The Surrender of Granada, Francisco Pradilla Ortiz, 1882
Raygun is not evan close. RUN DMC, Jason Nevins – It’s Like That (Official HD Video)
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When all the CA votes are counted, the total vote count will be roughly similar to 2020.Kamal-toe sits on about…
A bit gauche to talk about it in church at worst.
Bed. —— Mark Dice: Based John Fetterman Returns and Acknowledges Trump’s Super Power
Dating too far up the hot- crazy matrix.
Why is this allowed to happen? Why?
Cassie of Sydney says:
February 1, 2023 at 4:15 pm
A few years ago I watched a marvellous documentary called Backtrack Boys (a NSW charity) about troubled boys (mainly indigenous although not all). It chronicled a group of juvenile delinquent boys who were all from dysfunctional homes, many who live and have lived on the streets, their lives are out of control, they truant from school, they’re barely literate (every second word was “eff”), and many of them had spent time in juvenile detention and were almost sure to head off to jail at some stage unless there’s intervention. The documentary focuses around how the boys meet up with a jackaroo, Bernie Shakeshaft, and how they travel with Bernie’s legendary dog jumping team. Bernie runs Backtrack Boys. His aim is to nurture in the boys responsibility, boundaries, and respect.
The documentary was a joy to watch, to see the boys interact with Bernie, his team and the canines. The boys receive much needed attention, schooling and the most important…..discipline. I loved watching the relationship between the boys and dogs, it was inspiring. The dogs give the boys unconditional love and the boys respond in kind. The dogs were made up of an assortment of kelpies, cattle dogs and other muts. The boys were truly transformed, they became focused, they learned responsibility, and their delinquency dissipated. The charity is about channelling the boy’s masculinity, and so what happens? The boys blossom, their masculinity blossoms. But the thing is, they go home and what happens? Many of the boys fall of the wheel again. It’s tragic.
cassie,
early 50s, my Grandmother live by herself (teacher retired – crippled with arthritis) in the bush on 5 acres by herself in Engadine. I used to catch the Steam Train from Central to Engadine Station & walk through the bush to her place.
She was next door to Boys Town and I (under 9 years) used to go freqently across to Boys Town on errands & with the young guys who had regularly come across to help my Grandmother out (I know the reputation & stories re Boys Town) – they had Butchery, Bakery, Metal Working shops, Catering Kitchens etc. teaching them all trades, as well as normal school work- the young guys were junvenile deliquents, but they had sport, boxing and non stop discipline, and speaking with a number I got to know over the 3-4 years years I went there, were happy to be out of what could only be described as totally disfunctional home lives
Boys’ Town was to be partly self-supporting and to be run by the boys themselves with the priest’s oversight. Boys’ Town came to have school rooms and a chapel but also a small farm with livestock, stables, water supply, vegetable gardens and orchard groves maintained and worked by the boys. The boys operated a butchery, leather works, metalwork blacksmiths and foundry, carpentry and woodworks, small brickworks, bakery and shops as well as the dormitory, kitchen dining room and laundry and, later, a hospital and swimming pool. As a “town” the boys constituted their own council and conducted their own elections for the positions of mayor, aldermen, health inspectors and other officers
Boys’ Town’s soon included many troubled and “at risk” boys, referred by courts, police, social service and education authorities as well as orphans, abandoned and other disadvantaged boys. As a residential community, Boys’ Town effected banishment, disassociation from former influences and substitution of parents and provided boys with alternatives and training. Boys’ Town boys participated in organised sports and fielded teams in local competitions, notably Australian rules football, in an era when the sport was rare in much of New South Wales. Some of its grounds became playing fields.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunlea_Centre
Media working out Alice is a story which will run and run:
Alice Springs pharmacies stop selling hand sanitiser as bottle shops close
A popular item will no longer be on sale in Alice Springs pharmacies following a crackdown on problem drinking in the town. Read why the businesses took the drastic step.
https://www.ntnews.com.au/news/alice-springs/alice-springs-pharmacies-stop-selling-hand-sanitiser-as-bottle-shops-close/news-story/c57acd4955534fe7ef460d3070a0d26b
The photo that shows the ridiculous flaw in FIFO Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s ‘farcical’ Alice Springs ‘booze ban’: Six bottles of wine, 60 cans of beer and a 750ml bottle of spirits
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11699121/Alice-Springs-alcohol-limits-Liquorland-BSW-Cellarbrations-mocked.html
Alice Springs mayor demands ABC retract ‘white supremacy’ claims
The Alice Springs mayor accused the ABC of misrepresenting a meeting of concerned residents as a “white supremacist” gathering – but the broadcaster stands by its report.
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/alice-springs-mayor-demands-abc-retract-white-supremacy-claims/news-story/ceb0725abfca198e81e113c48491ad4c
– with 379 comments so far
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has pledged to respond as soon as possible to the alcohol-fuelled social emergency in Alice Springs, as he awaits the findings of a snap report that will consider whether liquor bans should be reimposed on Indigenous communities.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/albanese-prepared-to-take-immediate-action-to-curb-alice-springs-violence-20230201-p5ch2a.html
Dan on the ban
At the risk of invoking Godwin’s Law, they are using mentally ill people to conduct experiments. Just like those other ones.
And Social Media is observing them (with pictures) for our entertainment, just like the asylums of old.
Everything old is new again. Or perhaps mankind’s innate appetite for evil remains unabated.
Video shows Trump sparring with NY Attorney General Letitia James during deposition
The Australian –Premier’s no-show at Pell farewell beggars belief
Though the late Cardinal George Pell would have been pleased by the scene at St Mary’s Cathedral,
Dominic Perrottet is behaving like a bunny in the headlights.
By TESS LIVINGSTONE
Back in 2017, or possibly earlier, our child took us to see an Indie band in Brooklyn; of course, I had to pay for the tickets. The band was called Chairlift, and this gal was the lead singer. She’s just beautiful in the way a girl next door should be. Unfortunately, she now has tramp stamps on her arm. I didn’t like the music much, but I was taken because she reminded me a lot of wifey in our youth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ9hLOHj8ag
Gals can be sexy bombshells, but nothing, absolutely nothing beats the gal next door look.
If Kamala resigns first I assume that means that Biden can select a new VP, and they do not have to come from within the current pool. He can put who he wants in. Some inhuman twisted monstrosity.
Then tell Biden that his wretched son, with all his life force leeched out by hookers and drugs, will be going to the big house if he doesn’t step down. Joe won’t understand it, but the lounge furnishing fabric appareled wife of his will.
Presidents run with a VP so it would seem VP stays within the President’s gift – drop a VP and pick a new one. Or is there a new constraint that says the Speaker of the Senate automatically becomes VP? That does not make much sense since the President’s VP will be politically sympathetic and the Speaker may not be. The VP is meant to be so much in synch with a President that they will be able to enact the President’s will even when incapacitated. And if an unsympathetic VP turned up a President could sack them on the spot. That is why I assume a President picks a new VP when one has to go ‘spend more time with their family’.
I would think they would want to avoid overtly kicking a Democrat President out in disgrace. The Democrats are very much into spinning myths around their Presidents to create the strongest emotional appeal. You can get a conservative to admit that Bush was a bad President easily enough (although you may cavil that he was not as bad or stupid as the MSM insisted), but I think it is way harder to get a Democrat to admit that Carter was a disaster.
And that is especially interesting since the ideas of conservatives are pretty consistent – humanist freedoms as laid out in the constitution, family, duty, etc, while progressive ambitions change constantly as each new generation needs to be made to feel that their ‘now’ is the time that all history has been working towards.
Imagine taking a 1970’s Democrat, a 1990’s Democrat, and a 2020’s Democrat, and asking them about free speech, sexuality, foreign wars, how to relate to the largest corporations, etc.
Admitting that a Democrat President was a dud would break the spell – maybe they aren’t ordained with perfection…maybe even this one.
It is funny to look at the Democrat base (young, mad, irrational, emotional, unable to focus on anything but the present, destructive) and compare it to the Democrat powerbrokers (old, conniving, cynical, calculating, self-absorbed, and contemptuous of their base).
Karts for whales, now!
Universal Studios’ new Mario Kart ride ripped for rules restricting plus-sized visitors (1 Feb)
I wonder when the wokerati will get around to calling the ride racist as well as fattist. After all the characters in Super Mario include no black ones. Well there is a small brown mushroom, and an ape, although the latter just might make their problems even worse.
Thanks for your posts over the last few week regarding your case.
It’s been a real eye-opener, one I wouldn’t want to be in your situation, so I understand your reticence to pursue any further.
“This story is not correct and now has national media attention and it’s why the Alice Springs community loses faith with the rest of the country, because of these stories that portray as all as racists and it’s absolutely not the case,” Senator Bilbo said.
Only some of you are racists?
I doubt the ABC or anyone else can define White Supremacy, but it serves to wake people up to:
#1. Why is there an undeclared curfew from sundown to sunrise in Alice Springs, with armed cops on horseback riding around?
#2. How much funding does Alice Springs Council receive to look after itinerant Aborigines?
#3. Why have Aboriginal People been living in humpies outside Alice Springs for generations?
Hasn’t this Mayor dope ever heard of Soweto?
From what little I had to do with them, they’re not generally the traditional image of a solder, but do fantastic work well off the beaten track that’s rarely widely acknowledged.
Please don’t encourage Bunnings trolley drivers, Roberto.
Psays:
February 1, 2023 at 5:10 pm
You are a Cat Treasure, P.
IIRC, some time ago you had to endure some nasty accusations (of sock puppetry etc) because the challengers couldn’t believe that a woman in her 80’s could be so computer literate. I trust they suffer more than a tinge of guilt now that they realise that a competent, determined woman of any age can master modern technology if she puts her mind to it.
And you are not alone. Elizabeth, now 80, is also computer savvy, as am I, to a lesser degree. (Not you, calli. Although your skills are up with the best, you’re still too young to join the “Grannies Rocking Computers” club.
Thanks for your excellent posts and links, and for your advice for those (including me) who are still learning.
The Daily Mail is giving Tennis Albo a huge serve.
I hope they keep it up.
Funny how just as the USA appears to be calling an end to COVID Madness, we have Sky TV running Associate Prof. Griffin advocating annual boosters!
Ageist!
That was quite a spiteful spray from ‘Dr’ Emerson this morning. Reminds me of the time he reckoned John Howard didn’t like dealing with Asians.
Big_Nambassays:
February 1, 2023 at 4:57 pm
I was just thinking about this and for some unknown reason a long-ago-read SF short story…
A ship on the way to Mars – expected time about 6 months – has a passenger who got bored and decided to ‘help out’ by tidying up the air regeneration system which consisted of a largish room full of plants and algae removing the CO2 and returning the O2 with a crop of veggies and other stuff.
Remarked to one of the crew about the onerous task and chided him for letting it get into such a poor condition. Crewie checks out the hydroponics section. All the O2 producing algae has been emptied out and the tanks bleached sterile. The carp have all been put in the freezer, and the plants all trimmed back to buggery. The old vegetation has been fed into the garbage disposal and is irretrievable.
I’ve forgotten the end result, but I suspect the passenger was shoved out of the nearest air lock. Probably a Greenie.
“Not all non Aboriginal Alice Springs residents are White Supremacists”
it squeaked.
Okay, so what are they there for?
Well, there’s Public Servants getting paid for failing to assist itinerant Aborigines.
There’s people in the Liquor Industry getting a living off alcohol addicted itinerant Aborigines.
There’s sick people who enjoy looking at human degradation.
There’s people who exploit alcohol addicted Aborigines by purchasing their property for pennies.
Is there anyone there with 3 generations of family in the town and not Aboriginal?
Unlikely, so they’re all blow ins.
“Dominic Perrottet is behaving like a bunny in the headlights.”
Bunnies have more courage.
Monty will be along to debunk this once the new “they were doing it FOR YOUR OWN GOOD, now you have RUINED EVERYTHING!! Christmas is RUINED because YOU did this”!!! memo drops from borg HQ
Pfizer Responds to Project Veritas Video, Admitting to ‘Engineering’ Covid Variants in Lab Studies
The art gallery in Alice Springs really is Marie Antoinette material. Our ruling class really live on another planet. The fact that we have a ruling implies we are not a democracy.
First they came for the directors…
Drivers licences, births and deaths and the census could feature in myGov expansion
What is the point of Dom Perrottet?
(Other than providing cover for Kean et. al.)
The man should get out of public life.
Ahhh, I wondered where the Australia Card went …
‘Needle in a haystack’: Search over after radioactive capsule found in WA outback
“The man should get out of public life.”
That will happen at the end of March. Perrottet is Kean’s toy bunny.
YouTube insider leaks ‘urgent guidance’ for employees on how to ‘handle’ Project Veritas Pfizer video
Trump investigations: Georgia prosecutor ups anticipation
Former President Donald Trump and his allies have been put on notice by a prosecutor, but the warning didn’t come from anyone at the Justice Department
It was from a Georgia prosecutor who indicated she was likely to seek criminal charges soon in a two-year election subversion probe.
I hope so.
I’m sure his growing family would appreciate it [no sarc intended].
Is One Nation running against Kean?
Dover Beach:
Because there are some very sick people out there who just luurve mutilating other people, and they have captured the legislative machinery that encourages their perversion.
But – and I do repeat myself – these mutilated victims, generally children at the time of emotional coercion, will remember who lied to them and used them for their own sadistic purposes.
They will exact a dreadful revenge.
Well done.
Now…how in heck did it fall of the back of a truck?
Drivers licences, births and deaths and the census could feature in myGov expansion
Australia has a population of 26.26 million. Only 1.something of whom are not demanding Government Services.
Luckily, Top Man, Bill Shorten is on hand to correct this appalling deficit:
My only expectation of you, little Shortone, is for you to farcough in as user friendly way as possible.
Von Einem was a med student iirc- medicine does attract these types of people (not in every case of course).
My only expectation of you, little Shortone, is for you to farcough in as user friendly way as possible.
A uni unionist- never forget clean event and chicita mushrooms.
These people are repulsive.
The Chaser comedians bring fake coffin to Cardinal Pell memorial
A pair of comedians from satire website The Chaser were sent packing from St Mary’s cathedral after they tried to enter George Pell’s memorial with a fake coffin. Watch the video here.
The Chaser comedy team attempted to enter St Mary’s Cathedral on Wednesday afternoon as mourners paid respects to Cardinal George Pell who is lying in state.
Comedians Charles Firth and Lachlan Hodson carried a pretend coffin loaded with boxes labelled “evidence” towards the entrance of the church.
The display was in reference to allegations the Cardinal was aware of historic child sex abuses during his time serving within the Victorian diocese of Ballarat, as well as a child sex abuse conviction that he was eventually cleared of.
Angry mourners gathered near the comedy team to show their displeasure.
“You are dismissing the Supreme Court?” asked one angry bystander. The convictions were dismissed by the High Court in 2020.
When prevented from entering by security, Mr Firth said to security, “don’t touch me, I’m not an altar boy.”
“Wait a minute, is this an issue of consent?” he continued.
“I don’t understand, that’s never worried you before.
“This is what he would have wanted, a whole lot of nondisclosure agreements.”
“I’m sure someone more senior would want all this evidence buried.”
Earlier in the day family, friends, colleagues and supporters came to pay their respects to Cardinal Pell before his official funeral service on Thursday morning.
Protesters not connected to the comedy group gathered outside the church as the hearse and coffin processed down College St.
Protesters hung coloured ribbons on the gates outside the cathedral, to symbolise those who had lost their lives as a result of the church “policies” and “sexual abuse”.
The protesters appeared peaceful, quiet and willing to co-operate and negotiate with police, who encouraged the small group to continue hanging ribbons further down the gate towards the public entrance of the cathedral.
Thursday’s funeral is set to have hundreds of protesters gathered outside after been given the green light by police.
Almost 400 people are expected to attend a “Pell Go To Hell” protest at outside St Mary’s Cathedral.
“Drivers licences, births and deaths and the census could feature in myGov expansion”
Length of time between that happening and some hackers encrypting the database and holding it to ransom?
In the oil industry, one of the horrors is losing a nuclear logging tool down the hole. In most jurisdictions there is a strict liability to recover the source (usually caesium-137, like this one) – and, depending on circumstances, the cost can run into many $millions.
If Parrothead hadda attended the Funeral he woulda become the star attraction instead of one of the mourners, due to the 4 Corners Story on his Alma Mater.
So he stayed away, which was the right decision.
Noo, I didnae watch 4 Corners, but The Australian says one of the deplorable issue brought up is that Opus Dei Schools discourage girls from having the Cervical Cancer Vaccination and teach wrong information about sex!
The mind boggles.
My daughter’s place would bring on local kids for the harvest and follow on seeding. Mostly good kids building up some funds for uni or a surfing trip.
Bit of a handful in the barracks at times. We always tried to convince them not to drive at night. The roads to the local pubs were rubbish and roos were endemic.
We never brought on indig kids. We probably never thought of it. There was a significant settlement not far away but there was no contact.
When regional town public housing was converted to indig housing we did enquire but it was too difficult frankly.
Now that is cool. Award those ARPANSA people a kewpie doll each!
2023.01.31 The Ukraine Conflict — A Primer
Almost 400 people are expected to attend a “Pell Go To Hell” protest at outside St Mary’s Cathedral.
If you asked each of them where were they when Mulkearns was buried, 99% would say “who”?
A baton charge springs to mind.
I was in the vicinity of St Vincents this evening.
A ambulance with two police cars escorting it was speeding towards it.
I wonder if it was a big wig or a violent crim getting the special attention.
Trump’s Best Foreign Policy? Not Starting Any Wars
He has my support in 2024 because I know he won’t recklessly send Americans to fight overseas.
WSJ
These people are repulsive.
They sure are- talk about the generation of vipers. The spoilt, privileged, coddled offspring of the North Shore ALP establishment.
Frank:
This will attract data miners like flies to shit. The government will likely pay tens of millions to keep any data breach quiet.
The data miners will be both national and private actors.
It’s not as if the Dean is going to allow roving ABC cameramen inside.
Ivermectin: Could Population-Wide Distribution Have Prevented China’s Recent Mass COVID Outbreak?
Gallup: the biggest problem facing America is its own government
Accompanied by tear gas…
Unfortunately so.
Catturd ™
@catturd2
The New World Order learned a lot watching how easily people around the world handed their freedoms away on a silver platter and obeyed them without question.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/01/the-australian-socialist-experiment-capturing-capitalism/
Odd. It looks very similar to Fascism, especially at the top.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
Today’s temperatures:
Looks more like COOLING than warming!
Thomas Massie
@RepThomasMassie
The unscientific, unethical, unconstitutional COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers was predicated on lies which I exposed on the House floor. The House will vote to end this mandate today.
thefrollickingmolesays:
February 1, 2023 at 6:48 pm
Monty will be along to debunk this once the new “they were doing it FOR YOUR OWN GOOD, now you have RUINED EVERYTHING!! Christmas is RUINED because YOU did this”!!! memo drops from borg HQ
Pfizer Responds to Project Veritas Video, Admitting to ‘Engineering’ Covid Variants in Lab Studies
Borg HQ is unable to find even an incoherent response to the Twatter Files, this one is waaaaaay above their pay grade. One word out of line and Saint Dr Fauci will use them as lab rats. After all, as DemonRats, they already meet 50% of the requirement.
What can you say about a company which sought and obtained approval for general distribution after a trial like this and then pushed it on parent. Hanging is too good.
Report 54: Infants and Children Under 12 Given the Pfizer mRNA COVID “Vaccine” Seven Months BEFORE Pediatric Approval. 71% Suffered Serious Adverse Events.
Richard Vobes
This is important
Ed October at 7.18, and apropos of Catholic school girls:
‘teach wrong information about sex!’
Trust me on this one, gypsum boy. There’s no cause for alarm. Catholic schoolgirls have forgotten more about sex than you’ve ever learnt.
YouTube insider leaks ‘urgent guidance’ for employees on how to ‘handle’ Project Veritas Pfizer video
“Now some of you might think we’re completely f’cked, at times like this, we need honesty for a change. We are actually completely rooted. On the bright side, it is likely that it will take time for people to come to grips with the situation, as what we were doing was both completely immoral and completely insane.
Some of you have expressed concern that you might be publicly lynched. Again, for a change, we will be honest, this is definitely a possibility, but not in the immediate future, as stated previously, it will take time for people to digest what we did. If you find yourself in a public lynching situation, our best advice is that you play dead…”
Conundrum for the AFL:
North Melbourne player Tarryn Thomas is in the frame for threatening to flog various girlfriends. This is apparently beyond dispute.
Usually, that would be the end of him as a footy bloke. However, his status as indig creates a Catch-22 for the club and the league as to how to market it.
Mark Robinson, flog that he is, correctly summarises the matter in the Hun:
Jordan de Goey (not indig) – tugs at the top of a woman he doesn’t know in a bar. Fined $25,000 and pilloried for months.
Tarryn Thomas (indig) – threatens to bash multiple women he does know. Subject to ‘education programs’.
..
Grubs.
Wasn’t one of their mates done for something or other?
‘At war with Russia’, Europe peers down the abyss
Alastair Crooke Strategic Culture Foundation
Russia is unlikely to take the bait: It has the real strategic advantage in all areas of engagement with the Ukrainian forces.
There is too much ‘noise’ in the system, and it is obscuring the view.
Davos has always been ‘weird’. But this year, the kookier aspects were so obvious. The WEF is dying on the vine. The ‘vision’ seems ever more fantastical, and the hubris – inherent in the ‘behavioural conditioning’ to make people make the ‘right choices’ – stands naked. The schism between life, as experienced in the round, and the WEF’s bleak prescription, has never been more stark. The gap will only widen as sharply falling living standards focus the great majority on immediacy and family survival.
One may dismiss this happening as a curiosity. But that would be wrong. The Davos vessel may have struck a large credibility iceberg, but it has not yet sunk.
Rather, the fact of Davos sinking into creepy idiosyncrasy is significant – highly significant.
It is significant because it marks a discontinuity in that ‘odd couple’ spectrum of the European climate zealots teaming up with the U.S. and British neocon Russophobes. It was always an oddity that the German Green Party – once anti-war – has become such an avid supporter of war with Russia.
The ‘Green’ wing to the coalition is weakening. But we should expect climate push-back on the Green Transition however, to increase, as living standards continue to collapse at a rate not seen since WW2.
Intuitively, Davos looking weird might seem a good thing. But beware what we wish for – because the fading of the ‘Green’ wing leaves the U.S. hegemony ideologues’ (the neo-cons) freer to push into the void, so vacated.
The origins to the Davos/Reset end to this framework were always ‘shifty’. The concept’s originator was never Team Schwab, but David Rockefeller, Chair of Chase Manhattan Bank, and his protégé (and later Klaus Schwab’s ‘indispensable adviser’), Maurice Strong.
The point here is that the Rockefeller-Davos prescription was always a scam for blowing a new financial bubble to keep the dollar hegemony project afloat.
The world however, is moving on from the Davos unitary world governance prescription, to de-centralisation and multi polarity – in pursuit of the renaissance of autonomy, historic values and sovereignty. At the WEF this year, it was obvious: Davos is passé.
The more important effect however, often missed, is the import of ‘the Agenda fail’ on the financial war: The Davos ‘new economic system’ envisaged a tidal wave of spending on renewable tech; on subsidies (like CO2 credits) and on liquifying the transition. It was about incubating a new bubble, based on zero-cost new money (known as MMT).
This is why corporates such as Blackrock and the oligarchs are so excited by Davos.
The arrival of high interest rates however, effectively kills the new ‘bubble option’ – precisely at a moment when the western world stands at the cusp of a severe economic contraction.
‘Serendipitously’ – at this moment of Davos decay – a raucous, distracting noise started up: Abrahams M1s and Leopards for Ukraine. German FM, Baerbock declares Germany and the EU family are “at war with Russia”. The noise, as usual, succeeds in obscuring any wider picture.
Yes, point one, we do have mission creep: We won’t send offensive weapons, but then they did. We won’t send long-range weapons M777), but then they did. We won’t send multiple missile launch systems (HIMARS), but then they did. We won’t send tanks, but now they are. No NATO boots on the ground, but they have been there since 2014.
Point two: Colonel Douglas Macgregor, a former adviser to a U.S. Defence Secretary, says that the mood in Washington has notably changed: DC gets it – the U.S. is losing the proxy war.
This fact however, Macgregor says, still remains ‘under the radar’ in respect to the main-stream media. The more important point Macgregor makes is that this late ‘awakening’ to reality is not shifting the stance of the neocons hawks, one jot. They want escalation (as do one small faction in Germany – the Greens; as well as a leading faction in Poland and, as usual, the Baltic states).
And Biden has surrounded himself with State Department war-hawks.
Point three: the contrarian ‘reality’ is that the ‘uniformed’ militaries of Europe also ‘get it’: that Ukraine is losing, and now are very worried by the prospect of escalation – and of war engulfing eastern Europe. The tanks have nothing to do with their calculus about the war outcome.
The professionals know the Abrams or Leopards will neither change the course of the war, nor will they arrive before it is too late to alter anything.
The European military cadre do not want war with Russia: They know the EU has no ‘surge’ manufacturing capacity to sustain war against Russia beyond a very small window.
Popular opinion, and key strands of élite opinion in Germany (and elsewhere in Europe), are becoming hardened in opposition to the war. The concern is that the emphasis on sending exactly German tanks, with their dark symbolism of past bloody battles, is intended to bury any prospect of any future German relationship with Russia – for good.
Further, German military officers worry that a failing Ukrainian military might fall back to the Polish border – and even across it – before the tanks are delivered. The tanks then would be absorbed by the Polish military. There is a thought in these military circles that this might, in fact, be the neo-cons ultimate intent: Poland, already mobilising a 200,000 man military force, would become the new proxy (and the largest army in Europe) in a wider European war against Russia.
Germans understandably are very uneasy. A recent report by the Polish edition of German Die Welt – based on discussions with Polish diplomatic sources, including a senior Polish Foreign Ministry official, reported:
“Every day, Polish politicians say what the representatives of Germany or France usually do not dare to say, and thus formulate one of the goals of the war, that Russia must be unconditionally weakened as far as possible. Our goal is to stop Russia forever. A rotten compromise must not be allowed.
“A truce on Russia’s terms would only lead to a pause in the fighting, which would only last until Russia recovers.”
So, let us turn this perspective around, and look at it from the other direction.
Of course, the Ukraine conflict is a kaleidoscope of moving shapes – yet there are some handholds onto which one can seize, for stability.
The axis of states “at war with Russia” stand at the edge of an economic precipice. Living standards are collapsing at the fastest rate since WW2. Anger, slow to ignite, is now burgeoning. The British and EU political classes have no answers to this crisis. The Ruling Class try to sit tight, and trust that the people will accept all ‘things’: Spiralling prices, jobs priced out by higher energy costs, empty spaces on shop shelves, the energy spikes – and the pockets of system dysfunctionality (i.e., at airports and on transport systems) that confound the smooth running of society. It’s the same for Americans.
The flunkies charged with the management and the running of ‘the system’ are confused. Their (high) self-esteem until now has rested on their articulation of ‘correct views’ and espousing the ‘prescribed causes’ – more than manifesting any particular competence in their work. Now they do not know what to say, or which cause is ‘correct’. Narratives are falling apart; the Twitter revelations have disrupted the former ‘equilibrium’.
The Kiev régime also is at the edge. It is reaching the edge on military morale – and in the supply of able-bodied men. It is financially broke.
Reportedly, one of the messages delivered by CIA head, Bill Burns, on his recent visit, warned that Kiev can count on Washington’s financial support until July – but beyond that, funding will be moot.
Colonel Macgregor suggests that the supply of ‘tanks’ were intended to “prolong the suffering” – i.e., more ‘optics’ until (presumably) a scapegoat can be identified that can carry the can for an eventual Ukraine débacle. Who might that be? Well, the rumour mill hints that the Biden Classified Documents saga is a ruse intended to lead to Joe Biden’s departure ahead of the Democratic primaries.
Who knows … But what is evident is that there is a faction in the U.S., that like the Europeans, opposes the Biden Team predisposition towards escalation. The Europeans fear kinetic war in Europe, whereas the American faction more fears the prospect of financial melt-down, should the war widen.
Of course, Moscow too, does not want a wider war – although it must prepare against just such a contingency.
Moscow will also be aware that the continued western military provocations (i.e., drone attacks in Crimea) are eagerly seized on by the hawks hoping to trigger a Russian escalatory step. Indeed, the hawks argue that the absence of such retaliation from Russia is adduced as evidence of weakness – justifying taking a qualitative step further, in subsequent provocations.
Russia however, is unlikely to take the bait: It has the real strategic advantage in all areas of engagement with the Ukrainian forces. Whereas, the West has only the ephemeral optical escalatory advantage.
Team Putin has the latitude to manage any escalatory steps (by way of retaliation) in mini, scattergun fashion, so to avoid giving the Washington warriors their hoped for ‘Pearl Harbour’ peg (as when the U.S. fleet was left tethered and at anchor, as a target intended to entice a Japanese attack).
Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat and founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum.
The ALP-North Shore-Fairfax-ABC-Abbotsleigh axis. yuk.
“Almost 400 people are expected to attend a “Pell Go To Hell” protest at outside St Mary’s Cathedral.”
400 from a city the size of Sydney seems like a damp squib. Sydney is usually full of psychopaths, given the amount of time and effort they have put into it whipping up a mob that size must be a disappointment.
Wasn’t one of their mates done for something or other?
In the Good Weekend a journo wrote a substantial story about the ex-partner of one of the Chaser crew.
She anonymously made allegations of domestic abuse that spanned years & that his Chaser colleagues were aware of the situation but did nothing.
Helluva accusation to put in print, in the SMH’s Saturday mag and the editors ok’d it.
Don’t say anything that might lead to a No vote, especially if it’s true. Ministry of Information fact-checkers will be swooping in.
Mmm. But Tennis Albo also said:
Vote for recognition, get unknown powers. Albo & Co will fill in the blanks after you’ve signed the cheque.
Woop woop, misinformation alert, straight to blog GULAG, woop woop.
..
That’s the thing.
Couldn’t remember exactly.
Still suckling at Aunty’s tit after how many years? Need a Ray Martin expose – although he is rather fond of the public purse in his older years.
And, of course, there are those morons from the Chaser whose gimmicks and valid points never coincide.
Pell is was someone who actually did something about child abuse. I have not heard of anyone in the Education Departments, reformatories, or anywhere else kids might be send, who have done the same in their respective areas.
The protesters, the Chaser, and the ABC take that as meaning it never happened anywhere else. Makes you wonder why Gillard had to so carefully frame the RC to restrict it to a far narrower scope than its official name.
Moreover, at about the time it was happening in the Church, the ABC (which the Chaser buffoons would be counted alumni) were pushing the idea of kiddy fiddling on their programs. Dishonest in their very bones.
I expect the Media Watchdog will have something to say on the matter on Friday.
It’s not as if the Dean is going to allow roving ABC cameramen inside.
Dean can’t stop the ABC and Crikey and Nine and Seven and Ten and Fairfax from stationing photographers to cover the entrances and exits.
Parrothead has read the entrails correctly.
Those hairpieces don’t come cheap, especially if you opt for the artisanal greying of the temples to give that distinguished look.
Fudge – mafs was so dramatic last night.
Then da castle – never seen it before enjoyed until you had this clap trap about being paid to leave your property with compo you say know I now how aborigines feel.
Can’t watch d gen either.
As I said over at Currency Lad, it’s a pity the Maltese dock workers who used to live in Woolomooloo have passed on. They could have dealt with the Chasers and the Marxist pervert rabble threatening to disrupt the Cardinal’s funeral in the manner they deserve.
Arkysays:
February 1, 2023 at 8:10 pm
The Chaser comedians bring fake coffin to Cardinal Pell memorial
..
Grubs.
Wasn’t one of their mates done for something or other?
Domestic Violence, IIRC, but Their ABC didn’t think that it was bad enough to can his contract.
Knuckle Rosie titters:
There’s no cause for alarm. Catholic schoolgirls have forgotten more about sex than you’ve ever learnt.
You’re a former Catholic Schoolgirl now?
You can bet your bottom dollar that any alleged ‘politcal influence’ this inquiry investigates
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-01/inquiry-into-lehrmann-trial-could-probe-political-interference/101916490
won’t be interference by the Academics Lawyers and Perverts party or the Gangreens.
My after dinner viewing is something our esteemed Doomlord once posted on the old Cat. A scifi fan film, which I had forgotten about until for some reason it recently started to bug me. Took a while (months even) to find it but tonight I was able to. As a bonus a second scifi fan film from a genre I know our emeritus lord and master likes also:
Search/Destroy: A Strontium Dog/2000 AD and Starlord Fan Film
Judge Minty – A Judge Dredd/2000 AD fan film
Both are seriously unwoke. 😀
They could have dealt with the Chasers and the Marxist pervert rabble threatening to disrupt the Cardinal’s funeral in the manner they deserve.
Steady on, Old Lefty.
The Maltese are known for carrying and using knives.
Parrothead has read the entrails correctly.
Maybe he wears crotchless panties too; maybe he goes to the same crotchless anonymous meetings as you; but whatever he does he’s not antisemitic, like you.
‘You’re a former Catholic schoolgirl now?’
Well you’re certainly not.
Although you are (apparently) ‘addicted to sluts’.
Here’s the plan.
… won’t be interference by the Academics Lawyers and Perverts party or the Gangreens.
No, it will be interference from the then Government to protect their protege.
If Dutton’s fingerprints are on that, he’s finished and the Referendum is
over the line.
Great comment over on Currency Lad about whether a group of right wingers would be allowed to disrupt the funeral of an Aboriginal elder in such a fashion…
Why would a group of right wingers want to disrupt an Aboriginal funeral?
That’s a pretty absurd Strawman there.
Note again how quickly Albanese resorts to the thinly veiled threat.
Nasty little man.
… but whatever he does he’s not antisemitic, like you.
Huh?
What’s going on here, Mr Sulu?
The other day you were raving about my being an enormous antysemite, now you’ve done a 180?
By the way, how was your day in the Family Court?
Conundrum for the AFL
The AFL is such an insipidly woke organisation that it will bend with the breeze to accommodate any player who is not a heterosexual white male despite the clear hypocrisy.
Nasty little man.
Are Trots Marxists too?
Last day in Palermo, going to bus to Monreale.
Got a cheery Buongiorno! in the street this morning, said buongiorno back and scurried on.
I see you JWs.
Stopped at the market again to watch the world go by, African lady with a baby on her back, baby was bouncing up and down and loosening the cloth it was tied to the back with, I don’t know how they keep them attached.
Then two kids walked past, noticeable on a school day, not with adults, boy maybe eleven or twelve, well nourished girl a bit younger.
Half a minute later the boy has come back around the corner and is standing beside me, hustling for money with the I’m hungry spiel.
Eventually I just said in English, but politely, go away.
I saw them again, he was eating walnuts.
Good, he won’t be hungry now.
Yes, aside from ice picks.
So much caring and sharing eh Bruce
I use mygov for two reasons.
To lodge bas and income tax returns.
What they should be looking at is who uses the Service Australia portal on mygov.
Babylon has just made an appearance on the preferred streaming service if anyone is interested.
Dover, earlier
Cardinal George Pell protest to take place at same time as Sydney funeral after compromise
The infamy of conducting a protest at a funeral. These people are sick and deranged and yet they are being egged on by the media, etc.
What makes these activists any more virtuous than, say, the Westbro Baptist mob?
De mortuis nil nisi bonum
Isn’t, wasn’t Alice Springs a bit of Isle of Lesbos?
Good call.
What’s going on here, Mr Sulu?
Warp speed crotchless. Serious question: who do you rank: 3rd nations, Israelis or Mark Latham?
Degradation attracts Lezzos, they’re notorious for going to India just to look at hideously mutilated child street beggars.
So it would be unsurprising if Alice Springs was infested with them.
And Flamers.
Serious question: who do you rank: 3rd nations, Israelis or Mark Latham?
Who cares?
Apart from that, Mr Sulu, how was your day in the Family Court?
Anything interesting happen?
Alice Springs a bit of Isle of Lesbos?
Too right, a lady friend bats for the other side there.
She reckons it is the lesbian capital of Oz, per capita wise. Most in the public service.
You know, I was thinking about this Voice bullshit and I came up with a theoretical solution. It wouldn’t work, but it would be a great form of justice.
We let Da Voice go through, and we then, from the government on down, completely ignore them. Simply pretend Da Voice does not exist. It can’t and wouldn’t happen, but it’s also okay to dream at times. 🙂
Who cares?
Well, antisemites don’t of course crotchless. The thing is crotchless panties are only available in the ME in Israel. Which makes your antisemitism puzzling.
We let Da Voice go through, and we then, from the government on down, completely ignore them. Simply pretend Da Voice does not exist.
And when guys in non-crotchless panties and spears turn up, what then?
And in other gay news, the Mercury reports:
HOBART is believed to be the only Australian capital without a dedicated LGBTIQ+ bar as Flamingos, which closed more than two years ago, still searches for new premises.
Equality Tasmania wants the Hobart City Council to work with the community to find a home for the popular dance bar, which opened 18 years ago.
Flamingos licensee Gary Quilliam believes homophobia may have contributed to the difficulty finding a suitable venue.
“It’s beyond desperate, it’s embarrassing,” he said.
“Ever since closing, we have been contacted on a weekly basis by locals and tourists alike searching for a safe space in Hobart to catch up with other like-minded people for a drink and to socialise.
“To the best of my knowledge, Hobart is the only capital city in Australia that has no dedicated LGBTIQ+ bar or club.
“Despite our best effort to date searching for a suitable venue, the options are very limited.
“Plus we believe we are also subject to homophobia, which could have played a role in preventing us from being able to secure our desired premises.
“As we were the only permanent dedicated safe LGBTIQ+ venue in Hobart, it means members of the LGBTIQ+ community, either locals or tourists, no longer have a safe space to go to on a weekly basis, should they want to.”
Is there just a touch of “gov should do something whinge” there?
Laugh.
Bern!
JC!
https://www.facebook.com/everythingbateman
Damn you Dot.
I’m not on fb but now I think I have to be.
We let Da Voice go through, and we then, from the government on down, completely ignore them.
Here’s your problem with that line of thought:
Let’s say The Voice advises Parliament that it needs your principal place of residence.
Parliament can’t refuse, because the Constitution was changed so that The Voice is supreme.
Anyway, the Sheriff of Victoria turns upon your doorstep with a Warrant, a Locksmith, and half a dozen armed goons.
How you gonna ignore that?
LOL Dot.
Where’s the chainsaw though?
I was scrolling through my instagram the other day & I realised I follow more dogs than I do humans.
Imagine telling yourself that 20 years ago.
And when guys in non-crotchless panties and spears turn up, what then?
Laugh.
When the Mabo Judgment came down in 92 I got a call from my uncle, a WW11 vet, that local 3rd nations had came out to his property and demanded he leave because it now belonged to him. They’d been going around to farms with elderly owners. I had to go up and explain the Judgment did not apply to private land although subsequent Judgments are whittling that away. There was a bit of argy bargy but they left.
I’ll tell you this head prefect: if the fu.king scream gets into the constitution what happened after Mabo and 50% of Australia now owned by the 3rd nations with Native Title will look like small potatoes.
Da Voice won’t have any legislative authority, Eddles. It’s only there in an advisory capacity.
My second biggest group I follow are architects.
I am so boring.
My 20 year old self would wedgie my current self.
We just ignore the fcukers.
How you gonna ignore that?
He’ll say he knows crotchless pantie wearing antisemites and they’ll go away.
Ed Case says:
February 1, 2023 at 8:45 pm
Of course they wouldn’t, they have morals, sensitivity, class and decency.
It’s called a rhetorical, (for you, “a what if”) question.
Da Voice won’t have any legislative authority, Eddles. It’s only there in an advisory capacity.
FFS head prefect. If it’s in the Constitution its advisory capacity is mandatory.
Really I was thinking about cases of sexual assault, despite the invasiveness.
I am astonished that the radioactive capsule lost in the Pilbara was;
a. lost in the first place, and
b. ever found again.
The security and safety precautions that surround the use and transportation of these instruments is usually exceptionally tight, with all sorts of inspections and “chain of custody” sign offs every inch of the way.
Given that the capsule is the size of a cigarette butt and the Great Northern Highway route is 1500 kms through desert, scrub and floodways in some of Australia’s most remote areas, it was really a “needle in a haystack” situation. No doubt there will be massive amounts of new checks and balances put in place by .gov to ensure no repeat occurrences. The loss or theft of radioactive items is the stuff of nightmares for mine managers.
No doubt Centrelink will have some new “clients” before long.
Well done to all th0se involved in the search and recovery.
Predictions are difficult, especially about the future.
Or we don’t completely ignore them, and every time they come up with “advice,” the junior in the PM’s department sends them the same, repetitive, anodyne comment, such as:
The same comment every single time
Custard.
Excellent call. Seriously, great call. Trump is now in the White House and your prediction came true. I have to hand it to you.
Thanks, fellas; I appreciate the effort with the advice.
The same comment every single time
Right; and Marcia trots off to the HC which affirms that advice based on a Constitutional source, which is what the voice will be, is material and mandatory and then the fu.king junior is in contempt of the HC.
Mandatory means that we have to listen to them but are not forced to act on their advice.
Send out the Twitter message every single time.
Custard is two years early, that’s all.
Okay, and so freaking what? The government is not obligated to act of advice at all coming from those shysters.
Driller, will you piss off. Go clean motel laundry, you prissy old aunt Jessop.
Do you like chainsaws, JC?
Personally I find Stihls a little too cliche and prone to high frequency of chain sharpening and re-oiling, but the Husqvarnas have really come into their own; aesthetically and endurance wise.
The whole chainsaw industry is a really fascinating mix of high end metallurgy and precision metal fabrication that really gives the trades and outdoor workers a real boost. It is comparable to automation in any other industry, but you could say the powered forestry saws were the progenitor of that trend.
In 2022, there were 357 million chainsaws sold worldwide, the highest number of powered hand tools ever sold in any category ever. I think the undisputed masterpiece of chainsaws is the Makita gasoline powered EA7900PRZ which makes cutting through media of differing densities an absolute ironic joy given it makes a mockery of the hard working folk who routinely use them. The concept is so risible as most people probably consider that model of gasoline powered chainsaw unaffordable, but most people probably don’t consider Makita’s underlying intentions. But they should, because it’s not just about carving through wood, roadkill or whatever all of the time, it is also a critique of our workaholic culture and the inertia of the power tool industry.
Hey Milwaukee!
Mandatory means that we have to listen to them but are not forced to act on their advice.
No head prefect: material and mandatory are legal terms with legal force which will be decided by the HC. Ignoring a HC Judgment has legal consequences. I appreciate you can be stubborn when you focus on an idea but just accept this: this is basic law applying to politicians, bureaucrats, shorters, crotchless wearing antisemites, everyone. If you ignore it you’ll be breaking the law.
That’s one thing: the other is political. Which political party will ignore a HC interpretation affirming advice from the voice is mandatory? Not the liars and filth and the lnp will be too gutless. If you as a citizen are affected, then as with NT, tough titties.
That’s terrible.
If the Russians nuke us I’m sure they will start with Hobart, due to the lack of gay bars.
Six hours and nine minutes until Trump becomes President again.
6 + 9 + 45 = 46 @ 12
Dot
What do you believe is humanity’s most significant invention? Like the most important. I don’t know; I was driving today and my mind wondered. I believe it is the wheel. The concept of the wheel is in almost every single technology with motion.
What do you believe is humanity’s most significant invention?
Crotchless panties.
Cronkers
I know the last part. I said I was being hypothetical. Regarding the first part. Shit! Thanks for explaining it.
Modern steel reinforced concrete.
I know you’re meant to say the integrated circuit, but not yet.
Oh yes.
The Voice isn’t quite working to plan for Uncle Luigi. There’s a significant Indigenous pushback getting in the way of his demonising opposition as hideous racists, in true Uni Trot style.
It’s all fun and games when you’re auditioning for the job and appealing to The Project audience demographic. Yet, he’s the one spread out on the political BBQ of history when it doesn’t work.
Cronkite, will you stop it with the crotchless panties, dickless and most importantly, Head Prefect. Name calling is very hurtful and you should stop. It upsets people.
No problem; send me some crotchless panties. Talking about them all the time is distracting me. I think I’ll put up a cute owl to recalibrate.
Who are these people? I thought you liked head prefect (with or without capital letters; thought I wouldn’t notice, didn’t you).
I was really pleased when crotchless called me Mr Sulu; it makes me sad that he’s antisemite. It’s taken the thrill out of it. Maybe if I put up another cute owl I’ll feel better. What do you think?
That’s a male owl, Cronkite.
Did you see my comment about busting out sexy gals vs the gal next door look. The latter is the bestest by far.
Local police received a deputation of the hopeless old pizzheads that called themselves the “tribal elders.” They informed the sergeant that “Mabo means we don’t have to follow whitefella’s law any more.”
Sure, I kind of like it as it shows pizazz, but I’m hurt at the same time. There’s been a great deal of whining about nicknames and I thought I’d join the whine as I don’t like being the odd man out.
More like something on a dissecting table in a high school biology lab than an owl.
Maturity on display, again – from this blog’s most mature commenter.
Yeah we know I’m immature, you’ve repeated that 478 times in 48 hours. Now bugger off aunt Jessop.
Display of maturity continues, unabated.
More like something on a dissecting table in a high school biology lab than an owl.
You guys are pansies.
BWAHAHAHAHA
I say wet t-shirt contests.
You’re the one putting up the pictures of trannies.
If you had said HOBART has no poofters, I would be packing up and moving there ASAP.
And this blog continues to be off the pace having failed to reconcile presidential executive orders 13818 and 13848
I’ll go to bed at this time and I’ll wait and see the responses.
Hint, there won’t be any….
Custard, it would be of invaluable assistance to know what those exec orders are.
There’s only one or two here who comment blind.
You’re the one putting up the pictures of trannies.
Pansy.
How to kill legislation. Sorry, we can’t pass law xyz it until the inVoice has given its advice.
Transgender man gives birth to non-binary partner’s baby with female sperm donor
I’m going to bed to read some Jack Vance.
Re adoption, I am an adopted child & I have full details of my birth family, my hospital records & court paperwork from 1967 on. My birth family has no access to any of this info, including my name. The only info they are given is if I am alive or deceased.
Precisely! The blighters could hold up everything by never giving an advice – be perpetually “still consulting/discussing”.
cutting through media of differing densities an absolute ironic joy
What’s your experience with the density difference between say ABC and Channel Nein?!
https://patelpatriot.substack.com/
custard says:
February 1, 2023 at 10:34 pm
It would really help if you didn’t speak in tongues.
Giving out obscure references to obscure websites isn’t helping your cause, whatever that might be.
“still consulting/discussing”
Maybe not a bad thing, the less they’re legislating the less they’re wrecking.
Jesus, custard, I hope listening to that crap doesn’t interfere with you job.
Top ten Western Movie Scenes.
“God Dammit, you gonna do something, you just stand there and bleed all day.” Wyatt Earp would have made a damnfine Cat…..
Thanks urb.
Young, fit, healthy and dead:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ReLchW-u7I
Worth reminding people.
The entire Langton report Luigi the improbable is saying “ has all the details” mentions funding exactly 3 times.
It also has the invoice at federal, state and local government levels.
With all 3 being required to consult etc at the “ earliest possible stage” for any legislation they want to be involved in.
Phuck those Chaser khunts
Lol Langton’s report ‘has all the details’. If it does Albo then release them so that Australians can choose?
Albo is going down quicker than a two dollar hooker (HT Peter Stirling, Wired World Of Sports)
Sterlo here
Sorry was Fatty Vautin lol
Former Holden factory to be reborn as a mushroom farm – report
She blinded me with science! Car manufacturing to…growing mushrooms? I guess the next progression will be subsistence farming. The future beckons.
The Voice is a gyp.
Everything that Voice identifies as Aboriginal Disadvantage and therefore wants to command- education, criminality, housing, healthcare- is delivered at the local level. At most, administered by state govs. Local government has such a close overlap with First Nationses… local police, teachers, charities and doctors are right there at the coalface, working towards Australian outcomes of health, wealth and safety, all of the time… but their experiences are racist and ill-informed, or at best irrelevant? Their interactions with APLOs and Aboriginal parents and the heads of the growing numbers of Aboriginal land councils and corporations and health services are, what? Mercantile or mercenary? The ALPOs and CEOs and Aunties and Uncles can’t get to council meetings or school board meetings to see what happens after the Welcome To Country? why do proposed First Nationses representatives want to leave the grassroots, leap-frog local and state governments, and go and play Prime Ministers in corroboree city?
1953 McPhersons Manufacturing Newsreel.
What’s striking about it? The connectedness between technology, manufacturing and standard of living.
All gone now, but worth a look, try not to cry!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H43Hd_PS2sE
rickw says:
February 2, 2023 at 2:00 am
Thanks for the link rickw, like your links to machinery and tech stuff.
Not using a lot myself but interested, nothing much changed in bakery equipment in the last 50 years.
If I were young again I would go for an engineering job.
Monreale.
Amazing.
View from Monreale.
Spectacular.
There is a Benedictine cloister dating from the 12th century.
Only the faintest of remnants of any frescoes but the carved and mosaiced columns are superb.
Wall and ceiling mosaics in the duomo itself are almost overwhelming.
The floor mosaics are replacements but still beautiful, there are other points of interest but I’ll leave those.
Couple of medieval streets in front of the cathedral worth a wander, especially to admire the northern aspect of the cathedral.
Driving and parking look like a pain in the neck there is a regular bus from piazza of independence behind the norman castle in Palermo, the 389, but don’t be like the English couple I spoke to briefly up top, and miss the bus by 50 metres, buy your tickets at the tobacco shop before you ride. €1.40 up and €1.40 back.
Coming back down to Palermo the traffic coming off the ‘freeway’ was insane, jostling and squeezing all over the place.
No surprise to see ambulance and police cars racing slowly in that direction a few minutes later.
Johannes Leak nails our latest buffoon.
Thank God Mark Knight is back. Brilliant.
Peter Broelman.
Christian Adams.
Patrick Blower.
Peter Brookes.
Dave Brown.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Al Goodwyn.
Chip Bok.
Gary Varvel.
Henry Payne.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
Thanks Tom.
Thanks Tom. Leak nails it.