ? What announcements are being prepped ?
You’ll love it! Just bend over first!
Albo’s interview with gates was pathetic, grovelling and unhinged, and with gates smiling malevolently throughout, evil.
So, within three weeks, and with building industry exemptions, a bloke with cash in reserve is offering to work for food?
The superstition I heard about is that if your second toe is longer than your big toe you will die before your spouse. Utter rubbish.
Yeah.
Rubbish.
Not like the “eat your crusts or your hair will go curly” one.
That is totally for reals, that one.
A Utah plastic surgeon, his neighbor, and two others are facing charges after allegedly giving people fake vaccination cards and destroying government-provided COVID-19 vaccinations.
Heroic. They’re going to get f’cked big time. Poverty and prison for them.
The most gorgeous face built by God. And Sophie speaks French.
Needs a good feed; and I bet she hasn’t got a decent bicep curl in her.
..
If you are talking about the toe thing, then probably.
But for the finger length the distributions are different between males and females.
But with considerable overlap.
Patsy Cline was an arrogant primadonna. She refused to record Crazy until threatened by the Opry and then only recorded one cut. Nelson slept in his car outside her house but her husband never succeeded in convincing her to let him in to demo the song.
Of course as soon as it took off it was all hers.
On the night that she died she sacked her band on the tarmac. “Y’all go home to your wives now, you ain’t needed here no more”.
None of which detracts from the outrageous circumstances of her death. Locals turned up at the crash site with loaders and cranes and removed engine and fuselage parts as well the luggage. They even cut off her hair.
There is nothing meaningful that you can say in response to that behaviour.
And that’s in Victoria, lockdown central.
Your comment was pertinent for me to the soundtract of the SBS WM ‘Good Night and Good Luck’ I had just seen tonight. Every one of the numbers played was one that reminded me of my great love of 42yrs.
Magnificent stuff, BoN.
Dover,
Any chance of a “no waif policy”?
Ta
That mill looks a lot like a “knock-off” of a J-series Bridgeport, probably the most manufactured and “cloned” workshop machine in history.. But, if a “knock-off” is accurate to requirements and not flogged-out mechanically, with a little TLC, it will go for years in a “non-industrial” environment.
The price on that one is very right! Looks like it hasn’t done much work either. Almost certainly Taiwanese, and for a good part of history the Taiwanese really had their shit together with their Bridgeport clones. Hardly any point thinking about buying a Bridgeport now unless you’re going to embark on a full rebuild. They’re all so worn out by now! Will also probably be INT30 on the spindle instead of R8 which in IMHO is a bonus.
Thanks, Crossie. If I hear from her again this year it will be a miracle.
In the meantime, the most beautiful song for the broken hearted … 🙁
I have a really long middle finger. Probably significant.
Isandlwana – Zulu witnesses reported “The last command we heard given was “Fix bayonets and die like Englishmen!”
Ring finger nearly as long as the middle finger indicates Warrior Genes.
Gubmint doesn’t like that.
BTW, has everybody sent their stool sample in to the Dept. of Health yet for DNA testing, uh, I mean Bowel Cancer screening?
Janey
@_Janey_J
New Zealand’s new PM who said he wants to go out and find you if you haven’t been vaccinated
You mean whining all the way?
After 3 miserable years, a trader posits the bull case for the world economy. I’m not posting it because I agree, rather that I think it’s interesting after what we’ve been through.
The last para is meant as a bit of a joke.
Hey BoN – you still here?
Miss Planet – the sort of brunette you just want to be with … 🙂
Cats – the film clip above is available in 4K with matching audio. Playing it through my new 4K TV and matched stereo is just awesome.
Lake George has never looked more something …
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
Yeah, NATO is about to get into the war in Ukraine with both feet. And like I said previously, they’re going to try to make it an air war — playing right into the Russians’ strengths in air defense.
It’s going to get awfully messy as soon as Bakhmut falls.
Anthony Albanese has met with Microsoft founder Bill Gates at Kirribilli House to discuss climate change, energy and health issues.
Bill is of course qualified in precisely zero of these fields. Most users of his products would consider him barely qualified in software development.
BTW, has everybody sent their stool sample in to the Dept. of Health yet for DNA testing, uh, I mean Bowel Cancer screening?
I used it to get the cat checked, has been looking a bit off lately.
But for the finger length the distributions are different between males and females.
But with considerable overlap.
I think most are interested in a biometric with zero overlap and then some.
Not sure Albo would get a tick either but he does have 32% of people backing him in.
Microscopy: Covid Jabs / Red Blood Cell Damage
Carl Vernon
@RealCarlVernon
The new New Zealand PM replacing Jacinda – Chris Hipkins.
Good luck NZ.
This is freaking hilarious. Baldwin’s wife is talking to the press, begging them to leave the family alone. She’s 100% American but pretends she isn’t by putting on a Spanish accent. Right behind her are a couple of dudes sitting in a sewage service truck, nonchalantly watching the proceedings. Only in America could you get this combo.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/alec-baldwin-wife-fake-spanish-accent-returns
‘You mean whining all the way?’
Like Rolls-Royce engines spooling down after a trans-Atlantic flight.
Dr. Eli David
@DrEliDavid
Putin brutally crushed democratic protests, froze their bank accounts, imprisoned their leaders, and even froze the bank accounts of those who donated to them!
Sorry, spelling error, it was Justin Trudeau who did all that.
..
I ain’t checking it.
Was next do9r for a drink and comng home saw what turned out to be a blood smear on my towbar.
I’m fairly sure I didn’t hit anyone whilst driving to the shopping centre and back.
I believe some slackjawed bumpkin hacked it with their shin when I was parked in a disabled zone.
If I were more sober I would go back and look for a blood trail,
No responsibility some people. They should have cleaned up the mess they made.
I blame the parents.
A cool rifle that you will never be able to own in Wokestralia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWt_x22nwjk
I don’t need to worry about that crap, every two years I get an email from my oncologist that they have booked me in for a colonoscopy. Luckily the last one was negative and I hope so is the next one.
Seven kids?
The Colt 45 isn’t the only thing with a hair trigger by the sounds of it.
Does anyone know if he has been charged in his role as a producer, or for just pulling the trigger?
You know what I would cough up real money to see?
Donald Trump doing a skit on gun safety mimicking Alec Baldwin.
I am. But I’ve been browsing obscure vids rather than music. Including Stargate (1994) and The Day After (1983). Two unsung movies.
You think pineapple on pizza is an abomination, try broccoli.
I was wrong about the weather, it’s raining.
I don’t think the Neapolitans are too worried about volcanoes, there are houses all the way up to the base of Vesuvius, and even some built on a ridge on one side.
Damn! And here was me wanting an AK47!
Chris Hipkins by Wikipedia:
Personal life
Hipkins is married with two children. His wedding was held at Premier House, Wellington in 2020 and Grant Robertson was his best man. When he took extended paternity leave for his second child’s birth in 2018 he was one of the first senior male cabinet ministers to do so.
Not clear what gender the Spouse [?] is here.
Raised by his mother, a career policy boffin in the Education Dept, no father mentioned.
Well, at least he’s not a Serial Killer?
I did a Barry Mackenzie and sawed a bit of leg off an old wooden stool and sent it to the so called Health Department.
That was some years ago.
Haven’t heard back.
Humourless beaurocats.
Rabz says: January 21, 2023 at 10:39 pm
You say that now, but the moment that arse accumulates just the slightest roll of fat, bam, you’ll be chucking her out and appointing a new Miss Planet.
And that other guy in Confidence Man, I don’t know how he does it. All that ballooning all day, dancing all night, and he still found spare time to kidnap Bond and lead the Australian Conservatives Party.
😉
I’d like my woife to be ideally fluent in English, French and Italiano, laced with some Russian, in case she feels like re-enacting the “more fluid” parts of the Steele Dossier … 😕
Sod her backsayeedah – the goil is just exquisite. That magnifique visage, that luscious hair.
I’ll have a bit o’ that 🙂
Damn! And here was me wanting an AK47!
Yeah, it’s life changing!
I assume that making the stamping dies was easier than one might presume, these days after having produced the CAD model you can derive from it the necessary dies as well as compensating for spring back.
Paris .. 2023 ..
https://ibb.co/TR0n7JY
Paris
Rabz, all I can say about that song is: ugly feet.
Not sure Albo would get a tick either but he does have 32% of people backing him in.
32% backing in WEFstralia is not to be sneezed at!
Better, Cronks. The bottom left sixth is the best example.
Johnny Rotten:
I’d say there must be a few boardrooms where the midnight oil is being burned, and others where prayers to Gaia are being prayed.
With Liddell gone and unable to be resuscitated, there’s no margin left to play with.
Indolent:
Tony Blair is becoming more and more the “Old man in a hurry to have his agenda made law”. He looks quite distressed it may not happen. He seems semi hysterical in this video.
*citation needed.
You will now provide a citation for me stating they were “trained tradies”
*citation needed
Nothing is more homosexual than a manual labourer – unlike guys who hang out at with the girls at…. cafes. – they’re real masculine guys, with up to 3mg of testosterone in them.
How do you know.
(also) *citation needed – for both assertations.
This is not supported by history – you’ve yet to identify even one lie I’ve told.
About time you gave up on that angle, you sad old failure.
You privileged Nimrod.
The first lockdown was declared on the 22nd of March 2020, to apply from 12 noon on the 23rd of March 2020.
Have you ever got anything right?
Stands to reason that the Nimrod caste has no idea when the working people were put out of a job.
You too are wrong on the date of lockdown.
The others upthread are correct, lefties & the left-adjacent were immune to hardship & have no idea of the imposition that was placed on working people.
It was one week after lockdown. The privileged caste has no idea what it was like for working people when lockdown was imposed.
No idea at all. Stay in your lane, you Collins street C***
The only remaining question is, when Shantaram & the Collins street C*** go to bed, which one of you wears the pyjama shorts back-to-front?
Driller
You’re just a lying sack of shit. Nothing you say can ever be believed.
Citation needed?
You dishonest dickhead , you were instructed to provide a link . Where is it, you dishonest loser?
Week In Pictures.
Some in Britain may be freezing but every hotel and other bedroom we have stayed in was trying to kill us with kindness. We have had to turn off the heat to survive the doonas, which then come into their own as warmers.
Today we have driven from an oak-panelled old stone country house hotel with serious foodie cred in the Dumfries area of Scotland through vast snowy landscapes of Scottish high mountains all along Loch Lomand and other winding roads into Kilmarten Glen, one of Britain’s major bronze and iron age archaeological sites. Hairy went halfway up the slope of the ancient c7th kingmaking fortress of Dunedd which I climbed in 2007 on a previous visit but he didn’t make the summit due to icey conditions. We are now holed up in a local hotel, where local trade is as brisk as the weather. The locals had that look of see what’s come in from the cold as we dragged our luggage thru the bar. This place will cook for us tonight, a rather different fare from that which we enjoyed last night, but at least I don’t have to ‘dress’ to go down to this dinner: I have not brought much in the way of dressy clothing with me, except funeral stuff. With luck though here we may get whisky porridge for breakfast. There is unlikely to be the very fine trout and cream-scrambled egg kedgeree that we had this morning in the posh place’s dining room as we watched through classic iron-framed windows a little robin and three blackbirds foraging in the extensive albeit frosted gardens of our winter idyll.
Re the weather here in the UK, when we arrived back from Lapland the UK was going through a sudden cold snap, with temps in the minus two or threes. The birdbath at Hairy’s brother’s place in London was a solid block of ice and as in Lapland one had to take great care with slippery pavements. It was a similar situation in Lancaster in the North. So much for global warming, we would joke to the woke, who are still everywhere. The propaganda is relentless. As we sped by Glasgow (my birthplace) today there were still signs up congratulating this city for holding the UN climate COP 27 meeting of global alarmists, except they didn’t put it quite like that.
Time to recharge my phone and bury my head for a while in a copy of Wodehouse’s ‘Much obliged, Jeeves’ which I liberated from a sad fate turning soggy in a countryside book exchange.
Thanks Tom! Haha, not in the WIP: meme.
(From Surber’s Highlights of the News today.)
“With Liddell gone and unable to be resuscitated, there’s no margin left to play with.“
There has been plenty of warning to governments that things are going down the wrong path, and there’s still no sign that sense will prevail.
We are indeed governed by idiots.
The enviroloon/leftist kool-aid has been imbibed by politicians and media for far too long.
Area 51 website owner raided by feds speaks out on Tucker
When the lights go out due to loss of power generating ability Canberra will still have electricity but the rest of us will be in the cold and dark. How can we make sure Canberra is the first to lose power?
Crossie,
the dopes at Canberra will most likely use diesel generators to power their Princess Cave. Not too hard to sabotage. Also, security wouldn’t be a problem. Wander in pretending to be drunk, wearing a long white dress with no knickers, even throw a bit of runny porridge around to make it look like you’re vomiting and you’ll have a clear run.
Life imitates art.
No problem. They will still be trying to get the grid going again in April. Most industry will already have left NSW. No demand.
All is well.
Was someone positing last night that Jamie Lee Curtis was a man?
No public service three months’ annual holiday in Bordeaux ABC style for the workers who work at Their Sky’s Australian sweatshop. Sky Outsiders (0900-1100) is back this morning after just six weeks off.
My favourite.
she’s always been an ugly duckling
If true, I’m very, very, very gay. I remember watching that movie with her and Ahnuld when I was a lad. My voice lowered by two octaves after that lingerie scene.
Don’t worry it’s only ‘Ed Case/Grigory/Septimus.
I feel dirty saying this, but he and his Bichon Frise have become quite funny lately.
Must have an adequate wardrobe of skin suits and remixes of Lazzarus Q’s Goodbye Horses on vinyl.
Ah good times. Water in your dining room well sir?
With that skeleton, Loto?
I wonder if it’s a case of an influencer telling porkies and making the most of a bad “Jamie Lee” man head/woman body ratio.
Come now Zipster we can all do crossfit & paleo and get a great body but we’re all not gonna be purdy like Sharon Stone or Virginia Madsden (the original Princess Irulan).
I did laugh my butt off at that movie with JLC and Johnny Travolta doing sexy times jazzercise/aerobics. Only in the 1980s. What a time to be alive. Kind of wish I was a young adult then.
When the lights go out due to loss of power generating ability Canberra will still have electricity but the rest of us will be in the cold and dark. How can we make sure Canberra is the first to lose power?
I believe Canberra has first dibbs on hydro from the Snowy. After all, nothing is more important than keeping FedGov running./sarc off
It was set up that way IIRC Eyrie. Surely the national grid is in series, not parallel?
(YOU KNOW WHAT WOULD BE BETTER AND CAN RUN CONTINUOUSLY? NUCLEAR POWER!)
Changed my mind. This is my favourite.
Good question.
Elon Musk Lays Out Concerning Side Effects He and Family Member Had to COVID Booster
We’ve heard a lot about reactions to the COVID-19 vaccines since they first started becoming available, but now Elon Musk is adding to the anecdotal evidence of issues with the shot.
He was commenting in response to a tweet from Rasmussen Reports that said approximately 12 million people may have had “major side effects” after getting the vaccine.
The CDC says major side effects are “rare.” Rasmussen said that 7 percent of those who received the vaccine — or 12 million people — reported those major side effects. Rasmussen notes that that doesn’t meet the numbers of what the CDC defines as “rare.” So the CDC needs to explain itself if these numbers are true since it doesn’t match what they had said.
The CDC finally admitted to some safety concerns about a week ago, regarding a potential increased risk of stroke for people aged 65 and older.
But the question was highlighted when Twitter owner Elon Musk responded to the tweet and shared what had happened to him when he got his second booster shot. He said he was required to take it to be able to go to Tesla Giga in Berlin. He said he had “major side effects” and felt like he “was dying for several days.”
There’s that problem of government coercion.
Musk said that he hoped there was no “permanent damage” but “I dunno.” He also noted that his cousin got myocarditis afterward, despite being in perfect health, and had to go to the hospital.
Musk also noted that he had COVID previously before the vaccines and for him, it was like a cold, but the second booster “crushed me.”
Had he said this on the old Twitter, he likely would have been flagged by the White House or the Democrats, with a request for him to be de-platformed for spreading doubt about the vaccines.
Musk hasn’t been shy about criticizing the suppression of information around COVID and the government approach, particularly that of Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Good article on free speech at Spiked.
The only problem is that the author, an “old line” ACLU boss, has failed to realise that the so-called “progressive” fascist left no longer believes in principles, it believes only in crude political power.
alwaysrightsays:
January 22, 2023 at 8:48 am
Changed my mind. This is my favourite.
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Willies aren’t the only thing Scotchlandian national socialists want to lop.
More accurately – Evil has triumphed when good men do nothing.
Was m0nty=fa’s effort about vaxxes his new “angry meatsuit” version at play? If so, it was unimpressive in its stupidity.
You can call off the referendum, there’s no need for a new institution.
Peter Dutton *is* The Aboriginal Voice To Parliament.
😀
Put that Cat who wrote that in the stocks and prepare the rotten fruit and vegetables.
Those boobs in Trading Places were real and sensational!
Watching Outsiders. Rita, as usual, is right about Dutton and the Liberals being wishy-washy about da “Voice”.
Bwahahahaharrrrrrrrr, we have been telling them for years, dumb c’s
It’s so cold in Europe that Scotland has been forced to close some of its ski runs because there’s too much snow. So much for global warming. The sudden cold has also caused a huge problem with energy shortages across Europe and prices forcing many families to the edge. The renewables dream is quietly being snuffed out, with sensible European nations quietly refurbishing their nuclear plants and hastily building new ones. The UK is limping behind France, searching for a way to avert an energy nightmare as temperatures drop.
democracy dies in data adulteration
alwaysrightsays:
January 22, 2023 at 9:11 am
Rabzsays:
January 21, 2023 at 6:54 pm
Milts – hence the saying, “evil triumphs when good men do nothing”.
More accurately – <em>Evil has triumphed when good men do nothing.
UPDATE: Here’s How The Predatory Gay Activist Couple Was Allowed To Adopt Children Despite One Member Being Previously Accused Of Child Rape
The journalist who originally broke the story detailing William Dale Zulock, Jr and Zachary Jacoby Zulock’s demonic alleged crimes on their adopted boys now has another blood-boiling reveal. The following is a story on how a system meant to protect kids instead allowed them to fall prey to these two evil men.
Townhall.com’s Mia Cathell on Thursday turned her focus to how William and Zachary were able to adopt their kids in the first place. Cathell reveals in her article that that Zachary had previously been credibly accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy back in 2011.
Despite this, a completely oblivious special needs adoption agency which worked in partnership with the Georgia Department of Human Services allowed the couple to adopt the two children in 2018. The Georgia courts then made the adoption official on November 7, 2018, seven months after the boys moved in.
Cathell had revealed over the prior two days sordid details regarding William and Zachary’s sickening alleged abuse of their adopted sons and how they pimped them out to pedophiles in the Atlanta suburbs. She also released details about their co-conspirators.
Meanwhile
Black Democrat State Representative Blasts ‘Systemically Racist Abortion Industry’ in Powerful Rebuff
Oh, this is a gonna be a problem. A black Democrat woman (I’m not a biologist but I’m calling it, nonetheless), blistering the baby-killing business is bad enough— in the eyes of the left, that is. But then, calling abortion “racist,” which is disproportionately true? Totally unacceptable, to say the least.
And that’s just for starters. Connecticut State Representative Treneé McGee told thousands of pro-life activists at the March for Life rally on Friday that black women of the pro-life movement are actively exposing the “systemically racist abortion industry.”
As reported by the Tennessee Star, McGee, one of 14 Connecticut state House Democrats – among them, 10 people of color – who voted against an April bill to further expand abortion rights in the state, fired up the crowd in an address that bluntly accused the abortion industry and Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, of racism.
Needless to say, racist or not, Planned Parenthood gleefully continues Sanger’s mission.
Body Language: Jacinda Ardern, 1 Minute WEF
Body Language Ghost
what.the.living.f*ck!?!?!?
GB News
@GBNEWS
Neil Oliver: Nothing less than our way of life is under threat now. A population distracted by propaganda about one existential threat after another – pandemics, nuclear war, climate crisis – is being herded into an unrecognisable future.
If the Wagner Group (we have a company by that name in Toowoomba too! – no implication) are a criminal organisation what does that make Blackwater(or whatever it is called now) and other US military contractors and outfits like Executive Outcomes?
US Government Forfeits All Ownership and Licensing Rights to Pfizer
Needless to say, racist or not, Planned Parenthood gleefully continues Sanger’s mission.
Sanger’s Racist Eugenics
To examine Sanger’s writings is to take a trip into a horrific world of dehumanizing rhetoric and even more dehumanizing practical programs. For Sanger the world was divided into the “fit” and the “unfit” – those who she deemed worthy of being allowed to reproduce, so as to increase the quality of the human race, and those who should be forcibly prevented from reproducing through compulsory sterilization and segregation.
“The first step would be to control the intake and output on morons, mental defectives, epileptics,” she wrote in a document called My Way to Peace. “The second step would be to take an inventory of the second group, such as illiterates, paupers, unemployables, criminals, prostitutes, dope-fiends; classify them in special departments under government medical protection and segregate them on farms and open spaces.”
“Segregate them on farms and open spaces.” In other words, concentration camps for the unfit.
The state, she urged, must “apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization, and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.” In all, she estimated that some five million “mental and moral degenerates” would have to be segregated.
In the end, inspired by her thinking and that of other eugenicists, dozens of U.S. states did put in place forcible sterilization programs, in which tens of thousands of people deemed unfit were sterilized – an enormous black eye on this country’s human rights record.
Given the rampant racism at the time, especially among eugenicists, it is not surprising that Sanger focused efforts on curtailing the fertility of racial minorities. While scholars debate the extent to which Sanger was motivated by racism as such, as opposed to the racist implications of her eugenic beliefs, which tended to view poor, impoverished minority communities as less developed members of the human race, it is uncontroversial that she explicitly strove to disseminate birth control among minority communities through the so-called Negro Project.
In one infamous letter about that project, Sanger even appears to suggest that her organization was seeking to “exterminate” the blacks.
On another occasion, she wrote these astonishingly dehumanizing words about the Australian indigenous peoples:
“The lower down in the scale of human development we go, the less sexual control we find. It is said the aboriginal Australian, the lowest known species of the human family, just a step higher than the chimpanzee in brain development, has so little sexual control that police authority alone prevents him from obtaining sexual satisfaction on the streets.”
Sanger’s Racism Still Infects Planned Parenthood
Pro-life activists have long pointed out that the racist DNA of eugenics is still very much at work in Planned Parenthood. Just as Sanger targeted poor minority communities for her eugenic efforts, so too does her organization to this day. According to one study, 79% of Planned Parenthood’s surgical abortion facilities are located within walking distance of African American or Hispanic/Latino neighborhoods.
Tragically, the abortion numbers among black and other minority communities are catastrophically high, in comparison to the average population. In New York City, for instance, the latest numbers show that more black babies are aborted every year than are born alive. Across the country, the black abortion rate is three to four times that of the general population.
It seems hard to be deficient with all the various sources but they’re now linking it to Alzheimer’s.
Study explores effects of dietary choline deficiency on neurologic and system-wide health
‘It’s Armageddon’: Media Silent on Biden Admin Plan to Snatch Public Land For Solar Farms
Federal revenue continues to soar with Trump tax cuts, CBO report shows
FLASHBACK: Trump told WEF in 2018 he would put America first over international interests
Neil Oliver: Nothing less than our way of life is under threat now
Biden’s FBI, spy chiefs at World Economic Forum with senators and more
Great sport yesterday watching the Lotus Eaters folks discussing the departure to the knackery of the NZ brood mare.
They couldn’t help themselves, they were nasty. Most enjoyable.
A great opportunity was lost when none of the blokes that she imposed herself upon at the volcano went after her for inappropriate touching etc. Had it been a man to woman assault we would still be hearing about it.
ProudArmyBrat
@leslibless
Just in: Vice President of Fox News, Alan Komissaroff, just ‘died suddenly,’ from a ‘cardiac event’ at the age of 47.
NATO Military Committee press conference | DW News
Elon Musk Admits “I Felt Like I Was Dying” After Taking Second Experimental mRNA Vaccine Shot – And His Cousin Had Serious Case of Myocarditis
We should be safe from SkyNet.
For the moment.
Finally a Good News Story:
Energy Minister Chris Bowen says price cap is having an impact on reducing energy prices
Huzzah!!!
A forecast 44% reduction in next quarter’s’ electricity bill – by Treasury, no less.
Triumph for Visionary Bowen.
Working!!!
Oh…
Well, I guess electricity is a slow moving beast – and the new cheap stuff will have to go in a warehouse somewhere while the old expensive stuff is used up first.
So a forecast delay in the huge Treasury forecast saving is only to be expected. No, really.
Be of good cheer.
Not a word about Tractor production. Strange.
Cue the rotten fruit but no need for stocks. I wrote that there were rumours Jamie Lee was a hermaphrodite. I also noted that her face was muscular. Blast away!
Bowsenko says 44% reduction eh?
Is being chairman of the WEF a lifetime thing? Klaus has been it as far as I can remember.
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
This is how US/NATO will begin getting into a direct war with Russia: Planes.
These Dutch F-16’s, who will be piloting them?
Korobochka
@cirnosad
Look it’s simple why the west is seemingly reluctant to send anything except trash to Ukraine :
It’s the first quarter of the 21st century. There is absolutely no way 100 tanks or even 10,000 tanks will be able to compete with the combined arms they face.
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
When is a ship definitely sinking? When you see the rats scurrying off.
So would I.
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
White House is chief of staff Ron Klain has resigned.
He was the real power of the Biden administration. With him gone, politically, Joe Biden is naked.
I would be very surprised if he is still president by the end of 2023.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
Matt Le Tissier (former football star): “Choose Your Side…We’re Coming For YOU”
Outside the BBC today in support of the people killed and harmed by the experimental covid jabs
“[The BBC] has done more harm than any man-made virus could ever f*cking do”
she has a male face. unfortunate
Exactly.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
Everything they want you to buy into, from C0VID to climate change, comes down to 1 thing:
Marketing
They’re selling products, ideologies, crises/emergencies, and narratives through false representation, catch phrases (safe & effective), paid promotions, & actors.
Mystery Solved – This Secret Dealer Sells White Toyotas That Save The World
Had conversation with 4WD Journo Mate
I was watching – Tuthill Porsche on the East African Safari Classic Rally: FULL MOVIE
and I noticed that they had 4 Door Toyota Troopy 78 Support vehicles, so I chased up Toyota Landcruiser Troopy in Kenya, and interesting, could not find 4 door, but new Troopy 78 Series (besides being RH Drive) are sold with 6 Cyl Diesel Motor
Displacement (cc) : 4164
Fuel System : External injection
Fuel type : Diesel
This Secret Dealer Sells White Toyotas That Save The World – Top Gear
That white Land Cruiser you saw on the news last night? Chances are it came through here. The back of shot cars seen in every report from war zones and aid programmes to disaster relief and third world development projects? At one time they probably called this home. Around 650 vehicles – more specifically 650 white Toyotas – leave here every month destined for global hotspots. Welcome to Toyota Gibraltar Stockholdings (TGS), the world’s most remarkable car dealership. Let Top Gear Magazine’s Ollie Marriage show you around…
Chapters
0:00 The J70 Land Cruiser
0:37 Tour of Toyota Gibraltar Stockholdings
1:57 Why Gibraltar not Japan?
2:40 Vehicle Customisation and Customers
5:12 Where They End Up
5:48 Outro
Note the ARB Compressors, Bullbars & 650 Cars a Month
Plus
A Day in the Life of a Land Cruiser (Complete movie)
Toyota Gibraltar Stockholdings
Question answered
Operating a modern NATO MBT is a little different from operating a Russian T43. The Leopards were crushed in Syria and I don’t think the US wants any more Abrams getting into enemy hands.
Then there is the whole question of maintenance, parts, fuel and various type of support needed. A whole logistical structure – open to disruption of course.
And timing. If a NATO MBT arrived today it would be several months before the Ukes were ready to take it into battle. It looks like they don’t have months given the operations now unfolding in the east of Ukr.
Davos: Electric Cars for Commoners, Fuel Cars for WEF Elites
In Davos, Japanese journalist Masako Ganaha spoke to a chauffeur who drives the World Economic Forum (WEF) VIPs around.
He told her he could not use a plug-in car to transport VIPs. He went on to say that electric vehicles are very “dangerous.”
The WEF has made some changes this year. Davos has a heliport so that VIPs can fly around in helicopters again. In addition, there is no longer a CO2 limit for cars.
Twitter boss Elon Musk finds it “ironic” that the WEF VIPs prefer fuel cars, as the Tesla Model Y is the best-selling car in Switzerland. In other words: plug-in cars for the commoners and cars using fossil fuels for the Elites.
Time for some frank, straight-talking about JLC dysphoria.
Back in the day, I would have identified as gay to entertain her.
She only had to ask.
Adam Schiff, Disinformation Man
The latest Twitter documents show how he deceived the public and has earned his ouster from the Intelligence Committee.
By The WSJ Editorial Board
House Republicans are preparing to strip Adam Schiff of his Intelligence Committee seat, and his media allies are rallying to the California Democrat’s defense. Maybe that’s because he was such a useful source against Republicans over the years, as the latest documents released by Twitter show.
The media says House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s motive for removing the ranking House Intel member is retribution for Nancy Pelosi’s unprecedented decision to strip two Republicans of committee seats in the last Congress. No doubt Republicans want Democrats to meditate on the consequences of their norm-busting. But Mr. McCarthy has offered a good reason for giving the Californian the boot: “Adam Schiff openly lied to the American public.”
That’s true. The most well documented example was in early 2018, in response to then Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes’s effort to inform the public about the FBI’s abuse of the FISA warrant process as part of its Trump-Russia collusion probe.
Mr. Nunes released a memo summarizing the committee’s findings that the FBI had obtained surveillance warrants from the secret FISA court against former Trump staffer Carter Page during the 2016 campaign; that the Steele dossier financed by the Clinton campaign formed an “essential” part of the surveillance applications; and that the FBI failed to tell the FISA court that dossier author Christopher Steele had political and media ties.
Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz confirmed all of this two years later in his report on the FBI’s probe. But in early 2018 Mr. Schiff fought release of the Nunes memo, and he released a memo of his own that he claimed was a more accurate summary of the evidence.
Though he had access to the same documents, the Schiff memo trashed the Nunes document and he deceived the public.
His summary claimed the “FBI and DOJ officials did not ‘abuse’ the [FISA] process, omit material information, or subvert this vital tool to spy on the Trump campaign.” That was all false. Yet nearly all of the media seized on the Schiff document to declare the Nunes memo “a joke,” and keep the collusion deceit going for another year.
The latest Twitter documents released by journalist Matt Taibbi have exposed another Schiff falsehood. As news broke that Mr. Nunes had submitted his then-classified memo to Congress, Twitter exploded with the hashtag “#ReleaseTheMemo.” Mr. Schiff—still trying to block the memo’s release—joined ranking Senate Judiciary Democrat Dianne Feinstein to publicly claim this hashtag was driven by “Russian bots and trolls” in an effort to “manipulate public opinion,” “influence congressional action” and “undermine Special Counsel [Robert] Mueller’s investigation” into the collusion claim.
The Democrats asked Twitter and Facebook to “expose and deactivate accounts involved in this influence operation.” Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal and Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse released their own public letter bemoaning “Russian agents” who so “eagerly manipulated innocent American citizens.”
The documents now show that Twitter executives promptly reported back to Democrats that it had not “identified any significant activity connected to Russia.” As one internal communication explained: “We investigated, found that engagement was overwhelmingly organic.” One Twitter employee in an email advised telling an aide to Sen. Blumenthal that it was in his “boss’s best interest to not go out there on this because it could come back to make him look silly.”
Yet Mr. Schiff and company kept up their smears against Mr. Nunes and his memo.
Mr. Schiff has other deceptions in his record, including numerous false claims that he had secret evidence of Trump-Russia collusion. He never produced any, and neither did the Mueller report.
We rehearse all this because Mr. Schiff and his media friends are claiming he is being targeted unfairly by Republicans.
But as a ranking Democrat and later the Chairman of the Intelligence Committee, he had a particular duty to be honest because he had access to classified information that the press can’t verify. He could deceive without fear of contradiction until months later.
Payback or not, Adam Schiff has earned his ouster from the Intelligence Committee.
Piers Akerman.
Progressives – the Leftists – judge themselves by how other progressives see them and that’s why Jacinda Ardern is viewed as a saint by the woke folk who are moved by the vibe.
Realists, who can handle hard truths, know that when the New Zealand Prime Minister said she no longer had “enough in the tank” to continue governing, she knew that under her leadership, New Zealand had tanked.
Ardern supporters will principally remember her emotional responses to her nation’s two 2019 tragedies, particularly for hugging survivors of the appalling March Christchurch massacre in which 51 people were murdered and wearing a hijab in solidarity with some Muslim women, and the December White Island volcanic eruption which killed 22.
Feminists will laud her for being the second leader of a nation, albeit one with a total population smaller than either Sydney or Melbourne and decreasing with every departing aircraft, to have a child while in office, and global warmists will applaud her pledges to reduce the world’s so-called greenhouse emissions.
Those who aren’t moved to tears by the crooning of kumbayah will recognise the former president of the International Union of Socialists as a leader who failed to achieve her basic policy goals of lifting children out of poverty and ending homelessness.
Anthony Albanese, who thinks he knows how to ride the vibe (particularly when it comes to milking the natural sympathy for struggling Aboriginal Australian communities) should pay close attention to Ardern’s failed leadership.
International acclaim is not enough to secure domestic support when climate change policy initiatives which cannot possibly affect the global temperature do affect the hip pockets of ordinary voters.
New Zealanders, like many Australians, blindly believed they were being saved from the ravages of the Covid pandemic when Ardern instituted lockdown restrictions that Beijing’s hardliners would have marvelled at – at least until they realised how damaging they were to the economy.
Kiwis were left stranded abroad by Ardern’s strict measures which required New Zealanders seeking to return to go into a lottery for the available quarantine beds, giving new meaning to the flightless nature of the native bird.
The homeless, promised the world or at least 100,000 homes by Ardern, saw barely one per cent of that number of new dwellings, a profound policy failure reminiscent of Albanese’s pre-election promise to reward voters with a $275 reduction in their energy prices even as it was obvious to all that the Russian invasion of Ukraine three months before the May poll would scotch that pledge.
Ardern, who entered parliament as an unelected list candidate under New Zealand’s disastrous mixed member proportional election system which gives everyone two votes, one for a candidate and one for a party, has also smashed the guidelines of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi with the Maori and talks of co-governance.
Those who support Albanese’s championing for the insertion of the as-yet-undetailed indigenous Voice to be inserted into the Australian Constitution as the “right thing to do” because it would make people abroad feel better about Australia or give Australians a warm gooey feeling about themselves should look at the damage done to New Zealand’s once formidable national unity and consider the actual consequences of embracing an undefined constitutional change on Australia.
As with Australia, where those identifying as Aboriginal are over-represented in the crime statistics and prison population, so too, in New Zealand where people identifying as Maori are disproportionately engaged in crime and imprisoned.
Though making up less than 20 per cent of the general population, more than 50 per cent of those in prison are Maori, and in the case of women, about 60 per cent.
Ardern governed disastrously with the Greens as her partners and pandered to divisive figures as she unwound the economic reforms introduced nearly 40 years ago under Labour’s Roger Douglas.
Successive National and Labour governments built upon Rogernomics to give New Zealand an outstanding economy with market solutions and balanced budgets.
Ardern’s only economic solution has been to snuggle up to China as closely as possible without offending Australia, the US and the other nations in the Five Eyes security intelligence alliance.
Those Kiwis who can take flight are leaving their country because Ardern’s delusional policies extinguished the opportunity it once offered its residents.
Albanese should put the vibe aside and face hard facts for a change.
They were taken out by IEDs and massive suicide bomb trucks.
Canada had Leopard IIs in Afghanistan that could not be knocked out and they were all repaired. Germany did not allow the Turkish Leopard IIs to be upgraded.
If Russia wants to waste 10 mt of explosives to take out one tank or use IEDs they take strategic losses or retreat (tactically or strategically) to do so.
They’re not going to (re)take all of their objectives with IEDs or suicide bomb trucks.
The West Recklessly Escalates The Russia Ukraine War
If history is any guide, the current situation, as the conflict enters its 12th month, is a recipe for World War III.
TIPPINSIGHTS EDITORIAL BOARD
We wrote in November that the new GOP House leadership was our last best chance to avert World War III.
But as long as the warmongers in Washington, London, Paris, and Berlin continue to smell the sweet taste of victory over President Putin, the war is far from over. Instead, it is getting deadlier as it settles into brutal mortar combat, with hundreds of thousands dead or wounded and entire regions decimated.
As the western media dances in cohort with the military-industrial complex that is driving Washington to commit more and more to the war (America has already set aside $110 billion), the daily news coverage is alarming. Each story extolls the virtue of sending increasingly sophisticated weapons that are not just intended to defend but to kill, some even deep inside Russian borders.
Yet, going back to when Russia invaded Ukraine, the Western response has been inconsistently cyclical for all the convictions the administration espouses in its conduct of the war. The initial conclusion was that Russia would wrap it all up in a matter of weeks. This was a colossal intelligence failure as Kyiv surprisingly drove the Russians into a shameful retreat with minimum weapons and training.
Western nations could have pounced then, but they sat idly by, debating the impact of energy and food shortages, even as Russian forces began to devour large swathes of energy-rich real estate in the east. In February last year, Russians controlled around 17,000 square miles of Ukraine, according to Ukraine’s mission to the U.N. Six months into the full-scale invasion, Russia had expanded its territory in Ukraine almost threefold.
This September, Ukrainian offensive slowly began reclaiming territory, but at a massive toll on both sides. Russia started to bomb civilian infrastructure indiscriminately, which prompted the West to send more aggressive weapons. More Russian losses in the theater resulted in ever-more brutal counter-attacks.
Still, fearing escalation that could trigger a nuclear response, the West was relatively muted. Nor did America pursue peace, steadfastly opposing any high-level mediation, always blaming the lack of progress on Russia.
In the last three months, the West has been stepping up its offensive support so much that it should have the world worried. Whatever weapons were considered off-limits just a few weeks ago are now fair game. And the West is exhausting all means to provide Ukraine with the armory it seeks.
The West has become aggressively ambitious even when defining the scope of efforts to reclaim territory. President Zelenskyy has insisted that every square inch of land would be taken back by Ukraine, including Crimea, which Russia took in 2014 and lost its seat at the G-8 in punishment.
Most Western thinking has been that the return of Crimea to Ukraine is not a meaningful goal considering that most Crimeans have historically been more aligned with Russia than the West. Yet, the New York Times released a trial balloon today that America is beginning to “warm to the idea of helping Ukraine target Crimea.”
Russia, meanwhile, is conducting war games with Belarus, and by President Putin’s assessment, many of the 350,000 new soldiers Moscow enlisted via conscription would be ready for battle soon.
The problem with Stoltenberg’s statement is that it directly conflicts with what President Biden tweeted on March 12.
“I want to be clear: We will defend every inch of NATO territory with the full might of a united and galvanized NATO. But we will not fight a war against Russia in Ukraine. A direct confrontation between NATO and Russia is World War III. And something we must strive to prevent.”
But we are fighting a war against Russia in Ukraine. NATO is actively confronting Russia. Far from striving to prevent this confrontation, the West is encouraging it, escalating the war to alarming levels.
No one is talking about peace.
If history is any indication, the conditions now, as the conflict shortly enters its 12th month, are the perfect recipe for World War III.
And the GOP refuses to do anything about this gruesome situation.
I have absolutely no problem with pure political payback on a change of government. Fear of it is one of the few constraints on the exercise of power by both “sides”. Knowing the other “side” will possibly have the opportunity to use your legislation against you in the future encourages restraint at all levels. It also highlights the need to a bulletproof voting system and a function Opposition providing genuine policy choice. You can debate the extent to which any element of this is present among various democracies around the world today.
No, Russia has invaded Belarus and can take over any time they like.
Lukashenko is effed. He’s utterly powerless.
Putin’s imperialist meddling.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sviatlana_Tsikhanouskaya
Dotsays:
January 22, 2023 at 10:37 am
We shall see dotty. So far all I’m seeing is minor military vehicular contributions, cold war type junk warehouse cleanouts and a real reluctance to release any NATO MBT’s to Ukr. Especially with the Russ forces massed to the north of Ukr, readily available to interdict transport routes from Poland.
Crossie, the WEF is no ordinary business. It’s run like a dodgy family company with opaque financials and a lot of “reinvestment” of its not inconsiderable profits into private ventures owned by Schwab. Some might call him one of the most successful conmen of the modern times, with his marks being the world’s great and good in the realms of business and politics.
Yes was big news about Elon saying he was not keen on the Vax but had to take it to travel.
That is how they will get more and more over time. Do you take the next jab you don’t want or miss out on family holiday overseas forever.
Pure evil.
Huh, so the leopard tank is a Porsche.
I still can’t understand why anyone cares what the WEF says.
Two parts of Piers Ackerman’s piece that don’t fit:
Albanese is, and always has been, a creature of the socialist political machinery. He is beholden to the Greens in the current parliament and could no more ‘face hard facts’ than vote Liberal.
I don’t think you have to be a prepper with a basement full of tinned tuna to think it is not quite that simple.
https://www.minusrus.com/en
Klaus invented the whole thing, made it up, developed it, hoodwinked a whole lot of people to join in, charged rich self-important people to PAY HIM to get special awards and titles from him. It’s an ultimate PONZI SCHEME !!
I still can’t understand why anyone cares what the WEF says.
They don’t deserve to be taken seriously but unfortunately they have a lot of influence and can do a great deal of damage. What ever happened to the Club of Rome?
https://cepa.org/article/leader-loss-russian-junior-officer-casualties-in-ukraine/
https://cepa.org/article/western-oil-cap-helps-slash-russian-oil-revenue/
Rogersays:
January 22, 2023 at 10:51 am
Is being chairman of the WEF a lifetime thing? Klaus has been it as far as I can remember.
Crossie, the WEF is no ordinary business. It’s run like a dodgy family company with opaque financials and a lot of “reinvestment” of its not inconsiderable profits into private ventures owned by Schwab. Some might call him one of the most successful conmen of the modern times, with his marks being the world’s great and good in the realms of business and politics.
The behaviour of Schwab and the WEF make the worst complaints against Armstrong look petty.
Late brekkie in North Melbourne then off to the Astra-Zeneca corporate box at the tennis.
120,000 dead
360,000 wounded
900,000 emigres
…from the young men who ought to be fathers. “Pro family” Putin is absolutely ruining Russia, let alone Ukraine.
Russia has no future.
https://countrymeters.info/en/Russian_Federation
(Estimates)
146,086,587
Current population
67,663,468
Current male population (46.3%)
78,423,120
Current female population (53.7%)
109,188
Births year to date
2,363
Births today
119,067
Deaths year to date
2,577
Deaths today
13,401
Net migration year to date
290
Net migration today
3,522
Population growth year to date
76
Population growth today
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1005416/population-russia-gender-age-group/
In all age groups until 34 years old, there were more men than women in Russia as of January 1, 2022. After that age, the female population outnumbered the male population in each category. The most represented age group in the country was from 35 to 39 years old, with approximately 6.2 million women and 6.3 million men.
I don’t bother with Euro propaganda , dotty.
Sure Makka, just swallow the Russian codswallop.
Watching Outsiders. Rita, as usual, is right about Dutton and the Liberals being wishy-washy about da “Voice”.
Rita has never been right about anything.
Dutton has played The Voice Issue like a Stradivarius.
It’s on Albanese to answer the questions, he’s the Government now.
Looks like The Australian and the Western Australian Government are running the Cassius Turvey Murder Trial as a proxy for The Voice?
Richard Cranium thinks that Dutton is playing ScoMo’s Stradivarius.
Went well for ScoMo, didn’t it?
US urges Ukraine not to ‘fixate’ on defending key city – media
Washington wants Kiev to spare its scarce resources until the next round of US-supplied arms arrives
The US believes that Ukraine should “refocus” on preparations for a new offensive, suggesting fierce battles for the eastern city of Artyomovsk (called Bakhmut by Ukraine) may be “hampering” Kiev, according to multiple news outlets, citing a senior US official. The comments cut against months of Western media reports that described the town as a key, strategic area.
Speaking to a small group of reporters on Friday, a top official in the administration of President Joe Biden (who refused to be named or cited verbatim) said that Ukraine “should not fixate on defending the city of Bakhmut at all costs,” according to AFP. Instead, Kiev was advised to use the time to prepare a large counter-offensive against Russia.
The strong focus on the city is “hampering Ukraine in the more important task” of organizing a spring offensive to reclaim territory lost to Moscow, the official reportedly added, noting that “time favors Russia” due to its superior troop numbers and artillery.
In a similar report on Friday, Reuters also indirectly quoted a senior Biden administration official advising Kiev to wait “until the latest supply of US weaponry is in place and training has been provided,”
apparently referring to the $2.5 billion arms package approved in Washington this week. The aid includes a large number of artillery rounds, munitions for the US-supplied HIMARS multi-launch rocket platform, and, for the first time, Stryker combat vehicles – but no tanks. A small number of Ukrainian troops are also undergoing training at a US base in Germany, with some learning how to operate the Patriot missile defense battery authorized for Kiev in December.
The official allegedly said that Western weapons that will be needed for a “mobile offensive force” for future battles are currently “pouring into Ukraine,” adding that Kiev should not waste its limited resources on the “strategically unimportant target,” according to Reuters.
While much of the Western press – including outlets such as PBS, NBC, CBS, the New York Times, and others – have repeatedly deemed the city a key hub of major strategic importance, US officials have voiced an altogether different view in recent days.
Even if Moscow successfully captures the city, “it’s not going to strategically change the dynamics on the battlefield. It’s not going to set the Ukrainians back to a degree where they’re all of a sudden on the back foot and they’re losing,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said earlier on Friday.
At least Sancho has standards and is not going to the Pfizer box at the tennis.
The B.C.C. bought a fleet of Leopard buses from West Germany after the Paddington Tram Depot conveniently burnt to the ground.
Those weren’t bad buses either.
German intelligence ‘alarmed’ over Ukrainian losses – media
The battle over the strategic city of Artyomovsk has inflicted heavy losses on Ukraine, Der Spiegel has said, citing German intelligence
Germany’s Federal Intelligence Agency (BND) is “alarmed” over heavy losses suffered by Ukrainian troops in the conflict between Kiev and Moscow, the Der Spiegel weekly reported on Friday.
Russian and Ukrainian troops are currently vying for control of the strategic Donbass city of Artyomovsk (called Bakhmut by Ukraine), but the situation there does not look particularly bright for Kiev, the outlet reported, citing a “secret” meeting between BND officials and the German MPs responsible for security decisions.
“The Ukrainian army is currently losing a three-digit number of soldiers every day” in the fight with Russian forces, Der Spiegel said, citing data reportedly presented by intelligence officials during the closed briefing earlier this week.
Earlier this week, The Times reported that Kiev had sent poorly equipped troops with little combat experience to defend Artyomovsk.
If Russian forces manage to seize the city, it would have “serious consequences” for Kiev, the BND warned, adding that control over Artyomovsk would potentially facilitate major Russian advances deeper into Ukrainian-held territory.
Big Serge Thought – Russo-Ukrainian War: The World Blood Pump
Gradually, and then Suddenly
Russian forces, primarily Wagner PMC and LNR units, have been slowly but surely collapsing this Ukrainian stronghold by making liberal use of artillery. In November, now former Zelensky advisor Oleksiy Arestovych admitted that Russian artillery on the Bakhmut axis enjoyed roughly a 9 to 1 tube advantage, which is turning Bakhmut into a death pit.
A Wall Street Journal piece about the battle, while trying to present a story of Russian incompetence, accidentally included an admission from a Ukrainian commander on the ground who said: “So far, the exchange rate of trading our lives for theirs favors the Russians. If this goes on like this, we could run out.”
Sancho likes to spread the love around.
He’ll be at the Pfizer box too, then the Balenciaga box, then the Victoria’s Secret box …
Semi-final day for me in the Pfizer box.
Be interesting to see who else is there?
Musk warns against ‘relentless escalation’ in Ukraine
The Twitter CEO reacted to a New York Times article saying Washington could arm Kiev to help it target Crimea
Billionaire Elon Musk urged caution on Friday following reports that the US is changing its stance on whether it should assist Ukraine in attacking Russia’s Crimean Peninsula.
Earlier this week, the New York Times reported, citing sources, that Washington is starting to concede that Kiev needs to have the ability to strike deep into Russian territory, even if this entails the risk of escalation.
US officials are said to be “discussing with their Ukrainian counterparts the use of American-supplied weapons, from HIMARS rocket systems to Bradley fighting vehicles, to possibly target … Crimea.” The peninsula overwhelmingly voted to join Russia in 2014 following the Maidan coup in Kiev.
Musk responded to a Twitter user who posted a link to the Times article by saying: “I am super pro Ukraine, but relentless escalation is very risky for Ukraine and the world.”
This is not the first time the tycoon has weighed in on the Ukraine conflict. In October, Musk came up with a peace plan to end the hostilities between Moscow and Kiev. According to his proposal, Russia should “redo elections of annexed regions under UN supervision,” with Moscow withdrawing from these areas if this is what the people want.
He was referring to the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, as well as Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions, which overwhelmingly voted to join Russia last year.
However, the Twitter CEO also suggested that Crimea should remain part of Russia, sparking outrage in Kiev. Ukraine’s former ambassador to Berlin, Andrey Melnik, told him to “f**k off.”
Later, Musk noted that Russia views Crimea as an integral part of its territory, and attempts to seize it by a foreign power could trigger a nuclear war. “If Russia is faced with the choice of losing Crimea or using battlefield nukes, they will choose the latter,” he wrote at the time.
Did Mother make you play the violin as a child Groogs?
Mr Schwab does seem to like the gig.
Klaus Schwab Declares He Will Run WEF into his 100s as Globalist Colleagues Demand Succession Plan (19 Jan)
Only the good die young.
Europe has demographic problems too;
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1251591/population-growth-rate-in-europe/
No dotty, I’m just not not swallowing the garbage emanating from your Euro/US/NATO/UK bullshit factory sources. Their lies to us have been manifest and frankly, I’m surprised you’re placing so much credence in them , given the last 3-4 years of discovery. You acknowledge here they lie to us about EVERYTHING and yet all about bad Russia, defeated Russia, Russia will collapse is somehow true and honest? Take the blinkers off.
Keeping up in Today’s World – New Word – cisheteropatriarchal
The Context
Math class is a white, cisheteropatriarchal space and that has to change
We were amazed back in 2020 that someone on Twitter floated the idea that two plus two can equal five, and then a bunch of our intellectual superiors chimed in on how two plus two can actually equal five and that insisting that two plus two equals four is “whiteness.”
As Twitchy reported, some schools in Oregon were being informed that asking students in math class to “show their work” is “white supremacy.” Why? Because it requires students to worship the written word as well as exhibit paternalism, both of which are building blocks of white supremacy culture as well. Math class is sick with white supremacist thinking.
We haven’t brought gender into the equation, though, and Cathy Young tracked down a Joint Mathematics Meetings presentation called …
“Undergraduate Mathematics Education as a White, Cisheteropatriarchal Space and Opportunities for Structural Disruption to Advance Queer of Color Justice.”
H B Bear says:
January 22, 2023 at 11:31 am
Did Mother make you play the violin as a child Groogs?
Did Mother make you play the violin as a child
Not Groogs – But Yes and I was lousy -same with the Piano and being taught by Nuns – we did not get on
yeah… nah. thats the face of a dude
One only has to see a map of Ukraine, to understand the stupidity of the Ukraine leadership, in continually flogging the dead horse, otherwise known as Bakhmut.
https://liveuamap.com
It is the simple logistics of operating weapons systems, that are unfamiliar and unsuitable to the theatre, (Marders, Bradleys, 105mm howitzers), that will spell the end for the puppet Zelensky’s regime.
Any main battle tanks given to Ukraine, will be destroyed within a fortnight of entering the fray, just like Ukraines own tanks were in April 2022, then the replacement Polish tanks were, during the frivolous assault on Kherson.
Anyone remember the US largesse to Saigon, during the Thieu reign?
Did any of that help Vietnam?
This is exactly the situation we see now, except that compared to Zelensky, Thieu was an honest operator.