Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph, Rembrandt, 1656
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Interesting, thanks
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The laws is already pre passed in the Reserve Bank Act allowing our Reserve Bank to seize privately held gold.
Custard, that junk is just retarded. No kidding, someone in an insane asylum is scrawling that crapola and you’re falling for it. We would have thought that after the 31 January fiasco, you’d show a little humility. But no, because fanatics just ignore what is uncomfortable.
Sure, but they already held a third of Austria so if they thought that third should continue to be so they held it just as they did East Germany. The constitutional guarantee of neutrality permitted Austrian independence.
Yes, it would have.
Late nights, smoke-filled bars, good Scotch and ladies who knew the rules of the game…
Poor Custard.
Everybody’s got a gris-gris.
Sensible people are available to help you as soon as you are willing to get a new hobby horse.
What would it take to disprove Q in your mind? What would be the final straw?
Neutered? 🙂
Putin has said several times he wants to create a Eurasian empire, so the idea that Ukraine would become a Switzerland is not what he has in mind. In any event, save for any disaster such as a nuclear exchange (and this becomes a real possibility albeit low odds) Russia after Putin will eventually make its way to the West. It has no choice.
Maturity & emotional control on display.
Mark Mills – Manhattan Institute.
Mark Mills: The energy transition delusion: inescapable mineral realities
Yes, Thank you. Now piss off.
No.
Link to the Wiki page on Liberated Austria.
Here I am at Fort Elmo, about to visit the war museum. Acres and acres of beautiful sandstone as you walk down the hill .
There are these strange tlooking towers facing the harbour which I’m guessing were for anti aircraft guns in WWII.
Going to find out shortly.
I hesitated a little about visiting the co-cathedral, it’s expensive and I’ve seen a few, but it was worth it, good audio guide included and it’s stunning, knights outdid each other decorating the interior.
Carravaggio joined them while he was in Malta but got kicked out after he seriously wounded a senior knight, then escaped from prison. His three works in the cathedral were worth the entry alone.
Strict dress code, an Englishwoman ahead of me in short shorts was made to wear a cathedral supplied grey skirt around her waist and those with insufficient upper body cover also get given something to cover themselves also.
Had lunch in the place I liked yesterday,ricotta pastizzi and some local bread and butter pudding, a bit like boiled fruit cake, I liked it but it could have done with a dollop of cream.
Had an innocuous chat with an older local working man having his working man’s lunch while I was there.
The minor downside of travelling alone is how little conversation you have. It was nice to talk about Maltese weather and where remmigrants from Australia and Canada like to retire to (Gozo).
We’ve heard he wants to recreate the Soviet Empire, the Russian Empire, now its a Eurasian Empire. Where has he exactly stated this last one several times? Even if we put that aside, as I said, its been made plain several times by many different people that Ukrainian neutrality was essential whoever led Russia.
I’m not convinced that history bends towards the West, not least because what ‘the West’ means right now is ambiguous.
Even with present problems in the West, you really think the Russian kleptocracy has attractions?
Sorry it’s limestone.
Two things about this, firstly, it both understates the problems in the West and overstates the problems in Russia. And secondly, it assumes that the only thing holding Russia back from Western engagement is ‘kleptocracy’ and the principle cause of this is Putin, even though corruption was far worse under Yeltsin and markedly diminished under Putin.
Really, it understates the problems in the West while overstating those in Russia? Take Western nations. How many opposition leaders are in jail, have fallen out of windows, or have been poisoned? Poisoned even in other countries.
Rating the level of corruption under Putin or Yeltsin is irrelevant as we’re discussing the present.
Headline in the on-line Hun ……
” Melbourne’s extreme heat could break three-year record”
FMD!
Sure does, as does your example. Moreover, I’m not even comparing the two.
It’s not irrelevant at all because Putin leads Russia presently and it wasn’t just a rating of the two either but related to your point about life after Putin.
It’s the mildest summer in memory. I’ve hardly had the a/c on.
custard says:
February 16, 2023 at 10:39 pm
Yes, that’s what I found and couldn’t work out why you thought it important enough to link to.
For one, most of those questions have a logical answer, and for a second the hint about arrest etc. are in the same league as Nostradamus’ quatrains but less accurate and believable.
Why grown men, or women, educated and arguably intelligent fall for this crap is, so far, unexplained.
I reckon there is something missing from their lives, and it compensates for it.
Playing Steve Stickler’s game.
Unbelievable if true?
St Elmo’s war museum and ‘the Malta experience’ a 45 minute film on the history of Malta.
An afternoon well spent.
Valletta and the Knights repelling the seige by Sulieman the Great in 1565 was poetry in motion, despite the loss of life.
Incidentally how did St John’s cathedral avoid being destroyed in WWII?
forecast an earthquake in Italy, they don’t have one, Croatia has one that does no damage, practically next door! see I was right!
Funny comment about the British military presence in Malta in the 19th century.
Very safe posting and the many women who came for a visit from England were know as ‘the fishing fleet’.
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Peter Broelman.
David Rowe.
Christian Adams.
Peter Brookes.
Dave Brown.
Patrick Blower.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Gary Varvel.
Chip Bok.
Steve Kelley.
Ben Garrison.
Ah..that’s good Leak.
Another John Wick 4 trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjRHZEUamCc
In politics, there are few things more pathetic than someone who had the power to do something themselves for years, less than 12 months out of the job, calling for their successor to do something they themselves failed to do.
ScoMo calling for Chinese sanctions over the Uighurs demonstrates his cromulent standards.
IYKYK.
#1. Uighurs are Turkish nomads.
They’re not native to Xingiang.
#2. Uighurs are committing knife crimes against the Chinese in Xingiang.
#3. Uighur insanity is being funded by the U.S. State Dept., same as Ukraine.
d Case says:
February 17, 2023 at 6:06 am
As always Ed, since you know this for a fact, pls, give us the links to prove it.
Don’t make us search and maybe find contradictory evidence.
Please
If “we” can find contradictory evidence, Gabor, be my guest.
Ed Case says:
February 17, 2023 at 6:22 am
Bingo, just as I expected.
If I could find winners at the gallops as easily, I’d be a millionaire.
Well done Ed, true to form, not like the bloody nags I’m wasting my dosh on.
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“If I sold my house and my car, had a big garage sale and gave all my money to the church, would that get me into Heaven?” I asked the children in my Sunday school class. “NO!” the children all answered. “If I cleaned the church every day, mowed the yard, and kept everything neat and tidy, would that get me into Heaven?” Again, the answer was “NO!” “Well, then, if I was kind to animals and gave candy to all the children, and loved my wife, would that get me into Heaven?” Again, they all answered “NO!” “Well” I continued “then how can I get into Heaven?” A five-year-old boy shouted out “YOU GOTTA BE DEAD!”
I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.
– George Best
Massive chemical spill in Palestine, Ohio, caused by train derailment.
The Feds then set fire to the spilled chemicals, sending a huge toxic cloud as far east as Virginia.
Reporters trying to investigate are arrested.
Meanwhile, the USAF are shooting at balloons.
“feelthebernsays:
February 17, 2023 at 4:39 am”
I think you’ve said it best. If he had any decency he would keep his mouth shut.
Kean does us over again in NSW with coal price caps.
https://www.nsw.gov.au/media-releases/coal-price-cap
Thanks, cockwomble
What’s all this crap about ‘Licence Plates’? We’ve never had ‘licence plates’ in Australia, it was always your ‘number plate’ or ‘rego number’. Another Aussie expression being dropped in favour of an American one.
Today will be the first, or one of two, 40deg days for Griffith this summer.
If the reverse situation were the case the walls would’ve been screamed down ten times over by now.
If the effects of climate change continue like this a generation of children will not know what it’s like to experience heat!!
*Thanks to the air conditioned life most lead a lot of people wilt at 35deg.
Richard Cranium
Still nothing on the “real” reason for the big payout to the ex-Tudge staffer? People might think you made the whole thing up to big-note yourself.
When you think you saw it all.
There is a small chance of being killed by a chicken, but it’s never zero.
Amazing the stories people invent to disguise vax deaths.
Pauline Hanson’s Please Explain
Wick IV.
Finally.
The ending had me cracking up.
Beertruk,
the last scene in the Please Explain you linked to is, without a doubt, one for the ages. Awesome.
The Worldwide Privacy Tour is a hoot.
Wait! You’re ethnic?
The Prince of Canada.
What fiasco? Trump is President, isn’t he.
I don’t need to remind anyone of this but it’s still worth pointing out, given that he’s opened his fat gob….
Scott Morrison has called on the Albanese government to consider sanctions against Chinese government officials over human rights abuses against Uighur minorities under the same Magnitsky-style laws used to sanction Russian officials over the invasion of Ukraine.
Mr Morrison, where are Magnitsky-style laws for Australians? May I remind you of some things that happened under your “tenure as PM”…
1. When Australian had their human rights TRASHED over the last three years, using the pretense of “Covid”, YOU SAID NOTHING.
2. When Victorians were being daily beaten, bludgeoned and bashed by their Stalinist state government. When a pregnant woman was arrested in her own home. When Victorians endured the harshest lockdowns on the planet. When ordinary Victorians were being thrown to the ground by Victorian police, I didn’t hear a word, a peep or even a syllable from you to protest such actions, instead you gave that despicable cockroach, Daniel Andrews, a seat at a National Cabinet and YOU SAID NOTHING.
3. When a dumb-arsed, low IQ Queensland premier said that “Queensland hospitals are for Queenslanders”, YOU SAID NOTHING.
4. When Australians were prevented from visiting dying relatives in hospitals, YOU SAID NOTHING.
5. When Australians could not travel interstate to visit family because tinpot premiers closed their borders, YOU SAID NOTHING.
6. When Australians could not travel overseas or return to this country, YOU SAID NOTHING.
7. When Sydneysiders took to the streets to protest the complete destruction of their livelihoods, you watched as police, government and the MSM smeared these ordinary Australians as far-right, anti-vaxxerS, lunatics and all the rest of the pejorative labels they like to throw at ordinary people. YOU SAID NOTHING.
8. When the left came after Craig Kelly for speaking truth about Covid. You didn’t side with Kelly or even defend his right to speak, YOU sided with the left against one of your own. YOU SAID NOTHING. And now that Kelly has now been vindicated, will you apologise to Craig Kelly?
9. You were part of an orchestrated lie to the Australian people, firstly you tried to maintain that vaccines would never be mandated but then you slyly danced around that position. What ensued? Thousands of Australians lost their jobs because of their fundamental human right to refuse a vaccine. What bout their “human rights” Mr Morrison? I’ll remind you, YOU SAID NOTHING.
10. I ask again, where are our Magnitsky-style laws?
Oh and one last point, a suggestion to Scumbag, KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT.
The hysterical “journalist” reading the news on the Melbourne racing station tells me we’re in a “major heat wave”.
Ahem, it’s at least five years since we’ve had a day above 40C.
A heatwave used to be days or weeks on end around 40C.
The poorly educated trash being turned loose onto the public by journalism schools are the worst possible people to bringing us the news.
They’re meant to be our eyes and ears but they’ve become a radical political party trying to make us as brainwashed with self-loathing as they are.
Their fixation with the weather is exactly what you’d exact from animist Aztec primitives 500 years ago in central America.
Please Explain is brilliant.
Well there ya go.
A cheery bit o’news for us.
A pity – I thought it was going to be Marburg, and I was hoping I could go out like a blood bomb or summat.
‘animist Aztec primitives 500 years ago’
Sacrifices based on feelings, ordered by an unelected priesthood caste who suffered no ill-effects from their decision-making and carried out by people desperate to both curry favour and ensure they weren’t next on The List.
Yep.
Take a look at this short clip. Fauci, Mengele had nothing on him.
The Vigilant Fox
@VigilantFox
‘It’s Like Hiroshima’: Fauci Recommended the Most Toxic Drug Imaginable for HIV/AIDS
“One person I interviewed, his brother was perfectly healthy and had been persuaded to go on a high dose of AZT — and he was dead within a year. But also, his face melted – melted away. It’s like Hiroshima. Very – powerful – radiation.”
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
Florida Surgeon General Alerts State To The Substantial Risks Associated With The mRNA Injections
In Florida alone, there was a 1,700% increase in VAERS reports after the release of the C19 vaccine.
Life-threatening conditions increased over 4,400%
US government has been secretly tracking those who are not covid injected through health records
Yes, do industralise the countryside and kill all the plants.
Heartland Greenway hopes to install major CO2 pipeline in central Illinois
Canadian conservatives say no to Digital IDs that WEF collaborators are attempting to implement
Hodgetwins
@hodgetwins
The same people that want to ban gas stoves sure are quiet over the giant chemical explosion in Ohio that’s destroying the environment.
For anyone who still has any doubts about Nikki Haley
Catturd ™
@catturd2
Proof of vaccine required to go to a Nikki Haley event you can’t make this shit up.
Pretty self-evident
Brenden Dilley
@WarlordDilley
The government told you there were WMDs in Iraq.
The government told you that if you liked your plan, you could keep your plan.
The government told you Trump would cause WW3.
The government told you Trump was a Russian asset.
The government told you 2 weeks to flatten the curve.
The government told you that inflation was transitory.
The government told you the vaccine was safe and effective.
Now, the government is telling the people of East Palestine Ohio that there is no danger.
The government can’t be trusted.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1626001836799844356
To make the US ‘Carbon Neutral’ by 2050 would cost $50 Trillion.
How much would that lower the temperature by?
*shrug*
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11759845/Ohio-Governor-says-FEMA-wont-grant-help-East-Palestine-train-derailment.html?ico=related-replace
Fingerprints of Unvaccinated NYC Teachers Sent to FBI, Affidavit Says
LAPTOP CALENDAR: JOE-HUNTER WEST WING BURISMA MEET
Perovskites, a ‘dirt cheap’ alternative to silicon, just got a lot more efficient
$100B for Ukraine but …
Biden Administration Rejects Ohio’s Request for Emergency Aid to Deal with Ecological Disaster
George Soros says DeSantis will beat Trump for GOP nomination
Grateful we didn’t get Elbow done up like a boneless pork roast, Sam Smith-wise.
Oh dear! .. jumped in too early with my TV recommendation of BETTER .. I’d watched 3 of the 5 episodes at that time .. but then things start to fall apart as the script tries to save our heroine, the bent copper, from the consequences of 20 years of graft .. in real life she’s already be locked up but in TV world we get the gang boss developing a conscience and his underlings accepting or attempting, unsuccessfully, to get things back on track .. a “goodie” quits the plod over it .. but no alarm bells go off and so we limp into episode 5 .. the feared drug lord is on his “Road toDamascus” yet no one is stepping in to fill the void … so I’m guessing lotza junkies going haywire out there but no indication plot-wize ..
Our bent copper starts donating her 20 years of ill gotten gains to “charity” ..
one envelope at a time .. FFS! ..
and the the final showdown betwen her and the gangster gun(s) waving fizzles out into a “I luvs ya, does ya luv me” sob-fest …
tho we may still manage season 2 as the last scene, with both copper & gangster sitting in the plod waiting room, unarrested, leaves it all up in the air ..
with the heroine is a baddie the “Saving Private Ryan” ending got a bit too complicated sooo maybe next year! ..
So sorry to hear. Someone who always added something, had a great sense of humour and seemed like a genuine person too.
Bruce Willis diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, family reveals
McConnell: ‘Defeating the Russians in Ukraine Is the Single Most Important Event Going on in the World Right Now’
Daily Wire Hosts REACT To Lia Thomas’ Breaking Satanic Story
Indolent says:
February 16, 2023 at 8:04 pm
AN INTERVIEW WITH
SEYMOUR HERSH
Fabian Scheidler So this was in June 2022?
Seymour Hersh
Yes, they did it around ten days into June, at the end of the exercise, but at the last minute the White House got nervous. The president said he’s afraid of doing it. He changed his mind and gave them the order that he wanted the right to bomb anytime, to set the bombs off anytime remotely by us. You do it with just a regular sonar, actually a Raytheon build. You fly over and drop a cylinder down. It sends a low-frequency signal — you can describe it as a flute sound tone, you can make different frequencies. But the worry was that one of the bombs, if left in the water too long, would not work, and two did not — they only got three of the four pipelines. So there was a panic inside the group to find the right means, and we actually had to go to other intelligence agencies that I didn’t write about.
Fabian Scheidler And so what happened then? They placed it, they found a way to control it remotely . . .
Seymour Hersh
Joe Biden decided not to blow them up. It was in early June, five months into the war, but then, in September, he decided to do it.
I’ll tell you something. The operational people, the people who do kinetic things for the United States, they do what the president says, and they initially thought this was a useful weapon that he could use in negotiations.
But at some point, once the Russians went in, and then when the operation was done, this became increasingly odious to the people who did it. These are well-trained people; they are in the highest level of secret intelligence agencies. They turned on the project. They thought this was an insane thing to do. And within a week, or three or four days after the bombing, after they did what they were ordered to, there was a lot of anger and hostility. This is obviously reflected in the fact that I’m learning so much about it.
And I’ll tell you something else. The people in America and Europe who build pipelines know what happened. I’m telling you something important. The people who own companies that build pipelines know the story. I didn’t get the story from them but I learned quickly they know.
Fabian Scheidler Let’s go back to this situation in June last year. President Joe Biden decided not to do it directly and postponed it. So why did they do it then in September?
Seymour Hersh
The secretary of state, Anthony Blinken, said a few days after the pipeline was blown up, at a news conference, that a major economic and almost military force was taken away from Vladimir Putin. He said this was a tremendous opportunity, as Russia could no longer weaponize the pipelines — meaning that it was not able to force Western Europe not to support the United States in the war. The fear was that Western Europe would not go along any longer in the war. I think that the reason they decided to do it then was that the war wasn’t going well for the West, and they were afraid with winter coming. The Nord Stream 2 has been sanctioned by Germany, and the United States was afraid that Germany would lift the sanctions because of a bad winter.
Fabian Scheidler According to you, what were the motives when you look behind the scenes? The US government was opposed to the pipeline for many reasons. Some say they were opposed to it because they wanted to weaken Russia, to weaken the ties between Russia and Western Europe, Germany especially. But maybe also to weaken the German economy, which, after all, is a competitor to the US economy. With the high gas prices, enterprises have started to move to the United States. So what’s your sense of the motives of the US government, if they blew up the pipeline?
Seymour Hersh
I don’t think they thought it through.
I know this sounds strange.
I don’t think that Blinken and some others in the administration are deep thinkers.
There certainly are people in the American economy who like the idea of us being more competitive. We’re selling LNG, liquefied gas, at extremely big profits; we’re making a lot of money on it. I’m sure there were some people thinking, boy, this is going to be a long-time boost for the American economy.
But in that White House, I think the obsession was always reelection, and they wanted to win the war, they wanted to get a victory, they want Ukraine to somehow magically win.
There could be some people who think maybe it’ll be better for our economy if the German economy is weak, but that’s crazy thinking. I think, basically, that we’ve bitten deep into something that’s not going to work. The war is not going to turn out well for this government.
Fabian Scheidler How do you think this war could end?
Seymour Hersh
It doesn’t matter what I think. What I know is there’s no way this war is going to turn out the way we want, and I don’t know what we’re going to do as we go further down the line. It scares me if the president was willing to do this.
And the people who did this mission believed that the president did realize what he was doing to the people of Germany, that he was punishing them for a war that wasn’t going well. And in the long run, this is going to be very detrimental not only to his reputation as the president but politically too. It’s going to be a stigma for America.
So what you have is a White House that thought it may have a losing card: Germany and Western Europe may stop giving the arms we want and the German chancellor could turn the pipeline on — that was always a fear.
I would be asking a lot of questions to Chancellor Scholz. I would ask him what he learned in February when he was with the president. The operation was a big secret, and the president wasn’t supposed to tell anybody about this capability. But he does talk. He says things that he doesn’t want to.
Crisis? What Crisis?
Pommy booster toppers will be just a little bit saaaad.
fly at your own risk
as well
Hi Dover, I have sent you an email.
Another derailment, this time in Detroit.
‘Say hi to Snow White’: Jeffrey Epstein offered ‘Disney princesses’ to top JPMorgan exec, trafficking victims paid over $1 million from accounts at megabank, unsealed docs say
The lawsuit says Staley emailed Epstein in July 2010: “Maybe they’re tracking u? That was fun. Say hi to Snow White.”
Epstein reportedly replied, “What character would you like next?”
Staley responded by naming the Disney princess movie “Beauty and the Beast.”
Epstein allegedly replied, “Well one side is available.”
“Cassie of Sydneysays:
February 17, 2023 at 8:04 am”
Cassie’s itemised statement is brilliant. A definitive “je cuse”(excuse spelling, no french here, but you get the gist).
I have copied it and will be emailing to Scummo’s office, on repeat. If all of us, including friends, rellos etc, pass the word, get on board with same, while we can’t overturn anything he has done, if word gets out the shame may actually penetrate his rhino hide. Also good if it is passed on, en masse to Sky News. Would love to see him tripping over himself to say “ooh, I’m so sorry”. I can dream, but the mailing of Cassie’s comment is still a great idea.
Beertruksays:
February 17, 2023 at 7:54 am
Pauline Hanson’s Please Explain
A pitch perfect ending.
Lucky the ABCess has a billion dollars and the chaser ‘boys” to compete with it though.
A similar term was applied in India – the young women who visited from England, supposedly in search of husbands were known as the “fishing fleet”. Those who were unsuccessful in their quest, and were returning to England, were dubbed “returned empties.”
Imbecile.
Her staff are either idiots too, or they hate her.
Why Bill Burr Never Liked White Woman
Comedy
Peter Brookes – my pick
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FpCg2QpXgA4rMun?format=jpg&name=small
Rampaging “youths” are a rick to the passing of the in-voice, so some blame needs to be thrown around.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-17/mcgowan-parent-comment-sparks-debate-on-indigenous-family/101986442
So lets start with some deliberate weasel wording..
Stolen Generation’s lasting impact
As Bringing them Home WA chair Tony Hansen points out, 57 per cent of Aboriginal people in Western Australia are connected to the Stolen Generation, which has had a huge and ongoing intergenerational impact.
“Many of these parents today, were part of an institution where they were never loved, never cuddled, they were never taught how to be parents, never taught how to take on the responsibilities of nurturing a child as well, because they were isolated, segregated,” he said.
“connected to” – with no specification on how tenuous the connection might be.
Also 20,000 years of stone age, taboo riddled, tribal life not mentioned as a possible factor?
….
I have seen a “family” surrounded by dozens of people “supporting them”. He a fetal alcohol affected late teen who was an avid practitioner of domestic violence, her a mentally impaired spina bifida girl, 15,who was (at that time) breastfeeding her 3rd kid (the other 2 removed once off the tit).
No one is asking if this is a wanted outcome.
The extended family included granny pisswreck and her 3 “sons” living in government housing without a stick of unbroken furniture in the place.
But “muh stolen generators”…
Further to my above rant, Scumbag had a lot to say about, in fact he was happy to verbally shove the boot into….
1. Cardinal Pell
2. Bettina Arndt
3. SAS soldiers
4. Christine Holgate
5. Brittaneeeeeee da Knickerless affair
With all the above, Scumbag joined in the lynching, he could not and would not keep his mouth shut, to the point where a criminal trial was prejudiced. So, clearly he was never tongue-tied, he was just selective about what to speak up about.
No level of stupid could possibly beat this.
https://twitter.com/SprinterBV0000/status/1625921796896612353
Pogriasays:
February 17, 2023 at 9:34 am
Thanks Pogria, everyone, feel free to pass it on!
COVID?
I watched a Documentary on Sound of Music Last night and was surprised to Find it was based on a German Movie
Die Trapp-Familie (full movie with English subtitles)
The Trapp Family (German: Die Trapp-Familie) is a 1956 West German comedy drama film about the real-life Austrian musical family of that name directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner and starring Ruth Leuwerik, Hans Holt, and Maria Holst.[1] Based on Maria von Trapp’s 1949 memoir, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, the film is about a novice nun sent to care for the unruly children of a wealthy baron, who falls in love with and marries the young woman. Through her caring influence, the family becomes a famous singing group. When the baron is pressured to join Hitler’s army, the family escapes to the United States where they establish themselves as singers.
The Trapp Family became one of the most successful German films of the 1950s, and was the inspiration for the even more fictionalized 1959 Broadway musical The Sound of Music and its highly successful 1965 film version.
The film had one sequel, The Trapp Family in America (1958).
N.B. – The subtitles need to be turned on it the settings.
Certain indigenous youth in the local town where we “had the farm” were adamant that they were part of the “Stolen Generation.” None of them were even born until over twenty years after the last of those children were removed.
As for “Bringing Them Home”, the Aboriginal Legal Service vetted submissions to that inquiry, and any that didn’t conform with the plot were not heard.
J.C.:
https://twitter.com/SprinterBV0000/status/1625921796896612353
They’re inert until a detonator is installed.
Cassie of Sydney says:
February 17, 2023 at 9:58 am
Pogriasays:
February 17, 2023 at 9:34 am
Thanks Pogria, everyone, feel free to pass it on!
Cassie,
original sent – well stated
Turtlehead, how would you know there’s no detonator installed, you oppositional deadshit?
Now, go crawling to Driller cursing that I was a meanie to you, you hyperbolic twit.
Yep.
Matt Walsh’s brutal truth:
https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1625617441219813409
East Palestine Train Derailment: Aftermath of the Ohio Chemical Spill
Joe Rogan
MPs grilling Lowe are feeling RBA rate rises
John Kehoe and Michael Read
The 18 members of parliament’s economics committees grilling Reserve Bank of Australia governor Philip Lowe this week own 42 properties, exposing most of them to the sharp rise in interest rates also facing their constituents.
The eight senators who sit on the Senate’s economics committee own an average of three properties each, while the 10 MPs in the House of Representatives’ standing committee on economics disclose an average of 1.8 properties each, according to publicly available data on their registers of interest.
About 2.2 million Australian taxpayers are property investors, with the group collectively owning 3.25 million rental properties, according to Australian Taxation Office data.
Legislators, which includes MPs and senators, are among the most prolific landlords, with about one in four reporting at least investment property.
NSW Labor senator Deb O’Neill has five properties, including three investment properties and a residence in Canberra near Parliament, according to her statement of registrable interests.
Greens treasury spokesman Nick McKim, who has called for Dr Lowe to be sacked, has four real estate listings in Tasmania, including a “shack” at Nubeena near the island’s coast.
Senator McKim accused Dr Lowe of inducing borrowers into taking on record amounts of debt through the governor’s pandemic-era statements that interest rates would probably first rise in 2024 at the earliest.
“Then you later apologised if people had listened to you because you made that statement,” Senator McKim said at the hearing on Wednesday.
“You’ve put up interest rates nine times in a row and flagged that there are more to come.”
“Can you explain to the renters and mortgage holders of Australia why you still deserve to hold your job?”
Senator O’Neill said this week she had personally experienced the pressure of paying off a mortgage and “that’s the line of questioning I will be pursuing” with Dr Lowe.
“I think interest rates is the issue for everybody at the moment. It’s really distressing for people,” Senator O’Neill told The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
She asked Dr Lowe on Wednesday what assurances he could give that he understood the pain interest rate rises were imposing on the community.
“We hear the message loud and clearly,” Dr Lowe said.
Dr Lowe revealed that he and Senator O’Neill had visited a counselling service together in Sydney’s Surry Hills to speak to people about financial hardship.
Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi has three NSW property holdings with her spouse, excluding a separate block of land she owns in Pakistan.
She is a “substitute member” of the committee and did not ask Dr Lowe questions this week.
The House of Representatives economics committee quizzed Dr Lowe on Friday.
Queensland Liberal-National MP Garth Hamilton, Labor’s Andrew Charlton and Tania Lawrence, and NSW independent Allegra Spender all have three properties listed to their names.
Ms Spender holds properties at Darling Point, Great Mackeral Beach and Woollahra in Sydney’s east.
The disclosures of the politicians’ property interests do not state the value of the properties or the size of loans on the properties.
Their registers of interests show the lenders who have provided loans to the committee members, such as the big four banks, ING, Suncorp, Bendigo and Adelaide Bank and MyState Bank, suggesting most of them will be impacted by interest rate rises.
Since the RBA began raising interest rates last May, house prices nationally are 9 per cent below their peak, but remain more than 14 per cent above pre-pandemic levels, according to CoreLogic.
Dr Lowe has voluntarily disclosed his personal financial interests on the RBA website.
He and his wife own one home in Sydney and no longer have a mortgage. The couple have credit cards with Commonwealth Bank of Australia and National Australia Bank.
Don’t bet on it.
What if Russia Nukes Kyiv?
From Armstrong Economics –
QUESTION: Dear Mr. Armstrong,
In the event that Russia does employ nuclear weaponry in/over Ukraine, does Socrates offer any insight as to what effect that might have on Ukrainian food/energy/commodities -production in general (…. let alone their capabilities, or likely lack thereof, to transport, said items from fields/mines/etc. to harbors/rail-lines/etc.); and what type of effect will (potentially, severely) reduced outputs like that (from the “bread basket of Europe”) have on shortages, inflationary cost-pressures, disease-cycles, population migration, and so forth and so on? Having traveled through Ukraine in my youth (around the time of your Israel sojourn; and yes, I had a whole lot more hair than too still), I remember marveling at arable topsoil some 8 to 10 feet deep; what (long-term?) effect would nuclear fallout have on such valuable planting-media, one wonders?
All my very best to you, Mr. Armstrong, believe me; I admire your bravery a great deal. You, Sir, are a Prince & a true gift to humanity!
Sincerely, …. tlk
ANSWER: Everything to the East of the river was the Russian Empire from the days of the Tzar. Ukraine was NEVER a country – period! That is why they joined Hitler who promised to carve out territory so they could be a nation. I get hate mail from Ukraine calling me a Putin lover. They will not respond when I ask do you really think you can destroy Russia and survive? Is it worth losing the country you finally won in 1991 all for the Donbas where the majority of people are Russian? They will not respond to any such questions. They are blinded by the hatred of Russians and cannot see that they are risking it all. They had a country. That was their dream. They are throwing that all away with nothing to gain even if they won – they will never survive the conflict. It just makes no sense.
That said, Russia could nuke Kyiv. It would all depend upon the size of the bomb. This would be the destruction of Kyiv with 100 kilotons. The argument inside Russia is that Putin has been too “soft” and he should have gone all in for the kill. The military believes they have been held back and could have won had they not had their hands tied.
This would be 100 metric tons. So you can see, they can nuke Kyiv and “win” the war without destroying all of Ukraine. This is what some are pushing for because they see this as a war against NATO and not just a war now to defend the Donbas. Ukraine has been the fool on the hill. They have listened to the West, and gone head-to-head against Russia which has more nukes than the United States, which cannot defend itself against a hypersonic nuclear missile.
Everyone has gone just mad. There is NOTHING to gain from this and the Ukrainian people will only wake up when it is too late. Zelensky is the Adolf Hitler who has brought death and destruction to their dream of a nation-state. Russia could take out Kyiv without harming Crimea or the Donbas.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/ukraine/what-if-russia-nukes-kyiv/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Last night the ABC (yes, the ABC) broadcast an episode of Foreign Correspondent that all Australians should view: “Why Japan is fortifying its small islands, And why is it such a big deal?” It verifies what the Wednesday telecast by Peter Stepanovic on Sky told us – that a war with China is now very likely & sooner than we had thought.
I doubt if any participants of this blog would be surprised at what the ABC telecast reports. But I do think it is important that we ensure that this sort of forewarning should be seen by all. I have sent it to all the contacts that I believe will comprehend what it is telling us.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-16/why-japan-is-fortifying-its-small-islands.-and-why/101986244
Hahahahahahahahahaha. Good ol’Soc making all sorts of important predictions.
Thread and article.
Now China and Germany Join Russia and Demand an Investigation Into Biden’s Connections with Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Sabotage
If Biden did blow up this pipeline then this could arguably be an act of war that only Congress has the right to make per the US Constitution. This is grounds for immediate impeachment if true. Biden’s response is damaging to the country. US’s reputation under Biden if failing. This is another act that damages the US and Americans.
China and Germany are now asking for investigations into the pipeline.
According to RT, China is now reporting on Hersh’s claim that Biden was involved in blowing up the pipeline.
Beijing has mocked mainstream Western media for its apparent reluctance to look into recent allegations by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh, that the US was responsible for blowing up the Nord Stream undersea pipelines last year.
The sabotage of the natural gas routes last September had a major economic and environmental impact and caused global concern over the safety of cross-border infrastructure, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said during a press briefing on Thursday.
China and Russia aren’t the only two countries interested in what happened.
A German MP is also asking for an investigation into the matter:
Lawmaker Sevim Dagdelen made her appeal after allegations that the US was behind the Nord Stream blasts
Berlin must not obstruct the creation of an international inquiry into the explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipelines, Sevim Dagdelen, a German MP from the Left Party (Die Linke), said on Tuesday.
The whole world wants to know if Biden was behind the Nord Stream 2 explosion. This is really terrible for the USA.
Sure buddy. Neither was “Ireland”, “Finland”, “Korea”, “Greece”, “Iraq”, “Jordan”, “Pakistan”…
It’s as though modern history doesn’t matter. This is magical thinking.
“Just nuke Kiev. Isn’t Zelensky a warmonger?!”
JC, have you had a morning stiffener already? The abuse has started earlier than usual.
Meth trains were…
Dunn, DUNN, DUNNNNNN!!!!
Wieambilla shootings labelled Australia’s first Christian terrorist attack
Funny how this narrative is getting floated at the same time as the FBI has gone all in on the same stupid meme.
Police have labelled last year’s shooting of two police officers and a neighbour in the Queensland town of Wieambilla as Australia’s first fundamentalist Christian terrorist attack.
“Our assessment has concluded that Nathaniel, Gareth and Stacey Train acted as an autonomous cell and executed a religiously motivated terrorist attack,” she said.
“The Train family members prescribed to what we would call a broad Christian fundamentalist belief system known as premillennialism.
“I’m not an expert in that but, in its basic interpretation, is that there was a belief that Christ will return to the Earth for a thousand days, provide peace and prosperity, but it will be preceded by an era, or a period of time of tribulation and widespread destruction and suffering.”
Linford said the Covid pandemic, climate crisis, global conflict, anti-vaccine and anti-government sentiment and social disparity had seen the Trains spiral into increasingly radical theological beliefs.
“Christian extremist ideology has been linked to other attacks around the world, but this is the first time we’ve seen it occur in Australia,” she said.
“Probably the one people most might recognise was the Waco attack [in Texas in 1993].”
…….
But Linford stressed there was no evidence of any domestic link to the Trains’ “terrorist cell”.
She also said there appeared to be no connection to the sovereign citizen movement, althoughearly speculation of such a connection was “understandable” given the behaviour of the Trains.
The deputy commissioner said police had not found any communication in which the Trains declared themselves as sovereign citizens – which she said was often the case with adherents of that ideology.
The deputy commissioner said the Trains may have hoped to inspire others to follow their deadly example.
Asked if the threat of Christian extremists had been on the radar of police prior to the attack, Linford said it was “not something we’ve seen in Australia”.
Cookers off the hook Monty, you fat still completely wrongologist!
We are eagerly awaiting your apology to the cooker-Australian community, so baselessly slurred by your impugning on their good names.
Lowe mightn’t present well in this emoting age but the economic truth is he’s doing what has to be done – thanks to the bipartisan ‘pandemic’ degeneracy that created all the inflationary pressures. That + the mental illness of energy bans + the West’s war against Putin for not allowing gay marriage.
In other words, the Canberra bubble is responsible for people not being able to rent, struggling with mortgages and living in cars.
Rabz says:
January 15, 2023 at 8:42 pm
Sorry, Rabz, that new XC series Falcon up the driveway suggests 1976 at the earliest. I otherwise totally identify with that scene, though. My red Hallmark, even in base single-speed coaster-brake form was the coolest thing the arrival of BMX rendered it the uncoolest thing. With a milk crate on the front it served admirably as my local paper/junk mail delivery truck for some years afterwards.
We fact checked Pauline Hanson’s claim that a ‘race-based rent tax’ will throw millions of Australians into poverty. Here’s what we found
There has not been a single ‘fact check’ from the RMIT/ABC ‘fact checking’ outfit CheckMate that I haven’t been able to predict simply by reading the headline.
Balls deep in copium, meth anphetamine and anti semitism.
Perhaps drowning in the self importance of a fraudulent AI system that literary does not exist.
Lowe isn’t a bad guy, he’s ahead of the curve. We deserve a better class of central bankers.
FTR:
Last week, Sky’s war hawks were wetting their pants about the invasion of Chinese balloon monsters.
Today: turns out the US went to war against hobby drones, frisbees and flocks of geese.
These are dangerous, overwrought and stupid people.
It’s funny because it’s true.
That makes it sound like they took the show on the road.
As Bringing them Home WA chair Tony Hansen points out, 57 per cent of Aboriginal people in Western Australia are connected to the Stolen Generation, which has had a huge and ongoing intergenerational impact.
The only ‘Stolen Generation’ case to succeed, and there have been many of them, was the Bruce Trevarrow case; and Trevarrow disproved the idea of a Stolen Generation. Trevarrow was born in the 1930s with alcohol foetal syndrome to an Irish father and a half caste mum. Both were drunks who regularly left Bruce and his siblings alone. It was SA policy that NO aboriginal child should be removed from their parents. Acting on her own initiative a nurse at a local hospital took Bruce after reports of him being left alone reached her. She placed him with a local family. Neither his mother or father bothered to look for him. When he grew up activists got in his ear and he sued SA Health. Trevarrow succeeded not because there was a policy of systemic and automatic removal of aboriginal children but because one of SA Health’s employee’s acted in defiance of its policy of NOT removing aboriginal children.
Aboriginal children are subject to some of the highest rates of abuse in the WORLD. This abuse is sheeted home by cu.ts like thorpie and the rest to colonialism and racism. It isn’t; this abuse is just part of the hunting and gathering aboriginals were the best at for millennia. Should white culture, which was responsible in the 50s – 70s to a real removal of children from young mother’s policy, simply leave aboriginal children in households where those children are subject to abuse? Thorpie couldn’t care less; the children, like every other designated victim, are useful only for their political purpose. Solutions to problems, real like this, or non-existent like alarmism are not relevant.
Lowe mightn’t present well in this emoting age but the economic truth is he’s doing what has to be done – thanks to the bipartisan ‘pandemic’ degeneracy that created all the inflationary pressures.
C.L. – agree that he is NOW doing what has to be done. But surely he committed a major blunder in previously predicting “steady as she goes” interest rates. Indeed, I think he actually concedes the error.
Literally autocorrected to literary
I’m done.
dover0beachsays:
February 17, 2023 at 10:31 am
Alan MacLeod
@AlanRMacLeod
Thought id check the ABCcess for mention of Hersh’s article.
“Latest” showing up is this one.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-14/seymour-hersh-on-osama-bin-laden/6470990
Last news item mentioning the pipeline..
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-19/swedish-authorities-confirm-nord-stream-pipelines/101675226
Its a big narrative, and your not in it.
Zelensky is the Adolf Hitler who has brought death and destruction to their dream of a nation-state.
While President for life (yours) Putin loves long walks in the park and quiet evenings at home with his pets…
I did see one thing which i thought was an interesting take.
At the end of this, assuming Kiev has some loss inflicted on it, their wisest approach would be to emulate Israel and become a army with a state attached.
Isn’t it rather silly to be talking of nuclear strikes? I think that is the last thing Russia or the US would be considering at present. Ukraine would possibly use them if it had any.
Shit; that should be Trevorrow.
They were panicked by RAF Luton’s PRU Canberra.
Ah yes, the old Dolchstoßlegende.
He reduced interest rates too low and now he’s going to raise them too high.
Not the steady hand the country needs, if it must have a central bank.
Take it up with the sentient AI (created in 1985) that the FBI and CIA have tried to steal and covered up with 9/11.
No, really.
sfwsays:
February 17, 2023 at 10:34 am
Yes and Dover is quite happy to let the abuse continue, day after day, it seems.
The finale to the latest One Nation cartoon is gold:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIx863vcFqk
Trusted Pakistani bloggers!
Is Seymour Hersh going to give evidence against the Australian SAS in about five years time when that disgraceful inquiry eventually gets anywhere?
QPol taking their cues from the FBI (with whom they are working on this case)?
Or just an embarrassingly superficial analysis? (Or both?)
The word check can have refer to the act of verifying, or the refer to the act of blocking, impeding, or thwarting. The unit calling itself Checkmate makes clear which one they refer to when they claim to ‘fact check’.
No fact must be allowed to proceed or proliferate.
Aboriginal children are subject to some of the highest rates of abuse in the WORLD. This abuse is sheeted home by cu.ts like thorpie and the rest to colonialism and racism. It isn’t; this abuse is just part of the hunting and gathering aboriginals were the best at for millennia.
This is correct. As much affection as I have for the Aborigines (and I know that many of you think it is just a “romantic” idiosyncrasy!), there is no doubt that their “culture” included an extremely violent, patriarchal, and “survivalist” set of social relationships and behaviour which are perpetuated through our misguided desire to isolate them into apartheid “Communities.” The latter obsession is fundamentally a Leftist construct – but you will never convince anybody today – such is the success of the “Stolen Generation” narrative.
Even if you are misguided and religiously motivated, shooting cops when they’re knocking on your door isn’t terrorism, it’s just being a violent offender.
The level of planning was negligible and they made a drug addled and paranoid speech.
If I am schizophrenic, think I am Jesus Christ and start shooting politicians to change our obscenity laws, does that mean I am a Christian terrorist?!
Some words have been thrown around with such abandon they have lost a lot of their meaning.
Lotocoti,
that tweet is hilarious. I found this great pic further down. Amazing what the military is experimenting with these days!
Greens senator unable to do math?
How surprising.
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.smh.com.au%2Fpolitics%2Ffederal%2Fher-family-endured-five-stolen-generations-now-she-wants-to-unite-australia-20230215-p5ckt3.html
When she arrived in parliament towards the end of 2021, as a Greens senator for Western Australia, she used her first speech to talk about the way her grandfather was removed from his family and taken to the New Norcia Mission north of Perth.
“My family has survived five generations of the stolen-generation regime in this country,” she told the Senate. “I come from the first generation of children to be raised by their parents, and I am one of the lucky ones.”
We are ruled by low rent mongs and spastics.
Trevorrow was awarded over half a million dollars in damages, spent the next couple of years in and out of psychiatric hospitals, and the courts, for bashing his wife, and died, aged 51, a couple of years after the court case.
And yet we are advised by social workers that indigenous youth offend repeatedly in order to escape domestic hell holes by being placed in detention, where they find order and safety.
I’m somewhat sceptical of this as a motivation, but perhaps the social workers are afraid to say what’s really on their minds – many of these children need to be removed from their “parents.”
From Robert Malone’s Substack today, some insights into why a minority of people did not fall for the COVID/Vax hoax.
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/the-first-mandatory-vaccination-campaign
I, in turn, have identified two characteristics that kept some people from being pulled into the narrative early on …… First, the majority of people utilize the “social proof” heuristic, whereby they typically make decisions based on the experiences of their peers. The social proof heuristic (commonly associated with the Asch experiments) helps to explain why a nonsensical message being widely disseminated throughout the media, rapidly results in many members of the public then adopting it, and why the medical profession can often become incapable of seeing evidence that challenges a prevailing orthodoxy….. Conversely, there is always a minority of the population who do not require social proof to make decisions (CHECK), and they will typically be the first to adopt a new trend (such as buying a stock before everyone else catches on and its value skyrockets) (CHECK – I first bought Bitcoin in 2015) . I have found that virtually every individual I’ve gotten to know who bucked the COVID-19 narrative has shared this personality trait.
Second, the same types of crimes tend to be perpetrated repeatedly on the public, so those who become wise to them are less likely to fall for them in the future. ……… Because of this, if you can learn what transpired before, you can prevent it from happening again (CHECK _ Ive been reading history books for 50 years)
Yanks seem particularly to susceptible to RAF Luton’s tomfoolery.
I don’t think it’s carelsss…I think it’s deliberate.
I really do believe QPol are in over their heads on this one and are regurgitating what the FBI is telling them.
JC,
you know as well as I do, the bucket of stupid is bottomless.
C.L. says:
February 17, 2023 at 10:52 am
The finale to the latest One Nation cartoon is gold:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIx863vcFqk
Sent a Screen shot of Elboweasy in His Mardi Gras Outfit from that clip to Liberal Party email addresses
as the Pauline Hanson Please Explain Video was attached to cassie thread
Wieambilla shootings labelled Australia’s first Christian terrorist attack
Someone has been playing Far Cry 5 too much. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_Cry_5
Also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_3_-UrhZH0
Add it to the list with Hunter Biden, Jim Biden, vax injuries, masks, climate reality, the Steele Dossier, big tech censorship of righties, the J6 political prisoners, the stolen elections, DOJ/FBI/CIA/EPA etc corruption and Epstein’s client list.
Any surprise that most people now think the MSM is lying to them.
Someone above mentioned that ‘number plates’ were now being Americanised into ‘license plates.’
It brought to mind an English poem from long ago, The Sad Tale of a Motor Fan, by H A Field. It is about a boy called Ethelred. Ethelred would nowadays be described as ‘autistic’ because of his fascination with motor cars, but in days of yore he was merely regarded as eccentric. How much more sensible that ‘diagnosis’ is.
The lines that came to mind were:
I love English humorous poetry. Must dig up the one about the two blokes shipwrecked on a tropical island who could not speak to each other because they hadn’t been formally introduced. Let’s see … the Ballyshannon foundered on … something something.
It’ll turn up. 🙂
OTOH, if we had sensible guns laws and rifles didn’t need to be registered the cops would have no reason to go to the Train’s house.
Who cares if people own rifles? It is what they do with them that counts and there are already perfectly good laws that cover those cases.
Both examples show large mines which are very likely anti-vehicle mines, and require considerable pressure plate load to set off, not just dropping or stepping on them.
Funny how they forgot to mention the aboriginal connection, Dubbo riots and black nationalism.
Pre-millenialism in Australia is limited to groups like the Brethren.
In the US, however, it is a widely held belief among evangelicals of various denominational stripes who also tend to be conservative voters.
The Australian Federal Government, via the Australian Law Reform Commission, is on a mission to rob religious education institutions of the ability to employ staff who share the ethos of the institution – and then make the institutions the subject of state audits to “ensure” that this ability is gone.
There is an online questionnaire
https://www.alrc.gov.au/inquiry/anti-discrimination-laws/submission/survey/
the results from which the ALRC will use as part of “informing” the feds of “the views of the public”. I have completed a submission, and as the target of the feds is pretty clear, various groups such as the ACL are organising in an attempt to get their views into the survey, in numbers that are noticed.
Apparently the ALRC has said that the survey has had over 9,000 responses so far (a record for an ALRC survey) of course no one but the ALRC knows who has made so many of these responses.
There’s no set time responding to a dickhead comment. At the very least, you always treat dangerous devices and ordinance with total respect. It’s moronic to be throwing these devices around.
From Constructed Sound Stage, Joe Biden Says U.S. Military Shot Down Balloons Belonging to “private companies, recreation, and research institutions”…
February 16, 2023 – Sundance
Apparently almost every media outlet buried the lead. According to analysis from combined intelligence operations of the U.S government, last week the Biden administration ordered U.S. military fighter jets to launch missiles and shoot down of what is now believed to be “balloons belonging to private companies, recreation, or research institutions.” WATCH (w/ transcript below):
From the Comments
– God help us. America is in big big trouble.
– Recall how this regime exhibited no interest in this ballon business until engaged and informed Americans forced them to pay attention to it and President Trump told them to shoot (the first Chinese balloon) down.
These people are scary stupid!
– Clown show.
And this is the sanitized, scripted explanation?
Imagine the Three Stooges franticity amongst the military ‘braintrust’
– “I ignored a legitimate threat from the CCP because my family has been utterly compromised by our business dealings with the Chinese, among many others…BUT, I did order the destruction of three totally harmless, private objects in order to distract from my previous inaction. And there’s nothing any of you can do about, Jack, so quit pesterin’ me with your stupid questions!”
And sadly, he’s probably right…who’s going to call him out? Cocaine Mitch? Frank Luntz’ roommate?
– This would be hilarious, if it wasn’t so incredibly inept! WTF!
– Why so many constructed phony stages for joe to speak from?
Does he leak down his trousers so often he’s barred from the business portion of the WH?
– These people will cause WW3 and soon.
Braindead supplication to greenies has yet another ‘unintended’ consequence:
In thrall to greenies, they ban any selective logging of native forests ever, preferring to wait for the inevitable bushfire that will burn them to the ground, killing every living thing.
Morons.
One interesting thing that doesn’t seem to get any consideration is what the apparent leaks to Hersh would mean to the Biden Administration.
Flipping through Hersh, he implies secret sources with detailed knowledge of:
• Whatever passes for thinking in the Oval Office;
• Military planning;
• Military coordination with ‘Soviet-hating’ Danish special forces;
• Blinken/State department thinking;
• Presumably highly classified operational details (including an obvious blooper about the use of shaped charges);
• The outrage amongst the Alphabet Agencies at the sheer stupidity of the exploit.
It seems unlikely that there is a single hand across all of this – which raises the question:
1) Is this a torrent of leaks? or
2) A single pissed off mouth, sufficiently senior to have enough access to inter-agency gossip to be credible to Hersh.
If the former, it says the Deep State has turned on Biden in spades.
If the latter, many of the details don’t line up that well with the narrative.
The government will attempt to link funding to passing the audits.
We already see this in the business world, where companies that fail to meet gender equality targets are excluded from bidding on government contracts.
The churches have a fight on their hands but they can’t say they weren’t warned by voices within of the strings that were always likely to be attached to state funding of schools and other institutions. But their leadership was more interested in the money on offer and the empires that could be built with it as the size & influence of their congregations dwindled.
Everyone got less corrupt, but the next President, who staged his own terrorist attack false flag to win an election.
I think there’s something in that for all of us.
Conversely, there is always a minority of the population who do not require social proof to make decisions
Duk, I have always thought that the Milgram Experiment of the 1960s best demonstrates that a minority fail to fall victim to official directions to enact actions that cause harm to themselves and/or others.
On the other hand, the Milgram Experiment, to my knowledge, did not conclusively explain why the “white coat” did not convince some 30%. My belief is that it relates to a deep seated tendency in the latter towards critical thinking on most issues, and a tendency to recoil from hurt to others – in spite of it residing in those who are essentially very independently minded.
Perhaps also, the individualised response stems from an ability to detect incongruities. A research study in the US did show that there were basically 2 groups of “vaccine hesitants”: PhDs and, conversely, those with very basic education. I attribute the latter’s hesitancy to this very ability to detect, in colloquial terms, “bullshit”.
Sounds a bit like some classical logical paradox.
If it is a bucket of stupid it has a bottom.
But if it had a bottom then it would conform with rationality and not be properly stupid.
Perhaps the resolution is that the bucket is 50cm tall on the outside but looking inside it just goes down for ever and ever into an existentially annihilating abyss.
HotCopper chat:
1. Our SP went down on poor performance, we still have 10 mn cash, we need a CR, I smell a rat because of the CR (which is just my speculation).
2. I am going to harass people in the registered office until they talk to me why the speculative mining operation of which I am a part owner hasn’t made me a millionaire by pushing my unmarketable $300 parcel up to $306. I hope the oppies are doing fine!
These people who rag on corporate boards and ASIC would be the worst corporate operators of all if they rose to their level of incompetence. They would make a dodgy white shoe fraudster from Surfers Paradise c 1989 blush with admiration and utmost terror.
Perhaps the resolution is that the bucket is 50cm tall on the outside but looking inside it just goes down for ever and ever into an existentially annihilating abyss.
Correct. Stupidity is a fu.king Tardis.
I am going to harass people in the registered office until they talk to me why the speculative mining operation of which I am a part owner hasn’t made me a millionaire by pushing my unmarketable $300 parcel up to $306. I hope the oppies are doing fine!
Just invest in aar.
The fact that the family home is the last refuge for untaxed capital gains is at least part of the reason for the housing shortage.
Before you all erupt, let me say that I am very much in favour of things not being subjected to taxation. Mind you, as ratepayers all over the country are finding out, local councils are making hay on the backs of property owners. My council, Queanbeyan Palerang, is asking for a 63% increase in rates over the next couple of years, having gifted themselves a fancy new building in a town where there is plenty of vacant office space.
63%! If you want a recipe for a recession, there it is.
That’s some good intel cohenite.
Munty’s going to be a daddy again!
I can only expect all other taxes to go up. Our sovereign bond rate is nearly 4%, it was only 1% in most of 2020. The servicing costs are going to get very expensive and likely only increase.
”John & Ken are a couple of truth & common sense radio Jocks on KFI AM 640 out of L.A. @ 1300-1600 weekdays. I listen at KFI.com on my laptop.
Today, they had a guy on, who claimed that POTUS just spent $380,000 (AIM-9X) to shoot down one of their $12.00 hobby balloons. Their balloon was last heard from – over Alaska about the same time as the F-22 intercept, a few days ago.
I have no idea if this is true or not, but the Northern Illinois Bottle Cap Balloon Brigade is getting plenty of publicity and I find this totally HILARIOUS!
Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade | We Build and Launch Pico Balloons
Did Joe Biden shoot down hobbyists $12 balloon with a $380,000 missile?”
Tenterfield NSW is seeking state approval for 100+% over two years.
And they’re not the only one.
Davey Boy says:
February 17, 2023 at 11:29 am
The Australian Federal Government, via the Australian Law Reform Commission, is on a mission to rob religious education institutions of the ability to employ staff who share the ethos of the institution – and then make the institutions the subject of state audits to “ensure” that this ability is gone.
There is an online questionnaire
https://www.alrc.gov.au/inquiry/anti-discrimination-laws/submission/survey/
Had fun doing the Survey – submitted
Dotsays:
February 17, 2023 at 12:05 pm
That’s some good intel cohenite.
It’s a bit strange. Aar is full of gold (plus a LOT of silver and base metals which are usually overlooked) close to all amenities for processing. The gold reserves are proven and are continually expanding. They have an aggressive team. The gold price is high. The only problem I can see are the shares on issue and cash on hand. I don’t want any further capital raisings which dilute. But the sp is always depressed. As it stands now this a dollar share trading for cents.
Assuming he could get both feet off the ground at the same time,
mØnty could jump on an armed AT mine all day long
with little chance of a big badda-boom.
Half-arsedly mining a ford is a level of stupidity only exceeded by the Ukies’
lack of enthusiasm for making mine maps.
A couple of floods from now, some poor schlub downstream will probably find
one of those dinner plates the hard way.
Absolutely brilliant comment Cassie ! ! !
Look forward to your post coming soon.
Dot at 11:57 – they are giving WA small cap miners a bad name.
Thanks Davey Boy for your comment at 11:29 am.
Census data ‘shows value families place on faith-based education’
17 February 2023
New Australian Bureau of Statistics data reveal a record number of students in Catholic schools and support for faith-based education, says National Catholic Education executive director Jacinta Collins.
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The American Thinker article linked by Indolent at 8.10 (yes, I’ve just got up and had brekkie) saying don’t be fooled that De Santis will be Trump ‘without the baggage’ points out how much ‘baggage’ can be manufactured about a De Santis run, as it was with Trump. It opts for Trump, because:
The comments are an interesting mix of for and against points for both of them.
Personally, I suspect that De Santis would be able to shake off the worst of the media disapprobation.
But it is of course arguable, and Trump’s record of real achievements might still win the day.
But only if voters could be genuinely made aware of them amidst the past years of media attack that would also continue. And, as the article recognises at the start, if the electoral system was made fair.
That’s the biggest problem no matter who runs.
Hearing variations of this a lot on Sky lately…
Erin Molan on Melbourne Victory’s mandatory “pride” jerseys for six year-olds…
“Now Paul, I have a brother who’s gay and I fully supported same-sex marriage but this latest move…”
Time for this old chook to air her latest hate in the illiteracy stakes. Apart from ‘tow the line’ instead of ‘toe the line’ …
A new fave word in the illiterate written media word is profligate.
It crops up everywhere, even here, supposedly meaning ‘lots of.’
I came across the word as a child, reading ‘All About Tropical Fish.’ It means capable of producing lots of offspring.
It does not mean ‘lotsa.’
Do any of our modern churnalists even own a dictionary?
PS – I own three, and still consult them.
Prince Harry and wife Meghan Markle have been mercilessly savaged by one of America’s most popular cartoons, South Park, which has depicted the pair on a World Privacy Tour, infuriating locals with their constant demands to be ignored.
The royal couple, whose profile in the US increased significantly since their stepping back from royal duties and moving to California, appeared to be the clear target of the latest episode of the satirical, long-running show, which aired Wednesday night (Thursday AEDT) and depicted the duo as vain, stupid and obnoxious.
The 22-minute episode begins on the set of Good Morning Canada, where the royal pair, cheekily dubbed the prince and princess of Canada, hold signs “Stop Looking At Us” and “We Want Privacy” as they are interviewed about the prince’s latest book “Waaagh”, a seeming reference to Harry’s memoir Spare.
“We just want to be normal people. All this attention is so hard!” Megan’s character says before the interview takes a turn for the worse.
“I just think some people might say that your Instagram-loving b*tch wife actually doesn’t want her privacy,” the fictitious host says to Harry.
Under further tough questioning the royal pair storm out and launch an around the world tour to France, Australia and India in a private jet, before settling in the remote town of South Park, Colorado, where they drape their home in signs extolling privacy while holding loud parties and setting off fireworks.
“If we moved here, people would think we’re really serious about wanting to be normal,” says Meghan, who repeatedly claims to be harassed because of her ‘ethnicity’, when they arrive.
South Park, which has won multiple awards since its 1997 launch, revolves around the lives of a group of schoolchildren, who in this episode don’t take well to their new royal neighbours.
“I totally was gonna play with you guys online, but the prince of Canada and his wife moved in across the street from me… and then they kept trying to get me to buy their stupid book,” Kyle, one of the regular characters, moans to his friends.
“I‘m sick of hearing about them. But I can’t get away from them, they’re everywhere”.
The unflattering episode came as speculation swirled about whether the royal couple, whose Netflix documentary Harry & Megan received mixed reviews in the US, would be invited to King Charles’s coronation scheduled for 6th May in London.
“I suspect this is how most Americans now feel about them,” said British journalist Piers Morgan on Twitter, describing the latest show as “lethally brilliant”.
The episode, which includes a pointed parallel plot about school kids’ paying a sleazy businessman to improve their personal ‘brands’ (which always include ‘victim’ as a critical trait), ends on a slightly positive note, when the school kids discover the Sussexes having their own brand management consultation.
“Trying to make ourselves into a brand just turned us into products,” Harry declares in a seeming epiphany, before walking out. “No more magazines and Netflix shows, we can just live a normal life!”
Meghan, however, remains.
Oz – if the link takes you to some of the pix they are well worth checking out
when did he transition to a man??
P says:
February 17, 2023 at 12:22 pm
Thanks Davey Boy for your comment at 11:29 am.
Census data ‘shows value families place on faith-based education’
17 February 2023
New Australian Bureau of Statistics data reveal a record number of students in Catholic schools and support for faith-based education, says National Catholic Education executive director Jacinta Collins.
P,
Get every Concerned Catholic you know to answer the survey from Davey Boy
You should send the Survey address to CathNews.com and get themto distribute it to Catholic Parents
https://www.alrc.gov.au/inquiry/anti-discrimination-laws/submission/survey/
When it came to identifying who I was, you are anonymous, but the number of Genders you could be were ridiculous, showing the Bias of the Survey Propagators
OldOzzie says:
February 17, 2023 at 12:15 pm
Davey Boy says:
February 17, 2023 at 11:29 am
The Australian Federal Government, via the Australian Law Reform Commission, is on a mission to rob religious education institutions of the ability to employ staff who share the ethos of the institution – and then make the institutions the subject of state audits to “ensure” that this ability is gone.
There is an online questionnaire
https://www.alrc.gov.au/inquiry/anti-discrimination-laws/submission/survey/
Had fun doing the Survey – submitted
Biden Taken To Coroner For Annual Physical
I still have and use the superb two-volume World Book Dictionary that was in our old family home. Explanatory notes, variations, origins, usages are all superior to online dictionaries.