Purgatory Canto 33, Gustave Dore, mid-1800s
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It’s not commonly known, but Teslas use Righteous Electrickery (RE), so all is balanced with Gaia. Namaste.
I see scrolling down at his Cricinfo [age that Joe Burns made 108 not out for Italy vs. Romania. Forza…
Given 24 month exemption but still required to get jab or lose job.
Whatever happened to common sense and compassion ?
It’s more than that, it’s basic human decency, morality.
These scum have justified absolutely immoral actions because of “the science”, “the experts”, “the doctors”.
Well shit stains, you think a whole heap of Germans just went beserk in the 1930’s? No, they were following, the science, the experts, the doctors.
Australia is a very dangerous place, the Government is capable of anything, as long as some scientist, expert or doctor is available to offer justification. There is no moral choice circuit breaker, there is no morality.
?? Putin ended his message to the Federal Assembly with the words “the truth is behind us.”
If you look at how many 500px by 500px images in 8 bit RGB colour space it comes out to something like 10^250,000, from memory. Too big for a calculator to work out anyway. Working out how many zip drives would be needed to store them all would be an interesting exercise.
It is shocking. I hope there were consequences for the perpetrator.
After what happened to Father Hamel I don’t think the French have much tolerance for attacks in churches despite being mostly secular.
It is not France, it is Guyana, and the bloke has mental problems.
I expect more from you JC, you shouldn’t get sucked in by such obvious rubbish.
Boarding my flight to …Wurunjuri Country ..wtf i thought i was flying to Melbourne, you know Victoria, Australia?
Biggest news from Putin’s speech is suspension of NewStart (Start III).
Right now it would seem I would identify with the words of Putins speech tonight vs the actions of the pResident of the WH.
Imagine that the leader of the free world today was in Kiev, with air raid sirens in the background and they (the USA) don’t control the airspace or have troops on the ground, or is it really that he isn’t the President?
You’re watching a movie!
It’s gonna start up again.
The only option is to move to less compliant societies, ones where people live closer to the edge of survival. People don’t have the resources to survive this bullshit a second time, therefore they won’t accept it a second time.
It may well be generous grandparents but hired straight from school?
That’s a connection.
Lord Byron was sent to Harrow for connections, it’s not unknown.
Monty you’re giving me the irrits lately, but I have to say from what I’ve researched you’re correct.
I forecast it will not start up again.
It didn’t start up again in Europe this winter so why would it start up in Brisbane?
Boarding my flight to …Wurunjuri Country ..wtf i thought i was flying to Melbourne, you know Victoria, Australia?
Should have pressed the call button:
“Hey! I need to get off! I’m going to f’cking Melbourne not Wurunjuri Country!
If you said this out loud 80% of the Asian tourists would stand up with you thinking they’d f’cked up!
And go and look at where AF1 was as well.
I guess what happened to Father Hamel in France is more shocking and why someone might assume this attack was also in France, as claimed.
Has m0nty been shown the calming visage and reassuring vocals of Paul Joseph Watson yet today?
https://youtu.be/TpfhBPDUs9A?t=323
]:->
Can anybody find the full transcript of Putin’s speech today?
I find it very odd that a web search with DDG or Bing does not find anything like it, just a couple of “highlights paragraphs”. At least the big G finds the site where the official transcript is supposed to be : http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/70565
But even the Kremlin hasn’t finished translating his speech! It’s just TBC.
What the.
So for all I know the Custard version of events could be true, the Kremlin hasn’t disproven it yet.
I’m in the Port Hedland yoof car appreciation society as well.
Twice
First was an old bomb which had enough fuel to get them 5 k up the road before running out.
They did no noticeable damage.
Second was a decent little Suzuki. Cops recovered in record time as the previous car flogged was a coppers and his hand gun was left in it.
Found a couple of rounds in the footwell.
They actually broke into the caravan I was asleep in and flogged the keys that time.
SitRep 2/20 – Terminal Approach
“We wait on the eve of stupendous events …or not.”
Simplicius The Thinker
Well, folks. Things are heating up like the barrel of this Russian 12.7mm after an intense firefight on the front.
Today the ol’ Crypt Keeper stalked through the streets of Kiev in a parody parade, with phony alarm blaring in pretend mimicry of ‘war’. As the mummy stiffly sleepwalked and pantomimed through the deserted streets, friendly SBU agents dispersed these ‘helpful reminders’ to the debased burghers of what-was-once Kiev, who may unwittingly commit the faux-pas of gazing upon the sacrosanct American presence sweeping through their streets:
It savors of the unfortunate reminder of these flyers found on liquidated militants, informing them how to avoid being ‘sexually assaulted by’ the foreign mercenaries so graciously offering up their unconditional frontline service.
Even (Hem)Reuters had to caw at the brazen theatricality of the Mummy’s rehearsed Kievan performance:
Of course, U.S. had to ‘inform’ Russia (read: get permission) of the visit.
Afterwards, the Mummy announced the usual criminal disbursement of stolen tax-payer funds to his Kiev-Cronies.
Although the $500 million sticker price on today’s allotment left a lot to be desired, and seemed indicative of a sagging enthusiasm (not unlike the enthusiasm the Mummy displayed taking his shambling tour of Kiev’s wartime, de-electrified environs).
Meanwhile, the continued ‘support’ has renewed panicked cries among the Euro-intelligentsia of the damage being done to their economies.
If they just invest in the indomitable power of ‘belief’, though, they could always hope for an optimistic outcome.
Last week’s balloon saga, meant to obscure the unpleasantries of Seymour Hersh’s Nord Stream revelations, had in fact Streisand-effect-catapulted Hersh back into media prominence, whereby he proceeded to drop a string of gems, including this one, where he explained that insiders have told him that Ukraine is “nearly done” and it’s only a matter of “how many of his own people Zelensky wants to kill.” Followed up by other truthbombs.
And what flew under the radar in this saga, was Russian news service RIA Novosti’s article featuring American journalist John Dugan’s claim that he received an anonymous letter from a serviceman participating in the BALTOPS 22 exercises which occurred during the likely mining of the pipeline.
According to Dugan, he has every reason to trust an anonymous source, as he presented evidence — photos from the exercises and documents. But he asked not to distribute them for fear of revealing his identity. I fully trust the letter. It contains details that could only be provided by a person who is well acquainted with the Baltops-2022 exercises and deep-sea equipment. Everything was correct, ” the journalist told RIA Novosti.
The letter describes, in detail, the eyewitness of American navy divers arriving at the exact location and time which corresponds with Sy Hersh’s exposé, and diving underwater for an extended period of time with unknown ‘small crates’ in hand. Use an auto-translate app to read the full article.
And as for the balloon saga itself, it ironically served to deflate the stature of U.S. Airfarce capabilities. Not only did it turn out that the stealth F-22—which, after nearly two decades of being in service, has yet to record a single real combat kill, exempting the balloon of course—used its $400k Raytheon stocking-stuffers to shoot down what turned out to be a $13 hobby balloon:
There was a sad bit of news out of Ternopil, western Ukraine, where reportedly the locals were up in arms after it had gotten out that one of their young men, who was forcibly mobilized (read: press-ganged) in a shopping mall in this type of fashion, was given only a cursory (read: nonexistent) training, and sent to the front on February 12. By February 16, he had already perished in battle.
Speaking of tragic losses, a Swedish mercenary made this post only days ago from his front of Ugledar, saying, “I bet 70% to 30% I don’t come back from [this mission]”.
Interestingly, he inadvertantly seemed to offer up insight into internal views regarding Russia’s coming offensive: “700,000 orcs at the border and they’re giving us artillery before the onslaught. Most likely we’ll see the invasion within 9 days….”
Not long after his post, his prophecy proved true. This news was shared by family who’s now managing his social media account: “He died on the battlefield near Ugledar on February 17, 2023.”
A few last points about how things may unfold soon. Firstly, there’s been rumor that Zelensky is ready to “pull” Bakhmut completely, but was saving it for the sake of Biden’s visit, as he didn’t want to spoil the optics of the visit’s grand overtures by having a deflating ‘mass retreat’ from Bakhmut crowding the headlines. Bakhmut is in dire straits and Wagner continues advancing and enclosing it from the north. So now rumor says Zelensky will order full withdrawal by the end of the week. And this tolls with several other sources we’ve had from the Russian side which forecasted a fall of the city in a week’s time (though Prighozin himself demurred with the projection that it could take well into March to capture).
Please copy paste, or tell us the time stamp where valued fellow catallaxy commenter JC stated it was in France.
After that, please explain why it is not shocking if it happens in Guyana.
After that, please explain why it is not shocking if the perp has mental problems.
Thank you in advance.
Dodge Ball is a serious sport here!
Huge and enthusiastic crowd making lots of noise!
Right you are my friend.
There was a sad bit of news out of Ternopil, western Ukraine, where reportedly the locals were up in arms after it had gotten out that one of their young men, who was forcibly mobilized (read: press-ganged) in a shopping mall in this type of fashion, was given only a cursory (read: nonexistent) training, and sent to the front on February 12. By February 16, he had already perished in battle.
Ukenazi’s.
Willing warm body gauge on “E”.
Time for munty to step up.
Sure, sure, these people are socially well-adjusted. .
When you think about it, Ukraine and Australia are morally perfect partners.
Press ganged for combat, press ganged for pfizer.
In either case you may die.
There is however one thing that is certain.
No one either regime will give a f’ck about any negative outcome for you.
Arrived at Los Galayos at the respectable time of 2 pm.
I don’t know whether it was once a private home but the dark timber wainscoting, carved mouldings, and timbered roof with the maroon walls, with various artworks is very attractive.
And local Spanish people eat here too so it can’t just be a tourist trap.
I think the situation for combatants in the Ukraine is much more dire, and if given the opportunity many would gladly swap places with poor suffering Australians.
Avi Yemeni goes to Alice Springs..
You cannot be serious, as the man said.
It certainly had an effect in some individual political futures, but the election was lost long before the Brittany affair.
Tell you what, probably 97.3% of voters couldn’t give a shyte, provided they heard about it in the first place and paid attention as well.
Part of the ‘liberals have a woman problem’ narrative.
I’m sure it had influence in electorates that went teal.
I think the situation for combatants in the Ukraine is much more dire, and if given the opportunity many would gladly swap places with poor suffering Australians.
Ask the poor suffering paralysed Australian, I’m sure he thinks it’s a cake walk.
Putin’s speech, on Sky.
Don’t know if link will work?
Strange habit of his I noticed, that he keeps his right arm immobile, reason some doubts arose about it, but every now and then he just lifts it up to turn the page.
The “Lia Thomas” freakshow:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaeBl5E9yaA
I’d ask the families of estimated 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers and don’t know how many civilians killed to see how they compare their suffering with that of one, temporarily paralysed Australian whose claims are apparently being contested by Workcover.
Mutt watch- excellent pups for the landed gent
Bee Gun Facts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmyyEbvDgr8
I’d ask the families of estimated 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers and don’t know how many civilians killed to see how they compare their suffering with that of one, temporarily paralysed Australian whose claims are apparently being contested by Workcover.
Bag of hammers, both regimes are completely morally bankrupt, the average Uke being less lucky then the average Australian, for the moment.
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
David Rowe. FMD.
Christian Adams.
Morten Morland.
Patrick Blower.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Al Goodwyn.
Chip Bok.
Tom Stiglich.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
This blog is off the pace.
It’s all in Executive Order # 24864.
Do nuclear treaties matter?
Discuss.
Just in case you didn’t think the Left is completely bonkers:
Florida Dem: Make it Illegal for Dogs to Stick Heads Out Car Windows (21 Feb)
“A Democrat Florida lawmaker wants to make it illegal in the state for a dog to stick its head out of the window of a car.
Senate Bill 932, which would ban Fido from catching a breeze, was introduced by state Sen. Lauren Book on Friday, according to Newsweek.
Specifically, it would prohibit people “from taking specified actions relating to the transportation of dogs on public roadways,” including letting dogs stick their heads out of car windows.
…
In addition, it would require dogs to be secured in a crate appropriate for its size while in a vehicle on a public roadway, be restrained with a safety harness or seat belt, or be under the control of someone other than the driver, WFLA reported.”
What a horrible woman. Stick her in a crate, and let the dogs have some fun.
The first thing that happens after a Treaty is signed is a frantic rush to find ways of avoiding them. A piece of paper stops nothing. These days another method of showboating and virtue signalling.
I say
Someone else says:
You cannot be serious, as the man said.
It certainly had an effect in some individual political futures, but the election was lost long before the Brittany affair.
Ed Case says:
A total weirdo.
Dogs are a good judge of people, I bet they give him a wide berth.
It’s spiraling out of control.
Details in executive order #11235813
“A total weirdo.
Dogs are a good judge of people, I bet they give him a wide berth”
Yep, on the Voice and dogs, he’s off with the fairies. Kenny is on record saying he doesn’t like dogs. Perhaps he had a bad experience with dogs when younger. Fair enough. I don’t know, I don’t care. He’s no canine expert. He’s just using the latest tragedy where a dog has mauled and killed a child as yet an another stick to bash and smear all dogs. He fails to understand some key points about dog attacks, firstly it isn’t the dog that’s the problem, it’s the dog owner. Secondly, there’s usually a demographic aspect to dog attacks, as in put bulls and certain other breeds attract certain types of owners. I do believe pit bulls are a problematic breed and perhaps ownership of such dogs should be illegal, but again, it isn’t the dog’s fault, it’s the owner, and pit bulls really do attract a specific type of owner!
I grew up in a dog loving family, my parents and grandparents and so on all grew up in dog loving families. At one stage or another, we’ve always owned the following breeds of dogs, Oz terriers, Oz cattle dogs, kelpies, and poodles (my mother loves poodles). They are an intrinsic part of the family, they sleep on our beds. They are all marvellous breeds, although poodles are neurotic and kelpies are as mad as cut snakes. My grandfather had a kelpie that was infamous in the Shire for being a certified nut job, but he was never aggressive. Oz Cattle Dogs are sublime, they have unflinching loyalty to their owners. Oz terriers are sensational for families, whilst smallish, they’re a robust breed, not yappy, gentle, full of character, they love children, and they’re the best ratters on the planet.
All dogs can be dangerous, even a chiwawa will bite if you prod or pull it, you must respect them. Children need to be taught that dogs aren’t toys, they’re living flesh and blood who, if taunted physically, will respond. A toddler should never be left alone with a dog.
Anyway, back to Kenny, on the Voice and dogs, he should STFU.
Genocide loving smurf man.
James Cameron Says ‘I Can Relate’ to Marvel Villain Thanos Killing Billions of People (21 Feb)
Maybe you could lead by example Mr Cameron?
“Do nuclear treaties matter?”
I don’t know.
Dogs seem to reflect merely how much of an emotional manipulator they are for food or if they were very badly mistreated.
They’re smarter than you think. They don’t want to rule over us like cats but I do believe they want to bring back serenades, “the folks”, plantations and white linen suits. They certainly like human labour, like unpaid NCAA athletes.
If you ever sing Zippee Dee Doo Dah whilst fixin’ your dog’s food, in your heart you will know I am right.
Go for it Janet….from The Oz…
Conservative women are worthy of respect too
JANET ALBRECHTSEN
At the heart of Linda Reynolds’ story is a gross and gendered hypocrisy. The same women – very senior women within Labor’s ranks – who talk a lot about wanting a safer, fairer workplace culture in parliament, perpetrated a cruel and unrelenting attack on their workplace colleague.
What Penny Wong and Katy Gallagher did to Reynolds is recorded in Hansard. The attacks were relentless, over days and weeks and months. The implications were devastating: that Reynolds had covered up the alleged rape of a young staffer; that she had threatened Brittany Higgins’ employment in a wholly inappropriate way. The results were predictable, with Reynolds breaking down, admitted to hospital, on sick leave.
When appointing Vivienne Thom last week to oversee the implementation of Kate Jenkins’ recommendations in her Set the Standard report, Gallagher said: “Everyone has the right to be safe at work and our parliament should set the highest standard for workplace behaviour and culture.” It is hard to take Gallagher – the Minister for Women – seriously. Her unremitting attacks on Reynolds were low blows. To be sure, Gallagher and Wong were entitled to question Reynolds. Instead, the two Labor senators hounded her, refusing to accept her assurance that she had supported Higgins and that she had not threatened Higgins’ job.
These women didn’t so much cross as leap over the line between acceptable parliamentary scrutiny and unacceptable personal attacks in pursuit of partisan advantage.
So much for the “highest standard for workplace behaviour”.
In the past, Gallagher has encouraged women to come forward: “Your first-hand experiences will be critical to this review and a build a safer, more equal workplace for everyone.”
Isn’t that what Reynolds did when speaking to The Australian? Yet her story was brushed off by Wong, Gallagher and the usual phalanx of journalists who, on any other day, obsess about workplace harassment. Hounded into hospital by workplace abuse? Who cares.
Reynolds explained how she and her chief of staff, Fiona Brown, offered Higgins a great deal of support; that Higgins, at no stage, said to them she had been raped; that Higgins campaigned with Reynolds in Perth barely weeks later; that Higgins praised Reynolds as a great boss; that Higgins was offered a job by Reynolds after the election. This too was belittled.
Higgins brushed this aside. “The facts have been well established,” she said. “Any revisionist history offered by my former employer at this time is deeply hurtful and needlessly cruel.”
Predictable, and also nonsense. The Higgins camp has controlled the narrative for a long time. Reynolds has not been able to present her side in full. She was rubbished in the Senate by Wong and co. Reynolds was treated as a hostile witness by the prosecutor in the aborted criminal trial and she was muzzled from contesting Higgins’ claims about her during the staffer’s civil claim.
Alas, this demented reinterpretation of a free society, where only one side is granted legitimacy to present the “facts”, is not just a common thread on Twitter.
It was echoed by Wong and Gallagher, too. When Reynolds told her story, these two Labor women accused Reynolds of showing “a deep lack of respect for the autonomy of her former staff”. What about Reynolds’ autonomy? Are they suggesting that only certain women may be heard? Higgins, yes. Reynolds, no. If that is feminism, it is a farce. This grand hypocrisy from Labor is made worse by the fact, as Reynolds told me, conservative women are not just invisible to most of the media, they are expendable in the eyes of the feminist movement.
“Conservative women, particularly conservative politicians, we’re invisible to the feminist movement,” she said. “They really don’t understand us.”
Many women who call themselves feminists don’t want to understand conservative women. To quote Reynolds, when “we crack on, when we do things, and we try to make a difference”, that is ignored by many so-called feminists, especially in the media. “Because we don’t identify with that very victim-centric side of feminism – and it’s very tribal – they don’t get that. They don’t want to get it. And so, we’re invisible. Worse than that. They won’t protect you when you’re out there being attacked.”
Think about Lidia Thorpe’s foul comment to Hollie Hughes – it won’t be repeated here. Or the torrent of abuse that Nicolle Flint endured before she left politics. Labor women and so-called progressive women in the media had little to say on that.
Reynolds says she was expendable and so was Brown. Both were painted by Labor and a large section of the media, mostly female journalists, as villains.
Reynolds is right that conservative women are often treated as invisible by so-called feminists in the media. The former defence minister had some pointed words for Annabel Crabb and her ABC Ms Represented program that aired last year. Reynolds told me that Crabb’s show about women making strides in Australian politics was so skewed towards celebrating women on the left that she texted Crabb as follows: “Ms Represented may be interested to know that my side of politics has now had two female defence ministers and two foreign ministers, the first time two defence portfolio ministers at the same time were women, the first and second time Australia was represented at AUSMIN by two women, the first (female) home affairs minister, the current (female) attorney-general. The first time three women are on the national security committee … and the list goes on.
“You have missed what is hidden in plain sight,” wrote Reynolds. “The first time EVER there are eight women in cabinet, all of whom are doing amazing work – in our own way – comfortably in our own skins as female leaders.”
Reynolds told me it was as if these eight women in cabinet were inconvenient truths to Crabb, and history stopped at Julie Bishop.
Exhibitions of performance art in parliament are hardly uncommon. But some Labor women, Gallagher and Wong included, are up to their eyeballs in the toxic culture they complain so loudly about. Their cliquey, catty feminism made a target of Kimberley Kitching, too. Who can forget Wong’s cruel gibe to Kitching in 2018 during a policy debate to the effect: “Well, if you had children, you might understand why there is a climate emergency”? Wong apologised to Kitching only when the exchange was made public.
So the lesson is this: if you genuinely want to establish the highest standards of workplace behaviour, treat your political opponents with respect, not just your political girlfriends.
It’s like free speech. Your belief in it is real only when you recognise the right of your opponents to speak.
1. Vacuum energy.
2. Increasing evidence the universe is infinitely large.
3. Why not go into other universes in an infinite universe and just strip mine planets where no life exists at all?
Avengers isn’t even built on solid science. It’s just Malthus recycled.
Wong was on TV in 2010/2011 predicting a 2 metre sea rise by 2200.
Wow. What a rube.
Cassie
What do you think can happen given that Sharaz and Higgins secretly recorded private conversations and they are linked to all of these ALP handbagistas?
I don’t expect too much, I am aware we all need to be mindful of what we say.
I think some ALP people should seek qualified advice and pray they have not left a trail of metadata.
A piece of paper stops nothing.
This is true.
And would rather nuclear powers have a useless piece of paper than no piece of paper.
“What do you think can happen given that Sharaz and Higgins secretly recorded private conversations and they are linked to all of these ALP handbagistas?
I don’t expect too much, I am aware we all need to be mindful of what we say.
I think some ALP people should seek qualified advice and pray they have not left a trail of metadata.”
I can only hope. The stench is unbelievable. What staggers me is that from day one I could smell the political stench and yet this contrived political hit job worked a treat against the Morrison government. It seemed to stun them, followed weeks later by the ludicrous Porter allegations. Why? Perhaps it just shows the absolute dumbness and ineptness of Morrison and those who were advising him. I don’t know, but it allowed Labor to run with it, helped by their media mates, all the way to May 2022. As with the Pell story, I reckon one day the whole Higgins story will see the light of day, and it won’t be pretty, it’s already not pretty. It’ll take someone like Janet A to pursue the case. I take my hat off to Janet A for her relentless pursuit of the characters involved in this shameful and very grubby story. But there’s one thing that does emerge from this sordid story which should concern us, which is that there is now very clearly one law for progressives and one law for the rest of us. The fact that Svengali Sharaz and Higgins secretly recorded private conversations yet neither have been charged. The fact that the amphibian from Mosman prejudiced a trial with her Logies speech, yet she hasn’t been charged, the fact that Higgins, after the collapse of the court case in October last year, having been warned by the judge minutes earlier, flagrantly ignored and trashed the judge’s warnings and stood on the steps and read her spiel, deliberately prejudicing, yet again, any future trial, hasn’t been charged. No wonder Svengali Sharaz and Higgins are laughing, all the way to the Maldives and back. As instructed by their political friends, they did their job, and they have now been handsomely rewarded for their Academy Award performances, by the taxpayer. The damage done to our justice system is profound.
Meanwhile, Bruce Lehmann is broken, emotionally, psychologically and financially.
Dot at 7.04:
I wore a white linen suit on the leg from Port Augusta to Kulgera, with the dog on the front seat next to me.
I also got some mint juleps from the Coober Pedy roadhouse.
I didn’t even realise what I was doing. Oh God. I’m a monster.
If any animal is capable of loving a human with anything approaching the emotion a human experiences, it’s the derg. But, just like certain humans, not all dogs fit the pattern. This is not difficult to understand.
Even re-homed badly treated dogs can be taught loyalty and affection with time and care – I had one just like this. But I never, ever left her with small children.
And then we get down to breed – some breeds are simply more perilous and less tameable than others. There was once a theory that the more wolf-like the breed looked, the more dangerous. Harrumph! That was put to the lie by a family I knew long ago – he had an enormous, shaggy wolfhound that behaved like a sloppy animated rug, she had two of the most evil chihuahuas on the planet.
Reynolds offered Higgins a job after the election? Reynolds is too stupid to be in parliament let alone in any portfolio, actual or shadow.
SloJo’s anecdote of the day.
I expect ScoMo would have been advised by other versions of Higgins since those are the only kinds they seem to employ.
Wong is at the centre of this stench.
Balloons.
Weather balloons.
Alaska.
Why Alaska?
Did Putin know?
Chemical train.
Accident?
Who benefits?
Think!
Stay strong.
Arrests will happen.
“Wong is at the centre of this stench.”
Correct. Just like she was at the centre of the Porter stench.
Why would any grown, mature adult want anything to do with dogs, unless they’re working dogs? Smelly, horrible attention seeking creatures that crap anywhere and require care and feeding, they tie you down.
I grew out of liking dogs in my early teens, I see them as they are, parasites. Since then I’ve never wanted a dog and hate it when other peoples dogs want to sniff or worse get to know me. Unfortunately I must have some sort of smell that dogs like.
Anyway, when we moved into our current home 8 years ago, my wife and the two kids at home wanted a dog, I said ok but you have to look after it, I want nothing to do with it. I should’ve said no, I knew what would happen. Now the kids have finished school and living in Melbourne, my wife is doing contract work and is away more than she is at home. So now the stinking fleabag follows me around all day, it’s a Border Collie/ Black Lab cross, quite smart but always wants to be near people. It constantly gets in my way. I have to feed it and cleanup after it. I pat it twice a day because my wife wants me to. The stupid thing lays on the floor or couch looking at me all the time. I hate it, I can’t go away for a night anywhere because it has to be fed etc.
Why would anyone want this in their life? I want to be free but it’s eight years old and will probably live at least another four or more, eating away my own life the entire time.
Ed Casesays:
February 21, 2023 at 10:04 pm
Why would she? He was fired for a second breach of security.
So, you’re saying he deserved to be fired, SpongeBob?
I am shocked that a possible Spook like you is so relaxed about serious security breaches.
He got off once with a warning, twice was too much to be tolerated. It was, after all, a Defence associated office, which almost certainly had highly classified material stored in it.
“Even re-homed badly treated dogs can be taught loyalty and affection with time and care – I had one just like this. But I never, ever left her with small children.”
Correct.
Cassie of Sydneysays:
February 21, 2023 at 10:04 pm
So Albosleazy flew to WA to have dinner with rich Labor donors in Peppermint Grove (in the heart of Curtin. I am just gobsmacked. This is a perfect example of how Labor is now the party of the wealthy elites.
Neither m0nty=fa nor Richard Cranium is psychologically capable of accepting this reality.
Here are some Canberra and MSM names that were and are at the core of the Higgins and Porter fabrications…
Gallagher
Wong
Maiden
Crabb
Nilligan
Hanson-Dung
Keneally
Amphibian
It’s an intricately woven conga line of hideousness and ugliness.
Intervention time KD.
You’re verging on Truman Capote.
Get a bottle of Tequila, a holder for the gaspers, a pill from a truckie and get in the Hunter S. Thompson lane quickly.
A shottie for the caravans is an optional extra.
The catering bills for dinner with the WA Liberals have dropped dramatically. Nigel Satterley is still persisting though.
Ed Casesays:
February 21, 2023 at 10:09 pm
What speculation do you offer for the $576,000 payout?
No speculation required, SpongeBob.
Higgins got $576,000 for being victimised in her employment by Reynolds after Reynolds had been told that she had been raped.
Weak attempt at diverdsion, Richard Cranium.
As you well know, the actual sum granted to Mizz Knickerless is mot publicly available. The $576,000 refers to the sum granted to Tudge’s ex-staffer.
Now, once more, because you are being either stupid, excessively imaginative, or deliberately deceptive, what was the “real” reason to which you have referred several times for the $576,000 payout to Tudge’s ex-staffer?
Interesting development…one of the contenders for leadership of the SNP is a conservative Christian who opposes gender bending and same sex marriage.
The press has called her campaign “over before it begins.”
Yes, We Are At A Tipping Point: ChatGPT Is Just The Beginning Of How AI Will Soon Change Everything
High-profile man’s rape case due back in Qld court
Canbraa Times.
Prepare for a tsunami of speculation and commentary.
Can keep the Woomba down. See you at the AGM.
Makes me wonder how much she bothers with her day job.
Frankly, KD, I don’t give a damn.
As a farmer’s son who has lived with kelpies since birth, I can confirm that vile slur.
But thankfully kelpies are not only the best-looking dogs God created, their manic instinct to round up sheep and cattle is overwhelmed by an even greater desire to be loved by their owner.
That makes kelpies very obedient, even though ever sinew in their being is screaming at them to do mad stuff.
From Michael Smith’s site Monday. Perhaps already posted. Mean Girls.”
Definitely more to come in the Britneee saga.
A great demonstration of a safe Parliamentary working environment.
All for thee, but not for me.
If only the truth can be exposed.
We have two rescue dogs.
As far as I can tell they were more neglected than physically mistreated, although one occasionally cowers for no logical reason. Doesn’t like workboots or sunglasses and caps.
I am always telling kids not to scrag them or get in their face.
One of the kids claimed the dog bit him on the face over Christmas. Not a mark on him. We established eventually that “bit” = “licked”.
Plus behind the scenes book deal:
Pirate Pete
The Waffleworths
Why would any grown, mature adult want anything to do with dogs, unless they’re working dogs? Smelly, horrible attention seeking creatures that crap anywhere and require care and feeding, they tie you down.
For once – I have no words.
Ed Case says:
This is ALP misdirection.
Labor knew about the Higgins rape from the day it happened.
They also knew that the Liberal Party wouldn’t do the right thing by Higgins.
So, it was just a matter of reaching out to Higgins and keeping communication open until she arrived at that conclusion 2 years later.
Lay off the joy pills.
How did the Liars know? Did they have access to all that Parly House CCTV that you said would prove the allegations, but that the prosecution didn’t bother to bring to court? Why did the prosecution fail to prove what you claim to be proven?
And why do you shill for the Liars every day?
She bothers as much as all the rest of them on both sides of politics. All they do is scheme and connive and the actual running of the department is left to staffers like Knickerless Brittney. Oh for the days of at least competent Ainsley Gotto.
More to my previous comment, I mentioned before that all political staffers should be at least 50 years of age. Anyone younger is either too stupid or involved with other life and career issues.
If you are having a shit day, nothing gives you more of a lift than the welcome home (well, more for Mrs Panzer than me, but anyway) and the manic “zoomies” when they get back from their afternoon walk is hilarious.
Dogs?
I prefer beef or lamb.
Her recent speech in the UK was an example of how much thought she puts into it.
Undergraduate level stuff.
There’s something about Cassie’s list…just can’t quite put my finger on it…
Perhaps if we had more women in leadership positions, politics and other areas of corporate life would be, I don’t know…more kindly, more civilised more feminine </em.
As it is, we are swamped with detestable and egomaniacal white male privilege. No wonder we are where we are.
Why would any grown, mature adult want anything to do with dogs, unless they’re working dogs?
Yes indeed, a working dog is the only respectable conduit for all sorts of infantile degeneracy, including silly voices, huntin’ and shootin’, playfighting and -gasp- letting them ride in the cab if it’s hailing.
I also let the wife’s Malte-Shih-Poo up onto the couch, and snog my parents’ mini Fox Terrier. And talk politely to any dog I see at the beach, while giving their humans a cursory “how yuz goin’”.
Albanese’s choice: engage or see voice voted down
PAUL KELLY
There has never been consensus or bipartisanship on the model of the voice proposed by Anthony Albanese and it is obvious there will be no such agreement on this model – yet there is no sign the government will compromise on the radical constitutional amendment it insists upon.
This highlights the mammoth gamble involved – an “all or nothing” transformative referendum as distinct from seeking a far more modest model that wins wide support and public confidence. This is the Prime Minister’s choice. He will carry the consequences of what increasingly looms as a misjudged action.
The sophistry of saying it is just politeness to Indigenous peoples is pious nonsense. Labor is the agent of responsibility – it is putting a model that has been systematically radicalised over the years. It has finished in a flawed and unacceptable result.
The upshot is that supporter of a voice, lawyer and priest Frank Brennan argues in his new book that unless Albanese retreats to change the model or seek genuine bipartisanship in the parliament the referendum should be postponed “until a new generation of national leaders can come to the table” and put right what remains unresolved.
It is now more than six months since Albanese unveiled his proposed model at Garma. Since then the government has made no effort to engage the public in genuine disclosure or explanation about what its model involves, how it might operate and what this new order of Indigenous empowerment might mean for Australians, their governance and relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples.
Six months is long enough. It is time to call this failure out. The public has been assailed by tricks and slogans, with Albanese exploiting public goodwill, playing on emotions – asking “how will you feel?” if it’s defeated – and raising the sinister notion that defeat is unacceptable because it will damage how Australia is “perceived internationally”.
Albanese calls on people to support the voice because it means constitutional recognition and is a mechanism for consultation. Yet many people opposed to this model support both recognition and consultation via the principle of a voice. So what is happening here?
It’s obvious. The problem is the model. It has been the problem ever since Albanese’s Garma speech. The model is the essence of the referendum, yet Labor won’t discuss the central change it envisages for our system of parliament and government.
If you are suspicious about what’s happening your suspicions are justified.
The key sentence to be inserted into our Constitution says the voice “may make representations to parliament and the executive government on matters relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples”. This means two things. It is no longer just a voice to parliament but to government as well, a mammoth expansion in its remit. Government includes the cabinet; the Federal Executive Council that authorises appointments, salaries, land acquisitions, international agreements and many other issues; individual ministerial decisions, either administrative or under statutory powers; and decisions by public servants.
Second, the voice is not restricted to advising on laws that apply specifically to Indigenous peoples such as land rights, native title and cultural heritage or matters under section 51 (26), the so-called race power, but can advise on any “matter” concerning Indigenous peoples, thereby including laws and issues of general application that affect Indigenous peoples as part of the broader population.
This is open-ended, unqualified and unlimited. The voice can do virtually anything across the entire ambit of government from health, education, welfare, resources, economic development, taxation, arts and culture, environment, defence and foreign affairs. It can advise on bills, existing laws, cultural norms, Australia Day, the history curriculum, sovereignty and treaty.
The next sentence of Albanese’s amendment says “subject to this Constitution” the parliament can set up the voice making laws relating to “composition, functions, powers and procedures” – but it would be a foolhardy parliament politically that tried to limit the scope of the voice and would need anyway to be consistent with the all-encompassing earlier sentence of the constitutional amendment. As Brennan says, the problem is the scope of the voice.
Former chief justice Robert French has said the constitutional amendment means the voice “can cover a broad range of matters” but says the limits are likely to be defined by “common sense and political realities”.
But whose common sense and whose political realities? If you give the voice wide constitutional powers, those powers will be used. Isn’t that the entire purpose? The truth is if you want to limit the voice, that limitation must be embodied in the constitutional amendment. Nothing else will suffice.
Yet the history is illuminating because it runs the opposite way. It is now seven years since ALP leader Bill Shorten said at the Referendum Council meeting a referendum on the voice had no chance. Labor abandoned that view. It is four years since Shorten said a Labor government would legislate the voice as a first step. That was abandoned, a critical step. The initial concept was a voice to parliament. But that was abandoned to become an expanded voice to parliament and government. In 2018 the view was that cross-party support was important to achieve constitutional change. But that is now largely abandoned.
Yet as the voice became a more radical idea, it was met with intense rejection. Over the same period successive governments of Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison rejected the voice, the statement from the Turnbull cabinet – yes, the cabinet – said the voice violated the fundamental principle of Australian democracy based on equal civil rights and was an unjustified “radical” change to our system of government.
As French has said, the voice, as proposed, will become “a significant institution in our representative democracy”. That’s an important point but surely an understatement. The constitutional powers of the voice ensure it will become a substantial institution as it interacts with and changes the way the House of Representatives, the Senate and executive government function. Over the years it will need a large-scale bureaucracy to service its needs and ambit.
Indigenous leaders have designed a model to have real impact on the outcomes from our parliament and government. The system of government in Australia will alter and be reordered.
You can expect the parliament to legislate a requirement that the executive must receive and listen to recommendations from the voice before taking decisions. You can guarantee substantial media coverage when the voice speaks given its moral mandate, particularly when it challenges the government and the parliament.
Albanese, in an unwise but acute remark, said it would be a “brave” government that defied the voice. That’s correct. The voice won’t have a legislative veto – but its expected moral, political and media clout suggests a likely de facto veto.
This raises another question: by creating a voice, on a racial basis, with such a wide ambit for recommendations, is the upshot the entrenching of racial divisions and racial differences across a far wider spectrum of public policy and Australian life?
It is now time to end the fiction promoted by the government and many of the pro-voice advocates – corporates, community leaders, bishops and commentators – that this is just a modest, simple, “nothing to see here”, goodwill provision that makes us a happier country. Those claims are intellectual fraud and a hoax on the Australian public.
Listening to the debate in recent months it is extraordinary the way elites are patronising people while engaging in a deception about both the radical and risky nature of this proposal.
Albanese has a choice. He can either continue the deception and denial, hoping to win the referendum on the vibe of the thing, or he can begin a genuine debate about what his proposal means for our system of parliamentary and executive government. If he won’t reach out, engage and show a willingness to make concessions there is only one response – this referendum model should be decisively voted down.
Oz
Eeew! Sexist italics button!
More toxic masculinity on display.
No, no, not you Top Ender. My formatting fail. 😀
Gallagher sounds like a nasty piece of liar’s party turd.
Sancho Panzersays:
February 22, 2023 at 8:38 am
Cassie of Sydneysays:
February 22, 2023 at 8:11 am
“Wong is at the centre of this stench.”
Correct. Just like she was at the centre of the Porter stench.
Makes me wonder how much she bothers with her day job.
To leftards, political backstabbing is their day job. If any time is left over after that, they will initial the ministerial briefing notes, after being advised that they are all OK.
Another pattern….
Katie
Penny
Samantha
Annabelle
Louise
Sarah
Kristina
Lisa
Beware women with cute fashionable names, especially those who use the diminutive in adult life. Another tell…the helium voice or the female gravitas baritone.
There will always be exceptions, of course. Not everyone lives down to their given name.
But thankfully kelpies are not only the best-looking dogs God created, their manic instinct to round up sheep and cattle is overwhelmed by an even greater desire to be loved by their owner.
I would love a kelpie on our farm, but our city house is no place for a working dog. We have to be content to occasionally taking our daughter’s Japanese Spitz up here. But she is hopeless -hates getting burrs in her little feet.
On one occasion she alerted me to a snake caught up in the netting around the house. She did exactly the right thing, and became a “statue” looking at the thing & catching my attention. I scooped her up and put her on the verandah, while husband got the gun and despatched the snake. I totally forgot that she is more frightened of loud noises than anything else. That did it for her – she was a blubbering mess and is reluctant to get out of the car whenever she arrives. The cattle also hate foxes, and they are convinced she is a (white) fox. So she gets chased if she goes in a paddock.”Horses for courses” and appropriate dogs for the environment.
Also beware of women who’s names forsake capital letters.
They’re the worst.
Ok I have 2 Snaps
sfw says:
February 22, 2023 at 8:12 am
Why would any grown, mature adult want anything to do with dogs, unless they’re working dogs? Smelly, horrible attention seeking creatures that crap anywhere and require care and feeding, they tie you down.
So now the stinking fleabag follows me around all day, it’s a Border Collie/ Black Lab cross, quite smart but always wants to be near people.
and
ancho Panzer says:
February 22, 2023 at 8:55 am
Vickisays:
February 22, 2023 at 8:47 am
Why would any grown, mature adult want anything to do with dogs, unless they’re working dogs? Smelly, horrible attention seeking creatures that crap anywhere and require care and feeding, they tie you down.
For once – I have no words.
If you are having a shit day, nothing gives you more of a lift than the welcome home (well, more for Mrs Panzer than me, but anyway) and the manic “zoomies” when they get back from their afternoon walk is hilarious.
Snap -Nearly 2 Year Old Neurotic Female Beagle hates being alone and always wants to be near/with People – Not Smart, and does the Maniac Zoomies every afternoon
The press favourite is a Muslim, a Mr. Hamza McYousaf, who says he supports ssm but somehow managed to miss the vote for it.
Tom-
are you keeping up with Bob Moran ?
alwaysright says:
February 22, 2023 at 8:56 am
Dogs?
I prefer beef or lamb.
Korean Restaurant in Summer
Who do they think they are…e.e. cummings?
Crossiesays:
February 22, 2023 at 8:48 am
Cassie of Sydneysays:
February 22, 2023 at 8:11 am
“Wong is at the centre of this stench.”
Correct. Just like she was at the centre of the Porter stench.
Makes me wonder how much she bothers with her day job.
She bothers as much as all the rest of them on both sides of politics. All they do is scheme and connive and the actual running of the department is left to staffers like Knickerless Brittney. Oh for the days of at least competent Ainsley Gotto.
And the staffers like Knickerless will do exactly what the department “advises”. They do not know enough about the business of government to challenge anything they are given.
That is why RoboDebt not only got started, but continued past the point of obvious stupidity. The so-called “advisers” not only didn’t know enough about the details to challenge the Department, but also weren’t experienced enough to challenge it.
Of course they do. They curbed proliferation in 70s and 80s because they involved substantive quid pro quos. So far as I can tell the decision to suspend NewStart is Putin’s way of responding to US/ NATO’s escalations by now proposing to flex in an area it has an advantage.
Frank says:
February 21, 2023 at 10:29 pm
If you look at how many 500px by 500px images in 8 bit RGB colour space it comes out to something like 10^250,000, from memory. Too big for a calculator to work out anyway. Working out how many zip drives would be needed to store them all would be an interesting exercise.
Just saw this.
Yes, that’s how steganography works.. encrypting anything in a .jpg works on this principle. The practical use limit being the NP-time nature of the mathematical solution, which would require some insane amount of tera-flops over aeons.
I see there is a ‘Heatwave Warning’ in place for SW Victoria – fortunately with lifesaving advice for those of us who dont know what to do:
The explanation:
All I am seeing is a now fully infantilised population – just like they want it.
I told him to stick to the carpet.
Did you tell him what to do at the end of the carpet?
FFS.
A military contact of mine flagged this to me a few days back:
https://cairnsnews.org/2023/02/21/australian-3rar-soldiers-training-at-townsville-to-control-australians/
As the head piece says ‘what could this possibly be about?’
It just re-inforces my observation that all the weapons of war have been deployed against the people by the government in recent times.
Censorship
Propaganda
Military/militarised police on the borders/in the streets
War emergency control of the economy
Identity passes/checks/controls
The Cabinet of the day signed off on it.
Responsibility ultimately rests with them.
I only check Bob’s website, not his Twitter account, so I’ll catch up with that one later today.
lotocoti says:
February 22, 2023 at 9:20 am
I told him to stick to the carpet.
Did you tell him what to do at the end of the carpet?
FFS.
I liked the twitter below of the the same clip with Captions added
https://twitter.com/MyLordBebo/status/1628081831638708226
10% Hiden Biden is not reallly alive!
as summed up by Crypt Keeper Mummy
Today the ol’ Crypt Keeper stalked through the streets of Kiev in a parody parade, with phony alarm blaring in pretend mimicry of ‘war’. As the mummy stiffly sleepwalked and pantomimed through the deserted streets, friendly SBU agents dispersed these ‘helpful reminders’ to the debased burghers of what-was-once Kiev, who may unwittingly commit the faux-pas of gazing upon the sacrosanct American presence sweeping through their streets:
It savors of the unfortunate reminder of these flyers found on liquidated militants, informing them how to avoid being ‘sexually assaulted by’ the foreign mercenaries so graciously offering up their unconditional frontline service.
Even (Hem)Reuters had to caw at the brazen theatricality of the Mummy’s rehearsed Kievan performance:
Of course, U.S. had to ‘inform’ Russia (read: get permission) of the visit.
Afterwards, the Mummy announced the usual criminal disbursement of stolen tax-payer funds to his Kiev-Cronies. Although the $500 million sticker price on today’s allotment left a lot to be desired, and seemed indicative of a sagging enthusiasm (not unlike the enthusiasm the Mummy displayed taking his shambling tour of Kiev’s wartime, de-electrified environs).
In that Great Land of Demicracy – Zelensky Ukraine
Ukraine bans former president’s party
The Party of Regions was outlawed just a day after Joe Biden praised Kiev’s “democracy”
The party of former president Viktor Yanukovich, once Ukraine’s largest, was banned on Tuesday by a Kiev court acting on a government request. Ukraine’s security services had accused the Party of Regions of illegally signing a 2010 treaty with Russia and “crimes” against the 2014 US-backed coup that ousted Yanukovich.
Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) announced the ban to state media, saying it followed a motion by the Ministry of Justice based on accusations leveled by the SBI and the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) against the party.
“In particular, the SBI provided materials regarding the illegal actions of the leadership of the Party of Regions during the signing and ratification of the so-called Kharkov Agreements, as well as crimes committed by them during the events of the Revolution of Dignity,” the agency said.
The 2010 agreement, signed in Kharkov, extended the Russian lease of naval facilities in Crimea through 2042 and gave Ukraine a discount on Russian natural gas supplies. The “Revolution of Dignity” is the name the new Ukrainian government gave the Maidan coup of 2014, which triggered the conflict over Crimea and the Donbass.
The Ukrainian government is “currently determining” the value of the party’s assets, which will be seized under a law enacted in May 2022. It enables President Vladimir Zelensky’s government to ban any party that challenges its official position, in particular when it comes to the conflict with Russia. A court’s decisions are final and cannot be appealed.
The law has been used to ban a dozen parties so far. The largest parliamentary opposition bloc, Opposition Platform – For Life, was outlawed last June.
The Party of Regions was established in 1997 and had grown into Ukraine’s biggest political party by 2006, in response to the 2004 ‘Orange Revolution’ that installed a pro-American government. It practically ceased to operate after the 2014 coup, as Yanukovich and Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov sought asylum in Russia.
The latest ban comes just a day after US President Joe Biden visited Kiev and compared Ukraine’s government to democracy itself. “Ukraine stands. Democracy stands. America – and the world – stands with Ukraine,” Biden declared after a photo-op with Zelensky.
That is why RoboDebt not only got started, but continued past the point of obvious stupidity. The so-called “advisers” not only didn’t know enough about the details to challenge the Department, but also weren’t experienced enough to challenge it.
NO! .. ROBODEBT got started because gummint decided, “It’s only welfare & dole bludgers, no one will care” .. have a look at the testimony of the CentreLink “contract” lawyer at the RC, yesterday,
* “Yes, I knew it was illegal I received 3 pieces of advice but I didn’t bother to pass them on” ..
“In hindsight, maybe, I should have” .. takes $100K plus fee and mooooves on! .. FFS!
*not the actual wording but plain English interpretation of the legalesque waffle used! ..
Western bet on neo-Nazis in Ukraine, failed sanctions and key nuke deal suspension: Highlights from Putin’s major speech
The Russian leader did not mince his words as he outlined tensions with the West during an address to parliament
Russia attempted to peacefully resolve the issues involving Ukraine after 2014, but Western leaders were secretly preparing a completely different scenario, President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday during his address to the Federal Assembly, the country’s main legislative body.
Speaking to both chambers of parliament as well as senior officials and public figures, the Russian leader touched on a variety of key topics during a speech lasting almost two hours.
From the military operation in Ukraine to economic and social issues, here is a recap of what the president said.
World should not be divided
Russia not only intends to firmly protect its own interests, but also its belief that the modern world should not be divided into “civilized countries” and “all the rest,”
Putin said. He stressed the need for close partnerships without exceptionalism or resorting to aggression.
The president insisted that Moscow remains open to constructive dialogue with the West, and continues to call for a united and fair global security system. However, Putin claimed that instead of cooperating, the West has only issued a muddled response and hidden behind the umbrella of NATO, which continues to expand its borders towards Russia while American military bases spread throughout the world.
Why Russia acted in Ukraine
Putin recalled that all of Russia’s security guarantee proposals were rejected outright by the US and NATO, which he said made it clear that the go-ahead for aggressive actions by Kiev had already been given. According to the president, there was clear evidence that another “punitive action” was being planned in Donbass for February 2022.
Putin said Kiev and its Western backers initiated the conflict in Ukraine, while Russia is now using force to put an end to it.
West doesn’t care who it uses against Moscow
Western nations used the “despicable method of deceit” during campaigns in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, and Syria, Putin argued. Regarding Ukraine, Putin said the West had openly admitted that the 2014-2015 Minsk agreements were a bluff. While “Donbass was burning and blood was being spilled,” Ukraine’s backers “were playing with people’s lives,” he stated.
Putin continued by claiming that the West does not actually care who it supports in its fight against Russia, which is why it turns a blind eye to Ukrainian fighters openly celebrating notorious Nazi divisions and bearing their insignia.
Putin asserted that the Ukrainian people have become expendable hostages for Kiev and its Western backers, who have occupied Ukraine in a political, military, and economic sense, devastating the country for the past several decades.
Consequences of long-range arms supplies to Kiev
Putin suggested that the West is treating Ukraine as a battering ram against Russia, and is using the battlefield as a test-firing range. However, he stressed that one thing “everyone should understand” is that the longer the range of Western weapons systems being delivered to Ukraine, the farther Russia will be forced to move the threat away from its borders. “It’s only natural,” said the president.
West wants a global conflict
Western elites no longer hide their true intentions and are openly calling for a “strategic defeat for Russia,” Putin added. He accused them of trying to transform a local conflict into a global confrontation, but argued that Russia will “react accordingly” to any threats.
At the same time, Putin insisted that the West recognizes that it cannot defeat Russia militarily, which is why it is launching increasingly aggressive information attacks against Russian culture, history, the Orthodox Church, and other traditional values.
Sanctions have failed
The West has not only opened a military and information frontline against Russia, but also an economic one, according to Putin. However, its efforts have backfired and ultimately failed, despite attempts to spark inflation, crash the ruble, and blatantly steal Russia’s foreign exchange reserves, he added.
“Anti-Russian sanctions are only a tool,” Putin observed, claiming that the goal, as Western officials themselves have stated, is to “force suffering” upon Russian citizens. “But they miscalculated, and Russia’s economy proved much more robust than the West expected,” the president argued.
Russia is not just adapting to new realities, but is bringing its economy to new frontiers and working with its partners on establishing a stable and secure system of international settlements, independent of the dollar or other Western reserve currencies, Putin explained.
New START suspended
Putin stated that Moscow is well aware of the West’s involvement in attempts by Ukrainian forces to strike Russia’s strategic aviation. This, coupled with “absurd” requests from NATO to be allowed to inspect Russia’s defense facilities within the framework of the New START nuclear treaty, leaves Moscow no choice but to temporarily withdraw from the agreement, the president announced.
Fair election denialists.
The Great and Good collectively advising the Little People what to think is the current cultural MO.
Life is confusing; lots of Australians like the comfort of the rod and staff.
There’s probably never been a better time to sleepwalk Australia into dysfunctional constitutional change.
‘South Park’ goes viral for ‘brutally honest take’ on trans rights, abortion
A resurfaced “South Park” clip — featuring a transgender woman demanding an abortion despite not being able to get pregnant — is going viral 18 years after its original air date. Social media watchdogs are heralding its “brutally honest take” on transgender rights and abortion “in this crazy woke world we’re all in.”
The episode titled “Mr. Garrison’s Fancy New Vagina,” which originally aired on March 9, 2005, features fourth grade teacher Herbert/Janet Garrison trying to get an abortion because they have not menstruated.
Later in the episode, Garrison — who was born biologically male — expresses outrage due to the fact that they cannot abort (nor carry) a child, even though they paid for reassignment surgery.
The episode of the animated comedy series is set in a Planned Parenthood office. The character, temporarily identifying as Janet Garrison, walks in to demand an abortion. “Hello doctor, looks like I need an abortion,” said Garrison. The doctor then attempts to clarify what he just heard.
“Yeah, I’ve got one growing inside me,” Garrison further explained. “Now, are you going to scramble its brains or just vacuum it out?”
The doctor then attempts to tell his patient that they are “physically unable to have an abortion because you can’t get pregnant.”
Garrison then shouts back: “Don’t you tell me what I can and can’t do with my body! A woman has a right to choose.”
The animated doc then explains the basic birds and bees to Garrison. “You can’t have periods, either. You had a sex change Mr. Garrison, but you don’t have ovaries or a womb. You don’t produce eggs.”
A disgruntled Garrison then bemoans the possibility that he will never feel what it’s like to have a baby grow inside him — or experience what it’s like to “scramble its brains.”
When the doctor affirms, once again, that Garrison will never experience the full joys of womanhood, Garrison states: “But I paid $5,000 to be a woman. This would mean I’m not really a woman. I’m just a guy with a mutilated penis.”
Twitter is blowing up over the resurfaced clip, with many pointing out that the show’s makers would likely be canceled by the “woke mob” if the 18-year-old storyline were presented anew in 2023.
why eliminating the FDA and CDC would probably make the public safer
I wouldn’t go that far. I mean, you need a couple of 20-somethings to fetch coffee and make sandwiches.
Group Pushing Transgenderism on Elementary Schoolers Sponsors San Diego Schools Equity Conference
From the “West Australian.” Albanese, preaching the same, tired old bullsh!t.
I think this is undoubtedly the case, by whoever is pulling Biden’s strings.
Trump: Biden ‘Systematically’ Pushing US Into World War III
Prince Harry, Meghan Markle deny they’re suing over ‘South Park’ portrayal
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have no intentions of suing the creators of “South Park” over a recent episode seemingly aimed at the controversial couple.
Despite reports that the pair are pursuing legal action against the animated series, a spokesperson for Markle, 41, and Harry, 38, told People that “it’s all frankly nonsense. Totally baseless, boring reports.”
The clarification comes after Comedy Central released a new episode Wednesday. Titled “Worldwide Privacy Tour,” the plot follows the “prince and princess of Canada” as they move to a fictional Colorado town to get out of the press.
Throughout the episode, the couple — who bares a striking resemblance to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex — hold up signs saying “we want our privacy” and “stop looking at us.”
However, they also seemingly draw a lot of attention to themselves by hanging up the banners outside their home and doing interviews.
At one point, the characters even go on the talk show “Good Morning Canada” to promote the prince’s new book, “Waaagh” — a clear nod to Harry’s jaw-dropping memoir, “Spare.”
And yet, while the couple might not be taking the showrunners to court, they apparently didn’t take the joke very well.
The former “Suits” star is reportedly “upset and overwhelmed” and “annoyed by ‘South Park’ but refuses to watch it all,” a source told the Spectator.
Meanwhile, sources say Prince William — who is reportedly no longer on speaking terms with his younger brother — might get a kick out of the whole thing.
“William, I’m sure, doesn’t watch ‘South Park,’” a royal insider said on “Good Morning Britain,” adding, “But I reckon one of his friends will have seen it on social media and [sent a clip his way].”
Someone wanted the full transcript of Putin’s speech yesterday?
Can be read in full here:
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/70565
Worth a read without MSM propaganda
Covid Related News: EU report proves devastating impact of “vaccines” from the outset and other news corporate media will ignore
but this you will hear
COVID-19 Vaccination Can Reduce Cardiovascular Risk Post-Infection, Study Finds
In other words, their lawyers told them no dice.
DC_Draino
@DC_Draino
Nothing to see here
Just a guy wearing an earpiece physically forcing people inside the Capitol on J6 & a woman calling him out on it
I’m sure he wasn’t a Federal Agent of any kind
*This* is why they don’t want more video footage released
Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson
This is the most painful and accurate meme on the internet right now…
The Vigilant Fox
@VigilantFox
Dr. McCullough Issues Three Bits of Advice for Those Who Took the COVID-19 Shots
1.) No more shots – the side effects are cumulative.
2.) Be vigilant for symptoms of blood clots and heart damage.
3. Nattokinase – Preclinical studies show it degrades the spike protein.
After Julie Bishop I think they’ll manage.
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
On today’s Roundtable, I’ll have Larry Johnson and Michael Vlahos, to discuss Putin’s speech and the conflict in Ukraine.
Available now
The Roundtable #47: Larry Johnson, Michael Vlahos
The Death Camp of Tolerance was broadcast 21 years ago.
Although the parents finally understand what their kids were telling them about and are indeed shocked at Garrison’s behavior, they still cannot bring themselves to criticize it, as they fear being branded “intolerant”.
A 2 minute clip of Putin’s speech – and I agree with every word.
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
“See what they do with their own peoples—the destruction of the family, cultural and national identity, perversion, mockery of children, and pedophilia are declared the norm.”
Putin’s critique of the West is not wrong.
That’s what Uber is for.
Under the category of things that make you go hmmm:
ASIO head says espionage is ‘principal security concern’ but some Australians don’t understand the threat it poses (Sky News, 21 Feb)
Maybe his spooks would have more time if they weren’t having to monitor Christians, rightwingers and the unvaxxed? Just saying.
On Ash Wednesday
Death is brought to the forefront of our minds by the ashes. Talk about wearing your religion on your sleeve. Why today, we wear it on our heads! And proudly so, as the minister of ashes says,
“Remember you are dust and to dust you shall return.”
SBS has an ‘Elder in Residence’; newsreader addressed her as “Aunty”.
She read the weather map with Aboriginal names.
Possibly not a new spectacle. New to me.
More interesting was the answer she gave when the newsreader gently queried the use of lower case letters; evidently the language is evolving. Eye-watering.
Political staffer jobs are for kids in short pants to play out their undergraduate West Wing fantasies while f**king each other or the boss before going in-house at a union, an ambulance chasing law firm or joining Dad’s company depending on which branch you are. If you are any good you might get warehoused till a suitable preselection becomes available.
Brittany is Exhibit A.
Would this sort of thing have reached the court stage pre-BAT FLU? .. and who the hell is paying the legal bill(s) .. I’m fairly certain it aint a 63 years old 251 .. FFS!
You’d have to be naive to believe that if this bloke wins his case the floodgates won’t open .. this doesn’t just come down to being 251 and life expectancy it really means anyone, shirley!
I meanz, say a rellie/parent or whoever dies a coupla years short of retirement then they’ve missed out on their OAP so why should they be discriminated by not reaching 65 thru no fault of their own ..
Life expectancy is a guessing game not something writ in stone .. pretty obvious that statistics are used to forward plan, overall, not to tailor things to the individual .
a win is really gonna throw the cat amonst the pidgeons .. LOL!
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/aboriginal-pension-win-would-open-floodgate-court-told/ar-AA17JCOH?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=6fd31d599eca4733b327ad33df36531d
Words fail me, they honestly do.
My faith in the political process may be lower than Roger’s today (and most days I suspect).
Shatterzzz,
it should be mentioned that until white man came along with their better food and medicines, Abos life expectancy was only 40 years. They should be reminded of that.
We do seem bedevilled by callow myopic naifs.
It brings to mind Conquest’s First Law:
Makes sense – people holding so far forth on topics in which they not proficient, such that they are in danger of toppling over, will lack the awareness of the checks on wild imagination that nature has instituted by its laws. A person who is knowledgeable about engineering will be less enthusiastic about vast new infrastructure projects than a Greens politician because they know the current state of what is possible and what might become possible, and aware of how much danger there is trying to ‘jump a few steps all at once’ to get to the grand outcome, rather than proceeding cautiously.
But Conquest’s law comes to mind in this instance not because we can see the reactionary (or ‘conservative’ within the field) side at work among political staffers, but rather their gluttonous appetite for the fantastical.
They don’t actually know of anything. Too young, and so steeped in youth’s pride in its own powers, that they don’t give a thought to what they do not know. Every stupid idea that comes their way is possible and the desired outcomes virtually guaranteed. If by any chance they bump into someone more knowledgeable who would warn them of the dangers of what they are proposing an emotional, rather than intellectual, response sees them dismissed as lacking vision, or imagination, or courage.
And behold, our political landscape. Could there be any clump of people less knowledgeable than the Greens? Or greenies? Yet they are the ones with the biggest ‘visions’ for the future.
Another example would be the Marxists I saw at uni. All sorts of grand solutions to cure the world from capitalism and ushering in a utopia with prosperity, gleaming cities, fields of wheat bowing their heads in waves before the breezes, everyone aglow with with health and happiness in their collectivism (their ideas of utopia were borrowed from the posters in communist countries) – the Marxists had no idea what their dream-world would require in terms of agriculture, engineering, medical science, psychology, etc. They just assumed it could be done and would be done.
But there was one area where they were rooted to the ground, where they were immovable, where they were resolute, unshakeable, uncompromising, and unyielding: Marxist theory. The one thing they had put time and effort into, where they had laboured and accumulated ideas and painstakingly ordered them.
I swear, the different schisms directed more vitriol at the splitters than capitalists.
But it should come as no surprise that campus Marxists and pubescent political staffers both share the vice of championing uninformed programs – the results are more or less the same.
In the Avengers finale, Thanos famously wanted to destroy half of the universe’s population to preserve its finite resources — a possible allegory for climate change extremists. According to Cameron, Thanos had a plan that he can relate to.
Cameron is a good movie maker but personally he is a typical elitist misanthrope. I spoke to some young folk about Thanos’ solution to the human population explosion and they thought it had merit. That’s the real worry. Like every solution to the non-existent problem of AGW these young people, like greenies generally, think they are exempt from the solutions they advocate or support. It’s cognitive dissonance at a very destructive level; and when the lights go out after Liddell is closed the screams of the inner city fu.ktards will be one of the few consolations.
Seems like a low rent stunt. You mean you don’t get to keep the title.
A friend of mine had teenage children, who were showing an unhealthy interest in Marxist theory.
A school holidays, spent working in an orphanage in Cambodia, cured them of that illness.
Only initiated men could be tribal elders……
Religious leaders unite to urge support for Voice
22 February 2023
A coalition of religious organisations has sent a joint letter to MPs warning that future generations of Australians “will not forgive us” if the Indigenous Voice to Parliament fails at the referendum. Source: The Australian.
The open letter, penned by organisations including the Catholic, Uniting and Anglican churches, the Australian National Council of Imams and the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, used the week of action for the Voice to call on parliamentarians “to find ways to collaborate constructively across political divides”.
Mother Lodesays:
February 22, 2023 at 10:56 am
Excellent analysis. The flip side of course is the cowardice and weakness of the West’s elders and conservatives who almost to a person have capitulated to the yuuf. There was a S-F story I read a long time ago about alien conquest of Earth. All they did was introduce a virus which killed every adult and then it was Lord of the Flies mayhem.
I rather think future generations will not forgive us if it passes.
The reverend ministers, rabbi and imams should stick to parsing their sacred texts.
Outside of that and their congregations, they have no particular authority above any other citizen.
SBS has an ‘Elder in Residence’; newsreader addressed her as “Aunty”.
She read the weather map with Aboriginal names.
Possibly not a new spectacle. New to me.
Possible that this ‘elder in residence’ (FMD) was at Swan Hill today, for I heard on the airwaves the hospital was having a smoking ceremony.
“To cleanse the Old Nurse’s Home site before the new Emergency Department build commences.”
Double FMD
Up the Micks for supporting the Voice.
The Magic Negro vibe is strong at SBS. File alongside : “ABC Cancer Cluster”.
There’s bad smoke
and there’s good smoke
Up the Micks for supporting the Voice.
Don’t try to be funny dickless.
Who will think of the Megafauna?
JUST IN: Trump Warns ‘World War III Has Never Been Closer’
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slackster says:
February 22, 2023 at 9:50 am
Someone wanted the full transcript of Putin’s speech yesterday?
Can be read in full here:
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/70565
Worth a read without MSM propaganda
The recent Munich Conference turned into an endless stream of accusations against Russia. One gets the impression that this was done so that everyone would forget what the so-called West has been doing over the past decades. They were the ones who let the genie out of the bottle, plunging entire regions into chaos.
According to US experts, almost 900,000 people were killed during wars unleashed by the United States after 2001, and over 38 million became refugees. Please note, we did not invent these statistics; it is the Americans who are providing them. They are now simply trying to erase all this from the memory of humankind, and they are pretending that all this never happened.
However, no one in the world has forgotten this or will ever forget it.
None of them cares about human casualties and tragedies because many trillions of dollars are at stake, of course.
They can also continue to rob everyone under the guise of democracy and freedoms, to impose neoliberal and essentially totalitarian values, to brand entire countries and nations, to publicly insult their leaders, to suppress dissent in their own countries and to divert attention from corruption scandals by creating an enemy image.
We continue to see all this on television, which highlights greater domestic economic, social and inter-ethnic problems, contradictions and disagreements.
I would like to recall that, in the 1930s, the West had virtually paved the way to power for the Nazis in Germany. In our time, they started turning Ukraine into an “anti-Russia.”
Actually, this project is not new. People who are knowledgeable about history at least to some extent realise that this project dates back to the 19th century. The Austro-Hungarian Empire and Poland had conceived it for one purpose, that is, to deprive Russia of these historical territories that are now called Ukraine. This is their goal. There is nothing new here; they are repeating everything.
The West expedited the implementation of this project today by supporting the 2014 coup. That was a bloody, anti-state and unconstitutional coup.
They pretended that nothing happened, and that this is how things should be. They even said how much money they had spent on it. Russophobia and extremely aggressive nationalism formed its ideological foundation.
Oh my goodness have a read of this. Hun:
A growing number of Australians are now too poor to work as inflationary pressures push the price of looking for a job beyond reach.
The cost of mobile phones and the internet – essential for communicating with prospective employers – has skyrocketed and, for the most disadvantaged jobseekers, finding work has become an “impossible dream’’, says Nicole Dwyer, chief executive of not-for-profit employment services provider Workskil Australia.
Rising costs of fuel and public transport make it difficult for job seekers to get to interviews and very few can afford suitable clothes to make a good impression with recruiters, Dwyer says.
“Jobseekers are under the worst financial stress I’ve seen in 20 years,” she says.
“They aren’t eating three square meals a day, they’re having to let go of their cars, they’re struggling to maintain their mobile phones, and their rent is going up or they’re losing their homes.
“This extreme level of financial stress is pushing the most vulnerable cohort of jobseekers to the point of no return.’’
The term ‘living within your means’ springs to mind.
Obama in full gaslighting mode
No one could ever accuse you of that, cohenite.
Rita Panahi:
The Dan Andrews government is playing dangerous political games with the lives of Indigenous children. Instead of focusing on the protection and welfare of children by reducing the deplorable rates of abuse and neglect in the Indigenous community, they are focusing on the activist agenda of reducing the over-representation of Indigenous children in care. It’s a shameful betrayal of the most vulnerable members of the community.
Child Protection and Family Services Minister Lizzie Blandthorn is trumpeting the return of a Bill aimed at reducing the number of Indigenous children removed from their families.
“The new laws are a first in Australia — they help keep Aboriginal children with their families by enshrining Aboriginal self-determination in child and family services,” she said.
Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price was scathing of the Victorian government’s twisted priorities that will help keep children in dangerous settings.
“Minister Lizzie Blandthorn is condemning Australian children to abuse and neglect because of their race,” she told me.
“To ignore the reasons behind why there are so many child removals while simultaneously keeping children in dysfunction is a human rights violation.”
This is a government that prefers to pander to the inner-city activist class and focus on symptoms, not the cause. The sad reality is that the reason there is over-representation of Indigenous children in care is because there is a large over-representation in the numbers of Indigenous children abused, neglected and sexually assaulted.
According to Australian government data Indigenous children are up to eight times as likely as non-Indigenous children to be the subject of substantiated child abuse or neglect. We know that Indigenous women are more than 30 times as likely as non-Indigenous women to be hospitalised due to domestic violence. Governments at all levels should be tackling this epidemic.
Indigenous academic Dr Anthony Dillon believes the insistence of placing Aboriginal kids only with Aboriginal carers is not so much “self-determination” as separatism and the priority should be finding “loving, nurturing care providers”, whatever their ethnicity. “The ‘us vs them’ mentality has only ever failed and will continue to fail,” he told me.
But sadly, such logic and nuance is lost on the activists that have the ear of governments of all stripes.
Another 5 Year Plan for North Korea. Just like the demolished Soviet Union.
“North Korea is experiencing a critical food crisis, experts say.
The country is no stranger to chronic food shortages, but border controls, poor weather and sanctions have worsened the situation in recent years.
Top officials are expected to meet at the end of February to discuss a “fundamental change” to agriculture policy, state media has said.
This is a “very important and urgent task” amid “pressing” farming issues, news aggregator KCNA Watch reported.
The news comes as Pyongyang continues its displays of military might.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64701184
Guns or Butter? Let the people choose. I bet that they will choose butter (with a few guns).
A military contact of mine flagged this to me a few days back
I wonder if any of the knuckle heads in 3RAR asked or wondered why they were doing this training?
I hope the realise that they’re just as f’cked as the police are, massively out numbered, if the public decide to turn up with a vengeance.
Couldn’t beat the Chinese, but can beat up grannies!! The Vikpol way!
As a Christian I am a realist in regard to this world but hopeful in regard to the eschaton.
I won’t divulge my views on millenialism lest I draw the attention of QPol, who lately take a keen interest in such fine points of doctrine.
Orchestrating the Coming Totalitarianism
QUESTION: Hello Martin,
Thank you for your courage and your willingness to report the truth whilst all we get is a “web of lies” from the “Deep State” and their grand partners, the mainstream media. My questions centers around the purported quote from Ezra Pound, “The problem with modern war is that it gives no one the chance to kill the right people.” I can’t think of a more poignant statement when considering the events of COVID, the 2020 election and now the orchestration of WWIII. It feels like little by little the people are beginning to wake up to what’s going on in Ukraine but the link you gave that “65% of Americans support Ukraine” is, to say the least, disheartening. Where should we look for our “ray of light’ aside from above?
Thank you for all you do for us “second hand citizens” of the 99%.
GP
REPLY: We must understand that war is simply an extension of politics. It is no different than observing two drunks in a bar who suddenly turn to violence because one did not like the way the other looked at him. The real war criminals are those who create the wars and the people as well as the soldiers are really the victims. Most are simply brainwashed and that is part of the demonizing tactic they always employ to whip up the hatred of the people against a political foe.
The West has deliberately created this war. They NEED it to default on all the debt and create a new world order thereafter with a new digital currency that the IMF is always proposing using Blockchain so that if I gave you $100, they will know where I got it and every person down the lie. Technology has opened their mind to envision a whole new era of totalitarianism.
This movement against the people took place when they were shocked by the Trump victory. Suddenly “democracy” became the evil “populism” and they immediately began an outright war against Trump not from just the Democrats, but the career Republicans were all out in force to undermine Trump because the UNI-PARTY of career politicians do not want non-politicians playing in their sandbox.
This is why point 8 in Schwab’s Great Reset is to end our right to vote. How dare we think that we have any right to tell those above what they should do? We are the dirt beneath their feet.
It is the same age-old issue. Those above believe THEY are the sovereign – not we the great unwashed. We are to simply obey, pay taxes, and die in battle when THEY want to oppose another elite for power.
Marcus’ new film on corruption at the International Criminal Court (ICC) of Justice says it all. They want to indict Putin for war crimes when they have no such authority, but they need this to justify creating WWIII. The ICC has NO JURISDICTION over non-member states. The US, UK, Russia, and China are all non-members. Therefore, the ICC cannot indict even a US soldier for a war crime no less a head of state.
Tony Blair has publicly admitted that he takes full responsibility for the Gulf War. Yet the ICC cannot indict him. They are desperate to indict Putin so they can beat their war drums and declare ALL Russians must be exterminated. To show the corruption, the ICC is desperate to indict Putin. If they do, then legally they have not just violated their very authority, but George Bush and Tony Blair would also be indicted on the same principle. You cannot have one set of rules for one country that are not honored for all. This is the corruption going on in the ICC and it is all theater to create WWIII.
This is all taking place so they can justify their sovereign defaults and create a new world order with Bretton Woods II and this time the IMF will be handed the reserve currency using blockchain to ensure we surrender all our privacy and rights into the future.
When you or your children die on the battlefield, you are surrendering your life for the future of totalitarianism.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/orchestrating-the-coming-totalitarianism/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Which are they blaming this time, climate change or capitalism?
Ukraine – The Pawn of Foreign Powers
From Armstrong Economics –
QUESTION: Hi Marty,
Would it not be better for Putin to follow the American model and invade all of Ukraine vs. using nuclear weapons? There is still time to execute such a strategy.
Taking control of all of Ukraine would give Russia control of the borders, hence no more major offensive weapons would cross to Ukraine from Poland.
On the flip side, using nuclear weapons is bad PR. The public opinion is against nuclear weapons, so if Putin were to use them, NATO would then have an excuse to enter the conflict directly. All it would take is a PR spin.
Cheers from Canada,
Lucas
ANSWER: If Russia nuked Ukraine, that would not provide a legal excuse for NATO since Ukraine is not a member of NATO. The whole criticism of Putin in Russia is that he has been too “soft” because he is too nostalgic and regards Kiev as the first capital of the Rus. To him, nuking Kiev would be like the US nuking London. He launched his “special” operation to defend the Donbas because the West lied about the Minsk Agreement to buy time for Ukraine to create an army.
The problem we really face is that the West has conspired to create war with Russia and to use Ukraine as cannon fodder. From the start, Zelensky has drafted 18 to 60-year-olds. Tass has reported that Ukrainian prisoners taken recently are 16 and 17-year-olds.
The West does not care about the Ukrainian people. The more civilians killed, the better. That will enable the West to rally troops for revenge. This war could have ended in 10 minutes. All the West had to do was to allow Ukraine to seek peace and honor the Minsk Agreement – nothing more.
But the West is outright trying to destroy Russia and the bankers are in line once again licking their lips at all the wealth of Russia from gold and platinum to rare earths, diamonds, and energy. Just as I was solicited to join them back in 1999 and I refused, they are back again cheering war.
The Ukrainian people have nothing to gain from this. The Donbas is occupied by Russians for hundreds of years. The Ukrainian people NEVER had a country. They finally got one in 1991 and they are throwing that all away for the Donbas. Zelensky will fly at the last moment to Florida when Ukraine falls. This is the leader of a country who takes orders from foreign powers.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/ukraine/ukraine-the-pawn-of-foreign-powers/
There were three guys that won a contest. They would get to spend a year in a room with anything they wanted.
The first guy loves to have sex. So they put him in a room for a year with over 200 girls to have sex with for a year.
The second guy loved to get drunk. So they put him in a room with every beer there ever was to drink for a year.
The third guy loved to smoke. So they put him in a room with every kind of cigarette there was to smoke. Two hours later they hear the guy that loved to smoke banging on the door but they said f*ck him, he’s in there for a year.
A year later they let them out. They first guy came out and he could barely walk, after how many times he had sex.
The second guy came out and couldn’t walk because he was so drunk. The third guy came out crying.
They asked him why he was banging on the door and why he was crying. He said “I forgot my lighter!”
Feels like the European summer of 1914 all over again.
A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter still running.
– Groucho Marx
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
February 22, 2023 at 11:46 am
“North Korea is experiencing a critical food crisis, experts say.
Which are they blaming this time, climate change or capitalism?
The French, and why not.
Bruce of Newcastle says:
February 22, 2023 at 11:46 am
Not being an expert on socialism-communism, there is but one thing I can’t understand, how can you not produce enough food now when there was aplenty before the regime change?
Ancient Egypt and Greece produced enough surplus to feed the workers, what are the North Korean leaders doing?
Anyone who visited there can tell us?
I missed the first one. The tectonic plates are shifting though.
Wow…
Much surprise
Shocked
Unbelievable
Inconceivable!
‘Horrific’ form of mpox found to affect people with advanced HIV
Form of virus, formerly known as monkeypox, fatal in about 15% of cases among immunosuppressed people
Better lock down the nation, bash grannies, crash tackle people using glory holes without a mask etc…
A severe and “horrific” form of mpox has been identified in immunosuppressed people living with HIV, which appears to be deadly in about 15% of cases.
Solid organ transplant recipients, and those with blood cancers, may also be at risk, although no cases have yet been detected in such individuals.*
Scientists are calling on people at high risk of HIV to get tested for the virus, along with anyone who tests positive for mpox, which was formerly known as monkeypox.**
They would also like to see mpox added to the World Health Organization’s list of severe infections that are particularly dangerous to people with advanced HIV, which could unlock greater financial and medical support for those at risk.***
Since May 2022, about 85,000 cases of mpox and 93 deaths have been reported from 110 countries around the world. Many of these cases have been in men who have sex with men, and 38-50% of those diagnosed with mpox also live with HIV – the vast majority of whom are on HIV treatment and living healthy lives.****
I dont suppose not tonguing festering lesions on peoples genitals/anus areas has been suggested as a control factor?
* the noncocksucking-Australian community.
** The poopunching-Australian community
*** I’ve got a lesion- and the only cure is more OPM!!!
**** Apparently gargling semen with your anus is healthy.
How dare they create their own military.
Posting just to remove frollickingmole’s final line from my screen.
Twitchy Business – Joe Biden Meets With Moldovan President Maia Sandu
February 21, 2023 | Sundance
All of the geopolitical deep weeds followers generally agree, if/when the U.S. triggers the first direct military strikes against Russian interests, what one might call the modern Archduke Ferdinand moment, it will likely take place in Moldova.
You can have a mobile with a prepaid $15/year plan.
Aldi and others have them.
Sounds interesting. Maybe we could have some wine and read some papers off Pub Med on the matter. Then you can show me how it’s done.
And I thought losing my Pet Shop Boys CD was bad.
I’ve got a fever, the only cure is more Kaposi’s Sarcoma.
Black Ballsays:
February 22, 2023 at 11:31 am
Oh my goodness have a read of this. Hun:
A growing number of Australians are now too poor to work as inflationary pressures push the price of looking for a job beyond reach.
Yes, but in NSW one of the easiest ways to do this is by giving every unemployed person a Gold Opal Card with which to look for work. And why not? And do it for regional NSWI am 70 years young and have a Gold Opal Card, however, when I am travelling, I can’t help noticing that there are so, so many others that have one. And, they are much, much younger than me with darker skin. So, how does that work? “Pollies”? They have NFI and are not tuned into the Market Economy that’s why.
Grassley: How My Investigation Into Biden Family Financial Dealings Was Sabotaged
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