The White Horse, John Constable, 1819
NYC Reaches $2.1 Million Settlement in “Toxic Whiteness” Discrimination Case After Replacing 3 White Women With Less Qualified People of…
Open Thread – Weekend 18 Feb 2023
- Open Thread – Weekend 27 April 2024
- Nuclear power and the foundational lie
- Open Thread – Anzac Day 2024
- Open Thread – Mon 22 April 2024
- Open Thread – Weekend 21 April 2024
Anyone who can’t recite their army number is a fake. I ask the spouse to say his, just to check…
Haha – thanks Tom for the uncle Bosie version of WIP
Week In Pictures.
Not too sure about this.
I like Taki. He its less scurrilous than in the past, something that needs to be addressed.
Getty-Rich-Quick Scheme
No “man” dares to intervene?
Unless you’re armed and prepared to kill them both, and prepared to run the gauntlet of activist judiciary, and are prepared to fight for your life every day in prison if you get a bad outcome. No.
Just caught up with the thread after spending the arvo reading the Australian headline material and all attachments to it that had anything worth reading in them.
lol, here’s one that wasn’t worth reading: Nikki Gemmell is opining that she wants a “sex-free life” from her husband – as they are both so busy, what with her being an entitled feminist and all, and him still bringing home the bacon too. It seems that Nikki and her mates, now older girls with kids grown up, gotta rest n’sleep and get away from the hairy old snoring bloke in the bed beside her. In that case, I should inform the dear lady that she is inviting her husband to find another lady, possibly younger, far more interesting than her good self, the happening of which will come as a huge shock to her outraged sensitivities. You have to work attentively at marriage, darling, both of you together. It doesn’t just keep rolling on while you busy yourself elsewhere.
Not quite so JC.
A defence minister’s office that permits staff to “get on the piss” with Defence contractors is not deserving of any respect. They are undermining the tax payers’ interests.
In retrospect I am grateful to my outfit in Europe that enforced a strict ‘no social contact’ rule with customers.
Most offended by this were Australian pollies who expected to be shown a good time as their right.
The Brits of course lavished entertainment (and apparently more) upon customers and prospects. This may have been one of the reasons why our competition was so vigorous and why we rarely achieved JV’s with them.
Yeah, no.
I’m no longer a conservative, but apparently an anarchist (and an anti-christ) for advocating the obliteration of institutions that the former might want to “conserve”, for example:
Universities
The bureaucracy
The ALPC
Corporations
I want them completely wiped off the face of this planet. Anything that might need to be rebuilt commences from that point.
BTW, WTF is an “RBA outsider”?
An “outsider” held in reserve by the RBA, e.g. Lowie 2.0?
A (soon not to be currant or) former politician ?
Some random dunderhead grabbed off the street?
An iconoclast, e.g. someone resembling myself*?
*Fully qualified, thanks and I’m capable of wearing expensive suits and watches when not lounging around in a cottage in inner western Sydney clad in a Bayern Munich polo and shorts imbibing amber beverages. 🙂
Last night I was lucky to attend a fabulous Cat catch up, hosted by Tinta and her wonderful husband, the ‘Sunbather’.
Fabulous food was consumed (Tinta is a superb cook) and a lot of alcohol was drunk. We talked and talked and talked, we solved all the world’s problems, and we all laughed uproariously on two occasions, you all know when something soooo funny happens you can’t stop laughing!
There’s nothing nicer in life than being with friends, eating, drinking and laughing.
Thank you Tinta and to all my wonderful Cat friends. I am so lucky to know Tinta, the Sunbather, Lizzie, Hairy, Dragnet, Rabz and others. And you know what….we’re all mad!
Yet another example of why we are not a serious country.
Ok that was a Humungous clap of Thunder with Instantaneous Lightning illuminating the dark sky above us
http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR714.loop.shtml
Along with Phatty Adams always worth skipping. I assume it’s what MammaMia must be like.
You need to read the article, Rabz.
It’s about the culture of the RBA.
That being said, I suspect Chalmers/Albanese would foist a Marxist from LSE on us.
Talking about late arrival pieces on the Cat (and I’m glad to know the cops got that hideous little biffer and his mate) there’s Putin’s excellent overview of how Marxists in Soviet Russia tried the ‘woke’ trick and did their best to obliterate family, family values and the historical morality of the Nation and only the end to Soviet Communism saved the Russian day. Not wrong, and of considerable interest, but not exactly up-to-the minute either, because the article is dated late 2021.
Thanks Roger.
I had the Penguin paperback—which, I think, is quite good—but have since then purchased a secondhand copy of the Easton Press edition. I had thought that would be the end of it, but it sounds like the Philbrick edition might be a worthwhile addition to the collection.
Others present (along with their better halves) at last night’s shindig – Harlequin Decline and the Beer Whisperer.
Any Cats existing in Sydney who’d like to join our collective, feel free to let me know.
Obliteration is almost going easy on it, Rog.
Thanks Cassie and to the Cats who turned up – it was indeed a great evening creating a large deposit for the memory bank. The uproarious laughter, the tributes, cheers and grateful thanks for the culture warriors, and actual blood and guts warriors too.
The best thing was the balmy Sydney night and the spectacular backdrop against which we ate and drank and were very, very merry. Haven’t had a night like that for at least a decade causing me to sleep in until 7:30 this morning – haven’t done that for a decade either. Cheers to all and thanks for a wonderful night/morning.
Now it’s thundering and lightnening and the sky is dark and forbidding. Playing out the frequent end to another hot and sunny Sydney February day.
I am off to make tonight’s chicken curry. Some chicken, onion and garlic, a tin of coconut cream, and a packet of various spices ready-made into a mixture. Easy! Will add a potato and broccoli at the last and Presto! Dinner for two!! No rice.
Time was in a communal student house in the 60’s in Sydney’s Glebe we all took great care to grind all our spices and make a special mix. Supervised by five girls in Indian cotton wraps and embroidered Indian blouses with our Indian silver dangling earrings, having tied back our long hair. Times past.
Not sure about that, Hugh, as you are so familiar with the work…but for new readers or those who’ve tried but haven’t gotten through it, yes.
Philbrick’s narrative volumes on American history are worth a look if that’s an interest.
I’m no longer a conservative, but apparently an anarchist (and an anti-christ) for advocating the obliteration of institutions that the former might want to “conserve”, for example:
Universities
The bureaucracy
The ALPC
Corporations”
I am a conservative but being a conservative is about trying to conserve institutions that are salvable. The above are not salvable and therefore must be destroyed, the bones buried and then dug up and burnt. Rabzy, you forgot some others that must be confined to the dustbin of history. The UK Conservatives and the STUPID EFFING LIBERAL PARTY OF AUSTRALIA, federally and in every state (well, they’re already extinct in WA).
Some random dunderhead grabbed off the street?
might do a better job than an approved and connected candidate. Alan Jones used to bang on about the ‘state of public administration’ in this country- well it’s got worse. More arrogant and supercilious, more disconnected from the concerns of ordinary people.
I am obliged to confess I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.
I’m an anarcho-capitalist, Rabz. Take that!
Nothing like a label. 😀
On trolling, it always takes on a remarkable uniformity. Like my (generally) three paragraph comments.
You have to hand it to Rupert, he understand human psychology and knows how to sell newspapers. Even if you can’t stand them you still wind up paying attention after they bait you for a reaction.
This country’s Radio Moscow. Purveying collectivist agitprop 24/7 – and much of it aimed at “da yoof”.
It needs to be nuked from orbit (to be sure, to be sure) and I make no apologies for advocating such a (seemingly drastic) course of action.
There is no acceptable reason for it to exist, Cats.
Since Rape was the allegation and panties are a hindrance,
Not if they’re crotchless crotchless; as you well know, you devil.
Thanks, mate.
Thanks again Roger. I really appreciate your insights.
I remember well the three consecutive days in the City of Sydney being over 100F.
From the Herald on January 28, 1960
Sydney recorded its worst heatwave in 100 years of official readings yesterday when the temperature soared to 108.3 degrees (42.4 C) at 3pm.
Yesterday’s reading was a new peak in the three-day ordeal – the first time the city has had above-century temperatures on three consecutive days.
I was working in the Divisional Office of a bank in Martin Place, Sydney.
The footpaths were bitumen (or some such) and after two days of the high temps our high heels were sinking in. In the office the girls were allowed to remove their stockings and white uniform collars and to fill their metal waste paper bins with water for our feet. The men and boys were allowed to remove their ties. This was the administration for NSW with no customers. But standards had to be kept.
Richard Vobes interviews Martin Geddes
German Press Discusses Pfizer Vaccine Trial Fraud. Will “Covid Reckoning” Follow?
The American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ABOG) ignores allegations of vaccine injury in pregnancy
Frank at 7:47 – I wouldn’t have read either for years. Gemmel can usually be relied on to provide some LOLs as a paint-by-numbers feminist.
That’s not why she was asked about the existence of underwear, Ed.
Elon Musk Sounds the Alarm on AI and ChatGPT
Naomi Wolf Proves “It’s A Bio Weapon”: Autopsies From Report 56 Reveal Medical Atrocities From Covid Shots
We do not propose calling Groogs at the inquiry. His work on the Brittany tapes has been particularly shoddy and are concerned he would not be considered an expert on panties.
REPORT: Half A Million Dollars Missing At Stacey Abrams Charity
HBBear:
Or maybe the lying cow is lying to herself and has managed to convince herself she was raped? Remember the false memory assertions years ago that had several men gaoled?
How about rehiring all the people sacked for not complying with the mandates?
‘We are here to steal your workers’: Londoners to be offered new life Down Under
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
For those who don’t know who Seymour Hersh is:
>He broke the My Lai massacre story in 1969.
>He broke the clandestine bombing of Cambodia story.
>He’s broken big stories ever since: bin Laden, Syria, Hillary, etc.
He’s no “blogger”—he’s the last investigative journalist.
My pleasure, Hugh.
Philbrick came to my attention because I discovered ancestors who fought in the American revolutionary war (on the wrong side, depending on your point of view!) and he’s written a trilogy on that topic published by Penguin that has helped fill in some lacunae in my knowledge of that period. This is narrative history rather than academic history, but academic snobbery is a luxury neither time nor budget permits me to indulge in!
I am agnostic to the question of what happened on the night. My view is that there was enough other concerns over the evidence it should never have gone to trial.
Balloons are perfect for EMP attacks; and the higher the balloon and detonating device, usually a small atomic the greater the EMP affect, without the kinetics.
Just imagine a few set off over this shithole. Over brissy, canberra, sydeney and melbourne. All electrics wiped out without further destruction of infrastructure. Cannibalism would be rife within a week. The chunks send in the janitors in 3 months and that’s that.
At least they are reading
Sydney summers have become increasingly mild in my lifetime, while the winters have become colder.
The last three Summers (if they could be dignified with such a term), including this one (while a westerly belts mightily down outside) are an obvious product of La Nina.
The El Nino summers were never pleasant. The last one I remember would have been the Goose Morristeen Hawaii holiday bushfire edition peaking in January 2020 – shortly before we were all blessed with the bat flu hysteria.
There’s nothing quite like being outside in Sydney when it’s 40 degrees. Going to go out on a limb here and opine that it’s quite a pleasant experience, until you have to move, i.e. expend some bodily energy.
Then the all encompassing embrace of Gaia attempts to enfold you.
Which you then stride unrepentantly away from, thanking goodness for creature comforts such as aircon. 🙂
Bourne 1879:
How odd. Another little lie. The story keeps changing to keep the narrative alive and consistent but it’s doing no such thing. Why am I being reminded of the testimony against Cardinal Pell?
great song by China Crisis
Verry good.
(Bear’s original comment is also a 10/10. Two sad bit players, eaten by the Main Game.)
An existential dilemma, Cats.
Is it really necessary? Women and men have been known to go without, apparently.
For the latter, the term is known as “Freebagging”.
Why, I could not imagine. 😕
Quite a few years ago I had a conflict with Grigory. At the Cafe there was a day which reached 45.5C. Grigory disputed me saying that, we then had a long fight over data. But the most interesting thing about that day was the two Cafe kooka kids, who spent the whole day sitting in the water container I had on the roof of my shed. Which is something I’d never seen before.
That was clearly an evolutionary behaviour developed over millions of years. I was amazed by it.
Current Cafe kooka kid is doing well. A few days ago I got within a foot, with help from kooka dad. Hi kid! Unlike most years they haven’t taken the young one off to the bush to the south, instead they’ve mostly parked him/her in a big tree a few houses north of the Cafe. I have hopes to make a new friend soon! Which will be fun since his/her granny still lands on my arm for food when she finds me.
Nature Strip will be retired I hope.
Lisa is approximately 36.5% as smart as she thinks she is.
Which will be her downfall.
Despite the posturing, the corporate defendants (News and Ten) will try to settle, and Maiden isn’t going to run her own show.
Which leaves Wilkinson.
She will fancy her chances of holding her own in court and winning.
If you reckon the defence made a mess of Britnah in the wape trial, wait until the Toad gets in the box with no autocue.
It’s Carnival time in Valletta.
Looks like there’s going to a parade with multi coloured floats, brass bands and little girls doing dancing, many families with children in a variety of costumes though most of the little girls seem to be princesses.
Not a pride flag to be seen.
I’m skedaddling to the inquisitor’ palace in the three cities.
Jumped on a bus today as the ferrying is getting mad busy, and will bus on to three cities.
Another thing about here is though I saw plenty of new Maltese on the way in, there are no street sellers of counterfeit handbags and virtually no panhandlers, I think I saw one local in Sliema sitting with a cap in a suggestive position.
Beautiful day.
I share that view (a two knobs of goatshit contribution on my part).
However, I suspect that’s roughly where Sofronoff KC will land.
Canbraa is a land of vipers.
God I hate the meja
Someone mentioned a Carla Zampatti jacket.
I think the inference was, as it was stated there was no charity bag of clothes in the minister’s office but that the minister kept some clothing items of her own in the office, the Zampatti belonged to Reynolds.
Sorry if already answered.
Tucker: The White House wants us to shut up about this
Fox News host Tucker Carlson reacts to the Biden administration’s equity agenda on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.’ #FoxNews #tucker
Good news for all revellers last nite at Tinta’s ‘cos everyone there knows it wasn’t my fault this time even tho’ it usually is – I got the red wine stains out!
Domestos is my friend.
Such a good time was had by all at Tinta’s last nite, wrapped in the Sydney velvet evening with the water sparkling as boats bobbed and the city glittered in the backdrop. Lovely, and such beautiful food and good company. Many thanks you two wonderful hosts.
Dover, would you please give my email address to Roger—thank you.
H B Bear, I was using “you” in the general sense rather than referring to you in particular. I don’t read Nikki Gemmell or Adams either but they manage to raise enough peoples blood pressure to create chatter about his papers and letters to the editor.
Cassie
I am a conservative but being a conservative is about trying to conserve institutions that are salvable. The above are not salvable and therefore must be destroyed, the bones buried and then dug up and burnt. Rabzy, you forgot some others that must be confined to the dustbin of history. The UK Conservatives and the STUPID EFFING LIBERAL PARTY OF AUSTRALIA, federally and in every state (well, they’re already extinct in WA).
A true conservative, unlike the m0nty=fa version, which thinks that taking over a once valuable institution, eating it out from the inside, and wearing it as a skin suit (Hello Groogs.) makes it worthy of conservation, rather than being Rabzed.
Having (as a sample size) having read a total of two columns each of: Philip Adams, Nikki Gemmell, and MamaMia, I am able to state:
Philip Adams/Nikki Gemmell are to MamaMia,
as Tucker Carlson is to Quentin Dempster.
The above is not an exaggeration nor over-egged for effect.
Rickw:
Exactly.
The Sudanese etc were brought to Australia and England for one purpose – “to rub our noses in diversity” and to terrorise whites.
Our leaders meant to do what they did.
Lovely post.
Quite envious of you all !
Exactly.
A Premier was tipped out over a far lesser value of booze than was poured down the throats of those brats that night.
Next thing, they are spouting at office meetings the sad news that, unless a pending contract variation is approved, jerbs will go from the contractor in a marginal electorate in an election year.
Minister has a discreet chat with Department head and voilá!
Investment pays off.
Tacker Carlson (the sadistic bastard) take Don Lemon to the woodshed. 4 mins of vacuity and narcissistic horror.
Watch the front move up East Oz..
https://www.lightningmaps.org/blitzortung/oceania/index.php?bo_page=map&bo_showmap=australia&lang=en&bo_period=0
Others?
Did any crazies from Old Cat get the memo?
🙂
The Injuns were in bovver at 7/139 against 263 from Captain Carbon-Offset’s lot.
They have now put on 104 for the eighth wicket, unbroken.
Evidently not, Squire.
Indians wriggling off the hook. 80+ runs for the 8th wicket.
Bob, I detest John Howard and Amanda Vanstone as much as anyone here, but you’re attributing too much agency to them in this matter. At worst, they were naive and were duped. Australian politicians are second and third raters who wouldn’t be entrusted to execute such plans even if they existed.
Cats, there’s nothing like “going on the wagon” for shortly under 21 days to make you realise how empty life is without the odd alcoholic beverage or twenty. 🙂
Taking Miss Emily’s advice – “Look after yourself, Paul.”
Sirens. A phenomenon that is not explained, easily or otherwise. All the while enveloped by collectivist stupidity.
Gee, thanks god. It is indeed a good thing that you do not exist.
I spent 6 months in Kandahar where it was over 100F *EVERY*SINGLE*DAY* – no wonder the locals can be a bit obstreperous
Ah, the vetting process works!
The weather equivalent of dying with Covid in most of Australia.
Roger if only we had 2nd or 3rd rate politicians. The improvement would be immeasurable.
Exactly.
If Australia has complied with Klaus Schwab’s diktats – it’s 97.3% by accident.
There are not enough collapsing bridges and shark tanks to deal with our failures. He’s stroking the cat to calm himself down.
Carbon-Offsets 263.
Injuns 262.
A little way up I moaned about Australian pollies flying into Europe and expecting unlimited lavish treatment.
Those who have not experienced this behaviour would be sceptical of reports of what goes on with these schisters.
Here is an example.
We inherited an Aussie pollie from another outfit. Not competitors, just on the schister’s gravy train schedule.
They had taken she, he, it, they (SHIT) to the Tour d’Argent which enraged us given our rejection of corporate corruption.
Being the Aussie, I was required to escort SHIT to one of our facilities in Southern France. I picked SHIT up at the Carillion ($5,000 per night) and we immediately had a set too when I told SHIT that we weren’t going to pay for her media bag carrier. (He had previously asked me what that ‘thing’ at the end of the street was – l’Arc de Thiomphe).
The next battle was when we climbed on the hourly shuttle jet and, because SHIT was late, we were down the back with the Malian drug dealers (none were NSW public servants). It was a very embarrasing public stack-on reminiscent of……..no forget it.
Next tanty was when SHIT demanded a PR photo of SHIT at the controls of one of our devices. Our wonderful CDE said no.
Very long story short, (ignoring the claim that we had lost one of SHIT’s earrings) SHIT wrote to the company demanding my dismissal. Ignored.
But SHIT still owes me $1,300.00 (a personal favour) which was never paid.
A pal of mine who worked in the Embassy was braced up by a pollie because the car that was sent by the Embassy was not large enough to carry all of his Christmas present purchases.
Don’t ever talk to me about respecting these animals.
India trail by one and now just enough time for Australia to lose a few quick wickets before stumps.
My first real job was west of Tennant Creek, a copper mine.
For the first six weeks it didn’t go under 100 F at midnight. I know this because I had a clock radio with a liquid crystal temperature scale on it. I was on night shift a lot. I was fascinated by this. The water cooling thingie for our single men’s quarters didn’t work.
Then the next six weeks it rained. And rained. And rained some more. Some time during this episode the single men’s quarters floated away, with me in it. Northern Territory weather is interesting.
The poor sparkies had a terrible time. The diesel gensets were all submerged and power was lost to the whole plant. Once the rain stopped they were doing 20 hour shifts for a week trying to get the stuff working again. We spent a month cleaning up afterwards. It was epic…1980.
In the City of Sydney the heat radiated from the roads, footpaths and buildings. From the outside I could feel the heat radiating from the sandstone building we were in – ground floor a bank with mezzanine, first second and third floors were Divisional office where I was working. Caretaker living on the top floor. No windows were able to be opened. No fans either. No air-con in Sydney in those days.
Jihad Watch
Geller
Islam is a shit-stain but without the aiding and abetting by the likes of biden it would be eradicated easily. They say soaking in a hot, liquid manure bath is good for senility. It would be a start for biden. If this man dies a peaceful death there is no God.
The Revolution will not be televised, Cats …
Speaking of biden:
Is Biden A ‘Manchurian President,’ Facilitating Nuclear Cooperation between Iran’s Mullahs and Russia?
Tip – weather boiling and no fan/air con? Wet down a sheet and hang it over an open window.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese kicks off ‘Yes’ campaign for Voice to Parliament
So, either Uncle Luigi has:
1) Not listened to the Aboriginal industry which is demanding sovereignty 5/5; or
2) Intends to do the dirty on the Aboriginal industry during the implementation phase and deliver a talkfest of no significance; or
3) Intends to do the dirty on Australia and enable racial preference in the governance of the country.
I’m well into the second flagon, but none of these appears to be ‘uniting the nation’.
“rosiesays:
February 18, 2023 at 8:26 pm
Someone mentioned a Carla Zampatti jacket.
I think the inference was, as it was stated there was no charity bag of clothes in the minister’s office but that the minister kept some clothing items of her own in the office, the Zampatti belonged to Reynolds.
Sorry if already answered.”
I concur.
Cats – I’ve been very remiss not mentioning the death of the Bacharach.
Quite possibly the most important pop composer, ever.
Pure Art and Beauty
The new wave version …
The man was a legend.
Reporting from Prideland, Sydney Grammar School is flying the “Pride flag” along with the Sydney Jewish Museum.
FMD!
For those who don’t know who Seymour Hersh is:
He reckons the US and Pakistan staged the bin Laden raid, and his Pakistani sources can confirm this!
Soon to be giving evidence at the Brereton Inquiry it seems.
I’m waiting for the fair skinned, blonde haired, blue eyed faux Aborigines to be brandishing their payment acknowledgements for “Compensation” and “reparations.”
Speaking of wojak:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nifb0q4liI
Everything is a joke. The Chinese government indirectly funds western “fact checkers”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poynter_Institute
The Poynter Institute for Media Studies is a non-profit journalism school and research organization in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States. The school is the owner of the Tampa Bay Times newspaper and the International Fact-Checking Network.[2][3] It also operates PolitiFact.[4]
Funding
As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, Poynter receives funding from corporations, philanthropic organizations and government agencies. Major donors since 2015 include:[24][25][8]
AARP
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
Charles Koch Institute
Craig Newmark Philanthropies
Democracy Fund
Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility
Gannett Foundation
Gill Foundation
Google News Initiative
Google News Lab
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
Knight Foundation
Lumina Foundation
MacArthur Foundation
McClatchy Foundation
McCormick Foundation
Meta Platforms
Microsoft
National Endowment for Democracy
Newton & Rochelle Becker Charitable Trust
Omidyar Network
Open Society Foundations
Rays Baseball Foundation
Tegna Foundation
TikTok
Washington Post
WhatsApp
Reporting from Prideland, Sydney Grammar School is flying the “Pride flag” along with the Sydney Jewish Museum.
FMD!
Cassie you must feel like you’re in the f’cking Sound of Music!
Anyone sung this yet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tUctFu46_c
Air raid sirens went off at midday, presumably at the war museum.
I’m thinking I much prefer the time to be announced by church bells.
wow
Reporting from Prideland, Sydney Grammar School is flying the “Pride flag” along with the Sydney Jewish Museum.
FMD!
So what do parents who pay substantial fees think about that I wonder? Or maybe some of them like to think they’re ‘with it’. Yes FMD
Love your war stories Bons.
Arriving home from the Olde Bendigo Towne.
It is one of the great cities in the world.
Gave rise along with Ballarat to the gold rush.
Magnifique restaurants and bars that surpass anything from France and Spain.
Homeschool.
Homeschool, homeschool, homeschool.
Homeschool, homeschool, homeschool, homeschool, homeschool.
If in doubt, homeschool. Homeschool some more to be sure.
Homeschool.
Well, duh.
Does anyone really believe the Pakistanis had, like, no idea bin Laden was across the road from a military base? They knew he was there and a deal was made to get rid of him.
Lloyd: The story you write [is] supported by two sources, one’s anonymous and the second had no direct knowledge of what happened. That’s been causing you a lot of problems since publication hasn’t it?
Hersh: Actually let me just say, there were actually three people who…what happens is [on] a story like this, and it’s always been the truth…some of the major stories, I worked at the New York Times for many years as an investigative reporter, and many of them, a lot of the stories I wrote were essentially triggered by one major source. Somebody would tell you something totally amazing.
And I will tell you, if this story gets any real legs it will probably come from Pakistan.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-14/seymour-hersh-on-osama-bin-laden/6470990
Too late for me to engage with you Rabz, I get up with the birdies for some reason or other.
But since it’s starting to rain here at the Cafe I’ll put up this one. It’s been an earworm for a few weeks.
The Rain – Lou Rhodes (2007)
That did stretch credularity(?) to the limits.
Bob, I detest John Howard and Amanda Vanstone as much as anyone here, but you’re attributing too much agency to them in this matter. At worst, they were naive and were duped. Australian politicians are second and third raters who wouldn’t be entrusted to execute such plans even if they existed.
They’re basically shiny eyed mongs, they don’t understand the most basic reason why different countries have different outcomes. They consider a Sudanese goat shagger to have the same potential as a Singaporean, when clearly they do not, given the relative trajectories of their countries post WWII.
Additionally, racism is largely “on average will be like”, because this most basic curating has been equated with hanging a dark person from a tree. No one does it anymore except in the most real world situations, do I walk down this side street full of African Americans or not?!
The morning sun
touched lightly on …
They’d die of diabetes and COIVD first, but that said whites aren’t far behind. The Asian Americans can probably run you down.
@ Top Ender
Regarding the Darwin “body-count”:
I was working briefly on a project in the Top End in 1983 and heard a few interesting tales from long-term locals, as in multi-generational types, not “Post Tracy blow-ins”.
One concerned the Darwin raids and the then- “new” Darwin hospital.
As I heard it, when the construction team started excavating the site for the hospital, they began finding unmarked graves. Panic ensued, with someone announcing publicly that they MAY have been “Aboriginal burials”. One of the local Elders called the local radio station with words to the effect; “Not us, mate. Our mob did individual “tree-burials””. ( The somewhat desiccated corpse being bundled up in bark and placed in a suitable tree, overlooking “home country”.
The dead sailors from all the naval and merchant vessels in the harbour at the time of the first big raid? If the sharks and crocs didn’t get them, they would have been recovered and rapidly interred. There was an unknown number of people on some of those ships, several of which had previously barely escaped the Dutch East Indies ahead of the rampaging Japanese..
The Tracy body-count may also have been a bit “creative” as well. There was a fairly regular flow of “transients” through Darwin all year round. Many camped in tents at various beaches. Not many to be seen on Christmas morning, apparently.
Additionally, it seems that a few of the more “interesting” inhabitants took the opportunity to settle some scores with “extreme prejudice” in all the chaos.
Bin Laden probably wasn’t paying enough protection money.
Vienna in the bush BB
Today I am going to try Bragoli, a Maltese speciality.
On Tuesday I hope to be at Plaza Mayor in Madrid having a lunch of suckling pig at a restaurant called Los Galayos.
Was recommended to me by a Columbian airbnb host once.
I’ve been pretty economical this trip so won’t feel guilty at all.
Citta Vittoriosa is extremely attractive, a little older and without the crowds of Valletta.
It’s proximity to the dockyards meant it got hit pretty hard in WWII.
The Rhodians who accompanied the Knights after Rhodes fell to the Ottomans in 1522 settled here but there is only one surviving Greek building the house of the Greek papas.
When languishing in a Kampuchean jungle explains itself.
Me, White Noise …
Super Jug:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87dtxp-JZK8
Why am I here?
I’m here because I’ve got no f*cking choice …
Modern life (which is rubbish) in an nutshell.
Curse you, Rabz. “Sliante!”
Just because
You call my name
I cannot hear
It’s not the same
You close your eyes
And knock me back
All the things that I had to have …
Apropos of discussion re earlier posted video of grotesque conduct & attitude.
This in Florida, likewise is horrifically shocking.
The 13%er brute in the video has Forty-Three prior criminal convictions. He got Thirty years, 15 for the one & 15 for a similar crime a few weeks earlier.
The CCTV video does not (of course) tell you: She was Six months pregnant.
After the cops nicked him she made a TV news appearance to thank the public for identifying the thug.
(Btw: This is from 9 yrs ago.)
Excellent analysis of the rise of Ardhern and political machinery more generally:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoNIqbcpUbk
Does anyone really believe the Pakistanis had, like, no idea bin Laden was across the road from a military base
Who cares? He’s dead. Which is a good thing.
V8 Briggs and Stratton on a lawnmower:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1Udmh5Upbo
Raise you this Rabz
Sorry, the South African cops used to have the right idea.
“Come here, you cheeky Kaffir, you, and look out of the window.
SERGEANT! There’s another African thrown himself out of the window! When will they learn this office is on the seventh floor!”
Driller, do you have anything from 35 years ago? It would be more appropriate in the context of the previous discussion.
Bruce, occasionally one of the most recent fledgie Currawongs comes down to ask for some meat, as he seems to still recognise my voice, but otherwise they have departed during our extended trip to the plentiful native summer foods in this area and probably to other cafe proprietors unknown to us.
I guess they will be back with the autumn and winter, along with our other local birds.
Here’s another Queerslander – this one, forgetting religious radicalization from the time he was in office. He’s worried about right wing radicalization on the internet. (obviously).
SwannyQld
https://twitter.com/SwannyQLD/status/1626690953888124933
how much is the doggie in the window?
Wanting more severe criminal punishment in Australia after the COVID authoritarianism and well noted deviation from Dicey’s and Blackstone’s conception of justice and a fair trial has been noted numerous times seems somewhat mad to me.
Let’s not forget AI can not only replicate your live action likeness and voice, but also be put into any video, even live action video in real time.
Oppositional dickhead chimes in again, coz emotional immaturity reigns supreme, suppressing any sense of public dignity.
It’s not quite there yet, although voice replication is close to the real thing. I reckon we’re two years away from video where you would be unable to tell what’s real or fake. That’s when the music begins.
I reckon we’re three years away where AI upends the world. It will be bigger and more substantial than the introduction of the internet.
One man’s Vietnam slideshow:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpnHRmmL4_4
Get in touch with Rabz and help extend the list; you don’t have to reside in Sydney, just pop in now and again if you are in town and a gathering is called, often simply at a pub – Megan and her Sicilian Prince have done so, and Jupes and his tribe, and Vicki and her husband when they are not in their rural hideout and others like Rafe or areff are not unknown to some of us. There are more, I don’t recall everyone, but Rabz is keeper of The List.
Oh, the word “oppositional.” Where did that come from? I wonder who used it to describe the useless drunk from Queersland a few days ago. Oh, yeah, that was me describing Driller. Good old Driller, always original.
The clown believes that two people cannot play the stoush trolling game.
Oppositional dickhead, sans any sense of public dignity, doubles down with the immaturity.
Oh yeah, well over a decade worth of blowharding, bullshitting, bignoting and being caught out every tiome. Public dignity = complete fraud.
The obvious problem with the video that Queensland Dickhead posted was that we’re discussing the current violence epidemic in America and how it relates to current political blindness on the left. Something from nine years ago—you may as well discuss violence during the dinosaur era.
What a pointless moron.
Explain, using as many words as you need to, how 9 years ago the US left had no impact on the entire Reagan-lovin’ country.
GO……….!
Got no YouTube, but look for Doyle Bramhall II singin’ So You Want It To Rain.
Meat n potatoes blues rock, but v stylish.
Go? You’re such a pointless dickhead.
Crime occurs everywhere and all the time. Since the civil rights era of the 1960s, minority-related crime has increased at a relatively faster rate in the United States. It began to slow in the 1990s onward and then started to accelerate in 2019. Calls by the left to defund the police have been diabolical in the context of rising crime. 9 year-old video has no context for the present day or what we’re discussing, you worthless drunken fraud.
… aaaand that is the sound of Shantaram, the oppositional dickhead, having failed to reframe, now stumbling & muttering, coz inability to answer a question. Heh.
Driller is such a dishonest fraud. It’s genetic. The drunken fraud asks for an explanation, which I provide, and he now attempts to avoid the points made with simple-minded abuse. There’s no recovery for this mentally unstable, pointless swine.
Your gibberish is not an explanation.
You are (as usual) unable to provide citation for any of your other blatherings.
You’re just a Saturday night rambling drunk – one of bad character.
I’ll leave you to your bottle.
And your simpleminded abuse doesn’t explain why.
Citations for what? That you’re a complete fraud? I’ve provided plenty of citations that you’re a mentally defective psychopath.
Driller, people laugh at you. They make fun of you on Discord and it’s funny because it’s all true. Everyone realizes what a thickheaded impaired fraud you are. You don’t convince nor persuade anyone that you’re anything other than a sad loser.
That’s funny because I’ve only drunk water and coffee today.
Just piss off, you pointless fraud.
Week In Pictures.
The Inquisitor’s palace was interesting.
Not the Spanish Inquisition, the Roman Inquisition.
Exhibitions as well as explaining the role of the Inquisitor had a display of Maltese Christian items and explanations of local Maltese Christian traditions.
The Inquisition though very harsh at times, didn’t seem completely unreasonable, a priest who solicited sex in the confessional got seven years in a galley, though they held a couple of English Quakers for four years for thinking it was time the Maltese moved on.
Quite a bit of slave keeping in Malta, only ending in 1798, when Napoleon was very briefly in charge, interesting cases where people would go to muslim slaves for spells and curses and when they didn’t work dob the unfortunate spell makers into the Inquisition.
I also visited Fort Saint Angelo, fantastic views across the harbour and from where you could hear and see some of the carnival activities.
they didn’t name the magic maker in the palace but could have been this man.
The key part of the Hersh bin Laden story is that it was a Pakistani walk in that gave the CIA everything.
& that Zero Dark Thirty was essentially a work of fiction (apart from the actual raid) that was constructed to give the Pakistanis cover.
The truth is probably somewhere in between.
Elon right on the money here.
Thanks Tom for the Week in Pictures. I’ve seen ‘Madonna’s car’, it’s at MONA in Hobart.
Americans are waking up to how rotten their news media is.
Full story and poll results at Jo Nova.
Anyone here bought gold and silver in coin form? If so what was the premium over bullion?
I disagree. He was dithering and gave those wannabe dictators legitimacy by speaking to them.
Since rosie mentioned it…
Perfect! No scissors required.
Thanks Tom. And thanks for the tip on hot-linking (OldOzzie or OSC, can’t remember a week out).
🙂
sfw says:
February 19, 2023 at 6:53 am
Following, have the same interest.
In truth, the growth of drag events for children is an indictment of the mainstream. What possible good did Tate Britain think it was doing by hosting a Drag Queen Story Hour? And why are so many libraries and schools so keen to put on these trans-activist events for children? That’s what I want to know too. Where is this being driven from?
Striking changes in Adern’s facial features as she progressed through rickw’s video .Her teeth and speech seem to have been doctored early on which then as she announced her totalitarian rules and regulations her horse teeth became prominent and the chippy change of reasonableness in the tone of her voice as the unreasonable results of her totalitarian rules and regulations became apparent made her a very unpleasant politician. The only thing missing was the broom stick and pointy hat.
Cat AI.
The day is filled with fear and dread.
Specifically, of encountering several thousand caravans travelling in convoy at 80kph en route to parts west, then north of Mongyang.
My earlier commentary on people over 75 being compelled to only drive steamrollers equipped with mariachi horns remains relevant.
Gabor says:
February 19, 2023 at 7:15 am
Also, readily convertible to whatever currency in use, or taken freely in barter.
KD – I blame superannuation and custard. Q might save you. At least the Australians made Day 3 to pass the time.
60 and restricted to Bunnings visits between 11 and 12:30.
KD, if if this little bloke can conquer his mountain, surely you can handle a bit of traffic? ;D
Safe trip back.
Seems so.
Jack Posobiec
@JackPosobiec
Canada is a fake country, totally dominated by WEF agenda
Trudeau, etc, are just managers
Deplorable4trump2024
@PTRUMPFORTX2020
Happening now in the Salumificio COATI location in Verona Italy. More toxic chemicals are released into the environment. This is the 10th place in one week that we know of that is having extremely toxic chemicals explode and be released into the environment.
Major US City Closing Down Ohio River Intake After Train Derailment
Hersh has been sucked in by a string of military cranks making up bulldust.
Mind you, if I were a spook I would launder the real story through Hersh because nobody would believe it.
Dr. Eli David
@DrEliDavid
In 2020 they threw all established science out the window, and instead invented New Science™
The well-established natural immunity turned into a “dangerous theory” of “anti-vaxxers”.
What a pity that Covid ignored their New Science™ and followed the established science…
What happened to the story of the two murdered NJ councilmen?
If buying gold, coins are the safest as the government can’t confiscate them as they can with bullion. Take possession of any gold. Don’t accept a certificate of guarantee from the State government. They charge you for making up your order which I imagine never happens when issuing a certificate. When I used to buy bullion they always gave this little spiel about security and getting it stolen. Does anyone remember in the 80’s a truckload of gold in acid solution was knocked off in WA. Never found as far as I know. I can’t remember how much they charged for coins but something like $40 per Oz rings a bell. At the time this was a high percentage.
Biden commits U.S. tax dollars to pay Ukraine officials’ salaries and pensions
I don’t think much “sowing” is necessary.
New York Times accuses ‘right-wing’ Americans of exploiting Ohio disaster to unfairly ‘sow distrust’ in big government
Q is my only hope.
I know this now.
Dr Aseem Malhotra
@DrAseemMalhotra
BREAKING MAINSTREAM NEWS:
‘Anti-lockdown Florida issues controversial new guidance to doctors telling them to warn patients they could suffer HEART ATTACK after Covid shot’
Best quality evidence tells us this jab shouldn’t have been given to ANYONE
Truthseeker
@Xx17965797N
You won’t see this on the mainstream media.
Oxford packed to the rafters against “15 minute cities”.
NHS Director confirms Hospitals lied about Cause of Death to create illusion of COVID Pandemic
There is no toxic contamination of this country worse than Joe Biden
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
The Ohio train derailment contamination has reached New York City. I wonder if @CNN or the New York Times @nytimes will cover it. Methinks not!
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
“British PM Sunak and US Vice President Harris agreed that Russia’s war against Ukraine is a “global war””—Reuters.
The more self-evident it becomes that the US/NATO is losing this proxy war, the more desperate and aggressive they will become.
And the faster they will escalate.
I don’t know, bespoke. The BingBot is perfect for social media.
Although it might need a little tweek to make it authentic – literally Hitler.
The Sirius Report
@thesiriusreport
The admission by the west that the Minsk agreements were a stalling tactic to enable Ukraine to adequately militarise, completely undermines the west’s assertion that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is an illegal war.
They knew there would be a war one way or the other because Ukraine was massing troops to overrun the Donbas. Russia would have had to respond in that event. They just beat them to the punch.
Pepe Escobar
@RealPepeEscobar
Psychopath gynecologist Pustula von der Lugen says that anti-Russia sanctions were already being developed by December 2021.
Osama Bin Laden couldn’t pay the protection money to the Pakis?
Bin Laden is one of the 4 or 5 biggest construction companies in the world.
Their specialty?
Demolition of large structures.
The Perth Mint Kangaroos seem to have the lowest premium for a silver coin, and even then you are looking at five or six bucks above spot price. Still, from what I have seen, it appears you can get a fair bit of that back if you sell privately and are not in a hurry.
Damar Hamlin was up and about at Super Bowl LVII, says he’s not tokkin’ ’bout his sudden collapse because:
It woont be goot f’ ma hairlth, no whut i mean?
He was getting around okay, so there must be an antidote for the COVID/19 Vaccine?
https://citygoldbullion.com.au/live-prices/
*Excellent* company to deal with.
There must be some news afoot, monty is up and about. Most likely from CNN
In No Hope news, Daily Telegraph:
Premier Dominic Perrottet is presiding over a Coalition in crisis with a senior minister and an Upper House member both resigning from their roles just hours apart.
In a horror week for the Premier, Finance Minister Damien Tudehope quit after it was discovered he held $65,000 worth of Transurban shares while sitting in Cabinet.
Hours earlier, Mr Tudehope’s Upper House colleague Peter Poulos also resigned after it was revealed he shared explicit photos of a factional rival in the lead-up to her preselection.
Labor didn’t escape the carnage with candidate Terry Campese withdrawing from the race.
Finance Minister Damien Tudehope has resigned after revelations he held more than $65,000 in shares in toll company Transurban while in cabinet.
The close ally of Premier Dominic Perrottet will remain in parliament but has resigned from his cabinet positions.
“Tonight I have given my resignation as the Minister for Finance, Minister for Employee Relations and Leader of the Government in the Legislative Council to the Premier,” Mr Tudehope said on Friday.
Mr Tudehope said the shares were a part of his family superannuation fund and he was not aware he held them.
“When it was brought to my attention that held within my family superannuation fund are shares in the company Transurban I took action to remove them from my fund,” he said.
“The legal advice from the Department of Premier and Cabinet has cleared me, advising I did not knowingly breach the Ministerial Code of Conduct.”
“However, during the course of the day I have had the opportunity to consider my position and I value my own integrity and the integrity of the government to be something that is not the subject of repeated political attacks.”
Mr Tudehope said the shares issue was a distraction for the government.
“The events of the last 24 hours have provided an unnecessary distraction for the government at a time when the most important thing for the people of NSW is to be concentrating on the choice before them — an experienced Liberal and Nationals government with a long-term economic plan compared to a NSW Labor Party interested in tired and old politics.”
Mr Perrottet said although Mr Tudehope had not breached the ministerial code of conduct, he had still accepted his letter of resignation.
“Tonight I have accepted the resignation of Finance Minister Damien Tudehope,” Mr Perrottet said.
“I have known Damien for many years and he is a person of integrity and honesty.
“At all times he has undertaken his responsibilities as a Minister with the highest of standards.
“My Department provided advice to me earlier today which cleared Damien, saying he did not knowingly breach the Ministerial Code of Conduct.
“I will take on the role of Minister for Finance and Minister for Employee Relations.” (for a couple of weeks)
Earlier on Friday, Mr Tudehope refused to apologise to taxpayers after The Daily Telegraph revealed his superannuation fund made thousands of dollars in profit through shareholdings in Transurban while he was in cabinet.
Initially, he refused to resign while a departmental investigation looked into whether he breached the Ministerial Code of Conduct.
Mr Tudehope — one of the Premier’s inner circle — has now launched a forensic probe into what other shares his superannuation fund holds.
The Daily Telegraph revealed Mr Tudehope’s superannuation fund had held more than 4600 shares in Transurban since 2014 — which was on Friday worth more than $65,000.
Following questions from The Telegraph, Mr Tudehope admitted to making a “mistake” when it came to disclosing his shareholdings, acknowledging that he should have made “more declarations” about the shares.
He insisted that he had no knowledge of the shares before the Telegraph’s inquiries, despite declaring a printout of his superannuation fund’s shareholdings every year as part of his Ministerial obligations.
“I provided to the Premier, in accordance with my obligation, a printout of the assets which were held by my superannuation fund. I was not aware of the fact that that included Transurban shares,” he said.
“I have to say, I didn’t know that I held those shares at the time that I participated in policy decisions relating to Transurban.”
Mr Tudehope estimated that his superannuation fund had earned “about $6000” on the Transurban shares during the time he has been a minister.
He has now sold the shares.
Mr Tudehope admitted that he was part of discussions on the government’s toll relief package outlined in last year’s budget, whilst he held shares in Transurban.
However he said the policy — which provides motorists with up to $750 in toll rebates — had no impact on Transurban’s share price and therefore his personal wealth.
Mr Tudehope held his shares during the time the WestConnex road project was privatised and ultimately sold to Transurban.
But the Finance Minister said he was not involved in those discussions.
“I was never, ever involved in any discussions relating to WestConnex,” he said.
Penrith MP Stuart Ayres resigned from cabinet last year while he faced questions about potentially breaching the Ministerial Code, something Mr Tudehope is refusing to do.
“The question of who makes the decision in relation to breaches of the ministerial code of conduct is not you, it’s not me, it is the Premier,” Mr Tudehope said.
Mr Ayres was later cleared of any breach and will return to cabinet if the Coalition is re-elected.
Details of the shareholdings were contained in a “portfolio evaluation” of Mr Tudehope’s superannuation fund, unearthed by an order of parliament and obtained by The Telegraph.
As for Mr Poulos:
Embattled Liberal MLC Peter Poulos has resigned from his position as parliamentary secretary after revelations he shared explicit pictures of fellow MP Robyn Preston to another Liberal Party member.
Premier Dominic Perrottet on Friday said he had received Mr Poulos’s letter of resignation from his parliamentary secretary duties but that he remained a member of parliament.
“Peter Poulos contacted me today and informed me he would be resigning from his parliamentary secretary role. I’ve accepted Peter’s resignation,” Mr Perrottet said.
“He obviously has made a mistake he has apologised for, that I think he gave a heartfelt apology for, not just to the people of the state but particularly to the Member for Hawkesbury Robyn Preston. She’s accepted that apology.
“As well he doesn’t want to be a distraction for me for the campaign. I’ve accepted his resignation from his parliamentary secretary duties.”
It comes after The Sunday Telegraph revealed Mr Poulos had shared the images of Ms Preston five years ago when she was seeking preselection.
An email sent from Mr Poulos had the subject heading “Treasurer’s Pet” and the message “Enjoy” and “please clean up pdf”.
On Thursday, the head of a Sydney Liberal women’s branch has expressed her disappointment at the lack of action taken against Mr Poulos and fired off a letter to the party to ask that he resign over the email he sent about her “friend”.
The request came despite Mr Poulos last week apologising for the “regrettable mistake” and Ms Preston urging the media to “move on”.
Strathfield Women’s branch president Liana Ross said this was not good enough for a party that was fighting the perception that it had a “women problem”.
In a letter sent to the NSW Liberal Party Women’s Council, NSW Liberal state director Chris Stone, NSW Liberal Party Maria Kovacic, Senator Marise Payne and other senior party officials, Ms Ross described the sending of photographs of Ms Preston as “entirely unacceptable”.
“I write in my capacity as President of the Strathfield Women’s Branch,” the letter said.
“It is disappointing to see there has been no consequence or censure regarding the recent actions of Peter Poulos.
“Robyn Preston is an experienced, loyal, committed, Liberal MP.
“I also view Robyn as a friend. As the President of the only urban Liberal women’s branch in NSW, I would like to categorically state that these actions by Poulos are entirely unacceptable.
“This is not going to assist us to win votes at the upcoming state election, or help us to overcome “the Liberal Party has a women problem” sentiment.”
Ms Ross declined to comment about the letter.
Mr Poulos — who is a moderate — is believed to have been working for then Better Regulation Minister Matt Kean at the time the email was sent.
However, the email was sent from a personal Gmail account outside work hours.
When asked about the incident earlier this week, Mr Kean said it was a matter for Mr Poulos.
At the time the email was sent, Ms Preston was vying for the seat of Hawkesbury in a fiercely-contested preselection battle.
A member of the hard right conservative faction, Ms Preston was seen as one of the favoured candidates of Mr Perrottet, who was Treasurer at the time.
The subject line of the email- sighted by The Sunday Telegraph — included the words “Treasurer’s Pet”.
The preselection was triggered after Mr Perrottet, who was then the MP, had decided to change seats and try to overthrow sitting Castle Hill MP Ray Williams.
Unable to do so, Mr Perrottet ended up moving to Epping when MP Damien Tudehope stood aside to end the infighting.
Photographs of Ms Preston from the magazine appeared in media outlets on the eve of the preselection contest.
Mr Poulos has categorically denied to News Corp that he sent the photographs to the media, and that the email was sent to a “private recipient” only.
Advocate for survivors of sexual assault Brittany Higgins has also shared a scathing tweet about Mr Poulos’ circulation of the X-rated photos in 2018. (WTF?)
Indolent says:
February 19, 2023 at 8:05 am
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
“British PM Sunak and US Vice President Harris agreed that Russia’s war against Ukraine is a “global war””—Reuters.
The more self-evident it becomes that the US/NATO is losing this proxy war, the more desperate and aggressive they will become.
And the faster they will escalate.
Bawunah Apollo???
@bawunah
Replying to
@GonzaloLira1968
In Africa we are part of the globe but I can assure you it’s not our war. They started it, let them finish it
@KeinMenschInf
Replying to
@bawunah
and
@GonzaloLira1968
I am Swiss and i still did not meet anyone not from Europe supporting the Ukraine narrative of the West. Dudes from Africa having more knowledge then us, about our own backyard conflicts… we are truly lost
The Lunacy of Electric Vehicles – How’s your day going? – in 17 Secs
https://twitter.com/NoDMsPerfavore/status/1626285317597667330?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1626285317597667330%7Ctwgr%5E4aff3409de2a5bb28d26610dc0faea569d76cd2b%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fredstate.com%2Fjimthompson%2F2023%2F02%2F17%2Fford-halts-production-of-its-f-150-e-truck-but-dont-worry-its-just-a-problem-with-the-battery-n704983
Still makes me Laugh – I wonder where the Ford Lightning F150 EV has gone – brave leaving F150 by itslef there on the corner
Hugh says:
February 19, 2023 at 8:17 am
We are looking at alternatives here, I have shares, but they are just pieces of paper, perfectly alright in 99.999% of the times.
I’m interested in a readily convertible commodity that is easily carried and accepted widely.
Naturally, wouldn’t sell the house to convert all the proceeds, but on the other hand bitcoin or any other digital currency does not appeal to me, for the very reason I want something tangible in my hand when the unthinkable but possible
happens.
Being prepared is better than becoming surprised.
Not being paranoid, but paranoids can have enemies too, as the saying goes.
Saturday Cartoon: One More Kill and Biden Is an Ace
For now, America is safe. Joe Biden (call sign: Lying Dog-Faced Pony Soldier) will sweep the skies of America and Canada and he’ll shoot down whatever is floating. Joe admitted that NORAD didn’t know what they shot down over Alaska. It could have been Carl, Doug, and Russell. It could have been a 5-cent Ralph’s Grocery Bag, a Hefty garbage bag, a guy tied to a chair under party balloons, a used car dealership balloon man, or a $12 hobby balloon. Whatever it was we are no longer at DEFCOM 1.
For now.
Who knows? No one knows – and that is kinda the point. To cover up his incompetence of allowing a ChiCom spy platform to vacation across the entire continental U.S., Joey Mumbles is shooting down everything, including $12 hobby balloons.
One more and Joe will be an ace, like Beau. I’m not kidding man. God’s truth. You didn’t know Beau was a fighter pilot?
Not me. I think the show is hilarious, MAFS meets legally blonde.
Hours After Trump Announces Upcoming Visit to East Palestine, FEMA Reverses Course and Will Support Ohio Community
February 17, 2023 -| Sundance
The announcement by President Trump with his intent to visit East Palestine next Wednesday, followed moments later by a reversal announcement from FEMA stating they will now offer support to East Palestine, do not seem coincidental.
The Biden administration, including the EPA, FEMA and Transporation Secretary, was likely very worried about the optics of getting blasted by President Trump very visibly next week for their lack of urgency and concern. Moments after Trump announces his visit, FEMA reverses their prior denial of aid. lol
I largely agree with that Gabor, and think bullion fits those criteria fairly well. But of course it does not pay dividends and you cannot rent it out, so that is also a consideration.
Oops I wonder where the Owner of the Ford Lightning F150 EV has gone
It Never Ends – Joe Biden Extends 2011 National Security Emergency over Libya Through 2023
Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice and Samanta Power (R2P) were the architects of the destabilization plan. After the country was destabilized and thrown into severe violent crisis by the U.S. support for radical Islamists in eastern Libya (Benghazi region), President Obama then signed (Feb, 2011) a national emergency declaration in regard to the destabilized Libya his administration created.
Five years later, in April 2016, President Obama expanded the Libya emergency declaration to extend the 2011 declaration and envelop a larger portion of North Africa, under the auspices of expanded threats from AQIM (al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb). This extension allowed the state dept to frame actions in neighboring Egypt, and block any effort to counteract Obama’s mid-east policy which was established to support the Muslim Brotherhood. In April 2016 it was presumed Hillary Clinton would win the election and continue the policy.
Today, a full twelve years after Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton destabilized Libya throwing it into a tribal civil war, Joe Biden signs an executive order continuing the extension of the U.S. National Emergency with regard to Libya {White House Link}.
As Obama Stated “We’re not bombing in Libya; We’re only dropping unsolicited instant demolition devices…”
as per
After Declaring Russia Has Committed “Crimes Against Humanity”, Kamala Harris Forced to Fly Military Cargo Plane Back to DC After Air Force Two Breaks Down on Tarmac in Munich
One wonders if the Afghan people have any advice for Ukraine about relying on the word of the Biden-Harris administration when they say, “The United States will support Ukraine for as long as it takes. We will always stand on the side of freedom, democracy, and justice.”
Hersh has been sucked in by a string of military cranks making up bulldust.
Mind you, if I were a spook I would launder the real story through Hersh because nobody would believe it.
m0nty=fa denies the reality of My Lai, Abu Graib and many other Hersh stories, in a vain attempt to discredit Hersh’s latest effort on Nord Stream, which contradicts the leftard Ukraine “narrative”.
Hersh: “Impossible to Believe How Dumb this Leadership Was”
Speaking in a YouTube interview with the Consortium News outlet on Friday, investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, who exposed the CIA’s purported sabotage attempt on the Nord Stream pipeline, accused the Biden administration of making “so many bad mistakes,” that “it’s impossible to believe just how dumb this leadership was.”
“It was suicidal to think you can win that war, that Ukraine can win the war [against Russia]. There’s just too much corruption. That was a very, very bad decision. We should have been pushing for peace, we should have made an agreement,” the former Pulitzer Prize winner insisted.
US President Joe Biden basically “blew off NATO in Europe” by telling allies that he is backing Ukraine with its “totally corrupt government,” Hersh added. The journalist also pointed out how Kiev glorifies Stepan Bandera, “the great pro-Nazi who killed Jews like crazy during World War II.”
“It’s just silly not to right away assure the Russian government that we weren’t interested in making Ukraine a member of NATO,” Hersh stated, referring to long-standing concerns in Moscow. “NATO didn’t want Ukraine anyway because of the corruption.”
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, as well as Under Secretary for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, are all “very hawkish,” Hersh said. The trio “pushed Biden very hard” to go ahead with the sabotage because “they have long-standing incredible hatred for [Russian President Vladimir] Putin. It’s almost personal, I would guess,” Hersh claimed.
Gabor I love the John Malkovic character in RED. Have seen it so many times and cracks me up each time. Just because you think they’re out to get you doesn’t mean they’re not.