The Shipwreck on Northern sea, Ivan Aivazovski, 1875
By the way, the Russian bot, Wally the Armchair Warlord, was caught lying again. Just straight out making shit up.…
Open Thread – Weekend 11 Feb 2023
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calli May 6, 2024 1:17 am Good afternoon from Barcelona. Nearly didn’t make it. Thanks for that calli, I hope…
And…I’ve just received a generic apology from BA for the delayed flight. Ahhhh…Heathrow. 😀
I don’t live in the other countries, I live in the West. No one’s asking you to move there. You…
So you’re saying there is no problem with the transparency law? That’s not what I said. Where is this poll…
Old Lefty:
Clarsac and Valsac.
I shall say no more.
Ted Cruz Issues Challenge To Democrats On Judiciary Committee
forbes
full speech
EPIC RANT: Ted Cruz Unleashes On Biden Nominees Who Can’t Even Answer Basic Constitutional Questions
Recent High Court case regarding employee v contractor involved a food delivery guy.
Court held that the contract was paramount so the guy was a contractor.
Expect this to be legislated away but in the meantime make sure you have a contract
Yep, can’t see da bruvvas taking that one lying down. Jump to it Albo and Burqa.
Used to cook with them. Even that was a stretch.
GET WOKE GO BROKE: Disney Slashing Up To 7,000 Jobs
It used to be referred to as C-O-R-10 by some old barmen.
I’ve now learned it’s not slave labor, or child labor when it comes to green boondoggles. It’s now artisanal mining.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/cobalt-mining-transforms-city-democratic-republic-congo-satellite/story?id=96795773
Regarding duper and the 10 % referred to I thinking they were referring to the Trandition to Retirement pension where you are limited to receiving 10 % of your super balance by way of pension
Artisanal mining
WTF?
Oh, right.
Yes, there are minimums and maximums for TRIS or TRAP or whatever they call them now.
There are also minimums for the annual amount you must take if you are in full retirement.
4% of annual opening balance between ages 60 and 65.
But that has been halved during Covid.
I must admit I have never heard of an explicit work limit, and 10% would be four hours a week.
I did ask at least three public accountants about time gaps and hours of work in the new job and they kind of shrugged. There didn’t seem to be hard and fast rules. One just said, “Tell them you got sick of retirement and went back to work”.
I think Friday-Monday arrangements with the same employer would be a yuuuge risk though.
I recall something about 10 hours a week.
For God’s sake people, stop upsetting Dim Tim.
He will make us read another of his ‘my holidays’ compositions’.
Yes the days of yore when Labor laughed at Abbott saying he would shirtfront Putin.
Where are they now?
Yes the days of yore when ABC laughed at Abbott saying he would shirtfront Putin.
I did read that Putin took up ju jitsu at age 12 or 13 and got rather good at it. Then got
KGB training. Shirt front him at own risk.
Then there was Chateau Tanunda brandy. A wine merchant I knew used to call it distilled cardboard.
Then there was Revogel, on red and white. Did quite well for a while, until someone worked out the code.
Eric Clapton: “I can’t sleep because of the pain…the vaccine took my immune system and just shook it around”
Shorter rosie:
La la la
For old times sake Mrs D bought a bottle of Passion Pop, took one sip, spat it out and the rest of bottle went down the sink.
AKA the Shithouse Rotunda
Geez Diogenes Passion Pop was the drop of choice when switching from beer.
A disgraceful drop
She really wanted to say nothing.
There’s a book out by a BBC journalist by the name of Sweeney about Putin.
I believe it’s called “Killer in the Kremlin.”
I haven’t read it, but the takeaways I heard were that Putin goes both ways and there are reports of pedo behavior.
There is also a story about when his daughter and fiancé were driving and there was a road rage incident. The other driver beat the shit out of the boyfriend, and shortly after he was picked up by the cops, which culminated with 8 years in prison. He was an oligarch and ended up losing the banks he owned.
OK BBC “journalist”.
Artisanal mining is a widely used term for the informal mining sector, individuals and groups using low tech methods.
Seymour Hersch, New Yorker.
Piss off Hallward, you reprehensible slime-ball.
BBC has as much credibility as the ABC.
Shorter JC, propaganda.
Yes, we can all see for ourselves but after the last 3 years now, but I’m done.
JC if you read Ace Of Spades, he has a good summary of Hersch.
I’ve never heard of the bloke but he’s in the know.
Putin’s alleged martial arts skills are mostly BS. Photo ops to look tough. KGB politcal ops big deal – these guys are not SAS types, more ASIO diplomat desk jockeys. Again meh. 99% of his tough guy stich is bs. His army has shown how well they are armed and trained.
Black Ball.
Longer JC, I never passed muster on the issue of credibility, other than to let people know the book is available. Also, did you believe the story about the US blowing up the pipeline without any corroboration, or that Seymour Hersch was a far-leftist despiser of America?
And how in the hell would you know if the book is bullshit after I just posted that it’s out there?
Don’t worry JC.
People here have gone temporarily mad.
There is absolutely no need to go nuts because our leaders are bad.
Putin’s political career was built on murder and a false flag to start the Second Chechen War:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowing_Up_Russia
Blowing Up Russia: Terror from Within (Russian: ??? ???????? ??????, FSB blows Russia up) is a book written by Alexander Litvinenko and Yuri Felshtinsky.[1] The authors describe the Russian apartment bombings as a false flag operation that was guided by the Russian Federal Security Service to justify the Second Chechen War and bring Vladimir Putin to power. The story was initially printed by Yuri Shchekochikhin in a special issue of Novaya Gazeta in August 2001[2] and published as a book in 2002. In Russia the book was prohibited because it divulged state secrets, and it was included in the Federal List of Extremist Materials.[3] However, it was published in more than twenty other countries and translated into twenty languages.[4]
I did. I’m not gullible enough to believe anything from the likes of Hersch with only unnamed sources. We went down the unnamed sources cul de sac with Wussiagate. If Ace wants to believe it then he can go right ahead.
Me? I reckon it was the Russians. I reckon it was the Russians because those idiots didn’t know how the hell to shut down a pipeline without the assistance of Western engineers.
I can’t say for sure it’s bullsh*t but I suspect the BBC is just doing the Pommy gov’s and Washington war machine’s bidding. When is the beeb gonna write a book on the misable career of the old thief?
He’s Saddam in a bespoke Brioni suit and much richer too.
This was once on PBS…
Hmmmmm…….
Milt, it’s possible.However, if there are folks who believe the Hersch story, then why is the book beyond the pale. Perhaps the cause is total cognitive dissonance, which Dot alludes to.
An excellent way to tell when one is suffering cognitive dissonance is to see who supports Hersch while totally discounting Sweeney. Hallward would be exhibit A.
Fair enough JC
With the arsehole in charge of the formerly great USA, you are ruling the Nordstream Pipeline out of his hands?
Hmmmmm #Metoo
I’m here to listen and learn.
The greatest news site
Ruling it out? Nope. However I wouldn’t take Hersch’s word for it.
Do you rule out the possibility that Putin goes both ways and has pedo tendencies?
horse’s mouth
Seems “Dismal Jimmy” Chalmers has got his eye on franking credits again.
Friday Monday arrangements are clearly fraught.
I’d wait at least a few weeks.
These days you could probably just claim, if asked, you can no longer afford to pay the electricity bill.
Black Ball, you have the link to Ace on Hersh?
So.
The Poot is gay like Mick Jagger?
Liars can’t help themselves. They think capitalism is that guy in the Monopoly set.
Loved the earlier reference to flamer Kenny Everett playing a bigger flamer in Mick Jagger.
Pay that one!
Rosie at 10:02.
Superguide is pretty good.
It is my go-to if I find the ATO site a little impenetrable.
In answer to Miltonf’s question, a pre-arranged re-engagement as a contractor would be a no-no.
What’s Clapton’s experience got to do with me?
I never suggested no-one ever suffered serious side effects from vaccines, or that some have died as a result.
I’m not buying every excess death in 2021 2022 is the result of vaccine side effects.
That’s all.
Oh and clapton made his position known more that 18 months ago and appears to have now fully recovered
Eric clapton mentioning his pre existing condition.
I’m pro freedom too, always have been
Are you kidding? Pute and Jagger were an item.
Clapton also got vaccinated before I did.
The comments are always the same when there’s a story on franking credits – the fools who don’t know the way the system works, and think franking credits are some sort of rort, practiced by the very rich, insist on airing their ignorance.
I have a very small secondary super fund, haven’t touched it only because a)I’m not desperate for the money and b) up until last year it was a significantly better return than bank interest (last year treaded water)
And who else?
I mean, it is common knowledge that Mick only does gay threesomes.
As a minimum.
He thinks one-on-one gay sex is a little … well … straight.
So, do you think Russia did it to themselves? Did you watch that clip with Tucker Carlson showing Biden and Victoria Nuland clearly stating their intent? Do you think they were joking? Odd, isn’t it that exactly what they said would happen, did.
It would be worth seeing franking credits smacked just to see the nashing of teeth in teal electorates.
People, including companies paying dividends will look at different options.
(I get a small income from dividends)
If it was supposed to be super secret why would they “telegraph’ it?
the garden here is dedicated to this person
JC, the book on Putin talking about liking it both ways and being a kiddie fiddler (allegedly).
Was that the one which also talked about bestiality incidents when he was in St Petersburg?
Allegedly, comrades.
Allegedly.
If the followers of Mohamed in Chechnya were peaceful law abiding citizens content to raise their children under the mantle of the Russian state and with no thought of a caliphate that would be a first.
Putin didn’t need to conjure a false flag op.
Everywhere you look the most intractable tensions simmer away in places where the sons of the prophet rub up against non believers. It’s not us, it’s them.
I’m a self funded retiree – the majority of my income is derived from dividends. I am NOT the slightest bit interested in returning to the former system of double taxation of dividends.
Here Dover
No you aren’t rosie. Freedom for you is the next jab.
And I shall watch Magnum Force with a few beverages from the balcony of my first floor window.
Shall check in
Note that Sefton has his doubts about Hersch but his theory cannot be dismissed.
Watching John Hurt, in “The Alan Clarke Diaries.” Jenny Agutter as his long suffering wife…
“Man’s got to know his limitations…”
Freedom of choice you sad sack.
What business of yours are my personal health decisions?
FMD I made a fatal mistake Cats and Kittehs
Paused to watch The Project for 5 minutes.
No acknowledgement of Vietnam. But lots of a young skateboarding champion named Chloe.
I regretfully say I am late in the piece so probably missed Albo raising the Rainbow Flag.
Which gives Captain Phuckwhittery Cummins a few ideas in India.
I’m on my way to the Greek theatre etc, it’s a beautiful sunny Sunday in downtown Sicacusa and everyone is out, with lots of kids in fancy dress, I dont know if its a special occasion or how they do.
Didn’t bother with trying to have lunch at any of the restaurants, no-one wants to serve a table for one on the weekend.
Found a bakery on the road to the tourist sights, smelling of freshly baked bread and full of of locals buying cooked meals to take home for Sunday lunch.
€4.90 got me a bottle of water some sort of chicken and capsicum casserole and a beautiful piece of bread.
I’ll stay well within my informal budget of $50 a day today.
Lol rosie.
I’m happy I’ve made my decision. Still employed, still unjabbed.
Which makes the last 2 years a WTF moment.
I will join you in those Greek Ampitheatres if I could possibly give a phuc.
Freedom of choice you sad sack.
What business of yours are my personal health decisions?
And what of yours to question those who are sceptical of the forced vaccination of billions around the world and the excess deaths recorded?
Enjoy the Greek Islands ?
WTF??
Just walking past the teev after pouring myself a (small) single malt and there’s an ad for potato chips and two guys in hammocks kissing!
Why? For God’s sake, why?
Wasn’t a Navy recruiting commercial? Rum, sodomy and the lash?
Putin and Mick Jagger?
sTan sTands with crazy Lidia:
This ex post facto assertion of sovereignty is dubious at best. Isn’t this claim to never have ceded sovereignty somewhat problematic, given the people sovereignty was never ceded to provided you with the concept of it?
I accept there are parts of Australia that some Indigenous people have special claims to, and this is recognised by native title. But sovereignty over the entire joint is absurd.
sTan isn’t cool enough to join the gang.
Tributes flow for US actor and musician Cody Longo, dead at age 34
Hmm. So they have the “If you or anyone you know needs help” box with all the phone numbers to Lifeline etc, but the article also says:
Weird suicide, if that’s what it was. Had a wife and three kids, upcoming projects – plenty to live for. Hmm.
Had a bit of the brown snake 2 step this arvo.
1 m long one spotted by the kid cruising past the front door on the veranda.
Went out, put my Japanese safety boots on and dropped a bin in front of it to crawl into.
Mongrel got snakey right off the bat and had a couple of strikes at me.
Thought I’d get a shovel to assist it into the bin so stepped onto the lawn.
Mongrel had dipped under a gap in the wall and was waiting for me.
3 close strikes at my leg while I danced sideways.
Asshole got away as well.
Shovel to the back next time
I think there’s a clear distinction to be made between unnamed sources doing the bidding of the deep state and unnamed sources airing the deep state’s dirty laundry.
Holiday makers in Broome have their plans interrupted by a dead bikie in the pool. Although if you are holidaying in Broome in February a dead bikie in the pool might not even make the Top 5.
Oh come on says:
February 12, 2023 at 11:57 pm
I’m not gullible enough to believe anything from the likes of Hersch with only unnamed sources. We went down the unnamed sources cul de sac with Wussiagate
Quite so.
Big difference, besides it was hinted on if not exactly predicted well before it happened.
I only wonder when, where, and how the revenge will come.
It will.
Air Crash Investigation focused on Lockerbie. These people are amazing. Nothing less should be expected, the forensic and maniacal work is superb.
It looks to be one of those things that future historians will look back on as a major global turning point. Perhaps the moment when the Atlanticists fatally overreached.
“COVID has split people up and it made people sometimes go awry”
No, that was the government response you f’ckwit. COVID itself did bugger all.
Well that was a bust.
If you want to visit the archaeological complex in Siracusa not Sunday afternoon or Monday.
It’s closed.
The catacombs of San Giovanni were supposed to be open but the leaf blown entrance suggested otherwise.
I am now having consolation lemon gelati, apparently it is not granita season in Siracusa so get it while you can further north.
It’s still a beautiful day and I can always come back another time.
Siracusa also got a bit of the fascists treatment.
Up late and noted the Australian has two very good articles up.
Chris Mitchell writing about ABC 7:30 Report segment on Covid. Chris has a go at ABC bias and Dr Brendan Crabb.
Adam Creighton writing on latest report on masks saying pretty much useless.
Peter Broelman.
David Rowe.
Morten Morland.
Harry Burton.
Andy Davey.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Al Goodwyn.
Tom Stiglich.
Tom Stiglich #2.
Michael Ramirez #2.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
HBBear:
Depends how long he’d been there, I suppose.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/judicial-coup-biden-filling-courts-radical-judges-will-ignore-law-politics/
Some good news on the Woke Front:
Biden Frees Al Qaeda Terrorist Involved In Marriott Bombing
Biden: the merchant of hypocrisy.
New geological study proves that the green energy movement is impossible to achieve
Some quite informative tables to wave at the green idiots…
That should keep you lot happy for a bit.
There will be a written exam, and you will be marked down for inattention.
Robert Sewell says:
February 13, 2023 at 4:46 am
Page not found.
Are you sure it was Biden? Seems to me it was earlier, but could be wrong.
Gabor:
Try this link.
TIK latest – The Tormosin Offensive, the airlift continuing failure, and the start of the Relief attempt.
Amazing how Canada has gone so fascist so quickly.
Catholic School Pupil Who Voiced Catholic Beliefs on Gender Arrested (12 Feb)
They are now arresting children for wrongthink.
Rosie your article about Siracusa tested my Italian
Sy Hersh is a Deep State mouthpiece.
He’s signaling that the Pipeline attack was an attack on Germany, mission accomplished, the Ukraine War is over, so far as the U.S. is concerned, on to Iran.
Thanks Tom!
People here have gone temporarily mad.
The writer of these words should have a good look in the mirror.
The (justified) baying for the return of an actual coach of our national crikkit team continues unabated.
Former batsman Damien Martyn, who was beautiful to watch incidentally, put up a now-deleted tweet that simply said:
#justinlanger
Proper captains like Allan Border and Steve Waugh are furious, and rightly so, that this bunch of effete quickly-going-over-the-hill dilettantes with the mental resilience of cellophane have successfully colluded with Cricket Australia to ditch a coach that knew how to win in tough times.
The current captain is far more comfortable poncing along talking about wind turbines than answering questions about why his crop of prancing thoroughbreds fold like Mick Jagger at a Chippendales show.
This guy thinks global warming caused the Turkey earthquake.
UN Advisor Claims ‘climate change is triggering more earthquakes’ (12 Feb)
We’re certainly living in a time of widespread insanity at the moment. The elites believe some really crazy stuff.
Week before last going down the coast saw the largest red bellied black snake I’ve seen. 1.5m with an S bend as well. Have seen pigs and deer also.
I don’t think they really believe it BoN, some of them will but the rest are using it for themselves. Power is a bigger drug than opiates.
to rub your face in it. next youll have to bend over to prove you are not phobic
Bruce of Newcastle says:
February 13, 2023 at 7:00 am
Even if you believe in global warming, how on earth can you deduct that it causes earthquakes?
Climate change. I do believe in, it does change, cooler, warmer then back again, but causing earthquakes?
By what mechanism?
Gaborsays:
February 13, 2023 at 7:13 am
Bruce of Newcastle says:
February 13, 2023 at 7:00 am
This guy thinks global warming caused the Turkey earthquake.
We’re certainly living in a time of widespread insanity at the moment. The elites believe some really crazy stuff.
Even if you believe in global warming, how on earth can you deduct that it causes earthquakes?
Climate change. I do believe in, it does change, cooler, warmer then back again, but causing earthquakes?
By what mechanism?
I thought that Global Warming had been changed to Climate Change as there is no warming. Earthquakes are caused internally and not by external factors unless it is by those Aliens.
Gabor – It’s rubbish. Danny Glover tried this on after the Haiti earthquake and got soundly ridiculed. I can understand why a clueless Hollywood actor might say something stupid, but this professor is very senior and should know better.
Just because you don’t understand Da Science…
Trust the experts. They have never steered us wrong.
It’s a month old. TIK is taking a break from Stalingrad and has since done 2 on the Western Front 1944, a “no Russia did not defeat Germany all by itself”, and one in his continuing series on why Hitler was not a capitalist by suppressing the trade unions.
Clapton voices the sorrow and confusion that many well-meaning and kindly people feel over being duped and pushed around over the Covid response.
Naturally, he has been ridiculed by the rabid on both sides. He is old, he had pre-existing conditions and he took the vaxx early and in good faith like so many others. He fronted up for a second dose on his doctor’s advice and got sick again.
It’s a picture repeated world wide.
Perhaps the Terrible Heat is hiding in the fault lines and not at the bottom of the oceans.
It needs to get out. Somehow.
It’s hard to figure out whose more inarticulate -Hiden of his media spokes lezzo
https://youtu.be/V3zJyMP7q7s
On Cody Longo, dead at 34…
From the NYT a couple of hours ago.
He was an alcoholic, on the wagon and then went on a bender. That’ll do it.
Sorry vaxx ghouls. This one isn’t yours. Find another.
Andrew Bolt:
Paul Erickson must have torn his hair out to hear Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s latest announcement, as the country plunges to a possible recession.
Albanese on Saturday opened the new Pride Square in Sydney’s inner west, and declared that come Saturday week he’d be at the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras to be “the first prime minister not to watch … but to march”.
Well, whoopee do.
More evidence that there’s nothing like symbolic gestures and identity politics to excite this prime minister.
What I suspect will upset Erickson, Labor’s national secretary, is that just four days earlier he’d told Albanese and a room full of Labor MPs to come back down to planet Earth.
Could they please talk about what’s worrying people most?
In case they hadn’t worked it out, Erickson added: “The cost of living.”
“You must look like you are responding to this first and foremost,” Erickson said.
“This is where people are at … This is where people expect you to be.”
It’s amazing Albanese and his crew needed telling. Who hasn’t freaked at what soaring inflation and interest rates, plus the explosion in gas and electricity bills, are doing to battlers?
Yet Albanese seems obsessed by identity politics and the global warming scare — and by making useless gestures for both.
Most obviously, he’s lecturing us almost every day on the Voice — a kind of Aboriginal-only advisory parliament in our constitution that will just divide us by race.
But there’s much more flag-waving.
For instance, he’s created a new Ambassador for First Nations People, ordered the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags be flown at press conferences, let public servants snub Australia Day, urged policies to stop us driving petrol cars, announced the creation of a new Poet Laureate position, got rid of the Queen’s face from the $5 note, and appointed an Assistant Minister for the Republic.
He’s also just had his Treasurer pen a 6000-word essay on inventing a “better capitalism”, and his Foreign Minister lecture Britain on confronting its colonial past.
Oh, and meanwhile he’s spent three straight evenings watching tennis at the Australian Open.
No wonder Erickson had to step in.
Much more of this and voters will draw a contrast between their priorities and the Prime Minister’s.
Maybe they’ll even ask: is the reason Albanese would rather wave from a gay pride rally is that doing something useful for us all is just too hard?
Read somewhere
Equals
.
Thankfully Albanese won’t take us to this extreme.
He’s all in favour of diversity.
After his Catholic school dobbed him in.
My father has a different approach and so far it served him well.
He says, I have enough problems as it is with my heart and other things, why should I take an untested vaccine?
He could be wrong, but he is still alive and kicking at 89.
Not traveling but so there is that.
Just had a squizz at this ‘Aboriginal ambassador’. None other than Linda Burney.
And this about the Poet Laureate
Not sure what it all means.
Nice little sting in the tail Gabor. Meow!
My point was that the world is full of people who trusted, who no longer trust. How this pans out in future crises, manufactured or not, will be instructive. Clapton is just a more vocal, high profile one.
Yesterday my parents asked me if I thought they should have the fifth dose, as they are being urged to have it. They have always been on the far end of the “trusting” register, but no longer. I advised them not to, and they agreed that it’s a waste of time and possibly dangerous. How far they have come in their thinking.
“JCsays:
February 13, 2023 at 7:53 am
Read somewhere
Far Right
Equals
So far, right”
Greg Gutfield said this Andy Ngo two months ago. Ngo has been chronicling Antifa since 2016, when he was still majoring in journalism at Portland State. Ngo has been warning about Antifa and as Gutfield says, everything Ngo has said or written about Antifa has been “so far right”.
That a Catholic school would do this to their student is a new low in Canada. Where is the clergy? Where is the bishop?
Case closed, no autopsy required, no microscopic pathology looking for spike protein in the heart then eh?
Peter Dutton has reportedly ordered that a woman be pre-selected in Aston…not the best candidate, be they male or female, but it must be a woman.
Locals might have something to say about it
Duk, I would welcome an autopsy because I’m interested in the truth of the matter. Whether the local authorities call for one is up to them.
My point was the immediate response “it was the vaxx wot dun it”, when his associates point to his alcoholism as the possible cause.
Regarding the Chris Mitchell CV column in today’s Australian this is my rejected comment :
“For those interested the Club Grubbery podcast hosted by ex Quantas Pilot Graham Hood and ex Paramedic John Larter on 30 January hosted a panel to rebut the 7:30 report.
The panel was Dr’s Ted Steele and Phillip Altman. Liz Hart and lawyer Tony Nicolic.
Highly recommended if you want an alternative view to Dr Crabb”.
I guess the moderators did not want to give Club Grubbery free publicity.
If he’s at all orthodox he’s going to have a fight on his hands.
The school systems in large denominations are a law unto themselves.
Even Catholic bishops, who have more ecclesial power at their disposal than leaders of other church bodies, struggle to exercise oversight over them.
What was that about projection?
All these Balloons –
99 Red Balloons –
https://youtu.be/7w1QandHqEs
Not sure how CV snuck into my post.
calli says:
February 13, 2023 at 8:06 am
Didn’t mean it that way with the traveling quip. He is the same as myself, a homebody, who loves the familiar.
“should have the fifth dose” This is what concerns me, second dose, I might accept, but three within barely a year. not to mention 4 and still trusting?
Look, I don’t know and make no judgement on people’s choices posting here either way.
I doubt he actually thinks anything of the sort, but you can’t let a crisis go to waste.
Yeonmi Park is definitely worth a read. A North Korean defector who was sols as a sex slave in China, before she managed to make it to the US.
She writes about uni students and their “victimhood”, wondering if she’d left one human rights hellhole for another.
an excerpt from her book,
“Park described the school as ‘pure indoctrination camp’ and said she she thought she was going to learn how to think critically but was instead ‘forced to think’ a certain way.
The woman also said she believes most students at the elite university are ‘brainwashed like North Korean students are.’
‘I never understood that not having a problem can be a problem,’ Park said.
‘They need to make injustice out of thin air or a problem out of nowhere, because they haven’t experienced anything like what other people are facing in the world,’ she continued. :
Gabor, I think there are people who will still to their fantasy that the vaxx will keep them safe from Covid provided they do exactly as they’re told.
As was pointed out many times here, effectively the entire population is now “unprotected” because of the combination of waning efficacy and virus mutation. Yet still people will believe as, like the “climate emergency”, it has become an article of faith.
And like so many who have seen their core belief disproved, they will turn on anyone who questions that belief. The danger is that they have the weight of government and the subsumed medical profession behind them.
will still cling to their fantasy
KD at 6:58 re crickit failings.
Out for dinner with some old, bold crickiting chaps on Saturday night and the subject you raised the other night came up.
Bitching about pitches is a self-fulfilling prophecy. It’s like golfers complaining in advance about fast greens and pin placements or F1 drivers claiming their team-mate has a better car.
Pre-cursor to failure.
The one notable exception appears to be Novak Djokovic who seems to like to create an “against all odds” scenario to gee himself up.
There are no Novaks in the Aussie crickit team.
Amazing.
Calli, “possibly caused by alcohol” is no kind of evidence.
No, the immediate response is suspicion when someone so young just dies in their sleep. As Duk says, an autopsy would settle the matter but they seem to be few and far between.
Haha
Canadia.
I do love Catturd.
Catturd ™
@catturd2
NWO leadership emergency meeting …
“Sir, people are waking up. The COVID narrative is collapsing. We’re losing control of them.”
“What do you suggest we do?”
“Now hear me out. Two simply words – Alien invasion.”
(EVIL LAUGH) “Yes! Yes! I like it.”
Catturd ™
@catturd2
If the aliens want to invade our country undetected – they should just land their spaceships in Mexico and stroll across our wide open southern border.
Meme
Okay. Here’s the “evidence” from an associate:
Problem with alcohol (read alcoholic)
Dry for a short time
Goes on a bender
Dies in sleep
Calli conclusion* – alcoholic poisoning due to liver failure
Anti-vaxx conclusion* – vaxx poisoning
I have already said I would welcome an autopsy. What more do you want?
* being both experty-experts and all
We have heard from some studies that it is mostly uggos still wearing masks.
Fact check: True.
The Amphibian and the Pirate bolting out of Oz yesterday.
It depends, if nuns/any religious order run a school then the Bishop gets treated like a foreign mercenary.
I have seen all but the near punch ups when some schools were going to get merged to be made co-ed. The nuns worked their case up to the Pope. The bishop was left to ponder the human condition for over a decade.
Without being crass, the Diocese just waited for the nuns to die off. The nuns owned their land IIRC.
Looking back it was actually intriguing and better than fiction.
Well, one politician is speaking up.
Stew Peters
@realstewpeters
Nuremberg 2.0 Alert:
Based Romanian Senator Diana Lovanovici BLASTS “satanic global elite” for committing mass genocide through Covid Death Jabs and HAARP technology, causing the earthquakes in Turkey.
Calls for Christians worldwide to rise up and REVOLT.
He was an alcoholic, on the wagon and then went on a bender. That’ll do it.
Sorry vaxx ghouls. This one isn’t yours. Find another.
Nothing to see here! Move on!
Wouldn’t want an autopsy would we!
“Vaxx ghouls” disgusting terminology. People have been forcibly injected with experimental shit and you call them this as they try to find out what’s really going on?
15-minute cities: Councils are attempting to remove our freedoms, take control of our lives and herd us into spaces they completely control
He’s busy wondering why being less Catholic hasn’t been bringing in more Catholics.
Good news from a bad source. After all that’s been revealed, they’re still pushing the vaccine for all they’re worth.
How Many Republicans Died Because the GOP Turned Against Vaccines?
How do people suppose that HAARP has more influence over earthquakes than the sun or moon? A slight wobble of the objects or radiation pulses could have significant effects on geodynamics.
The effects HAARP could have on the weather is very small. It does not have the scale to do so. To cause earthquakes would require a colossal energy input. The sun’s influence and lunar gravity changes in even small ways would dwarf even a supersized HAARP.
It’s unfortunate that my terminology has disgusted you, rickw.
Pouncing on every death like a vulture in order to prove a point is pretty sickening to me, but everyone has their own disgust threshold.
It amuses me that people who rant rabidly here get more brownie points than those who try to work things through rationally and sensibly. That’s what I call “trying to find out”.
I don’t know that I’ve ever seen one of these.
Edible mushrooms boost nerve growth and enhance memory
I’ll preface this with “not a Catholic, but”…
I don’t think there are any religious orders in the anglosphere that have the requisite experienced personnel to run schools anymore. That’s been delegated to lay people. If there are they’ll be on the conservative wing of the church and engaged in a ressourcement program (classical education). And such efforts would be in response to the progress of the long march through the Catholic education bureaucracy.
President Herzog: ‘Israel is on the verge of a constitutional and social collapse’
Maybe she got her fungal infections confused.
Using electric vehicles as grid storage blasted as another ‘green fantasy’
Check this out roger
https://augustineacademy.com.au/
The liberal arts, Catholic college, NSW high country foothills.
Another coup.
Italian Report Claims Pope Benedict Never Abdicated to Pope Francis – In His Last Book Benedict Warned About the Attack on Christians
Will he be Pope again by February 2024?
Snakes in the long grass
Whales in the ocean
What do we think of Ben Ratzinger?
Watch the skies
Trust the plan
Evolve
Pray
Far-Q
What happens to the body when we sleep with the heating on?
They’re Coming for Traditionalist Catholics
Did Biden order bombing of Nord Stream pipeline? Seems so
Encouraging to see them springing up here; the movement is quite advanced in the US where you’ll also find Protestant and Orthodox classical academies.
Killing Children for Profit: Europe suffers 1580% spike in Child Deaths following EMA approval of COVID Vaccine for Children
Knuckle Dragger at sparrows:
Not only the truth even Blind Freddy could see, but 10/10 for alliteration and rhythm.
Dr Aseem Malhotra
@DrAseemMalhotra
‘Nobody is safe until we have Gates behind the bars’
From Spiked
Nazis ….. rejected the liberal, democratic view of politics, in which autonomous individuals were free to pursue their conscious interests. They saw politics instead as a domain in which people pursued an irrational identification with national or racial groupings defined by enmity to others.
Calling Senator Lidia Thorpe, please pick up the red phone in the foyer. Call from the Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance.
Watching Magnum Force last night led to some rabbit-holing
and the appalling Hi-Fi murders.
Giving the ghouls the needle was racist, naturally.
Possibly.
Perhaps if the likes of Indolent and the Artist Formerly Known as St Ruth didn’t gleefully conclude “vax death” every time someone aged 52 or under dies, the label might not be appropriate.
But they do and it is.
It went like this:-
– report of death of 32 year old appears.
– cries of ‘vax death’ go up from the usual suspects.
– someone says, “Hey, wait a minute. He was a two bottle a day Vodka man.”
– usual suspects go with, “Well, let’s not rush to judgement. We need an autopsy.”
If the ghoul cap fits, wear it.
“Haha
Canadia.
Maybe she got her fungal infections confused.”
Funniest damn comment I have read in weeks. Two thumbs and two big toes up!
True, but not the way they think.
Benedict resigned on 11 February 2013, effective c. two weeks later. I watched his speech at the time, and while my Latin is rusty, even I could determine what he was saying.
A month later Bergoglio was elected by conclave after several ballots, suggesting he was not the only, nor even the preferred, successor.
So, no…Benedict did not “abdicate” to Francis, but he most definitely did resign the papacy.
The Vigilant Fox
@VigilantFox
‘The One Chart That Tells the Entire Story’: Analysis Shows 26% Worse Mortality Among the Vaccinated
And “The people who are under the age of 50 who took the vaccine now have a 49% higher mortality rate.”
-Josh Stirling
LOL. The Israeli Left have been screeching about the end of democracy and the end of everything good and nice and demonstrating like idiots on meth. Herzog is a lefty. All of this is because the Left stacked the courts then weaponized them to persecute the right, as Caroline Glick has forensically outlined in a number of articles. The Netanyahu proposal for appointing supreme court judges is very fair and transparent. But the Left hates it because they hate anything they can’t control utterly.
Episode 1 – PATENTED:
Why the Spike Protein Was Designed to Infiltrate in Your DNA
I believe it was the government that set that precedent when they deemed every death ‘with* COVID’ as ‘from COVID’.
* and used overamplified PCR tests to fudge the positives to boot
Treasurer says government’s energy market intervention is already working to provide household relief
The data shows something slightly different:
1) The futures curves for all of the eastern states show no such happy decline (Queensland shows a tiny decline superimposed on the seasonal cycle);
2) The underlying futures trade data shows clearly that the arse has fallen out of the market:
• minimal trade volume beyond Q2 2023 – effectively none in Victoria;
• near bid/ask prices way off market;
But, hey, working a treat.
Treasury analysis says so.
But Chalmers doesn’t seem believe it:
In good hands.
Top Men.
Matt Pritchett
Because I like his cartoon figures.