The Rocky Mountains Lander’s Peak, Albert Bierstadt, 1863
Others bathed once a year in May or later in the rivers.Jayzus. The cities must have stunk. I will admit…
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When asked how it was possible for Ms Tarnawsky to be bullied by more junior members of staff, Mr Bradley…
Gay tyranny. A dictatorship of the woke minority. It makes you realise the steel fist behind the “Live, Life, Love”…
A bathroom of old, lucky some. Others bathed once a year in May or later in the rivers. Brides carried…
It was tried before many times and faded away because better technology. ————– Electric taxis were introduced in London on…
Is Mutti Merkel at Davos? That was a big loss.
Sqwark.
We in the west are in serious trouble; demographics, Cloward Piven shifts, destruction of the family, high taxes, unaffordable property, unsustainable public debt.
You are a damned fool if you think Putin is going to save the west. He is literally ruining his own country and destroying another for his own vain ambitions. Nothing more or noble.
He started the war, he started undermining Ukrainian sovereignty in 2008 and he can stop right now.
A much praised journalist like Hedley Thomas or Kate McClymont would be thrown off a bridge in Russia.
The amount of ridiculous propaganda posted here is absurd. No doubt the Ukraine and NATO establishment have their own embedded sources and we should question our officials; why take Putin’s word at face value?
It’s utterly bizarre.
It stopped communist (Russian backed) expansion.
Democratic countries won strategically at the conclusion of the war and briefly the US beat the North Vietnamese, which is why they signed the accords.
How can you possibly quantify this at all?
Zipster says:
January 22, 2023 at 11:40 am
Back in the day, I would have identified as gay to entertain her.
yeah… nah. thats the face of a dude
I wasn’t looking at her face – Two and a Half Men – Boobra’s Mom [HD]
Excess deaths in young adults, 2022 data
Dr. John Campbell
Sancho won’t admit it but he is going to the WEF box for the final to hang out with Gates and Dan Andrews.
“Kherson was just a feint!”
Enough.
I posted this yesterday. Yes, Serge is pro-Russian. But his analysis is very matter of fact. Nothing like the breathless OTT rubbish coming from the MSM and Euro sources. RTWT .
https://bigserge.substack.com/p/russo-ukrainian-war-the-world-blood
Of course things go wrong, there are setbacks and Russians are famous for fkg up. But, I don’t doubt Ukraine’s ability to do the same and worse. But what I really cannot trust is any western related propaganda. So, it’s what’s happening on the ground that matters from reliable sources.
Looks like the big offensive may have begun;
https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/status/1616917681931706371
So were Ferdinand and Maus.
The first Porsche hybrids.
eugyppius: a plague chronicle
We are witnessing an unprecedented, comprehensive failure of policy, medicine and science. The world will never be the same.
Germany, “standing atop a billion-dollar mountain of masks” purchased by the panicked Merkel government in 2020, begins to “thermally reprocess” (i.e., incinerate) the rapidly expiring surplus
States, meanwhile, balking at storage costs, beg the federal government to take back the unwanted oversupply.
From Welt:
Authorities have come up with a term that sounds at least halfway sane. They’re calling it “thermal reprocessing.”
Four federal states now claim to have thermally reprocessed – or, in plain language, to have incinerated – a total of 17.25 million expired Corona masks.
Baden-Württemberg has destroyed 6.1 million masks, Saxony 5.5 million, North Rhine-Westphalia 5 million, and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 656,000 …
The Federal Ministry of Health (BMG) in Berlin has also “thermally recycled” masks in recent months. The number so far is “less than one million units,” a spokesperson said … The destroyed masks were purchased during the peak of the pandemic, and have exceeded their expiration date …
The federal and state governments are currently standing atop a billion-dollar mountain of masks. According to information provided by the Ministry of Health in September, there are a total of 3.7 billion masks in the federal inventory … The federal states have have an additional 180 million Corona masks at their disposal …
The states want to burn even more masks, but for the moment they’re not allowed, because much of the surplus in their possession is technically federal property. Thus they’ve begun begging the government to take the masks back:
Everything about Corona is such a multifaceted ridiculous farce
You are the only one I know proposing this kind of bullshit. So, please, just knock it off , it’s embarrassing. Putin only has a few years left at best. Then the real trouble will start.
Anyone remember the US largesse to Saigon, during the Thieu reign?
Did any of that help Vietnam?
Only as spare parts for Vietnamese mechanics.
It did help stave off a Recession in America in the late 60s, same thing is happening now.
That’s not going to happen.
“Bakhmut was a feint” and you owe me a steak dinner.
This is complete garbage. How is a 105 mm howitzer “unsuitable to the theatre” and why would that “spell an end for the puppet Zelensky”? The Bradley is one of the most successful military exports the US has other than the F-16.
PS
Is Lukashenko a puppet too?
Back in the day, I would have identified as gay to entertain her.
yeah… nah. thats the face of a dude
Are we still bashing Jaimee; she’s a cute owl.
No no no no and no.
You are swallowing Russian propaganda whole, as an antidote to mistrust of your own government.
Which is absolutely stupid.
Really? Can you put up some quotes that prove this bullshit dotty? I’m calling you a fkg liar now.
“Zelensky is a puppet”, for starters Makka. Please clarify who is pulling the strings, show the proof you have and try not to bring up any nasty stereotypes that Putin dogwhistles to whilst doing it.
You gullible ninny, dotty. You are the idiot, swallowing the propaganda from the Euroweenies hook line and sinker. FFS , the EU is still importing Russian energy. These 2 faced clowns are the liars whose bs you are buying. Give it up.
J.K. Rowling shows off some Scottish politicians in front of banners reading, ‘Decapitate TERFs’
If you’re a regular Twitchy reader, you probably know by now that TERF stands for “trans-exclusionary radical feminist,” and it’s meant to be a derogatory term for a feminist who doesn’t include trans women in her struggle.
J.K. Rowling was branded a TERF after standing with a woman who was fired for her tweets alleging that you can’t change your sex, and she’s since gone on to do some TERF-like things, like opening a female-only sexual violence center for women trying to get away from biological males for a bit.
We’re not sure who these politicians are, but Rowling shows photos of them in a crowd holding signs reading “Decapitate TERFS” and “I Eat TERFs and Tories.”
J.K. Rowling
@jk_rowling
A few of Scotland’s wonderfully progressive and kind politicians, posing proudly in front of banners calling for women to be decapitated and eaten.
That’s not an argument Makka, I never said I trust their figures at all.
In all likelihood, given how bad the war has gone for Russia, they are more likely correct.
“It’s a special military operation”
“Ukraine has never been a country and doesn’t deserve to exist”
“Only 571 casulties”
“Kherson was a feint”
Show me my quote first dotty.
But in any case, if you don’t think Zelensky is being controlled , aided and therefore manipulated by the US and NATO, then nothing provided will change your mind. You’re blinkered.
Are you quoting me? If you can’t show the quotes, you are a fkg liar.
Makka
Without considering past grievances and determining who instigated the conflict, if Russia is aligning closely with China, would it be preferable for Russia to gain control of Ukraine , or for Ukraine to maintain its independence and align itself as a Western ally?
“Zelensky is a puppet”
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22Zelensky+is+a+puppet%22&t=ffab&df=m&ia=web
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Zelensky+is+a+puppet%22&source=lnt&tbs=qdr:m&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjmxOq3_9n8AhWQ2aQKHWwyAgsQpwV6BAgBEBg&biw=1600&bih=697&dpr=2
https://www.bing.com/search?q=%22Zelensky+is+a+puppet%22&filters=ex1%3a%22ez3%22&FORM=000017&qpvt=%22Zelensky+is+a+puppet%22
1. Was from Putinist propaganda quoted here in this thread ( you quoted this as well I believe Makka “I posted this yesterday…).
2. Are prior/current/future laughable Putinist handwaving/memes explaining their failure, stop whining Makka.
3. Really OldOzzie? Refutation but Google search, too lazy to link, quote an article and make a short argument? Why not just give gynecologists a Penthouse magazine instead of actual textbooks?
Zelensky Putin Binden, forget them.
We have our own share of murderous, power-crazed lunatic politicians.
Let’s talk about them.
Too true, always right.
Never forget that Peter Dutton has destroyed the integrity of any electronic evidence of a crime.
JC,
My PRIMARY consideration regarding this war is that it ends quickly without some form of nuclear exchange. This is paramount for me.
But to your question. I don’t believe Russia wants control of Ukraine. They want to retain Crimea, the southern corridor to it and the Donbas region. That’s the settlement I think they want. Ukraine has been a corrupt shithole for many decades. Like some Latam corrupt semi failed state. The problem as I see it is that Ukr is ripe for the western Neo-con crazies to exploit and continue stirring up shit with Russia on her doorstep. The cause of this is the neo-cons and by extension the vegetable POTUS enabling and funding this chaos and destruction. The fact is , the West is driving China and Russia closer. It’s lunacy!
but –> by
OldOzzie says:
January 22, 2023 at 11:58 am
Any idea what sort of masks they are?
How can a cloth or paper type mask, we mostly used here, expire?
So, you have nothing dotty. So just stop lying, as you often do when you are called with your unsubstantiated bullshit. It’s all in your silly head with nothing to back up.
Civil War inside the Zelenskyy Government?
The entire Interior Ministry dead in plane crash, Infrastructure [lol] Minister arrested for embezzlement.
[Twitter]
Don’t know about 105s, but those game changing 155 are.
Maintenance heavy, too light for sustained operations and susceptible to bursting if someone forgets to read what’s on the side of the tin.
Meanwhile, the U/S are looking to Latin America for Warsaw Pact kit to send to 404land.
Why swap stuff you can fix with a hammer for gear that’ll make you dependant
upon the Yanqui imperialists?
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lseih/2020/07/01/there-is-no-ukraine-fact-checking-the-kremlins-version-of-ukrainian-history/
“Ukraine is not even a state”
Russia had absolutely no problem getting to Crimea after it was annexed.
Now, they do. Funny how they signed treaties with a non-existent state!
False.
You mean the treaties that Merkel now admits were worthless and never intended to be honoured? The same outfit you are buying your propaganda from?
Yeah, it’s hilarious dotty.
I think the Bakhmut offensive is due to two things: first that Putin is putting pressure on the RGS for results and second that that particular zone is the best one for logistical support. The only tactic which has worked for the Russians is the WW1 massed-artillery one. So they’ve concentrated an enormous number of artillery tubes in that area and are pounding the defenders on a narrow frontage. The logistical issue is that artillery ammunition is heavy, and keeping supply up to the guns is tough work – especially as Russian doctrine doesn’t use palletization. The shells have to literally be carried around by guys, something that Trent Telenko covered early on.
A problem is that the Ukrainians have been good at finding and destroying stockpiles within range of their artillery. That has forced the Russians to deliver ammunition in a just-in-time manner, so they can’t build a big stockpile then draw from it in an offensive. Which is why they need good logistics, such as the road and rail capacity from Donetsk. That isn’t something they could do elsewhere.
Then there’s the availability of ammunition. There’ve been increasing indications that at least Wagner is getting large amounts of artillery ammunition from the North Koreans. Which is fine, but it strongly suggests that the Russian indigenous production capability can’t keep up. So if the supply from Pyongyang dries up the offensive may well peter out. The other thing about the ammunition is that a lot of it, possibly nearly all of it, seems to be contact fused. When a contact fused shell lands it penetrates the dirt then explodes upwards. Thus you see the moonscape-like overhead photos of those areas, because of the contact fused shells. Proximity fused shells don’t produce those sorts of shell-holes. And you need proximity fuses to suppress infantry – to keep them in their strong points and not in the trenches, where they can shoot at assaulting Russian infantry and armour.
On the other hand Ukraine has an incentive to defend a dump like Bakhmut because the force multiplication of serious fortifications can be as much as 10:1. Which bleeds the Russians…although the cost to the Ukrainians is high also.
The Ukrainians are however using this type of defensive tactic: inviting Russia to assault prepared defensive lines, then once the Russians commit too much to the offensive they’ve been hitting soft spots far from the conflagration zone. They’ve done that with success four times: north of Kiev, west of Chernigov, east and south of Kharkov and in the Kherson zone. The Kherson one was a little different in that the Russians were defending the area but got squeezed in supply over the river, which meant they had to pull back or risk a mass surrender of out-of-supply units.
Overall the tactical stuff is fascinating, but at a terrible cost of blood not seen since the Somme. Like the Somme there seems to be a Russian view that if only they can just break through the Ukrainian line they will break out with mobile units and win. The French and the Germans kept trying that on the Western Front in 1916, and it never happened – until there was a technological and doctrinal step change, which Monash employed decisively. Right now that sort of step change doesn’t seem likely, so this bloody debacle seems like it’ll go on and on until both sides are totally exhausted.
It sure is hilarious pal. The second most powerful military in the world signing and undermining worthless treaties with non existent countries.
Indolentsays:
January 22, 2023 at 10:18 am
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”
Matt Le Tissier, a highly UNDERRATED football player. And it seems a highly underrated human. Good on him.
False
Lol. You do realise that quoting some media article you disagree with does not prove I’ve ever said or endorsed it, you ninny.
Sure, you just posted something in agreement with it right after, but you totally disavow it!
“It stopped communist (Russian backed) expansion.
Democratic countries won strategically at the conclusion of the war and briefly the US beat the North Vietnamese, which is why they signed the accords.”
Err…what? How did it stop communist expansion? The end of the Vietnam war and the fall of Saigon actually added impetus to the Soviet Union’s desire to expand communism and for the remainder of the 1970s, they didn’t do too badly. There was communist expansion in Asia, Central and South America and Africa, particularly Angola. Whilst they weren’t always successful, many innocents died. The Soviets helped destabilise the Shah in Iran. Oh and I have a distinct recollection of the Soviet Union invading Afghanistan in 1979 to help prop up the communist regime there, a communist regime that had seized power in a bloody coup in 1978.
Or am I just imagining all of this? I think not.
Any idea what sort of masks they are?
How can a cloth or paper type mask, we mostly used here, expire?
Um, it’s about the immediate future of The Mask Industry, dummy.
While those 1.2 billion masks remain unincinerated, the States can’t order any more.
Same goes for Vaccines, Military exports to Ukraine …
“[The BBC] has done more harm than any man-made virus could ever f*cking do”
The Brits are quite awake to their mates from the pub randomly karking it.
In FMD news:
Indigenous cricket star Ashleigh Gardner has called out the decision to schedule an Australian women’s international on January 26.
Australia’s women’s cricket team is playing Pakistan in a three-match T20 International series, starting on Tuesday
The second match in Hobart has been scheduled to take place on Thursday January 26, a decision that “doesn’t sit well” with Gardner, the reigning Belinda Clark medallist.
“As a proud Muruwari woman and reflecting on what Jan 26 means to me and my people it is a day of hurt and a day of mourning,” she wrote on Twitter.
“My culture is something I hold close to my heart and something I’m always so proud to speak about whenever asked.
“I also am fortunate enough to play cricket for a living which is something I dreamt of as a kid.
“Unfortunately this year the Australian women’s cricket team has been scheduled to play a game on the 26th of Jan which certainly doesn’t sit well with me as an individual but also all the people I’m representing.”
Gardner said she will take the field and play on January 26, which the all-rounder described as a “day of mourning” that marked the “beginning of genocide, massacres and dispossession”.
“As a national team we have a platform to raise awareness about certain issues and I’m using this platform to hopefully help educate others on a journey to learn about the longest living culture in the world,” Gardner said.
“For those who don’t have a good understanding of what that day means it was the beginning of genocide, massacres and dispossession.
“When I take the field for this game I will certainly be reflecting and thinking about all of my ancestors and peoples lives who changed from this day.”
Cricket Australia has not scheduled any Big Bash League games on January 26 this year and won’t refer to the day as Australia Day in any marketing or publicity of the women’s T20 game in Hobart on Thursday.
Australia wrapped up a 3-0 clean sweep of the ODI series against Pakistan on Saturday, as Beth Mooney scored her third ODI century with a career-best 133.
Darling, if you don’t want to play, piss off and give someone else a go who would relish the opportunity to represent her country, the country you hate.
And the national side is not a platform to do anything except play.
POLL
Who would you prefer as Dear Leader?
1. Putin
2. Xi
3. Loony North Korean guy
4. Talidan
How did it stop communist expansion? The end of the Vietnam war and the fall of Saigon actually added impetus to the Soviet Union’s desire to expand communism and for the remainder of the 1970s, they didn’t do too badly.
According to books written by former Soviet military, Vietnam severely crimped their ambitions in SE Asia.
Really? I posted I agree that Ukraine was never a state? Must have missed that.
Here’s what I posted fkwit;
” Ukraine has been a corrupt shithole for many decades. Like some Latam corrupt semi failed state.”
Meaning corrupt and in large part semi- governed with robber barron like institutions You’re word twisting isn’t working.
Ed Case says:
January 22, 2023 at 12:28 pm
Civil War inside the Zelenskyy Government?
The entire Interior Ministry dead in plane crash, Infrastructure [lol] Minister arrested for embezzlement.
[Twitter]
The “Big Guy Biden” not getting his 10%
FLASHBACK, 2018: Joe Biden Brags At CFR Meeting About Withholding Aid To Ukraine To Force Firing Of Prosecutor
In this clip from a January 2018 appearance at the Council on Foreign Relations, former Vice President Joe Biden seems to brag about threatening to withhold military aid to Ukraine as a pressure tactic to force the firing of a prosecutor he did not like.
I said, I’m telling you, you’re not getting the billion dollars. I said, you’re not getting the billion. I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money. Well, son of a bitch. (Laughter.) He got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time.
Dan is bad news, but he’d still hafta be #1, followed by the Putler #2, Loony NK Guy #3 and Xi #4.
You don’t wanna be ruled by the Han, ask the Tibetans about that.
No cassie, that’s dotty doing the imagineering.
I cant see a scenario where russia loses gracefully. There is no way ukraine can win, however russia is no longer fighting ukraine.
if russia deploys tactical nukes inside ukraine, on what basis can nato retaliate? they are not officially at war with russia or in defence alliance with ukraine. This is the most likely scenario if russian casualties start really escalating.
the scale of this mess cant be overstated
According to books written by former Soviet military, Vietnam severely crimped their ambitions in SE Asia.
Yeah.
The US waged a Military/ Industrial War of Attrition against the Soviet Union and wore them out.
“According to books written by former Soviet military, Vietnam severely crimped their ambitions in SE Asia.”
Perhaps but you could also apply the “crimping” to the Americans. After the US exited Vietnam, they suffered a malaise which hindered American foreign policy until Reagan. This applied particularly in Iran when riots and revolution erupted in 1978. The USA buckled under Carter and refused to back the Shah. That was a huge mistake.
Bridgeport for NT cats:
https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/driver/miscellaneous-goods/bridgeport-turret-milling-machine/1303978223
There’s also a Kondia (Spanish copy) for a very sharp price in Qld.
How Ukraine is “trolling” the West for advanced main battle tanks
It is no secret that the Ukrainians want more tanks from the West to push the Russian invaders out of their country. But the West has been reluctant to send any advanced main battle tanks to Kyiv. So, the Ukrainian military is resulting in some psychological operations to influence Western audiences and put pressure on their governments to send tanks.
This is how Ukraine is “trolling” Germany, France, and the U.S. to get more tanks.
‘Trolling’ straight out of the 1980s
In a series of videos straight out of a 1980s B-movie, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense has been trolling the West to get more main battle tanks.
Kyiv has released three videos, each about one NATO main battle tank that could help its fight against Russia.
The first video released on January 12 jokingly tried to define the term tank so as to make it easier for Western countries to decide if they can send some to Ukraine. The video was aimed at the U.S. and it not-so-subtly requested the M1 Abrams tank, one of the most capable main battle tanks in the world.
“Western countries are so worried about sending tanks to Ukraine, they’re arguing about what is and isn’t a ‘tank.’ We offer our humble suggestion,” the Ukrainians tweeted.
The second video went out on January 18 and was aimed at France, asking for the Leclerc main battle tank.
Although France hasn’t said anything about sending Leclerc tanks to Ukraine, French President Emmanuel Macron did announce that his country would be sending a number of AMX-10RC tank destroyers.
“Western nations wax philosophical about what is and is not a ‘tank.’ And so do we, bien sûr,” the Ukrainians tweeted.
Finally, the third video was released a day later, on January 19, and undoubtedly targeted Ukraine’s largest “opponent” when it comes to security assistance: Germany.
Calling the tank “Leopard 2A4 Luxury Executive Sedan,” Ukraine made the case why Germany should either send or let other willing countries provide the tank to Ukraine. NATO members sit on a fleet of around 2,000 Leopard 2s. Poland has announced a package of 14 Leopard 2s to Ukraine, and Finland is keen too. But both countries, or indeed any other, can’t do anything until Germany gives them re-export permission. Berlin, on its end, will only do so only if the U.S. provides M1 Abrams to Kyiv.
“We appreciate there’s still a bit of angst about sending tanks to Ukraine. We’re here to help,” the Ukrainians tweeted.
The video ends with a call to action in German and English: “Release the Leopards.”
This applied particularly in Iran when riots and revolution erupted in 1978. The USA buckled under Carter and refused to back the Shah. That was a huge mistake.
That was a massive screw up, and from what I’ve read it wouldn’t have taken much for a very different outcome. Vale the country that used to be capable and trusted to operate F-14’s.
Which of course was important for Australia.
No you idiot, “Zelensky is a puppet”, but you already know that.
Charles Hatfield, rainmaker.
Yeah, the usual Wikipedia Gaslighting, but this guy was onto something.
People also seem to forget Soviet communist agitation and expansion in Southern Africa in the mid to late 1970s which is why the US and the UK were loathe to isolate South Africa at the time. When Portugal pulled out of Angola in 1975 (like they did in East Timor), civil war erupted because a power struggle ensued between between the communist People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), funded and armed by the Soviet Union and Cuba and the anti-communist National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), funded by the USA and South Africa.
It was a dreadful civil war which went on for decades
“When I take the field for this game I will certainly be reflecting and thinking about all of my ancestors and peoples lives who changed from this day.”
Food glorious food!?!
How did Putin become worth 200 bn USD? Did he launch a very successful Christian singles dating website/App in Slavic countries?
For those with an interest in mercenaries there is a very good article by Simon Mann via Revolver News under the heading “Opportunities out there”
A very long read which have not finished yet but covers Angola, Russians, the Chinese in Africa, PNG Sandline, blood diamonds, him doing 5 years in African prison etc.
How do the folks here that are tacitly supporting Putin leaning in the China / Taiwan conflict?
Oh ok, then be more fkg precise lame brain.
Yes, without a shadow of a doubt Zelensky is a puppet. And as useful as long as he serves his purpose.But you already know that.
Black Ball says:
January 22, 2023 at 12:42 pm
I know it was asked here before, but I must have missed the answer, if ever there was one.
Why the preface of “PROUD” when it comes to describing yourself as one of an aboriginal tribe?
Is it an invitation for every other race to say, “I’m a humble white, etc person”?
I mean, we are born into a family environment not of our choosing.
Sure, you can be proud of your mob, but why keep repeating it, or if you must then justify.
I’m not complaining, but wouldn’t mind a few mills$ in the kitty from the old man, wisely, he spent it all but.
Because… the WEF has managed to get itself appointed as an “official advisor” to the UN.
The UN has its Agendas 21 and 30, which just happen to reflect the destructive shit that the WEF is pushing. Climate change, covid/pandemics/”vaccinations”, removal of animal protein from our diets, restriction of movement, destruction of agriculture and fisheries, outlawing natural remedies and useful vitamin supplements, control of information and free speech… the lot.
That’s why we need to care what the WEF says. Don’t think they don’t mean every word of what they intend to enforce on the rest of us; they absolutely do mean to do it – if we let them.
ATC must be busy here, they stack in those twin otters like nobody’s business.
You are only reading MSM reports again dotty.Why not 500B or 150B? But I do believe he is worth a shyteload, many billions. He amassed this because he’s very efficiently corrupt and feathers his own nest.
SWIFT payments network access cut to crypto exchanges
Why the preface of “PROUD” when it comes to describing yourself as one of an aboriginal tribe?
GloboHomo.
Aborigines don’t get to make any of the decisions in the Aboriginal Industry.
As a matter of fact, they’d be lucky to get a job cleaning the office dunny.
Not reflecting on the fact that the invaders brought the game with them?
Why the preface of “PROUD” when it comes to describing yourself as one of an aboriginal tribe?
So it stops you using it in front of “white”.
Disappointed indolent?
I would not like Russia to control Ukraine including cities like Odessa. However unless NATO sends in its own troops (i.e. US armed forces) then that is the probable future for Ukraine. I don’t think there is the political will in Washington or in European capitals to puts boots on the ground.
I agree Russia is in debt to the China to a large degree. How it will show this gratitude is problematic.
The best solution for Ukraine now is for some land sharing agreement. The longer the conflict goes on the less likely that a functioning Ukraine will emerge. Who would want to live in the Ukraine?
Has China gone to war with Taiwan?
Prove it!
Who is controlling him!?
If there is absolutely no doubt, proving this and naming his controllers should be so simple you can do it in a few short sentences.
He has made himself reliant on Western military aid to continue. While the aid keeps coming he probably survives. If it doesn’t then it is really hard for him to survive without some sort of Peace treaty.
Just arrived.
Hard to know.
Half of them are masked up.
They are the SNP Glasgow coven.
The one that looks particularly like a pig is Kirsten Oswald – who was busted last year for bullying a teenage intern who complained about a bit of gay gropage from the SNP Westminster Whip.
They are not nice people.
Sancho Panzer says:
January 22, 2023 at 1:22 pm
H B Bearsays:
January 22, 2023 at 11:28 am
Late brekkie in North Melbourne then off to the Astra-Zeneca corporate box at the tennis.
Be interesting to see who else is there?
Just arrived.
Hard to know.
Half of them are masked up.
Sancho – really – B’Idiots, just breathing back in their exhaled air.
I was surprised on Flights to and from MEL week before last, about a 1/10th masked – only 1 QF Crew masked, although they announced they has masks available
On Buses last Tuesday, only a couple of people masked.
Murphy came home plastered for the third night in a row. His wife dragged him to the window, pointing to the blazing lights of the big distillery in the distance. “See how big it is?” she said. “They can always make it faster than you can drink it”. “Maybe so” said Murphy “But I’ve got ’em working nights!”
—
A woman buys a new Sim Card. She puts it in her phone and decides to surprise her husband, who is seated on the couch in the living room. She goes to the kitchen, calls her husband with the new number: “Hello Darling”. The husband responds in a low tone: “Let me call you back later, Honey, my wife is in the kitchen”.
—
A lady to doctor: “My husband has a habit of talking in his sleep! What should I give him to cure it?” Doctor: “Give him an opportunity to speak when he is awake!”
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
– Isaac Newton
Yes, without a shadow of a doubt Zelensky is a puppet.
Along with dribbling Joe.
Prove it!
Aha! You got me dotty. Despite all the observed evidence Zelenskiy doing NATO/US bidding, accepting Billion$ in aid, opening his country to planeloads of CIA and Euro agency black ops etc etc… I reasonably cannot prove he is a puppet. In the same way you cannot prove Putin has ever taken a dime.
Zipster:
what.the.living.f*ck!?!?!?
Zipster, my experience has been that people who want to be in a position of authority over unprotected children are the ones who need the most scrutiny. The ones who want to help will be happy to have that scrutiny because they want to protect kids.
The ones who help foment resistance to the scrutiny need it the most.
And yes, I’m talking about scrutiny – not accusations.
And it isn’t the front line carers most likely to offend – it’s the peripheral, ‘pillars of the Community’ types. (But that’s my opinion only.)
“Because… the WEF has managed to get itself appointed as an “official advisor” to the UN.
It’s worse than that, Western countries such as Oz, Canada and NZ are now saddled with politicians who are WEF plants and who blatantly pursue WEF agendas. Trudeau, Ardern and here in Oz…Greg Hunt, all graduates of the WEF Hogwarts School, they are three examples that come to mind and there are many more.
The UN has its Agendas 21 and 30, which just happen to reflect the destructive shit that the WEF is pushing. Climate change, covid/pandemics/”vaccinations”, removal of animal protein from our diets, restriction of movement, destruction of agriculture and fisheries, outlawing natural remedies and useful vitamin supplements, control of information and free speech… the lot.
Quite so, and perhaps we should ask an ordinary Sri Lankan what they think of the UN and WEF. I suspect many Sri Lankans would have some advice to us about the UN and the WEF. After all, they were forced into adopting “green” agriculture by a government intent on implementing green UN and WEF policies. And what ensued? Utter disaster, crop failures, hunger, riots, government collapse. I suspect that the average Sri Lankan, on hearing someone say “I still can’t understand why anyone cares what the WEF says”, would politely respond by saying “I think you had better wake up and care what the WEF is doing, they are exerting a very sinister and unhealthy influence over governments and we here in Sri Lanka experienced firsthand the sinister consequences of WEF ideology and policies – which were crop failures, starvation, riots and societal collapse“….oh and I suspect many European farmers have now woken up and care about the WEF is doing, just ask Dutch farmers.
That’s why we need to care what the WEF says. Don’t think they don’t mean every word of what they intend to enforce on the rest of us; they absolutely do mean to do it – if we let them.”
Absolutely. They mean it, and it’s time we, the ordinary people on this planet, sent a message back to them…..
“read my lips….NO”.
What have the Ukrainians ever done for us?
Apart from Chicken Kiev, that is.
FMD, tennis is dull.
Talkback with Dave Cochrane on 2SM going nuts about the Voice: the sheep have wokened!
Gabor 1:09
Pride cometh before the fall
No.
I want people to tell me WHO is controlling Zelensky.
Dot.
I suspect the Vlad Bae is largely people disgusted with our own uniparties rush towards the Brazil like future of corporate and state malice and incompetence at their core functions.
I’m at the fairly nihilistic stage of not caring what causes our uniparties to collapse or be derailed.
If it was likely to happen supporting either side in Ukraine I’d support it.
But it’s not. Vlad looks good to some because of a handful of selected quotes and distance from Russia
Well, Kholomoisky is the Oligarch who put Zelenskyy in the hot seat, so he’s gotta be one of the controllers.
Unless Zelenskyy has disavowed Kholomoisky?
Indeed mole, like this nonsense:
In the same way you cannot prove Putin has ever taken a dime.
Actually you can. “Unexplained wealth”.
Yes.
https://carnegieendowment.org/politika/87914
Here ya go, Dot?
Zelenskyy has been selling off arable land to Corporations.
Du Pont, Monsanto, Cargill, ConAgra, Black Rock CEO Larry Fink just inked a deal with the War Lovin’ Midget.
Regarding the tall tale from last evening of a tradie “working for food”.
Let’s assume that there were, in fact, restrictions on building work at the time of this fabled event.
So, we are to believe that, not only did the said tradie grossly undervalue his work by accepting a scabby pub meal in return for his labour, but he took the risk of a yuuuge fine for a “don’t look at the use-by” Chicken Parma and chips?
Sure.
Most tradies I know are extremely canny when it comes to making a quid. For example, very few builders will go fixed price without disclaimers on a reno, because they don’t know what they will find when they un-zip the place and have a look at it’s innards.
The point is, if by doing the work, he was at risk of a monster fine (whether he was paid in gold or peanut shells or chicken parmas) why would any rational person do it?
Most I know would work for cash, thinking that, if they get caught after 4-5 days work they will still be in front.
So, let’s go to the fact check:-
False.
Men go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one. Charles Mackay, L.L.D
And you have proof of this?
Am I to understand people are embarrassed as to the provenance of their “Zelensky is a puppet” narratives?
$100 billion for Ukraine – and 10% for the ‘big guy’?
Let’s focus down on President Zelensky. According to a report in the Guardian it has been said that Zelensky is under the influence of the Ukrainian billionaire Igor Kolomoisky whose TV channel aired Zelensky’s television sitcom, “Servant of the People,” where a school teacher upset about his country’s corruption accidentally runs for president and wins. It is alleged that during Zelensky’s real presidential campaign, Kolomoisky transferred $41 million to offshore firms belonging to Zelensky and his circle, including Film Heritage. It should be noted that in March of 2021 Kolomoisky was banned from entering the U.S. due to his “significant corruption.” It is also stated that besides financial support given to Zelensky during the 2019 election, Kolomoisky provided Zelensky with a car, his personal lawyer to be campaign adviser and proceeded to promote the candidacy on several media outlets he owned.
A Forbes magazine article reported that Kolomoisky had interest in obtaining a steel plant so he sent “hundreds of hired rowdies armed with baseball bats, iron bars, gas and rubber-bullet pistols and chainsaws [to] forcibly [take] over” the plant. In addition it was said that Kolomoisky put a shark in a tank in his office and “was not averse to shoving the head of a visitor in it as a reminder never to cross him.” It is also fascinating to note that according to the New York Post, part of Kolomoisky’s financial empire is Burisma Holdings, which is the Ukrainian energy company that employed Hunter Biden as a board member for $50,000 per month.
“Forbes magazine currently places Zelensky’s net worth at between $20 and $30 million,” which is far more than he could have earned as a simple TV performer and comedian. It is interesting to note that Zelensky allegedly owns lavish properties in central London, Italy and Miami Beach to which he could retire if forced to flee Ukraine.
I am sure that it is just coincidental, but once Zelensky was elected as president “he removed Kolomoisky’s opponents, the Prosecutor General, the Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine, and his own prime minister, who tried to regulate Kolomoisky’s control of a state-owned electricity company.”
https://grrrgraphics.com/zelensky-you-are-no-churchill/
Churchill would despise Zelensky for what he is: A little puppet con man who is ripping off US taxpayers for the benefit of the globalist rulers as well as for himself and his cronies running Ukraine.
The problem there is Ukraine isn’t a democracy—especially not now. NATO and the CIA made sure of that when they removed Ukraine’s lawfully-elected president, Viktor Yanukovych, in 2014. Turns out Yanukovych wanted closer ties with Ukraine’s traditional ally, Russia. Nope, the globalists couldn’t have that, so they had Zelensky, a comedian who once played the piano with his penis, installed to run their money-laundering whorehouse, complete with the installation of bioweapons labs. Corruption ran rampant and Hunter Biden got his paychecks from Burisma, and Joe the ‘big guy’ got his 10 percent.
Zelensky soon began his campaign of genocide by bombing Russians in the Donbas region to the east. Yes, he WANTED a war with Russia. Or I should say his globalist masters wanted the war. Over 100 billion unaccountable dollars has since flowed into Ukraine and many are getting fabulous amounts of money in kickbacks. Our Military Industrial Complex certainly is happy—they have a new war with which to enrich themselves.
Pandora Papers Reveal Offshore Holdings of Ukrainian President and his Inner Circle
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky rode to power on pledges to clean up the Eastern European country, but the Pandora Papers reveal he and his close circle were the beneficiaries of a network of offshore companies, including some that owned expensive London property.
The revelations come from documents in the Pandora Papers, millions of files from 14 offshore service providers leaked to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and shared with partners around the world including OCCRP.
The documents show that Zelensky and his partners in a television production company, Kvartal 95, set up a network of offshore firms dating back to at least 2012, the year the company began making regular content for TV stations owned by Ihor Kolomoisky, an oligarch dogged by allegations of multi-billion-dollar fraud. The offshores were also used by Zelensky associates to purchase and own three prime properties in the center of London.
The documents also show that just before he was elected, he gifted his stake in a key offshore company, the British Virgin Islands-registered Maltex Multicapital Corp., to his business partner — soon to be his top presidential aide. And in spite of giving up his shares, the documents show that an arrangement was soon made that would allow the offshore to keep paying dividends to a company that now belongs to his wife.
“When I take the field for this game I will certainly be reflecting and thinking about all of my ancestors and peoples lives who changed from this day.”
With an mindset like this you’d think a person would be above accepting money for the honour to serve as an example ………. BUT! ……… LOL!
Zelenskiy is totally controlled, dotty. He’s a marionette of US/NATO. And I’m not embarrassed in the slightest.
BIRM
Unless Zelenskyy has disavowed Kholomoisky?
Yes.
https://carnegieendowment.org/politika/87914
Yes, Putin has never had anything other than a government job.
He in no way legitimately acquired billions of any kind.
Much like the Bidens.
…and what if he doesn’t obey their orders?
You have absolutely no proof of this you bizarre fantasist.
Dotsays:
January 22, 2023 at 1:54 pm
No.
I want people to tell me WHO is controlling Zelensky.
Dotty Dot, you have a first in sumfink’. And as such an academic in your Ivory Tower, you should be able to work it out for yourself. Remove those blinkers and look and learn, or just keep plodding on asking to be spoon fed. “I want people to tell me WHO” as you ask………………..LOL FMD
No Johnny Rotten, you can tell me, stop being such a nefarious little dickhead.
Those trees.
more on Alan Komissaroff
That’s not proof dotty. As in some form of evidence , you know.
So you personally have no or not seen proof that Putin has taken a dime? Only media reportage.
Or, is this “common knowledge” stuff? Like Zelenskiy being a puppet?
You don’t believe this crap, Dot?
The ‘enskyy had to disavow the ‘moisky because of bad publicity about Burisma.
Explain why the ban on sales of agricultural land to foreigners has been scrapped?
There is media reportage of Putin having unexplained wealth.
There is no reportage of Zelensky being a puppet, just editorialising by Russian shills.
Dot:
Well thought out article – needs padding out with the Sergeant/Warrant Officer cohort – the backbone of any modern army..
I want people to tell me WHO is controlling Zelensky.
Your friend and mine Mr Martin Armstrong. Dah, dah………………
You have obviously not been reading the Armstrong Economic posts very well over the past year or so since Johnny Rotten turned up on this Libertarian Blog. I suggest that you take your head out of your ass and go back and read them. Mr Armstrong has been quite clear on this issue that you seem to have with ‘Puppet Man’. The other issue being not being able to see the nose in front of your ‘boat race’.
Bushkidsays:
January 22, 2023 at 1:09 pm
So good to see you here again, Bushkid. I hope all is well with you.
I imagine Saint Zelenskiy will be reminded who his benefactors are and hat they expect.
Dotsays:
January 22, 2023 at 2:19 pm
No Johnny Rotten, you can tell me, stop being such a nefarious little dickhead.
Dotty Dot stop being so sensitive when you are wrong. Get over it. Please see my previous post about you wanting to know WHO. Lazy shite. Go and work it out for yourself. The Enlightened World already knows that the ‘Ukrainian Puppet’ is a puppet. FMD.
Dot:
I’m no economist but the article gives an impression of whistling past the graveyard.
Odd.
If even Elon Musk had to knuckle under to the petty tyrants running the world what hope is there for the ordinary person. We do not own our own bodies if they get to decide what is done to us.
You can just say who controls him, instead of bluffing.
The other possibility is that Elon is not a crook like the rest of the billionaires none of whom seems to have suffered any effects, most likely because they paid the right people to be let off.
Not true.
Zelensky had an open and vehement disagreement with Trump. He has criticised Biden and he has criticised other NATO members.
Some puppet.
cepa.org
Euro shills. WEF/NATO/USG and woke corps propaganda site.
“Contributor List For The 2021 Ficsal Year
Bae Systems PLC
Bell Textron, Inc.
Craig Newmark Philanthropies
General Atomics
General Dynamic European Land Systems GmbH
Google LLC
Goverment of Estonia
Hirsch Family Foundation
Improbable Worlds Limited
Larry Hirsch
Leonardo US Corporation
Lockheed Martin Corporation
Mercedes-Benz
Microsoft Corporation
National Endowment for Democracy
Poses Family Foundation
Robert S. Gelbard
Russia Strategic Initiative, US European Command
Smith Richardson Foundation
Thomas Firestone
US State Department
Victor Ashe
Victor Pinchuk Foundation”
https://cepa.org/about-cepa/our-supporters/
They quite OPENLY declare their benefactors. This is quite ethical.
Can you disprove the data they discuss? No.
Sure they put their own spin on it, but it is very clear:
Putin blew up his own country in a botched attempt to restart the Russian Empire in the Rus’ Princes homeland, which is now ruined even more so than Russia.
Why anyone wants to defend this, apart from “at least Putin doesn’t like the transgender ideology” is beyond me.
Putin can’t save us and he hates the west. It’s up to use to rebuild, if at all.
Gabor, it’s a passive aggressive way of saying I’m better than any of you and as we are not allowed to say we are proud of who we are their inference is thus validated.
Very convincing. Lol.
So what Makka, now you’re insinuating Trump was part of some BS political theatre with Zelensky as to provide legitimacy to Zelensky not being a puppet?
This is bizzaro world stuff.
Did we ever figure out who blew up those pipelines? I still reckon it was the Ukes on their own, perhaps with some help from independent actors but nothing official from NATO.
Kung Hei Fat Choy Cats. Any rabbits out there?
Sure they put their own spin on it
No shit, Sherlock.
They are funding the propaganda.
Boy, 6, who shot teacher at Virginia school ‘previously threatened to burn and kill another teacher, barricaded doors and threw furniture – but elementary school dismissed complaints
The unnamed boy shot teacher Abigail Zwerner on January 6 in the classroom
Other teachers complained to Richneck Elementary that he was violent
He sent one a note saying he hated her and wanted to watch her ‘burn and die’
Daily Mail
That’s BS, he criticised them as a petulant child will throw a temper when not getting everything he wants.
Disappointing to see the true nature and ideology being revealed over the years by some posters who had a very good reputation as level-headed, cool people.
Did I really dotty? Must have missed that one too. With so much bullshit in your imagination, no wonder it’s so fertile.
Of course it’s false.
He even corrected me, saying the lockdown occurred 22 March 2020 instead of my claim that we began to close down in the 2nd week of March 2020. He suggested the tradie was going around looking for a fee on 30th March 2020. Even though the Driller claimed the tradie had money in the bank, he was scrounging for food 8 days later. Such a bullshitter, and like everything else, he’s terrible at it.
No longer tacitly but here goes – For Putin to continue to beat Biden until Trump/Republican candidate takes over and then said personage will peacefully stop the war by cutting loose the Zelensky puppet.
Also for Taiwan aiming a large nuclear device at itself (and to mainland China – which may be intercepted) in the event China looks like taking over as a FU to China.
just moved on AAP wire:
Federal opposition Leader Peter Dutton says any proposed Indigenous Voice to parliament needs to address racial inequalities and improve reconciliation.
But Mr Dutton stopped short of officially endorsing the need for a Voice, saying there needs to be tangible action first.
“It’s not so much in my mind whether or not there’s a Voice, it’s whether there’s action from the government,” he told Sky News.
“I want an outcome that’s going to bring an end to the violence, the sexual assaults on children taking place in Alice Springs at the moment.
“Their voice is not being heard now.”
The opposition leader said the Prime Minister has the numbers in the lower house and in the Senate with the support of the Greens but did not want to pass any legislation on the issue.
“He could introduce his model of the Voice and demonstrate how it could work to help those children to bring an end to that violence,” he said.
“I just want to know when the action is going to start.
“I want a model that is going to help those kids enjoy the life that I would expect my kids to enjoy in a capital city.”
Treasurer Jim Chalmers hit back, saying Mr Dutton was looking for division, not the detail.
He said the voice would give First Nations communities the ability to have a say on issues that affect their lives.
“The voice is a massive opportunity for this country to move forward together in a spirit of unity and respect,” he said.
“There is a lot of detail out there already from the working group and there’ll be more detail provided between now and the referendum.”
Dr Chalmers also took aim at the opposition leader’s ambivalence.
“Peter Dutton has had multiple opportunities now to tell us whether he’s still stuck in the past, or whether he supports the Uluru statement from the heart,” he said.
“He’s a very similar kind of leader to Tony Abbott and Scott Morrison. Three peas in a pod.
“They all practice this kind of divisive and destructive brand of politics.”
Another dud SFL leader, too scared to take a stand.
Old Texas saying: All you find in the middle of the road are yellow stripes and squashed vermin.
Well done Jay Vine. Brilliant cyclist and impressive personality.
Surprising to find someone from Townsville who speaks comprehensible English.
How bad must the teachers be!?
Most kids like most of their teachers, at least at that age!
If not, who are the parents?
You’re editorialising.
Like what? I’m not dumb enough to forget Putin is actually worse than Luigi Albanese?!
Diversity Inclusion Equity! DIE! DIE! DIE!
First, respect needs to be earned. Second, I expect respect to go both ways. Calling me racist is not doing it.
Another dud SFL leader, too scared to take a stand.
Well, he’s not taking advice from clowns on the Internet, put it that way?
Try to use your brains, if you’ve got any
How can Dutton take a position on The Voice when the Government
won’t release any detail?
THIS is how much they care about “health and safety”!!!
EXCLUSIVE: I just put the FAA in a “no win” situation. If there is not a PROPER investigation, heads should roll.
Calling me racist is not doing it.
That’s nothing; some brain dead supporters of the squeal are saying those opposed are NAZIs, wear uniforms, kill wombats and eat cold spaghetti!
Here’s the thing about this Labor Government:
They’re stuck in an Opposition mentality.
It’s not up to Peter Dutton to make the running on The Voice, it’s up to
him to hold the Government to account.
Which he’s doing.
Brilliantly.
Areff, right on the money. A leader should lead. Dutton obviously fought hard for the leadership role so he should now lead instead of us having to push him every step of the way. He is now the fourth Libs leader in a row who wanted the leadership so badly but once there was at a loss what to do next.
DC_Draino
@DC_Draino
This is horrible to watch
Diamond said she couldn’t breathe and then died suddenly
Silk is demanding answers about the vaccine and what it did to her sister
Why does this keep happening?!
Dot says:
January 22, 2023 at 3:28 pm
Nothing to do with your spat with Makka re. Ukr and Russia.
I make up my own mind about that and don’t get involved in futile forum discussion.
Remember your derogatory remarks about certain European nations, that BTW have been around for more than a thousand years, compared to the blink of an eye for some new ones.
When did Jim Chalmers become a doctor? Is it another one of those honorary degrees university lapdogs give out to their friends?
I asked you a question, you refused to answer it.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
The Signs of Our Times
More from today’s protest for those killed and injured by the covid vaccines outside the BBC in London.
A leader should lead. Dutton obviously fought hard for the leadership role so he should now lead instead of us having to push him every step of the way.
FFS.
The Voice isn’t Dutton’s idea.
Why has he got to take the lead on it?
If it’s such a great idea, why doesn’t Albanese drop everything and run around the Country refusing to give any direct answers and pissing millions of people off?
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
Ready for Brain Transparency & Hackable Humans Through Wearable Devices?
Nita Farahany: “We can pick up if you’re happy or sad or angry….we can decode your pin number…”
Hard PASS. If you wanna know how I feel, I will bloody tell you! Here’s an example: F*ck off
Caught the early train to Naples, I’d forgotten the details of the trip from when I last was here, five years ago? Perhaps we caught a vft. This time I recognised Vesuvius but it has a good cover of snow, which I’m sure it didn’t last time. My host told me the metro station I wanted was on line 2 but on checking it was definitely on line 1, so there was a bit of toing and froing around Piazza Garibaldi. The station complex is modern and well organised, much like Termini. I bought my metro ticket in one of the automatic machines in the Galleria, there was a funny fellow who must have known one of the machines was faulty, he swooped in a couple of times to collect his winnings. The metro is a long way underground and the escalators at my destination stop have an amazing mosaic in shades of blue over them, lots of people taking selfies with them as background. Outside though it was raining, then raining harder. My host’s map didn’t say which direction to go in and was too small on the screen to see street names, so I used google, against her advise, and got there easily enough. The streets in the old part of Naples are a narrow cobbled grid overlooked by ancient four or five storey buildings with barely enough rooms for one way cars and motor cyclists who do what they like. It’s very picturesque even in the pouring rain. I’m staying on the third floor of a former palazzo in a very nice studio apartment at right angles to my host’s own apartment, the parqueted entry of which extends into the lobby of my space has subfloor heating, very cosy. The palazzo entrance has not one but two Latin inscribed marble plaques inserted in the wall.
Had lunch at a cheap and cheerful pizzeria , then visited one of those cavernous supermarkets, a tiny entrance then other sections hidden around corners as they borrow space from the building next door.
Rain wouldn’t stop and my shoes and socks were wet along with the rest of me, so I had a quiet afternoon, okay I slept, and then spent the evening reading The Snack Thief by Andrea Camilleri, which is set in an imaginary town in Sicily, where I am going next. Struggling still to adjust to European time. Today will be the day.
There is a church 110 metres from me where hopefully I can go to mass this morning otherwise I will venture further afield. Sadly, the weather doesn’t look like it’s going to improve. I’m going to try for a day trip to Vesuvius as missed that last time, otherwise I will hunt down those enclosed streets someone posted a story about a few months ago.
A persistent drip on my roof tells me it’s still raining.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
Killed By The State; We Will Never Forget
People gather in London to remember those killed and maimed by government experimental protocols
This must NEVER happen again. The media are complicit in the biggest crimes against the people.
Top heart doc: COVID vaccines to blame for sudden deaths of young athletes
When did Jim Chalmers become a doctor? Is it another one of those honorary degrees university lapdogs give out to their friends?
He’s completed a Post Graduate Degree, entitling him to be titled Doctor.
Strictly speaking, someone with an MB BS isn’t entitled to call themselves Doctor.
You’re right about him being an idiot, though.
Physiognomy never lies.
These Will Be The World’s Next Megacities
Just say ‘no!’ to the guilt trip
So much for justice.
DOJ Shows Resistance to House Republicans’ Investigations; GOP Says Department Is ‘Scared’
???
It’s all in good jest except for Germany.*
However, let’s see how many demerit points I can rack up before Harmony Day.
Like whom – Dutch, obviously ribbing Johanna. They’re seriously very dumb though.
Germans – they genuinely did not deserve to be a nation state after WWII. Like it or lump it.
Welsh – obvious repeated joke from Family Guy.
Balkans – riffing on the “Macedonia is Greek, Serbian, Macedonian…” slogan you’d hear in Australia in the early 1990s. Albania – well, …
Ireland – baiting proddies like Roger and Bons. Or nicely mocking Lizzie (some didn’t, so I stopped too).
(Look. Northern Ireland is doomed, but well, so is Ireland).
The Scots – believe in beheading and eating rich and famous children’s authors.
England – they had a King, called Steve.
I’d bring up country balls, but I’d probably be reported anonymously to Julie Inman Grant. Maybe don’t read Robert G Barrett if you’re sensitive.
PS
I really am 1/32nd Italian.
* There were open threads littered with snide remarks about the woe Germany wrought on the world, despite being arguably the powerhouse of hard sciences in the 19th century.
The issue with The Voice isn’t whether or not Labor can guilt trip people who’ve never interacted with Aborigines, it’s what’s in the Legislation and how will it work in practice.
Now, obviously it’s a Trojan Horse, but pointing that out before the General Public have worked it out for themselves turns the debate into a Liberal versus Labor squabble where voters take sides based on Party loyalty rather than what’s best for the Country.
SHIT TOWN POWER RANKINGS 22/1/23
1. Toowoomba, QLD – Karen pours bucket of boiling hot liquid dogshit over stranger’s car because she parked in front of her house; gronk charged after allegedly taking bong to court
2. Wyong, NSW – Psycho charged after allegedly shooting random motorists with nail gun
3. Nullarbor, SA – Dickheads destroy 30,000-year-old rock art
4. Frankston, VIC – Santa Claus pepper sprayed and arrested outside Bunnings
5. Townsville, QLD – Lowlifes steal firefighting vehicle; burglars run over woman with her own car; gronks fail in attempt to smuggle $250k of drugs into prison using drone
6. Darwin, NT – Naked teen breaks into sex shop
7. Perth, WA – Drivers flee as maniac smashes cars with metal pole; club bans red shoes to deter eshays
8. Mandurah, WA – Bastard burns down giant wooden sculpture
9. Canberra, ACT – Drongo accused of riding modified e-scooter at 100km/h while high on meth; gronk bites cop and pisses in police car
10. Port Pirie, SA – Still shit
Chalmers is just another dime-a-dozen pee haitch dee. Canbra’s full of them- both pubes and pollimuppetts.
Trent from Punchy.
Not unusual for Darwin.
Was he on the Skywhale design committee?
Unless you’re exceptionally thick or just being deliberately so, you will see that I did. I caught you lying again, trying to attribute your bullshit as my comment.
You behave like a child here dotty, with your dreamed up fantasy accusations then stomping your foot demanding they be defended (in strong>bold, lol) You have no real experience to speak of and relying on what you read in textbooks and academic tripe often leads you to stupid positions.
Dr Jim has a Piled higher and deeper in grifting, also known as political science which has no science involved. Like every politician, has no idea how to make money, only how to take it and spend with 10% for the big guy or themselves.
Ed Casesays:
January 22, 2023 at 3:35 pm
Here’s the thing about this Labor Government:
They’re stuck in an Opposition mentality.
It’s not up to Peter Dutton to make the running on The Voice, it’s up to
him to hold the Government to account.
Which he’s doing.
Brilliantly.
For once Head Case and a Suitable Case for Treatment, you make some sense. Please keep up the good work. Your Headmaster would approve. Now for next term boys/girls/its/whatever, you will need to read the Classics. All of them……………………….
Beloved Sydney street personality Danny Lim will make a run to become an MP in parliament’s upper house at March’s state election, revealing he was prompted to throw his hat in the ring after his arrest and subsequent injuries late last year.
Mr Lim, who is a mainstay of the city’s busy streets, was injured at Town Hall’s QVB in November after he was arrested by police officers before suffering head injuries and taken to hospital.
He was wearing a sandwich board reading ‘SMILE CVN’T! WHY CVN’T?’ when security guards then called the police.
Vision from the incident allegedly depicted Lim thrown to the ground by officers, which left him with a bloody head and a stay in hospital.
The 78-year-old said he was motivated to run as an independent for NSW’s Legislative Council after the incident because he “still had work to do”….
Mr Lim said he’d – among others – campaign for “openness, transparency, accountability and morality” in state politics, as well as a raft of progressive policies, including: free dental care for disadvantaged Australians, more affordable housing, a basic living wage, funding for ICAC, and legalise cannabis.
Daily Tele – comments open
Dutton’s real problems will start once the Inquiry into the Bruce Lehrmann Prosecution kicks off.
Dutton is on record as saying it was:
He said/She said
so it’s likely that he had discussions with the AFP.
Now, the people running this Inquiry don’t owe the Liberal Party anything, so they’ll have no trouble calling Dutton and Scotty and Reynolds and Cash and a few others too.
If any of them give answers not corresponding to what they’ve told Parliament, it’s all over.
Yep ‘universities’ have a lot to answer for.
You got asked a question that was a supposition then you accuse someone else of lying, instead of answering the question.
Like not being able to admit “Zelensky is a puppet” is only really possible if you believe Trump was in a staged fake tiff with him, which you DON’T believe, but you refuse to concede Zelensky isn’t a puppet.
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.
Dot, not doubt you’ve heard Norm Macdonald’s “deeply closeted gay man” bit.
I was told that story by an older black man on a train carriage.
I didn’t have a choice in hearing it.
Danny Lim sounds like an arsehole.
GreyRangasays:
January 22, 2023 at 4:03 pm
Dr Jim has a Piled higher and deeper in grifting, also known as political science which has no science involved. Like every politician, has no idea how to make money, only how to take it and spend with 10% for the big guy or themselves.
‘Political Science’ along with ‘Social Science’ (Economics as well) and ‘Domestic Science’ is NOT Science.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdSUnV2fJGk
I think puppet is a fair description of Zelinsky. Wasn’t the current Ukranian governments installed in around 2013 after a bit of US meddling?
All I’m really interested in is whom Martin Armstrong believes controls Zelensky.
I’m totally sure it won’t be a cringeworthy, embarrassing narrative not discussed in polite company implying a bizarre alternative history of the Ukraine and blame a particular ethnicity known to historically work in financial services due somewhat to medieval era bans on others being unable to enter that trade.
You behave like a child here dotty, with your dreamed up fantasy accusations then stomping your foot demanding they be defended (in strong>bold, lol) You have no real experience to speak of and relying on what you read in textbooks and academic tripe often leads you to stupid positions.
100% there for you Dotty Dot. You are an academic living in an Ivory Tower. You got a first cos’ you were probably shagging the Prof’. Who knows and who cares.
The Ukrainian Clown is a clown and a Puppet. He will run away in the Northern Spring when Russia does it’s pincer movement cutting off Kiev and the west of Ukraine from the East. Game over and then sue for peace. The Clown Puppet will then retreat to the West and enjoy his loot. He is not a Leader he is a Crook. No better that the ‘Banksters’ in the West. FMD
Dot says:
January 22, 2023 at 3:53 pm
Nice try to divert,
Romanians and Hungarians are “shyte people”.
Remember that?
What did you base that opinion on?
Why did you omit that comment in your reply?
I would’ve expected that sort of remark from the motel manager, graduated to publican, but not from you.
There are shyte individuals from any nationality, as you are constantly reminding us about Armstrong the spiv.
But to besmirch an entire nation for the sins of a few is despicable and shows the character of the poster.
Even Cassie admits there are bad apples in her mob, but rejects blanket antisemitism.
The Scots must look back and rue the day they gave women the right to wear skirts.
Let’s see if that plays out, or if “Socrates” rewrites “history” with another “reversal”.
‘Banksters’
Uh oh!
I’m totally sure it won’t be a cringeworthy, embarrassing narrative not discussed in polite company implying a bizarre alternative history of the Ukraine and blame a particular ethnicity known to historically work in financial services due somewhat to medieval era bans on others being unable to enter that trade.
No idea what you’re tokkin’ about here.
Could you translate into English?
“As a proud Muruwari woman”
Pretty chuffed to be white myself, come to think of it.
I honestly remember don’t remember saying that. Show me a link and I will apologise sincerely and profusely.
What’s the context?
You’re talkin’ ’bout the Fuggers, right?
Medieval German Bankers to the Habsburgs in the Holy Roman Empire.
How do they relate to Zelensky, Dot?
Good to see them walking the walk. For once.
Water is wet. News at 11:00.
Here’s the latest from Unz Review on Ukraine/Zelenskyy, as it relates to Britain’s Conservative Party.
Never heard of Grant Schapps before, he’s an interesting character.
Oh dear. Someone has got dragged down the Dotty hole.
quick lunch with extended family – da voice voting intentions. Included were 4 gen Y’s
Yes/No = 0/10
No better that the ‘Banksters’ in the West. FMD
‘Banksters’
Yes of course, and well named as it ryhmes with Gangsters. Like Goldman Sucks and all those other Banking crooks. HSBC who launder so much money that their heads spin in the washing machines.
Go back to 2008/2009 and you you will see what they did. Shareholders lost their money as did many others. Not one Bankster was put in the slammer for being a crook. You live in an Ivory Tower.
The Russians are not going to lose anything.
The Ukrainian Clown and Puppet will just melt away and live life on the hog with his ill gotten loot. He is not a Leader. He is leading Ukraine to destruction.
duncanm – yep,I doubt we’re even close to a representative sample, but I just cannot see how it can get over the mathematical hurdle for a referendum. As others have noted, the Liars have a terrible track record at this stuff.
H B Bearsays:
January 22, 2023 at 4:45 pm
Dotty Dot is a Potty Head. Too much of that potty stuff maybe?
Dot says:
January 22, 2023 at 4:29 pm
I do not keep screenshots and don’t know how to search back for more than a day, you have to take my word for it, or not as you please, I wouldn’t have mentioned it if it wasn’t true.
But be it as it may, here we are.
No great drama, we are just pixels on a forum, trust and respect lost here is dust in the wind.
That’s because it was legal, you idiot, and Congress for example passed the stupid TARP Bill on 3 October, 2008.
Excluding or including retirements, the American public voted Congress back in with an incumbency rate over 92%.
JC at 3:14.
Yeah, the transparent bullshit is almost an insult.
Look, the epic drama “Indians shitting through the floor of the Kenworth and dropping the odd turd at the Hay truck-stop” is hard to toss.
But the “tradies working for parma and chips” story is giving it a run for it’s money.