Purgatory Canto 33, Gustave Dore, mid-1800s
Dating too far up the hot- crazy matrix.
Open Thread – Tues 21 Feb 2023
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- The Sweetest Victory
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Some sports are heroic. Rally driving. Boxing. Running for US president.
World peace. But you should wait until after the bikini round to say so.
My accountant informs me that I have made an obscene amount of money during the year, No amount of money…
Anyway, “Sliante” to all you horrible mob. My accountant informs me that I have made an obscene amount of money…
I have now got 4 chargers on my bedside power board including, I think, USB A B and C. Is this a record?
rickw:
And yet no one has even defaced it.
“The standard you walk past is the standard you accept.”
Sydney siders accept this systematic effort to manipulate other people’s beliefs, attitudes, or actions by portraying paedophilia as harmless to its victims.
There is no other explanation.
Arkancide.
Biden’s Ukraine Policy Is Yet Another Failure | Opinion
PAUL DU QUENOY , PRESIDENT, PALM BEACH FREEDOM INSTITUTE
President Joe Biden made a surprise visit to Ukraine on Monday—Presidents’ Day—to reaffirm his support for that embattled nation and its president, Volodymyr Zelensky. Entering secretly via neighboring Poland, where he has held further meetings, for several hours on Monday his visit blocked vehicular and pedestrian traffic in central Kyiv. Air raid sirens blared dramatically as Biden and Zelensky strolled past historic sites. They embraced at a wreath-laying ceremony before a photo mural of Ukrainian soldiers who have been killed in action.
Biden capped his visit by pledging another $460 million in military aid to Ukraine—just the latest tranche of U.S. taxpayer beneficence since the Russian invasion began in February 2022.
Coming just four days before the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion, Biden in effect reversed what Zelensky heard during his seemingly unproductive visit to Washington in late December, when he was told that Western support for Ukraine is wearing thin and that he needs to negotiate meaningfully to avoid catastrophe as a renewed Russian offensive looms.
Certain categories of weaponry, including U.S. F-16 fighter jets, have been denied to Zelensky, while deliveries of heavy tanks from NATO countries—once off the table—have proved slow and reluctant. But now, Biden has signaled in the Ukrainian capital that the U.S. will continue to offer what the president called its “unwavering support” for an apparently indefinite period.
To highlight the point, Biden wore a striped tie featuring Ukraine’s national colors. – Matched by “Cocaine” China Mitch McConnell
There is still no endgame, but that seems to be of no importance despite continuing hints that Russia may resort to nuclear weapons.
An emerging consensus also worryingly suggests that Russian President Vladimir Putin views his personal and political fortunes as inextricably fused with the war’s outcome, and may be inclined to employ extreme measures to win.
Western elites may have a bottomless well of enthusiasm for the Ukrainian cause, but like most of Biden’s policies, this one is fading in popularity.
According to a poll taken last week by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, for the first time since Russia’s invasion only a minority of Americans now favor sending military aid to Ukraine—48%, compared to 60% in May 2022. Many point to a worsening U.S. economy, the prospect of a deeper recession, persistent inflation, staggering new national debt figures, and federal budget woes that could soon affect entitlement spending to argue that American domestic needs trump Ukraine’s military effort thousands of miles away in places of dubious importance to U.S. security interests. With amplifying tales of Ukrainian corruption, moreover, a plurality of Americans—38%—now oppose direct financial aid to the Ukrainian government. Only 37% are in favor of it, while 23% take a neutral position.
These are not great numbers for Biden, whose approval rating hovers around 40% and tanks to 31% for his handling of economic issues.
His visit to Kyiv has astonished administration critics who cannot ignore the inconvenient fact that he has never visited the U.S. border, over which millions of illegal immigrants have poured during his presidency. “Breathtaking that President Biden can show up in Ukraine to ensure their border is secure, but can’t do the same for America,” said Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA), a retired general who chairs the U.S. House Freedom Caucus.
Others have drawn attention to the bad optics of Biden’s failure to visit East Palestine, Ohio, whose residents face ecological disaster after a train derailment widely blamed on hapless Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. “That was the biggest slap in the face that tells you right now, he doesn’t care about us,” said East Palestine’s mayor Trent Conaway, who added that he is “furious” Biden “was in the Ukraine giving millions of dollars away to people over there, not to us.”
To think Albo is capable of giving anyone the mushroom treatment is deeply offensive. To mushrooms.
He needs to chat to Bill .. Bill is an expert on mushroom negotiations …
I’ve spent a working life in heavily regulated industries. As a matter of principle, governments keep industry at the far end of a pointy stick with regards to changes to regulation – arguably with good reason.
The extension of racial preference into the sphere of compulsory advocacy in regulated activity is an extremely exciting development.
The influence of the Rainbow Serpent et al needs to be felt more widely in land-based occupations. Preferably with several hundred regional variations.
Dot:
The Taiwanese people know damn well the fate that awaits them if they surrender to the Communists.
They’ll fight with bits of rusty barbed wire before they go to the death camps, or detonate multiple nukes on their own soil.
AWU members can testify to that.
Must. Not. Click. On. Daily Mail. MAFS. Links.
Exclusive: Oversight Committee Demands Account of All Economic, Military Aid to Ukraine
By Philip Wegmann – RCP Staff
As President Biden boarded a European train destined for Kyiv, back in Washington, Rep. James Comer and his team drafted a long-expected letter.
Standing next to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Biden pledged Monday that the lifeline of economic and military aid to that nation, support already well in excess of $100 billion, would not slack, and that the United States would stand with Ukraine “as long as it takes.”
Comer, the new chair of the House Oversight Committee, delivered a different message to the Biden administration Wednesday: Save your receipts. All of them.
The committee is calling on the administration to turn over all documents and internal communications “regarding any economic assistance programs for the Ukrainian government” and to turn over similar material “regarding any anti-corruption efforts” as they relate to both financial and military aid.
The notice comes on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion. The letter announces the beginning of what promises to be the most comprehensive audit of the war effort to date. It was obtained first and exclusively by RealClearPolitics.
“Providing security and humanitarian assistance for warfighting and reconstruction purposes comes with an inherent risk of fraud, waste, and abuse,” Comer wrote, before insisting that the U.S. must develop “oversight mechanisms” to mitigate risks made worse by mandates to spend money “quickly.”
House Republicans are casting a wide net. The committee wants a comprehensive account of “strategies for end-use monitoring of weapons, equipment, direct budgeting assistance, and any other form of economic or security assistance for the Ukrainian people.” They are also calling for all materials related to how much federal money has been spent thus far “and how much remains in the spending pipeline.”
Comer furthermore wants to know about, and calls on the administration to disclose, material related to “any benchmarks for success” of aid programs as well as “any conditions imposed on funds provided as assistance to Ukraine.”
The letter was addressed to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, and Administrator Samantha Powers of the U.S. Agency for International Development. The White House knew it was coming. Speaker Kevin McCarthy said ahead of the midterms that a Republican House wouldn’t write “a blank check” to Ukraine, and it was only a matter of time before the GOP made good on that oversight promise.
There are reasons for concern. While Zelensky rose to power on an anti-corruption platform, the former Eastern Bloc country has a history of struggling with government fraud and graft. They regularly rank toward the bottom of international corruption indexes, a track record that has even ardent supporters of the defensive war worried.
When Sen. Angus King traveled to Ukraine last month, the independent from Maine told RCP he warned Zelensky that misappropriation of funds or misplaced guns could undermine support in the West: “I said a scandal would really screw this up.”
That message was well received. According to King, “He got it immediately.” But verbal assurances are not enough to assuage Republican concerns, and according to the Joint Strategic Oversight Plan for Ukraine Response report, the administration has struggled to account exactly for all the billions spent.
The Pentagon Inspector General, for instance, warned that the department was “unable to provide end-use monitoring in accordance with DoD policy.”
One of the specific areas Comer is demanding answers on: The policy requires tracking the serial numbers of weapons and ammunition, as USA Today and others previously noted, to ensure they are used as intended.
Congress has appropriated $113 billion in economic and security aid to Ukraine since Russian tanks rolled across the border. Over the course of two decades, by comparison, the U.S. spent $146 billion to send military and humanitarian aid to Afghanistan.
The Oversight Committee highlighted that exchange in light of reports that Zelensky had fired several senior officials who were allegedly engaged in bribery and misuse of public funds. “Based on Mr. Kirby’s remarks,” Comer wrote in the letter, “the U.S. National Security Council appears unaware of this corruption scandal, heightening concerns that U.S. agencies are not conducting oversight of taxpayer assistance to Ukraine.”
Diversity Equity Inclusive Hire – by FJB 10% Hiden Biden
African Fashion Designer Accuses Sam Brinton of Stealing Her Bag in 2018 – Photos Show Him Wearing Her Designs in Recent News Reports
A Tanzanian fashion designer recently took to Twitter and accused Biden’s former deputy nuclear waste official Sam Brinton of taking and wearing her clothes.
Fashion designer Asyakhamsin who hails from Tanzania but is now based in Houston, Texas tweeted “I lost my bag 2018 in DCA recently I heard the news on Fox News about Sam Brinton luggage issue surprisingly I found his images wore my custom made outfits which was in the lost bag on 2018.”
She would proceed to tweet out a photo of her in the red dress she designed and then tweet out a photo of a Brinton wearing the same outfit.
LOOK:
‘We won’t ban preaching’: Perrottet puts caveats on gay conversion law
By Michael Koziol – February 23, 2023
Excerpt:
Labor leader Chris Minns has also vowed to ban gay conversion practices but would establish a working group, including survivors and other stakeholders, to draft its own laws if elected.
There is no such thing as “gay conversion therapy.”
Direct democracy!
When do tax payers get to have a go at it?
“Study Finds Egg Yolk Blocks COVID Virus in Body – At Same Time Chicken Farms Are Burning Down and There’s an Egg Shortage in America”
hmmmm?
Non-Binary Former Biden Official in More Trouble, If What Fashion Designer Says Is True
If you thought that the story of Sam Brinton, the Biden official who allegedly likes to swipe luggage, was weird, it gets weirder.
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy, Sam Brinton was fired after the “non-binary” Biden official faced two felonies for luggage swiping in at least two separate incidents. Just the kind of person you want to deal with our nuclear energy.
Brinton appeared in court last week on one of the charges.
Now, it looks like he may be in some more trouble, if what a fashion designer is saying is true.
Asya Khamsin, a Tanzanian fashion designer who is based out of Houston, Texas, said that she was flying out of Reagan National Airport (DCA) in 2018 when her bag was “lost.” She’s now saying on Twitter that she recognized some of what Brinton is shown wearing in pictures as some of her custom-made outfits that were in that lost bag.
I’m thinking maybe it’s not the best idea in the world, if you swiped something, to wear it on the red carpet. That might just tend to give you away.
But, how crazy is this, that this poor lady makes these clothes and then stumbles across what may have happened to them like this? Now, if she’s telling the truth, she certainly deserves some justice and hopefully will pursue some legal action. The police need to look into the matter.
There’s a picture of her wearing one of the outfits in question in 2018, so it does look like it’s her outfit.
I don’t believe a word Perrottet says, he has lied or cowardly slunk away from fights far too often.
63 per cent of American men aged 18 to 29 are now single.
Isn’t a place in parliament enough power for you Lidia?
What she really means is she wants more power.
Isn’t it the practice of taking innocent children and trying to teach them to be gay? It is quite commonplace.
WATCH: Biden Stumbles, Barely Makes It Up the Stairs to Air Force One as He Leaves Poland
Russian President and Ukraine War aggressor Vladimir Putin must be shaking in his boots after U.S. “President” Joe Biden’s manly show of strength and unity in the region this week. First, Biden snuck into Kyiv to strut alongside Ukraine’s besieged President Volodymyr Zelenskyy — because nothing says “I’m the most powerful man in the world, leading the most powerful country in the world, and I go where I want” like having your handlers smuggle you into a meeting.
After preening and posing alongside Ukraine’s actual wartime leader, Biden was whisked away by his handlers to visit neighboring Poland, where he was to deliver a speech. Upon landing, Biden’s support staff commenced the visit with a female staffer’s spectacular tumble down the steps of the jet she arrived in.
“The person is understood to be part of the White House support staff who arrived in Warsaw on Tuesday morning,” reported the Daily Mail. “The clip, which appeared to be part of footage being broadcast on a Polish television network, has been viewed nearly half a million times.”
After Biden wrapped up his visit to Poland, the exhausted octogenarian was barely able to make his way up the long, steep stairs into Air Force One. Just past the halfway point, he stumbled and fell:
It’d be funny if it weren’t true.
Odd thing. I’ve been a Christian for fifty three years and have never heard or come across anything resembling “gay conversion therapy” in any church or group.
It must be very widespread.
Starsky and Hutch being re-booted with women in lead roles.
If you need re-boots because you’ve run out of ideas and believe turning them into chick flicks will make you a heap of money, why not give the feminazi’s what they want? Cagney and Lacey was a terrific Cop show that more than held its own against male driven Cop shows.
It really isn’t about empowering women, it’s trying to destroy the memories of once great shows that featured real men. All doomed to failure. Witness Ghostbusters 3.
What’s next, a Miami Vice reboot with all chick cast?
How about Police Woman starring Eddie Izzard?
Apologies most profusely to Angie Dickinson.
C.L. says:
February 23, 2023 at 11:44 am
63 per cent of American men aged 18 to 29 are now single.
C.L. from link
Young American men appear to be in crisis mode.
They commit suicide at four times the rate of their female counterparts. They are falling behind in education, with women receiving nearly 60 percent of undergraduate degrees. And research suggests that the rise in mass shootings, committed primarily by young men, is linked to the “great isolation of American men,” as Schilling put it.
Such an isolation can also be viewed in the context of lowering fertility rates and declining birth rates as a result.
As Breitbart News reported, as society has moved further toward nontraditional unions, new research shows traditional marriage is linked to higher fertility rates while cohabitation and relationship instability is linked to lower fertility.
Perhaps this is Why?
However, such a large disparity between men and women can likely be explained at least in part by the fact that an increasing number of younger people are identifying as some kind of sexual orientation other than straight — and a shocking number of “nonbinary” or “transgender.”
More women are deciding to date women, and more men aren’t dating at all.
Warren Entsch advises he will not be signing up under the FNQ Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy.
The other day Jupes argued Mark Latham is now this country’s best retail politician.
I have to agree. He is articulate, measured, well informed and dedicated to causes that really matter – most especially education and pedagogy, about which he is impressively expert.
While I’m doling out compliments, Janet Albrechtsen’s work on the Lehrmann set-up, the crooked prosecution, the payout rort and the psychotic behaviour of Wong & Co makes her the reigning Boadicea of News Corp.
What the Hell Is Going on With That Trump Grand Jury Foreman?
The Trump grand jury in Georgia has yet to reveal any indictments, but the jury’s foreman — forewoman, foreperson, forexian, whatever — is already doing the cable news circuit… and in the weirdest way.
Honestly, you have to see Emily Kohrs in action to believe it.
Pause the video at any random point, and you will get a unique funny face. These are just from 5 seconds from 36 to 41
“Does the jury system work in an Idiocracy?” Dale Stark asked on Twitter. Perhaps, but there could be a method to Kohrs’ apparent madness, assuming she’s a secret plant by the Trump campaign.
Robert Costa tweeted Wednesday morning that “CBS News has learned that lawyers close to several GOP witnesses in Fulton Co. investigation are preparing to move to quash any possible indictments by DA.” Any legal action by Team Trump would be due to “the public statements by the forewoman of the special grand jury, per two people familiar with the discussions.”
Then there’s Peter Ingemi’s take, which seems more than reasonable, that there’s nothing there that Trump’s lawyers need to squash:
A grand jury can indict a ham sandwich, but it remains to be seen if there’s any meat at all — aside from the big ham playing Celebrity Foreman on CNN.
Look, mUnty has explained tranny story hour to you lot.
TNT Radio must be happy with the free advertising getting about Chris Smith joining them.
Got coverage in Daily Telegraph and Hadley mentioned it today.
I don’t think Cassie will be tuning in between 3-5 weekdays !
Not sure if TNT hold Xmas parties.
haha! They really are starting to eat their own.
You go girl.
A former colleague ex a certain Regt told me he flew in from Somalia, and there were WAPOL cops waiting to arrest him at the gate of Campbell Barracks for a false claim of DV, an alleged incident that alleged occurred while he was on deployment. His commander went and sorted them out, or he would have been in jail for his first night back in Australia.
First look.
Something something … feeding the crocodile … something something.
PK really took to hive lyf.
Pretty funny how But I’m A Cheerleader came out (haha) THEN Bush II became President.
A cheerleader from way back with a spook father.
President Trump Responds to Georgia Grand Jury Foreperson and the Circus Media Tour She Is Undertaking
February 22, 2023 – Sundance
Yeah, just about everything associated with the media tour of Ms. Emily Kohrs, the ‘special grand jury’ foreperson and apparently spokesperson, is beyond weird. Actually, it’s better described as a clown show attempting to present as a fact-finding ‘special grand jury’ from within Fulton County, Georgia.
President Trump responded via Truth Social to the latest cringeworthy developments. [LINK]
Additionally, the media is twisting themselves into credibility pretzels trying to discuss the ‘special grand jury’ aspect without directly talking about the obvious cringe that is associated with the media tour by Ms. Emily, ‘that one time, in band camp‘, Kohrs. It is simultaneously funny and painful
From the Comments
– Watch her clips, turn the sound off, imagine her with a shaved head…..tell me she isnt Gollum.
– I kept looking for the flying monkeys that have to be following her around….lol
– tweet about that Georgia grand jury foreperson – said she swore in a witness using a Ninja Turtle Popsicle she got from the cafeteria; guess swearing of a Bible isn’t something witch-wanna-be’s do these days:
– This whole thing is against the law, and she should not be talking to anyone let alone the press but then from the looks of this women she is not too smart and sounds like she truly has some mental problems
– Unfortunately she perfectly represents a large segment of white women in her age group. Seriously mentally ill and social media feeds their illness
– If adam schitt had a mutant sister.
“C.L.says:
February 23, 2023 at 12:08 pm
Starsky and Hutch being re-booted with women in lead roles.
First look.”
C.L., new keyboard please! 😀
Mother Lode:
The one thing Revolutionaries fail to see is that after the Revolution comes the Purge.
The dags want to hang on. No shame.
Sounds like the qwerty mafia are losing the ordinary voters:
‘Leave the kids alone’: Controversial gay pride mural of man wearing bondage gear in Sydney’s CBD defaced with paint (Sky News, 23 Feb)
Meta has profited from more than 60 ads using homophobic slur ‘groomer’ since December (TechXplore, 22 Feb)
MMA is a notorious hard-left astroturf group, so their clutching at qwerty pearls in this matter is laugh out loud stuff.
Well qwerties, you only have yourself to blame. You may be childless Darwinian failures, but ordinary parents are horrified by your behaviour towards children, eg in all those Drag Queen grooming events and school library sex perversion books.
Trump grand jury forewoman’s Pinterest page is real and it’s spectacular
Earlier Wednesday we introduced you to Emily Kohrs, the forewoman on the Georgia grand jury that’s investigating Donald Trump and his efforts to undermine the results of the 2020 election. Kohrs apparently wanted to be the next big thing and kicked off a media tour that even a CNN contributor admitted was “a prosecutor’s nightmare.” “Why is this person talking on TV?” he asked.
CNN can’t sugarcoat it: Trump grand jury forewoman’s verbal diarrhea is ‘a prosecutor’s nightmare’
We’re guessing she wanted the attention, and now she’s getting some attention from @SomeB1tchIKnow, who tracked down her LinkedIn profile and her old Pinterest page.
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BREAKING: The Pinterest of that Trump Grand Juror has been found
And it is worse than you thought, lads
Delegated legislation is certainly the bureaucrats’ friend.
Daily Mail. Lidia Thorpe is blak?
Not to mention a good way to do “something” and sort the details out later.
I’ll bet they don’t teach that one in the Confucius Institutes at our universities.
Add to that chargers for two different Black and Decker cordless devices, a Makita 18V and an Ozito cordless drill battery and you get close to my late Mum’s level.
More global warmening in California.
blizzard warning for LA and Ventura county areas
LA Times
Who wants to watch an hour of two women trying to read a map?
In one of the photos Lidia Thorpe looks like a stereotypical bikie’s moll which proves that stereotypes are legitimate descriptions.
Indeed.
Russia and China Heavily Promote Strong Ties as Western NATO Alliance Expand Larger War Pressure
February 22, 2023 – Sundance
I wrote about distinct data points in the last 24 hours {SEE HERE] that points toward direct NATO hostile activity against Russia. Joe Biden might be saying that Ukraine flags are hanging from homes in small town America (major propaganda footing), but the overwhelming majority of Americans do not support an expanded war.
Russia is preparing. Today, high level officials from China and Russia held talks in Moscow and they were not hiding their unity of purpose in an alliance that would oppose western NATO engagement.
When Beijing allows the panda mask to fall, the dragon message underneath it, “a relationship with no limits,” should be reviewed very carefully.
The AP has some good color on the Moscow meeting.
Earlier Wednesday, Wang held talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. “Our ties have continued to develop dynamically, and despite high turbulence in the global arena, we have shown the readiness to speak in defense of each other’s interests,” Lavrov said.
Wang responded in kind, underlining Beijing’s focus on deepening ties with Russia — a relationship it has said has “no limits.”
China has pointedly refused to criticize the invasion of Ukraine while echoing Moscow’s claim that the U.S. and NATO were to blame for provoking the Kremlin . The government in Beijing also has blasted the sanctions imposed on Russia after it invaded Ukraine.
Russia, in turn, has staunchly supported China amid tensions with the U.S. over Taiwan.
The two nations have held military drills showcasing their defense ties. China, Russia and South Africa are holding naval drills in the Indian Ocean this week.
The rapprochement has worried the West. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said any Chinese involvement in the Kremlin’s war effort would be a “serious problem.”
Asked Wednesday whether NATO has any indication that China might provide arms or other support to Russia’s war, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg also told The Associated Press in Warsaw, Poland:
“We have seen some signs that they may be planning for that and of course NATO allies, the United States, have been warning against it because this is something that should not happen. China should not support Russia’s illegal war.”
Stoltenberg said potential Chinese assistance would amount to providing “(direct) support to a blatant violation of international law, and of course (as) a member of the U.N. security council China should not in any way support violation of the U.N. charter, or international law.”
Government-backed scholars in China shrugged off Washington’s warnings over Beijing’s relationship with Moscow as a reflection of what they described as a polarizing and distorted U.S. view.
The Global Times quoted Zhang Hong, associate research fellow at the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, as saying the U.S. and its allies have looked at the Russia-Ukraine conflict through “colored glasses.”
“It seems like anyone who talks with Russia will be seen as siding with Moscow in Russia-Ukraine conflict,” the English-language Chinese newspaper quoted Zhang as saying.
The growing relationship between China and Russia is another example of how the war could spread into perilous new terrain.
Nothing in this scenario of the Chinese panda hugging Russia gives any optimism toward less likely World War III. It’s all bad.
Making matters worse, the one ingredient that could stop these war drums is respect. Do you think Chairman Xi and President Putin respect the cunning geopolitical strategy of Joe Biden? Of course not.
No more than they respect Justin Trudeau or any other EU political leader representing their collective woke ideology.
Take respect out of the war dynamic and you lose the emergency brake.
Can’t imagine they have much luck passing Lydia around, “Nah, I’m right mate.”
TODAY ON THE ‘DUMP BIDEN’ BEAT
It seems this week Politico drew the assignment to “report” the “news” that Biden might not run again, and why his delay in deciding is causing problems for Democrats:
Joe Biden’s closest advisers have spent months preparing for him to formally announce his reelection campaign. But with the president still not ready to make the plunge, a sense of doubt is creeping into conversations around 2024: What if he decides not to?
Hint, hint. Tacit message: Please hurry up, Joe.
A decision from Biden to forego another run would amount to a political earthquake not seen among Democrats in more than a half century, when Lyndon B. Johnson paired his partial halting of the U.S. bombing of Vietnam with his announcement to step aside, citing deepening “division in the American house now.”
It would unleash an avalanche of attention on his vice president, Kamala Harris, whose uneven performances have raised doubts among fellow Democrats about her ability to win — either the primary, the general election, or both. . . “Obviously, it creates doubts and problems if he waits and waits and waits,” said Democratic strategist Mark Longabaugh.
If Biden waits until as late as June,
“There would be a lot of negative conversation … among Democratic elites, and I just think that would force them to ultimately have to make a decision,” Longabaugh added. “I just don’t think he can dance around until sometime in the summer.”
Also this:
Biden is famously indecisive, a habit exacerbated by decades in the über-deliberative Senate.
Popcorn time.
She’s one of the most unblak blaks I’ve ever seen.
Having only one blak great grandmother will do that to you.
Seen it in my own family, Big Sis’s descendants.
Who would never see themselves as aboriginal due to great grandma. No-one did it either when it was grandma, nor indeed for my Big Sis’s husband when it was his part-aboriginal mum.
Being a bit suntanned counted for nothing then. If you just got on with life like everyone else.
Lidia Thorpe is saying the quiet part out loud.
Lol! It really will be Husky and Starch!
At long last. 😀
How the British Invented George Soros
Puppetmaster or Puppet? Strongman or Frontman? Inside the Soros Psyop
Zipster, that’s an incredibly interesting read!
I’m slow on the uptake. Can someone kind please explain the difference between “black” and “blak”?
Tah in advance.
Biden Administration Funds Anti-Netanyahu Protest Group
A coup in Israel is backed by Washington, D.C.
by Daniel Greenfield
What none of the news reports, editorials, public letters by prominent figures or statements by officials have revealed is that the Biden administration is funding the group behind the protests.
“No one is asking the organizers who finances their activities. Someone is paying tens of millions of shekels to rent buses to transport scores of thousands of people to rallies, buy them flags, print banners and signs, rent stages and sound systems and finance ad campaigns in every newspaper and on billboards across the country.” — Israeli journalist Caroline Glick, JNS, February 17, 2023.
The Biden administration, like the Obama administration, is trying to undermine Israeli democracy while preserving the power of its leftist allies to impose their coup.
Even while Israeli children were being murdered by terrorists, the only thing the media wanted to talk about were the leftist protests against the new Israeli government’s democratic judicial reforms. And the Biden administration has joined this campaign.
Israel’s new conservative government under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has finally initiated the long overdue process of restoring democratic checks and balances by limiting the unlimited power of Israel’s Supreme Court. And the left has threatened everything up to civil war to protect its illegitimate power, while its angry protests have been spun as grassroots opposition.
What none of the news reports, editorials, public letters by prominent figures or statements by officials have revealed is that the Biden administration is funding the group behind the protests.
As David Isaac at JNS reported, the first major rally against democratic judicial reform attended by leftist opposition politicians was organized by a group known as the Movement for Quality Government. MQG receives annual funding from the U.S. State Department to purportedly conduct “classes” on democracy in Israeli schools. The State Department is well aware that MQG has a long history of waging “lawfare” against the Israeli government, because its work has been cited in its “human rights” reports.
While State Department funding was not programmed for protests, money is fungible, and the Biden administration knows it’s funding an anti-Netanyahu group.
While the Biden administration has often criticized Israel over its fight against Islamic terrorists, it took the unusual step of intervening in its domestic politics by attacking judicial reform.
Biden warned that Israeli democracy requires “checks and balances” from “an independent judiciary” and urged “building consensus for fundamental changes.”
During his recent visit to Israel, Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Isaac Herzog, a former leftist candidate currently serving as president, to bond over their mutual hate for democracy.
Blinken replied to Herzog’s urging to intervene by praising “the clarity of your voice when it comes to finding a good way forward that builds consensus on the question of judicial reform.”
The rhetoric was part of a leftist push to kill judicial reform by taking it away from the parties chosen by the voters and handing it to Herzog: another unelected official. The Biden administration, the media and assorted officials claim that turning over judicial reform to Herzog will be a compromise that will provide a unifying consensus and end the protests.
“They want to destroy the system because the system wasn’t nice to them,” Shraga ranted to the Washington Post while attacking judicial reform. “This is a hostile takeover by a bunch of crooks.”
A hostile takeover of Israel by a bunch of crooks is what judicial reform opponents are after.
Blinken and Herzog would have some potential common ground, dating back to the Clinton administration. Before Herzog was the Labor Party’s candidate to run Israel, he was serving as Marc Rich’s lawyer. The international fugitive lobbied for a pardon from Bill Clinton through Herzog, who met with at least one State Department figure. It’s not hard to imagine Herzog and Blinken conferring over a deal for the criminal who violated the embargo to buy oil from Iran.
Now that’s some real dirty laundry.
I just had an employment survey from Hays.
It asked for my sexual orientation, offering among eight or ten options ‘straight (heterosexual)’. This seems to treat it as an exception to ‘more usual’ otherness.
One option was ‘prefer not to say’.
I chose to instead ‘self-describe’ and in the box provided wrote ‘Normal’.
H B Bear says:
February 23, 2023 at 12:30 pm
Can’t imagine they have much luck passing Lydia around, “Nah, I’m right mate.”
H B Bear
“No Bang for The Gang?”
Black is black with out the c. runts can’t spell.
https://www.google.com/search?gs_ssp=eJzj4tVP1zc0TDMyMzVLrrQ0YPTiS8pJTM5WyCxWADMAhxwJLA&q=black+is+black&rlz=1C1GIWA_enAU583AU591&oq=black+is+black&aqs=chrome.1.0i355i512j46i512j0i512j46i512j0i512j46i512j0i512l4.21602j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Has the Supreme Court Given Up on Finding the Leaker?
by Alan M. Dershowitz
. The investigation done by the Supreme Court was destined to fail. It was put in the hands of the Court’s Marshal, whose job it is to protect the Justices and to assure order in the Supreme Court building. The office of the Marshal is not equipped to conduct difficult investigations.
. The matter should have been turned over to the FBI or a special counsel appointed by the Justice Department, as was done with the unauthorized possession of classified material by President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.
. Let us be clear about one thing: the improper disclosure of the Supreme Court draft opinion in this case was at least as serious a breach as the Biden or Trump violations. Neither Biden nor Trump disclosed any classified material or actually endangered the security of the United States. They were dangerous because of the potential improper disclosure, whereas the Supreme Court leak involved an actual disclosure that impacted the High Court in numerous negative ways.
The journalist was not at fault for publishing the draft opinion. It was highly newsworthy….
. The same cannot be said about the Supreme Court employee who violated his or her commitment to confidentiality, by improperly disclosing a document that was supposed to be kept secret until the decision was rendered by the Justices…. [N]oble ends to not justify improper or unethical means, especially if the disclosure might well have threatened innocent lives.
. It will not be cost-free to impose restrictions on law clerks’ access to draft opinions and their handling of them. Even so, this cost, provoked by the current breach, may be worth incurring in order to protect future disclosures.
This is an unsatisfactory resolution to one of the most serious breaches of confidentiality in American history.
Let us not underestimate the seriousness of this leak. It apparently encouraged a potential assassin to try to murder Justice Brett Kavanaugh in an effort to change the outcome of the case. It could easily have succeeded in doing so.
The failure to discover the leaker will encourage others to engage in actions which they believe are well-intentioned civil disobedience even if it does not involve the disclosure of governmental wrongdoing. The mystery of who leaked this draft decision must be solved.
The investigation done by the Supreme Court was destined to fail.
“I don’t think Cassie will be tuning in between 3-5 weekdays !
Not sure if TNT hold Xmas parties.”
I don’t really care. I’m glad he’s got work because he’s got two young sons and a soon to be ex-wife. I also don’t believe in crucifying someone for perpetuity however Smith’s behaviour last December has been his undoing before. It’s sad because he had a good gig at Sky.
Arkansas cops rule suicide in death of Clinton aide linked to Jeffrey Epstein – who was found shot and tied to a tree with an electrical cord around his neck – despite no sign of weapon
Rather than some great conspiracy, maybe Arkansas cops are just the world’s laziest? Murder or suicide? Suicide man! I’ve got golf and my kids birthday party this weekend!
one can’t imagine why the recorded temperatures in Melbourne would be rising the last few decades.
Until recently, this was the Melbourne weather station
Black is black…
I want my language back.
Grey is grey,
Since it oozed away…oh no!
What can I do?
There’s bums out there in desperate…need of a shoe!
My take:
Blak is for urban “politically aware” aboriginals who aren’t actually black.
The concept of equity and diversity in hiring, particularly in critical professions such as medicine and aviation, could backfire spectacularly. All you will need is a number of well publicised failures of professionals hired for their skin colour or other minority trait rather than ability. This will spook the general population who will start to think that anyone other than Caucasian males* has been hired for who they are rather than how good they are.
Of course this is egregiously unfair for minority professionals who are excellent but human nature being what it is most people will remember them, only the inept ones.
*Asian males in medicine are likely to be exempt and deemed well qualified.
I would expect that the deliberations of the Voice will also be confidential do they will never have to reveal what their real agenda is, being free to make only vague press releases about continuing deliberations instead.
Its written in the voice/Langton submission.
They dont have to provide reasoning or records of deliberation.
They can choose to do so, but cant be compelled.
I now answer these sorts of things (and pronouns etc) with “Loretta”. HT to Monty Python.
Oh. Clayton’s black.
The black you are when you aren’t black.
Thanks.
Did Biden also fall down the stairs in Poland? There’s some very Weekend at Bernie’s footage of someone sliding almost all the way down the stairs to be mostly caught by security before they hit the tarmac.
How hard can you push an octogenarian pedo before something pops?
Calli, Zulu uses Blak as South African pronunciation. It’s actually rather insulting, and I wouldn’t use it with regard to anyone with obviously non-white racial characteristics. OK with Thorpe as she looks totally white to me. Certainly far less black than my now deceased handsome and tanned erstwhile first brother in law.
Of course the correct way to answer personal sexual orientation questions is face to face.
like this
Drunken sailors scratching down the side of a prostitutes mattress while she sleeps are more financially respectable than Luigis big ring circus.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/feb/22/jim-chalmers-signals-cap-on-super-balances-to-rein-in-tax-concessions-for-wealthy
The government is also putting together the May budget, and will have to find billions for new submarines, a pay rise in the aged care sector, a strengthening* of the Medicare system, and rebates to lower power bills. The significant call on expenditure means the government has to investigate options on the tax side of the budget.
Heres some of the burning clown car inhabitants statements …
Asked about capping balances, Perrett said the government should be prepared to look at “any sensible proposal”.
..
Macnamara MP, Josh Burns, said the “treasurer is right to point out the structural mess the previous government left us”.
…
Andrew Charlton, the member for Parramatta, said the proposed objective was designed to “safeguard the future” by preventing super being directed to other purposes, such as education or housing.
…
Mike Freelander, the member for Macarthur, said it was the government’s responsibility to look at the whole tax system, given the burdens on the budget.
“We should be having a look at the broader tax system
…
Wow who would have guessed all the pigggies at the trough are in support of more swill?
*Im off to strengthen my wife.
Crossie, re Lydia as Bikie’s Moll. What HB Bear said;
H B Bearsays:
February 23, 2023 at 12:30 pm
Can’t imagine they have much luck passing Lydia around, “Nah, I’m right mate.”
I’d wager that Lydia wouldn’t even rate Onion status.
Until recently, this was the Melbourne weather station
Yep, and the area around it to the south and west has been significantly built up over the last 30 years. The area is baking hot in the mildest of weather.
Maybe BOM have been MONGS for generations? Why the hell wouldn’t you have put the weather station slightly to the north in the gardens around the exhibition centre from day 1?
Wasn’t me…from the Telegraph….
Vandal attack: Wynyard Station pride teddy bondage mural ‘kink’ vandal backlash
Police are investigating two overnight vandalism attacks on the controversial “kink and BDSM-inspired” WorldPride mural in Sydney’s CBD, which was splattered with paint and the message “leave the kids alone”.
The artwork near Wynard train station had sparked an uproar for not being appropriate for children with its depiction of a “furry” man with bondage straps lying on a couch with a beer and rainbow flag and a superimposed teddy bear head.
A NSW Police spokesman said officers attached to Sydney City Police Area Command were alerted after paint was thrown at a mural in York Street about 9.30pm on Wednesday night.
“Police attended the scene, seizing a number of items which have been taken for further examination.
“About four hours later, police were called back to the scene after more paint was splashed onto the artwork.
“Police have been told a man wearing a black hooded jumper, green pants and white sneakers was seen at the location about the time of the first incident.”
The artwork was commissioned by YCK Laneways, a consortium of local retailers, as part of WorldPride festival. Grassroots Collective Shout campaigner Caitlin Roper said children should not be exposed to fetish content.
“This mural will likely attract children’s attention – teddy bears are appealing to kids.”
Many more online commentators, including Tik Tok video makers, complained the mural was nothing to do with the Pride festival and was unsuitable for the general public.
A Tik Tok video has gone viral showing the vandalism, with commenters posting thumbs up and clapping emojis.
“This is extremely inappropriate (especially for children seeing this) to say the least. I don’t care how much time, effort or money went into making this mural,” I don’t see pride and acceptance here, it’s grooming.”
“Love it!!! I saw a pic earlier of a dad walking his daughter across the street and she’s holding a teddy bear. So happy they did the right thing!” another commented.
The mural’s appearance earlier this week saw it slammed as “inappropriate” and “creepy” in a public space, and saw it likened to the recent Balenciaga fashion house scandal linking adult sex themes to children.
“The widespread condemnation of Balenciaga for their BDSM-themed ads involving children demonstrates that many people strongly object to involving or exposing kids to this kind of content,” Ms Roper said.
“Kink and BDSM-themed imagery is not appropriate for the public space which includes children. “The global research is clear – sexualising children by exposing them to adult, sexualised or pornographic imagery harms their physical and mental health, beliefs, attitudes and sexuality in a range of ways.”
“There are other ways to promote diversity and inclusivity that don’t involve adults imposing their sexual fetishes on an audience that includes children.”
A North Sydney mother, who asked not to be named after the issue of the mural caused a blow-up on a Sydney mother’s Facebook group, said the image was “very jarring” when she encountered it last week.
“It’s clearly inappropriate, exposing children to adult things like that,” she said. “It’s right near the train station where there are plenty of school children.”
Online, the image attracted criticism when it was shared by the YCK Laneways social media under the headline “Happy Pride”, with some questioning the hairy figure as “furry” and “creepy”.
“Why is a teddy bear in bondage meant to represent Pride?!” one commented. “The gay community worked hard for years to distance themselves from this sort of representation. Small children will be walking past this.”
Another added: “Why would you think this is appropriate to display in public?! A fat, hairy, alcohol drinking, bondage wearing teddy bear man on display where people walk past to go to work, and in full view of children.”
The YCK Laneways consortium said the mural was in place to celebrate World Pride and would be removed on 5 March.
“YCK Laneways is an inclusive precinct which welcomes and celebrates a variety of communities and sub-cultures from across Sydney,” a spokesman said.
WorldPride was set up to promote and advocate for the LGBTQIA+ community and human rights across the world.
It will be Sydney’s biggest event since the 2000 Olympics and is being held in conjunction with the annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras between February 17 and March 5.
Ninety-eight percent of the comments support the vigilante vandals.
The verdict on heat-pump water heaters is in
If they function properly, these products should be vastly more energy efficient than the dominant water heater technologies.
Tristan Edis Researcher
If you’ve been reading this column regularly, you’ve probably worked out I am the master of justifying that the savings I make from buying a cheap, no-name-brand product will far outweigh any benefits I might get from opting for the more expensive, reputable branded product.
Some people are into gambling on the horses, or the stock market, but I’m into gambling on the centre aisle of Aldi.
I also happen to be the master of the buy twice technique. The first purchase could be described as an advanced form of due diligence as I sort out what aspects of a product are genuinely important to its effective functioning and durability, and what aspects are just vacuous marketing.
The second purchase involves using this wisdom to buy the same product from another manufacturer that is not as expensive as the most highly sought-after brand, but ever so cleverly almost as good, if not better.
The fact that I’ve now spent more money than it would have cost to buy the most expensive and reputable branded product first, well, that isn’t something we need to dwell on.
So let’s apply this wisdom to a product I know all of you spend much of your time dreaming about: heat-pump water heaters.
On average, water heating represents about a fifth to a quarter of an Australian household’s energy consumption, so it should be a critical focus of any household keen to lower their energy bill or their carbon footprint.
Heat-pump water heaters, if they function properly, should be vastly more energy efficient than the current dominant water heater technologies in Australia which either use an electric resistance heating element (like a toaster or kettle, they run electricity through a piece of metal which gets very hot), or burn gas. This is because heat pumps employ compressors which extract and concentrate energy available from ambient air to heat water (believe it or not but air, even at cold winter temperatures, contains energy).
This use of a compression cycle to heat (and cool) things is also why a reverse-cycle air-conditioner is so much more efficient as a heater for your home than using gas. Unfortunately, while Australia has a wide range of reputable, well-known electronics companies supplying air-conditioners, these companies are absent from the heat-pump water heater market.
Mystery brands
So, when buying a heat pump water heater, you’re confronted by a bunch of brands you’ve probably never heard of. What’s frustrating is that even in cases where the supplier is a well-known water heater brand in conventional electric or gas, customer experiences with their heat pump models are often poor.
The other problem is that heat-pump water heaters, even though they use the same technology as an air-conditioner plus an insulated tank, inexplicably cost far more than these two components can be procured independently.
Naturally, when confronted with such a situation, my instinct was to gamble on the cheapest model I could get my hands on. I reassured myself that they were the largest heat pump supplier in the country at the time, so they couldn’t be completely hopeless.
Several years on I can tell you that the water heater has been very good at supplying hot water. Except when it inexplicably trips off at the circuit board.
While this is infrequent, it revealed that the water tank is likely to be poorly insulated because the temperature of the water drops by a considerable amount over about 12 hours.
The other thing I’ve discovered is that while the water heater is certainly more energy efficient than a conventional electric-resistance unit, it consumes more energy than I expected and has not saved me much money on energy bills relative to my previous instantaneous gas heater.
This is a function partly of the poorly insulated tank, but also the fact that heat pumps heat water relatively slowly and need to rely on a water tank which will heat and store more water than the household typically needs. The previous gas instantaneous unit heated up water only as it was required.
The other problem is that while the water heater has a timer, it elects to heat water at plenty of other times beyond the time I’ve set. That means my ability to take advantage of surplus energy from my solar PV system is far less than ideal.
Not all heat pump water heaters have these problems, but about 10 years ago there was a plan to address these problems which the Abbott Government decided should be thrown into its “red tape bonfire”.
So, conventional electric resistance water heaters are subject to minimum energy performance standards that ensure minimum levels of tank insulation, but heat pumps are not.
In the United States, all water heaters must carry energy rating labels that let consumers know how energy efficient the water heater is across different technology types.
Importantly, such a labelling regime also makes these products subject to check testing and enforcement to make sure suppliers’ claims are true. More than 10 years ago, these basic consumer protections could have been implemented for heat pumps were it not for Abbott’s regulatory pyromania.
In 2021, this regulatory proposal floated up again, but then oddly went missing from the latest Priority Plan for Australia’s energy-efficient appliances program.
So if you’re thinking of buying a heat-pump water heater, you’re reliant on the tales from cranky old men and disguised product salesman that inhabit the Whirlpool online forum, or the far better moderated Facebook forum MyEfficientElectricHome. Or you can always adopt my buy twice technique.
– Tristan writes a regular column for Carbon Challenge that explores consumer options for individuals who want to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
The verdict on heat-pump water heaters is in
You can be sure it will be treated seriously and collated by humourless bureaucrats to make 58 to their existing 57 different varieties of gender.
“Ninety-eight percent of the comments support the vigilante vandals.”
They seek him, they seek him there. Those damned Trannys seek him everywhere!
Bravo and well done that man/men/other. 😀
I had something similar – was OS doing some ‘Govt Work’ for 6 months. On return had a stack of messages and letters to digest, including one from a Detective, who wanted to meet with me to ‘discuss a matter’.
I went to the relevant police station to meet said copper, who showed me his badge and told me he was with major crime and was investigating the ‘Bicycle* bandit’ in the Adelaide Hills.
* There’s a watertight defence for me right there 😉
I of course said ‘oh shit, its not me is it?’, at which point he said, yes I was a suspect and he was arresting me to interview me.
I said:
1) Did my ex wife put you up to this?
2) Why now, I haven’t about that for years?
He said, no there have been several related incidents in the last few months.
I said ‘ you do know I was in Afghanistan for the last 6 months right?
The look on his face said he didnt know that.
I asked him what sort of system they had that threw me up as a suspect for armed robbery, but didnt know I was working for the military OS at the time??
He couldn’t say…
*TOP*MEN* …… *TOP*MEN*
Dover Beach:
Wherever you find sexual deviancy, you will have a greater chance of finding brutalised children. It just goes with the mindset that elevates sexual gratification over love.
Yes he did, but looked from the footage to be a small stumble, not a serious one.
Watch: Joe Biden Falls, Catches Himself Again Boarding Air Force One in Poland (22 Feb)
Of course at 80 even a minor fall can be potentially very serious, but from the footage if he damaged anything it would be the hand or wrist that he caught himself with.
Mmm…they’ve anticipated this objection.
Paraphrasing the Victorian legislation – “gat conversion therapy” includes teaching, counselling, spiritual care and other interventions that are based on the belief that homosexuality and non-binary gender identities that deviate from the biological norm (my phrasing) are wrong or broken.
The penalty for attempting to “alter” or “suppress” homosexuality or non-binary gender expressions is up to ten years imprisonment.
“The standard you walk past is the standard you accept…”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11782041/Sydney-pride-mural-outside-Wynyard-Station-creepy-teddy-bear-gay-bondage-painting-vandalised.html?ico=related-replace
Shatterzzz:
Rule by experts. The Technocracy in Australia is perfection on a meth bender.
A bit specialised perhaps, but a pet peeve of mine is the assumption – by professionals who should know better – that CPR magically wakes up dead people.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11782175/Grisly-details-Australian-shark-victims-autopsy-released-New-Caledonian-authorities.html?ico=related-replace
CPR keeps your brain alive for a short time whilst a stopped heart is restarted, it doesn’t do anything when all of your blood has fallen out of a broken vessel.
Tristan Edis is a well known climate/alternate energy rent seeker.
Which is why I put up Mr. Motivator for all youse older Cats to keep you spry.
I did a full dance class yesterday and will hit on Mr. Motivator now before lunch. Join me.
I am no dizzzy dame lacking balance – even tho’ Hairy is very keen I should be cautious at 80.
Lidia Thorpe has many shortcomings, but you have to admit that she has belled the cat this time.
Calli, Reconciliation Australia has your “blak” puzzlement covered.
It has to do with c***s, believe it or not.
This sleight of hand is no doubt achieved only by drawing the ‘box’ around heater at the point where it heats up the water. If you draw it around the entire energy supply chain from point of production/collection/extraction to distribution to storage to conversion to heat you will get a true calculation of ‘efficiency’ and it will not likely favour *anything* reliant on electricity.
The pull the same trick with EVs.
Teddy-headed mural man said the quiet part out loud.
Eyrie says:
February 23, 2023 at 1:11 pm
Tristan Edis is a well known climate/alternate energy rent seeker.
I knew that, but having been considering the non stop email offers re replacing Electric HWS for 3 Flats with Heat Pumps subsidised by NSW Govt – A Cat Blogger – (Apologies can’t rmember who) said they break down quickly & don’t work
This AFR Article reinforces that – so will not install Heat Pumps
Just got Sumo Gas Bill for 3 Months (Out of Choice by Bill Hero) and includng GST, Total $200.00 for 89 Days – when I consider that that was 2 x Gas HWS over 3 months in 7 person household, and the New Raypak R200A-N Gas Spa Heater running for last month – 30 Days- damn cheap
New Raypak Gas Spa Heater R200A-N bigger than replaced Raypak P0167, & gets Spa up to 39C within 1 -2 hours, much faster & efficient
Will stick with Natural Gas HWS
There we are, guys. That’s done. A brief dance workout. Hope at the end you all did some great improvising. I just love those Charleston steps. See you next time.
Tomsays:
February 23, 2023 at 10:08 am
The clown reading the news on the Melbourne racing station says temperatures are “soaring”.
one can’t imagine why the recorded temperatures in Melbourne would be rising the last few decades.
Until recently, this was the Melbourne weather station
Good analysis of the melbournstan temp mess:
https://joannenova.com.au/2014/09/the-mysterious-sudden-jump-in-melbourne-temperatures-in-1996-with-an-instrument-change/
Neither Thorpe nor Jacinta Price are tame aborigines happy to toe the progressive white liberals’ line in return for a place at the trough.
They are undermining the narrative.
Good.
Labor Adviser:
“Fer cryin’ out loud Albo, can you just STFU about Da Voice for a while, and get out there with Premier Meniscus and announce something medical? “
Crikey, and here’s me thinking it was a bit Seth Efrican and maybe not so nice.
Clearly I am behind the times. As for capitalising aboriginal and indigenous.
I am thinking I might go for the uncapitalised versions.
I am not against reconciliation for what in the past were some denigratory attitudes by some white people to some aboriginal people, but to me that just means saying they were wrong then and we don’t think that way now, and some of us never did.
I always remember that at seventeen just after Big Sis got married, when I was staying on a holiday arranged for me with an Auntie, a distant rellie of my mum’s in Kingaroy in Queensland in 1959, the farmer I called Uncle said to me that today you’ll be meeting a very dignified old man but I’m warning you he’s a little bit suntanned. A very black old chap arrived in a horse and dray to pick up some farm stuff, and he and Uncle nattered on for a while about this and that, while I petted the horse, for I was just being taught to ride by a nine year old girl who rode bareback all over the place. I had a saddle and stirrups, went out riding with a local boy whom Uncle had invited round to keep me company, and three weeks later, much improved in health by farm life (the reason mum suggested I go up there) I left there and continued with my life heading on (albeit slowly with adventures) back to Sydney where I got a job in the city. Uncle didn’t have a mean or racist bone in his body, even though he said Auntie had ruined many a good dog.
Yup.
33 LaTrobe st was built in 1997.
Check out the mean maximum monthly temperature
What do ya reckon that step up in 1997 is? Global warming, I tells ya!
BoM‘s newly climate fiddled version of a heatwave in the Wimmera.
32 yesterday – 33 today – 36 tomorrow –
a late cool change with only high twenties for Saturday.
If we were still harvesting you would call that good harvest weather.
I also remember riding out with this boy and the girl, who was called Dolly, to reset the carbide guns that they used to keep the dingos away. The smell of them is something I can still recall, acrid and strong.
I got hold of some watercolour paints (I think Auntie bought them for me) and I did some paintings of the local area, fairly near to Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s farm. The purple rimmed hills in the autumnal dusks brought out the Turner in me. Though I defined the rims sharply the rest was misty, opaque and sad.
It will be Sydney’s biggest event since the 2000 Olympics and is being held in conjunction with the annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras between February 17 and March 5.
Such a big event yet nuttin’ scheduled for, us folk, in Fairfield .. can’t understand why! .. LOL!
Was he not involved with Renew Economy at one stage?
Roger says:
February 23, 2023 at 1:04 pm
There is no such thing as “gay conversion therapy.”
Indeed.
The following is taken from Martyn Isles video 8 months ago –
The phrase ‘conversion therapy’ is a nonsense. It’s made up by people who have no understanding of the concepts at play. Conversion to be clear is an act of God. It is a spiritual transformation. Therapy is an act of man. It is a treatment applied from one person to another person. God does not require acts of people to convert somebody. God does that. It is His work. The phrase does not marry together. It’s linking two concepts that are not intrinsically connected.
I raise that upfront because this confusion, and this obfuscation, or maybe a bit of both, runs right through the entire way this issue is dealth with.
And you will find yourself in this weird position, where you a reading a report that’s talking all about on one hand really insane stuff, like coersion, and violence, and aversion therapy, and all this kid of stuff. It sick. It’s kooky.
And everyone scratches their head, and they wonder where on earth this is even happening. It sounds like something from the dark ages …
What Marty Isles writes is theologically correct, but the practices identified in the Victorian legislation would be theologically classified as aspects of pastoral care. That’s where the potential danger lies.
From Cassie’s, above:
Now, why do you think she would feel the need to not to stay anonymous? It wouldn’t be the 98% supporting her.
And our politicians still refuse to even acknowledge her sentiments because they are afraid of the 2%.
Scum. One and all.
Let’s see, you are in charge of criminal investigations in area where teddy bear mural was defaced. Do you
A) not even bother to open an investigation file and in so many words tell the sponsors you are looking into possible offences related to encouragement of child grooming. Or
B) find the culprits because you are a damn fine Detective and it has been a while since commended a member of the public for services to the community.
I saw an assertion that CPR saves something like 5% of people it is started on.
Doesn’t matter. I have a mate at the club who was one of the 5%.
Start, and dont give up. (UNLESS the bottom half is missing and all the liquids have leaked out.)
rosie says:
February 23, 2023 at 12:14 am
time to bury the sardine.
Since no one else has done it, here’s the a4-sized painting that proselytised Momo in this sinister pagan-ish rite.
From the greatest Spanish painter, bar none, in the Real Academia de Bellas Artes in Madrid, not far from the Puerta del Sol.
Well worth visiting.
Should be:
New book titles for the jaded:
The Steamy Tramp on a Tramp Steamer: the stoker fired her up and the first mate caught her in the bilges.
Sorority Sluts: nice coeds burned for his body but it was a lushly curved nymph of a teacher who taught him the real lessons of sensuality.
Price Hike: people said she was cheap so she put her prices up.
Use it or Lose it: the new fitness instructor in the old sailor’s home had one job: to keep the old jacks active.
Thanks C.L.
An idiotic grievance confection then. My “Claytons” idea wasn’t far from the mark.
The legislation isn’t at all clear and seems to actually have a wide scope. Is any philosophical or religious tradition which understands ‘homosexuality and non-binary gender identities’ as wrong/ broken illegal? Or is the legislation directed at attempts to alter or suppress these expressions in specific individuals?
Actually, I’d offer a couple of caveats, but they’re beside the point for our purpose at present.
time to bury the sardine.
Is that anything like this?
Asking for a fiend.
For example: would a fellow parishioner recommending chastity to another parishioner if they had ‘homosexual’ inclinations, or to stop wearing his wife’s clothes now and then, fall within the ambit of the legislation?
Cassie earlier on Chris Smith, formerly of 2GB (until he got handsy at the Sky Christmas party).
Honestly, I wouldn’t care too much about this, except that Smith was (is) such a sanctimonious lecturing prick.
Therefore, suck it up.
What about promoting the veracity of the perverted faculty argument? Is it legal if you are simply outlining the argument, but illegal if you are using it to convince someone that their inclinations are in some manner disordered? Is it legal if you are trying to convince a hetero guy that his porn habit is disordered but illegal if its a homo?
The absolute state of the West.
Correct. A close Christian friend was approached by another old pal who wanted advice and just a shoulder to cry on…she was certain she was and had always been a lesbian but had suppressed her feelings. Obviously disturbing and tragic for her family, particularly her husband of many years who at that time had no idea.
No “advice” as such, but the usual offer of prayer and a warning to count the cost before going any further down a path from which there would be little chance of return.
Risk to my friend – ten years prison for being a friend.
Heatwave has to be 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
37.7 Celsius.
Anything less is just “a bit warm”.
My point, exactly.
The state is also being quite prescriptive about what individuals and/or faith communities can and can’t do if they are to avoid offending against this law.
Pope Benedict said homosexuality – even the inclination without the act -was an objective disorder. Until fairly recently that view would have been shared by virtually all Christian denominations.
Dover Beach:
Yes it would, DB.
Like most collectivist legislation, it’s not until it becomes Law that you discover the bits you weren’t made aware of.
Tristan Edis is a well known climate/alternate energy rent seeker.
All the stuff about Abbot’s ‘bonfire of the regulations’ is a bit of a giveaway. That he demands more regulation just confirms it.
In the UK, the Big Green Plan requires householders to replace their existing heating arrangements with heat pumps, a river of gold for heatpump manufacturers, most of whom are not in the UK. The estimated cost is at least 20,000 quid per household. This, while UK residents are being pummeled by inflation and tax increases.
Like here, neither party has the guts to tell these fantasists to take a hike. They prevaricate, they waver, they timidly offer ‘support’ (from taxpayers) but they never look them in the eye and tell them to rack off. Farage is the only one who does it, and the first past the post system keeps him out.
We’ll find out soon enough how this law is going to operate.
VicPol are seeking complainants and plod aren’t known for their theological acumen.
In theory that statement made publicly would not fall under the legislation.
But what might is any attempt to enact that belief in pastoral counselling by suggesting means by which a person with homosexual desires could avoid temptation. That might be judged to be “suppression.” One can imagine a person who formerly struggled with such desires but who is now “out and proud” interpreting it as such and making a police complaint against an otherwise well-meaning minister or priest who was offering guidance in good faith.
Perrottet: gay conversion laws will ‘not ban prayer or preaching’
By Marilyn Rodrigues -February 23, 2023
Addressing nearly 200 people at a town hall meeting in Parramatta last night hosted by the state’s faith communities, Mr Perrottet said, “we will not ban prayer, we will not ban preaching.”
Members of the NSW Religious Communities Advisory Council acted as moderators on the night; Surinder Jain, national vice president at the Hindu Council of Australia Surinder Jain, the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney’s director of public affairs and engagement Monica Doumit, Australian National Imams Council’s Bilal Rauf.
Chief executive of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies, Darren Bark, was master of ceremonies for the event.
Roger at 2.52 sets it out well
Addressing nearly 200 people at a town hall meeting in Parramatta last night hosted by the state’s faith communities, Mr Perrottet said, “we will not ban prayer, we will not ban preaching.”
Just yet….
One can imagine a person who formerly struggled with such desires but who is now “out and proud” interpreting it as such and making a police complaint against an otherwise well-meaning minister or priest who was offering guidance in good faith.
It won’t happen like this.
The Waffen SSM will launch sting operations to catch Christians, Ministers and Priests acting in good faith.
So long as it’s not compulsory.
Bakers beware.
Rum, sodomy and the lash. Hold the rum.
nothing in Auburn, either. I’m sure it’d go down* swimmingly
* pun intended.
Albanese open to concessions on Voice to Parliament
23 February 2023
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has flagged changing the draft constitutional amendment for a Voice to Parliament so it cannot make representations to executive government.
And yet to be explained is what happens if, after “consultation”, the other two Houses of Parliament decide against following the Voice Chamber advice?
Here in Godzone it’s so much more than just a legal issue:
Smoking ceremony extra.
Gavin McInnes : Nothing wrong with being gay, just don’t be a fag about it.
The conversion law is about setting up a process to ruin people THROUGH THE PROCESS rather than relying on the law.
Its to make a person accused of it spend tens of thousands of dollars and years of their life establishing their innocence.
And at the end of it they have been ruined, even if its found they havent committed an offence.
The fact people are unsure what level of “conversion” would trigger the law is not a fault of the legislation, its a deliberate design objective.
Like here, neither party has the guts to tell these fantasists to take a hike. They prevaricate, they waver, they timidly offer ‘support’ (from taxpayers) but they never look them in the eye and tell them to rack off. Farage is the only one who does it, and the first past the post system keeps him out.
Then the sheeple deserve all they fu.king get; because they have empowered the hacks in parliament.
Trout if you’re Tasmanian.
The YCK Laneways consortium said the mural was in place to celebrate World Pride and would be removed on 5 March.
Looks like it will be removed yesterday
Last yookay election blowjob just purported to be something he was not. Betrayal of the century.
Amen.
FMD, look at this retard:
Jury Foreman Trying To Indict Trump Tweaks Like a Meth Head on CNN
Dover
The legislation isn’t at all clear and seems to actually have a wide scope. Is any philosophical or religious tradition which understands ‘homosexuality and non-binary gender identities’ as wrong/ broken illegal? Or is the legislation directed at attempts to alter or suppress these expressions in specific individuals?
Let’s just say that the legislation is “flexible” enough to be targeted. Christians and Jews beware, Religion of Pieces not so much.
Crikey Lizzie, you’re triggering some memories there.
I’ve lived with carbide lights in the stock camp.
Now you went & posted that, I can not only see the special tint of light carbide lights give, & smell them, I’m having flashback memory of the whole procedure of filling, lighting, & the ever-present care one took with them whilst they were alight – stories of injuries were well-known & oft-repeated.
With just a modest tweak, the Palacechook QWERTY Praise obtains respectable meaning:
“Now, why do you think she would feel the need to not to stay anonymous? It wouldn’t be the 98% supporting her.
And our politicians still refuse to even acknowledge her sentiments because they are afraid of the 2%.
Scum. One and all.”
Quite so. This is precisely what my post last Friday called “Prideland” dealt with, this “Pride nonsense” is being shoved down our throats, whether we like it or not, and if we dare protest then we will be made to suffer the consequences, personally, professionally, psychologically. The late Bill Leak was prescient about many, many things but particularly with his cartoon comparing the Gay lobby/SSM debate to the Waffen SS.
The comedian Larry David also has their measure, as he does about many things. Does anyone remember the Seinfeld episode with the two bullying homosexuals? Remember when Elaine found an “armoire” (French wardrobe) abandoned on a street and she asked Kramer to mind it? Remember how Kramer was sitting on the steps minding the wardrobe and a gay couple walked up to him and began bullying him so that they could claim the armoire? David wrote the two same nasty gays (with the same actors) into later episode where he again showed just how nasty, fascistic, bullying and intolerant gay men are.
Could somone put up The Australian Article today 23 February 2023? – would be very much appreciated
Death, divorce and your frequent flyer points
Australians own piles of frequent flyer points, sometimes worth more than $50,000, so it’s wise to know what happens to them.
By Anthony Keane
Thanks
Old Ozzie
QPlod to recruit a couple of thousand granny-bashers from overseas – no requirement to even be an Australian resident.
Busted!
https://twitter.com/asyakhamsin1/status/1627541483245936642
So far, we have two major election promises broken – the one about reducing energy costs, and the one about not tinkering with superannuation.
Note that these are not minor things – energy costs are making many Australians dread the next winter (especially where I live) and the ‘tinkering’ won’t raise much money, but will please the Leftists, for a while. The superannuation agenda is much broader – as always, this pot of money is irresistable to politicians. That is the endgame.
In the end, not only will your compulsorily acquired money not give you a decent retirement, it will be squandered on politically correct projects thinly disguised as ‘investment.’ That’s after the relatives and other connections of the super fund have skimmed off salaries in the hundreds of thousands a year.
btw – if you haven’t seen the perverted mural in North Sydney:
https://twitter.com/dailytelegraph/status/1628560304492912640/photo/1
another trigger-happy Amish
If you know any gay men, you might want to reconsider that typically bombastic and ill-considered statement.
If you don’t , as you were.
“If you know any gay men, you might want to reconsider that typically bombastic and ill-considered statement.
If you don’t , as you were.”
I do know several gay men and I know how personally nasty they can be, in fact they can be vicious.
As for your comment “typically bombastic and ill-considered statement“, I leave “bombastic and ill-considered” to you, after all, when you’re not being rude and nasty, you have quite a history of being both bombastic and ill-considered.
Hahahahahahaha…. Good pickup.
The jumped the shark moment has occurred when they send alerts out like this.
Significant threat to life or property
Biden in 1999: Onward to Belgrade!
I’m thinking of such investments. Let me see:
Snowy 2
Snowy 3
batteries to prop up the grid.
Green hydrogen boondoggles
Other suggestions welcome.
Not only gaslighting but also softening up ready for the next el Nino. As soon as we get a week of 40 C they’ll have every leftist howling about ebil CO2 like gibbons on heat.
These people are detestable.
I seem to remember the journalist Christopher Pearson reconciling his faith and his homosexuality through chastity. Or something along those lines.
It is funny – to do many people these days the idea of chastity is not only incomprehensible but its avowal instantly interpreted as over-obvious dishonesty trying to conceal secret perversions.
Sex and sexuality are held up as the most important part of being human. The idea of a person governing their sexuality rather than the other way around is greeted by the laughter that only the truly shallow can muster without the slightest quaver of reflection.
Funny you should mention throw cuhioners.
Got a hang up call on what’s app last night at 11.19pm.
Was my airbnb host. He wanted to know what time I was checking out today because he ‘needed to make arrangements’ and I’d missed his earlier messages. I said 11, an hour before scheduled check out at 12.
He then said just leave the keys on the table and close the door behind you.
He did not need to wake me for his it’s all about me.
Okay so if Ukraine is Russian, they’ve lost up to 22 million people by emigration and in Russia they’ve lost ~100k KIA, 450k+ wounded and ~ 1 million have emigrated.
The bottom line is if some prick from Pawowquehana in upstate New York lives in a recreated castle and donates heavily to the Clinton’s, Ukraine will not affect him in any way.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson shreds Pete Buttigieg’s lack of leadership and qualifications to be transportation secretary on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.’
Poofs are nasty, judgmental, mean and spiteful with the capacity to hold perceived grudges for centuries.
This generally applies to other poofs. Exhibit A for this assertion is the massively disproportional and over-violent amount of domestic violence they inflict on their significant others when compared to every other demographic, with the sole exception of indig males/indig females.
To breeders, however (their term) they are faaaabulous with impeccable fashion sense.
It’s hit the news services. He’s a blatant thief.
The equivalent of snowdropping.
Sex and sexuality are held up as the most important part of being human. The idea of a person governing their sexuality rather than the other way around is greeted by the laughter that only the truly shallow can muster without the slightest quaver of reflection.
There is a section in one of the early greek writings (I cant for the life of me remember which one) which is a bunch of old chaps having a discussion.
In it one of them praised growing older along the lines of “to no longer be ruled over by the body/lust and to be able to think clearer and more deliberately”.
Struck a chord with me, the frankly lunatic teens and 20’s trying to get our end away 24/7 giving way to (dare I say it) more maturity and measured approach to life.
It doesnt free you from desire, but it does make you far better at managing it.
Cassie
Quite so. This is precisely what my post last Friday called “Prideland” dealt with, this “Pride nonsense” is being shoved down our throats, whether we like it or not, and if we dare protest then we will be made to suffer the consequences, personally, professionally, psychologically. The late Bill Leak was prescient about many, many things but particularly with his cartoon comparing the Gay lobby/SSM debate to the Waffen SS.
We know already that the so-called “Pride” gathering definitely includes at least two of the Seven Deadly Sins, Pride and Lust.
Anyone care to match up inclusion of some or all of the other five, Greed, Envy, Gluttony, Wrath and Sloth.
In defence of gay men…
My dear brother sharing the load of caring for our parents, and giving up part of his home for his partner’s elderly mother with alzheimers. No one could be kinder or more attentive, especially for appointments.
They are both solid as rocks when it counts. Be careful with stereotypes.
I personally found it amusing to see Trump in Ohio handing out Red MAGA hats saying Trump 47. One of the worlds better trolls.
The absence of Terrible Heat is taking its toll in Brisbane: the jacarandas are still in bloom.
Pray for us.
callisays:
February 23, 2023 at 5:12 pm
duncanm says:
February 23, 2023 at 4:22 pm
Busted!
https://twitter.com/asyakhamsin1/status/1627541483245936642
It’s hit the news services. He’s a blatant thief.
The equivalent of snowdropping.
I don’t want to know what happened to that lady’s underwear, presumably in the same bag that the wierdo stole.
Most of my frangipanis have decided it’s now or never too. Kaboom! Full of bloom. Meanwhile, the Tibouchina ‘Alstoneville’s are stealing a march and budding up.
The place will be lit up like Luna Park in a couple of weeks.
And then there’s the dozen or so hibuscus.
It’s flowerageddon!
I was on a call with a chap from Montreal this morning. He asks-
So you survived the heatwave OK?
My response-
All bullsh1t, Sydney has struggled to get over 30 all summer.
He agreed saying he didnt agree with all this media exaggerated Global Warming stuff and that he experienced the coldest winter spell ever this year. Minus 34 for several days.
So I looked up how the BOM defines a ‘Heatwave’. The chumps there now state that 3 days of unusually high temperatures constitutes a heatwave and that there is no single temperature threshold for a heatwave in Australia. What a preposterous vague definition.
They obviously haven’t been taught means and standard deviations at school.
That is, assuming that they have had some form of education in a scientific discipline.
Frank Lloyd Wright, I’ve heard about his designs on and off for most of my life, never really took an interest. Anyway, you tube kept suggesting videos of his houses so I took a deep dive. The layouts were pretty different than what was the mainstream in the early 20th Century, but that’s about it. If you like lots of brown, lots of plywood, uncomfortable furniture, crappy wooden screens over windows, low entrances to ‘compress’ people, well you may like his stuff.
I reckon that they are generally awful and unliveable. Anyone tell me why I’m wrong?
Cassie, Lizzie etc, all Sydney residents.
Has the Lord Mayor made it mandatory to wear Rainbow colours yet ?
Trump is so good he could be on the Norwegian troll team.
I was on a call with a chap from Montreal this morning. He asks-
HQ is Norm Macdonald?
In Controversial Politician news, Hun:
Opposition Leader John Pesutto has thrown his support behind controversial Liberal MP Moira Deeming, declaring she will remain a member of the party.
Mr Pesutto on Thursday confirmed he didn’t support Ms Deeming’s quest to hold an inquiry into transition practices in Victoria.
He also said he had no plans to make changes to the state’s abortion or gay conversion therapy laws.
But he refused to condemn Ms Deeming’s views on abortion, the transgender community and Victoria’s Safe Schools program which were outlined in a series of explosive emails obtained through Freedom of Information.
“I don’t agree with those views … I’m progressive, I’m modern, I’m inclusive, I love everybody and want everybody to have opportunities in our great state,” Mr Pesutto said.
“I say this to every Victorian, the Liberal Party I lead is one that wants to be a voice for everyone.
“I strongly support the LGBTI community. I was proud to march at the Pride March recently.”
Mr Pesutto said Ms Deeming would continue in her role as an upper house MP, but wouldn’t “engage in hypotheticals” about whether he would preselect her if he had been given the chance prior to the election.
“Moira was preselected by the Liberal Party last year. She’s a member of our team and she’ll go forward as a member of our team,” he said.
“I’ve had some good discussions with her and I think she understands the importance of us working as a team, and I look forward to having further discussions in the future.”
An American Lie Is an American Lie Is an American Lie
Tatiana Obrenovic February 21, 2023
We are entering a critical stage of the government mechanism of power, and a steep rise in scepticism against the government in terms of security policy and foreign policy.
If we now take a closer look at the current U.S. societal crisis, given the context of all manner of lies, falsehoods, untruths and false flags we keep hearing and the way they are conveniently spoon-fed to the general public in the USA and the Collective West, the U.S. general public tends to be deeply divided. There is the rise of scepticism among the pro-Dems population though, the pro-Trump supporters have always been more shrewdly sceptical. There are a multitude of legal investigations in the U.S. about some of these affairs. Yet, the pro-Dems supporters in the U.S. tend to completely ignore what Seymour Hersh has exposed recently. One pressing issue is how come the members of the U.S. Congress knew nothing about the Nord Stream blast?
All this plunges the whole country into a most severe political crisis, which can only deepen further. One can draw a logical conclusion that a narrow group of people take national foreign policy decisions on behalf of the whole USA rather than the real U.S. institutions in place. Seymour Hersh says that the decision about the Nord Stream was taken by William Burns, CIA boss upon the recommendation by Biden administration and Biden himself, in order to identify a sure-fire way as to how to blast the Nord Stream
Jake Sullivan, National Security advisor, was one of the key persons in charge. The Biden administration persists in their denial of the Nord Stream blast and arrogantly dismisses Hersh’s story but the Norwegian Ministry of Defense said that it all began with the BALTOPS NATO exercises on 17 June 2022 when the mines were physically placed onto the pipelines. The Norwegian troops activated the explosives at the pre-set time. Anyone remembers Liz Truss’s notorious text message to Antony Blinken immediately after the blast?
The Norwegian government by issuing a lame political excuse denies a minesweeper being there in the location in these waters. The role of Norway is rather intriguing therein, given the fact that the NATO Secretary General is Jens Stoltenberg, a Norwegian himself. Was there a chance that all that went on without all the NATO high officials knowing about it? Yes, there was and yes it was possible.
Very much so. Because the Americans are in charge in that they pull all the political strings with the Norwegians left “in the pitch-black political dark.” If Americans do not want to share the information with anybody, their political and military “lips” would be most definitely sealed. The Norwegians put forth a deviously sly denial, saying only a feeble sounding fact about the minesweepers with the dismissal of their own role in it. For the explosives to be activated, highly trained professionals can pre-programme the trigger and activate it at the pre-set time. Somehow, historical Quisling comes to mind.
The Norwegian political and military elite tend to be the new quislings of the new Reich again with NATO playing its most treacherous game so far.
As far as the apparently categorical denial to their alleged involvement in the Nord Stream blast by the U.S. power structures, Scott Ritter and Larry Johnson, both being long lasting friends with Seymour Hersh, confirm the same. They can say without fear of contradiction that Seymour Hersh provides most credible and genuine reports with impeccable professional integrity in that he never makes use of only one source and more importantly his sources normally come from the U.S. intelligence structures, military structures or both. Larry Johnson, a veteran CIA analyst, in one of his reports reminds us of the cynical U.S. slogan “Deny everything and launch a counter attack”.
And regrettably, the list of downright lies goes on endlessly, in that we can only recall a few years ago Mike Pompeo generously dishing out his advice as to how the CIA tends to think. “We lied, we cheated, we stole,” says him with arrogant sarcasm. Avid Sherlock Holmes readers can remember an old rule: “To whom is it a benefit?”
American political elites tried pinning it on the Russians again. Why would the Russians ever do that? In what way would they benefit? The U.S. Deep State even did everything imaginable to put a spanner in the works of the Nord Stream 1 development in that they blackmailed a number of EU officials but Angela Merkel went on steadfastly. Yet, the Americans started their operational actions to destroy it. They did the same with the Southern Stream in Serbia, Southeast Europe in that they put a huge pressure to hinder and halt its construction.
The American political elite(s) are evidently obsessed with impeding and preventing each and every cooperation between Russia and the rest of Europe which all boils down to the (un)fine geopolitics again.
There is a dire need for the brand new alliance of powers which would oust Americans from Eurasia though the Americans view that as a lethal danger so much so that they would resort to anything imaginable to prevent it, even if they had to resort to a war. George Friedman, from STRATFOR, reiterated the very same thing in 2015. U.S. geopolitics is heavily ridden with their fixation to rule the world but regrettably it comes with exceptionally murderous consequences. The only way to challenge that state of the matters may well be the land consolidation on Eurasian soil. Only then the U.S. may rule the world. Russia and China are viewed as their continual and lethal threats. That is the reason why they are ramping up the tensions with China now.
The U.S. general public is dangerously split into two extreme polarities along these lines as well. There are a lot of legal investigations in the USA about some of these recent affairs. If we go back to Hunter Biden’s laptop, a number of “elitist” U.S. lawyers threaten some of the more truth seeking investigative journalists who disclose all the nefarious doings that they would be taken to court because they allegedly exposed their clients’ private information. And now there is no mention in the mainstream media about the laptop anymore other than labelling it “the Russian collusion” again (aka Hillary Clinton style)
This goes to indicate the most critical stage in U.S. governance because whether the information leaks out or not is beyond their control. Now they have to resort to pressure and force, continually fuelled by mainstream media hype and cancel culture tactics. So far there have been brutal arrests of anybody who challenges their narrative. We are entering a critical stage of the government mechanism of power, and a steep rise in scepticism against the government in terms of security policy and foreign policy.
Some of the perpetrators of the orange revolutions worldwide have gained their invaluable’ experience globally and then they somehow “returned” home and did the same to their own homeland. Ever heard of that apparently popular sarcasm — filled joke: “Why aren’t there orange revolutions in the USA? The answer is: ‘Because there is no U.S. Ambassador in the USA’.”
Allow me to wrap up this article with the quote by Dwight Eisenhower, the same as I did in its complementary article: “On January 17, 1961, Dwight D. Eisenhower ends his presidential term by warning the nation about the increasing power of the military-industrial complex.”
Briton is a narcissist.
He appears to have been stealing from women for years, and carefully targeting his victims.
I’d bet every article of female clothing he has is stolen.
We should continue to celebrate his fetish of wearing stolen women’s clothing though.
Mong In Chief retorts:
Daniel Andrews has used a fiery Question Time to lash Moira Deeming’s “shameful” views on abortion, the trans community and Victoria’s Safe Schools program.
In an impassioned ministerial statement to end the last Question Time of the week, the Premier also attacked opposition leader John Pesutto for failing to address the new Liberal MPs comments.
“I’m standing up to make these matters clear, one wonders when someone else might do the same,” Mr Andrews said in the blistering attack.
“I’m saddened to have to do this, but it is important to provide clarity when it comes to a number of very important matters.”
Emails from Ms Deeming were on Thursday unearthed through Freedom of Information documents, exposing extremist views on sex workers and the transgender community.
In the explosive emails sent between 2020 and 2022, Ms Deeming shared her intent to change abortion laws in Victoria and expressed a fervent opposition to the LGQBTQ+++ community, in particular the transgender rights movement.
Mr Andrews said the Victorian government had a clear record in supporting the trans community.
“We will not use the trans community as a political weapon shamefully as others continue to do in this precinct, in the other place (upper house) this week,” he said.
“We will support the trans community in any way that we possibly can, and that is fundamentally a recognition that the trans community are 15 times more likely to self harm.”
As a former high school teacher, Ms Deeming also critiqued the education sector in Victoria – particularly the Safe Schools program – since her win at last year’s state election.
Mr Andrews said it is “shameful to think that some elected to this parliament continue to trot out lies and absolute misinformation” about the program.
“Safe schools save lives and any bullying, no matter what the motivation, we want to make sure that our teachers are properly equipped to protect their students,” he said.
The Overton Window closes (till next time).
I believe “Falling Waters” was (and still is) a nightmare in upkeep. He influenced guys like Burley Griffin – the heritage listed homes in Castlecrag are tiny compared to what would be acceptable for an architect designed house these days.
I think you are wrong, have not seen his best work or at least not from all angles.
The Avery Clooney House, Falling Water, Unity Temple, Darwin Martin House, Taliesin, Honeycomb House, Lowell Walter House are very excellent.
Jorgine Boomer House gets an honourable mention along with the exterior windows and contrasting colours of the Susan Lawerence House.
Northome had a stunning interior. Enis House was iconic and used for some villains as bases in 80s action flicks. The SC Johnson building was exceptional in terms of functionality and worker comfort. The Midway Gardens are excellent. Public spaces can be utilitarian and elegant.
Rosie, I have to make do with your travelogue to Sicily for the foreseeable. Had to cancel as we can’t be away for so long this year. Needs must.
The Beloved is planning to combine the Rome to Sicily via Naples plus Malta in the next Med jaunt. Hopefully WWIII is averted and we can do it.
Happy trails for the last leg.
Moira Deeming’s views on abortion were well known prior to the election.
Didn’t understand why Bernie Finn had to go for holding the same views.
Does Pesutto love and include all those who love and include the unborn baby?
Those who worry about their children making irreversible decisions to become eunuchs?
Those who want to live chastely?
I’m sick of metoo liberals.
Both are Token choices, of course they’re toeing a line.
The reality is that there was and is no Pan Aboriginal identity.
There is no way 24 elected representatives can speak for all the Aboriginal Nations that still exist in some form, let alone the Nations of the Torres Strait.
Sorry to hear Calli.
I know how it is.
“AHA! ITS ALL ABOUT YOU! YOU DON’T CARE ABOUT A WAR!!!I KNEW WHY YOU GOT YOUR %#}^ING NAYZEE PASSES, YOU %^+ING #>£¥€>^^*+ERS!”
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Well, well, well. How time flies! One full year of Putey’s failed invasion of Ukraine, including nearly 6 months trying to take a single town in teh Holy Donbas. Do we get a How It Started, How It’s Going tribute post of all the brilliant predictions of Putinist triumph on this place??
a few outlets are picking up the latest Sam Brinton story.
LOL
To the :rofl: